Fu Jianye let out a sigh and said, "I understand everything you're saying, but do you have any idea how much money it would cost to clear this stretch of road?"
"We aren't talking about a few million or tens of millions here—we're talking hundreds of millions. I doubt the higher-ups would ever let me do that right now."
Ning Jie had known all along that Fu Jianye would say this. After all, construction on this highway wouldn't even begin until the mid-nineties, and it wouldn't be fully completed until the early two-thousands.
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