Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

After listening to the explanation of a workshop director, a smile quickly flashed across Deputy Director Li's serious face and he said happily!

"Old Yang..."

"After listening to the workshop director's introduction, I think that Master Tang from Workshop 1 is indeed more suitable to be the workshop leader than Master Yi."

"Although Master Yi is a senior fitter in our steel mill, he is not a very good person!"

"What our steel mill needs is people who have both skills and noble morals, not people who only have skills but only know how to keep them to themselves and are unwilling to teach them to other workers."

"If we choose Master Yi as the workshop leader instead of Master Tang... the workers will definitely have the illusion that our steel mill encourages everyone to keep their skills to themselves and does not encourage everyone to teach their skills to others. How will our steel mill develop in the future?"

At this point, Deputy Director Li took a sip of tea and continued, "Old Yang, you don't know yet!"

"Since the factory started offering subsidies for taking on apprentices, after more than half a year of development, the number of eighth-level fitters in our steel rolling mill has increased from two to four..."

"The number of Level 7 fitters has increased directly from five to eleven. Many of them have already reached the threshold of Level 8 fitters. With more practice, they can pass the Level 8 fitter exam!"

“This was unthinkable before.”

"In the past, there was no subsidy for taking apprentices. It all depended on the master's ideas, and people didn't try their best when teaching."

"It would be great if we could promote two level 7 fitters a year!"

"Now with subsidies and rewards, in less than a year, we have six more level 7 fitters and two level 8 fitters, at least twice as many as before."

"The workers have sharp eyes and know which senior fitters are needed in the workshop and which ones are not needed in the workshop!"

"The election that just concluded in Workshop 1 is the best proof of this."

Director Yang was immediately speechless.

He always believed that Yi Zhonghai was a rare senior fitter in the steel rolling mill and was very worthy of being won over, so he gave the annual workshop advanced title to him.

I didn't expect Yi Zhonghai to have such a bad character. He made me lose face at the internal meeting of the steel rolling mill and was defeated by Deputy Director Li again.

More importantly, through this selection of advanced workshops, Deputy Director Li once again won the hearts of the people among the grassroots workers of the steel rolling mill.

Previously, the selection of advanced steel mills was decided by leaders at all levels, and ordinary workers just watched the fun, as it had nothing to do with them.

This change made by Deputy Director Li gave all workers in the steel mill the right to vote for advanced workers in the workshop, allowing the workers to truly participate in the construction of the steel mill, which will definitely win a lot of fame and support from the people.

Looking at the arrogant Deputy Director Li in front of him, Director Yang had no choice but to give up his previous idea: "Since Deputy Director Li's suggestion is more useful, then in the future, we will select advanced workshops according to Deputy Director Li's method."

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A canteen kitchen.

Together with the seventy or eighty people from other canteens, a total of more than one hundred kitchen staff were gathered here.

Director Zhou from the kitchen was standing in front of everyone announcing this year's advanced election method for the kitchen.

"Fellow workers: After being jointly recommended by all the team leaders in the back kitchen, Wang Dong, the team leader of the first canteen, Chef Zhou, the chef of the second canteen, and Zhang, the team leader of the fifth canteen, are the three candidates for this year's advanced kitchen. "

"As for who will take the only advanced position in the kitchen, it depends on the voting results of more than 100 workers in the kitchen..."

"All chefs, kitchen assistants, and apprentices in the kitchen have the right to vote. Each person has one vote. The voting will begin now..."

“I’ll be the first to vote…”

An hour later, Wang Dong won the only advanced spot in the kitchen with a lead of nearly 50 votes over other candidates.

No one was too surprised by this result.

Many of the rules and regulations of the kitchen were made by Wang Dong. Before Wang Dong made these rules, only the team leaders and the chefs in all the canteens of the steel mill were qualified to take leftovers home and enjoy the leftover privileges.

With the rules set by Wang Dong, all kitchen helpers and apprentices in the kitchen have the privilege of eating leftovers.

Greatly reduce the pressure at home.

More importantly: because Wang Dong is willing to teach everyone cooking skills, all the kitchen helpers and apprentices in the back kitchen have the opportunity to be promoted to chefs, so they don’t have to want to improve but have no way to do so.

Faced with these benefits, although no one said anything, everyone kept Wang Dong's kindness in mind.

It's so hard to come by an opportunity to repay a favor, so of course we won't miss it.

So at least 60% of the employees in the entire kitchen voted for Wang Dong.

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Good things don't go out, bad things pass thousands of miles.

Before Yi Zhonghai returned to the courtyard after get off work, the news that he was not rated as an advanced worker in the workshop had spread in the courtyard.

In the past, Yi Zhonghai often used the fact that he was a senior figure in the steel rolling mill to show off his status.

Now that I have lost my title as an advanced worker in the steel rolling mill, I have no other identity to show off except being an eighth-level fitter.

In addition, his prestige in Siheyuan has disappeared, and his status in Siheyuan will definitely become lower and lower in the future. There will be more and more residents and steel mill employees who will not take him seriously.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw the residents in the yard staring at him. Some had mocking eyes, some had contempt, and some stared at him with a half-smile, as if they were laughing at a joke.

Yi Zhonghai was confused and hurried back to the central courtyard.

"Old Yi...didn't you get the award for advanced worker in the steel rolling mill this year?" I heard an old lady asking me this as I entered the room.

Yi Zhonghai frowned and replied: "How did you know?"

"It's spread all over the yard..." The aunt immediately told the news she heard in the yard.

"They said you didn't get the title of Advanced Steel Mill..."

"Wang Dong from the front yard was selected as an advanced worker in the steel rolling mill..."

"In the future, Wang Dong's position in the steel mill will definitely surpass that of an eighth-level fitter like you."

"Some even say that you are now only an eighth-level fitter and are no longer qualified to continue to be the head of our courtyard. You should take the initiative to step down and let others take over..."

"They also said that Wang Dong was not only rated as an advanced worker in the steel rolling mill, but also the team leader of the canteen in the back kitchen, managing dozens of workers, while you are not even a team leader in a workshop. He is more qualified to be the boss of the yard than you!"

"Snapped……"

Yi Zhonghai slammed his clenched fists hard on the table in front of him, and his eyes widened and turned red, as if they could spit fire.

After a long while, he gritted his teeth and said, "These snobs..."

"Isn't it just that I wasn't recognized as an advanced steel mill? To add insult to injury is so despicable!"

"The status of a master in the courtyard is not cheap. If you are qualified, you can take it. If you don't want to take it, then don't take it..."

"Even if I lose my status as a senior executive in the steel mill, I can still maintain my status as the head of the courtyard..."

"Even if Wang Dong is rated as an advanced worker in the steel mill, he is not qualified to be the master of the courtyard house!"

(End of this chapter)