Chapter 143 Difference
A few days later on Sunday, Song Yuanchao went to visit Lin Yan's house. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Chen Yuqin busy cleaning in the living room.
"Aunt, let me do it." Without saying a word, Song Yuanchao put the things he brought aside, took off his coat, took the mop from Chen Yuqin's hand and started mopping the floor.
Chen Yuqin said, "How can I let you do this?" But she had a smile on her face.
Since Song Yuanchao's first visit, he would come over every Sunday to sit and help Chen Yuqin clean the room and do some housework.
After a few visits, Chen Yuqin's impression of Song Yuanchao became better and better, and they got along better and better with each other.
"Yuanchao, New Year's Day is coming soon. Your school should have winter vacation after New Year's Day, right?" Song Yuanchao was mopping the floor while Chen Yuqin was helping him and chatting casually.
"Almost. I think we'll have a holiday around January 20th. Next year the Chinese New Year will be later, on February 16th. I heard we'll have about 30 days off..."
Song Yuanchao mopped the floor hard and answered as he did so.
"So what are your plans for the New Year?" Chen Yuqin asked.
Song Yuanchao put the mop into the bucket beside him to wash it, then picked it up and wrung out the mop head with his hands: "I should go back to Shanghai, and I will be back after the Spring Festival."
"Don't you have many elders in your family? Are you living alone?"
"Let's not talk about my dad's side. I haven't had any contact with the elders on my mom's side for a long time. But there are quite a few neighbors and friends I'm close to. Do you still remember the grandma Zhang I mentioned before? If nothing unexpected happens, I will celebrate the Spring Festival with them and a few friends." Song Yuanchao said with a smile.
Chen Yuqin nodded. She had heard Song Yuanchao mention Zhang's mother before, and she respected this old lady very much. She knew that in Song Yuanchao's heart, Zhang's mother was almost the same as his own family. It was normal for a child who had lost his parents to go back to visit them during the Spring Festival.
Thinking of this, Chen Yuqin couldn't help feeling a little regretful. As her impression of Song Yuanchao gradually improved, she actually wanted to keep Song Yuanchao in Yanjing for the New Year.
Over the years, her two sons have not been around. Although Lin Yan has returned, she usually lives in the university dormitory. Moreover, the mother and daughter had a quarrel because of Zhao Minglei's previous incident.
Although all this has passed, with the gradual recognition of Song Yuanchao, the relationship between Chen Yuqin and Lin Yan has also been restored. Looking at the busy Song Yuanchao, Chen Yuqin couldn't help but think of her two sons. She hadn't heard from them for so many days, and she didn't know how they were doing now.
In fact, Chen Yuqin was very eager to know their current situation, and it was not too difficult to find out with Lin Daoyuan's identity and status. However, Chen Yuqin did not do this, because as a cadre who had been trained by the country for many years and experienced the test, Chen Yuqin knew that this was a very inappropriate behavior, so she could only hide her thoughts for her children deep in her heart.
While busy and chatting, Song Yuanchao's hands and feet were very nimble, and he quickly finished mopping the floor, and then took a rag to wipe the furniture, glass windows, etc. Just as he was half-riding on the windowsill and "fighting" with the glass window, the door opened, and Lin Daoyuan and Lin Yan came back.
"Why are you back so late? The Korean aid has been here for quite some time. Look at this kid, I told him to stop working, but he refused to listen. He not only mopped the floor, but also wiped the glass windows." Chen Yuqin couldn't help but complain as she took the basket of vegetables from Lin Daoyuan's hand.
Usually, Chen Yuqin went to buy groceries, but for some reason today, Lin Daoyuan suddenly said he was going to buy groceries, and even dragged Lin Yan along. Who would have thought that the two of them would be out for more than two hours, and only came back now.
"Come, look at what this is?" Lin Daoyuan smiled cheerfully and handed the other basket that Lin Yan was holding to his wife. Chen Yuqin took it, lifted the cloth covering it and took a look inside. She immediately shouted in surprise, "Mackerel! Where did you buy this?"
"I bought it at the market in Qianmen Hutong. Fortunately, we went there early, otherwise we wouldn't be able to buy it." Lin Daoyuan said proudly. This Spanish mackerel is a hot commodity, especially now that it is winter. Although Yanjing is the capital, such good things are still rare.
In fact, Lin Daoyuan heard yesterday that a batch of Spanish mackerel would arrive at the market, so he took Lin Yan there early in the morning. He knew that Song Yuanchao would come today, and he bought the Spanish mackerel to make Spanish mackerel dumplings so that they could have a good meal today.
"That's perfect. We'll have dumplings for lunch. I'll go clean up." Chen Yuqin happily took the basket and said, then walked towards the kitchen.
At this time, Lin Yan also followed into the kitchen. After a while, she came out with a basin of hot water. She soaked a towel in the water, wrung it dry, and came to the sweaty Song Yuanchao: "Look at you sweating all over. Hurry up and wipe it off, otherwise you will catch a cold easily."
"Okay! It will be done soon." Song Yuanchao responded with a smile, and he worked hard to finish the last bit of work. After finishing, he looked at the clean and tidy results with satisfaction, and took the towel from Lin Yan's hand to wipe the sweat off his face.
"Have you had breakfast?" Lin Yan asked, looking at Song Yuanchao's blushing face.
"I've eaten before, how would I have the energy to work?" Song Yuanchao joked with a smile.
"You're the only one who can do this!" Lin Yan rolled her eyes at him, took the towel and said, "Go and have a rest. I'll make you a cup of tea."
After saying that, Lin Yan carried the basin of water back to the kitchen, and soon brought a cup of brewed tea to Song Yuanchao.
Song Yuanchao drank a sip of hot tea, feeling warm in his heart. Just as he was about to say something to Lin Yan, Lin Daoyuan called out from the study: "Yuanchao, have you finished cleaning? Come into the study and we'll talk."
Song Yuanchao responded quickly. Lin Yan glanced at the study and said softly to Song Yuanchao, "Go ahead. I guess my dad wants to talk to you about what he wrote last time."
Song Yuanchao nodded and went into the study with the tea.
"Close the door and sit down." In the study, Lin Daoyuan was sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette. When he saw Song Yuanchao come in, he said casually.
After closing the door, Song Yuanchao sat down on the sofa opposite Lin Daoyuan. As soon as his butt touched the sofa, Lin Daoyuan said, "I have read your writing carefully. Although the writing is bold and has some shortcomings, it is not bad for a student like you."
"Some of the issues you raised do have potential, which I personally agree with, but in some respects they may sound alarmist, which I don't think so..."
Lin Daoyuan did not beat around the bush with Song Yuanchao and directly put forward his opinions. In Lin Daoyuan's opinion, the issues raised by Song Yuanchao were indeed what they had neglected before and had not thought deeply about. Judging from the various examples given by Song Yuanchao and the actual situation, the impact faced by state-owned enterprises is very likely to exist, and Lin Daoyuan did not deny this.
However, Lin Daoyuan disagreed with Song Yuanchao on some points of view. He believed that as a young man, Song Yuanchao was somewhat immature in considering issues, and even said some inappropriate words to aggravate the existence of the problem. This was political immaturity and an incomplete view of the problem.
Of course, behind closed doors, the two are just father-in-law and son-in-law, so there is no need to be ambiguous when talking. Family members should say what they think, and this is also a kind of care for Song Yuanchao.
The main difference between the two sides' views lies in Lin Daoyuan's confidence in most state-owned enterprise cadres. In his opinion, many state-owned enterprise cadres are still capable and responsible. Although state-owned enterprises will face many problems under the impact of the market, with these cadres who can stand the test, as long as they take precautions in advance and change their thinking, they can still lead the enterprises through the difficulties.
In fact, Lin Daoyuan's point of view cannot be said to be wrong, because many cadres nowadays are indeed like this. Let's not talk about the distant past, but let's talk about Song Yuanchao's master, Director Ma. Director Ma has worked in the factory for most of his life. Whether it is his character, ability or feelings for the factory, he is not comparable to ordinary people.
There are tens of thousands of cadres like this, which is why Lin Daoyuan thinks Song Yuanchao is a little over-worried. As long as there are these good cadres, and preparations are made in the general direction and prevention is taken in advance, the problems will naturally be solved.
This does not mean that Lin Daoyuan is wrong. Song Yuanchao understands very well how people of Lin Daoyuan's generation think about issues. Naturally, he will not debate with Lin Daoyuan about this, because such a debate is meaningless, and future facts will prove everything.
Apart from this difference, Lin Daoyuan agreed with most of the issues raised by Song Yuanchao, especially the big pot problem pointed out by Song Yuanchao and some suggestions and measures he specially wrote, which were refreshing to Lin Daoyuan, especially the industry protection measures proposed by Song Yuanchao for certain enterprises, which made Lin Daoyuan deeply agree.
According to the view of many comrades who support opening up, since the market is open, we should take bigger steps and implement comprehensive opening up. Many people agree with this view, but there are also many people who oppose it, and of course there are also people who retain their personal opinions.
Lin Daoyuan is the third party and reserves his personal opinion on this, which is one of the reasons why Lin Daoyuan attaches importance to Song Yuanchao. Song Yuanchao suggested that these companies should not intervene in the market for policy or even legal reasons, and rely on state regulation and guidance for operation, which Lin Daoyuan deeply agrees with.
Because these enterprises are basically traditional enterprises related to the national economy and people's livelihood, such as military industry, aerospace, aviation, coal, steel, post and telecommunications, railways, heavy industrial manufacturing, etc. It can be said that the existence of these enterprises is the backbone of a country and the foundation that supports the country's entire industry and development. They are also the result of the hard work of the whole country since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Song Yuanchao believed that it was extremely inevitable to provide market protection for these special enterprises. Moreover, with the opening of the market, the country had begun to come into contact with the outside world. Under this circumstance, a trend of worshipping foreign things and fawning on foreigners gradually emerged. Especially in the mid-to-late 1980s, this situation intensified and eventually led to the result that the moon is rounder in foreign countries than in China. The local economic focus led to the introduction of foreign capital at all costs for the sake of opening up, causing a large number of enterprises in basic industries to completely lose their competitiveness.
