The Senate did not dislike his old age and promoted him to this position. And he also dedicated his life and served the Senate conscientiously.
Now that he is really "old", the Australians will ask him to "retire". Today is his last day working in the Political Security Bureau.
The handover procedures have been completed. Yesterday afternoon, colleagues held a farewell tea party for him. Although there was no banquet, a lot of refreshments were prepared. Colleagues from the reconnaissance office pooled their money to buy him a gift, and everyone had tea instead.
He drank wine and "toasted" him one by one. Finally, the new director of the Reconnaissance Division, Chief Guo, also came. Although he was a new officer, he said a lot of praise for him and thanked him for his service to the Senate in the past few years. The final ceremony was held
After a brief ceremony, he was awarded a "Certificate of Appreciation" and a "Labor Service Medal" signed by the chief and deputy director.
The "Labor Service Medal" is not a great honor: according to regulations, all normal retired naturalized cadres and employees of the Senate can receive it, but when Guo Yi hung the medal on his chest, Liu Fuqing shed tears after a long time.
tears.
He himself couldn't explain why he shed tears. Apart from the mixed feelings about leaving his job, the more important thing was the Senate's recognition of him. This was a feeling he had never experienced in many years of working as a secretary of the Ministry of Punishments.
It's a pity that I'm old, he thought.
Liu Fuqing felt a little empty in his heart. His family members were all scattered and dispersed. He had not formed a new family since coming to Gao. In the past few years, he had basically made the bureau his home. Now that he has retired, where can he go?
Naturally, he could not go to the single dormitory and canteen in the bureau. His colleagues from the General Affairs Office rented a "single standard residence" for him in the civil servant residential area in Lingao Old Town. The rent was very low - almost symbolic;
The problem is also easy. There are many "canteens" in the local area for single people. Whether it is a la carte or "packed meals", it is not a burden for people like him with "pension".
The Australians are very thoughtful and don't let their hawks and dogs suffer. Liu Fuqing secretly sighed. The Ming Dynasty was not good enough. The gentlemen were sometimes available and unavailable at all times. They were little officials, they were really worse than a piece of papyrus!
Although he will have no worries about food and clothing in the coming days, what will he do? Liu Fuqing is certain of one thing, that is, he can live for at least five or six years. Could he just eat and wait for death in these five or six years?
He packed up his last belongings: his ID from the Political Security Bureau and his personal pistol - before leaving, he went to the guard room to hand it over, and then walked out of the door - he would have to apply for a separate pass if he wanted to enter this courtyard again.
He reluctantly took another look at the small office. Just as he was filled with emotion, the door of the office opened.
"Comrade regional commander! Director Guo, please come over."
Xu Yanliang stood on the surveillance tower of Anleyou Wharf, with the rippling blue waves of the Dadonghai in front of him.
In the old time and space of the parallel universe? Has he been to Hainan? Of course he has been to Dadonghai. But for someone who has already been to Southeast Asia and seen pure tropical islands? Sanya and Dadonghai are really ordinary places.
Especially when he goes diving, the gap becomes even greater.
The trip to Sanya in the old time and space only gave Xu Yanliang a lot of material to complain about? There were no commendable memories.
Sanya under the Senate? This is his first time here.
His trip to Sanya was quite hasty this time, and he only brought a few attachés from Southeast Asian companies who were familiar with the local situation. He didn't even bring Li Huamei, whom they planned to reuse.
Sanya's development has stagnated since Wang Luobin was transferred back to Lingao. Although it is still a "special city" and the "southern central city" planned for the whole island of Hainan Region? In fact, it has not reflected much in various constructions.
The "special city" should have the scale it deserves.
On the one hand, naturally due to financial difficulties, the Senate could not spend much money to build Sanya; on the other hand, Sanya's awkward location and geographical environment also limited its development in the Senate's urban system.
In the plan of the Senate, in addition to serving as the administrative center of southern Hainan Island and the export port of Tiandu iron ore, Sanya will also become an important chemical industry and commercial trade center in southern Hainan Island in the future. Xu Yanliang saw the scene at that time in the Grand Library
The plan prepared by the Planning Institute: plans to use the oil from Southeast Asia and the salt from Yinggehai to establish a chemical industry zone? It also lists Sanya as the "Nanyang Trade Center".
However, over the past few years, most of these ambitious plans have remained on paper. Even the originally planned "Navy Nanyang Base and Command Center" has not been implemented.
The ambitious salinization and petrochemical bases have completely disappeared. Needless to say, petrochemicals? The "mature" industry of salinization has not been spread yet, and the reason is very simple? No matter how superior the conditions for drying salt in Yinggehai are, it is just a
A deserted beach requires a lot of manpower and material resources to turn into a salt field. The salt produced by the salt fields on the coast of northern Hainan Island and southern Guangdong is enough for the current salt chemical industry of the Senate.
Of course, it is always a good thing to further expand the production capacity of salt, but the manpower and material resources required to build the Yinggehai Salt Field are daunting to the Planning Institute. Although the Planning Institute now has the unit "Yinggehai State-owned Yancheng" in the list of state-owned enterprises,
But this is just a small salt farm. The annual output is only equivalent to that of the Ma Niao Salt Farm. Rather than providing more salt to the Senate, it is better to say that it is to provide an employment base for the exiles.
In the industrial plan for Sanya at that time, apart from the Tiandu Mining Bureau, the only thing that was actually realized was the coconut product processing base. Currently, the coconut trading and processing center in southern Hainan Island is located in Sanya. Another large-scale industrial enterprise is
Yali Winery.
Although the trade center facing Southeast Asia was once strongly promoted by the Senate and included Sanya in the ranks of "open ports" when concluding various trade agreements, the fact is that, except for the labor trade of Quark, most European
Merchant ships will not use this place as a trading port.
The Senate originally believed that since this is the only way to go to the Southeast Asia route, and Southeast Asia trade ships have been anchored here in history, as long as there is policy support, a trade port can naturally be formed locally.
On the other hand, there is the awkward geographical location of Sanya. The elders ignored one problem. European merchants were hungry when looking for trade ports on the coast of China. They were even willing to occupy wild places like Tainan, but only if they had no better resources.
Choice. If there is a choice, everyone hopes to trade in a port close to the place where goods are sold and supplied. Rather than in a resale trading port.
Sanya happens to be a city that does not produce any export goods and rarely consumes imported goods. The most exported products here are iron ore and various coconut products. Strictly speaking, they are not commodities, but materials from the Planning Institute. What can really be
The only local product sold to foreign businessmen is arrack.
Various export commodities that foreign businessmen like: silk products, sugar, rum, industrial products, steel products, glass products, food, porcelain... Sanya has little or no production at all. This means that these commodities must be imported from Linyi.
Shipped from Gaohe mainland.
Although the Planning Institute and Sanya Special City have set up many preferential conditions in order to attract private capital to invest in factories and participate in overseas trade, including low-priced land, tax exemptions, etc., they have also attracted many businessmen to set up "limited companies" in Sanya.
", but Xu Yanliang walked around Sanya and felt that there were not many local manufacturing companies, and most of them were "companies" with a brand name. And there was no sense of "busy business" at all.
The agricultural industry has spent a lot of resources to open "hot farming gardens" around Sanya, but the hot farming conditions in Hainan Island are far inferior to those in Southeast Asia. The cost and output of spice production are not as good as those in India and the Moluccas, while rubber, cocoa, and palm oil
The climatic conditions for the cultivation of these hot crops in Sanya are somewhat insufficient, and the production cycle is very long. So far, they have not formed a large-scale trade. In addition, in the long run, Hainan Island is not an ideal planting place.
As for imports, there are even fewer goods that can be directly consumed locally. Because the city has not been able to grow in size for a long time and its industrial level is limited, the official residents of Sanya so far are only 50,000, mainly migrant workers from the Bureau of Mining and resettlement from the Planning Institute.
Agricultural immigrants in surrounding farms do not consume enough materials to support sufficient imports. Currently, the bulk "commodities" imported by Sanya are only labor and rice. The former is also in decline due to the declining demand for labor from the Bureau of Mines.
middle.
For the British and Dutch, going to Lingao or Kaohsiung does not require too much additional cost, but it does give them a lot of leeway in the choice of goods. Although the Planning Institute once tried to use tariffs to mediate merchant shipping
But the fact is that since foreign merchant ships can transport the goods directly to Lingao, why do they have to unload the goods in Sanya, which in vain increases the cost of loading, unloading and transshipment?
This was unreasonable in terms of costs, so Sanya, which the Senate had pinned its hopes on, fell into a state of limbo. After Wang Luobin left office, few people paid attention to it.
Plans are always full, but reality is always rough. Xu Yanliang went to Sanya for a few days and deeply understood the meaning of this sentence.
"It seems that Sanya was not an industrial and commercial city in the old time and space, and we do not have this magical power in this time and space." He said secretly.
In the old time and space, Sanya could engage in tourism and real estate, but in this time and space, these things must be at least a hundred years away. Besides, even if these things can be done locally, it has nothing to do with Nanyang Company.
Xu Yanliang couldn't help but doubt the decision to locate the headquarters in Sanya. In terms of advantages, it is probably that the local area has a good port, housing and land are quite wealthy. There is also a pleasant climate and scenery.