In China in the fifth year of the Republic of China, if anyone did not know the "Ministry of Industry and Commerce", he must have been extremely ignorant. Two years ago, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce was just one of the central departments. After the "division of government and courts", the Ministry of Industry and Commerce quickly grew into an unprecedented opportunity under the premise that the Prime Minister personally took office as the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The reason why it became famous is because of the new economic policy it implemented.

"A hybrid economic model that organically combines the market economy and the planned economy" is a speech by Li Zicheng to those young officials who were young and drawn from the ** Company after taking office as the Minister of Industry and Commerce. It was also from that time that, using the government's closeness to the banking industry, using finance as a weapon, and taking advantage of the ** Company's leading position in the country, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce began to gradually build an extremely large company in the country's industrial and commercial industry, and guide and plan the development of this "company".

The commonly used method of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce is administrative guidance, that is, the government proposes so-called guidance to enterprises through "suggestions" and "expectations" to guide the operation of enterprises and the flow of social resources. Administrative guidance in China has no legal basis. However, the policies formulated by forward-looking elites are not only conducive to the development of the industry, but also benefit individual enterprises. In addition, preferential induction policies have made the policies recognized by enterprises.

The key to the success or failure of this guidance method lies in the technocratic rule of the country and the absorption of the best talents in the country. Successful industrial policies are not entirely made by government departments, but also borrow a large number of "external brains" through the deliberation committee system. Therefore, starting from the division of government and courts, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has also gathered domestic elites and hired a large number of foreign economic consultants, which can be said to be a combination of Chinese intelligence.

It was also as early as the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce that the domestic industry had united and reached a consensus internally and ruthlessly expanded externally. Almost from the second half of the fourth year of the Republic of China, cheap textiles, food, light electricity products, automobiles, ships and chemicals produced by China poured into the world market in large quantities, while Western competitors who were in a dilemma of war were extremely shocked, but they could only helplessly face the erosion of Chinese manufacturing on its market.

After the outbreak of the European war, China gained benefits from the role of suppliers of the Allied Powers. It provided billions of industrial products to all teams and private markets, etc. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce made full use of this prosperity. Due to the war between European countries, its industrial capital was withdrawn from China. China was isolated from the world market in the short term, and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce could support Chinese industrial enterprises like in incubators. It first promoted the development of light industry by coordinating the domestic financial community to provide hundreds of millions of loans and tax preferential policies to the industry. After making some progress with light industry, it began to promote the development of heavy industries, such as steel, shipbuilding and automobile manufacturing through social financing.

When these light and heavy industrial companies were established, because their owners were mostly old gentry and were not good at modern enterprise management, they hired a large number of younger business managers who graduated from specialized schools, and a new generation of business owners appeared as the spokespersons of the company's collective. Everyone in the company worked hard for collective success rather than personal interests.

In order to enhance employees' loyalty and avoid labor-capital struggles, enterprises and the state provide job guarantees and implement a lifelong employment system. In return, trade unions accept the reality that workers have long working days and short holidays. The company replaces traditional Confucian families and becomes the basic unit of society: it provides housing, introduces objects, and pays pensions. The country eventually cleverly combines the market economy with the traditional medieval village society...

In a relatively closed and tight domestic market with industrial products, domestic companies can make money from consumers at prices several times higher than the international market. In this way, they can prepare for launching an export offensive without interference. Under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Chinese companies have chosen some low-priced products that can be produced in large quantities as the main products for export. At the same time, under the promotion of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, even deliberately arranged, these enterprise groups closely intertwined through finance and production are also connected in the market. With the support of the government, they jointly exclude foreign competitors, especially foreign banks in various countries that were traversing China before the war, thus achieving a monopoly on the domestic market.

It is the Ministry of Industry and Commerce that dominates all this. In this process, under the premise of rapid development of domestic industries, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has become China's "strongest" powerful agency. This institution that can directly interfere with the economy and guide economic operation is still the heart of its original office location, the basement of the Prime Minister's residence.

As China's largest central agency, with the increasing intensity of guidance in market intervention and increasing intensity, the scale of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has been expanding. In July 2018, the entire Ministry of Industry and Commerce, including more than 4,000 affiliated bureaus, had nearly 4,000 employees, and there were more than 200 section chief positions. Due to the different appointment and removal regulations of the State Council, the position of chief director was certainly appointed by the Prime Minister, but as a matter of affairs officials, the position of "Second Minister of Industry and Commerce" must be selected from the officials of affairs. This means that the position of deputy chief needs to be selected from these more than 200 section chiefs. Among them, the most hopeful person to ascend to the throne of the future secondary officials are the three section chiefs in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce: the Secretary-General's Office, the Chief of General Affairs and the Chief of Accounting.

The responsibilities of the three section chiefs are quite different from those of private companies. The General Affairs Section Chief holds core tasks that dominate the overall situation, such as comprehensive adjustments and planning of the administration under his jurisdiction, and the meeting section chief is responsible for the preparation of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The matters under the Secretary-General include: confidential matters and staff positions, levels, appointments and removals, authority, punishment, attendance, treatment and other personnel, training, and training. At the same time, he also needs to keep the official seal of the chief, the deputy chief of affairs, and the seal of the department. What is more important than general secretary-oriented business is personnel work, and for this, his interests are here.

Although it was early in the morning, like other officials of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, who were known as "desperate", they still sat in their seats, took out a stack of cards from the drawer, and laid them one by one on the table. On the cards of the size of a business card, each with the name of a more important official in the department.

Looking at these cards, the faces, personalities and expertise of these people kept appearing in his mind. Then, he drew a list of personnel organizations on the table. Trying to put the cards in the position he thought was suitable.

But every time he placed it, he could always find one or another reason for the other party to show that the other party was not suitable for the position, so he began to re-adjust the position of the card. From the side, it seemed like playing cards alone.

As early as three years ago, when he was still in Longhai Railway Company, as the head of the company's personnel department, he began to fiddle with similar cards. The backs of these cards continued to increase his evaluation of a certain person. After entering the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, he began to make the same cards. Therefore, old cards with the names of director-level officials have long become dirty and changed color due to long-term fiddling. This is like a game. Although he calls it an ideal candidate, it is still a game on the table.

However, now he has become the section chief in charge of personnel and is about to be the second consecutive term, so he is very enthusiastic when he arranges cards. Once the cards are placed, the personnel changes will follow. Some people will be resurrected and make a comeback, some will be thrown into the cold palace, or even buried...

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has never retained mediocre talents. There is no place tolerate any mediocre talents here. All work here is related to the future of the country. Therefore, in terms of any position arrangement, we must be very cautious, because this may affect the entire country.

At this time, when Sun Linzhong began to place these cards, the entire Secretary Department became silent. Summer is the season of personnel changes. The officials in the department were very concerned about the section chief placing cards. At this time, they did not even dare to cough, not to interfere with the section chief's work, and even the air flow here seemed to have stopped.

In the early morning, as soon as the office was quiet, the sound from the next door came, and there were constant rushing footsteps. Listening to the footsteps, Sun Linzhong frowned. Isn’t the reason why he used this time to do this work because it was too noisy here at other times?

At first, he didn't care. When he put a stack of cards on the table, because of the heat, he unbuttoned a shirt and made it air-flow. At this time, the sound of conversation and footsteps outside once again disrupted his thoughts. It was understandable to the work of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. At this time, the fierce debates would become the only voice here. Because autumn is the time for the formulation of new policies, it is now the time for officials to devote themselves to the formulation of new policies. Therefore, the debates among young novices in the Ministry sometimes start from morning to late at night. Although everyone is thinking about personnel changes in summer, what is more important is the formulation of new policies.

Usually, the formulation of new policies begins with young clerks from various subjects submitting their respective drafts to the bureau's bureau's bureau's bureau meeting for discussion. At the meeting, everyone tried their best to make the plan they drafted pass and repeatedly argued. This is another battle to test the talents of the proposers. Only proposals whose content and arguments can stand scrutiny can be retained and submitted to the Legislative Review Committee for discussion as proposals of the bureau.

The members of the committee are some top talents selected from young and promising officials, usually the chief affairs officers of the General Affairs Section of each bureau. They represent their respective bureaus, so they always want to pass their plans. Therefore, when arguing, everyone is not giving in. They originally discussed national affairs, but the outcome of the debate will also affect the future of these young people. So in order to prevent their proposals from being eliminated, they repeatedly argued fiercely with red faces and thick necks.

If Sun Linzhong would attend the debate with a smile, to be precise, in a room next to the committee, through the thin wall, grasp the committee's dynamics and understand the young officials from it. However, this debate should have ended long ago. Now it should be a time to work on basic things, so why would it be so noisy?

Sun Linzhong, whose thoughts were interrupted, took away the card in his hand and shouted outside the door.

"What's going on?"

As soon as his voice fell, he saw a young man, a young man who had just graduated from Peking University. After entering the office, he bowed urgently and then spoke.

"Section Chief, the Prime Minister gave a speech in the Affairs Department..."

Prime Minister? Affairs Section?

Listening to the report from his subordinates, Sun Linzhong was stunned. If he remembered well, the last time the Prime Minister went down to the basement should have happened three months ago. As for the work of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, as the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister, has always only grasped the general direction, and the specific affairs are still the officials of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Why did the Prime Minister come so late?

Thinking of this, Sun Linzhong looked up at the wall clock. It was three o'clock in the morning. Even the "desperate sabbagos" of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce often lie on the floor in the office to rest. Why is the Prime Minister here now?...

As the head of the Personnel Section of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Sun Linzhong quickly grabbed the suit hanging behind the door and put it on his body. He buttoned the shirt collar while walking, and tied his tie while walking. Most of the others were like this. When the Prime Minister came, they had to maintain their appearance. Many of these officials working at the headquarters had sleepy faces, obviously waking up from their sleep.

"As an official of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, you must first learn to sleep. You can fall asleep by closing your eyes and wake up by shouting. You can devote yourself to your work with a hundred times more energy!"

Almost every official who has just entered the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will receive such training and heavy work that makes overtime work normal. This makes everyone here develop the habit of sleeping with their eyes closed, working with their eyes open and not making mistakes. In order to keep their spirits, they pat their faces from time to time when they walk towards the affairs department and wipe their faces with handkerchiefs stained with cold water to make themselves more awake.

"Secretary Sun, do you know what's going on?"

Just when an official's words fell, they had already walked to the Department of Things, and at this time there were people standing outside the door. After seeing the arrival of the "first section chief", the young officials took the initiative to give in.

"...When we are working hard, the officials and the powerful are rampant, they still run rampant on the land of this country. For them, nothing seems to have changed......"

Listening to the voice coming from the office, Sun Linzhong sensitively realized that the Prime Minister today seemed to be different from the past. From his words, he could feel that he seemed to be dissatisfied with some problems. Is he ungrateful? Obviously not. The State Council has a special administrative agency for Integrity that directly belongs to the Prime Minister. Some corruption may occur in the departments under the State Council, but it will be investigated and dealt with quickly. Could it be...

"...We have tried to change, but we have to admit that in terms of this change, our strength is so weak that when facing social injustice and the suffering of the people, we cannot help, but do we really cannot help?"

Sure enough, after hearing this, Sun Linzhong had realized the problem. The Prime Minister's words meant something - non-state officials. For a long time, the greed of government officials and local officials, especially generals from various provinces, have been criticized by the outside world, and the Prime Minister seemed to have never accused them. Even when facing external questions, he said, "Parliament will decide everything." But today, what happened to the Prime Minister today...

Just when Sun Linzhong was surprised, he saw the Prime Minister bowing to the officials there.

"I made some nagging, delaying everyone's rest. Sorry, thank you for your hard work, it's not too late, so take a break early..."

Then, the Prime Minister walked out of the Affairs Section in a little disappointed manner. When the Prime Minister walked out of the office, could Sun Linzhong clearly see the fatigue on the Prime Minister's young face, but more of it was disappointment, disappointment?

Who is he disappointed?

While frowning and thinking, a thought suddenly appeared in Sun Linzhong's heart. Perhaps... this seemingly calm capital, and even the political arena of China, will probably set off an unprecedented storm.

After walking out of the elevator and entering his study again, although he was moved by the efforts of the young officials, Li Zicheng still felt a little disappointed. On the one hand, countless people were working hard for the future of this country, and on the other hand, what were those people doing?

Thinking of this, a deeper feeling of indignation suddenly surged deep in Li Zicheng's heart. Standing by the table, his eyes closed, he became more and more angry as he thought about it. An unprecedented sense of grief and anger surged in his heart, stirring. Finally, he opened his eyes, spread out a piece of paper, and then picked up a brush on the table.

The pen was hanging on the snow-white rice paper, and the ink on the tip of the brush slowly oozed out a drop of ink, dripping on the rice paper, rendering a trace of ink. At this time, Li Zicheng's heart was still full of indignation. When he closed his eyes, what appeared in front of him was no longer the expectation of going to China in the past, no longer the future of China, it seemed that what he saw was still the domineering of the privileged people, and the collusion between the powerful and the nobles in an equal society was still the century-old suffering of the lower class.

Who? Who has ever really cared about them?

Have you considered them?

How many people learned about their sufferings? How many people sympathized with their situation? They came here with hope and wanted to build a better society. However, this society has such shortcomings. How can they reverse all this?
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