Time Travel: Conditional Wealth

"Mayor, please give our brigade some more subsidies. You know we are the poorest brigade." The captain of the Sixth Brigade stayed in Mayor Wei's office and refused to leave.

Mayor Wei was also helpless. This was the current environment. Faced with the development plan that was just around the corner, what else could he do without financial investment? The twenty brigades under his command had to share the benefits equally.

He looked embarrassed and said, "It's not that we don't want to give it. There's not much money in the town's account. The report was submitted, but there's no money. The country is also in a difficult period now."

There is a shortage of money everywhere. Every province is short of funds, and plans for township construction have been shelved.

The general environment does not allow for private economy, and collective economy is difficult to cover all aspects and lacks internal motivation.

Early this morning, Mayor Wei received a report saying that the ancient buildings were hindering the development of the town and requested that they be demolished. It also said that the bricks and stones of the ancient buildings could be used to build greenhouses, so that some brigades would not have to borrow money from banks and could save money on buying bricks and stones.

The staff from the Urban and Rural Construction Office and the Cultural Center got into a fight. One said it should be protected, and the other said it should be demolished.

During the Cultural Revolution, a large number of cultural relics were destroyed, which became a permanent regret and an indelible pain in the people's hearts.

What they said makes sense. On the one hand, the focus now is how to keep the living alive. They are all dead objects and serve the proletariat.

On the other hand, the rich buildings and culture left by our ancestors are becoming increasingly rare. What we can do is to try our best to protect them so that our descendants can see them again.

Therefore, the original building should not be demolished but renovated.

Today's work topics in the town government compound are mainly about whether to demolish or repair.

The higher-level government does provide funding support to the townships below, but how can they share the money during these turbulent times? A bunch of trivial matters below have to cost money, and just solving the problem of food and clothing is exhausting enough.

Therefore, before leaving get off work, each department organizes a voting meeting to listen to everyone's opinions.

He Xi was also holding a meeting at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and they were also divided into two factions. Those who were deeply persecuted insisted on demolition, while He Xi advocated protection.

Seeing how they were poisoned by the times, He Xi wanted to slap them both in the face. What you want to destroy are the unique culture and architecture, which are the treasures of history.

For this purpose, He Xi collected some official words on the system forum in advance, hoping that they would be useful.

He Xi opened with a rhetorical question: "You advocate demolition, so who will write the history of our ancestors in the future?"

"We write? What are those pedantic cultural sites for?"

"Just stay here! You have demolished all the historical and cultural relics. Everything depends on imagination. That is fantasy and it is not advisable."

She also said that she wanted to write a letter to the great man, telling him that you guys are fantasists, unrealistic, dishonest parasites of the proletariat society, and are trying to erode our long history and culture bit by bit.

They even want to destroy all traces of history and forcibly erase our roots. A rootless proletariat, a rootless country, without historical and cultural basis, this is what Western capitalism wants to see most.

You, all of you, are traitors to the socialist country.

After scolding He Xi, I realized that none of the words I wrote on the forum were useful and I had memorized them in vain.

This job is really tiring and troublesome, and there are also irregular debate competitions.

He Xi had a dream at night, and was cursing in the dream.

The roommate woke up from his sleep, sat on the bed and listened, impressed by her concentration.

The next morning, the town issued a document, deciding not to demolish the building and to preserve the cultural relics, but the renovation still required approval from higher authorities.

Mayor Wei decided to go there in person. If they didn't give him money, he wouldn't come back. He even asked his wife to prepare his bedding. He was determined to fight to the end. He didn't care what the higher-ups thought. That was their business. He only cared about his own business.

One day, when Lu Jinan came to the town to see He Xi, the two chatted while eating together. She took him to the small courtyard she had rented for a year to eat crab roe steamed buns and millet porridge. Millet is good for the stomach, and he has a "glass stomach".

He sighed, "If you can feel pain, please feel more pain for me."

Lu Jinan said: "The town's development plan is bound to touch upon tradition and innovation. How to coordinate the relationship between the two is the key. Is Mayor Wei back?"

Speaking of this, everyone in the compound is really worried and anxious right now, as the mayor has been detained for obstructing public service.

"Where was it seized?"

"Provincial Department."

The towns, counties and cities were outraged by this and accused the provincial department of violent law enforcement, detaining innocent employees and causing panic among the people.

Lu Jinan smiled lightly and said, "Mayor Wei put himself in this situation this time. I think it must be the result of the cooperation between the upper and lower levels. It will not work if he does not give some compensation."

"And this compensation is the development fund that the town urgently needs. He has invested a lot of money and put himself in the game," said He Xi.

Lu Jinan nodded slightly and said, "It's smart. It can also earn a good reputation for yourself. This time the funds will definitely be in place."

The two chatted until very late before leaving. After running, he sent He Xi back to the dormitory and reluctantly rode away on his bike.