Chapter 151

Moreover, Shan Guozhi had not shown any concern for the agricultural industrialization pilot project carried out by Meng Hu Ling Township before. Therefore, his visit this time still surprised the township a bit.

Of course, the Shang Meng Highway had started construction. As a county head, Shan Guozhi should also come to Meng Hu Ling Township to take a look. After all, this was the first secondary highway from Shang Jun County to the townships below, and it connected three townships along the way, which was also a very important road for Shang Jun County.

Shan Guozhi's visit was completely different from Zhang Kaishan's style. Every time Zhang Kaishan came, he traveled light with few followers. Shan Guozhi, however, was surrounded by people, and there were even several county TV station reporters carrying cameras.

Shan Guozhi's personal image was also more like a leader. He had a big belly, sticking out a "general's belly," and walked with a calm gait. The only regret was that his hair was a bit sparse, but he still used the currently popular mousse to comb the few hairs until they were slick and shiny—even a fly landing on them would slip and do a split.

On this day, Chen Hongfu and Dong Jianshu led the township leaders and cadres to the intersection early to wait for Shan Guozhi. This was Shan Guozhi's consistent style. Whenever he wanted to go to a township, he always had to have the office call to notify them a day in advance. If any township didn't hold such a welcome ceremony, he would have thoughts.

Su Xinghui was, of course, also among the welcoming crowd. Although he didn't like Shan Guozhi at all, he couldn't be too unconventional. In some matters, he still had to follow the crowd.

Around nine o'clock in the morning, Shan Guozhi's motorcade arrived. Calling it a motorcade, it was just one Santana, one Volga, two jeeps, and one van from the TV station. In a county seat in this era, being able to mobilize so many vehicles at once was already quite impressive.

Chen Hongfu took the lead to welcome them. The motorcade stopped, and Shan Guozhi got out of the car and shook hands with Chen Hongfu, appearing very satisfied with the welcome lineup put out by Meng Hu Ling Township.

He also shook hands with the township leaders below Dong Jianshu one by one and said a few words of encouragement. When shaking hands with Jin Taihe, it lasted a few seconds longer, and the expression on his face was the most cordial, which made Jin Taihe's face flush with excitement.

Others in the motorcade also got out of the cars. Executive Deputy County Head Meng Lingchang and Deputy County Head Xu Liangxi were among the entourage, and the TV station reporter carrying the camera recorded the scene of Shan Guozhi shaking hands with the township leaders in time.

Su Xinghui knew that this evening, Shan Guozhi's glorious image would appear on the county TV station's "Shang Jun News Broadcast."

Shan Guozhi loved being on TV the most, and there were many anecdotes about him being on TV circulating in Shang Jun County.

When Shan Guozhi was on TV, he liked to have many people accompanying him. Only with many people accompanying him could his status be shown as important, because in the "News Broadcast" on CCTV, those central leaders appeared in the lens with many people accompanying them. This was also the reason why Shan Guozhi liked to be surrounded by people when he went out.

When Shan Guozhi appeared in the lens, he had to be in the center of the frame, and his positive image had to be highlighted. Once, there was a scene in the Shang Jun news where he was not in the center and his face wasn't shown clearly. After seeing it, he immediately called the county station director over and scolded him severely.

After the director went back and investigated, it turned out that the person who followed and filmed Shan Guozhi that day was a novice. Therefore, from then on, whenever Shan Guozhi went out, the director would send an experienced veteran cameraman to follow and film him.

Shan Guozhi was not very tall, at most 1.65 meters. These experienced veteran cameramen would use some special methods when filming him to make him appear relatively tall in the frame, which also made him very happy.

Every time Shan Guozhi went out, there was bound to be a female announcer from the county TV station accompanying him. Su Xinghui took a look, and sure enough, not far behind Shan Guozhi, the female announcer named Shu Rong was following Shan Guozhi step by step.

The common people in Shang Jun County all said that Shu Rong was the person who appeared on TV with Shan Guozhi the most. Almost every TV scene with Shan Guozhi had Shu Rong in it.

Shu Rong was not yet thirty years old this year. She used to be a female worker at the Shang Jun County Textile Factory. Once, when Shan Guozhi was inspecting the textile factory, he saw that Shu Rong was beautiful and said she was suitable to be a TV announcer, immediately transferring Shu Rong to the TV station to become an announcer.

Not long after, Shu Rong's husband, who was a worker at the textile factory, was also transferred to the Public Security Bureau to become a policeman.

Shu Rong didn't have much education, and her Mandarin was not standard. She broadcast the news on the TV station every day in Mandarin with a Shang Jun accent, stumbling through it and often mispronouncing words. Yet, even so, the leaders of the TV station didn't dare to criticize her.

Su Xinghui had rarely seen Shu Rong in person at such a close distance. He was a bit curious and couldn't help but look a few more times. Sure enough, she was a real beauty.

She was a head taller than Shan Guozhi even when wearing flat leather shoes. She had a slim and tall figure, a head of big wavy curly hair, and her body had curves in all the right places. She had a standard oval face and a pair of "peach blossom eyes," with spring passion rippling from the corners of her eyebrows and eyes.

Su Xinghui couldn't help but think maliciously that her husband's police cap probably had some green on it.

After Shan Guozhi shook hands with the leaders of Meng Hu Ling Township one by one, he prepared to get in the car to go to the township government. However, there was a problem: his motorcade didn't have many empty seats, and Meng Hu Ling Township only had one broken jeep, which couldn't seat so many people at all. Many people rode bicycles, so the motorcade could only drive slowly.

Shan Guozhi let Chen Hongfu and Dong Jianshu get into his car, took a look at Meng Hu Ling Township's broken jeep, and said, "The car in your township is too broken."

Chen Hongfu said, "Yes, it breaks down after driving a few kilometers."

Shan Guozhi said casually, "Next time, submit a report to the county government and buy another jeep. This really affects work too much."

Chen Hongfu and Dong Jianshu were both overjoyed. In the past, they didn't know how many reports they had submitted to the county wanting to buy a car, but they were all like stones sinking into the sea, without even an echo. Now that Shan Guozhi had actually taken the initiative to tell them to buy a car, this was truly the sun rising from the west.

Both of them thanked him repeatedly. Shan Guozhi was very satisfied with their attitude: "You are doing well here, but you also need to strengthen your contact with the county."

Shan Guozhi's words left both of them a bit confused. Did they not want to strengthen contact with the county? But hadn't Meng Hu Ling Township always been unloved by the county? They wanted to find someone to report their work to, but no one cared about them.

Today, Shan Guozhi was so cordial to them. They were very clear that this was because Meng Hu Ling Township had improved and its status in the county had become important, not because Shan Guozhi suddenly valued them.

Of course, they certainly wouldn't say that, but repeatedly stated that they would often report their work to County Head Shan in the future.

Shan Guozhi and his party walked around Hutou Village, where the township government was located, and looked at the road construction site here, as well as the barren hills that had just been reclaimed and were ready for planting fruit trees. Of course, Shan Guozhi wouldn't forget to deliver a few impassioned speeches and let the cameraman record his glorious image.

It was just that after climbing the mountain for a while, Shan Guozhi was panting. This was indeed difficult for him. With such a big belly, Su Xinghui felt tired just looking at him.

Shu Rong was a very understanding woman. She had been following Shan Guozhi's left rear. Seeing that Shan Guozhi was tired, she hurriedly and gently supported Shan Guozhi's left arm. This thoughtful move was very much appreciated by Shan Guozhi.

Of course, the cameraman couldn't record this scene. If he didn't even have this bit of awareness, he wouldn't be able to follow Shan Guozhi out next time.

Seeing that Shan Guozhi was tired, Chen Hongfu proposed going to the township government to rest and then have lunch. Shan Guozhi agreed.

Arriving at the township government, Shan Guozhi listened to the work reports of Chen Hongfu and Dong Jianshu in the conference room, and then it was lunchtime.

After lunch, Chen Hongfu originally wanted to let Shan Guozhi and his party go to Ye Zhugou Village to take a look in the afternoon. After all, the special breeding farm, the bamboo weaving factory, and the Eucommia protection forest there were all worth seeing. However, Shan Guozhi didn't seem very interested, and he also appeared quite exhausted. After climbing the mountain in the morning, he hadn't recovered yet.

After all, he was a man in his fifties, and he was fat, so it was normal for his physical strength to be a bit poor. Therefore, after resting for a while, Shan Guozhi took the car back to the county seat.

Shan Guozhi's visit to Meng Hu Ling Township this time was a bit of a "tiger's head and snake's tail," leaving people a bit confused. However, Shan Guozhi's work style had always been like this. He did whatever he wanted, and there was no room for others to speak. Therefore, no one dared to ask him.

Su Xinghui couldn't help but think of the ten years or so that Shan Guozhi had been the county head of Shang Jun County. His governing style could be described as willful. As long as he felt like it, he could change orders in the morning and evening. One year he would let this township plant cotton, and the next year he would make them switch to rice. The roads in the county seat were also dug up after being repaired, and repaired after being dug up. The urban planning was chaotic.

In the past few years, due to the special situation in the country, economic development was relatively slow. Shan Guozhi was also very conservative, sparing no effort in carrying out socialist re-education, but he knew nothing about developing the economy.

This year, after Deng Gong's southern tour, developing the economy became the main theme. Shan Guozhi also followed the trend of the times and proposed the slogan of revitalizing Shang Jun's economy. However, he was fond of grandiosity but had no real ability, and had never had any good ways to develop the economy.