Wang Tu himself was an ambitious person, and his experience in serving in the Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy in Jinling City not only increased his knowledge, but also increased his ambition.
Having seen high-level affairs in the top political arena, he always thought about returning to Jinling City, the political center of the empire.
And this kind of return to Jinling City does not mean simply returning to Jinling City to take up a post. If he just returned to Jinling City to take up an ordinary position, he would actually be able to go back two years earlier based on his connections.
But he doesn't want to!
What he expected to return to Jinling was to hold a powerful position as a high-ranking imperial official.
Instead of going back as a mid-level official and becoming an inconspicuous one among the countless middle- and low-level officials in Jinling City.
That was Jinling City, where the third-rank officials were inconspicuous, and the fourth-rank and fifth-rank officials were everywhere in the capital.
At the very least, Wang Tu also hopes to return to Jinling City as a director of the third rank.
It would be best to be able to work directly in the local area as chief envoy or even governor, and then be transferred back to the capital as a feudal official.
It was with such ambition that Wang Tu was willing to stay in Heyuan, a remote and remote mountainous area in northern Guangdong for many years.
And if nothing else happens, he will continue to stay for a few more years, and will not leave until he achieves outstanding results as the prefect of Heyuan.
Wang Tu's current goal is very simple, that is, to develop Heyuan, a mountainous area in northern Guangdong, as a shining political achievement in his political career, and to use this as a way to enter the high-level vision.
After all, Wang Tu was a traditional civil servant, and he was also a local civil servant. For him, there was no more dazzling political achievement than developing a remote rural area.
In fact, this is not Wang Tu's unique idea. In fact, many young officials in the empire who have bright prospects and even have connections will choose to work in poor areas for a period of time as county magistrates and other grassroots positions.
On the one hand, taking the initiative to work in remote areas can easily leave a good impression on the bosses.
On the other hand, although it is difficult for poor areas to develop, their base is also low. As long as it is done properly, it is easy to achieve political achievements.
After all, many young officials who take the initiative to serve in remote rural areas have strong backgrounds and rich resources. With their own personal connections, they can bring financial support or external investment to the local area, and if these financial support and investment are beneficial to For a place with a middle-class economy, that's nothing.
For example, in that poor place in Shanghai County, even if you can get large companies to invest in a large factory worth hundreds of thousands... it will not even make a dent in the local economic aggregate.
Many people will not even think that this is your contribution, but that Shanghai County's own advantages have attracted companies to invest.
However, if it is a poor place like Heyuan Prefecture, if you can attract a large-scale project with an investment of hundreds of thousands, it can drive the rapid development of the local economy in minutes.
With good follow-up operations, a small-scale economic industry chain can be created, providing a large number of jobs, and thus comprehensively promoting local economic development.
Then the growth rate of local economic data will be very eye-catching. It is possible to increase by dozens of percentage points or even double.
What's this?
This is political achievement!
The superiors were also happy to see this happen. Just like when Wang Tu was sent to Huizhou Prefecture for gilding training, the magistrate of Huizhou Prefecture saw that he was here for gilding, and without saying a word, he directly arranged for him to be the poorest and most miserable. of Heyuan Prefecture.
After a few months of transition, the then magistrate of Heyuan Prefecture communicated with him and arranged for him to serve as magistrate of Heping County, the poorest and most miserable county in Heyuan Prefecture.
At that time, Heping County belonged to Heyuan Prefecture, and Heyuan Prefecture was still the prefecture of Huizhou Prefecture.
This is not to embarrass Wang Tu, but to hope that Wang Tu can use his personal resources and background to bring external investment to Heping County or obtain financial support from the province or even Jinling City, thereby improving the local people's livelihood and economy.
Make the best use of everything. Local officials already have a complete set of unspoken rules for how to use the gold-plated supervisors photographed from above.
You can go to the poorest and most miserable places, and then use your own personal connections to develop the place. After a few years, you will have political achievements and rise all the way, and the place will also have economic development, getting the best of both worlds...
Of course, if your background and connections are not strong enough... and you can't get support funds or projects, then you'll just have to live in the remote countryside for the rest of your life.
Because this is not called gold plating, but hair matching!
The same position naturally has different meanings for different people.
This is how Wang Tu came about back then. When he was the magistrate of Heping County, he used his personal connections to pull in several projects, and then developed the cultivation and processing of tea and camellia oil. Soybean cultivation and yuba processing industries as well as several other industries.
In order to promote camellia oil, he found people to tout the health and nutritional value of camellia oil while taking the high-level route... He specially used the locally produced high-mountain camellia oil as souvenir gifts and gave them to many of his friends and officials in surrounding areas. Colleagues, many superior officials in the provincial capital.
At the same time, I will never forget Yi Bangzi’s former colleagues and superiors in the Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy. Every autumn and winter, they would receive tea oil specialties from Wang Tu.
Even recently, Wang Tu was planning to take the Secretariat route and send peace tea oil to the imperial court, for no other reason than to get the label of a tribute.
Of course, he did not dare to expect that the local oil could become a commonly used cooking oil in the palace... But as long as His Majesty took a bite, he dared to say that the local tea oil was for the royal family, and then publicized it and packaged the local tea oil as the best. cooking oil.
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Because of this series of packaging and publicity, the tea oil from Heping currently has a good reputation among the local government and business groups in the surrounding areas. They know that there is such a good local product in the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong: it is nutritious and healthy.
Some people will buy some specially to give as gifts. As for ordinary people, they eat less. After all, this thing is quite expensive.
If a family of five eats every day, cooking oil alone will cost seven or eight yuan a month... The wages of ordinary workers these days are only a few yuan, and even low-level officials do not have such luxury.
Many ordinary people or grassroots officials buy them as gifts... Just like the canned meat in the early years, the canned meat in the early years appeared on the market, and it was mostly used as gifts at the beginning. Many people celebrate the new year. When visiting relatives during the holidays, they always collect and deliver canned meat.
As for eating it yourself?
Ordinary people can’t bear to eat it several times a year!
Even low-level officials have to move around, but they can't go around empty-handed. If you just give money or something, it won't be effective if you don't give enough for daily movement.
If you give away too much, you won’t be willing to give it away even if it costs hundreds or thousands of dollars, and if you dare to give it away, you can’t just accept it openly!
But some local specialties are much better. You can bring some local specialties and say that they are specialties from your hometown or the place where you work, and give them to adults to try.
They also pretend to ask you to help promote and help local farmers increase sales and income!
The gift is fair and honest, and the receipt is at ease!
This is actually within the normal scope. In some places, high bribes are paid in the name of local specialties. For example, in Liaodong Province, it is very popular to give vintage wild ginseng to superior officials!
Delivered box by box!
Officials collect the wild ginseng in the front and then sell the wild ginseng back to merchants who recycle wild ginseng. The merchants resell the wild ginseng to low-level officials or businessmen who want to give gifts... It turns out to be a perfect cycle.
Some years of high-priced wild ginseng has been circulating back and forth like this for many years, passing through the hands of countless officials... but it is still intact and no one eats it!
Wang Tu's camellia oil marketing is far away from the wild ginseng economy in Liaodong.
After all, no matter how expensive tea oil is, it is just a condiment for daily use. It is just a little expensive and ordinary people cannot eat it every day. It is not a luxury accessory.
Even if it is given as a gift, it is usually only among ordinary people and low-level officials. Otherwise, if you give a bucket of tea oil to a real dignitary... isn't that nonsense!
After those low-level officials received this thing, they would not resell it and usually eat it at home.
After such a hassle of packaging and packaging the local tea oil as a good gift, Wang Tu even started the local tea oil planting and processing industry. Every year, a lot of tea oil is processed and packaged. , transported to many nearby places for sale, and even entered the market in Guangzhou.
In addition, there are soybean cultivation, yuba processing, and other scattered small processing plants, workshops and the like.
Wang Tu relied on his personal connections to create quite a stir in Heping County, a remote and remote area with little to offer.
Even though the scale of local industry and commerce is actually small and not worth mentioning in economically developed places, it has still doubled the industrial and commercial economy in Heping County year after year, and added a large number of jobs in the secondary and tertiary industries. At the same time, It has also significantly increased the income of many local farmers.
With this, he was able to be promoted continuously, and after a few months of transition in the provincial capital governor's office, he returned to Heyuan Prefecture as the magistrate.
In the past two years, he continued to work on developing the economy and people's livelihood as the magistrate of Heyuan.
With the improvement of his political status, more people will befriend him, and even spend some resources on this, which will make it smoother.
For example, Zhong Siyuan, the director of the commerce department of the Western Trading Company, was quite optimistic about him and helped him attract many companies to settle in Heyuan.
Among them is Donglin Trading Company.
Song Alin has been seeking to join Western trading companies, hoping to bring his products into the Indian and even West Asian markets.
For this reason, we also found Zhong Siyuan through many connections. After Zhong Siyuan had someone inspect it, he felt that several products of Donglin Trading Company were quite good, especially their Donglin brand special fragrant canned meat, which was very suitable to get. Go buy it in India.
With such a premise, and after learning that Donglin Trading Company was trying to obtain a tea planting base, Zhong Siyuan also gave Song Alin some hints, saying that Heyuan Prefecture had beautiful mountains and clear waters, which was very suitable for the development of tea processing.
Only then did Song Alin once again go to Heyuan Prefecture for inspection.
Again... There are so many places in the world suitable for growing tea and processing tea. Why did Song Alin come to Heyuan Prefecture where your Wang Tu is located to inspect and make the final decision?
Zhong Siyuan's influence and Wang Tu's own political influence are indispensable reasons.
Otherwise, when it comes to geographical and climatic conditions, transportation conditions, and even local policy preferences, tax incentives, etc., there are a lot of places in the world that can be given. In particular, many inland prefectures and counties offer very high preferential conditions in order to attract investment.
But in the end Song Alin chose Heyuan Prefecture at that time, now Heyuan Prefecture.
Because Zhong Siyuan and Wang Tu are both important members of the secretarial department in the southern coastal area.
Among them, Zhong Siyuan is the Minister of Commerce and Trade of Xiyang Trading Company, and his grade has reached the fourth grade, which is directly related to whether Donglin Trading Company's products can be included in Xiyang Trading Company's purchasing list.
As a rising star in the secretarial department, Wang Tu was also a fifth-rank magistrate of the state at that time, and he had a bright future.
Song Alin finally chose to invest in Heyuan Prefecture, partly to make good friends with these two people so that he could have real friends in the officialdom.
Many reasons led Donglin Trading Company to finally make a large-scale investment in Heyuan Prefecture. The initial investment amount reached 200,000 Chu Yuan, which was used to develop tea plantations and establish tea processing plants.
Now the investment of 200,000 yuan has been implemented, and the second phase of investment of 300,000 yuan is currently being prepared.
In the end, the entire investment scale will exceed 500,000 Chu Yuan.
This is half a million Chu yuan. This is not a small amount. Even in a large and economically developed state, such an investment scale can be considered a large investment.
If it weren't for Wang Tu's relationship, this large-scale investment would never have fallen on Heyuan Mansion.
And this is the main role of officials with strong backgrounds like Wang Tu who go to economically backward places to serve in gold-plated positions.
Need policies, find support, and attract investment!
Otherwise, with so many people staring at the throne of Heyuan Magistrate at that time and now Heyuan Magistrate, where would it be your turn to be the king, just because of your big face?
As the tea planting base and tea processing plant of Donglin Trading Company were settled and put into operation, Wang Tu continued his efforts and came into contact with many tea merchants.
We are preparing to make the tea planting and processing industry bigger and stronger and form a large-scale industrial chain.
To this end, he held a tea industry investment conference in the first month after Heyuan Prefecture was upgraded to Heyuan Prefecture, and invited many tea industry companies to come for inspection and negotiation.
Among them are ordinary tea traders, as well as related enterprises engaged in large-scale professional tea planting and processing, and even machinery manufacturers that provide various types of tea processing equipment are invited.
Wang Tu tried his best to find companies related to tea.
In November of the 28th year of Chengshun, Wang Tu's tea investment conference was successfully held. At the conference, Wang Tu and a group of officials tried their best to persuade the businessmen who came to the conference to invest.
Several professional inspections were arranged for this purpose.
With the investment precedent of Donglin Trading Company, many people were tempted after seeing Donglin Trading Company's tea planting base and processing plant, especially those companies engaged in large-scale tea planting and processing.
Since someone has taken the lead, this proves that the local geographical environment and climate are indeed suitable for growing high-quality tea. At the same time, there are also Dongjiang transportation and railway transportation to connect with the outside world and transport materials.
The most important thing is the sincerity of the local officials headed by Wang Tu.
Not only is the attitude very sincere, but the various preferential conditions are also very good. For example, if the mountainous land where tea is grown is official land and there is no unused wasteland, you only need to pay a nominal rent. If you want to own it, In mountainous areas, the government can also help coordinate the transfer and leasing.
Not to mention the roads leading in and out of mountainous areas, including streams and rivers. Even if there are no streams and rivers and boats cannot pass, the government can directly build a simple road for you to get out.
I dare not say anything else, but it will definitely not affect the export of tea.
If you invest in various factories, the conditions are more favorable. The industrial land can be used directly for free for ten years, and there is no rent for ten years.
If you want to buy industrial land, as long as your investment amount is large enough and it is implemented within a time limit, you can buy the industrial land with just a little money!
The reason why they are not given away for free is to avoid being falsely accused of collusion between government and businessmen and infringing on official interests.
In short, as long as you invest, you don’t have to worry about land or transportation.
As for workers, the government also has specialized agencies that can coordinate and help companies organize recruitment in various counties and towns to ensure that there will be no problems with employment.
High-tech personnel and managers from various enterprises who come to Heyuan for employment do not need to worry about their accommodation and food.
Although we in Heyuan Prefecture are a bit poor, we are very hospitable. Before the dormitory building within your company was completed, we could live in the official inns of the government... Of course, we had to pay a certain amount... After all, government inns are also commercially operated, so it is impossible I'll let you live at a loss.
Not to mention eating, although it is a mountainous area, there is no shortage of rice and vegetables. Moreover, there are many mountainous areas, and there are many kinds of delicacies and game, and they are all cheap.
It doesn't matter if there are more workers in major factories in the future and the demand for food will increase. We have enough local food production and there is a lighthouse basin in the north. Large-scale land reclamation has already been carried out.
They are one of the few small basins in Guangdong Province that are suitable for large-scale food cultivation, with abundant water resources, good climate, and flat terrain.
Even the largest grain production base in northern Guangdong is located in this basin. Heyuan is currently a grain production base. Every year, a lot of grain is transported to Guangzhou via railway or Dongjiang River to be supplied to Guangzhou.
Relying on local grain production, Wang Tu is also supporting the development of some grain processing industries. For example, the local specialty hand-pulled flour is very good and is very suitable for large-scale industrial production and external sales.
After all, with such a good grain production base, it would be a waste not to engage in grain processing industry.
At this tea investment conference, there was an investor who did not take a fancy to the local tea industry. Instead, he targeted the local grain processing industry and planned to build a grain processing factory, mainly to produce high-quality rice and hand-pulled flour.
Wang Tu naturally welcomed this and also provided a large number of preferential conditions.
As long as you come to invest and it's not a messy illegal investment, then Wang Tu welcomes you!
Of course, more businessmen are still interested in the local tea industry, and they come here just for the tea.
Moreover, Donglin Trading Company has already made prototypes, which gives many investors more confidence.
Therefore, during subsequent inspections and negotiations, Wang Tu successively finalized the investment intentions of many investors. Although the investment scale was not as large as that of Donglin Trading Company, many of them were over 100,000 yuan, or even 200,000 to 300,000 yuan.
A small investment of tens of thousands is even more.
After the investment conference was successfully concluded, Wang Tu and the others made a calculation, and in the end, everyone was laughing from ear to ear.
At this investment conference, they attracted a total of 23 investments, with a total amount of 1.8 million yuan, most of which revolved around tea cultivation and processing.
In addition, there are other planting and processing of economic crops, as well as grain processing and other industries.
Most of the investment sources are foreign investors, but there are also a small number of local gentry businessmen who took advantage of this opportunity to start investing.
The investment amount of 1.8 million Chu Yuan is a huge progress. Once it is fully implemented and developed, it can drive the rapid development of the local people's livelihood economy.
Not only will the industrial and commercial output value increase, but it will also provide a large number of jobs in the secondary and tertiary industries, allowing local people to earn more income.
Not to mention that many of the industries that Wang Tu engages in are planting and processing industries with economic crops as the core, which will have a significant positive impact on a large number of farmers and families.
For example, many tea processing factories do not engage in tea cultivation themselves. Instead, they choose to sign supply and marketing agreements with local tea farmers and purchase tea from local tea farmers. The increase in tea processing factories has brought more demand for tea. This allows more people to grow tea, grow more industries, and earn valuable income.
Even if Donglin Trading Company operates a large-scale professional tea plantation, it still needs to hire a large number of manpower for planting, which is fine on a daily basis. Once the tea picking season comes, a large number of manpower will be needed in a short period of time.
How do you get this manpower? Naturally, we have to hire people from nearby areas.
In this way, some local farmers can earn more extra income during their spare time.
Many investments have brought about an increase in economic output and an increase in the income of local people, which will naturally also lead to an increase in fiscal revenue.
With more fiscal revenue, Wang Tucai can do more things. For example, dredging the Dongjiang waterway can no longer be postponed, especially those shallow water beaches that need to be dredged so that ships of larger tonnage can pass.
Then the corresponding wharf must also be built. The existing small wharf does not have enough berths, and a larger wharf must be built.
In addition, the official roads connecting counties and towns must continue to be built, even if it is just a simple dirt and gravel carriage road, it must be built.
Of course, it is indispensable to improve the water conservancy facilities everywhere, especially the water conservancy facilities in several major grain industries.
Water conservancy facilities can not only be used for irrigation, but also for flood control, which is indispensable for food production.
Just when Wang Tu was thinking about how to show off his ambitions and do something big.
Guangzhou City also welcomed a new Cong third-grade political officer and director of the Department of Civil Affairs. This political officer was not promoted within the Department of Civil Affairs, nor was he even transferred within the province. Instead, he was parachuted directly from Jinling City.
Moreover, this person's employment experience before parachute aroused the suspicion and even fear of countless people: Director of the Third Division of the Supervision Department of the Personnel Affairs Department.
This person is engaged in administrative work and is also a full-time anti-corruption specialist.
