Chapter 1306: Not paying back money owed

Chapter 1306

"You came to take office just after your appointment, so I haven't had time to replace these for you. I will arrange for you to replace all these office supplies with new ones in the past two days..." Zhang Yugang explained.

Some leaders are "mesophobic" and don't like to use things that others have used. Therefore, in order to make the new leader happy when he takes office, the local government will replace it with a full set of new office supplies. In some cases, even the office will be renovated.

Zhang Yugang didn't really want to replace Qin Feng's office supplies with new ones. If he really wanted to replace them, there would be several days between receiving the appointment and Qin Feng coming over, which would be enough to replace them. This was just Zhang Yugang's excuse. He was unsure about Qin Feng's character, so he decided not to change it yet and see what Qin Feng said. If Qin Feng needed him, he would immediately arrange for a full change. That's why he said this.

"Why change?" Qin Feng asked.

Qin Feng walked to the desk and sat down while Zhou Liang ran to the side to pour tea.

"Director Zhang, I emphasize to you again what I said yesterday. Our Yi'an County is a poor county, and a poor county should look like a poor county. The people are so miserable. We people eat well and use good things. You let the people see What do you think when you get there? Aren’t the lessons of the new administrative center still profound?”

"From now on, the entire Yi'an County government will save as much as it can and will not allow extravagance and waste. This starts with me. If I see any extravagance and waste, I will definitely punish it severely." Qin Feng said.

"Yes, yes, I will send a notice to all departments in the name of the government office later to implement strict savings." Zhang Yugang nodded.

Zhou Liang poured a cup of tea and placed it in front of Qin Feng.

"County Magistrate, you've had a hard day today, why don't I send you back to your dormitory to rest, and then I'll pick you up in the evening to attend the reception banquet organized by the county party committee." Zhang Yugang reminded.

"No hurry, Director Zhang, sit down!" Qin Feng pointed to the seat in front of the desk.

Zhang Yugang handed Qin Feng a cigarette before sitting down.

Seeing Qin Feng smoking, Zhou Liang quickly brought an ashtray over, then closed the door and walked out.

"First thing, didn't we build a new administrative center in Yi'an? Why are everyone still working here and not moving there?" Qin Feng asked.

"The new administrative center was indeed repaired. The exterior decoration was all done, and most of the interior decoration was done. But something happened. It was such a big thing. Several leaders related to this matter were punished. Who Do you still dare to continue decorating? No one dared to mention the relocation, so it has been left there."

"It cost so much money to repair, and it just sits there? This is more than 100 million." Qin Feng felt baffled.

"The main reason is that no leader dares to mention moving to the past."

Qin Feng nodded. He understood the problem here, and then asked: "What happened to the migrant workers at the gate today who are owed wages and are collecting debts? Why is there still a problem of arrears of wages?"

"You also know that the funds to build this administrative center were all scraped together. Our Yi'an County finances have no money at all. The money is all falsely reported projects, and then used to build the administrative center. In addition, Special funds for poverty alleviation and other funds were misappropriated.”

"The previous money has been allocated to the construction unit, but it was investigated later. The money originally used to pay for the construction was directly frozen. The county magistrate and the finance director both had troubles, and no one dares to allocate money now. , and the county has no money at all financially.”

"The project was stopped, but the construction unit still owed some money. The construction unit didn't get the money, so it naturally didn't pay the contractor. The contractor didn't have money to pay the migrant workers, so the contractor encouraged the migrant workers to come to the county every day. Blocking the government door and causing trouble has been going on for almost two months, and we are all used to it." Zhang Yugang explained the matter to Qin Feng bit by bit.

"Exactly how much unsettled project money is owed to the construction unit?" Qin Feng asked.

"It is said that there are more than 20 million."

"so much?"

"Hey, this is probably due to bad luck. To be honest, if the higher authorities had not investigated this matter a little later, the money would have been disbursed. But just when I was about to disburse the money, it was investigated. Once it was investigated, Who dares to commit crimes and continue to misappropriate poverty alleviation funds to pay? Later, the remaining poverty alleviation funds were used where they should be used, and the project funds were owed here. If not, this problem would fall on you, the county magistrate. Well."

Hearing that Zhang Yugang was thinking about him, Qin Feng couldn't help but smile and said: "This matter will happen sooner or later, there is no chance."

"You said this matter has been going on for more than two months. Could it be that Secretary Yuan and the others didn't think of a way to deal with it and just allowed it to continue?"

"County Magistrate, let me say something behind closed doors. Secretary Yuan has just been promoted from deputy secretary to take over. Secretary Yuan was very opposed to building this administrative center before, but he couldn't stand the previous secretary and the county magistrate had to build it. It's good for both of them. Take it, it’s their fault, now the debt needs to be repaid by Secretary Yuan, do you think Secretary Yuan is willing to take care of it?”

"Of course, there are objective reasons. We have no money at all financially. As far as I know, we still owe teachers in the county a year's salary and have not paid it. Last week, some teachers came to petition." Zhang Yugang continued.

Qin Feng's eyes widened. He didn't expect that Yi'an County was so poor that it couldn't even pay teachers' salaries.