Chapter 146: Deputy Section Chief Wu’s Insidiousness
Zhu Xingchen continued his analysis:
"The Northwest region has fewer procurement tasks, so it's not very realistic to arrange for Lin Sanqi to travel all day. Other regions have heavier tasks, but they are not Lin Sanqi's area of responsibility, so everyone is thinking of ways to transfer Lin Sanqi to other regions."
“Yes!”
Yang Xiaoqing and the others fell into deep thought when they heard this.
"But the regional division of labor was just completed, and now it's being adjusted after just over a month. I'm afraid Kong Shuihu won't be able to get through. Besides, of the six major regions in the country, the northwest is the worst. There are wolves there. Who among us is willing to trade with Lin Sanqi?"
If I were willing to go to the Northwest, I would not let Lin Sanqi pick my cadre peaches.
Deputy Section Chief Wu's eyes sparkled at this moment, and he clearly had a plan in hand:
"That's easy."
The people who were originally talking at once fell silent and looked at Deputy Section Chief Wu.
The medicine warehouse has already informed us that they need us to purchase more than a dozen Chinese herbs, including Phyllanthus urinaria, Pteris corylifolia, Herba Eupatorii, Curcuma zedoaria, Semen Cassiae, and Andrographis paniculata. Think about what characteristics these herbs have?"
Speaking of this, Li Zexu, who is in charge of procurement in South China, has the most say:
"I'm familiar with these herbs. Phyllanthus urinaria, Pteris corylifolia, Herba Eupatorii, Curcuma zedoaria, Semen Cassiae, and Andrographis paniculata are all mainly concentrated in South China."
At this point, Li Zexu suddenly paused, his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly:
"I understand, Chief Wu, I understand."
Yang Xiaoqing and Zhu Xingchen were filled with questions: "What did you understand?"
Deputy Section Chief Wu just drank some water and smiled without saying anything.
Li Zexu suddenly took out a national map from his front bag and explained to everyone:
"As you can see, the main production area of Centilla ovata is Yulin in Guangxi, the main production area of Cucumber is Qinxian; the main production area of Phyllanthus urinaria is Meizhou in Dongguang Province, the main production area of Phoenix tail grass is Zhanjiang; the main production area of Andrographis paniculata is Hujian Zhangpu, and the main production area of Sesamum indicum is Putian.
If Lin Sanqi wanted to purchase these six herbs, even though the quantity was small, he would have to travel all over the three provinces and six cities in South China, and he would have to cross mountains and rivers, and go to the sky and the sea along the way, which would be very miserable.
Look at places like Yulin, Qinxian, and Meizhou. They are all located in the mountains. Not only is transportation inconvenient, but the climate is also stuffy and humid. They are typical ghost places.
Zhanjiang, Zhangpu, and Putian are all by the sea. These places were places where officials were exiled in ancient times. Can you imagine how good the environment is? After running around, you can get sunburned.
The key is that there are no direct trains between these three provinces and six cities. You can only take a car, then a horse and ox cart, and finally walk. After traveling to so many places, it probably takes at least two or three months to return.
Deputy Section Chief Wu took over and prompted:
"Each trip takes two to three months. If we assign him three or four business trips a year, he hardly needs to stay in the capital. There is no place for him in our Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Even if Dean Shen wanted to take care of him, he wouldn't be able to."
Li Zexu added:
"These places are not only far away, but the roads are also very dangerous. Not to mention the green forest heroes in the mountains, even those poisonous snakes, insects and rats in the tropical rain forests would bite you. If you are in the wild, it may be too late to rescue you.
Every time I go to these places to purchase medicinal herbs, I need to go with Bi Chunlong and Liao Zhanying, and I have to ask local comrades to act as guides for us. We form a team of four or five people before we dare to set off. If Lin Sanqi goes into the mountains and seas alone, hehe..."
Zhu Xingchen and Yang Xiaoqing suddenly realized: "Oh~~~"
"But, no, no, the problem is back to square one. Lin Sanqi is in charge of Northwest China. How can we get him to South China?"
In 1959, the country's economic center was in the north, while the south was still an agricultural society with a small peasant economy model and was very poor.
At least in the eyes of the people in the capital, South China is a typical poor and remote area, only slightly better than the northwest.
Take Dongguang Province for example. At that time, almost all the smart, clever and ambitious people ran to the Pearl of the Orient because the inland areas were too poor.
Deputy Section Chief Wu snorted lightly:
"Isn't it easy to get Lin Sanqi to go to the three provinces in southern China?
Li Zexu, go back and make an agreement with Bi Chunlong and Liao Zhanying. The three of you should all find a way to claim to be sick and unable to go to work. At the very least, you cannot travel long distances. You should figure out what kind of medical certificate you need.
Yang Xiaoqing, Zhu Xingchen, you two will also receive some purchasing tasks tomorrow. I will arrange for you to go on business trips to your respective jurisdictions, and you must ensure that you cannot come back within half a month.
This way, Lin Sanqi will be the only one left in the capital for our procurement. I'll arrange the procurement tasks later. Since Li Zexu and the other two are unable to go on business due to illness, Lin Sanqi will have to take over temporarily. He will have to go even if he doesn't want to."
Yang Xiaoqing laughed out loud:
"Right, right. He dares not go? That's perfect. Why should he be a cadre? Isn't being a cadre supposed to lead by example? This is just making him tie himself up in knots."
Li Zexu also clapped his hands excitedly:
"We won't set any problems for him, but I won't lend him Lin Sanqi even with my connections in South China. Let him figure it out on his own, wandering around the three provinces of South China like a headless fly. If he can't complete the task, then that's perfect. We can take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble again, haha."
At this time, Deputy Section Chief Wu pointed out:
"Young people can't endure hardship, and even if they can, they can't handle setbacks. What we need to do now is to mess with Lin Sanqi's mentality, making him feel busy, exhausted, and uneasy every day. When his spirit collapses, he'll be a useless person!"
Li Zexu, Zhu Xingchen and Yang Xiaoqing were secretly shocked when they heard this. This was a typical murder.
It seems that I should not offend this deputy section chief in the future. He is too cruel, too sinister, and too vicious...
Sure enough, the next day, Li Zexu, Bi Chunlong and Liao Zhanying were traveling at the same time, and a traffic accident occurred. All three were injured and were sent to the Railway General Hospital for hospitalization.
Section Chief Kong didn't take it seriously. He just thought that his subordinates were unlucky, so he personally went to the hospital to visit them with some canned food.
Seeing his three subordinates wrapped in gauze lying on the hospital bed, Section Chief Kong readily approved them for half a month's sick leave, as the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone.
On the third day, Yang Xiaoqing and Zhu Xingchen also received procurement tasks and were arranged to go on business trips.
Up to this point, the purchasing department was still calm and nothing had happened.
Lin Sanqi punched in for work as usual every day, and then disappeared. In fact, he was just out there as a "tourist".
In 1959, many ancient buildings in Peking were still well preserved. Except for the city walls, other Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings were authentic and of great contemporary significance.
For example, the Wanfo Tower in Beihai Park, which once displayed ten thousand golden Buddhas, and the small railway that Cixi used to visit the park have been preserved.
This small railway connects Beihai Park and the Forbidden City. It is the first railway in China. It can still be seen in 1959. What about the future...
For example, there is a Daqingshou Temple on the south side of West Chang'an Avenue. It has two nine-story pagodas built in the Yuan Dynasty, one large and one small. They are very ancient, majestic and full of beauty.
In addition, with Daqingshou Temple as the center, East Public Security Street, Ministry of Justice Street, Chaoyang Gate, Fucheng Gate, as well as Dongdan, Xidan, Xisi, in front of the Temple of Emperors of All Dynasties, etc., now preserve very traditional and beautiful archways.
Many tourists only remember the seven-linked archway group in Tangyue, Huangshan, Anhui Province. Even the Qiong Yao drama "Smoke Locks the Tower" was filmed here.
Everyone feels that these seven memorial archways not only embody the ethics of "loyalty, filial piety, chastity, and righteousness" of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism in Hui culture, but are also an important testimony to the Hui merchants' dominance in the business world for more than 300 years.
But the seven archways in Tangyue are nothing compared to the archways in the old city in the 1950s. There is no way to compare them at all.
That is a folk archway, which cannot be compared with the grand royal archway. It can only be regarded as a younger brother in terms of exquisiteness and scale.
But even such a beautiful archway group, Lin Sanqi knew that it would only last for a few more years.
The Soviet aid experts even proposed to demolish the Forbidden City and turn this prime land into a modern administrative center. Fortunately, Comrade Xiangyu strongly advocated for it, otherwise future generations would probably not even be able to see the Forbidden City.
So Lin Sanqi wanted to take advantage of the time and opportunity to visit the 1959 city. It would be best if he could record it so that he could use it as a commemoration and research in the future, right?
But if you want Lin Sanqi to hold a mobile phone selfie stick and walk around the streets to take pictures like a self-media person, isn't that like delivering vegetables to the aunties in the alleys or catching spies?
Finally, he was locked up and sliced into pieces.
So the most important thing is to buy a camera.
Lin Sanqi came out of the office and walked slowly towards Wangfujing, where there are some of the largest shopping malls in the capital, and you can buy whatever you want.
When he arrived at Wangfujing, he first drank a bowl of mutton soup at Dong'an Market. When he came out, he burped and the soup still smelled of mutton.
Don't ask why Lin Sanqi burped when others were hungry. If you ask, he just ate a double portion of mutton soup and two pancakes. After all, he had no shortage of tickets or money.
Whenever I run out of money, I'll go to the black market. If I run out of tickets, I'll go to Brother Qin Ming who runs a printing workshop...
After eating and drinking, we crossed the street and arrived at the Peking Department Store.
This is the first large-scale department store built with state investment in the history of New China, and is known as the "No. 1 Store in New China."
Of course, the architectural styles of this era are all imitations of the Soviet style. They are all square and look grand at first glance, but then they are monotonous and lack aesthetic appeal. In any case, Lin Sanqi doesn't like it very much.
Although it was just after 9 o'clock in the morning, the department store was already very busy.
As a popular check-in spot in the 1950s, Peking Department Store is a must-visit for everyone who comes to the capital on business, even if they can't afford to buy anything, it's worth visiting.
The key is that there are many things that cannot be bought anywhere else.
Anyone who has a little bit of means will ask relatives and friends who are on business trips to the capital to help bring some things back, just like asking relatives and friends going abroad to bring things back in the 1980s.
Lin Sanqi thought that he was quite lucky to have traveled to the capital in 1959.
(End of this chapter)
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