In order to develop the local economy, improve people's livelihood, and achieve dazzling political achievements, Wang Tu has been very busy recently.
Almost every day, I am in contact with people from the business side, trying to persuade the heads of the companies who come to inspect to invest.
As long as the local environment permits and makes the company profitable, the company may invest after considering the gains and losses.
Even if he really has no interest, for Wang Tu's sake, he still has to invest some money to set up a small workshop, office or something.
After all, the reason why this group of businessmen came here was purely for Wang Tu's personal reputation. Even if it was to establish a good relationship with Wang Tu, a rising star in officialdom, they didn't mind throwing out some money to make a small investment.
As for medium and large-scale investments, it depends on the situation.
For the time being, only Song Alin has relatively large-scale investment intentions.
Song Alin's Donglin Company itself has tea processing business, but in the past they purchased tea from other places for processing, processed it into tea bricks and sold them overseas, mainly to the market in Beijia area.
Well, although it is a cross-sea sale, it is not considered an export, because the Pekka area, that is, the Malay Peninsula, is the Malacca Province of the Chu Empire, and sales here are not considered exports.
However, being able to buy tea bricks in Malacca is a big step forward for Donglin Company. Song Alin has been trying to expand his company's tea business in the past two years.
But in the tea business, tea brick factories are easy to build, but the source of tea is difficult.
You can also buy it from tea merchants. Well, that's what Donglin Company does now, but the cost is high... It's equivalent to being robbed of a wave of profits by those tea merchants.
Song Alin had been thinking about setting up a tea planting base several years ago to directly control the source of tea.
However, the domestic tea business in the Dachu Empire is already very complete. Whether it is the large tea gardens built by the enterprises themselves or the tea gardens of ordinary tea farmers, they basically have relatively fixed partners. Your Donglin Company ran over and wanted to It is very difficult to have direct contact with tea gardens.
Moreover, they have to face competition from peers and even upstream tea merchants at any time.
Therefore, building a self-made tea base, growing part of the tea yourself, and then cooperating with local tea farmers to sign long-term supply and marketing contracts is the only way to become bigger and stronger.
After inspecting many places in Heyuan Prefecture, he found that many of them were quite suitable for growing tea.
However, transportation in mountainous areas is inconvenient, and it is still troublesome to transport tea from tea gardens in mountainous areas to urban areas for processing.
At the same time, there are also problems with processing the tea and transporting it to the Pearl River Delta and then loading it on ships for sale. After all, Dongjiang shipping is still not very good.
Not to mention railway transportation, today's railway transportation costs are still relatively high compared to river transportation. For enterprises, transportation costs can be saved if they can... There is obviously a Dongjiang River. If you insist on letting me engage in railway transportation, other companies I won’t do it.
As for the shipping capacity of the Dongjiang River, it is still relatively poor. There are many things that need to be dredged to expand the shipping capacity. This is a problem for your local government.
Taking a step back, even if you can use railway transportation for outbound transportation, you still have to transport the tea from the tea plantations in the mountainous areas. The proposed tea plantation only has some winding trails, and even horse-drawn carriages cannot walk on it.
Could it be that it was transported out by people and horses? The transportation cost is absolutely unacceptable to Donglin Company.
In other words, in fact, these transportation costs are within the affordable range for Donglin Company. At most, the cost is slightly more and the profit is less.
But the key point is that the Dachu Empire is so big that there are countless places suitable for large-scale tea planting. Without all kinds of superior conditions, why should Donglin Company go to Heyuan Prefecture to invest in large-scale tea planting.
They can make more money by investing elsewhere, so why should they invest here?
To attract investment, this is actually a competition between local governments.
When Song Alin came to Heyuan Prefecture for inspection, he also received invitations from the governments of several neighboring states. If nothing unexpected happens, he will go to other places later to inspect the investment environment in each place, and finally make a decision. Site selection for tea planting bases.
Song'alin, a tea planting base, is going to be built, and it's very determined, but it doesn't have to be in Heyuan Prefecture!
Wang Tu was also a little helpless about this!
He also knows that the transportation problem needs to be solved urgently, but the state finances have no money.
Before, he had thought of giving the contractor a down payment first, and then paying the contractor if he had money after the completion. If he didn't have money, he would just drag it out to provide transportation.
However, the former magistrate Lin Qixun had already played this trick many times, which made the construction contractors afraid when they saw the people in Heyuan Prefecture...
This time, he actually invited several construction companies to come over and wanted them to bid for the renovation of several roads and the dredging of rivers.
But let alone bidding... they didn't even come.
In addition, the construction contractors outside have already said that they can renovate rivers, roads, bridges, etc., but they have to pay...
Even if it is an installment payment, there must be a guarantee... and it must be a guarantee that can be paid.
Wang Tu rolled his eyes at this, if I have money, no, even if I can find a guarantee, I still want you... The construction companies under our state's Industrial Department can start work directly.
I'm looking for you if you don't intend to give me money!
As a result, no one was fooled!
In desperation, Wang Tu could only give up the idea of taking shortcuts and start thinking of other ways... Don't expect to raise money yourself. The state's finance coffers are starving to death, let alone use the money to build roads, pave bridges and clear roads. River, even the salaries of public employees are still barely enough.
In the end, Wang Tu had no choice but to make another trip to Guangzhou in person to hug Cheng Yongfeng.
Cheng Yongfeng was also a little helpless towards Wang Tu... He came to Guangzhou twice in just a few months, and every time he came he asked for money!
As the chief envoy of Guangdong, Cheng Yongfeng has an astronomical amount of funds that he can allocate. However, he is the chief envoy of Guangdong and is responsible for the people's livelihood and economic affairs of the province. Heyuan Prefecture is just a small state under his rule. He does not Maybe someone misappropriated funds that should have been used elsewhere to Heyuan Prefecture.
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As a result, other state capitals will have opinions.
As the boss, Cheng Yongfeng also needs to consider the situation of other state capitals. It is impossible to misappropriate the support and development funds that should be given to other state capitals just because he has a good personal relationship with Wang Tu.
There is no need to give money directly, but Cheng Yongfeng cannot really watch his direct relatives fail to open up the situation at the grassroots level.
Cheng Yongfeng also hopes that Wang Tuqian will make some achievements, and then go one step further. At that time, Cheng Yongfeng will be able to make Wang Tu the second-in-command in a certain department or a certain government, and then control a certain department or a certain government.
However, he himself did not have any dissatisfaction with Wang Tu's behavior of asking him for money every day. After all, Heyuan Prefecture's start was too bad. If he wanted to achieve results in a short time, it was impossible to follow the conventional path.
Just use external force.
Anyone involved in Guangdong official circles knows that the biggest external force Wang Tu can borrow from is Cheng Yongfeng.
On the contrary, it would be troublesome if Wang Tu turned around and ran to the governor Tang Tiangui to cry out and ask for money.
And as an official, if you can find money to develop the local economy and make political achievements, everyone will say that you are a good official.
You can even deceive and abduct... Wang Tu's predecessor, Lin Qixun, the governor, has now been promoted to the deputy director of the Agriculture and Forestry Department of the Governor's Yamen, which is a powerful position.
Agricultural affairs were very important matters in the Chu Empire. After all, food was the most important thing for the people.
As for the money owed to the contractor, it was owed by the state finance. Lin Qixun personally did not embezzle even a single copper from it, so it was none of his business.
Therefore, Lin Qixun got political achievements and owed a lot of debts, but it was only Wang Tu who suffered.
With Cheng Yongfeng's help, Wang Tu found the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway Company.
What are you doing with them?
Naturally it is for the construction work of the Heyuan section of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway!
This railway construction is a big investment. The railway company needs a lot of workers and a lot of building materials. Just a little bit of this will be enough for the poor state of Heyuan Prefecture.
The Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway Company is also willing to cooperate with the local government to a certain extent to avoid some troubles during the construction process, especially in land acquisition, material supply, and hiring of workers.
You must know that many places in Heyuan Prefecture are really poor and poor... Since it is a poor and remote place, there are naturally unruly people.
Of course there are no bandits, but if your railway has to pass through people's homes, you will naturally need to acquire land, hire workers, and build materials.
Many unscrupulous people will have these ideas.
Of course, the railway construction of the Dachu Empire was a high-level strategy of the empire, and the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway was an important railway trunk line connecting Guangdong, Jiangxi and even Jiangnan. Naturally, a series of construction projects could not be destroyed.
Whenever any unruly people dare to cause damage, the local garrison will be dispatched directly without patrolling the area.
However, some petty thefts are inevitable in daily life, and many people really want money rather than their lives, so it is very annoying to just mess around with you.
Especially as the railway line gradually moves northward and truly enters the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong, this situation becomes more and more frequent.
Those poor and crazy mountain people don't care about your overall strategic situation. If you want to pass from us, you have to pay.
You have to pay more for land expropriation, and there are all kinds of excuses such as the train passing by makes too much noise and affects the ancestors' sleep. They don't try to force you to do anything, they just drag a group of old, weak, women and children with you and bring the things dug out of the graves. Coffins and corpses come to your construction site crying and screaming...it just disgusts you!
Even if it is endorsed by the military... But most of the soldiers in the military are from poor families. If you dare to order them to point their guns at the old, weak, women and children who are just crying and shouting without doing any actual damage, others will not dare. Shoot you with a black gun!
In fact, railway companies will encounter this situation when building railways in many places, but it is the first time that they encounter it so frequently in the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong!
After all, most of the railway network currently under construction by the Dachu Empire Railway Company is actually built in flat areas and places with relatively good economies. The only one that really builds railways in mountainous valleys is the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway, which is also the first railway network built in the country. I saw so many impoverished and unscrupulous people with rich experience in fighting.
When this kind of thing happens, although it doesn't cause any real harm, most of the time it is solved by giving some money and using the method of dividing and recruiting, but it is disgusting!
In this way, the railway company also hopes that the local government can give them some support.
As for why we didn't seek support from the local government in the past... well, why was Lin Qixun, the former magistrate of the state, a good official in the eyes of the locals?
Because he basically turns a blind eye!
In Lin Qixun's private words: If you rely on the mountains, you must eat the mountains. If you rely on the railways, you must also eat the railways. Such a big piece of fat is still in the mountains. If we don't eat meat, it should be okay to lick the oil on the fat. ?
In the words of a conspiracy theory, so many unscrupulous people went to the railway company construction site to beg for help... There may not be local government behind this.
Lin Qixun could even do things like cheating a bunch of contractors with nothing, but he turned a blind eye and allowed the grassroots village officials under him to lead a group of unscrupulous people to go to the Goudahu Railway Company to beg for help. , it is very possible to do this kind of thing.
The impoverished government, a group of impoverished and unruly people, and Lin Qixun, an unscrupulous governor, caused the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway to encounter relatively big troubles after it entered the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong.
By the way, the reason why the former governor Lin Qixun was able to be promoted was actually promoted by the railway company. The railway company was really afraid of him, so they wanted to let him go and find a more normal governor.
Now that the governor of Heyuan Prefecture has changed, negotiations between the two parties have naturally begun.
It was only after the actual conversation that Wang Tu knew there was such a thing!
Damn, you can still make money like this... Why didn't I think of it before!
With a little thought, he guessed that the troubles the railway company encountered before were most likely related to Lin Qixun, the former magistrate. Maybe the down payment for infrastructure construction came from this.
He had previously wondered how the state's finances were so poor that they came up with the down payment and then attracted those contractors to work on the project. After checking, he found out that the so-called administrative fees were paid from several villages along the railway line. income.
At first, he wondered how these poor villages and towns could turn over so much administrative revenue. Now that he thought about it, it might be the money obtained by dividing the spoils between the state finance and some local villages and towns.
Damn... I was manipulated by my ex again, otherwise he would have done the same thing.
But since his predecessor was able to get money from the railway company, Wang Tu could think of a way to directly use various rogue methods to forcefully ask for money. This is not Wang Tu’s style, and it is easy to make enemies, especially the Chu Empire. Railway Corporation.
The Railway Corporation is a serious second-level enterprise directly under the Council of State, and its level is even higher than those enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry.
In terms of political status, it is higher than the Finance Bank and Salt Affairs Corporation.
If you offend them, you will easily be beaten or even targeted in the future.
Apart from anything else, in the future, if the railway company reduces the number of trains stopping in Heyuan Prefecture by a small amount, and then reduces the number of freight trains, it will be enough for the local area.
Therefore, Wang Tu still thought of relying on other methods... the food appearance should not be too ugly.
Therefore, Wang Tu suggested that several leather bag companies affiliated with the State Department of Industry provide raw materials to the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway Company.
If we don’t rob directly, we should be able to make money by doing business.
Although the price of these raw materials will be a little more expensive, Wang Tu hinted that there will definitely be no trouble in local railway construction from now on.
People from the railway company looked at him as if they were enemies, saying that their railway company had built so many railways and had been to so many places, but you, the people from Heyuan Prefecture, were the most shameless.
In other places, they are begging us to build railways and will provide various conveniences for us to build railways.
It's better for you to cause trouble for us everywhere...
And what I said a few years ago, saying that as long as the railway passes through your area, your local government will definitely cooperate vigorously, have you forgotten these words now?
If they had known this, they would have taken the Shaoguan side when planning their route.
It's a pity that one mistake will lead to eternal regret!
Wang Tu pretended not to have heard the complaints of the railway company personnel. He was not yet the governor of Heyuan at that time. Why did you come to me as promised by my predecessor? If you have the ability, go to him.
Besides, Wang Tu is the magistrate of Heyuan Province, not an official in the railway company.
He needs to be responsible for hundreds of thousands of people in Heyuan Prefecture. As for the life and death of your railway company, it has nothing to do with him!
After the final discussion between the two parties, although the railway company rejected most of Wang Tu's requests, it still selectively agreed to some of Wang Tu's requests.
We have given up the power to supply some materials and are also preparing to increase the number of local railway workers hired.
Wang Tu got the business of supplying materials for the state-run enterprise, and by the way, he also got the jobs of thousands of railway workers, and then left with a smile.
This time, although I didn’t get the money directly, I still made a lot of money!
We will make a profit in material supply, and then we will also have to deal with other aspects. For example, so many railway workers always have to eat and drink. How expensive is it to transport daily necessities directly from Guangzhou? Just leave them to our local supply.
There are not many other things, but there are still some materials, rice, oil, salt, fruits and vegetables.
With consumption, there will naturally be income.
After that, by doing a little bit in the east and a little in the west, Wang Tu estimated that it would be enough to repair the roads and bridges in the several areas planned for key development.
But this is not enough. Funds for the management of the Dongjiang main channel and several tributary channels have not yet been secured. Even if such projects can apply for higher-level support, you still have to come up with a sum of funds yourself.
So, Wang Tu turned around and went to the Guangzhou Prefecture's Yamen next door, shouting to a group of Guangzhou Prefecture officials: For the sake of everyone being Guangdong brothers, Guangzhou brothers, please give me a hand...
The reason why he came to Guangzhou was because the Guangzhou government was really rich.
Today's Guangzhou Prefecture area is quite large, and almost the entire Pearl River Delta is currently under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Prefecture. Although discussions have been underway to establish a new state capital in the Pearl River Delta, it has not yet taken place.
The Pearl River Delta covers almost more than 95% of the total industrial and commercial economy in Guangdong Province.
Therefore, Guangzhou Prefecture's economic aggregate these days is very large, and its fiscal revenue is also very large.
Among the many prefectures and state-level administrative districts in the Great Chu Empire, even counting the directly governed Yingtian Prefecture and Hantian Prefecture, Guangzhou Prefecture ranks second, second only to Songjiang Prefecture!
Both Ying Tianfu and Han Tianfu have to be behind!
They are rich, and Wang Tu is really shameless. He is a high-ranking magistrate, and he blocks the door of other magistrates' homes every day.
Whenever he saw people, he cried out about poverty and asked them to help. Then he used Cheng Yongfeng as a sign, saying that he planned to develop a wealthy area to support backward areas. This is a typical example.
That man Wang Tu, in order to get money, even gave up the dignity of an official, he dared to cry out his nose in the street, and then threw it in the face of the prefect of Guangzhou...
But the prefect of Guangzhou is a decent person, and it is impossible for him to be pulled and pulled and wiped from his nose every day.
In the end, the prefect of Guangzhou and a group of other officials were so annoyed. In addition, the Guangzhou Prefecture was indeed rich, so they decided to send the beggars away and agreed to give Heyuan Prefecture a sum of support funds to dredge the Dongjiang waterway. .
After getting the money, Wang Tu went home with a smile on his face!
This was another successful trip, both for myself and Heyuan Prefecture, but the process was a bit embarrassing.
But how much is an official’s face worth?
Now that he has money on hand, he can build roads in the mountainous areas and dredge the water channel of the Dongjiang River.
Once the transportation problem can be solved, then there will be hope for the tea planting base in Song'alin, the fruit planting base of Dongjiang Fruit Canned Company, and the planting of other economic crops and the corresponding processing industries.
Compared with making money from the railway or asking for money from his brother's state government, Wang Tu is still more inclined to develop the local economic crop planting and processing industry chain.
Once an industrial chain is formed, it will not only significantly increase the income of local farmers, but also cultivate numerous agricultural product processing plants.
And if there are more agricultural product processing plants, it will naturally attract other supporting industries.
At the same time, farmers' incomes have increased, there are more factories, and there are more workers. These people can also stimulate the development of the tertiary industry.
After all, these people also need to consume, right?
In the economic system, the tertiary industry will also contribute a lot if it is done well.
In this way, the primary industry, the secondary industry, and the tertiary industry develop collaboratively, eventually forming a local economic system with the planting and processing of economic crops as the core.
This is what Wang Tu wants!
What he wants is not just growth in economic data, he wants an entire industrial chain!
And use this industrial chain to promote the rapid development of the local people's livelihood economy, so that he can obtain sufficiently conspicuous political achievements, and then seek a higher position.
Wang Tu's ambitions are much greater than those of his predecessor Lin Qixun!
