The next morning, the town finance office received a notice from the higher-level finance bureau to transfer the first installment of five million for road construction to the account of the county finance bureau.
Just after receiving a phone call, Liu Chuanquan, Director of the Finance Bureau, and Zhong Guangda, Director of the Transportation Bureau, along with financial staff, appeared at the Huilong Sales Department of the Xinfeng Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China.
There was only one bank in the town. At this time, the post and telecommunications companies had not yet been separated, so there were no post offices all over the country that could deposit and remit money.
Before the advent of the postal service, most towns and villages had only Agricultural Bank of China.
Huilong Town is so poor that the Agricultural Bank of China branch here has only three staff members all year round, and it is a business department that loses money every year.
However, state-owned banks in these years have not yet carried out joint-stock reform. The bank's money is the country's money, and it is impossible to distinguish it from the national finance.
Liu Chuanquan did not go to the town government first because he wanted to catch Huilong Town off guard. Zhong Guangda followed him because the money for road construction is road construction money. It is not easy to change the use of funds, so it must be received in the name of the County Transportation Bureau.
This money.
In the past, there was only one person on duty in the sales department of only a dozen square meters, but today there were four people on duty. Long Min, the director of the sales department, was waiting at the door early, which made Liu Chuanquan feel strange.
Liu Chuanquan didn't ask any more questions, and asked the finance bureau to produce documents and said, "Longmin, there is 5 million road construction funds in the account of the town finance office. According to the spirit of the county meeting, this money must be transferred to the Transportation Bureau, and our Finance Bureau will act on behalf of
Take care, transfer it to the account of our Finance Bureau."
The finance department handed over the bankbook in a timely manner.
The method of transferring money is still very primitive. After completing the procedures here, the relevant documents are handed over to the bank where the receiving account is opened. The bank then completes its own procedures, and then the money is transferred.
There is no transfer of banknotes during the entire process, it is just an increase or decrease in the account balance that is reflected in the customer's passbook. Therefore, the payee needs to confirm that the funds are in place, and also needs to go to the bank where the account is opened to refresh the passbook and update it to the latest amount in the form of a running account.
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This is why transfers and payments took several days to arrive twenty or thirty years ago, and why many small-amount transactions prefer to be conducted through postal remittances.
With the documents from the county, Liu Chuanquan could not think of any problem. This is not the first time that the Finance Bureau has done this. Every year, the national finance and the province allocate a poverty alleviation fund directly to the account of the town finance office. The Finance Bureau all
This is how I transfer part of it to my account.
However, Long Min neither read the documents nor received the bankbook, and said apologetically, "Director Liu, we can't handle this matter."
Liu Chuanquan was shocked, "Why can't it be done? Isn't it always done this way before?"
"Director Liu, it won't work this time." Long Min explained, "The town government and the Finance Office have just informed that no money in the account can be touched without the signatures of the town government leaders and the person in charge of the Finance Office. No money in the account can be moved.
Without the consent and authorization of the person, we cannot transfer the money in the account without permission. Our bank has clear regulations."
Long Min said, "Director Liu, you'd better go find Mayor Xu. I'm sorry."
Liu Chuanquan was about to get angry, but Zhong Guangda stopped him and said, "Banks have bank regulations, and banks are not under the control of the local government. Let's go and find Xu Hui."
There are sub-branches, branches and a head office above the sales department, and there is a central bank above the head office, so the local government really has no control over it.
Liu Chuanquan took a breath, left the sales department, and strode across the road to the town government compound opposite.
"What is this Xu Hui doing? I've already called him. I think he is deliberately going against the county!" Liu Chuanquan said coldly.
Zhong Guangda, who was catching up with her in big strides, said, "Don't be impatient. You'll find out when you see Xu Hui and ask."
However, Xu Hui was not in the town government.
There is only one director of the Comprehensive Management Office who looks after the town government. What does the director of the Comprehensive Management Office do? He is not even the person in charge of the Finance Office.
The director of the Comprehensive Management Office retired soon and said with a smile, "Today all the cadres in the town went to the village for investigation, leaving an old man like me to look after the house. Director Liu and Director Zhong must have not had breakfast when they came here so early.
Well, there is still food in the cafeteria, let’s eat something first.”
"If you don't want to eat, which village did Mayor Xu go to, call him and ask him to come back quickly? Wouldn't this delay things!" Liu Chuanquan was furious.
If you don’t do research early and don’t do research later, you will do it today, what a lie!
Even if it is such a coincidence, it is impossible for all the leaders to go to investigate and only one director of the Comprehensive Management Office who is about to retire is left at home!
Zhong Guangda also felt strange. He was the one who told Yao Yuan that the Finance Bureau would come to transfer accounts today. He also knew that Xu Hui would stay in the town government to deal with it, but the current situation was not as planned.
The reason is that Yao Yuan must be on guard against others. He cannot and does not dare to trust all the cadres of the town government. There is no airtight wall in the world. He is worried that the real plan will be leaked after telling Xu Hui last night, so he said
I took half and left half.
The unsaid half was that early this morning Xu Hui suddenly suggested that he take other cadres to the village for investigation, and the other half followed him to the construction site, leaving the smiling director of the Comprehensive Management Office at home to stall for time.
Drag word trick.
The director of the Office of Comprehensive Management will retire in a few months. He is not afraid of anyone who will make him angry, and no one can threaten him.
The director of the Comprehensive Management Office said with a smile, "Unfortunately, the village Mayor Xu went to was the farthest and most remote village in our town. There was no telephone there at all, and Mayor Xu had no big brother, so he had to send someone to inform us.
"
He pretended to look around and said, "Hey, everyone has gone out, only my old man, Director Liu, and Director Zhong are left. You guys should take a rest first, and I'll go find Mayor Xu."
After saying that, he walked over to where the bicycles were parked and picked up the bicycle. He held the handlebars with both hands and stepped on the left pedal with his left foot. After trying it several times, he pushed his right foot lightly and hard on the ground to move forward, once and for all.
I couldn't even get into the car.
Zhong Guangda was frightened by what he saw, and quickly strode over to stop him, saying hurriedly, "Please don't go, don't go, don't go."
The director of the Comprehensive Management Office was trembling slightly, as if he was going to fall on the road, and those present would not be able to eat well.
Who dares to ask him to find someone?
As he just said, it is the farthest and most remote village in Huilong Town. It is all mountainous and dangerous for young people to walk, let alone for such an old person to ride a bicycle.
Liu Chuanquan couldn't say anything. He couldn't force such an old comrade to go into the mountains to find someone, but there was really no one else in the town government. They left cleanly, not even the cooks.
He said coldly, "Well, Xu Hui, move all the old comrades out."
The director of the Office of Comprehensive Management put the bicycle away again, walked over with his hands behind his back, and said with a smile, "Mayor Xu is not as big as the elder brother, but Mayor Yao has a car and a younger brother. You can ask Mayor Yao."
"What is little brother?" Zhong Guangda asked.
The director of the Comprehensive Management Office gestured and said, "It's such a small big brother. I often see Mayor Yao using it to make phone calls. Everyone calls me little brother."
"Oh, that's called a mobile phone." Zhong Guangda couldn't laugh or cry. He was so young and so cool. "Director Liu, I have Mayor Yao's phone number. Do you want to give him a call?"
Liu Chuanquan snorted and said, "He is the deputy mayor, what's the use of looking for him."