1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 365 Central Land (2)

Since the name contains the word "fusion", the implication is self-evident.

In general, although due to their operating mechanisms and practical problems, it is impossible for the two sides to become true "family", no matter what, since each side provides the other side with the possibility of a curve for progress and someone has a say internally, as long as the integration of the central government and local governments/local governments and enterprises is well promoted, it can indeed reduce and avoid many conflicts and contradictions.

It’s a pity that although the idea is good, the weaker party does not have much qualifications to marry the stronger party.

Before 94, it was easy for the competent authorities to carry out "local enterprise integration" with local state-owned enterprises, but it was not so easy to carry out "central-local integration" with central enterprises.
However, this situation gradually reversed after 94, and it became difficult for central enterprises to integrate with local authorities.

It’s nothing, the strength has just been reversed.

However, the situation in Dongying is quite different from that in most other areas. From the moment the city was established, the integration between the central and local governments has never been smooth...even though the command center had actually begun to actively seek this integration several years ago.

The reason is actually not complicated.

Although the city of Dongying relied on its oil resources and its command center to grow from a small village into a prefecture-level city in just 20 years,
However, since the local relationship between workers and peasants was not handled properly from the very beginning, the grievances between the two sides became increasingly serious.

Think about it, for a city that has been built from scratch in twenty years, where would the main members of the system team and executive grassroots come from?
Then most of them must be locals!

When the entire local system, from top to bottom, all have resistance and rejection towards the command, and even most of the local residents are prejudiced against the command, with this kind of mass base, do you think they will be willing to seek integration with you?

Dream on you!

Therefore, when this kind of emotion forms an ecological culture, it will be of no avail even if you change the leaders in Dongying... The squad leader and deputy squad leader are not omnipotent, they must also take care of the feelings of the local system. Without the support of the local system, many tasks will remain on paper!
Otherwise, why do you think Yang Mo visited Ye Tao, the executive, first, instead of Dezhou's monitor and deputy monitor?

In short, under this deep-rooted exclusion, the central-local integration work on the command center's side is extremely difficult.

Dongying does exchange some people from time to time to get some positions and qualifications, but the command center wanted to exchange some cadres to work locally, but basically all of them were rejected... Even if they agreed reluctantly, they were arranged to some insignificant departments.

But in contrast, Dongying has shown great enthusiasm in promoting "central-local cooperation."

However, this kind of "cooperation" is more like a one-sided attack on the rich than cooperation.

In short, as long as Dongying is short of money, they will come here immediately, and this situation will not change even in later generations.

It is precisely because of this that the Dongying Command has become a joke that everyone in the entire oil system can make fun of. Some people who are unhappy with them even privately call them the "pigsty"... Although all units in the entire oil system are facing difficulties and challenges in local worker-peasant relations, the Dongying Command is indeed unique in being so passive.

But there is nothing we can do about it. What caused the past is what caused the future. Who made the headquarters too arrogant and not handle the relationship between local workers and peasants seriously from the beginning?

Decades of accumulated grievances would be useless even if the king of heaven came.

Therefore, the east and west urban areas of the city are like two unrelated worlds. In later generations, even a Didi order would be unacceptable in the West City District, and the oil field workers who had no cars could only use the "Dongying Travel" APP to leave the city without charge. Once you understand the reasons, you will no longer care about it.

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However, what Yang Mo couldn't understand was that although people from Dongying often came to "beg for alms", and the amount of alms they begged was always not small, but as far as he knew, they only took a few hundred or tens of millions at most each time. In previous years, the total for the whole year had just exceeded nine figures. Why did they want to take so much in one go this year?

Even though this year is known as "Welcoming the Asian Games" and even though Dongying is one of the torch relay points, this shouldn't happen, right?

Hearing Yang Mo's question, Mu Siyuan smiled bitterly: "Because the country intends to implement tax-sharing reform... Although we are only talking to Guangzhou now and want them to be a pilot, the attitude at the work meeting not long ago was very clear that this reform is imperative... Therefore, Dongying does not have so many concerns."

Yang Mo suddenly understood... So that's it!
The tax-sharing reform was proposed at a work conference in 1990 and officially implemented in 1994. Although the root cause of the reform was that the court could no longer bear the increasingly heavy financial burden, in practical terms, it is definitely the most important watershed after the reform and opening up, and overall, it has played a very positive role.

Of course, for local authorities, the emergence of the tax-sharing system not only meant a reduction in the proportion of transfer payments from the court, requiring them to be more self-reliant in developing the economy, but also meant a subtle change in their identity.

If the local competent authorities before the implementation of the tax-sharing reform were the heads of departments directly under the headquarters, then after the implementation of the tax-sharing reform, they had to embark on the path of corporatization. In fact, in a sense, they were more like the general managers and professional managers of each subsidiary.

Since the status and rules have changed, face is naturally not that important. People will not be polite to the stupid sons of landlords and will try to get as much as possible.

Although this transformation is a gradual process and many regions did not undergo a complete transformation until after the millennium, Dongying is not like other regions. Decades of accumulated grievances, once they sensed a change in the wind direction, they immediately became rude.

Looking at Yang Mo in deep thought, Mu Siyuan sighed: "Come to think of it, I'm actually quite envious of Drilling Company 1."

"Although you are a foreign company from the southwest, and have faced serious challenges in the local worker-peasant relationship over the past decade, at least you are not as entangled as we are, and Linyi is only a county, not a prefecture-level city."

"More importantly, last year, before you even smelled the wind, you took the initiative to attack, and through a package of large-scale central-local cooperation projects, you greatly eased the relationship with the people of Linyi County and the competent authorities, and achieved central-local integration in another form, becoming one in the other;"

"More importantly, you took the initiative at the beginning of this year and tried to have in-depth cooperation with DZ City. Although everyone later realized that you were trying to bypass us and open up a second battlefield for Dahua Company's initiative, it must be said that with the success of the commercial demonstration zone, you and Drilling Company No. 1 have established an excellent relationship foundation with the competent authorities of DZ City... Seeing that the tax-sharing reform will be officially implemented in a few years, your drilling company has taken the lead in this area!"

As he spoke, Mu Siyuan gave him a complicated look: "Sometimes I wonder if you guys are just lucky and hit it by accident? Or do you, Xiaomo, have the ability to predict the future... or do you have any special information channels?"

No matter what the matter is, timing is important.

If the news that the country intends to implement the tax-sharing reform is officially confirmed, companies like the Drilling Company and Dahua Company, which are willing to spend a lot of money to actively seek cooperation with local authorities, will certainly win the local welcome, but that is just a welcome... No one is a fool, and everyone knows what your purpose is. Both parties come together for the sake of interests, and the most you can get in return is a respectful attitude.

But the situation is different for Yang Mo, who took the initiative to invest huge sums of money to cooperate with the competent authorities of Linyi and Dezhou before the news was confirmed.

During this economic winter when local authorities are struggling, if you spare no effort to actively approach and cooperate without any written requirements from the top, it will be very easy to gain the favor of the authorities... Adding icing on the cake will never be as valuable as giving timely help, right?
What's more, whether in Linyi or Dezhou, not only did Yang Mo make a lot of noise, but his demands on the other party were not excessive... At least compared to the final gains of the local authorities, Yang Mo's demands were not excessive, and even seemed too conservative to many people afterwards.

How could such outstanding results, coupled with the approach of not taking advantage of others' misfortunes, not win the favor or even gratitude of the local authorities?

In China, from individuals to systems, and even cities, everyone has to consider personality, image, human relationships, and cause and effect.

Whether out of considerations of interests or out of considerations of personality and emotions, it is conceivable that the competent authorities of these two places will give the green light to Yang Mo and Drilling Company No. 1 for a considerable period of time in the future. As long as the other party has any requests, they will try their best to meet them without violating the rules... and may even take the initiative to help him with some work.

This is derived from China's unique political wisdom. It may not be related to direct interests, but it must be based on long-term comprehensive considerations.

Therefore, when the emergency occurred, Mu Siyuan and others, who had never experienced the importance of local worker-peasant relations so personally, briefly reviewed the situation in their minds, and their perception of Yang Mo had indeed changed significantly.

Whether it was a blind cat catching a dead mouse, or there was another information channel, or he really had extraordinary insight; in short, compared with this young man, all the cadres who were in charge of the work of the headquarters' relations between workers and peasants should be pulled out and whipped ninety-nine and eighty-one times! Thinking of this, Mu Siyuan sighed: "In short, today's meeting was noisy, and everyone was panicked by this sudden change; but the only good thing is... No matter whether your special allocation next year will be greatly reduced, at least in the case of Dahua Company, Dongying will no longer point fingers at you."

After comforting himself in a happy mood, Mu Siyuan laughed, "Xiao Mo, you know, at today's meeting, someone even suggested moving the headquarters to Texas."

"Although this is nonsense and totally unrealistic... it shows that Dahua's position in the headquarters has undergone a subtle change."

Yang Mo understood the meaning of the song and pondered for a moment: "Uncle Mu, what can I do?"

Mu Siyuan looked at him quietly for a while, and suddenly said, "Xiao Mo, how many flexible employment quotas do you have left?"

Yang Mo frowned subconsciously, but still did not hide it: "There are about 3.2 more... Those projects have gradually started to build factories and training, and the roster is being built very quickly."

Hearing that the flexible employment quota had decreased by more than 3.2 in just less than half a month, Mu Siyuan raised his eyebrows with some distress, and then said in a negotiating tone: "Xiao Mo, can the remaining employment quotas be transferred to Dongying?"

After that, he explained, "After what happened in Dongying, the headquarters will be extremely short of funds in the future. If Dahua's special allocation is sharply reduced next year or even in the next five years, I am very worried that the diversion of suspended employees will not be carried out smoothly... Instead of this, it is better to use these more than 30,000 flexible employment indicators to increase the intensity of reducing staff and increasing efficiency this year... In this way, the pressure of diversion work in the next few years will be much less."

This was a good calculation. After all, up to now, the employment quota that Dongying had obtained from Dahua Company had exceeded 1. When Mu Siyuan went to Texas last time, Yang Mo allocated another 1.5 to him. Add to that the 3.2 that Yang Mo had not yet allocated, and the total was 5.7.

Although it is still a little short of this year's target of 7 employees...

But don't forget that the drilling company has also been allocated nearly 10,000 employment indicators. These indicators are of no use to them as they already have a labor shortage. Instead of giving them to other units as favors, it would be better to ask the command center to pay some benefits and transfer these indicators to them - in this way, this year's task will be basically completed.

Besides, Yang Mo is not the only one who can create jobs in Dahua Company. There are nearly a hundred projects that are currently being reorganized and launched. Even if other people can't make such a big fuss like Yang Mo, and not all projects can be successful, but when added together, creating tens or even hundreds of thousands of new jobs should not be a big problem, right?
Of course, more importantly...

It is only May now, and the year is not even halfway through. Yang Mo has already returned to the position of vice president. It is impossible for this guy to do nothing for the next six months, right?
So in Mu Siyuan's imagination, if he could gain some support at the meeting later and everything went as he wished, the employment target that Dongying could get should be around 100,000.

This will not only help us exceed this year's target, but will also greatly reduce the difficulty of the diversion work next year and the year after... You know, according to the original plan, although 7 employees need to be diverted in the first year, only will be needed in the second year, and only will be needed the year after, and then it will remain the same every year.

Therefore, for him, the first two years are the key to life and death. As long as he can successfully solve the problem of employee diversion in the first two years, it will basically be a success... With a number of projects in Dahua Company snowballing and so much money invested, it is impossible that after two years, it will not even be able to create 3 jobs, right?
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Yang Mo naturally understood the thoughts of his future father-in-law. From his own perspective, Mu Siyuan's request was not excessive.

After all, Dahua Company’s main funding comes from the command center, or more precisely, from the efforts of Mu Siyuan and others.

If Mu Siyuan cannot keep his position, it will undoubtedly be unrealistic for Dahua Company to be allocated special funds in the future, and it may even be directly revoked or reorganized.

If we can't even keep the capital and Dahua Company is gone, then there is no point in having so many flexible employment indicators in our hands.

But after thinking about it, Yang Mo slowly shook his head: "Uncle Mu, no, these indicators for the first half of the year cannot be transferred to you!"

Mu Siyuan frowned and looked at him with some dissatisfaction.

My intention of calling you into the study today was obvious enough. The two of us are about to become father-in-law and son-in-law and become a family, but my father-in-law is in big trouble and you, as his son-in-law, still don't offer to help?
Then why do I need you as my son-in-law?

Seeing this, Yang Mo smiled bitterly: "Uncle Mu, it's really not that I'm stingy, nor that I don't want to help you, but these employment indicators... really can't be transferred to you!"

"Uncle Mu must have dealt with local authorities before, so he should know their mentality... In a place like Dezhou where there are already a large number of unemployed workers and the surrounding villagers have relatively low incomes, taking back the employment quotas that were originally promised to be evenly distributed to local residents will make them angry... After all, you also know that in old industrial areas like Dezhou and Lanling, the authorities also need these employment quotas to carry out their work."

"It would be fine if we didn't reach a consensus at the beginning. They just felt a little embarrassed. But when I visited Executive Ye last time, I had already promised him this matter to win some support from the competent authorities in DZ City. If I go back on my word now, not only will the two sides immediately fall out, but it will be difficult for Dahua Company to get strong support from local competent authorities in the future."

At this point, Yang Mo looked at Mu Siyuan very seriously: "Uncle Mu, you also know that Dahua Company is the headquarters' greatest hope for completing the work of employee diversion. It is not worth it to put Dahua Company in jeopardy for temporary difficulties... And don't forget that the situation in the Bear Country is getting worse and worse, and some people in the country are also uneasy. Under such circumstances, maintaining stability is the top priority of the competent authorities in various places. Once we do this, the rebound in Texas will definitely exceed our imagination!"

Mu Siyuan naturally knew what he was talking about, and naturally knew how the competent authorities in Texas would use these employment indicators to carry out their work. He nodded with a gloomy face.

As Yang Mo said, drinking poison to quench thirst is indeed not advisable.

Seeing this, Yang Mo breathed a sigh of relief. Just when he was about to do some ideological work on his future father-in-law and tell him that even if he didn't transfer the 30,000-plus employment quota, he was confident that he could complete the task in Dongying as planned this year or even the next two years,
But Mu Siyuan was silent for a while, then he sighed: "Since the quota cannot be transferred, there is no other way... I can only try to see if there is another way."

Yang Mo was stunned: "Uncle Mu, what solutions have you come up with?"

Seeing that Mu Siyuan was not furious and did not argue about the flexible employment indicators, Yang Mo breathed a sigh of relief and nodded. This was the right way to go.

In a place like the command center, and as a high-ranking deputy-department-level cadre, how could he possibly pin all his hopes on a young boy like me?
These old foxes never pin their hopes on things they cannot fully control!

Mu Siyuan glanced at him and smiled slightly: "In fact, the method I figured out is just a stupid method."

"When it comes to dividing the spoils, there has to be a share of the dirty stuff... This year, the command center obviously can't avoid this wave, but what about next year?"

next year?

Yang Mo vaguely sensed something.

Mu Siyuan leaned back gently and said, "Next year, we can find a legitimate reason to make the headquarters' account empty... Even if Dongying is overbearing, it's impossible for us to sell our property!"

Yang Mo heard this and thought about it in confusion: "But the headquarters' annual benefits are amazing. If we want to spend so much money on the books in a fair and just way, and at the same time give a reason that can keep Dongying under control... it's not that easy, right?"

Mu Siyuan nodded: "It's indeed not easy, but it's not without chance."

As he spoke, the old fox groaned for a moment: "Actually, this is also an important reason why I called you into the study today... Xiao Mo, do you know the [Gudong No. 1] we made two years ago?"

Lone Island Joint Station No. 1?

It was two years ago, in 1988, that the headquarters built the largest oil, gas, and water comprehensive processing station in the country, which was said to have an annual oil processing capacity of 700 million tons?

Suddenly, Wang Yinuo's petrochemical industrial park that ended in failure appeared in his mind. Yang Mo was shocked and immediately understood why his future father-in-law invited him to his study...

(End of this chapter)