1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 410 The Focus of the Next Plan
Perhaps because he met a lot of friends at once today and had a lot of topics to talk about, when Yang Mo returned to Texas, it was almost nine o'clock in the evening.

After nodding with a smile to a team of patrol security personnel who greeted him, Yang Mo took out money from his pocket, bought two bottles of Eight Treasure Tea from the night market stall, and then casually handed one to his side.

Miss Mu took the Eight Treasures Tea and looked at him with a smile: "It's rare to see you so happy. It seems that the three gifts that Sister Zhuo gave you today made you very satisfied?"

Yang Mo took a sip of the Eight Treasure Tea, which tasted a bit like reduced-sugar Wang Lao Ji, and hummed softly, "It's really a waste of talent for our Sister Zhuo to let her be the director of the Legal and Compliance Department... With her insight and worldly wisdom, she is more than qualified to be a general assistant!"

Miss Mu looked at Yang Mo in surprise. She didn't expect that this guy would think so highly of Zhuo Mali. She looked at him with amusement: "I know that the three gifts Sister Zhuo gave you today were carefully prepared. It is indeed quite skillful to be able to match you with so many valuable resources in just one day. But if you think you can be the general assistant just because of this... Yang Mo, are you used to working alone and have some misunderstandings about the power of people like us?"

At this point, Miss Mu straightened her body somewhat proudly: "Yes, I admit that Sister Zhuo's network of contacts is indeed more extensive than those of me, Luoluo, and Brother Song, especially in terms of direct access to resources outside the system, the efficiency gap is even more obvious... but that's all."

"To be frank, if we are willing, we can also connect you with the same resources, although the speed may not be as fast... To be honest, the resources that Sister Zhuo helps you connect with are just some middle and lower-level resources in various systems. Compared with Executive Ye, your little apprentice's father, and even Executive He of Linyi County, they are not at the same level. As long as someone introduces you, it won't be difficult at all."

"The reason why we never mentioned this to you before is because we all know that you don't like to be involved in karma. In addition, your ability and the resources of Dahua Company are enough to deal with those things. There is no need for us to show off in front of you;"

"But if you really need it..."

"Heh, is it difficult to find connections and resources of that level?"

Seeing Mu Liya's jealous look, Yang Mo couldn't help laughing.

Of course he knew why Miss Mu was jealous.

Unlike a secretary, from the perspective of business management alone, the general manager's assistant can definitely be considered one of the top three heavyweights in an organization, and is often even regarded as the second-in-command in the business.

From a probabilistic perspective, there is perhaps a 10% to 20% chance that the general manager of a company is a business idiot, but the chance that the assistant general manager is a business idiot is pitifully low.

Therefore, being considered "qualified to be a general assistant" is often a high recognition of a person's business ability.

This made Miss Mu feel very aggrieved.

She had learned a lot from Yang Mo, and she thought her work ability was not bad, but Yang Mo had never praised her like this from beginning to end.

As the two gradually walked into the dimly lit residential area, Yang Mo naturally held Miss Mu's hand, and then gently touched her: "Although the three gifts that Sister Zhuo sent today are quite surprising to me, I don't look at her differently just because of this;"

"I know that you young masters and young ladies are not short of connections and resources. And don't forget that we still have the great secretary Xiang Hui by our side. If we really talk about the quality of resources, our comrade Zhuo Mali may not be up to par!"

Miss Mu was used to this fellow taking advantage of her, so she didn't pull her hand away, but glared at him unhappily: "If it's not because of this, then why do you look at Sister Zhuo differently?"

Yang Mo smiled meaningfully: "Our sister Zhuo's insight is extraordinary. Without anyone telling her, she was able to guess my intentions based on the little information I revealed during the phone call at the project hearing. Then she matched me with three sets of mid- to short-term plans that I would most likely use... With such a shrewd performance, it's not an exaggeration to say that she is qualified to be a general assistant, right?"

Have you guessed about this bastard's intentions?
Miss Mu was startled, and immediately stopped, looking at Yang Mo in disbelief: "You mean, Sister Zhuo roughly guessed what you were going to do next... This is unlikely, right?"

Of course she knew that Yang Mo was not referring to the rural grassroots chain drugstore project. Anyone with a little social experience knows that this kind of project is slow to start and has an incredibly long sedimentation period. Even with the coordination and support of the DZ city's competent authorities, it would take at least one or two years to start the second phase of work... And Yang Mo now has a lot of projects on his hands, and there are more than one or two projects that are larger in scale and more strategically important than the chain drugstore project. Therefore, Yang Mo's next plan has nothing to do with this chain drugstore.

Yang Mo shrugged: "Although it sounds incredible, it is true."

After looking around and finding no one in the alley, Yang Mo let go of Miss Mu's hand, then tightened his left hand and hugged her surprisingly elastic waist as she struggled: "Didn't you notice that the two groups of friends that our sister Zhuo took the initiative to introduce to us earlier were clearly related to the future development of rural grassroots chain drugstores, but the third group of friends suddenly became irrelevant?"

Miss Mu blushed and slapped the weird hand on her waist. When she found that it had no effect at all, she glanced around the empty alley guiltily. Finally, she could only pinch Yang Mo resignedly and leaned half on the jerk's shoulder: "The third wave of friends? Well... To be honest, Sister Zhuo actually introduced a few friends from the media industry. It really surprised me."

That’s right, the friend that Zhuo Mali finally recommended to Yang Mo was neither from the administrative system nor from the local state-owned enterprise system, but from the media system.

Logically speaking, both the drilling company and Dahua Company have no shortage of connections in the media industry, and even Xiang Hui can help contact a large number of authoritative media, but Zhuo Mali still recommended her friends in the media to Yang Mo.

However, what surprised Miss Mu was that the friends recommended by Zhuo Mali were not the main persons in charge at the level of president or station director who Yang Mo needed to pay special attention to, but just some editors-in-chief and directors who he often dealt with in daily work.

Although if it is a provincial-level media, the editor-in-chief and director are already very important connections that cannot be underestimated, but unfortunately, among the friends recommended by Zhuo Mali, except for one who is the deputy director of the program department of Qilu TV (more of a producer, the producer system was not gradually introduced until 1993), the rest are all from local media.

Ok……

Some people may not understand why Miss Mu was surprised.

Let's put it this way, even without mentioning the drilling company, as early as the stage when Mo Mo Bai Zha emerged as a sudden force, Yang Mo's people began to establish very good relations with local media, and were once the darlings of major local media; as early as that time, people like the editor-in-chief of the Texas Daily and the director of the advertising department of Texas TV were very good friends.

Please remember that even at that time, the people responsible for connecting with these editors-in-chief/directors were mainly deputy general managers of drilling companies affiliated with them, such as Qingfeng Food.

In principle, state-owned enterprises of this size, such as the Drilling Company and Dahua Company, will not have direct contact with executive management personnel such as editors-in-chief/directors. Even if there is a need for publicity or public relations, the department responsible for the relationship between workers and farmers will connect with the business supervisors/directors of these media, or through the leaders of the relevant business departments of the local competent units.
In other words, at present, the editors-in-chief/directors of these non-provincial media are actually at the end of information reception when facing large state-owned enterprises... This may make some people in later generations find it incredible, but it is indeed the case at the moment.

Think about it, even a year ago, Yang Mo could talk directly to these people, or even their superiors, when necessary, let alone now?

Therefore, Miss Mu really didn't understand why Zhuo Mali would recommend her local media friends who were editors-in-chief to Yang Mo, and Yang Mo actually readily agreed.

Yang Mo smiled as he felt the elasticity on his hand: "Are you surprised? Actually, I am also surprised...Our Sister Zhuo is very knowledgeable!"

Mu Liya gritted her teeth and patted the unbalanced hand on her waist: "How do you know the rules?"

Yang Mo chuckled twice: "Our sister Zhuo really understands the principle that the county magistrate is not as good as the current manager. Her understanding of the saying that details determine success or failure is much deeper than most people;"

"Given the current domestic situation, if she introduces me to a bunch of station directors, deputy station directors, presidents and vice presidents, I will be very disappointed in her. But if she introduces me to a bunch of editors-in-chief and deputy directors who are obviously carefully selected, I can't help but look up to her."

Mu Liya frowned: "What do you mean...?"

Yang Mo shrugged: "Haven't you already reacted?"

"The media industry is a typical one where content is king. The quality of a program directly determines its ratings and popularity. The popularity of an article is also directly related to the effectiveness of some things."

"The quality of these contents that will be presented to the public ultimately depends on the writing skills of these editors... and how much effort they are willing to spend on polishing the article."

"So, at some critical moments, whether an article is written to comply with the leader's orders or written with all their enthusiasm, the difference is huge!"

Mu Liya understood immediately, and recalled the article "The Negotiation Is Not Peaceful, but the Disease Is Happy" which was still under the glass of Yang Mo's desk. She nodded with deep feeling: "So, Sister Zhuo does see things more thoroughly than most people... She is a typical detail-oriented person."

She actually wanted to say "pragmatist" originally, but thought that this evaluation was not really a good word at the moment, so she changed it abruptly.

Yang Mo laughed when he heard this: "If you are just good at focusing on details and only care about practicality, then it's actually nothing... There are not many other things in the system, are there not enough people who are good at delving into the system?"

"The reason why I give such a high evaluation to our sister Zhuo is that, in addition to the fact that she has a deeper understanding of the underlying logic of society than most people today, the most important thing is... her predictive sensitivity is indeed somewhat beyond my expectations."

"If one's knowledge of the ways of the world and the underlying logic of society can be gradually improved through life experience, then this kind of predictive sensitivity can be completely regarded as a gift from God... It would be a waste if such a person didn't become a general assistant!"

Predictive sensitivity?
Miss Mu was a little stunned. She didn't know how this arrogant jerk could make such an evaluation.

Seeing this, Yang Mo chuckled and said, "Thinking back on what happened today, guess why our Sister Zhuo didn't invite all the friends she recommended to talk to me one by one after I accepted her gift, but insisted on making a big mess and then inviting them all at once at the end?"

Mu Liya was stunned. This was indeed a very unreasonable place. People's concentration is limited. It is easy to talk about one topic in depth and get results. But if several unrelated people get together, apart from laughing and making each other familiar, it is unlikely that they can talk about anything really valuable.

After thinking for a while, she said hesitantly, "Maybe Sister Zhuo feels that you are not too satisfied with her performance in legal work, but she is in urgent need of an opportunity to achieve results, so she adopted this method that can both make you face up to her value and not make her a disposable prop... In the final analysis, she still hopes that you can use her as a hub and let her activate and use these network resources in subsequent work."

Miss Mu’s guess cannot be said to be unreasonable. Just like many platform companies in later generations, although the customers in the hands of the salesmen are mainly signed with them because the company itself has cooperation value, if there is a choice, no salesman is willing to hand over his or her customers to the company.

Yang Mo smiled and nodded: "I have considered this aspect, but I don't think it is the most important thing."

Isn't it the most important?
Miss Mu looked at Yang Mo with some surprise.

A strange arc appeared on Yang Mo's lips: "Student Yaer, didn't you realize that our sister Zhuo's initial approach was to help me solve the potential risks of the rural grassroots chain drugstore project in the future as much as possible?"

“Whether it is the agency qualifications of future drugs, the actual cost control of some distribution channels, or the improvement of future clinical effects and quality of drugs, this is true.”

Miss Mu glanced at him and said, "Isn't this normal? Everyone knows how important Sister Yingying is to you. It's not easy to get close to a powerful person like you. So, using a roundabout strategy and using Sister Yingying as a springboard to do you a favor is undoubtedly the most appropriate and the most effective way to gain your favor."

"To be honest, there are quite a few people who can tell from this rare opportunity to get close to you... It's only because Sister Zhuo was quick that she asked you out on Saturday after the news came out on Friday night. Otherwise, if you still stayed in the house today, do you think there would be more than one or two people who would come to your door and try to relieve your troubles by various means?"

Miss Mu's words are not YY. If you have watched "Blue Porcelain" starring Wang Zhiwen and Zhang Guoli, or the original novel of this TV series, you will know that no matter what era it is, as long as your status and weight reach a certain level, the concentration of your social resources will soar at a rate of nearly 90 degrees. There are too many people, whether you know them or not, who are trying their best to get close to you. And a slightly heartbreaking fact is that in terms of understanding people's hearts and scheming to solve problems, those who have resources in the system are really not at the same level as ordinary people. Just as Miss Mu said, although the methods of solving problems given by those who come to her door may not be the same as Zhuo Mali, the actual effect will definitely not be worse than this peach, and it may even be better.

Therefore, the reason why Zhuomali shamelessly invited Yang Mo to the Spring City more than 100 kilometers away was nominally to invite Yang Mo to taste the ancient tree Pu'er tea brewed with the water of Black Tiger Spring, but in fact it was to block her "competitor".

Yang Mo, who came from a common family, might not be very clear about this common method, but people from a family like Miss Mu knew it very well.

Yang Mo, who had never thought of himself as being so great, heard the hint from Miss Mu and was stunned at first, then he smiled bitterly and shrugged his shoulders in the end: "Well, I didn't know I was so fragrant... But it doesn't matter. After all, Sister Zhuo is the one your father asked me to take care of. It's not hard to accept that someone who is close to you gets the upper hand."

After making fun of himself, Yang Mo sighed, "Okay, back to the point. In my opinion, the reason why our Sister Zhuo didn't call all her friends over was not to retain the right to coerce resources in the future, but to test my interest so that she could adjust the resource recommendation plan immediately... If I'm not mistaken, Sister Zhuo must have prepared a lot of friends, but the opportunities were limited. Before she could clearly judge my actual needs, she didn't know which friends to recommend to me."

Mu Liya laughed when she heard this: "That's not surprising. As the saying goes, things never happen more than three times. If it were me, I wouldn't be so rash and make random moves when facing an important person who needs to be won over with all my strength. "

"The first gift Sister Zhuo gives you is the convenience of channels in the future. This is the most reliable and least scarce stepping stone. After all, as long as you do a little research on the pharmaceutical industry, you will understand that if rural grassroots chain drug stores want to derive industrial barriers in the future, it is inevitable to enter the CXO track. And it is not difficult to help you in these links... Many people can help you do it."

"Although the second gift chose the EPC synthesis method and chiral catalyst, which are still in the research stage, as the entry point, it is indeed a bit surprising to me, but in terms of direction, it is not out of the common scope... To forge iron, you must be strong yourself. Dahua Company has no shortage of funds, mass base, and administrative resources. It is even trying to build its own sales channels. The only important link that can obviously restrict future development is the drug itself."

"But if it were someone else, I guess the gift they gave would be either approval resources from the medical and health sector, or help us gain a certain amount of shares and voice in the restructuring of those pharmaceutical companies, or help us make connections and get us a few production lines or GMP equipment with advanced production technology guidance from Europe and the United States... But a self-sourced gift like the one Sister Zhuo gave is really risky. The expected threshold in the medium and long term may be very high, but the risk is also very high."

At this point, Mu Liya looked at Yang Mo teasingly and smiled: "I have to say, although Sister Zhuo has not known you for a long time, her judgment of you is still very accurate...you gambler!"

Yang Mo laughed: "Yes, I am a gambler, and our Sister Zhuo is also a gambler...but her mind is much more delicate than that of a rough man like me."

"After discovering that the first gift was only worth 60 points at most and that I didn't really care about it, our Sister Zhuo raised the stakes without hesitation and gave me a gift that was beyond everyone's expectations... and she made the right bet."

"But up to this point, my evaluation of her is actually only 80 points... After all, as you said, some things have a fixed framework. The strategic development intention of the rural grassroots chain drugstore project is no secret to her, and there are only a few key points in this project. The second gift she gave is nothing more than a little more to my taste. From the perspective of direction, it still does not deviate from the fixed scope you mentioned... In the final analysis, she is still a gift giver who knows how to understand people's hearts."

As he spoke, Yang Mo took out a Yuxi cigarette from his pocket with his free right hand and lit it, then sighed softly: "However, the third gift given by this old sister really made me look at her in a new light."

After a slight pause, Yang Mo turned his head and said, "Did you notice a detail today..."

"After I showed my strong interest in EPC synthesis and chiral catalyst research, it stands to reason that our sister Zhuo, once she was sure that this gift was finally the right one, should immediately strike while the iron is hot and invite those friends that her husband had coaxed back to China to come over and have a good chat with me;"

"Then, based on the detailed discussions I have with those people, I will decide whether the third gift needs to be a technological upgrade or whether we need to find a breakthrough elsewhere."

"But she didn't!"

With a meaningful smile on his face, Yang Mo, with a cigarette between his lips, looked like a gangster from a distance: "After confirming that my enthusiasm for EPC synthesis technology and chiral catalysts was not false, our sister Zhuo first told me a long story about her husband, then sighed for a long time, and then gave me the third gift... that is, her friends in the media."

Mu Liya stretched out her little hand, waved away the green smoke in front of her, and then looked at him with some confusion: "Is there something wrong? It seems... normal, right?"

"After all, Sister Zhuo has been badly cheated by her husband, so it's normal for her to complain. Besides, this topic was brought up by you... If you hadn't asked about the identity of those researchers, would Sister Zhuo have talked about her husband?"

Yang Mo sneered: "Have you ever seen a woman of this level chattering about her useless husband like a gossipy village woman in front of a man she doesn't know well?"

"I bet that the reason why our Sister Zhuo kept complaining about her weird husband for five minutes was because she sensed some of my thoughts from my attitude at the time, and then she deduced some of my intentions for the next step in her plan, and finally decided what to give as the third and most sophisticated gift."

"It turns out that our comrade Zhuo Mali's insight is really extraordinary. The third gift she gave me may seem insignificant, but it is actually very useful for my next plan... For someone with such a sharp mind, amazing insight, and a good macro perspective, it's not too much to say that she has the potential to be a general assistant, right?"

Muliya was shocked.

The third gift that showed her most skill was actually temporarily selected by Zhuomali after careful analysis and deduction in her five-minute rant! ?
This, this, this is too incredible, right?

Seeing this, Yang Mo sighed: "Actually, if you say that this was deduced by Sister Zhuo in just five minutes, that's not entirely correct."

"After all, Sister Zhuo has been the head of the Legal and Compliance Department and the company's deputy general manager of legal affairs since the day Dahua Company was established. She has seen all my actions;"

"In fact, everyone knows that the most important things for me right now are just a few..."

"1. Promote the implementation of the Solitary Island II project;"

“2. Maintain the traffic popularity and commercial value siphoning power of the commercial demonstration zone;”

“3. Let the derivative projects of the commercial demonstration zone get on track smoothly;”

“4. Make Texas a successful torch relay city for the Asian Games.”

"However, being able to find a relatively common internal demand point among these seemingly scattered things, and to discover it as the focus of the next stage of work, and then to come up with a solution that can break the surface... this is very difficult!"

Common internal needs?

To get some Arrancar?

Zhuomali looked at him in astonishment: "You mean...?"

Yang Mo nodded and said, "According to the feedback from Xialiu Sales Agency, starting from yesterday, those non-local cadres who had appeared in various villages and places with strange behavior have gradually retreated to the guesthouse and refused to come out."

"It is clear that these people have basically completed their visits and research and are now concentrating on writing the report."

"From the subsequent investigation, the results of the visit were generally satisfactory."

"So if nothing unexpected happens, within half a month at most, DZ City's name should be added to the list of cities for the Asian Games torch relay. As sponsorship compensation, Dezhou will get a valuable national publicity window. As the torch relay begins in two months, the landscape of Dezhou will be displayed to the people of the country, and even the world."

"But, although this window is extremely valuable, it is not enough for us!"

"If the Solitary Island II project is to be implemented as soon as possible, products that consume a large amount of raw cotton or require a large amount of petrochemical products must be sold very well, so as to form a large demand for industrial raw materials in the short term;"

"There are only so many residents in DZ City. The flow of people in the commercial demonstration zone is approaching its peak. We cannot judge whether this flow of people is long-term or short-term. Even if it is long-term, for future plans, the commercial demonstration zone needs to further expand its influence and attract more people... The premise is to make the commercial demonstration zone a man-made attraction, learn from some of Guangzhou's successful experiences, and make DZ City, which originally had no tourist attractions, a tourist city to a certain extent."

"By the same token, if the derivative projects in the commercial demonstration zone want to get on track with a satisfactory success rate, we can't pin all our hopes on the channel resources brought by the investors... Whether it's TOB or TOC, we have to input more business resources into these projects and let them contact more third-party partners... And this is closely related to the flow of outsiders to the commercial demonstration zone. You have to know that the people who appear in the commercial demonstration zone now are not just local consumers."

After saying so much in one breath, Yang Mo laughed: "So, classmate Yaer, have you discovered that these projects seem to be unrelated, but they are all vaguely related to each other with the commercial demonstration zone as the hub;"

"Among all this, there is a very critical thing...the flow of people!"

"To be precise, it is high-quality, commercially valuable, external traffic!"

“So, although DZ City has become a torch relay city for the Asian Games, and the window of publicity that can be used to promote us to the whole country and even the world is extremely valuable, it is not enough to rely solely on the media publicity allocated by the organizing committee!”

Mu Liya reacted instantly: "You mean, we must seize this window of opportunity and try our best to connect with the provincial and local media in Qilu to promote the style of DZ City, as well as related companies and products?"

She now finally understood why Yang Mo was so satisfied with the third gift from Zhuo Mali. Apart from the fact that quantitative change would lead to qualitative change, the overwhelming media publicity before and after the window period would bring a lot of business opportunities to the commercial demonstration zone and those derivative projects. The screening mechanism of domestic news media has determined that if an event can be wildly reprinted by authoritative media in various places, then there is a greater chance of being selected by national media and then appearing in front of the people of the whole country in broad daylight... and if this event can be turned into an interesting group collaboration, then the success rate will undoubtedly be greater.

Therefore, in this process, the perspective of the news source and the level of reporting text become very important... The world will never lack positive news worth reporting on, but it lacks text and broadcasting that can touch people's hearts.

Seeing her react, Yang Mo smiled softly, "Student Yaer, I can tell you responsibly that once a dense explosion is formed in terms of communication, the effect it brings will be far beyond your imagination... It can be said that a week of concentrated news dominance is better than publishing fifty headlines in ten years!"

This is a tactic commonly used by the capital world in later generations. The reason why you see certain stars churning out works like crazy in one year and then being hyped like crazy, but suddenly disappearing in the second year is not because they have become unpopular, but because through the concentrated bombardment in the first year, the investors have successfully achieved the effect they want and successfully captured the minds of the audience... Whether you are willing to admit it or not, it only takes one year of concentrated blasting for these stars to be successfully promoted, and even if you want to forget them, it is not so easy to forget them (it should be noted that this method is somewhat different from the fatigue bombardment of Melatonin. The former repeats a selling point 100 times; but the latter often uses 100 highlights to enrich an image).

Although no one in this era has taken the initiative to adopt such a cruel means of communication, this does not prevent Miss Mu from imagining the consequences through deduction.

hiss~
Mu Liya first gasped, then looked at Yang Mo in disbelief: "You mean, based on her past understanding of you, Sister Zhuo guessed the real focus of your next work in just five minutes?"

Yang Mo shrugged: "Maybe. China has never lacked smart people. Maybe Sister Zhuo is the kind of talented person who was held back by the environment and her job."

Mu Liya nodded in a daze: "Yes, I heard that Sister Zhuo has not had an easy life these years. A sharp sword is forged through grinding. With her foundation and after going through so many things, I think she can no longer be measured by the level of an ordinary director of the Legal and Compliance Department."

Yang Mo hummed softly: "So, even though she didn't say it directly, I'm looking forward to what plan she will submit to me tomorrow..."

(End of this chapter)