As Xu Guangshui said, the buildings on both sides of the road have mottled appearances, and the potholes on the road are filled with asphalt. Looking at them, they look like rags full of patches.

The curbs on the sidewalk are still old cement blocks. Due to years of disrepair, the edges of the cement blocks have long been worn away, and they are jagged and uneven, which is very unsightly.

The traffic order is pretty good. Pedestrians and vehicles abide by traffic rules, and there are very few cases of people running red lights without permission.

In addition, the streets are neat and clean, and sanitation workers can be seen cleaning up garbage from time to time.

From these two points alone, it is worthy of praise.

Mu Guangsen followed Li Yuanlang's request and drove around the old city before crossing the Dechun River Bridge and heading towards the new city.

After driving for about ten minutes, as soon as the car entered the new city, the wide roads and smooth roads were completely different from the old city.

The sky gradually darkened and the street lights came on one after another.

Just looking at both sides of the road, Li Yuanlang frowned slightly and asked Xu Guangshui: "It's quite quiet here."

Xu Guangshui nodded in agreement, "Isn't that right? If you look at the lights on these high-rise buildings, you can tell that the occupancy rate is not optimistic."

Mu Guangsen interjected: "I heard that some developers specifically hire migrant workers to work in unsold empty buildings, and turn on the lights at six or seven o'clock every night, and turn them off at ninety o'clock.

This creates a scene of thousands of lights.”

Xu Guangshui shook his head slightly and said: "There is no such phenomenon here. The initial goal of the new city construction was to target the resettled households. However, due to many reasons, the attraction was not strong and the original wish was not achieved, which resulted in the current lack of people and empty buildings.

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Li Yuanlang waved his hand and Mu Guangsen parked the car on the side of the road.

Afterwards, Li Yuanlang and Xu Guangshui got out of the car one after another and walked on the streets of Xincheng District, watching and chatting.

"Guang Shui, tell me what's the reason for the low occupancy rate?" Li Yuanlang asked.

"The construction of the new city was promoted by Mayor Wang when he was in office. In fact, this work was mainly promoted by Secretary Chen. Mayor Wang just implemented it according to Secretary Chen's wishes."

"At that time, there were two different opinions on the use of this fund. One was dominated by executive deputy mayor Kuang Zaohui, who insisted on using it for the renovation of shantytowns."

"The other party, led by Deputy Secretary Zhao Xin, believes that the renovation of shantytowns in the old city is not very attractive to developers. It is better to adopt a replacement method and hand over the land in the shantytown to developers for commercial development."

"At the same time, we will build new urban areas and allow the demolished households in shantytowns to move to the new cities. In this way, developers will have good land and will not have to worry about not being able to sell new houses. It will also solve the housing problem for the demolished households. It will be the best of both worlds."

"In the end, Secretary Chen made the decision and adopted Zhao Xin's opinion and went all out to build the new city."

"It's just that we encountered troubles during the implementation process. The previous plans to establish branches in the new urban area of ​​the City's No. 1 Middle School, the City's No. 6 Middle School and the City's No. 2 Hospital have been delayed. This is the main reason for the low occupancy rate."

"The No. 1 Middle School is a key high school in the city, the No. 6 Middle School is a key junior high school in the city, and the No. 2 Hospital is also a well-known hospital in the city. If they don't move here, they will lack enough attraction, and the people will certainly not have the desire to buy. Therefore, the number of relocation households is

If you don’t buy it, your sales prospects will be bleak.”

Li Yuanlang stopped and looked up at the tall buildings around him. Sure enough, there were very few households with lights on in each building. He roughly checked and found that the minimum number was five and the maximum number was no more than ten.

It's little enough.

"They don't move here, in addition to the above reasons, there is also the reason that it is too far from the old city."

Xu Guangshui sighed softly: "That's right. You saw it when we drove here just now. We passed the Jiangqiao and it's still ten minutes' drive away. If these units open branch campuses in Xincheng, they will definitely transfer a group of people from the original units.

Come here to work.”

"Most people live in the old city, and yes, every family has a private car now. However, summer is fine, but in winter, when there is heavy snow, transportation is inconvenient. So, no one is willing to come.

If it was done forcefully, the workers' objections would be too loud, and this incident would cause a lot of trouble, which was even featured on the news column of the provincial TV station, and the repercussions were huge."

"For this matter, Mayor Wang was severely reprimanded by the provincial leaders. He already had liver disease, and this criticism made his liver disease more serious."

Li Yuanlang walked a few steps and stopped, took out a cigarette and gave it to Xu Guangshui. After the two lit a fire, Li Yuanlang asked: "Guangshui, I have a question. Why do you think the new city is built so far away?"

Xu Guangshui flashed his cigarette butt, changed the subject and said, "Mayor Li, it's getting late, let's go eat first."

"That's fine."

The place to eat is at a fish restaurant not far from Xincheng.

Because it is close to the Dechun River, the business here is booming as it specializes in processing live fish from the Dechun River.

Considering Li Yuanlang's special status, Xu Guangshui and his party entered from the backyard.

In the reserved private room, the table was already filled with six dishes and one soup.

There was only one cold dish, and the rest were mainly fish. Even the bowl of soup was fish meatball soup.

The dishes are still steaming and they have just been served and arranged.

After Mu Guangsen waited for Li Yuanlang and others to sit down, Zhiqu walked outside and did not eat with them.

Now Mu Guangsen is no longer the old melon-and-egg man, and has made great progress in observing words and emotions.

Xu Guangshui filled a glass of wine for Li Yuanlang, picked up the glass and said, "Mayor Li, you are welcome. I will do it, you can do whatever you want."

Xu Guangshui raised his neck and drank it all in one gulp.

Li Yuanlang didn't ask for help and drank it all in one gulp.

Xu Guangshui was secretly happy that Mayor Li had given him enough face.

The two of them chatted while eating, and the topic couldn't help but turn to the issue of site selection for the new city.

At this time, Xu Guangshui had already drank a glass of white wine and was slightly tipsy.

He picked up a mouthful of fish and chewed it while saying meaningfully: "Mayor Li, let me tell you this. When the site of the new city was selected, a Taoist priest walked around the suburbs of the city for three days with a compass before finally choosing this location."

Li Yuanlang nodded frequently and said with some thought: "So, some people are superstitious that this is a geomantic treasure land?"

"That's natural. The Taoist priest who chooses the land will get at least this amount of benefits." Xu Guangshui stretched out a palm with five fingers spread out.

"Fifty thousand?" Li Yuanlang asked in surprise.

"Add a zero at the end."

Half a million!

Darling, you can put half a million into your pocket just by looking at a place. This is faster than robbing money.

But the key is, who will pay for this money?

Xu Guangshui shook his head and told the truth, "Of course such a large amount of money cannot come from the city, and there is no place to pay it. The developers have money, and half a million yuan is just a drop in the bucket for them. They can just find any reason.

Who would do a losing business when it is easy to make money?"

"Who is the developer of Deping New City?" Li Yuanlang asked casually as he picked up his wine glass seemingly casually.

"Jiaming Real Estate Company, the owner's name is Tian Jiayi."

Tian Jiayi, Li Yuanlang remembered this name.

He pondered deeply and did not ask further who made the decision to let the Taoist priest see Feng Shui.

Asking this way, one is that the topic is sensitive, and Xu Guangshui would not say it no matter how loud his mouth was.

The other one seems to have no city. It's easy to guess from such a simple question.

It is nothing more than between Chen Yushu and Wang Haichen.

Obviously, one of them is the municipal party committee secretary and the other is the mayor.

Only when they make a decision can it become the final decision.

Li Yuanlang analyzed secretly and already had the answer in his heart.

After drinking for three rounds, Li Yuanlang and Xu Guangshui talked about the Fan Youcheng Jingcheng Chemical lawsuit.

Xu Guangshui's face was red and his ears were hot after drinking, and he was very excited.

He took the cigarette from Li Yuanlang, put the cigarette butt close to the flame of Li Yuanlang's lighter, lit it, took a deep breath, and said: "Jingcheng Chemical left its own waste processing equipment unused and entrusted Yuantai Chemical to process the waste at a price lower than the market price.

, which itself has its own problems.”

"Fan Youcheng is a man who is smarter than a monkey even after he plucks his hair. On the surface, he does this to save money, but I feel that there are some unknown secrets in it."

"And that Zeng Tai, he knowingly took on a loss-making business and was legally responsible for dumping the waste. Yes, in the end, someone took the blame for him, and he himself hid without a trace."

"After this incident, Yuantai Chemical has lost its people and is completely bankrupt. I just don't understand why Zeng Tai did this? Isn't this digging a hole for himself and burying himself?"

So that’s it.
Chapter completed!