I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 149 again?!
"Poverty alleviation and achieving prosperity is a tough battle!"

In the past few days, Zhang Da'an has been reading various newspapers and magazines in Jiangkou Province, and they are all reporting on this topic. Some are telling their own stories, some are telling Uncle Zhang's stories, some are using Uncle Zhang to tell the stories of other uncles, and some are using Uncle Zhang to encourage the uncles under their jurisdiction to tell their own stories...

"This is used as a 'great edict'."

I'm impressed. Zhang Da'an knows that China produces shrewd people, but this one is just too shrewd.

The reports surrounding Zhang Zhengdong seem to cover everything: poverty alleviation, science, education, culture and health, and even public security.

In particular, Chenzhuang Town used to have no shortage of gambling. There were plenty of young and old men who would play a few rounds during festivals. Now, they are all busy going to construction sites, schools, and training, and then going out to work in groups, or staying in the local area to continue working. Overall, it looks quite respectable.

This mushroom cultivation pilot base has greatly excited the officials in charge of rural agriculture and farmers in Fengyi County.

Everyone knows they shouldn't rush into things, but they all think that as long as they're not the last ones to do so, they can still make money.

The key point is that Pengcheng TV station also acted inhumanely in the end. After interviewing Uncle Zhang, they went on to interview the production team's cooperative members who couldn't resist.

The old woman, never one to hold back her words, grinned and counted on her fingers at the camera: "There are seven people in my family. As long as the village has land, that cadre said everyone gets a share of the profits. Our family of seven got about 14,800... 54.71 yuan. It's all in whole and small change, we're not short a penny."

Her Mandarin is actually pretty good.

This one local report revealed how much money was involved. If one production team made over four million, then that brigade must have made over forty million.

That's what all the village officials around here think.

Even Uncle Zhang himself thought so, but since he was a former school principal, it's good that he could calculate things this way.

"Uncle, you're so smart! You're really good at elementary school math. Oh, right, right, a brigade has over 40 million, a town has over 400 million, a county has over 4 billion, and a city has over 40 billion... right?"

"..."

Uncle Zhang understood now, and whispered, "It's such a mess now. They come to my construction site every day asking me to go to their villages or hamlets to eat dog meat. I really want to go eat it, but something just doesn't feel right..."

"Let's not worry about the mushrooms for now; we'll deal with that after the New Year. How's the progress at the Hope Primary School?"

"That's great. I come to the construction site every day. We've even organized a 'gambling bust team,' so no one cuts corners. We recently set up a sand and gravel plant. There's a river next to it, and the yellow sand is of decent quality, so we don't have to buy it from outside. The Land Bureau approved it; it's a public-private partnership."

"Impossible! You mean the Da Sha River?"

"Yes, this is the largest river in the area."

"impossible!"

Zhang Da'an was completely unconvinced. "This river is intended for irrigation. Water conservation and utilization are the top priorities. Why would they let you mine yellow sand? And if you wanted to mine sand, would you wait until today? The area around Pengcheng has been flooded by the Yellow River long ago. Any construction would cause localized pollution and affect agricultural irrigation. Therefore, it's been a long-term plan that can't be altered. This is part of the province's overall plan. What face does Pengcheng have? And the Land and Resources Bureau? Who does it think it is?"

"It's true! I've seen the documents, it's real. We're using local yellow sand on our construction site right now. I even faxed it to you to see."

"what?"

"Uncle, wait a moment, let me make a phone call and ask."

"Oh, okay."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Da'an asked Sima Cong, who had safely made it ashore and was now just waiting to retire. He was now considered well-informed, having turned his life around and experienced a second spring.

He immediately said to Zhang Da'an, "It seems that the situation is like this: the province previously focused on agricultural irrigation and pollution control, followed by the scale of local finances, and finally the market. Based on Fengyi County's level last year, it lacked both the technical level for environmental protection and irrigation maintenance, and a relatively good financial situation. As for the market... that's out of the question. After all, Pengcheng City simply cannot buy raw materials from Fengyi County. There are many sand and gravel plants around Pengcheng City, and there's also the canal, so buying Yangtze River sand is both cheap and of high quality."

"That doesn't mean it will be approved immediately, does it?"

“Special cases should be handled specially. Comrade Zhang Zhengdong is now a role model, and he is absolutely selfless in doing practical things for the people.”

"what?"

No?

what?
? ? ? ? ? ?
Zhang Da'an was full of question marks.

However, Sima Cong wasn't quite sure what Coach Zhang was confused about, so he continued to explain, "Mr. Zhang, you see, Director Zhang isn't from Fengyi County, he's not even from Pengcheng City. A vice president of a leading enterprise in Shazhou City, never complaining or feeling tired, leading people to work hard in the fields—if that's not an outstanding cadre, then what is?"

"..."

"Moreover, Director Zhang's research work was excellent, and many of his materials are very valuable. In particular, during the previous investigation in Pengcheng City, many impoverished townships and villages were in a complete mess. However, in Director Zhang's materials, the masses proactively raised their difficulties, identified problems, and solved them, all through cooperation between officials and the masses. This is of great significance, essentially opening up a viable path for handling cadre-mass relations in local areas..."

"..."

At this moment, Coach Zhang felt like he was going crazy. Did this old man Sima even know what he was talking about?!

Is this about my uncle?!
Is this scientific?

Is this reasonable?

"Given this situation, especially the strong desire of the people in Fengyi County to escape poverty and become prosperous, and the desire of Fengyi County to improve its local finances, a special plan has been made to designate a sand mining area. The specific plan has not yet been finalized, but I heard that construction has already started and is indeed progressing well. Director Zhang is leading a team to build cofferdams and will be working in the cofferdam area. Once the progress is nearly complete, construction will be stopped and mining will be moved to another area. Environmental damage monitoring has been carried out without fail in weekly and monthly reports. I even saw a weekly report sent to Jiangning a couple of days ago; it was sent from Pengcheng City."

"..."

Blanch! ! !
Zhang Da'an found this whole thing too surreal. So, even those in the environmental protection industry wanted to boost their performance figures through his uncle? What kind of bullshit cofferdam was this? He could guess with a grain of salt that his uncle, given his intellectual capacity, couldn't possibly have any breakthroughs in civil engineering. Getting his uncles and cousins ​​to level the playground at Dongweigang Middle School was the best he could do.

After Sima Cong finished explaining the situation, Coach Zhang knew that things had changed and his uncle was no longer Zhang Zhengdong, but "Comrade Zhang Zhengdong".

Zhang Zhengdong certainly belongs to Zhang Zhengdong himself, but "Comrade Zhang Zhengdong" belongs to everyone, to the masses. How can Chenzhuang Town be allowed to enjoy it alone?

It's only fair that everyone uses it together.

However, the logic of the matter can withstand scrutiny from higher authorities, because the sand and gravel plant is not large in scale and basically only meets the local yellow sand demand of Fengyi County.

Even a fool could tell that things were bound to go wrong.

"Land" – whether it's mountains, forests, rivers, or marshes, let alone sand and stones, even a single blade of grass or tree – as long as it generates profit, it will inevitably attract a swarm of people.

Legal and illegal things are all involved, and then everything ends up in chaos.

Zhang Da'an then contacted his uncle again and solemnly reminded him, "This public-private joint venture building materials company can indeed continue to operate. Of course, it has no choice but to keep it open. It's already started construction, so closing it down won't be so easy. However, Uncle, there's something you must pay close attention to, you absolutely must pay attention to."

"What's up?"

When Uncle Zhang heard his nephew speak so seriously, he was startled and panicked. He usually dismissed others' threats as nonsense, but when his supposedly most intelligent nephew said that a comet would hit the Earth tomorrow, he was thinking of taking his wife to find a hole to hide in.

“Once the building materials business starts, illegal mining is bound to follow. They'll basically turn a blind eye, and it'll definitely be the big players in Fengyi County. With so many people involved, they can get away with anything in the county and townships. For the top leader, it's easy to just walk away after a few years, leaving the trouble to others. But when an irreversible accident happens, when they come back to settle the score, it's your uncle who's responsible.”

"Then...what does that mean?"

How many people are in your "anti-gambling team" now?

"There aren't many people; they're mostly coworkers and local villagers. About seventeen or eighteen of them. They take turns patrolling after get off work and supervise each other."

“Let’s increase the number of people. I’ll have Tang Jianqiu take another twenty people over.”

"Aren't you overthinking it?"

"Why are you arguing with me? If this starts, no matter who's illegally mining, no matter the reason, no matter how difficult it is, if there's no one around, beat them to death; if there is, send them to the police station!"

"Oh... okay, okay!"

“You can now target the parents of children with good grades in schools and tell them that as long as their grades are maintained, they can get into Xindongweigang Middle School for free, just like I said. It covers both junior high and high school.”

"Isn't this a bit wasteful? I feel that as long as the locals have hope, they don't need to brag or make empty promises."

"Judging from your tone, you even know how to help save costs?"

"If your 'top student tutoring class' costs 100,000 yuan per person this year, imagine what it will be like when these little monkeys are in junior high or high school, six, seven, or eight years from now! Maybe you'll have to charge 200,000 yuan per person? 200,000 yuan, ten people would be two million yuan..."

"..."

For a moment, Zhang Da'an didn't know whether to praise his uncle for being good at saving money or for managing his household well. When his little brain started working, the sound of his abacus clicking away could be heard even through the phone.

In the end, Uncle Zhang gave in and did whatever his nephew said.

The matter has come to an end, but it's not quite perfect. The building materials company that Fengyi County sought was originally a joint venture between the city and the county, a public-private partnership.

However, when Uncle Zhang led the "anti-gambling team" to arrest the gang that was "illegally mining land resources," the situation became beyond the control of Fengyi County.

A group of people in the county were so angry they were stomping their feet. Couldn't these poor folks have endured it for a few months?
What if you organize people and buy equipment to dig sand again next year?
The people from the city who came to learn from "Comrade Zhang Zhengdong" haven't even left yet, and you brothers are already grabbing weapons? Is that appropriate?

Then a strange thing happened. In view of Comrade Zhang Zhengdong's valuable experience in managing Jiangkou Province Shazhou Education Investment Company, the organization carefully considered the matter and decided that Comrade Zhang Zhengdong would temporarily serve as the director and general manager of the newly established Fengyi County Dashahe Sand Quarry and Fengyi County Building Materials Company.

If this matter were handled at the Pengcheng level, there might still be room for maneuver, but not now. No one can tarnish the organization's reputation, so after careful consideration and several investigations, the organization decided to give "Comrade Zhang Zhengdong" even more responsibilities.

Quite reasonable, right?

That day, Uncle Zhang and his men met with the local villagers who were illegally mining and immediately started fighting. It was all about brawling. However, Uncle Zhang's side was mainly made up of former soldiers, and they came fully equipped with safety helmets and armor, with plate armor underneath their coats. They wiped out the illegal mining gang in ten minutes and then took them to the police station.

We'll celebrate by eating dog meat the next day. In this autumn and winter season, what's wrong with eating some dog meat to replenish our bodies?
Ms. Li Jiawen, who was heavily pregnant, was helping her husband pour wine when she received this strange appointment.

"No? Me?"

Uncle Zhang looked bewildered. He had never worked in the sand mining industry before, and he wasn't even familiar with the business. How could he be the general manager?
Besides, he's currently the deputy general manager of an education investment company. If he can't even handle the deputy general manager position properly, how can he be the head?

The organization said that this is just a makeshift team, and you should take charge of it first, since you've been keeping an eye on the construction site of the "Zhang'an Hope Primary School" project.

One flock of sheep is herding, two flocks of sheep are grazing; the capable should do more work, which is reasonable and justifiable.

Uncle Zhang was still not happy. I live in Shazhou City, which is a higher level than Fengyi County.

The people who came were also dumbfounded: You are such an outstanding cadre, yet you openly asked the organization for a promotion. You are truly selfless!
It can be a high level!
However, Comrade Zhang Zhengdong needs to take on the responsibility first and achieve results. Then everything else will fall into place naturally.

Uncle Zhang didn't care about this at all; his life had been like walking on flat ground!

(End of this chapter)