1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 605 Crossing the River (2)

In later Qi and Lu, a very famous company once carried out a round of outrageous operations during a certain period of time.

This operation is roughly like this:

The predecessor of this company was a very famous coal mine. After the millennium, for various considerations such as reducing costs, increasing efficiency and improving market competitiveness, the organization required it to carry out institutional reforms, and then reorganized it into a new energy group based on it.

What was popular at the time was mixed ownership reform, and it was generally believed that the introduction of private capital and foreign capital could effectively improve the management level of enterprises.

As a result, the company began to issue bids to social capital.

I won’t go into details about the process in between.

The end result was that a not-so-well-known company invested several million yuan and successfully acquired a considerable proportion of the company's shares, and the company was successfully reorganized into a new energy group.

Then, the interesting part comes.

A few years later, the energy group began to seek a listing. Since its main business is coal mining and smelting, and coal is an important strategic resource for the country, for the sake of energy security, a company as large as this group must first expand state-owned shares to a reasonable proportion before listing, so that it can safely circulate part of the shares to the secondary market after listing.

However, after several years of development, the group has become a giant with assets of over 100 billion yuan. The cost of increasing the proportion of state-owned shares by increasing capital and expanding shares is too high.

How to do?
It’s very simple, just buy back shares before IPO!

Therefore, they bought back the shares from the unknown investment company at a price of more than 20 billion yuan.

In just a few years, an investment of several million turned into more than 20 billion, a return of thousands of times. I guess Soros would cry if he saw it.

Although the share repurchase attracted the attention of the organization because the actual owner of the invested enterprise was a second-generation person, all operations were compliant from beginning to end, and each step was followed according to formal procedures.

See? This is how the second generation at the top of the pyramid operates.

The plots in most movies and TV dramas about a top second generation behind a certain nightclub, bar or lending company are all nonsense. Even if there is a top second generation, he or she is a third-rate character. The real top second generation would never do such a high-risk thing with only tiny returns.

Their business approach is to take advantage of the resources at hand, especially the information advantage, to be one step ahead of others with "insight", and to obtain super high returns in areas with resource exclusivity through legal and compliant means (at least legal and compliant at the time) like a time traveler.

This is the case with a certain sports city in Spring City, a certain Crown Hotel in Lijiang, and even the various streets, cities, and centers that sprang up like mushrooms around the millennium.

The reform of the state-owned enterprise system is the third wave of strategic adjustments after the opening up, and it is also the wave with the most opportunities. Naturally, there are a lot of people who are ready to make moves.

Yang Mo never thought of confronting such things, and never felt that he, an ant, had the qualifications and ability to confront.

So when someone came to the door a month ago, hoping that Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company would show leniency and allow a coal mining company that had already participated in the disaster area reconstruction plan and obtained relevant heating and fertilizer raw material supply orders to "carry out institutional reforms in an orderly manner and bid for social capital in order to get rid of the historical debt burden as soon as possible", Yang Mo just pretended to talk to the other party for a while, and then put forward a few conditions that the other party could barely accept, and then reached an agreement.

The reason why the other party came to Yang Mo first was that various disaster relief projects were actually planned by the Urban Development Fund Company. Those projects that had won the bid were very important to the current livelihood and revenue of the coal mining company. It was also one of the prerequisites for the "corporate equity reform" to proceed in a relatively mild form. Therefore, in order to avoid Yang Mo's cancellation of the company's supply qualification due to unqualified qualifications and to avoid some well-known risks, the other party was willing to show sincerity and pay a price.

But this does not mean that the other party will be helpless if Yang Mo does not nod - reform is always accompanied by pain. Since the general direction has been determined, it is inevitable that some people will not understand and some small misunderstandings and conflicts will arise in the process.

Since you can't control them at the root, instead of letting the tragedy of some units after 94 not being able to pay wages and compensation and having to leave with nothing happen again, you might as well do a favor and propose a few conditions that are favorable to you, maintain the current business, and let those workers have food to eat for the time being... When the economy in Dezhou area is fully upgraded and the economic vitality and employment capacity are greatly improved, even if these workers are laid off, they will not be completely without a way out. Dezhou and Hengshui are only a few steps away. It may be cruel to ask you to leave your hometown and find your own way, but is it that difficult to run from Hengshui to Dezhou to make a living?
People are the most important means of production in the social economy. After having the most basic employment capacity, the larger the population, the more developed the regional economy... This was also one of the considerations when Yang Mo first proposed the establishment of the Shandong-Henan-Hebei Industrial Cooperation Framework. The medium-term goal is to form a strong population siphon force on the surrounding framework areas. Moreover, Texas is a plain area. Even if it attracts tens of millions of people, as long as they are not all in one go, it is definitely capable of accommodating them.

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Therefore, when Wei Hongjun mentioned the example of a coal mine in Hengshui, Yang Mo just smiled and said, "Mr. Wei, do you also intend to contribute to the institutional reform of local enterprises?"

"Which unit do you plan to visit?"

"If all the conditions are suitable, our Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company can also recommend you."

When Wei Hongjun heard that Yang Mo's address to him had changed from Mr. Wei to Mr. Wei, he felt a lot better. It seemed that the other party was not giving him any face at all.

But when he heard Yang Mo say "If all conditions are suitable", he couldn't help but feel a little sad.

The other party's words can be understood in many ways.

For example, you can understand that the conditions you offer must make the other party interested;

For example, you cannot reach out to Dezhou and Lanling, two areas that Yang Mo regards as his own territory, and you can only target units in other areas, etc.

But that's not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that when the other party says this, he is actually expressing an attitude clearly and unambiguously: I can give you face, but I can also not give you this face. It is up to you to strike the right balance in between.

To be honest, people like him are not afraid of those who give a lot of face, nor are they afraid of those who don't give face at all. However, they are most troubled by those who can give face but also can't give face... Discussing cooperation with such people is definitely the least cost-effective option.

Thinking of this, Wei Hongjun burst into laughter: "Boss Yang, you are joking. I don't understand enterprise restructuring and production management... My father always taught me not to get involved in things I don't understand, so I can only thank Boss Yang for his kindness."

Hearing this, Yang Mo looked at him in surprise, then nodded slightly: "Your father is indeed far-sighted. It is not a good thing to rashly participate in enterprise restructuring but fail to achieve results."

This statement is half a compliment and half a warning.

This wave of local enterprise restructuring did indeed bring in a lot of lice, but a lot of lice were also screened out in the process. A considerable proportion of people quickly fell to the bottom of their lives after enjoying a short period of carnival, and even their parents had to exit the stage early.

Looking at the corporate restructuring in the 90s and the real estate boom in the millennium, it is the same.

Sometimes Yang Mo doubted whether this was intentional on the part of the organization. After all, in the 1970s and 1980s, there were many children from large courtyards in various places, especially in the imperial capital, but after the first decade of the millennium, these people were rarely seen... Of course, perhaps the children from large courtyards were not the point, but what they represented.

Hearing Yang Mo's slightly threatening advice, Wei Hongjun's eyes flashed with a strange light, but his smile became more casual: "Boss Yang is indeed worthy of being Boss Yang, what he said is very thorough."

"As my father said, if you don't have the experience, don't do anything. For someone like me who lacks grassroots training, it's better not to rashly intervene in sensitive matters such as local enterprise restructuring, so that we don't lose even the most basic dignity when the time comes."

At this point, Wei Hongjun picked up a pine nut and put it in his mouth to chew. "So, after I stopped talking to my old man, I gave up on this matter. But then I thought, since enterprise restructuring involves the livelihoods of thousands or tens of thousands of workers and their families, I should stay out of it. So it's okay for me to get involved in something new, right?"

"Without historical baggage, there is no sensitivity; without precedent, there is no law to prohibit... Mr. Yang, what do you think?"

Something new?

Yang Mo frowned and looked at him with some confusion.

Seeing the inquiry in Yang Mo's eyes, Wei Hongjun grinned: "Mr. Yang, you must know about the Shanghai Stock Exchange that was established at the end of the year before last and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange that was officially listed in July this year, right?"

"Hey~ It was fine when the Shanghai Stock Exchange was first established, but when the Shenzhen Stock Exchange was established, all the stocks were played in a variety of ways..."

"Hey, Mr. Yang, why don't you think about it? Why is it that the stock market is so chaotic, and the organization is just constantly trying to make up for it, constantly studying and improving relevant regulations, but not pulling anyone out to punish them?"

"Hehe, even though the Shenzhen Stock Exchange has only been established for more than three months, several of my friends have made a lot of money!"

Why wasn't anyone pulled out and beaten?
It’s very simple, you can do anything unless prohibited by law!

After all, the country has no experience in this area. No matter what the reason, if someone takes advantage of a loophole, we have to admit it!
Of course, given Wei Hongjun's family background, the "brothers" he mentioned could not be those retail investors in the secondary market. Having the ability to mobilize relevant resources to find loopholes in some links is only the minimum condition. He might even have participated in or influenced the formulation of those regulations... The stock market is a new thing in China, but it is already a very mature thing abroad. Even for financial security reasons, China cannot copy it completely, but Yang Mo finds it emotionally difficult to accept that such a rough set of things was formulated when there was already a reference object.

However, there are some things that Yang Mo should not think about at his level, so he just smiled softly when he heard it: "Mr. Wei, unfortunately, neither Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company nor Dahua Company has any plans to get involved in the stock market; even all the winning companies participating in the East China Aid Project have no plans to go public for the time being;"

"Except for some super-large enterprises in the province, the only ones that may spin off subsidiaries and list them are probably the Dongying headquarters... So you should go to Dongying for this matter. I can't do anything about it."

Upon hearing this, Wei Hongjun waved his hands and said, "Boss Yang, you misunderstood. I was just giving you an analogy to roughly explain the benefits of new things... Besides, I've already said that some of my friends have already joined the securities business. People like us always pay attention to one person for one job. Unless I am willing to be humble, how can I have the face to join in? Don't you think so?"

Wei Hongjun's words undoubtedly confirmed some of Yang Mo's previous speculations. He frowned slightly, and his heart was alarmed.

The other party's implication is very clear. People with a background like Wei Hongjun have reached the level where they can get a share of the pie in the emerging incremental market by participating in the formulation of initial rules.

More importantly, unlike the previous buy low and sell high, this kind of gameplay cannot be mastered simply by a second generation.

In other words, the other party came here this time, possibly not only to represent himself, but also to represent a group of people behind him... This is both a demand and a demonstration.

Realizing this, Yang Mo stared at him quietly for a long time before gently raising his hand.

So Liu Jiong tactfully asked the female comrades from the art troupe who were livening up the atmosphere to leave. If Yang Mo hadn't said so, he would have even wanted to escape from the private room himself.

When the room became quiet, Yang Mo glanced at Wang Xin, who was starting to look unnatural, and then he put the last piece of dried deer on the plate into his mouth. His tone was as calm as a pool of stagnant water, "I wonder what new and interesting things Mr. Wei has found?"

No matter whether the guy in front of him was bluffing or really acting as a vanguard for the group of people behind him, he had to get a rough idea of ​​the other party's intentions first.

Wei Hongjun seemed to be very experienced in this situation. He leaned back slightly and smiled nonchalantly, "I know that Mr. Yang must be skeptical about my intentions... This is normal. Even if it's a friend, he still has to bring the eight Beijing items as gifts when he visits for the first time. What's more, I have never met you, Mr. Yang, before?"

"So, I will express my sincerity first. When you are satisfied and relieved, we can get to the point openly. What do you think?"

Yang Mo looked at him deeply, suddenly laughed, and then gave him a thumbs up without hesitation: "Exquisite!"

Seeing this, Wei Hongjun laughed and said, "For this first gift... I'll ask Liu Xing to be a witness for me."

As he said that, he casually patted Liu Jiong on the shoulder and said, "I heard that Liu Xing has been under a lot of pressure since he applied to the organization to set up a policy-related business department!"

"We are helping farmers in Dezhou and Lanling build high-standard vegetable greenhouses, and supporting pesticide and fertilizer manufacturers to improve their technology to meet the pesticide residue standards of the island country. In a few days, we will also be involved in supporting the planting and production of matcha in Tongren... I heard that someone in your system has reported that Liu Xing and General Manager Yang have teamed up to defraud funds under various names, and some leaders in your system are also considering whether to strengthen the constraints in this regard... Is that right, Liu Xing?"

Liu Jiong's face turned bitter when he heard this: "Brother Wei is basically right. The higher-ups did talk to me twice and hoped that I would pay attention to the application of funds."

After saying that, he turned to look at Yang Mo: "Old Yang, actually I have been wanting to find an opportunity to tell you about this. The opinion of the leaders in the system is that although the amount of policy funds for supporting the matcha industry in Tongren is huge, considering the particularity of Tongren, it has been agreed in principle at the meeting;"

"But once this funding is approved, I will have no hope of applying for policy-based funding within a year."

"That is to say, when you, Old Yang, wanted me to apply for policy funds from the organization to support the fruit planting industry in places like Lanling, Wucheng, and Leling, it's basically impossible... Although fruit planting belongs to agriculture, it is currently defined as a high-value-added planting industry and has nothing to do with the production of staple food. Before the No. 1 document of the organization officially mentioned it, it was originally a matter of whether to approve it or not."

When Yang Mo heard this, his brows immediately furrowed.

After opening up the policy loan business channel on Liu Jiong's side, vigorously developing the fruit planting industry in some areas was immediately put on the agenda.

The reason is simple. The total population of Dezhou and Lanling combined has long exceeded 10 million.

With such a large population, it is impossible to achieve complete poverty alleviation before the manufacturing industry is upgraded and the business ecology is completely replaced. Moreover, the per capita GDP itself determines whether the two regions that he regards as his own private territory can achieve economic ecology replacement in the shortest time. Therefore, finding ways to evenly increase the average annual income of these people has become a problem that must be solved. He is now racing against time and it is impossible for him to wait slowly for the overall environment to gradually improve.

It will take some time for the manufacturing industry to fully sink to the rural areas. With Dahua’s capital pool running out, it is impossible to add so many new industrial manufacturing jobs at the grassroots level in rural areas in a short period of time.
Dezhou is both an inland area and an important staple food and cotton producing area. The per capita farmland area is only a little over 2 mu. There are relevant rigid planting tasks there. Even with the 50 billion island country greenhouse vegetable forward contracts there, it is impossible to fully develop the greenhouse vegetable planting industry... Dezhou's location advantage cannot be compared with Shouguang and Yantai. With the current traffic environment and logistics costs, if it fully develops the ordinary vegetable planting industry, it will not be able to form a competitive advantage at all. Therefore, if greenhouse vegetables are to be developed, they can only focus on high-quality vegetables and specialty vegetables. However, high quality means a small market audience. Therefore, even if this type of planting can guarantee good profits under the coordination of Dahua's sales channels, it cannot accommodate so many practitioners.

Therefore, for a long period of time in the future, the fruit planting industry, which also has considerable returns, has become the most suitable choice, especially for those areas that already have the tasks of planting staple food and cotton... In fact, the reason why the country in later generations vigorously supported the fruit planting industry in various places, and even directly increased the total fruit output to half of the world, is to allow this part of farmers to achieve a balance in income. Therefore, when you look at the fruit map, if you find that a certain type of fruit produced in some areas is obviously not the best tasting, not the most cost-effective, but the output is quite large, there is no need to be surprised. After all, the country will only make trade-offs from the perspective of comprehensive social effects.

But the same thing goes, no matter how good the idea is, the initial start-up capital is the key. Before Document No. 1 formally mentioned the vigorous development of the fruit planting industry, Yang Mo's capital pool had already dried up. The only thing he could hope for now was to go through Liu Jiong to get the approval of this actually quite large amount of industry start-up capital.

Therefore, the news that Liu Jiong just told him could not be worse. If the fruit planting industry cannot be incubated in the short term, not only will Dezhou and Lanling areas lose their first-mover advantage in certain types of fruits, but it may also greatly slow down the iteration speed of the business ecology of these two regions. This is extremely unfavorable to Yang Mo's plan.

Hey~!

As your plate gets bigger and bigger and resources become scarce to a certain extent, your tolerance for error becomes lower and lower. Any sudden accident in any important link may have a serious adverse overall impact.

Yang Mo glanced at Liu Jiong, who looked a little unnatural, but didn't mean to blame him.

To be fair, although this guy is not a good person and the relationship between the two parties is more of an exchange of interests, the other party has helped me enough over this period of time.

The only thing to blame is that they grew too fast, had too big a plate, and had an unstable foundation. Their shortcomings of insufficient strategic self-sustainability were immediately highlighted.

Thinking of this, he did not say anything, but just looked at Wei Hongjun as usual, and listened quietly as if it had nothing to do with him, as if what had just happened had no impact on him at all.

Seeing this, Wei Hongjun cursed in his heart, this little fox in human skin didn't even react at all. How could this guy be a young man in his twenties?
You must have been involved in society since you were in your mother's womb!

However, no matter how aggrieved you feel, you still have to continue talking, otherwise the other party will really look down on you.

So he imitated Yang Mo intentionally or unintentionally and put on a nonchalant demeanor: "If it is normal, Liu Xing is unlikely to apply for a larger amount of policy funds in the next year. In fact, because the business unit in Dezhou was established less than two months ago, the amount of funds applied for is more than other regions in a whole year, it will be difficult to get a larger amount of funds approved after a year;"

"but……"

"Who told me to make friends with you two, Mr. Yang and Liu Xing?"

"So, Liu Xing might as well take some time to call XXX and have a casual chat. I'm sure you'll be able to confirm some good news from this leader in your system."

As he spoke, Wei Hongjun leisurely picked up a piece of Feilong meat and put it into his mouth: "The first batch of 1.1 million policy loans for promoting the incubation and development of the fruit planting industry in Dezhou has been approved after research;"

"In addition, in order to respond to the national call, cooperate with the strategic positioning of Qilu to connect the north and the south, and give full play to the advantages of DZ City as a leader in cross-regional linkage, the leaders of your system have decided after careful discussion to give Liu Xing another 5 million yuan in special approval budget this year to incubate emerging potential industries in Dezhou. It is also a compensation for Dezhou, which has spared no effort to help the reconstruction of the disaster-stricken areas."

After saying that, Wei Hongjun looked at Yang Mo with interest: "But I don't know, Mr. Yang, are you satisfied with this gift from me?"

Before Yang Mo could react, Liu Jiong took a deep breath.

Give yourself another special budget of 5 million this year?
It is already mid-to-late October, and in less than two months, 5 million yuan of policy loan quota can be allocated by ourselves?
What a grand gesture!
More importantly...

It has only been about five days since our last conversation.

There has been a 180-degree reversal in just five days, and I am asked to go to the imperial capital right now to confirm it in person with a leader who is two levels higher than me?

Such incredible energy!!

Although this 5 million yuan budget is most likely "deposited" with him, it is precisely because of this that the young man in front of him is even more terrifying!
No wonder the person who called me today repeatedly told me to treat this distinguished guest with the highest standards and the most serious attitude!
Unlike Liu Jiong who got two huge benefits for nothing, Yang Mo's reaction was much calmer.

However, he only looked at Wei Hongjun with a little curiosity, but he didn't even say a word of thanks. Instead, he showed a slightly interested smile on his face: "As the saying goes, when you give a gift to someone, you must ask for something... But I don't know what Mr. Wei wants to ask for?"

Hearing that the other party didn't even use a "valuable gift", his attitude became even more indifferent.

For a moment, Wei Hongjun was unsure whether his gift had hit the mark, and he began to murmur in his heart. The pride that had just risen in his heart suddenly disappeared.

But no matter whether the touch is accurate or not, now that things have come to this, we have to continue.

After a moment of hesitation, Wei Hongjun still smiled, but his confidence was less than three points. "Boss Yang, I heard that... you plan to rebuild the commercial circulation system in the disaster-stricken cities that are included in the radiation range of the Shanghai Economic Circle, and focus on planning some very trendy, super-large commodity wholesale and trade centers?"

Oh?
Are you here for this?

Have a vision!
The advance degree of top-level information acquisition is also sufficient.

Yang Mo looked at the other person, and the smile on his face began to playfully turn...

(End of this chapter)