After the bonuses were distributed, Luofeng and his father returned to the makeshift office constructed from mobile units. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

"Now you understand our company’s core competitiveness, don’t you?" Luo Lin said with a sigh. "Our company has a total of seventy old brothers. The one who’s been with us for the shortest time has been here for fifteen years; the rest have been around for about twenty years! Among them, the longest-serving one has been with me since the company was founded. Back then, I was just a shareholder in this company, but now, I’m the largest shareholder!"

Luo Lin took a sip of cold tea and continued, "Currently, our company’s workforce has expanded to 420 people. Aside from the relatives and friends recommended by the old brothers, there are also some who joined because they heard of our reputation. In the nineteen years since our company was established, we’ve never had a safety accident, nor have we had any disputes!"

Of course, those who had been with him for twenty-five years were the ones who had followed Luo Lin back when he was still a small private labor contractor. It was Luo Lin who had led his team to invest in the Jiamei Construction Company of that time.

"Moreover, our company’s labor protection products are the best in the industry, our benefits are also the best, and the same goes for food, accommodation, and so on. In summer, the employee accommodations had air conditioning, and in winter, there was heating. These were charged, but only at cost price, so no one complained. Thus, when it wasn’t hot, they would all turn them off."

"Our company’s profits didn’t use to increase, precisely because of these expenditures. But our company weathered one difficulty after another, overcoming crisis after crisis. We grew from a small company to our current scale of dozens of millions, all thanks to these old brothers."

"You, my boy, when you manage the company in the future, you must uphold this management philosophy and pass it down, understand?" Luo Lin spoke earnestly.

Luofeng had to admit that his current personality was greatly influenced by Luo Lin. Because his father was indeed a good man. Luofeng might have only eighty-nine points in morality, but he was undoubtedly a good person too. That’s why Luofeng would donate to the Rainbow Welfare Institute. That’s why, for his supermarket part-time jobs, he always chose students from impoverished backgrounds.

Facing his father’s lecture, Luofeng didn’t joke this time but said seriously, "I know, Dad. Don’t worry. I will always uphold the principle of treating employees well and providing them with better benefits!"

Luofeng remembered something Old Wang once said. When a business is established, the first thing you should do isn’t to think about how much money to donate, but rather to first improve the welfare of your own employees. Once that’s improved, then you can consider making donations.

"Will you join me for lunch at the canteen?"

"Sure, Dad!" Luofeng nodded.

It was nearly twelve o’clock at noon. Luofeng sent a message to Little Fairy, telling her not to wait for him for lunch. Then he went to the construction site canteen with his dad.

Luofeng wasn’t a picky eater. As long as the food wasn’t overly salty to the point of being inedible, or spoiled, Luofeng could fill himself up even with instant noodles.

When Luo Lin was working, he also ate with the workers most of the time. As Luo Lin put it, if the workers could eat the food, why couldn’t he, their boss, eat it?

The food at Jiamei Construction Company’s canteen was of a very high standard. Luofeng discovered that among the staff, those uncles who had followed Luo Lin for over twenty years had even brought their nephews or sons to work there. This clearly had the feel of generational loyalty.

Of course, if a member of their younger generation received an education, they too could come and work. But their workplace wouldn’t be the construction site. Instead, it would be the company headquarters, where they could do administrative work.

Jia Mei Company’s current situation was more like some overseas family businesses that treated their employees better, thereby earning their loyalty. Although such an approach might not yield exorbitant profits, it was exemplary for entrepreneurs. If all companies could provide such treatment, then this world would indeed be filled with much more love, joy, and laughter. In that case, the wealth gap wouldn’t be so large, and everyone would live well.

But would that really happen? Capitalists, in their pursuit of more BMWs and more villas, completely disregard their employees as human beings, devising all sorts of ways to exploit them! Take Sansang Corporation in Korea for example. Why is such a globally massive tech company experiencing slowing growth? The reason for this boiled down to the situation described earlier. The new generation of employees, seeing that the previous generation of staff didn’t have good outcomes, naturally wouldn’t want to join their ranks. That company suffered the consequences of laying off a large number of employees over thirty-five.

One day, when Luo Lin decided to step down from managing the company and Luofeng took charge, Luofeng would basically follow his father’s structure and corporate culture, continue it, and even improve it to be more human-centric, allowing Jiamei to keep progressing and developing.

Jia Mei Company’s operational approach was one of humanistic inheritance. After all, neither Luofeng nor Luo Lin were the kind of people who would abandon all principles for money.

After looking around the canteen, Luofeng was surprised to find that the dishes here were plentiful and healthy, yet very affordable—even cheaper than at the university. For example, a vegetable dish was uniformly priced at 2 yuan, and the portions were generous. It wasn’t like university canteens, which were stingy; even if the prices were low, the portions were small, meaning you’d still have to order several vegetable dishes to get enough.

And the meat dishes? They cost just 6 yuan. The key was that a 6-yuan meat dish typically contained about 100 grams of boneless meat or 150 grams of meat with bones. This could no longer be described as merely cheap; Luofeng felt it was simply the cost price.

Luofeng tasted the Braised Iron Lion’s Head, a dish he used to love when eating at construction sites. This dish was made from flour and minced meat. It was rich in starch, and they weren’t stingy with the minced meat. At least, they were much more substantial and used better ingredients than those from fast-food chains.

As for Mei Cai Kou Rou, the Mei Cai itself was meant to be supplementary; the pork belly was the star. However, in many restaurants outside, the pork belly was merely supplementary, with the Mei Cai taking center stage. But that wasn’t the case here.

Luofeng remembered once dining out and ordering Chili Fried Beef Dry Bar. A single plate of the dish would have only a dozen or so pieces of dried beef, each about the size of a cigarette butt, while the rest was all chili peppers. That was such a rip-off. Later, when that restaurant went out of business, Luofeng had rejoiced.

"Xiao zhang, how has the food in the canteen been recently? Are you satisfied?" Luo Lin asked a worker at the table in front of him while eating. The man was a newcomer, and valuable opinions could often be heard from them.

"It’s great, Boss Luo! I find it very satisfying—generous portions, real ingredients. After a hard day’s work, a meal like this really helps us recover our energy."

The man looked to be in his early twenties, probably a migrant worker from a rural area. He had reportedly already married and had to work to cover his family’s expenses.

"Don’t call me Boss Luo; just call me ’Chief.’ I’m just a construction foreman; at most, I’m a bit bigger now than I used to be. If there’s anything unsatisfactory about the food, you can always submit suggestions to the suggestion box—anonymously, too!" Luo Lin said, patting the young man’s shoulder.

Luofeng chimed in jokingly from the side, "Comrade Old Luo, if only you could give half of your canteen’s food to our school, that would be wonderful! The situation at our school cafeteria is just indescribable!"