Chapter 2081

This method is to scatter all the People's Congress representatives, and arrange two trusted people beside every potentially dissenting element who might cast a vote against, which can be considered mutual supervision; additionally, prepare some ballots that have already been marked with an 'O', ready to replace those marked with an 'X' at any time.

In the past, such elections were divided into different delegations according to each township and different units, but that was difficult to control; this current method is much easier to control.

Of course, this method also has drawbacks; if those who cast votes against come out to make a scene, this matter could potentially turn into a scandal, and even those sitting here would have to bear the responsibility.

However, who would make a scene? They are all people within the system; who would risk everything to make a scene? Making a scene like this would be equivalent to abandoning everything they have!

Moreover, making a scene might not necessarily yield any results, and drawing an 'O' or an 'X' cannot identify any handwriting; who knows if what they say is the raving of a madman? Perhaps they won't achieve any results from making a scene, and instead, they might be sent to a mental hospital.

Therefore, even if such a thing were to happen, the most likely outcome for those who cast votes against is that they would silently swallow this matter and say nothing at all.

After the few of them decided on the regulations for this matter in the secret room, Huang Weiran had Yuan Yifu return to Chongjin County immediately to arrange this matter, ensuring that no mistakes occur; this matter must be completed as a political task.

Jiang Danian also decided to personally go to Chongjin County on the day of the election to oversee the situation, ensuring that the election could proceed smoothly and successfully realize the organization's intent.

After returning to Chongjin County, Yuan Yifu immediately summoned the relevant leaders, as well as the chairmen of the People's Congress of each township, and gave them a strict order that they must ensure this election is completed smoothly and satisfactorily.

Quite a few cadres had complaints about this move by Yuan Yifu; they had many opinions about casting a unanimous vote for Su Xinghui, but Yuan Yifu said sternly that whoever dared to cause any trouble should just wait to be dismissed; even if the trouble was caused by a representative from their delegation, the chairman of the delegation would be held responsible.

Yuan Yifu's words suddenly made everyone afraid to have any opinions; although there were now new financial system restrictions that left everyone full of complaints, saying strange things like not wanting to be cadres, after all, being a cadre was still much more comfortable than other professions; besides, Su Xinghui had now increased quite a few benefits for the cadres.

If not a cadre, should they go be a farmer and till the earth?

Su Xinghui knew nothing of all this; he did not know that the city and county were racking their brains over his election; of course, he was roughly aware of some of the inside story of the election, but he was currently powerless to change all this, and such changes would not happen overnight; therefore, he just needed to do his own job well.

After the beginning of spring, the various tasks in the county were back on track; the Changjiangdaqiao project was officially approved and was preparing for bidding; the road from Chongjin County to Hongzhou also began construction; the factory buildings for the enterprises in the Economic Development Zone were being built in full swing, and the construction of the new district was also changing with each passing day.

What made Su Xinghui happiest was that the embankment renovation project in Chongjin County was proceeding very smoothly; from the start of construction until now, there had not been much rain in Chongjin County, and the construction schedule had not been delayed much; it was expected that by April, the embankment renovation project would be fully completed; by that time, the river and lake embankments of Chongjin County would be much more solid than before.

Of course, a solid embankment did not mean they could sit back and relax; when the floods struck this year, they would still have to rely on the joint efforts of the vast number of cadres and workers in Chongjin County; otherwise, no matter how solid the embankment was, there would come a day when it would collapse.

There was one more thing that made Su Xinghui very anxious, and that was that the spring plowing production in Chongjin County still had to proceed as usual.

The crops in Chongjin County were mainly grain crops, and grain crops were mainly rice, and the vast majority of rice was double-cropping rice, which meant two seasons of rice, one early and one late.

Besides rice, some farmers in Chongjin County also planted corn; crops like early rice and corn were all sown at the end of March; now that it was almost March, Nie Xin, the deputy county magistrate in charge of agriculture, also had to start preparing to guide the spring plowing production for the whole county.

Su Xinghui also followed Nie Xin to various townships to inspect the preparations for this year's spring plowing; the land in Chongjin County was very fertile, especially the land created by reclaiming fields from the lake; the soil was silt that had accumulated at the bottom of the lake for millions of years, so fertile that it would ooze oil when squeezed by hand.

This soil was truly good soil; once seeds were sown, as long as the weather was favorable, there was no need for much fertilizer to have a bumper harvest; for thousands of years, such land had nurtured countless common people in Chongjin County.

Agricultural machinery was not yet popular in Chongjin County; most farmers still had to use cattle to plow, and some families without cattle even used people to plow; despite such arduous labor, the faces of these farmers were filled with happy smiles.

Because the county had abolished agricultural taxes and the retention and pooling fees; the county had also specially sent people to various townships and villages to publicize that as long as anyone was still collecting money from farmers, as long as it was any form of fee, they could go to the county and report it to the county magistrate; this meant that from now on, no one would be able to collect money from farmers again.

With no one collecting money from farmers, the harvest from their farming would truly become their wealth; how could they not be happy? They were calculating how much grain they could harvest in the summer from their ten-plus acres of land, and how much grain they could harvest from planting another season of late rice; with no money to pay, how much money could this grain be exchanged for, and how many sets of clothes could they buy for their children.

On their faces was the hope for their future lives!

When these farmers saw Su Xinghui coming, they would happily shout "County Magistrate Su"; their love for Su Xinghui was written on their faces, and the happiness in their hearts was also written on their faces.

But such happy smiles made Su Xinghui feel even more anxious when he saw them; the great flood that year would make all the current labor of these farmers useless; most of the land in Chongjin County was at a very low altitude; once the rainstorms and floods came, these lands would be waterlogged; once waterlogged, these crops would certainly suffer large-scale yield reductions, and in some places, there would even be total crop failure.

Su Xinghui hid such a huge secret in his heart; his psychological pressure was imaginable; sometimes he even felt that he was a sinner, knowing that such a flood would occur but unable to say it, only able to watch these farmers happily doing useless work.

Sometimes, in a moment of impulse, he wanted to blurt out this secret, but his reason stopped him; he knew that revealing this secret would be of no help to the situation, and instead, it would implicate himself and bring disaster to everyone related to him.

All he could do now was to work hard to do his own job well, striving to minimize the losses caused by the flood, striving to make the post-disaster reconstruction work proceed faster, and allowing the common people of Chongjin County to rebuild their homes as soon as possible.

No matter how anxious he felt, he could only bury it in his heart and silently bear it alone; such feelings could not be told to outsiders; however, it was precisely these feelings that made him work even harder, and this was the driving force for his hard work.