Chapter 2399
The Most Glorious Side
He Yuzhu said this partly because he has always been cautious and prudent.
This habit originated from the old courtyard.
Those old neighbors were all the kind of people who were used to taking advantage of others.
If you show them even the slightest bit of kindness and give them a piece of candy, they can empty your entire house.
This is also why He Yuzhu is so meticulous about acts of kindness beyond exchanges.
He must have been terrified in his past life.
He was terrified that Lao Lei would tie the entire steel rolling mill, tens of thousands of people, and tens of thousands of families to the CNC Academy.
It's important to understand that among the tens of thousands of workers in the steel rolling mill, very few families are as destitute as Yi Zhonghai's.
Most of them have two or more children.
The current social situation is clear: steel rolling mills can only employ one person at most.
What should be done with the extra children?
Poor parents in the world!
No one wants to abandon their children, so all sorts of struggles are inevitable.
It doesn't matter if it's just one or two families, but if so many families all make a fuss, Lao Lei and his group will naturally have no choice but to back down.
But that has nothing to do with He Yuzhu; he doesn't need to carry that burden on his own shoulders.
Old Lei's expression stiffened for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure.
What can he do?
If he were at the height of his power at the steel mill, and someone said something like that to him, he could simply refuse to cooperate with that mill and make it impossible for it to survive in the entire city of Beijing.
But now is precisely the time when the steel rolling mill is showing signs of fatigue, and it looks like the mill is about to become unprofitable.
The ordinary workers didn't understand, but the leaders certainly did.
If this trend continues for a few more years, the steel rolling mill will definitely lose money.
At that time, don't even think about being superior to others. Even getting a salary on time will be very difficult.
Think about it, and it becomes very clear.
In the 1980s, a factory was using equipment from the 1950s for production.
Is this factory profitable?
That's a bizarre thing.
Old Lei scratched his short, graying hair, gave He Yuzhu an awkward smile, and the tobacco stains on his teeth were quite noticeable.
"Pillar, I had no choice!"
"Old Lei, there's nothing I can do."
Didn't you see that I've already encouraged the family members of the faculty and staff of the CNC School to start businesses?
Why?
It's because I know that the days when a factory could support an entire family from birth to death are gone forever.
What the steel rolling mill needs to do now is not to hire more young people.
Instead, we need to help them face society squarely, learn, integrate, and find their place.
Later, when the steel rolling mill goes bankrupt, they won't be so passive.
He Yuzhu said something harsh, directly stating that the steel rolling mill would definitely go bankrupt.
Old Lei's eyelids twitched involuntarily, and he looked at He Yuzhu with disbelief.
He Yuzhu looked speechless. He rolled his eyes and then said, "Do you think there's any hope for the steel rolling mill?"
With equipment and technology from the 1950s, there were 10,000 workers, 3,000 administrators, 3,000 apprentices, and only 4,000 permanent employees.
Of the four thousand people who actually do the work, half are not qualified and don't even know how to operate the machines.
How can a factory like this make a profit?
If you want to change this factory, you'll have to lay off at least seven or eight thousand workers. Do you dare to do that?
I definitely wouldn't dare.
To be honest, He Yuzhu said that if he were in Lao Lei's position, he might not necessarily do a better job than Lao Lei.
The steel rolling mill is under too much of a burden.
This isn't Lao Lei's fault; it's the mess left behind by Lao Yang and Lao Li. Lao Lei has no choice but to shoulder the burden.
"But what can I do?" Old Lei said subconsciously, his face full of bitterness.
Re-employment training!
Make those people realize their situation and find a way to make a living.
Doing business or going out to work is better than just waiting at home for the factory to assign you a job.
You've explained it to them.
Life is short, only a few decades. If they don't give it their all while they're young, they'll definitely regret it later. He Yuzhu's expression was very sour.
For him, making a living was incredibly easy.
Let alone this life, even in his past life, when he worked at Yan Jiecheng's restaurant, he was paid several thousand yuan a month.
Although Yan Jiecheng and his wife were unwilling in various ways, they eventually had to give in.
It's just that Sha Zhu is really arrogant; otherwise, in his previous life, starting in the 1980s, he would have been able to earn a salary that people in this era couldn't even imagine.
Of course, He Yuzhu also took this issue into consideration, which is why he brought up the concept of re-employment training.
This idea is not surprising. In the 1990s, when various collective factories laid off workers on a large scale, the issue of retraining and re-employment for laid-off workers arose.
It simply means that the implementation was not done properly in some areas.
Even after the reform and opening up, the rights and interests of grassroots workers have always been the top priority.
But the further down you go...
Everyone should understand that if the higher-ups weren't constantly monitoring the rights of ordinary people, we would be just like the three families.
The outskirts of the most prosperous cities are invariably filled with slums where people are treated worse than livestock.
Ordinary people have no sense of the law.
To live is to do everything possible to survive.
There are also no songs like "We are all trying to live" that appear in short videos.
Those at the very bottom have no choice or right to complain.
"Can that really work?" Old Lei still couldn't believe He Yuzhu's words.
He Yuzhu grinned and said, "Just set up a training course, teach everyone the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet, and see if everyone still blames you in two or three years."
He Yuzhu's words sounded like a joke, but they were true.
Many foreign-owned electronics factories now only require workers to have intact hands and feet and be able to recognize all the English letters when recruiting.
Because they know the English alphabet, they already have the skill to turn on the machine.
Old Lei left in a hurry, looking worried.
He did not give He Yuzhu a definite answer.
A manager who possesses the skill of patching up a mess is considered an outstanding manager.
What does "mending a pot" mean?
In other words, it allows a company to continue operating normally after it loses its core competitiveness.
At least from a distance, that pot still looks about the same as a perfectly good iron pot.
As for Lao Lei, he doesn't quite qualify as a pot mender yet.
Because the steel rolling mills are not yet at their most difficult point.
If we are thinking about making changes, it's not too late.
This was He Yuzhu's last bit of kindness towards the steel rolling mill.
After all, he spent most of his two lifetimes in steel rolling mills.
He truly has an emotional attachment to this factory.
He Ping returned silently as well.
He spent six months following He Xinghua to see the outside world.
Through this, he gained some understanding of what kind of leapfrog development the outside world was like.
It could only be a part; what He Xinghua showed him was undoubtedly the most glamorous side of this world. (End of Chapter)