Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Old Dong

one After the age of 50, the old Dong seems to be a different person: he speaks rigorously like a scientist, and every sentence seems to have been researched.Unlike before, no matter where you go, just sit down and chat endlessly.The demeanor is also dignified.Before, he always looked around when he was walking, and when he saw a slightly familiar face, he made a gesture of greeting.When sitting, it reveals the furry feet inside, and pats the furry feet while talking to people.Now he always dresses very well, mostly domestic famous brands inside and out, as if he is ready to attend some ceremony at any time.Maybe it's because his son works as an announcer on a TV station in the city, but he always has the serious demeanor of a news anchor.The top of his head is already bald, and the hair around it is also very sparse. He carefully gathers them up and arranges them horizontally on the bald head in an orderly manner, which is called "local support center".The eyebrows are always slightly frowned, the mouth is always tightly pursed, and the corners of the mouth are slightly curved.His eyes are always looking somewhere far away, as if he is caught in the planning of a decisive victory thousands of miles away.In short, his current image is very respectable.

Of course, there are more real reasons why the townspeople hold him in awe.That year, a document came down from above, saying that those who were punished because of the relationship between men and women in the past can revoke the punishment;After Lao Dong wrote "Three Hundred Cases" that year and had an accident at the Guest House of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee, he first went back to Li Bawan.After all the decentralized cadres were promoted, he could no longer stay in the production team, so he was asked to work in the township government agency without specifying his specific position.When meetings are held, notices are issued, phone calls are made, and buckets of paste are brought up to brush up slogans.I usually read the newspapers alone, and I have to read the newspaper offices and contact numbers below the bottom line before letting go.This is a professional habit he has developed in his journalism career. The most important thing every day is to read newspapers.If you don't have a newspaper in your hand when you defecate, you won't even be able to poop.When you are in a panic, if you don't have a ready-made newspaper, you have to tear one from the newspaper that has been pasted on the wall.Newspapers have brought him closer to the times and society, making him feel less isolated and lonely living in a small town.When he was tired of reading newspapers, he would find someone to play chess, cards, and chat.He is easy-going and popular, and he is a cadre from the city after all. The previous leaders in the town can't take him too seriously.He is at ease, with a bit of a fairy taste.

In the spirit of that document, he should be able to go back to the regional newspaper.The area also came with a formal transfer order, asking him to return to work in the agency.The cadres of the town government were really happy for him.His own attitude was unexpected.He said, what are you happy about? The rich, the bad, the right, and the right have all taken off their hats. I'm just doing things in another place.Doing things in the town is not a punishment, I am willing.A person is used to being undisciplined, drinking thin porridge and enjoying a happy life; being rich and powerful, I am afraid that he will not be able to bear it.When Minister Feng of the Propaganda Department of the prefectural committee came to the town to inspect the work, he also persuaded him to return to the agency.There was no unpleasant feud between them. Minister Feng still had some respect for Old Dong in his heart. After all, he was an old college student before the "Cultural Revolution" and a genuine intellectual.Unlike myself, many titles that have nothing to do with culture, such as "chief planner", "chief editor", "general consultant", etc., are all brought about by power.One day, if you have no rights, you will be nothing.Perhaps because of his age, Minister Feng is now more or less conscious of introspection.It's just that the result of self-examination, he is different from Old Dong.Old Dong has become indifferent, but he has anxiety. He feels that life is short, and he should hold on to what he gets, and work hard to get what he doesn't get.

Old Dong is a man who knows good from bad.He sincerely thanked Minister Feng for his kindness, and said that he was not at odds with the organization, he was already old, and he was going to retire after a few years, so why bother with the newspaper office.I have been in the country for too long, and I am not used to it when I go back to the city.Minister Feng is so enthusiastic, can he arrange a job for his son, he has been in the army for several years, learned Mandarin, is about to be demobilized, and wants to be a TV announcer. Old Dong has read from the newspaper that the newly established TV station in the area is recruiting editors and broadcasters.

Minister Feng immediately agreed that there is no problem, and I am in charge of the regional news organizations.But he was still wronged by the old director: Arranging your son does not mean solving your problems, and if you stay in the town, it will not be easy to arrange your job.In terms of qualifications, you should have been at the county level long ago.It doesn't matter, Lao Dong smiled and said, I don't even want to stay in the town anymore, so I just go to Lao Yin's place to work. The "Lao Yin's place" mentioned by Lao Dong refers to the head office of Li Bawan Agricultural and Commercial Joint Enterprise.

Old Dong refused to leave the town, which moved everyone in the town. two Old Dong is really material for news work, he is sharp and has eyesight.As soon as the news that the national highway would pass through the town appeared in the newspaper, he immediately discovered an opportunity for the town to undergo tremendous changes.Many cadres in the town didn't realize anything, so he asked to stay in Li Bawan, and plunged in.He has a lot of news and ideas, Jiangnan Pharmaceutical Factory, and later the enterprise group, he is one of the most core think tanks.When the head office was established, Yin Daoyan gave him the name of a consultant no matter how he refused.Hearing that Old Dong was going to be transferred back to the city, Yin Daoyan panicked and said, Old Dong, you are my crutch. If you leave, I will fall down.Old Dong replied: Don't worry, if you think so highly of me, can I go?

Old Dong later summed up his brilliance as playing three cards: one called the celebrity card, one called the culture card, and one called the public opinion card. To play the celebrity card, the focus should be on modern celebrities. There used to be such a general in the small town. When a down-and-out educated youth (referring to Xiao Ding) was allowed to go, wouldn't our town be able to enjoy the glory of the general even more.Old Dong also put forward very specific and detailed suggestions: The old camphor tree that was struck by lightning on the town street where the general often stands can be called the "general tree". There are iron bars around it and explanatory boards for people to look up to; If the general is not enough to retain the level of the former residence, a huge stone can be erected on the top of the mountain where the forest has begun to be engraved with the three characters "General Stone"; the mangy mountain can be renamed "General Mountain"; the forest can be called "General Forest" The river at the foot of the mountain has been built to block water, so it can be called "Jiangjunpo"; because of the above, the town can be renamed "Jiangjun Town".In this way, the town is not only a revolutionary traditional education base, but also a tourist scenic spot.

These are static.There is also a dynamic, that is, the enterprise products of the town are named after "General". For example, there are wild tea trees everywhere on the mountain not far from the town. I don’t know how many tea sticks can be cut out to make the kind of walking stick used by the general, which can be called "general stick"; The nameless dried radish with sauce can be named "Jiangjun dried radish"; the health care medicines such as "royal jelly" and "ginseng essence" produced by Jiangnan Pharmaceutical Factory in the early stage can be named "Jiangjun Baoye" and "Jiangjun Yulu". etc.It can be said to carry forward the revolutionary spirit of the general's hard work; it can be said to wish the young people live to the age of the general, and the people who live to the age of the general can live without bounds; It's even better if you can become a general if you don't have liquid. In short, it increases sales.Of course, it must be pointed out that playing the general's celebrity card is not to support the general as a cover to make money, but to highlight the humanistic characteristics of the town, establish a spiritual symbol, and show that the general's soul is immortal.Not only is it not dead, but it is everywhere.Its political significance cannot be overestimated.Old Dong is also actively looking for ways to restore contact with the Soviet female expert in his youth.It's not just for nostalgia, but I want to sell dried general radish to Russia and open up an international market for the town's products.At the same time, it also allowed the Russian people, whose red flag fell, to relive the old dream of socialism.

Despite Lao Dong's repeated solemn explanations, Ai Lao's group of elders still focused on economic benefits when they held the CPPCC meeting, saying that it is really extraordinary to develop and utilize a place's human resources to a near-extreme level.We old people can't figure it out after thinking about it. We are really ashamed of the government. In addition to waiting for approval to change the town's name to "General Town", various other naming and renaming proposals have been put into practice one by one. The essence of playing the cultural card is to pay attention to modern packaging.

To set up a Jiangnan pharmaceutical factory, it is natural to build dormitory buildings and office buildings.The technical personnel invited from the city naturally live in the dormitory building; some workers with strong technical skills naturally use the conference room of the office building for training.Then the dormitory building and office building are not just practical places in the general sense, but have a very deep cultural connotation: the dormitory building should be called "expert building", indicating that the town planted plane trees and attracted phoenixes; the office building should be called "Science and Technology Center" shows the flower of science and technology, and the town is in full bloom.

The laboratory of the pharmaceutical factory needed a few high school students who could read foreign codes. They couldn't find them among the middle school students in the town, so they had to go to the city to recruit students who failed the college entrance examination.It also created a new thing: rural areas recruit workers from cities. Li Bawan used to have several ancestral trumpet players who specialized in wedding and wedding ceremony.Now it has been organized again, and several musicians from the previous town theater troupe have joined, with Zheng Feng as the conductor.After the disbandment of the town troupe, the units assigned to several musicians were not ideal.Zheng Feng's audio-visual store is in full swing. In order to make a profit, he let the video point play pornographic videos in the middle of the night.Was reported and fined heavily.Now I have a second job, and I am very enthusiastic and dedicated.Li Bawan and the trumpet players had been neglected for too long, so at first they used "Meng Jiangnu" to deal with weddings and funerals.Soon I learned to play "Sorrow and Music", and also "Let Me Love All Enough at Once" and so on.In addition to weddings and funerals, all units in the town and Li Bawan's villages invite them to make a fuss about the opening of celebrations.This made a previously quiet town buzzing here and there from time to time, bustling with noise.Old Dong gave the band a resounding name, "Farmers Brass Orchestra". After the town planned and managed the general mountain area according to the old Dong's suggestion, the old Dong suggested that the head office of Li Bawan agricultural and industrial and commercial joint enterprise invest in it. Several villa-style bungalows are called "General Villa".It is connected with Jiangjun Mountain, Jiangjun Forest and Jiangjun by the whole background, and this area is collectively called "Jiangjun Park".If Li Bawan really wants to start a big business, without the care and support of the society, everything will be impossible!All kinds of brains come, and there is not even a decent reception, how can I be worthy of others?The town was remote, and with these country houses remoteness was an advantage.Didn't the general say he wanted to build a park? Now we are turning his last wish into a grand plan.There is hunting in the park, and there is a sauna in the villa.There must be a beautiful girl with a pretty appearance and an elegant manner.If you can't find it in the town, look for it in the county; if you can't find it in the county, look for it in the province; if you can't find it in the province, look for it in the whole country.Li Bawan was supposed to be a den of beauties.Otherwise, how could there be the legend that Emperor Qianlong went to Li Bawan?Before the "Four Cadres Meetings", we knew that good-looking female educated youths should be the hostesses, let alone in this open era!We just want foreigners to know that Chinese farmers also know how to live a good life and be happy.Old Dong tried his best to persuade Li Bawan and those somewhat hesitant village cadres. "I think it's okay." Yin Daoyan first made up his mind, "If the 'Commissioner' comes, he can live here. In the future, he will retire, and he will have a place to nourish himself." Old Dong said: "This will make things right. Yes. This is the most important public relations. There are some township enterprises in other provinces whose foundation is not as good as ours. They borrowed tens of millions to build luxury hotels in the suburbs of Beijing, and they specially accommodate officials from various departments of the central government. With just a little finger, tens of millions came back. Within a few years, they all became the first-class township enterprises in the country." Of course, in the final analysis, building farmer villas and farmer parks shows the far-reaching modern vision and cultural pursuit of a township enterprise, which has a huge impact on the concept and way of life under the shackles of traditional agricultural civilization, and has revolutionary significance.When introducing Li Bawan to the outside world, these words of Lao Dong often aroused warm applause.The General Villa was completed, and Old Dong was the first to live in it.On the one hand, it shows that he wholeheartedly takes root in Li Bawan, and on the other hand, it is indeed necessary for work.Li Bawan had to work as a receptionist for big shots, and he really couldn't find anyone with a higher standard than Old Dong.He is well-informed, highly educated, and has done the reception work with great taste.Reporters and leaders asked about Li Bawan's changes. Yin Daoyan always shits like a straight bowel, and he does whatever he wants. Fortunately, many people can't understand the local dialect he speaks.When Lao Dong translates, he must and can say something else.Once a central leader inspected a pharmaceutical factory and saw snake gall cough medicine being packaged, so he asked by the way: "Your place has a lot of snakes, right?" Yin Daoyan, who accompanied him, opened his mouth and replied, "I bought it in the southern provinces." .Old Dong immediately took up the conversation: "We are a southern province with abundant snake resources, and it is very convenient to buy snakes in the mountains." The central leaders nodded repeatedly and said, "That's right, township enterprises should fully develop and use local resources for Deep processing, this should be the direction of development of township enterprises.” Back home, when he gave a policy speech at a nationwide conference, he quoted Li Bawan as an example. Playing the public opinion card is of special significance to the small town. The sky is high and the earth is far away in the small town, as if in a lifetime, if you do something and don't say it, it is tantamount to doing it for nothing, and you can only fend for yourself.If it weren't for the fanfare and public opinion propaganda back then, would Li Furong, Hu Yuelan, and Xie Zhen be able to appear?Can it be included in the "three hundred cases"?In today's information society, everyone knows the meaning of self-promotion, and there are various methods.If a small town wants to stand out, it must have a unique trick. Li Bawan's Headquarters of Agri-Industrial and Commercial Joint Enterprise purchased more than ten cars, and Old Dong directed a parade of cars.Focusing on these ten vehicles, they also mobilized small vehicles from several units in the town and county to form a convoy, winding along the country road into the provincial capital.Li Bawan's ten cars were all imported cars smuggled from the south, and the lowest-end car was also a Japanese crown.Yin Daoyan's first car was an American Cadillac.Those cars in town and in the county are probably new Santanas too.When entering the provincial capital, it was carefully cleaned at the car wash, and then it drove into the center of the provincial capital with a flash of light.At the square, I was stopped again for running a red light.At that time, it was the rush hour at noon, and the traffic in the downtown square was blocked.When Yin Daoyan got in touch with the "commissioner", the traffic policeman respectfully apologized to them and cleared the way for the convoy to pass. It was already a few hours later.A township enterprise named Li Bawan with a huge fleet of cars immediately became famous.And because of the traffic accident, everyone knew the special relationship between this township enterprise and the secretary of the provincial party committee. Officially, Li Bawan became a model directly caught by the secretary of the provincial party committee.The various news departments also increased their propaganda efforts. The purpose of such a mighty motorcade coming to the provincial capital is not just to show the strength of the enterprise.Later, when he was interviewed by batches of reporters, Dong suddenly wanted Yin Daoyan to announce that the purpose of their trip was to consult and apply to relevant departments: Li Bawan planned to build airplanes. It was earth-shattering! At that time, a township enterprise in the north bought a decommissioned plane to let the local farmers see it fresh. It was said that "farmers buy planes", and achieved extremely successful publicity effects.And the farmers in Li Bawan want to build airplanes!They were not bluffing, their idea was very real - they were going to build an agricultural aircraft.The cost is not high either. They have asked experts and they can build one with 20 million yuan. From the central government to the local government, newspapers, radio stations, television stations, and publishing houses at all levels have sent personnel to the town to collect and write special reports, make special TV films, and organize special personnel to write Li Bawan's large-scale reportage and Li Bawan's great development. The great biography of Yin Daoyan.Because these great works are underwritten by Li Bawan, the binding and printing are extremely exquisite. Farmers build buildings for experts; farmers run scientific research centers; farmers recruit workers from cities; farmers have villas, parks, and imported cars; farmers take sauna baths; It is a brand-new record in the history of Chinese agricultural civilization for thousands of years.From this, Li Bawan is at the forefront of China's modern agricultural models.The town and Li Bawan, as well as its representative Yin Daoyan, became famous this time as a "sudden army", which is completely incomparable to the several times in the history of the town. In terms of depth, and even the methods, techniques, and tools used, the difference is almost one heaven and one underground.The miraculous power of the technological revolution has caused history to span countless centuries of stagnation overnight and enter the orbit of synchronization with the most active external world.The history of Li Bawan's yin and yang decline has come to the present Yin Daoyan, and finally there is a conclusion that makes men feel very decent. Concomitant with this great progress was the birth of other laws, such as the laws of the market operating as exchange.For all kinds of publicity of Li Bawan, Li Bawan will bear all the expenses.All kinds of propaganda departments and all kinds of people involved in it also get considerable rewards from it.And these costs are worth paying, if not worth mentioning.All those propaganda materials are written by important leaders at the national level, or the main person in charge at the provincial level, or they have inscriptions, inscriptions, or prefaces, which can make people awe-inspiring.The old director refuted Li Bawan's narrow-minded doubts and complaints: Where can I find such a weighty advertisement? !All of those expenses were made with loans.Li Bawan is not famous, so the ghost will give you a loan!The country's money was spent on the country's people, what did Li Bawan suffer? ! three Among the Li Bawan people who have lived in isolation, backwardness, and poverty for a long time, it is inevitable that there will be some narrow-minded and dark people.In private, they tricked Lao Dong into being the planner of a TV feature film, the editor-in-chief of a large-scale reportage, and let his son be the cameraman of the TV film, and he returned a lot of red envelopes like various editors, reporters, and representatives of related households... Actually calculated an astronomical figure.Old Dong smiled disdainfully, patted himself on the head with his palm, and said, you dare to make one as big as it out of gold, and see if I can change it!Today's Li Bawan is an intangible asset. Do you know how much this asset is worth?Those people were dumbfounded and speechless. The exchanges planned by the old director turned out to be a happy one indeed.Nowadays, when visiting the small town, there are regulations on levels, and most of the frequent visitors are state-level leaders, accompanied by the heads of the provincial party committee and the provincial government.After the construction of the national highway, it has become one of the most important bases to showcase the achievements of the province's reform and opening up.Various investments, loans, and preferential policies have made Li Bawan Agricultural and Commercial Joint Enterprise Headquarters grow like magic, and the personable magician who manipulates the magic wand with silver light is Old Dong. That in itself is a miracle of life.Old Dong found his own career and the meaning of life in his old age.While making Li Bawan unprecedentedly brilliant, he also maximized his potential ability and realized material and spiritual values ​​to the greatest extent.Life made him the protagonist of a certain situation.His great self-confidence and corresponding solemnity come from this. However, apart from the satisfaction of being a late bloomer, old Dong often has inexplicable melancholy: the setting sun is infinitely beautiful, but the pity is almost dusk. After all, life is too short.