Chapter 1296

Su Xinghui nodded, "I can find a way, but it is currently limited to the thirty-some kilometers of highway from Changshan County seat to Yulin City."

Ling Anguo said, "Little Su, do you know how much funding this thirty-some kilometers of highway needs?"

Su Xinghui said, "I think it shouldn't be less than 20 million, right?"

Ling Anguo nodded, "At the beginning of last year, we asked the County Transportation Bureau to estimate the funds needed to repair this highway, which was about nearly 20 million. In fact, it might be more, because the mountain terrain is too complex, many unpredictable accidents will occur during the road repair process, and the price of goods is also rising rapidly now."

Su Xinghui knew what Ling Anguo meant. He was afraid that he had wrongly estimated the construction cost of this highway.

Su Xinghui smiled, "I am still confident in raising this funding, but it cannot be free of charge. It will definitely need to be repaid by the county, but it can be done in stages. For example, it can be repaid over ten years."

Ling Anguo was overjoyed. If this money could be repaid over ten years, the fiscal pressure on the county would be much smaller. It could be squeezed out by tightening the belt every year. Moreover, once the road is repaired, it will be a great promotion for the county's economy.

Ling Anguo nodded, "That is of course. Little Su, as long as you can raise this funding, you will be the great benefactor of all the people in Changshan County!"

Su Xinghui shook his head, "County Magistrate Ling, I don't need the people of Changshan to treat me as a great benefactor. My creed is to benefit one side while serving as an official. Since I am now a cadre of Changshan County, it is what I should do to do these things."

Ling Anguo rubbed his hands with great excitement, "This is too good, this is too good!"

Ling Anguo had a dark face, rough skin, and thick joints, especially his hands, which had deep chaps on his fingers. The way he rubbed his hands looked very much like an old farmer, but this true expression of his made Su Xinghui feel more comfortable.

Su Xinghui said, "County Magistrate Ling, I have another request."

Ling Anguo said, "Little Su, as long as you can repair this road well, just say whatever request you have."

Su Xinghui said, "After the highway is repaired, strictly control the passage of those overloaded stone trucks."

Mentioning this topic, Ling Anguo suddenly fell silent, and his brows furrowed.

In fact, the highway from Changshan County to Yulin City was repaired more than ten years ago. Changshan County valued this highway very much and had always maintained it very well. The road conditions of this highway had always been quite good.

However, in recent years, with the rapid economic development of Yulin City and the increasing infrastructure construction in Yulin City, the demand for stone materials has become greater and greater, and the price of stone materials has naturally risen with the tide. Now the price per ton has risen to nearly ten yuan.

With such high prices for stone materials, there are more and more quarries in Changshan County. Most of these quarries are distributed in several townships north of the Changshan County seat because these townships are relatively close to Yulin City, and the transportation cost is relatively low.

And in order to make more money, the trucks hauling stone materials out of these quarries are all overloaded. It is common for trucks that can only haul a few tons to haul ten or twenty tons. These overloaded trucks not only easily cause traffic accidents but also press the good highway into potholes.

To tell the truth, Ling Anguo also hated these overloaded trucks deeply, but sometimes he had no choice.

These quarries can at least pay tens of thousands of yuan to the county every year. Adding them all up, the fiscal revenue contributed is not a small amount, which can be called one of the pillar industries of the county.

Secondly, these quarries have backgrounds, and many of them are opened by the relatives of county leaders. Many county leaders have shares in the quarries.

If Ling Anguo did this, it would be equivalent to offending many people.

Although the current quarry technology is backward and Changshan transportation is inconvenient, a quarry can still produce and sell about 100,000 tons of stone materials a year, and the net profit is at least 200,000 to 300,000. Divided among each shareholder, each person has tens of thousands a year, which is a very high income in Changshan County in this era.

As the saying goes, blocking someone's path to wealth is like killing their parents!

Even if Ling Anguo is an upright official, he still feels hesitant about offending so many people at once.

Su Xinghui smiled, "County Magistrate Ling, this is the condition. If it cannot be agreed, then let's assume I didn't say anything about repairing the road. Otherwise, it will be hard to repair the road for a year, and it will be crushed by overloaded trucks in less than a month. Why bother?"

Ling Anguo also said to himself, "Yes, why bother to repair a road that takes a year to repair, only to have it crushed in less than a month?"

Ling Anguo also knew that Su Xinghui was not from Changshan. Does he really need political achievements in Changshan County now? His political achievements over the past few years have been brilliant enough, and he has an incomparably powerful background in the province. Even if he spends two years in Changshan, once his seniority is enough, it will be a matter of course for him to be promoted.