Chapter 82: The Power of Public Opinion
Let's go over the next few days. Several. The news is driven by people with hearts. Soon every corner of Xiaopingchuan County, and all of these are related to the Fang family.
First, it is said that due to the facilitation of Deputy Director Zhu Dajun, the Fang family and the Pinggang County Police Department formally reached an agreement to lease a warehouse of the police station in the county town at a rent of 120,000 yuan a year to open a shopping mall. Although it is said that this agreement was not so smooth when it was passed in the county. Some county leaders have complained about this. It is believed that the police department's move is suspected of not complying with the law.
However, after Director Guan Yuewu reported at the meeting the allocation of funds to the police station in Pingchuan County in the past few years, as well as the public security situation in Pingchuan County in the past two years, the county leaders who dissented were completely silent.
With the continuous deepening of the reform and opening up policy, the number of residents in the county has increased markedly in recent years, and a large number of peasants and outsiders enter the city every day, resulting in a very heavy pressure on public security, but the county finance's appropriation for the police station has not only not increased day by day, but has also defaulted on a large amount of money. As a result, the police station has not been able to purchase any more police equipment for several years, and the cost of handling cases has also been reduced again and again; according to Guan Yuewu's words, even the gas money in the police station is now tight, and the speed of police dispatch has been seriously affected. As a result, the residents of Ping" County are complaining about this. If the county is still unable to fundamentally solve the financial crisis of the police department, then the police department can only rent the warehouse to the Fang family to ease the financial pressure. Otherwise, then ask the leaders of the county government to officially issue an official letter stating that it is not the inaction of the police department, but the lack of money in the county to ensure the normal operation of the police department! He Guan Yuewu will never carry this black cauldron! At the meeting, Guan Yuewu slapped the table several times in a row, from the arrears of the county finance department to the police funds to the civil affairs department's lack of care for the families of the police officers who died in the line of duty.
County Magistrate Li is nothing. Listening with an unchanged face, anyway, he was in charge as soon as he arrived, and the responsibility for these things could not be counted on his head. But the other county leaders here are inevitably a little on pins and needles. If it is admitted to the public that the county is unable to ensure the normal operation of the police department because it does not have the money to ensure the normal operation of the police department, then wouldn't it be a naked slap in the face of the government, which has the ability to collect taxes but is unable to ensure the safety of the residents of the county, what will everyone think? If it reaches the ears of the superiors, what will the leaders think?
But it is absolutely impossible to let the county treasury squeeze out this part of the money! Pyeongcheon County's fiscal revenue has been in deficit for several years. The whereabouts of every sum of money were also made clear as early as the year after the year, where did such a large sum of money come from, and whose pocket did it come from? Who wants to return the fat that has already been obtained? This is a 100% offending errand, and naturally no leader stood up and patted his chest.
"Although the police station rents out the warehouse, although it sounds a little ugly, and it may also make everyone here feel a little embarrassed, it is better than the police officers indiscriminately fined and charged because of lack of funds! If the county finance is really unable to solve the police funds in the near future, then it will be done according to the wishes of the director of the customs bureau. There is no room for carelessness in the security of the county, which is a major matter related to the safety of the lives and property of the residents of the county! In the end, it was the county magistrate Li who made the decision, not only approved the proposal put forward by Director Guan Yuewu, but also allocated 100,000 yuan to the police station from the limited mobile funds in the county magistrate's possession to improve the bureau's financial difficulties.
As soon as the news came out. The residents in Pingchuan County have a good opinion of Li Dongxing and Guan Yuewu. With the spread of radio and the gradual introduction of television into the homes of the general public, the eyes of the residents of Ping" County have also been broadened, and they are not ignorant of the situation in neighboring counties, provincial towns, and even other provinces. The phenomenon of indiscriminate police fees and fines is not uncommon nowadays, and it has been repeatedly mentioned on the news on television that the central and provincial governments have repeatedly banned such behavior, but they have always banned it.
Nowadays, the county magistrate and the police chief would rather rent out the police station warehouse to collect police funds, and never allow the phenomenon of arbitrary fines and fees in the jurisdiction, which is undoubtedly the support of the people.
Second, it is said that Wang Debao, the manager of the shopping mall located in the center of Pingchuan County, was arrested by the Fang family for wantonly slandering the owner of the Fang family who went to the shopping mall to lease the mall in good faith. Moreover, Wang Debao's lease conditions for Fang Bin were also widely known, and people with a little economic acumen all condemned Wang Debao's greed and explained the mystery to the people around him. Everyone who heard it scolded Wang Debao. And part of this content has also been recognized by the unpaid employees of the shopping mall. For a time, Wang Debao became a rat crossing the street in Pingchuan County, and everyone shouted and beat him!
Third, it is said that the Fang family not only wants to open a restaurant in the county town and promote the fish head cake to the county seat, but also wants to open a shopping mall in the county town, and now they are negotiating with the police department and the civil affairs department, and they plan to remove the management and the heads of key departments, and the rest of the employees are all recruited from the families of the police who died in the line of duty and the military families who sacrificed for the country, and their salaries are even more at the leading level in the county. It is said that if you do a good job, a month's salary plus bonus can reach 200 to 300 yuan!
Such a high salary undoubtedly makes many people in Pingchuan County excited and envious. At the same time, people's impression of the Fang family is also doubled. People are not plants. Who can be ruthless. The people still have respect for the bereaved families of police officers and soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country and for the people, but in this era of widespread poverty, people are powerless. The Fang family's offering such a high salary to their bereaved families is undoubtedly an expression of goodwill to these people in the eyes of the people, and to help these poor and respectable people in this way. In any case, it is more acceptable than being able to pay a high salary in a corporate company because of family ties.
Fang's supermarket has not yet opened. In Pingchuan County, there is already a faint remark, as soon as you support the Fang family, you are contributing to these respectable people!