Back in town, He Qing She followed him over and wanted to discuss the expansion of Xiaomei Highway.

  "Old Zhu is treating us to dinner, let's invite Li Feng too, we can discuss while eating..." Shen Huai ran around for the whole afternoon and was starving, so he asked He Qing to bring out Li Feng as well, and they all went to Xuxi Hotel for dinner.

  Mei Creek Iron and Steel Plant has been restructured, and the administrative division of Hetao Town has also been re-divided.

  Although the cargo terminal and steel mill production line expansion will be busy for a while, that is the steel mill's business. The town government has already put the reconstruction of Meixi Bridge and the expansion of Xiamei Highway on the agenda in early June.

  Raising funds is one aspect, and the project will also involve the demolition of nearly a hundred households along the street. In addition, the pre-approval work for the project is extremely cumbersome, with specialized personnel following up closely.

  Shen Hua is the party secretary, he needs to grasp the overall situation and also keep an eye on the daily management of the steel plant. It's impossible for him to take everything on his own shoulders, even if he had eight legs, it wouldn't be enough.

  Mei Creek Bridge and Lower Mei Highway are specifically handled by He Qing Society.

  However, when it comes to important and difficult decisions, He Qing would come to Shen Hua for discussion. Shen Hua usually calls Li Feng over as well, the three of them have a small meeting, make a decision quickly, then go through the motions at the party-political meeting.

  Arrived at the hotel, didn't see Chen Dan, asked Qian Yun behind the counter, Shen Huai suddenly remembered that Chen Dan told him in the morning that he would go back to the old house with Xiao Li tonight to sort out his things and prepare to move back in two days.

  Shen Hua directly went to the second floor and found a private room. Li Feng rushed over, but it took a while. He first talked to He Qing about the merger of Li She and Cai Jiaqiao Village schools.

  Li She and Cai Jiaqiao are the key to Meixi Steel's development towards Zhujiang. With 400,000 yuan, two villages merged to set up a school, which promoted Meixi Steel's cargo terminal and Meihuang Highway project. He Qing She naturally had no opinion on this matter.

  Zhen Asset Office settles dividends, contract fees and financial audits with enterprises such as Steel Plant and Zilu Home Textiles every quarter.

  Rushing to reform the steel plant, asset accounting is cut off at the end of April. From January to April 94, no corporate income tax needs to be paid, and the steel plant's profit reached 93 million yuan. The town government will extract a dividend of 20%, which will be 19 million; the rest will be used as development funds and left in the steel plant as an increase in assets.

  The formal restructuring was at the end of May, and the profit of 24 million yuan for the whole month of May was all taken out by the town government.

  In the 1990s, although there were still various problems at home that had not been solved, it was undeniable that they were in the golden period of economic development. After Zilu Home Textiles was established, the previous development constraints no longer existed, and by the end of February, the production facilities had been updated, and the number of employees had increased to over 400 people, with a profit of over 6 million yuan in the first half of this year.

  The home textile industry is still a labor-intensive enterprise in the country, which has demand for capital but not as thirsty as the steel industry. Therefore, when establishing a joint venture, the dividend ratio of Zilu Home Textiles was set at 50%.

  That is to say, in the first half of the year, Zilu Home Textiles can take out 3 million yuan for dividend distribution. With a 40% stake, it can get 1.2 million yuan. This number alone is three times the contract fee that Chu Yiliang paid to Town.

  In the first half of this year, the industry and commerce in Meixi Town were generally active, and the growth rate of ordinary industrial and commercial taxes was also large. After the merger, the base tax refund, the local fiscal revenue in the first half of Meixi Town can reach around 90 million, which is three times that of the same period last year, an increase of 60 million.

  The government is different from enterprises, which need to reserve funds for expanding production. The government's newly increased revenue will still be mainly spent.

  However, when He Qing She did the government budget last year, he only made two changes to the fiscal budget of 1993 and copied it over. He didn't consider that this year's fiscal revenue would triple.

  This newly added fiscal revenue is so large that it's a headache how to spend it without budgetary constraints and norms.

  Shen Hua decided to allocate 400,000 from the newly increased fiscal revenue for Li Shecun and Caijiagiao Village to merge schools, which is actually not a big deal.

  "This year, Mei Creek Town's revenue will exceed 200 million without a problem, which is better than the average street in Tangzhai District. However, Mei Creek Town had many debts before, and we have many lessons to learn from," Shen Huai said. "Of course, the salary of party members and cadres should be increased, and some benefits should be added, otherwise everyone will not have the motivation to work. But this proportion should not exceed 10%, lest someone gossip. The newly added part is mainly for people's livelihood and construction, let's discuss it with Secretary Li Feng when he comes over..."

  He Qing saw Huang Xinliang, Shao Zheng and Zhu Li present, Shen Huai directly discussed this topic, knowing that Shen Huai should have a clear idea in his heart, but he had to tell him about Li Feng.

  Don't just look at Mei Creek Town's fiscal revenue, which has taken a big step forward this year. However, there are too many outstanding debts accumulated over the years: agricultural water conservancy, civil affairs poverty alleviation, village and town roads, compulsory education, etc., almost every aspect has outstanding debts.

  Although Shen Hua had some thoughts in his heart, He Qing She could more or less guess them.

  This time, it was decided to allocate 400,000 yuan to rebuild the school buildings in Caijiaqiao and Lishan villages all at once. Those village schools, town schools, and Meixi Middle School that originally belonged to Meixi Town, which one would not come running over to ask for money?

  He Qing Society guessed that Shen Huai would probably make up for the arrears of compulsory education this year, and Shen Huai had already told him and Li Feng two days ago that he wanted to recommend Huang Xinliang as the deputy town head in charge of the Education Office.

  As for using Huang Xinliang, He Qing and Shen Huai did not have any opinions, so he naturally had no opinion either.

  The appointment of township officials was relatively simple in 1994, and the district could directly appoint town mayors and deputy mayors. Huang Xinliang took office as deputy mayor after going through organizational procedures for a couple of days, which was almost a sure thing. He Qing She also took advantage of the occasion to hand over some educational affairs to him before the wine and dishes were served.

  "All primary and secondary schools in the town, the old and dangerous school buildings need to be renovated, almost 4 million yuan is needed for this, especially after last year's snow disaster, the test for the old and dangerous school buildings was very severe... The teachers below are responding to this call the most..." He Qing said.

  "This year, let's first take out 40 million to make up for the debt," Shen Huan said, seeing that He Qing and others had already guessed his thoughts, so he didn't wait for Li Feng to come over and pretend to discuss it, but directly stated his plan. "Make up for the debt, first focus on making up for the big losses that may occur, and put other things off for now, prioritize them. In short, life should be more hopeful than before?"

  "What's there to look forward to?" Li Feng pushed open the door and asked loudly.

  Shen Huai briefly told Li Feng again about merging Li She and Cai Jiaqiao Village schools.

  "Lao He, you called me over for this matter?" Li Feng asked, "There's nothing good to discuss, just do as Secretary Shen said. 'No matter how poor, we can't be poor in education', these words aren't empty."

  "Not that matter," He Qing She said, seeing Li Feng coming over, and shifted the topic to today's main issue. Without asking Huang Xinliang, Shao Zheng, and Zhu Li to leave, he directly said, "The plan for widening Xiaomei Road has been leaked out. I heard news today that someone is secretly buying up the shops along the road on the south side, possibly making things difficult for the town during demolition compensation..."

  Shen Hua thought of the other day when eating at Mao Er Hu Zi restaurant, Sun Jia Duan vice branch secretary and director of public security led people to go over and cause trouble. He asked He Qing She: "Do you know who specifically is stirring up trouble inside?"

  "It's not very difficult to determine, it might be Pan Shigui. Besides, after Du Gui and Secretary Du went to the county, they didn't come back for a long time. Yesterday I saw him parking his motorcycle by the side of the road, talking to He Yuelian, don't know if they were involved in this matter..." said He Qingshe.

  "It must be these people who are behind the scenes," Li Feng said indignantly. "The road has been under construction for many years, how dare ordinary people wade into this muddy water? Even if they wanted to, how could they have such confidence? It must be that Pan Shigui, Du Gui, and He Yuelian know what Secretary Shen is doing, and everything he says is done, so they thought of buying out the shops on the south side of the road to extort money from the town!"

  Shen Huai furrowed his brow, also feeling helpless. The funds for road construction and bridge building had not yet been allocated, but these people were already scrambling to get a share of the spoils.

  "Why don't we go find Director Pan and reflect on this," He Qing asked, "We've been waiting for the bridge to be repaired for many years, it can't just turn yellow because of these people..."

  Shen Hua smiled, Pan Shih-hua learned about the incident of Pan Shih-kuei's lion opening its mouth wide through other means, he didn't tell anyone else about it, this matter was reflected to Pan Shih-hua and he handled it impartially, that's what is called running into a ghost.

  Pan Shi Hua's wife originally held shares in the dyeing and weaving factory contracted by Pan Shi Gui, so she knew that Pan Shi Gui was actually a tool for Pan Shi Hua to make money outside, and it's possible that the whole thing was planned by Pan Shi Hua behind the scenes. What does he have to do with Pan Shi Hua?

  "As long as it's a legitimate private transaction, we can't stop them," Shen Hua said to He Qing Society. "You guys first figure out how far their hands have reached and see how big of a mouth they're preparing to open, then we'll discuss our countermeasures..."

  He Qing nodded, Li Feng was also furious and hard to speak.

  Shen Huai thought about Chen Dan, Xiao Li and others collecting at the old house, simply eating dinner, and then not accompanying Zhu Li, He Qing She, Li Feng and others to continue drinking in the private room, driving away first.

  As he passed by the supply and marketing cooperative, he saw that the lights inside were shining brightly. Shen Hua thought of He Qing's words that He Yuelian might also be related to this matter, so he stopped the car at the side of the road and walked in.

  After Gongxiao Society was contracted by He Yuelian, the entire layout was adjusted and it was no longer a traditional counter sales model. The left side is food and daily necessities, the middle has clocks, stationery and glasses counters, and the right side is clothing, shoes and hats area.

  It was already eight o'clock, and there were still some customers inside wandering around, it could be seen that He Yuelian still had some business acumen.

  "Director Shen, how come you have time to visit my small shop?" He Yuelian heard that Shen Hua had entered the store and hurried down from her second-floor office to greet him.

  It was only early June, the weather wasn't very hot yet, Shen Hua wore long-sleeved shirts morning and night, sometimes even adding a jacket. He Yuelian wore a crimson one-piece dress, under the light, it set off her delicate skin, the hem just above three inches of her knee, revealing her snowy white legs, making people sigh that this woman would never grow old.

  "Did Du Gui return to Meixi yesterday?" Shen Huai asked He Yuelian directly, not wanting to delay any longer.

  "Hmm," He Yuelian said, "He came over yesterday and talked a lot of nonsense..."

  Shen Huai stared into He Yuelian's eyes, he knew this woman was very realistic, but at this time he couldn't be sure which side she would stand on. During this period of time, they were all busy with the reform, and some things were overlooked, He Yuelian should know more than the town officials, but she didn't seem to have any intention of leaking information.

  However, Shen Hua thought that she was "very careless" to let He Qing see her talking to Du Gui by the roadside yesterday, and thought that she might still have the idea of not offending either side.

  Shen Huai didn't want to give He Yuelian a chance to watch the fight from the mountain, so he directly asked her: "What did Du Gui say?"

  "Some of it is hard to hear." He Yuelian peeked at Shen Huai's expression and said cautiously.

  "Go ahead, I've heard worse."

  "He said Secretary Tan seems to distrust you, Secretary Shen, and also said he wants to report you to the district..."

  Shen Huai furrowed his brow and asked, "What are you reporting me for?"

  "He brought a copy of the material to me for signature, asking me to jointly report Secretary Shen with him. I said I needed two days to consider it and asked him to leave the materials in my office." He Yuelian said.