Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen

"Difficulties and opportunities coexist, and risks and success coexist. When our comrades see difficulties, they must see opportunities; while thinking about risks, they must also see the light of hope for success. If opportunities and the hope of success If the difficulties and risks are greater than the difficulties and risks, we must do it unswervingly. The leading group of our municipal party committee should have a consensus, that is: for the historical mission that we shoulder, and for the long-term and fundamental interests of the 10 million people in Pingchuan area, we must dare to grasp Seize opportunities and be brave to take risks." To have the ambition to lead 10 million people to make Pingchuan take off in an all-round way, if you don't talk about it, it means the economy is underdeveloped.Knowing that it is underdeveloped, it is necessary to catch up head-on, what are you talking about?Who will sympathize with you? !No one will sympathize with you, only look down on you even more!When we go to meetings outside in the future, our comrades will strive to sit in the front, and to fight for this breath.Water, electricity, and roads must be provided as soon as possible. How can we provide them without funds?Everyone makes up their minds, thinks of ways, and is not afraid of overthinking.If we dare to think, even if we dare not think, what else can we do? !

The mental outlook must be changed, and the ideas must be changed. We can no longer be full of small peasant thoughts and small economic awareness, and we can no longer be satisfied with a full stomach.Today is just to eat a full stomach, and tomorrow is likely to be hungry.Two months ago, I saw a slogan on the Hetian Highway, with ten large characters written: 'Start with sweet potatoes, get rich by processing'.I was very upset, and asked the secretary of the township party committee, can I get a family and get rich by relying on dried sweet potatoes?This is a typical small peasant consciousness, not even a big peasant!The output value of a factory in a village in the south of the Yangtze River is more than that of your county. Even if you have grown sweet potatoes in the whole county for ten years, you can't keep up with them.

The same is true in our city. The big pot of rice makes people lazy.Some factories have to rely on loans to start their wages. The temporary peasant workers in the factories have not quit, and no one has done the dirty and tiring work.How did this happen?If things go on like this, what hope do our state-owned enterprises have?What future? !Comrade Cao Wuping is in charge of industry, you should do some investigation and research to find out how to solve this problem?Can you try to take away the iron salary and iron rice bowl for him? !There is also the issue of cadres. I would like to make a suggestion here: all cadres and personnel of loss-making enterprises will be frozen;Please ask the Organization Department and the Personnel Bureau to come up with a plan for this matter and submit it to the Standing Committee for study.

There is one more point that needs to be emphasized here.In the leading group of the municipal party committee with me as the squad leader, no one should despise the predecessors.You know, Secretary Xie Xuedong and Secretary Guo Huaiqiu are both good comrades and good leaders who work hard, and they did their best for Pingchuan. Secretary Guo Huaiqiu even lost his life.I don't want to hear anyone commenting and judging them in front of me.Frankly speaking, you and I are not qualified for this right now. Finally, let me talk about the unity of the team.As the leader of 10 million people, whether our team is united or not, in a sense, determines the rise and fall of Pingchuan as a whole.Some comrades told me who belonged to who in our team and who belonged to which gang.I said, this is very strange. I have been the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee for six years and I haven't seen any gangs. How did you see it?I don't think our team and our Pingchuan cadres have any serious gang problems. I just know that some comrades have more contacts because of historical work relationships.I would like to make a statement here: it doesn’t matter if there are more exchanges between comrades, but if this kind of communication causes abnormal likes and dislikes, affects work, and affects the decision-making of the municipal party committee, I, the secretary of the municipal party committee, will never agree.Of course, this kind of problem doesn't exist yet, I'm just saying hello in advance.

"As for me personally, I promise to my comrades: In all the work decided by the municipal party committee in the future, I will take the lead first, devote all my energy to the work, never use power for personal gain, never form cliques, and never treat my comrades Playing political tricks. I ask myself to do this: I don’t distinguish between closeness and closeness to anyone, and only look at work performance and work ability. I hope that the comrades in the team will supervise me and remind me to form a good principle that is both principled and highly united. The ethos has enabled our team to become a strong fighting group that can bear the heavy historical responsibility, and the leader of 10 million people in Pingchuan to get rid of poverty and become rich."

At the first enlarged meeting of the standing committee of the new team of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee, Wu Mingxiong said so.The old and new members of the Standing Committee of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee remembered Wu Mingxiong's impromptu speech, and at the same time, they also met a brand new Wu Mingxiong, Wu Mingxiong as the secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. Recalling later, Shu Huaru also said: "I really got to know Wu Mingxiong at the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee he presided over for the first time. I never imagined that a memorial service for the former secretary of the municipal party committee had just been held, and in such a depressed atmosphere , Wu Mingxiong has such confidence and courage, and his words are so inspiring. In my opinion, apart from the factor of power, there may be more factors of personal temperament and leadership level. The gang problem of Pingchuan cadres is originally a human As we all know, it is also the most troublesome one. Wu Mingxiong handled it very well, neither pointing it out nor letting it go. He gave a subtle and forceful warning, and it turned out later that it really worked. I realized at the time I realize that with such a secretary of the municipal party committee by my side, Pingchuan will no longer have a mayor who is under the control of others. I, Shu Huaru, can throw off my arms and do a vigorous battle. Therefore, as soon as Wu Mingxiong's words fell, I took the lead in encouraging him This is the few sincere applause in my life."

Cao Wuping, a new member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, also said: "It should be admitted that Wu Mingxiong is a politician. His politics are politics of doing great things for the people of Pingchuan, not politics of seeking personal promotion and wealth. If he wants to do things, he must take into account Pingchuan's historical situation and The reality. Although he is as clear as everyone else that Xie Xuedong and Guo Huaiqiu failed to handle Pingchuan's affairs well, he not only does not discuss it himself, but also does not allow others to discuss it. A "not contemptuous of the predecessors" shows that Wu Mingxiong His political maturity also shows Wu Mingxiong's mind as a politician. The adjustment of the Standing Committee team also reflects this point. Chen Zhongyang was retained, and at the same time, he nominated me to the Standing Committee team, forming a de facto The checks and balances mechanism worked out again to the satisfaction of both Chen Zhongyang and Xiao Daoqing."

"Happiness is not the goal, but doing things is the goal. Wu Mingxiong really has a lot to do. He presided over the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee for the first time, and he raised everything one by one, and asked everyone to find a way. At that time, I I had a premonition that the secretary of the municipal party committee would make everyone's ass smoke, leaving you with no time or energy to engage in those little tricks of intrigue." Xiao Daoqing had a different opinion. Xiao Daoqing saw the great power of power on people from Wu Mingxiong.In his diary that day, Xiao Daoqing wrote: "The power of power is enormous. It changes people, shapes them, and corrupts them. This kind of corruption not only refers to the corruption of personal life and the expansion of selfish desires, but also to political Unlimited expansion of ambition. In a sense, the unlimited expansion of political ambition is more harmful to the cause of the party and the people, and the consequences are more serious and deceptive. If Wu Mingxiong's personal life degenerates, It may only be Wu Mingxiong who is ruined, but the expansion of Wu Mingxiong's political ambitions may ruin the stable life of the people of Pingchuan. I think that the secretary of the municipal party committee who was born as a farmer was about to take 10 million Pingchuan from the first minute he took power. Let’s make a big political gamble with the people’s wealth and lives. If he wins the bet, he will be famous in history; Asking questions, but not making a bet, so maybe there is room for maneuver? Maybe there is a possibility of restricting this kind of power ambition? I can’t tell.”

The Shengli Coal Mine is located in Wanshan Town, Minjiao County. The working class who earn wages and eat commodity grains have been the envy of the farmers in Hedong and Hexi villages for decades.Zhuang Qunyi, Secretary of the Party Branch of Hexi Village and President of Wanshan Group, still remembers the pain he had to pay in order to be a worker in the mine.Because of the land acquisition for coal mining, Hexi and Hedong villages have a few places to work in the mine every year, and everyone competes for these places.The largest household in Hexi Village is Tian, ​​and the Zhuang family is an outsider. At that time, the Tian family was in charge of the commune and the brigade, so most of the annual recruitment quotas were taken up by the Tian family.In order to fight for the right to be a worker, Zhuang Qunyi, who was demobilized from the army, led a commune member surnamed Zhuang and brigade secretary Tian Laosan to fight. He said some outrageous things in a fit of anger, but was caught as a model of the new trend of class struggle, and Zhuang Qunyi was criticized. , was taken to the commune and locked up for more than half a month.After being released from the commune, Tian Laosan told Zhuang Qunyi clearly: "If you dream of being a worker and eating commercial grain, don't do it if your surname is Zhuang! As long as I, Tian, ​​is the secretary of the brigade for one day, you have to give me the place for the next day." .Since it is your fate to eat dried white taro, you have to admit it."

Zhuang Qunyi refused to accept his fate, first sued Tian Lao San everywhere, but failed, so he took a group of brothers from the same family to the gangue hill of Shengli Mine to pan for charcoal. This is probably the earliest and most primitive township individual industry in Hexi Village.At that time, a strong laborer in the Hexi Brigade earned only eight cents a day, while panning charcoal earned more than two yuan a day.Three people have one charcoal pond, no matter how bad they are, they can get two or three hundred catties of charcoal to sell.In just two winters, Zhuang Qunyi was the first to build a new house in Hexi Village.

This has become a new trend of class struggle.The secretary of the brigade, Tian Laosan, insisted that Zhuang Qunyi was digging at the foot of the socialist mine, fought Zhuang Qunyi again, and expelled Zhuang Qunyi from the party.At that time, the rural and urban areas were all eating from the big pot of socialism, and the economic contradictions between the villages and mines had not yet been exposed. The leaders of the villages and mines were highly consistent politically. It is impossible to completely cut off the capitalist tail of a group of peasant brothers represented by Zhuang Qunyi.You just destroyed his old charcoal pond here, and he dug a new charcoal pond over there; on the gangue mountain, you just drove away this group of people, and that group came up again. Zhuang Qunyi and the peasant brothers in Hexi Village are so firm in their will to pursue a prosperous life. Tian Dao of Hedong Village also came out at that time. Tian Dao Dao also stole charcoal when panning for charcoal, but no one could do anything about him.Once I stole charcoal and was caught by the mine security department. Only three days after it was released, the chief of the security department took a sap.Later, Tian Dao used the money from selling charcoal to build a two-story bunker-like building in Hedong Village, known as the "Presidential Palace". , Eight cents is not enough for the members to buy a pack of cigarettes"; the other side reads: "Learn from Daqing, learn from Dazhai, how can you find charcoal so quickly"; the horizontal comment is: "If you can be rich, you can".This was too much at the time. The proletarian dictatorship raised its iron fist and bulldozed Tian Dao’s "presidential palace". Tian Dao was formally arrested for the current counter-revolutionary crime and sentenced to three years in prison. Zhuang Qunyi was also educated at the public trial of Tian Dao.What impressed Zhuang Qunyi the most was that Tian Dao Dao didn't care about anything, and when he was about to go to the public trial, he even asked the people in the Public Security Bureau for cigarettes, saying that he would not go on stage unless he was allowed to smoke.Not only did the police not give him a cigarette, they even whipped him with a belt, and he lay on the ground and yelled at him. The arrest and sentencing of Tian Dao Dao still did not curb the enthusiasm of the peasant brothers in the two villages to make a fortune.The brigade and the mine staff loosened their grip, and there were charcoal ponds everywhere on the gangue hill; when they grabbed it tightly, the peasant brothers flocked to the mine gate and the coal railway, sweeping up the coal on the road, scraping and transporting coal train.This enthusiasm for a free economy has gradually affected the families of the workers in the Shengli Mine.Around the mid-1970s, many family members of workers also went to gangue hills, and they also opened many large and small vegetable gardens on the wasteland around the mining area.At that time, Cao Xinli had already become the director of the Political Department of Shengli Mine.Cao Xinli said at the meeting of cadres and workers of the whole mine: "Our Shengli Mine is surrounded by a vast ocean of small producers. The small producers in Hedong and Hexi villages are eating away at our large socialist mine and our workers. Class thinking." Cannibalization later developed into collective looting. I don't know when, the rural cadres of the Hexi and Hedong production brigades and the coal mine cadres of the Shengli Mine who eat commercial grains are not so consistent.The peasant brothers from the two villages went to the charcoal field in the mine again and again to grab charcoal, but the brigade secretary who wore soil-dyed urea pocket cloth clothing refused to take care of it.Later, the cadres of the brigade also joined forces with the backward members, and led the team to the mine to "borrow charcoal" in a horse-drawn cart, and they "borrowed" with confidence.Tian Laosan said openly: "The charcoal is originally from the ground, so it is only natural for us to borrow some and use it." The thing is so strange, Zhuang Qunyi's hard work and sweat for charcoal is undermining the walls of socialism, but collective looting is not undermining the walls of socialism.From the commune to the county, the local cadres protected Tian Laosan openly and secretly, which made Tian Laosan more and more courageous, and they almost carried away the big well frame of Shengli Mine. Zhuang Qunyi didn't take this very seriously. He thought it was a rascal in his heart, and he always called Tian Laosan a living bandit behind his back.He also sarcastically said that instead of going to the mine to grab charcoal, it would be better to pull up the basic militia and grab the bank directly with guns.Zhuang Qunyi never participated in this kind of looting incident. Zhuang Qunyi has Zhuang Qunyi's code of conduct and morality.In the 1980s, the reform and opening up began, and the situation changed again.Both Hexi and Hedong villages opened small coal mines, township enterprises came to the foreground of China's economy, and the conflict between township and mines further intensified.In order to compete for underground coal resources, the lawsuits between the township and the mine have been fought in the city and the province.Later, after consulting the relevant provincial departments, the city made a rigid regulation: Small coal mines in Hedong and Hexi can only mine marginal coal above -180 meters above sea level, and mining in main mining areas and deep coal fields is not allowed.Tian Laosan from Hexi and Tian Daoda from Hedong didn't care about this. They dug holes everywhere and scoured the Shengli Mine to be riddled with holes.Once, Tian Laosan and two well chiefs went down to inspect the work. It happened that a blast was fired at the Shengli Mine, and the coal wall was blown through. branch secretary. To be fair, the newly appointed Zhuang Qunyi did not want to follow Tian Laosan's path at the beginning and continue to compete with Shengli Mine for resources.However, the eight small coal mines in Hexi Village have all expanded to the hinterland of Shengli Mine without exception, and he can no longer change this reality.He also saw the villagers of Hedong Village, under the leadership of Tian Dao Dao, open up the roadway of the big mine and drag the charcoal from the big mine to the entrance of his kiln, so he couldn't help it, and started to do it too.Simply let the accountant go down the mine with the cash, count the tickets for the workers in the big mine on the spot, and set up a worker-peasant alliance two to three hundred meters underground. Today, the Shengli Mine is closed, and 15 small coal mines in the east and west of the river have surrounded and swallowed up the mine.The annual output of the seven small coal mines in Hedong Village has reached 500,000 tons, and that in Hexi Village has reached 400,000 tons, while the annual output of the large Shengli mine is only over 200,000 tons.With the end of the victory mine, there is also the natural sense of superiority of the victory mine workers.In front of the small foreign-style buildings built by peasants in Hedong and Hexi, the bungalows in the worker's residential area of ​​Wanshan Town look so dilapidated.Last year, when Cao Xinli asked Zhuang Qunyi to borrow money on behalf of Shengli Mine, Zhuang Qunyi was deeply moved.Thinking that because of Tian Laosan, he didn't work as a worker in the big mine, he felt a little lucky. Zhuang Qunyi admits that the peasant brothers in Hedong and Hexi villages can get rich because they took advantage of Shengli Mine, but Zhuang Qunyi can still find a balance in his heart.That is, if he doesn't take advantage of this advantage, Tian Dao Road in Hedong will take it, and other people will take it, so why doesn't he take it?Since everyone knows that state-owned assets are essentially unowned assets, it would be better for him, Zhuang Qunyi, to be the owner of this asset than someone like Tian Dao.At least he is more benevolent than Tian Dao Dao, and when the mine is unable to uncover the pot, he can always help the mine to some extent. However, Zhuang Qunyi did not admit that the Shengli Mine was overwhelmed by the small coal mines owned by peasant brothers. Zhuang Qunyi and Cao Xinli said that the Shengli Mine was not so much squeezed down by someone as it was dying and drained by itself.Zhuang Qunyi vividly raised an upside-down, saying that this is like selling vegetables at a market. We peasant brothers pick and sell vegetables by ourselves. If anyone wants to take a vegetable from us without paying, we will not do it. promise.As for you worker brothers, if you want someone to pick up vegetables for you to sell, and after you arrive at the market, you will see your relatives and friends to give away favors, no matter how good the business is, you will ruin it. In order not to let the business of the workers' brothers be completely ruined, and for the further development of the Wanshan Group in Hexi Village, Zhuang Qunyi has been thinking about how to make a fortune for the peasant brothers in Hexi Village since he lent 600,000 yuan to the Shengli Mine last year. At the same time, it also pulled the worker brothers of Shengli Mine to send it together?The reserves of the Shengli Mine -220 meters are not small. If a reasonable and legal alliance of workers and peasants can be formed to mine together, it will be beneficial to both parties.In this way, there is hope for Hexi Village to overwhelm Hedong Village and become the first 100 million yuan village in Minjiao County. Hedong Village has always been the opponent of Hexi Village.Tian Dao didn't accept Tian Laosan back then, and now he doesn't accept Zhuang Qunyi either.At the beginning of mining, when the two villages both encroached on the Shengli Mine, the heads of the two villages could not sit on the same bench for their own interests.In the past few years, Shengli Mine has declined, and it is no longer an opponent, and the contradiction between the two sides has become more prominent.Tian Dao Dao is too domineering, blackmailing mines, and also blackmailing Hexi.Two of his wells were exploited across the boundary, but Zhuang Qunyi caught him according to the drawings, and refused to admit the account, which almost caused a bloody conflict.Hedong Village is close to the national highway and has convenient transportation.Hexi Village was nestled inside, and they wanted to build a more than 500-meter-long road through Hedong Village, but Tian Avenue refused to allow it, and even the county party secretary Cheng Weiqi failed to get the job done.Tian Dadao didn't say that Hexi Village should not be allowed to build the road, but only said that the road was on the ground of Hedong Village, and that Hedong Village had to build it by itself, but after talking for two years, it didn't move. To the Shengli Mine, Tian Dao Dao was also ruthless and ungrateful. After shaking himself, he no longer wanted to associate with others, always afraid that their poverty would get on him.He also swaggered around, declaring that as long as the national policy allows, the Golden Dragon Group of Hedong Village will buy the Shengli Mine sooner or later.Cao Xinli was so angry that he said to everyone, "What is an upstart? Just look at the face of Tianda Avenue in Hedong Village." Tian Dao Dao's rudeness to Shengli Mine, on the contrary, made Zhuang Qunyi more enthusiastic about Shengli Mine.If there is nothing to do, Zhuang Qunyi will go to the mine every month to get together with the party secretary Cao Xinli and the mine manager Xiao Yuejin.Tian Dao Dao always said that he wanted to buy the Shengli Mine, Zhuang Qunyi thought, instead of Tian Dao Dao buying it, it would be better for him to buy it.Of course, this can't be said, it will hurt people.According to Zhuang Qunyi's thinking, the best way at present is to cooperate and engage in joint mining. When the conditions are ripe in the future, it is not impossible to merge such a declining coal mine with many difficulties.Therefore, when Cao Xinli fell ill after learning that the workers in Shengli Mine were making trouble, Zhuang Qunyi sat in Santana and rushed to Shengli Coal Mine Hospital with a smile on his face, carrying a lot of nutritional supplements. Cao Xinli has been discharged from the hospital. As soon as the front of Zhuang Qunyi's car fell off, he rushed to Cao's house with ease.Parked the car at the door of Cao's house, and just got out of the car, Zhuang Qunyi heard Cao Xinli swearing angrily, and the person who scolded was Xiao Yuejin, the young mine manager, calling names.Zhuang Qunyi suddenly hesitated, neither advancing nor retreating for a while, standing in front of the car in a daze. Cao Xinli's voice was very loud, not like a patient who had just been discharged from the hospital. His voice seemed to ring in Zhuang Qunyi's ears: "What do you do, mine manager? I told you again and again, I want you to be careful, but you still go to the hospital. I was fooled by others. What else can you say now? Aren’t you very capable? You keep saying that you are not the president of the maintenance team and you have to face the market. This is the result of you facing the market? I think you Xiao Yuejin is really good Why don't you take this maintenance president as a good thing!" Xiao Yuejin was also very angry: "Secretary Cao, you can't speak with emotions. No matter what you say, I still got back 80,000 yuan in cash from Cao Wucheng's joint company, opened the big cafeteria, and returned those pigs to the water." It can be eaten. How can you say that he lied to me? If he doesn’t pay off the remaining tens of thousands within three months, I will file a lawsuit with him.” Cao Xinli's voice became louder: "A fart lawsuit! What is Cao Wucheng, don't I, as a father, know? Thousands of people have to eat every day, and you Xiao Yuejin don't know? Can you afford it? Workers When troubles arise, is it you, the mine manager, or me, the party secretary, who is in charge?! Tell me!" Only then did Zhuang Qunyi vaguely know that Shengli Coal Mine, which was so poor that it could not even afford food, was cheated by Cao Wucheng of the United Company again, and it was cheated by Xiao Yuejin.Xiao Yuejin later told Zhuang Qunyi the details and details of being cheated.After hearing this, Zhuang Qunyi couldn't laugh or cry, and said that Cao Wucheng was immoral, and asked Xiao Yuejin, why did Cao Xinli, such a dutiful old secretary, raise such a profiteer's son? Naturally, this also brought an excellent opportunity to Zhuang Qunyi's dream of joint mining.