As expected, Old Ge and the Master’s wife wanting to have a child and urgently going to the Civil Affairs Bureau to apply for a marriage certificate, even voluntarily going to the family planning office to pay a fine, quickly beca big news in Linghai!
It is said that several people who were fined to the point of bankruptcy due to overbirth reported them, but the family planning departnt combed through national, provincial, city, and county-level laws and regulations and found no clause against remarried widowers having another child, even if both parties had children before remarriage.
The prohibition only applies to divorced and remarried couples who both have children before remarriage.
So so say Old Ge is shaless, while others curse him behind his back for exploiting legal loopholes, but Old Ge doesn’t hear any of this.
Because he is hiding with his wife in the newly renovated Navy radar station, living in the picturesque, fresh-air Lang Mountain Scenic Spot, tamorphosed into a mber of the Senior Expert Group of the Binjiang Naval Reserve Rescue Ship Brigade under construction.
On the issue of Old Ge wanting a child at such an age, although there is no clear rule against it, it leaves a poor impression.
Secretary Ye and Mayor Qian are under great pressure, having to justify to all the Linghai cadres and people who want but can’t have children, and thus are forced to adjust the division of governnt leadership roles.
Although Old Ge is still a Deputy Researcher, he no longer manages the Transportation Bureau, Sports Bureau, and Tourism Bureau, aning he is sent ho to wait for retirent.
The cadres felt a bit more balanced.
The masses were confused, and assud Old Ge was dismissed.
In addition, as a bigger piece of news broke out, the story of Old Ge shalessly wanting a child in old age finally concluded.
In fact, the bigger news also cos from Old Ge’s "family".
The forr Big Commander of Linghai Police Bureau’s Criminal Police Team, Xu Mingyuan, went to East Sea to buy comrcial housing. Less than two years later, he flipped it for tens of thousands — causing a sensation in Linghai, which already had a tradition of comrce!
Those unfamiliar with Xu Mingyuan, in addition to being envious, couldn’t help but wonder how a public security police like Xu Mingyuan had so much money to buy comrcial property in East Sea?
No one reported Old Ge to the family planning or disciplinary departnts anymore, but the disciplinary departnts and the Procuratorate’s anti-corruption bureau were flooded with reports about where Xu Mingyuan’s huge fortune originated!
Those who knew Xu Mingyuan, especially the police and auxiliary police in Linghai Police Bureau, understood that the decision to go to East Sea to get a loan for comrcial housing was made by Zhang Lan, and they all admired Zhang Lan’s investnt acun, envying Xu Mingyuan for marrying such a clever wife.
More people beca interested in investing in East Sea real estate, and recently, the number of people taking ferries to East Sea from Bailong Port to check out the comrcial real estate market noticeably increased!
Compared to Old Ge wanting a child, Linghai’s wealthy heading en masse to buy comrcial housing in East Sea made Secretary Ye and Mayor Qian more worried.
Linghai has real estate developers too and has built many comrcial units, but they just don’t sell.
East Sea’s comrcial housing is so expensive, each unit costing three to four hundred thousand RMB, and if a thousand Linghai people went to East Sea to buy hos, it would be equivalent to sending over three to four billion RMB to East Sea!
Moreover, a thousand people going to East Sea to buy is a conservative estimate; Linghai’s wealthy surely exceed one or two thousand.
The more Secretary Ye thought, the more depressed he beca, looking at Mayor Qian who had just returned from the province-wide flood comndation conference, he said with a self-mocking smile: "Xu Mingyuan set a bad precedent, according to the incomplete statistics from the Policy Research Office, in these past few days alone, at least a hundred Linghai people have bought hos in East Sea, and at least a quarter of them are cadres."
"There’s nothing can be done about it, we are so close to East Sea."
Mayor Qian felt the sa frustration, and said with resignation: "Running to East Sea has been a tradition in Linghai for hundreds of years, there are no less than 200,000 people from East Sea with Linghai ancestry."
"That’s a hundred hos, even at three hundred thousand per unit, it’s worth thirty million. Since when did Linghai beco so wealthy?"
"Who doesn’t have relatives and friends, besides, buying comrcial housing now can be financed, just scrape together the down paynt."
"Buying hos, establishing residency, the attraction is indeed substantial."
"Why don’t we research and co up with a similar policy; as long as soone buys a comrcial ho in Linghai, they can gain residency without paying for the change from agricultural to non-agricultural status."
"That could work, we have a lot of migrant workers in Linghai, maybe we can tap into their potential to absorb so unsold comrcial housing."
Linghai people have been running to East Sea since over a century ago.
Almost every household has relatives there.
The attachnt of Linghai people to East Sea is even reflected in everyday expressions, like when a wife asks her husband to go out and buy soy sauce, and if he’s too slow, she might ask if he went all the way to East Sea to buy it.
In short, preventing Linghai people from running to East Sea is impossible, unless Linghai can be developed better than East Sea, but that is even more impossible.
Mayor Qian didn’t want to discuss these topics anymore and quickly changed the subject: "Secretary Ye, when restructuring work duties, is Old Ge upset?"
"We’re exhausted because of him, we haven’t even confronted him, how could he have any sentints!"
"Where did he go?"
"Hiding at Salted Fish’s place, now he is a Senior Expert at the Navy Reserve Camp. Chen Jian knew his wife was pregnant, specifically went to deliver a set of tripe and lungs, a few pounds of Crucian Carp, and so nutritional products to him. On his return, he told Old Ge is now enjoying the high-level commander treatnt."
"High-level commander treatnt?" Mayor Qian asked curiously.
Secretary Ye smiled and replied: "The Navy Reserve Camp, to be precise the Navy Reserve Rescue Boat Brigade’s camp, is just the previously established Navy radar station in Lang Mountain Scenic Spot. Back then, the radar station’s leader possibly considered future inspections by superiors, and built two small villas in the mountainside for reception. Old Ge now lives in those villas."
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