When Zhai Jianguo went to negotiate with Qin Hai, Wei Baolin knocked on the door of the old factory director Ning Zhongying's house with a box of tea.
"Who!"
A strong voice came from inside the room.
"Old factory director, it's me, Xiao Wei." Wei Baolin replied in a gentle voice.
"Xiao Wei?" The person in the room muttered, and then the door opened, and an old man with a height of more than 1.7 meters, a straight back, and gray hair appeared in front of Wei Baolin.
"Old factory director, let me see you. Someone happened to give me a box of good tea. I remembered that the old factory director likes to drink Biluochun the most, so I brought it to you." Wei Baolin took out the box of tea and handed it to
The old man Ning Zhongying said with a smile in front of him.
"Oh, thank you then." Ning Zhongying nodded slightly, reached out to take the tea, and let Wei Baolin into the living room.
"Old factory director, what have you been busy with recently?" After the guests and hosts sat down respectively, Wei Baolin asked in a homely tone about Ning Zhongying's daily life.
When Ning Zhongying was the director of the factory, Wei Baolin was his office director. At that time, the relationship between the two was very harmonious. Wei Baolin was quite clever in doing things. He knew Ning Zhongying's preferences and habits very well and handled them well.
All kinds of affairs are very much in line with Ning Zhongying's wishes, so they are deeply appreciated by Ning Zhongying.
After the policy of "understanding people are in charge" was issued, Ning Zhongying, as a veteran cadre in his fifties with no diploma, naturally had no choice but to take a back seat. When the county economic committee asked him to nominate a successor, Ning Zhongying did not
Instead of recommending Wei Baolin, he recommended another deputy director. According to Ning Zhongying, Wei Baolin was very competent as an office director who waited on people, but he was not suitable to be the director of a factory.
But Wei Baolin himself didn’t think so. He felt that he had a college degree, was good at dancing, and was a pioneering talent. Why couldn’t he be a factory director? He used the friendship he made with some officials in the county while working as a receptionist.
They started various lobbying activities, and finally the county rejected Ning Zhongying's recommendation and appointed Wei Baolin as the director of Qingfeng Factory.
The director of the County Economic Commission personally came to Qingfeng Factory to announce Wei Baolin's appointment decision. At the same time, he appointed Ning Zhongying as the director of the Qingfeng Factory Research Office, and told Ning Zhongying to "help young comrades get on the horse and give them a ride."
At that meeting, Ning Zhongying changed his usual domineering attitude and remained silent throughout the meeting. Even when the director of the Economic Commission asked him to express his position, he just waved his hand, which made the director of the Economic Commission feel embarrassed.
After the director of the Economic Commission and his party left, Wei Baolin timidly came to Ning Zhongying and asked the old leader to make requests to him. Ning Zhongying looked at Wei Baolin with a half-smile, then pointed at the sky and then at the ground.
He said, "Take care of yourself," and walked away.
Zhai Jianguo, the loser who followed Wei Baolin, didn't understand the riddles Ning Zhongying played and just grinned. However, Wei Baolin, who had followed Ning Zhongying for many years, suddenly changed his face and even wanted to curse.
Pointing to the sky and the ground is a well-known political joke in those years. It talks about a certain old commander's contempt for a certain "rocket-like" cadre. Whether this joke is true or false cannot be verified, but the meaning of this action, Wei Wei
Baolin knew very well that it meant he didn't know the heights of the world.
From then to now, two years have passed. Wei Baolin's governance at Qingfeng Factory has not been smooth. Qingfeng Factory's operating performance has been deteriorating, which has attracted a lot of criticism against him. Unexpectedly, since then,
Ning Zhongying, who was not optimistic about Wei Baolin from the beginning, never expressed his opinion on the management of the factory. Even when his old subordinates Xiang Jiyong, Xiao Dongping and others came to his home to complain, he just smiled and said nothing.
, refused to comment.
Wei Baolin adopted a strategy of respecting Ning Zhongying on the surface and taking precautions in private. Every two or three months, he would visit Ning Zhongying in person to greet him. Each time, he would definitely bring some small gifts, which was the same as those years ago.
It was the same as when he was the office director. When Ning Zhongying needed to use a car or reimburse medical expenses, Wei Baolin always gave him the greatest support and asked the administrative department, finance department, etc. not to neglect Ning Zhongying in the slightest.
Precisely because Wei Baolin has always remained humble, Ning Zhongying's attitude towards him is relatively friendly, at least in a state of discord. Wei Baolin knows that Ning Zhongying has always believed that he is not suitable to be a factory director, and
After he became the director of the factory, he indeed confirmed Ning Zhongying's prediction, so Ning Zhongying was extremely disdainful of him. Wei Baolin did not expect to win Ning Zhongying's approval, he only needed to appease Ning Zhongying and let him
As long as the other party doesn't try to undermine itself.
Hearing Wei Baolin's greetings, Ning Zhongying leaned on the sofa and smiled slightly, and said: "What can an old man do to keep me busy? I just eat and wait for death every day. There is nothing else."
"Hey, how can the old factory director say that?" Wei Baolin said, pretending to be reproachful. He glanced at the furnishings in the room and saw a Go board placed on the dining table, with black and white colors on it.
He walked over, looked at the chess piece carefully, and then said: "The old factory director is playing the score? Well, this seems to be the game between Jiang Zhujiu and Koichi Kobayashi in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, right? What a pity for Jiang Zhujiu."
Ning Zhongying did not answer Wei Baolin's words, but just smiled and said nothing. He knew that the more Wei Baolin acted like this, the more important he had to say. Wei Baolin's little tricks worked well for the county leaders, and in Ning
In Zhongying's eyes, it's just some little tricks. Don't expect to be able to hide it from him.
"By the way, old factory director, I'm here today. Firstly, I'm here to visit the old factory director and see if there are any inconveniences in his life. Secondly, I want to ask the old factory director to give some advice to Qingfeng Factory.
The management put forward some valuable opinions so that they can be used as a guide when making decisions in the factory." Wei Baolin finally brought the conversation back to the topic.
"You know my temper. If you are not in charge, you will not be in charge. Since the county has handed over Qingfeng Factory to you, you can make your own decisions about all operations. Why am I, an old man, talking nonsense?
"Ning Zhongying said.
Wei Baolin said: "You can't say that. After all, the old factory director is the old leader of Qingfeng Factory. He knows the situation of Qingfeng Factory best, and the county is also the most affectionate. How can the management decisions of the factory be separated from you?
How can such an old leader make suggestions?"
Ning Zhongying ignored Wei Baolin, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on the coffee table next to him, and lit it without saying a word.
Wei Baolin knew that this was a sign that Ning Zhongying allowed him to speak. If Ning Zhongying really didn't want to hear about the factory's business problems, he would get up to see off the guests at this time instead of smoking himself.
"It's like this. As the national planning tasks are getting fewer and fewer, our Qingfeng Factory's traditional business continues to shrink, and it has been difficult to support our large factory. Some time ago, several of our factory leaders and middle-level cadres went to several domestic
The city went to the city to do some research and finally found a new product direction for Qingfeng Factory. I guess the old factory director has also heard about it, right?" Wei Baolin said.
Ning Zhongying shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of anything."
Just pretend! Wei Baolin muttered secretly in his heart. Since he believed that Qin Hai was instigated by Ning Zhongying to slander the prospects of the washing machine market, then Ning Zhongying must have said that he did not know the new business direction of Qingfeng Factory.
It’s a lie. Almost the entire factory knows about the switch to washing machines. How could Ning Zhongying not know about it?
In fact, Wei Baolin really wronged Ning Zhongying. The matter of switching to washing machine production was only revealed at the middle-level cadre meeting on Monday. Today is Thursday, and only three days have passed in total. Ning Zhongying retreated to the second line.
After that, I usually stayed at home and did not go out. News about the factory was relayed by some cadres and workers who came to visit. In the past few days, no one happened to come to Ning Zhongying’s house to chat, so Ning Zhongying really
I don't know about switching to washing machine production.
Speaking of which, Ning Zhongying's precious son Ning Mo knew about this, but Ning Mo was like a mouse to a cat when he saw Ning Zhongying. He couldn't hide, so how could he take the initiative to talk to his father about the decision-making issues in the factory.
Besides, all Ning Mo has been thinking about these days is going out to make extra money. Whether the factory is converted to produce washing machines or aircraft carriers, what does it have to do with him?
Ning Zhongying denied that she knew the new business direction of Qingfeng Factory. Whether Wei Baolin believed it or not, he could only introduce it to him first. Hearing that the new business chosen by Wei Baolin was the production of washing machines, Ning Zhongying's face was clear
A trace of disdain passed through.
"Old factory director, what do you think of our choice of direction?" Wei Baolin asked.
Ning Zhongying dusted the cigarette in his hand on the ashtray, and then said slowly: "I only have two words to comment on this direction."
"Which two words?" Wei Baolin asked.
"Nonsense!" Ning Zhongying replied simply.
"..." Even though Wei Baolin had been mentally prepared for it, when he heard such a straightforward criticism, his face turned into the color of pig liver.
"Old factory director, this direction was chosen by me, Xiao Zhai, and several other middle-level cadres." Wei Baolin said aggrievedly.
Ning Zhongying said: "Whether it is nonsense or not has nothing to do with how many people there are. You are the head of a factory, so you can have the final say on how to run it. However, if you want to ask for my opinion, all I can say is: nonsense."
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"Okay..." Wei Baolin said humbly, "Can the old factory director explain a little more clearly why you think this decision is nonsense?"
"Agricultural machinery and washing machines have nothing to do with each other except for the word "machine". If agricultural machinery factories can build washing machines, they can also build airplanes in the future. They also have the same word," said Ning Zhongying.