Chapter 3553
Chapter 3553
Chapter 3553
Some are happy while others are sad. While Zhang Tiangui's mansion was swarming with visitors, his son Zhang Qianzhi was not happy at all, because the sudden influx of orders from the shipbuilding industry also had an impact on the work he was in charge of.
Before the Zhoushan Forum, Zhang Qianzhi received two important tasks from He Xi.
The first is to contact the personnel that the Ministry of Security had planted inside the Ming Dynasty in the early years and re-activate the Wujian plan that had been interrupted for many years.
These undercover personnel consumed a lot of the Ministry of Security's resources to pave the way for them. Many of them later entered the Ming Dynasty officialdom, but for various reasons they lost contact with the Ministry of Security. Now it is time to wake them up.
However, so far, this work has not been going very smoothly, and only two or three of them have been contacted. These people have served the Ming Dynasty for many years, and whether they can be trusted and used now remains to be seen.
Another task is to recruit new personnel for the Security Department and expand its establishment.
The current staff size of the Security Department can no longer keep up with the speed of Hai Han's expansion. Li Dechang, who was appointed some time ago and went to Phuket to take up the post, is the best example.
He Xi appointed Li Dechang as the head of the Security Department in the Indian Ocean region, but did not provide him with a team of subordinates, and let him go to the post alone.
If it weren't for his father Li Dagui who had many years of experience in Sing Tao and could transfer local personnel to assist him, the Indian Ocean Intelligence Station where he was stationed would have been maintained by only him, making him a real lone commander.
Similar shortages of manpower also affected other tasks. For example, after restarting the Infernal Affairs Plan, the Security Department needed to send people to Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi and other regions to contact the target persons. However, due to the shortage of staff in the field departments, the progress of related operations was very slow.
The urgency of recruiting people is even higher than that of restarting the Infernal Affairs plan.
Zhang Qianzhi also thought of many ways to recruit new people through various channels, but the results were not ideal.
Recruiting people from special departments such as the military and police is undoubtedly the best shortcut, and it can almost seamlessly connect with the work of the security department. However, the transfer of personnel from these departments is also the most troublesome, and the power of the security department is not so great that it can appoint anyone it wants. Zhang Qianzhi only has his eyes on capable personnel, and their superiors will not let them go easily.
Another better recruitment channel is students in school. Background checks are simple, and the recruitment rhetoric of serving the country is more easily accepted by young people.
After some busy work, Zhang Qianzhi has selected a group of students from various academies in Hainan. After they graduate, they will be recruited into the Security Department to start their internship.
However, the sudden boom in the shipbuilding industry created an unexpected competitor in the Security Department's recruitment activities.
At the beginning, the major shipyards only recruited professionals from the academies with majors related to navigation and ships. However, the number of students in these majors was limited after all, and they were soon bought up by the major shipyards.
The newcomers could not recruit people with relevant majors, so they had to expand the scope of recruitment. Then the recruitment standards were lowered again and again, and soon they were reduced from professionals to those with a certain cultural foundation.
This is not just a move to fill the gap. For shipyards that are eager to hire people, students in non-related majors can also be used.
It doesn't matter that these students can't build ships. After all, after the shipyards have expanded their production capacity, there are a large number of vacancies for positions that require a cultural foundation, such as clerkship, draftsmanship, cashiership, and warehouse management. These positions are beyond the capabilities of craftsmen who do rough work, and they need a large number of young people who can write and do math to fill them.
All the shipyards and boat companies that come to Hainan to recruit people are now well-off, and the salaries for recruiting positions are higher and higher. The bosses can't wait to wave the money in their hands to attract attention. This rising tide has quickly impacted the recruitment of other industries, including the safety department, which has little money.
Although the Security Department has privileges, the individual treatment is not that good.
Zhang Qianzhi has worked in this government office for thirty years and is now considered a powerful person, but he is not a wealthy man.
Compared with his brothers who developed in the shipbuilding industry, the personal wealth accumulated over the years is even more disparate.
The security department's offer for recruitment positions is really lackluster, and there are many requirements, such as cultural foundation, good health, and clean family background. Moreover, after entering the job, you need to be available at any time, keep your mouth shut, and be on high alert at all times.
Comparing the generous treatment and relatively low requirements in the shipbuilding industry, anyone with a normal mind would probably choose the latter.
Therefore, many candidates who were originally favored by Zhang Qianzhi and had already been contacted signed employment contracts with shipping companies and shipyards that were actively recruiting during this period.
After receiving the news, Zhang Qianzhi felt helpless. He knew that the recruitment conditions he could offer could not compete with those of his wealthy competitors, and it was not convenient for him to use his power to ask these shipping companies and shipyards to reject the candidates he had chosen.
Many of these shipyards and shipyards have close ties with the government, and some are even family businesses run by certain time travelers. If he uses the name of the Ministry of Security to suppress them, they might turn around and bring up some big shot that he can't afford to offend.
As a result, the recruitment plan of the Security Department was inevitably greatly affected. Among the candidates selected by Zhang Qianzhi earlier, only a few insisted on choosing the Security Department. This progress is still far from meeting the staffing gap of the Security Department.
This also caused Zhang Qianzhi to smile bitterly after returning to his own mansion and seeing the bustling scene of his house crowded with people.
If the unusual heat in the job market continues, his recruitment task will definitely not be completed within the scheduled time. How he will then report to He Xi will be a real headache.
It was not until after dark that the guests gradually dispersed. Zhang Qianzhi went to greet his old father. Knowing that he must be very tired after receiving the guests, he did not dare to delay any longer and was about to say goodbye and go back to rest, but was stopped by Zhang Tiangui.
"You look so sad, is there something wrong?"
No one knows a son better than his father. After just one meeting with him, Zhang Tiangui knew that his youngest son must have something on his mind, so he stopped him and asked him a question.
Zhang Qianzhi did not hide anything and simply told his father about the problem he was facing. He did not expect his father to solve the problem, but being able to talk to his family about his work troubles and vent his grievances was a way to relieve stress.
Unexpectedly, after listening to it, Zhang Tiangui actually gave him an idea.
"What is the price for recruiting talents in Hainan now? Can your government afford it? I think you should expand your scope and stop focusing on this island. Try other places."
Zhang Qianzhi smiled bitterly and said, "I know the truth, but I can't go anywhere. How many places can I go?"
Zhang Tiangui shook his head and said, "You are an official after all. If you have to do everything yourself, what's the point of recruiting people? Your superior, Lord He, gave you this task, but you didn't assign the task to different places to handle it separately? Even if you recruit one person from each county, you can only recruit a hundred or eighty people in this huge country of Hai Han."