There’s nothing we can do, they’re so anxious!
It is said that spring rain is as precious as oil. For areas suffering from severe drought, if sufficient water can be provided through pressurized wells after sowing in spring, the harvest of that year will increase by more than 40% immediately.
It would have been fine if he didn't know about such a good idea as pressurizing water wells, but it was County Magistrate Xiong himself who clearly promoted the benefits of spending a lot of money to pressurize water wells at the Standing Committee meeting last month.
Why is it that there is no movement at all now?
"County Magistrate Xiong, you must give us an explanation today. When exactly did you start digging the water well?"
"Yes, yes, yes! County Magistrate Xiong, we can wait, but the crops in the fields can't! The sooner the crops can drink water from the pressurized wells, the more production they can produce! These are food, and they are the lives of the people!"
"Is it a money issue? County Magistrate Xiong, I asked Lao Zhao from the Finance Bureau, and he said that the province allocated 20,000 yuan for water well subsidies, and you asked the Finance Bureau to reserve 50,000 yuan as a special fund for water wells.
This money is enough to drill 600 to 700 wells. Why don't you start quickly? You are really driving us crazy."
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In this era, most of the people who could serve as cadres in county-level units were revolutionary soldiers who had transferred to local areas.
They are dedicated to the public and are not afraid of hard work at all. The only thing they fear is that they are not capable of bringing benefits to the people.
Therefore, seeing such a good method that can significantly increase the yield in the fields, I really can't wait to roll up my sleeves and work day and night to dig wells and get water.
When County Mayor Xiong Xingwang saw the excited crowd, he also smiled bitterly.
He waved his hand and said to them: "I know you are anxious, but please don't be anxious.
I understand your feelings. I also want to drill the planned 1,000 water pressure wells immediately.
But now we have to follow the unified arrangements and coordination, right? Plans and programs are good, but they must be implemented bit by bit, step by step."
"No! County Magistrate Xiong, besides the secretary, you are the most powerful person in our county. It was you who proposed the water well. Don't we all follow your arrangements and coordination?
This... what are we waiting for? Hasn't the province already sent us the subsidy funds? Do we need to send an imperial envoy to oversee this matter?"
The director of the Agriculture Bureau immediately became unhappy, thinking that the province was going to send some cadre to take the credit, so they had to wait for him to organize it?
"You can come and take credit for it if you want! Bring tens of thousands of dollars to our county and we'll take the credit. But don't delay us! Come quickly if you want to."
"That's right! That's right! We don't care about any merit or promotion! As long as the crops in the fields can drink water from the pressurized wells as soon as possible, we will accept it even if it means a dog being tied to a horse as the leader."
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Xiong Xingwang was really amused by what they said, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt that what they said was quite ironic.
Although no one came to steal the credit this time, this phenomenon is not new.
"Don't overthink it. The province has no such intention. Comrade Lin Huowang told us not to act rashly and wait for him to make overall arrangements."
Fortunately, Xiong Xingwang revealed his cards to them and said.
"Hmm? It turned out to be Comrade Lin Huowang! That's all right. We trust him. After all, he was the one who proposed this water pressure well."
"Yes, yes, yes! Comrade Lin Huowang must have his reasons for saying so."
When they heard that it was an arrangement due to the strong forest fire, these deputy county heads and comrades from the Agriculture Bureau immediately changed their expressions.
Xiong Xingwang immediately caught up with them and asked them with both anger and amusement: "I say, how come you are so relieved when you hear that it is Lin Huowang? You don't even ask any more questions?
Could it be that I, the county magistrate, am not as authoritative as Lin Huowang?"
"Haha! Isn't that right? County Magistrate Xiong, let's be honest. I have seen so many capable people in my life, but I have never seen someone like Comrade Lin Huowang who is both civil and military, and who is dedicated to the public."
"Yes, yes, yes! Old Bear! Although Comrade Lin Huowang is young, I know many people. When it comes to getting things done, Comrade Lin Huowang is much more reliable than you, the county magistrate."
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Provoked by these words, County Chief Xiong also got angry.
He told them directly: "You don't know anything, but you just blindly say that you believe in the prosperity of forest fires. Do you know what this is called? This is called blind worship!
This kid Lin Huowang told me not to worry about the water pressure well parts for now, and he would take care of it.
Do you know what he meant by "finished business"? He was going to the province to collect money!
He wanted to rely on his reputation as a provincial advanced individual to beg for more than 100,000 yuan worth of water pressure well parts from those big factories for Baishan County!"
Wow!
You wouldn't know this until County Magistrate Xiong said this. Everyone present was stunned.
One hundred thousand yuan in this era is probably more valuable than one hundred million yuan in the future.
Even among the large state-owned factories in the province, who would dare to casually give out spare parts worth more than one hundred thousand yuan?
Everyone fell silent for a moment, realizing that what they had just said was a bit too much. It was indeed like what County Magistrate Xiong said, it was a bit of a blind worship of Lin Huowang.
"County Magistrate Xiong, you are right. Comrade Lin Huowang is very talented. However, it is really harder than climbing to the sky to beg for equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from the state-owned factories in the province..."
"Of course not! This is not a few hundred or a few thousand yuan, it is hundreds of thousands! Don't say that Comrade Lin Huowang is just an advanced individual at the provincial level. Even if the governor personally gave the order, without the official document from the government, those factory directors would not dare to make the decision on their own!"
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