Chapter 717 - 487: Completing His Efforts with One Meal (Transitional Content, Skippable)_2

Fang Huai smiled and said, "Leader Hao, this is just a preliminary sketch. The development sequence and specific planning cannot be fully reflected on this drawing. However, give me some time, and I can provide you with a detailed set of materials. As for its scientific validity, your team of experts can evaluate it."

The reference materials he used to create these things were maps of future cities provided by the System, which cost him three military merit points.

In fact, he didn’t need to exchange points to know the general layout. He had spent some time in Huaguoyuan and had heard that it was being developed on a large scale with high sales commissions. He had previously worked as a construction data clerk, planning to do sales here. He had walked many streets and taken the subway.

In his past life, as someone with nothing to his name, he had been to many places, just to find food to eat, and he had hoped to find a job in a high-earning industry to dream of getting rich.

However, after arriving, he found the competitive pressure to be massive. After working for a few months without making money, he left in dejection.

But that unsuccessful gold-digging experience gave him a wealth of knowledge.

And that was the source of inspiration for his presentation.

At the moment, Mayor Liu sat with his eyes slightly closed, gradually building a vision of a future city in his mind as he looked over the dense sketch.

Talking about expert evaluation was actually unnecessary; he was a planning expert with a macro vision.

He slowly realized, you cannot scrutinize this drawing too closely.

The more he looked, the more he felt it had potential.

"You’re pretty good... but isn’t the population density too high in some areas?"

Fang Huai laughed.

"Mayor Liu has an impressive vision. According to this plan, many building spacing and height requirements cannot be met.

But you mentioned it earlier, we’re discussing economic matters.

To achieve economies of scale and efficient facility coverage, you need a certain population density."

To put it more straightforwardly, developing with a high floor-area ratio makes renting cheaper, improves business accessory profits, and increases enthusiasm. This kind of enthusiasm is needed to drive commerce.

Living here only guarantees convenience. As for happiness, that’s a matter for the future. Reform is painful; so is redevelopment.

But I can assure you, this will be a great step forward for the overall image of the city, and the provincial capital’s population sucking effect will truly be realized here."

Furthermore, with the four trillion stimulus and relaxed policies, banks will inject large amounts of money, and the real estate market will be strongly stimulated.

The national economy can’t develop without the real estate market. Even if excessive development leads to growing pains, it will still be the biggest driver of economic growth."

Moreover, to push urbanization, we can’t just expand blindly and waste infrastructure; renovating shantytowns is key.

I predict that the next major economic driver will be shantytown reform.

When that happens, the national mindset on ’demolition leads to wealth’ will likely deepen, and the difficulty of demolition will increase."

If the government planned early and demolished these large shanty areas in Huaguoyuan, it would save the Municipal Government a significant figure."

Fang Huai said this, raising one finger.

Both leaders vaguely matched it to a unit, since ten billion was too small.

But the figure was too exaggerated.

"One hundred billion?!" Leader Hao smacked his lips.

Fang Huai smiled and nodded. "I won’t even count the design fees. The benefit is clear to see. Most importantly, with the four trillion coming in, the government has money, banks are willing to lend, and the timing for development is just right."

Huaguoyuan’s renovation, which had started in the middle of the year ten years in the past life and took five years with an investment of over one hundred billion, was now being suggested at the right time, and with his detailed planning drawings as a reference, the money saved would be far more than one hundred billion.

This massive investment from the central bank into infrastructure would quickly be spent, saving many vanity projects with no return, thus helping to rescue the systemic financial risk in Guizhou.

The two leaders, especially Mayor Liu, looked at the map with a myriad of thoughts and felt they had many issues to sort out.

But he had a feeling that Leader Hao was right. This kid was remarkable, and this plan, upon reflection, was a breakthrough, as if unlocking his Ren Vessel and Du Vessel pathways.

When he had arrived, he felt he was too early.

But now, looking at the time, it was almost four o’clock. How could there be enough time?

A gust of cold wind blew by, and Mayor Liu couldn’t help but rub his hands.

"Little Fang, find a quiet place for us to have a detailed chat!"

Fang Huai chuckled.

"I’ve already prepared everything; the heating is on."

The two leaders burst out laughing.

"This kid, you are a real Zhuge Liang!"

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News of the leaders’ early arrival spread quickly.

Starting from 4:20 PM, vehicles from all levels of the Firefighting Corps started entering the Second Squadron’s gate, one after another.

With both the Firefighting Leadership and the mayor present, and other fire brigade leaders who were initially scheduled to arrive after five o’clock, they all hurried over, fully accelerating.

This was different from a normal meeting-type reception. The guests were coming to your place to share a meal for several hours, and bringing along any number of leaders to accompany them was appropriate.

Political Commissar Wu, General Luo, Manager Zhang, and the eight top brass — the top three had arrived while the Detachment had sent many representatives before and after.

The gods were gathering for a meeting.

The Second Squadron assembled three times in succession, and eventually became numb to it. Cao Yi directly ordered that aside from those cooking, everyone else should stand in the front yard.

But the key figure, Fang Huai, had not appeared.

The Head of the Corps knew very well that a prodigy had emerged in their midst.

Leader Hao, when still Secretary General Hao, had chatted with him for half an hour right after the opening of the Corps Martial Arts Competition.