Chapter 30 Chapter Thirty

Xie Xuedong said: "Old Wu, let's not go so far, let's just talk about Shang Dequan. This comrade has a very unusual relationship with Chen Zhongyang, do you know that? Doesn't it work if Chen Zhongyang mentions this comrade? Also, he Suntech dared to do this, did he get the connivance and support of Chen Zhongyang? The style of Liangshan Zhongyi Hall is incredible! Chen Zhongyang has become the commander-in-chief of the water conservancy project. , the interests of the people?!" Wu Mingxiong could no longer suppress the anger in his heart: "Secretary Xie, I ask you to remember your identity. You are the deputy secretary of our provincial party committee and the leader. Without any factual basis, you subjectively It is very irresponsible to speculate and evaluate your own comrades!"

Xie Xuedong did not back down: "Comrade Wu Mingxiong, I also ask you to remember that as a deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, the provincial party committee and I must take care of this vicious incident that forces people to die!" Wu Mingxiong said: "Very well, I will instruct Comrade Xiao Daoqing, who is in charge of discipline inspection, to report to you every day the investigation and handling of this matter. At the same time, I also hope that you will try to allocate more funds to us so that the migrant workers on our 300-kilometer construction site Comrades, eat better and dress warmer, so that people will not freeze to death in the future, so make it difficult for you. Secretary Xie, do you know what the temperature is at the Damohe construction site now? I just came back from the construction site and asked Please report: the temperature in the northern part of Pingchuan has been -22°C, the central part has been -21°C, and the southern region has been better, with a temperature of -19°C, but there have been snowstorms."

Xie Xuedong said angrily: "If people freeze to death on the construction site, you Wu Mingxiong should resign!" Wu Mingxiong said: "Even if I resign, the Pingchuan South-to-North Water Diversion Project will not be completed. 1.43 million horses and hundreds of millions of funds have been invested with the full support of you and the provincial party committee. Even with a sad face and a sigh, we have to fight to the death Yes. Secretary Xie, do you think so?" Xie Xuedong was really helpless. After being silent for a long time, he sighed and said, "Old Wu, let's calm down, shall we? You worked so hard to improve water and roads for the sake of Pingchuan. I have said so much to you, Isn’t it also for Pingchuan? Yesterday I told the old governor that this kind of big project couldn’t be done without you, Old Wu.”

Wu Mingxiong's tone softened, and he forced a smile and said, "Secretary Xie, aren't you my old leader and secretary? If I don't quarrel with your old leader or secretary, who else can I quarrel with?! However, Don't worry, we will take care of Hetian's matter. This afternoon, Chen Zhongyang and I went to Zhangwang Township, Hetian County, and visited Mrs. Lu Wenling, the lover of Mayor Tao. Mr. Lu's preliminary understanding. We will deal with Shang Dequan, secretary of the Hetian County Party Committee, seriously and prepare to remove him." Xie Xuedong said: "This is very good, Suntech has to deal with everything, otherwise, where is the party discipline and state law?! However, Chen Zhongyang, as the deputy secretary and commander-in-chief of the municipal party committee in charge of water conservancy projects, is also responsible, at least he should take leadership responsibility?"

Wu Mingxiong's heart trembled. Xie Xuedong said calmly: "Of course, such an old comrade is going to retire soon, and it's really not good to give him a punishment. Look, can you persuade Chen Zhongyang to retire early? Of course, this is just my personal opinion." The suggestion does not represent the provincial party committee, so I have to make a statement about it.” Wu Mingxiong thought for a while before saying: "Secretary Xie, I will seriously consider your personal suggestion. However, I think that in this matter, Chen Zhongyang does not have much leadership responsibility. I, Wu Mingxiong, will take the responsibility, I am the secretary of the municipal party committee."

Xie Xuedong said: "Okay, okay, anyway you think about it. Let me reiterate: no matter in the past or today, I have nagged and said so much, it is for your own good, and it is up to you to listen, and it is up to you if you don't listen. I I have been with everyone in Pingchuan for several years, when you are busy, you have to do your best, right?!" Putting down the phone, Wu Mingxiong was extremely exhausted. He put his head in his hands and sat blankly on the sofa for a long time before trying to pick up the phone again.Seeing that his daughter Wu Jie was still in the room, Wu Mingxiong held the phone's handset and said, "Xiao Jie, go back to your room and sleep. Dad still needs to call your Uncle Chen Zhongyang to talk about work."

The lady came in and said angrily, "Xiaojie, I don't even know what time it is, what are you still doing here? Are you still going to work tomorrow?!" Wu Jie went out, and when she reached the door of the room, she said to her father: "Dad, I understand, people make a fuss out of this, and Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is aimed at Pei Gongli." Wu Mingxiong smiled and asked, "Who is Pei Gong?" Wu Jie said: "It's you, Uncle Chen, and Uncle Shu who want to do things. Xie Xuedong and Xiao Daoqing don't do things themselves, and they don't want others to do things well. If others do things, won't they be embarrassed?"

Wu Mingxiong said seriously: "Little Jie, don't talk so casually. Secretary Xie and Secretary Xiao are both kind, and they also want to help Dad do things well." Wu Jie didn't believe it. She smiled secretly at Wu Mingxiong and said, "This is probably the complexity of politics. You were so pale just now, and now you still tell me that." At this time, it was very late at night, and the lights of every household in the government dormitory compound were turned off, even the street lights in the courtyard were turned off. Only the window of Wu Mingxiong's house was still brightly lit... 44 Chen Zhongyang looked at Shang Dequan, who was sitting on the opposite couch smoking one cigarette after another silently, felt a surge of regret surging in his heart like a tide.I haven't seen him for more than ten days, and Shang Dequan is already thin and out of shape, with an unshaven beard, deeply sunken eye sockets, protruding cheekbones, and the middle finger and index finger of his right hand holding the cigarette are burnt yellow by the smoke, and his former energy is gone.

Chen Zhongyang said angrily: "Dequan, can you smoke less?!" Shang Dequan smiled, obediently put out the cigarette he just lit, and explained with a sigh: "Because I'm upset, I smoke too much these days." Chen Zhongyang said in the tone of an elder and a leader: "In life, troubles are inevitable. Who doesn't have troubles? Do you think I don't have troubles? The problem is to treat them correctly." Shang Dequan subconsciously rubbed the extinguished cigarette in his hand, and said flatly: "Old secretary, don't worry, I can treat it correctly, not to mention dismissal, the organization will give me a more severe punishment, and I will not Complaints, we caused trouble ourselves, who is to blame?"

Chen Zhongyang asked: "Has Hetian's work been handed over?" Shang Dequan shook his head and said, "Not yet." Chen Zhongyang was startled: "Why?" Shang Dequan smiled wryly: "The document of dismissal from the municipal party committee has not yet been formally issued, so what should I hand over? With a few days left in hand, I can do something for the old secretary. Just do something for the old secretary. In the past few days, Hetian Finally, all the labor funds have been raised, and the 100,000 people were also brought to the Damo River by the county magistrate Xia."

Chen Zhongyang was really touched, he didn't let Shang Dequan smoke, but he lit a cigarette with trembling hands and started smoking. Shang Dequan said again: "Old Secretary, don't comfort me. I know that it is not you who want to dismiss me, but Secretary Wu who wants to dismiss me. I don't blame you at all. I have followed you for so many years, and I have learned a lot. To be honest, without your old secretary's personal training, I, a poor orphan who grew up with a thousand families, would never be able to become the mayor or secretary of the county party committee." Chen Zhongyang took a puff of cigarette, exhaled slowly and said, "Dequan, you are wrong. It is not me, Chen Zhongyang, who trained you, but the party organizations at all levels. You little comrade, don't treat the party, the The feelings for the organization are confused with the feelings for me personally. I, Chen Zhongyang, are the deputy secretary of the Pingchuan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, not the head of the Liangshan Zhongyi Church. As for the dismissal of you today, it is not Secretary Wu Mingxiong, but it is me. You didn’t expect that the Standing Committee proposed to withdraw you, did you?” Shang De was completely stunned. Chen Zhongyang sighed: "Suggesting to dismiss you is probably one of the most painful choices in my life, but I have to do it. Don't I know that your motive for causing trouble is good intentions? Don't I know that you have always worked hard Why? Why did my old man do this today? It’s for the sake of the overall situation. Today’s overall situation is that the water and roads must go up, and the living conditions of the 10 million people in Pingchuan need to be fundamentally changed. As far as the municipal committee is concerned, I, the deputy secretary of the municipal committee of the Communist Party, can’t do favoritism, and I dare not do favoritism.” Shang Dequan nodded and said: "I know, this matter has become a big deal, and people in the province are watching, so I am doomed." Chen Zhongyang didn't accept Shang Dequan's words, and went on with his own thinking: "Take care of the overall situation, which means someone has to make a sacrifice. Don't say that you have made a big mistake today, even if you didn't make a mistake. When it is time for you to sacrifice, you have to make a sacrifice." Sacrifice. The old governor often told me such a thing: In 1943, the Japanese surrounded and mopped up our desert anti-Japanese base area. A company of the old fifth regiment retreated to cover the column and the prefectural committee. At that time, everyone knew that there was no reason to survive this time, so 104 people went anyway, all of them sacrificed, and the youngest soldier was only 14 years old." Shang Dequan said: "I know about this, there is still a monument on the bank of the Damo River." Chen Zhongyang added: "This is a sacrifice in the war years. Is there any sacrifice today? Also. When we go to the water, go on the road, and do work with the masses, we always say that we must have the spirit of dedication and sacrifice. The masses donate money and materials , went to the river to work hard and made sacrifices. Now, when we make mistakes, shouldn’t we sacrifice our own black hats?!” Shang Dequan nodded and said: "Yes." After thinking for a while, he added, "Today is me, maybe tomorrow it will be your old secretary and Wu Mingxiong." Chen Zhongyang smiled wryly: "I have thought of this too. As long as you do something, you will inevitably make mistakes, and you will inevitably have to make sacrifices of one kind or another." Both of them felt very heavy, and they were speechless for a long time. After a long silence, Chen Zhongyang asked with concern: "Dequan, what are your personal thoughts on the next work and life arrangements?" Shang De didn't hit at all in a daze, and said sullenly: "Get up wherever you fall." Chen Zhongyang shook his head and said, "Dequan, I advise you not to stay in Hetian, or go back to Yunhai, or come to Pingchuan, and the whole family will move here. For so many years, you have always used your house as a hotel and restaurant. Come back, it's time to take a good rest and take care of your wife and children. How is your wife's illness now?" Tears welled up in Shang Dequan's eyes. Chen Zhongyang was startled, and asked, "Why are you crying?" The tears in Shang Dequan's eyes flowed more urgently: "She died, just the night before yesterday, and was cremated yesterday afternoon." Chen Zhongyang's eyes were also moist, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he said in a low voice: "How could this happen, how could this happen?" Shang Dequan said with tears all over his face: "Yes... I hurt her. She was very sick. When she heard about me... something happened to me..." Shang Dequan choked up and couldn't continue. Chen Zhongyang was so sad that he turned his face away, and after a long time, he said in an orderly tone: "Dequan, I think you can go back to Pingchuan? If you can't get a house in the city for a while, you can live in my house first, and someone will take care of your children." , your daughter seems to be called Shanghao, right?" With tears in his eyes, Shang Dequan nodded and said, "Shang Hao still remembers you, Grandpa Chen." However, Shang Dequan disagreed with Chen Zhongyang's arrangement, wiped the tears from his face, and Shang Dequan said, "Old secretary, I, Shang Dequan, still work with you? Just go to Damohe with the migrant workers from Hetian County, for you, for the municipal committee, and for the party to save some influence? Don't let people say that we are cadres who only point fingers." Chen Zhongyang was startled, and immediately asked: "You go to the construction site, what should Xiao Shang do?" Shang Dequan said, "Leave it at home." Chen Zhongyang asked again: "Where do you still have a home?" Shang Dequan said, "It's my mother-in-law's house." Chen Zhongyang thought for a long time before he nodded and said, "Okay, then I will suggest to the municipal party committee that you be assigned to my headquarters of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, and do some specific things first. To be honest, I am still in short supply. manpower." Shang Dequan said: "No, old secretary, I don't want your arrangement, and I don't want to go to your general headquarters. I will go to Hegong and be the on-site deputy commander of Hetian County, or the commando leader." Chen Zhongyang disagreed: "Dequan, you are thirty-eight this year, can you handle it?" Shang Dequan said confidently: "Thirty or forty is the right age, I can do it." Chen Zhongyang took Shang Dequan's hand, held it tightly and said, "Dequan, how are you doing? Thank you, my old leader, and thank you on behalf of Secretary Wu Mingxiong? Secretary Wu is afraid that you will suffer this big setback. Lie down on the nest, can't get up again?" When sending Shang Dequan out of the gate and waving goodbye to him, Chen Zhongyang felt sad and desolate, and couldn't help thinking of the ancient poem "the wind is rustling, the water is cold, and the strong man will never return when he is gone". As soon as Bai Chuan, president of the Provincial Construction Bank, was sent off at the provincial office in Pingchuan, Shu Huaru unexpectedly received a long-distance call from Wu Mingxiong from Pingchuan.Wu Mingxiong told Shu Huaru on the phone that the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee dealing with the Hetian issue had already been convened, Hetian County Party Secretary Shang Dequan had been dismissed, and Hetian County Magistrate Xia Zhonghe had given a severe warning to the party.Wu Mingxiong asked Shu Huaru to go to Xie Xuedong immediately and report the situation to Xie Xuedong. If necessary, he would report directly to the Provincial Party Secretary Qian Xianghui on behalf of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee. Shu Huaru asked: "Does Secretary Chen Zhongyang understand? Did he complain at the Standing Committee?" Wu Mingxiong said: "Old Shu, thanks to Secretary Chen this time, an old comrade is an old comrade after all. At the critical moment, his level and consciousness can be seen. Not only did Secretary Chen not complain, he even let the punished Shang De was convinced to go to the water conservancy construction site to be the commando leader. Xiao Daoqing, on the other hand, took advantage of the topic and talked about objective conditions, saying that lessons should be learned and that we should be cautious when starting construction on the Ring Road, which made everyone gossip. .” Shu Huaru said: "It's good to push it back. Don't say there is no problem, even if there is a problem, the ring road project will not be returned. The special funds of the Provincial Transportation Bureau and the loan agreed by the Provincial Construction Bank will be in place soon. This afternoon, I On behalf of the Pingchuan Municipal Government and the Provincial Construction Bank, the loan contract for the Ring Road has been formally signed." Wu Mingxiong said: "This is very good. When you see Xie Xuedong, you can do some work again to see if you can dig some funds from the provincial agricultural port for our water conservancy projects? If you want to spend some money, you should spend it boldly, don't I have concerns." Shu Huaru said: "Secretary Wu, are you confused or something? Can you spend money with Xie Xuedong? Can he accept our tricks?!" Wu Mingxiong laughed and said on the phone: "Yes, yes, he is an upright official, so I didn't mention it." Putting down the phone, Shu Huaru drove to Xie Xuedong's house non-stop. He didn't dare to give away anything else, so he sent some local products from Pingchuan.There is vacuum-packed original dog meat, hardcover Pingchuan Daqu, and Kangkang Soybean Milk Company, which is the new Kangkang Soybean Milk produced by the former Pingchuan Rice Mill. Xie Xuedong didn't act, he took all the local specialties from his hometown, and asked Shu Huaru in surprise: Mayor Shu, is this Kangkang soybean milk a product of our Pingchuan? !Some time ago, I went to the provincial capital to hold a product introduction meeting. I thought it was a product from somewhere in Guangdong.