1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 519: The Head and the Tail
"Oh? Force the sewage treatment equipment?"

Yang Mo looked at the project application in front of him with great interest. The format was extremely standard and the explanation and analysis were extremely detailed. A hint of inexplicable weirdness flashed in his eyes.

"Yes, I will force myself on you."

Zhuomali, who was dressed in a business suit, smiled. "According to Hu Yongbo, old industrial areas like Dezhou are full of factories with backward production capacity and technology but huge pollution, especially at the township level. Due to some well-known reasons, factory pollution discharge is even more irregular, and the villages are deeply troubled. However, because a large number of people from the village are often employed in these factories, they are involved in various ways and it has gradually become a situation where it is difficult to manage both ends."

Zhuo Mali took the tea from Zhuo Junyue, nodded in thanks, and took off the lid of the teacup and placed it on the coffee table: "Except for a very few exceptions, no one in this world is not afraid of death... This problem has never been exposed before, and it has not even attracted enough attention. That's because the situation has not developed to the point where it seriously endangers life and health, or the villagers just don't understand; some villagers even think that the little money they receive every month is more precious than their own lives, so they just pretend to be deaf and dumb and endure it."

"But now, since this window paper has been pierced, it has been confirmed that a large number of villagers in Xiaoyu Village fell ill because the fertilizer factory polluted the water source, and there are definitely more than one similar cases in each village. If we don't take advantage of this issue openly, it would be too unfair to those villagers lying in bed."

Yang Mo took out a cigarette and lit it, then turned his head slightly to look at the new assistant who was full of fighting spirit after taking office: "Although there are legitimate reasons, it is not an easy task to force factories in various towns and villages to install sewage treatment equipment... You should know that a set of sewage treatment equipment is not cheap."

Zhuo Mali subconsciously covered her mouth and wanted to giggle, but when she thought that it was working time and she, the newly appointed assistant to the general manager, was reporting to the general manager as a subordinate, she quickly held back her laughter: "Boss Yang, I know this is not an easy task. Even for a large-scale unit to spend a huge amount of money to install an industrial wastewater treatment equipment is a very difficult task, not to mention that most of the township factories are actually just small businesses."

After a slight pause, Zhuomali smiled: "However, this kind of thing of forcing a cow to drink water is certainly as difficult as climbing to the sky for other units. Even if the city wants to install sewage treatment equipment on a large scale in rural areas, it is a difficult task with twice the effort and half the result. But... for us, this matter is actually not that difficult~!"

Zhuomali's implication is obvious: the reason why other units cannot build sewage treatment systems on a large scale at the grassroots level in rural areas is that they cannot convince those village and town factories to overcome loss aversion;
Even if the city wants to force it, it will eventually fail due to the huge backlash from the grassroots... Those factories are directly related to the employment and income of local villagers. If they force such expensive equipment on, it may easily lead to mass incidents, and this is exactly the problem that the city is most concerned about and the most troublesome.

But if Yang Mo's group took action, there would not be such great resistance.

There is no other reason. The Drilling Company, Dahua Company and Xialiu Sales Agency have very good relations with the grassroots masses in the rural areas of Dezhou and Lanling, and they also have those one hundred villages as radiation points. As long as they exaggerate the fact that the villagers of Xiaoyu Village are sick and make a big fuss about it, and then do a good job of ideological mobilization, even if the directors of those village and town factories are eloquent, the villagers will most likely not follow them to make a fuss.

As long as the villagers do not follow suit and as long as the hidden dangers of mass incidents are eliminated, the bosses and directors of those village and town factories will be like catfish on the chopping board. No matter whether it is the city or the Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company, there are a hundred ways to make them submit.

Yang Mo looked at the peach-like figure who looked even brighter with confidence after becoming the general assistant. A hint of amusement appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Although we can indeed push this matter forward by working together, the side effects are also obvious... This will seriously damage the credibility and reputation we have worked so hard to establish in rural areas. After all, forcing rural factories to spend huge amounts of money to install sewage management equipment will objectively directly or indirectly affect the income of some villagers and their families."

"so……"

"Don't you think that this suggestion of installing sewage treatment equipment on a large scale in rural areas is too presumptuous and that it is taking the company for granted?"

Upon hearing this, Zhuo Mali couldn't help but cover her mouth, then glanced at him charmingly: "Boss Yang, Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company may become the victim, but this matter is a very cost-effective deal for you, Dahua Company and several other units!"

Yang Mo raised the corner of his mouth: "Oh?"

Zhuomali smiled and took a sip of the slightly cooled hot tea. "First of all, hundreds of villages and nearly a thousand rural factories are forced to install sewage treatment equipment. Even though the scale of each factory is different, the price of the sewage treatment equipment required is also quite different, but this is still a huge order that is enough to scare people to death;"

"This is just the factory's industrial wastewater treatment equipment. If we build domestic wastewater treatment systems for villages as well, the orders we will generate will be even more terrifying."

As she spoke, Zhuo Mali turned sideways and very gracefully spat the tea stems in her mouth into the toilet paper in her hand, and then gently threw it into the trash can: "Such a huge order, which can be named in the name of industrial upgrading and enjoy the relevant policy dividends, is enough to give birth to a brand new industrial chain!"

"The best part is, when it comes to industrial wastewater treatment technology, our oil system is absolutely the best in the country. Not to mention the three provinces in the Central Plains, even if we expand the scope to the seven nearby provinces, there is absolutely no unit that can compare to Dahua... To be precise, it has a stronger technical reserve than the Qilu Oil System!"

This is true.

The reason why the oil system has always been troubled by the relationship between local workers and farmers, in addition to the land use issue, is mainly due to the various pollution problems generated during the drilling, smelting and chemical processes.

Therefore, in order to ease the local relationship between workers and farmers, over the years, the oil systems in all places, without exception, have invested a lot of energy in various sewage treatment technologies, waste gas treatment technologies, harmful substance degradation technologies, and even bio-enrichment technologies and microbial degradation technologies.

As the Qilu Oilfield, which has the most passive relations between local workers and peasants among all major oil systems, although it is often ridiculed by its peers for its incompetence in this area, it has also introduced and spawned the country's absolutely top-notch sewage treatment technology.

Therefore, to say that there is no rival in the country in this regard is definitely bragging; but if we say that we are the only one in the seven nearby provinces without including the three northeastern provinces, that would be a conservative statement... In terms of shareholding structure, Dahua Company is a second-level subordinate unit of the Dongying Command. No matter from which angle, as long as Dahua Company opens its mouth, the command's relevant technology and equipment manufacturing/assembly process can be shared in minutes, and a group of experienced technical experts will be sent to provide on-site guidance.

But this is not the point.

The point is...

Give birth to a brand new industrial chain?
Yang Mo looked at the peach meaningfully, with a hint of admiration unconsciously in his eyes.

It seems that this peach's sense of touch is more sensitive than I thought. After following the local dog classmate around for a while before the New Year, I actually discovered some of my own thoughts?
Thinking of this, Yang Mo nodded without comment: "I'm not familiar with Dongying... What relevant technical reserves does the headquarters have now?"

After that, he added: "I'm talking about relatively mature ones that can be put into commercial use immediately."

Zhuo Mali understood immediately, gave him a teasing look, and took out an extremely delicate notebook from the briefcase beside her. She found the key to open the small lock that was very popular at the time, but a little childish, and flipped to a certain page, then read out: "According to my preliminary inquiries, the headquarters currently has two relatively mature technologies in the field of chemical wastewater treatment:"

“1. A centrifugal physical process for stubborn insoluble suspended pollutants in chemical wastewater.”

"Although it has been confirmed that this centrifugal physical method cannot meet the relatively high discharge standards for wastewater separated from ammonia nitrogen, COD, phosphorus, etc.; however, the equipment such as centrifuges and hydrocyclones that the headquarters originally introduced have a full set of equipment drawings and production processes, which can quickly bring out their due commercial value;"

"2. One-dimensional and two-dimensional electrode electrochemical (catalytic) oxidation electrolysis technology... It is said that the maturity of three-dimensional micro-electric field electrolysis technology has also progressed, but this is not a formal inquiry, so the situation needs to be further confirmed."

"According to the headquarters' reply, oxidation electrolysis technology is more effective in treating chemical wastewater. This area includes a large number of subsystem technologies, some of which we even have independent intellectual property rights for... However, my level and authority are not high enough. If you need to know more, you need to submit an application in person, Mr. Yang."

When she said this, Zhuomali's tone became a little gloomy.

Although section-level cadres in non-scientific research departments are indeed not qualified to know the detailed information of these technologies, the reply from the headquarters was so vague that they didn't even report the name of the subsystem technology. It was obviously not just a matter of official business... As her father's name appeared on the list of the organization's overseas working group, the saying "a phoenix in distress is worse than a chicken" was fully reflected in her.

Seeing this, Yang Mo did not say anything to comfort them, but just nodded gently: "I will call them later. This is just the treatment technology for chemical wastewater. What about the related secondary supporting technology that can be applied to treat domestic wastewater? Have you learned about it?"

What Yang Mo said was "make a phone call" instead of "submit an application". The difference between these two words is so great that they are sometimes incomparable.

He was not so arrogant as to completely ignore the regular work procedures of the headquarters, but he wanted to use this opportunity to tell this peach that although your father has been sent abroad, as long as you work hard, you don't have to worry about those dogs who look down on you with me as a big tree to protect you.

Zhuo Mali understood Yang Mo's implication and smiled: "For secondary supporting projects like these, the headquarters has not been secretive. The technologies that can be applied to domestic wastewater treatment are roughly as follows:"

"Hydrolysis process based on anaerobic microorganisms;"

"Acidogenesis/acidification process based on anaerobic microorganisms;"

"MBR membrane process;"

"A2/O filling process;"

"Membrane filtration/cloth filter manufacturing process;"

“Coagulation Sedimentation Filtration Process;”

"Improved DE oxidation ditch + denitrification filter + aerated biological filter + activated sand filter supporting process;"

“A2/O improved oxidation ditch + coagulation sedimentation + activated carbon secondary adsorption and filter press supporting process;”

"Improved A2/O+denitrification biofilter+membrane filtration+ozone decolorization supporting process;"

"And Bardenpho process + MBBR + deep treatment..."

A lot of things were said in bits and pieces, and Yang Mo listened quietly, without any sign of impatience.

As a waste of liberal arts, he naturally didn't understand these techniques and technologies. I believe Zhuo Mali was in a similar situation.

But it is not important.

What is important is that the more automatic control technologies like this can be applied to super terminal projects, once the application reaches a certain scale, the stronger the reverse control over the upstream and midstream industries will be, and the industry standards can be formulated accordingly... This is the greatest value of this project. Zhuo Mali actually copied down all the domestic sewage treatment technologies with lower technical content but wider application in such detail; it is obvious that this peach probably really guessed her idea.

If Zhuo Mali is his secretary, then there is no need to ask, she will definitely pass the test, and he will be completely assured to hand over more and more important things to her in the future;

But she is the assistant to the general manager, and that alone is not enough.

Thinking of this, Yang Mo laughed and shook his head gently: "It sounds like the headquarters has good technical reserves in this area. If they invest as much as possible, they can indeed initially support a not-so-small industry in five years. But... this doesn't seem very attractive!"

Yang Mo shook off the cigarette ash and said, "You have to know that our influence in rural areas is compound. From a long-term perspective, it is actually a losing business to sacrifice our precious reputation for a small or medium-sized industry whose annual output value can only reach 5 million yuan in five years."

"Don't forget, I have been working hard to revitalize the economy in rural areas in recent years. When the 1000-village support plan is completed, and the per capita GDP of those 5 villages and the nearly surrounding villages exceeds US dollars (at constant prices), the entire rural grassroots business ecology will be completely renewed. As long as we can maintain our good reputation in these areas, the rewards we can reap will be far more than the annual output value of million yuan."

Zhuo Mali tilted her head to look at him, and suddenly burst out laughing: "Boss Yang, why do you always treat me like Yan Laoxi and his people? After all, I come from a central enterprise. Even if I am stupid, I can't be so stupid that I only know how to look at the economic accounts on paper, right?"

"The estimated annual output value of 5 million yuan in five years is not a big deal for you who is in charge of both the Urban Property Fund and Dahua Company. But if you add the power that can almost decide the life and death of a group of industrial enterprises... at least the industrial manufacturing enterprises at the county, township and village levels, what about that?"

Zhuo Mali's eyes flashed with a hint of confusion: "With this added, isn't it enough to make you interested?"

Yang Mo showed a smile of strong interest on his face: "Strangling... huh? Tell me about it?"

Zhuomali held up the teacup with both hands and took another sip:
"First, Texas is an old industrial area. No matter how much industrial adjustment and upgrading is done, the future will only be dominated by industry and manufacturing... This strong inertia accumulated from history cannot be changed because of personal wishes."

"Second, as far as I know, the headquarters has already readjusted the supporting and surrounding industrial projects of Solitary Island No. 2. One of the adjustments may seem insignificant, but it is actually very important. The satellite companies controlled by Xialiu Marketing Agency, Qingfeng Food, and Momo Baitou will hold small-scale shares in these supporting industrial projects established through reorganization, including chemical projects. "

"The products produced by these chemical projects are the key upstream of sewage treatment equipment and consumables... It is even possible that in the future, sewage treatment facility manufacturers will actively invite these chemical companies to participate in the form of equity in exchange for their research and production of special key consumables... By then, the lifeline of this industry will be in the hands of those chemical companies."

"Third, as one of the emerging potential pillar industries in Texas, the pharmaceutical industry, which relies on the cultivation of authentic medicinal materials and GAP medicinal materials, has an objective demand for land and the surrounding environment. This leads to the requirement that factories across Texas install sewage treatment equipment, which can be forced to use the administrative system as a coercive force... and the closer to the GAP planting base, the greater the coercive force that can be used;"

"Therefore, as long as the market scale of Chinese patent medicines and Chinese medicines is further expanded, the scale of medicinal material planting bases with GAP as the main model can be expanded naturally... According to the daily transaction volume of the Chinese medicinal material trading center in the current commercial demonstration zone and the performance of major pharmaceutical companies in the island country, if we add the rural grassroots pharmacy chain project that will be officially launched this year, the conditions will be fully mature in three years at most."

“As long as we consciously control the location of new medicinal material planting bases, and rely on the special requirements of the GAP planting model for soil and surrounding environment, it will be easy for major chemical companies and manufacturing companies in Dezhou and even Lanling to control pollution. Unless they produce high-tech products, the profit and tax levels of most manufacturing industries are far from comparable to those of pharmaceutical companies. Given that the GAP medicinal material planting industry and local pharmaceutical companies are not inferior to traditional manufacturing in terms of their ability to absorb employment, even the dumbest leaders at the city and county levels will know what to choose.”

"Fourth, as the holder of a complete set of technical patents for industrial and domestic sewage discharge and the main investor in sewage discharge equipment manufacturing companies, Dahua can easily become a leading company in the industry through backdoor listing, and then take the lead in establishing an industry association and become the chairman unit of the industry association, and then formulate a series of industry standards and implementation standards;"

"The special nature of Dezhou Urban Property Fund determines that while it is fully committed to supporting the upgrading of the industrial and manufacturing industries in Dezhou through financing, it also directly or jointly assumes the responsibility of industry supervision... Even if it is not the only regulatory agency, it is one of the two or three most important regulatory forces."

"Specifically, in the area of ​​corporate pollution control, the effect is roughly: if you are told that you exceed the standard, you exceed the standard; if you are not, you still exceed the standard."

"Everyone should know that this power is crucial, especially when it comes to whether it will seriously affect the pillar industry of medicinal material planting. Even when the city has issued a formal document on the pollution discharge standards, it is equivalent to putting a rope around the necks of 99.9% of chemical companies and manufacturing companies that can kill you... There is no need to do anything, just report it to the local competent authorities and let you suspend business for rectification once or twice. Even if the rectification time adds up to more than three months, these companies will be basically shut down."

After saying so much in one breath, Zhuo Mali picked up the cup and took a sip of tea, looking at Yang Mo seriously: "Boss Yang, I can guess that you are probably planning the means of [multi-line parallel advancement, decentralized sinking, and the head of the army and the tail of the army]. Starting from the rural grassroots rural enterprises, promoting the subsequent plan by forcing sewage treatment equipment is, in my opinion, a very cost-effective and extremely important thing... Compared with the extremely powerful stranglehold in the future, a certain degree of sacrifice is completely necessary!"

The head of the army and the tail of the general...huh?

Yang Mo looked at this peach and nodded approvingly.

Although Zhuomali's guess was somewhat wrong, the four words "the head of the army and the tail of the general" did point out part of his intention.

In fact, when he saw Zhuo Mali hand over the project plan for the forced sewage treatment equipment proposed by Hu Yongbo, he had already agreed with the idea in his heart.

The reason is very simple. Those who have worked in the manufacturing industry in later generations know that in this industry, business owners are most afraid of the environmental protection department rather than the industrial and commercial tax department. They would rather pay millions of dollars in taxes than suspend business for a month or two and then face the second or third round of environmental assessments.

Although it is said that the environmental protection departments of later generations would not appear until the mid-1990s and would not fully enter a strong period until after the millennium, that was only the feeling of private enterprises.

In fact, from the day it was established, heavily polluting industries such as petroleum, chemical and steel units have been overwhelmed and have become increasingly passive.

Those who work in management know the truth that "power in hand is worse than appearance". Therefore, compared with those countless glamorous titles and praises, the pollution management rights that seem insignificant at first glance are undoubtedly much more valuable... As Zhuo Mali just analyzed, in today's Texas area, Yang Mo has the power to turn this currently insignificant pollution management right into the lifeline around the necks of most industrial manufacturing companies.

Thinking of this, he smiled and said, "Assistant Zhuo, your idea is indeed bold and attractive, but have you ever thought about a question?"

"Today, Dahua and Urban Development Fund Company has more than 20 Class A projects on hand, including the light and heavy industrial product exchange plan, the third phase expansion plan of the commercial demonstration center, the first round of rural grassroots infrastructure plan, and the rural grassroots chain drugstore project, plus a package of restructuring plans within the city to welcome industrial upgrading... So many large projects require an astronomical amount of funds."

"The idea of ​​forcing those rural factories to install sewage treatment equipment is not difficult in terms of policy, but it is not the case in practice... The simplest problem is, what if they don't have that much money, or are stubbornly unwilling to spend that much money to buy equipment?"

At this point, he looked at Zhuomali, whose face was a little stiff, and sighed softly: "The greatest value of this plan is not in the present, not in those visible things, but in the future, in those invisible things;"

"So, if they refuse to pay, we can't force them to close the factory... the consequences will be too great."

“Since we can’t really shut down the factory, what should we do?”

Zhuo Mali's voice was a little dry: "Of course... we can only adopt the debt swap model, and we will bear it first."

Yang Mo nodded: "But sewage treatment equipment is not cheap, and if we want to achieve the effect we want, it is best to directly establish or reorganize a group of companies to get involved in the production of sewage treatment equipment. Do we have enough funds to lay such a large plate at once?"

"Also, the domestic sewage treatment system at the grassroots level in rural areas is fine, but the treatment of industrial wastewater requires a lot of electricity. Just now you were busy imagining the sewage treatment equipment industry, but did you think about the problem that without sufficient electricity, these equipment would be useless. "

"But the power system is the same as our oil system. It is a central enterprise system, and it is another central enterprise system that can ignore our accounts. How can you guarantee that in the early stage, after the sewage treatment equipment scattered in various villages is put into operation, there will be enough electricity to ensure operation?"

"Even if we can swallow our pride and find a way to ask the power system to help us connect the lines and stabilize the power supply, how can you guarantee that the companies that have installed the equipment will operate these sewage treatment systems truthfully? You have to know that electricity is very expensive nowadays. The electricity cost of running these sewage treatment equipment for a day is a considerable expense... You can't advance so much money to install equipment, only to leave it as a decoration, right?"

Zhuo Mali's forehead was slightly sweaty. Of the three questions asked by Yang Mo, except for the first one, the remaining two questions seemed not to be a big deal, but if you really worked in this industry, you would know that these two problems are definitely more troublesome than money issues... Sometimes, money may not be able to solve all problems.

Yang Mo saw this, but did not blame her. After all, this was a sudden idea inspired by grassroots employees. It was not easy to think of so many things without doing detailed demonstration beforehand. You can't ask for too much.

What's more, the purpose of his three consecutive death questions just now was simply because he didn't want to see this peach get too proud after becoming the chief assistant with real power.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Yang Mo put out his cigarette, turned to Zhuo Junyue who was helping him sort out documents and said, "Xiao Zhuo, help me make an appointment with Executive Ye. Let's see when he's free. I'll go over and have a cup of tea."

Seeing Zhuo Junyue put down the work in her hands and leave, Zhuo Mali was a little surprised: "Boss Yang, what are you doing...?"

Yang Mo smiled and said, "As subordinates, it is your responsibility to perfectly execute the tasks passed down by the company;"

"But if the people below have good ideas, it is my responsibility as the boss to integrate resources and overcome difficulties that they cannot overcome to ensure that those innovative and valuable ideas can be smoothly implemented."

After saying that, he stood up and stretched: "In short, as long as your thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than problems... As the boss, I have to explore the way for you to see if there is any way to solve those difficulties."

Eh?
Are you going to see Executive Director Ye now just for this matter?
This style...

This is too swift and decisive!
Zhuo Mali looked at Yang Mo who was walking towards the coat rack, and didn't know what to say.

Other leaders all try to find ways to impose tasks and difficult problems on their subordinates, wishing that their subordinates would help solve all problems so that they can write their names on the merit book with peace of mind afterwards.

But you...

original,

Is this the difference between a “boss” and a “leader”?
(End of this chapter)