1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 252: Give a sweet date in return for a stick?
Since the beginning of this year, the drilling company, an oil unit from the southwest, seems to be determined to fight the word "public welfare" to the end.

Previously, Qingfeng Foods spent 70 yuan beyond its means and tried its best to send those migrant workers who walked in the rain back to their hometowns;

Later, Momo Baichao aggressively recruited disabled children to work in its stores, and even placed a cash box at the door of the store to challenge the relevant authorities;
What happened later was even more excessive. They spent a terrifying amount of money to build 20 Hope Primary Schools at a cost of 100 yuan per school.

Although such high-profile behavior is completely contrary to the style of state-owned enterprises, and the 100 Hope Primary Schools were built in the villages that voluntarily gave free chickens to Momo Baizha, some of which were in remote mountain valleys where schools should not be built. It is clear that this is a willful act to repay favors;
But no matter what, such a state-owned enterprise that seems to be quite humane is welcomed by the public.

It turns out that the drilling company, a southwestern unit that is incompatible with the local state-owned enterprises in Qilu, is far more willful than this;

Clearly, those Hope Primary Schools had just broken ground, but 400 volunteers recruited from major universities were sent to the villages where the projects were located. They were asked to gather all the out-of-school children in the villages together and provide them with remedial lessons step by step, and also to provide those children with free meals of delicious fish and meat every day... Could you believe this in 1989?
amount……

In fact, it can't be considered as an extravagant meal. Although these students and teachers have eggs, milk and more than eight dishes for three meals a day, there is actually not much meat. At most, there are only two pots of half meat and half vegetarian dishes, and they are all based on chicken... But even so, in this age when people can't even get enough food, it is already an extravagant meal in the eyes of many people.

While outsiders were envious, they also roughly understood why the drilling company only donated 2 Hope Primary Schools, but the budget was million yuan, which was ten times the infrastructure cost... There were many out-of-school children at this time who were over ten years old. As the saying goes, "the little boys eat their parents out of money." If they ate like this every day, the food alone would be a huge expense.

Look, what does it mean to pursue nutritional balance?

What does it mean to keep your body healthy so that you can study better?
It's November now, and those cucumbers, tomatoes, and water spinach should have been gone long ago. But I don't know how the drilling company managed to get these rare things, and they serve them to the little guys in pots... Even the adults at home don't have this treatment!
In addition, I heard that people are still measuring the sizes of the little ones, saying that winter is coming soon and they need to make school uniforms for them to keep them from freezing.

What's even more outrageous is that these guys are afraid that parents will refuse to let their children come to class in the name of delaying farm work, so they directly send rice, flour, vegetables and eggs to the children's homes at a rate of 10 yuan per person per day.

Damn it! I’ve lived for so many years, but this is the first time I’ve seen such a good thing where you can make money while only attending primary school.

The standard is 10 yuan a day, which is higher than the income of adults in the family from farm work... Well, although it is not money, but various food and supplies!
No wonder a budget of 2 million yuan was given. With such a wasteful method, less money would not be enough!

Tsk tsk, if I had known that sending a few chickens would get such a heartfelt reward a hundred times over, I would have sent all the chickens in the village to them with tears and shouts, even if I had to rob them!

………………

Unlike the voices of envy, jealousy, or confusion from the outside world, Yang Mo, who was sitting in his office chair, stared at the financial report in his hand for a long time before he heaving a sigh of relief: "Very good, if you eat well, you should eat as much as possible like this... At this rate, there should be no problem consuming about a thousand tons of winter vegetables a month!"

Touching his chin, Yang Mo suddenly came up with an idea: "Since these little guys are so good at eating, why don't we expand the scale and let the children from all over the country who plan to attend Hope Primary School come and nourish their bodies together... If these 40,000 to 50,000 children eat for a month, they will have to consume at least 3,000 tons of vegetables, right?"

Seeing this guy was so unreliable, Miss Mu, who was holding a pile of folders in front of her chest, rolled her eyes and said, "Are you going to break your promise? We agreed that only the villages that sent chickens here on foot would get this treatment. If you continue with this big pot meal, I think it will do more harm than good."

Yang Mo smiled awkwardly. The reason why he treated those one hundred villages so well was not entirely to digest the first batch of winter vegetables, nor was it entirely to repay a favor, but more to set an example. Therefore, what Miss Mu said was right. If the scope of welfare was expanded, not only would the original purpose not be achieved, but the drilling company would become a sucker in everyone's eyes. It was definitely a typical case of good intentions leading to bad results.

Seeing Yang Mo's expression, Miss Mu took advantage of the situation and stabbed him in the back: "Besides, if this kind of thing is opened, what will we do in the future? These subsidies will continue until those children enter junior high school... You can't let our department bear such a heavy follow-up expenditure just to solve the problem of digesting the first batch of winter vegetables. Although the budget of more than 200 million is large, there are other uses for it. There are so many places to spend money, and you can't afford to waste it like this!"

Yang Mo immediately raised his hands in surrender: "OK, OK, Chief Mu is right, I was wrong, I just said that casually."

Hearing this guy calling her Section Chief Mu, Mu Liya glared at him angrily: "Please add a deputy word in front... Section Chief Yang!"

After that, he took out a folder from his arms and threw it in front of Yang Mo in revenge: "Leader, the data of each village that you requested to be summarized has come out... Although it can't be said to be very comprehensive, it is very detailed... The key is that these data have been repeatedly verified by the villagers themselves, and the advantage is that they are real."

The scene of the villagers running around as if they were treating this as a top priority, repeatedly confirming and verifying before reporting all kinds of data with a serious look on their faces emerged in Miss Mu's mind, and she was speechless.

Although influenced by Yang Mo, she now attaches great importance to data, and the widespread situation of outdated and missing data in various places does not facilitate the next step of work; but to be honest, those villagers are too cooperative. All they want is an approximate number, but the other party is eager to tell in detail how many corns were planted in their own village and the neighboring village this year, what varieties of corn they were, and what methods were used to pick them.

Although the villagers' overly serious behavior actually caused considerable trouble to the staff of Momobaitou and Xialiu Sales Agency, and in fact delayed the progress of data statistics, it must be said that the actual influence of the 100 Hope Primary Schools far exceeded her expectations... After more than half a year of practical experience, she naturally knew that those seemingly honest farmers were actually much more cunning than she had previously thought.

Seeing Yang Mo quickly flipping through the summary table on the first page and starting to read the thick stack of data one by one, Mu Liya was a little puzzled: "Yang Mo, although I know that the base data is important, as a section chief, do you really have to go through the data one by one... By the time you finish reading, it will be dark!"

Glancing at Mu Liya who was standing in front of him, Yang Mo smiled and motioned the young lady who had been busy for several days to take a rest on the sofa. Then he explained, "Under normal circumstances, I naturally don't need to look at the data so carefully. After all, this kind of general detailed data is just a tool. As long as it is authentic, how to use it is naturally something that the people below should worry about."

"But the current situation is rather special. Momo Baitou is, after all, just a new department. There aren't many people who can really use this data. Also, the vegetable basket project that Vice President Feng was involved in is progressing faster than I originally expected. So I have no choice but to do it myself in order to prevent Vice President Feng from working himself into a fight with me and to prepare for a rainy day... Who told us that we are under a tight timeline and have a heavy task?"

Hearing what Yang Mo meant, Miss Mu looked at him in surprise: "Does this mean that these data are related to the final work of the vegetable basket project?"

Yang Mo nodded: "There is a connection, and it is a big connection."

Mu Liya frowned in confusion: "How is this possible?"

She originally thought that this data was only related to Yang Mo's next investment plan, and at most had a certain relationship with her export trade business. However, she never expected that this thing would be related to the vegetable basket project that Vice President Feng had participated in, and the relationship was not small?

Yang Mo smiled, lowered his head and continued to look at the data carefully: "Nothing is impossible. In fact, these data are related to whether Linyi County's vegetable basket project will be carried out smoothly, whether this vegetable basket project will truly become a people-benefiting project, and whether Vice President Feng will get into big trouble next year."

Hearing Yang Mo talking about something bigger and bigger, Mu Liya was a little dissatisfied: "Hey, hey, hey, Yang Mo, why do I find that you are talking nonsense more and more now?"

Yang Mo sneered: "Running a train? Do you think I'm kidding you?"

As he said this, he took out a red panda cigarette from the cigarette box on the table and lit it without even looking up. "Miss, do you know what the biggest difficulty is for a nationwide super-large agricultural project like the Vegetable Basket Project?"

Mu Liya shook her head in confusion. She herself didn't know much about agricultural projects. She was even less qualified to figure out the key points of a super-large project like the Vegetable Basket Project, which was still in the exploration and experimental stage.

Yang Mo looked up at her, not surprised, and said calmly: "Read the court's explanation of the vegetable basket project and the four major systems that the court focused on planning, and you will know where the real key point is."

Four major systems?

Production system, supply system, large circulation system, safety system?
Mu Liya vaguely figured out something, but she couldn't figure out the relationship between them at once.

After not hearing any sound, Yang Mo looked up at Miss Mu who was deep in thought and reminded her, "The higher the level of the document, the more concise it is, so you must not simply understand the literal meaning."

"Everyone knows that the vegetable basket project has not been rolled out on a large scale. The biggest obstacle is insufficient budgets in various places. But if you study the court's meeting minutes, do you see any emphasis on the funding issue?"

"no!"

"This shows that even in this economic downturn, even for this nationwide, sustained super agricultural project, funding is still not the biggest problem for this unprecedented large-scale project... but the four major systems highlighted at the meeting are!"

As he spoke, Yang Mo shook off the cigarette ash and said, "With your intelligence, you should have figured out that the data in my hand is related to the [production system] of Linyi County's vegetable basket project... That's right, but how exactly it is related, I'm afraid you haven't figured it out yet, right?"

Miss Mu looked at Yang Mo's slightly playful expression and couldn't help but feel angry, but in the end she could only grit her teeth and said, "That's right, I still can't figure out the relationship between them."

Yang Mo seemed to enjoy seeing this young lady's expression of being humiliated but having to admit defeat. He chuckled twice and then straightened his face: "You are born into a noble family and have not had much contact with the countryside. In addition, you have always been in the oil system. Therefore, it is understandable that you don't understand the actual situation at the grassroots level in the countryside or the characteristics of agricultural projects."

"I don't have much time to talk to you about other things today, but you just need to remember that the problems that exist or may exist on the production side are often not related to the technical level or the financial level... but the demand level." "To be precise, it is the coordination level involved on the production side after a clear trend in market demand appears!"

"Coordination is the most important and most difficult part of the work of [building an effective production system] as mentioned by the court... Compared to this, whether it is funding or technology, the importance is actually not even a little bit different, and it can even be said that they are not on the same level!"

As he spoke, Yang Mo chuckled twice: "Don't underestimate the wisdom and diligence of our farmers. If it is just to grow more vegetables, after an order is issued, the policy is implemented, and the greenhouse technology is expanded, at most three to five years, the streets of various places will be full of vegetables in winter. As for how to carry out the work of studying the vegetable basket so carefully again and again?"

The more Mu Liya listened, the more confused she became. She simply shook her head and said, "I don't understand this."

Yang Mo rolled his eyes: "Let me ask you, what is the most annoying and troublesome trend in the country right now...only in the business field."

Mu Liya glanced at the cowardly man and thought for a moment: "What I hate most is that they would resort to any shady means to make money; what bothers me the most is probably the Chinese people's tendency to rush in... Many markets are obviously areas with great potential, but people insist on ignoring their own situations and rushing in. In just a few years, the reputation of the market has been ruined, and in the end, no one has made any money."

What she was actually referring to were some industries represented by electrical appliances, building materials and health care products. After all, the reform and opening up had only been going on for ten years, and the chaotic phenomena in the market could not be compared with those in later generations. But even so, during the past six months that she had been in charge of foreign trade business, the chaos that was like poisonous leeches had frightened her.

Yang Mo nodded: "That's right. After a long period of poverty, these two major chaos in the business field are probably the most troublesome things for all project leaders... In fact, the most feared thing for agricultural projects is that others will see the profit and rush in."

At this point, Yang Mo explained a little: "Unlike most industries, agriculture is an industry with a long cycle, large initial investment, high comprehensive costs, and low gross profit... at least on the production side."

"It is precisely because of this characteristic that agricultural projects are most afraid of a rush to participate... If a rush to participate occurs, it will be a total loss. Not only will almost no one make any money, but the social impact will also be huge."

"I can say this: if the farmers in Linyi County make a fortune by growing winter cucumbers, by next year, all the nearby counties will be full of vegetable greenhouses, and at least half of them will be planted with cucumbers!"

"You can imagine what the next year will be like if this happens."

Mu Liya closed her eyes and thought for a while, then took a breath and said, "When the supply far exceeds the demand, the price of cucumbers will become very low. Not only will the growers lose all their money, but they will also owe a lot of debts for building the greenhouses... Some people may even tear down the greenhouses for wintering on the spot!"

Yang Mo nodded. There were more than one or two projects in China that were ruined by a rush of investment. Of course, countless farmers were cheated by pig farming, but no matter whether it was chicken, duck, or goose, or purely economic agricultural projects represented by fruits and condiments, almost no one could escape this predicament... Mandarin oranges, lychees, grapefruits, black wolfberries, blueberries, yacon, ginseng fruit, sunshine rose, dendrobium officinale, maca, caviar, goose liver, there are hundreds of them.

Although in later generations, people often talk about things like "developed country crusher" and "luxury goods are priced as cheap as cabbage" on the Internet, and are quite complacent about it, but for someone who still has at least some common sense in economics, these words are full of great irony... These projects should have played a greater and longer-term economic value, and should have become cash cows that can be shaken for decades, instead of being forgotten after a short one or two years of popularity like in later generations.

Seeing Yang Mo silent, Mu Liya's expression suddenly turned ugly: "Everyone is having a hard time now. If the winter vegetables in Linyi County make money this year, the neighboring counties will definitely follow suit. Then next year..."

The rest of the words have not been said, and there is no need to say them. Greenhouse vegetable cultivation is currently an agricultural project that requires huge investment and has high sunk costs. If vegetable prices drop next year, it will definitely cause big trouble.

Yang Mo sighed: "To solve this problem, there are many aspects involved, but in the final analysis, the imbalance of planting coordination caused by poor information flow is one of the two most fatal core problems at present... and the reason why I studied this data in front of me is to avoid the negative impact brought about by this reason as much as possible."

Imbalance in planting coordination caused by lack of information?

Although the logic behind this is easy to understand, Mu Liya obviously has not realized the troubles this problem will bring to the county's agricultural economy in the future, so she looked at him with a little surprise: "What's so difficult about this? Isn't it enough to strengthen communication with the competent authorities of the surrounding counties? Our country has a planned economy..."

Before she finished her words, Miss Mu shut her mouth, apparently realizing the real problem.

Nowadays, the discussions have become more intense than in the past. After all, the other party is just farmers, not state-owned enterprises within the system. Judging from the current situation, it is obviously difficult to implement the planned economy at the end... Moreover, all regions are now required to be self-reliant, and considering various considerations, they may not be willing to listen to your advice.

Yang Mo glanced at her and said with a wry smile: "We are just a corporate unit after all. Since coordinating the planting plan is not feasible, we can only take the active defense and add a dazzling way."

Active defense?

A sea of ​​​​flowers that dazzle the eyes?
She could easily understand active defense. It was nothing more than relying on those villages, treating the other side as their eyes and ears, and adjusting the planting varieties in Linyi County at any time according to the feedback from the other side, so as to avoid mutual losses as much as possible... Although the coverage of one hundred villages was not large, things like greenhouse planting required early mobilization. In addition, the one hundred Hope Primary Schools involved at least six or seven hundred villages, which could indeed play a relatively obvious preventive role.
but……

What does it mean to be dazzled by the flowers?
Hearing Mu Liya's question, Yang Mo smiled and said, "Everyone in the world is busy pursuing profits. Chinese people like to rush in. The fundamental reason is the desire to get rich, and there is no more suitable way in sight."

"Given our country's population and market capacity, even if we build more greenhouses to grow winter vegetables, it will be difficult to achieve true market saturation in the short term... But when it comes to specific varieties, rushing into it all at once is the biggest taboo of all."

"So... I want to try and see if I can use the demonstration effect of those villages to guide more villagers to objectively move towards the path of [one village, one product, one town, one industry]... After all, if Sanguanmiao Village makes a lot of money by growing winter potatoes this year, the villages next to it won't take the risk and grow hundreds of acres of green radishes in greenhouses. The key is that there is a lack of water over there, and it's not suitable for growing radishes!"

At this point, Yang Mo shrugged his shoulders and said, "Anyway, everyone's goal is just to make money. It doesn't matter whether they grow cucumbers or eggplants... It's the same for farmers in Linyi County or farmers in other counties."

One product per village, one industry per town?
Hearing this straightforward idea, Muliya O opened her mouth and said, "You, you... can you really do this?"

Yang Mo waved his hand: "Who knows? But it seems that there should be some hope at the moment... and this is one of the actions that must be taken to clean up the mess for Vice President Feng and his team. The following finishing work is closely related to this. We have to try it even if we don't want to!"

As he spoke, Yang Mo walked to Mu Liya with the thick information in his hand and sat down next to her. "Look, Shanjian Village is halfway up the mountain, and the kidney beans there are well-known in the area... Whether kidney beans are processed into food ingredients for sale or exported, or sold directly as vegetables, they can all generate good income. As long as they get the project started quickly, the nearby villages will surely follow suit and plant them next year."

"Let's look at Erwang Village. Although the land there is relatively poor, shepherd's purse is abundant. I happen to know that the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences has a relatively mature artificial cultivation technology for shepherd's purse. When the time comes, let them cultivate dozens of acres of shepherd's purse. Whether it is sold as winter vegetables or contacting cooperative units to use it as fillings for quick-frozen dumplings, it can generate a lot of income... The key is that people in the north like to eat dumplings stuffed with shepherd's purse. The market capacity is large, and the driving effect will definitely be obvious;"

"Then let's take a look at Huang'ao Village. It's a notoriously poor village. The land nearby is severely desertified. Although the yield of corn grown on this land is not high, it is good for growing medicinal herbs such as Atractylodes macrocephala, Rosa rugosa, Acanthopanax senticosus, and Polygala tenuifolia... Let them grow them first and give them subsidies. I will then ask Tugou Yatou to help with the planning and come up with a few new projects to digest these medicinal herbs. By then, the nearby villages will definitely follow suit;"

"Look, there's also Shangzhuang Village, over there..."

Looking at the man in front of her who was getting more and more excited as he spoke, with a hint of strangeness and fanaticism that definitely did not belong to him, Mu Liya did not know why, and felt that Yang Mo in front of her made her a little confused, but also a little heart-beating.

After staring at him blankly for a while, Mu Liya turned her head away evasively, her tone full of disdain: "Yang Mo, you are now the head of a department after all. Can you be down-to-earth in your work and also pay attention to the principle of first come first served?"

As she spoke, Miss Mu slapped several folders into Yang Mo's hands with a bit of displeasure: "Please let our Section Chief Yang figure it out. Our top priority right now is to find a way to digest the 8,000 tons of winter vegetables that were shipped out of the greenhouse ahead of time, instead of rushing to figure out how to clean up the mess for Vice President Feng later!"

"I just want to know, the teachers, students and parents of those universities and 100 Hope Primary Schools are expected to consume less than 4500 tons this month. What are you going to do with the remaining 3500 tons?"

Yang Mo, whose enjoyment was interrupted, looked at the beauty in front of him in silence, and yelled with a depressed look: "Hey, hey, hey, Miss, you can't be like this. I finally had a chance to talk about sex, but you interrupted me like this... This is inhumane, don't you know!"

As he said that, he flipped through the remaining materials and documents and then closed them. "And who told you that what I just talked about had nothing to do with the vegetables that were taken out of the greenhouse in advance?"

Mu Liya was stunned: "Does it matter? What does it matter?"

Yang Mo rolled his eyes: "Didn't you suggest to me the day before yesterday that we open up the quota for private enterprises and township enterprises, and then use them as channels to digest the remaining winter vegetables internally?"

"Sister, the first batch of winter vegetables shipped out of the greenhouse is not cheap. You asked these companies to spend so much money and use so many connections to help them digest more than 3,000 tons of vegetables. You should at least give them some benefits, right?"

As he said this, Yang Mo looked at her with disdain: "Don't you understand the principle of giving a sweet date with a stick?... How stupid!"

Eh?
Hit a stick and give a sweet date?
you mean……?
Looking at the man in front of her, Mu Liya seemed to understand something, and her pair of delicate and amazing eyes suddenly widened...

(End of this chapter)