Chapter 530 Capital for Promotion

Bobai Chengdong Village.

When the three brothers Qin Jin, Qin Yuan and Qin Bao heard Qin Fu's proposal to get a few more buses back during the Spring Festival travel rush, they were very tempted, but they were not blinded by the money. Instead, they planned to investigate in detail what was going on before making a decision.

The reason why the three brothers can keep their composure is that, on the one hand, they are no longer young. For example, Qin Jin, the eldest brother, is already 50 years old this year. At this age, his experience is naturally not comparable to that when he was young.

No matter what I do, I am not as impulsive as when I was young.

On the other hand, the three brothers had competed with Tenglong Passenger Transport Company more than ten years ago, and they all knew very well how powerful this opponent was.

More than ten years ago, he had already been a well-connected figure in both the black and white worlds in Bobai.

Now, seeing that the Spring Festival travel rush is about to arrive, choosing to give up at this most profitable time is definitely not because the person is stupid, there must be a reason that Qin Fu doesn't know.

If they don't investigate thoroughly, they dare not invest their entire fortune to buy a few more buses. If something unexpected happens, all the money they have worked hard to earn over the years may be wasted, which is something the three brothers don't want to see.

Seeing his father and two uncles being so cautious, Qin Fu slowly calmed down and said, "Dad, second uncle, little uncle, I'll eat something first. I'll go find the people from Tenglong Passenger Transport Company and find out what exactly caused them to decide to stop running to Guangdong."

Qin Jin nodded and said, "Well, you must ask in detail. If it is really because of that infectious disease, then they will definitely be willing to explain it to you clearly."

…

In the previous life, there were many buses running from Bobai to Guangdong, and they were owned by different bosses. However, in this life, with the establishment of Tenglong Passenger Transport Company, it is a bit exaggerated to say that it completely monopolized the passenger transport route from Bobai to Guangdong. But apart from Tenglong Passenger Transport Company, there are only the buses operated by the three brothers Jin Yuanbao and the uncle and nephew of the Huang family.

Other bus owners can only run to some remote cities and have no ability to get involved in long-distance trips to Guangdong.

This uncle and nephew of the Huang family is the bus company that Huang Qiang and his cousin Huang Qi jointly operated.

The passenger transport route to Guangdong during the World Expo was first opened by Tenglong Passenger Transport Company. At that time, the three brothers Jin Yuanbao and the uncle and nephew of the Huang family saw that Tenglong Passenger Transport Company was making a lot of money, so they also plunged into the passenger transport field.

However, unlike the three brothers Jin Yuanbao, the uncle and nephew of the Huang family did not choose to compete with Tenglong Bus Company for routes at that time. Instead, they chose cities that Tenglong Bus Company looked down upon and operated the business steadily. Over the years, they have made a lot of money.

Now, Tenglong Bus Company suddenly announced that all its buses would stop running to Guangdong, which naturally alarmed the uncle and nephew of the Huang family.

Therefore, Huang Qiang, who had always maintained a good relationship with Tenglong Passenger Transport Company, immediately found the person in charge of Tenglong Passenger Transport Company.

After offering cigarettes and greeting each other, Huang Qiang couldn't wait to ask, "Boss Deng, I heard that your company is going to stop running the Guangdong route. I don't know what happened. Can you tell me more?"

The person in charge of the passenger transport company said: "Of course it is convenient. The reason why our passenger transport company made this decision is because there is a serious infectious disease in Guangdong. We are afraid that this infectious disease will be transmitted back, so we decided to suspend running to Guangdong."

Huang Qiang frowned slightly when he heard this, and asked in confusion: "A serious infectious disease has occurred in Guangdong? This... I go to Guangdong every day, how come I haven't heard any news?"

The person in charge of the passenger transport company said: "This infectious disease appeared not long ago. Now only a few leaders and medical staff know about it. Most people don't know about it, so it is normal that you haven't heard of it.

However, we are all brothers from Bobai, so I have to remind you that this time an infectious disease has never been seen before. Once you are accidentally infected, there is a risk of death. Even if you are lucky enough to survive, there will be serious sequelae. Only a very small number of people can be truly and completely cured.

So, whether or not your cars should continue to run in Guangdong is up to you to decide."

Hearing this, Huang Qiang believed it.

After all, they have dozens of buses, and the Spring Festival travel rush is about to come, so they just stop running. If the infectious disease is not serious, who would just leave the money and not make money?

Therefore, Huang Qiang said gratefully: "Thank you, Mr. Deng, for reminding me. I will go back and discuss with my seventh uncle and stop going to Guangdong. Although making money is important, there is no need to take such a big risk. I don't want to bring infectious diseases back to Bobai just to make money."

The person in charge of the passenger transport company smiled and said, "Boss Huang, you are right to do this. If you don't run to Guangdong during the Spring Festival, you can run to other provinces and cities. Even if you don't make as much money as running to Guangdong, at least you can still make money. You don't have to stop the train like this."

"Thank you for your reminder, Mr. Deng. I will go back and deal with this matter first."

"You're welcome, go ahead!"

…

Ever since Zhu Junjie was promoted and took up his post in Nanning, the county magistrate of Bobai County was replaced by a female leader, Li Haiyan.

Li Haiyan is from Yulin and is also Deng Yunsong’s classmate at Tsinghua University.

Although they were all top students at Tsinghua University, their circumstances were different after entering politics. Deng Yunsong was originally the top scorer in the college entrance examination in Guangxi that year, and was also an extremely outstanding student among all the students at Tsinghua University.

After graduation, he joined a heavyweight unit like the Ministry of Finance, and with the help of his father-in-law, he was promoted to a full-time department-level cadre in such a short time.

Li Haiyan obviously did not have the talent and opportunities of Deng Yunsong, so at this point in time she was just a deputy director-level cadre, a whole realm behind Deng Yunsong, her former schoolmate.

Of course, the fact that Li Haiyan was able to be transferred here to serve as the top leader of Bobai County proves that she is not far from being promoted to deputy director.

Although Bobai County was one of the top three most populous counties in the country in its previous life, it was not ranked high in the country in terms of economy and was even a veritable poor county.

It was not until a few years ago that Bobai County was no longer a poor county.

But in this life, Bobai County, in terms of economic strength, ranks among the top in the whole country, which is completely different from the previous life.

Therefore, anyone who is qualified to serve as the top leader in Bobai County can reserve the position of deputy director as long as no major mistakes are made.

As the top leader of Bobai County, Li Haiyan knew about every little movement in the county.

For example, Li Haiyan was the first to know that Tenglong Bus Company had completely suspended its bus services on Guangdong routes.

Li Haiyan and Deng Yunsong are alumni of Tsinghua University and are also fellow townsmen from Yulin, Guangxi. Naturally, the relationship between the two sides is very good and they have kept in touch all these years after graduation. After she came to work in Bobai County, she naturally knew that Deng Yunsong was a member of the Naye Deng family.

The name of the Ye Deng family is well-known not only in Bobai County, but also in the entire Yulin.

Li Haiyan knew that Tenglong Bus Company was a subsidiary of Deng Group. Now dozens of buses running on the Guangdong route suddenly stopped running, causing great inconvenience to the transportation between the two places. As a leader, she must of course inquire about it and find out what is going on.

Soon, Li Haiyan got the answer. Tenglong Bus Company stopped running buses to Guangdong because an extremely serious infectious disease broke out there.

After confirming that this was indeed the reason, Li Haiyan could no longer sit still and directly called her fellow villager Deng Yunsong.

After the call was connected and the two greeted each other, Li Haiyan got straight to the point and said, "Old classmate, your Deng Group's passenger transport company has completely suspended its routes to Guangdong today. The reason is that a serious infectious disease has broken out in Guangdong. How much do you know about this? How come I haven't heard anything about it?"

Deng Yunsong said: "I also heard about this from my father. According to the information he received, this is an unknown infectious disease. Once infected, it is very difficult to treat and there is a great risk of death. Even if it is cured, there may be sequelae.

In short, this is a very terrible infectious disease. As the leader of Bobai County, you must pay attention to it and do relevant protective work. You must not let this infectious disease spread to our Bobai County."

Hearing what her old classmate said, Li Haiyan immediately attached great importance to it and said, "Okay, I understand. I will arrange it later and do my best to do a good job of protection."

Next, the two chatted about family matters for a while and then hung up the phone.

…

When people face known dangers, the fear in their hearts is limited. Take the Korean War in the early days of the People's Republic of China for example. Facing the US-led coalition forces, it is impossible to say that the volunteers were unaware of the dangers.

But were our volunteers afraid? At that time, those who joined the volunteer army knew that this was a life-or-death struggle, but our brave ancestors at that time all embarked on the journey without hesitation to defend their country and compete with the most powerful enemy in the world at that time.

There is also the new coronavirus in later generations. Its terrifying infectiousness is obvious to all. However, because our leaders are bold, after the outbreak of the new coronavirus, the number of new cases every day was made public, allowing people across the country to see the progress of the epidemic.

The result is undoubtedly good. The people across the country cooperated very well and united as one, and finally defeated the epidemic.

So, known dangers are actually not scary.

However, when faced with unknown dangers, normal people will panic.

This was the case with the SARS outbreak in the previous life. Since the official data on SARS was not made public, some leaders even downplayed SARS when speaking to the public, as if it was just a common cold and not worth making a fuss about.

Therefore, in pharmacies, people are desperately rushing to buy medicines such as isatis root and disinfectant.

In stores, people are stockpiling various daily necessities to the best of their ability. Disinfectants such as white vinegar are out of stock on a large scale, masks are sold out, and prices are generally rising.

This panic did not really settle down until the country began to take SARS seriously, introduced various epidemic prevention policies, and announced new cases to the people of the country every day. This is the biggest difference between the known and the unknown.

When SARS broke out in his previous life, Deng Shirong had been staying in Naye Village. There were no cases of SARS in the surrounding towns and villages, so he was very unfamiliar with SARS. He and other people in the village had no intention of learning about SARS, mainly because they felt that this thing was far away from them.

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It was not until the outbreak of the new coronavirus that Deng Shirong learned about the SARS situation in detail on the Internet.

Therefore, Deng Shirong is very clear that many leaders now do not take the SARS epidemic seriously. When the SARS epidemic becomes serious to a certain extent and the country really makes up its mind to prevent and control it, that will be the time to "settle accounts later." Those leaders who do not take SARS seriously in their public speeches will definitely be held accountable.

This is actually a kind of explanation from the country to the people.

Deng Shirong was aware of all this, so he carefully called his eldest son-in-law, second son, third son and third daughter-in-law one by one, asking them to pay attention to this infectious disease, and even suggested that they organize and publicize some basic knowledge of infectious disease protection within their jurisdiction.

This kind of publicity of protective knowledge will not only save labor and effort, but also reflect the leaders' attention to the epidemic. When the SARS epidemic becomes serious and the country is truly determined to prevent and control it, it may be set up as a model for publicity.

By then, promotion will be a natural thing.

The eldest son-in-law, the second son, the third son and the third daughter-in-law all took Deng Shirong's words to heart.

Therefore, near the end of the year, when the epidemic in Guangdong really began to break out, the health departments in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangxi and other places began to publicize knowledge on the prevention of infectious diseases. The popularization of this protection knowledge is an act worthy of recognition even if there was no SARS epidemic.

Making such publicity at the beginning of the epidemic shows the wisdom of local leaders, which will undoubtedly be a plus for future promotions.

After all the universities in Beijing went on holiday, security personnel escorted Xiao Dong'er and Dongzi back.

At this time, the SARS epidemic was mainly concentrated in Guangdong, and the epidemic in Beijing would not break out until March or April next year.

…

After the 20th day of the 12th lunar month, every year is basically the same. In addition to purchasing New Year's goods, each household makes various kinds of rice dumplings, returns blessings, and worships various gods. This is what the people of Shuangwang Town do every year.

Deng Shirong's family was particularly lively this year. Except for the second son's family and the third son's family who did not come back for the New Year, all the other children came back.

Not only that, the younger daughter's parents-in-law and the younger son's parents-in-law also came.

With the addition of Deng Shirong's nephews and grandchildren, it was really lively and several tables had to be set up for dinner every day.

Deng Shirong, who has nothing to do, cooks delicious food for everyone almost every day.

For people who love cooking, they are not averse to cooking at all. The most annoying thing about cooking for most people is the early preparation of the ingredients. Take home cooking as an example, there are things like washing and cutting meat, picking and washing vegetables, washing ginger and peeling garlic, etc. Doing these trivial tasks every day is the reason why many people don’t like cooking.

Many people can even enjoy cooking if they do all the preparation and just do the cooking.

This is the case with Deng Shirong now. The early processing of ingredients is all handled by his daughter, daughter-in-law, and nieces and nephews. All he needs to do every day is to use his cooking skills to turn these ingredients into delicious food.

That afternoon, Deng Shirong prepared several tables of delicious food.

While eating, Father Feng said with great admiration: "My dear, this infectious disease has been named "atypical pneumonia". Everything is just as you said. SARS has really broken out in Guangzhou. It is said that many people have been infected."

Deng Shirong said: "SARS is only in its initial outbreak and has not yet reached its peak. Even the medical staff in the hospital have not yet realized how terrible SARS is. When there are more and more SARS cases, and even medical staff and patients' families are infected, that's when everyone will really panic."

In the previous life, after the Spring Festival, perhaps because of the increased exchanges and gatherings during the Spring Festival, SARS began to really break out in Guangzhou. The number of new cases increased day by day, and many of them were medical staff and patients' families.

It was at this time that the medical staff truly realized the horror of SARS.

Therefore, the medical staff who have come to their senses will call or send text messages to their relatives and friends.

According to the SMS traffic statistics of Guangdong Mobile Communications, the SMS traffic from February 8 to 10, 2003 was almost the same as the New Year greetings SMS traffic from the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month to the 1st day of the first lunar month. One can imagine how high the SMS traffic was at that time.

It was with the help of these text messages that rumors spread everywhere, and people made all kinds of terrifying guesses about this strange "ghost" of unknown origin.

Soon, long queues of panicked people appeared in front of major pharmacies.

In fact, most people don’t know what medicines to buy, they just follow the trend and rush to buy some antiviral drugs.

Soon, these drugs were out of stock, and people who couldn't buy them became even more panicked. There were still people queuing up when the pharmacies closed at night.

In sharp contrast, the streets are deserted, with few people visiting hotels, restaurants and various entertainment venues.

Father Zhou continued, "Fortunately, medicine is more advanced now than before. If this infectious disease occurred in ancient times, given the medical conditions at the time, I don't know what kind of consequences it would have caused. It might even be comparable to the horrific plague in ancient times."

"This is really possible. After all, even with modern medicine, many patients infected with SARS cannot be saved, let alone the medical conditions in ancient times."

At this point, Deng Shirong looked at his eldest son and asked, "Yuntai, have all the supermarket employees mastered the epidemic prevention knowledge?"

Deng Yuntai nodded and said, "We have already got it under control. Masks and disinfectants have been distributed to them. At the same time, notices have been posted at the entrance of supermarkets in Guangdong, requiring customers entering supermarkets to wear medical masks.

Customers who don’t have masks can buy them at the supermarket entrance. We have set up a special place to sell masks.”

Deng Shirong said, "That's good. This rule will continue until SARS is over. Have you stocked up on white vinegar and masks?"

"We have enough stock, so customers can buy as much as they want without worrying about running out of stock."

"Well, you should keep an eye on it. I estimate that the epidemic will break out soon, and then there will be a panic buying in the supermarkets."

"I know, Dad. I'll keep an eye on it."

(End of this chapter)