Chapter 181 - 120: It’s All About Vested Interests

Chapter 181: Chapter 120: It’s All About Vested Interests

The next day, the news about Liu Jianming completely blew up, becoming a hot-button social issue that every news outlet was scrambling to report.

Even the official People’s Daily reported on the incident, criticizing the chaotic state of some relationships in society.

This garnered support from people across all sectors of society.

Clearly, some things were not supported by the country, society, morals, or ethics, and were to be condemned.

Zhang Lin felt fortunate that the farm hadn’t been negatively affected by the matter. On the contrary, it had actually gained some publicity.

He had just sat down in his office early in the morning when Zhong Miaoying came in with a file to report, "President Zhang, the approval documents for the moisturizing cream are here. They were sent over from the inspection department in Ming City."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Lin immediately took the file to look it over.

He had been waiting for the results of the inspection and approval for a long time.

The special products department of the farm, which Zhang Yuan was in charge of, was already producing the moisturizing cream.

Opening the file, he found the inspection results inside, along with the relevant certificates.

With these inspection results and certificates, his farm’s moisturizing cream could be officially promoted to the public.

Zhang Lin placed the inspection file and certificates on his desk and instructed Zhong Miaoying, "Go and notify Lin Muxue that the inspection results and certificates for the moisturizing cream are in. Tell her she can start working on a related promotional plan!"

"Yes, President Zhang!" Zhong Miaoying nodded and immediately left the office.

But when Zhong Miaoying returned, she brought someone with her—a person he was very surprised to see.

"Zhao, what are you doing here so early?" Zhang Lin asked, looking with some surprise at his cousin, Zhang Zhao, who was walking in. He quickly stood up and welcomed him to sit at the tea table.

’He should be at the police station by now. He couldn’t be on duty at Li Yuan Farm, could he? Or maybe he just has the day off.’

After sitting down at the tea table, Zhang Zhao also said hurriedly, "Lin, I’m here today under orders. There’s something I really need your help with. In fact, my future depends on you."

Zhang Lin asked, confused, "Zhao, what’s going on? If I can help, I definitely will, but you have to tell me what this is about first!"

Facing his cousin, Zhang Zhao didn’t hide anything and said bluntly, "It’s simple. Because of what happened at the farm yesterday, the county officials were on edge. So, they want to put the matter of tourism police for Li Yuan Farm on the agenda."

"And to establish tourism police, they must set up a dedicated tourism management substation here. The county’s idea is to place it in Night Market Town and move in after the town is built. At that point, it would also have jurisdiction over Night Market Town."

"However, for the sake of convenient management, breaks, and other issues, the tourism management substation needs a temporary office first. The county thinks the farm’s office center is a good spot. Besides, aren’t there still a lot of empty spaces in the office center? They’re hoping to borrow some space!"

"Coincidentally, the county probably knows about our relationship, so they had me come talk to you. You know how it is, playing the family card!"

Zhang Lin smiled and said, "They played that family card very well indeed."

Zhang Zhao didn’t hide it, adding, "The county is going to appoint me as the deputy chief of the substation. If I were to get promoted through the normal channels, I’d have to wait many years. This time, I’m jumping up two ranks directly. So, isn’t my future in your hands? If it weren’t for Li Yuan Farm, I never would have gotten this opportunity."

When the meeting was called yesterday, he never imagined he would get this chance. He thought it was just some irrelevant meeting, but who knew this huge opportunity would fall right into his lap.

But he wasn’t stupid. As soon as Li Yuan Farm was mentioned, he knew why.

He just hadn’t expected the county to place so much importance on his cousin’s Li Yuan Farm.

Zhang Lin understood the county’s intentions even better, so he was naturally happy to cooperate on such a small matter. He said with a smile, "Zhao, it’s a small thing. The office center has plenty of empty space anyway. Let’s have some tea first, and then you can pick a spot yourself!"

"Alright!" Zhang Zhao nodded. He didn’t stand on ceremony; there was no need for such formalities between family.

After brewing tea for a while and shooting the breeze, Zhang Lin took Zhang Zhao to pick out a vacant office area.

After seeing his cousin Zhang Zhao off, Zhang Lin went to check on a plot of land in the core area.

He saw a field dense with sprawling sweet potato vines, where farmhands were busy taking cuttings from them to transplant into new plots.

These were the plots for cultivating the fast-growing, white-fleshed sweet potato seedlings. He needed to cultivate enough of them in the shortest time possible, and luckily, the process was very fast.

As long as they had the manpower, the propagation was exponential.

Once the vines in one plot were mature enough, they could take cuttings for eight new plots. When those plots matured in turn, they could take cuttings for another eight plots from each of them.

If these seedlings hadn’t been cultivated with the special fertile soil, requiring them to be grown only on the farm’s land, the propagation speed could have been even faster. But if that were the case, this variety would quickly spread throughout the country. That would be like doing a huge favor for the four big grain merchants and the six big seed companies, letting them line their pockets.

So, this restriction had its pros and cons.

Next, he looked at two other plots mixed with the special fertile soil. He had created these by purchasing the special soil twice more. Planted in them were the special Sunshine Rose Seeds.

This special fertile soil cost 100,000 yuan per jin. Five jin was 500,000, so for two plots, the cost was a million yuan.

However, if there was even a chance of growing that special variety of Sunshine Rose, then it would all be worth it.