280. Chapter 280 If you want to be rich, build roads first

Author: Mahjong Jun

Chapter 280 If you want to be rich, build roads first

Pingyang County, Zheshan Commune.

Having a car has made Zhao Wenmu much more convenient when inspecting various places in Zheshan Commune. You must know that during the hot, humid and rainy mushroom harvesting season in the past two years, he has ridden his bicycle to and from various places many times, which is simply miserable.

However, after driving the car, he realized that his thinking was still too simple.

It is true that it is much more comfortable to sit in a car without having to worry about the wind or sun, or having to pedal hard by yourself.

But the road conditions in this era are really bad.

Especially the barren and mountainous Zheshan Commune.

The car kept bumping on the country dirt road, and Zhao Wenmu felt like he would vomit out his New Year's Eve dinner if he continued like this.

"Xiao Wu, stop first, stop first!"

Zhao Wenmu couldn't bear it anymore and asked the driver Xiao Wu to park the car on the side of the road. He immediately got out of the car and kicked his legs, stretched his waist and twisted his neck.

After all, Daben was too eye-catching. For comfort and safety, Zhao Wenmu specially hired a driver and bodyguard Xiao Wu.

Shi Hou is also studying hard and moving towards becoming a bodyguard and secretary.

Unexpectedly, when Zhao Wenmu, Shi Hou, and Xiao Wu were standing on the roadside to rest, the originally sunny weather suddenly changed, and it soon began to rain heavily.

The three of them got in the car immediately.

The wipers were swinging back and forth rhythmically, and the vision in front of me was still extremely poor.

Heavy raindrops slapped on the dusty road, and the sky and the earth soon became dim. The muddy rainwater covered with mud dripped on the car windows, making the surroundings a mess.

Soon they fell into an even more embarrassing situation.

The car got stuck on the road.

The car with insufficient road grip struggled to move on the soft ground after the rain, and it didn't take long before it completely collapsed.

The tires were idling feebly, and the turbid rainwater was thrown away, splashing all over Shi Hou's face and body as he stood behind the car.

Xiao Wu controlled the vehicle, while Zhao Wenmu and Shi Hou pushed the vehicle in embarrassment in the heavy rain.

The three of them fought hard and finally pushed the car out.

By this time, Zhao Wenmu and Shi Hou had already been soaked in the rain.

However, after driving less than two hundred meters, the car got stuck in the rain again.

"Grass!"

Zhao Wenmu was so angry that he kicked the wheel of the car.

"Boss, why don't you wait here while I go to the commune to borrow a tractor to tow the car out?"

Xiao Wu always calls Boss Zhao Wenmu respectfully.

"That's all I can do, sorry for bothering you!"

Zhao Wenmu and Shi Hou got back in the car, while Xiao Wu walked in the rain to the commune station.

Fortunately, we were not far from the location of the commune, and the sound of tractors could be heard after more than half an hour.

The tractor driver from the commune drove the truck, and Xiao Wu and another young man stood at the connection between the front and the body of the truck, and they came here in the rain.

The tractor is extremely adaptable to this kind of road conditions. The driving wheels, which are half a man tall, have deep grooves, which make the tires and the ground closely fit together. The enough grip gives enough room for its abundant power to be used.

After pulling the hemp rope, the driver began to slowly accelerator. Amidst the deeper roar of the engine, thick black smoke came out of the chimney on the right side of the tractor's front.

The tractor easily pulled out the Mercedes-Benz and then dragged it forward.

The only slight drawback is that the front of the tractor is too light. When the vehicle increases its horsepower output, the front of the tractor begins to tilt up, especially on a hilly section.

Upon seeing this, the young man immediately stood on the front bumper of the tractor skillfully, holding both sides of the front of the tractor with both hands, and used his own weight to help the tractor stabilize the front of the tractor.

This situation is common to everyone, especially during the busy farming season when tractors load a large amount of grain.

This kind of road condition exists near the commune station, not to mention other places.

Zhao Wenmu and others had no choice but to live temporarily in the commune.

In the evening, Zhao Wenmu served as the host and invited everyone to dinner as a way of expressing his gratitude. After drinking for three rounds, Zhao Wenmu couldn't help but sigh:

"Oh, no wonder even during the ignorant and backward Qing government, the imperialist powers would rush to build railways in China. The lack of convenient transportation really has a great impact!"

The young man riding in the car today and the only one in the commune with a night school degree, Ma Youyi, heard this and said with some disdain:

"Hmph, the great powers naturally do not do it out of benevolence, but they can use this to control the Qing government's finances and tax sovereignty, open the door to China, and make it easier for them to dump goods and seize resources! Those railways are clearly a rope wrapped around the necks of the Chinese people.

, keep sucking our blood!”

Zhao Wenmu did not refute what the young man said, because it was indeed true.

However, Zhao Wenmu is a very important person to Zheshan Commune after all. Almost half of the villagers in the commune have lived a better life because of him. The experienced commune secretary immediately smoothed things over:

"Xiao Zhao is right. There is nothing wrong with the road itself. The key lies in how it is used and who uses it. Isn't our commune just suffering from bad roads?"

Zheshan Commune is mountainous and has rugged terrain, and the resulting bad road conditions really made everyone miserable.

"Secretary Zhang, if you want to get rich, you must first build a road! Do you think you should consider building a road from the commune to the county?"

Zhao Wenmu suggested.

In his opinion, it is worthwhile to build a gravel road dozens of kilometers long.

Although there is currently no condition to build the road to the village, even if it is only built to the commune, it will be of great convenience to everyone.

In this era, labor costs were very cheap, and some members could even be mobilized for free, so the cost of road construction would not be very high.

"Xiao Zhao, you have wronged me. It's not that the commune doesn't want to build this road, it's just that the commune has no money! You also know what's going on in our commune..."

The actual situation is that the commune cannot even afford the stones for road construction.

Because of this, the dirt road became bumpy after a few rains, and then the commune mobilized its members to dig and fill in the holes to make it smooth. Within a few days, it became bumpy again, and the commune had to mobilize its members to dig and fill in the holes again.

Just go back and forth like this.

Secretary Zhang secretly observed Zhao Wenmu while complaining.

Naturally, the reason why he complained was not to complain, but to see if he could get some "sponsorship" from Zhao Wenmu.

Zhao Wenmu has a precedent in this regard. The classroom in the commune primary school was built with his own money last year.

After a storm in June last year, a thumb-thick gap appeared on the east wall of the front classroom diagonally across the entire wall. Unfortunately, all students had to squeeze into the three classrooms in the back to attend classes.

Zhao Wenmu was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat when he learned about this situation.

He immediately donated money to the commune and took advantage of the summer vacation to tear down all the classrooms and rebuild them.

No one can make the child suffer!

But now and then, Zhao Wenmu neither intends to undertake the road construction nor can he undertake it.

The commune is actually capable of solving this matter.

"Secretary Zhang, our commune has so many mountains, is it possible that we are still lacking stones?"

Zhao Wenmu asked with a smile.

"Boss Zhao, there are only big rocks on the mountain that cannot be moved. Where did the rocks come from?"

Xiao Ma asked back somewhat unhappily.

Road construction requires the use of small stones with even grains, not random large stones on the mountain.

Is it just that Zhao Wenmu doesn’t know this truth?

Thanks to book friend 20230604938981 for your monthly ticket~

Thank you everyone for your recommendation votes~
Chapter completed!