1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 277 The boy harmed me
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting that had been scheduled between Linpan Oilfield and the drilling company was postponed again due to an emergency.

Moreover, this time the request for postponement was proposed by the Linpan Oilfield itself.

What nonsense! As soon as the group arrived at the office building, they ran into Yang Mo who had just brought Du Bing over. After learning that it was a reporter from Reference News who wanted to do an exclusive interview with Wang Yinuo, even a fool knew what was more important.

Therefore, the murderous aura of the group of people who originally had gloomy faces immediately disappeared without a trace. Not only did they not show any intention of threatening to punish them, but they also said very friendly and humblely:

Cooperating with the media interview is a top priority task. Their visit this time is just a routine visit to promote the relationship between the two brother units, and to exchange and learn the advanced experience of the drilling company. Since Mr. Wang has more important things to deal with, there is no problem in visiting him another day.

After saying that, he said goodbye and left in a hurry.

But as soon as they got on the bus, the group of people's original Maitreya Buddha-like smiles suddenly turned into bitter faces.

The reporter from Reference News is here to do an exclusive interview with Wang Yinuo!
Anyone with a working frontal lobe knows what this means.

your sister!
Forget about launching an expedition to hold you accountable. We should just be thankful that you have behaved yourself during this period of time!
The only thing that can be prayed for is that Wang Yinuo will say less bad things about Linpan Oilfield in front of the reporters, considering that the two units are in the same system after all!
Thinking of this, the leaders of Linpan Oilfield were both worried and jealous.

Damn~
An exclusive interview with Reference News!
If this guy had performed better on the spot, wouldn't he have been asked by his leaders to go to various places to make reports in a few days?
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It seems that the drilling company's performance this year has too many highlights to be explored, or perhaps the "Mr. Wang" mentioned by Yang Mo aroused Du Bing's great interest. Therefore, unlike in the past, this interview with Wang Yinuo lasted nearly three hours.

This is a jaw-dropping length. Even for mass media in later generations, the length of an interview would generally not exceed two hours, let alone a media of a special nature like Reference News?
However, unlike what the Linpan Oilfield executives had imagined, after Wang Yinuo was interviewed by Du Bing, he did not look high-spirited at all... instead, the wrinkles between his brows deepened.

In fact, he realized something was wrong ten minutes into this sudden interview.

Wang Yangming, Joseph Schumpeter, whale fall, ecological environment reconstruction...even in the end, even questions like [hiding a private sword] were asked.

It is obvious that someone had laid the groundwork for this interview, otherwise no reporter would use such a hard-nosed attitude to interview the head of a company whose main task is oil production, and to ask questions about these seemingly fragmented, but in fact interconnected, macro-social topics.

As for who laid the groundwork and deliberately induced the reporter to ask these questions...

Is there any need to ask?!
Apart from anything else, in the entire drilling company, there are no more than three people who have read "non-mainstream economic academic journals" such as Joseph Schumpeter's "The Theory of Economic Development"!
But there was no way, he had to answer these questions, and answer them flawlessly.

Fortunately, he is not a fool. Besides knowing Wang Yangming's masterpiece by heart, he is also familiar with many other classics. In addition, his various actions this year and his private exchanges with Mu Liya have also enabled him to gain a lot. Therefore, even if he is still not very good at business economics, it is not that difficult for him to work around these problems in terms of the framework.

So, he talked about Wang Yangming's "Instructions for Practical Living" throughout the whole article, introduced Wang Chong's "Lun Heng" as evidence, and finally took out some content from "A Historical Perspective on Economic Backwardness" which he had just read a few pages the day before, and talked nonsense about it. Only then did he barely deal with Du Bing.

Fortunately, China is so weak in the field of economics that even a journalist like Du Bing has not read many cutting-edge journals. Otherwise, Wang Yinuo's forced theories would have been exposed long ago.

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So for the next week or so, Wang Yinuo faced good news and bad news.

The good news is that after the interview, the relevant commentary articles about the drilling company and Wang Yinuo did not appear in the new issue of the internal reference;
The bad news is...

After another issue passed, the relevant commentary article still did not appear in the internal reference.

Wang Yinuo knew very well that this was definitely not because the article written by Du Bing after returning was rejected by their editor-in-chief.

In fact, comments like this one that our newspaper has picked up will definitely be published, even if the original text written by Du Bing is nonsense and even if their editor-in-chief rewrites it from scratch.

If there are no relevant articles yet, there is probably only one reason... people are still investigating and collecting materials, and are even seeking evidence.

When Wang Yinuo thought of this possibility, he felt overwhelmed.

You know, it is somewhat similar to ordinary newspapers. Whether it is "Reference News" or Neican, they all have a "front page".

Once this comment about the drilling company appears on the "front page", there is a high possibility that I will be called upon to make a report, and then I can move forward smoothly. Then things will be really fun.

Ok……

That’s right, if Wang Yinuo still can’t see that this is a trick played by a fat guy and Yang Mo to “send him to heaven”, then all his decades of existence would have been in vain.

But there is no way, this is an open conspiracy, an open conspiracy that cannot be resolved at all... Unless you want to destroy the drilling company, you can only accept the open conspiracy.

Besides, Wang Yinuo really couldn't find any reason to cause trouble for Yang Mo.

Blame him for setting a trap for you?

He kept praising you in front of the reporters, praising you like a genius who appears once in fifty years, and you went to cause trouble for him just because he praised you? This doesn't make sense at all!

Make trouble for him on the grounds that he hasn't fulfilled his promise?

Please, a reporter from Reference News has asked you to do an exclusive interview, and your deeds may even appear on the front page of the internal reference. How do you want Yang Mo to help you clean up your mess?
Don’t you see that there are still people who are so blind as to come and cause trouble for you these days?

Not only do they not dare to come and cause trouble, but you even received two calls from the provincial and county governments, wanting to invite you to make a report on your advanced deeds at the end of the year!

Apart from these two points, how else can you cause trouble for Yang Mo?

You have to understand that Momobaitou is an independent business department. Even if you want to find fault with it, you have to wait until the year-end work report and the financial statements there come out before you have the chance.

But even so, he has only been in office for a month, and he has already finalized an investment of more than 200 million US dollars for you, plus provided thousands of extremely attractive jobs for employees' families... You have the nerve to find fault with him, otherwise all the family members and employees of the company will scold you to death!
Therefore,
For now, Wang Yinuo could only hope that Du Bing and his team would hear more dissatisfaction with the drilling company during their investigation and that they would not publish the article on the front page after discovering that the drilling company was not doing a perfect job...

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But unfortunately, Wang Yinuo’s hopes are likely to be dashed.

It is true that Du Bing has been investigating and collecting materials these days... After all, unlike pure academic discussions, journalists like them need to give detailed examples and collect evidence when writing this kind of commentary article.

To Wang Yinuo's disappointment, during the field investigation, Du Bing did not hear much negative news about the drilling company in recent days. Instead, he discovered some very exciting changes.

For example, the Shanghe area.

After failing to build a Hope Primary School, a village where "three sheep were hit to death" did not become depressed, nor did it vent its anger on other passing vehicles in revenge.

They chopped the two roadblocks into firewood that day, and seemed to have become different people overnight. Not only did they take the initiative to rush to the nearby villages where they were related, calling on everyone not to "live on the road for a living" anymore; they also specially organized a "road protection team" of seventy or eighty people to specifically escort the drilling company's transport vehicles.

The escort methods of these people are also very simple.

Wearing thick and worn cotton-padded jackets, they climbed directly onto the truck bed of the drilling company without fear of the cold, and then showed off all kinds of weapons in their hands without any cover... This was simply to tell those ignorant guys on the road to avoid these vehicles.

If that's all, it may not necessarily have a very good effect. Once a conflict really occurs on the road, the well-intentioned escort may turn into a bad thing.

But the villagers' methods were far more than that. In addition to having villagers get on the bus to escort the vehicle, they also prepared dozens of large banners and hung them on the fence as soon as they got on the bus. The content of these banners also made Du Bing dumbfounded:

"Hope Primary School Material Delivery Vehicle - If you don't want to give birth to a son without an asshole, don't even think about using this vehicle!"

"Heroes of Shanghe, please show some mercy and save some face for Shanghe!"

"The Dawang Village Public Welfare Material Escort Team is here - if you don't want to be blocked by 3471 men at the entrance of the village, open your eyes!"

"Whoever makes us unable to hold our heads up in front of the people from the southwest, I will make sure you can't be a human being for the rest of your life!"

"Whoever dares to prevent our son from going to school, I will make you sonless!"

"Men from the Shanghe region, stand up straight and tell these people from the southwest with your actions... there are no bandits in Qi and Lu!"

Etc., etc……

It must be said that although these slogans look messy and many of them are even full of gangster spirit, the effect is surprisingly good.

Perhaps they knew that these vehicles were transporting supplies to Hope Primary School, so they couldn't bring themselves to do it;
Or maybe he was frightened by the murderous banners and the men standing on the carriages with their faces cut open by the wind;
In short, over the past week, the drilling company's transport vehicles running day and night on various routes of Shang River have never encountered any trouble.

As if inspired, the villages that received donations to build Hope Primary Schools organized their own escort teams, carrying banners and traveling back and forth on the red/orange sections to escort the drilling company's material vehicles;

The slogans were basically the same, but the tone was much more tactful. Most of them said, "Brothers from Qilu are like one family. The escort team from XX village in XX area is here to defend the honor of Qilu together with the folks from Shanghe area!"

In addition, transport convoys from other units also began to follow suit. Although it was impossible to mobilize the villagers to organize escort teams, they also hung slogans on their vehicles.

As for those slogans, some are strong in words, some are gentle and tactful; but the meaning is almost the same... Please show mercy, fellow villagers in Shanghe area!
All of a sudden, the road blockage problem in the Shanghe area has been alleviated to a great extent. Although it cannot be said that there is no probability of being blocked, it is completely different from before; especially those convoys of the drilling company that transport supplies to the Hope Primary School, there has not been a single accident... It is normal to think about it. People have to have dignity and trees have to have bark. Unlike before, when people saw the truth but did not say anything, now that people have raised their flags to target your area, most people still have at least a sense of shame.

amount……

The above statement is not quite accurate. The drilling company’s convoy actually did have an “accident”.

However, unlike a real accident, although the drilling company's car was also stopped that time, the villagers only knocked down the escort team members, severely taught a lesson to the driver who had contempt and disdain in his eyes, and then threw the 1,000 yuan "emergency plan fund" that he had prepared in front of them.

In the end, nothing was lost in the two trucks, and the one thousand yuan "emergency plan fund" was not taken away; after teaching the driver a lesson, the villagers spat on the ground fiercely, and then left a sentence "You southwestern people are so damned stupid and look down on others!"

Although this incident has some color of "regional conflict", from another perspective, it can also be seen as the people in the Shanghe area being awakened to their deep sense of honor and disgrace by the eye-catching banners and the gradually spreading public opinion. After suffering from huge pressure from public opinion, they made a stress response... Although it is emotionally embarrassing for a while, it is a good thing overall.

And it turns out that the drilling company is indeed an enterprise that clearly distinguishes between gratitude and resentment and takes pleasure in settling scores;
Dawang Village’s leading demonstration and efforts soon paid off.

Just ten days after the escort team was established... that is, the day after the "accident" at the drilling company, Qingfeng Food rushed directly to Dawangzhuang and decided on five cooperation projects including the supply of green peppers, garlic, and tofu skin on the same day under the name of Mo Mo Baichao.

Although the combined annual contract value of these five projects does not exceed 20, this is already extremely exciting news... You know, in this era, a supply contract of 20 is already a very big business for a village.

But this is not the end. Just after the contract was signed, Shanghe TV station came to interview the outstanding deeds of Dawang Village's escort team the next day. In a poor village where there were less than five TVs in total, dozens of people appeared on TV. For the people of Dawang Village, this was even more stimulating than the 20 supply contract.

As a result, the photos of all the members of the escort team of more than 70 were posted on the village committee's honor column for all villagers to admire; and everyone in Dawang Village also tried their best to seek more honor and benefits for their village... But don't forget, Qingfeng Food is just a subordinate unit of the drilling company, and the main owner has not yet agreed to help build the Hope Primary School in the village!
And all of this must be achieved with your own hands!
Although we don’t know the specific conditions for the drilling company to give a B+ rating, it is definitely the right thing to do to mend one’s ways and do more good things… Dawang Village, which received positive feedback in just one week, firmly believes in this!
After recording the entire cause and effect of the incident, Du Bing no longer had any doubts about Mr. Wang, who kept practicing Tai Chi during the interview. Instead, he admired him even more.

Although this kind of timely positive feedback based on money and material is contrary to the current mainstream values, and deliberately arranging county-level TV stations to follow up interviews seems too deliberate;

But it is undeniable that the speed of this positive transformation is the fastest she has ever seen in her life... and this transformation may not be just as superficial as it seems.

As a journalist who has been in the industry for nearly eight years, she understands very well that sometimes, people's original intention to do good things may not be so pure, but if they do it more and for a long time, it will become a habit... Even if a person is an unforgivable bad guy, after doing ten good things in a row, he can no longer go back to being a bad guy.

More importantly, there are interests driving this. As more and more people know about what happened in Dawangzhuang, if nothing unexpected happens, the nearby villages will immediately follow suit. If the media fan the flames, within a year or two, the atmosphere in Shanghe will definitely be completely changed!
There has never been a moment when Du Bing felt that a unit could be so important... You must know that the premise of all this is that the drilling company insists on this attitude of clear rewards and punishments, and that they have sufficient financial resources and projects to digest; without any of these, the positive transformation of the Shanghe area will come to an abrupt end.

Ah……

"Nothing is more clear than effectiveness, and nothing is more certain than evidence...?"

Thinking of what Wang Chong wrote in "Lun Heng", Du Bing felt a little complicated.

She originally thought that Wang Yinuo was using this sentence to shirk responsibility and perfunctorily deal with her. After all, when Mr. Wang was interviewed by her, he was always saying these clichés.

But now it seems...

It’s not that other people are just trying to be perfunctory with me, it’s that my skills are too shallow and I can’t understand what they are saying!

Thinking of this, Du Bing immediately picked up the phone in the guesthouse and dialed a number: "Editor-in-chief, regarding the review article about Southwest Drilling Company No. 1, I request to be given another ten days!"

"Yes! The topics that can be derived from them are very interesting and huge. I must do a thorough investigation before I can start writing!"

"But I may have to trouble the editor-in-chief when the time comes... I would like to ask you to discuss and write with me. I think Southwest Drilling Company is experimenting with a model that we have never encountered before and have never thought about carefully. I am still inexperienced and don't understand many things very well, so I would like to ask the editor-in-chief for guidance."

The old man on the other end of the phone was immediately surprised. Du Bing was well-known for her arrogance and talent in their unit. He originally thought that she invited him to give her advice and write articles because she had suddenly become enlightened and wanted to seek progress, but now it sounded... that wasn't the case?

Thinking of this, the old man became more and more puzzled: "If there is anything you don't understand, you can directly interview the head of their company. Do they dare to refuse?"

Du Bing shook his head. "Mr. Wang from their company is a very reserved and cautious person. He doesn't seem to want to reveal too much before the dust settles... I think it may be because of the special situation of their company. If they reveal some information too early, it may bring unnecessary risks to their experiment. "

"We wrote this article to promote advanced experience and inspire more leaders to think deeply, not to pursue innovation... If the content of our interview brings unnecessary risks to Southwest Drilling Company's experiment, or even causes the experiment to fail... it is really inconsistent with our original intention!"

As he spoke, Du Bing's tone became more sincere: "So, I would like to seek your help. With your rich experience, you will definitely be able to help me answer some of the questions that I have been thinking about for a long time. And with your sensitivity, you can definitely control the final presentation of this article to the most appropriate scale... Editor-in-Chief, please agree to my request!"

Hearing the heartfelt request in the microphone, the old man felt as refreshed as if he had eaten a ginseng fruit.

As an editor-in-chief who will retire in a few years, he has long lost interest in the flattery and pandering of his subordinates, and he does not have much aversion to Du Bing's previous arrogance.
In comparison, the sincere recognition and trust in his professional ability that Du Bing had just shown made him feel extremely satisfied.

It’s not easy to get this talented woman to say these words!
The old man sighed with joy and said without hesitation: "Okay! When the article is finished, send it over along with the materials... I'll keep the headline of the first issue of January for you!"

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So, on December 12, Wang Yinuo stood at the window and sighed angrily when he found that there was still no article about himself and the company in the new issue of the internal magazine.

Yang Mo!

Zhang Wenshun!
This brat is harming me!
He paced around the office a little irritably, and then picked up the landline and made a call: "Chief Yang... No, Xiao Yang, put down what you are doing and come to my office!"

(End of this chapter)