Reborn as a Noble's Son

Chapter 1223 - 1223 1178 Come Over Here to Me

?Chapter 1223: Chapter 1178: Come Over Here to Me Chapter 1223: Chapter 1178: Come Over Here to Me Yizhou City
The city committee and municipal government office building was as resplendent as a palace. Because of this affair, the then secretary of the Yizhou City Committee and the mayor, just like what happened in Linzhou City a while ago, were both sacked. The difference was that back then, it was the old secretary Hu Shangzhi who took the action.

However, now that the building was constructed, it couldn’t just be demolished and replaced with something more modest. Billions had been spent on this edifice that had yet to be utilized before talk of its demolition arose. Wouldn’t that be wasteful?

When Zhou Chaoguo took office as the secretary of the Yizhou City Committee thereafter, he made a deliberate display by consulting the then provincial committee secretary Hu Shangzhi and launched a nationwide public tendering and auction event. The problem was, in a place like Yizhou City, where the economy was underdeveloped and located in the inland provinces of the Western Region, there was a lack of interest. Investors were hardly keen.

Even the highest bid was only slightly over fifty million, and it came with a slew of conditions. For example, they demanded more than a thousand acres of land around the new Yizhou City Committee and municipal government building because the bidder valued the artificial lake in front of the new city committee’s courtyard and the luxurious palace-style office building. Their plan was to build a five-star hotel relying on this, along with a high-end villa residential community.

For such a request, Zhou Chaoguo naturally refused outright, not because he didn’t want to, but because he dared not. Everywhere, land around government institutions usually experiences a surge in property and land prices. In Yizhou City, the land prices around the new city committee had already reached a very high level. Let alone that the bidder’s offer was low, even at market price, Zhou Chaoguo couldn’t think of a way to arrange so much land for them.

Thus, the new Yizhou City Committee and municipal government were determined to still operate from this lavish location. The proverb goes: one person plants the trees under whose shade others sit. The predecessor had dug his own grave, only to benefit his successor unintentionally.

After checking his watch, it was already noon.

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