After patiently reading another stack of reports on various departments' requests for money, Gu Yang rubbed his temples, looked up at the spacious and bright office, and a helpless smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He has been in Wangxi County Government for three days. In addition to the time he first came, accompanied by Director Xiao of the Second Department of the Cadre Department of the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, he had met He Guangyuan, the executive deputy county magistrate of the county government leadership team, absent due to illness, Zheng Jianjun, the county party secretary, and Wei Dezhi, the county party committee organization director, who had been staying in this office without leaving home. Naturally, Lord Gu most of the time was sent to Wang Shiya to work with the leader, and only when Wang Shiya was out was when he was out. In addition to earning merit value, this has also become a habit. The two of them are indeed more enthusiastic about working together.

He handed over various reports that cost money, which were half a meter high, but he didn't make Gu Yang's head bigger. He felt more deeply the ancient sayings that were difficult for the people. The money for various reports ranged from hundreds of thousands to billions, but the main part was millions. The reason for so many reports was that it was accumulated over several years and had not been processed in time. It was the most true portrayal of Wangxi's financial crisis in recent years. According to statistics handed over, all these reports cost nearly 30 billion, with only 8 this year.

A fiscal budget of 10 billion and a 40 billion foreign debt are simply an astronomical figure that cannot be met. Of course, some of them are image projects of large-scale construction that can be ignored for the time being, but more are old accounts that must be paid. Although Guyang's group has strong financial resources, those cannot be used directly to pay for the government, and various new investment projects cannot be effective immediately and benefited. As for the money required from the Ministry of Finance, projects must be carefully established, and there will not be many, and they need to be used on projects and cannot be used to fill the financial hole.

In short, even Gu Yang, who was fully prepared and confident, felt under great pressure. 40 billion foreign debt and 30 billion domestic debt were by no means something that could be easily dealt with. Now, these messes passed down from generation to generation by previous predecessors were officially handed over to Gu Yang. However, no matter how headaches were, Gu Yang was still full of enthusiasm. He would find a way to deal with this mess. But there was no doubt that the premise was that the finances must be decided by him, and he could not make a wedding dress for others for nothing.

"Dududu..." The landline rang, and Gu Yang glanced at the caller ID. It was called by Li Hao, deputy director of the office. The teacher took office on the same day as him and quickly integrated into the new job. His adaptability was still quite strong.

Gu Yang grabbed the phone and said, "Director Li, is there anything wrong?"

Li Hao said carefully: "Comrade Huang Kun, Director of the Education Bureau, came here to find you, County Mayor Gu. I wonder if you are free?"

Gu Yang saw that Huang Kun was already in Li Hao's place with the system, so he said, "Let Director Huang come up."

"OK……"

After putting down the phone, Gu Yang rubbed his temples again. He had been quiet these three days. He had just taken office. He had not given any instructions yet, and everyone was waiting and watching. Now someone finally came to the door, so naturally there was nothing good. The first person to come to find trouble was quite commendable.

Huang Kun, director of the Education Bureau, is 45 years old. He is a figure who has been on the front line of education for many years. He has worked as a teacher and principal. Later, he was transferred to the education administrative agency. After hard work, he was finally promoted to the position of director. He can be regarded as a diligent and commendable figure. He is a centrist in Guyang's intelligence mark and does not tend to be any faction.

Director Huang came here today to urge the new Deputy County Magistrate Gu, hoping that he could prompt the county party committee to convene a standing committee as soon as possible to discuss and resolve the problem of arrears of teachers' wages. Last year, the county owed 20,000 teachers in the county for five months' wages. The total cumulative amount of nearly 500 million yuan is a very large amount of funds. Wangxi is not a poor county, but was once relatively wealthy, so the salary of teachers is relatively high, with an average of more than 4,000 yuan per month. For the increasingly tense Wangxi finance, this is really a huge bottomless pit, becoming a super time bomb that affects stability.

Although Huang Kun was driven by a sense of responsibility, he came to urge the new young deputy county magistrate to hold the new one. He could not keep hanging up any matters. At least there should be an explanation. The county party committee has been shelving the issue of teacher salary for a long time and has not discussed it at the Standing Committee. Everyone knows that that is a great responsibility, and shelving is the best way. If something goes wrong, there will always be someone below to be a scapegoat.

Huang Kun followed Deputy Director Li Hao to Guyang's deputy county magistrate's office. Li Hao knocked twice, and Gu Yang, who had already opened the anti-lock in advance, said: "Please come in."

Li Hao opened the door and led Huang Kun into the door, and introduced: "County Magistrate Gu, this is Comrade Huang Kun, the director of the County Education Bureau."

Even though I heard that the new Deputy County Magistrate Gu was very young, Huang Kun was still shocked after seeing the real person. Such a young and important cadre was really a strange flower. When I came to Wangxi, a super fire pit, in charge of finance, I really don’t know what the people above think.

Huang Kun greeted him politely: "Hello, County Magistrate Gu."

Gu Yang nodded and pointed to the seat opposite the desk, "Director Huang, please sit down."

Li Hao played the role of secretary, helped pour a glass of water for Huang Kun, then said goodbye and closed the door and left.

"If you have anything, please tell me." Seeing that Huang Kun didn't say anything for a while, Gu Yang took the initiative to speak.

Huang Kun planned a little language and said, "I came here for the 5-month salary that 20,000 teachers in the county were owed last year. I hope that County Mayor Gu, you can urge the county party committee to convene a standing committee to discuss this issue as soon as possible. At least there should be an explanation. I know that the county's finances are very tight now, but the teaching team is very large, and the arrears have a great impact. It's better to be paid for one or two months to everyone to respond to emergency responses."

Gu Yang refused to comment, "Take the report to me." Although his ex received several similar reports, he naturally took the latest report as the basis.

Huang Kun immediately took out the report from his briefcase and handed it over without any hope.

Gu Yang took it and read it quickly. The total number was 500 million, which was indeed a headache. You should know that there were countless departments in the county, and there were places where money was needed, and money was really not enough to spend.

However, Gu Yang attaches great importance to the teaching staff. This money cannot be delayed. If you have money or not, he will give it first. He picked up the pen and directly issued it in the report: "Correspondent Qian Zhenduo, Director of the Finance Bureau, immediately allocated 500 million to the Education Bureau and immediately paid the 5-month salary owed by 20,000 teachers in the county last year. Deputy County Mayor of Wangxi County, Gu Yang."

"Director Huang. Here you, you can use this to ask the Finance Bureau for money." Gu Yang handed back the report of the instructions.

Huang Kun felt a little dizzy. What is the rhythm? Could this leader just graduated from school, right? He didn’t even know the routine of going to the county party committee standing committee?

Director Huang blinked and read the instructions several times. Sure enough, he suppressed his nervous mood, "That's all?"

"Of course it's OK." Gu Yang was very relaxed, "What else do you want? Okay, hurry up and go to the Finance Bureau. Try to transfer the money to your account today so that you can feel at ease. If you don't hurry up, you don't know when you will delay it. If Director Qian of the Finance Bureau disagrees, you will directly bring him and Deputy Director Zeng Youcai to me for advice."

"Okay, I'll go right away..." Huang Kun said excitedly, too lazy to care about so many rules and regulations. This huge debt made him feel scared all day long and he couldn't sleep well. I don't know when he was skinned by the 20,000 passionate teachers in the county. How exciting it would be to solve it immediately. Since the new county magistrate Gu didn't know the depth, he could only cheat him once. The white and black instructions were written on the report, which was much more than any verbal promise. Let's try it again and again.

However, Director Huang went to the Finance Bureau to ask for money, and Director Qian Zhenduo firmly refused, claiming that Deputy County Magistrate Gu did this as a joke. So Director Huang followed County Magistrate Gu's previous explanation and forced Director Qian to join him. In addition, Deputy Director Zeng Youcai came to the county government to look for Gu Yang again.

Gu Yang looked at the three directors and deputy directors sitting opposite him, "What's going on? Director Huang?"

Huang Kun immediately pointed at Qian Zhenduo and complained: "Director Qian disagreed with the allocation of funds, and said that County Magistrate Gu, you do this as a joke." In order to get the money, Director Huang did not hesitate to provoke Lord Gu and offend Director Qian.

Gu Yang turned his eyes to Qian Zhenduo's face and asked lightly: "Director Qian. Why do you disagree?"

Qian Zhenduo was speechless. Is this new deputy county magistrate really stupid or super stupid?

He tried his best to reply calmly: "The county's finances are unprecedentedly tense and cannot afford this amount. If this precedent is set, the wages owed by the other systems have to be paid, and then this year's finance will be completely overdrawn. It has only been 50 days since New Year's Day to now, and less than two months. The 8 billion fiscal budget has already spent 2.3 billion, more than a quarter. Even if the bank's principal is not paid this year, it still needs to pay 2.5 billion interest. There are only 3.1 billion left, and there are still 10 months and 10 days left. If you have to pay the 500 million more, what do you think the county will live in the future?"

Gu Yang disagreed: "What you mean is that not only the wages owed last year cannot be paid, but we will continue to ow more this year? The salary of teachers in the county needs 1.3 billion yuan per year, isn't it even more unpaid?"

Qian Zhenduo nodded: "This is the fact. Our county's finances have reached an unprecedented crisis. We can only take extraordinary measures to reduce all possible expenses."

Gu Yang said: "What if you stop paying your salary first?"

Qian Zhenduo's face suddenly turned red, and he said, "This matter must be decided by the county."

Gu Yang didn't care and asked seriously: "Are you sure you want to refuse to pay this money?"

"Yes." Qian Zhenduo replied resolutely. He really doesn't take this young cadre with a background in his unsweetheart. Not everyone can make trouble. Wangxi's background is very deep.

Gu Yang immediately explained to Huang Kun, Director of the Education Bureau,: "Director Huang, when you go back, you will send a notice to the county education system immediately, saying that the county party committee and government agreed to pay everyone's wages owed last year, but Comrade Qian Zhenduo, Director of the Finance Bureau, firmly refused to implement it."

"Okay", Huang Kun, who was eager to ask for money, replied excitedly. This move was too harmful and made Director Huang admire him. Although the new deputy county magistrate did not know the importance of the matter, this spirit is still very commendable, at least he is a super lucky star of the vast teaching staff.

Hearing this, he became anxious when he was really rich, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, "County Magistrate Gu, you can't cheat me like this. I insisted so that the finances can continue to maintain it."

Gu Yang ignored him and asked Deputy Director Zeng Youcai, who had never spoken, "Director Zeng, do you think you should pay this money?" This cadre who had been secretly spent by him from the Provincial Finance Department without knowing it, had been in Wangxi for more than three months, and he didn't know how much he had exercised.

Zeng Youcai nodded: "Education is not allowed, it must be paid."

Gu Yang nodded and said seriously: "Education is a century-long plan, and the stability of the teaching staff is the top priority. Although our county's finance has reached a difficult situation, we must not owe teachers' wages. In fact, even if we arrears, the finances will not improve much. Anyway, we don't have money, so give the money to Director Qian first. If you continue to refuse, I will ask Director Huang to issue that notice to the whole county, and I will not give up payment because you disagree."

Qian Zhenduo was forced to get impatient, but now he has no backbone to discuss it. The boss, Deputy County Magistrate He, was in the hospital, and was dizzy and had no intention of answering the phone.

Director Qian said seriously: "County Magistrate Gu, I hope you can take all responsibility for your behavior. I will not refuse or agree."

"Okay," Gu Yang nodded, his eyes fell on Zeng Youcai's face, and he looked serious: "Director Zeng, from now on, you will be fully responsible for my instructions. The county finance is now in charge, so I have to take charge of it. You don't need to think too much about headaches. Just do what I said. Of course, you have the right to put forward different opinions. As long as the reasons are sufficient, I am still democratic."

Zeng Youcai felt that Deputy County Magistrate Gu’s earnest gaze was full of trust. Thinking of his unprecedented support for education and his bold words of all difficulties, Deputy Director Zeng was greatly infected and replied firmly: “I will definitely fulfill my duties conscientiously.” Whether he is speaking, whether he is doing, Zeng Youcai is just doing his best. It is impossible to clean up this super mess in Wangxi.

There is so much money but I don’t feel much disappointed. Instead, I felt relieved. He was really fed up with this super fire pit of the Finance Director. Since the new young cadre who is ignorant and rich likes to perform, he will go. It will be sure that it won’t take long to get off get out of class and take the responsibility of making Wangxi Finance a mess and act as a scapegoat.

What made Huang Kun extremely excited was that his dream came true. With Zeng Youcai's strong cooperation and implementation, 500 million was transferred to the Education Bureau account in the afternoon, and immediately began to pay the wages of teachers in the county's teachers' arrears last year through transfers. As for what the county's finances do in the future, Director Huang couldn't care about so much. At least he has received real money and has been spreading it in real life, which has become a certain fact. There is no need to worry about being skinned by the teachers for the time being.

Looking at the receipt for successful bank transfer, Director Huang still felt like he was dreaming. The process was too exaggerated. I remembered that in the past, in order to allocate millions of dollars that he urgently needed, he had to ask his grandfather to sue his grandmother for a long time, and finally got a 50% discount. Today, the new young deputy county magistrate dared to bypass the meeting of the county party committee standing committee and the county government party group. He decided to allocate funds alone. At least that courage made Director Huang admire him very much. As expected, he was a newborn calf not afraid of a tiger.

Director Huang couldn't wait to immediately send extremely exciting good news to the county's education system. There was a lot of money to pay for the arrears. But the teachers waited for this day until the flowers faded, and many people were borrowing money to make a living.

As for how much trouble this incident will cause in the county party committee and government, Director Huang really can't take care of it. It will not be continued.

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Chapter completed!