In China during the 5 years of the Republic of China, if anyone did not know about the "Ministry of Industry and Commerce", he must be extremely ignorant. Two years ago, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce was just one of the departments under the central government, while the "Ministry of Industry and Commerce" was

After the "Government", under the premise that the Prime Minister personally took charge of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce quickly grew into an unprecedented opportunity, and the reason why it became famous in the world was because of the brand-new economic policy it promoted.

"A mixed economic model that organically combines the market economy and the planned economy." This was Li Zicheng's speech to the thousands of young officials who were transferred from ** companies after he took office as the Minister of Industry and Commerce.

, and it was also from that time that, taking advantage of the government's closeness to the banking industry, using finance as a weapon, and leveraging ** Company's leading position in the country, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce began to gradually build the entire country's industrial and commercial industry into a huge company.

, and guide and plan the development of this "company".

The commonly used means by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce is administrative guidance, that is, the government provides so-called guidance to enterprises through "suggestions", "expectations", etc., thereby guiding 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 beneficial to the development of the industry, but also beneficial to individual enterprises. Coupled with preferential induction policies, the policies have been recognized by enterprises.

The key to the success or failure of this guidance method lies in technocratic governance and attracting the best talents from across the country. Successful industrial policies are not entirely made by government departments. A large number of "outside brains" are also borrowed through the review committee system.

Therefore, since the separation of government and government, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has also gathered domestic elites, and at the same time hired a large number of foreign economic consultants, which can be said to be a collection of Chinese wisdom and brains.

It was also under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce that the domestic industrial community had sincerely united and reached a consensus internally, and carried out ruthless expansion externally. Almost starting from the second half of the fourth year of the Republic of China, China produced cheap textiles, food, and light electrical products.

Cars, ships, and chemicals flooded into the world market in large quantities. While Western competitors trapped in the war were extremely shocked, they had no choice but to face the encroachment of Chinese manufacturing on their markets.

After the outbreak of war in Europe, China benefited from its role as a supplier to the Allied Powers. It provided billions of yuan in manufactured goods to various armies and the private market, etc. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce took full advantage of this prosperity.

As the war between European countries caused their industrial capital to withdraw from China, which isolated China from the world market in the short term, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce can support Chinese industrial enterprises as if they were in an incubator. It first provided hundreds of millions to the industrial sector by coordinating the domestic financial community.

The government used planned loans and preferential tax policies to promote the development of domestic light industry. Later, after the light industry made certain progress, it began to use the same means to promote the development of heavy industries, such as steel, shipbuilding and automobile manufacturing, through social financing.

When these light and heavy industry companies were established, because most of their owners were old gentry and not good at modern business management, they hired a large number of younger management personnel who had graduated from vocational schools. A new generation of business owners emerged as the spokesperson of the company collective.

Everyone in the company works hard for collective success rather than personal gain.

In order to enhance employees' sense of loyalty and avoid labor struggles, companies and the state provide job security and implement a lifelong employment system. In return, trade unions accept the reality of long working days and short holidays for workers. The company replaces the traditional Confucian family and becomes the basic unit of society.

: It provides housing, introduces people, and pays pensions. The country finally cleverly combines the market economy with the traditional medieval village society...

In a relatively closed domestic market with tight supply of industrial products, domestic companies can make money from consumers at prices several times higher than those in the international market. In this way, they can prepare for the export offensive without interruption.

Under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Chinese companies have selected some low-priced, mass-produced products as their flagship products for export. At the same time, under the promotion and even deliberate arrangements of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, these are closely intertwined through finance and production.

The enterprise groups are also connected in the market. With the support of the government, they use various means to jointly squeeze out foreign competitors, especially the foreign institutions of various countries that existed in China before the war, thereby achieving a monopoly on the domestic market.

It is the Ministry of Industry and Commerce that leads all this. In this process, under the premise of the rapid development of domestic industry, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has become the "most powerful" powerful agency in China. This can directly intervene in the economy and guide the economy.

While the operating institution continues to expand, its original office location, the basement of the Prime Minister's official residence, is still its heart.

As the largest central agency in China, the size of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has continued to expand as the intensity of market intervention and guidance has increased. In July of the fifth year of the Republic of China, the entire Ministry of Industry and Commerce, including more than a dozen affiliated bureaus, nearly

There are 4,000 employees, and among them there are more than 200 section chief positions. Due to different regulations on the appointment and removal of officials of the State Council, although the position of chief is appointed by the Prime Minister, the position of "Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce" as an affairs official must be

To choose from among the affairs officials, this means that for the post of deputy minister, one needs to choose from more than two hundred section chiefs. Among them, the three section chiefs within the Ministry of Industry and Commerce who are most promising to ascend to the position of future deputy minister are:

Secretary Section Chief, General Affairs Section Chief and Accounting Section Chief of the General Manager’s Office.

The responsibilities of the three section chiefs are quite different from the positions of the same name in private companies. The general affairs section chief is responsible for the core tasks that govern the overall situation, such as comprehensive adjustment and planning of the administration under his jurisdiction, while the conference section chief is responsible for preparing preliminary accounts for the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

The chief secretary is responsible for important tasks, and the things that the secretary section chief is responsible for include: confidential matters and staff positions, levels, appointments and removals, authority, punishment, attendance, remuneration and other personnel, training, and training. At the same time, he also needs to keep the information of the general manager and the deputy secretary.

Official seals, as well as ministry agency seals, are more important than general secretarial work in personnel work, and for me, this is where his interest lies.

Although it was early in the morning, like other officials from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce known as the "Desperate Saburo", he still sat in his seat, took out a stack of cards from the drawer, and laid them out one by one on the table, on business card-sized cards.

, each one has the name of an important official in the ministry written on it.

Looking at the cards, the faces, personalities, and expertise of these people kept popping up in his mind. Then, he drew out a personnel organization list on the table. He tried to put the cards where he thought they were suitable.

superior.

But every time he placed it, he could always find one or another reason for the other party to explain that the other party was not suitable for this position, so he began to readjust the position of the cards. From the side, it looked like he was playing poker alone.

The cards are the same.

As early as three years ago, when he was still at the Longhai Railway Company, as the company's personnel section chief, he began to play with similar cards. On the back of these cards, his evaluation of a certain person continued to increase, and after entering the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

He began to make the same cards. Therefore, the old cards with the names of director-level officials had already become dirty and changed color due to long-term playing with them. It was like a game, even though it was called ideal.

selection, but after all it is still a table game.

However, now that I have become the section chief in charge of human resources, and will be elected for the second term, I am very enthusiastic about arranging the cards. Once the cards are placed, there will be changes in personnel, and some people will be resurrected and make a comeback.

Some people will be relegated to the cold palace or even buried...

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has always been a place that will not retain mediocre talents. There is no room for mediocre talents here. All the work here is related to the future of this country. Therefore, we must be cautious in the arrangement of any positions, because this

It may affect the entire country.

At this time, when Sun Linzhong began to place these cards, the entire secretarial department became silent. Summer is the season of personnel changes. The officials in the department are very concerned about the section chief arranging cards. In this

Sometimes, they didn't even dare to cough so as not to interfere with the section chief's work, and even the air flow here seemed to have stopped.

In this early morning, as soon as the office became quiet, the sound from the next door came over, and there were also some rapid footsteps. Listening to the footsteps, Sun Linzhong frowned. The reason why he used this time to do this

Isn't this work just because it is too noisy here at other times?

At first, he didn't care. After he put a stack of cards on the table, he unbuttoned his shirt and let some air in because of the heat. At this time, the sound of conversations and footsteps outside disturbed him again.

The thoughts of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce are understandable. Every time at this time, the fierce debate will become the only voice here, because autumn is the time to formulate new policies. Therefore, now is the time when officials are involved in formulating new policies.

time, so the arguments among the young novices in the ministry would sometimes last from morning until late at night. Although in the summer, everyone was thinking about personnel changes, but what was more important was the formulation of new policies.

Usually, the formulation of new policies begins with young staff members from each department submitting their own drafts to the bureau's executive meeting for discussion. At the meeting, everyone strives to get the plan they drafted passed, repeatedly.

Arguing based on reason is another battle that tests the talents of each proposer. Only those proposals whose content and arguments can withstand scrutiny can be retained and submitted to the Law Review Committee for discussion as the bureau's proposal.

Committee members are some of the best selected from young and promising officials, usually served by the chief affairs officer of the general affairs department of each bureau. They represent their respective bureaus, so they always want to get their plans passed, so when arguing,

Everyone refused to give in. The original purpose was to discuss national affairs, but the outcome of the debate would also affect the future of these young people. So in order to prevent their proposals from being eliminated, they repeatedly argued fiercely with blushing necks.

Normally, Sun Linzhong would have participated in the debate with a smile. To be precise, it would have been in a room next to the committee. Through that thin wall, he could have grasped the dynamics of the committee and gotten to know the young officials. But this kind of debate

The meeting should have ended long ago, and now it should be time to work on basic things. Why is it so noisy?

Sun Linzhong, whose thoughts were interrupted, put away the card in his hand and shouted out 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 quickly and then spoke.

"Section Chief, the Prime Minister is delivering a speech in the Affairs Section..."

Prime Minister? Affairs Section?

Listening to the reports from his subordinates, Sun Linzhong couldn't help but be stunned. If he remembered correctly, the last time the Prime Minister went to the basement should have been three months ago. As for the work of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Prime Minister, as the chief minister, has always only controlled the general direction.

, specific affairs are still in charge of officials from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Why is the Prime Minister here so late?

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

!….

As the personnel section chief of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Sun Linzhong quickly grabbed the suit hanging behind the door, put it on, buttoned his shirt collar and tied his tie as he walked, as did most of the others. When the Prime Minister came, they

They must maintain their appearance. Many of the officials working at the headquarters still have sleepy looks on their faces, obviously having woken up from their sleep.

"As an official in 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 should devote yourself to work with full energy!"

Almost every official who has just entered the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will receive such instructions during training. The heavy work makes overtime work here normal. This makes everyone here develop the habit of sleeping with their eyes closed.

They had the habit of working without making mistakes with their eyes open, and in order to maintain their spirits, when they walked towards the affairs department, they slapped their faces from time to time and wiped their faces with a handkerchief soaked in cold water to make themselves more awake.

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

Just when an official finished speaking, they had already walked to the Affairs Department. At this time, there were already people standing outside the door. After seeing the arrival of the "First Section Chief", the young officials took the initiative to give way.

One way to go.

"...While we are working hard, the corruption of officials and the rampage of powerful people are still rampant in this country. To them, it seems that nothing has changed..."

Listening to the voices coming from the office, Sun Linzhong was sensitively aware that the Prime Minister seemed different today from the past. From his words, it could be felt that he seemed to be dissatisfied with some issues. Is it the State Council? Obviously not, the State Council has

The Independent Commission Against Corruption, which is directly under the Prime Minister, and the departments under the State Council may have some corruption, but they will be investigated and dealt with quickly. Could it be...

“...We have tried to change, but we have to admit that as far as this change is concerned, our power is too weak, so that when faced with social injustice and the suffering of the people, we have

There is nothing we can do to help, but are we really helpless?”

Sure enough, after hearing this, Sun Linzhong already realized the problem. The Prime Minister's words meant what he meant - non-state officials. The greed of government officials and local officials, especially provincial generals, has always been widely criticized by the outside world.

The Prime Minister seemed to have never criticized them. Even when asked by the outside world, he said that "the 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 posted some nagging and delayed everyone's rest. I'm sorry. Thank you for your hard work. It's not too late. Go to bed early..."

Afterwards, the Prime Minister seemed a little disappointed and walked out of the Affairs Department. When the Prime Minister walked out of the office, Sun Linzhong could clearly see the fatigue on the Prime Minister's young face, but more importantly, disappointment, disappointment?

Who is he disappointed in?

While frowning and thinking, an idea suddenly came to Sun Linzhong's mind. Perhaps... this seemingly peaceful capital, and even the entire political arena in China, might be about to set off an unprecedented storm.

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

?What are those people doing?

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of indignation in his heart. Standing at the table with his eyes closed, the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. An unprecedented sense of grief and indignation surged in his heart.

With excitement and excitement, he finally opened his eyes, spread out a piece of paper, and then picked up a writing brush on the table.

The pen was suspended on the snow-white rice paper, and a drop of ink slowly seeped out from the tip of the brush. It dripped on the rice paper, rendering an ink mark. At this time, Li Zicheng's heart was still full of indignation and injustice.

When he closed his eyes at this time, what appeared in front of his eyes was no longer the expectation of going to China in the past, nor the future of China. It seemed that what he saw at this time was still the tyranny of privileged people, and they were still talking about

In an equal society, the collusion between the powerful and the powerful is still a centuries-old source of suffering for the lower classes.

Who? Who has ever really cared about them?

Have you considered them?

How many people know about their suffering, and how many people sympathize with their situation? I came here full of hope and wanted to build a better society, but this society has such and such shortcomings. How can I reverse all this?

?

Finally, after thinking for a long time, Li Zicheng, who was filled with excitement in his heart, began to write furiously. For a while, in this quiet early morning, in this study, the only sound that could be heard was the somewhat excited breathing. (To be continued.
Chapter completed!