Chapter 1325: Lü Xianghui

Not long after Ma Sheng left, Su Xinghui's door was knocked on again. Su Xinghui said, "Please come in."

A person entered from outside; it was Matou Township Deputy Township Head Lü Xianghui. Su Xinghui hurriedly stood up and said, "Township Head Lü is here. Please sit."

Lü Xianghui sat down on a chair. Su Xinghui poured him a cup of tea and then sat opposite him, asking, "Township Head Lü, is there something you need?"

Lü Xianghui was a young man in his thirties. He was the Deputy Township Head in charge of the economy and was considered one of the younger members of the Matou Township leadership team. He had also studied at the Yulin City Finance School and was a secondary vocational school graduate. Before Su Xinghui arrived, he was the member of the Matou Township leadership team with the highest level of education.

Lü Xianghui said, "I came to exchange thoughts with the Secretary."

Su Xinghui smiled and said, "Fine."

Lü Xianghui said, "Secretary, I firmly support the reception standard you want to set!"

Su Xinghui said, "Thank you. Do you think this reception standard is good?"

Lü Xianghui nodded and said, "It's too good, Secretary. In the past, when I saw those people coming to the township to eat and drink extravagantly, I would get angry. I would always find excuses not to go to the meals. How much is our Matou Township's annual fiscal revenue? Every year, a huge chunk goes to this eating and drinking—that's all the blood and sweat money of the farmers. It pains me to see it!"

Su Xinghui asked, "Township Head Lü, how many people in the township government do you think will support this reception standard? Can this reception standard be seriously enforced?"

Lü Xianghui pondered for a moment and then said, "I think there will definitely be no shortage of people in the township government who support this reception standard. There are quite a few people like me who can't stand this kind of extravagant eating and drinking. The people who can truly accompany them to eat and drink all day are just those few people. Your new reception standard touches the interests of these people, but their interests are, after all, the interests of a minority. As for whether it can be seriously enforced, it depends on your strength."

Lü Xianghui was right. How many people could frequently accompany those who came down from above to eat and drink? It was the township leaders and the leaders of those seven stations and eight offices. Adding these people together, it was only about twenty percent of all the township staff—an absolute minority. This reception standard only touched their interests.

Moreover, even among these leaders, it wasn't as if there were no people who supported Su Xinghui. There were quite a few people like Lü Xianghui.

Su Xinghui said, "As long as there are many people who support it, I have confidence in my heart."

Lü Xianghui said, "Secretary, the most important thing is to develop our township's economy. As long as the economy is developed and everyone's income increases, there will only be more and more people supporting you. What does eating and drinking count for? Having money in your pocket is the most real thing."

Su Xinghui said, "Township Head Lü, what ideas do you have for developing the economy in our township?"

Lü Xianghui said, "Secretary, you are the expert at developing the economy. Isn't it 'teaching a fish to swim' for me to talk about this in front of you?"

Su Xinghui laughed: "Don't say that. We should 'pool the wisdom of the masses.' Even if I were made of iron, I couldn't drive many nails. Everyone's opinion is very important. Besides, you must know the situation in Matou Township much better than I do."

Hearing Su Xinghui say this, Lü Xianghui nodded and said, "Fine, Secretary, then I'll 'throw a brick to attract jade.' Secretary, I think we should fully utilize the local specialty, the Matou goat, in our Matou Township. I think if we expand the breeding scale of Matou goats, it will be a relatively good path."

Su Xinghui was pleasantly surprised. Lü Xianghui had also noticed the Matou goat? This was a case of "great minds thinking alike." But this wasn't strange; the Matou goat was indeed an excellent breed, and it was normal for Lü Xianghui, as a local of Changshan, to pay attention to it.

This showed that Lü Xianghui, the Deputy Township Head in charge of the economy, wasn't completely without ideas for developing the economy. He said, "Township Head Lü, continue."

Lü Xianghui said, "The meat of this Matou goat, Secretary, I don't know if you've eaten it, but it's much better than ordinary goat meat. It sells for more than ordinary goats, grows larger, and produces more meat. A good Matou goat can sell for six or seven hundred, and even a worse one can sell for three or four hundred. If a family raises a few dozen goats, they can completely get rich."

Su Xinghui said, "Then why haven't you put effort into this aspect before?"

Lü Xianghui said, "It's not that I haven't put effort into it, but for one thing, it's hard to find sales channels. The mountain roads in our Changshan County are too hard to travel, making it impossible to form a scale. For another, the Matou goat is relatively delicate, making it difficult to rapidly expand the breeding scale. So we could only do small-scale things. Being able to sell locally and in Yulin City was already not bad. In the end, it's still my limited ability."