Chapter 46 Chapter Forty-Six

Xiao Daoqing said: "In my opinion, Comrade Wuping's plan is still feasible. As for the Shengli Mine, everyone is very clear that there is no other way to go except to make up your mind to carry out this kind of thorough reform that cuts off the way out. In the past few years, blood transfusions have been done, funds have been allocated, meetings have been held countless times, and countless solutions have been thought of. What problems have been solved? None of the problems have been solved. Secretary Wu is a little worried, afraid of trouble, but I don’t think so. What kind of trouble will happen. Why do you say that? The reason is very simple, that is, the workers of Shengli Mine have been waiting for work for several years. I will be satisfied. Even if there is some disagreement, I don’t think it’s a big deal, isn’t it just a coal mine! What kind of big name can it make?! I have made mistakes in this regard. Back then, the South-to-North Water Diversion site Last week, 13,000 migrant workers in Shuichang County stopped working. I thought there was going to be a riot, but it turned out that there was no disturbance at all. Comrade Chen Zhongyang immediately dealt with it when he arrived at the scene."

Wu Mingxiong still insisted: "This is different. Back then, the water length was a temporary incident, but today's Shengli Mine is a major event involving the fundamental interests of more than 8,500 people. If it really breaks out, it will not stop, and even It will go to the province. Therefore, I still don’t rush to decide on my opinion, it’s better for everyone to listen to different opinions on Comrade Wuping’s plan.” Wu Mingxiong made a final decision. For the first time, the Standing Committee did not make any resolution on the reform plan of Shengli Coal Mine. That night, Xiao Daoqing made a rare phone call to Cao Wuping and said, "Wuping, have you seen another side of Wu Mingxiong today?! Is he really as selfless and fearless as you said? Not quite right! Yes Shengli Mine, if you don’t reform, you’re going to die. Even an outsider like me can see it, but Wu Mingxiong can’t see it? What does he mean by opposing your plan?”

Cao Wuping knew that Xiao Daoqing had held a grudge against Wu Mingxiong since he was left on the bench, and had been behind Wu Mingxiong's back for two years. He was afraid that Xiao Daoqing would take advantage of his loopholes, so he said calmly: "Secretary Wu is not against my plan, but just wants to Listen to the opinions of all parties." Xiao Daoqing sighed for a long time, and said, "Brother Wuping, you don't understand politics, don't you? Haven't you seen it yet? This old comrade still wants to climb up. Think about it, he will immediately It's almost time, where are you going to retreat to the second line? Don't you want to retreat to the province? Over the past few years, he Wu Mingxiong has earned his great reputation with the blood and sweat of our Pingchuan people. The sub-provincial for fun? He wants to get this sub-provincial, but he still has the mind to do something else? I'll let you know what's going on. Lock your hard-earned plan in a drawer first! When will you wait? Old man Wu stepped back with his arms around a vice-provincial, so go ahead and do it!"

Cao Wuping said solemnly: "Deputy Secretary Xiao, I think you are going too far! Even if Secretary Wu disagrees with this plan, Secretary Wu has his own reasons. What is going up? What is the deputy provincial level? You are talking to me. Work, or play tricks behind your back?!" Xiao Daoqing sneered on the phone: "What petty tricks am I doing? Now, I can make it clear to you seriously: In view of Wu Mingxiong's current very unhealthy mental state, don't expect this plan to pass! Even if you Cao Wuping is his Not even a son! I know the cunning of this old comrade! He will neither let you take the credit for this reform, nor will he take any risk for the reform pilot you presided over! He is now ready to succeed Back off. Do you understand?!"

After finishing speaking, Xiao Daoqing hung up the phone. This made Cao Wuping very uncomfortable... However, the reform plan of Shengli Mine was finally passed at the second enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee. In the presence of Xiao Yuejin, manager and party secretary of Shengli Mine, and Yao Xinchun, deputy secretary of the mine's party committee, it was approved after comprehensive revisions from the Municipal People's Congress and the Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference. The reform plan adopted clarifies that Shengli Coal Mine will maintain the original treatment at the county and regiment level, and Xiao Yuejin will concurrently serve as the deputy secretary of the Minjiao County Party Committee, presiding over the daily work and production of the Shengli Coal Mine.In order not to arouse possible resistance among the cadres and workers of the Shengli Mine, Zhuang Qunyi's organizational arrangements are reserved for further consideration. At this stage, Zhuang Qunyi is only in charge of the organization of production funds and coal marketing as the deputy mine manager.

When passing this plan, Wu Mingxiong was hesitant. After the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee ended, Wu Mingxiong called Cao Wuping into his office alone, and explained to Cao Wuping earnestly that he must keep a clear head and never intensify the conflict no matter what.Wu Mingxiong even told Cao Wuping clearly that if the pilot project cannot continue, he can stop at any time.After all, the pilot is a pilot, hope for success, but also allow failure. Cao Wuping felt that Wu Mingxiong seemed to be a different person, so he complained with a little dissatisfaction: "Secretary Wu, how bold you are to build water, roads, and urban construction! Why do you build one in Shengli Mine? It will benefit the workers and the country." You are so worried about the benefits of the pilot reform? You always tell me to free my mind and let go of work, why do you get scared when I let go of work? "

Wu Mingxiong smiled, patted Cao Wuping on the shoulder and said, "Wuping, what do you think I am afraid of? I am 59 years old this year, and I will retire in half a year. What I am worried about is that the cadres and workers of Shengli Mine do not understand us. The painstaking efforts to get them to eat have caused chaos. The current situation is so good, if hundreds or thousands of people come to sit in front of the municipal party committee and the municipal government to appeal, the social impact will be bad." Cao Wuping couldn't help thinking of Xiao Daoqing's phone call, he was stunned for a moment, and asked: "Secretary Wu, can you tell me something from your heart? Do you think that when you are approaching your age, you just... don't want to do what you did in the past? We, Pingchuan, have worked hard for our great cause of reform? Just want to retire? Secretary Wu, I ask you this, please don’t be angry, I dare to ask you, it is because I respect you and honor you As my role model, I can speak out on such a purely private occasion."

Wu Mingxiong was not angry, but he didn't answer Cao Wuping's words, instead he asked Cao Wuping: "Wuping, how old are you?" Cao Wuping said: "Secretary Wu, as you know, I am 43 years old, two years younger than Xiao Daoqing." Wu Mingxiong said thoughtfully: "43 years old, that is to say, by the age of 60, you can still work for 17 years. These 17 years are not easy, it is the most mature and creative time. If I, Wu Mingxiong At forty-three instead of fifty-nine, how much more can I do!" Cao Wuping felt a little sad, so he said: "Secretary Wu, if you are really worried, I think you can put this plan forward and think about it after half a year."

Wu Mingxiong was stunned, and said, "Why? When I step down, let you young people take risks? You Cao Wuping, you really underestimate my old man! No matter how big the risk is, as long as it is from the party Starting from the fundamental interests of the people and the overall situation of the reform, I, Wu Mingxiong, dare to bear it! I still say that, when Wu Mingxiong was the secretary of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee, I was responsible for all problems in decision-making, and I was the leader. After a pause, he said earnestly again, "Comrade Wuping, go ahead and do it boldly. Didn't Zhang Datong's textile machinery and Tian Dagui's Kangkang Group fight their way out? Maybe... maybe Shengli Coal Mine Survive the darkness before dawn today, and you can kill a bloody road!"

This moved Cao Wuping, Wu Mingxiong is still Wu Mingxiong, Xiao Daoqing's sowing dissension is really hateful and ridiculous, so he nodded and said: "Okay, with the support of your old secretary and everyone, I will try to change it." See, once you find that something is wrong, just slow down in time, or stop." After thinking about it, he finally told Wu Mingxiong what Xiao Daoqing said to sow discord, and asked Wu Mingxiong to pay attention to Xiao Daoqing's abnormal behavior. Wu Mingxiong smiled contemptuously, and said: "I think this person is hopeless. In the past two years, when has he not been making a name for himself? This time, he probably smelled something good again, and thought he had some loopholes to take advantage of." Yes! But we still follow the old way, ignore him, don’t care about him, our decision-making and the implementation of the decision-making, we still don’t want to be disturbed and influenced by him!”

Cao Wuping said: "However, this time is different from the past. I really feel a little surprised. I really didn't expect that Xiao Daoqing's views would change all of a sudden, and he would actively support the reform. In turn, he would use the reform pilot project of the Shengli Mine to build a Playing around behind your back." Wu Mingxiong shook his head and said: "Comrade Wu Ping, you are wrong. Xiao Daoqing has never had a point of view or belief, so there is no change. The more I look at it, the more clear it is that this young man has nothing but himself For his own self-interest, and nothing else. Forget it, let's not talk about him!" Later, Wu Mingxiong brought up the matter of Cao Wucheng seeking Cao Wuping's lawsuit, and said with a smile: "You, Mayor Cao, have been very busy these days. I heard that you are also a defendant, right? My brother sued his relatives." Brother, it’s really big news. The sue is a must, not the good people sue the bad people, but the bad people sue the good people. Wuping, do you think it’s necessary for the Municipal Law Committee to intervene?” Cao Wuping pondered for a while and said: "Secretary Wu, I think it's better not to interfere. I thought about it. It would be good to fight this lawsuit. There are at least two advantages. First, it completely sorts out the relationship between Cao Wuping and him. The relationship between Cao Wucheng and the people in the city can see that Cao Wuping and Cao Wucheng are not the same thing; secondly, regardless of whether the lawsuit wins or loses, we can remind the judiciary to let them pay attention to the fact that our country’s legal system is still not perfect, so as to further strengthen the cooperation with Cao Wucheng. Improve the legal system under the conditions of my country's socialist market economy." Wu Mingxiong nodded and said: "Okay, you have a good idea. My opinion is that to achieve these two goals, you, the executive deputy mayor, and our Industrial and Commercial Bureau can't lose, and the Municipal Legal Committee still has to intervene. Ping, don't get me wrong, this lawsuit is not your Cao family's private matter!" In the dead of night, when there is no need to put on a charming smile to deal with anyone, Xiao Daoqing would think almost tragically: his dual life, physical life and political life are full of vitality, and it can accept any challenge, any tribulation , Any setbacks will never be easily destroyed by anyone.He, Xiao Daoqing, is not a coward who will break his bones when he stumbles a few times in official wrestling, and he is not a respondent who will follow the wind and fall with the breath of a strong enemy, but a brave man who still dares to fight alone and is good at fighting alone in a difficult environment that endures humiliation. warrior. Yes, in the wrestling with Wu Mingxiong, he failed time and time again, and sometimes he lost badly and lost face. Even the old leader Xie Xuedong who trusted him so much in the past, and all the standing committee members of the Pingchuan Municipal Committee fought against him. alienated, but he still kept fighting.In the past two years, he has hardly let go of any opportunity to fight against Wu Mingxiong. If he can't fight regular warfare, he will fight guerrilla warfare. It was he, Xiao Daoqing, who instigated his wife to take photos of the empty road at dawn when there were no passing vehicles on the Huancheng Road, and sent it to the overseas "America Daily" through a friend for publication. Does the well-developed Pingchuan need this huge football field with a length of 60 kilometers?" It was Xiao Daoqing who took the news pictures of the labor scenes of migrant workers on the second phase of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, partially enlarged them, and published them in Hong Kong newspapers with even more frightening headlines: "The great backbone of the people of Pingchuan, covered with blood and sweat, carried the Pingchuan area The great vanity of the party bureaucracy!" At the first meeting of the Standing Committee to study the pilot reform of the Shengli Mine, Xiao Daoqing found another opportunity for him to conduct guerrilla warfare or even regular warfare, and made a decision to support Cao Wuping on the spot.Xiao Daoqing was definitely not a sudden whim, but the result of careful consideration. It is clear that the pilot reform of the Shengli Mine is very risky, and it can even be said to be infinite.As the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee in charge of trade union work, Xiao Daoqing knew the workers' thinking very well.But it was precisely because of this that he wanted to support Cao Wuping, so that the now ignorant executive deputy mayor would unconsciously pick up Wu Mingxiong's spear and attack Wu Mingxiong's shield.Isn't Wu Mingxiong courageous and courageous?Don't you keep saying that you want to deepen reform?Then, please try it in the Shengli Mine and see how 8,500 Chinese industrial workers teach you a bunch of high-ranking bureaucrats! The ending is actually very clear, no matter how Wu Mingxiong chooses, he is already lost before he chooses.If they really did this, the 8,500 miners would have to fight Wu Mingxiong and Cao Wuping to their death, and they would probably make trouble in the province, in front of Qian Xianghui and Xie Xuedong. The decision made by the city, the workers will naturally not come to the city to sit in groups, but will go south to the provincial capital to find the provincial party committee and sit in front of the provincial party committee.And if you don't do it, Wu Mingxiong's shield will be broken by Cao Wuping's spear: You, Wu Mingxiong, are nothing more than that. In order to retire after success, and to climb up one last time, you dare not do a coal mine reform pilot!What are you talking about? !This will also cause dissatisfaction among Cao Wuping, Shu Huaru and many members of the Standing Committee. Wu Mingxiong was really daring. On this point, even as an opponent, Xiao Daoqing was convinced.Wu Mingxiong knew that this matter was risky, and he had already mentioned the risk factors at the first meeting of the standing committee, but he still presided over the approval of Cao Wuping's pilot plan at the second enlarged meeting of the standing committee this morning. This really made Xiao Daoqing extremely happy. In the afternoon, while accompanying Director Qin of the Provincial Family Planning Commission to inspect the work in Minjiao County, Xiao Daoqing called Wu Mingxiong at the Minjiao County Government in front of Director Qin and Wu Kaizhen, the female county magistrate of Minjiao County, and promptly took back the In the past, he gave support to Cao Wuping's pilot reform, and said to Wu Mingxiong in a very melancholy tone: "Secretary Wu, I thought about it again and felt that the risk of the Shengli Coal Mine Reform Pilot is still very high! What did you say at the first Standing Committee meeting?" It makes sense, the system problem is a big problem, different from donating some money for water conservancy and roads, if it goes wrong, it may cause big problems, and it will cause troubles in the province or even the central government.” Wu Mingxiong asked coldly: "Comrade Daoqing, what do you think we should do? The decision we just passed in the morning, after a meal of lunch, changed after a few belches, and then retracted the decision? Is this serious? " Xiao Daoqing hurriedly explained: "Secretary Wu, I didn't say that I would withdraw the decision. What I mean is that I am still one of the leaders of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee. The spirit of being responsible to the people, speak it out openly." Wu Mingxiong asked: "Deputy Secretary Xiao, are you aboveboard? After the first Standing Committee, how many calls did you make? What did you say? What did you do? Do you want me, Wu Mingxiong, to clarify for you? Did you really just come up with the risk question you raised today? I ask you to pay attention, don’t engage in the practice of being a person in front of your face and a ghost behind your back! Don’t keep thinking about defeating other people’s armies! This is very bad!” Xiao Daoqing showed no shame in his face or tone: "Old Wu, I can also explain to you that the few phone calls I made were all about work. As a deputy secretary of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee, I have the right and obligation to Find any comrades to discuss work issues. I am calling you now, and I am still discussing work with you. I will declare it again, please write it down: I am now, at 4:55 pm on December 11, 1995. Yidi thinks: the pilot reform of Shengli Coal Mine cannot be carried out at present, and the conditions are immature. Responsible for all consequences!"