"The bird road is a thousand thousand thousand miles away, and the two sides of the Luofeng are sandwiched between the male passes...... Mayor Yu, how far are we ahead? ”

Lin Zhenhua stood on the edge of a steep cliff, looking at a couplet carved on the opposite mountain, and asked Yu Ping, the deputy mayor of Jingxi City, who was accompanying him.

"The straight-line distance is no more than 30 kilometers, and as for the road, there are still many kilometers." Yu Ping replied.

"So, you should be able to get to the city before it gets dark today?"

"You have to, or you can't live in the mountains. After dark, it is dangerous to stay in the mountains. ”

"Let's go・・・・・・ the scenery here is really good." Lin Zhenhua looked at the great rivers and mountains in front of him nostalgically, and said with emotion.

Behind them, there were more than a dozen off-road vehicles parked, including Lin Zhenhua's own car, and the car sent down the mountain by the Jingxi Municipal Government to pick them up. From the grade of the car, it is not difficult to see that the poverty in Jingxi City is not just a lip service. Lin Zhenhua and the others drove imported cars of Mitsubishi, Toyota and other brands, and the value of a car was four or five hundred thousand. The Jingxi Municipal Government drove domestic brands such as the Great Wall, but it was more than 100,000 cars. Among them, Lin Zhenhua even saw three old jeeps with canvas canopies that had not been seen for a long time, you know, this kind of car has been basically eliminated in developed areas.

After Lin Zhenhua and Yue Jianhua met in Jinling, as soon as they returned to Xunyang, they mentioned Yue Jianhua's request to the group's office meeting. He originally thought that the executives of the group would be resistant to investing in Jingxi, but after reading the children's essays, their eyes turned red, and instead turned around to persuade Lin Zhenhua and suggested that they lend a helping hand to Jingxi City.

Lin Zhenhua found out that his management team was originally full of sentimental otaku, not to mention cadres like Cen Youjun, who were originally born in the mountains, even returnees such as Xiang Zhe and Hu Fei were quite compassionate. Of course, feelings belong to feelings, as group executives, they still have a minimum of rationality, and everyone believes that Hanhua has the obligation to help Jingxi City develop its own industry, but this kind of help should not be a completely one-way gift, but should try to let Hanhua get some rewards from it.

"Although Jingxi City is rich in agricultural products, coal, iron and non-ferrous metal deposits, these raw materials have little to do with the development of our company, especially mineral resources, even if they can be mined, it is difficult to transport them out of the mountain, so the economic value is not large. If we invest in Jingxi to build a factory, it is difficult to get the corresponding returns. Hu Fei pointed to the map of Jingxi at the group office meeting and introduced it to everyone.

Lin Zhenhua said: "When I communicated with the leaders of Jingxi, they said that their labor costs there are extremely low, and that this may be a more favorable condition, what do you think? ”

"How low?" Xiang Zhe asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "According to them, the salary of the staff in their agency is only more than 300 yuan, plus various benefits, and it is good to be able to get more than 400 yuan." In the few factories, the average wage of the workers is about 200 yuan, and if you are more ruthless, you can hire people for KC dollars a month. ”

"Dollars?" Everyone smacked their tongues, you know, at that time, the average monthly salary of employees in the country was about 800 yuan, and the average salary of a unit like Hanhua with good efficiency and high wages had already reached more, not counting all kinds of non-monetary benefits. There are some companies in Xunyang that recruit apprentices and give them a salary of 500 yuan, which is considered a very tricky level.

"If we want to go to Jingxi to build a factory, it's definitely not to let the locals get a salary of NO0 yuan a month, right? If the standard is so low, they will definitely have to go to work along the coast. In fact, we have migrant workers from Jingxi in Hanhua, who ran out just to earn a little more money. Xiang Zhe said. …,

"NO0 is a bit low, but if we give 300 or 400, it should be considered a high salary, right? I heard that Jingxi's living standard is relatively low, the price of vegetables and meat is not high, and more than 300 yuan can already live a very good life. Lin Zhenhua said, "Even if the salary is calculated at 300 yuan, the entire labor cost is much lower than in Xunyang." ”

"However, if such a low-labor cost product is shipped out of the mountain, the freight alone is enough to offset the cost advantage." Peng Shaozhe, general manager of the home furnishing company, reminded. His home furnishing company produces labor-intensive products, with the help of much lower labor costs than Europe and the United States, coupled with the very low cost of water transportation due to relying on the Yangtze River, the home furnishing company has become competitive. If freight rates rise, this labor-intensive product is simply not competitive.

Hu Fei nodded and said: "Shaozhe is right, this kind of transportation status in Jingxi determines that the industries developed there must be highly profitable, with a large demand for labor and a small demand for transportation, so that such an industry can develop, otherwise, even if we lose money to transfuse blood for them, when we stop subsidizing, when these enterprises will collapse." ”

As for what industries can be done in the end, it is necessary to go to Jingxi for field investigations, and in addition, it is necessary to fully communicate with the local government in Jingxi. After the meeting, Lin Zhenhua took Hu Fei to Jingxi, and the purpose of bringing Hu Fei was that he was an industrial engineering expert and an absolute authority in project evaluation.

Before arriving in Jingxi, Lin Zhenhua had also imagined the harsh terrain conditions here, but when he went to the scene, he realized that his imagination was too poor, and the danger of the terrain created by nature's magic was far beyond his expectations.

Jingxi City is known as "eight mountains, half water and half fields", there are four large mountain ranges entrenched in the territory, thousands of streams rushing in the meantime, only the name of the river has as many as dozens of rivers. The rivers sometimes burrow into caves and sometimes burst out of canyons, and the rapids and drops are so strong that the few winding roads have to be meandered through. Between two seemingly very close mountains, the road spirals and sometimes winds for tens of kilometers.

Hearing that Lin Zhenhua came to Jingxi with a delegation, Yue Jianhua was very excited. He originally planned to go out of the mountain to meet him in person, but he had no choice but to be entangled in official business, so he had to arrange for Deputy Mayor Yu Ping to lead a team to meet him, and sent out almost all the cars that the city government could take out. What surprised Lin Zhenhua the most was that in the welcome team sent out by Jingxi City, in addition to the officials and clerks of various government commissions and bureaus, there were also seven or eight spare drivers, and when the convoy officially entered the mountain, these drivers walked up to Lin Zhenhua and their own car, asking to replace the drivers brought by Hanhua.

"Mayor Yu, what do you mean?" Lin Zhenhua had no choice but to ask Yu Ping questions.

Yu Ping said: "Don't misunderstand Mr. Lin, this is mainly for your safety.

The mountain roads here are too dangerous, and your drivers are used to driving plain roads, so I'm afraid they won't be able to adapt to our roads here. ”

As soon as Yu Ping said this, Lin Zhenhua naturally had no opinion, but the drivers of Hanhua couldn't hold it on their faces. Everyone is playing with the steering wheel, people say that the road is too dangerous, you people can't drive, we have to come, isn't this a slap in the face of the Hanhua driver? Some older drivers are self-aware and just hand over the steering wheel. Some younger drivers quit doing it, threatening that they could drive a section first, and when they really couldn't drive, it was not too late to ask their peers in Jingxi for guidance. …,

Yu Ping smiled, didn't force it, and took the convoy on the road. As soon as they entered the mountain, the drivers of Hanhua were blinded, and all kinds of steep slopes and sharp bends were made one after another, and some places were only within a few meters, and they had to turn 180-degree curves while maintaining the speed of the uphill slope. After just 20 kilometers of driving, the drivers of Hanhua were soaked in hot sweat and had to hand over the car to the driver from Jingxilai.

Yu Ping sat in Lin Zhenhua's Toyota SUV, driven by the best driver from the city government, walking in the middle of the convoy. Seeing that Hanhua's drivers were replaced one after another, he smiled and said, "Mr. Lin, let me say it, our drivers in the plain area can't drive our mountain roads in Jingxi." Even if they have good skills, it is not a big problem to drive twenty or thirty kilometers, and they can't stand it if they drive long. Only our own drivers in Jingxi have been driving this kind of road all year round and are used to it. ”

"However, it is impossible for everyone to bring a driver from Jingxi to the mountains, right?" Lin Zhenhua said.

"Isn't it!" Yu Ping said, "Mr. Lin, let me tell you a story." Two years ago, we China Merchants finally persuaded a boss from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to come to our city to invest in building a factory. The boss took a driver, drove a big run into the mountain, didn't go far, encountered a sharp bend and couldn't stop the car, so he hit the cliff headlong, fortunately no one died. Later, we sent the big boss to the provincial capital for treatment, and he told us: You Jingxi people are really friends, but unfortunately this road is too difficult to walk. When you finish repairing the road, I will definitely come here to invest 100 million. ”

"Yes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, that's right." Lin Zhenhua looked at the deep cliffs on both sides and said.

"We, the people of Jingxi, have not stopped building roads for a day." Yu Ping said, "On the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we made a statistic. Jingxi has a total population of 220,000, and in the past 50 years, a total of 581 migrant workers have died to build roads. It is their blood and sweat that allow us to have the current passage into the mountain. ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "Listening to Mayor Yu, I really feel a great responsibility." Mayor Yu, don't worry, we are here to invest sincerely, and we will definitely not give up halfway. ”

"Then I will thank Mr. Lin on behalf of the 2.2 million people in Jingxi." Yu Ping said solemnly.