Special forces soldier demobilization: Starting from the county government compound, a meteoric rise

Faced with those dazzling graduation certificates, the entire conference room fell into a deathly silence that lasted for a full minute.

Those two "experts" who were so arrogant before now wished they could disappear into the ground and didn't even dare to raise their heads.

County Magistrate Wen Boyan stared intently at Liu Ming with the same fervent gaze one would give a giant panda, his expression as if Columbus had discovered a new continent.

"Cough cough."

In the end, it was Xi Wanqing who was the first to recover from her shock. She looked at the man who remained calm, his clear, cold eyes gleaming with an unprecedented light.

"Comrade Liu... Comrade Liu Ming," she addressed him with an unconscious air of respect, "Since that's the case, then... could you please give us a detailed analysis of your views on the economy of Qingyun County?"

These words were exactly what Wen Boyan wanted to hear.

"Yes, yes, yes! Comrade Liu! No! Dr. Liu!" Wen Boyan stood up excitedly, walked to Liu Ming in person, made a "please" gesture, and pointed to the small podium at the front of the conference room, which was originally used for expert lectures.

"Please! Please give us old comrades a proper lesson!"

This posture is no longer one of seeking advice.

This is a request for advice!

Liu Ming did not refuse.

Amidst the awe-inspiring gazes of the crowd, he slowly walked onto the small podium.

He didn't bring any notes or turn on the projector.

He just casually picked up a whiteboard marker, and his entire aura changed instantly as he stood there.

If he was a sword hidden in its sheath, its sharpness concealed.

At this moment, the sword has been drawn!

That confidence emanating from a world-class university, that composure that understands the underlying logic of the economy, and that powerful aura of strategic planning and decisive victory instantly filled the entire conference room!

Those present were all seasoned veterans of the officialdom, with sharp eyes and keen perception.

They knew it at a glance.

This young man before me is no ordinary person.

He wasn't pretending to be profound; he genuinely possessed a wealth of knowledge.

"Distinguished leaders and experts."

Liu Ming spoke, her voice not loud but clearly reaching everyone's ears.

"Just now, I listened for a while and found that everyone was discussing the same question: What should Qingyun County develop?"

"Experts Wang and Li suggested that we develop 'wellness tourism'."

"County Chief Xi advocates that we introduce 'high-tech industries'."

"Are these things wrong?"

"That's right."

"But the problem is," Liu Ming's gaze sharpened, "it's like asking a poor man who can't even afford to eat to decide whether to go to Tsinghua or Peking University—is that meaningful?"

An extremely common yet extremely sharp metaphor left everyone present deep in thought.

"The economic development of a region is like building a house. If you haven't laid a solid foundation and you're already thinking about decorating the ceiling, there's only one outcome—the building will collapse!"

"Then what is the foundation of our Qingyun County?"

Liu Ming didn't keep anyone in suspense. He turned around and used a whiteboard marker to draw an extremely simple circle on the whiteboard.

"He's a **person**!"

"It's **money**!"

"It's **Road**!"

For each word he uttered, he would draw a strong horizontal line next to the circle.

What are we lacking right now?

"What we lack isn't some high-end, sophisticated project, but the most basic things—the kind of work that puts money in people's pockets! We need markets that allow money to circulate here! We need roads that allow our goods to be shipped out and foreign goods to be shipped in!"

"So," Liu-Ming tossed aside the whiteboard marker, turned around, and said, enunciating each word clearly, "what we need to do now isn't to draw up some unrealistic pie-in-the-sky ideas. Instead, we need to do three things that are most down-to-earth, most straightforward, and even most 'primitive'!"

"First! **Creating something from nothing**!"

"What does Qingyun County have? Poor mountains and bad waters. But we have a large amount of idle labor! We can use our cheap land and labor costs to go to the neighboring cities, or even the neighboring provinces, and 'trick' them into coming over with those labor-intensive industries that they look down on because they think they're too polluting and have low profits, such as garment processing, electronic component assembly, toy manufacturing...!"

"Don't be afraid of pollution, don't be afraid of low-end products! Survival first, then development! Let's ensure that ordinary people have jobs and can earn money first! Let this starving poor man have a full meal!"

"Second! **'Once you've placed your order, that's it!'**"

Liu Ming's voice began to rise with passion.

"The coal in our Qingyun County is of poor quality, highly polluting, and doesn't fetch a good price, right? So why should we insist on selling raw coal?"

"We can import technology, even outdated technology, to convert coal into electricity on-site! We'll build our own small thermal power plant! Who will we sell the electricity to? We'll sell it to those processing plants we've 'tricked' into coming here!"

"In this way, our disadvantageous resources will become our **advantages** in attracting investment! We'll set our own electricity prices! I'll give you the lowest industrial electricity price in the entire province, let's see if those bosses will come!"

"Third! And the most crucial point!"

A glint of wisdom shone in Liu Ming's eyes.

"**To get rich, build roads first!** But we don't have the money to build roads, what should we do?"

He smiled.

"Then let the **road** fix itself!"

"What's in the mountains of Qingyun County? Stones! Stones everywhere! These stones are the best building materials! We can establish a county-owned sand and gravel group to integrate all the messy, illegal quarries in the county! We can then unify mining and management!"

"We use some of the sand and gravel we mine to pave our own roads. The rest we sell to surrounding counties and cities! The construction industry will always need sand and gravel! This is a sure-fire business that generates a continuous stream of cash flow!"

"Once the roads are repaired, factories come, workers have money, they want to spend it, they want to build houses, they want to get married... Wouldn't that establish a virtuous economic cycle?"

……

The entire conference room was completely silent.

Everyone was completely stunned by Liu Ming's "three-pronged approach" theory, which was unheard of yet reasonable, full of incredible imagination and down-to-earth.

This is hardly economic analysis.

This is clearly a magic trick!

He used the simplest language to revitalize what seemed to be an unsolvable economic deadlock in Qingyun County.

The two "experts" who had been so arrogant before were now frantically taking notes in their notebooks, their expressions as devout as elementary school students listening to their "master" give a lecture!

They knew that if what they heard today were to get out, it would be enough to cause a major earthquake in the economics community of the entire Jiangnan Province.

This is the so-called "overtaking on a curve" theory!

Don't take the usual path!

Turn all disadvantages into advantages!

What a broad vision, what meticulous logic, what bold courage this requires!

County Magistrate Wen Boyan was so excited that his face turned red. He felt that the long-extinguished flame in his chest had been rekindled!

He seemed to already see Qingyun County in the not-too-distant future, a bustling scene with cars and factories!

And the creator of all this is this young man who is like a god!

Xi Wanqing was completely stunned.

Her eyes, which had been cold for over twenty years, were now sparkling with unusual light.

She looked at the man on the podium, wielding authority and exuding boundless charm.

At this moment, he was no longer the jovial clerk, nor the ruthless king of soldiers.

He is a true national hero, possessing extraordinary talent!

She felt her heart beating very fast.

She felt as if she was seeing this man in a completely new light.