When Jiang Yiwei was nine years old, his family sold grain and received a white slip. My father made three trips and failed to cash it back.
It took him many years to understand that an IOU is a debt—a debt written on paper. And he has been paying off such debts all his life.
The old debts in the countryside, the jobs of returned migrant workers, the holes borrowed from debts, and the turnaround of a coal town are all hard-core problems. What he relies on is not a golden finger, but a black notebook and an abacus taught by his father: the words must be correct and the numbers must be clear.
Xingnong's debts are not limited to those in the accounts. Some debts are placed on accounts, and some debts are placed on people.
Twenty years of Fengyuan officialdom started with a piece of paper.
No rebirth, no golden fingers. As long as it is clean, it becomes more valuable year by year.
