Chapter 90 Uninvited Guest

"Maybe Comrade Xu Qiang is indeed talented, but if he is really transferred to the technical department, it might ruin him..." Li Cunzhu looked at Liu Biao with a serious face and said.

"Keep talking."

"Suddenly letting a temporary worker enter the technical department where most employees have high academic qualifications will definitely cause a sensation in the factory. Many employees will discuss this matter, which may affect your reputation in the factory." Li Cunzhu pondered for a moment and continued, "Maybe you don't care about this, but Xu Qiang's life will definitely not be easy. On the one hand, he will have to face rumors in the factory, and on the other hand, he will definitely be despised or excluded in the department. To put it bluntly, it's because his academic qualifications are too low and people don't respect him..."

"That makes sense." Liu Biao nodded.

In fact, Liu Biao had also thought about these problems. At present in this factory, front-line workers usually live in peace, but in the departments in the office building, intrigues often occur, which is a problem that Liu Biao finds difficult to solve.

Just imagine, allowing a junior high school student like Xu Qiang to enter the technical department would undoubtedly cause huge controversy in the entire department and even the entire factory. After all, only Liu Biao participated in this provincial technical discussion meeting. Others did not know Xu Qiang's ability and could only evaluate him based on his academic qualifications.

It's just that Liu Biao is a man who likes talents, and he urgently needs an expert in chemical engineering to direct the factory's technical transformation project and ultimately reverse the long-term losses in the chemical workshop, so he thinks that he must put Xu Qiang in a position like the technical department.

"As a promising young man with great potential, Xu Qiang must have a good working and learning environment so that he can truly display his talents and make great progress. But if he enters the technical department like this, he will have to spend more time and energy on things other than work in the future. I don't think this is what Director Xu wants to see, right?" Li Cunzhu asked back at this time.

As the head of the technical department and a graduate of university, Li Cunzhu naturally has an extraordinary mind. Not only is he strong in technology, but he is also very good at dealing with people. As a result, his superiors have always admired him very much. It is rumored that he is the most likely candidate to take over as factory director after Liu Biao retires in the future.

In the past two years, Li Cunzhu has promoted many people, including some technical school students. At the same time, he has actively participated in various technical conferences and activities in the province on behalf of the factory, and has been relatively close to those above him.

"You're right!" Liu Biao thought for a moment and said, "I didn't think this through before. It's not appropriate to let Xiao Xu rush into this position. It might cause him a lot of trouble."

"Director, you really love talents. I can totally understand that." Li Cunzhu smiled and continued, "I heard that Xu Qiang has already attended our factory's night school. In fact, if he can really get into university, the door to the technical department is always open to him!"

"Hahaha, this is too difficult." Hearing this, Liu Biao immediately laughed.

In fact, even after seeing Xu Qiang's extraordinary technical skills in the provincial capital, Liu Biao still didn't believe that he could really get into university.

Because it is obvious that to enter university one must have studied at least high school level courses, but Xu Qiang only has a junior high school education, and there is still at least three years of education gap in between, which is definitely not something that can be made up in a short period of time.

"Even if he doesn't get into university, if Xu Qiang can continue to contribute new technical reform plans to our factory, he can be admitted to the technical department as an exception. At that time, there will definitely be less criticism of him in the factory." Li Cunzhu paused, then continued: "Also, I think it is more important and more practical to solve his problem of converting from farmer to non-farmer first than to transfer him to the technical department." "You're right, he has made great contributions to the factory this time, and his problem of becoming a regular employee should be solved." Liu Biao agreed with Li Cunzhu's suggestion.

"Then... Director Liu, is there anything else?"

"No more, just go and do your thing." Liu Biao waved his hand, indicating that Li Cunzhu could leave.

Seeing Li Cunzhu leaving, Liu Biao called his secretary Gao Bo over.

"Director, what can I do for you?" Gao Bo asked respectfully after entering the office. "Go and inform the Propaganda Department to ask them to revise the list of winners of the last 'military-to-civilian' product collection activity and post it tomorrow morning." Liu Biao took out a newly written list from the drawer and said to Gao Bo, "Write it according to this list of winners. The first place is Xu Qiang from the Chemical Workshop. The other winners will be ranked downwards according to the last ranking..."

"Okay." After Gao Bo got the list, he immediately turned around and left...

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In the evening, Liu Jun, Erhu and Da Hei Niu, who had been busy all day, packed up their tools and began to prepare for dinner.

Relying on the equipment left by Xu Qiang and the raw materials prepared in advance, the peat field can still maintain normal production even without him.

In just a few days, the yard of the peat field was filled with several tons of finished humic acid fertilizer, waiting for Xu Qiang to return and then transport it to the supply and marketing cooperative to be sold.

With pumps, motors and tractors, fertilizer production in the peat field has become much easier, which also gives them more time to produce shampoo and soap. Now, after several nights of solidification, about 800 bars of soap and 200 kilograms of shampoo have been produced and neatly stacked in a special small warehouse.

Da Hei Niu's knife skills were very fast. In a short while, he had prepared a table full of dinner. The three of them sat around it, talking and laughing as they ate.

After dinner, Liu Jun and Erhu prepared to go back to the village together. Because it rained yesterday, Liu Jun’s house was leaking a little, so the two of them prepared to go back together to replace some tiles for the house. As for the peat field, only Da Hei Niu was left alone to work the night shift.

Big Black Bull didn't have any objection to this. Anyway, he had already delivered lunch to his mother at home at noon. He just felt a little lonely staying alone in the peat field.

Fortunately, there was a small radio in the room, which was also Da Hei Niu's only entertainment. After seeing Liu Jun and Erhu leave, Da Hei Niu immediately closed the door, lay on the bed and turned on the radio.

When he was lying on the bed and heard a melodious female solo on the radio, he smiled sweetly...

At the same time, on a slope not far from the peat field, three figures stood behind a big tree.

"Did you see that boy?"

The person who spoke was the village chief's second son, Zhao Xuenong, and following him were the third son Xuejun and the fourth son Xuewen.

"I didn't see it, but the tractor is behind the house." The fourth child Xuewen leaned forward and said, "There were three people just now, but I saw Liu Jun and another person left. Now there should be only one person left in the house for the night shift."

"That's perfect!" The second brother, Zhao Xuenong, snorted, and then said, "It's not easy for Xu Qiang anymore. Let's go together and smash that tractor for him! If that guy dares to come out next night, he will be unlucky. We will beat him up too!"

(End of this chapter)