Chapter 697 : Serving One_s Term in Office
Chapter 697: Serving One's Term in Office
After waiting for a long time, seeing that the two of them still weren't speaking.
Tong Yao couldn't hold back anymore.
"Chen Fan, are your two bands participating in the music festival next week? Are you going to be there in person?"
Chen Fan didn't know anything about the music festival, so he shook his head.
"I'm not going."
"Then get me a few tickets."
Chen Fan smiled wryly: "I don't even know about any music festival, how can I get you tickets?"
"That music festival is organized by Feifan Media, you're the boss and you don't even know?"
Chen Fan shook his head: "I really don't know."
"If you want tickets, why don't you ask Brother Qing?"
"Brother Qing said the music festival is organized by the media company, and their studio doesn't have enough to distribute. I think he's just deliberately lying to me, he doesn't want me to go."
Hearing the words "Brother Qing", Tong Haoran, who had been expressionless all along, slightly raised his eyelids.
Tong Yao stared at Chen Fan: "Next week is the first time those two bands will perform on stage, Brother Qing will be there too, are you really not going?"
Chen Fan shook his head: "I really don't have time, recently I've been working non-stop, almost 24 hours a day."
Tong Yao pouted: "I don't care, you have to get me a few tickets anyway."
Chen Fan secretly glanced at Tong Haoran beside him and smiled wryly: "Alright, I'll make a call when I have time to ask, you can go to Brother Qing to get the tickets later."
Tong Yao immediately showed a victorious smile.
"That's more like it."
At this moment, Tong Haoran finally spoke: "There will be so many people at the music festival, it's better not to go."
Tong Yao pouted: "Dad, you're such an old fogey."
"There will be security at the music festival, safety is guaranteed, and I'm just going to listen to music, not perform on stage."
She then glanced at Chen Fan, "Anyway, the organizer of the music festival is his company, and the security is also handled by his company, if anything happens, you can blame him."
Chen Fan's scalp tingled again, this girl, are you trying to get me killed?
"Alright, stop chattering here, you're scaring away all my fish."
Tong Haoran waved his hand: "Go to the kitchen and see what dishes have been prepared, what are we eating for lunch today."
Tong Yao finally stood up reluctantly, and couldn't help but grumble as she walked away.
"With you two like this, you won't catch any fish all day."
"This girl..."
Tong Haoran shook his head with a smile, and after Tong Yao left, he spoke with a smile.
"You have a good relationship with Yaoyao?"
He knew that Chen Fan knew Yan Qing, and that they had a very good relationship, but this kind of thing absolutely couldn't be asked directly.
So he could only ask about Chen Fan's relationship with Tong Yao.
But when these words fell on Chen Fan's ears, he panicked.
What did that mean?
A father asking if you have a good relationship with his daughter?
Why does it feel so pressuring?
"Ahem... Tong Yao was a member of our club before, we've met a few times, and became familiar over time."
Chen Fan gave a very clever answer, not saying how their relationship was, but saying that Tong Yao was a member of the club, skillfully avoiding the question.
Tong Haoran looked at Chen Fan with a smile, his gaze seemed to be able to see through everything.
"You don't need to be nervous, I invited you here today just for a private meeting, nothing else."
Chen Fan nodded with a smile, but in his heart he thought, only a fool would believe you.
After fishing for a while longer, Tong Haoran suddenly spoke.
"That suggestion you mentioned last time we met, I thought about it afterwards, and it seems to be a good direction."
Chen Fan was full of question marks, last time's suggestion? What did I say?
Oh right, Mayor Tong seemed to ask me about Yunhai's development issue last time.
How did I answer then?
It seems I said to develop westward.
Just as Chen Fan's brain was operating at high speed, Tong Haoran turned his head to look at him.
"I'd like to hear more of your thoughts."
Chen Fan was stunned and smiled wryly.
"Mayor Tong, I... I was just speaking casually last time."
"If you ask me to talk about it in detail, I actually don't have much to say."
Tong Haoran smiled and didn't force Chen Fan to answer, instead he muttered to himself.
"Nowadays, the whole country is focusing on infrastructure construction, and urban construction is changing rapidly, almost changing daily."
"Yunhai is not a first or second-tier key city, and can't be compared with other big cities."
"To develop, we can only design policy plans according to Yunhai's current situation and local conditions."
"In my opinion, demolition and relocation in the city center is difficult, and growth is limited, we can only expand outwards."
"Currently, the eastern part of Yunhai has been designated as an industrial park development zone, and there's port development in the coastal area."
"Policies were introduced for the southern part last year, preparing to focus on developing Nansu Town, and opening up transportation hubs with several key cities in the surrounding southern area..."
"Only the western part, with various old and dilapidated houses, urban-rural fringe areas, shanty towns, backward factories... all are problems left over from the last century."
Chen Fan lowered his head and listened carefully, but was actually a bit confused internally.
Why would Tong Haoran, as a mayor, tell him these things?
He was just a businessman, not a civil servant.
What exactly did he want to do?
Tong Haoran glanced at Chen Fan and continued.
"Developing westward is very difficult and troublesome."
"From an overall perspective, perhaps any leader in my position would choose to continue developing the northern part."
"The northern part has existing industrial parks and a large amount of industrial land, all that's needed is to continue building buildings and houses, and decent GDP results can be achieved. After 3 or 4 years, one might even get a promotion because of this."
"But after thinking about it for a while, I finally decided to open up the west first and develop westward."
Chen Fan's eyes changed, somewhat surprised.
How could such inside information be casually told to an outsider like himself?
Was this person crazy?
However, Tong Haoran remained composed, very calm.
He stared at Chen Fan: "Do you know why?"
Chen Fan subconsciously asked: "Why?"
To be honest, he was really curious.
Just as Tong Haoran said earlier, he was only in his early 40s, right in the golden age of his official career.
According to the current situation, he only needed to casually start a few large projects in Yunhai, spend money on building a few tall buildings, and when his term ended, he might be directly promoted to a higher level.
Why not take this smooth and easy path, but instead choose to take this most troublesome and difficult road?
Tong Haoran looked at Chen Fan, then withdrew his gaze, looking towards the lake in front of him.
"Serve one term, benefit the locality."
"If it's just for the sake of being an official, casually starting a few large projects during the term, spending a large amount of funds, leaving when the term is over, leaving a mess for the next person in charge... this is not my way of being an official."
"Since I've become the local official here, I should think about the local people."
Tong Haoran took a deep breath, as if expressing his aspirations to someone for the first time.
"I want to leave something for the people of Yunhai."
Chen Fan responded: "Mayor Tong, forgive me for saying this, but given your current situation, even if you don't choose the west, randomly choosing a few projects in other locations in Yunhai would probably bring convenience to the people of Yunhai, right?"
"Why are you so fixated on choosing the most troublesome western part?"
Tong Haoran suddenly smiled, as if he appreciated that Chen Fan had finally grasped the key point of the issue.
"The answer is very simple. Because..."
"I don't want Yunhai to become marginalized in future urban competition."
Chen Fan was stunned.
He really didn't expect to hear such an answer.