Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 459 - 459 454 The Entire Leadership Team Was Moved

Chapter 459: Chapter 454: The Entire Leadership Team Was Moved Chapter 459: Chapter 454: The Entire Leadership Team Was Moved On December 1, “Feixue” electronics factory officially opened.

Planning had started since mid-September, so the two and a half months it took to open might seem long but in reality, it was quite fast. And this was based on a pre-existing factory that didn’t need major renovations, only the important production workshops were rebuilt and refurbished.

The original fixtures of the office floors were not bad, so Jing Junyang and Jiang Yan only painted the walls and bought new cabinets and desks.

The focus was on the exhibition hall.

They transformed the second floor of the office building into a large exhibition hall where they displayed the different models and developmental history of the “Feixue” computers in ink paintings, as well as gaming mice and keyboards.

In essence, a single tour around the walls provided a basic understanding of all Feixue’s products, especially since the brand had only been established for two years which wasn’t very long.

As for who did the paintings, of course, it was Mu Jiawen.

Although Jing Junyang, Du Fan and the others knew that Mu Jiawen could paint, they were science and technology students; who would pay special attention to this?

Therefore, none of them had ever seen Mu Jiawen’s paintings in earnest before, and they were utterly astonished when they finally did in the exhibition hall.

“This is just a ‘hobby’ you mentioned?”

The exhibition hall was fully designed and arranged by Jiang Yan; Jing Junyang and the others only came in to visit after everything was completed, not expecting to be so deeply struck at first glimpse.

They had seen ink paintings before, but a small one on paper was obviously incomparable to the huge paintings covering the four walls. Starting from the left wall, it began with a simple history of computer development, from the 1958 integrated circuit (IC) to the System/360 in 1965, to the successfully developed ICL2900 computer in 1974 … Although it wasn’t very detailed, this was their first time seeing such history displayed so vividly in traditional painting.

The second wall showcased all the varieties and types of “Feixue” products, while the third wall, still in ink painting style, was clearly of game characters and scenes, lively and interesting, easily identifiable from various games.

Du Fan and the others watched with great enthusiasm, completely surprised that their games could be presented in the exhibition hall in such a manner.

Thankfully, painting was just a hobby for Mu Jiawen. If she had pursued this path professionally, it would have left no room for those in the professional art sector to live.

He Gong, leading a group of engineers under him, was utterly amazed when they toured the exhibition hall, and at the same time, a bit of excitement sprouted within him. He hoped one day, the computers that he himself improved and developed could also be painted on these walls, for the second wall was not completely filled: half of it consisted of frames, clearly reserving space for future new products.

Although the procurement of components was not yet entirely in place, it did not affect He Gong and his team’s prototyping and development of new products.

Before Zhuang Shengkai returned, Jiang Yan had been working with him on a new product, but once Zhuang Shengkai came back, he had it stopped immediately. Exporting required prototyping and testing, and without passing the tests, it certainly couldn’t be done.

Having invested a lot of time and effort in working on someone else’s brand and existing product categories, having to send them abroad for others to pick apart was something He Gong found difficult to accept.

In fact, these past two months had been extremely frustrating for He Gong since Jing Junyang and Jiang Yan stopped going to their electronics factory. The products sent abroad for testing didn’t pass, and although Zhuang Shengkai seemed supportive to him face-to-face, he complained behind his back to President Zhuang that He Gong was too old, unable to keep up with the times, and even failing to make foreign-ready products properly.

He also accused him of being uncooperative, negligent, leaving everything to his subordinates, and not managing anything himself.

This wasn’t entirely untrue; He Gong really didn’t care much for the schematics he was given and had left almost everything to his team of engineers, rarely intervening.

Given the conflicts over the past few months, Zhuang Shengkai was quite pleased when He Gong resigned, but President Zhuang certainly tried hard to retain him.

What kind of person He Gong was and what capabilities he had, wouldn’t President Zhuang know very well?

Without him taking charge, the engineering department would become a complete mess, utterly unable to hold up.

The main concern was the fear that once He Gong left, the people below would also become panicked, not staying long. After all, there were a few capable engineers who could stand on their own, and they had all been brought up by He Gong, having worked at the electronics factory for over five years.

It could be said that President Zhuang indeed had foresight. As expected, the day after He Gong left, a pile of resignation letters was handed to Zhuang Shengkai.

However, their positions were not high enough; resigning did not require disturbing President Zhuang, as long as the recently taken over engineering department’s Zhuang Shengkai agreed, that would suffice.

And Zhuang Shengkai wanted to develop his own team. With these people leaving, he had the perfect opportunity to recruit new talent and make space, so why would he disagree?

After making a pretense of urging them to stay, he efficiently signed off for these ten people.

By the time President Zhuang found out, Zhuang Shengkai had already started interviewing new candidates, and the apprentices He Gong had trained were long gone without a trace.

What President Zhuang thought afterwards, nobody cared.

What surprised Jiang Yan was that, not many days after He Gong arrived, he received calls in succession from Zhao, the manager of the original electronics factory’s sales department; Huang, the manager of the procurement department; Tian, the director of the quality assurance department; and even Qiao, the manager of the human resources department.

As everyone switched jobs, Jing Junyang saved much trouble, as there was no need to recruit for these key positions. As for hiring lower-level staff, that could be left to Manager Qiao.

Jiang Yan and Jing Junyang were in high spirits. This was tantamount to having moved the entire leadership team from the electronics factory, how could their mood not be good?

However, as their spirits soared, the atmosphere at the electronics factory turned gloomy.

President Zhuang sat behind his spacious desk, his face dark as he looked at his stepson, Zhuang Shengkai, standing in front of him.

Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed a folder next to him and flung it at Zhuang Shengkai, scolding furiously, “So many people resigning, and you don’t even give me a heads-up, just signing them off, what do you take my painstakingly built factory for? Doing as you please!”

Because the folder was thrown abruptly, Zhuang Shengkai was unable to dodge in time; he just reflexively turned his head slightly, causing the hard plastic cover to slap directly onto his left cheek, then it dropped to the floor with a thwack.

It wasn’t much painful, but it was humiliating.

He was already so old, yet he had to be hit by someone, and the one hitting him was his stepfather.

Zhuang Shengkai was extremely annoyed in his heart, thinking that after all, he wasn’t his own flesh and blood, so laying hands on him came easily.

Previously, he had been told nicely to not hold back and to boldly take charge. They said the factory was his and if anyone disagreed, they should come to him and he would handle it.

Your handling, how to handle it? Every time just saying a few light words, what use was that? Those old slick ones who were supposed to cooperate didn’t, and there were plenty who spoke ill of him behind his back. Under such circumstances, how could he enact sweeping reforms?

With the people not united and all opposed to him, how could he possibly consolidate power in his own hands?

Now, it had turned out well, one after another they resigned with self-awareness, so what was wrong with approving it?

Tell you? Tell you to ask them to stay?