1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 584: Non-Explicit Leverage (1)

In practical terms, in order to build a framework for industrial and economic cooperation among Shandong, Hebei and Henan, to cope with the upcoming post-disaster reconstruction project in East China, and because of the flood prevention work that has not yet been completed, the competent authorities in Texas have entered a state of general mobilization, and an overclocked mobilization.

Not only were the main leaders and backbone members of each department busy all day long by the instructions and documents conveyed by the two offices, but even Yang Mo, who had always kept his distance, was moving between various meeting rooms during this period - if everyone didn't know this guy, if someone who didn't know the situation came over, they would probably think he was a young follower who was loved by the leaders in the administrative system.

But perhaps it was because the situation had changed significantly, or perhaps the last reduced meeting had temporarily changed the relationship between them. No matter how busy he was on weekdays, You Yakun would always invite Yang Mo to his office to chat for a while after the work meeting.

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"Old Yang, we have basically reached a consensus with the cities of Tianjin, Cangzhou, Hengshui, Shangqiu, and Puyang. The organization has also agreed to this request in principle. If nothing unexpected happens, in three days, Dezhou and several sister cities will issue a statement on the establishment of a Shandong-Hebei-Henan industrial economic cooperation framework... This is the draft notice document. The Secretariat has revised it five times. Take a look and give your opinion?"

As usual, You Yakun made a cup of tea and placed it on the coffee table, then took a document from the desk and handed it over.

As a former chief secretary, he was a very good learner. After learning from somewhere how Ye Tao and Yang Mo got along with each other, he quickly changed his address from "Mr. Yang" to "Old Yang".

When Yang Mo saw the document handed over by You Yakun, he quickly waved his hands: "Old You, you are making things difficult for me. I am only the second in command of a company, not someone in your administrative system. It is inappropriate for me to look at a document that has not yet been officially issued!"

As he spoke, he picked up the teacup in front of him and blew away the tea foam on it gently, then raised his head and showed a casual smile: "Old You, we are all comrades in the same trench. I am just hiding in the back to pass you ammunition... If you call me here today, just get straight to the point. There is no need to be so polite."

When necessary, Yang Mo is also a very flexible person. He now agrees with You Yakun on the general direction. Since You Yakun has lowered his posture and called him Old Yang, he naturally cannot call him You Shi You Shi all day long. That would be too distant and not conducive to unity.

You Yakun didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he looked at the young man in front of him who seemed very approachable but at the same time very strict with some details.

What do you mean he is not in our administrative system, so he is not suitable?
In various work meetings during this period, more than one-third of the topics involving budget and industry aspects are led by you. Ask everyone in the city, is there anyone who really regards you as a member of the non-administrative system?
However, he also knew that although the two of them were on the same boat in the current matter and basically agreed on some major positions, there were huge differences in some other matters, so it was normal for them to be cautious.

The little fox who can't bear to let others pinch him even the slightest pain!

After You Yakun made such a comment in his mind, he took another document from the desk and walked back: "Old Yang, the preparatory work for the dredging and reconstruction of the urban drainage system in the first phase of post-disaster reconstruction is progressing very smoothly."

You Yakun flipped through the things in his hand and shook his head as if sighing: "The capacity allocation of dredging equipment and pump station materials and equipment has been completed by 65%; after four rounds of bidding, the capacity allocation of HDPE pipes has also been completed by 30%... Tsk tsk, that's 2000 km of various types of pipes with a total length, and they are all of high-quality grades, involving 322 large and small winning bidders;"

"What is even more surprising is that the current capacity allocation of metal pipes in Cangzhou and Hengshui has been completed by 48%, with a total length of 1100 km. Although the production speed of metal pipes is slower, the winning companies have signed the responsibility letter. I believe that by the end of the month, there will be no major problems in the delivery and acceptance of the products."

"It seems that at this pace of preparation, coupled with the large construction company of Qilu Huarong, once the water level recedes, as long as we are willing to invest in three shifts of manpower, it will not be a big problem to basically complete the reconstruction of the drainage system in the disaster-stricken cities before November."

While sighing, You Yakun pushed the data jointly compiled by the Industrial Bureau and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau of each city in front of Yang Mo.

Yang Mo picked up the document that he had submitted to him through the company's internal statistics a long time ago, and the data was almost the same. He flipped through it casually, and then put it back on the coffee table: "Old You, this is a good thing, why are you sighing?"

Although the official document on the reconstruction of the disaster-stricken areas in East China has not yet been issued, according to information revealed by Mr. Zhao, the application submitted by Texas has been agreed in principle at the meeting.

Firstly, the country's current budget is indeed difficult, and the 100 billion yuan raised by Dezhou can be said to be of great help; secondly, the Shandong-Hebei-Henan industrial and economic cooperation framework planned to be built by Dezhou and several nearby cities has played a very important role; otherwise, this matter would be very difficult to explain... The connection between them is probably not difficult to understand.

Therefore, what lies before You Yakun, Tian Guangyue and others is an extremely challenging opportunity for take-off - as long as this aid project with unprecedented funding scale and indescribable social significance can be smoothly promoted under the framework of industrial and economic cooperation among Shandong, Hebei and Henan, it will be easy to ensure You Yakun and Tian Guangyue's 20 years of glory.

Compared to this, the commercial demonstration zone that the previous Texas team was considered to have gotten by luck was simply weak!
Therefore, Yang Mo's implication was very clear. At this juncture when everyone needs to support each other and walk the tightrope, you should stop doing anything weird - everyone is not a pure boy, and when you see him shaking his head, I know that nothing good is going to happen.

You Yakun sensed Yang Mo's dissatisfaction and smiled bitterly: "Old Yang, I know that the rapid progress of the preparatory work is a good thing, and it is a good thing that cannot be better. It involves several independent brother cities. Without the direct intervention of the province, it is possible to coordinate so many material supply companies in such a short time. Looking at the entire Dezhou, or even the entire northwest Shandong region, except for your Dahua Company, I am afraid that there is no other company like this - even if the city directly intervenes, it is unlikely to achieve such a good result."

After a slight pause, You Yakun sighed, "But the problem is that the preparatory work is moving forward too fast. I'm afraid there will be hidden dangers. Old Yang, to be honest, during this period of time, those sister cities have been very dissatisfied with your Dahua Company's tough approach. They generally believe that your bidding standards are too strict and the additional conditions are unacceptable. In their view, you are completely making things difficult for your sister companies and giving the meat to outsiders;"

"Many people even complained directly to the provincial government, saying that Dahua Company was trying to compete with Daqiuzhuang in prestige, and that Dezhou wanted to recruit younger brothers... I have been receiving so many calls in the past two days that my scalp is numb. They are all colleagues from sister cities and provincial leaders calling to ask about the situation."

Daqiu Village now has the reputation of "the best village in the world", and the value of this "the best village in the world" is much higher than that of Huaxi Village, which is also called "the best village" in later generations. Therefore, the owner of Yu Village has been very powerful in the past two years. In comparison, the big men in later generations, such as the two Ma and one Liu, can only be regarded as younger brothers in front of him. The leaders of Hebei Province would visit him from time to time, and would even take the initiative to exchange ideas and opinions with him on many things.

This is actually a very presumptuous thing. Therefore, even though the industrial scale and actual influence of Daqiuzhuang are completely incomparable with the current Dahua Company, comparing Dahua Company with Daqiuzhuang is really a heartbreaking thing... Some things, if applied to Daqiuzhuang, which cannot be distinguished as a private enterprise or a collective enterprise, may just be criticized; but if applied to a central enterprise like Dahua Company, the nature will change.

Therefore, this accusation is very serious for Yang Mo.

Yang Mo just looked at him with a smile and changed the subject: "I'm afraid it's the people in the city who are complaining, right?"

Although the post-disaster reconstruction project in East China relies on the industrial and economic cooperation framework of Shandong, Hebei and Henan to allocate various types of material production capacity, in fact, for cities such as Cangzhou and Puyang, those orders were unexpected and unexpected. In addition, most of the funds for post-disaster reconstruction were raised by Dezhou itself. Therefore, even if Dahua’s "suggestions" were excessive and a large number of orders were taken away by collective enterprises during the actual bidding process, they were mostly just resentful and unwilling, but not to the point of complaining.

But the situation is different for local companies in Dezhou. With the guidance from the city, Dahua’s “suggestions” may not be just suggestions. In addition, Dahua has deep roots in Dezhou, and the Urban Property Fund Company is leading the industrial upgrading of this area. Therefore, although Yang Mo did not explicitly say what would happen if he did not introduce the leadership responsibility system according to Dahua’s “suggestions”, anyone with a discerning eye can see that if you do not make changes according to their ideas, you will suffer the consequences in the future, and even the survival of the company will be a big problem... The allocation of more than 70% of various material production capacity to the collective enterprises that have won the bid is just the beginning. When these grassroots companies take this opportunity to grow up and have production capacity and technological substitutability, with Dahua and Urban Property Fund Company’s increasingly obvious economic dominance in the region, local state-owned enterprises that can no longer even rely on their own mothers will just have to wait for the consequences!
However, although Dahua Company is in fact leading the current economic and industrial transformation of DZ City, Yang Mo is, after all, only a cadre of a central enterprise who is not a member of the administrative system. Not only are the two sides not subordinate to each other, but Yang Mo also has a very strange personality. Before they are absolutely sure, those people have no excuse and no confidence to provoke this guy. Therefore, although You Yakun has a higher rank, he has become the main point of pressure release.

Seeing Yang Mo's straightforward attitude, You Yakun shook his head helplessly: "Everyone knows that you come from the countryside, and you usually take care of the collective enterprises in the rural areas. This is nothing; however, the reconstruction of the disaster area in East China is the largest super project that Dezhou has won since the founding of the country, and a considerable proportion of the funds will be replaced by the agricultural and sideline product production capacity of Dezhou in the next three years."

"So, seeing that nearly 70% of the current orders are taken by those village collective enterprises, it is inevitable that they have emotions and thoughts."

Yang Mo sneered, "What do you mean by emotions and thoughts are inevitable? The bidding is open, the same quality standards are required, the same sample materials are provided, and even the shared technical manuals are the same. The evaluation report and scores provided by the Environmental Protection Testing Center must be reviewed by all the cooperative units in the province and city. Isn't it fair and objective?"

"What's more, the equipment of enterprises in the city is more advanced, and they have many more technicians and skilled workers. Under such circumstances, you can't compete with those village collective enterprises that they look down upon. Who can you blame if your orders are snatched away by them?"

This is also one of the main reasons why those people never dare to attack Dahua directly - the series of biddings led by Dahua are too transparent, fair and transparent to the point that it is shameless to find fault. You Yakun couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed: "Old Yang, I know that there is no problem with the companies that won the bid, and it is related to the post-disaster reconstruction in East China, and the quality standards of various materials are stricter, and no one dares to say the three words "should not". But the problem is... Old Yang, what they said is actually reasonable. After all, you are also a cadre of a state-owned enterprise. You can't be too flexible. It's not too much to ask to give some basic care and decency to brother companies."

Yang Mo picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then glanced at You Yakun gently: "Old You, I don't like what you said. Although I am a good cadre in the same state-owned enterprise system, state-owned enterprises are also divided into central enterprises and local enterprises, and even central enterprises are divided into direct management and indirect management. There is a subtle difference in the position. I don't need to explain it anymore, right?"

"So, since the organization has asked me to be responsible for the operation and management of the big fund, then for the Urban Property Fund Company, whether it is a local state-owned enterprise or a village collective enterprise, it is the same... It is the same as a public economic entity."

"So, since everyone is equal, then everyone should make a living based on their own abilities. With fair competition in front of them, who can they blame if they don't do their best?"

At this point, Yang Mo showed a vaguely dangerous smile on his face: "Also, Lao You, we are all comrades in the same trench now, and I have to remind you again;"

"Dezhou is now a pilot city for the tax-sharing reform, and one of the important considerations for the country to implement the tax-sharing reform is to create a market environment that allows companies of all types to compete and develop fairly. If you have not missed any of the recent applications, you should know that I am not taking this for granted."

"So, from the perspective of a comrade, I don't want the organization to label you as not having enough awareness... You are at least in charge of Dezhou's economic construction. If you can't even level the playing field between public-owned economic entities, then when private enterprises, mixed-ownership enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, and joint ventures flourish everywhere, where are you going to go?"

Upon hearing this, You Yakun couldn't help but break out in a sweat.

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about key projects in many parts of the south planning to introduce foreign investment, including some heavy-duty chemical and manufacturing projects, and even resource projects. And for these ideas that seem extremely radical at the moment, after a period of consideration, the top leaders actually expressed encouragement, and even said something like "be bolder."

Therefore, Yang Mo's reminder is not wrong at all. There is indeed an idea to expand the scope of market opening and create a fair competition environment. As the person in charge of economic construction in a pilot city for tax-sharing reform, if he is still deeply trapped in various causal entanglements and cannot get out of them, and cannot even make the competition between public economic entities fair, then it is not difficult to imagine that even if the assistance in the reconstruction of the disaster-stricken areas in East China will be an indelible glory in his resume, but in a year or two, he will probably have to be transferred from Dezhou, and then work on a higher platform away from the front line, and then slowly spend time in the middle and back-end departments with glory, and slowly wait for retirement.

But the problem is...

Thinking of his old boss's calm phone call last night, You Yakun, who was a former chief secretary, swallowed his saliva and said, "But Lao Yang, everything has to be done step by step. You have to give those brother companies in the city a gradual adaptation process... You know, Dezhou's foundation is poor to begin with, and the city can't just rely on transfer payments from the organization."

Although he only said half of the sentence, everyone knew what the other half meant.

As an old industrial area, Dezhou, which has a poor economic foundation, currently has few relatively high-quality tax bases. Apart from Dahua Corporation and those resource-based mining companies, there are only large and medium-sized chemical companies and some manufacturing companies in the city.

Therefore, in order to maintain the city's finances, it is reasonable to give these companies more care...especially when DZ City has taken on a huge debt on its own in order to seize the opportunity to rebuild the disaster area.

Unexpectedly, Yang Mo shook his head after hearing this: "Old You, you are wrong, absolutely wrong! It is precisely because Dezhou has a poor foundation and because Dezhou has taken on a huge debt in order to win this aid opportunity that we cannot continue to use crutches to support these brother companies!"

You Yakun frowned when he heard this: "Old Yang, what do you mean by this? I don't quite understand."

Yang Mo glanced at him, seemingly not noticing the slight displeasure in his expression, and suddenly became serious: "Old You, do you remember what I talked to you about more than two months ago when we were sitting in this office?"

More than two months ago?
Also in this office?

Could it be that...

The time when Xialiu Sales Co. raised funds on a large scale?
Yang Mo and You Yakun had been very clear about their differences before, and the opportunities for them to be alone together were very few and far between, so You Yakun easily remembered which time Yang Mo was talking about.

After searching through his already slightly fuzzy memory, You Yakun finally slowly recalled the topic of that meeting. He opened his mouth in disbelief: "Lao Yang, you mean...?"

Yang Mo nodded: "Yes, I told you before that if the IRR in Texas is not improved, it will never be possible to upgrade the industry, and Texas will never have the opportunity to build a regional economy with both market vitality and competitiveness!"

"What's the point of just a few dozen or a hundred companies barely being able to maintain their suboptimal tax base? Can the little tax they pay every year cover the debt incurred by Texas in supporting the reconstruction of the disaster areas?"

Yang Mo leaned back somewhat defiantly, a hint of arrogance emerging between his brows: "My principle of doing things is, if I want to do something, I must do it to the best of my ability from the beginning; if I want to spend money, I must maximize the effect of every penny;"

“Although this support for disaster reconstruction will burden us with an unspeakably heavy debt, it is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Texas!”

"To be frank, everyone is eyeing the tens of billions of orders for aid projects, but in my opinion, what is the economic boost generated by the tens of billions of infrastructure projects?"

"Ever since our Urban Development Fund Company planned to strive for this aid opportunity and proposed the idea of ​​the Shandong-Hebei-Henan Industrial Economic Cooperation Framework, we definitely want more than what we have now!"

"Humph, what's the point of just a few dozen or even a hundred municipal enterprises paying taxes?"

"What the Texas region needs is thousands of companies that are more dynamic and competitive than these companies; what it needs is a steady stream of foreign investment that comes to it on its own initiative under the siphon effect, and a high-quality tax base that is ten or even a hundred times the current size!"

hiss~!

Hearing Yang Mo's extremely arrogant words, even You Yakun, who was very shrewd, couldn't help but take a long breath.

but……

IRR?

Can this young man's plan really work?
(End of this chapter)