Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Seeing that all the leaders in the room showed expressions of approval, Wang Dong continued.

"Director..."

"If we really talk about the oil content, there is much more lard in pig offal than in pork."

"If it's just to provide workers with oil and water, can we replace pork with pig offal?"

“If the workers find it troublesome, they won’t do it…”

"The kitchen can do it for you."

"Make all the offal into braised offal, making sure there is enough oil and water..."

"As a welfare benefit of the steel mill, each person can take home a lunch box, which will definitely make the workers more satisfied than the two or three taels of pork!"

Deputy Director Li has eaten the pig offal made by Wang Dong.

In his opinion, if there was a box of cooked pig offal and three taels of pork in front of him, he would definitely choose the pig offal.

Because pig offal contains more water and fat, and it has been processed in the kitchen of the steel mill.

Take it back and stew it with cabbage, radish, or a box of pork offal, and it’s enough for three meals.

Three taels of pork looks good, but if it is really cooked, each person will only eat two or three bites and it will be gone, and there is not much oil or water.

I nodded subconsciously.

But he swallowed the words back, and continued without relaxing the frown on his face.

“That’s a good idea…”

"But pig offal is not that easy to deal with!"

"There are more than 10,000 people in the steel mill now. If each person gets one pound of pig offal, that would be over 10,000 yuan worth of pig offal."

"One pig's offal weighs 40 kilograms. We need to get back at least 300 pigs' offal!"

"Even if I lose face and shamelessly go to all the meat processing plants in Beijing to buy offal, I'd be lucky if I could buy a hundred or so sets of offal!"

"There's still no where to find the remaining two hundred sets of pig offal!"

Wang Dong immediately responded: "Director..."

"Pig offal is not considered a good thing by many people."

“It’s not only dirty and hard to clean, but also difficult to make. Many people don’t like it…”

"Can we mobilize all the buyers of the steel mill to go to the surrounding villages to buy pig offal, or have the workshops process some simple farm tools and exchange them with the various communes?"

"Although supplies in rural areas are also very tight, and some places even have no food to eat after finishing one meal, the New Year is coming soon after all."

“No matter how tight the supply is, a commune will still kill a pig to let its members have some meat.”

"We don't buy pork, we only buy pig offal, and we still buy it at a high price, or we use some farm tools that are in short supply in the countryside to exchange them. I believe our buyers can buy a lot of pig offal."

"All the leaders have been working in the logistics department, so they should have a lot of connections. It shouldn't be difficult for each of them to get two or three sets of unwanted pig offal!"

The more Deputy Director Li listened, the wider the smile on his face became. At the same time, he silently calculated in his mind how many pig offal these subordinates could help him get back.

Half a minute later, Deputy Director Li spoke decisively: "You all heard what Wang Dong said just now!"

"I know you all have your own purchasing channels. Buying pig offal is related to whether our position in the factory can be consolidated, or even further."

"As long as you are willing to help me, even if you only bring back a piece of pig offal, I will remember it in my heart." "In a word, as the deputy director in charge of logistics, I will never let you suffer any loss."

"Now everyone comes to me to take on tasks based on their abilities. Everyone is asked to bring back as many pig offal as they can within five days."

"As long as the expenses are not excessive, you can come to me for reimbursement."

The cadres who can sit here are all the confidants of Deputy Director Li.

As Deputy Director Li's status in the steel rolling mill increases, their status will also rise with him.

Moreover, the steel mills would not take the pig offal they brought back for free. They would pay the money and issue the invoices. Perhaps all these people need to pay is some energy and connections.

Facing Deputy Director Li's expectant gaze, Director Zhou from the kitchen was the first to speak: "Director..."

"I have connections with the logistics directors of several factories. I can get ten sets of pig offal from them."

With someone taking the lead, other cadres stood up and took on tasks: "Director, I can get back ten sets of pig offal."

"I can get six sets back..."

"I had almost no connections with the logistics departments of other factories in the meat processing plant. At most, I brought back two sets of pig offal."

Deputy Director Li recorded the data reported by everyone while silently calculating in his mind. After everyone had received their tasks, Deputy Director Li raised his head, but the frown on his brows did not relax.

Looking at the recorded data in his hand, he said, "Purchasing Department, I calculated based on 50 sets of pig offal. With the task you just received, we can get a total of 220 sets of pig offal. We still need at least 80 sets of pig offal to meet the needs of the entire steel mill."

Upon hearing this result, everyone's brows, which had just relaxed, frowned again.

Wang Dong spoke up at the right time: "Director...didn't you bring back more than a thousand kilograms of pork?"

"In many factories, pork is in much shorter supply than offal, and pork is also much more expensive than offal."

"We can exchange 10 kilograms of pork for a set of offal from the meat processing plant and other surrounding factories. I'm sure someone will be willing to make the exchange."

"As long as the factory produces 800 kilograms of pork, we can get 80 sets of pig offal in return..."

Deputy Factory Director Li's eyes lit up and he said, "It's possible."

"If ten kilograms of pork can really be exchanged for a set of pig offal, I will directly exchange a thousand kilograms of pork for a hundred sets of pig offal."

"Three hundred sets of braised pork offal will be distributed to everyone as a New Year's gift, and the remaining twenty sets will be used as a gift for the advanced workers of the steel mill and all the leading cadres.

"The kitchen staff will work overtime to help the steel mill prepare New Year's benefits. At that time, everyone will receive an extra box of pork offal as compensation."

"Half of the extra hundreds of kilograms of pork was used to make stew. It was an extra lunch for the whole factory before the New Year. Wang Dong helped to distribute the remaining half of the pork. All the leaders and cadres of the steel rolling mill were given one to five kilograms of pork according to their ranks."

"Wang Dong, although you are not a cadre, you have helped a lot with the welfare of the steel mill. You can directly distribute two kilograms of pork according to the level of section chief."

Although Wang Dong is not short of pork, the bacon and cured chicken in his home are all made privately so that they can be exchanged for money next year and cannot be taken out casually.

If someone reports you while you are eating, you will suffer a huge loss.

With the two kilograms of pork as a reward from the steel mill, my family can have a prosperous year this year without having to worry about being reported by others.

His face immediately lit up with joy and he immediately stood up from his seat: "Thank you, Director..."

"I will definitely lead all the workers in the canteen to provide welfare services for the steel mill, so that the workers will not find any faults after receiving the benefits, and will still remember your kindness in their hearts."

Deputy Director Li is only one step away from being the boss of the steel rolling mill.

As long as he has enough prestige and the support of his superiors, he can replace Director Yang by reporting anything that is unfavorable to him. (End of this chapter)