Chapter 700: Poverty and Death (1/2)

Just a few days ago, a serious car accident occurred somewhere in Suzhou Province, a small ordinary truck carrying many people collided head-on with a mud truck, and 16 lives were left there forever at that moment.

The reason why it is said to be related to Jiagu is because the dozen or so people who were most seriously injured in the car accident were all going to the Jiagu Desert Oasis to do odd jobs.

Before dawn, they got into the crowded pick-up truck, perhaps just thinking about doing more work, adding some subsidies to their families, and saving some school fees for their children. But before they could do anything, they disappeared on the road.

In fact, no one condemned Kagu for this.

Because it is obvious that a small ordinary truck dares to carry a dozen people, which is a serious violation of overloading. Seeing such news, some people even say that such behavior is death, why not drive your own car or take a bus, and then take a warning - you see, this is the end of overloading.

However, after Jiagu sent people to conduct an in-depth investigation, the information returned made people feel heavy.

In theory, the blame seems to lie on the illegal overload, but this undoubtedly ignores the real environment faced by this group of "gig workers".

Not to mention that there is no direct bus from their home to Jiagu Oasis, even if they take a bus to Mingqin County, which is closest to Jiagu Oasis, it may cost dozens of yuan - they only earn a hard money by doing odd jobs, and spend dozens of yuan a day, how much money is left? Therefore, the most economical overloaded truck is almost the best choice for them.

Those who say why not drive themselves are even funnier. With a car, even a motorcycle, who wants to be crammed into a small space in a truck with a dozen people?

This phenomenon is actually very common in rural areas, and small trucks, with a tarp on it and a few benches in it, have become the only "bus" in the village.

Passengers are not unaware of the dangers, but with everyone's income conditions, there is no better choice - how difficult people's livelihood is, helpless but realistic.

So, after this situation is fed back, what can Jiagu do?

First of all, it is impossible for Jiagu to force farmers who come to do odd jobs not to ride in overloaded vehicles.

In rural areas, there are fewer accidents in agricultural vehicles, accidents in small trucks, and accidents in modified vehicles?

There are also a lot of relevant departments to correct this matter, strictly prevent trucks from sitting on people, and do not allow agricultural vehicles to be remodeled, but it is impossible to prevent it, because you can't supervise everyone at all. Every time an accident happens, people are always embarrassed, but they are powerless to change.

A penny is hard to beat a hero, that's how realistic it is.

Secondly, it is unlikely that Jiagu will bear the transportation costs of the gig workers themselves.

It is because of the busy harvest period of Cistanche in the oasis that there is a shortage of manpower, so there is a need for odd jobs.

The labor cost of 100 yuan/person per day is not low in Suzhou Province. The goal of the Desert Development team is to keep development costs as low as possible, not the other way around.

Oasis development is a good thing, and it also provides a lot of opportunities for many people in the neighborhood to make a little more money, and the desert development team has to make sure that they survive before they can benefit more people.

Kaya could have made no representations about the crash. But emotionally, Kaya didn't do that.

I don't kill Beren, but Beren dies because of me. With this sentence, Li Zhang, the head of the oasis, easily persuaded everyone to make humanitarian "compensation" to the victims' families.

But everyone knows that the suffering of the victim's family cannot be remedied with money. And, if the roots are not changed, such tragedies are likely to continue to happen.

The best way to change is to develop locally.

For example, in the northeastern black province, in the past, car accidents in overloaded trucks were often seen in the local area.

But today, the rate of such fatalities and injuries has more than doubled.

The reason is that Jiagu has promoted the planting of high-yield domestic soybeans on a large scale in the local area, and at the same time guided soybean deep processing enterprises to settle in, and the local economy has been greatly improved.

Peasant families have bulging pockets, and even have their own cars to travel safely, and few people take the kind of modified trucks or agricultural vehicles.

A little closer, there is the example of Jin Province.

In the past, even if Jin Province vigorously rectified the illegal mining of coal mines, the resurgence of the ashes was not uncommon - this is not only an administrative problem, it is also an economic problem, a social problem, because the province's economy is in a downturn, there are fewer ways out, naturally some people try to steal coal mines.

However, after the energy forest plan in Jin Province was rolled out in various places, the phenomenon of illegal illegal mining in small coal mines with great safety hazards has not been extinguished, but the number of people investigated and punished has decreased significantly.

Most of the problems can be solved with money, such as getting a safer car, such as choosing a better career...... Development is the last word, and nothing more.

But it's not the same from region to region.

The above two regions either have better land resources or better policy resources, and in terms of input-output cost performance, Jiagu is more willing to show its strength.

But the land of poor mountains and bad waters is different.

On the contrary, there are many cases: Jiagu grows blueberries in Ganyu County, which is barren in the mountains; Jiagu grows rice and shrimp in Yanshan County, which has continuous salinization; Jiagu grows yew in the Liangshan area with steep slopes and deep valleys; and Jiagu engages in pastoral complex projects in the poverty-stricken belt around the capital......

Is it worth it? Qi Zheng asked himself more than once.

If it's about profit, it's definitely not worth it.

Of course, it is possible to make money by renovating poor mountains and bad waters, but it takes too much time and energy - Jiagu has to fight against the harsh natural environment, Jiagu has to rack his brains to find suitable projects for these areas, and Jiagu has to endure long-term losses before the project generates benefits...... Take the above project as an example, it took three or four years to start to produce benefits, and after five or six years, it is still investing.

If it is of equal value, Qi Zheng can use the same time and energy to earn an unknown number of times the money.

But people can't talk purely about profits, and the reason why Jiagu has today's prestige, not just a larger company, is because Jiagu is not purely about profits.

Between the balance of interests and feelings, Qi Zheng usually chooses the center-left route, but this time, it seems to be a center-right position.

Poverty and death, the topic is too heavy!

In order to indirectly connect more than a dozen lives in Jiagu, Jiagu should also devote his energy to the local area to reduce the occurrence of similar tragedies.

And Yan Chao, who is easy to fight, made the same decision, which is better understood - that is his hometown.

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