Chapter 312 Earthly Disaster
After inviting Zhang Yunqi to dinner and chatting with him that evening, Li Jilin devoted great enthusiasm to the work of contracting and operating 46 state-owned canneries.

It is certainly not easy to negotiate when it comes to 46 factories with different situations under the city and district governments. However, the other party is more tormented, such as Liao Gang, the director of Jufeng Cannery. He is the most tough in opposing Liansheng's contracting of Jufeng Cannery. Li Jilin investigated the situation and found that Jufeng Factory now has a severe asset-liability ratio, the production line has been stopped long ago, and the employees have not been paid for more than half a year. Having fallen into this situation, property rights reform is no longer realistic. Jufeng generally has two ways out: Liansheng contracting and operating, or bankruptcy reorganization. Therefore, Liao Gang's purpose in opposing Liansheng's contracting and operating is obvious, and there is a lot of fat water involved.

In response to this situation, Li Jilin adopted the method of bypassing the middle-level, pushing at a high level, and leaking information to the lower levels. The implementation plan for contracting and operating 46 canneries was finalized by Mayor Yang Jiarong and Zhang Yunqi. There is no variable in the high-level policy direction. Yang Jiarong has only one requirement, which is to ensure people's livelihood and stabilize employment. Therefore, as long as the employees' wage arrears and work problems are resolved, the matter will be smooth sailing. The opinion of the factory director Liao Gang is almost equivalent to bullshit.

Li Jilin had experienced this kind of thing before, and now he was good at dealing with others. He asked Ma Shi to find someone to spread the news of Liansheng's contracting and promised that after Liansheng was contracted, it would solve the debt problems and employee work problems left over from the past as soon as possible. The contracting did not involve property rights and would not cause the loss of state-owned capital. For such a good thing, those workers who couldn't make ends meet would definitely knock down Liao Gang's door. If he didn't sign, the people at the factory staff representative meeting would skin him alive.

At the same time, there are now 46 contracted canneries that have absorbed Longjingyuan’s employees, and the employees of Longjingyuan can no longer make trouble. Those who want to stay in the city can stay, and those who want to increase their salary and benefits must obey the dispatch of the head office and go to work in the new industrial park of Longjingyuan.

According to Zhang Yunqi's idea, Li Jilin modified the original relocation implementation plan. The general idea was that for those who agreed to move to the new factory in Yunxi Village, the relevant salary and benefits would be reasonably increased, and food and accommodation would be provided, and round-trip transportation would be arranged. As for employees who really did not want to go due to objective reasons, they had two choices: one was to pass the transfer examination and be transferred to Liansheng, and the other was to be transferred to other canneries contracted by Liansheng in the city, with the benefits and salary remaining unchanged.

It is difficult to get into Liansheng. Of course, Li Jilin has also taken into account that many employees may transfer to work in contracted canneries. However, the Longjingyuan New Industrial Park is not afraid of a shortage of people. The operating conditions of the 46 canneries are generally problematic, and some factories can't even pay wages. In such a situation, there are absolutely many employees who want to go to the Longjingyuan new factory to make a living. If that doesn't work, they can also recruit people in Yunxi Village, which can further reduce Liansheng's labor costs.

Now, because of Zhang Yunqi's advance move, many entangled problems have been solved. Li Jilin breathed a sigh of relief. That day, he was reviewing the relocation implementation plan of Longjingyuan New Industrial Park in his office, and he felt a little emotional. He didn't understand how Zhang Yunqi's brain was born. He could always foresee crises in advance and resolve them cleverly.

As he thought about it, he couldn't help but think of his daughter. That night when Zhang Yunqi came to visit, Yufei seemed like a different person. Of course, his daughter was a very smart girl and could always do everything well, but she couldn't hide her happiness and love in her heart. Her thoughts were already very obvious.

As a father, he felt mixed emotions when thinking about this. He certainly approved of Zhang Yunqi, but he was also a little worried. It was really hard to find a guy like him. But it was precisely because Zhang Yunqi was too good, too good at dealing with things, too understanding of human nature, and too tough in his methods that he felt uneasy. To be realistic, Zhang Yunqi was a great boss for him, but his girl might not be a good match.

"Dodo dodo!"

At this time, there was a knock on the door, interrupting Li Jilin's confused thoughts. He called out "Come in", the door opened, and his female assistant appeared at the door with a middle-aged man.

Li Jilin recognized him as Liu Dongsheng, the director of the Red Star Electronics Factory, a municipal state-owned enterprise. He immediately stood up and welcomed Liu Dongsheng in, then asked his female assistant to make a cup of good tea. He sat on the sofa and said with a smile: "No one comes to visit you for no reason. Old Liu, you are such a busy man, how come you have time to come to my place today?" Liu Dongsheng was obviously also an impatient person. He took a sip of the hot tea and grinned: "Old Li, to be honest, I am shamelessly asking you for help this time. I know that the city has reached an agreement with Liansheng to accept laid-off state-owned workers. Do you think you can help me solve the problem of redundant staff in my factory?"

Li Jilin took a sip of tea. Recently, many state-owned enterprises came to him to discuss this matter. Normally, Li Jilin would not take it too seriously, because there were too many scams. The unscrupulous thing of the bangzi was purely to get rid of the burden and obtain state-owned interests. However, the other party was the Red Star Electronics Factory. He immediately thought of the VCD player project that Zhang Yunqi was doing privately. Of course, he could not make the decision on this matter. Besides, he also knew something about the Red Star Electronics Factory. The development should be quite good. How could it suddenly fall to the point where it needed to place redundant staff?
Li Jilin smiled and filled Liu Dong's cup with tea: "Old Liu, what exactly is the situation with your proposal to relocate the redundant employees of the Red Star Electronics Factory?"

Liu Dongsheng sighed, "This is what happened. The city asked Hongxing Electronics Factory to apply for bankruptcy reorganization. Senhai Electric acquired Hongxing Electronics Factory and Jiangchuan Electric Factory, invested in and controlled Jiangchuan Micromotor Factory, and established Senhai Electronics and Electrical Co., Ltd. This means that our four state-owned enterprises will be restructured into one group. This is a coordinated asset reorganization plan for the electronic and electrical industry in Jiangchuan City."

After a pause, Liu Dongsheng continued, "Since it involves bankruptcy, the placement of employees has become a big problem. Although the canning factory and the electronics factory are different industries, most of them are assembly line workers with simple operations. After some training, they should be suitable. Lao Li, all the employees in our factory are of high quality, and many of them are old-school workers. You can rest assured."

After hearing this, Li Jilin was very surprised: "I remember that your factory has been doing well, right? It's far from the point where it needs bankruptcy and reorganization?"

This sentence seemed to hit Liu Dongsheng's sore spot. He was full of bitterness: "Yes, our products have a market, and the business situation is not bad. The bank loan is less than 800 million yuan, and the debt-to-asset ratio is only 60%, which is far below the 75% warning line, but..."

Liu Dongsheng hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Family disgrace should not be made public. Lao Li, I came to you today to discuss this matter, and there are some things I have to say. From the time the city led the asset restructuring and reorganization of the electronic and electrical industry in Jiangchuan City to the time before the Red Star Electronics Factory was declared bankrupt, we, the factory leaders, were completely unaware of the situation."

Li Jilin was even more surprised and felt it was ridiculous: "Why did the higher-ups want to dismantle the factory for reorganization?"

Liu Dongsheng took two puffs of his cigarette and said, "Two words, disaster. Some people, for their own personal gain, disregarded the lives of the workers and forced the factory to be dismantled and reorganized!"

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(End of this chapter)