1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 344 From the perspective of a villain, everyone in the world is a villain

The northern region has never been known for its nighttime economy. Even in later times, there are many places where no one can be seen on the streets after eight or nine o'clock in the evening.

Although there are certain objective factors involved, Yang Mo feels that this is very bad.

Time, space, and actual disposable income of residents are the three core elements of the terminal economy. Business/consumption time has suddenly been reduced by half or even more. How can economic vitality be maintained?

And you have to admit that the activity of the night economy is, to a certain extent, parabolicly related to the local social security.

In other words, when the night economy is extremely lacking, the overall public security situation will be relatively good;
With the initial development of the nighttime economy, the overall public security situation will face huge challenges;

But once the night economy becomes more prosperous, the overall public security situation will improve again...even better than when there was no night economy.

This is more of a function of humanistic relations rather than a simple function of economic relations; the quality of public security conditions basically depends on the degree of attention the competent authorities pay to such issues in the area.

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"My cousin, bring some wine;"

"My cousin, bring some wine;"

"My cousin has to drink it whether he likes it or not;"

"Cousin, you have to drink it whether you like it or not..."

Cheerful southwestern folk songs came from a large speaker with a bit of heavy noise.

With a large bonfire lit in a sand pit in the middle of the leisure square, and a large circle of people holding hands and taking simple but interesting dance steps,
In the warm spring breeze, for a moment, it is hard to tell whether this is the dull and boring northwest Shandong, or the bright and sunny southern Yunnan thousands of miles away.

"Old driver, please take me with you. I'm eighteen years old!"

"Old driver, please take me with you. I want to go to the provincial capital!"

"There are so many cars going to Kunming, why did you stop me halfway?"

"Arili~Arili~Ari Alili~"

Watching the magical rhythm of this song with modified lyrics based on the "clean version", several young couples were pulled into the team with red faces by the dancers. The crowd standing nearby and watching suddenly laughed, but there were expressions of hesitation and expectation on their faces, as if they also wanted to join in and dance.

Looking at the group of middle-aged women leading the dance, Tugou turned his head in dissatisfaction: "Hey, Yangshidan, why don't you give us the venue to sing Bangzi tonight... Do you know that hundreds of performance teams have found us and want to borrow our venue to perform, and they are all voluntary and free!"

Entertainment activities are still scarce these days. With the number of people willing to pay to hire people to sing gradually decreasing in recent years, the regular troupes are still okay, but those spontaneously organized folk performance teams are having a hard time... Most of these people are fans of Qilu Bangzi, and it doesn't matter whether they can make money or not, but except during the Spring Festival, they have no chance to sing in public, which is really a suffering.

Yang Mo, who was chewing a roasted sweet potato, rolled his eyes when he heard this: "Big sister, since the official opening of Commercial Street 1, haven't those performance teams had enough of the daytime performances? The daytime is occupied by those performance teams, so at least the Southwest family members should come out to have some fun at night!"

In order to quickly attract popularity, Yang Mo followed the model of Lijiang Ancient Town and invited a group of performance teams, students from art schools, and folk singing enthusiasts to take turns singing in different areas and in front of different stores... From 10:30 in the morning to 5:30 in the afternoon, the singing and chanting on Commercial Street 1 never stopped.

It turns out that Chinese people like excitement. This entertainment activity, which is not much different from PK, quickly attracted a large number of residents who heard about it in just one week.
Therefore, nowadays, apart from the presence of a group of tourists "following the songs", the businesses of various merchants are also quite crowded.

Hearing what Yang Mo said, Tugou grumbled angrily, but did not make any more arguments.

Of course, she knew that the night economy was dominated by young people, and she also knew that compared to Qilu Bangzi, young people preferred pop songs and southwestern folk songs with magical lyrics and rhythm.

And what Yang Mo said was right. Whether it was Momo Baizha, Momo Baichao, or the Southwest family members of other departments, the work pressure in the past year was not small... Especially those store managers, what they did had already far exceeded their job responsibilities.

People are not machines. It is not a good idea to keep them tense all year round. In addition to the big red envelopes every month, letting them come here to act as lead dancers and have fun after closing the store is also a choice that kills two birds with one stone.

Thinking of this, Tugou put his head next to a stall, showed his work ID to the stall owner, picked up a mackerel and sniffed it, and after finding that there was no peculiar smell, he smiled and said a few words to the stall owner, and then walked leisurely to the next stall.

In order to fully revitalize the popularity and make the Commercial District 1 a landmark of DZ City, Yang Mo specially marked out a small street not far from the leisure square for private vendors who meet the conditions to set up stalls at night, which can be regarded as a supplement to the business types on Commercial Street 1.

However, these days, counterfeit and shoddy products have gradually become a major problem in the domestic consumer market. Even the soles of leather shoes sold at a certain commodity trade exhibition can be torn apart with a slight force. This shows the quality problems of many commodities circulating on the market today.

In most cases, if you want to control traffic, you must have products and services that can retain customers. Therefore, in the current market environment, ensuring the quality of the goods on sale has become a key issue for commercial demonstration areas.

In this regard, Tugou, who has been working as the quality control manager at Qingfeng Food for a year, is undoubtedly one of the most suitable candidates.

She and her subordinates are often on the front line and have extensive experience in identifying food ingredients. They can tell whether the ingredients are fresh or not, and whether they contain certain chemical additives that are not allowed to be used. They can tell with just one look and a sniff.

Therefore, under the instruction of Yang Mo, Tugou, who already held several positions in new companies, was once again appointed as the "Deputy Director of Night Market Product Quality Inspection in the Commercial Demonstration Zone". Together with four other deputy directors, he was responsible for supervising the quality of goods in various stalls in the night market... Each deputy director was in charge of quality supervision of different types of goods, and Tugou was responsible for food quality supervision.

"Hey, Yang Shidan, can you please apply to the competent authority to change these street lights to white lights? This row of yellow lights has seriously affected my work efficiency!"

Lu Yingying pouted and looked at the yellow street lamp: "I am so unlucky. After being dragged here by you, I have to do a lot of things during the day, and I have no free time at night. I have to spend an hour or two helping you patrol... I don't ask you to find your conscience and help me relieve some of the burden, but you can at least help me apply to replace the street lamp with white light!?"

It is obvious that Tugou is dissatisfied with the yellow light because it affects her visual judgment, greatly reduces her work efficiency and prevents her from finishing work early.

Seeing her unhappy look, Yang Mo laughed, "Sure, not only can you apply to switch to white light, you can also apply to delay the lights-off time... You can even try to apply to extend the length of the street lights from here to the main urban area. It's not impossible... After all, commercial district 1 has already started nighttime commercial activities, and there are many people coming. The competent authorities will surely consider it as appropriate."

"Huh!? You can try to apply to increase the length of the streetlights...really!?"

When Tugou heard this, he was immediately surprised.

Due to the particularity of the times, safety work is naturally the core of all current work.

To this end, the commercial demonstration zone even recruited more than 200 transferred soldiers from the Fifth Farm and Texas, set up four security patrol teams, and patrolled everywhere 4 hours a day.

In addition, more than two months ago, Yang Mo, in the name of Dahua Company, donated a large number of relief supplies including dual-use materials for police and civilians to the police station in the north of the city.

Perhaps out of the mentality of returning a favor, not too many surprises, the commercial demonstration zone also successfully applied for 12 police booths scattered throughout the area.

However, maintaining public security at night is different from that during the day. Even if there are sufficient manpower, there are still many hidden dangers if there is a lack of light.

Therefore, if we can really apply for street lights on the road leading to the main urban area and have sufficient manpower, we cannot say that all the security risks in the commercial demonstration area can be eliminated, but at least 99% of them can be solved... Apart from anything else, at least, people's self-discipline in many things is completely different in a bright environment and in a dark environment.

Seeing this guy's face full of joy, without any impatience just now, Yang Mo rolled his eyes and said, "How can I deceive you? Since the trial operation of the first commercial area, the opinions of the competent authorities on us have changed again and again; and after more than a week of official opening, as the investment promotion results have been continuously expanded, the attitude of the competent authorities towards us has become even more intimate... It's just adding a section of street lights, a trivial matter. As long as we report it, they will naturally not be so stingy."

At this point, Yang Mo changed the subject: "But Comrade Tugou, you are also a young lady who will soon be 22 years old. As the quality control manager of Qingfeng Food, the deputy manager of the investment promotion company, and the senior consultant of the marketing department of the park comprehensive management company... You should learn to solve these small matters by yourself!"

"Hehe, I'm so busy right now that I can't get away. You can't count on me for everything."

Lu Yingying was immediately discouraged when she heard this: "I, I will apply for it myself?"

Like most people from Qi and Lu, this girl is very aggressive when dealing with other things. No matter how big a boss you are or how powerful a local tyrant you are, she dares to confront you, with an attitude of "come and fight me if you don't agree".

However, once she has to face the supervisory unit, this girl becomes timid... If the other party is just a grassroots clerk, it would be fine. But once the other party is a small leader, even if the other party actually has a request to her, this girl will still speak very carefully, completely lacking her former majesty.

In fact, unlike in later generations, in this era, if the corresponding urban planning is not made at the beginning, it is not an easy task to temporarily coordinate a street light.

Therefore, in the current situation, if Yang Mo were to say many things, it would be nothing more than a matter of a word; but if the following people were to do it, it would definitely be a daunting task.

Think about it, this girl, who normally feels inferior to even the junior officials in her supervisory unit, is now asked to meet with higher-level leaders to ask for something as troublesome as adding more street lights. It would be strange if she didn't get depressed.

However, she has recently sensed that Yang Mo seems to want her to develop in an all-round way. Not only did he let her take the initiative to participate in investment promotion work, he also arranged for her to frequently contact investors from all over the country and, regardless of whether she was willing or not, he insisted on getting her involved in the daily management of the commercial demonstration zone... According to that bastard, the work at Qingfeng Food is no longer challenging for her, and it is time to step out of her comfort zone and learn and train on a larger platform.

Obviously, deliberately increasing the frequency and level of contact with the competent authorities of DZ City is an important part of the "exercise" in this guy's design.

Hum~!

You are not related to me, why do you plan my life?

Ever since Yang Mo and Miss Mu's "informal official announcement", Tugou, who has been feeling a little confused, thought so.

However, she is not a person who takes other people's kindness for granted. With the commercial demonstration zone, which is a gradually taking shape, there are so many people who want to connect and deal with the leaders of the DZ city's competent authorities. How could she not know the benefits of this?
Therefore, no matter how difficult it was, this task that Yang Mo threw at him as a prank was a precious opportunity that countless people were eager to get.

So, Tugou, whose legs went weak at the thought of meeting the leader, thought hesitantly for a long time before nodding and agreeing reluctantly.

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"Hey, Yang Shidan, you've been eating all this time, why do you still look so stinky? ... Are you still upset about the failure of the investment project for the edible rose planting base?"

After greeting a group of security patrolmen with weapons, Lu Yingying packed up the half-eaten roasted chicken rack and retaliated by exposing the scars of this bastard. This bastard seemed to be able to hide anything from her, so she knew everything that Hu Rong and Yang Mo talked about the night before.

This morning, as expected, the 3,000-acre Pingyin rose planting project that was about to be signed fell through. Boss Hu left Texas with his secretary and reportedly took a train to the northeast.

As the only close person to Yang Mo, Lu Yingying certainly knows how significant the edible rose planting project is... This is Yang Mo's only agricultural project outside of "Lu Shiwei" that takes both medicine and food into consideration and plans to connect upstream and downstream industries.

The 3,000-acre planting base is actually just the first phase. If the plan goes according to plan, the province's estimated planting area for this project alone will not be less than 40,000 acres in five years, and the number of employees in various related links will not be less than 300,000.

Therefore, seeing that the 1300 million first-phase investment that was about to be received was gone, and this project that seemed extremely unreliable to outsiders had no one interested in it, it would be strange if the usually invincible Yang Mo was not frustrated.

Seeing this woman exposing his scars, Yang Mo slapped her on the head in anger: "Isn't that nonsense? Do you think 1300 million is a small sum these days? It's ok for those people to not know the value of gold and jade, but I can't tell anyone about the real vision and planning of this project."

"The unfortunate thing is that I have now lost the right to allocate funds to Dahua Company, and the book funds of Qingfeng Food and Laoliu Chicken Breeding Institute have more important uses... As the investment promotion work progresses, the funds we can use for planning and control are getting less and less, and now we can't even invest in this project ourselves;"

"This is just... a pile of shit!"

Any qualified trader needs to give priority to his own base; and the "Lu Shiwei" plan proposed as early as last year is undoubtedly the most critical base in Yang Mo's plan... and it is a basic base that must be built as soon as the project is established.

Therefore, while enforcing the requirement that these authentic medicinal materials must be grown in accordance with GAP standards and simultaneously establishing the corresponding preparation, storage, transportation, and primary processing links and facilities, the account funds of Yang Mo's direct units have been flowing out non-stop... There is no way, Yang Mo must hold corresponding shares in these related projects so as not to derail future plans.

But unlike these basic projects that are born with moats, the Pingyin rose planting project itself does not have any barriers before it has completely formed scale advantages and technological advantages... Projects that do not have natural moat attributes naturally cannot be included in the scope of basic projects worth looking forward to.

Therefore, the commercial realization plan and usage scenario of edible roses were kept top secret in the early stage. Once it was revealed in the investment invitation documents, the Chinese people would immediately bypass Yang Mo and start a project that was exactly the same but without so many additional conditions.

It is well known that Chinese people are enthusiastic about following trends. Once these contents spread, the edible rose market will be completely disrupted in all kinds of chaos in five years at most.

There is no way. Without leading companies to take the lead in formulating industry standards and play an anchoring role, the market will inevitably enter a barbaric and disorderly state in the process of two-way low-quality coupling, and will eventually be out of control.

In this type of industry without geographical or technological barriers, information related to commercial monetization is absolutely confidential. Therefore, for Yang Mo, who has seen too many projects that obviously have great potential but ultimately ended in dismal failure, he would rather delay the project for a few years before starting it again than ruin this market.

Seeing Yang Mo swearing, Tugou touched his head in dissatisfaction, but he did not elbow him hard on the arm like he did before.

"Hey, Yang Shidan, even if this project is only the first phase, it can at least help more than a dozen villages get out of poverty. With the leverage effect, the scope of influence can definitely be expanded six or seven times... This is a project that can indirectly affect tens of thousands of people. We can't just leave it alone."

Yang Mo smiled bitterly and said, "I know the driving effect of this kind of industrial-agricultural integration project. But the problem is... a good cook cannot cook without rice!"

After shrugged, Yang Mo glanced at the corner of the square in the distance, where a few young people were encouraged to sing. "It's obviously impossible to get money from Dahua Company's account now... As for the drilling company, even if Mr. Wang doesn't target me, there is basically not much money in the account there. The company's various expenses are locked up there, so it's not realistic to ask them to inject capital through a backdoor listing."

Hearing this, Lu Yingying laughed with glee.

Whether it is the Drilling Company or Dahua Company, they both look like giants to outsiders, especially the Drilling Company... Last year, they made many big moves, investing hundreds of millions of dollars at a time, and they were so rich that everyone in the company could use the money to wipe their asses.

But who would have thought that this state-owned enterprise, which was famous for its wealth, was actually just an empty shell with a bright appearance after injecting capital into the joint venture of Dahua Company. Without affecting the normal operation of the company, the drilling company at this time might not even be able to squeeze out 5 million yuan.

Seeing Yang Mo glaring at him fiercely, Tugou laughed even more happily.

It was not until Yang Mo raised his palm like a knife and wanted to hit the guy on the head again that Lu Yingying stopped laughing.

"I remember someone said the day before yesterday, 'From the perspective of a gentleman, everyone in the world is a gentleman; from the perspective of a villain, everyone in the world is a villain.' In his words, he was disdainful of Mr. Hu who thought money was everything.

"But look at the shit you look like today. You look almost the same as Mr. Hu... How dare you laugh at him!"

There was contempt in Tugou's eyes, but his expression showed great pride.

Yang Mo's forehead darkened: "Stinky girl, what do you mean by that?"

Lu Yingying curled her lips: "It's nothing, I just want to tell you... you have been away from the masses for too long!"

Yang Mo didn't hesitate at all, and chopped the guy's head with a knife: "What nonsense do you say? What does this have to do with me being out of touch with the masses? "

Tugou blocked Yang Mo's knife with a light push, and said in an even more smug tone: "How is it not related? You still have the nerve to laugh at that guy named Hu... Who told you that you have to pay for everything in this world?"

Yang Mo was stunned: "What does this mean?"

Tugou curled his lips and said, "I just want to tell you that you, who stay in the office all day without going out, really underestimate our mass base!"

After Yang Mo carefully savored this sentence, he looked at the girl in disbelief: "You mean...?"

Tugou pushed Yang Mo's hand aside and said smugly, "That's right. What I mean is, as long as Section Chief Yang says something, and with the help of General Manager Yan and Manager Sun, this 1300-acre edible rose planting base project doesn't even need the million, and it can still be started."

"How can it be!?"

Yang Mo, who understood the implication of Tugou's words, shouted subconsciously.

"How is it impossible?"

Tugou looked disdainful: "You are from the village, but have you forgotten that in the past, as long as the town called, the girls and aunts in the village would bring their sewing machines and small stools to the factory in the town that had nothing but a house to sew clothes?"

"We farmers are very honest. As long as they trust you and you really do good for them, they will not hesitate to flatten their vegetable fields to plant roses or even flatten their houses to build factories if you ask them to do so!"

Tugou's words brought back Yang Mo's almost forgotten memories.

From the 1970s to the early 1980s, many township enterprises, which were essentially production brigades, operated in this way.

People of all ages in the village would bring their own production tools, tables, chairs and benches, and even their own lunch to the designated factory to work, and then earn corresponding work points and remuneration. They would not ask for a penny for anything else.

In the eyes of foreigners, this is an incredible miracle.

Apart from China, no other country's factories can operate with such low labor costs, or even without paying most of the production costs.

In fact, it was precisely because of such low overall costs that township enterprises were able to make a name for themselves in the early 1970s and 1980s. Even official scholars could not deny the important contribution of township enterprises during this period.

However, as time went by, ordinary people became less and less trustful of those factory managers and less and less interested in this model of organizing production. Ultimately, this model of organizing production basically withdrew from the stage of history.

But fundamentally, this is not just because the people's efforts and gains are not proportional, but more importantly... they feel that most factory managers are not worth their willing efforts.

However, under the system of drilling company + Xialiu Sales Agency, this problem has been greatly reversed.

Although the people at that time were not well educated, they were not fools and they could tell how others treated them.

Although the drilling company has always been known for its willfulness, it is indeed sincere to the one hundred villages; with real cases as reference, and the heartwarming operations of the Xialiu Sales Agency in the past six months, as long as Yang Mo gives an order... it cannot be said that 100% of the villages will do it, but at least more than half of them are willing to use their own land and manpower to organize large-scale production again.

It just so happens that edible roses, like roses, have a high survival rate. Although they cannot bloom all year round like roses, as long as the transplanting work is done well and the timing is controlled correctly, it is really easy to make them bloom in the same year... Of course, a high yield is unlikely, but it is always a relatively good harvest.

It will take only three or four months to bear fruit, and then turn into real benefits to feed back to the people. There will certainly not be various headaches in the future as in history.

In other words, if Yang Mo's monetization plan can really work, this project can be regarded as a model of positive value cycle.

Recalling the scenes when adults came with all kinds of production materials to participate in a series of organized production when he was a child, Yang Mo hesitated.

Using one's own mass base to buy start-up funds seems...

Might it work?
But he calmed down immediately: "Girl, although the land and manpower can be reduced by organizing production, you know that this project covers many industries and involves the introduction of many high-tech equipment... Those equipment are really not cheap. Even if we have the basic means of production, without these equipment, the project cannot be started."

Lu Yingying sneered: "I thought it was some kind of difficult problem, but after all this fuss, it's actually this?"

As he spoke, Tugou crossed his arms across his chest in a rather arrogant manner: "Yangshidan, have you forgotten how the extremely poor Xialiu Sales Agency had been promoting their projects that were cut short by the times step by step?"

"I say the same thing, Yang Shidan, you should go out more often... We rural people are indeed poor, but most of us are not so poor that we can't even take out a few dozen dollars, okay!?"

“As for whether it violates regulations or not…have you forgotten the two-tier PPP model you developed?”

Eh! ?

Xialiu Sales Agency? ?

Thinking back to his internship experience at the drilling company, Yang Mo suddenly had an epiphany!
(End of this chapter)