1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 296: One man destroyed the city, one man built the city (1)

In Qingdao in the 1980s and 1990s, any tourist would take photos on the pier, take a bath at the No. 1 bathing beach on the seashore, feel the sea breeze at Shuren Park, buy some souvenirs at the small commodity wholesale market on Jimo Road, drink beer while walking with a plastic bag, take a rest in Zhongshan Park when tired, and finally end the trip with a seafood meal at the seashore.

Although the above is a summer strategy and is not applicable in winter, this does not prevent Yang Mo and Miss Mu from taking a stroll on the pier and feeding the seagulls before leaving.

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Aaaaaa!

In the slightly strong sea breeze, Muliya, with her long hair blown to pieces, had an indescribable messy beauty.

"Yeah~!"

Miss Mu, who was feeding bread, was pecked by the seagull on the palm of her hand. She screamed softly, withdrew her right hand like lightning, and stepped back.

Seeing this, Yang Mo quickly reached out and hugged Mu Liya's shoulders, as if he was afraid that the seagulls who failed to find food would retaliate, so he held her in his arms and protected her.

Holding the soft and fragrant jade in his arms, Mr. Yang was very happy, but he complained: "Other people tear up the bread and throw it into the air, how can you feed the seagulls with your hands spread out like this... Well, you got pecked, let me see if you are hurt?"

Seeing that this fellow not only hugged her but also took her hand in his clutches with a look of concern, Miss Mu glared at her with a blushing face, then gently broke free: "Lecher, don't you pay attention to the impact in public... I haven't promised you yet!"

Although her body struggled free, she did not pull her hands away, allowing Yang Mo to hold them tightly.

In winter, people wear more clothes, and outsiders can't see anything unusual about the two people holding hands like this... In addition, urban men and women in the 1980s and 1990s were already very open-minded in this regard. In the winter, couples with intimate expressions could be seen everywhere on the pier. Therefore, even if they were seen by outsiders, just holding hands, no one would think there was anything wrong.

Feeling the coldness on his hand, Yang Mo put the delicate little hand into his coat pocket, warming it up while playing with it mischievously.

"Hey, hey, hey, that's too much. Last night you ran into someone else's room and slept on the same bed with that eggplant girl all night long and I didn't say anything to you. Why did you react so strongly when I just touched you... What's going on? Monks can do it, but nuns can't?"

Thinking of the eggplant girl who might have tested this guy's whole body last night, Yang Mo complained first with an unhappy face: "Sure enough, Zhang Wuji's mother is right. The prettier the woman, the more likely she is to lie... I have been chasing you for more than two weeks, but you won't even let me hug you... Humph, someone said at the beginning that the results will be available after a week of chasing!"

Eh?
The more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to lie?

Did Yin Susu say this?
Miss Mu looked at this guy in bewilderment, and then angrily tried to pull out her hand that had been touched all over.

After realizing that she couldn't pull out any more, Miss Mu looked at the greedy bastard with hatred and said, "What do you mean you've been chasing me for almost two weeks? Tell me yourself, since New Year's Day, have you ever asked me out for a walk, treated me to a meal, or invited me to a movie?"

Feeling that the other person was tickling her palm again, Miss Mu, who felt a little weak all over, wanted to rush up and bite him hard: "How dare you say that?... Bastard, how can you chase a girl like that!"

Yang Mo touched his nose awkwardly: "I made up for it today... There were a lot of things going on recently, you know that."

Miss Mu snorted, her expression somewhat arrogant: "I know, that's why I don't blame you... I was just possessed by your evil spirit. If it was someone else, and he dared to touch me on the first day of the official date, I would have kicked him into the sea long ago!"

Yang Mo chuckled: "Oh? You've been possessed by me?... That's a very high evaluation!"

A wicked smile appeared on his face, and he put his mouth close to Miss Mu's ear: "Student Yaer, are you hinting that I can do something more extreme when there are no outsiders around?"

The ear was blown by Yang Mo's breath, and the inexplicable tingling feeling made Miss Mu almost unable to stand. There was a hint of panic in her tone: "Yang Mo, please don't be like this, I, we are not officially dating yet!"

Yang Mo smacked his lips, his tone full of joking: "Oh? Does that mean that after we officially start dating, we can do some really excessive things?"

Miss Mu, who was overwhelmed, almost burst into tears: "Even after we are together, you can't do anything too extreme... My family is very strict, before we get married... Anyway, you can't do that!"

Before you got married?
Yang Mo instantly knew the bottom line of a certain emotional rookie and couldn't help but laugh, and suddenly became more unscrupulous.

"Okay, you're right. Strictly speaking, today is our first official date... How about going to Qingdao Theater to watch a movie this afternoon?"

After Yang Mo sighed, he stretched out his hand and placed it on Mu Liya's shoulder with a smile on his face, looking like a wolf with bad intentions.

Qingdao Theater was not erased from history until after the millennium. Before that, it was a first-class cinema and was once known as the "No. 1 in North China". Therefore, if you ignore the actual viewing effect and only look at its fame, it is indeed an invitation full of sincerity.

Of course, this is not the point. For this kind of old-fashioned theater, if you can grab a box ticket on the second floor, the conveniences for young couples are known to everyone who has experienced it.

Although she didn't know why Yang Mo showed that strange look when talking about watching a movie, Miss Mu subconsciously felt that something was not right and became a little scared.

This bastard is too aggressive!

Feeling that she had no chance of escaping the other party's clutches, Mu Liya accepted her fate and did not struggle to break free from the strange hand on her shoulder.

It's still too fast though.
But at the very least, at the very least, this jerk didn't do anything to embarrass himself in public;
and……

It seems that we are not the only couple sleeping on the pier?
Realizing that she was in some unknown danger, Miss Mu summoned up her last bit of consciousness and tried to rescue him.

"Going to the movies this afternoon? No need to go back to the guesthouse to look up information?... What, have you already decided?"

Miss Mu tried hard to keep a cool expression on her face and forced herself to change the subject to work.

Based on her understanding of Yang Mo, this guy would probably put away his bad thoughts only when he was faced with serious work.

And Yang Mo's behavior of inviting himself to the movies in the afternoon did show a strong bias.

This guy's schedule is extremely full, it can be described as non-stop. It was beyond her expectation that he could ask her out to stroll around the pier this morning, and he could even make time to ask her to go to the movies in the afternoon... It is obvious that Yang Mo has already made up his mind whether to settle in Qingdao.

Seeing through the young lady's thoughts, Yang Mo tightened his arms mischievously and held her against his chest, but his tone was serious: "Yes, inspired by your sister's [Four-sided Attack Theory], I have decided... not to settle in Qingdao."

Smelling Yang Mo's masculine scent mixed with tobacco, Miss Mu blushed: "Luoluo's father is the director of the Party Committee's Inspection Office, her mother is the deputy director of the Party Committee's Propaganda Department, and her aunt has some friends working in the province, so some of her suggestions are still very valuable for reference."

At this point, Miss Mu raised her little face and looked at Yang Mo seriously: "Although my father suggested that we choose one of the three cities, Qingdao, Dezhou and Jinan, as the location for the new company, he did not say that we must choose one of these three cities, so... are you interested in going to Laiyang for an inspection?"

"Laiyang?" Yang Mo's expression was a little strange, and his left hand, which had been drawing circles in Yiren's palm, stopped.

Realizing that it had an effect, Miss Mu suddenly perked up: "That's right, Laiyang!"

In order to prevent this guy from doing anything more, Miss Mu spread her fingers and took Yang Mo's left hand: "This is Luo Luo's suggestion to me last night... In fact, compared to the full development of Qingdao, the province has always been more inclined to fully implement the seaport cluster strategy;"

"Laiyang is very close to the port city of Yantai and has a very strong foundation. It is one of the most promising cities in the province and the province is also planning to vigorously promote it. Therefore, setting up an asset management company in Laiyang will not only make it easier to take advantage of the favorable conditions, but the industrial structure there will also make it easier to help solve the employment problems of laid-off workers."

Looking at Miss Mu's serious expression, Yang Mo's eyes twitched, and he seemed to be hesitant to speak.

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For later generations of outsiders, the impression of Laiyang may still remain in the Internet jokes. It is probably because of the saying "Laiyang steel pipes when poor, firepower coverage when rich" that they know there is such a city.

Going a step further, you may have heard the phrase "Yantai apples and Laiyang pears";

Apart from this, Lai Yang seems to have no sense of existence anymore.

This is indeed the case. Lai Yang in later generations is just an ordinary third- or fourth-tier city with nothing outstanding about it.

But many people may not know what a great start Laiyang once had.

In the 90s, Laiyang was once glorious; some people even shouted the slogan "Build Laiyang into the Guangzhou of the North".

This is not nonsense, it is really possible... Although it is unlikely to build it into the Guangzhou of the North, there is no pressure to build it into the "Little Guangzhou of the North".

Because it occupies the Laiyang Basin, one of the few flat areas in Jiaodong, Laiyang's "geographical advantage" is simply enviable to other cities in Qi and Lu... The Laiyang Basin is densely populated with rivers, fertile soil, developed agriculture, and a large population. Because there are many hills in Jiaodong, the roads formed along the mountains make Laiyang an important transportation route in and out of Jiaodong. It can be said that Laiyang has been one of the few vital throats in Qi and Lu since ancient times, both economically and militarily.

This geographical advantage brought about a huge historical legacy... Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Xu fought a very brutal Laiyang Battle in Laiyang.

This has led to Laiyang becoming the city with the largest number of troops stationed in the county-level region in the country since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It has navy, army, air force, military, political and logistics. The stationing of troops has brought huge flows of people and resources.

This also led to the emergence of Laiyang's Laidong, Laito, Silk Spinning Factory, Meat Processing Factory and other enterprises after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which were among the best in the country at that time.

Take the meat processing plant that many people still remember vividly. The railway track leads directly to the factory. Back then, pork was sent to the Bear Country by trainload. Even companies from all over the country came there to learn the technology... Can you imagine that this happened in a county-level city?
After entering the 80s, Laiyang caught up with the spring breeze of reform and opening up. As an agricultural base, a large number of cold storages were engaged in export trade. A series of private enterprises such as Longda, Luhua, Tianfu, Jilong and Chunxue also developed like balloons... It is no exaggeration to say that if only the unit density is calculated, the density of private enterprises above a certain scale in Laiyang in the s and s was not even inferior to that of Shenzhen.

If there are just a large number of high-quality private enterprises above a certain scale, that would be fine. After all, the spring breeze of reform and opening up is blowing. From a certain perspective, "high quality" in this era does not necessarily mean high quality, and the number of enterprises cannot really prove anything.

What is truly amazing is the large number of schools, hospitals, large state-owned enterprises, and public institutions in Laiyang in the 1990s... The density of these institutions is simply enviable and crazy.

In terms of schools, Laiyang Agricultural College, Ludong University (Laiyang Teachers College), Qilu Provincial School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Medical School, No. 9 Middle School, and No. 1 Middle School were all very good schools at that time.

As for hospitals, YT City Laiyang Central Hospital, YT City Psychological Rehabilitation Hospital, PLA 145 Hospital, no matter which hospital, there are a group of ruthless characters who can take the face of the King of Hell and slap him hard;

As for large state-owned enterprises, in addition to the Laiyang Iron and Steel Plant that everyone knows about in later generations, there are also Laiyang Silk and Textile Plant, Laiyang Fur and Leather Plant, Laiyang Power Machinery Plant, Laiyang Tractor Plant, Yantai No. 1 Meat Processing Plant, Laiyang Heavy Machinery Plant, Laiyang Chemical Machinery Plant, Yantai Bus Modification Plant, and so on, there are more than a hundred of them... These enterprises are not small-scale Karami. Any one of them would be a well-known presence in the same industry at that time.

In addition, Laiyang has all kinds of living facilities and administrative/business supporting units, and there are even several railways that lead directly to the factory.

Perhaps most people don’t have much feeling when seeing the above content, but if you are a student majoring in public utilities management, or have studied some courses on urban planning, you will understand what this network-like layout of public facilities and this industrial structure with both light and heavy industries mean... What's more, it was only the 90s. There were not many industrially strong counties with both industrial elasticity and industrial tension, even if you look across the country.

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Thinking of this, Yang Mo couldn't help but look at Miss Mu's beautiful face.

I thought that the androgynous eggplant girl and you really have a special relationship, she even gave me such advice.

Indeed, Laiyang’s glory was mainly concentrated in the 1990s. Although Yang Mo was not very clear about the specific time of its rise, it should have started in the early 1990s.

Comparing the memories of later generations with what Eggplant Girl said yesterday, it is not difficult to guess that the province will soon increase its support for Laiyang. Therefore, Yang Mo's entry into Laiyang at this juncture is really a big bargain.

If Yang Mo remembered correctly, at the beginning of the millennium, each village in Laiyang had at least two or three banks, its own cement and fertilizer plants, a large public hospital at the doorstep, and a large-scale vegetable market every day. There were export and foreign trade businesses everywhere, and cold storages were everywhere... The prosperous scene would even make you think you were seeing Kunshan ten years later.

It's just a pity...

I guess even the provincial government didn't expect that such a thing would happen in Laiyang later?

A city with such great potential has undergone a 180-degree turn because of a few poor students who had no money to go online. The garrison was moved away, the agricultural college moved to Qingdao, the medical school and the normal school moved to Yantai. An industrial city that was once one of the top 100 cities has been turned into a poor county, and it has also brought down the entire soybean industry.

In later generations, people often commented online that if it weren't for those poor students in Laiyang who deserved to be humanely destroyed, China might not have been so passive in the soybean war.

Although Yang Mo felt that this argument might be somewhat biased, it was an indisputable fact that the imperial court's anger over this matter was even greater than that of Shantou at the beginning of the millennium.

"Laiyang? Forget it. I already have a general idea in my mind. When it really doesn't work, I can find time to go to Laiyang."

There wasn't much interest in Yang Mo's tone.

Although the turning point of Laiyang in later generations appeared in those technical secondary school students, who can be regarded as the typical example of "destroying a city with one's own strength", it also indirectly proves that Laiyang does have the problem of small temples but great evil spirits in many aspects.

As an old VC who has been reborn, Yang Mo's perspective on the development of a city is completely different from the current mainstream view. Having seen how Pang Donglai and Zibo turned a bad hand into a great one, he has his own understanding of the weighting factors in the PEST model.

In fact, the ups and downs that Mo Mo Bai Zha experienced last year made him even more convinced that his views were correct.

Therefore, even if the province is about to strongly support Laiyang, and even if after entering Laiyang, he may be able to take advantage of this favorable situation to achieve dazzling results in just one or two years, but this city is actually not very attractive to him.

Hearing Yang Mo's perfunctory response, Miss Mu frowned, as if she didn't understand why Yang Mo would reject such heartfelt advice from her own sister.

This shouldn't be the case. Although this bastard is willful, he rarely confuses public and private matters when it comes to work.

Could it be...

Was it Luo Luo's gangster-like attitude yesterday and the fact that she dragged me to sleep with her all night that made this bastard jealous?

Thinking of what Lin Luosu said yesterday in front of Yang Mo that she wanted to measure whether some parts of her body had gained weight, Mu Liya's face flushed, but her eyes were full of joy when she looked at Yang Mo.

This bastard still cares about himself!

It's just a joke between sisters. If you take it seriously and even let it affect your work, that would be bad.

Thinking of this, Mu Liya was about to persuade Yang Mo not to live up to the advice given by her sisters at a certain risk, and to think carefully about the city of Laiyang...

A noise mixed with screams of fear came from not far away.

Turning his head, Yang Mo frowned as he saw a group of people gathering somewhere on the pier.

what happened?

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PS: The last chapter was put in a black room, more than half of the content was crossed out in red, I guess I can’t get out unless I rewrite it…

(End of this chapter)