Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven

Xie Xuedong, deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, said to Xiao Daoqing with a tired face: "I think the provincial Party committee's adjustment of the Pingchuan team is reasonable and correct. You must know that Pingchuan is a big and poor city with a poor foundation and heavy burdens. , There are a lot of problems, and now we are facing an economic downturn, and there are too many unstable factors, we really need comrades like Wu Mingxiong who are more comprehensive, capable of practical work, and have a sense of responsibility to take the lead." Xiao Daoqing stared blankly at Xie Xuedong, thinking to be natural and smile, but he couldn't help feeling sad, and his voice changed: "Wu Mingxiong is 56 years old, and he doesn't have a diploma. , is it in line with the spirit of the central government? If this continues, will our cadres become more educated and younger?"

Xie Xuedong said: "Comrade Daoqing, this is called a special case! It cannot be said that the provincial party committee's arrangement is not in line with the spirit of the central government. The provincial party committee has difficulties with the provincial party committee, and the provincial party committee also has considerations from the provincial party committee. Some old comrades in the province said Comrade Wu Mingxiong graduated from a social university, I think it makes sense. In terms of actual work experience, you are indeed inferior to Comrade Wu Mingxiong! Even Chen Zhongyang and Shu Huaru think so! Do you know that?"

Xiao Daoqing fell silent.Xie Xuedong lit a cigarette and smoked: "However, Wu Mingxiong is too old. After all, he is a transitional figure. It is great to work for three or four years. Therefore, Comrade Daoqing, I advise you to take a long-term view and sincerely communicate with him. Comrade Mingxiong cooperates and assists Comrade Mingxiong to do a good job in Pingchuan. Here, I would like to remind you, don't make irresponsible remarks about the arrangements of the provincial party committee. It doesn't matter if you talk about it in front of me. have a very bad effect.” Xiao Daoqing nodded: "I know."

Xie Xuedong also confessed: "Of course, cooperating well with Comrade Mingxiong does not mean having an unprincipled harmony in everything. On issues of principles and policies, we still need to fully discuss, keep a clear head, and don't make mistakes in a muddle. For example Speaking of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, when I was secretary of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee, some comrades advocated launching it. I was shocked when I heard the report: the total project cost was 800 million yuan, and the special funds for water conservancy and financial funds could make up more than 80 million yuan. , there is still a gap of more than 700 million, and some people want to raise it themselves. How to raise it? Isn’t it a random apportionment? Three counties’ finances are upside down, and 1 million people have not escaped poverty. How can we let the people tighten their pants to bring us creation? What about achievements?"

Xiao Daoqing agreed and said: "Wu Mingxiong has this problem. He is so happy for his achievements. He always wants to do big things when he talks and keeps his mouth shut." Xie Xuedong said seriously: "I'm not talking about Wu Mingxiong, your entire Pingchuan team must pay attention to this problem!" Then he said, "In the past, with me and Comrade Huaiqiu at the helm, Pingchuan finally did not have any major troubles. Now, the situation in Pingchuan is so difficult and complicated, will it hit the rocks and capsize? I am a little worried. Therefore, when you said that you want to leave Pingchuan, I was the first to disagree. Why? Just for the sake of the party and the The people are responsible. You are young and mature, and you have a strong policy, staying in Pingchuan is beneficial to the stability of the overall situation."

Xiao Daoqing was in a better mood, and asked with his eyes wide open, "Is this also what Secretary Qian meant?" Xie Xuedong was a little displeased, waved his hand and said, "How do I know what Secretary Qian means?!" Xiao Daoqing still said to himself: "I guess Secretary Qian also has this intention. Don't think about it, if Wu Mingxiong really wants to stab someone in Pingchuan, can Secretary Qian get away with it? The central government won't look for him then?! " Xie Xuedong said: "Don't just say who is going to stab someone right now, it's not good!"

Xiao Daoqing stubbornly wanted to get something more out of Xie Xuedong's mouth, and said: "From the tone of the conversation between Secretary Qian and me, he is not satisfied with Pingchuan's past work, and the old governor and his gang are following There was a lot of shouting from behind. Will Secretary Qian use Wu Mingxiong as a cannon, and really let Wu Mingxiong set fire to Pingchuan?! If so..." Xie Xuedong interrupted Xiao Daoqing and said: "Comrade Daoqing, your arguments have gone beyond the organizational principles, so they are off-topic. Closer to home, no matter what you say, you still have to obey the decision of the provincial party committee. Principles are important in big matters, style in small things. We must respect Comrade Mingxiong and take the initiative to improve the unity of the team."

Xiao Daoqing raised the last question: "Secretary Xie, do you think Chen Zhongyang can adjust this time? You know this person, and you and Guo Huaiqiu can't get it right. There was a conflict with Wu Mingxiong in the past, and I'm afraid it will be difficult in the future." Well, besides, you're getting older." Xie Xuedong said: "We need to seek Comrade Mingxiong's opinion. If he doesn't object, he will be transferred in principle. Secretary Qian seems to have this idea too!" Xiao Daoqing had the bottom line in his heart, cheered up and said, "Secretary Xie, I feel much more at ease talking with you like this. Don't worry, I, Xiao Daoqing, will stand the test at any time and under any circumstances."

When he said this, Xiao Daoqing had already secretly reminded himself in his heart that he must learn to be patient, isn't it just three or four years?After all, he is only 43 years old, and there is still a long way to go in the future!Even if Wu Mingxiong has the ability to last for four years, he is only 47 years old. As long as he can be steady and make no mistakes like Xie Xuedong, won't the position of the chief official of Xinjiang be his sooner or later?As the song says, as long as you endure the lonely present, what should come will come and will come.In the near future, the applause of history will surely ring for him.

Xiao Daoqing thought silently.However, there was one embarrassing thing: when he left Pingchuan and went to the provincial capital, he was a little too confident, and he had already decided that the position of top leader in Pingchuan belonged to him.However, don't be afraid, as long as you shift the responsibility to the secretary, when the office was changed, he, Deputy Secretary Xiao Daoqing, was not in Pingchuan at all, so the secretary must have made a fuss!Just criticize the secretary and change the office. Qiu Tongzhi, Party Secretary and Director of the No. 1 Machinery Factory, always thought that he knew the old secretary Chen Zhongyang best. He knew that Chen Zhongyang was not only Xiao Daoqing's deadly enemy, but also looked down on Guo Huaiqiu, the secretary of the municipal party committee, and Shu Huaru, the mayor. He often regarded the insolvent No. 1 Machinery Factory as a card Fight to prove the incompetence of these people in power.The night before yesterday, the on-duty workers learned the news of Guo Huaiqiu's death and planned to make trouble. Qiu Tongzhi didn't report to the deputy mayor Cao Wuping or the bureau, but ran to report to Chen Zhongyang at twelve o'clock at night.

Chen Zhongyang asked puzzledly: "Guo Huaiqiu's death, what does it have to do with the waiting workers? What are they doing?" Qiu Tongzhi said: "The workers all commented that Guo Huaiqiu was a good secretary, he had no airs of being an official, and he never ate and drank too much. He died of exhaustion on the job. Once he died, there would be no hope for the No. 1 Machinery Factory." Chen Zhongyang said: "The workers at the grassroots level only look at the superficial phenomena! In my opinion, even if Guo Huaiqiu is not dead, he should resign by himself. If the incompetent people resign, then there will be hope for the No. 1 Machinery Factory, and only then will Pingchuan have hope!" Qiu Tongzhi sighed again and again: "Yes, yes." Chen Zhongyang said again: "You don't know yet, right? Guo Huaiqiu is gone, and there may be another even more incompetent Xiao Daoqing. You can tell the workers in the factory that Secretary Xiao is better than Secretary Guo. Not only does he not eat and drink too much, he even smokes. Not even one." Qiu Tongzhi tentatively asked: "Old Secretary, how do you see our work?" Chen Zhongyang waved his hand: "I don't care, you let them find Xiao Daoqing and Shu Huaru!" After returning home, Qiu Tongzhi pondered over and over again, thinking that he had figured out Chen Zhongyang's intention: Xiao Daoqing took over Guo Huaiqiu's class, would the old secretary be happy?Can you show Xiao Daoqing a little color?Maybe at this time, the old secretary wants to make the workers make a fuss! As a result, instead of doing work, Qiu Tongzhi and other leaders in the factory deliberately and unintentionally spread the words "all incompetent people should resign", causing chaos in the factory.Some workers unfurled banners mourning Guo Huaiqiu, while others chanted the slogan "The incompetent resigns". Such a commotion immediately alarmed Bi Sheng, the director of the Public Security Bureau, and Wu Mingxiong, the deputy secretary in charge of politics and law, and Qiu Tongzhi was also scolded.Wu Mingxiong didn't care about anything else, he just asked to stabilize the mood of the workers, and said that whenever there was trouble in the No. 1 Machinery Factory, he would question him, Qiu Tongzhi.What's more terrible is that the workers who managed to persuade them to leave yesterday came again today, saying that they wanted to collectively appeal to the municipal government.Qiu Tongzhi was really terrified. Thinking of Wu Mingxiong's fierce appearance yesterday, he didn't dare to play tricks. He asked a deputy secretary of the party committee to lead someone to block the factory gate, and hurriedly called Chen Zhongyang to ask for advice.Chen Zhongyang got very angry when he received the call, and he asked him: "How can you make such a fuss?! Yesterday you made a fuss in the factory, and today you want to go to the city government to make a fuss. What do you, the factory director, want to do?!" Qiu Tongzhi said: "Old secretary, you said you didn't care, so I thought it was you who wanted the workers to make trouble." Chen Zhongyang was furious: "What do I mean? I, Chen Zhongyang, are the deputy secretary of the Pingchuan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. Will you lead the waiting workers to the city government to petition? Am I crazy, or are you, Qiu Tongzhi, crazy?!" Qiu Tongzhi's face turned pale for a moment: "Don't you also say that incompetent people should resign?" Chen Zhongyang said sternly: "I said that all incompetent people should resign. It's my personal opinion. It's just talking casually in front of old comrades like you, and it doesn't represent any organization. Don't you understand this?!" Qiu Tongzhi was tongue-tied and could no longer speak. But Chen Zhongyang still said: "If you use such words to affect the emotions of the workers waiting for the post, I will not spare you! You Qiu Tongzhi is a party member and cadre at the deputy director level. You must have party spirit and stand. Don't take the opportunity to create chaos and harm others and yourself! Let me warn you, Wu Mingxiong is about to become the secretary of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee, so you have to think about what the consequences will be if you continue to fight with Wu Mingxiong." Qiu Tongzhi asked instinctively: "Didn't you say that Xiao Daoqing became the secretary of the municipal party committee, why did he become Wu Mingxiong again?" Chen Zhongyang said: "This is the latest decision of the Provincial Party Committee, and it is also the final decision. You should stop messing around. No matter what happens, you, Qiu Tongzhi, will end it!" However, it is difficult to end. No matter what the banner is, the workers are fighting for wages.The factory has been closed for three months, and each person is only paid 80 yuan a month for living expenses. Many couples, or even three generations of a family, work in the machinery factory, and life is indeed difficult.If their difficulties are not fundamentally resolved, the factors of instability cannot be eliminated. If yesterday is suppressed, there will be today, and if today is suppressed, there will be tomorrow.Even if he doesn't talk nonsense in front of the workers, the workers will still make trouble. It should be said that Guo Huaiqiu and Shu Huaru have a lot to do with Pingchuan Machinery No. 1 Factory getting to where it is today. As early as more than a year ago, Pingchuan Machinery No. 1 Factory was in a downturn. There was a large backlog of inventory, funds were deposited, and the debt burden was getting heavier and heavier, and it was close to the point of insolvency.At this time, introduced by Chen Zhongyang, Zheng Jieming, the president of the Far East of the American SAT Company, came and wanted to wholly annex the No. 1 Pingchuan Machinery Factory.The plan proposed by Zheng Jieming was that SAT would assume all the creditor's rights and debts of Pingchuan Machinery Factory No. 1, invest two million U.S. dollars to rebuild a new factory in the International Industrial Park, and build a 28-story international building on the original site of Machinery Factory No. 1.Guo Huaiqiu and Shu Huaru believed that the essence of SAT's merger plan was to take advantage of the merger to acquire 16,000 square meters of land near the city center of Pingchuan Machinery No. 1 Factory almost for free.At that time, the downturn in the national real estate industry had not yet begun, and land prices were generally high, so Pingchuan suffered too much from accepting this plan.In addition, the policy is also more difficult to grasp.Therefore, Guo Huaiqiu and Shu Huaru proposed that it is better to use a joint venture, and the state-owned land will be purchased as a share, even if SAT holds the controlling stake.As a result, Zheng Jieming, the president of the Far East of SAT Company, resigned.Zheng Jieming used to be a well-known rebel leader in the Pingchuan area. During the "Cultural Revolution", he served as the director of the Yunhai Revolutionary Committee. He understood China's national conditions. Now he has become a fake foreign devil and has an almost crazy enthusiasm for annexing state-owned assets.He once publicly predicted on some informal occasions that a wave of carve-up of China's state-owned assets is coming, and foreigners, officials, and a group of powerful and well-backed private business owners will surely become the first beneficiaries of this carve-up.What he wants is this kind of predatory benefit, not poverty alleviation, so he is naturally unwilling to accept the joint venture plan.At this time, the No. 1 Machinery Factory itself had an accident.At that time, life was still manageable, and salaries could be paid with loans. Many cadres and workers were dissatisfied with moving the factory to an international industrial park far away from the city center, thinking that the commute to work was too far away.At the employee representative meeting, 18 employee representatives jointly opposed the acceptance of SAT's merger plan, and the entire factory area was full of criticism. The merger of Pingchuan Machinery No. 1 Factory has been shelved.This disappointed Qiu Tongzhi. After the proposal of SAT was put forward, Zheng Jieming gave Qiu Tongzhi 1,000 dollars secretly, and also promised that as long as he fully helped to make the merger a success, SAT would hire him as the general manager of SAT Machinery Company and give him no less than six figures. annual salary.It was precisely because of this that Qiu Tongzhi didn't seek out Chen Zhongyang's connections and was transferred from this bankrupt factory. After Guo Huaiqiu died, Qiu Tongzhi thought that the opportunity for annexation might come again. He ran to Chen Zhongyang's house in the middle of the night just to hear what Chen Zhongyang meant.Chen Zhongyang has always been a supporter of the merger plan.Chen Zhongyang looked at the problem from another angle. He believed that after being merged by SAT, firstly, the problem of the back road for more than 2,000 workers in the No. 1 Pingchuan Machinery Factory was solved; It is also a good-looking building. Thirdly, the construction, management and use of the International Building can at least solve the employment problem of three to five thousand people, which is beneficial in the long run.However, if Guo Huaiqiu and Shu Hua didn't listen to Chen Zhongyang, and the deputy mayor Yan Changqi in charge was a non-Party person, he could only listen to the secretary and the mayor. When Chen Zhongyang talked to him, he spread his hands and smiled wryly, saying that he It's a part-time job... Putting down the phone, Qiu Tongzhi fell into deep thought as he looked out the window at the crowds gathering downstairs in the office building. Now it seems that Chen Zhongyang, an old slicker, doesn't need the card No. 1 Machinery Factory, and the only one who really wants to use this card is probably Qiu Tongzhi.Thinking of being upset by the workers, the new secretary Wu Mingxiong and Chen Zhongyang might decide to accept the SAT plan, so even if he is not doing his job well, what does it matter if he is dismissed by the municipal party committee?As long as he can go to the future SAT Machinery Company to be the general manager of the US side and earn the six-figure annual salary.Don't be afraid if both ends fail, in the end there will always be Chen Zhongyang at the bottom.This old secretary has said a lot of nonsense about the Pingchuan Machinery No. 1 Factory. If he insists that Chen Zhongyang hints at and supports him to manipulate the workers to make troubles for his own political purposes, can Chen Zhongyang make it clear?