You Want to Secretly Cross at Chencang?

After hearing Li Ye out, Wang Jinyu fell silent for a long while. Still unwilling to give up, he finally asked again, "Brother Li, when you say merger, what exactly kind of merger do you mean?"

But Li Ye's answer utterly disappointed Wang Jinyu.

"It means your unit becomes a branch factory under ours, subject to our management and a full technical overhaul.

"Of course, after the merger, your unit will still remain in Zhuancheng. And since you don't have many management staff, in principle, no one will be reassigned."

"Heh-heh~"

Wang Jinyu gave an embarrassed laugh. "Brother Li, you mean... if we have too many management staff, they'll have to become frontline workers?"

"No."

Li Ye shook his head seriously. "If you have too many management staff, we simply won't consider working with you. You understand—no one wants to wade into muddy water, and no one wants to keep a pack of uncles on the payroll."

"..."

Wang Jinyu was truly speechless. So Li Ye was even being choosy about merging with his unit!

But Li Ye was genuinely telling the truth.

These days, every state-owned enterprise had an extremely bloated management structure. Taking one over rashly was like stepping into a swamp—one wrong move, and you would sink in with no way to pull yourself out.

Take Tianjin Xiali, for example. Back then, it had been one of the nation's Big Three small carmakers. At the eleventh hour, it had even drawn Toyota's attention and still had a chance to rise from the dead.

But after Toyota looked into it carefully, they discovered that the ratio of frontline workers to management personnel was nearly one to five. One worker had to support five managers.

Well then! Only a fool would leap into a place piled high with uncles!