Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 429 Development
After chatting with Director Chang for a few more words on the phone, I hung up.

Li Yancheng quickly cleared his mind and began to look at the documents on the table carefully. After reading each one, he would carefully write down his opinions and sign them. After processing several documents sorted out by his secretary, it was already a few minutes before twelve o'clock.

After delivering the documents to the secretary's office opposite the office, Li Yancheng walked out of the office building. Instead of going to the cafeteria, he came to the parking lot, got in his car and drove away from the headquarters office area.

Luo Yang called him last night and told him he had something to talk to him about, but he couldn't explain it over the phone, so he wanted to meet up to talk and said he would come over at noon.

But the Social Affairs Bureau's headquarters is in the west district of the city, and Luo Yang works in an electronics factory in Yangchao. Although he has now been promoted to deputy factory director, he still doesn't have a dedicated car. His lunch break is only two hours, and by the time he gets over, the food is already cold.

There are not many cars on the road now, and the quality of the road is much better than before. Li Yancheng arrived at the gate of the electronics factory in half an hour. When he came over, Luo Yang, the deputy factory director, was sitting on the curb smoking without any regard for manners. When he saw his car coming, he stood up and patted his butt.

"Get in the car, let's find a restaurant and eat and talk."

"There is a restaurant at the next intersection, turn right." Luo Yang sat in the passenger seat and began to give directions.

"What do you want to talk to me about? It's hard to tell over the phone."

"It's not urgent, let's talk about it later."

Li Yancheng turned his head to look at his second uncle, who looked calm but obviously worried. Seeing that he had no intention of continuing, he did not continue to ask in the car. They would arrive at the restaurant soon anyway, and since he took the initiative, he would definitely tell him when the time comes.

"Luo Yang, are mom and dad in good health?"

"They are doing fine. With an expert like you helping them take care of their bodies, they have hardly even caught a cold in recent years."

When it comes to physical conditioning, Li Yancheng ten years ago could not even catch up with the Chinese medicine health experts in the Health Bureau.

Having spent a lot of time with them over the years, everyone has communicated with each other, learned from each other's strengths and overcome their weaknesses. His level of using Chinese medicinal materials to regulate the body has risen sharply.

Apart from using acupuncture to treat diseases for outsiders, he does not prescribe many medicines to regulate their bodies. But it is different for his own family members. He is the one who regulates the bodies of these people in his family, and the effect is quite good.

The old man and the old lady came from the war years, especially Mr. Luo, who came back from the battlefield and had many wounds and hidden diseases.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, I devoted myself to work. My eating and sleeping schedule became a little chaotic, and my health condition has not been very good.

Fortunately, the old lady, a doctor, was by his side, helping the old man to hold on. However, the old lady was a Western medicine doctor, and Western medicine was not good at regulating the body.

Although there had always been Traditional Chinese Medicine health care experts from the Health Bureau to treat the old man's body at any time, no matter how high the experts' level was, they could not overcome the patient's lack of cooperation.

In fact, it cannot be said that the old man is uncooperative. He has a personal secretary and a full-time special nurse by his side. They will remind him what to do anytime and anywhere, so he does not have to worry too much.

But conditioning the body is a long-term job and cannot be accomplished overnight. No matter whether they are experts or the special caregivers around the old man, they are outsiders after all, especially health experts, who serve many people. Although they are very capable and have a high sense of responsibility for their work, they cannot keep an eye on one person every day.

Due to his work, Mr. Luo cannot go for check-ups frequently, so experts cannot always keep track of subtle changes in his body.

Li Yancheng is different. He is the old man's son-in-law. Although he cannot be with him all day long, he can still meet him every day, seven days a week, as long as he is willing and neither of them is on business trips.

This can ensure that he can understand the old man's physical condition and adjust the prescription for conditioning the body at any time.

Over the past few years, he has almost cured the old man and the old lady's hidden illnesses. Just as Luo Yang said just now, they rarely catch a cold and are in very good health.

Of course, it's not just the old man and the old lady, but also the Luo Yang couple, Luo Ting's family, including their spouse's parents. Li Yancheng has been taking care of their health over the years.

His exchanges with those health experts over the years have been very effective in improving his medication use.

Li Yancheng and Luo Yang didn't talk about business in the car. They just chatted for a few minutes and arrived at the restaurant while they were talking.

After ordering the dishes and waiting for the waiter to leave, the second son of the Luo family talked about the purpose of today.

"Dacheng, the main reason I asked you to come here today is because I want you to help me make a decision."

"What advice can I give you?"

Li Yancheng, who was pouring water from the teapot, paused when he heard this and looked at his second uncle with some curiosity.

"I left the electronics factory to work for the government. What do you think?"

"Transferred from your current job? Did the old man arrange that for you?"

"Yes!" After taking a sip of the tea poured by Li Yancheng, Luo Yang nodded.

"The old man wants me to go to the grassroots to train."

"Go to the grassroots..." After filling the teacup in front of him with water, Li Yancheng picked up the cup and smelled the fragrance of the jasmine tea in the cup.

He now likes drinking jasmine tea more and more, and especially likes to smell its light and refreshing fragrance.

"With your current level, will you go directly to the grassroots level?"

Luo Yang is now the deputy business director of the electronics factory. The electronics factory is a subordinate enterprise of a ministry, and its rank is at the departmental level. His administrative rank as the deputy director is at the deputy departmental level. He is less than 40 years old, and a real veteran college student. He can be said to be young and promising. After all, the phenomenon of seniority-based promotion is very serious these days.

Of course, the presence of Mr. Luo also played a very important role in this.

If Luo Yang goes to the grassroots level now, he will definitely join a government department. With his current level, the lowest level is a region or a prefecture-level city. He cannot be arranged to go to the county.

"Yes, if you want me to go to the grassroots level and lower my rank, I will definitely not agree."

"Then what advice do you want me to give?" Li Yancheng asked curiously after taking the cigarette handed to him by Luo Yang and lighting it.

Since it was arranged by the old man, normally Luo Yang would have no choice but to listen, not to mention that he was not a rebellious person.

"Where to go? I want you to help me decide where I should go."

"Is that so? How many options did the old man give you?"

"Three." Luo Yang raised three fingers and gestured.

"One is to go south..."

Heading south?

Li Yancheng raised his eyebrows and interrupted Luo Yang's unfinished words.

"When you say go south, do you mean to go to the place that was approved by the higher-ups ten days ago?"

"Uh..." A look of surprise appeared on Luo Yang's face. He didn't expect that he just said going south and Li Yancheng could guess the specific place.

"Yes, that's where we are."

Good place!
Seeing that he was right, Li Yancheng nodded in his heart. He thought that he didn't need to listen to the other two places. He would definitely go to this place. However, he still planned to give his opinion after listening.

"Where are the other two places?"

"The second is to go to a county under the capital city."

The administrative level of Beijing is high, and the administrative levels of the subordinate counties and districts have also risen accordingly. Luo Yang can only serve as a deputy position, and he has not been demoted.

However, when he heard that he had to stay here, even if it was to go to the county below, Li Yancheng had already passed this option in his mind.

In fact, staying in Beijing is a good choice. It is the political and economic center of China. Even in the counties below, any position is popular.

But it is also because of this that the work here is not easy to carry out. Everyone has their own position. If you get promoted, you will block the way for others. Luo Yang is still so young.

Once he goes up there, he is blocking the way of not just one or two people. Everything he does in the future will be put under a magnifying glass by people with ulterior motives. If he dares to be negligent in the slightest, he will face much greater pressure than others.

Some people can turn pressure into motivation, but some people don't have this ability.

Luo Yang's abilities are indeed good, otherwise, even with the help of his grandfather, he would not have been able to reach the position of deputy director of a subordinate enterprise so easily in just ten years.

Because he is not the kind of deputy factory director who just wants to get by. He is a genuine deputy factory director in charge of business. In the electronics factory, he is the third in command after the factory director and the director of the organization side, and he is the one who holds real power.

But local governments are different from enterprises. Luo Yang has never had any experience working in local government. It is not a good thing for him to rush headfirst into the deep quagmire of Beijing. If he is not careful, he might be used as a gun by others.

"Where to go third?"

"Somewhere in the five northwestern provinces."

Well, let’s just go south.

When he heard that he had to go to this place, the corners of Li Yancheng's mouth twitched involuntarily.

It's not that he has any prejudice against this place. He was from here in his previous life. Even in this life, he still believes that his hometown is here. He likes to eat pasta for meals. When he cooks at home, he often makes mutton soup with steamed buns or roujiamo.

But compared to the southern and eastern coastal cities, it is indeed difficult to develop here, both economically and in terms of career development.

"Did the old man recommend you where to go?"

"Yes, either go south or go northwest."

"Then what do you think?" After thinking about it, Li Yancheng did not rush to express his opinion, but asked back.

"Me?" Looking at the unlit cigarette in his hand, Luo Yang's eyes revealed a hint of confusion. It can be seen that he seemed to have no idea yet.

From the perspective of this era, it's actually the same wherever you go. To be honest, Qin Province, one of the five northwestern provinces, is developing quite well now.

Because of the grand strategy back then, the country invested a lot in the construction of the Third Line Project here. Because of the system, the current state-owned enterprises are still very resilient, with good welfare benefits, and the city's economy is also good.

But within a few years, by the mid-1980s, because the top leaders insisted on unwavering reform and opening up, the eastern coastal cities and cities in the south would take advantage of their special geographical locations and the more open minds of their people to take the lead in development.

When the state-owned enterprise reform took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the situation in places like Northeast and Northwest was difficult to describe.

"What? You haven't thought about this yet?"

"I have considered it. I actually want to go to the northwest, to Qin Province."

"Oh? Why do you want to go there?"

"Maybe it's because I lived there for a while, so I feel I can adapt to the living habits there."

Luo Yang smiled and lit the cigarette in his hand.

"hehe"

Li Yancheng was amused by his remarks. After laughing for a while, he said very straightforwardly: "Yangzi, go to the south, to the forefront of reform, to cross the river by feeling the stones, to open up an unprecedented road for future generations, and to carve your name at the starting point of this road."

"Go to hell with you for carving my name. Just don't nail it to the pillar of shame. But... Dacheng, why do I feel like you seem to be very optimistic about the path of reform and opening up, as if you are sure it will succeed?"

How should Li Yancheng respond to this?

He can't say that he just knows that he can definitely embark on a path of reform and opening up with Chinese characteristics.

"I have faith in that one."

Li Yancheng didn't say anything loud, he just said it lightly.

His words left Luo Yang stunned for a long time. Because of the old man, he could get in touch with all the old men above at home, and he understood many things much more clearly than those people outside who were only vaguely aware of the situation.

They also understand many policies better than outsiders.

But at this time we were really crossing the river by feeling the stones. The tone of reform and opening up had been set, but how to proceed on this path was completely unknown, not to mention the people below us, even the people who set the tone were completely in the dark.

Not to mention that we are still wavering as to whether to go left or right.

Even someone as strong as Mr. Luo was somewhat bewildered, but...

"Dacheng, don't play dumb with me. Since you suggested that I go south, you should tell me the truth."

Luo Yang knew clearly that although his brother-in-law was only an expert in the Social Affairs Bureau and also held the position of Deputy Secretary-General of the General Office, he also had his own unique insights on social and economic development, and many of his remarks made the old man think carefully.

Because he had seen and heard his brother-in-law and the old man discussing these things in the study more than once.

There were even several times when that person came over to chat with Li Yancheng for a few hours.

You know, these old men's schedules are very precise. Let alone a few hours, even if there is no advance arrangement, being able to chat with someone for more than ten minutes shows that they attach great importance to it.

On the issue of how to develop the economy, Li Yancheng had no intention of discussing anything with his father-in-law at first.

But later he found that he had to talk about it, because his father-in-law's ideas were a bit conservative, which was somewhat contrary to the future development.

Of course, except for him who knew what happened next, no one else thought there was anything wrong. It is normal for everyone to express their own opinions on such issues.

But Li Yancheng knew that he couldn't let his father-in-law stick to his conservative ideas, as this would cause problems.

He had no choice but to chat more whenever he had time.

(End of this chapter)