Chapter 47: Busy Recruiting Merchants

  Chen Gong returned to Song Huiyun's home in the evening and communicated with Song Huiyun, who had just received the news. The handover procedure would be completed within two weeks at the latest, but she was also unclear about the candidate for district head.

  Chen Gong could only comfort himself, the human face didn't know where to go, the peach blossoms still smiled at the spring breeze, well, do your own thing and let others worry about the rest.

  Arrived at his own office, many people's eyes had subtle changes along the way. Secretary Qinghe Chen Liji also called to ask him to go to his office. It was a far cry from the previous period when some things were discussed with Chen Liji coming to his office. Truly, plans change faster than circumstances.

  "Town Head Chen, I see that you've been focusing on the party and government work in the town for a while now, but the effect isn't too ideal. I'll continue to take care of the party committee's affairs, you focus your energy on the industrial park, and let go of some of the government work, let the deputy town heads worry about it." Chen Liqi said with emphasis and concern to Chen Gong.

  Chen Gong knew that Secretary Chen was going to take back control, but in any case, one person has the final say, which is normal. Chen Gong couldn't blame Chen Lijun for his sudden change of attitude. "Secretary, you should personally oversee party committee affairs, and I'll still be in charge of government affairs. Although both new deputy town mayors are very capable, as the legal representative of the government, if anything happens, I'll have to take responsibility." Chen Gong also countered Chen Lijun indirectly, saying that he would manage his own government affairs, and it's best not to interfere with each other.

  Chen Li-ji also detected that Chen Gong's words had a bit of gunpowder flavor, so he continued to explain, "Director Chen, it's like this. The office building of the industrial park management committee is currently under construction and will be completed within two months. After its completion, many leaders must go to the park for work, and some even need to give up their original positions. The consideration of the district is to let Director Chen focus on the affairs of the management committee, as there are many things that can easily distract him."

  Chen Liqi also hinted that Chen Gong's position as town head might be removed, and Chen Gong knew that Yuan Weihua and Liu Yadong were starting to think of ways to weaken his power. Although he held the position of deputy director of the service center, which was at the same level as the bureau chief, whether the industrial park was good or bad, its future development was still an unknown quantity. If it went bankrupt, he wouldn't even know where to go to make a living in the future.

  Now Chen Gong doesn't have the strength to contend with those opponents, so he compromised and secretly vowed to expand the park's scale, even applying for provincial and national-level parks, so that he would have the capital to deal with them. "Alright, Secretary, I won't make things difficult for you either. Recently, I've also divided up tasks and focused on the park's work. From now on, let's follow the organization's arrangements."

  Chen Gong was very unhappy in his heart, now he just wanted to get the park started. After leaving Chen Li's office, he immediately contacted Huang Liang, "Huang, as long as the district agrees, we can supplement the procedures later. You have time today, come to the government and let's go choose a location together."

  Chen Gong now just wants to get the project fully settled in the park, whatever procedures or no procedures, will talk about it later.

  In the afternoon, just after work began, Huang Liang arrived at Qinghe Government, Chen Gong brought Secretary Lu Feng and Deputy Mayor Ning Wenjing to the park for site selection.

  Huang Liang was excited for a while, and then he looked at a plot of land facing two roads. "Town Chief Chen, this is the place. I think it's okay."

  Huang Liang spoke without blushing, this place is not just okay, after being built it will be a major transportation hub. Chen Gong was also considering that as a medium-sized production company, you don't have to choose this location, there are other locations that would be fine too, and this location is more suitable for attracting large enterprises. "Director Huang, I think you should consider the location behind this one, it's also pretty good, your local enterprise occupying this prime location seems a bit excessive." Chen Gong was also speaking directly, the location in the back was indeed good, but compared to this location, it was much inferior.

  Huang Liang can't help it, you said after Chen Gong that the company wants to develop nationwide, although it's still active in the province now, but may break out of Asia and go global in the future. You made demands again and didn't let me choose a good location, which "general" Chen Gong was stuck with. For the sake of immediate benefits, Chen Gong agreed immediately, but left a backhand, if it can't be produced within three years, then we have to change the location.

  Chen Gong asked Ning Wenjing, "Ning Town Chief, have you inquired about the land acquisition approval document? When can it be approved?"

  Ning Wenjing has been keeping an eye on the progress, and it's clear that she has been asking around. "I've asked the district's land department, and they said it's already been reported to the municipal government. Since it's a major project for the city, the municipal leaders are directly coordinating with the provincial government. They've submitted data for 80,000 mu of land so far, and there will be nearly 100,000 mu more in the next batch. The first batch may be approved by the end of this year."

  Chen Gong continued to tell Ning Wenjing that this location must be demolished before the batch of documents returns, and the Big Head Cabbage Company will repair it first. The district leaders agreed to fix it first and then handle the procedures.

  Due to the special circumstances, Ning Wenjing was afraid that she couldn't demolish it, so she reported the situation to Chen Gong again. Because the location of this land is very good, not only the government and enterprises know about it, but also the villagers know about it, so the price has always been difficult to negotiate, and now no household is willing to move out.

  Chen Gong thought to himself, if the demolition cost of this piece increases, how will the nearby ones be handled? They are all one or two villages, and a few more standards will be issued. Anyway, there will always be villagers who make trouble.

  Huang Liang listened and became anxious, fearing that good things would change if delayed. "So, Mayor Chen, you give the demolition compensation to my company according to the standard, and let my company handle the demolition of this area. Whether it's fast or slow is not your responsibility, if it's slow, it's on me."

  Ning Wenjing also knew that this was not feasible, reminding Chen Gong that if they did it this way, wouldn't they end up back where they started? Originally, most of the demolition work was done by the company in charge of the project, but now the government is doing all the demolition and then selling it to the companies.

  Huang Liang was fed up, your government is now afraid of the common people petitioning, whether it's reasonable or not, they're all afraid. When doing things, they consider this and that fear, making the common people more and more daring, it's their responsibility but they make the government pay the bill. Is your government a scapegoat or what?

  What Huang Liang said is indeed a big truth. Now, as long as the common people don't understand something, they will look for the government. If once doesn't work, they'll try twice; if one person doesn't work, two people will come. Once they get what they want, it's even harder to control them. Even when the common people are in the wrong, they'll still find the government and make trouble. The town is afraid of the district, the district is afraid of the city, level by level, so the work can't be done properly.

  Huang Liang knew that the two were thinking about what he had said, "Two leaders, I am only responsible for the relocation of farmers on my land. Ning Town Chief, is the situation clear here? How many households are there?"

  Ning Wenjing took out a notebook, flipped through a few pages, "Huang Zong, the number of people is not too many, should be around twenty households, but the work is not easy to do. I think the price can't be negotiated well, they seem to have made preparations for a desperate resistance."

  Chen Gong also knew that forced demolition was now prohibited. "Director Huang, I'll leave it to you. Don't cause any trouble, or else none of us will be able to explain ourselves."

  Huang Liang also said that he is a local, and the company's foundation will be here in the future, and it won't be reckless. He also said that he would use normal means to make them move out completely within two months.

  Huang Liang indeed had some methods. He promised that for households with young and middle-aged people, once the factory was built, they would be given priority in hiring as workers; For several households whose children were working in other small workshops in the town, Huang Liang directly went to their homes to persuade them, if they didn't cooperate, he would make a phone call, and the next day they wouldn't need to go to work again. There was only one household of an old couple, whose children had gone to coastal cities for work, taking advantage of the deep night, Huang Liang arranged for several people to carry the two old people out together with their bed, and all the things in the house were thrown onto the roadside...

  According to the document issued by the municipal party committee organization department, the personnel changes in the district have been settled. The district party secretary will be taken over by the original district mayor Yuan Weihua, and the position of district mayor will be taken over by Comrade Yang Qiantong, director of the Municipal Agricultural Development Bureau. Other personnel remain unchanged for the time being. The original secretary Huang Zhengming went to the Municipal Water Affairs Bureau as deputy director. Fortunately, he has connections in the province, otherwise, it would have been a disaster. There is a rumor within the government that Secretary Huang embezzled 80 million yuan of public funds, but someone in the province protected him, so the matter was settled, but his rank will definitely be demoted as a warning and punishment.

  The biggest backer of Chen Gong, Wei Chengxu, has also been officially transferred to Nancheng as the mayor. The mayor of Fuhai is now Zhao Bo, the former deputy director of the Provincial Department of Commerce, who was specially brought in by Li Xiuming, the Secretary of the Fuhai Municipal Party Committee, with the goal of promoting investment and industrial development in the Fuhai Industrial Park, creating competition with the Nancheng Industrial Park.

  Yuan Weihua took the secretary's position, and under Liu Yadong's instigation, he finally took action against Chen Gong. Song Huiyun, with the help of Standing Committee member and Office Director Zhao Yanli, still failed to shake Yuan Weihua's decision. Chen Gong was also removed as head of Qinghe Town and now only serves as Deputy Director of the Investment Service Center of the Management Committee.

  Although Chen Gong is no longer the head of Qinghe Town, he still has a certain right to speak on matters within the industrial park area. It's just that from originally giving orders and instructions to the deputy town head and the town government, it has changed to consultation. Fortunately, Zhang Zhuli and Ning Wenjing have always had a good impression of Chen Gong, so when they ask for help, they do it as if it were part of their work.

  Chen Gong is now worried about business all day long. If it weren't for Xiao Xingya's phone call, he would have really forgotten that this woman was a god of wealth.

  "Little brother, have you been busy lately? You didn't even call once?" asked Xiao Xingya over the phone.

  "Xiao Jie, I'm really busy every day looking for materials and projects. Now that I'm the town head, I haven't even done my job properly, focusing on attracting investment to the industrial park. They're going to set up a business office soon and I'll also be serving as deputy director there. The pressure from leadership is huge!"

  Comrade Zhao Bo, who has just taken over as the director of the management committee, is familiar with the situation in the industrial park. He met Chen Gong alone and listened to his plan for the future development of the park. He asked Chen Gong to take charge of attracting investment first and immediately arrange personnel for the investment promotion office. After that, departments such as project construction offices will be set up, and this management committee will no longer be empty.

  Xiao Xingya scolded Chen Gong severely over the phone, saying that Chen Gong didn't treat her like a sister. He managed such a lucrative business and didn't even tell his sister about it, let alone invite her to invest and make some money together.

  Actually, because the park has just started, it's hard to say how it will develop in the future. Chen Gong couldn't deceive Xiao Xingya into coming here, which would be against his conscience. So he told Xiao Xingya the situation truthfully and let her make her own choice.

  Xiao Xingya didn't even think about it, "I'll finish the things in my hands first and come over to take a look at your park as soon as possible. I'll also invest one or two hundred million to play with industry, which is considered support for my brother."