Korean TV series: King of Peninsula 1997

Chapter 542 Political Conflict, Ability Improvement

In the summer, Lee Myung-hak, who was still serving as mayor of Seoul, visited.

"President Nim," Li Mingxue closed the office door and walked quickly to the desk.

"Mayor Li," Li You smiled and held out his hand, "Please take a seat."

As a representative of the person who never visits someone for no reason, Li Mingxue always has a strong purpose when he visits someone.

But Li You appreciated this.

Li You also doesn't need people who can't do anything but flatter him. Li You can easily get the gifts given by those people.

During the past few years as mayor, Li Mingxue has done more than just the Cheonggyecheon restoration project.

Seoul Forest, which was completed last year, opened on June 18th last year.

Li Mingxue's nickname of "Green Mayor" is indeed not wrong.

He regards environmental construction as his top priority. The Seoul Forest Park, which has been open for less than a year, is now located on Daodao Road in Dongcheng District.

The place he picked was also very good. Ttukseom used to be the hunting ground and reviewing ground of the royal family.

The current Seoul Forest covers an area of ​​130,000 square meters and includes various recreational facilities.

Li You did not interfere in this project, as the Seoul Metropolitan Government provided almost all the funds.

"What the mayor does is beneficial to future generations," Li You said with a smile. "These environmental construction projects have made the living environment of Seoul citizens better."

"I heard that they are bringing in an entertainment company to Seoul Forest?"

It sounds strange, but it is indeed one of the things Li Mingxue is doing.

He nodded. "That's right."

Li Mingxue didn't expect Li You to pay attention to these things. After all, they were all small projects, and Seoul City Hall sought cooperation from various companies in the entertainment industry.

There are not really only plants in the Seoul Forest. There are also some small office buildings built there. Li Mingxue found various tenants and buyers for them.

For example, SM Entertainment wants to build a brand like 'Wilderness and Seoul'.

This is also to increase publicity efforts.

Now it is 2006, and the influence of K-POP is growing rapidly both at home and abroad.

Li Mingxue is very modest, "I am just observing the demands of the times."

After Li Mingxue took office as mayor, he made many changes.

He feels that continuing to develop parts of Seoul as large-scale commercial areas is not in line with future development trends.

To describe it simply as an 'observation' would be absolutely inappropriate.

"Mayor Li is too modest," Li You shook his head. "No mayor in all these years can compare to what you have done."

Li You quietly agreed with the purpose of his visit this time, "The development of Jiangbei must be accelerated and continued."

"President Nim?" Li Mingxue was quite surprised.

After all, Li You owns a large amount of real estate in the three districts of Jiangnan, and the development of Jiangbei may affect Jiangnan.

A few days ago, Li Mingxue proposed to Li You that he wanted to develop a new urban project in Seoul. The goal was to develop the relatively backward Gangbuk area of ​​Seoul and narrow the gap between Gangnam and Gangbuk.

Jiangbei is no longer just lagging behind the prosperous Gangnam, but is lagging behind most areas of Seoul.

Especially in Jiangbei, many places are old urban areas with aging functions.

Any attempt to develop and renovate the old city is bound to cause major controversy.

What the City Hall wants to do is to redevelop and rebuild the Jiangbei area in order to improve the overall living environment and economic conditions of Jiangbei.

But there are too many troubles. For example, the people in Jiangbei who have been poor for many years also want to live the same life as those in Jiangnan on the other side of the river.

When things get to them, it's normal for them to want to gain greater benefits for themselves.

But the result is.
Seoul City Hall is simply unable to reach a consensus with those residents who have not been relocated. Everyone wants more, and if it really wants to compensate them according to their prices, Seoul City Hall does not have that much spare money.

"Simple," Li You said casually as he listened to Li Mingxue talking about his concerns, "Isn't this new urban development project in Jiangbei proposed based on the current situation where the gap between Jiangbei and Jiangnan is getting bigger and bigger?"

In fact, Jiangbei was developed earlier than Jiangnan many years ago. There are important reasons why it was suspended and not further developed.

At that time, the redevelopment and reconstruction of Jiangbei only focused on the real estate development interests at the time, and did not consider the construction of surrounding infrastructure.

The houses have indeed been partially improved and the number of households has increased.

However, because roads, schools, parks and other things that Seoul residents increasingly value have not kept up, the quality of life of residents in the Gangbuk area has declined.

It is precisely because of this vicious cycle that the Jiangbei area has been developed and housing prices have fallen. However, under this contrast, housing prices in the south of the Yangtze River have continued to rise due to various convenient conditions.

Li Mingxue came to see Li You because he wanted to see how Li You, who had a forward-looking vision, would carry out development.

“You might as well move the specific concept to a large living circle and bundle the redeveloped Jiangbei into one.”

Li You leaned lazily on the chair and said, "Don't focus on the entire Jiangbei area all at once. Start small and improve the infrastructure in some places in Jiangbei bit by bit."

"These are all very simple truths, you must know them."

Seeing Li Mingxue's silence, Li You also laughed, "I'm not an omnipotent wish-making machine that can always help you find a better plan."

He waved his hand. "North Jiangnan is not in opposition to the north Jiangnan. It's just that its location is awkward. Human resources are limited after all. If we want to develop it, we can only do it step by step."

"I asked you to speed up the development of Jiangbei, but I didn't mean to make you fat all at once," Li You looked at Li Mingxue, "I just wanted you to 'speed up'."

"Yes," Li Mingxue nodded slightly.

He moved on to the next topic a little stiffly, "President Nim, I also made some plans for the training of civil servants."

“I will gradually send some of the civil servants of Seoul City Hall abroad to let them see with their own eyes the administrative management of advanced cities in the world.”

Li You flipped through the plan and asked, "Did anyone below discuss it?"

"It is true that there has been some discussion," Li Mingxue has become accustomed to it. "Many of the redundant departments and lazy people in the city hall are useless people supported by the government. After this, I will get rid of them."

“Those who can be sent out are civil servants who can weather the storms, and I want them to experience it firsthand.”

"After all, seeing is believing."

Li You looked at the plans and said, "The chief of the construction department was sent to the place with the best urban construction to learn, the chief of the welfare bureau was sent to the place with the most complete welfare system to learn, and the same goes for the chief of the environment department, the chief of the planning department, and the chief of the cultural bureau."

He nodded. “Mayor Li has a good idea.”

"After the civil servants sent abroad come back, I plan to have all of them undergo three days of training," Li Mingxue hesitated a little, "Can the training be conducted by the Kinmen Group?" "What?" Li You looked at Li Mingxue in surprise.

This is not simply a matter of returning a favor.

If we really let those civil servants come to Kinmen Group for training, wouldn't that be equivalent to leading these civil servants to stand on Kinmen's side?
This is a bold move.

"You want them to go to the training institute for new employees?"

Thanks to the merger of Kinmen Group and Shunyang Group, there is now a steady supply of talent among the middle and lower-level employees.

Chen Yangzhe proposed the idea that "the management of an enterprise is the management of people" long ago.

But what he meant was not the empty talk of running a business to benefit mankind, but rather his greed for talent.

A business is about personnel, and personnel is everything.

"Yes," Li Mingxue nodded solemnly, "From deputy mayors to ninth-level civil servants, I will require them all to participate, so that they can see how the best talents in the group learn and receive training."

Shunyang Human Resources Development Institute, also known as Shunyang Training Institute, is an institution with a complete talent training system to ensure that talents continue to flow into Shunyang.

Employees not only need to receive training before joining the company, but also need to go to training institutes regularly after entering the job.

Dozens of courses, hundreds of classes and tens of thousands of students are offered every year. These students can register from outside and can directly work in Shunyang if they perform well in the assessment.

Its main purpose is to convey the company's business philosophy and cultivate core talents, especially those with an international perspective.

The mentors who train them are all elites invited from all over the world, and the annual training costs used to be tens of billions of won.

but
Ever since Chen Rongji took over Shunyang, the investment in the Human Resources Development Institute has been getting less and less. It’s not that Chen Rongji doesn’t want to invest, but that there is not that much extra money to invest.

Now Shunyang Group has been absorbed by Kinmen Group, and what has emerged is Kinmen Human Resources Development Institute.

Even Li You increased his investment in it, which now includes leadership talents and overseas talents.
Especially the most important leadership talent academy, also known as the "Executive Academy" within the group.

Li You didn't want his old friends to fall behind, so he forced them to take turns to study here and learn foreign languages. The group of poor students complained bitterly.

Long Da, who works as a director at Kinmen Real Estate, now has to study for at least five hours every day, and he looks much more haggard when he reports to Li You.

Li You tapped the table lightly with his fingers. "Tell me more about your considerations?"

Li Mingxue had a good idea, but the political impact of this matter must be considered. With Li You's current power, he really doesn't need to care about it.

But Li Mingxue needs to care. This way of dragging his subordinates to the Kinmen Group may offend too many people.

"The higher the official position, the less they understand the on-site situation and work progress," Li Mingxue sighed. "Seoul doesn't need such leaders now. I just hope that the chiefs, team leaders, section chiefs, and other civil servants at all levels will stop reporting to me the drafts of their subordinates after slightly changing a few words."

“If I don’t find the person directly responsible, sometimes I can’t even understand basic statistics.”

Li Mingxue himself was also very angry. Many of the things he wanted to promote were passed down one level at a time. When the interim results were passed up one level at a time, he found that they were completely different from what he had expected.

Li Mingxue, who was extremely rigorous when he was Chen Yangzhe's secretary, was unwilling to tolerate this situation.

What's more, he is now determined to become the 'CEO of Seoul', or even the 'CEO of the Korean Peninsula' in the future.

"It would be better to hold open classes," Li You gave a new plan after a little thought.

"I will ask some media to record their learning process at any time"

Li You thought about it and suddenly thought of
“How about making a show?”

Li Mingxue was a little dazed, "Program?"

Li You smiled and thought that at this time when the entertainment industry has become deeply rooted in the country, it would be interesting to make a program based on civil servants’ reports on their work and learning process.

After being broadcast on TV, it can also promote the Kinmen Human Resources Development Institute and attract more new generation talents to the Kinmen Group.

He clapped his hands and explained the general situation to Li Mingxue.

“Whether they are corrupt or innocent,” Li You smiled, “the strength of their work and learning abilities will be displayed to many viewers.”

As for those private filthiness.
This is an edited program, not a live broadcast.

It is a bit too much to hold a live broadcast on the Korean Peninsula. If things go wrong, most of the officials may run away.

Li Mingxue suddenly realized, and his eyes lit up.

If it were in the past, if we were to produce a program to record the studies of civil servants, it would undoubtedly be criticized by countless people.

But it's okay now.

On the contrary, it has received support from many outsiders, especially politicians.

Civil servants who go to Kinmen Group to study will be subject to the gossip of these idle politicians.

Now the "Lee You threat theory" has been widely circulated among politicians, and most politicians privately feel that Lee You's influence is now a bit too great.

Some people even believe in conspiracy theories and believe that he is either from the West or the East, and that he is a knife that was used by one of the two factions to point at the Korean Peninsula.

Li You was also very annoyed, but he couldn't just kill them all with one knife. There were more than 300 members of Congress.
At least half of the members of parliament thought so.

This kind of political resistance cannot be resolved with a small butcher knife, and killing the chicken to scare the monkey will not work.

By making a program and actively exposing this learning activity, it can indeed solve a lot of problems.

That's it. As for more details,
That is the matter of Li Mingxue, Kinmen Entertainment, and various TV stations.

Li You rubbed his eyebrows and floated up steadily.

Then he sat cross-legged and floated in the air, ignoring the constraints of gravity.

Along with the office equipment and documents in half of the office, they were all isolated by an invisible force and floated above their original positions in an orderly manner.

Li You's eyes were slightly closed. Telekinesis not only supported his body, but also formed a force field around him that was invisible to the naked eye. With the weak air flow in the room, the dust and tiny pieces of paper in the air were gently floating around him.

After these days of training, Li You's abilities are gradually getting stronger.

He now suspected that the increase in physical functions on the panel only increased the load capacity of his brain.

As for brain development, it only starts after the [Extraordinary] entry is officially opened.

After all, after training telekinesis for so long, I can only achieve this much.

His limit is to keep himself afloat and manipulate the surrounding objects.

Things like flying are simply beyond his reach with his current level of telekinesis, and he needs to improve them slowly.

Li You gently relaxed his hands, put the floating objects back in place one by one, then sat back in his original position, his expression returning to calm.

(End of this chapter)