Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Seeing that Deputy Director Li took a step back and decided to give one of the three deputy-section-level positions to Wang Dong and no longer ask himself for the fourth deputy-section-level position, Director Yang immediately took a step back.

As the director of a steel mill, if his superiors label him as a person who has buried no talent, he will definitely have no hope of promotion in the future, and he may even lose his position as the director of the steel mill.

For his own benefit, he had to nod: "If the wild vegetable steamed bread thing really succeeds."

"Comrade Wang Dong has indeed made great contributions."

"It is completely possible to meet the criteria for exceptional promotion."

"Our superiors also support our decision to recruit talents without any restrictions. As leaders of the steel mill, we must promote this idea."

Seeing that Director Yang finally gave in, Deputy Director Li stopped talking nonsense and directly took Director Yang and his group to the cafeteria food window.

There are four baskets of wild vegetable steamed buns in total. The ratio of wild vegetables to two parts of flour can be seen from the color of the steamed buns.

The greener the color, the higher the proportion of wild vegetables grown in the steamed bread.

The yellower the color, the smaller the proportion of wild vegetables in the steamed bread.

There were dozens of leaders, big and small, each of them had four steamed buns with wild vegetables and a big bowl of cabbage soup made by Wang Dong himself.

Although the amount of rapeseed oil received by the canteen was half less than last year, because the canteen uses a lot of it, it is still no problem to save a little to make some oily cabbage soup for dozens of factory leaders.

Deputy Director Li first picked up the steamed bread with the highest proportion of wild vegetables and took a bite. His brows suddenly frowned, and he swallowed it with cabbage soup.

Then change it to a steamed bun with less wild vegetables.

Although he didn't frown this time, he still finished the whole steamed bread with cabbage soup.

By the third steamed bread, the number of times he drank cabbage soup decreased significantly.

When he got to the last steamed bun, he finished it in four consecutive bites.

He first looked at Wang Dong who was standing beside him with admiration, and then shifted his gaze to Director Yang who had also finished eating.

"Old Yang..."

"what do you think?"

"It's fine to fill my stomach, but the taste is a little bit worse..."

"The two steamed breads with the highest flour ratio are fine."

Seeing the other deputy factory directors nodding their heads, Deputy Factory Director Li immediately said to Wang Dong: "From now on, we will make steamed bread with the least amount of wild vegetables..."

"Those with a slightly higher proportion of wild vegetables are sold at a lower price, while those with a slightly lower proportion of wild vegetables are sold at a higher price. We also make some steamed bread and steamed bread without wild vegetables. These two types are sold at a higher price, at least twice as much as the steamed bread with wild vegetables. This encourages workers to eat more steamed bread with wild vegetables."

Turning his head to look at Director Yang, seeing that he looked calm and had no intention of responding, Deputy Director Li continued: "I just discussed it with Director Yang."

"As long as the wild vegetable steamed bread you make can solve the food shortage problem of the steel mill, you will have made a great contribution to the steel mill, and the position of deputy director of the kitchen of the logistics department of the steel mill will be yours."

"The appointment will be announced on the factory radio this afternoon."

"Since you have become the deputy director of the kitchen, Director Zhou will now focus on logistics coordination, and the large-scale promotion of wild vegetable steamed bread throughout the factory will be handed over to you."

"In a week, I want to see the good news that wild vegetable steamed bread is widely promoted in the steel rolling mill, and at the same time, I want to see whether the workers can fill their stomachs and save food after starting to eat a large amount of wild vegetable steamed bread."

Wang Dong didn't expect that he would get the position of deputy director of the kitchen so soon. He was shocked, but he also knew that it would not be as easy as he thought to keep the position. He was promoted by Deputy Director Li, and Director Yang must be very dissatisfied.

Forced by the current situation, he had to agree to serve as the deputy director of the kitchen.

But the defect of being too young cannot be made up in a short period of time.

If he failed to complete the tasks assigned by the factory leaders after becoming the deputy director, or even did something wrong, Director Yang would remove him from the position on the grounds that he was young and inexperienced.

By then, even if Deputy Director Li wanted to protect himself, he would have no reason to do so.

In order to keep his position secure and not to disappoint Deputy Director Li and cause him trouble, the task of promoting wild vegetable steamed bread must be completed successfully.

As he thought about it, he became serious and looked at Deputy Director Li and answered seriously: "Please rest assured, I will complete this task..."

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Director Yang's office.

Looking at the several trusted subordinates who rushed over, he asked directly without hesitation: "Have you heard about the appointment of Wang Dong, the monitor of the first canteen, as the deputy director of the kitchen?"

"I don't care what method you use, you must make sure that Wang Dong fails to complete his mission of promoting wild vegetable steamed bread at the steel mill..."

A confidant subconsciously asked back: "Why?"

"Director, promoting wild vegetable steamed bread throughout the factory is beneficial to all of us. Why do you want to destroy it?"

Director Yang suppressed his anger and explained: "I didn't say I wanted to sabotage the steel mill's promotion of wild vegetables. It's just that Wang Dong can't do it. I want to make sure Wang Dong can't hold on to his position as deputy director of the kitchen."

"If Deputy Director Li recommends someone else to be the deputy director and asks him to promote wild vegetable steamed bread throughout the factory, not only will I not stop him, I will also find a way to help him."

"Only Wang Dong can't do that..."

"As long as Deputy Director Li replaces me with someone else as the deputy director of the kitchen, I won't cause any trouble..."

The confidant understood and breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that the factory director was only targeting Wang Dong, and was not promoting the wild vegetable steamed bread in the entire factory. So this matter was easy to handle.

Wang Dong was too young and had no foundation in the steel rolling mill. He only had Deputy Director Li as his backer, and the other party was just a newly appointed deputy director of the kitchen. It was too easy for him to deal with him.

There are several canteens in the back kitchen of the entire steel rolling mill. Just pick two canteen foremen to be hypocritical in promoting wild vegetable steamed buns, and then talk about the shortcomings of wild vegetable steamed buns in the workshop, encouraging everyone not to buy them. Not to mention a week, even if Wang Dong is given another ten days, he will not be able to get more than half of the workers in the steel rolling mill to choose to eat wild vegetable steamed buns.

He immediately assured Director Yang: "Director, don't worry..."

"Taking care of Wang Dong is a sure thing."

"We'll make arrangements now..."

Director Yang nodded. "This Wang Dong has collaborated with Deputy Director Li to scheme against me many times, causing me to lose face in front of the workers and even in front of my superiors twice."

"If I don't take revenge, I'm not a gentleman..."

"As long as I am still the director of the steel mill, I will never allow such people to join our cadre team."

"As long as Wang Dong fails to complete the promotion of wild vegetable steamed buns, I can use this as a breakthrough point to make Wang Dong lose his position as deputy director of the kitchen." (End of this chapter)