Golden Color Xiangjiang: A Young Man's Dream in a Siheyuan

At eight o'clock in the morning, Zhou Jin came to the office area of ​​the Purchasing Department. He didn't pay much attention last time he came here. He just got to know the deputy section chiefs and section chiefs of the other two groups in the section chief's office.

Then I left the steel mill, so I have no idea what the specific situation of the purchasing department was.

Zhou Jin observed for a few minutes before he understood that the Purchasing Department had three large offices plus a section chief's office. However, Zhou Jin had only been to the section chief's office so far, and didn't even know who was in his group.

Feeling that the time was about right, Zhou Jin knocked on the door and walked into the section chief's office. Today was his first day at work, so he had to report to his leader first.

"Hello, Chief. I'm here to officially start work."

"Okay, have you finished your housework?"

"It's almost done. Once the house is renovated, it will be done."

"Okay, now that you're here, work hard. Group 3 has a lot of tasks to do, so you'll have a hard time in the future."

“It doesn’t matter, wherever I am I can contribute to the country, I believe I can do it.

By the way, Chief, I just looked outside and found that our purchasing department’s office is still empty. Why is that? "

"Oh, you're asking this. You may not know since you just arrived. Our purchasing department is different from other departments. We don't need to be on duty in the factory every day. As long as you get the materials and complete the weekly purchasing tasks, it's okay even if you don't come to the factory.

Of course this is a bit exaggerated, but it's almost the same. Except for coming to the department to receive tasks on Mondays and then delivering the purchased materials back to the factory, the rest of the time is up to you. "

“Oh, that’s how it is. This is great. After all, our job is to travel outside. If we have to report to the factory every day, it would be a waste of time.

By the way, Chief, today is Monday, so what is my task today?"

Liu Jun raised his hand and looked at his watch, then said to Zhou Jin.

"You take a rest here first. When everyone is here, I will take you to Group 3 to meet the people in your group, and then I will give you this week's purchasing tasks."

"Okay, Chief."

"Xiao Zhou, I'm a few years older than you. We'll be working together in the future, so don't call me section chief. Just call me Brother Liu or Brother Jun."

"Okay, Brother Jun." After saying that, Zhou Jin took out the Zhonghua cigarettes he had prepared earlier and distributed them to Liu Jun.

"That's amazing, Xiao Zhou, even China can do it."

"Haha, I got this from my old leader before I retired from the army. I wanted to save face on my first day at work."

The two of them chatted casually like this, and half an hour passed in a flash.

Because Liu Jun informed Zhang Li in advance and asked her to tell the people in Group 3 to arrive at the factory early on Monday so that he could introduce the new deputy section chief to them.

Because Zhou Jin, the deputy section chief, is in charge of the procurement of unplanned materials, that is, procurement group 3, so when he meets other people in the section, he just greets them and makes himself familiar with them.

Through the conversation with Liu Jun, Zhou Jin also understood the general situation of the purchase.

Originally, the Procurement Department had a formal staff of 40 people, but because Groups 1 and 2 were planned by the state, their formal staff was only 10.

Don't underestimate them just because they are in charge of planned materials. Although those materials and raw materials are planned by the state, when the time comes, you can just go and get them with a note.

But if you really offend the other party and they want to control you, they have many ways to do it, such as delaying supply, putting your factory at the end of the queue, or supplying in small quantities and multiple times. As long as they supply in sufficient quantity, you will have no way to stop them.

So, not everyone can do the job of purchasing. If you don’t have any skills or background, you can probably only earn a month’s salary.

Group Three is responsible for purchasing unplanned materials. They do not deal with government agencies and factories, but basically go to the countryside to purchase.

This is all done by buyers who ride bicycles carrying two large backpacks to make purchases. Comparatively speaking, this task is the heaviest and most tiring, so there are a total of twenty regular staff members and about ten temporary workers.

Moreover, the buyers in their three groups are in certain danger, especially when they go to the countryside to purchase. If they run into a few desperate criminals, at best their supplies and money will be robbed, and if they are unlucky, they may even lose their lives.

After all, there are always people who don't have enough to eat, so in order to live a better life, some people will take risks. Moreover, the three-year food crisis is about to come. At that time, the purchasers who go alone with a large amount of food will become the primary targets of robbery.

Therefore, every time the buyers from Purchasing Group 3 went to the countryside to purchase, they had to go to the Security Department to get a pistol. With a pistol on hand, as long as they didn't encounter those vicious criminals, they could basically be guaranteed to return to the city safely.

When it was nine o'clock, feeling that it was about time, Liu Jun took Zhou Jin to the office of Group 3. It was a large office with five old-fashioned desks that could seat four people.

There is a small office in the upper left corner of this large office, which is where Zhou Jin will work in the future.

Liu Jun introduced Zhou Jin's situation to the purchasing staff of Group 3, and assigned all their purchasing tasks for this week to Zhou Jin, and then left.

Zhou Jin took the purchase order, opened it, took a look at it, and then put it away.

Look at everyone and start speaking.

"Hello everyone, my name is Zhou Jin. Chief Liu has already introduced my basic situation, so I won't repeat it here.

Today is the first time I meet you, so I won’t waste time asking you to introduce yourselves. We can get to know each other slowly in the future.

I don't know what your previous work was like, and I won't care about it. Just listen to me from now on.

As for me, I'm new here and I'd like to give you a gift.

There is only one week left this month, and I will be responsible for the purchasing tasks for this week.

As for your previous situation, I don’t know. If any of you have not completed the previous tasks, you can register with Zhang Li and I will help you solve it. Of course, this benefit is only available this month, and you will not be able to get it after that.

After I finish speaking, you can go find Zhang Li.

As for your future work tasks, I will not make any adjustments for the time being. Of course, I am only saying temporarily. Once I fully understand the situation in the group, I will make adjustments to your work tasks and work areas based on the specific circumstances.

Of course, if you have different opinions at that time, you can raise them and we can discuss and resolve them.

Okay, I have finished what I want to say. You can go to Zhang Li to register.

Zhang Li, after the registration is completed, please bring the final result to me in the office."

"Okay, Chief."

Zhang Li is responsible for counting purchased materials and distributing purchasing tasks in the group. She is considered the assistant to the deputy section chief.

"Okay, that's all for today. If you have any difficulties or suggestions in the future, you can come to me."

After Zhou Jin finished speaking, he went to the small office, took out the key, opened the door and went in.

This small office is only about four or five square meters, which is indeed quite small, but at least it is an independent space, and you can see the production workshop of the steel mill through the window.

The furnishings in the office were very simple, with just a filing cabinet, a desk, three chairs, one for Zhou Jin, two chairs opposite the desk, and two kettles. There wasn't even a sofa, but with such a small space, a sofa wouldn't fit in even if there was one.

Zhou Jin stood by the window and looked outside quietly. He felt that all this was a little unreal. A cow and horse from the 21st century traveled to the 1950s because of a car accident and also had a system.

Now that I have become a cadre, I can overlook the entire Third Steel Rolling Mill from my office.

Just as Zhou Jin was lamenting about life, someone knocked on the office door.

This also brought Zhou Jin back to reality, and he hurriedly said, "Come in."

Zhang Li opened the door and put the compiled purchase list on Zhou Jin's desk.

Zhou Jin picked up the list and started looking at it. Immediately, his expression became a little excited. It seemed that there were some big problems in the purchasing department.

Among the three groups of twenty buyers, only three people's names were not on the list. Moreover, after statistics, they needed Zhou Jin's help to purchase quite a few supplies.

Zhou Jin quickly picked up this week's purchasing tasks for comparison. Wow, the amount of tasks that the seventeen of them had not completed in three weeks was equivalent to the purchasing tasks of the entire three groups in two weeks.

In other words, these seventeen people together can only complete one week's procurement tasks every month. No wonder the former deputy section chief was transferred.

With such a group of capable subordinates, it would be hard not to be transferred away.

But since Zhou Jin has already said it, he will not go back on his word. It will only happen this once anyway, so just treat it as a gift to everyone.

If they still have this attitude towards work, Zhou Jin will definitely not indulge them anymore. He believes that as a top student, he can still face all this with ease.

So Zhou Jin put the list on the desk and let Zhang Li go out.

After Zhang Li left, Zhou Jin began to calculate how much supplies he needed to prepare to complete the task.

Adding up the two task lists, Zhou Jin needs to provide nearly 1,800 yuan worth of supplies to the steel mill this time.

Among them, fine grains such as rice and flour cost 200 yuan, meats such as pork and mutton cost 300 yuan, coarse grains account for about 1,000 yuan, and the rest account for 300 yuan.

After all, the workers in the steel mill basically do heavy physical labor, so they must be well fed. It is unrealistic to let everyone eat fine grains every day, so coarse grains in large quantities that are filling are the first choice.

Everything else doesn’t matter, there is plenty of stock in Zhou Jin’s space, but this coarse grain is indeed a big problem.

Zhou Jin thought that he could solve this problem perfectly with the supplies in his own space, but he didn't expect that the big boss of the purchasing department was actually coarse grains.

This made Zhou Jin a little overwhelmed. After thinking it over, he finally decided to ask Section Chief Liu to see if he could use fine grains instead of the coarse grains.

In order not to break his promise, Zhou Jin went directly to Liu Jun's office. Without beating around the bush, he told Liu Jun his problem directly and then waited for Liu Jun's reply.

Zhou Jin originally thought it would be a bit difficult, but unexpectedly Liu Jun agreed immediately.

This made Zhou Jin a little confused, and finally he found out the reason after some asking.

Originally, the purpose of setting up the third purchasing group was to purchase materials that were in short supply from the food department, but the situation outside is really not good now, and it is impossible to purchase all the fine grains and meat.

Therefore, the logistics department also raised the purchase ratio of coarse grains so high in order to reduce the burden on the buyers.

Therefore, when Liu Jun saw Zhou Jin's proposal to exchange fine grains for coarse grains, it was exactly what he wanted.

After getting a satisfactory answer, Zhou Jin felt relieved and said goodbye to Liu Jun directly.

"Brother Liu, I'm going to go out and buy supplies now. I may not come to the factory in the next few days. I'm telling you in advance."

"Okay, no problem, go ahead and be safe."