1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 487 What can we get?
For large state-owned enterprises, especially today's state-owned enterprises, the Spring Festival is undoubtedly the most important festival of the year, but the second is not Mid-Autumn Festival or May Day, but New Year's Day.

New Year, new beginnings. In this age where no one knows what the next year will be like, when the old year turns to the new, we should always celebrate with great fanfare to bring good luck!

Moreover, after New Year's Day, a series of important tasks will begin, including accounting, annual work reporting and summarization, formulation of next year's annual production plan, strategic adjustments, personnel changes, salary change plans, etc. Therefore, no matter how many things you have on hand and how busy you are, you must return to the headquarters for a few days on New Year's Day and attend the New Year's Day party.

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"In Asia, the mountains are our proud heads..."

This is a young man from Dahua Company's Business Department paying tribute to the Asian Games that just ended not long ago.

"Special love, for the special you..."

This is the ghostly howling of Li Ming, director of the second asset preservation department of Dahua Company. The slightly out-of-tune voice coupled with the lyrics with ulterior motives is really awkward.

"You said you loved someone you shouldn't have loved, and your heart is full of scars..."

This is an old lady from the Compensation and Assessment Committee of Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company singing passionately.

Although the fund company was established too late and there was no time to prepare some decent performance programs, to be honest, singing popular songs from 91 at the New Year's Eve party in 89 still seemed too unoriginal.

"Whose clear flute gradually fades away, echoing through so many years of my life..."

This is a program carefully selected by the Science and Education Information Center of the Urban Property Fund Company. The song sung is "Life Never Ends", which was officially released in the island country by a mysterious domestic record company more than half a month ago and became a small hit as soon as it was released.

Although the girl who went on stage to sing could not sing out the melancholy feeling of reminiscing about the passing years, her quite regular voice still brought people a different kind of enjoyment. It can be seen that this public service department has really put in a lot of effort in selecting both the songs and the people.

However, Yang Mo, who was sitting in the first row of the audience, did not feel much about this. He was not very interested in such large-scale cultural performances held within the company.

In fact, combining the New Year's Day performance of Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company and the New Year's Day party of Dahua Company and holding them in Dahua Industrial Park is enough to show that this guy is absent-minded.

You have to know that although Dahua Company is the sole operator and manager of Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company, this does not mean that the two companies can be completely equated.

Don't forget that Dezhou Chengchan Fund Company is not only much larger than Dahua Company in terms of capital scale, organizational structure, and number of employees, but its actual weight is definitely not comparable to that of a second-level unit of a central enterprise. Even if they want to co-organize the New Year's Day party, it should be performed in the new office building of Chengchan Fund Company or in an auditorium in DZ City.

But Yang Mo decided to hold the performance in Dahua Industrial Park.

No matter what he thinks, to outsiders, this is a signal that cannot be more straightforward.

Although many people have criticized this, they can do nothing about it.

There's no way. Who made this guy the general manager of two companies at the same time? Who made the party secretary of the Urban Property Fund Company not willing to have a conflict with Yang Mo, his new partner, over such a trivial matter?
However, despite the criticism, when people really arrived at the scene and saw Yang Mo's nonchalant and perfunctory attitude, many people felt better.

This guy has never watched a show seriously from beginning to end. Maybe I am overthinking it. Maybe this guy decided to hold the cultural performance in Dahua Industrial Park because he didn't take the evening show seriously at all?

Ok……

It is not impossible.

It is said that this guy has no artistic talent and no interest in life. All he does all day long is work. Perhaps in the eyes of this monster, this annual large-scale performance that every company attaches great importance to is no different from singing karaoke in a karaoke room, right?

After realizing this possibility, many people felt relieved and they also found Yang Mo, who was whispering with his wife who had just returned home, more pleasing to the eye.

A weirdo is a weirdo. He is even capable of leaving his seat without regard for rules and etiquette to show affection with his wife. He also decided to set the joint performance venue at Dahua Company without paying any attention to the impact. There doesn't seem to be anything strange about it, right?

Everyone felt relieved after taking a look at the super beauty, whose full appearance could not be seen clearly from the back row but whose profile was enough to make everyone fall in love with her at a glance.

Sure enough, no matter how awesome he is, he is still a man after all.

Young people...

I understand, I understand!
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However, unlike what everyone imagined, the whispers between Yang Mo and Miss Mu were not about love and affection.

"Among the more than 68 products that have been launched overseas, 23 have already taken root, and of them have found suitable partners and are about to undergo large-scale localization."

Miss Mu's tone was filled with joy and pride.

Although the island countries at this time are known as the regional markets with the strongest consumption power in the world, their distribution channels with extremely rigid barriers are also a headache for all foreign brands. If they can pry open this barrier through joint ventures with large local trading companies, they will make a fortune... You have to know that with the reality of the island countries, once the channels are opened up and settled, products that only have a three-year market cycle in China can often extend their market life cycle to five years or even more than ten years there!
Students who have worked in product development know that the actual difference here is not as simple as just two extra years.

Yang Mo smiled and nodded: "Well done. Originally, in my imagination, it would be very good to have about ten products that can be localized... 23... Yaer, you are basically a success now."

Miss Mu didn't mention sales, investment, or market size, and he didn't ask.

In fact, given the island country's current economic environment and the still violently fluctuating exchange rate, reporting these data does not make much sense... They are brand exports, not foreign trade in the traditional sense, and the settlement methods are completely different.

As long as we can take advantage of the opportunity and take root in the island market at this moment, that will be the biggest victory!

Hearing the words "basically established", Miss Mu rolled her eyes at her man in a coquettish manner, as if she was blaming Yang Mo for making fun of her.

You, Mr. Yang, have just taken over a city fund company with astonishing power. You have also displayed your exaggerated influence in front of the newly established team. Aren't you being disrespectful to others by talking about the word "climate" in front of you?

"Although being able to accumulate 23 products is much more than we originally expected, it is still not enough... While the island nation's economy is experiencing drastic fluctuations, and the effects of the Asian Games and this cultural shock have not yet subsided, we should seize the opportunity and maximize the results to the best of our ability."

Miss Mu's tone was full of time and urgency: "If we don't take advantage of this precious opportunity and act quickly, once the window of opportunity closes, we will have no choice but to return to the previous resource-based trade model... It will be meaningless to rely solely on the three-in-one and one-in-one trade, and export minerals and primary agricultural products to earn the meager profits, no matter how big the plate is."

Obviously, after seeing the huge profits from brands going overseas, Miss Mu no longer has any interest in businesses like selling cabbages and radishes.

Yang Mo admired his woman's attitude and nodded immediately: "Do you mean to plan to screen the second batch of brands to go overseas? Do you have any ideas? Do you need my advice?"

Miss Mu rolled her eyes at him and said, "Why didn't you show your courtesy earlier? No need. I've been observing the island market carefully for some time and I have some ideas."

Yang Mo glanced at the two new faces performing crosstalk on the stage and turned his head with interest: "Oh?"

Miss Mu's tone was full of confidence: "If the island country was still the island country a year ago, I would not be so eager for success... It is a very mature and rigid market over there. It is a great fortune to have more than 20 brands of all sizes settled there at once. I will not be stupid enough to compete with others in the various sub-sectors that have matured to the point of forming mental dependence... After all, apart from traditional Chinese medicine, we have no technical advantages to speak of, and we cannot form a value gap."

"But as the island's economic bubble burst, the island's economy began to experience drastic upheavals, and incomes were generally severely affected. People's ideology and values ​​also began to change visibly... Crisis brings crisis, and with crisis comes opportunity. This gave me hope of expanding my victory."

At this point, Miss Mu's tone was full of sarcasm: "To be honest, the rapid change in the concept of the island people can be seen, but it is thanks to the rigid and cautious decision-making system of the island companies. In addition, more than 95% of their large-scale enterprises have adopted the dual profit model of finance + entity. Therefore, even if they want to cater to this change, it will not be a short-term thing... So, if I don't try this good opportunity to catch the slow fish, I'm afraid I will sit up and slap myself even when I fall asleep in the future."

Yang Mo nodded: "Well, that's right, the fast fish eats the slow fish... It seems that you have indeed grasped the essence of the island country's drastic changes... Tell me your thoughts, so that I can also broaden my horizons?"

Miss Mu rolled her eyes at him and said, "What do you mean by broaden your horizons? Yang Mo, it's only been a short while since we last met, how come you've become so hypocritical?"

Yang Mo touched his nose embarrassedly and chuckled twice.

Miss Mu saw this and knew that his current situation was very different from before. He had to try to change some habits. She looked at him with some pity and said, "As the overall economic environment of the island country began to fluctuate violently, although their largest bubble real estate market is still holding on, there seems to be a glimmer of hope, and it is even pushing to a new high... But precisely because of this, the actual living conditions of the island people have begun to deteriorate rapidly, and there has even been a clear downgrade in consumption. I mentioned this situation in the last monthly work report I sent back to the company. You should have seen it, right?"

Yang Mo nodded: "Of course I saw it, this is a very good signal."

Miss Mu nodded: "Consumption downgrade means that the island country's business formats will usher in a major adjustment, but this is at the macro level. For a grassroots cadre like me, it is of reference value but not of guidance. After all, we still have to find specific entry points in the industry and transform them into product design ideas."

Yang Mo glared at her speechlessly.

Small grassroots cadres?
Do you want to make yourself sound so pitiful?
Miss Mu glanced at him with a mixture of anger and joy, and moved closer to him. There was a hint of regret in her tone: "During the two months I have been in the island country, I have clearly felt the rapid change in the attitude of local men towards women."

"In the past, the term 'new age women' was a fashionable term in the island country. With a certain level of education, they had no worries about work or income, and even had three men's wallets to spend money on them without complaint, hoping that they could become the woman of their dreams... It can be said that in the past ten years, women in the island country have become what most women in the world aspire to be."

"However, as the island nation's economy ran into problems, a large number of companies were merged or directly forced out of business, incomes generally began to fall, and the employment environment deteriorated. Everything began to change...More and more men were no longer willing or able to be their wallets to provide them with wine and steak all day long. It was also increasingly difficult for them to cope with the still high housing and commodity prices with their own income."

At this point, Miss Mu glanced at the folk dance being performed on the stage as if nothing had happened: "The media in the island country has begun to gradually exaggerate this change and deliberately provoke disputes between the sexes... I don't know if there is any push from major financial groups behind this, but it is an indisputable fact that many investors intend to gradually abandon women in the island country." "Correspondingly, the amount of investment in the animation and game industry in the island country by various capitals has soared rapidly in recent times. In just over a month, there have been as many as 241 new cartridge game projects centered around the two major console platforms of Nintendo SFC and Sega MD, and there are more than a dozen Class A comics projects that have been officially announced to be adapted into animation and film and television... It can be seen that some capital is betting on men in the island country, who have more stable economic incomes, especially young men."

Yang Mo thought of the next-generation console war that would affect the entire gaming industry a few years later, but he didn't expect that the root of this problem had already been planted. He nodded and asked with interest, "So you plan to target the female products market in the island country, take advantage of the brand division and mental gap that will inevitably arise in the process of this confrontation, use strong women or women's need to be self-reliant as emotional appeals, rely on those Watanabe wives as seed users, quickly fission, and then create a highly sticky circle social currency?"

Among the first batch of brands going overseas, the most successful ones belong to the three categories of special-effect Chinese patent medicines, beauty products and cultural and creative foods.

Regardless of whether it was the hype of Moyazhai's one-time experience coupons or Song Wenxuan's short-term trading of gold futures, the value and influence of the Watanabe wives' group, which had already established a certain interest relationship, had been confirmed, and could even be regarded as the most promising and valuable special channel of Dahua Company in the island country;

Therefore, combining the two, based on Dahua's current actual situation, choosing to use women's self-reliance as an emotional appeal to create the social currency of this group is the optimal solution for resource integration.

Although Yang Mo did not quite agree with this, he did not object to it either.

Unexpectedly, Miss Mu shook her head and said: "Circle currency needs to be created, but it is not to use the emotional appeal of self-reliance as you understand it to bond the minds of consumers, let alone the three words "strong woman";"

"In fact, I do want to use the changing situation faced by women in island countries to promote the concept of self-reliance to attract consumers, but the self-reliance here is a soft one without any confrontation or aggression... In simple terms, it means to make your image as perfect as possible, to make yourself more likable, to get more job opportunities and single opportunities, to get more favor from high-quality men, or at least to find a good man to marry and return to family life."

She spread her hands in annoyance. "This kind of size is very subtle, and it's hard to describe it accurately with words alone... In short, you can think of her as a slight compromise and concession made by women in the island country to the life of being admired by everyone in the past decade. From the original [being a woman will be admired by people around you], it has changed to [as long as you work hard to change and be submissive, you will still be favored by people around you]."

"You have to know that women in island countries are more delicate and sensitive than us Chinese women. Most of them find it difficult to accept the drastic gap... If you tell them all at once that they have to be completely independent and turn themselves into strong women in order to recreate the wonderful life of the past ten years, most of them will not be able to accept it."

"Due to social and cultural reasons, a considerable number of women in island countries are not particularly opposed to being submissive to men, so as long as the operation is done well, this psychological transition process will not be difficult."

"Once they are forced to start thinking about the possibility of change due to the pressure of reality, it will be natural for our Chinese clothing, cosmetics, and jewelry, which do not emphasize individuality but appear more gentle and subtle..."

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Looking at Miss Mu confidently expounding on her various fantasies, with a look full of satisfaction and excitement as if she was commanding thousands of troops, Yang Mo listened quietly and smiled quietly.

After Miss Mu explained the outline of her idea, as well as the publicity plan and subsequent precipitation plan, he nodded gently: "Very good idea... But what can we get?"

Miss Mu was stunned: "Why ask? It's a huge profit!"

After thinking for a while, he added: "Also, such a large market demand can also create sufficient jobs;"

After thinking for a while, he added: "Of course, in this circulation process, it can also effectively stimulate the development of other supporting industries and third-party service industries."

Yang Mo hummed softly and stopped talking.

Miss Mu saw that he was noncommittal and immediately felt guilty: "Why, is there something wrong with my plan?"

Yang Mo smiled and shook his head: "No, there is no big problem with the approach and execution ideas. It is a very good plan... and you have thought it through very carefully. I have nothing to add."

But he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. If this plan was proposed by Zhuo Mali or Song Wenxuan, then there would be no problem. They would definitely get a high score of more than 90 and then be praised.

But this plan was designed by the Muda team themselves...

To be honest, Yang Mo was a little disappointed.

The reason is simple. Miss Mu still hasn't figured out what she meant by "what can we get".

Different positions lead to different demands.

Although Miss Mu is only a section-level cadre so far, she has become Yang Mo's wife. From the moment she takes full responsibility for the brand's overseas expansion plan, from a practical point of view, she is no longer a section-level cadre in the conventional sense.

A trader, and a trader of a central enterprise platform, is actually focusing on financial gains and simple employment opportunities like an executor...

This gender difference in thinking is indeed a huge chasm. Even my own wife did not realize the problem.

Seeing the confusion in Miss Mu's eyes, Yang Mo smiled, but did not continue to dwell on this issue. Instead, he asked, "Then you came back this time, in addition to attending the company's year-end work summary meeting, you should also want to take some action, right?"

Miss Mu nodded when she heard this. "Unlike the first batch of brands going overseas, the second batch of brands going overseas can no longer just sell whatever they have. Instead, they need to carry out targeted design and design and produce products in the shortest possible time, which requires a lot of manpower and funds."

"So this time when I come back, I plan to close the net... Actually, according to the original plan, I should have started closing the net in November, but because the situation in the island country is progressing well, I have been unable to get away, so I have to wait until now."

Close the net?

Thinking of the managers of the tertiary production units under Dahua Company who had been trapped long ago, Yang Mo nodded: "It is indeed time to close the net, otherwise there will be changes... It just so happens that Du Chuanming from the first business unit is promoting management reforms in subordinate units. I will call him over tomorrow and you two can have a chat. The two things can just happen to be coordinated."

Miss Mu hummed. She naturally would not object to such a hassle-free business. After thinking about it, she became curious: "I heard that Chengchan Fund Company is also going to hold a year-end work meeting, and your party secretary strongly requested it... I am quite curious. You said that the fund company has only been listed for ten days since then. If they really hold a year-end work meeting, what can they talk about? Isn't this pure formalism?"

"We can't let you, the only general manager who has ever handled a project, report to others alone, right?"

After saying this, he chuckled, as if he had seen the embarrassing scene of the upside-down Tian Gang.

Upon hearing this, Yang Mo glared at his woman unhappily. Taking advantage of the fact that no one else was paying attention, he patted Miss Mu on the leg and said, "What do you mean by formalism? Be careful that Secretary Zhao will report you to me after he finds out."

Secretary Zhao?
In front of you?

Would you like to participate in my research?
I said you were going against Tiangang, and you really did go against Tiangang, right?
Thinking of this, Miss Mu glared at him coquettishly.

This guy makes jokes without knowing the occasion. If your party secretary really gets to know about it, I guarantee you’ll be in trouble!

Just as she was about to retort and remind her man not to get carried away, she heard Yang Mo sigh softly, "Indeed, Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company has only been established for less than half a month. Logically, there is nothing to report, and this so-called year-end work meeting should not be held at all."

"But the problem is..."

"But the organization attaches great importance to the fund company, and the new team in the city has some misunderstandings about your man!"

"So, if nothing unexpected happens, leaders from the province will come to attend this year-end work meeting and ask questions... Do you understand?"

Will there be leaders from the province coming to participate?

Mulia was startled.

She knew that the Texas Urban Property Fund Company, which had a strong experimental nature, was highly valued, but she did not expect that the higher-ups would attach so much importance to it that they would send provincial leaders to attend the year-end work meeting.

and……

Did you come here to inquire rather than being invited to speak at the meeting?

This, this, this...

Yang Mo looked at Miss Mu, who was in shock, smiled bitterly, and then shrugged: "Now you know, the test your man will face after taking office has just begun!"

Mu Liya gasped: "Test? Yang Mo... Will you be okay?"

She had already heard about how Yang Mo had given the new chief and deputy chief a warning at the municipal meeting in order to support Ye Tao. As she herself was a second-generation leader, she naturally knew that those who could be parachuted into a newly promoted prefecture-level city as the top or second-in-command must have resources behind them.

The provincial level is not the same as the county level. Even if there are people from the organization, will her man really not get into trouble by then?
Yang Mo saw her worried face, but smiled lightly: "It's okay, your man never fights a battle he is not sure of. If he is not sure, he would have called Mr. Zhao for help... Don't worry, I know what the province really cares about."

Do you know what the province really cares about?
Only then did Mu Liya realize that her man was no longer the section-level cadre who had been splashing waves in the lake and pond all day long a few months ago. He could now listen to the power of heaven, and his perspective and the issues he thought about were completely of another dimension.

and so……

What can we get?
Thinking of the question Yang Mo had asked before, Mu Liya lost her previous pride and began to ponder carefully...

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PS: Eh? Didn’t you guys see the leave request yesterday?
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