Chapter 5 chapter Five

The news of Guo Huaiqiu's death was strictly kept secret until the obituary was published in the newspaper. Therefore, the sudden fall of the municipal party secretary had almost no impact on the daily work and normal life of the 10 million people in the Pingchuan area. On July 10, the political and economic order in the 28,000 square kilometers of eight counties and cities in the Pingchuan area was still operating naturally according to its own laws and original inertia.What should have happened is still happening, and the problems that should have been exposed are still being exposed.Chaos broke out in Damo County, Minjiao County and the semi-stopped Shengli Coal Mine on this day.

In Damo County, the poorest financially inverted county in the Pingchuan area, a bloody battle took place for the water source of the Damo River.The scale of the fighting was very large, surpassing that of previous years. The two villages of Shangquanwang and Xiaquanwang each dispatched hundreds of people, using earthen guns and explosives.What's more terrible is that the personnel from both sides who participated in the fighting had already entered the battle with broken trucks and walk-behind tractors, and the Damo County Party Committee and the county government still didn't know anything about it.

At around 5:00 p.m. on July 10, the young female county party secretary Liu Jinping had just presided over a telephone conference on drought relief work in Quanquan County. Xiao Daoqing, the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, suddenly called. Secretary Liu, what did you guys do? Shangquanwang and Xiaquanwang are fighting again, do you know?! Mayor Cao and I have already reminded you to pay attention, pay attention, you should be Is there anything wrong?!" Liu Jinping was dumbfounded by Xiao Daoqing's scolding. She denied it without thinking, "Secretary Xiao, this...it's absolutely impossible! Just a few days ago, I...I personally called Secretary Wang from Quanwang Township to ask They have accepted the lessons of previous years, and this year they can no longer beat them..."

Xiao Daoqing became irritable, and his tone became more and more severe: "It's not possible yet. The phone call from Shangquanwang Village just now came to my office! The trouble is dead, my aunt Liu! This time, me and Cao The mayor can’t be quiet again. Can the folks from Quanwang Township’s hometown not come to sue? This will break the door of our two families and the door of our office! You... tell me , do we still have to work! Huh?" Knowing the fact and seriousness of the matter, Liu Jinping quickly said, "Secretary Xiao, don't worry, I... County Magistrate Huang and I will take people over with guns right away, Ma... right away."

Xiao Daoqing's tone became calmer: "One more thing, I'll make it clear to you now, you need to cut through the mess quickly, the murderer who should be caught, your county public security bureau should catch it immediately, take the initiative to catch it, don't stab it in the city again, let him Wu Mingxiong became passive when he got angry. You know Secretary Wu, so it’s not easy to fool him, and no one dares to fool him. If you don’t take the initiative, crying will be useless.” Liu Jinping said: "Okay, okay, Secretary Xiao, we will do as you say. Don't worry, I won't cry. We will report to you after we go to the scene of the weapon fight..."

Xiao Daoqing flatly refused: "Don't report this matter to me, and don't go to Mayor Cao, we are all cadres in the desert, and it's not good to say something light or serious. If you have to report it, you should report it to Secretary Wu who is in charge of politics and law. Secretary Wu's opinion is my opinion, and you must implement it to the letter!" As soon as the phone was put down here, the phone over there rang again. Liu Jinping answered the phone and heard that it was Secretary Wang from Shangquanwang Township. She couldn't help but shout into the microphone, "Wang Huzi, let me ask you, how did you become the secretary of the township party committee? Is it uncomfortable if you don’t die a few people every year?! Even if you can’t stop the fighting below, you should be able to report the news to our county committee in time, right? You haven’t done it at the very least! Did you drink again today? Too much? You only thought of calling after you woke up?! Let me tell you, Secretary Xiao and Mayor Cao already know about this, so just be careful!"

The phone fell down with a "snap", and Liu Jinping hurriedly called the county magistrate Huang Jianguo, the county public security chief, and the minister of armed forces. Armed with guns, they took on-duty policemen and militiamen in a Santana and several broken trucks, sirens all the way. Hustling, driving directly to the Dam River Embankment in Quanwang Township. Sitting in the car, Liu Jinping turned blue with anger, and said to the county magistrate Huang Jianguo: "I've had enough, this time I have to get serious, arrest as many as I need, and give a heavy sentence, and I can't tolerate it anymore." Go down. This is simply lawless, beat every year, die every year, how do you do your job, he just won't listen!"

Huang Jianguo didn't make a sound. Liu Jinping poked Huang Jianguo with her elbow: "County Huang, you are talking!" Huang Jianguo sighed: "What am I talking about? Isn't it all for water? If the water problem is not fundamentally resolved, it will be useless if you try harder!" That's a good point.The water problem is not only the root of the conflict between Shangquanwang and Xiaquanwang, but also a fundamental issue involving the entire desert agriculture.This problem can't be seen when the weather is good and the weather is good. When God doesn't give face, there is a slight drought, and it will be exposed immediately.

The most typical ones are Shangquanwang and Xiaquanwang in Quanwang Township.Shangquanwang Village, located in the upper reaches of the Damo River, started to build a dam on the Damo River 20 years ago. The fields in Xiaquanwang Village were dry and smoldering. Quanwang pick.Naturally, Xiaquanwang was not willing to reconcile, and he was armed to steal bombs again and again, and he went to force the dam of Shangquanwang, which caused bloody fighting again and again.For this reason, the township and county mediation every year cannot fundamentally solve the problem.The situation has gotten worse over the years.The land has already been contracted to each household, and the farmers of each household are even more willing to risk their lives for the harvest on their own land.

What's more complicated is that Quanwang Township is also the hometown of Xiao Daoqing, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and Cao Wuping, Deputy Mayor.Cao Wuping is from Shangquanwang, and Xiao Daoqing is from Xiaquanwang.As long as the two sides fight, the farmers on both sides will go directly to the city to find the city leaders instead of the township or county.At this time, both Xiao Daoqing and Cao Wuping were very annoyed, always blaming the Damo County Party Committee for their ineffective handling. In order to solve the problem fundamentally, three years ago, after Liu Jinping became the secretary of the Damo County Party Committee, she immediately sent a report to the city in the name of the county Party committee and the county government, demanding that the Damo River be radically cured and dredged, and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project be implemented to divert the water from Daze Lake to the city. desert river.The secretary of the Municipal Party Committee at that time was still Xie Xuedong.Xie Xuedong said, well, if the water from Lake Daze can be diverted to the north, the water supply in the other six counties along the river and in Pingchuan City will also be solved.However, letting the comrades from the Water Conservancy Bureau take a look along the way and settle the accounts again shocked Secretary Xie a lot.The river section to be rehabilitated is more than 620 miles long, and the total project cost is at least 800 million yuan.Secretary Xie gave a wry smile, so he had to let everyone think about it.Guo Huaiqiu became secretary and also wanted to solve the water problem, but the funds still couldn't solve it, and the problem has been left to this day.

Today, Liu Jinping felt really wronged, but who should she scold?I can't tell, the way is unknown.It's not that she, Liu Jinping, doesn't care about the sufferings of the people, but that she has no strength to solve them.At this moment, what else can she, the secretary of the county party committee, say besides being cruel to the peasant brothers who are fighting with weapons? Huang Jianguo has been the county magistrate for eight years, and he has quite a lot of experience in responding to emergencies. He always maintains a rare sobriety at such times. Listen to a few words from me. Now that the incident has happened, don’t worry. Whether it’s Mayor Cao or Secretary Xiao, if anyone wants to get angry, let him send it. We must know. No matter what anyone says, we still We have to follow the law of previous years, and take peace with others as the principle." Liu Jinping said angrily, "Why don't you let things go? Secretary Xiao made it clear on the phone that now Wu Mingxiong is in charge of politics and law. It's not easy to fool this black-faced Mr. Bao." Huang Jianguo said: "We are not fooling around. Have we been fooling around in the past? When did we not deal with it seriously? If someone is really dead, let the two villages hand in the murderer. The murderer surrendered himself, who has anything to say?" Liu Jinping smiled bitterly: "Major Huang, let's not talk about this for now. Dealing with the aftermath is a matter for the future, and we have to calm down the situation first. God bless, I hope no one will die this time..." However, people still died. Santana rushed up the Mohe Bridge in a cloud of flying dust. Before he could stop, Liu Jinping hurried out of the car.Standing on the bridge, you can see that the peasants from Shangquanwang and Xiaquanwang villages are fighting desperately on the upper and lower sides of the river dam that was half blown away upstream of the bridge, and on the embankment on the left bank of the river.Under the dim light of the setting sun, the dark crowd seemed to roll over like a tide.Crying, cursing, and roaring, accompanied by the clash of sticks, knives and guns, and occasional bursts of soil guns, constituted an endless din. On the embankment on the left bank, some wounded from Xiaquanwang had been carried down and were running towards the bridge.The wounded were completely inhuman, and all of them were covered in mud and blood, as if they had just crawled out of hell.Behind the wounded, people from Shangquanwang chased and fired guns, iron sand shotguns roared, flying and ramming like locusts.Liu Jinping saw an old man who was carrying the wounded was shot in the back, bleeding profusely. The situation is quite serious.Regardless of the danger, Liu Jinping and Huang Jianguo brandished Type 54 pistols and charged towards the river dam against the iron sand shotgun and the retreating wounded from Xiaquanwang Village.Shouting while rushing, both sides who want to fight with weapons stop.However, the people fighting with weapons didn't know whether they didn't hear it, or their eyes were red, and they just ignored it.Both Liu Jinping and Huang Jianguo had no choice, so they pulled the trigger and fired several shots into the air one after another.At the same time, the guns in the hands of the policemen and militiamen in front of and behind him also fired into the air. The sudden gunfire suppressed the noise in front of them, and woke up the people on both sides of the fight. Only then did everyone realize that their female county party secretary Liu Jinping and the old county magistrate Huang Jianguo were surrounded by a group of police and militiamen, holding electric speakers and standing Shout out on the high embankment of the Dam River. On the river embankment at dusk, the wind was very strong. Liu Jinping's forehead hair was blown back, and the skirt and skirt fluttered like "huda, huda". Her face was so serious that she was holding a gun Well, that looks really not like a county party secretary in peacetime, but a female guerrilla leader in wartime. Liu Jinping's tone was extremely severe, completely commanding: "Listen well, everyone in Shangquanwang and Xiaquanwang villages should retreat one hundred meters each! Back off immediately, and you will bear the consequences if you don't listen to the call! Village officials pay attention! Now, take all the people in your village back to me unconditionally! Let me remind you, you have broken the law now!" Huang Jianguo also shouted angrily: "Did you hear that? Those who went up to Quanwang retreated across the river and went to the other side of the river; those who went down to Quanwang retreated to the bridge. The wounded were sent to the hospital immediately, and the scene of the death and injury was kept as it was so that the public security and justice The agency handles it." Someone on the river dam shouted: "Xiaquanwang blew up the dam and killed one of us! If your county doesn't arrest the murderer immediately, we won't retreat!" At this time, Secretary Wang of Quanwang Township and several township cadres showed up, coaxing and persuading the people on the dam to withdraw.However, the people on the river dam ignored them and quarreled with Secretary Wang. Secretary Wang and two township cadres bowed to them. Seeing that Secretary Wang and the two township cadres were so incompetent, Liu Jinping was really annoyed. She waved the gun in her hand and said to the people on the river dam: "On behalf of the county party committee and the county government, I repeat again: those who don't listen to the call will bear the consequences. , all will be punished as hooligans fighting, and they will be detained first!" As soon as the words fell, the chief of public security and the minister of armed forces rushed up the river dam with police and militiamen. When the people on the dam saw that the government was serious about it, they were frightened and fled to the river bank in a hurry. The two sides disengaged and the situation was finally under control.However, looking at the bloody corpse left on the dam and the dry and cracked land on both sides of the Damo River, Liu Jinping felt a burst of silent bitterness in her heart.Where is this hooligan brawl?This is all to compete for the water of survival.What Huang Jianguo said is right, if the water problem is not resolved, even if more people are arrested and sentenced severely, the tragedy will inevitably happen again.Liu Jinping sighed for a long time, and said to Huang Jianguo: "Let's make another report to the municipal party committee and the municipal government, and we will have to take part in the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. If it continues like this, I think it will be a disservice to the people under our control." committed a crime!" Huang Jianguo nodded and said, "I agree. However, I also advise you not to have too much hope. You know that the financial situation in the city is worse now than it was three years ago. It is not easy to get such a large water conservancy project. " Liu Jinping said: "Can't we raise funds to solve the problem? The six counties along the river will raise it together! Let Damo take the lead." Huang Jianguo's eyes widened: "My aunt, are you crazy? Do you want to raise 800 million in a poor place like Pingchuan?! You don't know that the central government has issued repeated orders not to increase the burden on farmers. Are you the one who decides to do this? If there is a disturbance and someone sues, you are not afraid of throwing the black hat, and others are not afraid of throwing the black hat?!" Liu Jinping fell silent. Huang Jianguo said again: "So, I have no objection to making another report. However, I advise you not to mention the matter of self-financing. It is useless to mention it. No one in the city will give you a good face. If you don't believe me, I'll make a bet with you now." Liu Jinping knew in her heart that what Huang Jianguo said was right, so she said angrily, "Don't I believe it? Jiang is always old and hot, not to mention that you, the seventh-rank county magistrate, are now regarded as smart."