Yu Laoliu | This county seems to be quite short of “people”

Three articles about tigers in three days, all KO’d, as expected. What makes me “unhappy” is, why is the display time of my articles so short, only two or three hours, while others’ last seven or eight hours, even a whole day, and some can still be read now.

After thinking with “dialectics”, there was another inexplicable excitement. Doesn’t this just show that my writing is good, profound, and has touched their sore spots, making them very apprehensive? Further explanation, I am a talent, a heavyweight expert, and I can achieve remarkable results on the road of bragging. Hurry up and send out the letters of appointment, don’t miss the opportunity, once this village is gone, there will be no other shop.

Readers will disdainfully say: Wang Po sells melons and praises her own melons. You, Lao Liu, are not Wang Po, and you don’t have any melons. Be a little more decent, don’t scare the cows. Saying this, I will be “unhappy” again, feeling that you really haven’t seen the world. People in India throwing big cakes can become experts here, why can’t I? Although I can’t throw big cakes, I can make dumpling skins, we are all pastry chefs, don’t be biased.

“Lao Liu, how much alcohol did you drink this morning, did your brain get messed up?!” I really didn’t drink, and my brain didn’t get messed up, it’s just that my eyes twitched again and again. The first time, I saw the “Shaodong City Foreign Expert Consolation Fee Payment Form”, and two Indians were listed prominently.

What kind of experts are they? They don’t study rockets, nor satellites, nor chips, but only study people’s stomachs. Really, they are the ones who throw big cakes, euphemistically called Indian chefs.

The Science and Technology Bureau does have such a unit, but Shaodong City is “too small” and it’s impossible to have one. Therefore, I don’t know who in Shaodong City could actually treat the Indian big cake throwers as experts—this is the most severe insult to experts I’ve ever seen, fortunately, it’s the Indians.

Experts in this country will feel very angry, not because the big cake throwers can become experts—their nonsense is not as reliable as the big cakes thrown by the Indians—what’s infuriating is that the big cake throwers can get a consolation fee of 1,000 yuan, while they get nothing.

If you think this way, then advise the experts in this country to take a break. You are originally a group that doesn’t need consolation, why talk about consolation fees, not to mention your appearance fees for talking nonsense are far higher than 1,000 yuan. The truly needy, the widowed, the orphaned, and the lonely, the annual consolation fee will definitely not be as high as the Indian big cake throwers’.

Look, come to this country and throw a big cake, not only can you get a salary, but you can also receive a consolation fee. No wonder, some foreigners can close their eyes and shout a few “good” online, and say a few “bad” things about their own country, and they can reap full applause. It turns out that this place is full of fools and money.

So, I can also become an expert, everyone has no objections, right? Let’s talk about the second time my eyes twitched. I can also provide a precedent for becoming a talent, and it’s a strong one.

On January 27th, Chenxi County, Hunan Province, released the “Announcement of Cadre Appointment Before Appointment”. Normally, when they publish an article, it only gets a few hundred reads, sometimes only double digits, but the reading volume of this announcement reached more than three thousand. Such a contrast just shows that there is a lot of content inside.

There are a total of 16 people ready to be promoted and reused, and there should be no problems in the procedures. As for their work ability and the achievements they have made, the announcement didn’t mention it, and it’s impossible to know. But after looking at their age and education, I feel that Chenxi County should be very short of people, otherwise it wouldn’t be so “lenient”.

Hearing is false, seeing is true, let’s see how “lenient” it is: Cheng Kunxiang, born in September 1990, self-study undergraduate; Li Zhao, born in November 1990, self-study undergraduate; Xiang Song, born in September 1996, TV University undergraduate; Xiao Xu, born in May 1993, correspondence undergraduate; Chen Lichang, born in August 1994, correspondence undergraduate.

16 people, 5 with such low education, accounting for 31%, isn’t it a shortage of people? Some people may say: Chenxi County only removed the national-level poverty county hat around 2020, with a permanent population of only 390,000, and the GDP in 2024 was only 15.4 billion. Based on the current situation, talents are unwilling to go, and this situation is also very normal.

It is precisely the seemingly normal situation that is often not normal. People’s Daily published a comment yesterday, “‘Public Examination Encirclement’, must be cracked down”, which talked about candidates colluding with training institutions, using illegally obtained more than 5,000 pieces of citizen information, and falsely registering more than 700 times in total between 2024 and 2025, in order to increase the displayed number of applicants and try to scare away some competitors.

The public examination craze didn’t start today, nor in the last two years, it’s been almost twenty years, right—as someone born in 1987, I remember that after graduating from university and working, my classmates and friends either went to take the postgraduate entrance examination or went to various places to take the public examination.

If you say that Chenxi County is economically backward and talents are unwilling to go, and the public examination craze is slow to spread, I believe this. Therefore, I don’t think there is any problem with Qu Hongyu, born in 1983, graduating from the TV University and becoming a civil servant here. But even if a pot conducts heat slowly, it can’t be so slow that the surface of other pots is hot, but yours is still cold.

Let’s take a look at these five, either self-study undergraduate or correspondence undergraduate—Xiang Song’s TV University undergraduate is also correspondence, because the full-time education of TV University only goes up to junior college—then look at their ages, the oldest Cheng Kunxiang was born in 1990, and the youngest Xiang Song was born in 1996.

My age is older than them. When I was in school, let alone self-study undergraduate, full-time junior college was a chicken rib, everywhere. As for the so-called correspondence, you can graduate if you pay money, afraid that you won’t go, they will lose the opportunity to make money.

Let’s compare again, just look at this announcement: Zhang Liang, born in 1992, Bachelor of Engineering; Zhang Rong, born in 1996, postgraduate. How can they get a bachelor’s degree, how can they pass the postgraduate entrance examination.

If you say that there are really no talents coming, so the educational requirements are low, it can be understood, after all, education does not represent ability. However, there are people with high education coming at the same time, and the requirements are still so low, is it really not restricted by one’s qualifications to recruit talents? If this is the case, there is nothing to say. I’m afraid there’s something fishy inside. But past experience tells us that before getting a job, in the written and interview stages of the public examination, the higher the education, the more outstanding they are in this respect.

Remember Li Peixia from Wannian County, Jiangxi, the beautiful township party secretary who “afraid you can’t help it”, born in 1983, she started working after graduating from high school. Sure enough, problems arose in the end. Unfortunately, the court has already made a judgment, and we don’t know how she entered the civil service system in the first place, nor who promoted her later.

An era has the characteristics of an era. Xiang Gaofeng, born in 1978, took out a self-study undergraduate degree, which still has some gold content. In the era when full-time undergraduates are everywhere, you still take a correspondence undergraduate degree and are promoted and reused, don’t blame others for thinking too much.