1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 598: Master and Disciple (1)

Although Yang Mo and the people around him call it TR City TR City all day long, that is just the habit of the people of Qi and Lu, and to avoid confusion. In fact, before 2011, its official name was "Tongren District".

A small addition here is that, unlike the simply geographical description of regions in spoken language, the "region" here is an agency dispatched by provinces and autonomous regions, managing several counties, autonomous counties and cities; it is not a first-level local authority and does not have a congress; the relevant work departments are also responsible for business guidance by the superior authorities that dispatched it... Strictly speaking, a "region" is a virtual administrative area.

What’s important is that the administrative status of a “region” is equivalent to that of a prefecture-level city, and both are directly under the jurisdiction of the province.

However, if you simply understand "region" as a prefecture-level city, you would be wrong.

Let me put it this way, in China, only six provinces, namely Qinghai-Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Qinghai and Heilongjiang, have administrative units at the "regional" level. As long as you have a rough idea of ​​the regional location and ethnic composition of these places in your mind, you can immediately notice the differences between them.

In fact, if you look up the basic information of Tongren area at that time, a long series of names such as "YPDZ Autonomous County", "YJTJZMZ Autonomous County", "YHTJZ Autonomous County", etc. will jump into your eyes... Even students who don't care about current affairs can figure out something through these names with extremely obvious characteristics.

In addition, there is the Wanshan Mercury Mine, which was once the largest in the world but was hollowed out in the 1950s and 1960s to repay foreign debts and was even called "patriotic mercury" by Premier Zhou.

Directly under the provincial government, the administrative level is equivalent to that of a prefecture-level city, or even slightly higher;

It is adjacent to Hunan across the border and next to Huaihua.

An autonomous county with many ethnic groups and one water in its jurisdiction;
The "world's largest mercury mine" that made great sacrifices and bore many historical consequences, and even the Wanshan Special Zone that was restored for the second time in 1970...

Apart from other things, these few factors combined alone determined that even though the Tongren area at this time was still notoriously poor like the rest of Guizhou, from another dimension, it was already enough to become a treasure trove ally with amazing potential...Although Texas had left Tongren far behind economically at this time, when it came to the strength of its backing in the administrative system and the convenience of its authority, Tongren was far ahead of Texas.

Don't think this is just wishful thinking. The fact that Tongren in later generations became one of the regions with the highest prices in Guizhou simply due to transfer payments, and that it ranked among the top in the province in terms of special development funds received during the Western Development Program, is enough to explain many problems.

Therefore, if Yang Mo and Tongren can reach a close cooperation, the benefits are self-evident... The special characteristics of the Tongren area provide plenty of ways to help Yang Mo gain some benefits and deter some ungrateful guys. There is also the possibility of a win-win situation for both parties economically.

But what is a bit surprising is...

Faced with such a Tongren inspection team whose potential should not be underestimated, Yang Mo only showed up at the welcoming party and then allowed the inspection team to visit and study in various regions and enterprises in Dezhou according to their own itinerary.

In Yang Mo's words, after all, he is not from the administrative system. Since the inspection team has been accompanied by staff from the local competent authorities in Texas throughout the trip, he will not interfere... It will not be too late for both parties to organize exchanges after the other party completes the established inspection itinerary.

However, since the Tongren inspection team has arrived in Texas, and Bai Mengmeng's father is among them, then after the five-day observation trip is over, she will naturally go back with them... In fact, Tongren had already submitted a talent exchange list to the drilling company through the organization before the inspection team set off, and Bai Mengmeng's name was on the list.

Therefore, after spending two days handing over work to Zhuo Junyue who was transferred back to the General Office, the young apprentice immediately rushed to Dezhou and began to serve his master in front of everyone.

After this separation, they were separated by thousands of miles, and the master and disciple didn't know when they would be reunited again, so Bai Mengmeng cherished the last time he spent with his master.

It’s just that Yang Mo has been very busy recently, even busier than before.

Therefore, even though Bai Mengmeng was in front of Yang Mo all day, the two of them had no time to sit down and talk.

Therefore, the young disciple, who was not suitable to help his master deal with those documents at the moment, took the initiative to take on the responsibility of teaching the younger generation, which could be regarded as reducing some of the burden on his master...

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"Wang Xin, although you are following Mr. Yang mainly for learning, since you have the title of assistant secretary, even if you have no experience or foundation, you still have to help Mr. Yang with some basic work... The more time Mr. Yang can squeeze out, the more help he will have for your learning and growth, isn't that right?"

In the secretary's office, Bai Mengmeng looked at Wang Xin with a smile. She had changed into a professional suit and looked like an enthusiastic senior schoolmate.

Wang Xin glanced at the pile of documents on her desk, the letterhead filled with handwritten messages, and the blank to-do list. She nodded awkwardly, "Director Bai, thank you for your advice, but... I, I have never done this before. I heard Sister Zhuo's instructions clearly when she left, but when I started, I suddenly didn't know what to do."

Based on the principle of gradual progress, Wang Xin now only needs to classify, refine and summarize various information, and register visitor information, and submit it to Yang Mo for processing according to the weight ranking... At noon or when Yang Mo is free, he will use some documents and projects as cases to teach her some things step by step.

In fact, Wang Xin has more than a year of work experience, and she works as a host. She usually collects news materials and writes press releases. It stands to reason that she should not be unable to do simple tasks such as summarizing information and arranging to-do items.

But the problem is, according to the original habit of the drilling company, various documents and files only need to be classified and organized according to departments and nature categories, but Dahua Company and Urban Development Fund Company report and ask for instructions from Yang Mo according to the project progress. Not only do you need to classify them according to the project Gantt chart of the confidential room, but you also need to decide the time for each batch of submissions based on the importance and urgency of these documents... Fortunately, she is only an assistant secretary, and she is not qualified or required to write informal approval opinions like Bai Mengmeng did at the beginning, otherwise she would really collapse.

There was no other way. Ever since he had Zhuo Mali as his general assistant, all the documents sent to Yang Mo for review were projects involving extremely huge amounts of money and extremely high comprehensive values; or those internal matters that were quite puzzling and required Yang Mo, the person in charge, to make decisions... How could a little host who had only been working for a year understand these things?
You can't even understand the contents of the file, how can you prioritize?

The same principle applies to registering visitor information. There are so many people who want to meet Yang Mo every day, and the reasons for their visits are all kinds of strange, and many of them say the situation is extremely urgent.

If you are in a drilling company, this is easy to do. Unless there is an emergency, you can just sort the visitors from high to low according to their rank. Unless the visitor has an unknown private relationship with the leader, such an arrangement will basically not go wrong.

But this approach doesn't work for Yang Mo.

Nowadays, there are all kinds of people who want to meet Yang Mo, and quite a few of them are supervisors with very impressive titles. If they are simply ranked according to their job levels, even those who have important matters to report in the company may not be able to meet Yang Mo even if they wait for a week.

Therefore, Yang Mo’s requirement in this regard is: visitors who are not related to the company’s projects will be placed at the back, and visitors who discuss topics that do not involve important aspects of the project will be placed at the back. After meeting the first two requirements, visitors with lower topic weights will be placed at the back.

In a word, compared to the drilling company, Yang Mo's side is a completely new environment. Although she has only been here for two days, Wang Xin feels unfamiliar and uncomfortable in every way. She feels that she can't even get into the most basic work. One can imagine how frustrated this girl is.

Bai Mengmeng smiled when he heard this, "Both Dahua Company and Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company are platform companies that focus on investment and incubation business, which are naturally very different from drilling companies that focus on production tasks."

"And let's put the objective situation here at President Yang's side. Although they are both second-level units, it's no exaggeration to say that the platform height of President Yang's side is no longer on the same level as the drilling company. Although you are just an assistant secretary and are only handling the most basic work at the moment, you are with President Yang after all. Compared with your previous job as a TV host in the company, the dimension of your work content is more than two or three degrees higher."

"It's normal for you to be uncomfortable with such a huge leap... Anyway, I was much worse off than you at the beginning. At least you could still do specific work and learn while doing it. At that time, Mr. Yang held my head down and analyzed my nonsense in the office for nearly a month. I almost shut myself in!"

It has to be said that after serving as acting director for nearly a year and personally leading a team to assist the disaster-stricken areas in East China, Bai Mengmeng has grown very fast. Although they are of similar age to the others, he has become extremely skilled in the means of comforting people.

Seeing Bai Mengmeng's face full of pain, Wang Xin couldn't help laughing. The depression she had felt because she couldn't get into work mode for a long time suddenly dissipated.

Bai Mengmeng saw that Wang Xin's mood had improved a little, so he continued, "However, everything still needs to be done in a proper way so that you can quickly get into the right state... It's different from before. Now, eight out of ten documents and requests that can be handed to Mr. Yang involve super projects worth millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions. So even though it's just helping Mr. Yang screen some basic information, it's hard to say that more than 90% of people are really competent;"

"But Wang Xin, you have a good foundation. As long as you can master the method, I estimate that you will be able to get into the state in three to five days at most."

Although Wang Xin was very grateful for the comfort from this senior sister who was not a senior sister, she still smiled a little unconfidently when she heard it: "Director Bai, please don't comfort me. You can get into the state in three to five days? How can I be so good at it?"

It's no wonder that this girl is like a frosted eggplant. If you were in anyone's shoes, you would also lose your energy if all you see are documents and contents you can't understand.

Bai Mengmeng laughed when she heard this: "I'm really not trying to comfort you... Wang Xin, I heard that you, like Xiao Zhuo, are both majoring in journalism?"

Wang Xin's eyes flashed with embarrassment: "Actually, they are not exactly the same. Although we both graduated from the Department of Journalism, Sister Zhuo and I studied different majors..."

Before he could finish his words, Bai Mengmeng interrupted him: "Oh, it doesn't matter. The public courses are all pretty much the same anyway, and you've been working at the company's TV station for another year, so that's enough."

Wang Xin blinked and looked at her with confusion.

Bai Mengmeng shrugged, "You are a newcomer after all, and you don't know much about the ins and outs of these projects and the operational procedures. In addition, you are not a business major, so you can't understand the professional terms and twists and turns here, so it's normal that you are completely in the dark. But you are an assistant secretary after all, not the assistant to the general manager, and you are not doing any decision-making work at the moment. With your foundation, you can refer to the Reference News distributed by the secretariat, as well as the news broadcasts broadcast by CCTV and the provincial TV station every night, find the right direction, and prioritize most of the documents, right?"

Wang Xin was a little dumbfounded: "News broadcast?"

Bai Mengmeng hummed and said, "As I said just now, the documents that can be sent to Mr. Yang for review now are all extremely important documents involving huge investments from various parties... Do you know what this means?"

Wang Xin thought about it carefully, hesitated several times, and finally shook her head blankly.

Bai Mengmeng didn't show any mocking expression on his face. He just tapped the table lightly and said, "This means that Mr. Yang's work has basically shifted from the specific to the macro... Do you understand what I mean now?"

Turning to macro?
Wang Xin suddenly had a feeling in her heart, and blurted out subconsciously: "So you let me read newspapers and news every day, hoping to use their vane function to preliminarily screen and sort the weight and urgency of some documents?"

Bai Mengmeng nodded in amazement: "I was saying that Wang Xin, you have a good foundation, you understand everything at once. That's what I mean... Now the company's first priority is to ensure the smooth implementation of the 10 billion aid plan, and the second priority is to promote industrial upgrading in various fields in DZ City... These are all highly related to the news from CCTV and the provincial TV station. It can't be wrong to prioritize according to the signals released by the country and the province, right?" As he spoke, Bai Mengmeng's tone was a little doubtful: "However, this is just a general direction, but specific issues need to be analyzed specifically. Wang Xin, can you really understand those news..."

After a slight pause, Bai Mengmeng said in a cautious and tentative tone: "If CCTV News reports today that the leader of France is visiting China today, what does that mean?"

When Wang Xin mentioned her professional field, she suddenly became more confident: "Of course, it means that the two sides may have reached some agreements... It is unlikely that leaders of this level will return empty-handed."

Bai Mengmeng nodded happily: "That's right, but it is more likely that a large number of foreign trade opportunities will be generated after the exchange of visits. As for what valuable foreign trade opportunities will be generated, we have to look at it in conjunction with other news... So, if you see this kind of news on the first day, how will you arrange your work the next day?"

Wang Xin did not hesitate at all: "Then we must give priority to submitting the documents related to the External Affairs Department to General Manager Yang for review... As for whether it is the First or Second Department, it depends on who is visiting."

After saying that, Wang Xin thought for a moment and added, "If there are local manufacturing companies and competent departments in Dezhou related to these foreign trade opportunities, they will also be notified to Mr. Yang first if they come to visit."

Bai Mengmeng laughed and gave a big encouraging expression, but then poured a little cold water on him: "No, this is too reckless... What if the news said that the two sides had a frank conversation?"

Wang Xin reacted: "Yes, if the wording of the news is that they had a frank conversation, it means that the two sides have great differences and are almost unable to communicate. In that case, I should not have submitted those documents first, and those relevant visitors should not have been reported directly to President Yang."

Bai Mengmeng: "What if the wording in the news means that there was an exchange of opinions?"

Wang Xin: "Then we shouldn't bother Mr. Yang. This shows that both parties are talking about their own things and haven't reached any agreement."

Bai Mengmeng: "What if we had an in-depth exchange of opinions?"

Wang Xin: "We can't disturb Mr. Yang either. We want to have an in-depth discussion. I understand. It just means that we are arguing a lot... After all, how can we reach an agreement?"

Bai Mengmeng: "What if the wording enhances mutual understanding?"

Wang Xin hesitated a little: "It depends on the situation. This shows that the two sides have great differences, but it is not impossible to reach an agreement. However, whether the agreement reached has guiding value is hard to say. It needs to be analyzed together with the news from the newspapers and the provincial TV station."

Wang Xin, who had gradually regained some confidence, continued to talk: "In addition, if the news says that the talks were beneficial, it means that although the goals of both parties are very different, at least they can sit down and talk, so the agreement reached has certain guiding value... At that time, the relevant documents should be submitted to Mr. Yang at a more appropriate time, so that he can make a choice."

"Of course, if the wording of the news suggests that the two sides had a cordial and friendly conversation, then it means that there is a high probability that the two sides have reached some agreements with guiding value. At that time, I should send the relevant documents to Mr. Yang for review as soon as possible the next day."

Bai Mengmeng generously gave Wang Xin a thumbs up, but before the girl's mouth could fully open, the second bucket of cold water was poured on her: "I told you, Wang Xin, you have such a good foundation, it will be no problem to get started in three to five days, but... the analysis just now is still too general. After all, we are a company and need some more concrete guidance information. How can you ensure that the agreement reached in this level of meeting is an opportunity we can seize?"

After saying that, Bai Mengmeng thought about it and found that this question was a bit too embarrassing for the newcomer, so he immediately added: "Okay, these matters will naturally be decided by Mr. Yang, but at the very least, when you are doing the preliminary screening and summary of information, you should figure out which industries these agreements will have a positive stimulating effect on, or more precisely, which links and ecological niches of the industry, right?"

Wang Xin was stunned. She didn't even know that an assistant secretary had to do this. How could she know how to figure out all this?

Seeing this, Bai Mengmeng did not embarrass her, but gently reminded her: "For this level of mutual visit, both sides will be accompanied by a business delegation, and the members of these business delegations will also sign the business contracts... Find a way to get the list of members of the business delegations from both sides through the administrative system, and you will know which industries the two sides' commercial cooperation demands are generally concentrated in. Then find a way to find out the corporate product composition of these business delegation members, as well as the customs data for the past three years, and you will roughly know which industries the agreement reached this time will have a positive promoting effect on, and whether there is any possibility of benefiting from our industrial foundation."

Wang Xin swallowed and said, "Director Bai...does it require so much preparation?"

Bai Mengmeng laughed: "If it were an ordinary assistant secretary, you probably wouldn't have to do such detailed work, but you are different... Since Boss Yang assigned you a specific position, but didn't assign you a new personal secretary after Xiao Zhuo was transferred back, it means he still has expectations for you."

After that, he continued to talk to himself: "Of course, although the exchange of visits between leaders of the two countries happens from time to time, the frequency is not that high. Therefore, on weekdays, you need to pay more attention to domestic reports and information about the leaders in the news... In fact, this information is more valuable for us to guide."

"For example, where senior officials are going on business trips is very important information;"

"If a leader attends an exhibition of a certain industry, it means that this industry is currently being developed as a priority, and various funds and policies will be tilted in favor of it... Even if it is a high-ranking leader, when he appears at the exhibition, it means that the province wants to focus on developing this industry;"

“If the leader holds a meeting in a certain place and broadcasts part of the meeting content through the media, it means that this place will soon undergo changes. If the area is where the company’s important business is located and important personnel from related regions visit at the same time, do not hesitate to inform General Manager Yang immediately... At the same time, you also need to pay close attention to the business teams that travel with the leader. The reason is the same as above, but the difference is that the orders they sign may affect the expansion of our project business and even affect the next strategic layout of those projects.”

"In addition, the mobilization of local leaders is also very important, especially those areas in the disaster-stricken areas and the industrial cooperation and manufacturing framework of Shandong, Henan and Hebei that we are responsible for. Once relevant news appears in the media, it is imperative to present the relevant project documents and visitor information of the area to General Manager Yang as soon as possible."

"Of course, the specific situation needs to be analyzed specifically. If a leader from an economically developed region is transferred to an economically backward region, then overall, this is a good thing, so the relevant project documents of the region can be reported to General Manager Yang as soon as possible, but there is no rush to report the visitor information."

"But if the situation is reversed, then do not hesitate. Even if Mr. Yang is on a business trip or meeting with guests at the time, you must report the situation immediately."

Shrugging his shoulders, Bai Mengmeng explained, "Mr. Yang is very used to separating work and life. Therefore, although he insists on watching the news broadcast and Qilu Provincial TV every day, he doesn't watch much news from other provincial TV stations or local news. In terms of this source of information, he relies more on newspapers... So overall, his information sensitivity in this area is mixed. After all, newspapers generally don't report much information below the prefecture-level city level."

With a wicked smile on his face, he said, "So, after becoming Mr. Yang's assistant secretary, Wang Xin, you probably won't have time to date after get off work. You'll just have to wait in front of the TV at night... And I suggest that you apply to the administrative department for a VCR and some tapes, or even an extra TV. After all, you now need to watch more than just CCTV News and the Qilu Provincial TV station on a regular basis every day."

When Wang Xin heard this, she felt like the sky was falling.

Do you have to sit in front of the TV to watch the news after get off work every day, and then write down the potentially important news one by one?
I am only twenty-three years old!

My youth!!!

But in fact, Bai Mengmeng was also doing this for her own good. Since her master had already promised to help Wang Yinuo train Wang Xin, he naturally could not go back on his word.

Not only did Wang Xin have no foundation in business, but she was also very similar to herself in the past in that... this girl lacked a broad perspective and was not very sensitive to current affairs. In fact, because she had not received any systematic family education, Wang Xin was even worse than herself in this regard.

It just so happens that the other party will be transferred to Xinjiang and Central Asia in the future to work with Uncle Zhang. For a cross-border project like this, which is in a place like Central Asia, lack of macro-vision and sensitivity is a very fatal thing.

What to do if you don’t have talent?
Just practice hard using the tactic of doing a lot of questions!
Didn't I, at the beginning, also refresh my vision book by book under the strong pressure of my master?

So what Bai Mengmeng said to Wang Xin half in a half-inducing and half-threatening way was to let this girl approach the issue from an angle that the other party had some basic knowledge of, and repeat the painful journey she had walked in the past.

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For the next hour or so, Bai Mengmeng patiently took the documents and reports on the table as cases and personally guided the girl to try to practice what he had just said.

Fortunately, after serving as the acting director for nearly a year, a certain young apprentice's ability to manipulate other people's emotions has risen to the golden level. Although he still lacks some experience in dealing with those old hands, it is very easy for him to mobilize the emotions of a newbie like Wang Xin.

Therefore, when it was almost time to get off work, under the repeated stimulation of dopamine in the body, Wang Yinuo's illegitimate daughter actually gradually became a little bit better.

Just when Bai Mengmeng wanted to make further efforts to maintain the state and feeling of this girl who would stay by her master's side for at least a year in the future...

Knock knock~
Following two gentle knocks on the door, Yang Mo, dressed in autumn clothes, appeared in the secretary's office.

"Xiao Xin, it's time to get off work. You've been tired all day. Go back and have a good rest. Regain your energy and continue tomorrow."

Yang Mo smiled and waved towards his new niece, acting like an elder.

Seeing Wang Xin let out a long sigh of relief, and then left with some hesitation and reluctance, Yang Mo turned around and touched his little apprentice's head: "Let's go to Commercial Street 1. Master will treat you to a big meal today!"

Eh?
Bai Mengmeng looked at his master with a puzzled look on his face: "Master, I'm not going to your house anymore? I was planning to show you my skills."

In the past two days, the first thing Bai Mengmeng did after get off work every day was to go into the kitchen of Yang Mo's house and prepare a large table of food... It seems that in the eyes of Guizhou people, the greatest filial piety is for an apprentice to cook for his master and feed him well.

Yang Mo laughed when he heard that. "I won't cook at home today. You will be going back to Tongren in a few days. The day before yesterday, I went with You Shi and others to receive your father's delegation. After thinking about it, I decided that as your master, I should give you a gift before you leave... You went into the kitchen and spent more than an hour, and then you had to rush to wash the dishes. It was a waste of time."

Gift?

Did you come up with this idea after meeting the inspection team the day before yesterday?
Bai Mengmeng suddenly understood something, and then nodded heavily:
"Ok!"

(End of this chapter)