People in the Siheyuan: I am a Buddhist who is in a mess

Lin Yi asked around and found out that it was the location of a military compound, and then he didn't take it seriously.

During the past half month, he would go to Hulukou Brigade almost every other day, and chat with Youxi, take a walk outside, etc.

The two even went into the mountains for an autumn hunting trip. Apart from picking some wild persimmons, they didn't encounter any other wild animals.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the two did not go deep into the mountains.

However, the development of the relationship between the two stopped there.

Lin Yi felt that their relationship was more than friends but less than lovers.

Of course, this was just Lin Yi's feeling, he didn't know what You Xi was thinking.

Steel rolling mill, Public Security Department office.

Two colleagues came to Lin Yi's office. They were both deputy section chiefs of the Purchasing Section of the Logistics Department.

Xie Hongbao and Zhang Zhengping.

After becoming the chief of the Public Security Section, because he met more leaders of the steel mill, Lin Yi discovered that there were indeed many deputy positions in the steel mill.

This is also related to the fact that the main positions of many departments are concurrently held by the leaders of the next level, but specific affairs are completed by subordinate deputies.

There are also people like Lin Yi, who is also appointed as deputy section chief in the purchasing department. This is called making the best use of people.

Although it is not in compliance with the law, there is no rule that prohibits this........

Xie Hongbao and Zhang Zhengping are the full deputy section chiefs of the Procurement Section of the Logistics Department. Unlike Lin Yi, this one is just a title and will only be used when needed.

Lin Yi doesn’t even have an office in the purchasing department. It is estimated that the purchasers under him don’t even know that there is a deputy section chief like him.

Lin Yi used his work ID as the deputy chief of the purchasing department once, when he was dealing with the commune in Hulukou last time.

It was also used to shut up the supply and marketing cooperative in the commune.

After all, Lin Yi brought the agricultural products of the commune to the steel rolling mill. Although the amount was not much, it was still stealing things from the supply and marketing cooperative.

Since they are all state-owned units, they are all about seeking benefits for the units they work for. The supply and marketing cooperatives have encountered many such things.

Lin Yi set up a table of wine at the commune and gave out a few packs of cigarettes, which was considered to have put the matter behind him.

Xie Hongbao and Zhang Zhengping have come to Lin Yi's place twice.

There is still a month left before the factory stops paying salaries and gives employees a holiday.

We need to prepare a lot of New Year’s goods.

There is an unwritten rule in large state-owned factories that the things distributed during the Chinese New Year cannot be worse than those distributed in the previous year.

This is just like how large state-owned factories receive production tasks for the next year before the beginning of each year, which means they are increasing the workload every year.

As for the steel rolling mill, it has rolled 50,000 tons of various types of steel this year. So, next year, it must roll at least 55,000 tons. Otherwise, it will be standing still and making no progress.

In the words of the higher authorities, if you can do it, you should do it; if you can’t, you should find a way and create the conditions to do it.

This is also a characteristic of large state-owned factories.

After all, starting from Lin Yi, the conditions were extremely poor. If he wanted to achieve modernization and make progress under internal and external difficulties, he needed to keep competing, not only among the brother units, but also within the steel mill.

However, in this era, this is not called competition. How can we use such a combative word as competition between brother units? This is called progress, common progress.

Therefore, it also caused a problem that when the production tasks came, each factory was desperate to arrange the orders and start production.

The common progress of large state-owned factories is often not tense, but very intense.

Often, a few large factories would happily talk at the dinner table about how much they plan to produce this year. However, behind the scenes, they would double the requirements of their superiors and ask the workshops below to complete them.

Just like the steel mill, the superiors required a 10% increase in production next year, but when the steel mill held a mobilization meeting, the task target proposed was a minimum increase of 20%, with no upper limit.

This is an era of striving to be the best.

Logically speaking, since the production task has increased, shouldn’t the supply materials also increase accordingly?

However, the supply of supplies remains limited in quantity. As for the shortage, we have to find a way ourselves.

As I said, when you encounter difficulties, find ways to solve them and create conditions to solve them.

This is mainly because my colleagues are too competitive.

The brother factories not only compete with each other for production tasks, but also for New Year's goods and daily material benefits.

The winning factory not only has the final say with the higher authorities, but more importantly, when it comes to allocating talent, equipment and raw materials every year, the most outstanding factory can be chosen first and have its demands met first.

This often results in deaths from drought or floods, but it also ensures that the factory is the most competitive.

This year, the steel mill’s New Year’s goods target is to distribute meat, five kilograms of pork to each worker.

Now, there are more than 4,200 people in the steel rolling mill.

According to the factory's requirements, that would be more than 21,000 kilograms of pork.

The meat processing factory of the supply and marketing cooperative still followed the supply plan and was only willing to provide 8,000 kilograms.

Today's pigs are not like the big white pigs of later generations. A pig can weigh at least 350 kilograms, and 400 to 500 kilograms are very common.

Most pigs these days are large black pigs. After a whole year of raising them, they would only weigh about 200 pounds. Some of them could even reach nearly 300 pounds, which was considered very good given their good food, water and care.

Moreover, the meat yield is not high.

From a 200-pound black pig, you can only get 140 kilograms of meat, and that's with the bones.

That is to say, the steel mill currently has a shortage of at least one hundred pigs.

The difference of these one hundred pigs naturally fell into the purchasing department of the logistics department.

Last year, the distributed pork was prepared according to the standard of four pounds for each worker, but last year, the steel rolling mill did not have so many workers, only less than three thousand.

In addition, last year’s director of the Logistics Department was not Li Xinnian.

This procurement task arrangement is relatively reasonable. As a leader, you should solve more problems.

But this year, Li Xinnian took chicken feathers as a token of authority and seemed to want to make things difficult for his subordinates and give them an embarrassing impression. He allocated 25 pigs out of the 100 pigs to each of the four deputy chiefs of the purchasing department.

It’s not that he didn’t want to make arrangements for Lin Yi, but Lin Yi was just a temporary official and not in the purchasing department. As for notifying Lin Yi, he knew that Lin Yi would definitely not listen.

Li Xinnian didn't want to go to the Public Security Department to find Lin Yi to arrange the task.

Several deputy section chiefs of the purchasing department who received new tasks this year were all feeling very uncomfortable.

They had long anticipated and prepared for the increase in fat pig purchases this year. After all, this layer-by-layer increase has become a traditional skill for large state-owned factories.

But this time, too much was added.

So, after racking their brains, Xie Hongbao and Zhang Zhengping thought of Lin Yi.

Just over a month ago, Lin Yi sent a lot of vegetables to the steel rolling mill, including a fat pig.