Chapter 174 Two Choices

Xiao Wenjun and others stayed in Linhe for two days and then left. Bao Nana planned to go back to Chutian's hometown to stay for a few days, and then head to the United States via Pujiang. Taking into account the high price of air tickets between China and the United States, it is estimated that it will take three to five years for her to come back.

Before leaving, she put her arm around Xiao Wenjun's shoulders and said a bunch of crazy things to Tang Zifeng. The core theme was that she wanted to entrust her best friend to Tang Zifeng. Tang Zifeng and Xiao Wenjun must have felt a little uncomfortable knowing that she was about to leave China, so they didn't bother to argue with her.

In order to accompany Xiao Wenjun and others, Tang Zifeng asked Zhou Heng for two days' leave and took Xiao Wenjun and his party to play around Linhe. After seeing off the guests, Tang Zifeng came to Zhou Heng's office to cancel his vacation. Zhou Heng casually asked Tang Zifeng's guests whether they had enjoyed themselves in Linhe. Then, without waiting for Tang Zifeng to answer, he pointed at the sofa with his finger and said: " Xiao Tang, please sit down, there are some things I want to discuss with you."

Tang Zifeng sat down. Zhou Heng said: "Recently, the factory's business situation has been good. Han Weichang has negotiated with Northern Heavy Machinery Factory, and Northern Heavy Machinery is planning to order two CNC heavy boring machines from us, with an output value of almost 30 million. Machine tool renovation and The wood carving machine tool business has already received 60 million yuan, and it is a foregone conclusion that the machine will make a profit this year.

"I had a phone call with Director Xie yesterday. He said that the bureau is very satisfied with our work and believes that we have completed the tasks assigned to us by the bureau party group ahead of schedule and exceeded the quota. The bureau party group will commend us."

"Is it just a commendation?" Tang Zifeng asked.

Zhou Heng said: "Why, commendation is not enough. Do you want the bureau party committee to give you a bonus?"

"I don't care about the bonus or not. Didn't the bureau say when we will go back?" Tang Zifeng asked with a smile. After talking to Wang Zijie, he was actually not too eager to return to the capital and found his job at Linyi Machinery quite interesting. However, since Zhou Heng talked about this topic, he naturally wanted to ask about the situation.

Zhou Heng said: "What I want to talk to you about is this issue. The bureau party group first arranged for the two of us to come to Linyiji, and the task we proposed was to help Linyiji turn around its losses, or even reduce losses, as long as the situation can be stabilized, even if It is a success. The bureau gave us three years, but now in less than one year, we have achieved profitability, which is a great achievement.

"The party committee of the bureau has now given me two choices. One is to continue to stay in Linyiji for one or two years to stabilize the current results. It is best to allow Linyiji to have sufficient hematopoietic function before leaving. Secondly, The idea is to hand over the job now and let the ministry arrange for someone else to take over. After I go back, the ministry will arrange for me a position with deputy bureau-level treatment, waiting for my retirement."

"What about me?" Tang Zifeng asked in surprise. He had been talking for a long time about Zhou Heng's arrangements. Is he so inconspicuous?

Zhou Heng laughed. It was obvious that what he said just now was just to whet Tang Zifeng's appetite. When Tang Zifeng asked, he smiled and said: "The bureau also has arrangements for you. The first plan is that you continue to stay, your position will be adjusted to the deputy director of Linyi Machinery, and you will return to the bureau after working for two years. , first serve as deputy director for one year as a transition. If there are no problems, you can be promoted to director before the age of 30. The second option is that you can return to the bureau now, be promoted to chief section officer first, and be promoted to deputy director within two years. .Which one do you choose?”

"I listen to Director Zhou." Tang Zifeng kicked the ball directly to Zhou Heng. In fact, from the choices given in the game and Zhou Heng's narration, he could already guess that the second game actually hoped that Zhou Heng and he would continue to stay in Linyiji.

The bureau only gave them an option that allowed them to return immediately because that was the original promise. Presumably the bureau leaders did not expect that they could open up the situation so quickly and bring Linyiji back to life. At first, they thought it would take them at least three years to achieve this goal, so they promised that they could go back as long as they achieved a turnaround. It has been less than a year now, and Linyiji has already achieved profitability, so naturally the bureau cannot break its promise and make money.

But from the bureau's perspective, they don't want them to return immediately. Linyi Machinery's turnaround is partly accidental. Packers and woodcarving machine tools are both "leak-picking" businesses. In fact, this kind of business is not sustainable. Sooner or later, it will be imitated by other companies, and then the profits of the entire market will be diluted. Even if Linyiji doesn't give up these businesses, it won't be able to make much profit from them.

Reboring and machine tool refurbishment are businesses with a certain technical content, which are difficult for other companies to imitate. Among them, the renovation of ordinary machine tools is not difficult, but the profit is also thin. The truly profitable refurbishment business is the refurbishment of imported high-precision machine tools and heavy-duty machine tools. This kind of business is not something that small rural factories can handle. Linyi Machinery has core competitiveness in this aspect.

However, these two businesses alone are not enough to support Linyiji. Linyiji must continue to develop new competitive products in order to maintain its vitality. Zhou Heng and Tang Zifeng's ability in business management has been recognized by the bureau party group, so the bureau party group hopes that they can stay for a while. For this reason, they did not hesitate to promise Tang Zifeng a condition to be promoted to the director level before the age of 30.

A director-level position is a great level at the local level, but it is nothing in the central ministries and commissions. Directors of departments in ministries are responsible for running errands and carrying bags for ministers and directors. Who can do this? Based on Tang Zifeng's various achievements in Linyiji, it is not an exaggeration to be promoted to a senior position before the age of 30.

Of course, the premise is that Tang Zifeng is willing to stay in Linyiji and create new miracles. If he stayed in Linyiji and was just a salted fish, then this promise would be gone with the wind.

Tang Zifeng was initially reluctant to come to Linyiji, but as he told Wang Zijie, after working for more than half a year, he actually liked this kind of work and had some feelings for Linyiji. Rather than returning to the capital and continuing to stay in the office, he would rather stay here and take Han Weichang out every once in a while, and use his imagination to get a big business, which is also quite fun.

However, he would not say such words himself. He had to let Zhou Heng make the decision for him, and then pretend to accept it with reluctance. In this way, in the second game, he would feel that he was brave enough to shoulder a heavy burden, which would be detrimental to his future development. There are benefits.

After hearing Tang Zifeng's words, Zhou Heng just laughed. How could Zhou Heng not see Tang Zifeng's pettiness? He said: "I just informed you about what I just told you. When I talked to Director Xie on the phone yesterday, I expressed my position for you and said that you are willing to stay in Linyiji and help Linyiji get out of trouble. Director Xie Let me convey his verbal praise to you on his behalf, and also said that this year the bureau will apply for you to be an advanced worker in the mechanical department. So, you can work with peace of mind. "

"Uh..." Tang Zifeng was speechless. Did he let himself choose as promised? Why did you trick yourself without saying a word?

Lao Zhou, you have changed!

Tang Zifeng wanted to shout to Zhou Heng loudly.

Zhou Heng didn't care about Tang Zifeng's slander. He was actually planning for Tang Zifeng's future by making decisions for Tang Zifeng. Tang Zifeng has indeed made some achievements in the past six months, but there are also many accidental factors, which does not convince the public. If he goes back like this, these achievements will soon be forgotten, and Tang Zifeng will probably stay at the deputy director level for many years.

If Tang Zifeng is retained and allowed to work for another two or three years to turn Linyiji into a star company, his achievements will be extremely dazzling and the future will be smooth sailing. It is not difficult for young people to stay at the grassroots level and work for two more years. What's wrong with spending two years in exchange for long-term development in the future?

Since he did the right thing, Zhou Heng naturally didn't need to care about what Tang Zifeng was saying in his heart. He said: "Xiao Tang, since we have decided to stay, we should make a long-term plan. Now Linyiji's financial affairs The situation is good and the employees are very happy. What do you think we should do next?"

"Engage in technology development." Tang Zifeng said without hesitation. In fact, this is what he has thought about for a long time. Even if Zhou Heng does not come to him, he will take the initiative to tell Zhou Heng. His thoughts were similar to Zhou Heng's, that is, since he planned to work in Linyiji for a few more years, he had to make long-term plans. Making money by showing cleverness can only be a temporary solution. If you want to develop sustainably, you can only rely on technical strength.

As an old company, Linyiji has a rich technical background. However, the current technological development is very rapid, and it will not last long just by resting on our laurels. The most typical aspect is that Linyi Machinery lags far behind foreign companies in CNC technology. Although it has the assistance of Factory 432, other people's technology belongs to others after all, and it is not as easy to use as its own technology.

Without CNC technology, there will be no competitiveness in the future market. Even if Tang Zifeng is technically illiterate, he knows this very well.

"Several aspects." Tang Zifeng said, "First, we must establish our own CNC technology research center, recruit at least 100 electronic engineers, and strive to get rid of the technical dependence on Factory 432 within three years and turn Factory 432 into our vassal."

"The tone is not small." Zhou Heng commented with a smile, but still recorded something in the notebook in front of him, and said at the same time: "On the issue of CNC technology, Lao Qin also made a report, but his courage Not as big as you, he just proposed to build a team of 3 or 40 people, and you can reach 100 people with just your mouth."

"100 people are not enough." Tang Zifeng said, "For foreign machine tool giants, the ratio of R&D personnel to production personnel can reach 1:1, or even 2:1. Their core capabilities are in design, and all machine tool accessories are Outsourcing, we only do the final assembly ourselves. We only have more than 200 people in the technical department. Adding in the technical strength of each workshop, the number of technicians is less than 400, which is less than 1/10 of the total number of employees. This ratio is too low. "

"We have to eat one bite at a time. We have always focused on production and not on R&D, so it is inevitable that the proportion of workers will be high. However, the construction of a technical team must indeed be put on the agenda." Zhou Heng commented.

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