The time came to mid-October, and the groundbreaking ceremony of Shimen Industrial Park had passed for more than a week.

That afternoon, in Zhujiaji, Linbian Township, Shimen County, Nanjiang Province, on a slope halfway up a hill at the roughly junction of Zhujiaji and Yangjiazhai, Li Huayong, Chen Ting, Liu Lingfeng, and a few others stood there, pointing at the land not far away, as if they were discussing something.

That piece of land is naturally the address of the future Shimen Industrial Park.

Ah Yong, why don't you suggest to the government that the entire industrial park be moved to the river? ’

"To do this is to encroach on more farmland, you know that my hometown is originally less land, which makes me open such a mouth, not to mention that I also heard that the porcelain kiln used to burn tiles is really better with a little slope, so don't think about the relocation, there must be such a reason here." ”

"Then, if you want to reduce the level of those roads, this is the only way to save investment. ”

"Downgrade the highway?"

"I don't know what level it will be adjusted to, but I don't think it's necessary to adopt the secondary highway standard, right? I see that many of the provincial roads and even national highways outside your province may not meet the secondary standards, right?

After hearing this, Li Huayong could only smile bitterly. It should be said that Chen Ting is telling the truth, you must know that so far, the whole country has not built a highway, so the "secondary highway" that seems to be common in later generations is already a very high standard in this era. Therefore, it should be said that it is very normal for Chen Ting to make this suggestion now.

However, then again, as a traverser, how could Li Huayong, as a traverser, accept this suggestion?

Li Huayong smiled and patted Chen Ting's shoulder: "I said Chen Sheng, you have been in the mainland for a while, you should have heard the famous propaganda slogan of the mainland government, right?"

"Which one?"

"If you want to get rich, build roads first......"

didn't wait for Li Huayong to finish speaking, Liu Lingfeng next to him hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes, I often hear and see this sentence, Ah Yong, you are incomplete, the complete statement should be: If you want to be rich, build roads first, have fewer children and more trees." I often see slogans like this at many village intersections, right?"

Li Huayong laughed: "Yes, yes, it seems that Liu Sheng is more familiar with the policies of the mainland." ”

It must be admitted that this sentence should be regarded as one of the most classic and famous propaganda slogans in our country in the 80s and 90s. The reason why it is classic, Li Huayong believes that it is mainly because this sentence is said in many places.

After laughing, Li Huayong said to Chen Ting again:

"Chen Sheng, the purpose of our ceramic factory in this place, in fact, there is nothing to say, of course, it is mainly to make money, and have you thought about it, how can such a factory make money, I think two necessary factors, good products, good roads. According to the current situation in the mainland, I even think that the second factor is more important than the first, the country is now the so-called "shortage economy", the production of things is really not afraid of no market, this you look at Pengcheng that carton factory should have experience. What I am really afraid of is actually afraid of poor logistics. Therefore, you just said that lowering the highway grade standard, in the words of the routine, this is restricting the development of your own factory, to put it mildly, it is actually blocking your own financial road. I don't think it's better to think about such a thing. ”

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, this ......"

Hearing Chen Ting say this, Li Huayong was also silent.

The reason why everyone came to this place today, listening to their conversation, can be heard, they are actually discussing how to "save investment". And why we want to discuss this issue, we must start with the main thing Li Huayong has done in the past few days: "budget estimates."

As the name suggests, the so-called budget estimate means "approximate estimate". Compared with the "budget", the "budget estimate" is relatively not so accurate, after all, the "budget" can be calculated against the drawings, and one by one can be calculated very accurately. The "budget estimate" is a piece of work done before the drawings come out, so the figures obtained are relatively crude.

Of course, although it is only a "rough estimate", it is still necessary for a slightly larger project. For example, we often hear on the TV news that "how much is planned to invest in such and such a project", and this "planned investment" is actually the estimated data.

The reason why we do this work is actually very simple, because the budget needs a cost, and the cost is not low. We all know that budgeting requires drawings, and for some large-scale or super projects, the cost of design drawings alone is hundreds of millions. You can't spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a drawing and then find out that there might be a problem with the project.

For example, if you find that the cost is overwhelmed, or you think that it is not cost-effective to do this, it may not be worth doing the project. This is obviously not possible, and this is actually the reason for the existence of "budget estimates".

There is a saying in the engineering world that "budget estimates should be loose and budgets should be tight". The layman may be confused when he hears this sentence, but the insider may smile when he hears it.

Why? Because this is basically an open "unspoken rule" in the engineering world.

The reason for this is not complicated, because for most people, the "estimated" figure is the first impression of everyone, such as many large-scale engineering projects, many people may hear about the "planned investment" of the project, but few people know its specific budget.

This is true for ordinary people, and in fact, this is true for most leaders.

At this point, you should probably understand why there is such an unspoken rule, right?

As a simple example, if the actual cost of completing a large project is about 1 billion, if you estimate the budget and quote it is 1.1 billion, then after the project is approved, when you start to do the project, your life will be better. There's nothing wrong with you being extravagant, and it's not a problem if you're extravagant. Even if you squander 50 million and spend 1.05 billion to complete the project, you may still be commended in the end---- yes, the "planned investment" of 1.1 billion was actually completed for 1.05 billion, saving 50 million for the country.......

On the other hand, if you had reported an estimated budget of 900 million, you would have been miserable for the rest of your life. As for how to force the method, there is no need to say much about this, you can make up for it by yourself.

In the last week or so, Li Huayong has actually been doing this, and he has completed the budget estimate for this project.

Of course, because of the nature of this project, Li Huayong does not have to follow the "unspoken rules" of the industry to do this work this time. On the contrary, he had to do the opposite, and he had to find ways to reduce the size of the investment in the project.

After all, this is an advance project, and it requires itself or Lao Lu to come up with real money to invest in it.

However, by now, Li Huayong felt that he could no longer compress it.

After standing on the hillside and being silent for a while, Li Huayong asked Chen Ting:

"Chen Sheng, what's the situation with that ceramic factory, has the estimate over there come out?"

"Come out, I also talked to Zhong Sheng on the phone at noon, he said that according to the amount of 100 million we reported, it is no problem to complete the first phase of construction, as for whether to add funds to expand the scale in the future, it depends on the future business situation, anyway, it is not a matter of consideration now. Now it's our side......"

Chen Ting didn't continue, and Li Huayong didn't continue to ask, because this estimate was made by everyone together, how could Li Huayong still not understand what he meant?

250 million yuan! If you want to complete the infrastructure construction project of this industrial park, the estimated budget is actually 250 million yuan! This is obviously beyond the previous estimate.

Unfortunately, it was only ready to spend 100 million yuan to build a ceramic factory, but now, this infrastructure project is actually bigger than the ceramic factory itself. Rao is Li Huayong was mentally prepared before, but he didn't expect the gap to be so big.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Huayong said to Chen Ting and Liu Lingfeng:

"Let's go, let's go, don't stay here. In the past few days, I have to trouble the two of them to watch the scene here and do a good job of contacting the government. ”

Hearing Li Huayong say this, Chen Ting understood a little:

"Hmm, Ah Yong, are you going to go out?"

"Alas, where else can I go, of course I'm going to Hongcheng later, such a big thing, I have to discuss with Lao Lu. ”