Chapter 1380

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"It's that Zhao Futian again!"

Lin Aijun was fuming.

"That guy shouldn't have been listed as a poor household at all — he should be arrested and sent to reform through labor!"

Wang Xiaohua frowned, sinking into thought:

"What do we do now?"

Lin Aijun spread her hands:

"What else can we do? Cold shoulder! You go question Zhao Futian, he'll deny it to the death, and even if he admits it, you can't get that money back — he's definitely spent it all long ago!"

Wang Xiaohua was speechless for a moment.

Because what Lin Aijun said made a lot of sense.

Lin Aijun added:

"Even if you recover it this time, can you guarantee Zhao Futian won't go swindle Zhao Congming next time?"

Wang Xiaohua nodded:

"So treating only the symptoms — running our legs off, working ourselves to death — won't get the job done. We still need a root-cause solution."

Lin Aijun waved her hand helplessly:

"I can't think of any good method. You're the top student — see if you can come up with something!"

Wang Xiaohua couldn't think of anything for a while either, but he still said:

"I'll go back and think it over properly."

That day he returned to the Changjiang Village Committee Office.

Wang Xiaohua organized the day's work diary, ate a simple dinner, and then began pondering this matter.

Changjiang Village Committee's 8 natural villages — the fool isn't just Zhao Congming alone. Every fool is an extremely vulnerable individual, squeezed out in the village, swindled with nowhere to seek justice, and they themselves won't resist.

This is practically an unsolvable dead end.

Unless you assign a person to watch over each fool, them being swindled and toyed with by other villagers is inevitable.

But the Poverty Alleviation Office's conditions can't spare that many personnel for this!

If you really sent people to guard them, all other work would have to stop.

So what to do?

The poverty subsidy just reaches their hands and gets swindled away — then for the next month they can practically only drink the northwest wind.

Wang Xiaohua thought for a whole night.

Finally he came up with a rather clever method.

This method, while still not addressing the root cause, can cleverly prevent those fools from being swindled.

Wang Xiaohua said to Lin Aijun:

"Sister Aijun, for fools like Zhao Congming from now on, don't distribute a month's poverty subsidy in one lump sum. Let them come to the village committee every day to check in, then prorate it daily."

Lin Aijun was stunned, then felt this was a good method:

"This method works. Making them come back and forth every day both burns off their energy so they don't have idle time to do uncontrollable things, and prevents them from being swindled by other villagers once they get the money."

Wang Xiaohua, getting Lin Aijun's approval, broke into a smile.

But Lin Aijun then shifted tone:

"However, this is hard to operate. Poverty funds piling up here is a violation. If higher-ups pursue accountability and pin 'embezzling poverty funds' on us, we're finished."

Wang Xiaohua frowned — this was indeed also a problem.

Lin Aijun added:

"Unless we get approval from the Leader above. But I say Director Chen definitely won't approve this. Because once this precedent is opened, not only would we have to do it, other colleagues would too. We can guarantee we won't embezzle, but other colleagues might not. If something happens Director Chen takes the blame — he definitely won't want that."

Hearing this, Wang Xiaohua couldn't help but sigh.

The problem circled back to square one.

Someone needs to take responsibility!

But in reality no one will willingly step up!

After all, do it well and there's no reward; mess up and you get punished!

Wang Xiaohua was even a bit discouraged.

Still he said:

"Then I'll find time to write a report and submit it to Director Chen, see how he reacts."

Lin Aijun immediately exclaimed in surprise:

"Come on, last time you got chewed out and you still haven't learned? You still want to write a report?"

Wang Xiaohua just smiled:

"Of course I'll write it. Worst case I get criticized — he can't do anything to me. What if it actually gets approved?"

Result: Wang Xiaohua wrote the report and submitted it. Chen Yuancheng read it and sure enough gave him another head-to-toe dressing-down.

"Look, Wang Xiaohua, how can you be so naive? Making fools come to the village committee daily for money — do you know how much extra workload that adds?"

Wang Xiaohua replied:

"I know. As long as we distribute at fixed times and places, it's actually fine. We can set the distribution time during the lunch meal slot — that way they come in the morning, wait till noon, get the money, then go back in the afternoon. Basically the whole day passes, they won't cause trouble, and won't get swindled."

Chen Yuancheng, however, rapped on the table and said sternly:

"This is just surface work! Do you know, if you want to change the way money is distributed, you have to apply upward — do you know how complex the money flow process is? The application process alone could run your legs off! It's not like you just give the money directly to you grassroots cadres and let you grassroots cadres distribute it every day and that's it — there are still many procedures to go through, otherwise if you grassroots cadres embezzle it yourselves, who will be responsible for this matter?"

Chen Yuancheng put the words very directly, but also very realistically.

As a leader, what he had to consider was indeed a lot.

He knew Wang Xiaohua's plan was a good method to protect the interests of those township fools, but it involved too many things, and if a problem arose someone would have to take responsibility!

And those fools, anyway they're just silent individuals — regardless of them there's actually no problem, they won't complain, and even if you manage them they won't turn back into normal people, and it's impossible to help them escape poverty!

Wang Xiaohua heard this, fell silent for a moment, then said:

"Chen Director, I know you have your concerns, changing this indeed requires increasing a lot of workload, but, aren't we supposed to serve the people? I know you actually also care about the bottom-level people, otherwise you couldn't have kept doing this job all this time, you have great dedication spirit, you are the learning model for us grassroots cadres."

Chen Yuancheng was praised by Wang Xiaohua until he felt a bit embarrassed.

He felt unworthy of the praise.

But still didn't change his own view.

He waved his hand:

"This matter is not up for discussion, poverty relief funds distributed monthly — this is a regulation set by above, impossible to change this regulation just because of those few fools, you go back!"

Wang Xiaohua, however, didn't leave, and pleaded:

"Why not you report upward for feedback? Maybe above will approve it?"

Chen Yuancheng gave a dry laugh:

"Do you want me to be criticized by above? I'm telling you, this kind of proposal is impossible to pass, don't be so naive!"

Wang Xiaohua walked out of the office, his heart inevitably feeling frustrated.

This made him feel that he could see where the problem lay, could even think of a solution method, but was powerless to change anything.

This is the grassroots cadre's predicament, right.

They understand the bottom-level situation best, also know what the bottom level needs most, but have no way to change the work method.

Every day a lot of workload, is nothing but layer upon layer added formalism, actually not doing much substantive stuff.

And when it really comes to solving problems, it's difficult to move an inch.

Wang Xiaohua thought this proposal of his would just end without a trace like this.

Unexpectedly, a matter that happened next, instead caused a turning point for everything.

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