Chapter 694 You Can Say
After hearing what they said, the villagers started to discuss it. Most of them began to reflect on their behavior of easily believing rumors and cast a trusting eye on Qi Tongwei. However, a few people were still skeptical and murmured quietly.
Hu Leping felt bad when he saw this. He realized that his previous reckless behavior may have indirectly contributed to the spread of rumors. He stood up, his face flushed, "Secretary Qi, I was wrong. I shouldn't have let my imagination run wild and said those unreliable words. I will do things in a down-to-earth manner in the future and never make trouble again."
The storm seemed to have calmed down temporarily, and the village was back on track. Qi Tongwei and Wang Xiaoxue continued to conduct in-depth research. Based on the latest academic information and market analysis she brought from colleges and universities, they decided to optimize and upgrade the environmental protection equipment to improve product competitiveness. At the same time, they added more folk culture experience projects to the tourist route packages to attract more tourists.
However, new problems followed. In the process of upgrading environmental protection equipment, technical research and development encountered bottlenecks, and the expert team of universities was unable to overcome them for a while. In terms of funds, continuous investment has caused a sharp increase in the financial pressure of the village. Some investors who originally supported the project have begun to hesitate and wait and see, and even intend to withdraw their investment after seeing the temporary difficulties.
On the tourism side, although the folk culture experience project has good ideas, it lacks professional operation personnel. The activities are organized in a mess and tourists complain constantly. The surrounding villages saw an opportunity and took the chance to poach several key planners.
Qi Tongwei once again faced a huge test. He rushed around day and night. On the one hand, he stayed in the laboratory with experts to find ways to break through the technology. On the other hand, he looked for new investors everywhere and promised to give more favorable cooperation conditions to stabilize the capital chain. For tourism projects, he personally learned operational knowledge and trained young people in the village, providing guidance on everything from event planning, personnel arrangements to tourist reception.
Wang Xiaoxue also helped in every way she could. She used her connections in school to contact other professional teachers to provide technical advice. She also mobilized her classmates to promote the village's tourism projects online, attracting the attention of many young tourists.
With everyone's joint efforts, the environmental protection equipment finally overcame technical difficulties and was successfully upgraded. Once launched, it won the favor of the market and orders continued to flow in. Tourism projects also gradually got on track. With unique folk experience and high-quality services, the number of tourists not only recovered, but also achieved new growth.
But just when the village was developing better and better, another unexpected situation occurred. The neighboring village suddenly proposed that their village had made a greater contribution to the "Beautiful Countryside Ecological Tour" brand created through cooperation before, and demanded a redivision of the profit distribution ratio, otherwise they would withdraw from the cooperation and take away the source of customers. This was undoubtedly a heavy bomb, and if it was not handled properly, the village's tourism industry would suffer a heavy blow.
Qi Tongwei knew that he should not act on impulse, so he took the village's negotiators to the neighboring village for negotiations many times. At the beginning, the neighboring village was tough and refused to give in. Qi Tongwei carefully studied the cooperation agreement between the two parties and the past input-output data, and argued at the negotiation table: "Our cooperation is for win-win results. Everyone has made efforts over the years, and we cannot ruin the overall situation for the sake of temporary interests. Let's look at the data. Our village has invested a lot in the early infrastructure construction and later publicity and promotion. Now we ask for redistribution, which should be fair and reasonable."
After several rounds of difficult negotiations, the two sides finally reached a new consensus on the distribution of interests and continued to work together for development.
The village was busy, and everyone was working hard for the continued prosperity in the future. However, no one expected that undercurrents were surging beneath the calm, and the problem was caused by Wang Xiaoxue.
As an intern from a university, Wang Xiaoxue was full of energy and enthusiasm when she first came to the village, and she made a lot of efforts for the development of the village. But as time went by, she came into contact with more and more people and things, and her mentality quietly changed. Seeing that the village was becoming increasingly prosperous and the tourism income was rising steadily, while she only received a meager internship subsidy every month, a sense of imbalance grew in her heart. She began to feel that her efforts were not proportional to her gains, and her interests were being infringed.
After participating in several tourism project planning, Wang Xiaoxue became increasingly unwilling to accept the fact that most of the praise came from the village leaders, as she watched tourists rave about the folk experience activities she designed. So, without telling anyone, she secretly contacted some outside investors and disclosed the details of the village's tourism planning to them, trying to start a new business with the information she had and gain a lucrative return for herself.
At first, Qi Tongwei didn't notice it. He was still fully engaged in the affairs of the village, busy discussing with farmers how to expand sales through deep processing of agricultural products and how to further connect environmental protection equipment with urban demand to expand the market. Until one day, the head of a neighboring village with whom he was cooperating came to him with a strange look on his face and said indirectly: "Secretary Qi, I heard that someone in your village is soliciting investment from outside and wants to work alone without everyone. If this gets out, it will be detrimental to our cooperation. You have to be careful."
Qi Tongwei was shocked when he heard this, but he remained calm on the surface. He thanked the head of the neighboring village for his reminder and then began to investigate secretly. As the investigation deepened, clues gradually pointed to Wang Xiaoxue. Qi Tongwei couldn't believe that the girl who once looked innocent and wanted to help the village would do such a thing.
He did not rush to confront Wang Xiaoxue, but first collected evidence and thought about countermeasures. On the one hand, he knew that directly exposing Wang Xiaoxue might cause the village to fall into a public opinion storm, and the good image that had been hard to build would be greatly reduced; on the other hand, if it was not stopped in time, the future development of the village would be overshadowed.
Qi Tongwei decided to solve the problem from the root. He reviewed the cooperation agreement between the village and the university again and found that there were indeed loopholes in the protection of interns' rights and interests and responsibility constraints. So he urgently contacted the person in charge of the university and explained the situation openly: "The original intention of our cooperation was to work together for rural revitalization. Now this kind of thing has happened, which is not good for both parties. We have to review the agreement to ensure that students have reasonable gains from internships and that the village's development achievements are not destroyed."
The university took it very seriously and immediately sent someone to deal with it. At the same time, Qi Tongwei found a suitable time to meet with Wang Xiaoxue alone. When he saw Wang Xiaoxue, she looked away. Qi Tongwei couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but he still spoke gently: "Xiaoxue, you have been in the village for a while. I have always regarded you as my sister. If you have encountered any difficulties recently, you can tell me."