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The supplies in the warehouse have all been borrowed by nearby residents. The higher-ups only agreed to compensate for the most basic supplies, and the factory will have to bear the rest of the losses itself.

In an era of scarcity, such a blow would be fatal even to a metallurgical factory!

Moreover, it's not just the metallurgical plant that suffered losses here.

Other factories, affected by this disturbance, experienced shortages of supplies to the point that their canteens could no longer cook meals in large batches.

The workers couldn't get anything to eat in the canteen, so you can imagine how upset they would be!

However, the whereabouts of the materials at Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill are very clear, and there are even signatures from the workers confirming their application for the materials.

Based on these lists and signatures, Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill can retrieve all the previously distributed materials without missing a single one.

So Xiaoshan essentially saved the entire Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill this time!

After all, Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill is a large factory with tens of thousands of employees, and its warehouses are stocked with a lot of materials.

If, like other factories, it were to be taken over by nearby residents without receiving any compensation from above, it would truly be the death knell for Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill!

"Factory Director, I don't want to leave our factory for the time being. Could you please cover for me with Deputy Director Zhao?" Xiao Shan's attitude was very clear: he didn't want to get promoted and get involved in that mess.

Moreover, after the reform and opening up, he planned to make a name for himself in Hong Kong!

"Alright, you can think these things through yourself! Whatever decision you make, I'll support you." Li Huaide patted Xiao Shan's shoulder earnestly. "You're a lucky guy, so I won't lecture you."

In Li Huaide's view, Xiaoshan must have been blessed with great fortune along the way!

As the days went by, the residents of Beijing gradually recovered from the snow disaster.

The first day after resuming work in early 1974.

Li Huaide then summoned all the leaders of Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill to the conference room.

Looking at everyone in the conference room, Li Huaide slowly said, "The reason I called everyone here today is that our factory has received a notice from above that starting this year, the family planning policy will be implemented in Beijing!"

"The so-called family planning policy is to alleviate the population pressure in Beijing and prevent the quota from being insufficient in the future, so it was decided to start controlling the population. As government officials, we should of course respond to the call from above as soon as possible. Those of us who have already had children should not have any more."

"Cadres who haven't had children yet must strictly abide by the regulations; their families cannot have more than two children."

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The idea of ​​family planning had actually been circulating since 1971.

With the continuous increase in urban population in recent years, the number of urban residents receiving quotas has been increasing. In order to avoid shortages of supplies, the authorities decided to start family planning work in the city.

Rural areas will not be affected by the family planning policy for the time being, since they do not receive quotas from the state.

Of course, as time goes on, family planning will also be vigorously promoted in rural areas.

Now that everyone had heard the concrete plan from Li Huaide, they began to whisper among themselves in the meeting room.

The family planning policy doesn't actually have much impact on any of them here.

After all, even the youngest person in the conference room, Xiao Shan, already has three children at home, so there's no need for him to have any more.

They could absolutely comply with this policy and not have any more children.

The problem is that, as government officials in the steel rolling mill, they also need to mobilize the workers in the mill to cooperate with the family planning policy!

This is going to offend some people!

“Everyone here is a cadre in the factory. I will assign a quota later. You all must go among the workers and mobilize everyone to cooperate with the family planning policy! The higher-ups will check our work results in the end, and factories with poor performance will be punished!” Li Huaide looked at everyone with a serious face.

At this moment, almost all the cadres in the meeting room had a sour look on their faces.

It's one thing for them to manage the workers' work affairs normally, but now they're even going to dictate whether the workers have children or not...

Xiao Shan wasn't as bothered by this matter as others.

Anyway, he's not afraid of punishment from above.

He wasn't afraid of either a pay cut or a demotion.

This is what is meant by "a sheer cliff stands tall because it is free from desires."

After the meeting ended, everyone left the meeting room with frowns on their faces.

After all, this time they really presented everyone with a difficult problem.

How can they control their workers and prevent them from having more than two children?

After all, nowadays most families have three children, and families with two or one child are still in the minority.

Even having only one child can lead to being ridiculed by neighbors.

Mobilizing everyone to cooperate with family planning under these circumstances is undoubtedly a headache.

However, since the order had already been given, they could only follow suit and try their best to complete their assigned tasks.

After returning to the purchasing department, Xiao Shan organized a small meeting to convey Li Huaide's words from the general meeting.

Since the purchasing department was a newly established department in the steel rolling mill, Xiaoshan mostly chose young people for its staff.

In Xiao Shan's view, young people are quick-witted and responsive, and they don't resort to trickery like seasoned veterans in the workplace.

However, the family planning policy now has a greater impact on the procurement department than on other departments!

After all, most of them haven't had children yet, or even gotten married!

"Deputy Factory Director Xiao, why would such a policy be suddenly introduced!" Everyone in the small conference room complained bitterly.

After all, the one-child policy was a huge blow to those of them who hadn't had children yet.

At that time, everyone believed that having many children brought good fortune. How could they accept being suddenly asked to have a maximum of two children?

Looking at the devastated crowd, Xiao Shan slowly said, "I know you are all heartbroken and regret not having children sooner! But we are indeed facing a shortage of resources right now. Having more children means receiving more rations. Our country is also going through a tough time right now, so let's just consider it as supporting the development of our motherland."

"When our country develops and becomes wealthy in the future, everyone can have as many children as they want, even seven would be no problem!"

No one took Xiao Shan's words seriously.

After all, people can only have two children now, so how could they possibly have seven in the future?

They took it as Xiao Shan trying to comfort himself!

Seeing the silent crowd, Xiao Shan sighed and continued, "Regardless, you are all government officials, and you should support this policy with your own actions! If you, as government officials, cannot support family planning, then you will most likely have to leave the system."

"Moreover, the country isn't stopping people from having children, it's just encouraging them to have fewer. In my opinion, two children are actually more than enough."

"Understood, Deputy Factory Director Xiao!" Everyone responded listlessly to Xiao Shan.

As government officials, they certainly wouldn't dare violate the family planning policy.

Instead, we should strive to promote family planning and go among the people.

This is a basic level of awareness that cadres should have.

"Okay, I will assign some work targets in a few days. I hope everyone can actively complete the targets and mobilize the workers in the factory to practice family planning together." Xiao Shan concluded the meeting succinctly.

After Xiao Shan returned to his office, he called Xu Damao over.

Now that the country has begun to promote family planning, their purchasing department needs to prepare a large number of family planning supplies for the factory's workers and cadres.

Not only family planning products, but the staff hospital also needs to purchase a lot of IUDs.

Because if a married woman voluntarily gets an IUD inserted, she will receive a subsidy of ten dollars.

Xiaoshan estimates that the staff hospital should be busy right now.

After all, once the news spreads among the workers, those women who have already had enough children will definitely not miss out on this subsidy and will go to the workers' hospital to get an IUD inserted as soon as possible.

The purchasing department needs to prepare all of these things in advance to avoid being caught off guard later.

After receiving Xiao Shan's order, Xu Damao turned around and left Xiao Shan's office.

As the leaders of Xiaoshan spread the word about family planning, the steel mill workers experienced mixed feelings of joy and sorrow.

My family has many children and we really don't want to have any more. I heard that if I get an IUD inserted at the employee hospital, I can get a subsidy of ten yuan. I'm so happy about that.

But those who haven't had children yet, or those who already have two children and are planning to have a third, are getting restless at this point.

Even worse, for workers who already had two daughters and were desperately trying to have a son, the one-child policy was undoubtedly a nightmare.

This led everyone to try every means to inquire and confirm the authenticity of the family planning policy.

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When they learned that this was true, the workers were somewhat confused, but for the sake of their jobs, they had no choice but to cooperate obediently.

Although Li Huaide said he would assign tasks to each leader, Xiao Shan had to go to the welding workshop from time to time to complete level 8 workpieces, so Li Huaide assigned him the task of mobilizing the residents in his courtyard to support this matter.

The other leaders of the steel rolling mill dared not have any objection to Li Huaide's obviously lenient arrangement.

After all, when they went to the purchasing office to collect the supplies, they still needed the signature of Xiaoshan, the top official!

For Xiaoshan, this was simply a matter of holding a general meeting of the entire college.

Whether the residents support him after he has mobilized them at the hospital-wide meeting is not something Xiao Shan needs to consider.

Anyway, he did everything he was supposed to do.

After the plenary meeting, Xiao Shan went home to play with his children.

Just as Xiaoshan was having a great time playing with the two children, the long-lost notification sound of the chat group suddenly rang in his mind.

"Ding! Magic Phone Lu Xiaoqian has joined the chat group!"

"Ding! Soul Ferryman Zhao Li has joined the chat group!"

As soon as the notification sound rang out, everyone in the chat group became excited.

Zhang Chulan: "Finally, another new member has joined the group! It feels like ages since the last new member joined!"

You Ruo: "That's right, Li Ye and I have been in the group for so long, and finally we have some new members! Now we're no longer the newest members in the group!"

Huang Rong: "Welcome newcomer! Newcomers can silently read the group announcement!"

Zhou Bingkun: "Welcome, newcomer!"

Ying Zheng: "Finally, there are new future videos to watch. It's been a long time!"

Liu Angxing: "I recently learned two new dishes, which are perfect for welcoming the newcomers!"

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A magical mobile phone world.

Lu Xiaoqian was seriously injured by Huang Mei and is currently recuperating in the hospital!

After seeing Chu Chu and the others off, Lu Xiaoqian finally had the energy to check the chat group that had suddenly appeared in his mind.

Having met Sha Niu before, Lu Xiaoqian's first thought was whether this chat group was also based on futuristic technology like Sha Niu's.

Lu Xiaoqian: "Hello everyone, I'm Lu Xiaoqian! Are you from 2060? Are you here to find Sha Niu?"

Group admin Xiao Shan: "Lu Xiaoqian, you should take a good look at everyone's names! I think you've heard of these names before!"

Hearing Xiao Shan say this, Lu Xiaoqian then took a closer look at the names of everyone in the chat group.

Looking at these familiar yet unfamiliar names, Lu Xiaoqian understood that this chat group was probably not a product of the era of Sha Niu.

Lu Xiaoqian: "I need to go find Sha Niu now, otherwise it'll be troublesome if someone else picks her up!"

Yan Chixia: "Judging from this, Lu Xiaoqian should be at the very beginning of the future video!"

Lu Xiaoqian: "What does 'when the video just started' mean?"

Yan Chixia: "You can check the announcements in the group, and then watch the future videos related to you, and you'll probably understand!"

Hearing Yan Chixia say this, Lu Xiaoqian didn't rush to get up and leave the sickbed.

After reading through the group announcement, Lu Xiaoqian then watched her future video again.

When Lu Xiaoqian saw that it was the professor who had taken the silly girl away, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

By this time, most of the other people in the group had also finished watching Lu Xiaoqian's future video.

Ying Zheng: "Lu Xiaoqian, what can I say about you? I really want to beat you up! Just for that Hua Mei, you used six illegal operations. Are you out of your mind? I really don't know what to say to you. Don't you understand who she is? And what you're wearing in front of me is called a battle uniform? It looks like a circus clown!"

Huang Rong: "Qin Huang, although your criticism is quite accurate, Lu Xiaoqian is still immature at this time, which is understandable!"

Huang Rong: "But Lu Xiaoqian, I think you should be wary of that You Suowei! He stole Sha Niu from you and then sent Hua Mei to steal the password!"

Lu Xiaoqian: "Thank you for the reminder, Miss Huang Rong. I will be careful! I'll go find Sha Niu first, and we'll talk about the rest when I get back!"