Rebirth of the Rising Sun

Feng Sizhe narrowed his eyes. He was very satisfied with Chen Fei's reaction. He could find business opportunities in a casual sentence, which showed that he was a hardworking person. In fact, he did not deliberately mention the peanut issue just now because of his feelings, but because of his insights and gains from visiting several towns and dozens of villages in the past few days.

The land in Dahu County was fertile, at least the crops produced were very rich. But why did the people continue to be poor despite having such good land? He asked himself this question more than once in the middle of the night, and he finally came up with three answers.

First, the transportation is inconvenient, because the roads between villages are so bad that

Drivers from other places are worried when they come here. How can anyone pay attention to this place under such circumstances, let alone what is produced here? Because of the limited transportation conditions, there are very few businesses that can be attracted, which leads to the fact that good products cannot be delivered, and the value of cash crops such as peanuts cannot be reflected.

The second is the problem of farmers' concepts. In the minds of ordinary people, they have not yet put getting rich in the first place, but regard giving birth to the next generation as a daily compulsory homework. In the long run, the more children they give birth to, the poorer they become, and the poorer they are, the more children they give birth to. In the end, because the families they are born into are really poor, naturally they cannot receive the best education and enjoy a good environment. In the long run, under such a vicious cycle, it becomes very difficult for people here to become rich.

Third, and also very important, in order to obtain a large amount of state funding every year, the county leaders only think about how to keep Dahu County in the top 100 poorest counties in the country. Compared with developing the economy, they are not enthusiastic at all, because once the economy really improves and the county becomes wealthy, what will happen if it gets rid of the title of one of the top 100 poorest counties? Of course, if there is a good day, I am afraid that such days will not last long. When the economy just picks up, it will not get state funding. At that time, it will be difficult for the county party committee and county government to operate because it cannot generate income due to internal reasons. What will happen then? In addition, without state funding, for some people, their way of making money will be cut off, which is what they cannot tolerate the most.

With the above three points, it has become very difficult for Dahu County to change the status quo. The long-standing accumulation of various problems and old ideas have prevailed, and Dahu County's desire to get out of the predicament has become an empty talk. Of course, now that Feng Sizhe is here, he will definitely find a way to change this situation. He has made up his mind and even has a rough plan in his mind. So today, he took advantage of everyone being relaxed after drinking and tried to test everyone about the peanut issue. Now that there is a response, Feng Sizhe nodded happily in his heart. Not to mention other people, at least he can see that Chen Fei and the secretary and village chief of Wangge Village want to get rich.

"Well, of course I can contact merchants in Kyoto to come here to buy peanuts, cotton and other cash crops, and I can also guarantee that the price they offer will be very fair, at least much higher than your own price. However, the transportation in Huodian Township is really too bad. Even if others are willing, ordinary cars can't drive in." Feng Sizhe said slowly, while looking at the reactions of the other people.

Sure enough, when Feng Sizhe said the first sentence, Chen Fei, Wang Wei and Wang Xiaotian all showed excitement on their faces, but after that sentence was spoken, they became wilted again like a shriveled persimmon.

They were not unaware of the transportation problem, and it was already a very difficult problem. Merchants from Zhongzhou, and even from Jianghan Province, Jianghuai Province, and Nanxi Province had come here before. Perhaps it was because the soil in Dahu County was good, the peanuts produced here were better than those in other places. Unfortunately, after these people had conducted field investigations, they all left one by one. Transportation was naturally the primary problem. Another reason was that the growers were too scattered and not uniform. Some grew peanuts, some grew cotton, and some grew sweet potatoes or wheat. In this way, if they wanted to purchase any single crop, they actually had to go to several places, which increased their costs. In addition, the roads were indeed difficult to pass, and they didn't know how many business opportunities they had missed. Now that Feng Sizhe had said it, the three of them shook their heads, and then lowered their heads. In short, the excitement just now disappeared.

"We don't have the final say on this traffic issue, but the county has to make overall arrangements. I heard that even the county doesn't have extra money, let alone our township and village. Therefore, the traffic problem is not easy to solve." After hesitating for a while, Chen Fei still pointed out the main contradiction in the road construction. To put it bluntly, it's still the county's fault. If the county doesn't support and pay, how can such a large project be completed by the people alone?