At present, the construction of oil fields in the Pokhaz region of Iraq is in full swing, which naturally requires a large amount of funds and materials. Chu Xuji was in charge of the work there, and the Iraqi side was only cooperating.

As the project progresses, especially the extension of the railway and kilometers into Iraq, they have encountered more and more difficulties and encountered greater and greater troubles, and there are many problems that not only Chu Xuji and his people cannot solve on the spot, but it is also difficult for the Iraqi officials to come forward and make a final decision.

The most thorny issue for Chu Xuji now is the relationship between the Chinese engineering team and the local Iraqi population and the local people. In that remote and inaccessible place, there are many economically backward tribes, and the people in these tribes are eager to get some benefits from the Chinese, and many people are unwilling to move away from their homes, so when the Chinese engineering team built roads and railways, it was fiercely opposed by the locals. The tribesmen were adamant about preventing Chinese railways, kilometres, or oil pipelines from passing through their villages and fields, and the two sides almost went to the point of fighting each other.

China is a friendly country, and Chinese especially the Chinese who have gone abroad, are very kind and caring. The workers who were deployed to Iraq this time, whether they were oil workers, construction workers or technicians, had undergone intensive training and rigorous education before leaving the country. At that time, the relevant departments and leaders demanded that they must treat the locals well after going abroad, must try to have good relations with the locals, be their friends, and let the local Iraqi people feel that the Chinese are friendly, and that in the past, the construction and oil production were helping them and for their good.

These people selected and dispatched are all models of abiding by discipline and law, all of them can strictly obey the command of one qiē action, they all wrote a letter of determination when they went abroad, and they all made a guarantee to the organization, that is, to apply the fraternity of the Chinese to the Iraqi people, to bring deep friendship to the Iraqi people, to carry forward the spirit of internationalism, and to never disappoint the hopes of the motherland and the people.

Therefore, when these kind Chinese encountered the local tribesmen holding machetes and sticks to confront them, they were dumbfounded, and they didn't know what to do for a while, feeling that the people here were completely different from the people they thought of.

No matter what the Chinese say, no matter what the Chinese say, people will not listen, they simply do not believe that the Chinese are here to build railways and roads and lay pipelines for their good.

Iraqis call them bandits, not only for destroying their farms, fields, but also for plundering their underground resources. They say they don't need the Chinese to help, they don't care about the benefits brought by the Chinese, they just want to live quietly in this place where their ancestors have lived for generations, and they are not willing to accept the "goodwill" of the Chinese.

Every time the people in the Chinese engineering team debated with the Iraqi locals, they returned with a feather of a feather, because the facts were in front of the people on both sides, and the Chinese came to extract oil for the benefit of China, and no amount of good words could change this basic fact.

People are not rare at all the benefits that the Chinese bring to them, not to mention that it is not impossible for the Chinese to give them any benefits now, and they can only verbally promise to solve the work of some people.

After talking a few times, the Chinese not only did not convince the locals, but made the Chinese themselves confused, feeling that they were really wrong, and that they were at a loss:

Obviously, like the United States, Britain, France and other imperialist countries in the past, they are plundering resources in poor and backward countries. Isn't the Chinese doing this here just to extract the oil here and transport it to China, or to extract the oil and transport it to the international market to sell it at a high level, and bring the money back to China? What is the difference between this and the imperialist countries of the past, how can it help others? If this can be regarded as helping others, then before liberation, weren't those foreign foreigners who colonized China also help the Chinese?

I have to say that the Chinese are too kind, they did not convince the Iraqis, but persuaded themselves, always thinking that they were not kind here, always thinking that they were being robbers and invading other people's resources.

With this kind of thinking and guilt, they naturally became more and more restrained in their dealings with those tribes, and they became more and more afraid to be upright, and they became more and more discounted in the orders of their superiors, and sometimes they even opposed the decisions of the higher-level leaders, and even persuaded their own leaders not to go too far, so as not to affect the feelings of the people of the two countries.

Naturally, their actions also affected the Iraqi soldiers who helped them and cooperated with them.

When Iraqi soldiers helped the Chinese, they were very active at the beginning according to the orders of their superiors, and they dealt with those tribal opponents very resolutely, beating and arresting. After all, they have Uday pressed on them, and it is not okay not to actively carry out orders.

However, after some time, they slowly discovered that the Chinese themselves were soft. When Iraqi soldiers attacked the locals who blocked the construction, these Chinese not only did not support or approve of it, but also expressed sympathy for the locals, and even came forward to persuade them to stop them from committing violence. The defection of the Chinese caused the locals to concentrate all their anger and hatred on the soldiers, calling them "yijiān", saying that they ate inside and outside, and that they were cold-blooded animals.

This made the Iraqi soldiers extremely disappointed and frustrated.

After all, many soldiers on the mission themselves are the children of the locals, and in the face of the angry scolding of the elders and the concessions of the Chinese, they find that they are not people on the left and right, and they can't help but be full of anger at the Chinese, but they dare not express themselves too much because of the orders of their superiors.

After several incidents, the Iraqi soldiers slowly changed, and their hearts began to lean towards the locals, and they were only responsible for protecting the safety of the Chinese in their duties, and never involved in the entanglement between the Chinese and the locals, unless the local people rushed over with weapons to beat people, and they separated the two sides.

As soon as the Iraqi soldiers retreated, the arrogance of the locals naturally skyrocketed, and the progress of the project naturally slowed down more and more.

Even if the infrastructure that has already been built is starting to be destroyed, it will be demolished in front of you.

The Iraqi soldiers turned a blind eye to this, and the Chinese workers were in a vain hurry, unable to come up with a good way to deal with it.

It was not until the state materials were damaged that the mentality of some Chinese began to change, and only in three or two began to block the behavior of the locals, from verbal condemnation to hands-on, and even small-scale (weapon) fights, with some injuries on both sides.

In this way, the contradictions between the Chinese workers and the locals intensified, and the project showed signs of not proceeding.

It was against this background that Chu Xuji returned to China.

At the beginning, he didn't want to alarm the country, he wanted to solve these problems with his own ability, and he wanted to make a career for the superior organization that trusted him, and when he wrote the report, he also reported good news and not bad news.

However, it didn't take long for him to realize that he was too naïve, and that some things were simply not something that one of his temporary commanders and a few of his subordinates could solve. Under the constraints of some veteran leaders and cadres, he was unable to carry out many things at all. He wanted to crack down on people from a tribe, but an old leader said that this was an internal contradiction among the people and could not be cracked down. He wanted to send the arrested people to Iraq and ask the other party to arrest them, but his old comrades said that this would not work, and that it would further aggravate the contradictions between the two sides.

In the face of the situation in the face of the situation, the veteran comrades unanimously demanded that everyone put down their postures, go deep into the families of the tribes to do ideological work, and offer the most powerful magic weapon in China -- talking about hearts, exchanging hearts for hearts, and striving to win over the hearts and minds of the people.

However, these old leaders seem to have forgotten that even if they talk to their hearts, they must have backing, and in the world, only superiors talk to subordinates, and those who are strong talk to those who are weak.

There has never been a weak person who has successfully talked to a strong person, and there has never been a subordinate who has successfully talked to his superior. After all, heart-to-heart talk is a kind of persuasion work, which is to force the other party to accept one's point of view. Only when both parties know that if the heart-to-heart talk fails, and that the person who does the heart-to-heart talk has other means behind him, those subordinates or weak people who accept the heart-to-heart talk may be submissive.

On Iraqi soil, the Chinese have Uday's support, but they also belong to the weak category, because Uday is high, and he cannot master these things in detail. And the Chinese come here to be unfamiliar with the place, and there are such big internal differences, how can they be the opponents of the land snake, how can they easily take back resources from the locals?

Heart-to-heart talks could not be carried out at all, and the Chinese could not even enter the homes of the locals, and were driven out by the locals before they could enter the village.

Until this time, those veteran comrades who had been kicked out were still reviewing what was wrong with their ways.

In desperation, Chu Xuji had no choice but to take the opportunity of returning to China to report to Guo Zhuocheng and seek a way to break through the current bottleneck.

Guo had heard about Iraq, but he was not in a hurry to intervene. In his mind, the only way to do this was to adopt an iron fist, not only externally, but to severely crack down on the locals who obstructed the work and engaged in sabotage; Moreover, internally, the staff dispatched from the country -- should also adopt iron-fisted measures to transfer all the "great good people" of mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law from important posts, and let those who have blood and dare to do things be taken up by young people.

However, this involves the issue of personnel arrangements, these people are all state cadres, and their post changes cannot be decided by Guo Zhuocheng with a single sentence. If he is too much in terms of personnel, if he vigorously removes a group and promotes a group, the zhongyāng bigwigs will definitely have a law, and they may think that Guo Zhuocheng wants to build a private kingdom there, engage in arbitrariness, and want to fully control the enterprise.