Xie Wan nodded affirmatively: "Of course, everyone actively discusses, if you can really make this happen, and make the stone factory and brick factory profitable, wouldn't it be normal to give bonuses to the employees from a portion of the profits?
I am just offering an idea. The highways are managed by your Transportation Bureau. We gave you the money to build them. How to maximize the economic benefits of the roads is up to everyone to brainstorm and work together to find a solution.”
Now, the discussion became heated.
The head of the Transportation Department raised his hand and asked, "Deputy County Magistrate Xie, can you approve the purchase of a few more vehicles for us?
Once the road is repaired, we can set up a transport team to generate income.
But passenger transport is not good, and buses are losing money because the fares are too low, so we can only do freight transport.”
Xie Wan thought about how bus tickets nowadays cost only a few cents, and the more expensive ones are only a few dimes, so it is indeed a loss.
But she remembered that when she was a child in her previous life, the streets were full of privately operated minibuses. The ticket price was several times that of state-owned buses, but there were still many people riding them.
So she asked, "How much does it cost to buy a domestic passenger bus?"
The head of the transportation department reported several brands, and the basic prices were between one hundred thousand and one million.
When he said this, the head of the transportation department felt embarrassed because cars nowadays are really too expensive.
Xie Wan also thought it was expensive.
Compared with the soaring prices of other commodities, cars have actually become cheaper and cheaper over the past few decades.
She thought of the production line that Zhenhua was negotiating in Europe, and felt that a passenger car production line should be established in Sichuan Province.
After all, roads will need to be built everywhere in the next few decades, and the demand for passenger vehicles will surely skyrocket.
Instead of letting them buy imported buses from Germany and Japan, it would be better for Zhenhua to cooperate with Sichuan Province and produce them themselves.
Xie Wan nodded and said, "Okay, but we need to do freight and passenger transport as well.
We don't need that kind of large passenger car, just buy that kind of medium-sized bus.
Existing buses continue to operate and fares remain unchanged.
But our new bus must be distinguished from the existing one, given a new name, and the ticket price must be recalculated based on operating costs.
Go back and prepare a plan and budget for the transport team, and we will discuss it next week."
After hearing this, the head of the transportation department nodded happily.
Once the transport team is run well, it will be his business in the future. He made up his mind to run it well.
Once the first person proposes an idea and gets support, there will be a second one.
Even the head of the administrative department came up with an idea: "Xie County Magistrate, I saw in the movies that people in foreign countries have signs hanging everywhere on the streets with pictures and slogans of products. I asked about it and they said that it is called advertising.
Can we also put up advertisements on the roads in our county?"
Xie Wan laughed: "Yes, that's called a highway billboard. When our road is built, we can also bid for it across the province to see if there are any companies in the province that want to buy the billboards."
She thought to herself that even if no other company bought it, she would let Chunfutang and Zhenhua buy it, and they would always be able to sell it.
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After discussing with colleagues from the Transportation Bureau for more than two hours and listening to many different ideas, Xie Wan made appropriate reminders and supplements based on the operating experience of future highways and expressways.
When these comrades left Xie Wan's office, they were all in high spirits and full of energy.
After Xiao Fang, who was in charge of taking minutes of the meeting, sent everyone away, he said to Xie Wan with some concern: "Deputy County Magistrate Xie, the foreign businessmen donated 6 million yuan, but you only had two hours to make a pledge and more than half of it was given away. Will there be no money later?"
Xie Wan smiled and asked, "Then do you think that any of the money I vowed to give out should not be given?"
Xiao Fang scratched his head and said, "It sounds like this money will produce results if invested. We should invest it. I'm afraid the Transportation Bureau will become the richest agency in our county in the future."
Xie Wan had a calculation in mind, and to be honest, six million was not a lot.
Fortunately, the money originally belonged to her, so if it was not enough, she could just think of an excuse to ask Chen Baoluo to continue donating.
She picked up the phone on the table, called the County Finance Bureau and asked, "The last time I went to the Education Bureau for a meeting, I heard that you have been in arrears with the salaries of those private teachers for a long time?
You must pay me all the overdue wages within two days..."
Then she notified the Education Bureau to come to the meeting.
We counted the number of village primary schools that had been closed across the county and asked the Education Bureau to find a way to resume classes in all of them.
A few days later, Transportation Bureau Director Zhang Tao came to invite Xie Wan to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the main road construction.
Xie Wan didn’t go.
She only asked about the origin and wages of the road construction workers.
The main construction unit is the county construction company.
Xie Wan took a look at the number of employees in the county construction company and was not very satisfied.
The manager of the county construction company was called into the office and told that the construction period of this road must be shortened by more than half.
She said: “After the late rice is harvested, it is the slack season for farmers.
We in An County lack everything except labor.
Our climate has no frozen ground period, so construction can still be carried out in winter.
You should mobilize the brigades along the highway and recruit local farmers to help build the road.
All farmers who participated in the road construction were paid according to their working hours.
You can discuss the salary with the Transportation Bureau and the local commune secretary. Do not deduct the farmers’ wages. I will send people to supervise at any time.”
When the manager of the county construction company heard this, he started complaining, saying that it would be difficult to handle the salary procedures for hiring temporary workers, and it would be difficult to explain if the higher-ups investigated.
In fact, there is precedent for this kind of thing. The county construction company just wanted to keep all the project funds in its own hands.
After all, there haven't been any major projects in An County for many years. There are rural areas everywhere, and farmers don't need their construction companies to build houses.
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