Chapter 3 old stool

After get off work at noon, Hou Weidong began to think about where to have lunch.He walked to the window, just in time to see Zhao Yongsheng got into Santana, and Santana drove out of the compound in a flash, bringing up heavy dust. When Hou Weidong first arrived in Qinglin Town, he was deeply impressed by the streets full of garbage and dust.Seeing dust again at this time, he continued his previous thinking on the hillside: "Renovating Qinglin Laochang Town is a good way to improve the prestige of the new government. Although the old town cannot be completely changed in a short time, the final At least the sanitation of Laochang Town can be improved, this is a tangible achievement.”

At this time, Su Yajun, director of the Social Affairs Office, appeared in the yard.Hou Weidong shouted: "Director Su, wait a minute." Social Affairs Office is the abbreviation of Social Affairs Office.Su Yajun, the director of the social affairs office, is forty-six years old. He has a long working experience and a familiar face. In addition to being restricted by age, his political life has ended. He is a standard office boss. Hearing Hou Weidong's shout, Su Yajun stopped and waited in the yard. In his life experience, the deputy mayor of the skipping ticket is the tail of a rabbit. In addition, he knew that Zhao Yongsheng had a good opinion of Hou Weidong, so he took a respectful and distant attitude towards the deputy mayor in charge.

"Hou Zhen, what's the matter?" Hou Weidong smiled and said: "Let's eat together, call other comrades from the Social Affairs Office, I will treat you, and Director Su will set the location." He was the deputy mayor at the beginning, and he didn't want to be a polished commander, so he took the initiative to show his favor to Su Yajun. Su Yajun knew that Hou Weidong was the owner of Shangqinglin Quarry, and when he heard that he was going to treat guests, he was not polite, and said: "Liu Weibin, the secretary of the village branch of Hekou Village, opened a farmhouse at home. The environment is good, and the taste is not so good. Let's go to his place. "

Hou Weidong said bluntly: "Okay, let's go to Hekou Village." "Then I'll make a paging so that Zeng Qiang and the others will come back." Su Yajun said as he walked towards the office. "You don't need to go to the office, use my mobile phone." At this time, mobile phones are still rare in Qinglin Town. Except for Zhao Yongsheng and Su Ming who each have one, only Hou Weidong among the members of the party and government leadership team uses mobile phones.Zhao and Su are spending with public funds, while Hou Weidong is purely private. Su Yajun said nonchalantly: "I don't know how to use these foreign things, so I'd better go to the office and make a phone call."

Hou Weidong put the phone back in embarrassment, but in order to fight for the boss, he didn't care, put the phone back in his pocket, and followed Su Yajun to the office. While waiting for the page in the office, Su Yajun rolled his eyes and said, "Mayor Hou, I have something to report to you. The Social Affairs Office is in charge of the radio station and the Civil Affairs Office, and it has a wide range of points, especially the upcoming funeral reform. The task is very heavy. Can you try to buy a van? It’s only tens of thousands of dollars! The family planning office has bought a van, they manage the living, we manage the dead, and the town must treat them equally.”

The government of Qinglin Town established a financial leadership group, and the mayor, Su Ming, was subject to many restrictions on spending money. As the deputy mayor, Hou Weidong had no say in spending money.Su Yajun posed a difficult problem for Hou Weidong. Hou Weidong said honestly: "I am the deputy mayor, and I can solve it with a drink, but I don't have the right to buy a car. I am a real person, I can do it if I can, and I won't force myself to talk big. If you really want to buy a car , let’s report to Secretary Zhao and Mayor Su together.” Su Yajun's original intention was to give Hou Weidong a difficult time, but he didn't expect him to speak so truthfully, but he found it boring, so he stopped mentioning it.

Zeng Qiang, Yang Chuanmin, Wang Rong, Cheng Yilin and other social affairs office staff arrived at the office one after another. When they heard that Hou Weidong invited everyone to Hekou Village for dinner, all of them were smiling.The group came outside the town and waited for more than 20 minutes by the side of the road before a bus came and swayed to the gate of Liu Weibin's house in Hekou Village. Liu Weibin, secretary of the village branch of Hekou Village, is a well-known shrewd person among the cadres of Xiaqinglin Village. A few years ago, he went to Guangdong and Fujian to do flower and tree business.After returning to Qinglin Town, I set up a nursery at home. I bought high-end small flowers and trees from the Fujian Flowers and Trees Wholesale Market. After transplanting, I raised them for a few years, and then sold them to Yiyang and Shazhou.

Next to the nursery is a pond with a few acres of land, and there are fish in the pond. It has become a simple farmhouse integrating fishing, flower viewing and eating.This is the experience of Liu Weibin who moved here from the coastal area. It is still a new thing in Yiyang County. Every Sunday, as long as the weather is good, the business is good. Since it was Wednesday, there was only one table of guests in the farmhouse.Liu Weibin took care of the flowers and plants leisurely. When he saw Su Yajun and others coming in, he put down the water bottle and greeted him, "Director Su, why are you here now?"

Su Yajun pointed to the person behind him and said, "Today is Mayor Hou's treat." Only then did Liu Weibin recognize Hou Weidong, and said enthusiastically, "It's the first time for Mayor Hou to visit our Hekou Village. I'll call Director Yang over later, and this meal is a treat for Hekou Village." "Secretary Liu, I'm going to invite the social affairs office to dinner today. Don't compete with me for the meal money. I'll have more time to go to Hekou Village in the future. You can invite me again then." "How can this be? Mayor Hou's first visit to Hekou Village should be a treat for us."

Hou Weidong insisted: "Today, I have the final say. I heard that the fat intestine hot pot fish you made tastes good, so I will order this dish." Liu Weibin arranged his life at noon, and came to Hou Weidong's side again. He took out a pack of Hongtashan from his crumpled suit pocket and scattered cigarettes for everyone. Hou Weidong looked around, and said: "Nongjiale has already established a large scale in Shazhou, and people in the city are fashionable to go to the farmhouse for leisure on weekends. The environment here is not bad, but it is a little far away from the county seat. You can consider opening a farmhouse near the county seat."

"If you go to the edge of the city to open a farmhouse, the cost will be much higher. I am using the ready-made land." "Then your farmhouse must be more distinctive, so that there will be more customers. When the weather warms up, I will bring Yiyang's friends to play." "Everyone brought by Hou Zhen will get a 30% discount." Su Yajun has been observing Hou Weidong, and seeing that he and Liu Weibin had a flirtatious conversation, he secretly said: "Hou Weidong is quite experienced, not the legendary stunned young man." During the third round of drinking, Hou Weidong brought the topic to funeral reform, and said to Liu Weibin, "The whole city of Shazhou is going to carry out funeral reform. What do you think in the village?" Liu Weibin hiccupped and said, "I saw the news on TV and knew about it. Qinglin Town is a mountainous area, and people can be buried everywhere. It's impossible for this to happen." Hou Weidong took the initiative to publicize, saying: "The purpose of the funeral reform is to change customs, save land resources, and reduce funeral expenses. The provincial, city, and county governments have made great determination. Shazhou City has issued a government order. From May 1st, all burials are not allowed, they must be cremated, and the Civil Affairs Bureau will provide certain subsidies after cremation.” Yang Wenwu, director of the village committee, used to be a private teacher, and he can be regarded as an educated person among the village cadres. He knew the difficulty of this matter, shook his head like a rattle, and said: "Funeral reform is even more difficult than family planning. To carry it out, I don’t know how many fights and skins will be fought, it’s easy to say, but hard to do.” Su Yajun swallowed his words and concentrated on eating fish. Hou Weidong stayed in Shangqinglin for more than two years, mixing with the village cadres every day, and he had a clear understanding of what the village cadres were thinking. Draw a ladle and give each village a task. The village that completes the task can charge a certain land occupation fee, or a fine, to the burial households.” Liu Weibin heard that the land occupation fee could be collected, and he immediately realized what was going on, saying: "How to use the land occupation fee, and whether the town pays it to the county?" Hou Weidong thought to himself: "Smart people are just different. It seems that Liu Weibin has already sniffed out the hidden benefits." He said vaguely: "The land occupation fees are all used by the towns, and they don't need to be handed over to the county finance." The two village cadres looked at each other, and Liu Weibin complained: "If we want to carry out funeral reform, the village cadres will offend many people. It is difficult for us to do it." Hou Weidong stopped talking about it, and had two glasses of wine with Liu Weibin. After drinking several cups, Liu Weibin couldn't help asking: "Mayor Hou, you are the leader in charge, tell us the truth about the land occupation fee, how big is the village?" Hou Weidong said vaguely: "The town will retain a certain percentage of the fee for the village, which will be counted as work expenses. It has not been fully determined yet, it is just a big concept." Liu Weibin felt like a cat scratching his head when he saw Hou Weidong cheating.Due to the large number of people at the table, he resisted not to continue asking. Su Yajun was originally worried that Hou Weidong lacked work experience, could not grasp the key points of work, and could not control the situation of the whole town. If something went wrong at work, he would have to wipe his ass in the end.At this time, seeing Hou Weidong speaking and doing things in an orderly manner, he breathed a sigh of relief. Hou Weidong intentionally got Su Yajun, director of the social affairs office, drunk. After discussing business with the villagers, he took two beer glasses and poured two glasses of white wine. "Director Su, it's fate to be able to work together. Without fate, we would never be able to fight. Only with fate can we work together. Let's have a toast and wish a happy cooperation." Seeing a glass full of white wine, Su Yajun's eyes turned green, and he said, "Hou Zhen, this is not the way to drink wine." Hou Weidong was imposing: "How do you drink? Is there a law? I'll drink first, so don't dawdle." He deliberately wanted to get Su Yajun drunk today, so he didn't show any mercy. Hou Weidong drank the big cup.Under the cajoling of Liu Weibin and other village cadres, Su Yajun hesitated for a while, but still bit the bullet and drank the glass of baijiu. After lunch in Hekou Village, it was already 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Su Yajun, director of the social affairs office, passed out drunk on the spot and was dragged to the bed of the village party secretary Liu Weibin. Hou Weidong was also drunk, but he became more forthright, and said to Zeng Qiang and the others: "There is a saying in Qinglin Town that the style of wine is judged by style, and the quality of brand is judged by character. Today, through the test of alcohol consumption of the Social Affairs Office, it shows that the Social Affairs Office is A particularly capable team." Two lesbians who were not drunk in the Social Affairs Office looked at the drunken men and listened to Hou Weidong's rhetoric, covering their mouths and laughing. Hou Weidong patted the deputy director Zeng Qiang on the shoulder and said: "Climbing Qinglin Mountain after drinking is a fatal thing. I won't go back to town. I will go to Yiyang Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow morning. You and Director Su will wait for me in the office in the afternoon." Liu Weibin was thinking about the land occupation fee, and dragged the half-drunk Hou Weidong into the house. Hou Weidong patted Liu Weibin on the shoulder and said, "Currently all official documents in the county do not mention the land occupation fee, so the matter of the land occupation fee cannot be disclosed. You must keep it a secret." "Don't worry, I will keep it secret. How much is the land occupation fee for each piece of land, and what is the return ratio?" This is the data that Liu Weibin cares most about. "I haven't researched it at the party-government joint meeting. I'll just give you a rough idea. The land occupation fee ranges from 5,000 to 10,000 yuan per unit, and the ratio is about 10% to 20%." , in addition to working in the village, he has to engage in agricultural production to support his family.Using RMB to attract village cadres is one of the important means for the town government to deal with rural cadres. Liu Weibin calculated in his mind: "Last winter, twenty-five people died in the whole village. If ten households could receive the land occupation fee, and each household would receive five thousand for the time being, they would be able to receive more than fifty thousand. If the proportion in the village was raised by 10 %, it is 5,000 yuan; if you raise it by 20%, it is 10,000 yuan." His algorithm is very close to Zhao Yongsheng's idea. The salary of the deputy mayor of Qinglin Town is only a little over 400 yuan, plus bonuses throughout the year, the annual income is only more than 5,000 yuan.After the accounts were settled, Liu Weibin's enthusiasm was mobilized, but he said in his mouth: "Funeral reform is difficult. In the village, rats get angry at both ends of the bellows. If the return rate of land occupation fee is higher, everyone may still be motivated. Willing to do these things that offend people." After talking about things, Hou Weidong and Liu Weibin came out of the house.Everyone waited on the side of the road for a while, and a large truck stopped with harsh brakes.The weight of the car body plus the weight of gravel is tens of tons, making the road tremble constantly under the pressure.The truck driver stuck out his head and said, "Crazy Hou, where are you going?" "Yi Yang." The truck driver patted the door and said, "Get in the car." Seeing the big truck going away with the dust, Zeng Qiang hiccupped and said to the little girl Cheng Yilin: "Hou Weidong is a king of the mountain. Compared with him, Director Su's drinking capacity is far behind him."