1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 306 Hidden Funding
The delicious dishes that Eggplant Girl planned to serve at the restaurant were never served.

It wasn't that she suddenly regretted it, but that she didn't even meet Yang Mo the next day.

Ok……

That’s right, Yang Mo, whose frostbite hasn’t fully recovered yet, has started to get busy again, and is much busier than before.

First of all, the reply from Texas came earlier than expected. The next morning, before Yang Mo even got out of bed, his apprentice who came rushing over informed him that the other party wanted to start a second round of contact.

Actually, we can’t say that the other party responded too early. After all, the original agreement was to give an accurate reply within a week…Although only four days have passed since the last negotiation, it’s still within a week, right?
Feeling the other party's urgency, Yang Mo was very decisive. He did not send a letter but made a phone call directly. After a few brief exchanges, he scheduled the second round of contact for the afternoon of the same day. Then he invited Vice President Feng and Chief He of the Finance Department, and took the two deputy chiefs of Mo Mo Bai Tou to Dezhou together.

The composition of this contact team really surprised others.

It is easy to understand why Miss Mu was brought along. After all, this powerful deputy section chief in charge of risk control and foreign trade business has always been Yang Mo's right-hand man. She herself is also a representative of the headquarters. One billion yuan on the books of the asset management company was contributed by Dongying, and they have to be involved in such a major event... Although Yang Mo did not let Miss Mu participate in the most important first round of negotiations before, it was because he was afraid that the other party would do something bad after hearing those harsh conditions. Since the negotiations have entered the second round, it means that Texas has accepted those conditions and is about to start finalizing the details. Even if Miss Mu finds it emotionally unacceptable, there is nothing she can do to change anything.

However, it is a little puzzling to include Qin Xin, a deputy section chief who seems to be in name only, in the list. This guy, who is nominally responsible for the coordination of various departments of Mo Mo Bai Tou, is actually just doing miscellaneous work. No matter how you look at it, he does not seem to be qualified to participate in such an important meeting... In fact, for people who know some of the inside story, it would be understandable even if Yang Mo brought Bao Shuxian, the deputy director of the second department, or Li Ming and Zhang Bo, the two new department stars.

Well, who Yang Mo chose from Momo Baitou to follow is their department’s own business, and outsiders can only watch the fun at best.

But the implications behind the other two candidates make people feel very uneasy.

First, Vice President Feng.

Although such matters involving government-enterprise cooperation will certainly not avoid the deputy general manager in charge of local worker-peasant relations, the holidays are just a few days away, and after the spring, he will become the executive deputy general manager. Therefore, at this critical juncture, Yang Mo can completely ignore this deputy general manager with whom he once had a tense relationship, and instead let Director Zhang of the General Office accompany him... Anyway, the General Office is now the main department that handles worker-peasant relations, and Yang Mo is the investment company's default actual decision-maker, so there is no problem from a procedural point of view.

Although many people noticed that there seemed to be a big conflict between Yang Mo and Director Zhang at the last year-end meeting, their previous relationship was there after all. With the imminent return of President Wang, Director Zhang, as the first contributor, has become a hotshot. No matter from which perspective, Yang Mo should take the initiative to repair his relationship with Director Zhang... This may not be easy for others, but it is easy for Yang Mo. He can do it by finding a reason to show goodwill.

However, Yang Mo still brought Vice President Feng, who was about to be transferred, into the negotiation team instead of Director Zhang.

Vice President Feng was also very decisive. After receiving Yang Mo's call, he only hesitated for ten seconds before nodding and agreeing. Then he immediately put down the things in his hands and asked the Public Security Department and the small car team to make preparations in the shortest time possible.

Logically speaking, a leader like Vice President Feng, who is about to step down and be transferred to another position, should take the initiative to be humble and hand over the work to his successor to get familiar with it. However, he did not do so. The meaning behind this is indeed quite meaningful.

The second is Section Chief He.

As one of the most important core departments of a drilling company, the status and sensitivity of the head of the Finance Department are naturally self-evident.

Although something beyond everyone's expectations happened before the New Year, Wang Yinuo, who successfully defended the title, will soon be transferred to the imperial capital, and Old Wang will also return seamlessly; after Old Wang returns, there will inevitably be personnel changes in the Finance Department.

But it is precisely because of this that Section Chief He, who took office just a few months ago, is in an unprecedentedly awkward position, and some things have become more sensitive.

Although Wang Yinuo is trying his best to put his Section Chief He into Momo Baitou to be the acting Section Chief next year, and none of the company's middle and senior leaders object to this special arrangement;
But in their opinion, Wang Yinuo's arrangement was just to provide a way out for his confidants to protect themselves.

After all, unless Mr. Wang wanted to take such a huge risk to target Yang Mo, for Section Chief He, there was no other department in the entire company that was safer and more suitable than Mo Mo Bai Tou.

Of course, one thing is one thing. Wang Yinuo arranged Section Chief He to work in Momo Baitou in order to protect his confidant, but this was arranged by the company's top leader and did not mean that Yang Mo himself had certain tendencies... He could completely ignore Section Chief He in future work, and then quietly use his control to put the future acting section chief on the bench. In this way, Mr. Wang would not think too much about it, and Wang Yinuo would at least give him face.

But before the matter of acting section chief was finalized, Yang Mo pulled Section Chief He into the negotiation team. The meaning behind this was very creepy.

Although the second round of negotiations with Texas discussed some more substantial and detailed issues, this matter indeed cannot be avoided by the Finance Department, but Yang Mo can completely ask the Finance Department to send a deputy section chief to accompany him!
Without even thinking twice, he invited Section Chief He. In addition, Vice President Feng was also accompanying him...

Oh my goodness, is Yang Mo planning to inherit part of Wang Yinuo’s inheritance after he passes away?

What on earth does this bastard want to do!?

This is a problem that everyone realizes at the first moment, but dares not think deeply about...

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Obviously, Yang Mo doesn't care what others think.

In fact, after the trip to Qingdao, his vision had already jumped out of the drilling company and entered a broader world.

Whatever other people think is none of his business!

So, amidst a series of weird and wonderful expressions, Yang Mo and his team spent three full days and went through four rounds of negotiations with "immediate requests, immediate replies, racing against time, and seamless connections" before finally signing the agreement.

The content of this negotiation involves 13 major items and nearly 80 minor items, including project nature, administrative coordination, business coordination, public goods, industrial land quotas, construction land quotas, taxation, electricity quotas, water quotas, road traffic, and railway capacity quotas. (Electricity and railway capacity are listed separately and do not fall within the scope of local public goods. If the amount exceeds a certain level, the local competent authority needs to apply for quotas from the higher-level authority.)

That is to say, in these short 72 hours, excluding the time for sleeping, eating and resting, it takes an average of 20 minutes at the negotiation table to finalize a detail issue... But in fact, those who have participated in negotiations know that time is not calculated in this way. Sensitive issues will often drag on for an hour or two, and then be discussed in the next round after the dispute is temporarily shelved. However, those less sensitive but equally important issues will be quickly reached in a very short time of two or three minutes after the gains and losses are weighed.

If you visualize the amount of details in each negotiation, you will get an olive-shaped graph, which means that the first and last rounds have the least amount of topics and take the longest time per unit, while the middle two rounds have the most topics and take the shortest time per unit.
Therefore, each round of negotiations may take more than six hours and often end after 10 o'clock in the evening. What's more frightening is that your nerves are tense every minute and your brain has to work at high speed all the time. Otherwise, if a detail is not considered well, it will mean huge trouble and more disputes.

To be honest, this kind of high-intensity negotiation really exhausted everyone. Even Vice President Feng had never seen this Gatling-style negotiation mode, let alone others.

If possible, never participate in such life-threatening negotiations again!

Even if we can't avoid it, we must not let this guy Yang Mo dominate the pace of the negotiations!

This is the voice of everyone.

According to their experience, negotiations of this scale should have lasted at least ten days or half a month. More than ten days of negotiations were compressed into just three days. It would be strange if people didn't collapse!
In other words, Texas attaches great importance to this matter. In addition, the cadres of central enterprises have no status disadvantages in front of the local competent authorities. Otherwise, who would be crazy enough to play this trick with you!
Just when everyone was exhausted and thought that everything was done, they could go back to bed and sleep for three days and three nights, and then happily wait for the New Year...

After leaving the building and before getting into the car, Yang Mo stopped Qin Xin and Section Chief He, then took out two thick stacks of documents from his briefcase and handed them over.

It is not actually appropriate to call them documents. These two stacks of things are actually just some papers torn from notebooks. They are covered with handwritten pen words, and many places have been crossed out and revised... Obviously, these are something Yang Mo wrote on the spur of the moment in the past two nights.

However, when the two saw the tasks and requirements assigned on the stack of papers in their hands, they couldn't help but feel their scalps tingling.

Damn it, there are so many tasks and the deadlines are so tight, I simply don’t want to have a happy New Year!
They looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Although they both looked sad, their hearts were pounding.

The two are in similar situations now. They are both marginal figures who are not involved in the three things, or are about to become marginal figures who are not involved in the three things. They have a not-low-level job title, but they do not have or will not have the corresponding status and real power.

Therefore, the tasks assigned by Yang Mo could be seen as a test for them, but also meant that the other party would delegate some actual power to them... Whether it was assigning work to subordinates or coordinating the work between various units and departments, whether Yang Mo supported them or not, the effect and nature were two different things, and the meaning contained in them was also completely different. Although they had vaguely thought that Yang Mo might give them a hand when the time was right when they were asked to go with him, they never thought that this day would come so soon.

Call ~
The two of them took a deep breath at the same time, a flame burning in their chests, tightly grasping the draft paper in their hands, and nodded heavily to Yang Mo...

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June 1.

In the north, there are still 7 days until New Year’s Eve.

Eggplant girl, who had been waiting for Yang Mo to come back, gave up the idea of ​​getting married the day before yesterday. After leaving a message for Miss Mu on the paging station, she drove back to Qingdao to deal with the issue of year-end bonuses for the employees of the tertiary industry enterprises.

Yang Mo, who had just returned from Texas last night, didn't care about whether Eggplant Girl stayed or left. The next morning, he limped on the bus to Qingfeng Food in Shuanglin Village, and occupied their meeting room without any hesitation.

As the administrative department made a series of emergency calls, in just one hour, the heads of more than 30 units, led by the Fifth Farm, Xialiu Marketing Agency, and Laoliu Chicken Breeding Institute, rushed over, and the not-so-small conference room was suddenly packed.

Outsiders have no idea what was discussed in this meeting, which lasted nearly seven hours.

The only thing we know is that after the heads of these units returned, they hurriedly gathered the heads of their own personnel departments and the more trustworthy old employees from various departments together, and secretly discussed the matter behind closed doors for a whole day;

Then, the departments that were originally gossiping and napping, preparing to lazily welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival, suddenly became a mess...

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June 1.

The Little New Year in the south has just passed, and there are still 5 days until New Year's Eve.

After more than half a year, more than 500 franchisees from the three provinces in the Central Plains and Tianjin once again rushed to Linyi County.

The only difference from last time was that last time they went to Shuanglin Village, but this time the gathering place became Linyi County’s First State-owned Winery.

There was no way. Qingfeng Food had no habit of holding meetings, nor did it have the desire to hold meetings, so the conference room over there could not accommodate so many people. Yang Mo was unwilling to borrow the drilling company's conference hall during this delicate period of transition between the old and the new, so the only venue he could choose was in the county.

Fortunately, although the First State-owned Brewery does not cover a large area, it has a very large auditorium because it held a general staff meeting every year. Not to mention that there are only more than 500 people, even if twice as many are seated, they can still accommodate them.

Logically speaking, the "small meeting" with dozens of people that just ended the day before yesterday took seven hours. This time there are more than 500 participants, so it should take at least three days and two nights.

However, unexpectedly, the meeting ended in less than five hours.

Just like the impression from half a year ago, Yang Mo still acted very tough in front of these franchisees, basically with an attitude of "I talk, you listen; if you have something to say, just keep it to yourself and don't talk nonsense to me."

In fact, this was obviously not an annual meeting. Yang Mo finished speaking in less than two and a half hours. If these people were not so confused and surrounded him after he finished speaking, repeatedly asking him to answer some questions, they might even have been able to buy train tickets back that day.

So there was no other choice but Yang Mo had to reluctantly extend the meeting by nearly half the time to answer all the franchisees' questions.

Of course, he only chose to answer the questions that he thought should be answered, and ignored the questions that he thought did not need to be answered or should not be answered... The identity gap between state-owned enterprises and private enterprises in different eras was vividly revealed at this moment. If it were in the future, how could these franchisees be so servile?

But in fact, it was not that Yang Mo was arrogant, but that he did it on purpose.

As an old VC, he knows the nature of these white gloves and grassroots entrepreneurs very well. The more assertive and impatient you appear, the more in awe they will be of you and the more they will pay attention to what you say at the meeting. If you are polite and patient, they will become suspicious... Maybe in a few days, all kinds of outrageous and irrelevant "rumors" will be known to everyone.

Besides, unlike other people, these franchisees are not good people in the traditional sense. At most, they are not bad enough to be put in jail. Over the past six months, Drilling Company No. 1 has helped these people avoid many misfortunes. Yang Mo has also made these 500-plus guys earn a lot of money. No matter from which perspective, Yang Mo does not need to be polite to them at all.

After Yang Mo's operation, the effect is obvious.

Although there were still many people who looked confused after the meeting, more people had strange expressions with excitement and greed in their eyes.

As a result, not only was it hard to find a room at the Linyi County Hotel that night, but the phone in the Xiaoge sales department was almost blown up...

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June 1.

Although there are still two days until New Year's Eve, it is the last day of work for Drilling Company No. 1 before the New Year.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, as the bell rang for the end of get off work in the office area...

Wang Yinuo has finally officially stepped down.

Facing countless people's sincere or insincere farewells, Wang Yinuo smiled and shook hands with them one by one, and then politely declined the farewell banquet they held for him.

Just when everyone thought that the old man who officially became the "former general manager" would pack his luggage overnight, sit in his study and sigh and reminisce all night, and then quietly wait for the team members to knock on the door the next morning;
Somewhat surprisingly, Wang Yinuo walked into Yang Mo's yard that night again, carrying a bottle of Qibao Daqu, whose liquor might have leaked out.

No one knows what the old and young couple, whose relationship has undergone several changes in the past year, said over the gas stove.

The only thing outsiders knew was that when Wang Yinuo boarded the Crown car that the company's small fleet had prepared for him early the next morning, he was not at all exhausted, and there was no trace of desolation or dejection between his brows...

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Yang Mo, who had been awakened from bed at nearly nine o'clock because of the strange-tasting Qibao Daqu, was stunned for a moment after learning from his little apprentice that Wang Yinuo had passed away. Then he stretched and moved the boxes of company benefits and gifts in the house to the rusty tricycle together with his little apprentice.

The year of Ji Si will soon become a thing of the past, and we will talk about the year of Wu Chen after the holiday.

Now...

He is going home to celebrate the New Year~!

(End of this chapter)