Chapter 1339

Shen Dayou said, "How is that possible? Just a set of dust-collecting equipment, if you want to meet the requirements, it will cost two or three hundred thousand. And it's an electricity tiger; it uses at least several hundred degrees of electricity an hour. The money we earn in an hour isn't even enough for the electricity bill, let alone other expenses."

Li Bokun frowned. If it was the situation Shen Dayou described, then rectification didn't need to be discussed anymore. They couldn't do business at a loss.

After pondering for a long time, Li Bokun said, "You go back first today. I'll discuss it with County Magistrate Zhang and the others tomorrow before deciding."

The next day, Su Xinghui, Hou Wenhai, and Ling Anguo talked together about the road construction funds. Actually, Su Xinghui could still have held out for a while on this matter, but he had always disdained using such politician's means. And building the road a day earlier was better than building it a day later, so he directly pulled Hou Wenhai and Ling Anguo to start negotiations.

Ling Anguo didn't expect Hou Wenhai to be so straightforward. Only on the second day of arriving in Changshan, they had already entered the substantive negotiation stage. He was overjoyed.

The negotiations between the two sides also proceeded very smoothly. In less than an hour, the main terms had already been agreed upon: the Hou Group would provide a road construction fund of twenty million yuan to the Changshan County Government, which would be paid off in ten years, including principal and interest, with an annual interest rate of 8.4%, using the Changshan County Government's fiscal revenue as collateral.

This interest rate level was quite favorable. In this era, the one-year loan interest rate of China's four major commercial banks was 10.98 per thousand per month, let alone this kind of long-term loan. Just this favorable interest rate could save the Changshan County Government more than one million in interest every year.

The two sides agreed that this twenty million in capital would be deposited into a public account of both sides, jointly supervised by both sides, used for specific purposes, and not to be diverted for other uses; otherwise, the Hou Group would have the power to recall the loan in advance.

This agreement was, of course, also proposed by Su Xinghui. Su Xinghui knew some domestic phenomena too well. If this capital were deposited into the account of the Changshan County Finance Bureau, it would probably be diverted for other uses the next day.

Changshan County's finance was in deficit every year, and it didn't know how much it owed in bank loans. It was like a piece of land that had been dry for many years and had already cracked. No matter how much water was poured on it, it couldn't fill that mouth.

With such joint supervision by both sides, there would be no need to fear that the capital would be diverted.

After the negotiations were successful, Ling Anguo couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart. He immediately reported this news to Xue Xingyuan. Xue Xingyuan was also a bit surprised after hearing it. This road construction fund was actually negotiated so quickly. It seemed this Su Xinghui still had some ability.

Ling Anguo invited Xue Xingyuan to also participate in the signing ceremony. However, Xue Xingyuan refused after pondering for a moment. He said this was a government matter, so he wouldn't get involved, and told Ling Anguo to receive the guests well.

Ling Anguo then held a signing ceremony with Hou Wenhai, the representative of the Hou Group, on behalf of the county government. The two sides signed a loan contract, and Hou Wenhai promised that within three days, the Hou Group's twenty million in capital would be deposited into this public account of both sides.

Ling Anguo simultaneously instructed the County Transportation Bureau to come up with a road construction plan. Actually, last year, the County Transportation Bureau had already surveyed this road from Changshan County town to Yulin City. They had two plans: one was to widen and reinforce the existing road, and the other was to build a new road.

If the existing road were widened and reinforced, the engineering volume would of course be smaller, and the cost would be lower. However, this was a mountain road, the terrain was relatively dangerous, and the mileage was also relatively long.

If a new road were built, the Transportation Bureau had already surveyed a route, which was to pass through a valley on the west side of Baiyun Village. This route was relatively straight, and it could save nearly ten kilometers in mileage, but it would require digging a tunnel of more than two kilometers in total.

Comparing these two plans, building a new road would require slightly more capital because, after all, a new roadbed had to be built and a tunnel had to be dug. But the benefits of building a new road were also very obvious: the new road was basically a straight line, the slope was also relatively gentle, and it was of course more convenient in terms of transportation. And having two roads to Yulin could also alleviate traffic pressure.

After Changshan County had money in the future, wouldn't it be beautiful to renovate that old road?

Therefore, after discussing it with Su Xinghui, Ling Anguo chose the second plan, then convened a county magistrate's office meeting to propose the two plans for discussion and voting. Finally, the second plan was passed with an absolute advantage.

After the vote, the attendees all had a feeling of witnessing history. Changshan was finally going to build a new road again.

If this new road were built, the benefits to Matou Town would of course be the greatest. In the future, it would only be more than ten kilometers from Matou Town to Yulin City, and it would be very convenient to ship Matou Town's various specialties to Yulin City.

The county magistrate's office meeting also decided that the construction of this highway would be open for public bidding to society, and the bidding meeting was scheduled to be held two weeks later.

On the evening of the day Min Tong arrived in Matou Town, he called Mai Yongyuan, saying that he had discovered several good water sources here and asked Mai Yongyuan to send a few technicians here to take water samples for testing to see if they were suitable for producing mineral water.

The next day, Mai Yongyuan personally brought two technicians. Now was a stage where the mineral water factory's development had reached a bottleneck period, and finding a water source was a top priority. Of course, he didn't dare to be negligent.

They took mountain spring water from several villages in Matou Town as water samples for testing. In this process, Lu Xianghui accompanied them throughout. He was originally the deputy town mayor in charge of the economy, and this was his duty. His presence also greatly reduced Su Xinghui's workload.

However, Su Xinghui's workload was still very large, and he had been extremely busy these past few days.

Yu Ruizhi and Yu Ruoqiu decided to donate to build a school and a library in Matou Town. Mi Xiuyuan and Xie Junqiang subsequently followed up, and they also decided to each donate to build a school in Matou Town and donate some books.

These past few days, Su Xinghui had been accompanying them to find suitable locations for building schools. Finally, it was decided to build a central complete primary school and a library in each of the three villages that were about the same distance from the Matou Town government.

These three schools would allow children from the surrounding villages to come here to attend school. These three schools would not charge tuition or book fees, and would also provide three meals a day for free. This would greatly reduce or even eliminate the phenomenon of dropping out of school, and the impact would be extremely long-term.