Chapter 971
Have the ability to hold on
The others left quickly.
Only Lu Yang and his brother Lu Youyi remained in the conference room.
It was quiet for a moment.
All that could be heard was the crisp sound of Lu Yang's fingers gently tapping on the conference room desk.
To Lu Youyi, the sound was like a resounding bell.
It made him feel uneasy.
At this moment, he realized that his cousin had asked him to stay, probably because he was dissatisfied with what he had just said, believing that his words were boosting the morale of others and diminishing his own.
Fortunately,
Lu Yang didn't let him continue to overthink and feel anxious.
The fingers tapping on the table suddenly stopped.
Then, she got up, walked over, and sat down next to Lu Youyi.
He patted Lu Youyi on the shoulder and said, "Relax. I'm not letting you stay because I, your cousin, want to criticize you. You're my cousin, one of the people I trust most in the company. How could you possibly harm me?"
"only……"
At this point, he changed the subject.
He patted his cousin heavily on the shoulder again, "In the future, try to say less things that are not conducive to unity. Headquarters is not the same as the branch office. Before, you were the boss in the branch office, and everyone below had to listen to you. Now... cousin, you have to adapt to your new role."
Furthermore, Professor Liu is the technical talent I value most. He's also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and he previously served as the project leader for the Lianxiang product laboratory. He has extensive connections in the domestic scientific research community. It was through great effort that I managed to recruit him to serve as the company's CTO. Do you understand?
Some things are best left unsaid.
Lu Yang never blamed Lu Youyi. His speech at the meeting just now was a bit too weak, advocating to settle things peacefully.
What's this?
In the business world, deceit and treachery are commonplace, and any means are justified as long as the goal is achieved. Boosting the morale of others while diminishing one's own is a trivial matter.
Anyway, he didn't agree to adopt the other party's suggestion.
Speak freely.
It's impossible to only allow radicals to speak and provide fertile ground for their emergence, while preventing conservatives from speaking and providing them with layers of fertile ground.
After that, over time, wouldn't the entire company, from top management to bottom, become radicals?
So, this is a minor matter.
However, my cousin's overreaction after listening to Liu Guangnan, the group's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), was quite remarkable.
But that made him very unhappy.
First of all, it is wrong for a vice president of a subsidiary of a group to publicly criticize the group's CTO and question the motives behind his remarks.
This constitutes insubordination.
Moreover, you don't have any substantial evidence.
Secondly, as the chairman, I have already made this very clear.
Speak freely!
Let all of you speak freely.
You also spoke, but your speech was even less plausible than others'.
It even has the potential to boost the morale of others while diminishing its own.
I didn't say anything.
I didn't criticize you!
Okay, now they've taken the initiative to speak, although their opinions are a bit too radical.
But is that your reason for publicly questioning the other party's ulterior motives?
No evidence!
Nonsense!
Insubordination!
Anyone who didn't know better would think that I, the chairman, was backing you up.
After all, you're my cousin.
Lu Yang patted Lu Youyi's shoulder twice more. "Alright, that's all. Cousin, after you go out later, go apologize to Academician Liu. Be sincere and don't let him think you're arrogant. That way, it will be easier for you to establish yourself in the group headquarters in the future."
Lu Youyi nodded silently.
He finally realized where he had gone wrong.
It turns out the issue wasn't that the statement was too weak.
Instead, it was wrong of him to publicly question an old academician whom even his cousin had to rely on!
I've figured it out.
He immediately got up and, without needing any further instructions from Lu Yang, chased after him towards the conference room door.
The old man walks slowly!
Is it still not too late?
Lu Yang watched his departing figure, couldn't help but chuckle, and shook his head.
Of all the cousins, it seems that only this third cousin is the most successful now.
I thought that as long as I nurtured him properly...
Perhaps we can even add another one of our own people to the core senior management of the group company.
However, it seems that while his loyalty is commendable, his abilities are still somewhat lacking.
Oh well, let nature take its course.
Lu Yang then thought of his older cousin, who was still staying in his hometown, managing the textile and garment factories for him, and who had never thought of leaving his hometown and had been promoted to headquarters.
Also, there are the sixth and seventh sons.
The sixth son, Lu Youzhi, and the seventh son, Lu Youxin, have both grown up now.
Lu Youzhi used to be as skinny as a bamboo pole, but now he's as fat as a ball, and it's said he weighs over 280 pounds.
In the beginning, in those years, I only let him manage the overseas export business of the garment factory. Later, I also handed over the export of learning machines and VCDs to this kid. Now this kid is doing well. He has moved to Hong Kong with his wife and registered a trading import and export company at my instruction. It is specifically for the import and export of overseas trade needed by the entire group.
They made quite a bit of money!
This kid must have assets worth over 100 million, right?
Although I still hold the majority of the shares in that import and export trading company registered in the port city, and this kid only holds a small share, with the vast majority of the shares still in my hands, the fact that I have the entire group as a backer makes the business very profitable!
The seventh brother, Lu Youxin, was a kid who had committed a crime in his hometown and fled to Guangzhou to seek refuge with his sixth brother.
I haven't interfered too much in his life.
The purpose was simply to let him stay under the sixth brother's command and gain experience.
I've heard that he's been doing quite well these past few years.
This kid is bold and ambitious, unwilling to be subordinate to others. He resigned two years ago and I heard he even borrowed money from Lao Liu to start his own business.
What's the company name?
Lu Yang fell into deep thought. These cousins, no matter what, were doing much better than in his previous life.
Oh, right, except for the fourth one.
In his previous life, his most promising cousin, that bastard, had been missing for a long time, and he hadn't sent anyone to inquire about him.
My aunt is still mentally unstable. My little cousin, she should be taking her college entrance exams soon, right?
The little bean sprout who was always hungry and cold was actually a year older than Lu Yang's younger sister, Meng Tiantian. She just started school later. By the time Lu Yang was reborn and affected the fate of everyone around him, this little cousin was already 9 years old.
She's nine years old and only in first grade.
Now, it has been exactly 12 years since that summer of 1998. Does that mean that little cousin and Meng Tiantian were actually in the same year of the exam?
I wonder how the exam went?
"It just so happens that I have something to discuss with my cousin Lu Youren, so I'll just give him a call and ask."
Do what you want to do.
Lu Yang took out his phone from his pocket and dialed Lu Youren's number.
"Dudududu!"
The phone rang only three times before it was answered.
"it's me!"
When Lu Yang heard his cousin's voice on the phone and confirmed it was him, he introduced himself.
"How has Aunt been feeling lately? Is the company doing alright too? Are the orders enough? If not, I'll ask the group to help you find a solution. By the way, after Century Electronics, a subsidiary of the group, completes its restructuring, it may need to order a batch of work uniforms for the factory employees. The initial batch may be no less than 6 sets. Cousin, remember to keep an eye on it and don't miss it."
"That's great! I've been worried about not having enough orders lately."
Lu Youren's rough and cheerful voice came through the phone.
“Your aunt is in good health. She can eat and sleep well. She just talks nonsense occasionally, just like always. You don’t need to worry about her, cousin.”
Back then, it was because the fourth brother, Lu Youzhi, left with his wife.
Lu Yang's aunt became increasingly eccentric, occasionally acting crazy, and staying up all night talking nonsense.
Also, so that it would be convenient to take care of this crazy mother nearby.
As the eldest son in the family, and someone who wasn't particularly ambitious to begin with, Lu Youren took the initiative to shoulder this responsibility.
He did not pass the responsibility to his younger siblings.
He didn't even utter a single complaint about it.
Lu Youyi, for example, once suggested that their mentally unstable mother be divided equally among the brothers so that they could take turns caring for her!
But Lu Youren rejected them all.
He said, "I am the eldest brother, and I don't have much ambition. I just like to stay in our hometown and take care of Mom. You don't need to worry about taking care of Mom. Go and pursue your own futures."
That being said.
But Lu Yang had heard about it.
Of the cousins, apart from the fourth brother who went missing, the rest, although they didn't go back themselves, their wives would go back every year to stay for a period of time to help share some of their eldest sister-in-law's work, which could be considered as them, as sons, fulfilling their filial duty.
"Oh, by the way, cousin, the factories in our county shouldn't have encountered any difficulties from the local fire department or tax department, right?"
Baoqing Prefecture was a city, and Zhao County was just a county under the jurisdiction of Baoqing Prefecture.
Lu Yang's suspicions cannot be dismissed as baseless conjecture.
"No!"
Lu Youyi answered decisively, "Brother, you don't know, I'm now the president of the county's private enterprise chamber of commerce, a representative of the People's Congress, and a member of the CPPCC. I've already taken care of all the relationships in the county. I haven't made any mistakes over the years. Let alone a city investment promotion bureau director, even if it were the mayor, he couldn't possibly exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction and direct the relevant departments in Zhaoxian County to target us!"
Lu Youren's voice sounded very confident to Lu Yang.
"I understand."
Lu Yang smiled into his phone and said, "Cousin, you mean the other side did indeed use those underhanded tactics, but you managed to thwart them all, right? It's your connections over the years that came in handy, preventing their despicable schemes from succeeding?"
"of course."
Lu Youren said, "Cousin, do you still remember Lao Jia? He used to have a lot of dealings with you. Now he's the deputy county head, in charge of investment promotion. Lao Jia said he received a call from that Director Liu. Tsk tsk tsk, he was so rude, he practically ordered him around. If it weren't for the fact that he's an old friend of yours, and that he and your cousin have gotten along like brothers in recent years, most people might have actually given face to this newly appointed Director Liu of the Municipal Bureau."
Oh, I see!
Back then, Section Chief Jia was just a lowly section-level cadre who didn't even rank in the county, but he has now risen to become the deputy county head in charge of the economy in his hometown.
"Old Jia, it's him! He's a reliable guy."
Lu Yang first gave Section Chief Jia, now County Chief Jia, a high evaluation.
then,
His painting style then changed.
Suddenly, he said, "Cousin, do you think it's possible? Since even the factories in the city have given their workers a holiday, what if the factories in our county don't give their workers a holiday? We all belong to the same group company, wouldn't that be a bit inappropriate?"
Lu Youren was stunned.
After a long pause, he stammered, "That cousin, taking a holiday is fine, but... wouldn't it be a bit too much of a loss to do that?"
I served as a factory manager for ten years.
He is no longer the novice he used to be.
As soon as Lu Yang uttered a sound, he realized that this move was called "Heaven and Earth Return Together," an extreme move that could injure himself a thousand times while injuring the enemy eight hundred times.
It can only be used as a last resort.
Of course, this is from his personal perspective.
Zhaoxian County is where Lu Yang started his business. Just the garment factory in Shanghuai Village alone had more than 2000 female workers, all operating sewing machines—a typical labor-intensive industry.
This only applies to those with formal contracts.
If we include housewives who, during the early, chaotic period, didn't sign formal contracts and instead made clothes at home using sewing machines, the number would be even greater.
Not to mention that in addition to the garment factory, there is also a branch factory of Little Divine Child in Zhaoxian County.
This branch factory.
In terms of scale alone, it is actually larger than the main factory in the city.
It was built later!
Lu Yang made an exception and invested because there were too many VCD orders and the city factory was too busy to handle them. He also received a plea from the county leaders.
It is still in operation today, with a total of nearly 3500 workers.
How much would that add up to?
More than 5500 people.
If all 5500 people were to stop working and be sent home, the impact would definitely exceed that of the 3000 workers in the city.
Yes, that's more than enough for the newly appointed Director Liu to have a good drink.
"Cousin, just tell me if it's possible?"
“Old Jia, County Chief Jia, aren’t you quite familiar with him? Just tell him not to worry about your feelings. Didn’t that Director Liu put in a good word for him? I’m sure that besides that, Director Liu, seeing that he can’t be commanded, will definitely not let it go and will bypass him and put the word on the heads of various departments in the county. If things get to that point, just tell him not to stop it and to wait and see.”
"We should suspend operations for rectification. The workers should be given a holiday. They've worked hard for half a year and deserve a break."
By the way, the salary must be paid in full afterward. I can afford to lose this amount. Report the amount lost to headquarters, and headquarters will issue you a receipt so your person can collect the money from the finance department.
As for how long the holiday will be?
"Alright then, let's skip the evaluation and let Director Liu decide." (End of Chapter)