After the meeting, several people did not leave. Kan Daxing provided meals, including pancakes, scrambled eggs, pork head, millet porridge, and a bottle of good wine.
The allocation of councillors in Xinlong Town is basically to divide three to four thousand people into one district.
There is one councillor from Xinlong Village, one councillor representing border residents, and the other three councillors are all elected from several neighboring villages as a constituency.
Needless to say, the councillor of Xinlong Village is Kan Daxing, and the councillor of border residents is Dashan, a man with a bronze face. The border residents all have Zhongzhou names and log in to the citizen system.
Originally everyone was drinking and chatting, and the atmosphere was very harmonious, but when they started talking about the use of the remaining funds in the Xinlong Fund, Dashan and another councillor named An Huixing gradually started arguing.
There is still more than 3,000 yuan in the fund account balance. An Huixing hopes to pave a garbage road from the town to a village in his constituency, and the budget is completely sufficient.
The asphalt road only leads to Xinlong Village. To other villages, they are all dirt roads. The road that An Huixing mentioned is even more bumpy. Cars can't go on it at all. When it rains, bicycles can't even go on it.
Dashan then proposed the idea of building a canal to bring water into the mountains. He also talked about the fruit trees in the mountains. Because they are in a dry state all year round, the fruits are very small. If they can be assisted by water irrigation, the yield will definitely increase greatly.
An Huixing and Dashan's words became increasingly heated.
"Stop arguing! Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?" Principal An frowned.
"Daxing, you donated the money, so tell me, who do you support?" Dashan was a border resident after all, so he spoke frankly and looked at Kan Daxing.
"Haha, let's not discuss this today. It's not on the agenda. Besides, the fund's money is not mine. What I say doesn't count!" Kan Daxing laughed and glanced at Lu Ming's expression.
Lu Ming could actually feel that Kan Daxing was very wary of him and somewhat afraid of him.
He lives a very cautious life, donating almost half of his earnings in a year. I'm afraid this is not out of his noble character, but out of kindness.
About ten years ago, how the powerful people in Anshan fell in large numbers still left a huge psychological shadow on him.
He was indeed thrifty and the wealthy and powerful would not covet land in such places, so he was able to preserve his family fortune.
Now, he was also very afraid that he was actually some kind of secret special envoy to the Sujing, who would come back and make a report, saying that he, an old-school landlord, was still bullying others here and that he had the final say in the parliament. Then he would be in big trouble.
On the other side, seeing that Kan Daxing refused to express his opinion, Dashan gritted his teeth and said nothing, looking like he was holding his breath.
Lu Ming smiled and said, "In fact, our mountainous area is famous for its wild fruits. A lot of it is due to the dry fruits, right? They are small in size, but very sweet. They taste even better when canned. If they are soaked in water, the fruits may not taste this way."
Kan Daxing smiled and said, "Advisor Wang hit the nail on the head."
Dashan raised his eyebrows. Lu Ming had already said to him, "Of course we are not ignoring the mountain people, but in fact, many people live in the mountains. With the current technological conditions, it is difficult to deal with them. We still need to change their old ideas and encourage them to go to the city to work. The resources in the mountains can also be very rich when the population decreases. Especially in the future, people's lives are getting better and better. It will be a completely different concept to develop tourism and farmhouses."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Kan Daxing said with a smile: "In fact, the mountains are full of treasures, but no matter how many treasures there are, they can't support so many people!"
Dashan kept silent.
The woman who was serving the wild fruit soup to sober him up was Kan Daxing's wife Ma. Noticing that the atmosphere was not right, she smiled and asked Lu Ming, "How is the wild apricot? You have seen the person, too."
Everyone's attention immediately shifted to Lu Ming, and they all looked at him with interest.
Dashan snorted and looked unhappy.
Lu Ming was helpless, "Sister-in-law, please stop teasing me."
Shanxing is a border girl, Dashan's niece. She is very beautiful and a flower among the border people in the mountain area. She was very famous at a young age.
Ma was Shanxing's teacher at Shanxing Primary School and liked her very much. Especially after Shanxing graduated from Primary School last year, she did not go to middle school like most mountain girls, but went back to prepare to get married. Ma was particularly worried about her.
It just so happened that Lu Ming, a young development consultant, came to the small town of Xinlong. Consultant Wang came from the big city of Xinjing and was a teaching assistant at a university. He also studied at Donghai University and had seen a lot of the world.
Although Ma knew that Shanxing and Consultant Wang were a world apart in terms of academic qualifications, social status, and so on, and were not a good match at all, Shanxing was beautiful, extremely beautiful, and smart and sensible. If she continued to study, she would definitely have a bright future, and it would be too late for her to be so successful in the mountainous area. Fortunately, Shanxing's family was greedy, and they had originally offered an extremely high price for the bride price, but since there were so many suitors, they raised the price of the bride price significantly and waited for the price to rise.
Ma understood men and felt that maybe Consultant Wang just liked simple girls from the mountains. It's not like there are no such men in big cities who like to return to nature. Especially since this girl is extremely beautiful, so young, has great potential, and is very smart. She can be brought up like a child, which would give many men a sense of accomplishment.
Therefore, yesterday Ma invited Shanxing to her home and she met Lu Ming.
After Shanxing left, Ma said that she knew Consultant Wang was unmarried and had no girlfriend, so she wanted to introduce him to a girlfriend, Shanxing.
Lu Ming was speechless for a moment.
When it comes to girls, Lu Ming has become calm and doesn't want to meet any new ones.
The concubine in the royal residence had been favored so many times over the years that she already felt she had committed a grave sin.
I feel that I have been taking too much credit for my life and that my life is really absurd. In the days ahead, I should do more good things for this world, otherwise I will feel guilty about it.
Although according to Liuli, there was still no sign of the birth of offspring and he still needed to find new targets for the spread of his genes, he turned a deaf ear to all this.
"Sister-in-law, I told you, I'm not considering this issue right now." Lu Ming said helplessly, and then said: "You also told me about her situation. If she wants to continue her studies, I can help her."
Ma snorted, "If she wants to go to school, can't my family afford to support her? The problem is that her family won't let her go, and they want to marry her off. The list of betrothal gifts has been leaked, and it's waiting to be sold!"
"Let's not talk about this anymore, okay?" Lu Ming waved his hand.
Ma was very good at reading people’s expressions. Seeing that Lu Ming seemed really unhappy, she hurriedly said, “Okay, okay, I won’t say any more!”
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After everyone left, Kan Daxing drank a few more glasses, but he put on his coat and took his hat and left.
Seeing that Ma looked unhappy, Lu Ming, who was about to take a bath and rest, said with a smile: "Brother Kan, where are you going after drinking so much?"
Ma gritted her teeth and said angrily, "Go beat up some electric tigers!"
Oh? Lu Ming was startled.
Kan Daxing had already glared at Ma, "Don't talk nonsense."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "Electric Tiger? You don't mean the people from the power company? We have a substation here?"
"If not them, then who is it? Liu Ah Ba is too greedy. Oh, he is the stationmaster of the substation. Your brother has spent a lot of money to bribe him in the past few years!" Ma ignored Kan Daxing's fuss and said, "Brother, you are from a big city, you must know a lot of high-ranking officials, right?"
Lu Ming frowned and said, "The substation, is it blocking the electricity to my brother Kan's factory? Oh, during the busy farming season, the farm also uses electricity."
In my previous life, there was a period of time when there was an "electric tiger" in my world. Theoretically, the substation could really cut off power to enterprises within the scope of its distribution network, and it was normal to use the excuse of line maintenance or something.
Ma's eyes lit up, "Brother, have you ever encountered such a thing?" Even though he came from the city, he understood these things.
Lu Ming said helplessly: "Brother Kan is a councillor, are you still afraid of him? Let's not talk about communicating through the town council, even as a customer, you can directly complain to him!"
Ma shook her head: "What good will that do?"
Kan Daxing said, "Okay, Consultant Wang, don't listen to her nonsense and go to bed early." Then he turned and left the room.
"Sister-in-law, tell me what's going on. If not, let's go and complain tomorrow!" Lu Ming's eyes were a little cold.
From the perspective of the kingdom's power system structure, this situation should not have occurred, but some traditional ideas are deeply rooted. For example, Kan Dashan probably never thought that complaining could solve any problems. He was also afraid that if he angered the other party, it would be difficult for his factory and farm to continue operating. After all, if someone chooses to strangle you when you need electricity the most, it will inevitably cause heavy losses.