At present, oil field construction in the Bohaz region of Iraq is in full swing, which naturally requires a large amount of funds and materials. Chu Xuji is in charge of the work there, and the Iraqi side is only cooperating.
As the project progressed, especially as the railways and kilometers extended deeper into Iraq, they encountered more and more difficulties, and the troubles they encountered were getting bigger and bigger. Many of them were not only unable to be solved by Chu Xuji and others on site, but also caused by It is also difficult for Iraqi officials to come forward, and Guo Zhuocheng still needs to make a final decision.
The most thorny issue for Chu Xuji now is the relationship between the Chinese engineering team and the local residents and local government of Iraq. In that remote place with inconvenient transportation, there are many economically backward tribes. People in these tribes want to get some benefits from the Chinese people. In addition, many people are unwilling to move from their homes, so the Chinese engineering team During the construction of roads and railways, local people met with fierce opposition. Those tribesmen resolutely prevent the railways, kilometers or oil pipelines built by China from passing through their villages and fields. In serious cases, the two sides almost come to the point of fighting each other.
China is a friendly country. Chinese people, especially those who have gone abroad, are particularly kind and loving. The workers deployed to Iraq this time, whether they are oil workers, construction workers or technicians, all received intensive training and rigorous education before going abroad. At that time, relevant departments and leaders required them to be kind to the local people after going abroad, and to try their best to have good relations with the local people and be their friends. We need to make the local Iraqi people feel that the Chinese are friendly and that the past oil production construction was to help them and for their own good.
These selected people are all models of compliance with laws and regulations. They can strictly follow orders in all actions. When they went abroad, they all wrote letters of determination and made a guarantee to the organization, that is, they will use the fraternity of the Chinese people to the Iraqi people. He will bring deep friendship to the Iraqi people, carry forward the spirit of internationalism, and never let down the hopes of the motherland and the people.
so. When these kind-hearted Chinese people encountered local tribesmen confronting them with machetes and wooden sticks, they were dumbfounded. They didn't know what to do for a while. They felt that the people here were completely different from the people they thought they were.
No matter what the Chinese say, no matter what the Chinese say, people don¡¯t listen. They simply don¡¯t believe that the Chinese building railways, roads and pipelines here are for their own good.
"The Iraqis called them bandits, not only saying that they destroyed their farms and fields. They also plundered their underground resources. They said they did not need help from the Chinese, and they did not care about the benefits brought by the Chinese. They just wanted to live quietly in the place where their ancestors had lived for generations, and were unwilling to accept the "good intentions" of the Chinese.
Every time the people in the Chinese engineering team debate with the Iraqi locals, they always come back defeated because the facts are before both sides. The Chinese are here to extract oil and to seek benefits for China. No matter how much you say, no matter how good you say it, it will not change this basic fact.
¡°People don¡¯t care about the benefits that the Chinese have brought to them at all. What¡¯s more, it¡¯s impossible for the Chinese to give them any benefits now. They can only make verbal promises to solve some people¡¯s problems.
After talking a few times. Not only did the Chinese fail to convince the locals, but they also made the Chinese themselves confused. They felt that they were really wrong and that they were in the wrong:
¡°Obviously, like the United States, Britain, France and other imperialist countries in the past, we plundered resources from poor and backward countries. What the Chinese are doing here now is not just to extract the oil here and transport it to China. Or extract the oil, transport it to the international market, sell it to high-end people, and bring the money back to China? How is this different from the imperialist countries of the past? How can it help others? If this can be regarded as helping others, then didn¡¯t those foreigners who established colonies in China before liberation also help the Chinese people?
I have to say that the Chinese are too kind. Instead of convincing the Iraqis, they convinced themselves. They always thought that they were not being kind here, and they always thought that they were being bandits. ¡¾*You¡¿is invading other people's resources.
With this kind of thinking and this guilt, they naturally became more and more restrained in their interactions with those tribes, became less and less confident, and discounted the orders of their superiors more and more, and sometimes even opposed the decisions of their superiors. , and even persuaded his leaders not to go too far, so as not to affect the feelings of the two peoples.
Their behavior naturally affected the Iraqi soldiers who helped them and cooperated with their work.
When the Iraqi soldiers helped the Chinese, they followed the orders of their superiors very actively at first and dealt with the tribal opponents resolutely, beating and arresting them. After all, they have Uday pressing down on them, so they can't do anything if they don't actively carry out their orders.
But, ?After a while, they slowly discovered that the Chinese themselves were soft. When they saw Iraqi soldiers beating local people who blocked the construction, the Chinese not only did not support or approve of it, they also expressed sympathy to the local people and even came forward to persuade them to stop them from committing violence. The defection of the Chinese caused the locals to focus all their anger and hatred on the soldiers, calling them "traitors", saying that they had eaten the inside and outside, and that they were cold-blooded animals.
This left the Iraqi soldiers extremely disappointed and frustrated.
After all, many of the soldiers who performed the mission were themselves children of the local people. Faced with the scoldings of their elders and the concessions of the Chinese, they found that they were no longer human beings. They could not help but be full of anger towards the Chinese. They did not obey the orders of their superiors just because of their superiors¡¯ orders. Dare to be overly expressive.
After handling several incidents, the Iraqi soldiers slowly changed and began to tilt toward the locals. In terms of their duties, they were only responsible for protecting the safety of the Chinese and would never get involved in the entanglement between the Chinese and the locals. Weapons rushed over to hit people, and they separated the two sides.
As soon as the Iraqi soldiers retreated, the arrogance of the local people naturally skyrocketed, and the progress of the project naturally became slower and slower.
Even the already built infrastructure is being destroyed and demolished in front of you.
In this regard, the Iraqi soldiers ignored it, and the Chinese workers were in vain and could not come up with a good way to deal with it.
It wasn't until they saw the massive damage to national supplies that the mentality of some Chinese people began to change, and they began to block the behavior of the locals in groups of two or three. This gradually escalated from verbal condemnation to physical action, and even small-scale (weapon) fights occurred, with both sides involved. Some personnel were injured.
In this way, the conflicts between Chinese workers and local people have intensified, and there are signs that the project will not proceed.
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. He also wanted to do a good job and show it to the higher-level organizations that trusted him. When writing reports, he reported good things but not bad things.
However, it didn¡¯t take long for him to realize that he was too naive, and some things could not be solved by him as the temporary commander-in-chief and a few of his subordinates. Under the constraints of some veteran leaders and cadres, he could not carry out many things at all. He wanted to attack a tribe of people, but an old leader said that this was a contradiction among the people and could not be attacked. He wanted to send the captured people to the Iraqi police and ask them to arrest them, but his old comrades said that this would not work and would further aggravate the conflict between the two parties.
Faced with the increasingly serious situation, the old comrades unanimously asked everyone to put aside their dignity, go deep into each tribal family to do ideological work, and use China's most powerful magic weapon - heart-to-heart talk, exchange hearts with hearts, and strive to win over the hearts of the people.
"However, these old leaders seem to have forgotten that even if they talk heart-to-heart, there must be support. In the world, only superiors talk to subordinates, and strong people talk to weak ones.
¡°There has never been a weak person who can successfully talk to a strong person, and no subordinate can successfully talk to a superior. After all, heart-to-heart talk is a kind of persuasion work, which is to force the other party to accept your point of view. Only when both parties know that if the heart-to-heart talk fails, the people doing the heart-to-heart talk will have other means behind them, those subordinates or weak people who accept the heart-to-heart talk may give in.
On the soil of Iraq, the Chinese have Uday as their backer, but they are also weak in power, because Uday is so high up there that it is impossible for him to grasp all these things in detail. And the Chinese people here are not familiar with the place, and there are such big internal differences. How can they be rivals of the local snakes, how can they easily take back resources from the locals?
Heart-to-heart talks could not be carried out at all. The Chinese could not even enter the homes of the locals, and were kicked out by the locals before they entered the village.
Until this time, those old comrades who were kicked out were still reviewing the mistakes of their own methods.
In desperation, Chu Xuji had to take advantage of the opportunity to return to China to report to Guo Zhuocheng and seek ways to break through the current bottleneck.
Guo Zhuocheng had heard about the incident in Iraq for a long time, but he was not in a hurry to intervene. Faced with this kind of thing, he couldn't come up with a good way for a while. In his mind, the only way was to take iron-fisted measures, not only to use iron-fisted measures externally - to severely crack down on the locals who blocked the work and caused sabotage; And internally - the staff dispatched from the country - we must also adopt iron-fisted measures to transfer all the "good people" who are mothers-in-law and mothers from important positions, and let those young people who are bloody and dare to rob and do things take their place. .
However, this involves personnel arrangements. These people are all state cadres, and their position changes cannot be decided by Guo Zhuocheng in one sentence. If he goes too far in terms of personnel, if he replaces a group of people and promotes a group of people in a swift and resolute manner, the central bosses will definitely have an opinion, and they may take this as an example.Because Guo Zhuocheng wanted to build a private kingdom there, act arbitrarily and take full control of the company.
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