Chapter 706: Enviable Meals
In fact, Director Qin Ming of the Security Department had already stressed in a meeting that it was strictly forbidden for the Security Department staff to mention any internal matters, especially the dining in the cafeteria. Everyone knows that it is not the lack of food that is worrying, but the inequality of food. For the cadres and staff working in the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, we are all workers of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. Why can you people in the Security Department eat meat, two-grain noodles and rice every day, while we, the workers in the workshop, can only stew potatoes and cabbage with plain water?
Now even the supply of steamed corn bread has begun to be limited. In the past, there was no limit in the steel mill canteen. As long as you had the meal ticket and vegetable ticket of the Red Star Steel Mill, you could buy as much as you wanted. But now with the tight food supply outside, the steel mill canteen has also introduced new regulations. Each person can only buy a maximum of four steamed corn bread per meal. This makes the workers who planned to buy a few more steamed corn bread from the canteen and take them home for their families in the evening have completely failed.
You should know that the meals provided by the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill canteen to its cadres and employees, although they are just big pot dishes, are cheap, only one-third of the price in outside restaurants. In fact, this is also a kind of invisible benefit that the steel rolling mill provides to the majority of workers and cadres. The canteen is almost losing money by providing meals at this price.
After the country implemented the ticket system, every cadre and employee of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill took their own food coupons to the logistics department to purchase and exchange them for meal tickets and vegetable tickets in the canteen, and then went to the canteen to use their meal and vegetable tickets to eat. However, the steel rolling mill canteen was completely losing money to gain popularity. Not only did they have to lose labor costs, but they also had to lose money on supplies such as firewood, coal, oil, and seasonings. This ensured that the actual price of the meals supplied to the workers and cadres was only one-third of that in outside restaurants.
It's just that they say that a dragon gives birth to nine sons, and each son is different. The Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill is not full of retired and transferred soldiers. There are also some people who are arranged in through various relationships. If those retired and transferred soldiers can still strictly implement the confidentiality regulations, then the confidentiality awareness of these people with connections is much worse, especially when a few young people are very face-conscious, they will show off intentionally or unintentionally when drinking and chatting with friends in private. So the food standards and some benefits of the canteen of the Security Department Training Base were casually mentioned, and then the outside world knew that the canteen of the Security Department Training Base not only had one pork, one beef, two meat dishes and one seasonal vegetarian dish every day, as well as two-grain flour buns and rice to fill you up, but also everyone could buy five to ten kilograms of pork from the Security Department canteen every month at the supply price of the supply and marketing cooperative, and no meat coupons were needed.
At a time when material supplies are extremely tight, the superior food standards and generous welfare benefits within the Security Department quickly spread, and it is conceivable that this caused a great response among some cadres and employees.
Some people also reported this unfair situation to the leaders of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. They thought that since everyone was an employee of the steel rolling mill, why could the Security Department eat meat every day and have extra pork supplies, while they, the workers working in the workshop, could hardly even see a bit of meat?
In order to deal with the dissatisfaction of the steel mill workers, Secretary Chang Changzheng and Trade Union Chairman Xue Yingwu almost wore out their mouths. In fact, they themselves were jealous of the food quality of the Security Department. Nowadays, in the Red Star Steel Mill, not to mention ordinary workers and cadres, even the factory leaders themselves rarely have their own meals. The reason is very simple. Except for the pork supplied by the superiors every month, the canteen can't purchase other meats.
Chang Changzheng had also specially convened a factory leadership meeting for this matter. Unfortunately, when he raised this issue, none of the factory leaders present said a word. No one had a brain, and who would be so stupid as to ask the security department for meat? They were more or less self-aware, and they had no face at all in front of Consultant Lin.
Chang Changzheng did suggest at the meeting that Li Huaide go talk to Lin Yu. After all, among all the people present, only Li Huaide had a good relationship with Consultant Lin. Unfortunately, Li Huaide directly refused. He had just secured an extra 2,000 kilograms of pork for the Red Star Steel Mill every month through his father-in-law's relationship, but the other leaders just talked about it and didn't get anything. So Li Huaide proposed on the spot that Chang Changzheng, the secretary and director of the Red Star Steel Mill, go directly to Consultant Lin.
It is conceivable that Chang Changzheng would never agree to this. So the office meeting ended abruptly.
Although it is not known how Chang Changzheng and Xue Yingwu persuaded the workers who reported the problems, the matter was only temporarily appeased. In fact, some people were still unwilling to accept this and secretly wrote letters of complaint to the ministry and the city. The result is predictable, and it must have fallen on deaf ears. The higher-ups were of course aware of the actual situation at the training base of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, and they also knew that most of the materials now consumed by the Security Department were brought back by Lin Yu himself from Europe and the United States through special channels. What's more, this was also a matter that the two gentlemen had specially approved, so who would send someone to investigate for no reason?
Qin Ming had reported to Lin Yu before. He was able to serve as the director of the Security Department and could get the news of most situations in the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill in the first time. Lin Yu didn't care about it at all. He just instructed Qin Ming to strengthen the study of confidentiality regulations for all personnel in the Security Department after returning. For those who are really not suitable to stay in the Security Department, they should be directly dismissed or mobilized to transfer to other positions voluntarily.
Before reporting to Lin Yu, Qin Ming had already conducted an internal investigation and had a preliminary grasp of the names of those who had leaked the information to the outside world. Since the secretary had given instructions, after he returned, he not only organized all personnel to strengthen their study of the confidentiality regulations, but also directly notified several people on the list to transfer to other positions within a time limit, otherwise they would be directly dismissed.
Those young men were confused by the sudden notice and quickly tried to find out the connections behind them. In the end, they found out that it was because they couldn't control their mouths. They all regretted it. Unfortunately, even if they contacted Qin Ming through various channels, they were directly rejected by him. The reason was very simple. Today, the training base of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill is responsible for important national tasks. The relevant departments have been closely monitoring it. These young men blatantly violated the confidentiality regulations and disclosed internal information of the training base. They have been on the list of relevant departments. There is absolutely no hope for them to stay in the Security Department.
After learning that their nephews had been targeted by relevant departments, the leaders who came to contact Qin Ming immediately stopped and could only find ways to make other arrangements for those young people. They also received instructions that they must never mention anything about the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill to the outside world in the future.