Chapter 186: Are you aware that you are building in violation of regulations?
There is a psychological law called Murphy's Law, which states that the more you don't want something to happen, the more likely it will happen.
Just when I was thinking that no one was looking for trouble, a few people came to the villa with flashlights and umbrellas, circled around, and when they saw the coal room, they wanted to open the door to see what was inside.
Several people were still whispering:
"Director Zhang, this house is very impressive. According to the information, they work at the livestock farm and the Agricultural Bureau. There doesn't seem to be anyone in the government office."
"Look, there are so many small houses built around here. They were all demolished later. They are illegal buildings. I don't know what's in all these houses. Maybe rice?"
"You're stupid! The rice is all stored in the villa. Who would store it outside? But that house is so tall and big. It feels like a warehouse. But this family must be a fat sheep with good supplies."
Director Zhang waved his hand and said a few words quietly.
Jing's father, who was still cleaning red nematodes from the drainpipe outside, heard the noise and ran over, shouting, "What are you guys doing sneaking around like that?"
In the dim rain, the three of them shone their light onto Jing's father, and there was no one else down there.
"Oh, hello comrade, are you from this villa?"
"I am, you are?"
The leader of the three was a middle-aged man wearing glasses. He had only two tufts of hair left on his bald head, and he was reluctant to cut them. He even disliked the red nematodes in the oil he produced. At this moment, he pushed his glasses and said:
"I'm the director of housing allocation for this area. My last name is Zhang."
"Oh, Director Zhang, hello." Jing's father was a little too enthusiastic after all. It was not easy to offend people in the government these days.
Jingshu hurried out after seeing the surveillance video. At this moment, she happened to be standing next to Jing's father, frowning slightly.
Director Zhang straightened a few strands of hair on his head and put on a serious face:
"Comrade, you're building illegally, are you aware of that?! Now that Wucheng is flooded, millions of people are left homeless. Do you know how difficult it is to find housing? These houses you've privately built in public places are so large that they can house at least dozens of people!"
Another young man said, "Not only is it an illegal construction, but your four large water tanks also take up space, and you added a fence around the villa that also takes up quite a lot of space. They all need to be removed."
Jing's father also realized the seriousness of the problem. Before the flood, no one lived in the houses here, but now the whole city of Wucheng was flooded, and so many people had no place to live. They couldn't live in flooded caves every day.
Even with heavy rain every day, the flood will not recede easily. Even the government buildings have to move. This may be a second resettlement after the disaster. They will live there for a long time until the flood recedes, so their community has suddenly become very popular.
"Director Zhang, you see, our warehouse isn't built in a public area within the residential complex. Strictly speaking, it's outside the complex. It's a bit large, but it's considered the back hillside. And a bare hillside like that wouldn't be inhabited, would it? But the small coal room you mentioned does occupy four square meters of public space. What do you suggest we do?
As for the water tank and the extra fence you mentioned, they are right in front of my house. Since they are public, I can use them. According to the previous law, as long as it does not disturb the neighbors, it is fine.
Jing's father went to the livestock farm and had to talk to some difficult people every day. After half a year of experience, Jingshu had made a lot of progress without thinking. She spoke beautifully. Of course, half of these words were the result of Jingshu instilling ideas into Jing's father every day.
Another young man behind Director Zhang pointed to the tall and large garage and said:
"Land is in short supply now. All buildings are illegal, no matter where they are. Whether they are 4 square meters or 400 square meters, they are all houses and can be lived in. Now we give you two choices. The first is to contribute all the houses above and obey our allocation of people to live in them.
The second is to tear it all down!"
Jing's father frowned and held back his anger.
Director Zhang pressed the young man's hand down and said, "Young people nowadays should not be so impulsive. We will all live together in the future. We leaders should also be more considerate of the people."
Well, that's a bit inhumane of you."
Director Zhang smiled and smoothed the greasy hair on his head. "It's okay to leave the water tank here. It's also okay to put up the extra shed you built. Even the extra fence used to be for landscaping, but now it's useless, so you can use it. It's okay. We can both take a step back now, and the new policy has just come out.
For self-built homes, a new monthly rental fee of one virtual currency per square meter is required. This applies regardless of whether you live in the residential complex or in the backyard. However, the new policy is not perfect yet, so you should just pay a monthly rental fee of 100 virtual currency. If you don't tell me, and I don't tell anyone, no one will know about this."
"Director, you, you...if the higher-ups find out about this, they'll probably punish you."
"Isn't this too cheap for them?"
The effect of one playing the good guy and the other playing the bad guy is so good that the acting is so realistic that Jing's father almost believed that Director Zhang was taking care of him.
Jingshu had talked to him about the illegal construction issue yesterday, saying that he would just pay some money and the matter would be settled, but today the matter came to him.
"Are you really from the government?" Jing's father still had a little doubt.
"What do you mean? Do you doubt us? Open your eyes and see clearly, this is my job title in the big data." A young man showed his mobile phone to Jing's father.
"Look, this is from our director. See? This is the QR code for collecting virtual currency from those illegal buildings. Please scan it. Please note that only supermarkets can trade virtual currency now. I personally do not support trading virtual currency."
Jing's father took out his mobile phone and scanned it, and found that it was indeed the same process as the supermarket. He believed it most of the time because it showed the balance: 960 virtual currency.
Jing's father has never had such a huge sum of money since he got married. If the trading system had not been opened, Jing's father would not even be able to save this salary.
Director Zhang and the other three people's eyes widened immediately. This person in front of them... is really a fat sheep.
They couldn't understand how Jing's father, a small manager at a livestock farm, could save so much virtual currency. Didn't he ever spend it?
You have to know that even in their position, the government provides meals every day, but they have a whole family to support at home. They not only need to eat white rice every day but also some vegetables, all of which require virtual currency. Sometimes they also use virtual currency to exchange for paper and other daily necessities.
They actually guessed right. Jingshu's family currently had nothing to spend the virtual currency on. After all, virtual currency could only be used to buy food and simple daily necessities.
Other things, such as electricity, are limited in quantity and only available at 7:00 a.m. every day, and strategic materials such as natural gas, oil and coal have been closed to the public.
Therefore, it may only be of some use to Jingshu's family after the virtual currency system is fully opened and supports personal transfer and trading business.
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