The disaster in Ziyang City is much more serious than Ye Shaofeng thought. In the past few days, heavy rains fell in large areas in the Northeast, causing several large rivers in the province to burst their banks and cause flooding, especially in Ziyang City. This was the worst in the province. In the hardest-hit area, Ye Shaofeng had never thought that the disaster would reach such an extent until the mayor of Ziyang City, Song Zhongping, called just now. After listening to Song Zhongping's report, he broke out in a cold sweat on his back.
Nearly 50% of the fertile farmland in Ziyang City was destroyed, and production was reduced by more than 50%. Although the floods have been controlled now, large tracts of crop fields have been soaked in water. Farmers have no harvest and will not be able to eat next year. It's become a problem.
Farmers have lived their whole lives in the Northern Dynasty with the loess facing the sky, relying on farming to make a living. When the granaries are full, they are happy, but once the harvest is poor, it will have a direct impact on their lives. The fertile fields will be flooded. We You can spend money to buy grain and vegetables from other provinces to enrich the grain market in our province. It's just that the price is a bit high, but where will the farmers get the money to buy other grains? Once flooded, many families will be If it goes bankrupt, so many people will be displaced, and so many farmers' livelihoods will be blocked. What should farmers do?
Ye Shaofeng immediately called for a meeting with comrades from the Provincial Department of Agriculture. It was urgent to solve the food problem in our province. The director of the Department of Agriculture made a report at the meeting. His suggestion was to buy food from other provinces, hoard granaries, and don’t be alarmed if you spend more money. The key is to After this difficult period is over, farmland can naturally resume production after the floods are lifted.
The method mentioned by the Director of the Department of Agriculture is actually nonsense, because it is the only method that everyone knows. There is no need for him to explain this plan. Everyone knows that they can no longer produce food. If their food supply is insufficient, they must come from other sources. The province buys it, but how much does it need to buy? When will the flood be recovered? Moreover, a large amount of farmland is flooded. How much subsidy should be given to farmers? In addition to the food supply necessary for survival, is it also necessary to supply what is needed when production resumes in the future? Grain and vegetable seeds, as well as necessary chemical fertilizers.
Ye Shaofeng summoned people from the Department of Agriculture, mainly to hear accurate data in this regard. Only through the accurate figures given by the director of the Department of Agriculture can we prescribe the right medicine, and only then can the provincial government know how much money needs to be invested.
The director of the Department of Agriculture was still giving an impassioned speech. Ye Shaofeng had long been impatient, interrupted him, and asked: "Since the director has said that we need to purchase grain and other plans, what I need is, you The Department of Agriculture gave me accurate data. It is certain that we will sell grain. This must ensure the daily life of the people. You said that the production will be reduced by 50% this year. How much grain do we need to buy from other provinces? The quantity is the difference between the price and the grain sold by our province, we should pay for it, and we also have to pay for the logistics costs,"
"We can't pay much for the price difference. Let's take the price of cabbage in Jidong Province. The market price for some time last year was 40 cents per catty. The cabbage shipped from outside was basically 55 cents per catty. The difference between this pound and a pound is less than 15 cents, which is acceptable to the masses. Moreover, it is inevitable that the price of vegetables will rise due to the disaster in our province. I believe that the masses have been fully prepared for this amount of money. , we don’t need to pay,” the director of the Department of Agriculture said decisively. At this time, in the eyes of the director of the Department of Agriculture, Ye Shaofeng is a leader who “wears straw sandals” and doesn’t understand anything. Pay out of your own pocket.
But after all, the director of the Department of Agriculture is just the director of the Department of Agriculture. He does not understand economic matters at all. Ye Shaofeng said: "Do you think this year's market can be the same as last year's market? The reason why I have to make up the difference
, the point is not to compensate the masses for the 15 cents per catty price difference, the purpose is to control this market.
When we are hit by a disaster, prices will rise. In order to prevent prices from being driven up to a level that the masses cannot accept, our government must control it. Just saying that it is under control will not only be used, but throwing money into it is.
Of course, don’t just look at the money you are losing right now. It is this money that can help us stabilize the market and make the people feel at ease!
If the market is unstable and we regulate it, it will be difficult to control it. In the end, it is the people who will suffer, so instead of spending our own money, we must ensure the stable and steady development of the market," said Ye Shaofeng.
The people at the Department of Agriculture were shocked. Only then did they realize that their thinking was a bit short-sighted. In fact, Ye Shaofeng was not considering the price difference per kilogram of vegetables, but the stability of the entire market. If he wanted to develop the economy, he had to endure
The test is that no matter what the circumstances, you, the leadership, have to stabilize the market. If you can't stabilize the market, there's no point in talking about development.
Just like the current rising housing prices in the country, in a few years, the housing prices in first-tier cities have increased nearly ten times. At this time, are you thinking about regulation, are you still regulating it? It is already difficult for young people to buy a house.
Well, the housing prices in first-tier cities are so high that even an ordinary clerk would have to struggle for 40 to 50 years to buy a house of a small square meter. Those who suffer are the people living at the lowest level.
If a country wants to develop, what is development? It does not mean that you will develop if you name a few of the world's top 500 companies. It does not mean that you will develop if you become one of the top three economic systems in the world. It means that the age of the entire population must be improved. It is you.
Reduce the gap between people living in poverty and poverty alleviation, and continuously reduce the number of poor people.
It's better now. Those who are engaged in real estate are richer than the other. Just selling a sports team will cost tens of billions every year. However, the ordinary citizens living at the bottom have to get a bank loan to buy a house.
What's the point of such so-called development after borrowing money for decades?
Zhumen's wine and meat stinks, and the bones are frozen to death.
People from the Department of Agriculture conducted calculations on entering the market, and the final data reported to Ye Shaofeng was that in order to stabilize the agricultural market, the government would need to make a financial contribution of about 300 million.
This 300 million includes the supplement of grain, the loss of farmers' farmland, and the supply of seeds and fertilizers to farmers after production is restored. Of course, this also involves the permanent loss of some flooded land for producing crops.
In this way, the villagers there will have to get newly divided land. This newly divided land will also be a huge expense. Some villages will even have to be relocated directly.
Three hundred million is nothing to those big bosses, but it is a matter in the government. Who will give this money? Why should the Finance Bureau give it to you? The disaster relief funds will be announced by the Finance Bureau.
The number is 60 million. This 60 million is five times the 300 million that Ye Shaofeng needs. This money is not what Ye Shaofeng said he would take.