Chapter 712: Predecessor
"Hahahaha, understood! Understand! The national conditions are different! But you're busy, you can't be lazy with this wine, come, raise a glass, who's the time! Hurry up, you're not active in drinking, what else can you do! County Magistrate Qiu patted Hong Tao on the shoulder, saying long live understanding, but his hand was not idle, the wine glass was raised again, and he shouted at the township cadres below to get up and toast, they lined up here one by one, one person toasted a table!
"Hey, I said you should eat slowly! No matter how fast my hand is, it's not as fast as your mouth! Don't just eat fish, just eat bread with it! Hong Tao plucked a piece of fish and divided it into two portions for Katie and Pan. Katie is worthy of being a foodie, first tasted a small bite, and after thinking it was good, she immediately turned on all her horsepower, ate all the fish and meat on the plate, and then looked at Hong Tao.
"It's okay! It's okay, eat more! Eat more! Xiao Tang, you find a waitress to pick fish bones for our foreign guests, don't do it, just pick it at the table! Deputy Director Dou saw that Katie liked to eat fish and meat, and immediately became happy, he was also half a host, and the guests loved to eat their own dishes, which in itself was an affirmation of the host.
"But Hong Tao, there are still younger brothers and sisters, don't be busy eating this first, keep some stomach, there are good things in the back." After Deputy Director Dou arranged for the waiter to pick the fish bones, he began to stop Hong Tao and Katie from eating, and pointed to a waiter who came out of the kitchen.
"It's Gayu! It's really not small, two years ago when I went fishing in pheasant ditch, I used a shrimp cage to catch Ga fish, but the size is not so big! When the waiter put a large porcelain basin on the table, Hong Tao immediately recognized what kind of fish was in the basin, a whole large pot of sauce roasted gayu, about a foot in size, gayu can grow so big is not much, if it is wild. It's even more rare.
"It seems that Hong Tao is really an expert, he can recognize what kind of fish this is at a glance, have you ever been to Pheasant Gully? Just that pheasant ditch here? Deputy Director Dou saw that Hong Tao hadn't eaten yet. began to praise his own dishes, smiling so much that he couldn't see his eyes.
"Hmm. I've been to fishing, I've been to this reservoir several times, Xionghu ditch, pheasant ditch, alkali factory have been stayed, the scenery here is good, the water quality is good, for people like me who like fishing, it's paradise! "Hong Tao actually came from his previous life, thinking of that magical big carp. As he spoke, his eyes were wrong.
"Hey! This is called fate! Come on, come on, for this fate, raise a glass and go! "Deputy County Magistrate Qiu is a master of persuading alcohol, and if the ants on the ground fight fiercely, he can use it as a reason to toast, so as long as you talk at the wine table, he can let you drink.
"Eat this fish yourselves, there are no bones, just a bone in the middle. Eat more, this fish beauty! Hong Tao could only explain to Katie in Chinese, and then she relayed it to Pan. It's rude to communicate in English on such occasions, because other people don't understand and think you're hiding something from others.
"You know this pot of fish, I let the reservoir management office fish for 3 whole days, it took enough to get enough of these 2o more, all the small ones were thrown away, that thing can't be on the table, I remember when I was a child. I came here to catch fish, and everyone wanted the fish at that time. All of them are more than a foot long, and they are all caught up and put in the sun to die. This thing has a stinger on its back, and when it's barefoot in the water, it hates this fish the most! Deputy Director Dou drank and began to tell the story of his childhood, sighing that there are fewer fish in the reservoir area now.
"Isn't our reservoir area well protected! You look at this green mountains and clear waters, how can there be ecological problems? Hong Tao thinks that there should not be this kind of problem here, first, there are no residents, and second, there is no fish farming, how can this be the case?
"Hey, a few years ago, there was no one to manage here, just look at the dam, and there are often people from the village below who come to fry fish, which was contracted to a person a few years ago, and you are from Beijing, surnamed Ma, and the management is slightly better. However, there has been a bit of drought in the past two years, and the annual irrigation water consumption is very large, and the water level in the reservoir has dropped to the lowest, and more than half of the silver carp fry he sprinkled have been washed away by opening the sluice gates, and he doesn't want to do it, and he is looking for me to terminate the contract. Deputy Director Dou talked about the contractor of the reservoir as he spoke.
"Hey, that's my life! Oh, no, no, it's our fate, come, brother, I salute the two leaders, for this fate! As soon as Hong Tao heard Deputy Director Dou's words, he knew that he was confessing to himself, and he was relieved that the matter of contracting the reservoir was basically stable, and the rest was the cost.
In fact, speaking of this Beijinger surnamed Ma, Hong Tao was a semi-familiar face with him in his previous life, he has been contracting here for almost ten years, and his main income is to stock silver carp fry, without cages or for any feed, so that silver carp can grow naturally. The water surface here is very vast, more than ten kilometers long, which is most suitable for the growth of silver carp, an upper-pelagic fish that relies on swimming and feeding, so the silver carp here sells very well, all of them are pulled to Beijing by refrigerated trucks, plus it is 100% wild silver carp, and high-end meals are in short supply.
But since O8, the eastern part of Hebei has been relatively dry, and the Taolinkou Reservoir, which undertakes the task of irrigation, must open the gate to release water downstream, which Hong Tao knew in his previous life, when he came to fish, the narrowest bend of the reservoir was only less than 2oo meters wide. After three years of continuous water release, it was not replenished in winter, and as a result, the water level of the reservoir reached the minimum capacity.
As soon as the floodgate opened, the fry ran out with the current, and the dam of the reservoir could not be set up at will, so he could only watch the fry disappear, and at the same time, all the money in his pocket ran away. In this way, Boss Ma can resist for one year, but Boss Ma can't bear it for two years, and the result is three years, Boss Ma didn't even give enough this year's contract fee, and shouted to terminate the contract.
In fact, this kind of thing is not to mention officials of the level of Deputy County Magistrate Qiu and Deputy Director Dou, even if the secretary of the Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee comes, it is useless, the amount of water released for irrigation is formulated by the Provincial Water Conservancy Bureau, or it is issued by the State Water Conservancy Bureau, which belongs to disaster resistance, who dares to stop it? Not to mention the construction of barrage nets, such medium and large reservoirs are not owned by that county or city, they are all managed by the province or the state, and the people who contract the water surface ignore you, but if you want to build ancillary facilities in the vicinity of the defeat, don't even think about it, and directly rise to the safety of hundreds of thousands or millions of people's lives and property downstream, who will shoot this board? Who would dare to shoot this board?
Hong Tao knew in his heart that in the spring of this year, there will be floods in the upper reaches of the Taolinkou Reservoir, that is, in Liaoning, and the water level of the reservoir will directly return to a high level, and even in the summer, it will pass the highest warning water level. As for the boss Ma, in his previous life, he jumped to his feet and shouted to terminate the contract for two years, but as soon as the water level came up, he stopped shouting and began to continue to contract the reservoir, until the flood crossed, it was still Boss Ma.
However, Hong Tao could only silently say sorry to Boss Ma at this time, the water level was about to rise and he really couldn't tell him, no one could say it, and after he signed the contract, others could only say that his life was good. But Hong Tao didn't feel good in his heart, he was originally just an idler who had no quarrel with the world, and it was good to play around, but since he had the idea of contracting the reservoir, he begged people everywhere to be conspicuous, and let Pan, a shrewd girl, tie his hands and feet, and now he has to watch others lose money, is this Nima a little too frustrated? At least it is out of the standard of being a human being, can such a loss be made up for with this reservoir? Hong Tao doesn't know!
But it's too late to say anything now, sometimes people are like this in this life, some things you just need to start, and then it is not you who push the event exhibition, but the event that pushes you away, unless you have the determination of a strong man to break his wrist, otherwise you can't stop if you want to. Now Hong Tao is in this state, for this reservoir, he has called Pan back from Germany, and people are coming, whether she is helping Hong Tao for her own business, or has other purposes, anyway, people are here, this favor is enough for a lifetime.
In addition, Erin is still actively lobbying Paul and those people, wanting them to also invest in Hong Tao, it is said that now the group of lawyers and bankers who eat people and do not spit out bones have relented, as soon as Hong Tao's contract is signed, they will immediately send people to investigate. Although those people are not good birds, you can't play with others, Hong Tao himself doesn't care, at most, he will go to New York less in the future, and even the United States will go less, but Erin still has to mix over there, and he can't let Erin make his reputation stink for Hong Tao's dream of not looking for the edge.
So, now Hong Tao is like the pawn who crossed the river on the chessboard, he can only rush forward in one breath, he really can't do it, no one will blame him, it's not that he doesn't work hard, but the objective conditions, but you can't do it!
The last course of the banquet was Hong Tao's favorite, braised badger meat!
The badger is a small mammal that looks about the size of one of the four pests of North America, the raccoon, and usually comes out at night to feed. This thing eats everything, from birds, frogs, mice, snakes, to corn, potatoes, peanuts, vegetables, whatever you encounter, you can eat whatever you want, your teeth are good, and what you eat is delicious! (To be continued)
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