Chapter 673： Fortune and Misfortune

Some people say that the poorest places have the most beautiful scenery,

Those who say this probably have never seen what a truly poor place looks like.

The sky is full of wind and sand, there are no weeds on the ground, there are no tears in the sky, and there is no water in the ground. That kind of abject poverty is really desperate.

Chen Yang read a story about poverty alleviation in his previous life,

In Zhangjiakou, there is an old couple in their 80s who live in the Gobi desert. Since the young people in the village went out to work, they picked up their elders one after another. There are two old couples left,

The old couple guarded the Gobi Desert and lived there year after year. The water they drank was brackish water from an ancient well at the head of the village, and the food they depended on for their livelihood came from the Gobi Desert. A few acres of potatoes planted,

Since there is almost no fertilizer in the Gobi Desert, the yield of potatoes they planted is pitifully small. After a year of hard work, they can barely make ends meet.

If you are sick, just go there. If there is no salt at home, the grandfather will take a bag of potatoes, go to the market more than twenty miles away, sell the potatoes, and replace them with a bag of salt. Just weigh a few cents of candy for the old lady,

They don't need oil, because neither boiled potatoes nor baked potatoes need oil, and they don't need anything else. The clothes at home, mended and mended, can last them a lifetime.

Until one day, a task was issued from above, requiring poverty alleviation in poor villages. The first step is to connect every village with electricity and network.

When the government was investigating the whole territory, the old couple finally came into the sight of the county leaders.

Then the leaders were shocked. They didn't expect that there was still a couple of old people living in that area that was almost regarded as a restricted area for life.

According to the above requirements, all places where ordinary people live must be connected to electricity and the Internet. However, there are only two elderly people there, and they don’t need electricity, let alone the Internet. What should I do?

At that time, the county thought of a way,

They want to take this old couple to the county, where the government will arrange a house for them and give them relief funds, so as to ensure that their life will be dozens of times better than before.

Moreover, as long as they move there, the county can save hundreds of thousands of funds,

Because it takes hundreds of thousands of funds to bring electricity and nets from the county to the village that has long been considered abandoned.

But the old couple would not,

Because their only son was lying on that piece of land, and they wanted to be with him all the time, and they also knew that they might not have many days to live, and they didn't want to be separated from their son in the remaining days.

In the end, the government couldn't persuade them. They had no choice but to spend hundreds of thousands to bring the wires to the door of the old couple's house and electrify them.

Although the old couple's electricity bill is only 80 cents a year, the electric poles are just erected in front of their house.

At the same time, relief funds were arranged for them. Every holiday, there will be someone to deliver rice and oil to the door.

The story of this old couple is just the epitome of thousands of poverty alleviation stories.

What if the old couple wasn't the only one in that place?

Hundreds of people in a village live in such a place, will they see hope?

Of course, there are some places that are much stronger than there,

But it cannot be denied that there are indeed many places that are worse than the village where the old couple lived, without roads, electricity or internet.

Compared with those places, Meigu is lucky,

Although Meigu's economic indicators are at the bottom of the country, there are still green mountains and green waters, as well as colorful ethnic customs. These are ecological agricultural resources and tourism resources with great market development value. What they lack , is just an opportunity.

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The direct flight from Beijin to Xichang arrived at Xichang Qingshan Airport at 2:30 in the afternoon.

The two pick-up buses arranged by Chengdu Branch of Hengli Group and the three bulletproof off-road vehicles transported by air from Beijin had already arrived at the airport two hours ago. When the plane arrived, they pulled the three project teams, A total of more than 80 people from Chen Yang's security team went straight to the three counties of Liangshan.

The three counties of Butuo, Zhaojue and Meigu are all located in the east of Xichang, of which Zhaojue is next to Xichang, Meigu is located in the north of Zhaojue, and Butuo is located in the south of Zhaojue.

After the convoy arrived in Zhaojue, some people got off, and the rest were divided into two teams, one team went south and the other went north.

Chen Yang was still sitting on the bus, looking at the rolling green hills outside the window, turned his face to the old horse and said, "Meigu's natural scenery is not bad!"

The old horse's face froze slightly, "Hehe, Mr. Chen, this is still Zhaojue. You have to pass the two mountains in front to reach Meigu."

Lao Pan thinks that Lao Matt is very stupid. Does Mr. Chen care whether it is Zhaojue or Meigu here? Whether it is Zhaojue or Meigu, isn’t it all the scenery of Daliang Mountain?

Immediately, he glared at Lao Ma, leaned down, and smiled at Boss Chen, who was grinning nonchalantly, "Actually, Meigu and Zhaojue are in the same situation. Jue and Meigu are listed as the first batch of project launch sites."

"It's still different!"

The upright old horse corrected seriously, "Meigu is Meigu, Zhaojue is Zhaojue. Although the two places are similar in some places, there are also many differences, such as the scenery of Meigu, and the beautiful girls of Meigu!"

Chen Yang turned to look at Zou Rong helplessly, trying not to laugh,

Can you not mention the beautiful girl? !

Lao Ma is still correcting Lao Pan's erroneous thinking, "Meigu is a geomantic treasure land with many unique natural resources and cultural characteristics. Otherwise, why did Mr. Chen not go to Zhaojue or Butuo, why did he choose Where's Aunt Mei?!"

As he said that, he turned his head to look at Boss Chen, and grinned, "You mean it, Mr. Chen?!"

Chen Yang turned around and nodded seriously, "Yes, yes."

God knows how he chose Meigu, probably because he thought there was a word "beautiful" in her name!

Lao Pan felt that he was a bit superfluous. How could he get the approval of Chen Dong with his straight-hearted old horse?

Damn no!

Seeing Boss Chen nodding, Lao Ma thought that he was right, and he was immediately in high spirits, but he warned himself to restrain himself!

Immediately, he tried his best to collapse his face, pretending to be sad and said,

"Meigu is located in the heart of the Daliang Mountains, with natural and geographical constraints such as high mountains, steep slopes, and deep valleys, as well as economic development limitations such as lagging behind in social development, many historical debts, and weak foundations.

Because of poverty, the existing social factors such as spirit, culture, and disease are superimposed, which aggravates poverty,

In view of this reality, our previous poverty alleviation work has repeatedly suffered setbacks.

The above has been working hard to help us. The poverty alleviation funds have never been cut off, and they have also sent working groups to help us completely turn the situation around.

However, they are more or less frustrated,

Of course, it can’t be said that there are no achievements at all, it’s just…”

Pausing for two seconds, the old horse who was full of pain suddenly turned his head to look at Lao Pan, "How do you say that?"

Lao Pan hurriedly lowered his head and covered his face, and said in a low but clear voice, "Treating the symptoms, not the root cause."

The old horse turned his head and said decisively, "Yes, the symptoms are not the root cause!"

Boss Chen blinked, looked at the loyal old horse, and Lao Pan who continued to cover his face, thinking silently, was he being tricked?

Of course, Lao Ma didn't notice the change in Boss Chen's expression. He tried his best to continue the emotion just now, and said in a deep voice,

"Treat the symptoms but not the root cause. They did leave some things behind, which are of great help to the local people, but after they leave, what should happen to those villages and continue their previous lives.

So, after we were notified that Mr. Chen had set up the May Flower Company specially to help us impoverished areas, we knew that there was a chance for Meigu to turn around! "

Speaking of this, Lao Ma's voice suddenly became three points higher, "I have always believed that Mei Gu does not have good resources, but there is no good way to meet good people, otherwise, Mei Gu will definitely not be the person she is today. look!"

Looking at the solemn and impassioned old horse, Chen Yang couldn't help scratching his forehead lightly, squinted his eyes and thought about it, and asked, "Old horse, what do you think is the main reason for Meigu's poverty?"

Hearing this, Lao Ma immediately gave a thumbs up, "As expected of a big boss, you got the point in just one sentence!"

Chen Yang grinned and laughed twice, this flattery is a bit blunt,

Lao Pan on the other side couldn't help but lower his head and nodded secretly,

It seems that what I instilled in the old horse has finally paid off.

As the saying goes, it is not surprising that many people are courteous. Although a big boss like Chairman Chen must be used to being flattered by others, as a landlord of Meigu, he should be as polite as possible to his guests. An honest person who looks very honest at first sight must be very sincere in what he says!

Look, isn't Chairman Chen just smiling happily!

At this time, seeing Mr. Chen agreeing with him with a smile, Lao Ma happily thought that he was right, and immediately opened his throat a little more,

But when he thought of what he was about to say, he subconsciously sank again,

"The causes of poverty in Meigu County are more complicated. On the one hand, Meigu is a typical deeply impoverished area that has directly transitioned from a slave society to a socialist society. , Traffic congestion, weak foundation, backward economy, lagging education and other problems hinder the long-term development of Meigu,

On the other hand, the low level of social development, complex causes of poverty, poverty due to illness, poverty due to disasters, lack of funds, technology, labor, backward transportation conditions, and insufficient motivation for self-development, etc.

They are all important factors for Meigu’s poverty to return.”

Having said that, the old horse pointed to the rolling mountains outside the window, "Chen Dong, look outside."

Chen Yang and Zou Rong turned their heads together, and saw that beyond the road, there was a desolate, reddish muddy land, and in the distance there were continuous high mountains with green plants.

The old horse said solemnly, "This place is still within the scope of Zhaojue County, but it is not far from Meigu, and the geological conditions on both sides are similar.

Just in January this year, a storm caused landslides and mudslides flooded two villages.

The ensuing cold wave, frost and low temperature brought great difficulties to the rescue work, and we Meigu and Zhaojue worked together to barely guarantee that no one died,"

He turned his head and looked at Chen Yang, "In this place, if we want to make some achievements, the most important thing is to fight against the sky and the earth.

Hailstorms, storms, mudslides, droughts, cold waves and frosts, and low temperatures are all our opponents," he said.

Having said that, he turned his gaze to the vast land outside the window,

"Meigu has 292 administrative villages, of which there are 272 impoverished villages, and the other 20 villages, although not impoverished villages, are not much better. They can only be said to be short The tall guy inside is barely passable,

Among these 172 impoverished villages, a total of 20,655 impoverished households with 102,424 people were identified in the county.

You know, the population of Meigu County is only over 220,000 people.

According to this population ratio, the incidence of poverty is as high as 40%, and the number of poor villages ranks third in the province and first in the state..."

As he was talking, the old horse looked out the window, and was so dumbfounded,

Lao Pan also rarely reminded Lao Ma, and leaned his head on the back of the chair, looking at the mountains outside the window with extremely complicated eyes.

After a brief silence, Chen Yang stretched out his hand, patted the old horse on the shoulder, and said in a deep voice, "You can report these data in one go, old horse, you are qualified!"

Reporting these most basic data should be the basic skills that every grassroots cadre should have.

However, it is this kind of basic skill that should not be hesitated, but not every cadre can do it.

Even, a large part of the cadres can't do it,

From this point of view alone, Lao Ma's job is competent.

After being slapped by Boss Chen, the old horse came back to his senses, quickly lowered his head and wiped his eyes, then turned his face and smiled, "Oh, what's your competence? Aren't you just doing it blindly?

If I were really competent, I wouldn't have gone to Beijin to pick you up, and I would have gone around to give reports to other counties and talk about my experience! "

"Come on slowly Chen Yang put his hands on his shoulders, but turned his gaze out of the window, and said softly, "Perseverance pays off, as long as there is determination, there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome,"

At this time, the car was driving on a concrete road, but the road surface had already been rolled into tatters, and the speed of the car might not be more than forty kilometers. Even so, there were still bumps and bumps from time to time.

The project team assigned to Meigu County sat upright at this time, looking at the scenery outside the window, their mood was filled with anticipation.

The endless mountains and the clear and calm Haizi reveal a different kind of original ecological beauty everywhere.

However, this team is not here for travel after all. Before setting off here, each of them has read the materials of Meigu County countless times.

Unfortunately for Meigu, the continuous Daliang Mountains cut them off from the outside world, cutting off not only the traffic, but also many connections with the outside world.

But at the same time, Meigu is lucky,

Compared with some real poverty-stricken places, Meigu in Daliang Mountain relies on this kind of isolation to allow hundreds of Yi villages to live here and reproduce a unique and colorful Yi culture.

Whether it is ecological resources or cultural resources, there is much to be done,

Fortunately or unfortunately, on this stage, it depends on how they perform in the end.

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