If it were a few years earlier, when the factory was thriving and produced several hundred large-caliber artillery pieces for the country every year, ruining one cannon wouldn't have been a big deal. However, things were different now. Although the Lao Shan frontline was still fighting, the demand for artillery was not as high as in previous years.
With the Reform and Opening Up, the country needed to focus on economic construction, and superiors were demanding that military industrial enterprises like the No. 985 Plant undergo transformation. Military orders were dwindling day by day; an enormous factory like this couldn't even produce a few cannons in a month, and yet he had managed to ruin one—this was a major safety incident!
If this problem wasn't resolved immediately, every single cadre and worker involved in transporting the artillery would be held accountable, and his eldest brother-in-law's promotion to cadre status would fall through just like before. If he failed to become a cadre, he would have no choice but to remain an economic policeman. Once the factory relocated to Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, the economic police would be disbanded, and he would have to don a security guard uniform and become a security guard, followed by rounds and rounds of restructuring, leaving him with only one ultimate destination: layoff.
Chapter 576