Rebirth of the Rising Sun

"Mayor Feng, I'm in a hurry and haven't had time to replace your office equipment. Please don't mind. I'll have someone come over to replace everything here with new ones." Seeing Feng Sizhe looking into the room with a dazed look, Wang Ben couldn't understand his thoughts, so he quickly added.

"No, no, I think it's good this way. It's also a kind of warning. It reminds me that Lotus City is still very poor and we need to work harder." Feng Sizhe shook his head, indicating that there was no need to change the office supplies. He needed to keep everything here. He wanted them to remind himself at all times what his job should be.

Under Feng Sizhe's repeated insistence, Wang Ben finally stopped talking about replacing the equipment in his office. Instead, he followed Feng Sizhe's arrangement and sent all the documents related to the economic development of Lianhua City in recent years.

The documents were brought in by Wang Ben and two young men from the office. There were two tall piles of documents. Looking at these documents, Feng Sizhe gritted his teeth and began to flip through them one by one.

These documents are the data on the economic development of Lianhua City in the past two years. Among them are information on agricultural development, industry, and enterprises. Of course, agriculture is the majority. It took more than two hours to read them until Feng Sizhe felt a headache. He then put down the documents and pressed his temples with both hands.

He knew that Lianhua City was poor before he came here, but he didn't expect it to be so poor. Some poor places don't even have water or electricity, and people still rely on kerosene, well water or even river water. If this situation is a minority, it's fine, but the problem is that most districts and counties are like this, which is really a headache.

Lianhua City is located in the northwest of Guangxi Province. Its territory is mostly mountainous, hilly, rocky, plateau and water areas, while the plain areas are very few, even only one-tenth. Otherwise, there would not be the image metaphor of "seven mountains, two waters and one field".

After reading so much information, Feng Sizhe felt that the first big mountain blocking his way was the road problem.

As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. The roads in Lianhua City add up to thousands of kilometers, but less than one percent of them are made of cement. Otherwise, there wouldn't be the difficult few kilometers of roads from the highway to Lianhua City. This alone shows the foundation of Lianhua City's poverty.

If you really want to put it bluntly, then Lianhua City is poor to the core, not just on the surface. Think about it, the entire Lianhua City has two districts and nine counties under its jurisdiction, but all nine counties are among the top 100 poorest counties in the country, which is enough to illustrate the extent of Lianhua City's poverty.

Standing up and standing in front of the office window, looking at the people coming and going on the narrow road in front of the city hall building, Feng Sizhe encouraged himself. He must find a way to change the situation in Lianhua City. This time he must use his abilities and his network of relationships to work hard to change each district and region. He must do more practical things here.

In a room not far from Feng Sizhe, Wang Ben, the secretary general of the municipal government, was calling Secretary Xia Xiang. "Secretary Xia, Mayor Feng did not ask to replace the old equipment in the office. Instead, he asked for all the economic data of Lianhua City in the past two years. From what I have observed, he has been alone in the room for more than two hours without coming out."

"Well, very good. This fully demonstrates that Comrade Sizhe is a good cadre who is willing to do practical things. Okay, Secretary Niu, you should keep an eye on him from now on. Remember, it is best not to let irrelevant people bother him. At the same time, you should also give him the green light for his work and cooperate with him with all your strength. Do you understand?"

"Yes, yes, Secretary Xia, please rest assured, I know what to do." Wang Ben quickly put down the phone and pretended to go out to find someone. He glanced at Feng Sizhe's office door in the corridor and found that it was still closed, so he nodded.

Feng Sizhe had never thought about whether anyone would notice him. He even knew without thinking that someone must be watching him. As a young man, he suddenly came to Lianhua City, and with Secretary Xia Xiang's affirmation, it was impossible for others not to notice him. Besides, since his rebirth, he had been noticed many times. When had he ever been afraid? As long as he was sincere in doing things, he would not be afraid of being noticed.

While Feng Sizhe was still thinking about what to do as his first thing after arriving in Lianhua City, his secretary Chen Guangming walked in. "Boss, just now the commander of the Lianhua City Military Sub-district, Guo Pingchuan, called you and said he wanted to invite you to dinner. I hung up first because you were working."

"Huh? Commander Guo wants to treat us to a meal? Then how could you hang up on him? Hurry, I'll call you back." When Feng Sizhe heard that it was Guo Pingchuan who called and that the call was hung up by Chen Guangming, an unhappy look appeared on his face. After all, the other party was a leader of the Municipal Party Committee and at the same level as himself. How could he just hang up on him?

When Chen Guangming saw that he had made a mistake, he quickly agreed to make amends as soon as possible. As a result, the call was quickly connected, and then Feng Sizhe started chatting with Commander Guo Pingchuan.

"Commander Guo, it was my secretary who was ignorant and hung up on you. I have just told him off. This will never happen again." As soon as the call was connected, Feng Sizhe apologized to Guo Pingchuan and expressed his attitude.

"Hey, Sizhe, why are you doing this? We are so familiar with each other, why bother to scold the people below for such a small matter? Haha, I just want to ask you if you have time tonight. I want to treat you to dinner." Guo Pingchuan laughed and spoke as if he didn't take what happened just now to heart at all.

Guo Pingchuan and Feng Sizhe were indeed very familiar with each other. It was because when they were in Guangxi Province, General Zhao Mingyuan, the director of the General Political Department, came here. When he heard that Feng Sizhe might go to Lianhua City to take up a post, he asked Bi Weiyang, the deputy commander of the Northern Military Region, who was accompanying him, to find Guo Pingchuan. Guo Pingchuan happened to be Bi Weiyang's direct subordinate. In this way, the two sides met in the compound of the Guangxi Provincial Military Region at that time, and under the introduction of Deputy Commander Bi Weiyang, the two became good friends. This time when Feng Sizhe came to Lianhua City, he found his first ally effortlessly, just like when he first arrived in a place.

"Haha, Commander Guo, you are too polite. If someone else was treating me to a meal, I'm not sure if I would have time. But if you call me, I will definitely go. It just so happens that I also have something to discuss with Commander Guo." Feng Sizhe looked at Guo Pingchuan who was deliberately trying to get closer to him, and he had no intention of being polite and agreed directly.

"Oh, you have something else to ask me? Haha, okay, as long as I can do what you said, I will do my best, haha." Guo Pingchuan smiled and agreed without asking Feng Sizhe what he wanted to ask him.

After hanging up the phone with Guo Pingchuan, Feng Sizhe asked Chen Guangming to find a road map of Lianhua City, which would be useful to him. At this moment, he had already started to prepare for his first task.

Soon, a Lianhua City road map was brought over. Looking at the map, Feng Sizhe learned that the total mileage of Lianhua City roads was 1669 kilometers, including 62 kilometers of county roads, 229 kilometers of township roads, and 54 kilometers of special roads. The 1432 kilometers was the unrepaired road from the highway exit into the urban area of ​​Lianhua.

Seeing such a long road to be repaired, Feng Sizhe roughly calculated that if all of it was built into cement roads, the funds needed would be huge, which is also unrealistic for Lianhua City. For this reason, it is necessary to build roads in stages, such as building national roads first, first repairing the road section from Lianhua to the provincial capital of Guanggui. Such roads cost about 300,000 yuan per kilometer, and then repairing county roads. Such road sections can be about eight meters wide, and such road surfaces cost about 200,000 yuan per kilometer. Finally, there are township roads. Such roads can be built into smooth gravel roads, and such road sections cost about 30,000 yuan per kilometer. In this way, the funding gap is not very large. About 100 million yuan in the early stage is enough. Of course, the more money the better. Some sections of the road also involve bridges and even mountain excavation, which requires more costs.

After estimating a rough figure for the road repair, it was getting dark. Seeing that it was time to meet with Commander Guo Pingchuan, Feng Sizhe called Chen Guangming and went to the Lotus Hotel as agreed before.

Lotus Hotel is the only star-rated hotel in Lianhua City, and it is also the only hotel that government agencies can use to entertain guests. Guo Pingchuan had already booked a room here and had changed into casual clothes, waiting for Feng Sizhe.

Feng Sizhe and Guo Pingchuan met in a fairly elegant room. They exchanged glasses and the atmosphere was warm.

"Sizhe, how are you? How do you feel when you first arrive in Lianhua City?" Looking at Feng Sizhe who had drunk half a catty of wine and still had a serious look on his face, Guo Pingchuan sighed in his heart that the other party had a good alcohol tolerance, and then asked with a concerned smile.

"To be honest, Lianhua City is really too poor. You don't know, I went to my office today, and when I entered the room, I saw that the furnishings in my room were very old. I think that even when I was the county magistrate, the equipment in my office was better than the ones here." Feng Sizhe made an analogy and made a joke, talking about the fact that Lianhua City is too poor.

"Haha, that's right, Lianhua City is indeed very poor. When I was first transferred here, I was also shocked by the poverty here. But since the organization has assigned us this way, we have nothing to say, right? What's more, the poorer it is, the more room you have to display your talents. Haha, this is also an opportunity for you young people." Guo Pingchuan seemed to be accustomed to the poverty here. He did not care about the outdated office equipment, but talked about the benefits of poverty here.

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