Chapter 262

During the conversation, the car had already arrived in Jiangcheng. Before long, they reached the Provincial Committee compound, just a few minutes before 8:00.

Because there were things in the trunk of the car today, the car had to be driven in. Therefore, Su Xinghui got out and spoke to the armed police guarding the gate. After the armed police called Lu Zhenghong's house to verify, they let them through.

The car drove to the entrance of Lu Zhenghong's house. Lu Xiaoya was already waiting at the door. After Su Xinghui got out of the car, Lu Xiaoya said happily, "Su Xinghui, you came quite early."

Su Xinghui smiled and said, "Summoned by you, Miss Lu, how could I dare not come early?"

Lu Xiaoya smiled like a flower: "You only know how to use sweet words."

Su Xinghui smiled and opened the trunk, took out the two iron cages, and Peng Qiang took out the boxes of pastries. Lu Xiaoya said in surprise, "These are the pheasants and bamboo rats raised in your Menghuling, right?"

Su Xinghui nodded and said, "Yes, these are the products of our breeding farm, brought here for you to taste something fresh."

Zhang Kaishan took the pastries from Peng Qiang's hand and walked into Lu Zhenghong's house with Su Xinghui. Peng Qiang sat back in the car and waited. Lu Xiaoya asked him to come in and sit, but he politely declined with a smile.

Lu Zhenghong stood inside the door and said, "It's enough that you came. Why bring gifts? I dislike receiving gifts the most."

Su Xinghui smiled and said, "You don't have to accept other people's gifts, but you must accept this gift of mine."

Lu Zhenghong asked with a smile, "Why is that?"

Su Xinghui said, "The agricultural industrialization reform in our township is a project under your direct care, and this pheasant and this bamboo rat are the first fruits of this project. This is bringing the results for you to inspect. Don't you think you should accept it?"

After hearing this, Lu Zhenghong laughed loudly: "So there is such a saying in this? Okay, then I will accept it."

Zhang Kaishan also said, "Secretary-General, these few boxes of pastries add up to only a dozen yuan. It's just a gesture of not coming empty-handed. During the New Year, there is no rule here of visiting empty-handed. You should accept this too."

Lu Zhenghong nodded and smiled, "Okay, you both have your reasons, so I will accept it."

Su Xinghui took the two cages to the kitchen of Lu Zhenghong's house. When he came out, Song Qiaoli had already brewed tea for them. He quickly said, "Thank you, Aunt Song!"

Song Qiaoli said with a smile in her eyes, "Don't be so polite with your aunt when you come here."

Lu Zhenghong took the two into the study and asked, "How is the situation in your Menghuling Township recently?"

Zhang Kaishan signaled Su Xinghui to answer. Su Xinghui said, "The wealth-creation projects carried out by the villages in our township are progressing quite smoothly, especially some special planting projects. For example, fruit tree planting; we can buy seedlings for planting after the spring. Medicinal herb planting can also be sown one after another after the spring."

Lu Zhenghong said, "Medicinal herb planting should be able to benefit by the end of this year, right?"

Su Xinghui nodded and said, "Yes, the medicinal herbs we chose, except for woody plants like Eucommia and Magnolia, are mostly annual or perennial herbaceous plants, so we can benefit this year."

"Is there any problem with the sales?" Lu Zhenghong asked a key question.

This time Su Xinghui looked at Zhang Kaishan. Zhang Kaishan replied, "We came forward in the name of the county government and contacted the county medicinal herb company, as well as the regional medicinal herb company. They all agreed to give priority to purchasing our medicinal herbs. The planting area is not large yet, so they still have the ability to digest it. However, when the planting area expands, we will have to find other ways."

Su Xinghui said, "It's still the same point I made before: it's best to build a pharmaceutical factory directly in our area and develop the industrial chain."

Lu Zhenghong nodded and said, "It seems that this matter must be put on the agenda. By the way, the situation in Wild Boar Gully Village is good now, right? They should be able to have a good New Year this year, right?"

Su Xinghui said, "The special breeding and bamboo weaving in Wild Boar Gully Village are the earliest projects to benefit. The sales volume they achieved in these two items before the New Year was nearly 100,000 yuan, and the per capita net income was over 100 yuan. Although it doesn't sound like much, it still allowed them to have a good New Year, and everyone is very happy."

Lu Zhenghong sighed with emotion, "Rural life is truly bitter. A per capita net income of only over 100 yuan can make them so happy; this is only half a month's salary for a cadre! Some of our cadres, what reason do they have not to do some practical things for the common people? Your salary comes from the people's blood and sweat; it is easy to bully the common people, but hard to deceive heaven!"

Seeing that Lu Zhenghong was a bit excited and that his words seemed to be pointing at something, Su Xinghui said, "Uncle Lu, has something happened?"

Lu Zhenghong took a stack of materials from the desk on the side with a solemn face and handed it to Su Xinghui. Su Xinghui and Zhang Kaishan looked at it together.

This material was a photocopy. It could be seen that the original was written on material paper, a thick stack. The title was "An Old Teacher and Old Communist Party Member's Real-Name Report on Tao Yan, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Standing Committee Member of the County Committee, and Director of the Public Security Bureau of Our County." This title shocked both of them. They couldn't help but look at each other and then continued to read.

It was full of Tao Yan's various evil deeds: corruption and bribery, bending the law for personal gain, raping women, keeping mistresses, acting as a protective umbrella for the underworld, including the fact that Tao Yan's son Tao Yanbin opened a casino, harbored women for prostitution, and engaged in illegal and disciplinary acts such as drug use and providing drugs to others.

In the material, a large amount of detailed evidence was attached, which was shocking at first glance. At the end of the material, it was signed by Fan Jianzhang.

During the nearly one hour they were reading the materials, Lu Zhenghong did not speak. The study was very quiet, with only the sound of them turning the pages.

After reading, Su Xinghui handed the material back to Lu Zhenghong and said, "Uncle Lu, where did this report material come from?"

Lu Zhenghong said, "Yesterday, an old man brought several copies of report materials to the gate of the Provincial Committee compound to cry out for justice. I happened to see him. Originally, the staff wanted to persuade him to leave, but when I heard him say he was reporting the Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Standing Committee Member of the County Committee, and Director of the Public Security Bureau of Shangjun County, I kept a heart and received him."

Su Xinghui asked, "He is Teacher Fan Jianzhang, right?"

Lu Zhenghong said, "Why, do you know him?"

Su Xinghui said, "He was my high school history teacher."

Lu Zhenghong asked, "Then you should know a lot about his affairs, right?"

Su Xinghui shook his head and said, "I didn't know much before. I went to university for four years. If you want to talk about understanding, it's just some things that happened during the New Year."