Chapter 1: Want to do big things

At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, Fan Wubing returned to the rock alone.

It is already the end of January, and it will be the Lunar New Year in a few days. However, the weather on Rock this year is really weird. There is no snow in such a long time. On the contrary, many people have prepared winter clothes for a long time but they have not come in handy. The temperature this winter is much higher than in previous years.

Fan Wubing's car was running on the road. The strong sunlight shone down, and the inside of the car was indeed a little hot. He couldn't help but open the window and put a cold wind in. This made it much cooler.

"This is probably the consequence of environmental pollution, right?" Fan Wubing thought to himself.

In recent years, everyone has been busy making money. Small coal mines and iron plants in various places have emerged everywhere, and the chemical workshops have blossomed from all sides. The benefits are there, but the pollution is even heavier. It is hard to see the refreshing stars in the rocky night sky. The sky above the city is often shrouded in a thick mixture of gray smoke, which cannot be removed.

However, compared to Leyang where I drove by, the environment in Panshi is much better.

Leyang is also an important town in Wangtian Province, which is comparable to Panshi's current status. Heavy industry accounts for a larger proportion of the local economic output. When Fan Wubing passed by Leyang, he was choked by the air floating in from the car window, and felt as if he had thrown himself into a small house full of smoke and dust.

A thick layer of black dust accumulated outside the car window soon, and Fan Wubing also noticed that in Leyang, even the trees were black, and the leaves seemed to have died. The whole city was filled with a sense of death. If the city had not had a smaller population than other cities in Wangtian Province, Fan Wubing would have thought that this place was already a ruin after the end of the world.

After entering Panshi City, Fan Wubing took a breath.

After arriving at home, I found that my parents were not at home and had no keys, so naturally I couldn't get in. So Fan Wubing drove the car to the municipal government compound helplessly.

At this time, the outsiders had already remembered Fan Wubing's Mercedes-Benz and immediately put him in.

But his luck was good. Fan Wubing did not meet his father Fan Heng in a meeting or had any situations that needed to be dealt with. On the contrary, Fan Heng was sitting leisurely in the mayor's office reading the newspaper.

"Dad, I'm back!" Fan Wubing knocked on the door and said loudly.

"Yeah." Fan Heng looked up at Fan Wubing, waved at him, signaling himself to sit over first, and then continue reading the newspaper.

What newspaper was so carefully read? Even his son didn't care about it? Fan Wubing suddenly felt a little curious, so he put his head over and squeezed to read the newspaper with his father Fan Heng.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze! This is an internal reference material, you can't read it!" Fan Heng raised the newspaper aside and said to Fan Wubing.

Internal information? Is it something after the latest updates about the current situation? Fan Wubing was not interested in these things, so he walked aside, found tea leaves and tea cups, made boiled water to brew, and then sat on the sofa while drinking tea while waiting for his father to finish reading the newspaper.

Fan Heng carefully read for more than ten minutes before putting down the newspaper, looking at his son, and said with some dissatisfaction, "You kid can rest assured, you run for several months! Why do you think about going home now? Also, Ouyang Xiaowei hasn't come back with you?"

Fan Wubing replied unhappily, "I have to celebrate the New Year at home, right? The things in the south have been handled almost completely. I don't like people who stay in the same place all the time, of course I have to come back! The most important thing is to accompany you to celebrate the New Year? My sister and brother are not there, so I want to not come back. What's the point of celebrating the New Year at home?"

"Well, you kid is quite conscientious. It's worth my hard work to teach you for more than ten years." Fan Heng nodded.

The greed for heaven! Fan Wubing rolled his eyes and asked, "Is the family okay recently?"

Fan Heng immediately replied, "How could I know? I have been busy with work at the end of the year recently. I have been in the office these days. I have your mother taken care of at home, so I don't know what it looks like?"

My mother? Fan Wubing immediately curled his lips and thought to himself that you two mayor and director are both at the end of the year. Who has time to clean up the house? I guess you should thank God if there is no spider web at home!

"By the way, no disease." Fan Heng suddenly thought of a question and asked, "Since Gong Deng's southern tour, did he have any latest news? It seems that the media has been banned!"

"Is that so? I didn't notice this." Fan Wubing replied in surprise.

Since the beginning of the year, people have been speculating what Mr. Deng, who was already 87 years old, said something in the south. Starting from January 18, Mr. Deng inspected Wuchang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shanghai and other places, and he said a lot of words intermittently. His trip to the south seemed very mysterious, and even Xinhua News Agency reporters who should be accompanied by the usual Xinhua News Agency, and the media did not make any related reports.

But if the mainstream media doesn’t speak, it doesn’t mean that no one can know the details of this inspection. In fact, a lot of news has been spread through unofficial channels, and various tabloids and private newspapers are circulating wildly, saying that there may be major decisions to be made!

Fan Wubing is very familiar with what happened during this period of time. The reason is that before he was reborn, at this stage, when he was in high school, many of the relevant review materials were about Deng Gong’s speech in the southern tour, and many of the passages are still fresh in memory.

For example, Mr. Deng said that the basic line should be managed for a hundred years and cannot be shaken. For example, Mr. Deng said that the standards for judging the right and wrong of all aspects of work should mainly depend on whether it is conducive to the development of the productive forces of socialist society, whether it is conducive to enhancing the comprehensive national strength of the socialist country, and whether it is conducive to improving the living standards of the people. For example, Mr. Deng said that the essence of socialism is to liberate productive forces, develop productive forces, eliminate exploitation, eliminate polarization, and ultimately achieve common prosperity. Mr. Deng also said that there is more plans or more markets, which is not the essential difference between socialism and capitalism. Mr. Deng also said that reform and opening up should be more courageous, seize the opportunity and develop themselves. The key is to develop the economy, and development is the hard truth.

Fan Wubing naturally told his father Fan Heng slowly, and Fan Heng did listen very carefully and discussed with Fan Wubing about a certain issue from time to time. The father and son did not have to worry about too much time.

"Now we seem to be at the core of these speeches to give a decisive end to the omnipresent ideological debate. It seems that Mr. Deng has no longer the patience to continue discussing those entangled issues at the theoretical level." Fan Wubing said to his father.

Reform and development are the main tone, and development is the hard truth.

After more than ten years of reform and development, leaders with forward-looking and keen thinking have realized that the greatest impact of endless ideological disputes is actually to reverse economic development. This is not in line with the laws of development. If the country is prosperous and the people are strong, the primary task is to focus on the development of the economy and keep the people's pockets full of money.

When Fan Heng heard his son say this, he nodded and replied, "In fact, in the New Year's Day Dedication published by the People's Daily, the General Secretary has focused his main explanation on the economy and topics involving ideology only gently pass by. Now that you have heard you talk about Mr. Deng's speech in the south, you can see that he has pushed this idea to the extreme. It seems that there must be major changes today in spring, and it is estimated that economic development will be on the fast track!"

Deng Gong's speeches were first posted on the trail, but the official did not confirm them. People in China were inquiring about the news everywhere, and overseas newspapers were hyping up, while Beijing's press abide by the discipline of news and did not allow the matter to be reported, waiting for instructions from superiors.

Under such circumstances, local leaders are basically watching the development of the situation, and guessing from Mr. Deng’s words and deeds that may occur, and how should they cooperate?

But most people still can't see clearly what impact this southern tour will have on the restless domestic economy?

As a department-level leader in charge of a prefecture-level city who has been under the jurisdiction of several counties, Fan Heng naturally has to seriously understand the changes in the situation at the upper level. The best channel is nothing else, just his omnipotent son.

Fan Wubing said what he knew, regardless of whether Mr. Deng had already said it to his father Fan Heng in front of everyone, and then said hesitantly, "You can imagine how important the positive significance of Mr. Deng's southern tour is to our country's economic development? Moreover, his southern tour was also very special. On January 17, China and the United States reached a memorandum of understanding on intellectual property protection and textile industry issues. The next day he started the southern tour. What does this mean?"

"It means that he has eliminated his worries and is now going to let go of his hands and feet and have a big fight?" Fan Heng's eyes lit up.

In fact, since three years ago, the domestic economic operation has been not very optimistic. State-owned enterprises have encountered the most difficult period. Many factories are under-working, and many workers are only able to receive basic living expenses and have to go out to find things to support their families. In recent years, the development of self-employed households has been good, but due to the impact of the anti-counterfeiting storm in Liushi, this momentum has been curbed and the prospects are not optimistic.

In the international environment, China's situation is also difficult. Whether out of political isolationism or economic containment, the United States and other Western countries have adopted a more hostile attitude towards China. Especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Americans regarded China as a country that needed to be contained first, trying to make the Chinese surrender to their values ​​through various economic sanctions and military threats and become the second major power to be peacefully evolved.

Under such circumstances, China and the United States reached a memorandum of understanding, which obviously sacrificed some of the interests. However, in the long run, these concessions are still available. If you want to develop, you must open up. If you want to open up, you must first liberate your mind. On the journey of the Southern Tour of the 1992nd, Mr. Deng wanted to show everyone a gesture, and we should still put a step forward in reform!

Fan Wubing thought about it and said, "If there are any problems in Panshi City that are difficult to solve, Dad, you might as well raise them at this time. With this east wind, I think it is still easy to do it!"

When Fan Heng heard his son say this, he also raised his spirit and said to him, "You really got it right. There are indeed several problems that need to be solved urgently."

"Is there any?" Fan Wubing frowned immediately, thinking that he was just talking casually, but he didn't expect that Fan Heng had something difficult to do. Could it be that he was just waiting for him here?

What Fan Heng said is indeed difficult to deal with. One is about market construction and the other is about plain factories.

Panshi is a relatively developed city with relatively convenient transportation. In ancient times, it was a place where famous merchants gathered. Over the years, the locals have a strong sense of business. In addition, Panshi and dozens of counties in four provinces and dozens of counties have huge passenger flows every day, and there are many customers who use it as a transit station. Therefore, the city has always planned to build a larger collective market in North China here.

The first difficult thing Fan Heng mentioned refers to this.

"What's the problem with this? It's just investment. Why haven't your city unified your thinking?" Fan Wubing felt a little surprised.

"I have money, but I can't argue about the market construction site selection and the scale of investment." Fan Heng told his son in detail the details.

Regarding the issue of building a market, most people in the city agree, because Panshi has this tradition, and everyone hopes to bring new tax growth to the city through the prosperity of the market. In this way, the disposable income in the city will no longer be limited to a few large factories, as well as local supply and marketing systems and municipal enterprises.

But in the past, because the city's finances were tight, there was naturally no money to carry out construction. In the previous stage, Fan Wubing paid hundreds of millions of dollars to the Panshi Municipal Government by buying land, which made the city's finances richer in an instant. Therefore, the idea of ​​building a market was put on the agenda again.

Although everyone agreed to build a market, they were not sure how large it should be. Many people seemed to be able to reach more than 100 households to settle in. But Fan Heng remembered that his son once told him about a scale effect, and the general idea was that although everyone was doing the same business, for consumers, they must have a choice.

For different operators, the size of the scale determines their attractiveness to consumers. The larger the scale, the stronger the strength, the easier it is to get the patronage and favor of consumers.

Therefore, Fan Heng insisted on increasing the market size to a relatively large extent. For the clothing market, it must at least accommodate thousands of operators, right? As for the wholesale market of non-staple foods, its scale should also be spoken by hundreds of operators.

Fan Heng's opinion caused controversy in the municipal government. Perhaps because he had been poor for too long, everyone's appetite was weaker. Now that he suddenly got such a big fortune, he didn't know how to spend it. So many people dare not play against Mayor Fan publicly, but they were talking in private. They finally got some money, but they had to save some money. Don't build a market and can't make money. Then there will be no money to pay everyone's salary.

Of course, these words were impossible to say in front of Fan Heng, so they reached Zhang Mei's ears. So after Director Zhang returned home, he asked about this matter. Fan Heng only realized at this time that the people below had been arguing about this issue for a long time.

"So dad, what do you mean?" Fan Wubing did not express his opinion first, but asked back.

"I always think that your statement of economies of scale is correct. If you want to do things, you must do big things!" Fan Heng's attitude was very firm.

Fan Wubing immediately laughed, for nothing else, because Fan Heng is now used to doing big things!

It sounds like no big deal, but in fact this is a big change. Fan Heng is now accustomed to thinking about things with the mindset of a leader, and no longer cares about some details.

As for how much money it costs to be enough for such a thing, naturally someone will make a budget. What Fan Heng has to decide is to choose the best and most promising direction for the economic development of Panshi.
Chapter completed!