It was a great war, with beach landings and corpses everywhere. As soon as the landing craft were put down, hot bullets drew sharp trajectories to kill friendly forces, limbs, fragments, and fire that shot up into the sky. The heavy artillery and bunker fire points on the shore that belonged to the question setter kept splattering flowers on the ground, and finally people's flesh and blood covered the ground of the battlefield.
The battle ended at some point, and the sky was filled with black smoke and crows flying over the helmets and rotten flesh of the defeated.
It was like the tranquility that only belonged to the period after a war. All the noise, like the tide, receded in the city after that day.
Shanhai City has regained its clear blue sky and dazzling sunlight. Buses no longer need to be packed, and they sway slowly through the slow-paced city traffic. Occasionally, you can see a group of students who look relaxed after taking an exam on the roadside. But if you look closely, you can still see the subtle restraint behind this relaxation.
The wind started to blow. Shanhai City has a tropical plateau monsoon climate. No matter how bright the sun is, or how hot it is on your body, as long as you stand in the shade of the trees, you can feel the coolness of the wind.
The wind blows and leaves.
People's lives in the city continue.
A lot of people gathered at the entrance of Huatong Company today, writing on black posters messages such as "Oppose the cheap sale of state-owned assets! Strictly investigate collusion between officials! Shame on those who sell out the interests of employees!"... Many people held up posters, led by Zhao Pingchuan, and everyone looked indignant.
This incident did attract some attention, but these days, with the wave of layoffs and bankruptcies, many companies have gone bankrupt, and most people can tell what the mess is after just one look.
However, in fact, Huatong Company only knows a few of these people.
The reason why this group of people made such a big fuss was to intercept those cars with Rong license plates that were parked in the compound.
The leaders from the head office's research team came to investigate and evaluate the feasibility of the new products developed by Cheng Feiyang Technology in the future market... The problem was that as soon as they arrived, they were stopped and could not move forward.
Someone here shouted, "Leader! The head office can't just ignore our lives!"
"The company is everyone's property. Cheng Feiyang has indeed made great contributions. We don't deny that. But without our other departments, how could the Institute of Technology grow so big and accumulate so much? How could they produce products? New products are not allowed to be released! In addition, Cheng Feiyang's new scientific research results should be considered work-related inventions... The rights should belong to the company! He is not allowed to monopolize them!"
The person shouting the loudest in the crowd was known to everyone. He was Zhang Pi from the former product department. He was a typical old fox... When the previous two directors were in office, Zhang Pi was always by their side. There were often some officials sitting at the mahjong table at home. The director was also a player in his mahjong game. It was said that the winnings or losses of a game were worth thousands of dollars in that era.
Later, several directors were dismissed due to their own problems. The new director knew his tricks long ago and couldn't curry favor with him, so he simply started his own side job and didn't go to work. But relying on his seniority and his noise, the unit didn't dare not pay him. Of course, there were also rumors that he still paid the salary because someone from above had made a note, and who knows who he might have something on someone, so it was not easy to get involved in a fight with such a person.
Now that Zhang Pi jumped out at this time, many people sneered in their hearts, "Don't you know whether you have made any contribution or not?" And there were many unfamiliar faces among those who followed him to make a fuss, saying that they were their relatives and friends.
There are mainly three forces within the company now. One is similar to the Liu Ying family and the Yang Xia family, who have already found a new way out and are no longer concerned about the future of Huatong Company. As old employees, if the company changes to a joint-stock system in the future, they will own some shares. In short, they just go with the flow and let the higher-ups deal with it.
The first type is like Cheng Feiyang, who is unwilling to give up and wants to do something and dares to do it. However, he must transcend the current structure of the group company and must restructure or become independent in order to achieve something.
The third type is those who are incompetent and unwilling to work, but who take advantage of their seniority and interfere in everything. These people are represented by Zhao Pingchuan and Zhang Pi. They must have a share in the company no matter what. Even if the company is half-dead, they must have a share. If the company is to be restructured, they must join the board of directors and take power. Cheng Feiyang, you want to be independent, you can, but you still have to follow the old way. You can just focus on technology and be a chief engineer or general manager. The board of directors still needs people like them to be competent.
With such obstruction, the evaluation team sent by the head office could not carry out their work. After staying for two days, they saw that the resistance was too great and returned.
To be honest, the head office itself is in a difficult situation, with messes everywhere. There is no hope that the Shanhai City branch will be able to revive. Now there are too many people and too few tasks. However, the director is trying to save the situation by betting on Cheng Feiyang and using his connections in the head office. It is impossible for this evaluation team to come.
But even if it comes down and the evaluation team passes it, so what… The head office is already short of funds, and the funds for providing blood transfusions to the Shanhai branch are also very limited. According to Cheng Feiyang's estimation, this money has sharply reduced the operating space of the entire plate, and they can only make a fuss in the markets of Shanhai City and nearby counties and cities… But at least the restructured company can survive.
It is impossible to stand on the cusp of the trend, but at least you can survive... This is the minimum requirement...
However, now, it is still Zhao Pingchuan and his gang who are causing trouble.
The evaluation team will return to the head office for the time being, and there is no telling when they will come next time...
"Zhao Pingchuan and his team are now insisting that the theory we are working on is a work-related invention, and they want to keep the technology in this company... This must be Sun Zhuofu's idea. The people they found to block the way are the social people hired by Sun Zhuofu... They want to prevent the restructuring and independence, and force the branch's assets to be sold in packages. Sun Zhuofu will use some tricks to take over, and it doesn't matter if I'm kicked out. They have relevant information, and they will invite experts to improve Fulong. We have almost done the core things of Fulong. If Sun Zhuofu is willing to spend some money and find insiders from domestic cutting-edge companies, with preliminary information, these people can quickly help him set up the game, and it will become theirs! I won't say more. Fulong's investment of several million is already comparable to products with tens of millions or hundreds of millions of investments abroad. They won't do it with their heart. Sun Zhuofu will make a lot of money by selling it to related foreign companies! But we finally have a chance to take the lead, and we can only hand it over to others..."
At home, the lights are on, but because the bulbs have been used for a long time, the surface has oxidized, so they are slightly dim.
After the evaluation team returned, morale in the technical institute was low. After Cheng Feiyang came back, he told Xu Lan about this with a sullen face.
Xu Lan could clearly feel the pressure on Cheng Feiyang's shoulders.
You can also feel how insidious those wolves like Sun Zhuofu who are surrounding you from outside are. He has capital and connections, but you are just an engineer in a company that is about to go bankrupt. Holding the pearl in your hand is a crime. If you try your best to protect it, you have to be on guard against other people's tricks one after another.
It is said that the world is dangerous, and people like Cheng Feiyang, who served in the military academy and returned to the unit for most of his life, are not as good as old Jianghu masters like Sun Zhuofu in calculating. Cheng Feiyang felt that the other party was weaving a barbed wire step by step, gradually tightening it, encircling him, and when one day he was suffocated and couldn't breathe, he had to let go.
For those people, the business world is either sheep or wolves, and the still valuable Huatong Company and Cheng Feiyang are the sheep.
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The evaluation team was forced to return to Chengdu, which was considered a victory for Zhao Pingchuan's faction.
In fact, such external factors have begun to shake the company's top management who originally supported Cheng Feiyang. The branch director Song Hua has already received the news that he will have another future after the branch's restructuring and reorganization, so his support for Cheng Feiyang is not as strong anymore.
Cheng Feiyang came to the office again.
Passing by the workstations of his subordinates, many people looked at him worriedly. These were old friends, many of whom were brought up by Cheng Feiyang himself and worked with him. Now they were about to be laid off. They had done the work at hand for so many years, and now they were facing unemployment without the market. What would their wives and children eat? They trusted Cheng Feiyang before, and believed that he could turn the tide and keep everyone's jobs. Now it seems that hope is gradually fading.
Cheng Feiyang was unwilling to accept this, this was a very bad era, because the existing system had become rigid and was gradually dying. But this was also an era of hope, the new reform economic policy introduced by the country was further liberating economic vitality, whoever could take advantage of the wind and occupy the commanding heights, perhaps the future of the world would belong to him.
But he was just like Liu Bei who was trapped in Xiaopei, unable to advance to Xuzhou occupied by Lu Bu and stir up bigger waves.
Xiao Pei is patient, bears humiliation and waits for the right time to advance.
The career that I have been pursuing for half my life may come to an end here. Where will the next dawn of life be
Just as Cheng Feiyang was lamenting about his life, vague news came from the office building.
A person came over. He was Wang Xinmin from the Inspection Department, an old colleague of Cheng Feiyang. They usually saw each other every day and would occasionally chat.
Wang Xinmin said, "Old Cheng! I just came from Liu Jun's office. They said they were checking the scores for the high school entrance exam today. The score checking hotline had not been opened this morning, and there was a long busy tone... But someone just called in and it went through. The score of Zhang Mingrong's son Zhang Xin was checked, and it was 467 points. Zhang Mingrong was furious! The total score was 750, and this score... Tsk tsk, it's not optimistic. He's just short of the general high school entrance line..."
After a pause, Wang Xinmin said, "Why don't you check your Cheng Ran's score right away?"
Cheng Feiyang was in a daze for a moment. He reminded himself of this when he went out in the morning, but he had a lot of things to do in the morning and didn't think about this for a while.
Today is the day for checking scores by phone for the high school entrance exam!
When he thought about this, his own career prospects became relatively less important than Cheng Ran's future in life.
It is said that children are the continuation of life. Who says that success must mean a successful career? In fact, educating and raising a child peacefully throughout your life and letting him or her grow up and put them on the right track in life is also a great achievement.
The iron rice bowl is gone, even if I have to sell everything I have to work, I still have to support my children to study and change their fate...
Cheng Feiyang turned his head and looked at the phone on the office desk...
Suddenly I felt a little scared.
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