"County Magistrate Xiong is busy!"
Lin Huowang knocked on the door before walking in.
"Awang, you are here. I have prepared the report speech for tomorrow's meeting. It will be held in the county auditorium. All the cadres in the county will come to listen to your speech as a provincial advanced individual. Have you prepared the manuscript?
You are such a talented person, there is no need for me to ask my secretary to write one for you!"
County Chief Xiong's frown immediately relaxed when he saw the raging forest fire and he laughed.
"No need for a manuscript, just say a few words! Spread positive energy and encourage cadres to be dedicated to their work and make selfless contributions in their posts!"
Lin Huowang came up with this casually. After all, when he was the director of the Forestry Bureau in his previous life, he had spoken a lot in reports and meetings, so he was very familiar with these clichés.
"Promote positive energy? Yes! This statement is very fresh!
OK! Then I don’t have to worry about your report and speech. I heard that many companies have invited you to give reports and speeches?
It just so happens that you can prepare a speech script and use it universally.
Let me tell you, all of these units that report to you are run by local rich men, especially those factories directly under the provincial government, they are all extremely wealthy.
When the time comes, we will definitely not let you, an advanced person, give a speech in vain. The gifts will be so good that you will not be able to carry them all with both hands."
County Magistrate Xiong said this with considerable experience.
Then he pointed at the documents in front of his desk, rubbed his temple and said: "Awang! Look, there are so many reports from the communes below, asking me to approve more farm machinery and grain.
Fortunately, you warned of the rat plague years ago, otherwise the number reported would have at least doubled.
Last year was a famine year, and this year is not going to be easy either! The meteorological department has already issued a warning that this year's precipitation is also below average.
It is conceivable that most production teams will still reduce production due to water shortages.
Even for the fields near the river, it will take a lot of manpower to carry water for irrigation..."
Because before, I could talk about almost anything with Lin Huowang, and we could be considered friends regardless of age difference.
Therefore, County Magistrate Xiong naturally complained to Lin Huowang about the problems that were bothering him.
When Lin Huowang heard this, he was also happy and said with a smile: "County Magistrate Xiong, the reason why I came to the county to find you in advance is really because of this matter."
"Hmm? What do you mean? Awang, do you have a solution to the drought?"
Upon hearing this, Xiong Xingwang stood up from his seat.
Looking at Lin Huowang with his bright eyes, Xiong Xingwang excitedly grabbed his hand.
"County Magistrate Xiong, don't get excited. I just have an immature idea."
Lin Huowang smiled and patted County Chief Xiong on the shoulder, then said, "Since we have suffered from severe drought in the north in recent years, why don't we use our manpower to build a few wells near the fields of each production brigade?
In this way, drought conditions can be alleviated through groundwater, thus ensuring crop yields.”
Xiong Xingwang, who originally thought that Lin Huowang would have some good ideas, immediately smiled bitterly and shook his head when he heard that his idea was to "dig a well."
"Awang! Your idea is really not mature at all.
Don’t we all know such a simple method as digging a well to get water?
But do you know how much it costs to dig a well?
Even if our county hires a drilling team to dig wells, and they can find a suitable location every time and pump out water from the shallow surface, it will still cost at least two or three hundred yuan per well.
The cost of money is secondary, the key is that it takes time!
This type of open well requires a drilling team and manual digging, and it takes at least eight to fifteen days to drill a well.
There are so many production teams here, and the fields are distributed all over the place.
Suppose a production team needs to dig five wells to ensure water supply during drought.
There were twenty or thirty production brigades under that commune, and at least a hundred wells had to be drilled.
Our Baishan County has more than 30 communes under it!
There are more than 3,000 wells. Tell me, how can we drill all of them? Where can we get so much money and manpower?
Moreover, even if so many wells were dug, when drought came, each well would require manpower to pump water out bucket by bucket.
In fact, it is not much easier than carrying water from the river, and there is no way to fundamentally solve the problem of getting water..."
After saying this series of words, County Magistrate Xiong began to sigh again.
The head of a county sounds very impressive. Just like the county magistrate in ancient times, he is in charge of the fate of hundreds of thousands of people in a county.
But in fact, only when you sit in this position can you truly understand the pressure and difficulty involved.
There is only a limited amount of money in the county’s fiscal account every year, but there are so many places where the money needs to be spent.
People's livelihood everywhere needs to be improved, and various disasters need to be alleviated.
The idea of digging wells for disaster relief was raised more than once by cadres at county party committee meetings.
But who doesn’t know that digging wells and getting water can alleviate drought?
But the key is...
With the limited financial resources of the county, how many wells can be dug in a year?
The efficiency and effectiveness of digging this kind of well are actually not obvious, and it is a waste of time and money.
While County Magistrate Xiong was speaking at length, Lin Huowang did not interrupt him.
After waiting patiently for him to finish, he smiled and said, "County Magistrate Xiong, the one you are talking about is a traditional open well. It is indeed costly and inefficient. What I just talked about is a new type of irrigation well called a pressure well.
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