Chapter 25: Shooting

The support of the province is reflected in the issue of decomposition of plain factories. Since the department has become the target of public criticism due to the joint venture incident, their control of plain factories has been questioned to a large extent. According to the above handling opinions, plain factories should completely break down the production of military products and civilian products, forming two sets of people, and cannot use the old system of mixing together to live together.

As a specific policy implementer, the provincial government quickly came up with an action plan, independent of the military products workshop of the Pingyuan Factory, established a new Pingyuan Heavy Industry Company, and moved the factory site to the newly-registered Shuixi County in Panshi City, while the remaining civilian products were left on the original site of the Pingyuan Factory and reorganized into Panshi City Heavy Machinery Company.

It is easy to separate the family, but the problem of eating after the separation is more difficult, especially the debt problem that originally belonged to the plain factory was overwhelmed by the newly established Panshi Heavy Machinery Company. As a newly established company, Panshi Heavy Machinery Company doesn't even know where to start with its salary next month.

The leadership of Panshi Heavy Machinery Company was formally transferred to Panshi Municipal Government, and the reform leadership group was personally held by Mayor Fan Heng.

It’s not that Fan Heng likes to take responsibility, but that there are several deputy mayors in the municipal government. No one dares to boast about the possibility of solving the new Panshi Heavy Machinery Company. The food problem of four or five thousand people has not been implemented yet, which is really a very difficult time.

In fact, Fan Heng had no idea. He had not entered the factory for many years. His understanding of the plain factory was still only superficial. If he wanted to deal with the problem of the new company, he had to conduct in-depth investigations. He felt that no one else was very reliable, so he targeted his son Fan Wubing.

"Dad, it's wrong for you to do this." Fan Wubing said with a wry smile, touching his nose, "It's true that I'm your son, but as the mayor, I shouldn't squeeze child labor, right? Besides, although I'm doing this, the Plain Factory has been doing this now, and they have a lot of responsibility. Who are we making up for the mistakes for doing things so hard?"

In fact, although the Pingyuan Factory collapsed, the people who were truly powerful in the factory basically had their relationships and were transferred to the newly established Pingyuan Heavy Industry, which produces military products. Only those unsuccessful management teams will be left to Panshi City. In other words, the group of people who were originally spending their fortunes ran away this time.

Therefore, Fan Wubing was a little unhappy. He thought that the province's handling was really unclear and did not leave him a few sacrifice knives, so how could he have established his authority and built the factory? He felt that if he had just mentioned it quietly, the working situation of Panshi Heavy Machinery Company would not be fundamentally reversed.

Fan Heng said, "We father and son are all people who do practical things. We can't let four or five thousand employees go hungry, right? Why do we say that we also came out of there. Many of your uncles and uncles are still worried about their future opportunities. Let these personal grudges be put aside for the time being?"

In fact, Fan Heng also knew that many of the guys who were disliked by everyone went to the new military products factory in Shuixi County at this time, which was considered to have gotten rid of the relationship with the big factory. Such reforms in the past can be considered as opening up a new situation. However, the losses suffered by the old factory are relatively serious. You must know that the debt problems they owe are really huge.

Under his father's persuasion, Fan Wubing finally decided to work with his father to handle the matter of Panshi Heavy Machinery Company so that his father's business foundation would be more solid. As long as Panshi can operate in a solid manner, things will be much easier to talk about in the future.

However, the father and son's idea became a little different after they went to the Plain Factory for a while.

The news obtained through visits and investigations made the father and son feel angry. It turned out that the problem of the Laoping Factory was no longer as simple as the leadership inaction as seen on the surface. Over the years, the leadership has basically joined forces to emptiate the old factory's assets, that is, the home business created by Fan Heng during his tenure as deputy factory director.

Speaking of this, in fact, Li Mingjiu, the factory director who has only been in office for less than two years, is just a unlucky scapegoat. In this major case of state-owned assets loss, the role he played is as simple as the last flower receiver who beats the drums and passes the flowers. He cannot bear the responsibility for the real loss of his family.

The problems found on the books are already very amazing. The inside story learned from the employees made the father and son feel even more depressed. The corruption of the plain factory is a case of denial, and many of the beneficiaries at that time have taken an important position through money and power transactions, so Li Mingjiu can have a backstage in the department.

"Hmph, it's shocking!" Fan Wubing said angrily, "I think Li Mingjiu hasn't had much trouble this time, so naturally someone will help him settle everything! Internal review, isn't this a protective umbrella? The possibility of handing over to the judiciary can basically be concluded that it does not exist!"

Fan Heng was also very unhappy and just said, "You can't say that, you still have to believe in the organization."

In fact, Fan Heng also understood that as the unspoken rule of the officialdom, it would be fine if this matter ended. No one was willing to challenge such a large force with great effort. This is a thankless thing. If you fail, you will slander the leading cadres and have ulterior motives. If you succeed, you will have to be a bad reputation of being indifferent to your relatives and not recognizing them, and may even bring some trouble to yourself.

This kind of thing is not without precedent, so Fan Heng thinks that it is the most important to solve the problem of Panshi Heavy Machinery Company first, and everything else is nonsense.

Naturally, Fan Wubing was unwilling to cause many more trouble for his father, so they mainly focused on Panshi Heavy Industry's future development goals, and planned to build Panshi Heavy Industry into the largest profitable enterprise in Panshi City by implementing mechanism transformation within Panshi Heavy Industry.

Panshi Heavy Industry has most of the technical foundations of the Plain Factory in the past, and it is in the direction of civilian products. Four or five thousand people are basically skilled technical workers. If there is a good project, it will naturally become popular immediately. But the biggest problem now is what kind of development project to look for, and the other is how to deal with the debt problems we are currently bearing.

As for the development project, Fan Wubing probably has a clear idea. Panshi City is located in the mainland, unlike a coastal city. It is suitable for some undertakings with high level of informatization and frequent changes. Then it should be a steadily victory. Thinking of the national infrastructure that will be vigorously carried out in the next few decades, Fan Wubing immediately set a goal for Panshi Heavy Industry, which is to focus on developing the optical cable industry.

"Optical cable?" Although Fan Heng knew about this, he was a little unsure because he hadn't learned about it. However, when he saw his son so confident, he naturally felt that it should be possible.

When it comes to optical cables, we must mention the issue of light transmission. In 1870, British scientist Tindal conducted an interesting experiment: let a stream of water flow freely from the thin mouth of the side wall of the glass container, and a thin beam of light shot into the water horizontally from the opposite side of the opening. Tindal found that the thin beam did not penetrate the water flow into the air, but spread accordingly along the stream of water. This is the result of total reflection of light.

Optical fibers are made based on this principle. The basic raw material is cheap quartz glass. Scientists pull them into wires with a diameter of only a few microns to tens of microns, and then wrap them with a layer of material with a smaller refractive index than it. As long as the incident angle meets certain conditions, the beam can be curved from one end to the other in the optical fiber made of this, without leaking in the middle. Scientists use this characteristic of optical fibers first for optical communication. An optical fiber can only transmit a very small spot of light. If tens of thousands of optical fibers are neatly arranged into a bunch and each optical fiber corresponds one by one at both ends, it can be made into an optical cable. Optical cables are used instead of cable communications with optical cables. For example, a fine optical cable composed of twenty optical fibers like pencils can talk 80,000 times a day, while a cable composed of one thousand and eight hundred copper wires can only talk 1,000 times a day.

Since the invention of the world's first laser in 1960, American scientist Maiman has provided a good light source for optical communication. In the following twenty years, people have worked on optical transmission media and finally made low-loss optical fibers, thus laying the foundation for optical communication, and optical communication has entered a stage of rapid development.

As a new generation of communication media, optical cable transmission has the advantages of wide frequency bandwidth, low loss, light weight, strong anti-interference ability, high fidelity and reliable working performance. A particularly important point is that with the continuous improvement of technology, the cost of optical cables has been greatly reduced, which is much cheaper than the cost of traditional metal cables.

A particularly important point is that in the future communication network construction, it can be foreseeable when the conversion from copper cable to optical cable. Moreover, Panshi Heavy Industry has another great advantage in producing optical cables, which is that Cisco, the largest network equipment manufacturer under Fan Wubing's control, has settled near Beijing at this time and has started construction for a while. With their products as a support, it is much easier to enter the markets in various places.

After Fan Wubing figured out this, he couldn't help but feel particularly comfortable. This is a great thing. He sent so many more mature technical workers to himself at once, which was a sign of God's eyes. The little bit of unhappiness that was early was basically gone at this time.

"According to you, it is possible to consider producing optical cables, but there is also a problem here, that is, the factory's control rights. If it is still under the leadership of the municipal government, the factory's future property rights will be unclear. Once administrative interference occurs, your intentions will be difficult to achieve. It is a taboo in the business world that governments and enterprises do not distinguish between them. How will you deal with this issue?" Fan Heng raised another question.

In fact, Fan Heng asked this question with purpose. The above requirement was to guide and assist Panshi Heavy Industry to get on the normal working track by the Panshi Municipal Government, and proposed whether it could be clarified from the beginning, and it would be best to be able to take the path of joint-stock enterprises to achieve the separation of government and enterprises.

"This is inevitable." Fan Wubing nodded and replied, "But if you want to do this, Dad, you must be prepared to withstand the pressure. After all, if you want to reorganize, you must first bankrupt the old factory and then reorganize the debt. By introducing strategic investors, you can reorganize the company in all aspects. This will form a joint-stock enterprise. The general manager of the company is directly responsible to the board of directors, which will completely solve the old problem!"

The company went bankrupt! Fan Heng frowned and felt a little confused. After all, this is not a glass factory. The thousands of employees of the glass factory made the Panshi Municipal Government a mess. Now Panshi Heavy Industry has four or five thousand people!

However, no matter how difficult it is, it must be restructured first, otherwise it will be for others to make wedding clothes. So at Fan Wubing's suggestion, Fan Heng first discussed the handling opinions on Panshi Heavy Industry at the Panshi Municipal Government Work Conference. The general principle is to liquidate the debt first, then check whether it has reached the point of bankruptcy, and then handle the factory accordingly according to the situation.

The so-called corresponding treatment is naturally bankrupt or not.

As expected, the content of the conversation at the mayor's work meeting soon spread in the rumors throughout Panshi City. Everyone said that the city government was preparing to bankrupt Panshi Heavy Industry and all the workers were laid off. Some people even said that Mayor Fan had negotiated with relevant parties again and would enter the bankruptcy process this month. If there was no problem, next month, the workers of Panshi Heavy Industry would become children without their wives.

"I worked hard for thirty years and returned to the pre-liberation overnight!" There were many old workers in Panshi Heavy Industry who built the factory. After hearing this news, the resentment between my chest and abdomen was imaginable.

"What should I do if I go bankrupt?" "I heard that bankruptcy means laying off workers, and unemployed!" "So what should I do if I go unemployed? How can I raise my wife and children?" "I'm hungry, wait for the municipal government to provide relief!" "What if the municipal government doesn't provide relief?" "No relief? Don't you have long legs? Go to the door of the municipal government to sit quietly!"

The employees of Panshi Heavy Industry were panicked, but later news seemed to be coming out, saying that the municipal government was negotiating with two creditor companies to see if they could use them to reorganize Panshi Heavy Industry's debt, which is the so-called debt-to-equity conversion.

"I heard that the two factories in Hengdian and Liushi are private enterprises! And the big boss is still foreign capital. Could it be that I have worked in revolutionary work all my life and finally had to work for foreign capitalists?" Some old workers complained privately.

At this time, Fan Heng certainly had no time to consider the workers' ideas. He was discussing the development direction of Panshi Heavy Industry with the deputy mayors and the city's standing committee members. Everyone was interested in the optical cable project he proposed.

"The optical fiber has a very strong ability to conduct light. It can use optical cable communication and can transmit a large amount of information at the same time. For example, an optical cable path can accommodate one billion people to talk at the same time, and can also transmit multiple TV programs at the same time. The optical fiber has good anti-interference performance, no electrical radiation, high communication quality, and can prevent eavesdropping. The optical cable is small and thin, not afraid of corrosion, and is convenient to lay, so it is a very good communication material. At present, many countries have used optical cables as long-distance communication trunk lines. my country has also begun to produce optical fibers and put them into use in some regions and cities. With the progress of the times and the development of science, optical fiber communication will surely be very popular. So, I initially selected this project. At this time, we can still stand at the forefront of the starting line." Fan Heng was describing the good prospects of optical cable production to everyone, and suddenly heard a few crisp sounds, and then the sound of glass shattering.

The door of the conference room was pushed open all of a sudden. Fan Heng's secretary, Lin Xiaotong, who had been pestering Fan Heng, rushed in with a pale face and said with a trembling voice, "Someone fired a gun at the mayor's office!"

"Ah--" The leaders at the meeting were shocked. Who is so brave?

According to Lin Xiaotong, she was sorting out information in Fan Heng's mayor's office. She heard a few bangs of gunshots, and saw several pieces of glass on the window shattered all over the floor. She vaguely felt the sound of bullets hitting the wall. She was frightened at the time and only knew to run outside and rushed into the small conference room to inform everyone.

The guard did not find anyone breaking into the municipal government compound. After hearing the news, the police station immediately sent a capable general to investigate the scene. As a result, two bullets were found on the wall of Fan Heng's office. One bullet was found on the library, and another bullet was bounced on the pillar. It was reflected several times before falling to the ground.

"It's really outrageous! This is a murder! It must be handled strictly and the case must be solved within a time limit!" After learning the news, Chen Jinnan, secretary of the municipal party committee, looked very excited and slapped the case and asked the person in charge of the police station.

Since Fan Heng arrived at Panshi, Chen Jinnan's life has been particularly leisurely. Seeing Panshi's economic situation flourishing, he felt that his promotion was getting closer and closer. Perhaps if something had happened to the Plain Factory and Fan Heng needed to deal with it himself, it would be very likely that the superiors would transfer him to the province and become the Standing Committee member, and Fan Heng would also become the leader of Panshi.

However, Chen Jinnan believes that the problem of the plain factory is not a big problem for Fan Heng. He knows that Fan Heng's son Fan Wubing is very capable and has a lot of money. If you just miss a little, it will be enough to solve the problem. Therefore, he is still very confident about his promotion.

But who knew that just as Fan Heng tried his best to solve the problem of Panshi Heavy Industry, someone actually shot at his mayor's office! And it was several shots! What kind of incident is this?! This is a serious counter-revolutionary incident!

Therefore, Chen Jinnan issued a strict order, and he must mobilize the masses and mobilize the vast number of police officers to bring the murderer to justice no matter what, give Mayor Fan and the people of Panshi City an explanation!

Fan Wubing was not there at the time. After hearing the news, he rushed back immediately. He was surrounded by two tall and tough bodyguards. He said with concern, "Lend my bodyguard to you well. Although the impact is not very good, but if you ask me to do this, how can I rest assured if you tell me? Both of them retired from the US Marine Corps SEALs, and their ability to block bullets is still good!"

"There is no need for this. The municipal government has arranged police force. This time, fifty armed police officers were seconded from the garrison to be responsible for the safety of the side. There should be no problem." Fan Heng was not too nervous.

After Fan Wubing went to the scene to see it in person, he felt relieved. Looking at that look, the other party did not target the people in the room. Judging from the position of the bullet landing point, it mostly means deterrence.

"It seems that the person who shot the gun should be from a military background. It is impossible for ordinary people to master such guns so skillfully. According to the position of the bullet point, there is no intention of killing people. I guess who is threatening you!" Fan Wubing said to his father.

Fan Heng said in surprise, "Hey, what you said is consistent with the police's judgment."

Fan Wubing curled his lips and thought to himself that we have watched countless police and gangster blockbuster movies. He has long been tired of watching the sixth group of serious cases. Can you still not understand such a simple thing?
Chapter completed!