After more than half a month of familiarity, Su Yu finally understood the basic situation of the cofferdam.

It was the first time he went to the grassroots level to take charge of the cofferdam with a relatively unique environment. Su Yu was actually very cautious. He was not a person who liked to take over power. Besides, there was nothing worth fighting for in the cofferdam.

Due to the relatively unique geographical environment, the connection between the cofferdam and the county town has never been very close. This situation penetrates almost all levels, and this place is actually more like a self-sufficiency small kingdom.

The township's fiscal and tax revenue is extremely single, and the finance mainly relies on funding from superiors. Without financial subsidies and special poverty alleviation funds, the normal operation of the cofferyanping Township Government will be a problem.

Farmers’ income basically comes from the land. The cofferdam is located in the mountains, and the arable land is already barren. Due to transportation restrictions, the income is even worse. Not to mention the annual withdrawal of funds, it is difficult to guarantee agricultural tax.

There are very few non-agricultural household registrations in the cofferdam, only the township government and the school, so there is no grain station here. In autumn and summer, public grain purchases have to be paid in Shangyu Town or the county town. This is obviously unrealistic. Among the crops in the cofferdam, wheat and corn are produced very small, and more are produced in potatoes, sweet potatoes, soybeans, etc., which is good enough to fill your stomach.

Therefore, the township government's fiscal revenue mainly comes from two channels, one is a hydropower station and the other is a forestry station. The former sells electricity and the latter sells wood. Five small hydropower stations are for use by 3,800 people in the township. Even if it is a monopoly operation, there is not much income. As for wood, it is restricted by traffic and can only be placed down from the river, but there are also a lot of troubles.

Su Yu was in charge of the overall government work, in charge of finance, taxation, credit, poverty alleviation, post and telecommunications, but if you really want to look at it carefully, the focus is on economic work. The secretary takes the hat and the township chief takes care of the money bag. As soon as he took office, there was a big hole in finance waiting for him to solve it. The meal money owed in Hongsheng Hotel alone was more than 30,000, and the banquet he had on the day he took office was all accounted for.

These basic situations are all lice on the bald man's head. It is obvious that Su Yu learned the truth without any effort. After understanding what mess he took over, he had not considered a solution for this period. After thinking about it, he still started with the two resources he had mastered in the village.

There is no need to think about the forestry station for the time being. The country has repeatedly ordered that mountains should be closed and forested. Although the cofferdam forest area has basically not been deforested, Su Yu still does not want to make trouble for the forest, but has to continue to stop logging.

Therefore, the only goal is hydropower stations.

The hydropower station is the main source of fiscal and tax revenue in the village and the only enterprise in the village. It is under the supervision of the deputy township chief Jiang Yajun.

Before Su Yu took office, Jiang Yajun was in charge of the work of the township government, including the three township heads before him, and it was also common for him not to come to work in the township for several months. For example, the one who went to the development zone to be the deputy director, had never come to the cofferyanping township head to the transfer to the development zone.

So, for a long time, Jiang Yajun was actually the real village head.

Jiang Yajun is actually less than 30 years old. Before her father retired, she was the deputy secretary of Huaxi City. She was originally a selected student from the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee and took the initiative to ask to work at the cofferdamping. She stayed there for a full five years, but she was still the deputy township chief.

Su Yu has only recently learned about this deputy township chief. In the second year after she came to Cofferyanping as deputy township chief, her father retired from the position of deputy secretary of the municipal party committee. There are probably some other reasons, so Jiang Yajun stayed in Cofferyanping and was neither promoted nor transferred to another position.

In the past half a month, Su Yu had dated Jiang Yajun several times, and he was somewhat impressed by this deputy.

Therefore, after having an idea, I planned to communicate with Jiang Yajun first, after all, the hydropower station is under the control of others.

After thinking about it for a while in the office, Su Yu brought the water cup to Jiang Yajun's door, which was only a wall away from him. Hearing the sound of conversation inside, Su Yu knocked on the door, and then heard Jiang Yajun's unique voice saying, "Come in!"

Jiang Yajun sat behind the desk, and on the chair opposite him was a thin man in his fifties holding a dry tobacco pot in his hand, but he was just filled with tobacco and did not really spit out the clouds and mist in Jiang Yajun's office.

Su Yu still has some impression of this thin man. He once met him at the banquet on the day he took office. He was Qiao Wangshan, the secretary of Huaishuwan.

Huaishu Bay is one of the eight natural villages in cofferdamping. It is the farthest from the township government's residence. It is almost fifty miles of mountain road. If you walk, you will definitely not be able to get back and forth that day. Qiao Wangshan appeared in Jiang Yajun's office early in the morning. Needless to say, he came yesterday.

Seeing Su Yu appearing at the door, Jiang Yajun's eyes flashed with surprise. He stood up and walked around the desk, took a few steps before saying, "Please sit down, please feel free to say hello if you have something to do, why do you come here in person?"

Su Yu smiled and nodded and said, "It's just a few more steps. Are there any guests in the village head Yajun?"

Qiao Wangshan just glanced at Su Yu, neither saying a word nor raising his butt. Instead, he still held his cigarette mouth and took out a match to light the cigarette. After the faint smell of sulfur, the choking smell of dry tobacco immediately spread.

Jiang Yajun frowned slightly, then smiled and said, "The village chief Su is here. This is Lao Qiao from our Huaishu Bay. I came to the township government to ask about the power station. I am planning to report to the village chief Su."

Across a small coffee table, Su Yu and Jiang Yajun sat down on the single sofas on both sides, put the water cup on the coffee table, took Jiang Yajun's words and asked, "Oh, what's wrong with the power station?"

Jiang Yajun said: "It's about electricity bills, Lao Qiao is complaining."

The electric pipe station is the only enterprise in the township, but only the matter of the hydropower station, the electricity fee is collected by each village and then handed over to the township. Some expenses are also deducted in this process, such as the wages of electricians and village cadres in each village.

Therefore, the collection of electricity fees is actually directly related to the interests of the village cadres. If the electricity fee cannot be collected, the village cadres cannot even get their wages, and the power station will directly cut off the power.

Su Yu had already vaguely guessed what was going on. Before he knew it, he had stirred up a pool of stagnant water.

Although the villagers in the cofferdam have not produced much in the field, they have other incomes. They will pick mountain goods in their spare time. Some transport them to the county town for sale, and some sell them directly at Hongsheng Hotel. Therefore, even the families in the difficult situation will not be able to pay the electricity bill. Instead, they are dissatisfied with the power outage at the power station every few days.

The power generation equipment installed by Su Yu for his own convenience was originally just for his own convenience. What he had to do next was definitely not possible without a stable power supply, but what he did not expect was that first, several households of the Zuojiayan clan connected their electricity, and then the entire Chashugou village used their electricity, and no one said hello to him, and Zuo Gui nodded in agreement.

It would be okay to sell electricity as Zuo Xiaoqing said, but Zuo Gui felt that the electricity at home did not require capital, so he provided it to his neighbors for free, and even the power cords that Su Yu bought were stuck in.

Su Yu only found out when he heard Zuo Xiaoqing's complaints, but he couldn't say anything about this matter, and he couldn't save Zuo Gui's face, so he wondered whether to change the hydropower station in the village.

But he didn't expect that things would spread so quickly, and they would not worry about being inequality but not being equal. This is a common psychology among people. Although cofferyanping Township is not small, they are in the same mood as each other. Now they have a phone call again. What happened in Chashugou will be transmitted to other villages the next day. There is free electricity to use, so who can pay the electricity bill?

Sure enough, before Jiang Yajun could explain, Qiao Wangshan, who had ignored Su Yu, said sarcastically: "I heard that the family of Su Township Chief has free electricity for everyone to use. I wonder when it will be accessible to Huaishu Bay?"

Su Yu glanced at Qiao Wangshan coldly, but asked Jiang Yajun, "What's wrong with the electricity bill?"

Jiang Yajun smiled bitterly and said, "I heard that the electricity in Chashugou is free, so people in several villages are making trouble."

Su Yu said: "What did the electric pipe station say?"

Jiang Yajun said: "I have asked someone to notify Luo Nan, he has not come yet."

Luonan is the stationmaster of the township power station, and he manages the daily operations of the five hydropower stations.

Su Yu stood up and said, "Okay, let's talk about it when Luo Nan comes."

I had some thoughts in my mind, but after seeing Qiao Wangshan, Su Yu didn't want to say anything anymore.
Chapter completed!