Chapter 1813

An Dachang stood up and said, "Alright, let's go take a look."

Su Xinghui said, "Don't be in a hurry. Let's call Zhu Tie. He is a child of the printing factory; let him be our guide."

An Dachang nodded and said, "Then I'll give him a call."

An Dachang called Zhu Tie's home. Zhu Tie was also at home. Hearing that Su Xinghui and An Dachang wanted to go to the printing factory to take a look, he said he would come over immediately.

Zhu Tie also lived in the County Party Committee compound. Su Xinghui and An Dachang went downstairs together and waited. In less than two minutes, they saw Zhu Tie coming over. The three of them left the County Party Committee compound together. They didn't call a driver; they were sort of making an unannounced visit today. Besides, it was a rest day, and calling a driver to drive them would be a bit inappropriate.

They walked forward for a distance and hailed a "mamu" (motorized tricycle taxi) and got in together. In fact, in Changshan County, many of the drivers who drove mamus were also laid-off workers. Being able to drive a mamu could be considered a decent way to make a living. However, not many laid-off workers could afford a mamu that cost several thousand yuan.

Riding a mamu cost one yuan per trip, which wasn't expensive, and everyone could afford it, so their business was quite good. Their gross daily income was always twenty or thirty yuan, and their net income was at least ten-plus yuan. A monthly net income of at least four or five hundred yuan from driving a mamu was considered a quite decent income in this era.

Of course, as mamus increased, they also caused many social problems in Changshan County, such as affecting the city's appearance and causing some traffic accidents. Some time ago, there were several vicious cases where mamus hit pedestrians and fled because they were going too fast. These negative reports had once made the county government think about banning them.

However, after discussion, they still didn't ban mamus for the time being. This was because most of the drivers were people at the bottom of society, and many of them were laid-off workers. If you banned mamus outright, you had to give people a way to live, right? Before a good solution was discussed, mamus still had a necessity for existence.

Besides, in the current Changshan County, buses hadn't appeared yet, and taxis were too expensive. With the expansion of the county area, mamus, as an affordable and convenient means of transportation, were still the first choice for most common people to travel. If you banned them all at once, you had to have a means of transportation to replace them.

Su Xinghui planned to put urban buses on the agenda this year. The county area had expanded, and the distance from the old city in the south to the new district in the north was nearly ten kilometers at its furthest. It was indeed inconvenient without buses.

Su Xinghui prepared to put the banning of mamus on the agenda after solving the employment problem of laid-off workers and opening bus routes. By then, banning mamus would be a natural progression and wouldn't cause too much of a backlash.

There was a canopy on the mamu, and two wooden boards were placed on the body of the vehicle, one on the left and one on the right, which could seat four people. The three of them sitting on it was quite suitable.

The mamu driver was a middle-aged man in his forties. He naturally didn't recognize that these three passengers were actually three deputy county magistrates, but he could tell that these three passengers were all educated people.