Chapter 1555

Returning to Jiangcheng this time, Su Xinghui naturally took the Xinchangyu Highway. This was a two-lane, two-way secondary highway. Although it could not be compared with the grade of an expressway, it was already the widest and best highway Changshan County had ever possessed.

Although this road had not been open to traffic for long, there were already many vehicles running on the road now. The most numerous were naturally trucks. Now the several enterprises in Matou Town had all been built and put into production, and the goods they produced could just be transported out through this road.

After leaving Changshan County town, Su Xinghui paid the toll at the toll station, and then increased the speed, driving at over eighty yards. This was incomparable to the speed when coming; on such a narrow road when coming, and with road conditions that were not too good, it was considered not bad to be able to drive at forty or fifty yards.

Professor Tang said, "This road of yours is truly built well; you can drive so fast now. However, do you also have to pay the toll?"

Su Xinghui smiled and said, "If I were driving the county government's jeep, I wouldn't have to pay the toll. But you weren't very comfortable sitting in that jeep. Driving this car, for the sake of a few yuan in toll, I would still have to specifically tell the toll collector that I am the Deputy County Magistrate and let them verify my identity. What would be the point of that? Forget it, paying a few yuan can also be considered as making a contribution to the county's transportation cause."

Since the several new highways leading out of the county were all built with loans, they all required tolls. The collected tolls, besides a portion needed for repayment, another portion was to be concentrated to build more roads.

Since Su Xinghui had said that he would also build the Changda Highway, Changmu Highway, and Changshi Highway, he would not break his promise. He planned to continue to increase investment in transportation starting from next year, striving to build these three highways well within one or two years. Therefore, he had to raise funds starting from now.

These tolls were a very good source of funds. Besides the tolls, the county finance naturally had to invest a portion, and another portion still had to be borrowed. Now Changshan County's credit was relatively good; they could repay a portion every month of the twenty million they borrowed from the Hou Group. With the county finance as a guarantee, it would not be difficult to borrow money in the future.