1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 625 Re-updated Database
Four hours later, Tugou, looking a little tired, escorted a group of village heads and village party secretaries out of the Fengren Township Comprehensive Business Consultation Office.

Her energy was more reflected in physical work rather than mental work, so four hours of high-speed brain activity was indeed a bit of an overload for her.

But even though her brain was exhausted, she still repeatedly told the two village heads beside her: "Village head Gao, Village head Yue, remember to submit the applications of your two villages before February 2nd when you return."

"The Chinese New Year is on February 2th. After the Chinese New Year, President Liu will issue the next round of industrial support policies for policy-based low-interest loans. By then, if your two villages' plans to expand their apricot planting are no longer within the scope of supported industries, you may not be able to get full loans."

An old man in his sixties stopped walking after hearing this and looked at the pretty girl anxiously, "But Manager Lu, our Dongwangzhuang and Shuijian villages combined, including land acquisition, land leveling costs, fruit seedling purchases, base fertilizer application, three years of no-harvest subsidies, and all sorts of other expenses, add up to a total of 650 million yuan in loans!"

"More importantly, this also includes the construction costs of a small concentrated juice factory and a fruit wine factory, the construction costs of a medium-sized cold storage, and even the cost of expanding the production of a preserved fruit processing plant;"

"These projects don't seem to be considered fruit planting... Can the banking system really approve this money?"

Lv Yingying laughed: "Why can't these projects be considered part of the fruit planting industry? Apricots are not just grown to be sold as fruit. If we can't absorb the production capacity of these apricots and provide a guarantee for the growers, how can we talk about developing the fruit planting industry?"

As he spoke, Tugou lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "Don't worry, as long as you apply on time according to the methods I mentioned before, no later than the fifteenth day of the first lunar month after the Chinese New Year, the bank's low-interest loan will be approved for you!"

The current society is very fond of this kind of classmate. Seeing this girl acting so sneaky, the two village heads became more confident and nodded heavily: "Okay, I'll do as you say, Manager Lu. There's no need to wait until February 2nd. I'll submit the loan application with the village seal in three days!"

After saying this and expressing their gratitude once again, the two village chiefs, along with the others, hurried back to their own village in an impatient pace.

Seeing these people's faces, some with hidden worries and some with full expectations, disappear from her sight, Lu Yingying sighed, and her head couldn't help but expand.

During the communication just now, she promised a total of about 170 million US dollars in foreign exchange to the three villages to purchase equipment or materials needed for the new projects.

170 million US dollars is not a lot, but it is not a small amount either for Dahua Company today.

However, in the past two months, she has applied to the Second Department of External Relations for a foreign exchange quota of more than 600 million US dollars, and the Japanese yen foreign exchange quota has exceeded 7000 million. Although her sister Mu always approves it readily, she always feels a little uneasy when she thinks that she will continue to trouble others.

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Back at the data office of the consulting office, Tugou glanced at the desktop computer that looked extremely out of place in the current countryside, but was extremely expensive. Then he cheered up and expressed his gratitude to the man with glasses sincerely: "Teacher Jiang, thank you so much this time. Without the support of your Zhongzhou University's database technology, the coordination work of various towns and villages would really not be carried out."

This thank you is not just a courtesy, but a sincere one.

As the scale of Dahua Company and Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company becomes larger and larger, whether it is the selection and planting scale of greenhouse vegetables in the vegetable basket project, the allocation of manufacturing sinking projects in various villages and townships and the internal connection of various orders, and even the demand-oriented layout and production capacity coordination of the fruit planting projects that are currently being actively carried out, the difficulty of their work has increased exponentially.

It is impossible to achieve the optimal allocation of resources by relying solely on the hundreds of brains of Dahua Company, Momo Baitou and Xialiu Sales Agency. Inadequate coordination may even lead to conflicts in the second year.

Even if the configuration plan is in place, how to convince the townships, villages, and even the villagers' groups to give up their original confidence in the project and instead obey the arrangements and overcome various difficulties to carry out new projects like the village chief surnamed Huang did before, is almost as difficult as hell.

However, with the database system supported by Zhongzhou University, the difficulty was immediately reduced.

What businesses are currently being carried out in each county, each township, each village, and even each enterprise, what is the scale of each type of business, what is the comprehensive score of these businesses, and what percentage of these existing businesses account for the estimated local market segment capacity, are clearly stated in the densely packed segmentation columns in the database.

It is precisely with such detailed, specific, yet relatively intuitive comparative data that the staff of dozens of comprehensive information consulting offices in Dezhou and Lanling were able to convince those fellow villagers to adjust their next business direction according to their suggestions;

Similarly, Tugou was able to convince the village chiefs to change their minds thanks to the database system... When working at the grassroots level, communication is the most important, but also the most difficult. Without solid stuff, it is difficult to convince those stubborn villagers with just your mouth.

When the man with glasses heard Lu Yingying thanking him, he immediately felt embarrassed: "No, no, the technology of this database is still very immature, the functions are very limited, and the data needs to be updated manually... Your company has so many information consultation offices, it is really inconvenient to use."

Although it is also a database, the current technology is actually incomparable with the successors ten years later, and it is completely different from the bluffing appearance of the current mainstream MRP in Europe and the United States. It cannot be compared with the ERP that was once very popular in China... To put it bluntly, this thing is an EXCEL table with certain expansion functions. Before the development of the Internet, it was not very easy to use for companies with many grassroots outlets such as Dahua and Momo Baitou, and the timeliness of database updates was even more disappointing.

Upon hearing this, Tugou waved his hands and said, "Teacher Jiang, you are being too picky. The basic conditions of each township and village are here. Being able to update the database once a week is already a great help to us... After 20 or 30 years, when every township, town, or even village can be connected to the Internet, this thing will be a real treasure!"

Just like the Western world, the Chinese people at that time actually could not imagine that China would be able to develop so rapidly in the future. Tugou fantasized that every village would have access to the Internet in 20 or 30 years, which was already the most optimistic estimate. If she knew that it would only be ten years later that this vision could be basically realized in Qilu, she would not know how to feel.

The man with glasses smiled bitterly when he heard this: "I'm not being picky, but..."

With a somewhat sad expression, the man with glasses turned around and smiled at the other middle-aged man who came with him: "No matter what, we should thank you. If it weren't for your Qilu Huarong Group, our Zhongzhou University Database Research and Development Group probably wouldn't have the opportunity to continue this project... Besides, the Qilu Huarong Group Information Center also gave us a lot of technical support. Even if this database integration system is helpful to your company, Director Gao and his team also contributed a lot."

Lu Yingying turned her head to look at the middle-aged man called Director Gao, pursed her lips, but did not speak.

She knew that the man with glasses's comment was not just a compliment, but was based on a public case.

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In fact, China, with a strong sense of crisis, has never given up on catching up with technology in various fields. Since the reform and opening up in the late 70s, we have gradually had the opportunity to fully understand the world, and this sense of crisis has become even stronger - this is also a crucial reason why China in later generations is the only country in the world with all industrial categories.

Since we are catching up in all aspects, various high-end technologies and new technologies are naturally included.

Aerospace technology, semiconductor technology, special steel technology, chip technology, communication technology, and even lithography machine technology all achieved certain results in the 1980s.

With the rise of the computer wave, database technology, which plays an extremely important role in the military industry and social management fields, also began to be studied in the early 1980s... It was Professor Hua Luogeng who personally proposed to the organization to carry out research on this technology. This shows the importance of this technology and is enough to prove the foresight of our predecessors.

In this field, the most notable scientific research force is the research team led by Professor Xing Jianshe of Zhongzhou University in Henan Province. This team lived up to expectations and soon achieved extraordinary achievements in the field of database technology. It is said that in just a few years, it has shortened the distance between domestic and foreign database technologies, and they are not on the same path or direction. In 1985, Professor Xing Jianshe, under the careful guidance of Professor Hua Luogeng, published a groundbreaking database monograph "New Species of Relational Databases" (you can tell its importance from the name), which was sold out as soon as it was released. Zhongzhou University also won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.

Everything was going in a good direction, but...

It is difficult to expand on the specific content. In short, those who are interested can search for the "Apple-shaped database fraud case" that occurred in Zheng Z, Henan Province in 1986.

This matter dragged on for three years until it came to an extremely absurd conclusion in 1989.

The local media played a very disgraceful role in this matter.

Compared with the statement on the Internet in later generations that some parties are "technically illiterate", Yang Mo actually believes that this is because the birth and application of relational database technology will touch the piece of cake that some people value most. Therefore, some people would rather take undignified risks to nip some hidden dangers in the bud... This is not YY. The biggest role of those OA systems in later generations is not to improve efficiency, but to make the context of many things clear and traceable, and at the same time make the seal in your hand no longer able to be stamped as arbitrarily as before.

In short, this incident dealt a heavy blow to the database research team of Zhongzhou University. Although it did not lead to its disbandment, it began to struggle... While the budget allocation was greatly reduced, the commercial cooperation with other units was almost eliminated. Even if you were in my shoes, you would not be able to withstand it.

Fortunately, at the most difficult time, Qilu Huarong Group took action. Shen Xing, the party secretary, took on tremendous pressure and directly finalized the cooperation between the group's information center and the database research team of Zhongzhou University, and signed a contract with a total amount of up to 200 million yuan. This gave birth to several commercial database systems that, although they had various shortcomings, were enough to help a lot.

No one knows why Shen Xing would risk offending a lot of people to do this, but classmate Tugou knows that this was chosen by someone at the beginning and was even listed as one of the prerequisites for the establishment of Qilu Huarong Group.

So, in fact, the man with glasses in front of him actually thanked the wrong person.

However, Lu Yingying didn't care about such things. As the saying goes, a good fighter is not necessarily famous for his achievements. Yang Mo is a person who only pursues results. It doesn't matter to him whether there are flowers and applause on the road. Besides, this guy is already a big tree that attracts wind, so it is not a bad thing for him to attract less criticism.

Thinking of this, Lu Yingying raised her wrist and looked at the extremely childish pink electronic watch... This was a gift given to her by a stingy person at a huge cost of five yuan on her birthday three years ago. She found it very comfortable to wear, so she was too lazy to change it.

Well, it's already 2: in the afternoon. Although it's a bit late, we should still be in time if we set out for Dawangzhuang now. At worst, we can eat in the township cafeteria while coordinating work. Anyway, no one is a particular person and doesn't like the idea of ​​not talking while eating or sleeping.

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Seeing Lu Yingying raise her wrist to check the time on the old electronic watch, Director Gao, who was walking beside her, couldn't help but twitch his eyes.

This girl...with your current income and status, don't you consider your own image?

However, seeing that Lu Yingying looked like she wanted to rush to the next stop, he had to speak up: "Manager Lu...can you move a little?"

Tugou looked at him strangely, then glanced at the colleagues who came with him: "Director Gao, what's the matter?"

Director Gao's mouth twitched, but he still nodded: "Indeed, there is something I want to discuss with Manager Lu alone."

Tugou frowned and said, "We are all friends. As long as it's about work, just say it in person."

She agreed with the idea of ​​Yan Laoxi and Xia Liutong Sales Agency that there is nothing that cannot be told to others. The more open and honest you are in your actions and the more you put everything on the table and talk about it in front of everyone, the easier it will be to manage the team below. On the contrary, if you always shrink aside and whisper, it will accelerate the growth of small groups.

With your level, you are not qualified to be involved in confidential matters, so there is no need to act in such a sneaky manner.

Director Gao couldn't help but feel a little annoyed when he heard this. Although his rank was two levels higher than Lu Yingying's, Qilu Huarong's Information Center had no subordinate relationship with the drilling company, so they were just ordinary work partners. In addition, this girl was Yang Mo's childhood friend, so he wouldn't dare to act like a leader even if he had the guts. Thinking of this, he glanced at several colleagues who came with him.

As expected, Tugou didn't care about the difference in status between the two parties and decided purely on the priority based on the positions in the working group, but the others did not dare to neglect Director Gao's face, so soon, the others left the office on the pretext of going to the toilet, leaving only the two of them on the scene.

Looking at the empty office, Lu Yingying frowned: "Director Gao, there is no one here now. If you have anything to say, please tell me."

From her expression, it can be seen that she is very dissatisfied with Qilu Huarong's working style, and even somewhat repulsed.

Director Gao smiled bitterly when he saw this. "Manager Lu, don't get me wrong. This is actually for their own good. What I'm going to say next is quite sensitive... Qilu Huarong is a special company after all, and some of the content is not suitable for other colleagues to know."

The implication was obvious: what was to be discussed next was confidential and no one else was qualified to know.

Lu Yingying understood what the other party meant and her expression eased a little. Qilu Huarong has the attributes of a military enterprise, so it cannot be measured by the standards of Xialiu Distribution and Qingfeng Food. She immediately straightened her expression and said, "Director Gao, please speak."

Director Gao waved his hand when he saw this and said, "Manager Lu, don't be so serious. I was asked by Colonel Shen to confirm something with you."

Lu Yingying was a little confused: "Colonel Shen?"

Director Gao nodded, but his expression became serious: "Manager Lu, I heard that you submitted a report on the construction company under Qilu Huarong to General Manager Yang some time ago?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yingying curled her lips and her tone became calmer: "It's not really a report, it just reflects some facts... I'm the leader of the year-end inspection team. I have no control over how Huarong Group conducts its work on a daily basis. But if some actions have already involved the interests of Momo Baitou and Dahua's incubators, I must report it truthfully."

When Director Gao heard the gunpowder smell in his mouth, he quickly waved his hand again: "Manager Lu, you misunderstood. I am not here to accuse you."

"Colonel Shen attaches great importance to the materials you reported, so let me confirm... Are there really errors in the engineering measurement of the five township expansion projects undertaken by Construction Company No. 2?"

As he spoke, a hint of doubt appeared in his eyes: "Could it be that because they lost the bid for the project, the local construction company is unbalanced and is spreading rumors there?"

The Dezhou region is not promoting a comprehensive urbanization process, but rather a process that focuses on urbanization and is supplemented by urbanization.

Therefore, since the beginning of last year, the improvement and expansion of infrastructure facilities in all towns and villages has become an important task. After the establishment of Qilu Huarong Group, it has also actively participated in the construction projects in this area.

This has greatly affected the interests of local construction teams. After all, the qualifications of the construction companies under Qilu Huarong Group are there. Some large-scale special projects can be undertaken by those construction companies under Qilu Huarong, but local construction teams cannot; however, for some local small and medium-sized engineering projects that are regarded as the basic base by local construction teams, Qilu Huarong's construction companies can still participate in the bidding.

Although not as exaggerated as the mining industry, the current construction industry is also not as gentle as ordinary people think. For the sake of interests, local construction teams that feel threatened will use all kinds of martial arts, which is not difficult to imagine... and for an enterprise of the nature of Huarong Group, staging a fight is the stupidest thing to do. On the contrary, spreading rumors with great fanfare is actually more lethal.

To be honest, several of the companies participating in the bidding for the five township expansion projects are local construction teams from Linyi. Some of them even participated in the construction of those Hope Primary Schools. If it weren't for Yang Mo's feelings, Qilu Huarong would have come directly to the door. Why would they need to come and confirm with Lu Yingying first?
When classmate Tugou heard this, he looked at him with a smile.

Errors in engineering measurement?

You are really tactful in your words!
He sneered, "Director Gao, don't tell me that the four construction companies under your Huarong Group were all established on a whim. You had never done this business before the reorganization?"

Director Gao's mouth twitched when he heard this, but he answered truthfully: "That's not the case. Before the reorganization of Huarong Group, we actually had more than a dozen construction units, but they were not large at that time, and they all undertook construction work for the tertiary industry units of the system... At the beginning, I didn't expect that the scale of these four construction companies would expand to such a large scale all of a sudden."

This statement actually set up a foreshadowing, emphasizing that these four construction companies have professional foundations and relevant experience, but also emphasizing the rapid expansion of their scale... Rapid expansion, in just half a year, the number of people has expanded from more than a thousand to more than ten thousand, so management omissions are understandable.

In short, this answer can be advanced or retreated. It can be seen that although Director Gao is a technical manager, he is not a fool who only knows professional knowledge.

Hearing this, Lu Yingying pursed her lips and said, "I used to do engineering for the tertiary industry unit in your system... No wonder!"

Director Gao was stunned: "What's the wonder?"

Lu Yingying glanced at him and sneered, "I won't say much else. I'll just give you a few common methods of calculating construction quantities in the construction industry... Qilu Huarong also has its own database system. Go back and compare it, and you'll know whether the situations I reported were fabricated or not."

As he spoke, he casually took a piece of letter paper from the desk and began to write:
"In actual construction, unless it is a special project, generally speaking, the actual amount of steel bars used is the building area x 25;"

"Building area x 0.23 is basically the amount of concrete used in the project;"

"Building area divided by 2.7 is the amount of standard bricks required;"

"Building area x 2.5 is equal to the amount of formwork used;"

"The amount of bricks used is multiplied by 0.15, which is the amount of mortar used for masonry;"

"Building area x 3.2, equal to the indoor plastering area;"

"Building area x 0.7 is the outdoor plastering area;"

"Plastering area x 0.025, that's basically the amount of wall mortar!"

Tearing off the letter paper and handing it to Director Gao, Tugou's face was full of sarcasm: "This is the calculation formula obtained by counting hundreds of small and medium-sized construction projects of various cooperative construction units since 1989 when Mo Mo Baitou assisted in the construction of Hope Primary Schools. It is absolutely authentic... Even if there is a certain error in the analysis of specific issues, the error will not be very large."

"As an outsider, I cannot say anything about the internal management of Qilu Huarong, but I suggest that Director Gao, when you return, you should carefully compare the database within your group;"

"Of course, it would be best to compare them with the five bids submitted by your Construction Company No. 2 during the bidding."

Seeing Director Gao take the letter in disbelief, Tugou's tone became more sharp: "Ha~ We used to undertake the construction projects of the tertiary industry units in your system... I think they are used to ripping off the big guys, and brought the habit to your group. As a result, after the database of your information center was put into operation, they found that the situation was not right, so they had to bite the bullet and rip off the big guys!!"

As she spoke, Lu Yingying looked at Director Gao with a serious face: "Director Gao, since you said that Colonel Shen takes this matter very seriously, then if you are willing, you might as well say a few words for me."

Director Gao looked at the few lines of empirical formulas above, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead: "Manager Lu, please go on."

Tugou took a deep breath and said, "Director Gao, different trades are like different mountains. The units that your group is restructuring were not originally engaged in the construction industry. Therefore, they are not familiar with some of the actual conditions in the construction process. This cannot be blamed on your group;"

"We have also visited some of the projects in Dezhou's main urban area that your group's construction company undertook last year. We must admit that there is no problem with the construction quality alone."

"Besides, as Director Gao said, Qilu Huarong Group was established only half a year ago, and the employment scale of several construction companies has suddenly expanded more than ten times. It is normal for management omissions to occur."

"But the problem is that your company's engineering measurement has been able to follow the original formula standard for so long without discovering the problem from within. This is worth pondering."

After a pause, Tugou looked at him seriously and said, "However, compared to them, when there are a number of local construction companies with equally rich experience in small and medium-sized construction projects and more reasonable engineering measurements participating in the bidding, your group's second construction company was able to successfully win the bid at the county's bidding meeting... I personally think that this is what Colonel Shen should pay the most attention to!"

After understanding what Lu Yingying meant, Director Gao felt the hairs on his back stand up. After scanning the contents of the letter, he swallowed hard and said, "Thank you for your advice, Manager Lu. I will definitely tell Colonel Shen the truth."

After that, Director Gao looked at Tugou with some hesitation, and then said, "Although Colonel Shen didn't say it, I am only speaking for myself. I hope that Manager Lu can help us put in a few good words for General Manager Yang because of the pleasant cooperation between the two sides during this period of time... Qilu Huarong Group is an important pilot for the transformation and reform of our system industry. Whether we can continue to have in-depth cooperation with Dahua Company is very critical."

Tugou gave him a strange look and said, "If you want to ask for mercy, you can go to Minister Mu, or Assistant Zhuo. I'm just a small employee. How can I interfere in such matters?"

Director Gao looked at her with a strange expression, opened his mouth, and finally smiled awkwardly: "Well, after all, it was you, Manager Lu, who reported the situation to General Manager Yang, so some things are more appropriate for you to say... Besides, isn't it almost the New Year?"

Vaguely understanding what Director Gao meant, Tugou's eyes flashed with a trace of shame and anger, but more of an inexplicable emotion. He wanted to curse a few words, but he didn't know how to start. He could only snort heavily: "The cause of this incident, on the surface, seems to be that your group's second construction company falsely reported the engineering measurement, but in fact it was caused by your group's information center quickly launching a database;"

"Once the database was launched, all project data had historical traces, which put some people in a difficult position and forced them to take some desperate measures.

“Although the application of databases will cause some management confusion in the early stage, overall it is a good thing to get back to the basics;”

"so……"

"I believe that if your group can overcome various difficulties and continue to deepen the application of databases in management, Mr. Yang will not object to further deepening cooperation with your group."

"After all, the business is so big that there are all kinds of messes everywhere. Besides, Mr. Yang cares most about other people's attitudes. As long as your group's attitude is shown, he should not be so unkind."

Upon hearing this, Director Gao heaved a long sigh of relief. He was about to say some words of gratitude, but he saw Tugou looking at the funny electronic watch in a somewhat manic manner: "Oh, it's almost three o'clock now. We have to call them back quickly, otherwise we won't be able to get to Dawangzhuang before dark... There are still a lot of things waiting for us to coordinate over there!"

Seeing the little girl's shy and angry expression, Director Gao couldn't help but laugh and nodded: "Okay, I'll call her back right away!"

(End of this chapter)