1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 615: Close yet distant, neither rude nor resentful

Five minutes later, Yang Mo hung up the phone and returned to the tea table with a slightly relaxed look.

Sinochem 13th Construction Company and Cai Zhengwei only have a normal superior-subordinate relationship and are not the other party's direct subordinate. Therefore, even if there is a conflict between him and Cai Zhengwei, the construction work of future chemical projects in Dezhou will not be substantially affected.

After clarifying this, Yang Mo suddenly felt a lot more relieved.

Picking up the teacup and taking a sip of the tea that Zhuo Mali had passed to him, Yang Mo finally felt like taking out a cigarette and lighting it up: "By the way, Sister Zhuo, have you asked someone to find out about the situation at the Zhongyuan Oilfield? Is the current situation really that difficult?"

Zhuo Mali curled her lips and said, "Why do you need to ask about this kind of thing? I guess, apart from you, a busybody who does nothing all day, there is no cadre above the section level in the entire Qilu Petroleum system who doesn't know about it."

After complaining about her boss who never paid attention to the affairs of the system, Zhuo Mali sighed slightly: "Since last year, the Zhongyuan Oilfield has also been required to reduce costs and increase efficiency;"

"So as expected, they also started to transfer some employees in batches, just like the Dongying headquarters... The only difference between the two sides is that Dongying's cost reduction and efficiency increase were inevitably partly intended to achieve results, while the transfer of employees at the Zhongyuan Oilfield was forced to do so because the efficiency had declined too sharply."

"But the problem is that Puyang itself is not a big city, and the industry of the oil-based city is relatively single. Therefore, as the profitability of the Zhongyuan Oilfield declines, it is simply unable to provide enough jobs. "

"So, after the Zhongyuan Oilfield relocated three batches of about 4000 contract workers last year, it didn't dare to relocate any more... There was no other way. If there weren't enough jobs, it would be a big problem to leave so many families with sharply reduced incomes there."

"Originally, with Puyang being included in the Shandong-Henan-Hebei industrial manufacturing cooperation framework, the Zhongyuan Oilfield saw hope. After all, with the 10 billion yuan aid plan as a foundation, Puyang's series of manufacturing industries represented by small machinery have ushered in a large wave of orders. As long as the performance of each unit improves, the Zhongyuan Oilfield will swallow its pride and go to the city. Even if it is impossible to divert all the laid-off workers, it should not be difficult to solve the problem of some of them;"

"However, the unfortunate thing is that although we have placed orders, the quality standards and production capacity requirements for the products are a bit harsh for local state-owned enterprises. In addition, they are very resistant to the introduction of process management and leadership responsibility systems. Therefore, more than 80% of the winning companies there are village collective enterprises;"

"Local state-owned enterprises have received few orders, so they naturally cannot recruit more people. Therefore, the employee transfer work of the Zhongyuan Oilfield is still stagnant. If it weren't for the help of the Dongying Command Center to exchange some employees from time to time, they would have been criticized for their slow progress in cost reduction and efficiency improvement!"

"In short, after two years of delay, the number of employees transferred from the Zhongyuan Oilfield is less than 50... Compared with their more than 24 employees and their families (later only ), although it is not a drop in the bucket, it is not much different."

"In this 10,000-li area, there are nearly 2,000 people who were helped by the Dongying Command in the name of exchange and transfer. You can imagine how difficult it was to transfer employees there... This matter even alarmed the department and the head office, and was specifically discussed at the autumn work meeting."

At this point, Zhuo Mali refilled Yang Mo's cup of tea and suddenly tilted her head to look at him: "Brother, do you know why this matter has alarmed the department and the head office?"

Yang Mo shrugged: "Because the cost reduction and efficiency improvement work is progressing too slowly?"

As Zhuo Mali said, this guy really does not have the self-awareness of an oilfield cadre. As for the internal affairs of the system, Yang Mo adopts an almost indifferent and bystander attitude. He will never attend any meeting if he can find an excuse not to attend it. Many people even suspected that if the person in charge of the cost reduction and efficiency improvement work of the Dongying Command was not Mu Siyuan, perhaps this guy would never deal with the main business of the command in his life.

But this can't be blamed entirely on Yang Mo. In his previous life, he had seen too many shitty things in this system, and he had no filter for the word "oil workers". In fact, in his opinion, the lingering sense of superiority and vanity of most oil workers were even more annoying than those of ordinary state-owned enterprise employees... If the diversion of 200,000 employees had not been a huge bargaining chip, Yang Mo would never have touched it at the beginning.

Since he had no feelings for the oil system, he really had no interest in paying attention to whether the diversion of other oil field workers was going smoothly or not.

Zhuo Mali looked at the indifferent boss in silence: "It's not just because the work is progressing slowly. Brother, do you know that just because there are about 5,000 unemployed employees, various social problems have emerged there, causing a social impact that cannot be underestimated! This is why the department and the head office attach so much importance to it!"

Yang Mo shrugged his shoulders. "It's nothing more than disturbing public order. Stealing, robbing, blocking, smashing, extorting, using all kinds of tricks... There are so many chaos everywhere nowadays. I heard that the country is considering a severe crackdown. When the time comes, we will treat everyone equally and deal with them all at once, won't it be peaceful?"

Zhuo Mali choked up immediately: "But it is an indisputable fact that the laid-off workers' income has dropped sharply due to the poor performance of the enterprise. As a central enterprise, it is unable to solve the living difficulties of its employees. Isn't this something that is worth reflecting on?"

Yang Mo naturally knew who had come up with the word "reflection" and what some people were trying to do with it, but he curled his lips and said, "Just because life is difficult, you can do whatever you want? Even if your income is not as good as before, you still have 30 to 50 yuan a month plus two bags of rice and flour... I won't mention the people in rural areas, how about we pull out the data and see what the living standards are for those state-owned enterprise employees who haven't been paid for more than half a year?"

If the survival status of ordinary state-owned enterprises is divided by 1994, then the survival status of a number of central enterprises in the oil system is divided by 1998;
It is fair to say that before and after the dividing line, whether it is a local state-owned enterprise or a central state-owned enterprise, the living conditions of its employees are qualitatively different;

As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even if the performance of the Central Plains Oilfield is not good, it is still much more secure than ordinary local enterprises. Therefore, although the income of those laid-off employees has shrunk significantly compared with before, Yang Mo would never believe it if you said they could really starve.

Even if you really are in financial difficulty due to issues like children's tuition fees and the elderly's medical expenses, you can just push a tricycle to the street to sell roasted sweet potatoes. Nowadays, even if you sell roasted sweet potatoes, the money you earn is definitely enough to feed your family... The reason you are unwilling to go is simply because you can't bring yourself to do that kind of work, and you look down on this kind of work, and you think it's shameful to do such a job that puts you in the spotlight.

Compared with the laid-off workers and migrant workers who were forced to go to the city to make a living a few years later, these people are like the pretentious freaks lying on the warm kang and complaining that the weather is cold.

Zhuo Mali found it hard to understand the brother's indifference, and sighed helplessly: "But many female employees' families have to do some sex trade privately because of financial difficulties, and even a number of husband-and-wife shops have emerged. This influence should be considered bad, right?"

Yang Mo looked at her with a strange expression.

Sister, it’s not like you don’t know what’s going on in our oil system;
It's just some shady business.
Don’t you know what the small hotels of various units are?

Don’t you know that there are so many young wives shuttling back and forth in the driller building every day?

Are there fewer girls who take the initiative to throw themselves into the arms of their leaders?
Is it even less common for men to send their wives to sleep with their superiors?
To use the words from "Dream of the Black Chamber", there is no clean place in the entire Jia Mansion except the pair of lions at the gate.

Again, before the 94/98 dividing line arrived, employees of central enterprises who did such embarrassing things did not deserve any sympathy at all.

Besides...

It seems that you are from Northeast China, right?

Compared to the dirty things done by those guys in the oil system who can't let go of their past vanity, I really want to know, a few years later, when you see the "Rouge Street" in the Northeast and see those men who are really forced to push their wives to other people's homes on bicycles because of life's difficulties, what will you feel?

It's just... Yang Mo has already obtained the information he wanted. Since some people above have begun to make a fuss about the chaos among these laid-off workers, the actual value of this matter to Cai Zhengwei has suddenly increased. The transformation of the main business of the Central Plains Oilfield is no longer just a simple basic plate for him.

After a moment of silence, Yang Mo suddenly spoke up: "Sister Zhuo, I don't plan to speak for Zeiss at the organization's routine inquiry meeting, and I don't plan to help him persuade the organization to introduce a large number of advanced chemical equipment and technologies from Europe and the United States in East China;"

"After all, this may consume a large amount of our foreign exchange quota. I also want to win a certain amount of orders for some chemical equipment manufacturers in parts of East China... After all, the market share of chemical equipment in Dezhou is still a little small. If we can win more market orders, the technology research and development speed of those chemical equipment manufacturers with whom we already have a cooperative relationship can be greatly increased. The faster their technology iteration, the more obvious the feedback to Dezhou's chemical industry will be."

Zhuo Mali nodded as expected after hearing this: "Okay, I will find a chance to spread this news to those units. No matter whether you succeed in the end, they must promise something, and they must promise it in a big way, so that it will be convenient for future work to be carried out."

Yang Mo smiled with satisfaction and continued, "Although it is impossible to help Zeiss obtain more European and American imported chemical equipment and technology, we can help the Zhongyuan Oilfield with its main business transformation;"

"At least……"

"As long as they can complement our local chemical industry in Texas, especially the advantageous chemical projects and mid-to-high-end chemical products, then I don't mind grafting the chemical projects there into our industrial cooperation cluster."

Zhuomali was surprised when she heard this: "Brother, what you mean is... the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industry will submit a list of proposed projects, and then we will select them according to our needs?"

Yang Mo said dissatisfiedly: "What do you mean by tick? You say it as if we are masters in a brothel... negotiate! It's negotiate! Do you understand!?"

Zhuo Mali rolled her eyes and thought, what's the difference? Aren't they all the same thing?

He curled his lips and said, "I know what you mean. As soon as I get to work tomorrow, I will focus my manpower and energy to conduct a general survey of petrochemical industry-related companies in Dezhou and Lanling. Then I will have people roughly count the pain points and demands of downstream companies in the industry. I will try to prepare a report for you before the day after tomorrow so that you can have a clear idea by then."

She is Yang Mo's most capable assistant. As soon as she started talking, she immediately knew what her boss wanted her to do.

However, she still had some doubts: "But brother, you used this trick on Gao Chang and others before, and now you are still using this ambiguous method against Cai Si;"

"I know you want to keep a respectful and non-resentful distance from them, so as to leave enough room for detour;"

"But if you do this, aren't you afraid that Zeiss will be mad at you?"

"You know, unlike Gao Chang, Zeiss is not only the leader of our system, but can also intervene and influence the chemical industry in Dezhou through the approval of chemical industry engineering construction. If..."

Before he finished speaking, Yang Mo waved his hand: "Don't worry, Cai Si's hand can't stretch that long for the time being."

"In fact, when I talk to him on the phone the day after tomorrow, as long as I mention that they will submit a list of proposed chemical projects for us to choose from, he should know that we have already done the research;"

"By then, it won't be difficult to decide whether to go home empty-handed or to scoop a bowl of fish soup to warm himself up... If the wind changes by then, he might even come back to thank me!"

Thank you?

Zhuo Mali looked at her little brother as if he were a madman, but she was already used to Yang Mo's occasional nervousness, so when she saw how confident he was in speaking, she stopped worrying about it.

At the moment, he stretched lazily with some reluctance: "Okay, you are the boss, you have the final say... I have to go back to work overtime, there are a lot of documents that need to be processed, it seems that I really need to work all night tonight!"

Seeing Zhuo Mali getting up to say goodbye, Yang Mo suddenly called her: "Sister Zhuo, wait a moment."

Zhuo Mali was a little surprised: "Brother, do you have anything else to tell me?"

Yang Mo put out the cigarette in his hand: "Actually, it's not an explanation, but there are some things I want to ask you."

Zhuomali: “???”

Yang Mo hesitated for a while before speaking: "Sister Zhuo, I heard that during this period of time, you arranged for more than a dozen friends to go to Dezhou City Real Estate Company?"

This was actually said very tactfully. Since the Zhuo family can be called the Zhuo family, it must not be just the Zhuo father and daughter. The relatives and friends surrounding them, and even the subordinates who stand on their side, are definitely not a small number; and since they were specifically mentioned by Yang Mo, then those who were arranged to work in the urban property company definitely could not occupy unimportant positions.

So when Zhuomali heard this, her face suddenly changed, and she quickly explained: "Boss, don't misunderstand..."

Before she finished her words, Yang Mo raised his hand to interrupt her: "Sister Zhuo, I don't mean to blame you. In fact, I am increasingly short of manpower here. Since I can let you be the general assistant of Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company and delegate so much power to you, it means that I completely trust you... In other words, your people are equivalent to my people."

At this point, Yang Mo's expression was a little subtle: "So, what I mean by this is... Sister Zhuo, there are so many projects in the two companies now. Wouldn't it be a little too little to just promote a dozen people to fill in?"

Hey, hey!? ?

Zhuomali's mouth was shaped like an egg, and she stared blankly at the man in front of her who was two years younger than her.
To be honest, it wouldn't be strange to hear this from anyone, but it seemed particularly abrupt when it came from Yang Mo's mouth;

If Yang Mo's expression hadn't shown anything unusual, she would have almost thought that this guy was possessed by Wong Tai Sin.

and so……

What is going on!? ?
(End of this chapter)