Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Yi Zhonghai was very excited listening to his co-workers' analysis.

He is about to retire and no longer expects to become an eighth-level fitter in the steel rolling mill, nor does he expect to become a cadre in the steel rolling mill.

My only wish is to see Wang Dong's family get into trouble at the steel mill.

Over the past few years, life at the steel mill had become increasingly difficult for him and Banggeng. Our wages became lower and lower, and in the courtyard we became the laughing stock of our neighbors, unable to hold our heads up.

On the other hand, Wang Dong’s family.

Faced with his own repeated attacks, he was not affected at all and continued to sit firmly in the position of director of the steel rolling mill's kitchen.

Although he did not get promoted, his influence in the steel mill became increasingly greater.

To put it bluntly, in the kitchen of the steel rolling mill, nothing the factory leaders say is as useful as Wang Dong.

Compared with Wang Dong, his wife and sister-in-law are even more exaggerated.

My sister-in-law has been promoted to deputy section chief of the steel rolling mill's finance department, and her salary has reached the highest level of deputy section chief. If she moves up one level, she will become a full section chief.

Let’s look at his wife Chen Jun. Although she is still the deputy section chief of the technical department of the steel rolling mill, her rank was promoted to the section chief level three years ago.

As long as the current head of the technical department is promoted, he will be able to take over the position of head of the technical department of the steel rolling mill immediately.

The salaries of the three people were so high that Yi Zhonghai would envy them even in his dreams.

The salary of Wang Dong and Chen Jun alone, plus various subsidies, is nearly two hundred yuan, not to mention his sister-in-law Chen Li.

In addition, Wang Dong runs the courtyard like an iron barrel.

In the past few years, Wang Dong somehow managed to get one or two apprenticeship spots in a steel rolling mill every year.

Almost all of them were sold to the neighbors in the courtyard at low prices.

In addition, Tang Dashan and Huang Longfei are Wang Dong's apprentices, He Yuzhu and Liang Lazhi's family regard Wang Dong as their benefactor, and most of the neighbors in the courtyard have become Wang Dong's staunch supporters.

A few years ago, Xu Damao and Liu Haizhong from the backyard somehow managed to curry favor with Director Li and suddenly became deputy section-level cadres in the steel rolling mill.

Originally, they wanted to show off in the yard and brag in front of Wang Dong, but Wang Dong took the neighbors in the yard to petition the steel mill, saying that the two men were doing whatever they wanted in the courtyard by relying on their cadre status.

As a result, the two men became workers again after working as cadres for less than half a month.

His life was getting worse and worse, while Wang Dong's family's life was getting better and better. And Wang Dong was also responsible for this, which resulted in Yi Zhonghai's hatred for Wang Dong not only not weakening with the passage of time, but becoming stronger and stronger.

After listening to the discussion between Director Li and the deputy director of the workshop among his coworkers, a look of surprise immediately appeared on his face, and the first reaction that came to his mind was that Wang Dong's family was finished.

Like the deputy director of the workshop, Wang Dong's family were basically promoted by Director Li, and Wang Dong was even rumored to be Director Li's most trusted confidant.

If Director Li steps down, all the people who used to follow Director Li will be liquidated by the new director, and Wang Dong's family will definitely not escape.

Thinking of this, a bold idea gradually emerged in Yi Zhonghai's mind.

Once the new factory director takes office, he will definitely need some trusted aides to take control of the steel mill as soon as possible.

If he uses Wang Dong's family as a token of his allegiance, the steel mill's kitchen, technical department, and financial department will all fall into the hands of the new director.

The new factory manager will definitely be very satisfied with this token of allegiance and will look at me with new eyes.

Not to mention becoming a senior fitter in the steel rolling mill again, Yi Zhonghai would be satisfied as long as his fitter level could be raised a few levels and he could receive more salary after retirement.

If he was lucky enough, when the deputy director of the workshop was cleared out or transferred away, he might be able to become the deputy director of a workshop, and finally retire as a deputy section-level cadre, and his pension in the future would be high. The more Yi Zhonghai thought about it, the more excited he became. He felt that this was his only chance to suppress Wang Dong's family and improve his status.

He immediately leaned over to Banggeng's ear and said, "Banggeng, our chance to turn things around has come."

Five years have passed and Banggeng is now twenty-six or twenty-seven years old.

Although Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu still dote on him as before, he has obviously grown a lot compared to five years ago under the hardships of time and life.

He saw that his fellow workers who had entered the factory as apprentices with him had all become regular employees of the steel rolling mill several years ago. Even some of those who did not have a master were paid 22.5 yuan a month, but he was the only one who was paid an apprentice's salary of 18 yuan.

He has to work as a porter every four months. No matter how thick-skinned Bang Geng is, he cannot hold his head up in front of his coworkers.

When I heard the word "turn over", I was more excited than anyone else. I asked quickly.

"Dad Yi...what chance?"

"Did you hear what the people behind said just now?" Yi Zhonghai answered in a low voice.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Yi Zhonghai continued, "Director Li is about to step down."

"Many of the leaders in the factory are the cronies of Director Li who were promoted by him. They have no real ability except making money and flattering others."

"These people will definitely be liquidated by the new factory manager."

"The Wang Dong family in the front yard were basically promoted by Director Li."

"Wang Dong is in charge of the kitchen, his wife is in charge of the technical department, and his sister-in-law is in charge of the financial department."

"If Wang Dong falls, the three positions of kitchen manager, technical department deputy chief, and financial department deputy chief will be vacant."

"The new factory director will be able to control three departments of the steel mill at once and put his own people in these three departments."

"If we wait until the new factory manager arrives and then report Wang Dong, the new factory manager will definitely be very happy."

"We two will also become the new factory director's confidants because of this token of our loyalty."

"The deputy director of our workshop was also promoted through Director Li's connections. He has no real skills except flattery and bullying."

"We are looking for ways to transfer, otherwise we will be purged as soon as the new factory manager takes office."

"Then the position of deputy workshop director will be vacant."

"Once we become the new factory director's trusted subordinates, maybe I can become the deputy director of the workshop before I retire and retire as a cadre."

"Not only will your pension after retirement be better than it is now, but once you become a cadre, you may even get a raise in salary and rank before retirement."

The idea that Yi Zhonghai put forward was so tempting that Bang Geng was immediately attracted by it and subconsciously nodded in agreement.

But at the last moment, he swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

If he works normally, he will have one month to complete the disciplinary period and become a regular employee of the steel rolling mill.

What if the method proposed by Yi Zhonghai fails again, resulting in him not only failing to become the new factory director's confidant, but also being punished again, and his regularization deadline might be postponed for a few years? That would be a loss.

(End of this chapter)