Chapter 2204

Teachers' wages indeed needed to be paid. Su Xinghui had nothing to say about this. After pondering for a moment, he said, "In this way, Vice County Magistrate Feng, after school starts, let the children attend class in tents for the time being. In Shi Quan Township, isn't a public welfare primary school being built? It is expected to be completed by January next year. By then, this primary school can accommodate hundreds of people. How much funding is needed in other places? You make a budget, and I will find a way when the time comes."

This primary school was naturally also invested and built by the Yu Ruizhi and Yu Ruoqiu siblings. They would build such public welfare primary schools wherever they went.

Shi Quan Township was a township in the low mountain area in the west of Chongjin County. It could be considered one of the poorest townships in Chongjin County, and the educational conditions were also very poor. Therefore, after investigation, the Yu siblings invested hundreds of thousands to build such a public welfare primary school in Shi Quan Township. The scale was not small, and it belonged to a complete primary school, which could accommodate hundreds of students.

Primary and secondary schools in the townships below, especially village primary schools, generally did not have many students. Sometimes there were only a few people in a class. There was no problem attending class in tents, and now it could only be an expedient measure.

Moreover, it was not yet possible to start repairing new school buildings. Su Xinghui could only drag it out, because returning farmland to the lake was very likely to be implemented. And among the school buildings that collapsed this time, quite a few were in areas where farmland was returned to the lake, because those places had low-lying terrain, so there was more accumulated water, and houses were more likely to collapse.

Feng Lan nodded and said, "Okay, County Magistrate, then I will go and prepare."

Su Xinghui nodded, and Feng Lan went out.

Su Xinghui fell into deep thought. Although the development of Chongjin County could be considered quite fast, the historical debt was still too much. If he wanted the ordinary people of Chongjin County to live a good life, he still needed extraordinary development.

Like this flood, it exposed this problem. The number of collapsed houses in the whole county was quite large. If he wanted to carry out post-disaster reconstruction, he needed a lot of funds. Moreover, the flood also destroyed some rural roads and electric poles and other infrastructure, which also needed to be rebuilt, which also required a large amount of funds.

In short, post-disaster reconstruction needed money everywhere. Now the fiscal revenue of Chongjin County was simply not enough.

Fortunately, the state would also allocate a part of the funds for post-disaster reconstruction, especially the funds for returning farmland to the lake, which would basically be allocated by the state, which reduced the great fiscal pressure in the disaster area.

From this perspective, this flood was a process of great destruction and great construction. The places in Chongjin County that suffered the most serious disaster were all places where farmland was reclaimed from the lake. These places were originally places where farmland should be returned to the lake. There was no need to feel sorry for the collapsed houses this time. After a few more months, these affected people could move into new houses.

Thinking of this, Su Xinghui was still quite gratified. However, the problem in front of him still had to be solved. A part of those collapsed school buildings were in areas where farmland was returned to the lake, so there was no need to consider them. But there was still a large part of school buildings that needed to be repaired. Su Xinghui still had to find this fund.

This fund might not be much, but no matter how he calculated it, if he wanted to repair dozens of collapsed school buildings, plus dozens of school buildings that had become dangerous houses and could no longer be used, it would cost at least millions. Plus other infrastructure in the school might also need to be repaired, this fund would be even more, and it might need tens of millions.

With the current fiscal revenue of Chongjin County, even if it doubled compared to last year to reach 90 million, investing tens of millions in education at one time could be called a huge sum of money. How to solve this fund was enough to give Su Xinghui a headache.

On August 31st, the Changjiang River appeared a flood peak again, and this flood peak was also the last flood peak of the Changjiang River this year. Before this, the National Flood Control Headquarters had sent several expert groups to various places to guide the defense of the embankment during the water recession period.

Nine ren for a mountain, but he could not fail for lack of a single basket. The more it was at such a time, the more he could not take it lightly.

After this flood peak, the water level of the main stream of the middle and lower reaches of the Changjiang River began to fall across the board, and the Changjiang shipping route, which had been blocked for nearly forty days, was fully restored to navigation.

On this day, Su Xinghui stood on the embankment and looked at the Changjiang River, whose water level had dropped significantly. He was very gratified. This was the first time he had served as the commander of a county's flood control headquarters, directing a county's flood control and emergency rescue, and he had encountered such a big flood. He finally successfully held off the flood and saved Chongjin County, which made him have a great sense of achievement.

Just then, his mobile phone rang. He answered the phone. The call was from Jiang Zhaoyang. Su Xinghui smiled and said, "Senior Brother Jiang, what's the matter?"

Jiang Zhaoyang's voice was a bit choked: "Xinghui, Guoying, Guoying he left!"