1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 406 Mr. Yang, are you free tomorrow?

(In a harmonious society, daily life is king)

Although the project hearing ended without any major problems and the final result was relatively satisfactory, Tugou was still a little unhappy.

"Meng Meng, I suddenly feel so useless. I have prepared carefully for so many days, studied so much information, and when I got to the site, I was very focused and explained to the leaders for nearly three hours, but in the end, it was not as useful as the three minutes your master said on the phone."

Tugou picked up a large piece of fried pancake with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth with a bit of frustration. Then he picked up the beer bottle and clinked it with Bai Mengmeng's, then gulped down one-fifth of it.

Feeling a little depressed, she originally wanted to call Yang Mo out for a drink, but when she thought that a certain Yang Shitan might be eating and watching TV with his fiancée in their spare time after get off work, she gave up the idea.

Fortunately, Yang Shidan still has a little apprentice, and this little apprentice has a very good relationship with her. He is also the only person of the same sex she can chat with besides her own sister Mu. Therefore, she did not hesitate to ask Bai Mengmeng out to listen to her complaints in exchange for a bowl of fried cakes and three bottles of beer.

At this time, Bai Mengmeng was speechlessly fiddling with the bowl of fried pancakes in front of him, which was no different from a small bowl, and sighed with some fatigue.

The future mistress of my dream was very much to my liking in every aspect, except for one thing... this sister was a little too rough!

Sister, you are the quality control manager of Qingfeng Food, a consultant for N companies, and the person in charge of several projects, okay?
Not to mention anything else, the dozen or so job subsidies plus the monthly project bonuses alone would not be a small amount.

Are you short of money?

But you, on the other hand, are either wearing flat leather shoes and professional attire provided by the company, or an old-fashioned floral shirt that you bought in who knows which summer.

Although she knew that this sister had just left the countryside last year, and the rural areas of Qilu have never been very particular about clothing.

but……

You are a young girl after all, and it is really too careless to dress like this!

It’s a waste of your face that becomes more beautiful the more you look at it, and it’s a waste of your figure that is quite curvy.

Covered with such old-fashioned clothes, the 90-point fairy instantly turned into a country girl!

and also.

Your monthly salary now adds up to more than four times of mine. It's a rare opportunity for you to have some free time in the evening so we can get together, pamper ourselves, and have a good meal. There shouldn't be any problem, right?

But the result is good,

A huge amount of fried pancakes for 40 cents, plus three bottles of free beer that I won when I participated in the event...

I said, sister, I know that you people from Qi and Lu are not particular about food, and I also know that you are used to being frugal.

But, calling someone out and treating them to 4 cents fried pancakes... isn't that too shabby! ?
No wonder you lived under the same roof with your master for almost a year, but in the end the eldest daughter of the Mu family got there first.

Hey ~
Throwing aside the random thoughts in his head, Bai Mengmeng languidly picked up two small pieces of fried cakes that were as tough as cowhide and put them in his mouth to chew vigorously, then said vaguely: "Sister Lu... do you know what my master has scolded me the most recently?"

Seeing Yang Mo's seemingly irrelevant answer, Tugou classmate was used to it, and curled his lips: "It's nothing more than scolding me for not having a broad vision, lacking global thinking, not having solid basic skills, not having self-consistent underlying logic, lacking the ability to draw inferences from one instance to another, blah blah blah... Yang Shidan kept repeating these, wasn't I scolded all the way in the beginning?"

Bai Mengmeng suddenly felt like he had found a kindred spirit, and he wished he could join Tugou in denouncing his own master, who had a bad temper, cursed people all the time, and used very unpleasant words... You teach so many things, most of which I have never encountered before, and the standards are very high. How can it be so easy to meet the requirements of my own master in an instant?

This is clearly asking too much!

However, Lu Yingying could complain about her childhood friend, but she couldn't say bad things about her master. She could only hang her head and said in a muffled voice, "Although my master still finds fault with these aspects from time to time, in recent times, what he has scolded me the most is that I lack the ability to understand the essential needs of various groups."

Insight into the essential needs of various groups?
Classmate Tugou looked at Bai Mengmeng, who had two panda eyes in front of him, with some surprise.

This word sounds similar to consumer insight or market insight, but Tugou can clearly feel the slight difference.

Seeing this, Bai Mengmeng shrugged slightly. "Although I think Master is talking nonsense, and although I have lived in the Tongren compound for ten years, and there is an old man next door who keeps muttering something, I am just a girl in my early twenties after all, and I have never paid attention to this before... This kind of insight that requires life experience and precipitation is not so easy to cultivate."

After complaining for a few sentences, Bai Mengmeng finally sighed: "Although I can only be regarded as a layman in this area, I have been scolded by my master many times after all, so I still understand some basic logic."

After a slight pause, Bai Mengmeng looked at Lu Yingying seriously: "Sister Lu, do you know why you worked so hard to explain your views for three hours this afternoon, but the effect is not as good as my master's three minutes on the phone?"

Tugou pouted: "Why else? He has become successful now! I am just an ordinary employee. I don't have as much face as him in front of the leader, and my words don't carry as much weight."

Bai Mengmeng glanced at Tugou's face, which looked like she didn't know whether it was depressed or proud, and immediately chuckled: "Sister Lu, are you being modest or showing off?"

"Who doesn't know now that you are my master's childhood friend and the person my master trusts the most?"

"Even if we don't consider your fame in those villages, and your name which is even more famous than my master's... as the saying goes, you should look at the face of the Buddha instead of the monk. Even if your weight in front of those leaders is not as important as my master's, but with the relationship between you two, they will never regard you as a small soldier!"

Bai Mengmeng looked at Tugou with some envy, "You have to know that not everyone is qualified to be the person in charge of such a large project as a rural grassroots chain drugstore, and not everyone's project is qualified for the local competent authority to hold a project hearing specifically for you."

Upon hearing this, Tugou smiled awkwardly, then hung his head in frustration: "But so what? I almost messed it up anyway."

Bai Mengmeng sighed: "So, this is the problem."

"Sister Lu, you focused on the situation of the project itself when explaining and communicating with the leaders. This is a standard technical/execution perspective;"

“Although my master didn’t say much on the phone, he focused on the other party’s needs and touched upon the essence of cooperation.”

"So, Sister Lu, although you talked for three hours, you were always rubbing at the periphery of people's itchy spots; and although my master didn't say much, he always touched on the areas that people were concerned about;"

"So you understand, put yourself in your shoes. If I were your boss, I would not be interested in what you said. No matter how professional you are, you can't impress me... This has nothing to do with whether you are important enough or not. It's just that we are not on the same page!"

"I'm going to say something you don't want to hear. People know that you have a special relationship with my master, and Executive Ye is there to help calm the situation. If it were anyone else, I would have kicked him out long ago!"

Can't get on the same line?

Tugou was a little unhappy: "But they started by arguing about the actual clinical efficacy of generic drugs. They have formally asked about it. If I don't answer these questions from a technical perspective, how else can I answer them?"

"Also, what I said is indeed correct. Although the efficacy of generic drugs cannot be comparable to that of original drugs for the time being, and it is very likely that they will never be comparable to those mature original drugs, as long as we can strengthen production management and R&D investment, the gap between the two will indeed gradually narrow..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Bai Mengmeng: "Stop, stop, stop!"

Seeing Tugou staring at him with dissatisfaction, Bai Mengmeng's face was full of helplessness: "Sister Lu, I don't understand the pharmaceutical industry, and I don't know whether what you said is true or false... I believe that many of the leaders attending the hearing today are in the same situation as me."

"But that's not important."

"In fact, if I put myself in your shoes, I'm not interested in what you're saying either."

As he spoke, Bai Mengmeng picked up the beer bottle and clinked it with Tugou's. After taking a big gulp, he sighed with satisfaction: "Sister Lu, you have always been responsible for the specific execution, and my master has protected you very well, so there are some things you may not understand."

"Let me put it this way. When a manager reaches a certain level and starts to manage the entire project, he or she does not care whether the execution logic of a project is feasible, nor does he or she care about the technical principles of the project, nor does he or she care where those professional terms were learned from, or whether those theories have sample support."

"They only care about two things..."

“First, will this project fail?

“Second, can we get enough benefits from this project?”

At this point, Bai Mengmeng took two more slices of fried cakes and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing vigorously. "Regarding the first point, with my master's impressive record, few people would think that Sister Lu's rural grassroots drugstore project would fail... Dahua Company has such a strong financial foundation, Sister Lu and President Yan have such a good mass base in rural areas, and with my master in charge, if this project can fail again, it would be God's fault!"

"So, from the beginning to the end, this project hearing was not aimed at whether the project would be successful... In fact, the project hearing is not a project discussion meeting or a project research meeting. Its focus is not on this, but more on social impact and other issues... If you understand the meaning of various meeting names, you will know that you have deviated from the topic from the beginning!"

Tugou, who learned the difference for the first time, finally realized it and shouted in disbelief: "Mengmeng, are you saying that... Director Liu has been focusing on the clinical effects of generic drugs from the beginning, but it's actually just a cover?"

Bai Mengmeng spread his hands: "That should be the case... Didn't you say that he is one of the main persons in charge of the relevant work? Even if he may not understand the details of the pharmaceutical industry, he should have many knowledgeable professionals under him. After doing the relevant preparations, how could he be so unprofessional as to argue with you on those well-known basic issues?"

Upon hearing this, Tugou couldn't help but twitch his mouth, and a stronger feeling of frustration rose from his heart.

She originally thought that other people didn't know much about the business, so she took the trouble to educate them on various industry knowledge, and even wanted to try to convince them by using technical improvement plans.

As a result... I'm afraid that my three hours of hard work will be seen as a monkey show by others, right?

Thinking of this, she asked back with some difficulty: "But since Director Liu is likely to understand these things, why does he insist on sticking to this one? If he really didn't like this project, he wouldn't have talked to me about the dissolution curve for so long. At the meeting, he would have just brought up the disintegration of some generic drugs, wouldn't that be enough?"

Bai Mengmeng looked at her speechlessly.

Although she knew that most people in Qi and Lu were of this "one is one, two is two" temperament, and she also knew that it would be easy to get stuck in that small field of vision after being responsible for too many specific tasks, she still did not expect that the other party had not come around yet.

Big sister, you are my master’s childhood friend. It is normal for this kind of situation to happen to other people, but it shouldn’t happen to you!
Thinking of this, Bai Mengmeng could only sigh again: "Sister Lu, means are means, and goals are goals... I'm not stupid, why do I have to block all the retreat routes right from the start?"

"Everyone has a scale in their heart. Who would be willing to do something that can only offend others but not gain any benefits?"

"Didn't you see that Executive Ye and the others were sitting there quietly, listening to the discussion between you and Director Liu... Isn't this obvious?"

At this point, Bai Mengmeng knocked on the table earnestly and said, "Sister Lu, both my master and my father have said... after reaching a certain level, the karma you carry will no longer allow you to do things as you please... at this level, considering the overall situation, and without crossing the red line, appropriate compromise is always the mainstream way of working."

"So this is why Executive Ye never interrupted, and Director Liu kept emphasizing the various technical difficulties and gaps to set up obstacles, but never got to the point... He was waiting for you to take the initiative to show an attitude of compromise!"

"Master often said that we should learn to look at problems from a perspective beyond the things themselves..."

"For Sister Lu, the rural grassroots chain project may just be a medical project that can benefit the grassroots people in the rural areas; but for the leaders who need to consider the overall situation, it also involves a large number of employees of small and medium-sized pharmaceutical companies, as well as the retention and aftermath of divested assets;"

"In this world, if one party benefits, another party must suffer... As the saying goes, both sides are equally important. Although there are many problems with small and medium-sized pharmaceutical companies, those in charge of the overall situation cannot act based on personal preferences. It is impossible for them to watch the second child starve to death just to keep the third child healthy, right?"

At the end, Bai Mengmeng concluded: "In fact, this is what Director Liu wants to get at this project hearing, and it is also what Executive Ye wants you, Sister Lu, to take the initiative to compromise and negotiate with Director Liu... They hope that you can take the initiative to propose the resettlement and compensation plans given by these small and medium-sized pharmaceutical companies after the business divestiture and reorganization... This has nothing to do with personal factors, it is purely a matter of position, and you can't say that others are wrong based on your personal emotional preferences."

"So, Sister Lu, now you know why my master only spent three minutes on the phone talking about three ideas for improvement plans, and the project hearing ended perfectly, right?"

"This has nothing to do with my master's current influence. It is purely a compensation plan that he gave, which just happens to make up for the losses and collateral effects caused by those pharmaceutical companies during the restructuring process!"

Although Bai Mengmeng didn't say a lot of obscure things, Tugou has already understood them, but she still can't accept it: "But the conditions given by Yangshidan are too good. Not only will they help arrange 2700 re-employment positions, but they also promise to convert the divested non-performing assets into township-level pharmaceutical and food raw material processing capacity as much as possible... Others don't know, but you don't know the price you need to pay? Saying that it can just make up for the losses in the city, isn't it a bit too much of a stretch?"

Capacity transfer like this is not as simple as moving machinery and equipment to a new place and then building a new factory. It also involves roads, water and electricity, upstream and downstream industrial supporting facilities, technology transfer and other links.

It can be said that with the current level of public resource allocation, even with administrative power to mediate, the various infrastructure and surrounding investments needed to transfer one ton of pharmaceutical raw material production capacity to the grassroots level in rural areas can even build a new pharmaceutical factory three times the size in the city. The cost is not small... and it is obvious that due to the two-tier PPP cooperation model that Yang Mo has been promoting in rural areas, the expected returns that Dahua Company, as the main investor, can obtain are far less than their efforts. It is definitely an extremely unprofitable business.

Bai Mengmeng rolled her eyes: "Reluctantly? Look at what you said, Sister Lu."

"As the middle node of the pharmaceutical industry, how many of the original upstream raw material suppliers can survive in the market competition after the pharmaceutical companies are divested and reorganized and lose their stable major customers?"

"Do you think that after the reorganization of these pharmaceutical companies, without the support of the market base, how many small suppliers in the food, beverage, clothing, fruit and vegetable, and electrical appliance industries can survive for more than two years?"

"As for the original distributors and sales agencies of these pharmaceutical companies, they have also been greatly affected and their lives will not be easy."

"So think about it, is this just a matter of pharmaceutical factory reorganization? This involves the life and death of a large number of upstream and downstream companies and small tertiary industry companies. The cost is huge!"

"If my master doesn't provide enough macro-value compensation from other places, even if the city wants to support this rural drugstore chain project, it will never dare to make such a big move at such a delicate moment!"

"In fact, to a certain extent, the DZ city authorities are under greater pressure. To say that the amount can just make up for the city's losses is still an ideal situation. If those companies that used to rely on these small and medium-sized pharmaceutical factories for their livelihoods don't work harder, the city will still suffer a small loss!"

Tugou took a breath with some pain in his teeth: "These units...are they so disappointing?"

Bai Mengmeng sneered, "Sister Lu, you used to work mainly at Qingfeng Food. After being transferred to Dezhou, you worked with President Yan and others every day. The lowest-ranking units you came into contact with were just the tertiary production units under Dahua Company, so it's normal for you to have high standards."

"Let me put it this way. Although most of the subordinate tertiary industry units in Dongying have very poor business performance, the vast majority of employees in these tertiary industry units are temporary workers. They still have at least some sense of crisis. Even if they are worse, they are not too bad. "

"However, these companies in the city that rely on small and medium-sized pharmaceutical factories for their livelihood... haha, that's really like a hopeless case;"

"Believe me, with your temper, Sister Lu, if you had the opportunity to visit those companies to inspect their production workshops and management levels, your blood pressure would definitely soar to 180 out of anger!"

Tugou's mouth trembled, and he was somewhat suspicious whether Yangshitan's little apprentice was fooling him. There were already enough problems within the tertiary industry units under Dahua Company. What he meant was... those small units in DZ city were performing even worse than those tertiary industry units?
Although the unit is a bit small, they are all regular employees.
This, this, this is unlikely, right?
However, thinking of what Zhuo Mali had said before to him about speaking up for Dahua Company, somehow, Tugou vaguely believed it.

After a long silence, Tugou stuffed a large chopstick of fried pancake into his mouth with a depressed look: "Sure enough, a stupid girl like me who came from the countryside has too narrow horizons. I only know how to judge others by my own experience. Not only do I know nothing about the leaders' thoughts, I also have no idea about the situation in the units outside."

Hearing Lu Yingying's self-pitying and negative tone, Bai Mengmeng suddenly panicked. It has been almost half a year since they knew each other. Naturally, she vaguely realized that this "former future teacher's wife" who came from the countryside and only had a small technical secondary school education, although she looked carefree, has actually always been a little inferior about her academic qualifications.

In fact, this cannot be entirely blamed on classmate Tugou. After all, Yang Mo, who came from the same village, behaved like a monster. The people around Yang Mo who were valued were either old hands who had been in the society for decades, or university graduates with amazing performances... Among them, she and Sun Jian had the lowest academic qualifications, but Sun Jian had extremely rich life experience after all. As for her, apart from the fact that she and Yang Mo were childhood friends, she thought that there was nothing worth mentioning about her.

Especially not long ago, Zhuo Mali and her legal and compliance department joined in strongly and became Yang Mo's strategic partners in one fell swoop, which made Tugou feel inferior... Compared with Zhuo Mali, who graduated from a prestigious university, is proficient in laws and regulations, and is familiar with various social rules, she is really a stupid girl who knows nothing.

And obviously, today's defeat was still a very mild one, which further deepened her inferiority complex... If it weren't for Executive Ye and Yang Mo to save the situation, she would have almost messed up everything. Later she found out that she was not even as good as the little apprentice who helped Yang Mo run errands all day.

This scared Bai Mengmeng a lot. She knew very well how important Tugou was in her master's eyes. If she really made this heartless sister depressed, her master would skin her alive.

But she didn't know how to comfort Lu Yingying. After all, due to her background and education, her knowledge and breadth of vision in all aspects were indeed somewhat different from those of the backbones around Yang Mo.

If we really talk about it in detail, the only three things worth mentioning about this sister are her attitude of not fearing hardship or fatigue, her warm heart with a hint of idealism, and the unique affinity brought about by her heartless feeling.

But these things are indeed very eye-catching advantages for ordinary employees or grassroots cadres, but now her master has asked Lu Yingying to try to be in charge of the project, so if she talks about these things as advantages, it would not be a compliment, but an insult!

Therefore, Bai Mengmeng really didn't know how to comfort Tugou. After scratching her head anxiously for a long time, she finally blurted out: "Well, Sister Lu, this is not your fault... It's my master who cares too much about you and protects you too well."

"If he is willing to exploit you as much as he does me, and force you to write all kinds of messy summaries and analyses all day long, believe me, you will definitely be much better than a poor little apprentice like me!"

At the end, Bai Mengmeng couldn't think of how to comfort her, so she blurted out, "Besides, Sister Lu, you don't have to be too fussy about this kind of thing, right?"

"Take Minister Zhuo who joined the group not long ago as an example... What if he has a good family background, graduated from a prestigious university, and is good at dealing with people? Didn't he still get scolded by my master many times?"

"My master is not the kind of person who can't distinguish between public and private. The reason why he has never scolded you, Sister Lu, at work is definitely not just because you are childhood friends, but there must be something shining in you that he values ​​but outsiders don't see... Didn't you see that Executive Ye is also very kind to you? He may not really need to give my master face. Even powerful people like them look at you differently, Sister Lu, you must have something unique about you that we rookies can't see!"

The last sentence is quite convincing. After all, as a general manager, Ye Tao, who is far superior to Yang Mo in terms of rank and power, can give face to this young man, but he doesn't need to give face to the people around Yang Mo. Therefore, the friendly attitude and tolerance that Ye Tao showed towards Tugou today can indeed indirectly explain some problems.

After receiving Bai Mengmeng's comfort, Tugou's mood finally cheered up a little.

That's right, that bastard Yangshidan is not so far as to confuse public and private matters. Since he agreed to start the rural grassroots chain pharmacy project and the purple candy project in one breath, it means that he still recognizes my ability.

hum~
Although I am not qualified to be compared with Sister Mu, nor do I want to compete with Sister Mu,

but……

Zhuomari?
I can't let that old woman look down on me!

Thinking of Zhuo Mali's style of doing things, Tugou felt a strong sense of rejection for no reason. Although he knew that Yang Mo must have his own considerations in hiring this old woman, he still didn't want this woman to look down on her.

No, Comrade Lu Yingying, you haven't completed all the tasks assigned to you by that bastard Yang Shidan yet. You can't just give up like that.

The remaining work must be done beautifully.

If that old woman still dares to come up with some bad ideas beside me and put on that stinky face of "I am better than you, you should listen to me"...

hum,

I will definitely slap her in the face when the time comes!
………………

However, classmate Tugou, who gradually recovered her energy and spirit by diverting hatred, probably did not expect that she was thinking of relying on her unremitting efforts to defeat an old woman whose values ​​and methods of doing things were completely different from hers.

However, a certain old woman was also trying hard to catch up with Yang Mo in terms of closeness.

So, the next day, after Yang Mo finished reviewing a table full of documents, he just wanted to stretch his body, then fish for ten minutes, and wait for the wonderful weekend after get off work...

buckle buckle~
Zhuo Mali, wearing a light blue dress, appeared at the door: "Boss Yang, are you free tomorrow?"

(End of this chapter)