Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty Two

I'm going to the countryside tomorrow.In the evening, Li Xiangnan turned around, planning to visit the homes of several cadres. As soon as he entered Zhuang Wenyi's house, Zhuang Wenyi was arguing with his wife.His wife is also a university graduate and engaged in plant cultivation. She is reprimanding her husband: "You are hotheaded. You don't engage in politics. Why do you participate in those things? You have offended Gu Rong, and you have such a deadlock with Li Xiangnan. Why don't you write about you at home?" books," she said, putting on her apron as she tidied up the house.The bowls and chopsticks after dinner were still piled up on the table, and two four or five-year-old boys were fighting each other on the ground, and the younger one was crying.

"What are you guys doing?" Zhuang Wenyi yelled at the child irritably, threatening to hit him. "What are you throwing at the child in anger?" The wife came up to pull the child while beating him.Zhuang Wenyi sighed vigorously, stood up and was about to go out, and saw Li Xiangnan standing at the door. "Why is there a civil war?" Li Xiangnan entered the room with a smile. "He is obviously not a political person, but he still thinks he is good. Some people have already said that he is an ambitious man." The wife continued to criticize her husband.

"What's so difficult about politics?" Zhuang Wenyi said unconvinced. "I think you are somewhat ambitious. You want to be a political scholar. You don't want to engage in politics directly, but you have to stand above politicians and use theory to guide politics." "What nonsense are you talking about?" Zhuang Wenyi became furious, he didn't want to announce this "ambition" to the public, some things can only be said between husband and wife. Li Xiangnan smiled, he understands this too well: "What kind of ambition is it to be a political scholar? It is good for society to have a little bit of this 'ambition'. The family scanned it again.On a writing desk by the window, there is a stack of books and materials, with a desk lamp on it.There is also a pile of materials and a desk lamp on a sewing machine with the machine head lowered against the wall. "Are you a husband and wife who share their positions?" Li Xiangnan sat down and said, "Old Zhuang, I welcome you to be a political scholar and often give some guidance to those of us who do practical things."

"Don't come to appease me. I'm not afraid of being angry or arguing with you. As long as it's for the reform, it's worth it." Zhuang Wenyi said emotionally.He dragged a small bench, sat down, and took two puffs of cigarettes: "What is the key to reform? The first is determination, the second is determination, and the third is determination. Without determination, a true reformer must It was sacrificed by you." Zhuang Wenyi became emotional as he said, he stood up suddenly, and pulled out a few books from the bookshelf, "Look at the history of world economy and history of science and technology, and compare our situation. Just discard it completely. The old system will succeed if it is overwhelmed. This is the trend of history.”

Li Xiangnan smiled and waved his hands: "I'm here today to chat with you. Regarding the debate on reform, we will go to the countryside tomorrow." "What can you fight for when you go to the countryside?" "Consider specific issues." Li Xiangnan said. After chatting with Zhuang Wenyi and his wife for a while, Li Xiangnan got up and said goodbye.It seems that it is not easy to convince this bookish "radical".The way of thinking is one of the most stubborn things in the world.Watch the trip to the countryside starting tomorrow. The second person Li Xiangnan wanted to see was Long Jinsheng.He lives alone in a private house in the county town.As soon as he entered the courtyard, he heard Long Jinsheng impatiently shouting "No", he couldn't help but stop.It was the first time he heard Long Jinsheng get angry in a rough voice.This is a large courtyard.Long Jinsheng stood at the door of the house where he lived.

Standing outside the door was a rural woman in a blue patched dress, who seemed to be in her fifties.From time to time, she carefully looked at Long Jinsheng, begging him for something. "You don't care at all?" she whispered. "I can't control this matter." Long Jinsheng said. "It's not against the policy..." "This is the biggest crime policy." "You don't care about any of them?" Long Jinsheng sighed impatiently. "I'm asking someone else to help me. Don't stop me this time, okay?" The rural woman looked at Long Jinsheng timidly again.

"No, I told you no." "I beg you for the third boy today." "Why are you so stupid." Long Jinsheng got angry. Li Xiangnan entered the yard: "What's the matter, sister-in-law?" He glanced at Long Jinsheng and asked the rural woman.Long Jinsheng wanted to stop but couldn't, so he sighed helplessly. "What's the matter with you, sister-in-law?" Li Xiangnan asked again. "Leave her alone." Long Jinsheng waved his hand and said to Li Xiangnan. The rural woman wanted to say something, but she looked at Long Jinsheng and shut her mouth again.

"What's going on?" Li Xiangnan looked at Long Jinsheng and asked. "He's my wife." Li Xiangnan was stunned.He knew that Long Jinsheng had been a county-level leader in Guling for more than 20 years, and he had not transferred his wife and children to urban hukou so far. "Sister-in-law, what's the matter?" Li Xiangnan asked. "The third boy wants to find a job in the city. Someone from the commune and the county has already done it. The documents have been downloaded, so he can't stop it." "Stop nagging about this, okay?" Long Jinsheng said angrily.

"Two elderly people in the family are in their 70s and 80s, both are sick, and one is paralyzed. There are three children, the eldest is disabled; the second child has gone out to serve in the army; the third child is 17 years old and wants to find a job, but he said no." "What's wrong with you today, don't you understand?" Long Jinsheng scolded with his eyes wide open. "Why don't I understand?" Long Jinsheng's wife burst into tears, "I've been with you for thirty years, serving the elderly, and bringing up each child. I've complained to you? Did I drag you down when you were working outside?" Others sympathized, and the woman complained about her suffering.

"Don't embarrass yourself, okay?" Long Jinsheng said violently, "This is our new County Party Secretary Li." Mrs. Long raised her eyes to look at Li Xiangnan, and stopped crying all at once.She pulled up her skirt and wiped her tears, then lowered her head, "Secretary Li, you have business matters to discuss. I'm leaving." "No, Mrs. Long, I'm fine. If you have any difficulties, tell me, okay?" Li Xiangnan said quickly. "I don't have any difficulties, everything is fine. I was talking nonsense just now." She said with lowered eyelids, and then looked at Long Jinsheng, "His father, then I'm leaving."

"You take this money with you." Long Jinsheng handed five yuan to his wife. "Keep it for use. If you are away alone, only ten yuan a month is not enough. The elderly and children at home are not short of anything." The wife pushed the money back. Long Jinsheng stuffed the money into his wife's hands again. "Take a piece of cloth." He said, looking at his wife's patched clothes.His wife glanced at Long Jinsheng, his eyes wet, and he lowered his head. "I'll take time to go home in two days." "No need. Just go about your business. I can do the work in the field. Secretary Li, I'm leaving." "Are you going back to the mountain so late?" Li Xiangnan asked. "There are tractors going back in the village." Li Xiangnan watched Mrs. Long walk out of the yard, and turned her face after a while: "In addition to giving to the family, you only leave ten yuan for living expenses every month?" "No drinking, no need to buy cigarettes, that's enough." Long Jinsheng said, rolling a little orchid cigarette. "You never applied for relief?" "It's not my family who are poor on the West Mountain, but those on the dry slopes of the Bald Mountain." Li Xiangnan glanced at Long Jinsheng.This is also a kind of cadre cultivated in this poor and backward land.They have remembered to share the suffering with the people all their lives, but they lack a higher historical vision. "Your wife is the only one who owns the land in the family?" He sat down on the stone bench in the yard. "Ah." Long Jinsheng knelt down to answer, and then raised his face, "Secretary Li, I have a few policy issues to ask you for advice. Someone in Chengguan Commune hired a car for transportation..." "We won't talk about work today," Li Xiangnan waved his hands with a smile, "We'll talk about it when we go to the countryside tomorrow. Let's chat casually now." Li Xiangnan started talking about Long Jinsheng's family situation, thinking while talking: Zhuang Wenyi was arguing with his wife at home. In fact, he was the most harmonious couple. Both of them wanted to work hard on their careers.Long Jinsheng and his wife share weal and woe.Even Gu Rong is a good husband and father at home.However, the political structure composed of these people is quite contradictory.The political relationship is perhaps the most severe relationship.How can I master the strategy in the severe confrontation, win the majority, form the mainstream, and open up the road? The two of them were tugging, when there was the sound of a bicycle parked outside, and a gust of wind blew Xiaoli into the yard: "I found you." She looked at Li Xiangnan, clapped her hands and laughed happily. "Looking for me?" Li Xiangnan asked strangely. "I asked myself a problem: Can I find someone in the county within half an hour? I chose you as the target to search for. This is not it." She raised her wrist and looked at Xiaokun's watch, "The case will be solved in 27 minutes gone." Li Xiangnan laughed out loud.Even Long Jinsheng, who never smiled, couldn't stop showing a sincere smile.Li Xiangnan stood up and said goodbye. When walking on the county street, Li Xiangnan talked about the scene of Long Jinsheng training his wife with emotion: "Old dragon has been conscientious all his life." "What's the use of that?" Xiaoli flicked her short hair disapprovingly. "Why do you call it useless?" Li Xiangnan said in a critical tone. "I don't have a car, and every time I go to the countryside, I ride a bicycle and carry my luggage. It's hard and simple. But I haven't led the people to get rich in my life. What's the use of being hard and simple? We have a group of such cadres in the Communist Party." "Difficulty and simplicity are also needed. This is called sharing weal and woe." "Forget it, you, the secretary of the county party committee, are pretending again." "Why are you here again?" Li Xiangnan laughed. That time when Li Xiangnan came out of the office cafeteria with a rice bowl in his hands to make a meal, he met Xiaoli, "Hey, you're cooking by yourself again? You, the secretary of the county party committee, are so busy, you won't let the stove deliver it to you?" "What does that look like?" "Line in line for 10 or 20 minutes at a time. If you have more time to solve a problem for the people, don't you have it all? What kind of formalism are you doing? Aren't you the most opposed to formalism?" "How can this be called formalism?" Li Xiangnan laughed. "China's habit of 'not suffering from poverty, suffering from inequality' is about to be broken. A cadre will not solve problems for the people all his life. As long as he does not eat more and occupy more, the people will say he is a good cadre. How many good things a cadre has done , As long as there are two more rooms in the house, some people will be dissatisfied. Isn’t this formalism?” "Isn't it good to work hard and be simple?" "You'll put on a show." "My words don't make sense?" Xiaoli argued while pushing the cart. "China has China's national conditions." Li Xiangnan said gently. "I think I am the most suitable for China's national conditions." "You?" Li Xiangnan couldn't stop laughing again, but he realized it and stopped it. He just said with a little sarcasm, "If China wants to follow your way of thinking, it must be messed up." He must and Lily kept her distance.Xiaoli looked for herself tonight as a "target to solve the case", the subconscious here is very subtle. "Why is my set messed up?" "Your thoughts are too illogical and contradictory too much." They talked and came to the "VIP Courtyard" of the small guest house of the county party committee. "Are you coming to see my uncle?" Xiaoli asked. "Talk about work." Xiao Li's eyes flashed hesitantly, and followed in. Gu Rong was slowly pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, "Xiang Nan?" He greeted lightly, but did not stop pacing. "Little Li, have you eaten?" He asked again. "Eat, uncle." Xiaoli replied. Gu Rong continued to pace slowly. "Tomorrow, the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee and some department heads are going to go to the countryside together." Li Xiangnan said to Gu Rong, "I'm going to visit a few places and unify my thoughts on the situation and work below." "Oh." "look at you……" "I'm not in good health yet, you can lead your comrades there." "Specifically, I want to solve the following problems, and I want to ask for your opinion." "Just watch it." Li Xiangnan said, "I need to discuss this with you first." "Let's discuss it with everyone." Gu Rong replied more calmly. Li Xiangnan was a little embarrassed.Gu Rong was still walking slowly.When his chubby body slowly walked past Li Xiangnan again and again, Li Xiangnan could feel the hostility accumulated in his body and the majesty of his determination to act.This kind of emotion and power slowly radiates outward from the air waves released by his body when he walks, from the hot air emitted from his body, and from his gloomy expression and steady steps, which makes you feel pressure. "Okay, Lao Gu, then you can rest. I will report to you when I come back from the countryside." He said and left. Xiao Li looked at Li Xiangnan, then at Gu Rong, hesitated, and stayed. Li Xiangnan was walking alone on the street.The sunset glow of Xishan has long been extinguished.The twilight is covered layer by layer like a boundless gray veil.Although it was not yet the hottest time of the year, after dinner, someone poured water on the street and sat on a small bench to enjoy the cool.He was thinking while greeting people. The conflict between himself and Gu Rong is temporarily irreconcilable.Only by defeating the forces opposing the reform politically can he reach out to Gu Rong to talk about unity. Over the past month, the banner has been unleashed and the situation has advanced, but as far as the edge is concerned, vested interests and traditional ideas have assembled hand in hand, becoming a powerful opposition standing in front of us.Some people say that Li Xiangnan's work is "very effective", while others say that Li Xiangnan is "arrogant and reckless".The two diametrically opposed public opinions about him have probably already reached the regional level, where they combine with different interests and ideas to form a higher level of opposition.Soon, the province will also be affected by two kinds of public opinion.He is the youngest county party secretary in the whole province promoted this time, and his actions are somewhat "unconventional". All this makes him carry out every action in full view, under extensive scrutiny and controversy.As for the reporter's reports, the complaints of the opponents made the ancient tomb more attractive in a large area.No matter how right he does and how correct his starting point is, if he cannot stabilize the cadre team, stabilize the situation, seek change in stability, and the situation gets out of control, then, in today's traditional concept is still quite strong, he will definitely be punished by conservative forces. Grab the pretext of getting rid of him: the ancient tomb is in chaos. In the intricate political landscape, a small pawn may often become a victim of the overall balance. He knows that he has made great efforts to govern, and will carry out "unconventional" in social changes in the future.But those are political algebra, political calculus, chapter by chapter is still to be put on the agenda.Now, he can only start with the political arithmetic that one plus one equals two.Whether the whole blueprint can be implemented, the key to success or failure lies in today's basic political struggles where one plus one equals two. With a "squeak", the bicycle braked beside her, and Xiaoli jumped out of the bicycle. "I chatted with my uncle again." She explained to Li Xiangnan with thin beads of sweat on her forehead, as if she had done something to offend Li Xiangnan. "You still need to report to my county party secretary?" Li Xiangnan teased. Xiaoli chuckled, "It would be great if he wasn't my uncle." "why?" "Then I will firmly support you." "Xiao Li, I found that there are too many contradictions in your character." Li Xiangnan said with a smile, "Sometimes you talk about politics and you look much older than you; sometimes you talk like the most ridiculous child." "How am I like a child?" "Actually, you are just a child." Li Xiangnan said in the tone of an elder, "You say you adapt to China's national conditions, but in fact you don't really understand China's national conditions." "Why don't I understand?" Li Xiangnan smiled gently.How to treat Xiaoli is one of the complicated problems he has encountered so far.The daughter of the provincial party secretary sometimes influences the views of the provincial party secretary.It seems that I should follow two rules: one, be sure to maintain a serious sense of distance from her; two, strive for Xiaoli's understanding and support for me.He decided to have a serious talk with Xiaoli about his thoughts, which would probably serve two purposes: "Do you know that in China, any reformer with a big plan, if he is not a seasoned man familiar with the country's conditions, He is destined to be smashed to pieces." Li Xiangnan tried his best to speak in a serious language that was not suitable for Xiaoli's age. Xiao Li nodded and listened to him. "If you want to reform society, you must first use one-third of your power to deal with various political environments, including personnel environments, to resolve all kinds of entanglements, to guard against various conspiracies and tricks, and to retaliate; You don’t need to equip yourself with a certain amount of experience in tactics. Do you?” "yes." "And then we have to use one-third of our power to work hard to build the minimum level of political integrity, to rectify discipline, to rectify cadres, to oppose bureaucratic corruption, and one plus one equals two, to complete these political arithmetic problems. Right? ?In the end, you can use the remaining one-third of your energy to develop long-term visions and realistic practices for the society. In practice, a considerable part of your energy must be consumed on many trivial things that are mentally and mentally exhausting. It takes some energy to take on some personal emotional pain that is inevitable. Isn't it?" Xiaoli listened quietly with her head sideways, the bicycle wheels rustling on the road. "So, if you want to reform, you should be strong. Not only should you be strong in terms of ideology, knowledge, courage, strategic vision, and even political means, but you should also be strong in body and willpower. It is the strong. Here, history does not give the cowards sympathy, but only cruel failure and sharp ridicule." This passage is serious enough and profound enough.Probably enough to create a sense of distance between him and Xiao Li. Xiaoli lowered her head to think about something, and heard her thoughtful footsteps and the rustle of the bicycle. "Do you think the ancient tomb is difficult?" Xiaoli asked in the dark. "It's a little difficult." "You have to take this step of Guling well. If you fail this step, you will be put on hold for a few years. If you miss the situation, you may not be able to do anything in your life." Xiaoli said sincerely. Li Xiangnan was a little shaken in his heart.This amazing little Li.What she said was what she thought about herself.He has far-sighted plans for taking the step of reforming the ancient tomb at the age of thirty-two.Reforming society is a lifelong ambition, and this first step must be taken well.The success or failure of this step may determine the fate of his life.In the vicissitudes of society, the opportunity to display your ambition is especially precious, and you can't keep up with one step and one step at a time. "How can it be so serious?" He said with a smile. "That's right." Lily argued softly. Li Xiangnan's heart trembled again. "I'll go to the countryside with you tomorrow, okay?" Xiaoli stopped. "not good." "If you feel bad for you, I won't go." "What's wrong with me?" Li Xiangnan smiled, "It's mainly because it's not good for you." "I'm not afraid of anything." Xiaoli looked at Li Xiangnan and muttered stubbornly like a child.Her eyes gleamed in the dark. The two stood very close to each other.Across the humid and quiet air of the night, Xiaoli's body exudes a hot and charming youthful atmosphere soaked in sweat, as well as the sweaty fragrance of her hair.An impulsive tremor spread from Li Xiangnan's body to his throat, and he even wanted to hug and kiss Xiaoli. At this moment, he felt that the danger was not only on Xiaoli's side, but also on his own side. What is this called distance?It simply backfired.