Chapter 439 A Strong Dose of Medicine

After leaving Shi Wanchun's office, Zhou Yan did not rush to leave, but chose to walk around the school.

He spent too little time in school this year. He had a course he was teaching before, but he simply stopped this semester because he really didn't have time.

Looking at the students coming and going in the school, Zhou Yan felt a lot more relaxed.

Along the way, students kept greeting him, and he responded one by one.

News spreads slowly these days, otherwise, when he was walking on the road at this moment, he would hear not only greetings, but also congratulations.

More than 20 years later, on the night when the results of such awards are announced, students in the school will be able to get the news, and social software will accurately deliver the news.

When passing by the piano room, he happened to meet Sun Dong coming out.

Seeing Sun Dong, Zhou Yan felt it was quite a coincidence, because he had just heard the teacher talking about Sun Dong.

Sun Dong and Zhou Yan were not particularly familiar with each other, but Sun Dong was a red-faced man who smiled at everyone he met. He was considered a "social butterfly" of the orchestra and was very popular in the school.

When he met Zhou Yan, Sun Dong was also very enthusiastic, "Teacher Zhou, how come you have time to come back today? You must be very busy recently, right?"

"Yes, I went back to school to deal with some things."

"Have you finished your work?"

"I'm done, and I'm going to walk around the school."

Sun Dong seemed to have something to say to Zhou Yan. He came up to him and handed Zhou Yan a cigarette. Zhou Yan didn't want it, so he lit it himself, then took a puff of the cigarette in the cold wind, and said with a smile, "Teacher Zhou, how is your orchestra this semester? Aren't you going to recruit new members?"

Under normal circumstances, the Piano Youth Orchestra has new member recruitment activities every semester.

Although there have been fewer and fewer new members in the past two years, there are still some every semester, but the Piano Youth Orchestra has not taken any action so far this year. It happened that I met Zhou Yan today, so Sun Dong asked a question.

"Fang Xiu is in charge of the new member recruitment. I usually don't ask about it. Maybe she has her own plans? You should keep in touch with Fang Xiu often, right?"

Sun Dong also has class affairs. When Fang Xiu was an undergraduate, he taught Fang Xiu's class.

After Fang Xiu took charge of the Piano Youth Orchestra, Sun Dong has been in charge of the orchestral department, so the two should have had more contact.

"Fang Xiu told me that your group has a stable staff now and does not need to recruit new members for the time being. But I think that if there are always new people coming in, the orchestra will be more dynamic. What do you think, Mr. Zhou?"

Zhou Yan nodded. In fact, what Sun Dong said makes sense.

It is definitely not good for an orchestra to have too frequent staff turnover, but it is also not good if there is no staff turnover at all. If it is too stable, it is difficult to mobilize the enthusiasm of the original members.

Human nature is like this, it is difficult to change, and it can only be maintained by rules.

Of course, Sun Dong said this not mainly for the sake of their orchestra. He must want the students of the orchestra to have the opportunity to go to the Piano Youth Orchestra for training.

No matter how good the teaching is, it is empty talk without practice. The Piano Youth Orchestra has been a good place for students of the Orchestra Department to practice in recent years.

"Are there any outstanding students in the new class of the orchestra?" Zhou Yan asked.

"There are a few. If you have time, I'll take you to see them?"

"I'm afraid not today." Zhou Yan shook his head.

"Haha, of course not today. Even if you want to see them today, I can't go to get you someone. Speaking of which, you haven't been to our orchestra department for a long time. Our orchestra can be considered half of your home. When you formed the Piano Youth Orchestra, you took half of our orchestra there."

Hearing Sun Dong's words, Zhou Yan almost laughed, because when he heard "half of the country", he thought of Wang Feng, who happened to be from their orchestra.

But what Sun Dong said was not wrong. When the Piano Youth Orchestra was formed, the orchestra department produced many people, all of whom were excellent students. It is not an exaggeration to say that they were half of the country.

"I don't even come to the composition department often. How about this? When I finish my work, I will come to your place. Don't be unwelcome when I come."

"Look at what you said. If you come, we in the orchestra will definitely prepare food and drink to welcome you. There is no reason to be unwelcome. When our two departments performed together last semester, many people wanted to invite you, but you were too busy and couldn't invite you."

Sun Dong was talking about the graduation concert. The full name is the undergraduate graduation concert (orchestra) of the composition department. It is a collaboration between the two departments and the most important event of the two departments every year.

In recent years, this concert should be the most popular when Zhou Yan graduated. The concert hall was full at that time.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "If I have time next year, I can go and see it."

"I've made a note of what you said. I will definitely remind you in advance when the time comes."

After chatting for a few more words, Sun Dong tightened his collar, said goodbye to Zhou Yan, and left with a cigarette in his mouth.

…

Zhou Yan didn’t stay in school for too long, mainly because he couldn’t walk quietly in school. There were too many students who greeted him, and he kept responding, which was quite tiring.

After returning to the studio, he first called Liu Hang to the office and briefly told him about the school-enterprise cooperation.

“During this period, you should make a plan and try to settle this matter this semester.”

Liu Hang nodded and said, “No problem. The studio is indeed short of staff recently. After the school-enterprise cooperation is implemented, it can also relieve our pressure.”

Although Liu Hang has never done school-enterprise cooperation before, he is not unfamiliar with this model, and he also knows that school-enterprise cooperation is very suitable for the current situation of their studio.

There is more and more work in the studio, but it is not appropriate to recruit a large number of full-time employees, which will put a burden on the studio. The key is that the people recruited may not be as useful as Yangyin students.

The main reason for using students is that it is flexible enough, the cost is low, and it can maintain a good relationship with the school.

"If you have any questions, feel free to communicate with me."

"Okay." Liu Hang nodded, but did not leave, and said to Zhou Yan, "I just came to work in the morning, and Director Li came to my office."

"He has something to do with you?"

"I didn't say anything specific. It was just the same as before. He came over to chat with me while holding a cup of tea, mostly about the situation in the factory."

Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes. Some time ago, before the filming of "Space Traveler" started, Liu Hang told him about this, and Li Xiuhai was always looking for him.

The situation of the electronics factory is getting worse and worse. The hole is getting bigger and bigger, and it can no longer support it.

At that time, Zhou Yan had the idea of ​​selling other buildings in Changzi, but he put it aside at that time.

Now that Li Xiuhai is here again, the situation is probably getting worse again.

Thinking about it, there are only a few months until the Chinese New Year, and the factory's performance is deteriorating. When the Chinese New Year comes, the workers' wages and benefits may not be available.

After pondering for a moment, Zhou Yan said, "I know about this, you can go ahead and do your work first."

"OK."

After Liu Hang left, Zhou Yan picked up the phone on the table and dialed Li Xiuhai.

The call was answered quickly.

"Hey, who's there?"

"Director Li, it's me, Zhou Yan."

Hearing that it was Zhou Yan, Li Xiuhai revealed a hint of surprise in his tone, "Teacher Zhou, why did you remember to call me?"

"Are Director Li busy now? If not, why don't you come to my office and have some tea?"

Facing Zhou Yan's invitation, Li Xiuhai didn't hesitate at all and directly agreed, "It's a great honor. I'll go over now."

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

…

In less than two minutes, Li Xiuhai arrived at Zhou Yan's office.

Their offices were not far apart, but it took some effort to go up and down the stairs. Arriving so quickly meant that Li Xiuhai rushed here after hanging up the phone, which showed that he was indeed in a hurry.

Although there is no heating in the factory, it is very warm inside. The temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is quite large. In addition, it is windy today. Li Xiuhai rushed all the way here and was blown by the cold wind. After entering the house, his face turned red.

Seeing Li Xiuhai's red face, Zhou Yan thought to himself, it seemed that he was indeed in a hurry.

But this Li Xiuhai is really interesting. Since he was in a hurry, why didn't he just come to him instead of "harassing" Liu Hang?

"Director Li, please sit down."

Zhou Yan poured a cup of tea for Li Xiuhai and sat across from him, "Director Li, we haven't seen each other for some time, right?"

"Well, Teacher Zhou, you have been very busy recently. It is not easy to see you."

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "I can't say it's not easy. I've been in the office during this time. If you want to see me, just come directly."

"Aren't we afraid of delaying your work?"

"Director Li, you are serious. It would be rude of me to say that the studio is in Guibao. Thanks to your continuous support, I should go there more often."

"Teacher Zhou, you are very polite. You rented the warehouse and Building 3, and you solved a big problem for us."

Seeing that Li Xiuhai didn't take the initiative to mention it, Zhou Yan didn't follow him around the bush anymore and said straight to the point, "I heard from Liu Hang that the factory's operations are in some trouble?"

After Zhou Yan asked, Li Xiuhai began to pour out his bitterness, "The current environment is too bad. All factories are laying off workers, and laid-off workers are coming one after another. When I came, the factory was already a mess. God It’s hard to save. I’ve tried every method, but in the end there’s no way to save it. I’m lucky to be able to guarantee that there won’t be a large number of layoffs. Now that the end of the year is approaching, there are a lot of places to spend money, but there is no money in the account. How many……"

Zhou Yan was not in a hurry to interrupt him, and listened quietly to him pouring out his bitterness for five or six minutes before he slowly said, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

Li Xiuhai stopped being coy now and said directly, "Teacher Zhou, your studio is getting better and better. Do you think you should rent out the two buildings here? These two buildings are similar to Building 3." How about the size, just follow the rent of Building 3, and we won’t increase the price?”

Zhou Yan also found it interesting. Regarding these few words, Li Xiuhai had to endure it for several months, but he still took the initiative to find him.

Renting a building is optional for Zhou Yan.

The studio does need to expand, but that cannot be solved by just renting a few buildings. These buildings in the electronics factory have fatal flaws and cannot support the later renovation of the studio.

What Zhou Yan thought was that it would be best to take down the electronics factory and then transform it on the original basis.

In his opinion, the electronics factory will collapse sooner or later, but at this stage, it is definitely impossible for Li Xiuhai to sell the factory to the studio, and Li Xiuhai does not have this right.

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Yan said, "Isn't the building in the northwest also empty? Why not rent that building to us? These three buildings are packaged together. I won't take advantage of your factory. On the previous three days, An additional 20% will be added to the rent of the building.”

Zhou Yan was not doing charity. The reason why he was willing to increase the rent by 20% was because the northwest building was far away from their current warehouse, and there was a large open space in the middle. If they rented that building and connected it with several other buildings, they could cover the large open space.

As long as they took this open space, they would have room to do something later.

Li Xuhai could actually guess Zhou Yan's thoughts, but the conditions Zhou Yan proposed were too tempting, and the factory had no other options at this stage. Being able to rent another building was what he wanted.

So, Li Xuhai nodded without much consideration, "No problem, as long as you are willing to take it, we can rent the northwest building to you, and also rent the open space in the middle to you."

Li Xuhai understood that after the northwest building was rented out, their factory would not be able to use the open space in the middle, so it would be better to do a favor and directly ask the studio.

Seeing that Li Xiuhai was so tactful, Zhou Yan nodded and said, "Thank you, Director Li. We don't want this land for nothing. I won't add 20% to the rent. I will just count the three buildings as four buildings. The rent of the extra building will be counted as the rent of this vacant land."

Li Xiuhai was naturally very happy to hear Zhou Yan say this. Originally, the rent of the three buildings with a 20% increase was only equal to 3.6 buildings. Now it is equal to four buildings, which is equivalent to 0.4 more buildings. This is a lot of money.

"Okay, then I will go back today to hold a meeting and vote to settle this matter."

The meeting is naturally a process. Now everyone in the factory is waiting for the rice to be cooked. The rent given by Zhou Yan can be regarded as a solution to their urgent needs and can allow the factory to persist for a while.

However, in Zhou Yan's view, renting these buildings will not only fail to save the factory, but may accelerate the factory's bankruptcy.

Originally, if Zhou Yan had not intervened, the electronics factory should be similar to other state-owned factories, laying off workers step by step, and then dying slowly.

But with the rent Zhou Yan gave, the electronics factory basically didn't lay off many people.

With so many people, Zhou Yan couldn't afford the rent. When the rent was used up and the factory's efficiency was basically zero, the problems would burst out, and it would be too late to lay off people.

It's like when a person is about to die, and suddenly a strong medicine is given, although it can make him come back to life for a while, but he will die faster. (End of this chapter)