Chapter 1378 Poverty Alleviation Begins
The Pingyang Town Government has an earthquake.
On the second day after Xia Jian took office, Deputy Mayor Zhao received a notice of transfer from Pingyang Town. At the same time, Tong Jie was also sent a letter of promotion to Deputy Mayor. Xiong Sanqiang's punishment announcement was also posted on the notice board. No one in the Family Planning Office was spared, and even their director got out of the village with his luggage early on.
This is the first time such a big change in Pingyang Town. For a moment, everyone felt in danger, the working atmosphere suddenly changed, and those who were lazy to work in the past suddenly became diligent.
Xia Jian did what he said, and he summoned cadres above the deputy mayor and immediately divided more than 20 natural administrative villages in Pingyang Town. Since Liziwan Village has not been lifted out of poverty, Hejiaping Village is connected to Shangxiagou Village. Xia Jian simply classified all three villages under his name.
When Tong Jie saw that Xia Jian had all the three poorest villages in Pingyang Town in his area, she said on the spot that she belonged to the area where Xia Jian was. Because they were three poor villages, no one was fighting with them at all.
Secretary Wang said that he would go to the village to stay. Later, under the unanimous opposition of Xia Jian and others, he stayed in the town to preside over some daily affairs.
As soon as he had lunch, Xia Jian took Tong Jie and Niu Li to set out first. His task this time was very heavy. Three poor villages would be lifted out of poverty within one year. This was the Haikou he praised to everyone at the conference.
Tong Jie sat in the passenger seat and directed the route for Xia Jian. She smiled and said, "Master, you are the first mayor in our city to drive a brigade to work. We have benefited from you as well. This is so envious of the people in other towns."
"Hi! It's just transportation. As long as we can pull us to the destination, I can take any car." Xia Jian said while observing the road conditions ahead.
Tong Jie smiled and said, "It's really not possible to rely on the destination by car alone, we also need to use our eleven types."
"Ah! You mean we still have to walk. Can't the car drive in the village?" Niu Li, who was sitting in the back row, asked in surprise.
Tong Jie smiled and said, "There is no road to repair cars in Liziwan Village where we went first. It is about two or three miles from Heba to the village. Only a small path for people and livestock was built, so we have to walk up."
"Is that true? What about the other Hejiaping and Shangxiagou Village? We should let us walk even if we don't know!" Xia Jian asked in surprise while driving.
Tong Jie smiled and said, "The situation in the three villages is basically the same. Due to the poor conditions, no cadres were willing to come here. Later, Deputy Mayor Zhao volunteered to come here to stay in the village. At the beginning, everyone was admiring him, but later they found out that he had no one at all."
"What? Others didn't come here, where did that person go?" Xia Jian said as soon as he finished speaking, the car stopped. It turned out that there was no road ahead.
Tong Jie smiled and said, "Let's help my wife farm at home!"
When Xia Jian heard this, he didn't say anything. He didn't expect that the town cadres asked them to stay in the village to do this. If Deputy Mayor Zhao dared to do this, wouldn't the others be like him?
On the way to Liziwan, Xia Jian saw the real poverty here. Transportation turned out to be based on donkeys, mules and horses. The key is that there is no decent road.
While walking, Xia Jian was silently calculating how much it would cost if he wanted to build a road for Liziwan Village? Isn’t there a saying that goes? If you want to be rich, you should first build a road. It seems that the most fundamental solution here is to build a road.
As we walked along the way, we looked around and thought about solutions. By the time we arrived at Liziwan Village, the villagers had already started to work. Xia Jian stood at the entrance of the village and felt really uncomfortable when he looked at this small village with a population of only five or six hundred.
Looking around, there were all adobe tiled houses, and almost no one lived in brick houses. Moreover, the village road was dirty and messy, and it was piled up everywhere. Since every family raised livestock, it smelled unpleasant as soon as they entered the village.
When the villagers saw three new people in their clothes coming, they surrounded them, as if they had discovered aliens. Tong Jie asked a villager to call the village chief.
Xia Jian asked several villagers about the situation. What made him feel relieved was that the village looked so poor, but the villagers had sufficient food and none of them were hungry.
"Oh, Mayor! You are here." A middle-aged man in his forties ran over and shouted at Xia Jian and the other two, not knowing which one was the mayor.
Tong Jie had conducted an investigation before coming, and saw her laughing and asked, "You are the village chief Li Hulin! This is our newly appointed mayor Xia and the main person in charge of the Liziwan Village Poverty Alleviation Office."
When the onlookers heard that Xia Jian was the mayor, a few older villagers agreed to open the meeting. It was nothing more than saying that Xia Jian was young and promising, and he was already the mayor at such a young age.
Li Hulin ran to Xia Jian in two steps, smiled honestly and said, "Mayor Xia, the conditions in our village are too poor. Thank you for your hard work. I don't know what I need to cooperate with this time."
"It's not hard, where is the village committee office in your village? Let's go to the office and say it again," Xia Jian said very politely. When he saw that Li Hulin was an honest person, he respected him very much.
Li Hulin hesitated for a moment, then took Xia Jian and the other two to the village committee office. This was the simplest village committee office Xia Jian had ever seen. A adobe house with a broken eaves, and there were only a few stools in the house. A thick layer of gray fell on the table and stools, and it seemed that no one had sat there for at least several months.
A loudspeaker was placed on the table, which was the radio in the whole village. This should be the most valuable thing in the village. Tong Jie and Niu Li were very capable. Just when Xia Jian was watching randomly, they had cleaned up the dust on the table and stools.
"Mayor Xia! Our village has this condition, you will just be fine," Li Hulin said with an embarrassment.
Xia Jian smiled slightly and sat down openly. He smiled and said, "Captain Li! We came this time to help Liziwan Village to help the poverty alleviation. Our goal is to make your village get rid of the hat of this poor village within one year."
"Mayor Xia! You may have just arrived and didn't know that the town has been chanting the poverty alleviation slogan for several years to our Liziwan Village, but there was no action, so the villagers don't believe what you said. Besides, the conditions in our village are not ordinary, so it's not easy to get rid of poverty," Li Hulin sighed and said.
Xia Jian smiled and said, "There is nothing difficult in the world, I'm afraid of those who are determined. As the village chief, don't give up first. If you don't take the lead and rush forward, there is no need to say about the villagers. You call all the cadres in the village here immediately, and I'll hold a meeting for you now."
Li Hulin hesitated for a moment and ran away. Xia Jian felt very strange. You said this radio was idle, so why don’t you use it? He tried it and found out that the radio was bad.
About half an hour later, five people came from the village clerk, captain, and director of the Women's Federation. In addition, six village chiefs, all the leadership teams of Liziwan Village were arrived.
"I am the new mayor of Pingyang Town. Some people may have heard of it. I am from Xiping Village. The breeding plant in Xiping Village, the vegetable greenhouse, and the idle agriculture in Pingyang Town. This has something to do with me. The reason why I say this is to tell you that Liziwan Village will definitely be able to get rid of poverty and can embark on the road to wealth." Xia Jian said straight to the point and loudly.
When these leaders heard this, they started to talk happily. It seemed that everyone was still a little confident. Xia Jian continued: "I will arrange it now. Your six leaders divide the village into six areas and immediately clear the village road. Nothing can be piled up outside the wall, especially the feces of livestock."
"Oh, mayor! We are rural people. These things are closely related to our lives. You said you would not pile them on the village road, where will you put them?" A captain became anxious when he heard this, and immediately opposed it.
Xia Jian glared and said, "Excuse me, I know these are your current farm fertilizers, but stacking them like this will affect the village appearance, and the other hand, it will be really unhygienic. I will tell you here that in the future, Liziwan Village will not need to raise a livestock, but will fully implement modernization."
"If you don't raise animals, what should we do when we transport it? What else can we use to cultivate the land? This is too unrealistic!" another captain asked with a smile.
Xia Jian said patiently: "On the basis of sorting out the village appearance, we will first build a road leading to the river dam, so that it will be convenient for us to lead to the outside world, and then build a road leading to the ground. At that time, we will drive a tricycle to the ground. There are machines for arable land, so a few families can use one."
"Is that so? Village Chief Xia, I hope what you said is not just empty talk," Village Chief Li Hulin said with a smile.
Xia Jian smiled slightly and said, "Whether it is just empty talk, it depends on the result of everyone's efforts. Pie will never fall from the sky. The worse our conditions are, the greater our efforts than others, just believe in ourselves."
"Who doesn't want to be rich in the village? But there is no good project to get rich!" Li Hulin said with a long sigh.
Xia Jian smiled and said, "The project is not something you care about. The most urgent thing is to implement the work I just arranged for you. Listen clearly, whoever you six have not completed the task will be responsible. Give you two days, we will come to check. If the village is passed, we will immediately prepare the road."
"Really! That's great, but Murakami doesn't have a penny, and some of it's just labor," Li Hulin said happily.
Xia Jian thought for a while and said, "I will ask professionals to come over to measure. Once the measurement is done, we will start construction immediately. But you have to ask the villagers to prepare for this aspect in advance. No matter who the land passes through, no one is allowed to come out to block the road. In addition, during the construction of the road, the whole village must be dispatched."
"These are not problems. Our village has land. If you occupy less land, don't say anything. If you occupy the entire land, there will be mobile land in the village, so you can supply them. What you are afraid of is that you will collect money when building roads." Li Hulin said and raised the money again.
Xia Jian stood up, patted his shoulder and said, "We don't have money, so we don't need to harden it. I saw that there are so many small stones in the river dam, so we will first build a road with small stones and harden it when we have money. As for the cost of the machinery and equipment used, we will not let the village pay it out."
"That's good, the whole village is waiting for your good news," Village Chief Li said a little excitedly.
Chapter completed!