The People's Congress ended on time at noon. The township canteen could not accommodate 30 tables, so more than 20 Eight Immortals tables were borrowed from the village and placed in the courtyard. The lunch was not very rich, there was no wine, but the food was enough.
Before the meal, presided over by Secretary Zhao Yuncheng, the three elected people raised their glasses to express their gratitude to the NPC representatives and attendees who participated in the election.
After lunch, Sun Zongyuan returned to his office and reflected on his journey to becoming mayor:
In my previous life, I entered the party and government work at the age of 25, worked as a middle-level cadre for two years before being elected as deputy mayor, and it took me six years to become mayor. By then, I was already 33 years old.
Now I am a little over 24 years old, and I am half a year away from turning 25. I have become the mayor eight years earlier than in my previous life. Fortunately, I did not embarrass the person who traveled through time.
I don’t know why, but I’ve never had the golden finger of a time traveler. How come it’s gone when I’m here?
Sun Zongyuan looked at his ten fingers, nothing had changed. It seemed that after he was reborn and traveled back through time, apart from his own understanding of the social development context and work experience, there was probably no special welfare policy for time travel. He had to rely on his continuous efforts!
As he was thinking, he fell asleep on his desk.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Sun Zongyu slowly woke up, sat quietly in a chair for five minutes, picked up the phone and asked the Party and Government Office to send a car. Then he wiped his face with cold water, tied a scarf, put on a cotton coat, and took a car out of the town government compound.
Sun Zongyuan didn't want people to say that he stayed in the office and didn't come out after being elected. If someone said that, it would be an insult to him. He had never been accused of being lazy in his past life. A person may have less ability, but he can be diligent.
When the car left the compound, the driver asked:
"Mayor, where are we going now?"
Sun Zongyuan thought for a moment:
"Let's go to a village in the eastern part of the Red Stone area and check out the latest work!"
After the merger with Hongshi Township, Sun Zongyu was not very familiar with the villages in this area. The driver's surname was Zhang, he was about thirty-five or thirty-six years old, and had worked as a temporary worker in the township government for five or six years.
Since Driver Zhang is from the southern part of Honghua District, close to Hongshi District, he is more familiar with some villages in Hongshi District than Sun Zongyuan.
While driving, the driver was thinking about which village to go to, and suddenly he thought of going to his father-in-law's village.
He asked Sun Zongyuan for instructions:
"Mayor, why don't we go to Zhuwang Village? There are over 600 people there."
Old Zhang did not say that Zhuwang Village was his father-in-law's village.
"Okay, let's go." Sun Zongyuan agreed casually.
In just over ten minutes, Sun Zongyuan arrived at the Zhuwang Village office.
The village committee compound occupies an area about the size of two residential plots, with six main rooms, three small auxiliary rooms on the west side, and two auxiliary rooms on the east side of the gate, where a small shop is opened.
Outside the yard stood a wooden pole more than ten meters long, with three large loudspeakers hanging on it in three directions.
The shop owner took the key to open the office, then quickly took out the tea bowl, teapot and a paper bag of tea leaves from the shop, poured boiling water into it, and then went out to call people.
After a while, a man in his forties rode a bicycle directly to the office door. He stopped his bicycle and hurried into the office. He shook Sun Zongyuan's hand tightly with both hands and said:
"Welcome Mayor Sun to our Zhuwang Village!"
After the greetings, Sun Zongyuan took out his notebook and asked about some basic information about Zhuwang Village.
Zhuwang Village has a population of 677 and covers an area of more than 2,300 acres of land, of which 830 acres are rocky ponds that are not suitable for farming or planting trees. There are 300 acres of good land that can be used to plant wheat in autumn and corn and sweet potatoes in spring. There are 340 acres of mountain land, and the remaining more than 900 acres are all mountainous land with some miscellaneous trees that can only be used for burning firewood and cooking.
The village’s collective annual income is less than 2,000 yuan, and the four village cadres haven’t received their salaries for four years.
The branch secretary is called Li Delai. After he introduced himself, I learned that he is a retired soldier. He has been the branch secretary for five years.
After introducing himself, he said to Sun Zongyuan with his hands clasped and his face flushed:
"Mayor Sun, my mother and your grandmother are sisters. When we were little, your mother and I often went to your grandmother's house to play."
"Oh, then in terms of seniority, you should be my elder, so I should call you uncle, right?"
"Well, that's how it is according to seniority, but you're the mayor now, and I don't want outsiders to know about our relationship. You're the most powerful official among our relatives, so my family will try not to cause you any trouble, so don't worry."
Sun Zongyuan thought about it and thought that it would not be appropriate to call him uncle when working, so he said to him:
"How about this, I'll just call you my cousin in private, and you can do whatever you want at work!"
"Okay, I agree!" After all, he was a military man, so he was very decisive.
Why didn't Sun Zongyuan recognize his cousin Li Delai? There is an old saying in Ganhe area:
If you are close to a girl, the family will be close for generations; if you are close to an aunt, the family line will be cut off after the aunt dies.
Generally, cousins from aunt's family still have relatives to visit, but cousins from aunt's family rarely visit when their aunt is still alive, and they basically don't visit after their aunt dies.
So it is normal not to know Li Delai.
As he was talking, a few more people came and Li Delai quickly introduced them:
"This is our work area secretary Wang Yihai, work area director Hu Rui, and our village director Zhang Qingjiang..."
"We know Secretary Wang Chuanhai. He was the head of the delegation at the People's Congress this morning!" Sun Zongyuan said while shaking hands with others.
After sitting for a while, Sun Zongyuan suggested going outside the village to take a look at the fields.
Six or seven of us accompanied Sun Zongyuan on foot to the outside of the village.
What Li De said was correct. Zhuwang Village didn't have many fields and they were very barren. Firewood forests grew on the hills. Some trees were only 20 centimeters thick after 34 years, and they were crooked and couldn't be used to make furniture or build houses. The more than 800 acres of rocky hills in the east were full of potholes and sparse grass.
On the way back, Wang Yihai reported on the progress of two recent tasks carried out in the town. Among the six villages in the Zhuwang work area, two villages have completed more than 30% of the three-increase and five-unified collection work, and the other villages are around 20%; the family planning work has made good progress. More than 70% of the married women of childbearing age who came to the station for health check-ups in winter have been completed. More than 40 people were found to have gynecological inflammation, and measures have been taken for the three unplanned pregnancies.
Sun Zongyuan walked and listened, then asked:
"What methods and measures are used for these two tasks?"
I was thinking that Wang Yihai's work progress was still quite far behind Jiang Chengyou's.
"Our work area strictly follows the tasks and objectives of the Party Committee and the government, and adopts a large-scale combat method. We arrange for working group members to visit villagers who do not cooperate!"
Wang Yihai looked at Sun Zongyuan's expression and said.
"Pay attention to the methods and approaches in your work, and don't hurt the people's feelings."
"Okay, Mayor Sun, I'll be careful next time."
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