"It's probably..." Qin He sighed and reminded, "Otherwise, you should hide for a while. I just heard someone outside say that they are coming over here to block you."
"Ah?" Ma Xiangnan looked a little nervous. He coughed and remained calm, "Did you call the police?"
Qin He explained softly: "Mr. Ma, didn't you say that this is an internal matter and we should keep a low profile and not call the police?"
Ma Xiangnan thought to himself that he had indeed said this. He frowned and thought for a long time, then sighed, "Hiding is not the same thing. Ask them to send a representative, and I will have a good talk with them. We can try to meet their requirements..."
Qin He breathed a sigh of relief. After all, Ma Xiangnan was willing to ease the conflict with the other party, which was far better than avoiding it. In fact, Ma Xiangnan had his own considerations. If it was not urgent, he would be willing to delay it. However, the municipal party committee working group was about to come to Yinzhou Heavy Machinery for research. If they saw the chaos inside Yinzhou Heavy Machinery, he would be in trouble.
Ten minutes later, Xu Peng, the representative elected by the trade union, entered the chairman's office.
Ma Xiangnan had already made tea. He said with a humble smile, "Please sit down. Have some tea."
Xu Peng snorted, sat opposite Ma Xiangnan, and said lightly: "I can't afford this tea."
Xu Peng is in his early thirties and was previously the secretary of the Youth League Committee of the group. Ma Xiangnan admired him at first, but after Yinzhou Heavy Machinery suffered losses for years, Xu Peng often instigated workers to make trouble. Ma Xiangnan dismissed Xu Peng from his post and identified him as a "troublemaker."
Ma Xiangnan was not angry when he saw Xu Peng didn't give him face. After all, he had been practicing in the officialdom for many years and had a good demeanor. Now that he needed Xu Peng's help, he naturally had to maintain his demeanor. He said calmly: "Xiao Xu, I still have high hopes for you. You graduated from Yanjing University and have been working hard to make progress. The Party Committee temporarily relieved you of your position as the Secretary of the Youth League Committee, mainly because you are a young man and need to be tempered. Now the group is facing a crisis and it is time to hire people. I hope you can come forward and have a good discussion with your fellow workers, so that they can stay calm and not gather to cause trouble. At the same time, the Party Committee will also take your ability into consideration and not only restore your original position on the Party Committee, but also adjust your position level up. How about it?"
Granting official positions and making promises is always the best way to win people over. However, Xu Peng sneered and said sarcastically, "I don't have that much face. There are three to four thousand people in the group. They haven't received their salaries for half a year, which has seriously affected their basic needs. You can solve their survival problems just by talking. I would like to ask Mr. Ma, do you have this ability?"
Ma Xiangnan looked embarrassed. He did not expect Xu Peng's words to be so sharp. He coughed dryly and said, "Xiao Xu, don't get excited. Am I not communicating with you about the solution to the problem?"
Xu Peng snorted coldly and said, "There is only one way to solve the problem, and that is to pay the workers' wages as soon as possible."
Ma Xiangnan frowned and spoke in a tougher tone, "The group is in trouble now because the union went on strike several times and the orders were not completed on time, causing several key customers to delay payment. If the workers arrive on time and catch up with the order tasks, the customer's payment can be received on time, and the group will naturally pay the wages."
Xu Peng waved his hand and said, "Boss Ma, you don't have to lie to us. Now all the workers in the group know that several major customers of Yinzhou Heavy Machinery have cancelled their cooperation with us. Where did the order come from? Now the workers just want to get the wages they were owed. It is said that the municipal government subsidizes Yinzhou Heavy Machinery every year, and these subsidies are for our workers. Where did the money go? Did you embezzle it?"
"How dare you!" No matter how good-tempered Ren Ma Xiangnan was, he was inevitably furious when Xu Peng picked on his sore spot. He said in a deep voice, "The allocation and use of the group's funds naturally have their own reasons, and I don't need to explain it to you. I now have a request. The workers must report to work within the next three weeks. Otherwise, the group will fire the workers who make trouble, and there will be no overdue wages!"
Seeing that Ma Xiangnan had completely torn his face, Xu Peng stood up angrily, pointed at Ma Xiangnan's nose and cursed: "Ma Xiangnan, you should be careful when doing things, don't play with fire and get burned."
Ma Xiangnan said disdainfully: "Xiao Xu, you are quite courageous. No one has ever dared to threaten me by pointing at my nose, but you are the first one!"
Xu Peng and Ma Xiangnan had a disagreement and rushed out of the chairman's office angrily.
Not long after, Qin He hurried in and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Ma, how did the talk go?"
Ma Xiangnan frowned and said, "What can I do? By the way, is Xu Peng's sister a teacher?"
Qin He was slightly startled and whispered: "It seems so, what's wrong?"
Ma Xiangnan took out a phone number from his mobile phone and wrote it on a piece of white paper. With a fierce gleam in his eyes, he said coldly, "This is the number of Director Zhang of the Education Bureau... Since Xu Peng doesn't want to go to work, then you can tell his sister not to go to work either!"
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Every day after get off work, before returning home, Fang Zhicheng would smoke a cigarette at the entrance of the corridor. This seemed to have become a habit.
After Qin Yuming moved back home from school, Fang Zhicheng paid more attention to the movements next door. In the morning, he ran into Cheng Bin by chance and learned a little about the couple's situation. Although Qin Yuming was back, the conflict between the two seemed to have not been resolved. They slept in separate rooms and kept to themselves. However, Cheng Bin was still very grateful to Fang Zhicheng and smiled, saying, "If it weren't for Master Cheng's intervention, my wife would probably not be willing to come back. Now that she has moved back and lives under the same roof, no matter how big the conflict is, it will eventually be eased."
Seeing Cheng Bin so confident, Fang Zhicheng smiled, but his mood was quite complicated.
After stamping out the cigarette, Fang Zhicheng listened attentively. It seemed that there was a faint cry coming from next door. He was startled and thought to himself, could it be Qin Yuming crying again? After hesitating for a while, he finally rang the doorbell out of concern.
Not long after, Qin Yuming opened the door and saw Fang Zhicheng. She smiled and said, "Zhicheng, what can I do for you?"
Looking carefully at Qin Yuming's face, there were no traces of tears. Intermittent crying sounds came from inside the house. Fang Zhicheng asked curiously, "Is there anyone home?"
"One of my colleagues..." Qin Yuming nodded, walked out of the room, closed the door, and said, "What a coincidence, I wanted to introduce her to you... But she just received a notice from the school that she doesn't have to go to class for the time being. After asking, it turned out to be a notice issued by the Municipal Education Bureau... Oh, she is so unlucky. I don't know what to do. It's not appropriate to meet now."
"Why doesn't the Municipal Education Bureau allow her to attend classes?" Fang Zhicheng asked puzzledly.
Qin Yuming sighed: "Things are a bit complicated."
After that, she told Fang Zhicheng the reason.
Fang Zhicheng was very surprised and sneered, "Ma Xiangnan, the chairman of Yinzhou Heavy Machinery, is really a rotten thing on the inside. He actually attacked an ordinary teacher. It's really shameless."
It turned out that the teacher Qin Yuming wanted to introduce to Fang Zhicheng was Xu Peng's sister, named Xu Jiao. In order to force Xu Peng, Ma Xiangnan took action against his family. As Xu Jiao was a teacher in the system, Ma Xiangnan arranged for Qin He to put pressure on Xu Jiao through the Education Bureau.
If Xu Peng doesn't bow his head, Xu Jiao will not be able to work normally for a day. This method is really vicious.
Qin Yuming thought to herself that Fang Zhicheng worked in the municipal party committee, so he might have connections, so she said with a smile, "How about you help me?"
Although Fang Zhicheng was the secretary of the municipal party secretary, he had only been there for a short time and did not have the ability to do this. He smiled bitterly and said, "Sister-in-law, you overestimate me. I am just an ordinary civil servant. How can I have such powerful means..."
After entering the house, Xu Jiao's emotions had stabilized.
Qin Yuming smiled and introduced: "Xu Jiao, this is Fang Zhicheng, whom I mentioned to you before. He is my neighbor and now works in the municipal government."
Xu Jiao was in a bad mood, but she was very well-mannered. She forced a smile and shook hands with Fang Zhicheng.
As her name suggests, Xu Jiao is petite and cute. Her height is not outstanding, about 1.6 meters, but she has a pretty face and delicate features. Standing in front of Qin Yuming, she is not inferior.
Qin Yuming deliberately made time for the two of them and went into the kitchen to prepare dinner.
Fang Zhicheng is easy-going and Xu Jiao is more outgoing, so the two of them can chat with each other.