Rebirth 1983

Chapter 186

Road is official in the dictionary. The basic meaning of the word is Tao, which is a place for travel, and other meanings are the direction and way of thinking or action, etc. Of course, Chen Song would like to compare the word road to the main artery of social development and economic construction.

Since the Spring Breeze Policy, especially after the great man's chief designer's southern tour, people's hearts have been stable, and economic development has become the first consideration, so all regions have begun to think of ways to improve their performance and increase their GDP.

Uncle Zhou is a very thoughtful person and a farsighted official. He will not blindly pursue ways to improve performance. Instead, he is very knowledgeable and proposes road construction and renovation projects across the province.

He has already proposed very forward-looking that he wants to build roads first, not only advocating road construction, but also issuing a big government order. All cities and counties in the province have submitted suitable road construction plans, and the high-level officials have approved them one by one.

At the same time, many village party secretaries or people with certain status in the village clan are keenly aware of the changes in this mighty historical trend. They are the first to wake up, and they are also the most supportive and most actively embrace the Spring Breeze Policy.

They absorb foreign knowledge and ideas like newborns, and they are about to take their own steps to the outside world like children who are learning to walk.

The group of people led by Chen Song was one of them. They walked out of the countryside and started to step into the world.

They started from the retail industry, changed their original lifestyle, and brought wealth to themselves.

Chen Song has always wanted to do something for his hometown, not only the second grandfather of the village party secretary and the headmaster Yang of Yangjiacun entrusted him, but also wanted to contribute his meager strength in this wave.

At least, let the ten miles and eight villages point out a way to get rich!

First of all, we need to broaden our horizons, let everyone go out, see what we haven’t seen outside, and learn what we haven’t learned outside; secondly, we need to let things from rural areas go out, and things from all over the country come in. Only in this way can we lead everyone to become rich.

The road is like two strong legs of the mountain village, which can take the mountain village to go further.

Therefore, whether it is a city or a rural area, development and change are inseparable from roads. Roads, like the blood vessels in mountain villages, transport advanced civilization and bring rich materials to mountain villages.

To achieve this effect, there must first be a road that can improve the communication between everyone, and it is also the most important channel from the countryside to the outside world.

Undoubtedly, as the person who governs the province under his command, Uncle Zhou has absolutely clear thinking and is forward-looking!

No wonder they were able to come up with the conceptual decision to build an economic development zone before. They really have a set of political skills and minds.

……

After Chen Song finished handling the matter of joining the supermarket in the county, and told Wang Yao and Zhou Wanyan about the directly-operated store, and Zhou Jinyan's precautions about the acquisition, he got a call from the village.

The report on the decision to build county-level roads and the route submitted by the county to the province was finally approved. Although the province divided this report into three phases of the project, which lasted for several years, it was only dragged down because of the financial situation. After all, not only are most people poor now, but the county does not have much money in its account. It basically depends on the subsidy issued by the province and the county itself.

Therefore, although it is a small county, the construction of several county-level roads has to be divided into three phases.

Because of a very real problem, no money!

The second grandfather said very clearly on the phone that the first phase of the project will be the county-level road between Chenjia'ao and Yangjiacun.

The excited Second Grandpa kept praising Chen Song for such a difficult task, but it was really done.

When Second Grandpa asked Chen Song to operate this matter, he was not very sure. After all, so what if he knew someone from the third generation and the second generation with a background, it was a road involving countless people's livelihood and problems...

Unexpectedly, this guy Chen Song really managed it!
Although it doesn't run through Chenjia'ao, it's not far from Chenjia'ao after all, so it's cheaper than Yangjiacun.

When the second grandpa got the news, he was not very happy that Yangjia Village had found this. They were all on blind dates in the village, and the two villages had many marriages. After so many years, I don't know how many people on the opposite side have the same blood.

Maybe the aunt of Chenjiaao was the village flower of Yangjiacun 20 years ago; the old lady of Yangjiacun is the grandparent of Chenjiaao, and they all have relatives!
The day after Chen Song received the call, he rushed back to the village.

Because the second grandfather, the old branch secretary, said that the county-level road in their two villages would be the first batch to start construction in the entire county, and the money had already been allocated, and now it was necessary for technicians and other construction personnel to be in place.

Before Chen Song returned to the village, he discovered that the speed of our country's infrastructure construction was truly exaggerated!
The dirt walls in the village are plastered with propaganda slogans for road construction.

"To get rich, build roads first, have fewer children, and grow more trees", "People's roads are built by the people, and roads are built for the people", "Roads are convenient for you and me, and everyone pays for road construction", "Building roads makes the country rich and the people strong"!
Each slogan points out the benefits of the access road and the convenience it brings to people, and these slogans have indeed greatly influenced the attitude of the villagers.

Everyone in Shili Baxiang actively cooperated with the road construction policy conveyed, and had great hopes for it.

After all, poverty is scary!
Of course, the road construction is only the county-level cement road outside the village, and the small roads and stone roads in the village have to be repaired by the village itself.

For example, the road from Chenjia'ao to the county has always been a dirt road. Every day, the bus has to take the bumpy dirt road to the county. Later, the original dirt road was sprinkled with some gravel and turned into a road mixed with mud and stones. It is still like this until now.

Chen Song clearly remembered that when he was a child, he played outside the village. Most of the roads he walked were muddy paths, and the roads leading out of the village were narrow dirt roads. In the middle of the village, most of the roads connected to each other were yellow dirt roads. Occasionally, there were only a few families who were willing to work hard, so they could get along with each other. Or relatives were connected to the nearest gravel path with stones inlaid with mud, and it was not smooth, and sometimes they accidentally tripped over stones when playing at night.

As soon as Chen Song entered the village, before he returned home, he was surrounded by people and entered the village committee brigade. The second grandfather, the old branch secretary, had been waiting for him for a long time.

The second grandpa had already spread the news that Chen Song had pushed this road to the vicinity of the village, and the villagers were thinking of Chen Song!

"Come, come, come and have a cup of tea, our great hero, this time our village and Yangjiacun can have this road, you are the first to contribute!" The second grandfather made tea himself and handed it over to Chen Song.

The second grandpa is an elder, Chen Song didn't dare to be so presumptuous, he hurriedly stepped forward to take the tea, and asked the second grandpa to prepare it.

"What credit can I have? It's because the higher-ups are considerate of the big guys in the countryside. That's why they came up with this road construction plan. I can't take any credit for it. If you want to thank, thank the party and the country!"

Chen Song smiled and waved his hand to refuse, he just did what he should do, he didn't want to be praised like this.

"The party and the country want to thank you, and you should also thank them. This is not a conflict. It is really thanks to you, otherwise the route may not be able to fall between our two villages. I have already called the old branch secretary of Yangjia Village, and I think he will come in a few hours." The second grandfather responded with a smile.

"Second Grandpa, shall we just sit here and wait?" Chen Song asked.

The second grandfather said with a smile: "I won't sit down anymore. Now that this is a big event, I have free time to do it. The cadres in the village have already brought in surveying and mapping instruments and skilled workers. They are taking measurements outside. Once the measurement is completed, we can start building roads."

"As for me, I'm here to entertain you, a hero, hahaha!"

"Don't, don't... I really can't bear it, Second Grandpa, don't praise me." Chen Song was a little embarrassed by what Second Grandpa said. How could he be considered a well-known businessman now, but he didn't expect to be overwhelmed by the old man's praise.

"Okay, I won't talk about it. I heard that you run some kind of Jiajiale or something, the supermarket, right? Look at my brain, I can't remember anything when I'm old. It's called a supermarket. It seems to be doing a good job. I was praised by the leaders. You've given our village head a face. I knew you were not ordinary when you were young. Look, you really have grown up. Blessed is Chen Aiguo!"

Second Grandpa changed his point and continued to praise, Chen Song looked helpless.

Chen Song just wanted to remind Second Grandpa that it was time to visit the surveyors and technicians, but he couldn't stop talking, as if he had forgotten about it.

Just as the old man was talking vigorously, a sudden roar of dissatisfaction spread into the village committee brigade.

"If you don't agree, I don't want to build the road. This is my land. If I don't want to build it, who dares to move it!"

(End of this chapter)