Chapter 1411

Just as Shao Dejin's group left, Xiang Tianlu, Chu Zheng, Han Xiang Dong, Yu Sister Sister Ruoqiu, and others came to Changshan County. During this period, they had already raised a little over 100 million in funds, and the tourism development company could begin to start.

Originally, Yu Ruizhi also had a share in these raised funds, but Yu Ruizhi went to help Su Xinghui invite those leather merchants to inspect, so he did not come with Xiang Tianlu and the others this time. Instead, he let Yu Sister Sister Ruoqiu represent him to come and negotiate with the Changshan County government.

They negotiated with the Changshan County government, and the negotiations went very smoothly because the tourism development company had the precedent of Shangjun County to follow, so it was not complicated. The facts in Shangjun County showed that that mode of cooperation was very fair to both sides. Therefore, it only took a few days for the two sides to reach an agreement.

The Changshan County Tourism Development Company was officially established. Wei Pengfei became the deputy manager stationed at the tourism development company by the Changshan County government. This trick played by Wei Pengfei left his former leaders and colleagues at the Culture Bureau dumbfounded. A young man who had been sitting on the bench at the Culture Bureau had suddenly occupied such an important position.

Good news in Changshan County came one after another. Just after the tourism development company was established, the budget and feasibility reports from the Changshan County Transportation Bureau and the Wushui County Transportation Bureau had already been produced. The fiscal appropriation that Yu Junchu asked for in Jiangyou Province also had a clue, but Ling Anguo had not yet received a reply to the appropriation he asked for in Hudong Province and Yulin City.

For the sake of the appropriation, Ling Anguo had run to Jiangcheng and Yulin City several times, but the attitudes of the provincial and municipal levels were all shrugging off the responsibility, all saying that funds were tight now and there were no extra funds to invest in the road construction project in Changshan County.

In fact, this is also very normal. For a county to build a road, why should the province appropriate funds for you? This is not a transportation project within the province's plan; it is a road that your county wants to build itself. If every county that wanted to build a road asked the province for appropriations, wouldn't it be a mess?

As for the city, Mayor Ren Guisheng had been full of anger toward Changshan County recently, so naturally, it was even more impossible for him to appropriate funds for Changshan County's road construction project.

It seemed that there were still people in the city making sarcastic remarks: "Doesn't your Changshan County have the ability? Last time you built the Changyu Highway, you didn't ask for appropriations, but borrowed money from a private consortium. Then go borrow from others this time."

Some people even said, "If you want to get rich, build roads first." Everyone knows this truth. Your Changshan County has already built one highway, and you are still asking the province and city for money to build roads. Isn't that a bit too greedy? You should also carry forward the style and let the limited funds go to other counties so that other counties can also develop.

This statement is not wrong. Hudong Province is not considered an economically developed province, and Yulin City is not an economically developed city. Funds are very limited, and there are too many places that need to improve traffic conditions. They did not appropriate funds to Changshan County, and Ling Anguo had nothing to say. He had no other abilities, so he could only grind away at the city every day and report to Ren Guisheng the importance of this highway to Changshan County.

But Ren Guisheng didn't care about that at all. He insisted that there was no money, which left Ling Anguo somewhat helpless.

Su Xinghui came up with an idea. He let Ling Anguo first borrow 15 million from the tourism development company to invite Hackett from the World Bank to start the loan process first. Anyway, the investment of the tourism development company could not be invested all at once; it was a gradual process, and there was no problem in withdrawing these 15 million.

Of course, this loan still had to be collateralized by the county's fiscal revenue, and interest on the loan had to be paid.

Su Xinghui's proposal was naturally not rejected by the several shareholders of the tourism development company. These 15 million in funds were transferred to a special account for road construction of the county government, which solved the urgent need of Changshan County.

Su Xinghui immediately called Hackett, and Hackett promised to come to Changshan County in early March.

Just at this time, an unexpected incident occurred in Changshan County. This was at a quarry in Dashan Township in the southwest of Changshan. A serious safety accident occurred. When the quarry was blasting, the powder charge calculated by the blaster had a problem. The blasting power was too great, and the flying stones scattered and fell, flying very far. One flying stone flew into a nearby village, pierced the thatched roof of a family, and happened to hit a person's thigh, causing a fracture on the spot.

This accident was considered a great misfortune in the midst of misfortune. Only one person was injured, and before hitting the person, most of the force was unloaded by the roof, and the direction was also slightly deviated. Otherwise, if it had hit other parts of the body, it would not have been as easy as a fracture; it would have been very likely to cause a death.

In fact, this kind of incident was not rare. In the past, such safety incidents occurred from time to time in the quarries of Changshan County, with a few every year. The quarries would just pay some money to settle it, and one person would only get a few thousand yuan, which was not a big deal to them.

This time was no exception. The quarry paid a few thousand yuan to the injured person for treatment, and this matter should have been over. However, this time there was a reckless young man in the village who insisted on making a big deal out of it.

This reckless young man was named Yue Yaohua, a veteran. He had always hated this quarry because the flying stones from the quarry's blasting would fly into the village from time to time, and the dust would fill the sky, making it impossible for the common people in the village to have peace.

This time, the flying stone hit someone, so Yue Yaohua called dozens of young people in the village, blocked the gate of the quarry, and forced them to stop work.

They blocked the gate of the quarry, and the people in the quarry naturally would not agree. This quarry also had backers; several of its shareholders were officials in the county. Therefore, they called several trucks of people and confronted Yue Yaohua and the others, and a fight was on the verge of breaking out.

The police officers of the township police station received the report and rushed to the scene, but there were only a few of them, and it was obviously difficult to stop such a large-scale fight. Therefore, they requested support from the county bureau, and the leaders of Dashan Township also arrived at the scene.

After the director of the County Public Security Bureau, Xie Linsheng, received the report from the police officers of the Dashan Township police station, he felt that the situation was serious. He immediately reported to Xue Xingyuan and Ling Anguo, and Xue Xingyuan and Ling Anguo immediately rushed to the scene with Xie Linsheng.

If such a large-scale fight really happened, they would have to be held responsible, and the consequences would be too serious.

Before Xie Linsheng reported to Xue Xingyuan and Ling Anguo, he had already sent reinforcements to the scene. Therefore, when the three of them rushed to the scene, the situation at the scene was better than at the beginning.

Of course, the situation they saw was still quite critical. There were more than 100 people on both sides, separated by dozens of police officers in the middle, and the common people in the nearby villages were also constantly gathering at the scene. They were filled with righteous indignation, their emotions were very excited, and they shouted to let the quarry stop work.

This was also a concentrated outbreak of their long-standing grievances. A quarry without any safety measures and environmental protection measures indeed caused too much harm to the surrounding villagers. People who did not live in that kind of environment might not be able to understand, but for these villagers, they hated it deeply.

Although Xue Xingyuan was a bit arrogant and self-willed, his prestige in Changshan County was unparalleled. As soon as he arrived at the scene, he asked the leaders of Dashan Township to quickly persuade the villagers to go back, and then after asking about the cause and effect of the incident, he announced on the spot that the quarry should stop work.