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Chapter 1641 - 781: Lin Xiu Mei Becomes the Factory Director_2

Chapter 1641: Chapter 781: Lin Xiu Mei Becomes the Factory Director_2

Pang Fa and Chen Liqiang kept clamoring about expanding production, and the main reason for hiring more people was also significant. The cost of wages was too high, swallowing a large part of the profits.

But for Yan Fei, stocking up on all kinds of talent, even if it meant temporarily sacrificing some profit, was completely acceptable. After all, considering long-term development, this was definitely worth it. Boss Yan had at least read a few management books, so he understood basic principles.

At the moment, as long as the beef business kept going, there was no problem with Morning Glory Enterprise continuing its rapid expansion. If something was missing in the company, it was professional management talent. The company’s current success relied on high profits, which meant they basically didn’t need to worry about cutting costs—just do the work and move forward.

If professional, standardized management were in place to control costs, profits could definitely increase a bit more. But this wasn’t really necessary. Why bother controlling costs? Make money, save it, and keep others from earning it? No way! Spending generously was better—let everyone earn a little extra together. That’s how a leading wealth-creating company should operate.

What’s more, a shortage of high-level professional management talent wasn’t unique to Morning Glory—most private enterprises faced the same issue.

Yan Fei walked around for a bit and even held a small meeting to boost morale and hand out some tangible rewards along the way.

After the meeting, as soon as he stepped outside, Lin Xiumei had already been waiting for a while!

Yan Fei waited until everyone else left, leaving only a few factory directors behind. Then, he asked his mom, "Mom, have you thought about what you want to do?"

Lin Xiumei looked a bit troubled: "I only know how to operate machinery in the fertilizer factory workshop. I don’t know anything else. I haven’t thought about it yet. Maybe I should just start as a regular worker?"

Pang Fa asked curiously, "Auntie, you’re not staying at the fertilizer factory anymore?"

"That’s right!" Lin Xiumei sighed, already feeling exasperated just thinking about it. "Now they’ve got me in an office. Sure, the pay is higher and the work is lighter, but I sit around every day doing nothing. I’ve put on so much weight it’s visible! If I don’t start moving around, I’ll probably grow lazy!"

"But you can’t just come be a regular worker!" Pang Fa started brainstorming on the spot and quickly came up with an idea. "How about this, Auntie? Why don’t you become the factory director? You could oversee things at the factory. We’ll handle the external tasks; you just need to... you know, keep everything in control."

"Factory director?" Lin Xiumei was startled. "What does ’keeping everything in control’ mean?"

Yan Fei chuckled to himself. "Keeping everything in control"? Wasn’t this just giving her a title? Pang Fa clearly planned to borrow her authority. If his mother became the factory director, they could go to her whenever they wanted to expand production. If Yan Fei didn’t agree, the newly appointed director would finally have something to do—and she wouldn’t let him disagree.

But he just thought about it and decided not to say anything for now. After all, what Pang Fa said wasn’t wrong. The actual work would be done by Pang Fa and the others. At most, his mom would nag him a few more times—it wasn’t a big deal. Let them have their fun. Worst case, if this little factory didn’t work out, there was always the leather factory and fertilizer factory for his mom to tinker with. Who knows? Maybe his dad would get frustrated watching all this and quit the fertilizer factory to join in too...

"Just like what Xiao Fei is doing now. We handle the specific tasks, and you’d only need to make decisions for the factory. Mainly deciding the future development direction..."

Before Pang Fa could finish, Lin Xiumei waved her hands repeatedly. "No, no! I can’t do that! Deciding the factory’s development direction? What kind of person do you think that takes? I’m just an uneducated woman. How could I do that? I’ll just stay as an ordinary worker..."

Chen Liqiang seemed a bit puzzled—why was Pang Fa, who was doing well as a factory director, trying to find himself a ’supreme leader’? While he was still trying to figure it out, Dang Jianfu nudged him and whispered, "Director Chen, don’t you also know Boss Yan’s mom? Why don’t you try persuading her?"

Looking at Dang Jianfu’s exaggerated winks and the smiling Yan Fei standing off to the side, then at the overly eager Pang Fa, Chen Liqiang suddenly pieced things together. He began persuading: "Auntie, having you as the factory director would be what everyone wants. With Brother Fei not home often, we’ve lost our dependable person. As long as you’re here, even if you don’t actually do anything, the factory’s productivity could probably increase by two percent..."

When a business grows big, people’s thoughts tend to multiply. Right now, Morning Glory wasn’t just raising cattle—its other industries were growing too. Looking ahead, even more industries seemed inevitable. Turning into the massive Morning Glory Group could happen in just a blink.

As it stood, the fertilizer factory and leather factory were both in Sancha River. Although they had expanded to new locations like River Heart Island and even extended south of the highway, taking up a huge plot of land altogether, everyone still saw Sancha River as the company’s home base. The industries there felt like Boss Yan’s direct lineage.

The Meat Processing Factory, on the other hand, was a business they took over. Located in the county, not in Sancha River, it gave the employees a feeling of being outsiders—like part of a collateral branch. Except for people like Pang Fa, Chen Liqiang, and Master Xing, who came from Sancha River at the beginning, most others probably felt this way, especially the ones hired from other plants.

This was purely psychological, but people are strange like this. Even if benefits and treatment were identical across the board, they just couldn’t get past this mental block.

And it wasn’t just the Meat Processing Factory employees who felt this way. Folks in Sancha River thought so too.

From Pang Fa’s perspective, no matter what he did, he wasn’t Yan Fei. In other people’s eyes, he was just Pang Fa, never the big boss. Some even believed that the only reason Pang Fa got involved was because he didn’t start working with Yan Fei from the very beginning. Just look at Heizi and Ma Chao—they never came, did they?