African Nationhood

Chapter 112 "Nanhua Newsletter"

(Recently, many people who have received nine-year compulsory education have slipped through the net. Are their Chinese pinyin taught by their physical education teachers?
  What a show! )
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In February 1883, in the editorial office of the "South China Newsletter" in Anhai Town (Nagoswakopmund), Ouyang Geng was sitting in the chief editor's room.

After the education reform in Anhai Town last year, Shi Wenyuan held a small meeting with Ouyang Geng, Cai Shaoji and Shi Jinyong.

At the meeting, Boss Shi divided the work between the three students. Ouyang Geng and Shi Jinyong left their posts as teachers at Anhai Middle School.

Served as cultural export specialist and industrial export specialist of Nanhua Company respectively.

In addition to being a secondary school teacher, Cai Shaoji also serves as the education specialist of Nanhua Company.

"Nanhua Newsletter" is an internal publication of Nanhua Company. It is published every two weeks and is a semi-monthly publication.

This bimonthly magazine is targeted at mid- to high-level officials within the company, and its main functions are divided into three aspects:

1. Inform the company of the current development situation in various fields within the company, as well as the follow-up development direction;
  2. Blow up the policy priorities for the next stage so that officials at all levels can figure out the company’s development direction;
  3. Confrontation of ideas, professional opinions in different fields can be expressed in the form of newspaper articles.

Before Ouyang Geng took over here as the cultural commissioner, the Anhai Town Management Committee had entrusted Ye Rong to manage it.

Her knowledge was too low and her vision was not enough. The previous "Nanhua Newsletter" was more like an internal performance report meeting.

After Ouyang Geng took over, he had more comprehensive control over various fields.

There are also many reflections in the "Nanhua Newsletter".

After being in contact for a long time, Ouyang Geng gradually became aware of Shi Wenyuan's governance style.

Although Shi Wenyuan is young, he has a calmness that is not commensurate with his age.

When he implements policies related to public welfare, he will first brief policy officials to prepare everyone mentally.

If someone strongly objects, then Shi Wenyuan will reconsider.

After careful consideration and confirmation that there are no serious problems, relevant policies and regulations will be formally issued.

But he responded very quickly to some bad thoughts.

If it cannot be resolved quickly, his style will become aggressive and domineering.

Therefore, before the officials below were unsure about the lord's temperament, they would first test the waters by publishing an article in the "Nanhua Newsletter".

If you don’t receive severe rebuttal or retraction, then it’s generally not a big problem.

Ouyang Geng felt that this new form of "monarch and ministers playing against each other" should be more efficient.

After all, Southwest Africa is vast and has inconvenient transportation.

This kind of widely advertised internal magazine can quickly and quickly unify the thinking of officials at all levels.

It is more efficient and saves transportation costs than holding a conference.

The major sections of "Nanhua Newsletter" have different meanings:
  The headlines on the front page are all about newly introduced policies and regulations, or articles that set the tone.

Generally, commentator articles that set the tone are published under the signature "Lark".

"Lark" is the pen name of former editor-in-chief Ye Rong. Now that she has resigned, the tone-setting commentators will still use this signature in their articles, mainly for the sake of continuity.

In addition, "Nanhua News" will also publish some comment articles by government officials. Most of these articles have real signatures and the content of the articles has been reviewed.

For example, some time ago, "Nanhua News" published a signed article by the mayor of Futong District, Zhongyuan District: "Beware of unhealthy trends and wrong remarks in the company."

The article harshly criticized some unhealthy practices in local governance, including hidden corruption, official pretensions, inertia and other unhealthy practices.

At the same time, in the article, Futong District Mayor clearly supports Mr. Shi’s policies for the indigenous people.

District Chief Fu believes that these policies are not inappropriate after the test of time. Anyone who dares to question and contradict them is an enemy of the company and against Mr. Shi.

I hope those with evil intentions will turn around as soon as possible, let alone test the bottom line of tolerance of employees at all levels of the company and the general public.

After this signed article was published, it caused a large number of follow-up articles.

Among them are the district heads and deputy district heads of various regions.

Some people even ran directly to the cars on Mr. Shi's inspection road to complain, hoping that Mr. Shi could see clearly. Mr. Shi patiently explained and encouraged the civil servants who came to complain.

The pace of inspections at the grassroots level did not stop, but in-depth inspections were carried out in water-rich areas.

During this period, he had an in-depth exchange of views and policies on local governance with Deputy District Chief Tie Lan.

Later, Deputy District Chief Tielan also published a signed article with similar content to that of District Chief Futong.

At this point, the discordant voices within Nanhua Company that questioned the indigenous policy had all dissipated.

Since then, "Xiao Bailing", a special reporter of "Nanhua News", sent back three reports one after another.

The first article is "Divorce Cases Caused by Domestic Violence".
  The second article is "Three Views on Deeply Developing the Courtyard Economy".
  The third article is "Some Ideas on Developing Multiple Business Ideas".

After Ouyang Geng saw these articles, he immediately arranged for these articles to be placed on the front page.

After Ouyang Geng finished arranging the layout of the manuscripts, he began to study these manuscripts.

The report "Divorce Case Caused by Domestic Violence" details the marriage story of immigrant Qin Laosi and immigrant Gao Endi.

Among them, there are thoughts on the strong position of men and the weak position of women in "domestic violence".

It is full of pity for Gao Endi, and questioning of Gao Endi's blind tolerance.

At the same time, Xiao Bailing did not forget to call on women who have been bullied like Gao Endi to bravely stand up and boldly express their attitudes.

The article also spent a lot of time describing how Mr. Shi interrogated and questioned Qin Laosi, as well as his compassion and respect for Gao Endi.

After the trial, Mr. Shi sentenced the two to divorce and ordered Qin Laosi to give half of his family property to Gao Endi, allowing her to choose a son-in-law and remarry.

At the end of the article, I did not forget to call on governments at all levels to pay attention to the equal rights of female immigrants, and not to let Mr. Shi's "everyone is equal" spirit remain in vain without actual results.

Ouyang Geng couldn't help but chuckle after reading this. This Ye Rong is so naive.

However, her defense of Mr. Shi was genuine, because this divorce case was presided over by District Chief Futong, and Ye Rong put it on Mr. Shi's head.

Even if Mayor Futong saw the report, he would not come forward to expose it.

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"Yard economy" mainly refers to an economic behavior in which civilian families carry out various breeding and vegetable cultivation in the courtyard.

"Variety business" refers to small business activities carried out by the civilian class, such as small businesses and small workshops.

These two reports are both policy briefing articles.

When the time is right, the company will directly issue corresponding laws and regulations.

From here we can see that Boss Shi intends to develop people's livelihood issues.

The two articles in succession are calling out to officials at all levels: release authority and allow people at the bottom to perform freely.

After seeing these two articles, Ouyang Geng felt that he should also contribute.

The chosen direction is to start with the cultural sector that he is currently responsible for.

With this in mind, he slowly took up the pen and wrote "Some Opinions and Suggestions on How to Rapidly Prosper Cultural Undertakings" on the paper.

After he finished writing five large pieces of paper, he couldn't help but make some deletions, and finally refined it into one piece of paper.

This article can wait until the previous three front pages have been posted.

Before that, I still have time to think about revisions, so I can't rush, lest I be laughed at.

Ouyang Gengru thought.

　Please read, invest, recommend and collect.

(End of this chapter)