The days of being a buyer in Siheyuan

"Okay, both of you stop talking. Minghui, I'll make a note of this for you. When everyone has handed it in, I'll hand it over to the street office."

Yan Bugui interrupted their conversation and took a notebook to write it down.

"Thank you for your hard work, Uncle San."

Liu Minghui said a few words to Yan Bugui and then returned to his home.

Yu Li was tired last night and hadn't gotten up yet, so Liu Minghui made her breakfast.

Then he went to wake Yu Li up.

After Yili got up and they had breakfast together, Liu Minghui went to the steel mill to work.

When he arrived at the purchasing department, he saw Tong Xiao waiting for him.

"Chief, the factory office just came to inform me that there will be a meeting at the factory today at nine o'clock in the morning."

"Okay, I know that."

Liu Minghui nodded. The steel rolling mill holds one or two meetings every week, but usually not all cadres are called together. It seems that today's meeting is quite serious.

When it was almost nine o'clock, Liu Minghui got up and went to the conference room of the steel rolling mill. When he arrived, there were already quite a few people there. Liu Minghui found Zhang Zhiqiang who was sitting in the back.

"You came here pretty fast."

After greeting Zhang Zhiqiang, Liu Minghui sat down next to him.

"You think I'm as lazy as you."

Zhang Zhiqiang rolled his eyes at Liu Minghui and said in a low voice.

"Do you know what we're going to talk about today?"

"How would I know? We little bastards just need to listen carefully."

Facing Liu Minghui's question, Zhang Zhiqiang answered calmly.

Before Liu Minghui could say anything else, the door of the conference room opened from the outside and Director Yang walked in with his secretary.

After looking around, Director Yang sat down in the main seat.

"Good morning, comrades."

After a few brief opening remarks, Director Yang got down to business.

"As everyone knows, we have recruited a lot of new workers in the past two months. Now we need to make them skilled in their work so that we can complete this year's tasks."

"In the less than half a year between the beginning and the end of the year, we have added nearly 5,000 new workers, most of whom are production workers in the workshops. Now most of them have no one to teach them. After all, we don't have that many skilled workers who are capable of taking apprentices."

"Don't you have any solution to this problem?"

After Director Yang finished speaking, he looked at several workshop directors. There are currently ten workshops in the steel rolling mill, but there are only five workshop directors. This is because of the different types of work. For example, fitters, forgers, and riveters all came to the meeting this time.

After a few people looked at each other for a while, the director of the forging workshop raised his hand and wanted to express his opinion.

When Director Yang saw this, he nodded and signaled him to just say it directly.

"Director Yang, Director Li Fu, and all colleagues, regarding the question of how to enable apprentices to quickly become productive, our workshop has chosen to let experienced workers lead a small group to teach them."

"For example, there is a sixth-level blacksmith in our workshop who never hides his knowledge when teaching his apprentices, so I have asked him to be the leader of this group. We can see if there is any effect after a while."

After the director of the forging workshop sat down, Director Yang nodded and said, "Not bad, you dare to innovate. The worker training in our workshop does not necessarily have to be one-on-one or one-on-several training by experienced workers. We can also conduct large-scale, standardized training."

"The remaining workshops should learn from him. If there are problems, you should find ways to solve them."

Director Yang first praised the director of the forging workshop and then reprimanded several other people to prevent them from doing nothing all day.

"Also, Deputy Director Li needs to take charge of logistics. We now have nearly 7,000 workers in our factory, which puts a lot of pressure on logistics. I believe that we can overcome this under the leadership of our Deputy Director Li."

"Everyone can speak freely about any problems they have. Only by speaking out the problems can we find the right solution."

After Director Yang finished speaking, Li Huaide stood up and said, "Director Yang also said that there will be a lot of pressure on our logistics side in the future, but I have already prepared for these things."

As he spoke, Li Huaide called on several people from the purchasing department and asked them to stand up and express their opinions.

"From the purchasing department, you are in charge of the food procurement for the workers. Please tell us your opinions first."

At Li Weiguo's signal, Zhang Zhiqiang stood up and said, "Please rest assured, leaders, our Procurement Department will contact the planned materials in advance to ensure that the workers' meals will not be delayed."

After saying that, Zhang Zhiqiang sat down, and then Liu Minghui stood up.

"Hello, leaders. Our Purchasing Section 2 is mainly responsible for the extra meals for the workers. I have arranged for purchasers to go to the countryside more often to purchase as much supplies as possible. However, this is a matter of luck. Next, I will contact a more stable channel to ensure that it will not affect the subsequent work."

After Liu Minghui finished speaking, Li Huaide nodded with satisfaction. In Li Huaide's opinion, now that he had Liu Minghui, he basically didn't need to worry about the purchasing department anymore.

Next, each logistics department reported on their work one by one.

Finally, Director Yang said a few words and then the meeting ended.

When walking out of the meeting room, Li Huaide called Liu Minghui.

"Minghui, wait a moment."

Liu Minghui could only let Li Weiguo and the other man go first, and stay behind to wait for Li Huaide.

"Come on, sit in my office for a while."

Li Huaide pulled Liu Minghui to his office.

After the two sat down, Li Huaide spoke up, "Minghui, how is your work going recently? Is there anything you can help with?"

Li Huaide said this after pouring a glass of water for Liu Minghui.

"Uncle Li, if you say so, then there must be one."

Liu Minghui immediately planned to complain.

"It's mainly about the personal safety of our buyers. Now I ask them to go farther to buy, but the safety aspect needs to be addressed. Many people have reported that many places on the road are too desolate. If they are ambushed while transporting supplies, they may lose their lives."

Liu Minghui pointed out the problem, and it was not nonsense. You have to know that this is not the future, and it is common for people to die in the wilderness.

It’s okay if you encounter some robbers, but if you encounter those more vicious people, you might really lose your life.

Li Huaide thought carefully about the questions raised by Liu Minghui.

"How about giving you guns? I will discuss this with Director Yang and let you carry a pistol when you go out to purchase goods. Of course, this will be strictly controlled."

Li Huaide expressed his thoughts.