Chapter 102: Milton's Arrival

Yiming's growth of this person is a good thing, but if Mo Dog Zemao can grow into a talent who is in charge of his own affairs, it is undoubtedly a major event worth celebrating for him, a boss who lacks talents. However, Fang Mingyuan believes that in a few years, with the severe employment situation in China, domestic college students will no longer be assigned jobs after graduation, and more and more college students will enter Fangjia's industrial work. Moreover, there will be more and more elites who are not satisfied with the rigid system of state-owned enterprises and go to sea in anger.

Internationally, because of the arrival of the financial crisis, a large number of companies will go bankrupt, and a large number of professional managers will be unemployed.

However, the talents introduced from outside are not as good as the talents cultivated by themselves, and they are more loyal to the company and the company. Therefore, for Lin Lian's growth, Fang Mingyuan was happy from the bottom of his heart.

In the days that followed, Fangjia Restaurant deliberately posted some advertisements on the campus of Jinghua University on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also provided some work-study positions to college students through the school. This is still very rare in the capital in the nineties, but it is very popular for those foreign college students in Jinghua University who are not wealthy.

And these seats in Lin Rong's dormitory regard this place as the first choice to improve their lives and food treatment, and they will come to Fang's restaurant every once in a while to have a full meal.

And Mr. Milton, Cameron's fan, came quickly, and on the fourth day after Fang Mingyuan received Cameron's call, he had already flown from the United States to the capital of China.

Milton Douglas, who is in his early sixties this year, has silver hair, wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, has a bit of a scholarly demeanor, and is more than 1.8 meters tall, making him look like a chicken in the crowd. Fang Mingyuan saw him from the crowd almost at a glance. As soon as I got in the car. Milton opened the conversation.

"Actually, personally, I have a good impression of Huaxia. Mr. Fang may not know that the United Pacific Corporation of the United States, where I worked, was building a railroad across the American continent to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. A large number of Chinese laborers were employed, and these Chinese laborers were generally hard-working, diligent and thrifty, and willing to humbly learn various skills in building railways. At the time, the Pacific Railroad was to cross the eastern edge of California, the Sierra de la Rang Mountains, the border between California and Nevada, where the peaks were covered with snow all year round. At that time, the construction of the cross-railroad had to be carried out along the steep mountain wall. There is no way to stand on this almost vertical cliff, let alone open a mountain and build a road. However, the Chinese workers used the traditional Chinese method of digging the mountain, suspended the workers from the top of the cliff to the middle of the mountain with ropes, and dug small holes in the mountain wall by hand. Gunpowder is then inserted. After lighting the fuse, quickly pull the worker up before the explosion. And so on and so forth. Start by opening a narrow path that allows for pedestrians. Then continue to dig to the width of the roadbed and lay the rails. After the arduous efforts of the Chinese workers, the Central Pacific Railway finally overcame all difficulties and passed through the snow-capped mountain range. After entering the plain, the vast number of Chinese laborers rushed to work day and night, and once set a record of laying a ten-mile railway in 12 hours a day. In fact, without the labor and wisdom of the Chinese workers, the construction of the railroad would have taken far more than four years!" Milton said with some emotion, "Mr. Fang has the opportunity to go to San Francisco in the future, drive out of the San Francisco Bay Area, along Interstate 80 to the east, and when you pass the Donner Pass close to the state border, you can see a bronze plaque erected by the local historical society in the past year, which reads: 12,000 Chinese laborers worked hard to open a railroad through the mountains" These skilled Asian chefs have left an indelible mark on the history of California and the western United States. ”

Fang Mingyuan grinned in his heart, although the Chinese workers made such a great contribution to the construction of the Pacific Railroad, the Americans did not treat these Chinese workers very well, and then caused a new anti-Chinese movement.

After the construction of the cross-railway, these Chinese workers were not only unemployed, but also killed and expelled. In the western states of the United States, "Chinese exclusion" has become a slogan for both the Democratic and Republican parties to win votes. In this case, the surviving Hua Lick is still alive and dead. The law at that time stipulated that Chinese could not be naturalized as American citizens, were not allowed to own real estate, each person paid a head tax of 10 yuan, hair was not allowed to exceed an inch, and the bones of the dead could not leave the country. It wasn't until a few years ago, on the centennial anniversary of the Trans-American Railroad, that a sign was added to recognize the contributions of Chinese workers. But what's the use of this? The Chinese workers who worked so hard to build the railroad have long since turned their bones to ashes. However, after all, this Milton is an expert invited by Cameron to solve the pilot of the Huaxia Railway, so he doesn't want the two sides to meet for the first time.

Milton saw that Fang Mingyuan seemed to be a little disapproving, and sighed lightly and said, "I think, Mr. Fang, you must think that I can't help it." The later plight of those venerable Chinese workers is indeed worthy of sympathy, and my compatriots have indeed gone too far. After the construction of the Trans-Railroad, many enterprises in the west were controlled by the eastern chaebol Shili, and my compatriots at that time were dissatisfied with the Chinese workers who were building the road. When I say this, I don't mean to explain anything, a mistake is a mistake, this is unquestionable, and there is no point in making excuses. But the reason for the error, we need to figure it out. ”

Fang Mingyuan couldn't help but be a little moved, could it be that this Mr. Milton is really an American Bethune?

"Actually, the reason why I am willing to come to China is because I am a fan of director Cameron, and his commitment is still very attractive to me, and on the other hand, I want to do something for my compatriots who were Chinese workers back then. Originally, I thought that I could only do some cultural exchange between the two countries, and I never imagined that I would have the opportunity to return to my old business. Milton stretched out his hand to Fang Mingyuan and said, "I really hope to find an opportunity to exert my residual heat here with Mr. Fang, and it has also fulfilled my long-standing wish." ”

Fang Mingyuan hurriedly stretched out his hand and held his hand, although it took time to prove whether all of what Milton said was credible, but as an American, being able to say such a thing had already moved Fang Mingyuan. "Thank you, Mr. Milton, for coming to help me and my friends solve this problem, and I hope we will have a great time working together in the future

Milton quickly got to the point. "Mr. Fang, before I came, I also had some understanding of the railway situation in your country. Although there may be some inaccuracies in the information and the differences in the national conditions of the two countries, we have some deviations in our understanding, but I would like to share some of my thoughts first. ”

"Your country is a socialist country and China is a capitalist country, and the national conditions of the two countries are very different, and this will cause great inconvenience to our work. First of all, I would like to admit that your country's railway system has achieved remarkable results in terms of passenger and freight capacity. In this regard, I am quite admired, but this does not mean that there is no room for improvement. From my personal point of view, if your country's railway reform really wants to transform your country's railway system into a self-financing enterprise, then as far as the order of railway reform is concerned, we should first solve the problem of separating government from enterprise and transform the Ministry of Railways into a pure regulatory department, and decouple it from the railway bureaus below.

Next, it is necessary to introduce social capital into the following railway bureaus and railway companies, transform them into joint-stock companies or limited liability companies jointly funded by multiple entities, establish a modern enterprise system, and improve the corporate governance structure. "It only makes sense after the first two steps of reform have been completed, and if the link between the government and the enterprise is not severed, and the state-owned enterprises cannot be transformed into real market players, there can be no equal dealing and fair competition.

Fang Mingyuan nodded, Milton's point of view was not unexpected. "Mr. Milton, it is my own work to invite you here this time. At present, the railway authorities may not really reform the property rights system, because it involves fundamental issues. Now, it is planned to enter the pilot reform in some areas, so as to carry out the reform step by step, until the reform of the property rights system in Zuihou. So, personally, while I agree with your point of view, I can't actually do that."

Milton laughed and said, "Mr. Fang, I know this very well, otherwise, it should be your country's Ministry of Railways who invited me." If we say that we cannot reform the issue of ownership of property rights, in fact, the Ministry of Railways of your country is currently trying to solve the problem of balance and redevelopment. And Mr. Fang seems to be planning to start with this.

The national situation is like this, and Fang Mingyuan spread his hands and said with a wry smile.

"Haha, it doesn't matter, on the question of whether the railway should be owned or privately owned, in my country, as well as many countries in Europe, have been debated for many years, and in actual operation, there have been many times Milton blinked and smiled, "In fact, I still have an idea, that is, the quality of railway operation, in fact, the property rights system is not the most critical!"