There were originally some scattered sounds in the conference hall, but after hearing Li Dakang's last few words, it immediately became silent.

"This is just asking for trouble..."

"Yeah, this... How can I let the township share the burden? It's too unreasonable."

After the calm, complaints from twos and threes were heard again in the conference room. When these complaints reached Li Dakang's ears, his face immediately fell.

"What are you complaining about? What are you complaining about? You can't complain to anyone. The 300,000 people of Jinshan raised you. Now you have to do something practical for the people, but you complain about everything. Do you still have the image of a party member and cadre? Ah!"

Several township leaders from Heishui Township were so frightened by Li Dakang's glare that their scalps numbed, because the complaints just now were the loudest from their side.

Li Dakang's eyes widened with anger, and he continued in a stern voice, "Anyway, I've already said this. On February 2, if any township or department fails to collect all the money, then the top leader will resign and all the deputies will be demoted three levels!"

"hiss……"

After Li Dakang finished speaking, everyone took a deep breath.

"Good guy"

Qi Tongwei secretly clicked his tongue. Li Dakang had fallen into his old habit again. This kind of simple and crude approach was probably something only he, Li Dakang, could do.

In fact, at yesterday's Standing Committee meeting, when Li Dakang proposed the suggestion of setting a target for collecting funds, all other Standing Committee members, including Chen Yuandong and Wang Dalu, who were members of Li's faction, were all shocked.

Even Zhang Shunli, who was ready to give up, expressed his opposition. Among them, Standing Committee members such as Yan Haoqiang and Zhang Dashan openly opposed it and directly said that Li Dakang's move was too extreme.

But as the inter-provincial highway construction was about to begin, Li Dakang refused to listen and always insisted on his own opinion.

After weighing the pros and cons, Chen Yuandong and others decided to support Li Dakang. After all, politics is about sticking to one path and not hesitating.

With the support of Li's people, this resolution was successfully passed at the Standing Committee meeting, and a fundraising leadership group was established.

Li Dakang volunteered to serve as team leader, Wang Dalu as deputy team leader, and Ding Yizhen as office director.

Yi Xuexue was hesitant at first, but after listening to Li Dakang's impassioned speech at the Standing Committee meeting, his heart unconsciously leaned towards Li Dakang's side.

Because Yi Xuexue also felt that Jinshan really needed a decent road.

Once the Hannan Highway is opened, the distance from Jinshan to Luzhou will be greatly shortened, from seven or eight hours' driving to three hours.

There is no need to detour through Mingning, Fuyuan and other counties, but you can directly take the Hannan Highway to reach Luzhou.

In fact, the initial plan did not go through Jinshan County, but went east through Fuyuan and Huangtang counties and out of Handong.

But when Li Dakang learned about it, he rushed to Jingzhou overnight and begged his old leader Zhao Lichun, hoping that the Hannan Highway could pass through Jinshan instead of Fuyuan and Huangtang counties where there were already expressways.

When Zhao Lichun saw Li Dakang asking for help like this, his heart softened.

Finally, with Zhao Lichun's secret mediation, the Hannan Highway was successfully rerouted, passing through Yunjiang County from Luzhou, then bypassing Mingning County and directly reaching Jinshan County.

After hearing the news, the secretary and county magistrate of Fuyuan and Huangtang counties naturally became angry and went directly to the Luzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government to sue Jinshan County.

They had been preparing for the construction of the Hannan Highway for two and a half years, and now they are asked to change the route. They will not agree to it no matter what.

After the matter was brought to the attention of the Luzhou Municipal Party Committee, Luzhou Municipal Party Committee Secretary Liu Zhiming was helpless because he knew that this was a provincial decision and he had no power to change it.

However, the county party committee secretaries and county governors of Fuyuan and Huangtang counties said directly that if there were no results, they would not be able to face the people of the two counties.

The entrepreneurs and social groups in Fuyuan and Huangtang secretly mobilized the masses to march and demonstrate to the provincial party committee. In September last year, the protest even reached Yanjing.

When Qin Yuanguang, secretary of the Handong Provincial Party Committee, learned about this, he became furious. Originally, he was still thinking about economic benefits, so he went to Fuyuan and Huangtang counties.

However, it was unexpected that the cadres in these two places were so unorganized and undisciplined that they allowed the masses to go to Yanjing to file complaints to the emperor, which was a big taboo in the officialdom.

Finally, under Qin Yuanguang's instructions, the county party secretaries of Fuyuan and Huangtang counties were all transferred to Luzhou Municipal People's Congress and CPPCC for retirement.

The county governors were all transferred to the Meteorological Observatory and the Earthquake Bureau. From then on, this vigorous railway protection movement ended with the end of the political lives of the top leaders of the two counties.

Li Dakang also got a bargain. Liang Qunfeng knew that Qi Tongwei was working in Jinshan, so he also supported Zhao Lichun and diverted the inter-provincial highway through Jinshan County.

But what is pitiful is that this battle for the highway did not cause much waves in Jinshan.

At that time, Yi Xuexi and Li Dakang were incompatible, so Yi Xuexi did not support this matter, which led to the fact that not many people in Jinshan County knew about it.

Ordinary people knew nothing about it. Only a few Jinshan people who worked in the provincial capitals of Jingzhou and Luzhou knew how much sacrifice Li Dakang made in order to fight for the road.

After Jinshan County obtained the right to use the road, Li Dakang began to raise the issue at the county party committee meeting.

But Yi Xuexue was still indifferent at that time and didn't care about it at all. Finally, Li Dakang had no choice but to put the road construction matter on hold.

It was not until yesterday that Li Dakang received a call from the Development and Reform Commission of Handong Province, asking Jinshan County to prepare for the start of construction of the Hannan Highway.

The preparation mentioned here definitely refers to human, material and financial resources.

When Li Dakang received the call, he suddenly remembered that there were only four months left before the start of construction, so he urgently convened a Standing Committee meeting to discuss the matter.

The current Standing Committee is controlled by Li Dakang, so it was easily passed.

Li Dakang still followed his previous ideas and drew on Xinyue's experience to call on cadres and the masses across the county to raise funds and donations, which led to today's meeting.

……

After the meeting, all the township, county and bureau leaders walked out of the meeting room with gloomy faces and without saying a word.

Qi Tongwei looked at the document in his hand. Xinyue Town needed to raise 400,000 yuan, which was the least among all the towns in the county.

But there is no personal feeling involved, because Xinyue is indeed the poorest township in Jinshan County, and the amount of funds raised this time is determined based on the economic development of each township.

For example, Chengguan Town, which has the most developed economy, needs to raise 1.6 million yuan, which is four times as much as Xinyue.

Of course, some county bureaus and offices have also been assigned indicators, which are also determined based on the nature of the agency.

Departments like the Finance Bureau, Industry and Commerce Bureau, Taxation Bureau, and Public Security Bureau, which have a lot of money and are powerful departments, all have salaries of over RMB 300,000.

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