1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 30 Commission?

Two days later, leaders from the Dongying Petroleum Command arrived and carried out a three-day inspection in a low-key and grand manner, and then left the drilling company in a chic manner.

While all departments were rejoicing over the successful completion of the inspection mission, Yang Mo, who had just accepted half of Su Yu's money, became dazed after taking a deep puff of cigarette.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, this inspection was just a normal inspection activity. After all, this kind of thing is very common in state-owned enterprises. If there are no inspections three or four times a year, even the uncle who guards the gate would not understand.

However, if you are an employee of the oil industry who experienced that era, it is easy to notice the abnormalities when you look back on it several years later.

First, the leadership level of this inspection was somewhat beyond the standard.

You know, the 80s to mid-90s was the most glorious time for Shengli Oilfield. It even had the intention of being on par with its big brother, Daqing Oilfield. Therefore, the weight of the leaders in charge of the Shengli Oilfield Command can be imagined.

It can be said that if it were in previous years, when a subordinate unit like the drilling company was inspected, at most a "deputy" leader would come from Dongying. But this time, not only were there "regular" leaders coming, but there were two of them.

Second, the timing of this visit is somewhat mysterious.

Although the official explanation given was that the drilling company's autumn production campaign was a complete success, not only did it increase the drilling depth by more than 25 meters, but the annual crude oil production was expected to exceed 1000 million tons. It was precisely because of such an impressive record that it attracted the attention of the command leaders.

This sounds reasonable at first glance. After all, in 1988, the country's crude oil production was only over 1 million tons. The drilling company alone contributed nearly 20/ of the country's crude oil production. It deserves the attention of leaders no matter where it is.

But as a person who had been reborn, Yang Mo knew that this reason was too weak.

Just like the venting slogan that the local people of Dongying later uttered on the Internet, there are countless factions within the huge system of Shengli Oilfield, and the drilling company, as an "outsider", is actually not very well received - even if the drilling company's production task this year is extremely dazzling, then logically speaking, at most it would get a few compliments at the year-end commendation meeting and that would be the end of it, and there would not be such an extraordinary leadership inspection right after the general battle.

Of course, this is just focusing on the small micro factor of the drilling company itself.
If we expand it a little, we can take into account the factors of the oil/refining units near Linpan and Linyi and the changes in their relationship in the next few years; if we expand it a little more, we can combine the current macro environment with the future trend...

The timing of this inspection is even more intriguing.

Third, the itinerary of this inspection is somewhat unusual.

Normally, when a leader of a "positive" rank comes to inspect subordinate units, it would be considered good enough if he can stay for the whole morning and afternoon. However, this inspection took a full three days, which is far beyond the normal duration of an inspection.

Moreover, the reaction of the leaders during this trip was somewhat unexpected - no matter which department it was, they just took a cursory look and finished the job, without even doing the most basic superficial work like "talking" or "expressing condolences".

After spending a whole morning going through the routine process...

The leaders of the Dongying Oil Command rushed into the conference room and had a protracted meeting with the top management of the drilling company.

You know, meetings, especially long meetings, are very particular about home and away games... A group of leaders traveled all the way to the drilling company's home ground to hold a long meeting. This matter looked a bit strange. Of course, in addition to the above, there were many other things that Yang Mo found strange.

For example, the beautiful lady Mu suddenly appeared in the general office and set up a "diversified development research group" that made no sense.
For example, after Director Zhang suddenly tempted me with a big cake, he didn't immediately force me to stand in line;

Another example...

Some people were surprised to find that at a lunch reception on a certain day, a "positive" leader was suddenly missing; at the same time, the die-hard fans of the beautiful Mu were disappointed to find that their goddess did not show up in the cafeteria on time - according to an unconfirmed rumor, someone saw the two having lunch together in a remote restaurant in Linpan.

In fact, Yang Mo didn't care about other people's private lives. If it had nothing to do with him, let alone the fact that the beautiful woman was just having a meal with someone else, even if they went to a hotel together and were caught in bed, he would not bother to care.

But the problem is...

He always had a feeling that the series of events that had happened in the past few days were all causally related to each other; and the reason why Director Zhang, Mr. Yang's direct superior, suddenly showed off a series of operations in front of him that he didn't quite understand, was all related to Miss Mu who suddenly appeared in the office and the leaders who suddenly came from Dongying!

And the causal relationship...

It may not be that simple!
………………

Before Yang Mo could figure out what was going on, Su Yu, who had just been given half a pack of cigarettes, looked around, then took out an envelope from his autumn coat and quietly stuffed it into Yang Mo's Jiefang bag.

As soon as he saw the shape of the envelope, Yang Mo knew what was inside. He frowned and asked, "Lao Su, what's going on?"

Su Yu looked at him with a slightly envious look: "This is a thank-you gift from Manager Yan... There should be another one during the Chinese New Year."

Yang Mo immediately lowered his voice: "Nonsense! What money should be taken and what money should not be taken, others don't know, and you don't know it either?"

Su Yu just smiled and held down Yang Mo's hand that was reaching into the bag: "Don't worry, this money is not the labor fee you gave to Manager Yan and the others to help them out, but the sales commission of the Golden Vegetable Project. My uncle knows about this, and it is also the public account of Xialiu Tongxiao Commune, which is very clean."

Hearing this, Yang Mo looked at him in disbelief: "It's been less than a month, and those purple sweet potato vines have already been sold?"

Su Yu nodded: "In fact, the Foreign Trade Bureau has already connected with the buyer more than half a month ago. If Xialiu Village did not need new qualifications, and it would take time for production, processing and packaging, the money should have arrived long ago."

Su Yu's eyes lit up with excitement as he spoke: "I originally thought you were just talking nonsense, but I didn't expect those South Korean businessmen to be really interested in this thing... Although the first batch of golden vegetables didn't sell for $3/KG due to quality issues, they still offered a price of $2.14/KG... All of a sudden, Xialiu Village made a fortune!"

(End of this chapter)