Chapter 21: Charging Forward (Seeking Recommendations)

  Back in the dormitory, it was already dark, but Su Cheng didn't rush to sleep. Instead, he took out his laptop, organized his notes while thinking, and recorded the steps of doing things.

  His advantage lies in being familiar with the direction of the future, clearly knowing which means are available and which ones have no prospects. As long as he doesn't make mistakes, his methods can be more intense. Su Cheng doesn't need to look back like people of the same generation, on the contrary, bravely moving forward, improving himself is the best way to adapt to the times.

  Bang Bang

  The creaky door of the dormitory is especially loud at night.

  Su Cheng hesitated for a moment, put away his notebook and opened the door.

  "Director Su, hello." This was a slightly bald old man, holding two bottles of wine and two packs of cigarettes, which were the perfect weapons to capture officials below the department level.

  "Who are you." Su Cheng stood at the door and didn't intend to let him in.

  "My humble self is Wang Xuebing, from the municipal valve factory. Wang Xueming is my third younger brother." The old man shifted his body to one side, as if wanting to slip inside the door.

  "What? What's going on." Su Cheng still blocked the way, showing no intention of letting him in.

  "Let's go inside and talk about this."

  Su Cheng shook his head firmly and said, "Sorry, it's not very convenient today. If you have something to say, just say it here."

  He lives in a dormitory for government officials. If he brings two bottles of wine and two packs of cigarettes, everyone will know about it by tomorrow morning before work starts.

  "This..." Wang Xuebing was a bit stunned. He had originally thought that Su Cheng would mention the matter of paying money today, so he deliberately let his third brother pay and came to visit himself in order to avoid being dismissed by the other party with money. According to his idea, Su Cheng should have accepted his bribe and at least shown some smile to let him in.

  However, Su Cheng didn't just put a meal worth over a hundred yuan in his eyes, but also followed the good tradition of 21st-century cadres and would never do things for you just because he ate your meal.

  He gave Wang Xuebing a faint smile and said, "If you have anything to say, come to my office tomorrow morning. I need to rest first."

  "Director Su, our factory is very sincere." Wang Xuebing gritted his teeth and stuffed a red envelope from the door.

  The red envelope was very thick, and I'm afraid there were over a hundred bills inside. However, the newly issued fourth edition of RMB had just been released, and people were still accustomed to the largest denomination being 10 yuan. One hundred 10-yuan bills could be exchanged for a large project, all that can be said is that the cadres of this era are very down-to-earth.

  "You're wrong." Su Cheng turned around and closed the door this time.

  Wang Xuebing blocked the door with money and took out a red envelope, saying heavily: "Su Ke, now I can only show my sincerity with these, but we are a very sincere factory, as long as you give us a chance to stay."

  Su Cheng looked down at his red envelope and smiled, then "bang" shut the door.

  The boss Wang thought for a long time and still couldn't figure out what his smile meant.

  It can't be just laughing after eating one meal for nothing.

  Wang Xuebing was just the first entrepreneur to come to Gongguan, and as more details about Jiucheng Five Small were exposed, more and more people came to their senses. What they valued was not only this small business of Dongying Command Center, but also the whole oil field. Because Vice Secretary Lin said very clearly at the meeting that Dongying Command Center is just a pilot project for Jiucheng Five Small.

  The Dongguan Command Center has more than 30 well stations, as well as metering stations, water distribution rooms, transfer stations, substations and water injection stations, with a total of around 50 sets. The building area exceeds 10,000 square meters, and the project scale is enough to feed several small companies. The entire oil field has several command centers, nearly 200 well stations, which is already a big cake.

  In the following days, there were constantly people coming to visit Su City.

  This era is exactly the transition period from going through the back door to bribery. Some old-fashioned people still use cigarettes and wine as a way to open doors, with treating guests as a supplement. Some private bosses are more "daring" and have already appeared to throw down a stack of money and run away.

  Encountering two bold bosses in a row, Su Cheng had no choice but to close up shop and look for Lin Yonggui.

  After meeting, Lin Yonggui burst out laughing and said: "Isn't it unbearable?"

  "Do you know?" Su Cheng continued in surprise: "They also came looking for you?"

  "Hundreds of millions of business, what do they want from me?" Lin Yonggui shook his head and smiled: "On the contrary, I heard that you don't even let people who bring gifts in? This is not good, others will say you're arrogant."

  Su Cheng smiled half-true and half-false: "I'm not afraid of offending people, but I don't want to implicate you. In any case, I live in the dormitory of the organ, and the people who come to send gifts are always coming and going, which is not a good influence."

  "Hmm, this kind of momentum is a good thing." Secretary Lin was quite pleased and asked: "Then have you thought it through, how to implement it? First, let's make one thing clear, the relationship between each department, you'll need to coordinate that yourself. The construction speed can't be too slow, at the latest before the river freezes, we must complete the project, so the workers can have a warm winter."

  What he said about departmental relations is actually the relationship between the construction departments. In this era, the state-owned enterprise's construction team is very powerful. It's not that Suzhou would pay out money and they would work on time. On the contrary, the money must be transferred to the account of the Construction Command Center first, and then they would arrange the project. If more people are assigned, the project will naturally progress faster; if fewer people are assigned, it will naturally slow down. How to grasp this depends entirely on relationships.

  Su Cheng was used to being a consumer, and he was very unaccustomed to their way of doing things. He said straightforwardly: "I think that if we use our own construction team, even if we treat them to a meal or two, it's still possible to get the job done. But if you want to do it quickly and well, you can't rely on them."

  "Oh?"

  "We divided the project into smaller sub-projects and then found small engineering teams outside, which started working simultaneously in different locations... Although these external small engineering teams were weak, as long as they had experience in construction, they would have some familiarity and expertise in certain areas, such as those who had done toilet work would do toilets, those who had done bathhouse work would do bathhouses, and they could do as much as they could without requiring them to take on all the engineering work or even a single well station's project..."

  Lin Yonggui interrupted him: "This way is definitely faster, but how can we guarantee the quality? How will management be done?"

  "If it's not done well, I won't pay." Su Cheng replied succinctly.

  "You're really... a newborn calf not afraid of tigers." Lin Yonggui nodded his finger, pondered for a moment, and said: "In that case, your responsibility will be great, huh, go do it."

  Suzhou bid farewell and left.

  He knew that Lin Yonggui hoped he would solve the problem in a traditional way, which was also considered by officials to be the most effective and valuable way.

  But Su Cheng didn't want to compromise like this.

  He encouraged himself while letting Old Liu drive the jeep to send it to the Party Committee Propaganda Department, and found the cadre Gao Zhong he had met before, asking him to coordinate the advertisement.

  "Bidding!" Seeing the topic, this cadre was confused: "Why bother, personal relationships are one's own..."

  The latter half of his sentence was: The cost is borne by the country.

  Bidding is no longer a new thing, the government occasionally makes a show of it, procurement of official vehicles, purchase of heavy machinery, construction of complete factories... but most of them are aimed at foreign enterprises, and bidding is rare in the production activities within state-owned enterprises.

  Su Cheng didn't care. Some people, once offended, are just offended.

  The cadre persuaded him for a while and saw that Su Cheng insisted, so he finally stamped it. Advertising expenses can only be accounted for after being approved by the propaganda department.

  Su Cheng invested in peach reports and Li, in front of him, wrote seven or eight letters to different newspapers and magazines, asking classmates and seniors for help publishing advertisements.

  These are all Suzhou's media resources. If the Propaganda Department wants to use them, they can communicate through Suzhou.

  The happiness of university students in '87 lies in the efforts of their seniors. The students after the restoration of college entrance examination not only served as experimental products for educational exploration but also had to work hard to clear the name of university students.

  It was precisely because of the brilliance of this group of people that there was a craze for university students in the 1980s.

  Those who enjoy the results are the students of the next few sessions. It is now that the seniors have finally sat in comfortable chairs and still feel responsible for taking care of their junior brothers and sisters.

  Three days later, a large-scale tender advertisement was released.

  Just like a name card of this era, Suzhou City listed the bidding process and content in detail on half a page of newspaper, without any fancy words, just dense lines of text.

  There are 38 basic items, which were divided into 190 separate projects by him. Each toilet and each bathroom is a single label, and different requirements are made according to the needs of the well station.

  The requirements in it depend on the efforts of all members of the planning department.

  The entire Cold Palace, three departments with over 20 people, after years and months of reading newspapers, finally got tired of it. With a single order from the Director, everyone voluntarily rushed to their respective posts.

  Two people formed a group to conduct an in-depth analysis of the well station. After a week, 38 basic small wells had detailed matching schemes.

  In the future, they will also be responsible for inspection work.

  The power alone is enough to make people's hearts surge with excitement.

  Chang was holding the People's Daily with tears in his eyes and said: "Our planning department has finally started making plans."

  More people stared at the phone, their ears perked up, waiting for someone to dial in.

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