Seeing Deputy Director of the Labor Bureau Yang Xiangqian chatting with the blacksmith shop owner for more than ten minutes, with every sentence having substance, the blacksmith shop owner nodded repeatedly as if meeting a soulmate. While admiring, the deputy director of the town government office also felt a sense of loss. The town certainly couldn't compare with the city where all kinds of industries were complete, but even so, there were quite a few trades. The deputy director didn't really understand how these industries operated. Under the myriad of clues, the deputy director felt immense work pressure.

Just then, Yang Xiangqian asked, "Boss, there is vocational training now. You, and the assistants in your blacksmith shop, can all participate. Adult vocational education requires signing a contract, so you don't have to worry about the assistants leaving you after learning. When your assistants participate in the training, you pay them according to the minimum wage, and the state will give you some subsidies. When they come back after learning, there will be people in your shop who master the latest technology, and the assistants will also have hope. I think this is very good."

Hearing this conversation, the deputy director recalled the technical training in adult re-education issued from above. He couldn't recall it completely for a moment, but the whole content was indeed as Yang Xiangqian said.

Hearing this, the blacksmith shop owner didn't agree immediately but shook his head, "This leader, what you said are things only those who want to do big business would do. I just want to run this blacksmith shop well. Learning blacksmithing doesn't need going to school."

Seeing the blacksmith shop owner spoke sincerely, Yang Xiangqian knew this was what he really thought. So he didn't persuade much, said a few more words, and stood up, "Sorry for disturbing you today. I'll take my leave."

The blacksmith shop owner saw Yang Xiangqian and the others to the door. Watching them leave on the motorized tricycle, he felt very good. Talking with such a big shot indeed felt like a spring breeze. What this bureau director from the city said was all useful for the blacksmith shop operation, and he didn't force it. The blacksmith shop owner was rather interested in what Yang Xiangqian mentioned about borrowing money from the Rural Credit Cooperative.

Where is there a businessman who doesn't lack money? Although he didn't need to borrow money now, he might use it in the future. Moreover, hearing that the interest rate of the credit cooperative loan was not high, if there was really a chance to borrow money, maybe it could help him survive in a crisis.

Leaving the blacksmith shop, Yang Xiangqian had something in mind, so he simply asked the tricycle to stop. He took out his notebook and wrote down his views on adult vocational education. According to Yang Xiangqian's own guess, these workshops, regardless of size, did not tend to let their employees participate in adult vocational training.

The reason was different from the traditional agricultural society's 'teaching the apprentice starves the master'. Once these workers mastered more technology, a situation where 'one mountain cannot contain two tigers' might appear. As for the blacksmith shop owner's answer just now, it was also a common mentality. If capable employees were recruited, it would definitely be to expand the business. Any boss with a clear mind could feel the risk of expanding business. When the market is depressed, reducing expenses might make it possible to survive. Once taking risks, there is a high probability of complete failure.

Closing the notebook, Yang Xiangqian let the tricycle continue forward. On the way, judging from the cases seen at present, the previous rice husking workshop closed down because they were impacted by the grain processing factory using machines. Also being workshops, once the handicraft industry was impacted by industrial machinery, it immediately threw away its helmet and armor (suffered utter defeat) and was completely finished.

Thinking of this, Yang Xiangqian stopped the car again and wrote a sentence in the notebook, 'Arrangement for tomorrow, focus on the comparison between handicraft industry and machinery'.

For two consecutive days, Yang Xiangqian walked through this town. at the meeting before leaving, Yang Xiangqian made a request, 'In the near future, promote adult vocational training in the town. I will check everyone's report when I come back.'

Without staying longer, Yang Xiangqian went to the next town. This trip took more than half a month, investigating four towns and two county towns. With the investigation, Yang Xiangqian's thinking became clearer and clearer. At this stage, social development was still in an acquaintance society. Workshops would not recruit people easily; even if they recruited, they needed recommendations from acquaintances. Their operation mode was still the traditional set.

Tradition isn't completely bad. Under the traditional recruitment mode, although the salary is not high, money is paid on time. After all, the main force of reneging on debts back then was local tyrants and evil gentry, and local tyrants and evil gentry had been eliminated in the three-year civil war.

For workshops using machinery, the field of machinery use was only substitution type. For example, mills and rice husking workshops; the role of machinery was to replace human and animal power. In the private sector, there were no real mechanical processing enterprises appearing yet. Even if some looked like they were doing machinery, they were peripheral fields existing by relying on state-owned enterprises. For example, with the popularity of bicycles, handicraft workshops adding accessories to bicycles to increase cargo capacity.

These enterprises in Chenzhou (Zhoukou) were completely dependent in nature. Once there were no basic industrial products provided by state-owned enterprises, they would have no space for existence.

On the way back, the investigation ideas in Yang Xiangqian's heart became clearer and clearer. In the report written in spare time every night, more and more content was modified. Even the modified content began to become the main content of the report.

Two days before returning to Chenzhou urban area, Yang Xiangqian started to modify while reading the report after dinner. At this time, he considered more but wrote less. Just then, a knock on the door sounded. Yang Xiangqian looked back and saw the technician from Forever Vehicle Factory standing in front of the open door. Thanks to the technician driving the motorized tricycle along the way, it was really much more convenient. Moreover, the technician also taught the accompanying comrades how to drive the tricycle and also repair the vehicle.

Yang Xiangqian immediately closed the notebook and invited the technician in. Having been together for so long, they spoke much more freely. The technician said, "Director Yang, on our way back, many people asked how to sell the tricycle. I want to ask, if we let the masses buy motorized tricycles by installments like buying bicycles, who should we go to?"

Hearing this, Yang Xiangqian didn't know how to answer. This motorized tricycle was indeed good; Yang Xiangqian himself had thought about whether to buy one for his family in his hometown. But installment payment was different.

Finally, Yang Xiangqian gave the technician from Forever Vehicle Factory an explanation, "Buying bicycles by installments is a central policy. The city executed the document from the Zhili Ministry, not that the city could make the decision. If you want buying tricycles to be in installments like bicycles, you have to go to the State Council."

The technician didn't know that the bicycle installment policy came from the central government, but he was an employee of a state-owned enterprise after all and understood the national system. Hearing that his idea actually required approval from the State Council, his face instantly flushed red with shame. Apologizing extremely awkwardly, the technician turned and fled.

Yang Xiangqian didn't find the technician funny at all. Instead, he felt the technician raised a very good view. If he could buy a motorized tricycle for his family in his hometown by installments, Yang Xiangqian's economic pressure would drop suddenly. It could even be said that Yang Xiangqian just thought about it before, but now he could really consider this matter seriously.

Although it is impossible to promote state-subsidized motorized tricycle installments nationwide, in plain areas like Zhoukou, installment loan services can be provided to users with asset collateral. Banks in the city can also do this.

After returning to Chenzhou City, Yang Xiangqian hurried to finish modifying his investigation report and submitted it. He thought it would be discussed at the next municipal government meeting, but unexpectedly, he was called by the Municipal Party Secretary five days later. The Municipal Party Secretary asked in detail about the content of this investigation report. After Yang Xiangqian finished answering, the Municipal Party Secretary made his expression more serious before saying, "I submitted your report to the Zhili Ministry. After Minister Xiao read it, he requested you to enter the capital to report."

Yang Xiangqian hurriedly said, "Secretary, what should I pay attention to?"

Seeing Yang Xiangqian didn't look arrogant because of his contribution at all, the Secretary said, "Report exactly how you investigated. You don't need to have scruples... At this time... well, when it's time for you to speak freely, speak freely! I think you won't make mistakes. Even if you make mistakes, I will bear it!"

On October 29, Xiao Hanshan, Minister of the Zhili Ministry, watched Yang Xiangqian, Deputy Director of the Chenzhou Labor Bureau, leave, and finally dropped the serious expression he had tried hard to maintain not long ago, sinking his whole body into the sofa. After a long silence, Xiao Hanshan sighed deeply and stood up abruptly from the sofa. The secretary who was organizing the meeting records nearby was startled, so much so that the characters he was writing were ruined.

The secretary recovered his mood in a moment because this meeting was quite good, better than imagined! Because the inspection team discovered it in time, removing Wu Lingpu and others from office and sending them back to the Party School for study first, finally stopped the matter before Wu Lingpu messed things up.

But although Wu Lingpu was crude and rash when promoting infrastructure construction before, there were indeed results, so he was once promoted as a model by Xiao Hanshan. Now the model had fallen, and when Xiao Hanshan made a self-criticism to Premier Wu Youping, Wu Youping explicitly warned Xiao Hanshan, "Absolutely cannot overturn a boat with one pole (condemn everyone)!" So there was no way to express attitude by punishing the Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government.

Yang Xiangqian's report appeared at this time, really just right. Xiao Hanshan worried there were problems in this report, so he not only analyzed and studied it carefully with secretaries but also confirmed that the report fully conformed to central thinking, and asked others to help review it. After ensuring there were no problems, he carefully straightened out the questions to ask Yang Xiangqian, ensuring that if Yang Xiangqian were a 'Wu Lingpu' hiding his inner thoughts, he would definitely show his true colors (cloven hoof).

Through the meeting, it was confirmed that Yang Xiangqian's thinking highly conformed to central policies. So when the secretary drafted the report, it was too easy to write.

The achievements made by Chenzhou were the result of the joint hard work of a group of party members and cadres like Yang Xiangqian. It was the result of these cadres uniting around the Party Central Committee and the Central Government and struggling.

The problems of Chenzhou were problems caused by leading cadres like Wu Lingpu (Note: Original text said Wu Zhipu here, corrected to Wu Lingpu for consistency) choosing inappropriate work directions due to their level of understanding.

The secretary was quite confident in the report he drafted. Writing like this took care of all aspects. There would absolutely not be a situation where 'there are no good people in Hongtong County'. This was also the situation Premier Wu Youping hoped to see.

After all, being a minister's secretary, he drafted the report in just over an hour. Handing the report to Xiao Hanshan, as Xiao Hanshan read it, the expression on his face relaxed. Just as the secretary was waiting for Zhili Minister Xiao Hanshan to propose revisions to the content inside, he heard Xiao Hanshan say, "Do you still remember the view on motorized tricycle installments proposed by Yang Xiangqian?"

"I have an impression, but not much," the secretary answered truthfully. He focused on problems related to Chenzhou and didn't pay attention to some of Yang Xiangqian's own independent ideas.

"Go see Yang Xiangqian once, ask about this clearly. Write this paragraph into the report," Xiao Hanshan ordered.

Although puzzled, the secretary still went to execute the order. After talking in detail with Yang Xiangqian about the view on motorized tricycle installment loans, the secretary admired Xiao Hanshan quite a bit. No wonder Xiao Hanshan could be the Minister of the Zhili Ministry; Xiao Hanshan's sensitivity to policy was really very high.

The policy currently being promoted, to put it extremely simply, is to cultivate the consumption power of the masses and, based on the improvement of consumption power, promote China's industrial development by developing the market. The state actually adopted the method of financial subsidies to advance hundreds of millions of Chinese people from travel and transportation methods of two legs and wooden wheel carts to bicycles and various tire vehicles with shock-absorbing chassis. This is a huge boost to productive forces.

Yang Xiangqian's plan was not to let the state bear the burden, but to let the masses with money and collateral upgrade from rickshaws to motorized tricycles. It was indeed a very good idea. The best aspect of this idea was that the government didn't need financial subsidies this time.

Two days later, the prepared Xiao Hanshan met Wu Youping again. When entering the door, he saw Wu Youping reading documents. Xiao Hanshan waited for a while until Wu Youping finished reading the last page. Immediately, Wu Youping picked up the report, put it on the table again, then stood up and said, "This typical example was found well!"

Xiao Hanshan knew Wu Youping was criticizing, so he made a self-criticism, "The Zhili Ministry has conducted an investigation of various cities, found many problems, and is setting about solving them. The Zhili Ministry will definitely minimize the negative impact..."

Listening to Xiao Hanshan's answer, Wu Youping felt that Xiao Hanshan himself didn't continue in the wrong direction, which could be considered minimizing the negative impact. As for this group of removed cadres, they didn't really produce unmanageable results. So skill was needed in using these cadres. For example, Wu Lingpu himself was very radical, so let him go to work in the inspection team. If Wu Lingpu wasn't pretending to be radical, presumably he would be a person who couldn't tolerate sand in his eyes. He would definitely not be polite to those slackers.

After all, China is so big, and there are all kinds of people. Although the main problem at the current stage is radicals like Wu Lingpu, there are also quite a few slack officials in absolute numbers.

As for this little trick of Xiao Hanshan, Wu Youping decided to see through it but not say it. When in the Northeast, Wu Youping could strengthen management efficiency by running all over the Northeast. But China is so big; Wu Youping couldn't finish running even if he exhausted himself to death. Now he had begun to feel various problems, and even began to vaguely feel the problem of 'control leads to death (stagnation), release leads to chaos'. Therefore, within the acceptable range, sufficient space must still be given to cadres at all levels.

Moreover, the new typical example found by Xiao Hanshan was indeed very good. previously, Wu Youping had discussed with He Rui how to promote motor vehicles. This Yang Xiangqian definitely didn't know about these discussions. And Yang Xiangqian's thinking was exactly the thinking Wu Youping thought was most suitable. Since there was such a comrade, he should be given space to execute.

If successful, it would undoubtedly be a very good case. Moreover, judging from the report, the possibility of Yang Xiangqian messing things up was really not high.

So, after Xiao Hanshan finished his self-criticism, Wu Youping emphasized two things again, "Cannot overturn a boat with one pole (condemn everyone). Cannot negate infrastructure construction. Every comrade has their own deficiencies. Every infrastructure construction, looking at it 30 years later, will be a pile of problems. If there are problems, analyze specific problems specifically. But this hasn't reached the level of contradiction yet. I think the Zhili Ministry still grasped these correctly in this matter."

Hearing that Wu Youping finally let him off, Xiao Hanshan felt as if granted a great amnesty. A stone finally dropped to the ground.