Each person and a large bowl of noodles poured with chili oil, plus two poached eggs, were comfortable from the inside out after eating. Jin Shuai found that although Sui Hongtao's family was relatively wealthy in this small mountain village, they were just food and clothing. If you want to get rich, there was obviously a long way to go.

I didn't know anyone before, but just because I bought Sui Hongtao's car, I was treated like a VIP-style treatment in his family. This is unimaginable in other places, and this can also show the simplicity of this family.

"Xiao Sui, how many years have you driven?"

Sui Hongtao smiled: "Boss, I drove a tractor in the village at the age of sixteen. I took the driver's license three years ago. Later, I went to Dangui City to drive a taxi through the introduction of a distant relative."

After two days of contact, Jin Shuai felt that Sui Hongtao not only had good driving skills, but also didn't talk much, and was also very clever. In addition, he was born in a poor family and did not have those messy social relationships. Jin Shuai suddenly thought that if he came to Hongzhou Province, he would be a very good choice to let Sui Hongtao be his full-time driver.

"Did you buy your car yourself?"

"Oh," Sui Hongtao's father Sui Youliang sighed: "Where can we afford a car? This was bought by a distant relative of our family. He gave him a deposit of 20,000 yuan and contracted from him."

When Sui Youliang said this, his eyes were covered with mist. Obviously, he had something to hide. Jin Shuai looked at Sui Hongtao with inquiring eyes: "So you are Baoren's car."

"Yes, the owner of the car is a distant cousin of my father. He is now a department-level cadre in Dangui City. I heard that he specializes in the taxi industry. Two years ago, when he was approving the operating qualifications of a rental company, he gave him a car, and no one in their family drove it. Just as my father asked him, he packed the car for me. In addition to handing over his share money, the remaining money he earned every month was only a thousand yuan."

It is common in the officialdom to eat cards. It is a common phenomenon for some government officials to use the power they hold to accept gifts from enterprises. Although superiors have issued documents to stop them many times, it is still very difficult to truly stop this situation. Even if the Commission for Discipline Inspection investigates this kind of issue, they will definitely have a hundred reasons to wait for you. Just like Sui Hongtao's distant relative, he obviously took the car from a taxi company, but he would say that it was borrowed. In order to evade the investigation of the discipline inspection department, these people have long considered everything.

It is still good to make some small money like this. As long as you don’t accept large amounts of cash, the discipline inspection department will not pay attention to this small matter. If the water is clear, there will be no fish. If everyone in the officialdom is honest, it is impossible.

"You told me yesterday that there is a coal mine in the east of your village. Many people have died over the years, and they have been hidden by the coal boss. Can you find a few parties involved? I'll talk to them."

The tears in Sui Youliang's eyes suddenly flowed down: "No need to find someone else. My eldest son died in the mine five years ago. At that time, the mine owner gave us 80,000 yuan in hush money and threatened us not to tell it out, otherwise our family would be destroyed. The mine owner also said that he had relatives who were high-ranking officials in the province, and the backstage boss was a rich man from Hong Kong. We couldn't win even if we wanted to sue. A life would be exchanged for 80,000 yuan. If it weren't my boss, our family would not have the money to build a house and pay a deposit of 20,000 yuan."

As soon as Sui Youliang finished speaking, the Sui family cried and they wanted to know others. Sui Hongtao's family was a living example. From this, it can be seen that there are frequent mining accidents in Hongzhou. People who die every year do not die as reported. After a large number of miners die, they are concealed by the black-hearted mine owners.

According to relevant regulations, after workers die on duty, enterprises must compensate their survivors with a large sum of money based on their local average income. Although the per capita income in Hongzhou Province is not large, at least 200,000 yuan will be given, but the mine owner will give 80,000 yuan.

Jin Shuai was thinking about it, and then Sui Youliang said again: "Everyone in all the villages knows that whoever lives in a green tiled house must have been exchanged for his life."

“Didn’t these problems be reported to the government?”

"Report?" Sui Youliang smiled coldly: "Who dares to report to the government? After the son of the Sun family died at the east end of the village, the mine owner gave him 30,000 yuan. The Sun family thought it was too small, so they found the county. But who knew that the people in the county didn't care about this matter. The mine owner's people came. More than a dozen mine protection teams beat the Sun family and ordered their house. Until now, no one dared to sue again."

"Since this mine owner is so unintentional, no one will do his job."

Sui Youliang breathed a long sigh: "You also saw it on the way here. They are all mountains and mountains. They can't even fill their stomachs every year. What can they do if they don't go to the mine and go up and down the well to dig coal? Anyway, they will starve to death if they don't dig coal. They can try their luck when they dig coal. After all, there are still few people who die. No one would have thought that they could get into such a thing. They can only admit that they are unlucky."

Jin Shuai thought for a moment: "The uncle just said that the mine owner had a relative who was a high-ranking official in the province, and the backstage boss was a rich man from Hong Kong. What's going on?"

Sui Youliang smiled bitterly: "We ordinary people don't know so many of them. These things are also reported from the mine owner's mate. I heard that the mine owner has a relative who is the governor in the province and is surrounded by such a high-ranking official. Who dares to go against the mine owner? Besides, there are dozens of mine-protecting teams in the mine, and they are all cruel and ruthless outlaws. It's so cruel to beat people."

As soon as Sui Youliang finished speaking, Sui Hongtao said: "I have heard some news when driving a taxi in the city in the past two years. Many coal mines in our province are fake foreign-funded enterprises."

Jin Shuai was a little confused. How could there be fake foreign-invested enterprises? Foreign-invested enterprises entered the inland and had a strict approval process: "Fake foreign-invested enterprises? Are there any benefits here?"

"In recent years, in order to attract investment, the province has introduced several preferential policies. Foreign-invested enterprises not only have a full tax exemption period for three years, but also can reduce taxes by half in the future."

Jin Shuai understood that since the reform and opening up, in order to attract foreign investment, the country has successively introduced several preferential policies, allowing some foreign-invested enterprises to enjoy super-national treatment. The so-called three exemptions and two reductions is one of the tax incentives. Since the tax-sharing reform, various provinces and cities have had great autonomy in tax revenue, and have introduced some higher tax incentives based on the national preferential policies. Some regions have even proposed a policy of 5 exemptions and 10 reductions.

This preferential policy did not bring about regional economic development, but made some foreign businesses plunder our country's resources at low prices. Most of the money was earned by them, and all that left us was the meager hard-earned money of farmers and increasingly serious environmental pollution. Not only did the purpose of attracting foreign investment not achieve, but it also left behind many difficult-to-solve problems.

What's more, some people naively proposed to exchange market for technology, which caused a large number of foreign-invested enterprises to pour into the mainland of China, using our cheap labor costs to earn huge wealth, and hit national industries hard. The market was occupied by foreign-invested enterprises, but the technology was not left behind. China is now just a processing workshop for developed Western countries. Due to the low production costs and strong competitiveness in the international market, the goods exported by China will in turn be subject to anti-dumping investigations by developed Western countries. Huaxia can be said to have lost both his wife and his troops, but the benefits were not obtained but caused a lot of trouble.

Over the years, many knowledgeable people have shouted loudly, demanding that the current situation be changed. The central government has also realized this problem and repeatedly demanded the abolition of super-national treatment of foreign-funded enterprises. In order to achieve orderly and healthy development of the economy, it also vigorously advocates enterprise transformation and expands domestic demand to develop the economy.

At present, some developed provinces and cities have done a good job in this area. However, underdeveloped economic regions like Hongzhou are still continuing the old path of the past, relying on the most basic selling of resources to survive. With so many preferential policies given to foreign-funded enterprises, what is our country getting?
Chapter completed!