Chapter 291: Go your own way and leave others with no way to go
October 11, 9:00 am.
Dongli Town Conference Room.
There are probably more than 200 town and village cadres.
The "excessive urination" incident at school didn't happen. Perhaps it was because a few village officials from Raohu Village 4 volunteered to be my publicists.
What about patting a Tibetan Mastiff with your hand and it stops moving? Sit on the grass, whoosh, a snake will come, chop it, and it will retreat.
Perhaps it was these stories that everyone already knew. Secretary Tian accompanied me into the meeting room. Those who didn't know me looked me over from head to toe. The four branch secretaries who knew me stood up and waved to me.
I sat in the first row. Secretary Tian walked directly to the podium.
He coughed twice, and the whole room fell silent. I think these people are more cultured than the intellectuals. When the intellectuals hear I graduated from high school, they get an inexplicable surge of superiority.
Secretary Tian said: "I have invited someone to give a lecture to everyone today. His name is Wan Shanhong. Some people know him, but more people have only heard of him.
Mr. Wan Shanhong is the cultural consultant for the Rising Sun Group. It's hard to tell how much knowledge he has. Unlike me, I don't have much knowledge, but I have such a big belly and look like I'm full of knowledge.
There was laughter from the audience.
If urban planning doesn't extend eastward, are we just going to sit there and wait for death? No, I won't agree, and no one else will. But how should Dongli Town develop? I've been pondering this question since I became mayor, and later, I met Teacher Wan Shanhong.
During my work experience, I felt that Mr. Wan was talented and capable, so I asked him to tour the town. He had some new ideas, which I thought were very good.
Today, I've invited him to give a lecture. First, turn off your cell phones. Second, no gossip. Anyone who's gossiping, I invite you to come up to the stage and speak up.
You can't just talk nonsense on stage. You can only leave the podium if everyone agrees that you speak better than Teacher Wan. (Laughter)
I've said so much, but the last sentence is the most useful. If you don't believe me, just try it. Okay, now let's welcome Teacher Wan to give his lecture.
There was applause from the audience.
I walked up to the podium and looked down. Many people had their arms crossed over their chests. Crossing the chest is an attitude, essentially the same as "urinating a lot" - the inner thought is: you say it, and I listen.
"Dear leaders and friends, my name is Wan Shanhong. I can't be the mayor or secretary of the town. But I can give them advice. (Laughter)
Why?
If I come up with an idea, and the leader adopts it, and the business succeeds, I, Wan Shanhong, will be credited. But what if the business fails? The leader will be punished and demoted. I, Wan Shanhong, will be fined nothing. They'll just say I'm a good-for-nothing scholar. (Laughter)
Some people, especially talented college students, write letters to their leaders as soon as they enter the company, often thousands of words long, hoping that the boss will adopt their opinions.
If their boss doesn't adopt their suggestion, they'll be in agony. This kind of person is very naive. If their boss adopts their suggestion, they'll be gambling their life and property. What if they lose? Therefore, scholars are often very impulsive, while bosses are usually very cautious.
The same is true today, Secretary Tian, and everyone here, you can choose not to adopt my proposal. If you do, you will bear the risk of failing to achieve this goal.
Like all of you, I come from the countryside. Almost everyone here probably comes from the countryside. To put it bluntly, my speech is like farting (laughter).
So, Secretary Tian said that anyone who talks nonsense should come up and give a lecture. I disagreed and instead thought that anyone who thought my lecture was not good could just leave.
There was laughter from the audience.
This self-deprecating remark brought them closer. I glanced around the audience again and saw fewer people crossing their arms. More people were leaning forward, their hands resting on the table in front of them.
I took a sip of tea and got to the point:
"Next, I will talk to you about how to do business today, starting from the far side and moving towards the near side. As far as I know, we must work together.
Most of the people who sell paint and building materials in Beijing are from Anhui and Hunan.
The express delivery industry is largely dominated by the Tonglu gang, private hospitals are largely dominated by the Putian gang, and Shenzhen's real estate industry is largely dominated by the Chaoshan gang. Anyone who knows about this situation, please raise your hand and speak up.
It was lively now, and everyone in the audience raised their hands.
It is said that people from Lishui, Zhejiang, have opened supermarkets all over the country, people from Anxi, Fujian, specialize in selling tea, people from Gushi, Henan, specialize in collecting waste, people from Loudi, Hunan, have opened copy and printing shops everywhere, people from Jiangxi specialize in making doors and windows, people from Northeast China use Kuaishou and Douyin every day, and people from Zhejiang use the PPP model to finance and invest in highways.
I nodded. "You're right." I could name a few more: Zhuji socks, Shengzhou ties, Dongyang furniture, Yixing cables, Liuyang fireworks, flat ring valves, Yongjia hardware, Guanyun sex toys... the list goes on.
Why?
Because some of these businesses have historical roots, the vast majority did not form industries at the beginning. They were started by one or several people. Their initial business capital was borrowed from relatives and friends around them, and their employees were also fellow villagers.
One person leads a group, a group leads a township, and a township leads a county. This phenomenon is replicated over and over again, and so we see the phenomenon we see today. This phenomenon has existed since ancient times and is called a gang.
In modern times, tea merchants in Shanxi were called the Jin Bang, and the salt, tea, timber, and pawnbroking industries in Anhui were called the Hui Bang.
So what does Dongli do and what kind of gang does he form?"
More than two hundred pairs of eyes were looking at me, hoping that I would be like Zhuge Liang and come up with an alliance with Wu to fight against Cao and burn down Chibi. At worst, I would at least use the strategy of "borrowing arrows from a straw boat".
"The bamboos all over the mountains are the wealth of Dongli. We want to form a Dongli Bamboo Gang."
The audience burst into laughter. This kind of laughter is called "burst laughter," a breath that has been suppressed in the stomach and suddenly bursts out, emitting all the contempt and disdain in the heart.
Many people began to cross their arms and lean back, which was a body language that distanced them from you and distanced them from ignorance.
"I know why you're laughing. If I just summarized a lot of phenomena in one breath, you think I'm knowledgeable. But when I uttered the words 'Bamboo Gang,' you think I'm childish and ridiculous."
The laughter stopped.
"He who laughs last laughs best. I will continue."
After taking a sip of tea, I found that Qing Yazi was also sitting in the conference room, and in the second row, he was actually taking notes with a notebook spread out.
"Let me start with bamboo shoots. They can be made into magnolia slices and dried bamboo shoots. (Audience scoffs)
Bamboo can be used to make fast-moving consumer goods, such as chopsticks. (The situation has improved slightly.)
Bamboo can be used as infrastructure board.
Bamboo can be used to make handicrafts. Ancient people carved text onto bamboo slips, known as bamboo slips. With today's advanced carving technology, we can now make a bamboo book of the Analects.
We don't just want others to read it. Placing it on a bookshelf, in an office, or in a teahouse creates a very elegant decoration. It's also the most culturally valuable gift Chinese people can give to foreigners.
Bamboo can be made into fiber towels. This family has a successful precedent.
Bamboo can be made into high-temperature resistant material after chemical treatment.
Even the bamboo scraps left over from our processing have a use. They can be used as humus for growing edible fungi.”
The atmosphere in the audience improved a little. I continued loudly:
"We can also cooperate with scientific research institutions to manufacture portable winter bamboo shoot detectors."
When hearing this sentence, the audience burst into laughter, but this time it was not a mockery, but a feeling of great novelty.
"Fishing has underwater detectors, so why can't we invent a winter bamboo shoot detector? Winter bamboo shoots grow in the direction where the tip of the bamboo bends down and touches the ground vertically.
Experienced people working with scientific and technological workers can study the patterns in winter bamboo shoot distribution."
The people who knew how to dig winter bamboo shoots in the audience began to communicate with the people next to them.
"We can also cooperate with scientific research institutions to develop intelligent equipment for shredding bamboo shoots. In short, we want to explore all the uses of bamboo shoots and bamboo in the world. Whenever the word bamboo is mentioned, Dongli Town will be the first thing that comes to mind."
After saying this, I slammed my fist on the table:
"On the bamboo, we must make our own way and leave no way for others to go."
The audience laughed so hard that they slammed the tables and chairs.
Some people brought notebooks and started taking notes. Some people didn't bring notebooks, so they sent someone outside the venue to ask the office to send paper and pens as soon as possible.
"Of course, I haven't finished farting yet. The finale is usually at the end. Below, I will continue farting." (Laughter)
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