Looking at the three acres of cotton land, the lush cotton saplings, green and lovely, the wind blows, the flower heads swing around, Liu Yu squatted on the ridges, looking at them distractedly, his heart is like a budding cotton bag, heavy.

Liu Yu doesn't remember how to leave Bali Village, he is walking all the way, Chinese farmers are the most pitiful, stay in the ravine all their lives, maybe the farthest is only the county seat, see the highest is the county TV tower, live in the best is the county small hotel, eat the best is the stir-fry of small restaurants, in addition, are dealing with mountains and water, and land crops.

There is no agricultural science and technology equipment, no advanced experience, no new planting crops, everything, from the ancestors, from the ancient history, take over the tradition, rely on cattle or even people to cultivate the land, plough the field, rely on the experience of the ancestors boring planting crops, and plant only a few crops over and over again, wheat, rice, peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans, ......

All year round, the green mountains are companions, isolated from the bustling outside world, left in the corners of the times, and the last thing you get may be only a few thousand yuan, or just enough to eat yourself, the years are in a hurry, but life goes on and on, until you die in the mountains, hard life, busy life, but you get nothing.

Now the state wants to compensate the peasants and has adopted a series of agricultural reforms, including the construction of new rural areas, which is the most important thing, and it is clear that it is for the benefit of the peasants, but as a result, it has become a mess.

"Is there any smoke?" Liu Yu lowered his head, walked on the bridge, and suddenly paused.

Two boxes of cigarettes stretched out behind him at the same time, a box of town secretary, a box of village secretary, a box of 50 red China, and a box of 10 pieces of white sand.

The town secretary glanced at the village secretary, and the village secretary quickly retracted his hand, but Liu Yu took his cigarette. Smoked one. The town secretary's expression was slightly suffocated, and he quickly reacted to Liu Yu.

This is the first time Liu Yu has smoked, the first time in his life.

The smoke is very choking, maybe the Chinese ones will be better, but it is this choking smell, Liu Yu can feel the local flavor, the people in the village, presumably they are reluctant to smoke Chinese and the like, Baisha is the most common, and those old people. Maybe just smoke shredded cigarettes.

Holding a cigarette butt, Liu Yu silently walked to the bridge, at this time the sunset reflected the sky, and the dusk and sunset should have been the peak period for rural people to enter and exit. There was no one on it, and Liu Yu looked up and found it. A group of plainclothes people are at the head of the bridge.

"Let's go back." Liu Yu turned his head sideways and said to Zhou Xuan. The mood is a little low.

The convoy left, the plainclothes dispersed, and the blocked bridge finally opened, and the people of Bali Village who went home one after another......

Zhou Xuan didn't bring a car, got into Liu Yu's car.

"The same is true of other villages?" Liu Yu asked directly.

Zhou Xuan paused: "Yes, the situation is similar." The funds to the county are already small, and they are delegated to the town, and the town to the village is even less, and in the end the village only has a little money. In a little bit, only a small part is really used for construction. ”

"The relationship between the top and bottom is too deep and too wide, and the county knows it, but it can only turn a blind eye."

Corruption is often not an individual behavior, but a collective behavior, a person can not be corrupt, there must be a nest of people together, the county really wants to pull, a pull is a nest, the impact is not good, the fault is not to encounter special circumstances, such as someone else should be rectified, will be investigated for corruption, usually rarely will be strictly investigated, because a check is a group of people, when it is found out more difficult to deal with.

But this status quo cannot be changed, no matter how much money is smashed, it will not bubble, and the city, province and even the central government cannot effectively coordinate this situation, so the task falls on the head of the county.

If Liu Yu wants to open up the way, he must let the money that should be implemented fall to the ground and fall to the stall that should be used, instead of being confiscated by various invisible hands in the process of falling.

At present, the focus of work is the construction of new rural areas, and the county's huge peasant base, without changing their situation, blindly supports industry and commerce that can make money quickly, and the county's economy may go up, but only a small number of people will benefit, most of them like peasants, but they are still far behind.

Of course, the focus of work in the new countryside does not mean that industry and commerce will be left aside. The development of industry and commerce can provide more jobs in the county, farmers can find jobs in the county in addition to farming, and at the same time, the government can obtain more taxes and fees, and through these taxes to further improve the rural situation, to achieve a virtuous circle. This is an important role played by the government in regulating agriculture, industry and commerce, and narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor.

The original phrase "the first rich lead the latter to become rich" has been criticized to this day, holding that those who got rich first are getting richer and richer, and those who are later rich are getting poorer and poorer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is constantly expanding, and the fundamental task of the first rich leading the latter to become rich has not been achieved.

This view is very common, and indeed, from many levels, the first rich lead the latter to become rich, and it does not bring the desired effect. A group of people who were rich at the beginning are getting richer and richer, and a group of people who are poor are getting poorer and poorer.

But does this mean that the first rich did not drive the later rich? To be precise, it was driven, but it did not meet the expectations of the people, resulting in a huge gap.

The first rich drive the later rich, this process has two aspects of adjustment, one is the labor market, the first rich to run enterprises, run businesses, for the rich to provide jobs, provide wages, this is a kind of drive; One is the government's macroeconomic regulation and control, which is mainly reflected in the flow of taxes. It is the role of the government to improve the social welfare of the poor class by collecting taxes from developed coastal cities, partly going to the central and western regions to develop the local economy and improve local social welfare.

There may be too many rich people who avoid taxes reasonably, and there are too many poor classes with little welfare, but it cannot be denied that in this process, the government has indeed played a role in adjusting the gap between the rich and the poor through taxes, and realizing that the first rich lead the latter to become rich, but the effect has not met expectations.

That's where the government comes in, to play a moderating role, not to be equally wealthy, as many radicals believe, which is unrealistic. It is impossible for the government to deprive the rich of their money and distribute it to the poor, this is not called improving the gap between the rich and the poor, it is called robbery, except for the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the gradual stabilization of the country, this situation can not appear again, private property is sacrosanct, this is the constitution of a country, and if this is violated, the country will have no line at all.

Moreover, wealth is predatory, the earlier rich people. It is an objective fact that they will get richer and richer, and the gap between them and the poor classes will grow. In the simplest example, a rich man has a wealth of 1 million, and the poor man only has 1 yuan, and they are given the same amount of time and the same way to invest their wealth, such as generating income through bank deposits (for the time being, it is better to regard it as an investment method), so after a year, what is the perceived wealth of the two?

Based on an annual interest rate of 2.25%. The wealth of the rich has become 1,022,500 yuan, and the poor have become 1.0225 yuan, and the gap between the two has changed from almost 1 million to more than 1,022,000, a gap of more than 20,000. This is still based on the premise that the bank is kind and does not levy various fees on 1 yuan!

And the reality is undoubtedly much more dire than that. Wealthy people can run more profitable projects with huge sums of money. The poor do not have the opportunity to participate in the project's profit-sharing, so over time, the gap between the rich and the poor will undoubtedly widen until a certain limit is reached.

Therefore, earlier leaders should have been aware of this problem, "the first rich lead to the latter to be rich." Finally achieve common prosperity", there is no mention of the shadow of the "gap between the rich and the poor", because when they decided to tilt towards a few rich people and a few regions, they understood that once the gap between the rich and the poor is generated. It's only going to get bigger. What they can do is to improve the environment of the poor through regulation, so that they can also become rich, if not to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor.

Some people think that people in China are getting poorer and poorer, and they are not rich at all, but this is a comparison with the rich people in the early days, and as the gap between the rich and the poor gets wider and wider, of course they will feel poorer and poorer. If you want to compare, you should compare with the whole and the past.

Compared with the world, the per capita income of Chinese, although this figure is unusually large, but somewhat content, this data has indeed risen with the reform of decades, which cannot be denied.

Compared with the past, Chinese people are much better than before, both material and spiritual life, in the past, you had to get a meat ticket to eat a piece of pork and queue up from three o'clock in the morning, and if you were unlucky, you had to take a piece of pork belly, now what? Who can't afford to eat pork? There are very few, and this is also a manifestation of affluence

Compared with the most vivid example, when the People's Republic of China was founded, the economic conditions were not as good as those of the DPRK at that time, and after so many years, the DPRK almost stood still, but compared with China, it has made much progress, and the people's living standards have changed from a similar situation at that time to a living standard that is much higher than that of the North Korean people today.

If we have to compare with a group of people who got rich first, then not only China, but also any country will appear, the people's living standards are getting lower and lower, because the gap between the rich and the poor is a cancer that almost no country can cure, Rao is known as Sweden, which is known as the strongest social welfare, with a policy of "flattening the gap between the rich and the poor", using excessive taxes to coordinate the income between the rich and the poor, and through the form of social welfare, improve the lives of the poor and compress the income of the rich.

To a certain extent, it is true that the income gap between the rich and the poor has been reduced, but even so, they have only slowed down the pace of the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and have not changed the fact that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, but the gap between the rich and the poor in Sweden is much smaller than that of other countries.

Therefore, Liu Yu paid attention to the construction of the new countryside, and while improving the income of peasants through development, it was also necessary to strengthen industrial and commercial construction, promote agriculture through the slightly richer secondary and tertiary industries, and then improve the peasant environment in the form of welfare or taxation.

After the establishment of the village, Liu Yu intends to use it as a model to implement, at least let the people in each village know what elements should be included in a new countryside, is it just to build a house, a mountain and plant a few trees?

It's just that the second meeting of the county's standing committee is about to be held, and the issue of the new countryside will certainly be raised at the meeting, and this issue will be left until then.

After thinking about the construction of the new countryside for a few days, on this day, Liu Yu was taking a nap in the office, and Han Mercury ran over with a smile and handed over the news: "Boss, someone sent us a pennant." ”

Liu Yu half-squinted his eyes and said lazily: "Isn't it okay to hand it over to the reception and visit office?" In the past half month, no less than three pennants have been received, not to mention the government, the local police station and the county public security bureau.

Han Shuixing said: "This time the situation is a bit special, he is a businessman from other places, and he heard that the underworld forces in Hualuo County have been defeated, so he came back to send pennants." ”

Out-of-town businessmen? Why does it sound familiar? Leng Buding, Liu Yu remembered that it was the one who didn't give Shi Jun a car. As a result, he was chased and killed, and was escorted away by the county public security bureau all the way to the businessman surnamed He?

"What's the other party's last name?" Liu Yu said with a flash in his eyes.

Han Shuixing immediately said: "The surname is He, he said that he had come to Hualuo County." After a slight pause, Han Shuixing continued: "He also wants to thank the county magistrate in person, it was you who defeated Hualuo's black forces." ”

Well? Liu Yu opened his eyes and swept Han Mercury lightly, he was still wondering, a businessman sent a pennant, why did Han Mercury come to report it, it turned out that the stalk was here. Is it to accept any benefits from others, and I want to arrange for the businessman to get Liu Yu to meet. For Han Shuixing, Liu Yu became more and more disliked, but this businessman surnamed He. Liu Yu needs to take a look.

He immediately ordered the businessman surnamed He to be brought over and met him in the office.

"Ahh County Magistrate Liu. Hello hello, my name is He Xiaodong. When the merchant surnamed He entered the door, he was slightly stunned, obviously frightened by Liu Yu's excessively young age.

Liu Yu shook hands with a smile and made him tea: "Mr. He, sit down, you are polite." It is the responsibility of our government to crack down on gangsters, and if you send pennants, it will make us embarrassed. ”

He Xiaodong's face was straight: "County Magistrate Liu, you can't say that." The existence of Hualuo's underworld forces has not been a day or two, I have been paying attention to them, and it was not until you took office that you completely eliminated them, which undoubtedly shows the courage of County Magistrate Liu, and I admire your courage very much. ”

As much as he can, He Xiaodong was chased out of Hualuo County by Shi Jun, and he has the courage to pay attention to Hualuo, which shows that he must have a plan, and now he deliberately takes the opportunity to send the pennant to come back, is it possible that he can't let go of the chestnut project that he fell in love with at the beginning?

"Hehe, only by improving the environment in the county can we improve the investment environment, and I hope to attract a boss like Mr. He to invest in our county." Liu Yu said.

He Xiaodong pushed the boat down the river and said with a smile: "It is my honor to be able to invest in Hualuo, and I hope to continue last year's investment project with Hualuo." ”

Sure enough, I am reluctant to this project, Liu Yu said secretly, but since the other party is willing to invest here, Liu Yu is of course willing.

"What project is Mr. He going to invest in?" Liu Yu said.

He Xiaodong said with a smile: "It's still the same project last year, doing chestnut processing." ”

Chestnut this thing, Jiangli Province was originally not, in the 90s various places corresponding to the market economy, vigorously develop all kinds of economy, the land is relatively barren towns to encourage the village people to go out, to the big city to join the urban construction, set off a relatively large wave of workers at that time, they should be the first batch of urban construction workers into the city, and some villages, try their best to keep the people in the township, in the local development of agriculture and individual business, of which Hualuo County Wufu Town eighteen villages are the whole village left in the village, led by the government at that time, Chestnut was introduced.

At that time, the chestnut market was relatively hot, there were many chestnut processing enterprises, the market demand was large, once prevailed similar to today's peanut harvesting scene, once the chestnut ripe season, there were traders driving a tractor into the village, door-to-door chestnut harvesting, the scene was once quite prosperous, and also became the main source of income for many farmers in Wufu Town.

Wufu Town, especially one of the villages called Niuqian Village, all the mountains are contracted by the villagers to plant chestnuts, standing in the village, looking at the mountains surrounded on three sides, all the colors are chestnuts, Niuqian Village also made a fortune because of chestnuts at that time, at that time half of the people in the village bought black and white TVs, and even a few people bought color TVs, you must know that in the 90s, the vast majority of urban families are still at the level of black and white TVs, a rural area can use black and white TVs, and even buy color TVs, it can be seen that the villagers at that time did make a lot of money.

Niuqian Village became famous overnight and became a model village in Wufu Town, not only that, but all towns and towns in the county also came to Niuqian Village to visit and investigate, it can be said that the scenery is unique.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, after several years of speculation, the chestnut fever slowly fell, the market demand for chestnuts fell sharply, Wufu Town suffered, the chestnut market is the same every year, the price from the initial 3 yuan a catty, to now more than 1 yuan a catty, some villages, there are not even dealers to collect again, either rot on the tree, or hit down and save themselves.

After spending several years like this, many villagers in Wufu Town missed the best period of going out to work, and were tied alive in the ravine by the mountains of chestnuts. Now Niuqian Village, which once became famous overnight, has become the bottom existence in Wufu Town, and is gradually declining, and only the chestnuts all over the mountain tell the glory of the past.

Liu Yu was a little puzzled in his heart, the chestnut thing has obviously passed the best stage of investment, and now it is really profitable to invest in a factory? This is a doubt that Liu Yu did not say, and he always felt that something was wrong with this investment.

However, the predecessors have reached the point where they are about to sign a contract, and the problems have long been found out, and it is a fact that the former county magistrate was taken down, but it does not mean that the other party is mentally retarded and can be deceived by an investor.

"Chestnut processing? Well...... The project is a good project, it is even better if you have a plan in hand, take me another day to see, if the project is feasible, the government will consider some help. Liu Yu said that for foreign investment, free land and tax exemption for a limited period of time are not unavoidable.

He Xiaodong hurriedly thanked him.

After talking for a while, He Xiaodong left, Liu Yu's brows sank slightly, and he began to think, I don't know why, the more Liu Yu thought about the chestnut processing project, the more wrong it became, no matter how you look at it, now the chestnut processing factory is the road of nine deaths and one life, why did He Xiaodong insist on choosing this one?

Director Han ...... It's okay, you're busy. Liu Yu shouted, stopped again, waved his hand, pondered for a moment, grabbed the phone with one hand, and personally called China Merchants: "I, Liu Yu, you talked about a chestnut processing project last year, the name of the project starter, He, a foreigner, brought the project information, including the identity and origin of He Xiaodong, and sent it over." ”

The other side hummed respectfully, and immediately sorted the information of the original project.

Genetically modified part, it seems that many book friends have opinions, this, a bit unexpected by the old pig, in the genetics of the old pig, genetically modified food and genetic changes, are two different things that are not related, could it be that the common sense of the old pig is wrong?

Regarding the genetic harm of genetically modified organisms, the old pig does not plan to talk more, everyone reserves their own opinions, maybe the old pig is not good at learning and not necessarily, after all, this is also inconclusive in the world, the old pig is not possible to draw conclusions, one day, there will be a result, we wait patiently. (To be continued......)