"This is an extremely serious problem. I am calling an emergency meeting to thoroughly discuss why Xie Chengjun and First Branch Factory's work style and discipline have deteriorated to such an extent."
"Ever since I came to Light Vehicle Company, I have believed that First Branch Factory's discipline was lax and its style extravagant. Now it seems the problems are even more serious than I imagined. I believe it is necessary to adjust First Branch Factory's management team and thoroughly rectify this whole host of crooked practices and foul trends."
"Next month happens to have two further-study slots at D School. I suggest that Comrade Li Ye and Comrade Lu Zhizhang go study there, elevate their spiritual realm, and seriously correct their ideological problems."
After Xie Chengjun had angered Niu Hongzhang so badly that he had nearly smashed the telephone, Niu suddenly sprang to life as if he had been injected with chicken blood. He actually intended to use Xie Chengjun's withdrawal from D School as a pretext to shake up First Branch Factory's management structure.
He had found Li Ye an eyesore for a long time and had never found a suitable way to deal with him. Now that he had a reason, he hurried to send Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang off to school to "gild themselves," out of sight and out of mind.
Once the two returned with their gilding complete, it would be best to promote them and transfer them to some idle department at the main factory, giving First Branch Factory a fierce lesson for its nasty habit of never obeying orders.
But while Niu Hongzhang spoke with a stern face, his spittle flying everywhere, Li Ye sat to one side spacing out quietly, as if the "serious problem" Niu Hongzhang spoke of had not