Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 1170 - 40: The Long History of the Rescue Boat Team

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 became 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 department 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 some say Old Ge is shameless, 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, metamorphosed into a member 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 government leadership roles.

Although Old Ge is still a Deputy Researcher, he no longer manages the Transportation Bureau, Sports Bureau, and Tourism Bureau, meaning he is sent home to wait for retirement.

The cadres felt a bit more balanced.

The masses were confused, and assumed Old Ge was dismissed.

In addition, as a bigger piece of news broke out, the story of Old Ge shamelessly wanting a child in old age finally concluded.

In fact, the bigger news also comes from Old Ge’s "family".

The former Big Commander of Linghai Police Bureau’s Criminal Police Team, Xu Mingyuan, went to East Sea to buy commercial housing. Less than two years later, he flipped it for tens of thousands — causing a sensation in Linghai, which already had a tradition of commerce!

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 commercial property in East Sea?

No one reported Old Ge to the family planning or disciplinary departments anymore, but the disciplinary departments 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 commercial housing was made by Zhang Lan, and they all admired Zhang Lan’s investment acumen, envying Xu Mingyuan for marrying such a clever wife.

More people became 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 commercial real estate market noticeably increased!

Compared to Old Ge wanting a child, Linghai’s wealthy heading en masse to buy commercial housing in East Sea made Secretary Ye and Mayor Qian more worried.

Linghai has real estate developers too and has built many commercial units, but they just don’t sell.

East Sea’s commercial 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 homes, 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 became, looking at Mayor Qian who had just returned from the province-wide flood commendation 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 homes 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 same 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 homes, even at three hundred thousand per unit, it’s worth thirty million. Since when did Linghai become so wealthy?"

"Who doesn’t have relatives and friends, besides, buying commercial housing now can be financed, just scrape together the down payment."

"Buying homes, establishing residency, the attraction is indeed substantial."

"Why don’t we research and come up with a similar policy; as long as someone buys a commercial home 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 some unsold commercial housing."

Linghai people have been running to East Sea since over a century ago.

Almost every household has relatives there.

The attachment 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 sentiments!"

"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 some nutritional products to him. On his return, he told me Old Ge is now enjoying the high-level commander treatment."

"High-level commander treatment?" 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."