Traveling back to 1977

Chapter 446 Questioning? Not a chance!
Upon arriving at the prefectural committee, the driver arranged by Director Yang was indeed already waiting at the dock.

However, he didn't go to the machine factory right away. Instead, he first left the two cats at home and built them a cat house in the kitchen.

It was basically just a basket lined with a thick layer of straw, both of which were brought from Lujiawan. I also left them a basin of water and a bowl of dried fish as their wages for the month, telling them to guard the house well and work hard, and that they would get bonuses, promotions, and raises in the future. Besides the dried fish, there were also small shrimp.

Both raccoons were quite satisfied; this kind of life was much better than the precarious existence they used to live.
I have to work hard and can't afford to lose my job!

Seeing the two cats immediately go on patrol, Chen Fan nodded in satisfaction.

After finishing all that, he took a private car to the machinery factory.

In the office building, Director Yang, Deputy Director Li, and Chairman Zhao of the Trade Union were already waiting in the lobby, chatting and smoking.

Director Yang said, "I have found out that Xiao Fan is not only on temporary assignment in the health department, but he is also a mid-level physician. His doctor's position is affiliated with the First People's Hospital, but he has never been there."

We definitely can't influence the health department; we can only give him the title of health consultant. But if we can transfer his doctor's position, then the consultant title will be truly deserved.

Deputy Factory Director Li and Factory Director Yang are in competition, but they share the same general direction: to make the company bigger and stronger.

This is also a common trait among most corporate management teams today.

As for those who collude to ruin a company, that won't become popular for another few years.

So when he heard what Director Yang said, Deputy Director Li said without hesitation, "This is a good idea. At least it can be explained to everyone, from top to bottom. It was just a nominal position anyway, so the transfer won't affect Xiao Fan. He should agree."

However, our purpose is not really to invite Xiao Fan to be a health consultant. As you said, he was able to push Lujiawan up two levels in just over half a year, which shows that he has real skills.

We must provide him with adequate compensation so that he can truly shine.

At this point, he sighed with mixed feelings, "If he weren't Old Chen's son, we wouldn't be able to get involved with him. I've heard that quite a few people are eyeing him."

Factory Director Yang's expression shifted slightly. "Are there other units eyeing him?"

Deputy Factory Director Li turned to look at Factory Director Yang and Chairman Zhao, and said seriously, "You both know Jiang Heng from the cotton mill, right?"

The two nodded in unison. Director Yang smiled and looked at him, saying, "Jiang Heng is a talented man, but unfortunately he got into trouble. His situation is similar to Old Chen's. However, his former boss has not yet been reinstated, so there is no way to help him for the time being. But the case is being reviewed, and it is estimated that the time for the case to be overturned will not be long."

At this point, a thought suddenly struck him: Did Old Li know something?
He then feigned suspicion and said, "You mean Jiang Heng knows about Chen Fan and wants to get him to the cotton mill? That's impossible. He's barely able to take care of himself right now, how could he have time to look after others?"

Deputy Factory Director Li chuckled, "Of course not Jiang Heng, he doesn't have that ability right now."

He then lowered his voice mysteriously, "Jiang Heng has two daughters. The younger one was sent to work in the production team when he had the accident."

Factory Director Yang blinked. How did this turn into talking about his daughter?

Looking at Deputy Factory Director Li's mysterious smile, a sudden thought flashed through my mind: "She went to Lujiawan?"

Deputy Factory Director Li nodded slowly and smiled, “I only found out by chance that he had a good relationship with Jiang Heng’s two daughters when I asked an acquaintance in the Health Department about Xiao Fan. Even his agreement to take a temporary position in the Health Department was to help Jiang Heng’s youngest daughter return to the city. He exchanged positions with Section Chief Zhou of the Health Department. The person in charge of the specific matter was Deputy Director Zuo of the Education Department.”

Yunhu is only so big. If someone is determined to investigate, there is nothing they can't find. But anything that isn't kept secret or has any trace can't withstand scrutiny.

Especially personnel transfers, which are impossible to hide; a little inquiry will reveal the truth.

Of course, that's because Deputy Factory Director Li is someone in this circle. If it were an ordinary person, they probably wouldn't have heard a single word.

Seeing that Director Yang and Chairman Zhao seemed to be deep in thought, Deputy Factory Director Li smiled slightly and continued, "Our Yunhu is located in Jiangnan, and it can be said to be a place of outstanding people and beautiful scenery. However, there is no one like Xiao Fan who has become a well-known writer at such a young age, not to mention that his contributions to Lujiawan are obvious to all."

So, the newly appointed factory director, Song, at the cotton mill…

Before he could continue, Director Yang asked curiously, "What happened to the original Director Xu?"

Before Deputy Factory Director Li could speak, Chairman Zhao laughed and said, "You're completely oblivious to what's going on around you. Half a year ago, that Xu guy was already implicated by a Deputy Director Li. He not only lost his job but was also thoroughly investigated and severely punished. He's already in jail."

Factory Director Yang asked with a face full of curiosity, "What happened? Didn't he have powerful backers? He fell from grace just because he was implicated?"

Deputy Factory Director Li lit a cigarette, shook his head and sighed, "Old Yang, what can I say to you? Even if you're devoted to your work, you should at least keep an eye on what's going on outside."

Factory Director Yang smiled slightly, “I’m different from you. You’re in charge of logistics and administration, so you have to pay attention to all aspects of the situation, otherwise it’s easy to make mistakes. I’m only in charge of organization and production. Successfully completing the task is my most important job. I really don’t have the energy to pay attention to anything else, and it’s best to pay less attention to it, otherwise it’s easy to get distracted. You’re enough to handle things outside.”

Deputy Factory Director Li raised his hand with a wry smile, "Fine, fine, I'm just giving you a piece of advice, and you're making a big deal out of it."

He paused for a moment, then suddenly couldn't help but grin and laugh, "Hahaha, you don't know, there's a guy in their cotton mill who got ahead by beating people up, that's Deputy Director Li. Back then, the Xu guy in the cotton mill let him bite a lot of people, including Jiang Heng."

However, this matter has nothing to do with Jiang Heng; the problem lies with the son surnamed Li. Just six months ago, dozens of rats suddenly entered his son's house…”

As Deputy Factory Director Li recounted his story, Factory Director Yang's expression grew increasingly interesting. Once he finished, he immediately asked, "So, the man surnamed Li was implicated by his son, and then the man surnamed Xu was implicated by the man surnamed Li, and in the end, the cotton mill was shut down?"

Deputy Factory Director Li nodded repeatedly, suppressing a laugh. After catching his breath, he said with a smile, "In order to get a reduced sentence, Deputy Director Li's son spilled all the dirty tricks his father had done. Deputy Director Li, thinking that they should die together, and that confessing would lead to leniency and a reduced sentence, dragged Director Xu into it, explaining all the things he had done for Director Xu in the past."

If it were just a matter of breaking the law and being punished, that would be one thing. The key issue is that their accusations and implicating against each other are so shameful that the Light Industry Department issued a gag order, forbidding anyone from spreading the word. Although those who need to know already know, very few outsiders actually know anything about it.

Even inside the cotton mill, although many sensed something was amiss, the arrival of a new leader to stabilize the situation and repeated emphasis on not criticizing the leadership meant no one dared to discuss it openly.

After he finished speaking, he suddenly paused, thinking, "I was going to talk about Chen Fan, how did we end up going so far off?"
He quickly waved his hand, "These are nothing, they have nothing to do with us anyway. The main thing is..."

Song, the newly appointed factory director, heard from an acquaintance in the health department that Chen Fan had used connections in the health department to get the two Jiang sisters into the education department, and he began to have designs on that opportunity.

Factory Director Yang's expression changed. "He wants people too?"

Chairman Zhao laughed from the side, "What are you saying? Who wouldn't want someone like Xiao Fan? Putting everything else aside, just his pen alone is worth a lot of money."

Other organizations can't do anything about it; they simply can't get in touch with them, so naturally, it's difficult for them to poach him. It's only because we have Old Chen's connections that we were able to find a way to bring him in.

Aren't their cotton mills the same?

Originally, Director Song and Jiang Heng had no connection, but I heard that he is now trying to exonerate Jiang Heng in order to lure Chen Fan over through his daughter..." Just as they were gossiping with great interest, a Shanghai sedan slowly pulled up in front of the office building. It was the car that Director Yang had sent to pick up Chen Fan.

Although it was a little later than expected, Director Yang didn't mind, as long as the person arrived.

Chen Fan sat in the passenger seat, first offering the driver a cigarette and then giving him a thumbs up, "Driver, you're really professional. You didn't say a word the whole time except for greetings. You're definitely cut out to be a driver!"

The driver looked him over carefully, making sure he was telling the truth, before smiling and accepting the cigarette, saying, "You're welcome."

Chen Fan smacked his lips, pushed open the door, and got out of the car.

I was still thinking to myself, "I just wanted to find out what's going on with your scrapped cars, and you won't even tell me that? That's too much."

Then he saw three big shots, Director Yang, Deputy Director Li, and Chairman Zhao, come out, and he quickly went to greet them.

At first, Chen Fan thought it was a coincidence. Surely it couldn't be that three division-level cadres were waiting for him together?
When the three of them gathered around him, chatting and laughing, they realized it was actually true.

This is truly a bit of a flattery.

Factory Director Yang patted his arm and said with a smile, "You must be tired from the journey. Go to my office and rest for a bit. I'll take you around the factory later."

Chen Fan quickly shook his head and said, "No need, no need, this short distance is nothing. I'd better check the factory area first."

The sooner we finish the work, the sooner we can get paid!

Deputy Factory Director Li nodded in satisfaction, "Well done, just like your father, you both put work first."

Factory Director Yang smiled and said, "How about this, I'll take you to the factory hospital first to get a better understanding of the situation, and then I'll take you to the workshop this afternoon?"

Chen Fan smiled and waved his hand, "I'm a fast worker, I should be able to finish watching it by this morning."

Just kidding, I'm looking forward to going to see the car this afternoon, how can I let you postpone it until tomorrow?
Seeing his confidence, the three factory directors couldn't help but exchange glances.

However, they were all "mature and steady" people, so they naturally wouldn't easily say anything to refute them, and instead verbally agreed first.

Anyway, we can't let them leave until the business is finished. The gates of the machine factory aren't so easy to enter!
The factory hospital wasn't far from the government building; it was just separated by a small grove of trees.

As they walked, Director Yang introduced the products to him, saying, "Yesterday I only showed you some of our products briefly and didn't give you a detailed introduction to our machinery factory. Now that you want to investigate further, I'll tell you more about it."

Yunhu Machinery Factory was one of the later key enterprises in Yunhu. It was established in 65 during the "Third Front" construction period. It was contracted to 65 units under 14 departments of Jiangnan Province, including industry, materials, building materials, transportation, health, and power. A total of 81 independent units were built throughout the province, and our factory was one of the 16 key units.

After the machinery factory was built, it had workshops for casting, machining, surface treatment, precision machining, parts inspection, complete machine assembly, complete machine inspection, and packaging. In addition, there were logistics units such as a transportation fleet, canteen, hospital, shops, bathhouse, and workers' club. It currently has nearly 10,000 employees..."

As Chen Fan listened to his introduction, he nodded slightly to show that he was listening attentively.

Many people know about the Third Front. In order to deal with the possible outbreak of war, the higher authorities decided to divide the country into three levels, namely the First Front, the Second Front, and the Third Front, according to the degree to which they might become war zones.

The front lines are the most likely to become war zones, and so on, with the third lines being the least likely to become war zones.

The third tier includes the central and western regions of provinces and autonomous regions such as Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan.

The first tier consists of the eastern coastal areas and most border provinces and regions, while other areas are classified as the second tier.

Then, a large number of industrial construction projects were transferred to the safer third-tier regions.

This was the Third Front construction that shocked the world.

In addition to the major Third Front projects, minor Third Front projects were also launched in various provinces.

These small third-line factories were initially used to produce "light combat tools" for units below the regimental level, to support mass combat operations.

Later, with the emergence of Miss Qiu, and the creation of her exclusive Long March 1 rocket that could fly very far, the combat missions were no longer so urgent, and these small third-line factories gradually shifted to the civilian market.

Yunhu Machinery Factory also entered a period of rapid development.

Chen Fan listened to the introduction and followed Director Yang and the others into the machinery factory's staff hospital.

Originally, Director Yang wanted to call all the medical staff over to meet with Chen Fan.

After all, he will be the factory's "hygiene consultant" in the future, and he will be part of the same system as everyone else, so of course we should get to know him.

But Chen Fan said there was no rush. He only greeted the hospital director who had rushed over, then left Director Yang and the others behind. Without even looking for a guide, he quickly walked around the hospital twice, not even missing the small courtyard of the inpatient department at the back.

After walking around the hospital, he returned to the lobby and gestured, "I have it all figured out. I'll get everything sorted out for you tomorrow."

Dean Lin, standing nearby, wore a wry smile.

If Chen Fan hadn't been so famous in their health system, he would definitely have had a huge argument with the factory leaders right now, and might even have kicked this arrogant young man out.

Hospitals are very rigorous institutions; how could he possibly have the knowledge and offer opinions after such a cursory glance?

But now, when he learned that this young man was Chen Fan, whom the factory leaders had gone to great lengths to invite, he felt only anticipation.

question?

nonexistent!

Just as Chen Fan finished speaking and was about to leave, a group of people rushed in noisily.

Someone was shouting, "Doctor, help someone..."

(End of this chapter)