1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 628 Small talk
For ordinary people, the Spring Festival in 1992 should have been a happy one. After several years of improvement and development, the Spring Festival Gala has become more and more exciting.

Not only did the "tango" invented by teacher Zhao Lirong in "Mom Today" take the audience a whole year to learn, but Huang Hong and Song Dandan's "Overpopulation Guerrillas" also became a classic that a generation will never forget. More importantly, Taiwan's first generation idol group Little Tigers officially debuted in mainland China, officially opening the idol era in China.

But for some others, the Spring Festival of 1992 had nothing to do with words like relaxation and joy. For the entire Spring Festival, they were all closely following the designer's whereabouts (he did not bring a reporter with him as in the past, nor did he announce his itinerary to the media, so it seemed quite mysterious), and they were always deeply interpreting the contents of his southern tour speeches, and they did not even dare to slack off on New Year's Eve.

Obviously, Mu Siyuan was also one of them. Therefore, when Yang Mo took his wife back to his parents' home to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law as usual on the third day of the New Year, after knocking on the door, he found that the rather large living room was actually packed with guests.

The reason why the word "塞" is used.

That's because although there were seven or eight middle-aged men with extraordinary looks and temperament sitting at the kang table (an extra-long low table), there were more young people sitting cross-legged and far away nearby.

It can be seen that these young people should be the nephews and nephews of these guests, and since Song Wenxuan is also among them, it is not surprising that these young people should also be the key training targets of their respective families.

The only thing that comforted Yang Mo a little was that, although Zhuo's father was unable to return home even during the Spring Festival, and the Zhuo family's retreat to the second line was an accomplished fact, a certain peach was still present today... It was naturally unlikely that Mu Siyuan was thinking of Zhuo's father's old relationship, but it was more likely that he wanted to take care of the feelings of a certain son-in-law. After all, Zhuo Mali was now Yang Mo's right-hand man.

After taking a quick look, it seemed that the place was full, but in fact, a large space could be squeezed out by moving one's butt. Then, he glanced at the group of young people who looked like good students two meters away. Yang Mo complained in his heart... It really is worthy of being the hometown of Confucius and Mencius. The divisions of age and hierarchy are very strict!
Sighing silently, Yang Mo calmly handed the gift in his hand to his mother-in-law, then took off his shoes and stepped on the carpet, walked to the corner of the living room, first bent over to pick up a futon and handed it to Miss Mu, then picked up another one and was about to walk towards the group of young people... Now is the Spring Festival, no matter what he is like on weekdays, at this moment he is just an ordinary junior.

As the younger generation, we should have the awareness of being younger generations.

Since you can lay out sesame stalks all night on the 29th day of the lunar year and fetch water like a dead dog all morning on the 30th day of the lunar year, then when you arrive at your father-in-law's house, it's not a big deal to act like a good student for a day... Just think of it as returning to high school!
However, he wanted to be a good student, but others did not give him this opportunity.

Seeing Yang Mo pick up the futon, Mu Siyuan quickly moved his butt, then patted the thick cushion beside him: "Xiao Mo, put down the futon, come, sit here!"

The people nearby immediately moved their seats.

Suddenly, a huge empty space was freed up, large enough to accommodate a 200-pound fat man.

The group of young people who were sitting cross-legged in the living room almost popped their eyes out when they saw this.

They knew that Yang Mo was very awesome now, and compared to them, he was overwhelmingly awesome. But no matter how awesome he was, he was still a junior. Didn’t they see that in such occasions, even Miss Mu, Song Wenxuan, and Zhuo Mali could only sit obediently on the periphery like themselves?
But now...

At this moment, these arrogant second-generations finally understood what it meant that status comes from strength.

Judging from the expressions of those elders who didn't mind at all and even took it for granted, they clearly regarded Yang Mo as an equal.

Although Yang Mo noticed the reactions of his peers, he did not care. He just smiled and greeted Song Youlong, Lin Youxiang and others, then sat cross-legged in the vacated seat naturally without a trace of fear.

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Since we were visiting during the Chinese New Year, we naturally wouldn't discuss serious work issues;
But they brought their own children and nephews here to make themselves familiar with each other and broaden their horizons, so they certainly would not chat about meaningless past events with a group of retired old men.

Therefore, the ongoing Southern Tour Speech and the prediction of the future direction of the wind have become the most appropriate topics for today.

"I read in the newspaper that the designer was inspecting work in Guangzhou these days and specifically praised the white goods industry in Shunde. He also gave instructions to let them go and do it... Xiao Yang, will this have an impact on the industry in Dezhou?"

The first person to speak was a middle-aged man named Zhong. As if to express his goodwill, his words were full of concern when he mentioned this matter.

Today, Shunde is already known as the "white appliance capital", and its export volume of white appliances ranks first in the country. Although the industrial focus of Dezhou is not on white appliances, products such as freezers are already very famous, and many spare parts are directly supplied to white appliance manufacturers in various places;
Today, designers are praising Chengde's white goods industry. It can be expected that in the future, the production and export of white goods will be the core business there, and a number of township enterprises will be supported to make the relevant industrial chain bigger and stronger. At that time, it will inevitably cause competition at the export level of some similar products, which will have a certain impact on the relevant industries in Dezhou.

Yang Mo never hesitates to smile back at other people's kindness. He smiled modestly and said, "Don't worry, Uncle Zhong. Although the white goods exports from Chengde also go through the Central Asian route, they use Pakistan as a springboard to spread to the Middle East and all over the world. However, the white goods exports from our Dezhou region use Kyrgyzstan as a springboard, targeting the five Central Asian countries and the northern market... The two routes seem to overlap, but they are not targeting the same market, so they will not have much impact on us in the short term."

As we all know, Pakistan has been one of China's most important trading partners since the 1980s. However, it is not very appropriate to describe it as a springboard market. Instead, it is more accurate to call it China's largest purchasing agent market... Although the trade volume between the two sides is very considerable, the country is actually not rich, so everyone knows where the goods exported by China every year go.

Yang Mo knew all this, and so did the other people present. The reason why the middle-aged man surnamed Zhong brought it up even though he knew the answer was simply to warm up the atmosphere and allow Yang Mo to integrate into their conversation more quickly.

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"Xiao Yang, there is a young man named He Yang in the capital who has become very famous recently. His dot-com company has become very popular. Under his influence, there are already many dot-com companies all over the country. Now many companies are looking for dot-com companies to help them with their business... I'm afraid you, Dahua Company, should pay attention to the cooperative companies below and not let them take advantage of the situation."

Since someone had started the conversation, the other middle-aged men who were not very familiar with Yang Mo naturally did not hesitate to express their goodwill, and someone immediately started talking about other topics.

Yang Mo smiled and responded: "Thank you Uncle Ma for your concern, but it doesn't matter. Dahua Company can gather a group of partners because of our strategic consulting services and resource integration capabilities, which is completely different from those dot-com companies."

Those who can appear in the living room today will naturally not be bored enough to discuss those idea companies.

In fact, the middle-aged man surnamed Ma was talking about the Dian Company on the surface, but secretly he was reminding Yang Mo to pay attention to the equal tillering that had been brought up for heated discussion... There was the bold experiment of Zhucheng in the past, and then there were the intensive reports of the Dian Company by the media and the great praise for the boss Mou, which always gave people a feeling that a storm was about to come. And Yang Mo's answer was also very tactful: it is not so easy to extend your hand to the Dezhou area in the short term.

The middle-aged man surnamed Ma nodded slightly after hearing this. "Those Dian companies are naturally not comparable to your Dahua, but researching business strategies has been a hot topic in recent years. I wonder if you, Xiao Yang, have read the article "Strategists in their 20s" in the special issue of Chu Huaxia Youth Magazine... This is what your Dahua Company needs to pay attention to."

Strategists in their 20s?

Yang Mo thought for a moment, then frowned: "Uncle Ma, are you talking about... Guo Fansheng and the others?"

The middle-aged man surnamed Ma nodded and said, "I heard that Guo Fansheng was already working part-time as the deputy general manager of a technology trading company last year. Judging from the current trend, there are rumors in the capital that this young man who calls himself a strategist has already thought about going into business... It doesn't really matter what Guo Fansheng chooses. What matters is that by then there will be thousands of Guo Fanshengs."

There were several waves of people going into business in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, among which the 1992 generation was the most famous. They mainly came from within the system, and their comprehensive qualities and resource levels were much higher, so it was naturally easier for them to succeed.

There are many well-known figures in the 1992 generation, but Guo Fansheng, who came from the Inner Mongolia Political Research Office, was transferred to the State Commission for Restructuring the Economy within just a few years, and finally resolutely went into business this year, is definitely one of the least well-known representatives to the public, but in fact one that should not be underestimated.

If most people are not very familiar with "Huicong E-Commerce", which was once the second largest B2B e-commerce platform after Alibaba, then everyone must know the "Wantong Six Brothers" including the richest man Pan and Feng Lun, right?
Feng Lun was Guo Fansheng's colleague at the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System.

Therefore, even Yang Mo couldn't help but feel a little depressed when he heard the middle-aged man surnamed Ma mention "Guo Fanshengs"... For some things, just because those companies didn't have a chance, it didn't mean that other people didn't have a chance either. And among the group of people who went into business in 1992, the development trajectories of many people are hard to be simply summarized with the four words "outstanding abilities".

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"The designer mentioned [breaking the three irons] again in his speech a few days ago, and also mentioned Xuzhou... Xiao Yang, I have nothing to do, so tell me what you think. Is this just a vaccination for local state-owned enterprises, or is it a joint mention for all public economic entities?"

After chatting about this and that for half an hour, Song Youlong finally spoke.

But what’s interesting is that after saying this, his eyes glanced in the direction of Zhuo Mali intentionally or unintentionally.

The so-called "three irons" are iron rice bowl, iron chair and iron salary, which correspond to the state-owned enterprises' labor employment, personnel management rights, and distribution system respectively; these three things are often considered to be the traditional advantages of state-owned enterprises, but they are also the main problems that cause their internal mechanisms to become rigid and carry many burdens; plus, Xuzhou is on the border of Qi and Lu, and even used to belong to the Qi and Lu region, so Song Youlong's opening with this question is indeed quite meaningful... Obviously, when this sentence came out of Song Youlong's mouth, the focus was definitely not on the iron rice bowl and iron salary, but on the three words "iron chair".

From 1978 to 1984, the state promulgated a series of documents and carried out three large-scale decentralization activities within state-owned enterprises. However, the situation of "death when caught, and dispersion when released" kept repeating itself, which led to no one mentioning this matter later. But now that the designer mentioned it again, it must be for real... This is also a reminder to Yang Mo not to go against the trend of the times, and not to continue to be the one who has the final say without caring about other people's opinions and follow others to do things. After making achievements, those who should be promoted should still be promoted, and those who should be delegated should still be delegated.

As for why he glanced in the direction of Zhuomali...

This is not difficult to understand.

As early as a month ago, Zhuo Mali had passed the organization's assessment and was successfully promoted to the deputy division level, thus officially crossing the threshold to the section level, which is of great significance.

He is also a member of Yang Mo's crew and has also made many impressive achievements, but his son Song Wenxuan is still at the position of a regular officer. Even though Song Youlong knows why Yang Mo removed his son from the recommendation list, he can't help but have some thoughts.

But there was no way. Yang Mo was Song Wenxuan's direct superior, and he was the only one qualified to write the recommendation list for promotion. Besides, Song Wenxuan's achievements were made on Dahua Company, an absolutely alternative platform in the system. Even if Song Youlong wanted to help his son, he was powerless.

At the moment, he just laughed: "I don't know about that, but with this instruction, I believe that the work of reducing personnel and increasing efficiency here at the command center will no longer face such great resistance as before, and the pressure on all uncles and aunts should be much less."

When everyone heard this seemingly evasive answer, their faces changed slightly.

Responsibility and power are equal. After the designer's speech has been interpreted and publicized, although it will indeed greatly reduce the legal resistance to the subsequent work of reducing staff and increasing efficiency, it also means that the weight and hidden weight of everyone are much lighter than before, which is not good news.

Thinking of this, the others began to look at Mu Siyuan with more jealousy.

If the hidden weight based on the work of reducing staff and increasing efficiency really drops significantly, then the command center will gradually return to the previous normal pattern, and everything will be based on the power content of the position in hand. This will have a great impact on many people present, but for Mu Siyuan who has successfully advanced to the shore, it is actually good news from a certain perspective... He is now the Minister of the Organization Department of the Party Committee. This position is very powerful. Even if the hidden weight of the temporary identity of the leader of the reduction and efficiency improvement team is added, it will not jump to the sky; however, the decline in the influence of others will actually increase his voice in this group.

Seeing that the atmosphere on the field was getting a little subtle, Mu Siyuan quickly laughed: "Okay, okay, it's no fun to keep talking about these topics that have nothing to do with us. Let's talk about something that is somewhat related to our oil unit."

As he spoke, as if afraid that his son-in-law might say something nonsense, Mu Siyuan turned his head and said, "Xiao Yang, there is something you may not know. Recently, there has been a rumor in the capital that the organization plans to adjust the categories and proportions of general transfer payments, which also involves transfer payments for the reform of refined oil taxes and fees... At the same time, the organization also has plans to issue ultra-long-term special government bonds."

After a slight pause, Mu Siyuan's expression was a little serious: "Xiao Yang, speaking of which, among all the people present, you are the one who has the most familiarity with the administrative system, and your level is basically enough... No one here is an outsider, what do you think?"

Adjustments to general transfer payment categories?

Transfer payments from refined oil tax and fee reform?
Ultra-long-term special government bonds?
Hearing these words, Yang Mo looked around at everyone, and his mood became strangely complicated...

(End of this chapter)