1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 173 You are lucky to have met me in this life!

three days later.

A 212 was driving on the bumpy dirt road after the rain.

Unlike Yang Mo, who was holding on to the front seat and struggling against the centrifugal force, Miss Mu in the back seat seemed to be accustomed to this kind of bumps. Her body swayed in the air in an extremely flexible posture, her eyes carefully staring at a piece of data in her hand.

In 1988, Linyi County's export sales to Japan amounted to 38.5 billion yuan, imports amounted to 41.1 billion yuan, and the trade deficit was 2.6 million yuan;

Among the exported products, the proportion of electromechanical products such as generator sets, motors, transformers, lighting equipment, pumps and valves, compressors, and pneumatic components is the highest, accounting for 41%;

Following closely behind are cotton textile raw materials and cotton textiles, accounting for 15%;

There are three categories of products that account for 5% to 10%, namely furniture, toys and sports equipment, base metals and their products, and chemical products;
There are four categories of products that account for 3-5%, namely plastics, rubber and products, food and beverages, medical equipment and watches, and finished vehicle transportation equipment.

There are 1 categories of products that account for 2-6%, namely shoes, umbrellas and hats, mineral products, plant products, animal products, fur and leather bags, ceramics and glass products;
There are two types of products that account for 0.9-1%, namely paper products and wood products;

The export sales of all other products combined account for less than 1%...

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"Yang Mo, take a look at this data. I always feel that something is not right. Could it be that the Foreign Trade Bureau gave the wrong information?"

Mu Liya handed the stack of documents to Yang Mo, and her beautiful eyebrows were tightly frowned.

Yang Mo took the document bag, pulled it out and took a few glances while the car was still relatively stable, then handed it back immediately: "The data is correct... These figures are all from the customs statistics, and the county doesn't have the ability to change them."

"Master, please find a place to stop for a while ahead!"

One minute later.

Mu Liya glanced at the driver and Bai Mengmeng who had consciously gotten out of the car, and then handed the stack of information over again with a dissatisfied look on her face: "Yang Mo, please take a closer look!"

Yang Mo glanced at her helplessly.

Well, this young lady thought that she was uncomfortable from the bumpy ride and had no mood to look at the data, so she just fooled her.

He really wanted to tell this young lady that the sales and export percentages of various products written on the last page could not be false... Although this export product structure was slightly different from that of later generations, it was highly similar overall.

Pretending to take the file bag, he pulled out the data that only had tables but no pie charts and looked at it for a few minutes. Then Yang Mo handed it back: "Confirmed, these data are correct."

Mu Liya pursed her lips and looked at him dissatisfiedly: "Yang Mo, please take a closer look...Last year, the county's export sales to Japan were only 38.5 billion yuan. Is this still a data? The export volume of crude oil and chemical raw materials from our three oil companies to them is more than this number, okay!"

Yang Mo looked at her speechlessly: "Sister, please make it clear that our three oil units are state-owned enterprises. The export of crude oil and chemical raw materials is used to fulfill the "Sino-Japanese Long-term Trade Agreement"... The data you received is the internal data used by the county for decision-making, not external data. No matter from which perspective, people should not include the export data of our units in Linyi County's external export sales!"

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The "Sino-Japanese Long-term Trade Agreement" mentioned by Yang Mo should actually be called the "Second Sino-Japanese Oil Long-term Trade Agreement". The first oil long-term trade agreement was signed in 1978. According to the relevant agreement, during the eight-year validity period from 1978 to 1985, Daqing in Northeast China needs to export 8 million tons of crude oil to Japan, and the total trade amount is about US$5000 billion.

However, there were too many pitfalls in the first long-term oil trade agreement. This was essentially an agreement to exchange energy for technology. Although Baosteel was eventually built with the assistance of Nippon Steel, there were countless places where the island country fooled them, and Daqing was almost making unilateral contributions. As a result, the second long-term oil trade agreement was put on the shoulders of the Qilu Petroleum System.

There is no way. Due to its geographical advantage of being close to Northeast Asia, Qilu itself has been positioned in this big game as a province that "takes over the transfer of manufacturing from island countries, gradually upgrades manufacturing technology, and becomes an industrial center." The province's oil system naturally has the responsibility to fulfill its own obligations... Fortunately, the first lesson was learned. Although Qilu still makes mistakes from time to time in the past few years, at least the island country has not been able to play the game of "borrowing chickens to lay eggs" like it did when building Baosteel (it is not convenient to directly explain the whole story and the cause and effect, so everyone can check it out by themselves).

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After Yang Mo pointed out the difference, Miss Mu smiled awkwardly.

Unlike ordinary state-owned enterprises, since the main business of central enterprises does not pay taxes to local governments, local authorities may include their turnover in the data announced to the outside world, but in internal development seminars, these figures will be removed and only the data on their contribution to local GDP will be retained.

However, before the tax-sharing reform in 94, many things were mixed up, and the relationship between central enterprises and local authorities was relatively close, so Miss Mu subconsciously forgot about this.

Picking up the stack of documents again and taking a look, Mu Liya's expression became a little serious: "The trade deficit is as high as 2.6 million yuan. If you hadn't reminded me to get some customs data for reference, I wouldn't have known that the situation in Linyi County is far more serious than I thought!"

Yang Mo shrugged and said, "If I remember correctly, the trade deficit in Linyi County has been quite large in recent years... But you don't have to worry, these are the pains that must be endured before the industry upgrades, and it will be fine in three to five years... In fact, if you get the customs data of Rizhao, Weihai, Qingdao and other places, you will find that their trade deficits in recent years are even larger."

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the foreign trade structure of Qilu was mainly based on the export of raw materials and processing of supplied materials. The data on the two sides might look good, but the profits were actually shockingly low. However, during this period, the industry was accumulating strength for upgrading, and a lot of second-hand equipment and production lines were introduced from Europe, the United States, Japan, South Korea, and even Southeast Asia and Africa... One side did not make much money, but the other side spent a lot of money to introduce equipment, so the trade deficit was naturally not small.

Mu Liya naturally knew the reason behind this, and immediately sighed: "The island country is always on guard against us. They keep all the advanced technologies and equipment lines tightly closed, and are only willing to transfer some obsolete technologies to us... I don't know when this kind of processing with supplied materials will end!"

Yang Mo smiled and said, "It's better to rely on yourself than on others. This is not the 1960s or 1970s. You are dreaming if you expect the island country to promote the spirit of international mutual assistance... But to be honest, although I hate that country, I have to admit that the technology they transferred over the years has helped us a lot... At least, we have the technical foundation for some industries. For the rest, we can only wait for our breakthroughs."

Yang Mo thought for a moment and said, "As for when we can gradually get rid of this foreign trade model of processing imported materials... I guess we have to wait until we join the WTO. With the improvement of people's living standards and psychological wage expectations, under the global full industrial chain cooperation model, when the profits of our companies are completely suppressed and we can't make ends meet, they may really wake up!"

Mu Liya frowned: "Yang Mo, why are you so pessimistic? As far as I know, the technical staff of many units are working hard to digest and improve the transferred technologies. Even though the benefits have not been good in the past two years, their technical competitions have never stopped... Believe me, after the technology is improved, the foreign trade model of processing with supplied materials will soon become a thing of the past!"

Yang Mo smiled and said, "Oh, I hope so."

Mu Liya looked at him quietly, and sighed after a while: "Yang Mo, I feel that I don't understand you anymore... So, this is why you rejected Uncle Wang's suggestion and insisted on trying your foreign trade projects with agriculture, even though the island country was interested in transferring six advanced technologies including vacuum heat treatment to us?"

Yang Mo shrugged. "Even if the island country is really willing to transfer vacuum heat treatment technology, it can only prevent the metal from having a decarburized layer, making the polished mechanical parts smoother, more precise in size, and more accurate in hardness... This is indeed a very useful technology with a wide range of applications. " "But the problem is that our units are suffering from internal problems rather than external ones. With the current management system of state-owned enterprises and the lax style of the workers, are you sure these technologies can bring positive effects in the short term?"

"You know, these technologies have brought many OEM orders with good profits, but at the same time, the acceptance standards have also been raised... If you go to the workshops of various companies, how many ordinary workers in these companies are not slacking off? How many workers will really follow the steps in the manual step by step and carefully operate and polish?"

"I wouldn't dare say that nine out of ten parts are wrong in size, but it's normal for three out of ten to fail to meet the standards, right?"

"How dare you take on delicate work like this? I'm afraid the money I earn won't be enough to compensate for the waste and the raw materials they took away!"

As he spoke, Yang Mo lazily leaned back in his chair. "In a word, if we still use the rough and ruthless management, I won't touch industrial projects even if they have great prospects... Relatively speaking, although agricultural projects have a lower unit output value, the demand is also huge... And those farmers are much more reliable than today's workers. At least, they are working for us, and as long as we can make sense, they will obey management."

Mu Liya pursed her lips and wanted to say something, but could only sigh helplessly.

Since the mid-1980s, social morals have deteriorated dramatically, and gradually, various problems among employees of state-owned enterprises, which were already inefficient, have become increasingly apparent...But state-owned enterprises cannot fire any employee at will, and with such impunity, the work efficiency and quality control within many state-owned enterprises are simply hard to describe.

In a way, what Yang Mo said was not wrong. Although the cultural level of rural people in those days was not high, and many places were not as benign as people in later generations thought, at least they worked for themselves. Driven by interests, they would listen to what you say, and it would be much easier to manage them.

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Rubbing her brows with a tired look, Mu Liya stuffed several other technical documents in her bag, then turned around and looked at Yang Mo: "Yang Mo, I haven't had time to talk to you before..."

"You're not the kind of person who doesn't know anything, so I'm very curious...why do you care so little about your image in front of Uncle Wang?"

"You know, even if you are determined to stand on the side of Director Zhang and the others, it is a taboo to set up a trap for your superiors like you did... This will ruin your reputation!"

Yang Mo looked at Miss Mu with a strange look on her face, "Aren't you angry because I cheated your Uncle Wang?"

Mu Liya raised her eyebrows: "I am very angry that you suddenly took advantage of Uncle Wang, but I am even more angry that you don't care about your reputation and image... You have been in the company for more than a year, you should know what reputation means in a company like ours!"

Is reputation important?
It’s not important to say it’s not important, but it’s also very important to say it’s important.

If Yang Mo was just an ordinary clerk, it would be fine if he was a little bit notorious. Anyway, as long as he didn't make any mistakes in principle, it wouldn't be difficult for him to sneak around and get to retirement.

But he is now a deputy section chief, and he has made brilliant achievements in the past. In addition, given his relationship with Miss Mu, if things go as expected, no matter who ends up being the head of the drilling company, it would not be unimaginable for this guy to skip the threshold of deputy section chief and become a small leader at the section level in a few years.

Therefore, for a man with a bright future like him, reputation is very important.

You should know that after being promoted to deputy section chief, his personnel file is already under the management of the group/organization/section, and subsequent promotions and appointments require the review and approval of the group/organization/section... Once there is a major stain on your reputation, people will bring it up during the third-level review, and the group/organization/section can completely reject your promotion and appointment based on this.

You know, this is a special department. Even the company's top leader may not say much in many cases...but they care a lot about "public opinions".

Therefore, in Mu Liya's view, although Yang Mo's previous behavior has won him great rights and interests, it has also left a huge hidden danger, which is completely not worth the loss... No leader will like such a subordinate who does not know the limits and has no respect for superiors, no matter how capable he is.

Similarly, the organization will not like people who are profit-driven and act recklessly.

Looking at Miss Mu with a hint of worry in her eyes, Yang Mo laughed.

After more than half a year of getting to know her, it turned out that this young lady had far fewer faults than he had thought. She also seemed to be very kind to his friend. If it were someone else, they would have stood on his uncle's side and started to criticize her.

only,
The somewhat dirty trick he had played earlier was certainly to take advantage of the God-given opportunity to benefit himself;

But he dares to play like this...

It’s simple, he is a person who has been reborn and knows some of the directions of the future.

However, of course, there was no way to say this directly, so he tilted his head and looked at Miss Mu: "Comrade Mu Liya, let me ask you one thing, besides you, me, and Mr. Wang, is there a fourth person who knew about what happened the night before yesterday?"

Mu Liya snorted in dissatisfaction: "Of course no one else knows now... but it's hard to say in the future."

It is obvious that although Wang Yinuo looks gentle, he is not a sucker who can be bullied. When the day of reckoning comes, this matter will naturally be brought up unintentionally.

Yang Mo nodded: "As long as no one else knows about it now, it's fine... Believe it or not, by then, not only will Mr. Wang not hate me for this, he might even thank me for helping him withhold the 1.3 million... Maybe the achievements made with this money can save him in the end?"

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Mu Liya looked at Yang Mo, who looked so confident. After being in a daze for a long time, she stretched out her hand with a worried look on her face: "Yang Mo, do you want me to accompany you to the hospital?"

Yang Mo angrily pushed away the hand that was about to touch his forehead: "Don't worry, when I really go crazy, I will take the initiative to register at the psychiatric department!"

But I started muttering in my heart: It should be your father who should go to the hospital to register!
Some things that always confused me in my previous life have finally been sorted out, and I finally understand why the beautiful woman next to me quietly went abroad a few years later.

You're lucky.

I have known me in this life...

(End of this chapter)