Chapter 257: Township Party Committee Meeting

I listened to Zhu Hua Yu's story for the time being. Such a beautiful woman, why doesn't she love the Youth League Committee Secretary Huang Qishan? Is it because her heart belongs to someone else? I really can't understand her purpose, and I'm too lazy to think about it. After listening to her story, I didn't make any statement.

I did this intentionally. Before hearing Huang Qishan's explanation, any statement I made was irresponsible. Now I am a Town Mayor, and I cannot make statements casually!

Zhu Hua Yu finished the story slowly, as if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her, and as she spoke, sleepiness came to her head.

My hand on her smooth shoulder, because it hadn't moved for a long time, felt stiff.

"I want to sleep." she muttered, letting go of the hand that was hugging my waist.

"Sleep, sleep." I comforted her softly. I withdrew my hand from her shoulder, rubbed it, and sighed lightly.

She groaned, turned her body away from me, and the quilt on her body slipped, revealing her back with clear lines.

I picked up the quilt, covered it lightly, and my hand touched her body inadvertently. She didn't move at all, her feet moved a few times, lifted the quilt, and displayed a soft white body like snow in front of me.

My heart jumped, and my eyes could no longer move away.

I stood for a while, suppressed the restless thoughts, closed my eyes and covered her with the quilt again, opened the door, and went straight to Suxi Town.

The fact that there is no gold mine at Laoyingzui has become a fact. But how to carry out the work next is imminent.

I hadn't figured out what to do, and Qian Youyu had already entangled me like a snake.

The construction site that had been delayed for so long, he wanted to reopen.

After drilling countless holes at Laoyingzui, I suddenly found that the dream of building a mineral water plant at Laoyingzui was almost shattered. Before Professor Xu drilled the holes, I quietly asked him to survey the geological resources of Laoyingzui comprehensively, whether there was underground water, and how rich the water resources were.

After collecting all the geological data drilled out, Professor Xu told me a cruel fact. Laoyingzui had almost no underground water, and underground rivers were impossible. The mountain springs that never stopped all year round were completely accumulated water in the cracks of the mountain rocks. Although Laoyingzui had few trees, it had rich surface vegetation, especially the large stones all over the mountain, which constituted a unique karst landform, and Chunshan County had abundant annual rainfall, so the mountain springs that never stopped all year round made people mistakenly think that water resources were abundant.

Professor Xu's conclusion made me feel like I had been hit by a stick. Without water, what kind of water plant to build?

Without a water plant, how can I explain it to Qian Youyu?

Qian Youyu had over a thousand people from Yuetang Village standing behind him, all waiting for an enterprise that would not worry their descendants. Now this enterprise was about to die. If they knew, wouldn't I be torn to pieces by them alive? Thinking of this, a layer of cold sweat broke out on my back.

My aunt called when I was frowning, telling me that the Luqiao Company had successfully won the bid, and the construction machinery and personnel had all arrived and were about to set off for the construction site.

My aunt specifically told me that the section won by the Luqiao Company was within the territory of Chunshan County, with a total length of five kilometers and an investment of 480 million yuan.

I was not happy at all. The Luqiao Company winning the bid was also a matter of losing a horse, and it had nothing to do with my mineral water plant.

Qian Youyu called me continuously, asking when work could start. He also stated that he could wait, but the people in his village couldn't wait, and the construction workers and machinery couldn't wait. He also calculated an account for me, saying that waiting for one day would lose thousands of yuan, and if he waited for a long time, before work started, the money to be invested would be gone.

After listening to his chatter, I said: "We've already waited so long, does it matter if we wait a few more days? No rush."

Qian Youyu shouted on the phone with a sobbing tone: "Little Brother Chen, Town Mayor Chen, Grandpa Chen, help your old brother, give a definite answer, so I can have an explanation."

His repeated shouting made me want to laugh, but in the end, I didn't laugh. I said: "You have to wait for me to hold a Party Committee meeting."

"You hold it, you hold it, any meeting is fine, just be fast, can you understand me, old brother?"

"Wait for my news." After hanging up his phone, I called Guo Wei directly: "Party Secretary Guo, I want to hold a town Party Committee meeting."

"Anything?" Guo Wei was clearly very busy, and the roar of the machine came from the receiver.

"Regarding several issues of town development, I want the Party Committee to discuss and decide collectively," I said.

"What issues do you want to discuss? Isn't everything good?" Guo Wei was hesitant about my request.

"I think there are still several issues that need to be discussed and decided, such as the construction funds for the farmers' market street, the planning issues of the farmers' market, and the construction funds for the family houses you planned, Party Secretary Guo, all need to be discussed." I deliberately avoided the issue of the mineral water plant and picked a few things that would make him feel tricky.

Sure enough, Guo Wei pondered for a while and said: "You arrange it, just hold an expanded meeting, expanded to the level of investors."

Putting down the phone, I was already confident.

The meeting was held at the old township government, and all heads of town departments were present. Now Suxi Town holds meetings, which is very different from a few years ago. Whether it is the temptation of the pancake drawn by Guo Wei or the few things I have done, all cadres are deeply convinced.

Qian Youyu and Sun Demao attended the Party Committee meeting, which was the first time in Suxi Township.

The meeting was presided over by me. After listing the development process of Suxi in the past year, I raised the first question: After the new government office building is built, should it follow the old township government and not set up supporting projects? If it is to be done according to the plan, how to solve the funds?

As soon as my words fell, the meeting room became noisy. Originally, everyone was just burying their heads in work behind Guo Wei and me, and didn't think about where the funds came from at all. Now that I put this problem, everyone began to feel that building a new government was not as easy as imagined.

Guo Wei first asked Old Zhao to his face, how much money was on the town's financial account?

Old Zhao stretched out a palm and reported the money on the account one by one. The 10 million transferred from Yuetang Village was clearly listed as the construction fund for the mineral water plant, the 10 million highway land acquisition compensation, 5 million of which had to be deducted by the county, 1 million poverty alleviation funds, which had to be distributed to each village before the New Year, 3 million provincial reward cultural relics funds, and the remaining were the town's education surcharges and miscellaneous funds, totaling about 1 million, all of which had sources and dared not move easily.

Old Zhao emphasized his tone at the end, and the meaning was very clear. Every money had a origin, every money had an attribution, and it could not be moved easily.

Guo Wei was silent for a long time after listening, turned his head and asked me: "There is no gold mine mining at Laoyingzui, when is the mineral water plant going to start?"

I naturally understood Guo Wei's meaning. He wanted to misappropriate this money.

"The mineral water plant matter, I want to report to you separately after the meeting," I changed the subject: "Why don't we build the office building first, and then do other things when we have money?"

"No!" Guo Wei said decisively: "Can't wait, and can't afford to wait. If you wait too long, there will be no motivation. If you want to do it, do it in one go, don't do half-finished projects."

"But we have no money," I sighed, looked at the cadres whispering, and stopped talking.

"If you have no money, you can think of a way," Guo Wei said confidently: "The contract for the new government office building stipulates that Sun Demao will fully advance the funds, so we don't need to consider it. We just need to find a way to solve the construction funds for the farmers' market and family houses."

Sun Demao, who was sitting at the bottom with a proud smile, heard that he was fully advancing the funds, and shouted grievances without thinking, took out a copied contract paper from his pocket, rushed to Guo Wei and shouted: "Party Secretary Guo, the contract stipulates that the funds are advanced to the third floor, not fully advanced."

Guo Wei smiled at Sun Demao and said contemptuously: "The contract is the contract, now you see it too, the town is short of money."

"Even if you are short of money, don't be short of me," Sun Demao said pitifully: "Look at me, I didn't ask you to pay a cent, and I helped you build the office building to the third floor first. I have already paid millions in material costs and labor wages. I am just a contractor, how can I advance everything."

"You wanted to advance it yourself, I didn't force you," Guo Wei changed his face: "It's fine if you don't do it now. If the project is not finished, you won't get a cent. I will also ask you to compensate. You see for yourself."

Sun Demao was so anxious that he was about to cry, pointing at Guo Wei and shouting: "Party Secretary Guo, you said last night that you would solve part of the material costs for me, why did you change today? You are an official, you can't talk nonsense."

Guo Wei's face sank, and he said loudly: "Boss Sun, yesterday was yesterday. Yesterday I didn't know how much money was actually in the treasury."

"You are the Party Secretary, how could you not know? You are afraid you are fooling me," Sun Demao said hesitantly, looking at Guo Wei, his expression nervous.

Guo Wei's face was iron blue, glared at Sun Demao and said: "Nonsense!"

Sun Demao wanted to continue, but I got up and stopped him. Now I finally understand why Guo Wei wanted to hold an expanded meeting, and expanded to Sun Demao and Qian Youyu, who were not Party members at all.

He wanted to take this opportunity to shake out the current situation and let the cadres have a bottom in their hearts. He called this move "breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat"!

In fact, Guo Wei knew better than anyone how much money was on the town's financial account and what kind of money it was. It was impossible for him, the number one leader, not to know. In any unit, the one who manages the money is the confidant of the number one leader. Although Old Zhao was not his confidant, Old Zhao, who had been honest all his life, didn't dare to offend him, the number one leader. Did he dare not report the actual situation clearly?

I knocked on the table to signal everyone to be quiet and began to propose a solution.

I said: "Except for the two investors, everyone else is a town cadre. I ask everyone a question: who benefits the most from the relocation of the new government?"

The cadres looked at each other, not knowing what medicine I was selling in my gourd, and no one dared to make a sound.

I looked at them one by one. Everyone who received my gaze lowered their heads, and no one responded.

I continued: "Since no one says it, I will tell everyone. You say, the relocation of the new government, is it the cadres present who benefit?"

Most people lowered their heads in agreement and started whispering again.

Guo Wei patted the table and said: "Everyone be quiet, listen to Town Mayor Chen."

"Since everyone understands that they are the ones who benefit, why don't we, the ones who benefit, take the lead? The common people are watching us work. As a cadre, a Communist Party member, we can't let the common people point fingers behind our backs and talk about our gossip? I suggest that the relocation of the new government should establish a principle, which is 'whoever invests, whoever benefits', and for cadres who do not support the work, the Party should consider giving them disciplinary action."

Guo Wei was also confused by my words, looked at me a few times, and quietly pulled my sleeve.

Only I knew that my words were bluffing.

Laoyingzui cannot build a mineral water plant, cannot open a gold mine, and can do nothing. Laoyingzui is already a dead land!

These are not important. What is important is that I painstakingly dragged Qian Youyu to invest, and now the project is gone, what should his money do?

I cannot watch Qian Youyu take the money away, I cannot let Deng Hanyu watch my joke, and I cannot let County Magistrate Liu Qimeng down.

County Magistrate Liu dared to risk the world's great disapproval to keep me, he saw hope in me.

The Party Committee meeting I wanted to hold, before the meeting, I already had a new idea, and I was confident.

So I turned my face, smiled at him, and whispered: "Party Secretary Guo, wait for me to finish." ===== CHAPTER 258 =====