In order to develop the local economy, improve people's livelihood, and achieve dazzling political achievements, Wang Tu has been very busy recently.

I am in contact with people from the business almost every day, trying to persuade the heads of the companies who come to inspect to invest.

As long as the local environment permits and makes the company profitable, the company may invest after considering the gains and losses.

Even if he really has no interest, for Wang Tu’s sake, he still has to invest some money to set up a small workshop, office or something.

After all, the reason why this group of businessmen came here was purely for Wang Tu's personal reputation. Even if it was to establish a good relationship with Wang Tu, a rising star in officialdom, they didn't mind throwing out some money to make a small investment.
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As for medium and large-scale investments, it depends on the situation.

For the time being, only Song Alin has relatively large-scale investment intentions.

Song Alin's Donglin Company itself has tea processing business, but in the past they purchased tea from other places for processing, processed it into tea bricks and sold them overseas, mainly for the market in Beijia area.

Well, although it is a cross-sea sale, it is not considered an export, because the Pekka area, that is, the Malay Peninsula, is the Malacca Province of the Chu Empire, and sales here are not considered exports.

However, being able to buy tea bricks in Malacca is a big step forward for Donglin Company. Song Alin has been trying to expand his company's tea business in the past two years.

But in the tea business, tea brick factories are easy to build, but the source of tea is difficult.

You can also find tea merchants to buy it. Well, that's what Donglin Company does now, but the cost is high... It's equivalent to being robbed of a wave of profits by those tea merchants.

Song Alin had been thinking about setting up a tea planting base several years ago to directly control the source of tea.

However, the domestic tea business in the Dachu Empire is already very complete. Whether it is the large tea gardens built by the enterprises themselves or the tea gardens of ordinary tea farmers, they basically have relatively fixed partners. Your Donglin Company ran over and wanted to

It is very difficult to have direct contact with tea gardens.

Moreover, we have to face competition from peers and even upstream tea merchants at any time.

Therefore, building your own tea base, growing part of the tea yourself, and then cooperating with local tea farmers to sign long-term supply and marketing contracts is the only way to grow bigger and stronger.

After inspecting many places in Heyuan Prefecture, he found that many of them are quite suitable for growing tea.

However, transportation in mountainous areas is inconvenient, and it is quite troublesome to transport tea from tea gardens in mountainous areas to urban areas for processing.

At the same time, there are also problems with processing the tea and transporting it to the Pearl River Delta and then loading it on ships for sale. After all, Dongjiang shipping is still not doing well.

Not to mention railway transportation, today's railway transportation costs are still relatively high compared to river transportation. For enterprises, transportation costs can be saved if they can... There is obviously a Dongjiang River. If you insist on letting me engage in railway transportation, other companies

I won’t do it.

As for the shipping capacity of the Dongjiang River, it is still relatively poor. There are a lot of things that need to be dredged to expand the shipping capacity. This is a problem for your local government.

Taking a step back, even if you can use railway transportation for outbound transportation, you still have to transport the tea from the tea plantations in the mountainous areas, and the proposed tea plantation only has some winding trails, which cannot even be used by horse-drawn carriages.

Could it be that it was transported out by people and horses? The transportation cost is absolutely unacceptable to Donglin Company.

In other words, in fact, these transportation costs are within the affordable range for Donglin Company. At most, the cost is slightly more and the profit is less.

But the key point is that the Dachu Empire is so big that there are countless places suitable for large-scale tea planting. Without all kinds of superior conditions, why should Donglin Company go to Heyuan Prefecture to invest in large-scale tea planting?<

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They can make more money by investing elsewhere, so why should they invest here?

To attract investment, this is actually a competition between local governments.

When Song Alin came to Heyuan Prefecture for inspection, he also received invitations from the officials of several neighboring states. If nothing unexpected happens, he will go to other places later to inspect the investment environment in various places, and finally make a decision.

Site selection for tea planting base.

Song'alin, a tea planting base, is going to be built, and it's very determined, but it doesn't have to be in Heyuan Prefecture!

Wang Tu was also a little helpless about this!

He also knows that the traffic problem needs to be solved urgently, but the state finances have no money.

Before, he had thought of giving the contractor a down payment and letting the contractor do the work. After the completion, he would give it to him if he had money, and if he didn't have money, he would just drag it out to provide transportation.

However, the former governor Lin Qixun had already played this trick many times, making the construction contractors afraid of the people in Heyuan Prefecture...

This time, he actually invited several construction companies to come over and wanted them to bid for the renovation of several roads and the dredging of rivers.

But let alone bidding... they didn't even come.

In addition, the construction contractors outside have already said that they can renovate rivers, roads, bridges, etc., but they have to pay...

Even if it is an installment payment, there must be a guarantee... and it must be a guarantee that can be paid.

Wang Tu rolled his eyes at this. If I have money, no, even if I can find a guarantee, I still want you... The construction companies under our state's Industrial Department can start construction directly.

I’m looking for you because I don’t intend to give you money!

In the end, no one was fooled!

In desperation, Wang Tu could only give up the idea of ​​taking shortcuts and start thinking of other ways... Don't expect to raise money by yourself. The state's finance treasury will starve to death, let alone use the money to build roads, pave bridges and clear roads.

Hedao, even the salaries of public employees are still barely enough.

In the end, Wang Tu had no choice but to make another trip to Guangzhou in person to hug Cheng Yongfeng.

Cheng Yongfeng was also a little helpless towards Wang Tu... He came to Guangzhou twice in just a few months, and every time he came he asked for money!

Cheng Yongfeng, as the chief envoy of Guangdong, can allocate an astronomical amount of funds, but he is the chief envoy of Guangdong and is responsible for the people's livelihood and economic affairs of the province. Heyuan Prefecture is just a small state under his rule. He does not

Maybe someone misappropriated funds that should have been used elsewhere to Heyuan Prefecture.

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As a result, other state governments will have opinions.

As a boss, Cheng Yongfeng also needs to consider the situation of other state capitals. It is impossible to misappropriate support and development funds that should be given to other state capitals just because he has a good personal relationship with Wang Tu.

There is no need to give money directly, but Cheng Yongfeng cannot really watch his direct relatives fail to open up the situation at the grassroots level.

Cheng Yongfeng also hoped that Wang Tuqian would make some achievements, and then go one step further. At that time, Cheng Yongfeng would be able to make Wang Tu the second-in-command in a certain department or a certain house, and then control a certain department or a certain house.

However, he himself did not have any dissatisfaction with Wang Tu's behavior of asking him for money every day. After all, Heyuan Prefecture's start was too bad. If he wanted to achieve results in a short time, it was impossible to follow the conventional path.

Just use external force.

Anyone involved in Guangdong officialdom knows that the biggest external force Wang Tu can borrow from is Cheng Yongfeng.

On the contrary, it would be troublesome if Wang Tu turned around and ran to the governor Tang Tiangui to cry out and ask for money.

And as an official, if you can find money to develop the local economy and make political achievements, everyone will say that you are a good official.

You can even deceive and kidnap... This is what Wang Tu's predecessor, Lin Qixun, did. Now he has been promoted to deputy director of the Agriculture and Forestry Department of the Governor's Yamen, which is a powerful position.

Agricultural affairs were very important matters in the Chu Empire. After all, food was the most important thing for the people.

As for the money owed to the contractor, it was owed by the state finance department. Lin Qixun personally did not embezzle even a single copper from it. It was none of his business.

So Lin Qixun got political achievements, owed a lot of debt and rose to the sky, but it was just Wang Tu who suffered.

With Cheng Yongfeng's help, Wang Tu found the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway Company.

What are you doing with them?

Naturally it is for the construction of the Heyuan section of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway!

This railway construction is a big investment. The railway company needs a lot of workers and a lot of building materials. If you let the local government leak a little, it will be enough for a poor state like Heyuan Prefecture.

The Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway Company is also willing to cooperate with the local government to a certain extent to avoid some troubles during the construction process, especially land acquisition, material supply, and hiring of workers.

You must know that many places in Heyuan Prefecture are really poor and poor... Since it is a poor and remote place, there will naturally be unruly people.

Of course there are no bandits, but if your railway has to pass through people's homes, you will naturally need to acquire land, hire workers, and build materials.

Many unscrupulous people will have these ideas.

Of course, the railway construction of the Great Chu Empire was a high-level strategy of the empire, and the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway was an important railway trunk line connecting Guangdong, Jiangxi and even Jiangnan. Naturally, a series of construction projects could not be destroyed.

Whenever any unruly people dare to cause damage, the local garrison will be dispatched directly without patrolling the area.

However, some petty thefts are inevitable in daily life, and many people really want money rather than their lives, so it is very annoying to just mess with you.

Especially as the railway line gradually moves northward and truly enters the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong, this situation becomes more and more frequent.

Those poor and crazy mountain people don't care about your overall strategic situation. If you want to pass from us, you have to pay for it.

You have to pay more for land expropriation, and the train will make too much noise and disturb the sleep of your ancestors. All kinds of excuses are shouted out. They don’t try to force you, they just drag a group of old, weak, women and children with them and bring them with them dug out of the grave.

When coffins and corpses arrive at your construction site, crying and crying...it just disgusts you!

Even if it is endorsed by the military... But most of the soldiers in the military are from poor families. If you dare to order them to point their guns at the old, weak, women and children who are just crying and screaming without doing any actual damage, others will not dare.

Shoot you with a black gun!

In fact, railway companies will encounter this situation when building railways in many places, but it is the first time that they encounter it so frequently in the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong!

After all, most of the railway network currently under construction by the Dachu Empire Railway Company is actually built in flat areas and places with relatively good economies. The only one that really builds railways in mountainous valleys is the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway, which is also the first railway network built in the country.

I saw so many poor and crazy people at one time who also had rich experience in fighting.

When this kind of thing happens, although it doesn't cause any real harm, most of the time it is solved by giving some money and using the method of dividing and recruiting, but it is disgusting!

In this way, the railway company also hopes that the local government can give them some support.

As for why we didn’t seek support from the local government in the past... Well, why was the former magistrate Lin Qixun a good official in the eyes of the locals?
To be continued...