My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 649 Who Can resist gossip?

Qin Yuye laid it all out in the open: "I'm going to do everything I can to show my abilities so that you'll never be able to leave me!"

Logically speaking, Wei Dong had quite a few elite soldiers around him. The next day, Lao Geng took the train from Shanghai to come and participate in the planning and command of the Pingjing Automobile Industrial Park.

Old Cheng managed the automobile factory with 12,000 employees in an orderly manner.

The young college students were even more eager to participate.

But women truly hold up half the sky.

Dong Xueqing had just returned from a meeting at the Financial Headquarters.

Her initial intention was probably to accompany Wei Dong to the ends of the earth, subconsciously not wanting to be confined to the office like her sister.

Therefore, after promoting the computerization of accounting nationwide, a portable version of paperless office was launched.

Simply put, when she arrives in Pyeongsang Province, she has to bring the memory card with her when shipping goods to the daily passenger trains here.

X-series computers don't have hard drives anymore. The motherboard's fixed storage chip ensures that system files of a few hundred kilobytes can run at boot, but other software requires a memory card.

Therefore, the software card that Dong Xueqing carried with her was essentially tailor-made. After running the program, she would switch to the data card that Jiangzhou Freight had brought over, and she could instantly start working remotely. Even if there was a deviation of one or two days, she could still grasp the data in time and understand the overall situation at any time.

It can be used on any computer across the country that has the Chinese version of the Apple operating system, or as it's now called, the Apple system.

Even if someone finds this data card, it's useless. If a user password is set on the software card, or even if there is a corresponding password for the data card, it's even more useful.

That would create a closed loop with an extremely high level of confidentiality.

Pingjing has sent experts to train and debug professional software for the banking and financial system. Since Wei Dong is here, they must treat him to some spicy hot pot. Upon seeing the software, he was amazed and immediately copied a copy to take back to the banking and financial system for demonstration.

Then it was instantly copied by the banking and financial system.

This single step is said to be able to increase the speed of account integration between banks across the country by hundreds of times!
It is no exaggeration to say that before this step, the reporting and transmission of accounts among banking and financial institutions across the country, especially to their head offices, was not much different from what it was a hundred or even several hundred years ago.

In most places, accounts were still made using abacuses and paper notes, and then meticulously compiled like capillaries, or by sending people from higher levels to check the accounts.

Reports are submitted level by level, from the township to the town, county, prefecture, city, and province. Even a single decimal point error in the process can lead to a huge discrepancy in the final result.

Not to mention what if someone had any ulterior motives and took the initiative to tamper with things?

For a country this large, the complexity and difficulty of such accounting is self-evident.

However, Dong Xueqing's approach was to come up with a super simple and crude solution that would disrupt the industry: sales companies in each province and city only need to keep their own cash flow records, not financial records. They can simply report the data, and the software here will aggregate the data and make everything clear!
Extending this to the head office and departments means that data is directly reported at all levels.

In the pre-internet era, such transmission was nothing short of a miracle.

In fact, even Wei Dong knew that the most reliable way to transmit data from various places thirty or forty years from now would still be to send people to fly with hard drives!

He even heard from technicians at the Golden Tax Center that transporting hard drives in boxes via air freight for international big data was the cheapest, most efficient, and reliable method, and a big business opportunity.

Much of the data cannot be transmitted over the internet; who knows which server it might be stored on.

The fact that Dong Sheng Trade's data was brought over via train freight, which was almost cost-free, was a natural consideration for businessmen to reduce costs and increase efficiency. It was only natural that high-ranking officials' financial savings cards were transmitted via civil aviation flights.

That would allow us to obtain data from all over the country in a timely manner every day.
If we then combine this with the data independently reported from county and city levels, it will become clear whether there are any irregularities in the provincial data.

This was an absolute shock, a devastating blow, and a major upheaval for the entire national financial system.

Dong Xueqing was also invited to exchange ideas with bank experts. As the manager who used the system the most and had the most say, the entire system was designed according to her requirements.

The drawbacks are all too clear.

Especially before Dong Xueqing took full control of the trading company's financial system, the entire financial and accounting structure was built by Liu Zhiyuan from the Pingjing Finance and Trade Management Cadre School.

Therefore, Dongsheng Trading's financial foundation is perfectly aligned with the banking and financial model, and it can be used immediately upon transfer.

That's incredibly impressive. But as she sat down with her son in her arms, she started gossiping, saying what she'd just overheard: "This month alone, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang caravans exploded. One carpenter made 1.2 million yuan, and there are over a thousand caravans in the county, with a total amount exceeding two billion yuan!"

Wei Dong also had to explain to the college students and Hong Kong businessmen: "It's illegal fundraising, promising very high interest rates. Yes, Xiao Wang, if you publicly say that you can make a lot of money by depositing money in this place, do you think it will fool a lot of people? So you must be careful about your words and deeds, because the higher the interest rate, the more you can get some interest at the beginning to attract more people to invest. The more likely it is to collapse later and the local authorities will intervene and arrest people."

The system wasn't as well-developed in the 1980s. Dong Xueqing shook her head: "Actually, problems started around the Spring Festival. Everyone was rushing to use money during the Spring Festival, and once a run on the bank occurred, the cash flow was cut off. People started coming to our door demanding repayment, and we couldn't possibly pay them back. Some leaders even preferred to go to jail to avoid trouble, until recently..."

Isn't this exactly the kind of disruption of order that the old leader feared most?

"Those guys who spread rumors and made a quick buck have run away, leaving behind a mess that we still have to clean up. This is a negative example of our industrial reform, and we must learn from it. That's why I've always been wary of the financial industry. Wu Shengyun loves to mess around with that stuff. Developing manufacturing and productivity is our core principle!"

Twenty or thirty college students from the foreign guest reception group, the financial software group, the automotive industry group, and the sanitary napkin factory management group all crowded into the mala tang (spicy hot pot) shop to hear this conversation.

It probably affected their entire lives.

The stark contrast between these tragic realities and Wei Dong's strategy is like "precisely" carving out a path through thorns that benefits more people.

Even the next day, when they were busy holding an on-site meeting at a plot of land by the airport roadside until noon, Wei Dong passed on this case to Lao Cheng and Lao Geng.

"In a sense, real estate is the ballast stone for stabilizing the situation, especially mortgage loans for buying a house. It can stabilize the current situation of various reforms that are in full swing. Once you buy a house, especially after taking on a mortgage, most people have to work hard and dare not change jobs or quit their jobs. It is much more realistic than just shouting slogans. But we must try our best not to let this tool drive up housing prices and completely exploit the majority of people."

Wei Dong had seen too much of the messy online comments later on.

He pushed the real estate sector forward by a year or two, and then quickly entered the mortgage market, which indeed gave banks a stable breathing space in the face of a tight credit environment.

As for the changes that occurred after the butterfly's wings flapped, Wei Dong was unaware of the consequences and had to proceed cautiously and make adjustments as needed.

Two generals in their forties were like, "Damn it! We're just managing the factory and getting things done. We're lucky if we can do a good job of construction. You're only twenty-two, and you're already thinking about things from this global perspective."

I'm absolutely blown away!
"Wei Dong, I was wondering if it was necessary to relocate the automobile factory. The dormitory buildings have already been built. But now I'm just doing whatever you say. I really didn't think that far ahead."

Wei Dong had to persuade him: "The automobile factory is within the Third Ring Road, how far is it from Changjie Street? The city center is a place for commerce, culture, and residence. The factory has to be moved out to make room. The sooner we do this, the lower the cost will be. Ask Lao Geng how much it would cost if we made room in the city center of Shanghai to build a building now?"

Old Geng never imagined that what he was doing was simply repairing a building, but the underlying principles were more complex than nuclear engineering: "Slow down, you said slow down."

"Why are we building these buildings? It's to free up the dormitory area as efficiently as possible, to develop it into commercial real estate, and to generate revenue together with the shops downstairs from the dormitories. We want factory workers, people in the city, and even those at higher levels to see the benefits of commercialization. The area will become more beautiful and comfortable, incomes will increase, and the dirt and disorder will be cleaned up. Only when everyone recognizes this result will we be able to promote this approach. So, in this sense, Pingqi is a model student for urban redevelopment and relocation in major cities across the country."

As he spoke, Wei Dong pointed to the excavation, leveling, and piling sites in front of them: "You say we'll move thousands of employees here to live? Would they be willing? They're all big shots, why would they come to the countryside? Well, this is a good opportunity to replace the workers with cheaper, younger, and more energetic new recruits. We won't treat them unfairly. First, they'll live in dormitories, then we'll build commercial buildings. Once this factory area is thriving, they'll be Pingjing residents too, and the next generation can enjoy Pingjing's education, healthcare, and so on."

Old Cheng clutched his head: "But what about the long-term employees?"

Wei Dong explained: "The key is that joint ventures and car factories need to keep making money in order to provide benefits. If you are unwilling to relocate to work, then you will have to learn and start working in various positions in the new commercial real estate. If you are unwilling to do that, then you can only buy out your seniority, retire due to illness, retire early, or retire early. But at least you will have your previous house, and your basic salary and retirement pension will ensure your basic needs. It is impossible to make a fortune without doing anything. In the end, all these steps are still setting an example for the higher-level departments to see how we can solve the various details of this kind of reform. Only if we do it well can it be promoted nationwide, so that the reform of enterprises across the country can properly resettle employees."

Old Cheng finally realized: "So you were using the entire Pingqi as a model, deliberately putting it on display for the higher-ups?"

Wei Dong shrugged: "Labor-capital conflicts are eternal. When you were the director of a state-owned factory, you knew that many people were just eating from the same pot and not putting in any real effort. After the reform, this kind of slacking off is no longer allowed. But once private enterprises get ruthless, they really become capitalists who exploit labor. What you need to do is to be exactly at this balance point. If you do it well, I guarantee you will become the most well-known state-owned enterprise leader in the country."

Old Cheng laughed and wasn't fooled: "No, we agreed back in Xishan Factory that I would stick with it to protect you from all sorts of favors. Now that I'm at Pingqi, in order to live up to this era and the progress we've made in reforming, I won't accept a transfer to work with you. I'll try to retire here."

Looking at the bustling scene of everything being rebuilt and getting things done quickly, Lao Geng was filled with pride and gave a firm "good" with his hand.

The three men had just shaken hands when Qin Yuye leaned out of the car next to them: "Aren't you done talking yet? The foreign businessmen are arriving..."

Wei Dong had no choice but to go over, while the remaining two generals muttered to themselves, "I heard Wei Dong went to Hong Kong to get married to her?"

"Don't ask about things you shouldn't ask about. Things arranged by the organization have the organization's intentions."

"Sigh, when I used to see Xiao Dong... I mean the older sister, she always looked so worried, while the younger sister was shrewd and capable. It's not really appropriate for this Hong Kong businessman to interfere."

"Let's discuss how to build the factory... Speaking of which, the factory is managed by that little Shen manager. Wei Dong has really had a hard time."

Men can be quite gossipy too.

(End of this chapter)