The Senate did not dislike his old age and promoted him to this position. And he also dedicated his life to serving the Senate with all his heart.
Now that he is really "old", Australians are asking him to "retire". Today is his last day working in the Political Security Bureau.
The handover procedures have been completed, and colleagues held a farewell tea party for him yesterday afternoon. Although there was no banquet, a lot of refreshments were prepared. Colleagues in the reconnaissance office pooled their money to buy him a gift. They all "toasted" him one by one with tea instead of wine. Finally, the new director of the Reconnaissance Division, Chief Guo, also came. Although he was a new official, he said a lot of praise for him and thanked him for his service to the Senate in the past few years. Finally, a brief ceremony was held, and he was awarded a "Certificate of Appreciation" and a "Labor Service Medal" signed by the chief and deputy directors.
The "Labor Service Medal" is not a great honor: according to regulations, all normal retired naturalized cadres and employees of the Senate can receive it. However, when Guo Yi hung the medal on his chest, Liu Fuqing shed tears after a long time. tears.
He himself couldn't explain why he was crying. Apart from the mixed feelings about leaving his job, it was more about the Senate's recognition of him. This is a feeling he has never experienced despite working as a secretary for the Ministry of Justice for many years.
Unfortunately, I am old. he thinks.
Liu Fuqing felt a little empty in his heart. His family was scattered and scattered, and no new family had been formed since coming to Gao. In the past few years, he has basically made the Bureau his home. Now that he has retired, where can he go?
Naturally, he could not go to the single dormitory and canteen in the bureau. His colleagues from the General Affairs Office rented a "single standard residence" for him in the civil servant residential area in Lingao Old Town. The rent was very low - almost symbolic; The problem is also easy. There are many "canteens" in the local area for single people. Whether it is a la carte or "packed meals", it is not a burden for people like him with "pension".
The Australians are very thoughtful and don't call their hawks and dogs into trouble. Liu Fuqing sighed secretly. The same cannot be said for the Ming Dynasty. The gentlemen are sometimes available and sometimes unavailable. These little officials are really not even as good as pieces of toilet paper!
Although I have no worries about food and clothing for the next few days, what are I going to do? Liu Fuqing is certain of one thing, that is, he can live for at least five or six years. Could it be that in the past five or six years, we have just been eating and waiting to die?
He packed up his last belongings: his ID from the Political Security Bureau and his personal pistol - before leaving, he went to the guard room to hand it over, and then walked out of the door - he would have to apply for a separate pass if he wanted to enter this courtyard again. . He reluctantly took another look at the small office. Just when he was filled with emotion, the door of the office opened.
"Comrade regional commander! Director Guo, please come over."
Xu Yanliang stood on the surveillance tower of Anleyou Pier, with the rippling blue waves of the Dadonghai in front of him.
In the old time and space of the parallel universe? He had been to Hainan? Of course he had been to Dadonghai. But for someone who has already been to Southeast Asia and seen pure tropical islands? Scenic spots such as Sanya and Dadonghai are really ordinary. Especially when he goes diving, the gap becomes even greater.
The trip to Sanya in the old time and space only gave Xu Yanliang a lot of material to complain about? There were no commendable memories.
Sanya under the Senate? This was his first time here.
His trip to Sanya was quite hasty this time, and he only brought a few attachés from Southeast Asian companies who were familiar with the local situation to Sanya. They didn't even bring Li Huamei, whom they planned to reuse.
Sanya's development has stagnated since Wang Luobin was transferred back to Lingao. Although it is still a "special city" and is the "southern central city" planned for the entire island of Hainan Region? In fact, the various construction projects do not reflect the scale that a "special city" should have.
On the one hand, naturally due to financial difficulties, the Senate could not spend much money to build Sanya; on the other hand, Sanya's awkward location and geographical environment also limited its development in the Senate's urban system.
In the plan of the Senate, in addition to serving as the administrative center of southern Hainan Island and the export port of Tiandu iron ore, Sanya will also become an important chemical industry and commercial trade center in southern Hainan Island in the future. In the Grand Library, Xu Yanliang saw the plan compiled by the Planning Institute at that time: the plan was to use the oil from Southeast Asia and the salt from Yinggehai to establish a chemical industry zone? Sanya was also listed as a "Nanyang Trade Center".
However, over the past few years, most of these ambitious plans have remained on paper. Even the originally planned "Naval Base and Command Center in the South Sea" has not been implemented.
The ambitious salinization and petrochemical bases are completely missing. Needless to say, petrochemicals? The "mature" industry of salinization has not been spread yet. The reason is very simple. No matter how superior the conditions for drying salt in Yinggehai are, it is still just a deserted beach. It requires a lot of manpower and material resources to turn it into a salt field. . The salt produced by the salt fields along the coast of northern Hainan Island and southern Guangdong is enough for the Senate's current salt chemical industry.
Of course, further expanding the production capacity of salt is always a good thing, but the manpower and material resources required to build the Yinggehai Salt Field make the Planning Institute daunted. Although the "Yinggehai State-owned Yancheng" unit is currently included in the list of state-owned enterprises of the Planning Institute, it is only a small salt farm. The annual output is only equivalent to that of Ma Niao Salt Farm. It was not so much to provide more salt to the Senate, but rather to give the exiles an employment base.
In the industrial plan for Sanya at that time, apart from the Tiandu Mining Bureau, the only thing that was actually realized was a coconut product processing base. Currently, the coconut trading and processing center in southern Hainan Island is located in Sanya. Another large-scale industrial enterprise is the Yali Winery.
Although the trade center facing Southeast Asia was once strongly promoted by the Senate and included Sanya in the ranks of "open ports" when concluding various trade agreements, the fact is that, except for the labor trade of Quark, most European No merchant ships would use this place as a trading port.
The Senate originally believed that since this is the only way to go to the Southeast Asia route, and Southeast Asia trade ships have been anchored here in history, as long as there is policy support, a trade port can naturally be formed locally.
On the other hand, Sanya's awkward geographical location caused the elders to ignore a problem. European merchants were hungry when looking for trade ports along the coast of China. They were willing to occupy even wild places like Tainan, but only if they had no better resources. choose. Given a choice, everyone wants to trade in a port close to where goods are sold and supplied. Rather than in a resale trading port.
Sanya happens to be a city that does not produce any export goods and rarely consumes imported goods. The most exported products here are iron ore and various coconut products. Strictly speaking, they are not commodities, but materials for the Planning Institute. The only local product that can really be sold to foreign businessmen is arrack.
Various export commodities favored by foreign businessmen: silk fabrics, sugar, rum, industrial products, steel products, glass products, food, porcelain... Sanya has little or no production at all. This means that these goods must be shipped from Lingao and the mainland.
Although the Planning Institute and Sanya Special City have set up many preferential conditions, including low-priced land, tax exemptions, etc., in order to attract private capital to invest in factories and participate in overseas trade. It has also attracted many businessmen to set up "limited companies" in Sanya, but after Xu Yanliang walked around Sanya, he felt that there were not many local manufacturing companies, and most of them were "companies" with a brand name. And there is no sense of "busy business" at all.
The agricultural industry has spent a lot of resources to open "hot farming gardens" around Sanya. However, the hot farming conditions in Hainan Island are far inferior to those in Southeast Asia. The cost and output of spice production are not as good as those in India and the Moluccas. Rubber, cocoa, and palm oil The climate conditions for growing these hot crops in Sanya are somewhat inadequate, and the production cycle is very long. So far, the scale of trade has not been established. And in the long run, Hainan Island is not an ideal planting place.
As for imports, there are even fewer goods that can be consumed directly locally. Because the city has not been able to grow in size for a long time and its industrial level is limited, Sanya has only 50,000 official residents so far, mainly workers from the Mining Bureau and agricultural immigrants placed by the Planning Institute on surrounding farms. The materials it consumes are not enough to support sufficient imports. At present, the only bulk "commodities" imported by Sanya are labor force and rice. The former is also in decline due to declining demand for labor from the Bureau of Mines.
For the British and Dutch, going to Lingao or Kaohsiung does not require much additional cost, but they have a lot of room for choice of goods. Although the Planning Institute once attempted to use tariffs to mediate the whereabouts of merchant ships, the fact is that since foreign merchant ships can transport goods directly to Lingao, why do they have to unload in Sanya, which in vain increases the cost of loading, unloading and transshipment?
This is unreasonable in terms of cost, so Sanya, which the Senate had placed its hope on, fell into a state of limbo. After Wang Luobin left office, few people paid attention to it.
Plans are always full, reality is always skinny. Xu Yanliang went to Sanya for a few days and deeply understood the meaning of this sentence.
"It seems that Sanya was not an industrial and commercial city in the old time and space, and we do not have this magical power in this time and space." He said secretly.
In the old time and space, Sanya could engage in tourism and real estate, but in this time and space, these things must be at least a hundred years away. Besides, even if we can do this locally, it has nothing to do with Nanyang Company.
Xu Yanliang couldn't help but doubt the decision to locate the headquarters in Sanya. In terms of advantages, it is probably that the local area has a good harbor and is quite wealthy in housing and land. What’s more, the climate and scenery are pleasant.
