Chapter 1259

After Weng Guoying stayed at home for a few days, the provincial government's transfer order arrived. Weng Guoying was transferred to the Provincial Water Conservancy Department and would serve as the deputy director of the Basic Construction Division of the Provincial Water Conservancy Department.

This was an exceptional promotion. When Weng Guoying was at the Qingxi County Water Conservancy Bureau, he had the treatment of a deputy section-level official but no actual position. Even if it were an actual deputy section-level position, being promoted to an actual deputy division-level position in one go was a two-level promotion, not to mention he didn't even have an actual deputy section-level position.

However, with Weng Guoying's talent and character, he was quite capable of serving as this deputy director.

The Basic Construction Division was considered a division with quite a lot of power in the Water Conservancy Department. It mainly guided the management of basic water conservancy construction work across the province, was responsible for the supervision and management of project legal entities and bidding activities for key provincial water conservancy construction projects, and guided the quality supervision and construction supervision of water conservancy projects across the province.

In addition, it was also responsible for the qualification management of water conservancy project quality testing units according to regulations, formulated quotas for provincial water conservancy construction projects, was responsible for the inspection of provincial water conservancy project construction and the acceptance of key water conservancy project construction, and guided the supervision and management of the water conservancy construction market, etc.

In short, this division managed the construction of water conservancy projects across the province. It had a say in everything related to water conservancy projects. From this, one could see why Lu Zhenghong put Weng Guoying in this position.

He wanted to use Weng Guoying's uprightness and selflessness to supervise the large-scale construction of the river embankment that was about to begin across the province.

Although the province had not yet formed a resolution on this issue, for Lu Zhenghong, this was something he would strive to promote next.

Most of the essence of Hudong Province was in the Changjiang basin, related to the lives and property of tens of millions of people. Lu Zhenghong would naturally do his best to promote this matter.

Arriving at the same time as Weng Guoying's transfer order was a transfer order for He Jinyan. She was transferred to the Jiangcheng Post and Telecommunications Bureau, with specific work to be arranged separately.

This transfer order surprised Weng Guoying very much and moved him deeply. He knew that this must have been arranged by Lu Zhenghong at Su Xinghui's request, to eliminate his worries and let him devote himself fully to his work.

Weng Guoying didn't call Su Xinghui to thank him again. He knew that Su Xinghui's great kindness to him couldn't be repaid by a simple thank you. He could only repay it by working hard.

He Jinyan was so happy she didn't know what to say. In the evening, she discussed with Weng Guoying about bringing Weng's mother to Jiangcheng, and she would take care of her. Weng Guoying said with heartache, "Jinyan, thank you for your hard work!"

He Jinyan said, "It's nothing. But you must not work too hard in the future. You are too tired, and my heart aches."

Weng Guoying thought to himself, how could I not work hard? I don't know which day a major flood will come. However, he naturally couldn't tell his wife this; he just gently hugged his wife into his arms.

Weng Guoying and his wife spent a few days handling all the procedures, packing their luggage, taking his mother and son, and went to Jiangcheng to take up their posts.

The first thing Weng Guoying did after taking office was to hand the article he had written to Lu Zhenghong. Lu Zhenghong immediately arranged for the article to be published in the internal reference. The article immediately caused a huge response within the province.

Some people said the article was alarmist, but others said the article had strong foresight and great reference value, and should be taken seriously.

The provincial government specifically invited the most famous water conservancy experts in the province, including professors from the Jiangcheng Water Conservancy College, to hold a seminar to specifically discuss Weng Guoying's article and see if there was really a possibility of a major flood in the next few years.

Among them were several of Weng Guoying's teachers from the Jiangcheng Water Conservancy College.

The vast majority of these water conservancy experts supported Weng Guoying's view; only a few did not express an opinion.

In fact, Weng Guoying's view had been proposed by others before. The soil and water conservation work in the middle and upper reaches of the Changjiang had been done too poorly over the years, and the evil consequences of reclaiming land from lakes over the past few decades had gradually appeared. Whenever there was a heavy rain, the water had nowhere to go and could only flow back into the Changjiang. But the riverbed of the Changjiang was rising day by day; how could it withstand so much rainwater?

This was an obvious truth. Of course, proposing this view still required great courage. It was fine if the prediction was accurate, but if it wasn't accurate and a major flood didn't occur for several years, it would easily be called alarmist and spreading rumors.

Moreover, reclaiming land from lakes had been a proud achievement of the government for decades, and even a national policy. Because of the increasing population pressure, the government advocated reclaiming land from lakes. Over these decades, Hudong Province alone had filled in at least hundreds of small lakes, and the area of several large lakes had also shrunk significantly, increasing farmland by over a million mu and supporting a large population.

If you now say that reclaiming land from lakes is problematic, isn't that denying a proud achievement of successive governments?

Therefore, the political risk of proposing this view was too great, and naturally, there were not many people who dared to propose it.

Now, Weng Guoying, this "blockhead," had directly proposed this view. It was fine for these water conservancy experts to echo it; the risk taken was much smaller, and it could also remind the decision-making bigwigs to prepare early and take precautions.

In this way, the provincial government held several seminars, repeatedly discussed Weng Guoying's article, and finally formed a consensus, agreeing with Weng Guoying's view.

The provincial government also quickly formed a resolution to take advantage of the rebuilding of the river embankment in Qingyang City this time to rebuild and reinforce the Changjiang main embankment across the province, using the standard of preventing a flood that only occurs once in a hundred years. Although this required a not-so-small fiscal expenditure, completing it within two or three years meant the fiscal pressure wouldn't be that great.