Chapter 40 Chapter Thirty-Four

The mudslide cut off the road leading to the Fenghuangling Brigade in the valley, and the car braked forward, with the pile of sand and rocks higher than the car window blocking the front. Li Xiangnan and the standing committee members got out of the car. A jeep also came to a screeching halt nearby.A young woman with very dark eyes jumped out, so dark that no one would forget them at a glance.She is the female reporter from Xinhua News Agency who took pictures at the Huanglongtan Timber Night Market last night.She brushed the curly hair that was casually tied at the back of her head, looked at Li Xiangnan and the others generously and asked, "Is it difficult to go to Fenghuang Ridge?" Her unrestrained straightforwardness when talking to strangers made Li Xiangnan feel familiar and friendly. kind.He took a look at her: very beautiful.He was carrying a military satchel and a military jeep, probably from the arsenal beyond Fenghuang Ridge.

Of course, going to Fenghuangling is difficult.On the hillside hundreds of meters high on the left, a mudslide washed down after the rain yesterday, first broke the railway in the valley, and then broke the parallel road on the right side of the railway, then fell more than ten meters, and plunged into the Huanglong River on the right side of the road .The river was blocked by sand and rocks, silted up to the opposite bank, and clung to the steep black rock wall at the foot of the opposite mountain, bent like a question mark, and turbulently flowed down again. Li Xiangnan frowned, perhaps unconsciously related to his identity as the secretary of the county party committee: more than a dozen road maintenance workers were slowly cleaning up the mud, sand and stones with their shovels.They didn't recognize him as the secretary of the county party committee, so they didn't show any cheer or enthusiasm.But Li Xiangnan's frown was more because of the scene in front of him.The slopes where the mudslides formed were covered with pine stumps the size of bowls left after felling.Looking at the top of the mountain, it turns into a dense white spot. It can be imagined that this place was still green not long ago.Now I am bald and naked, and the mountain torrents have cut gullies and scars everywhere.

"This is the place where you approved the materials a few days ago." Long Jinsheng pointed to the hillside and said to Li Xiangnan. The female reporter turned her face and looked at Li Xiangnan very carefully. Who is this?Is it the county party secretary of Guling County?She has heard some rumors about him and knows that his name is Li Xiangnan.She didn't have a good impression of him.A classmate who joined the team with Li Xiangnan introduced him and said: This is an arrogant person.It was also said that he was thoughtful and talented.It doesn't matter, she doesn't care about it.What made her look proud was that she had already read one of his books.After developing the photos overnight yesterday, she wrote "internal reference" about the deforestation in Guling County and sent it away.

Li Xiangnan didn't pay attention to the girl's gaze.He is now fully in the role of county party secretary.After listening to Long Jinsheng's introduction, he couldn't help cursing through his teeth: "Stupid." More precisely, it was stupid.This kind of ignorance made Li Xiangnan strangely see a group of people lined up in a row sweating shirtless, savagely and crazily bending down to slash the mountain, and a picture of Pan Goushi with his waist bowed and his shoulders bowed. image, as well as his ferocious face scolding the crowd with blood-red eyes and his "telephone ticket" full of the smell of an earth prince.This kind of ignorance still exists in many places in China's vast lower class, and this kind of ignorance shows barbarism in its treatment of people and nature.

Zhuang Wenyi adjusted his glasses, pointed at the barren slopes of ravines and the overturned and twisted rails, and made an indignant statement: "This kind of deforestation is completely against the law. The Ministry of Railways clearly stipulates that the two sides of the railway should exceed 15 degrees." It is not allowed to cut down trees on the hillside." "What's the use of laws and regulations? Without actual power to guarantee, everything is waste paper?" Li Xiangnan said, then waved, "Okay, let's leave the car and walk. Here we go to the Fenghuangling Brigade , turn over the mountains, take a short cut, and it’s only a few miles away.”

"I'll go all the way with you." The female reporter said briskly, letting the jeep that sent her back. When they cut in from the fork on the left and walked towards the Fenghuangling Brigade, Li Xiangnan glanced at the Standing Committee members walking left and right.Feng Yaozu, always only let people see his fat and oily head; Hu Fan, a loyal and somewhat confused old comrade; Long Jinsheng, an agricultural cadre who is as diligent as a scalper; Ting has gone to the county. They are two young talents who can keep her imagination on the issue of cadres; there is Gu Rong, who is sophisticated and scheming, squatting gloomy in the political center of the ancient tomb, reminiscent of an iron man in an ancient palace. The big black cauldron... This is the current situation of the cadres I am facing, which is neither too good nor too bad, the average level.Just to make my experiment in the ancient tomb more universal.Forgot, there is Zhuang Wenyi at the far end, enthusiasm and ambition are first-class, as are self-confidence and conceit.Li Xiangnan smiled inwardly.He understands intellectuals of this personality.He is very stubborn in thinking, with a stubborn and unchangeable way of thinking, he has his own logic in arguing, you say yours, he says his, he is always right.This is a serious and somewhat pedantic person, it is difficult to convince.However, I have to try to convince him.Things in China are by no means as simple as he thought.

A big bulletin board on the side of the road with its back against the grass on the hillside made everyone stop in front of it.It makes people feel a little eye-catching, not because it says "Forest Law of the People's Republic of China".There is a state-run forest farm in front, so such a notice is a matter of course.What is eye-catching is: on the mottled and peeling red and white paint bulletin board, there is a big-character poster written on kraft paper that is not known to be a cement bag or a fertilizer bag. The handwriting is large and crooked, and the ink is fresh and flowing.

Surprise (warning) the forest farm to watch the mountain. If you stop us from cutting down trees with your power (bullying), be careful with your fists. Poor and Lower-Middle Peasant Logging Committee of Fenghuangling Brigade Liu Mao took out the camera from the military satchel, stepped aside and took a picture.At the same time, the dark-eyed girl unobtrusively took out her camera, flashed to the other side and quickly took a photo.When they found that the other party was also holding a camera in his handbag, they both looked at each other strangely. Li Xiangnan also found the girl taking pictures.I was surprised for a moment.But he didn't think much of it.The situation before him stimulated exactly the same emotions as before.What is the use of laws alone?Isn't it a sharp irony that a "Warning" from the "Deforestation Committee" is posted on the "Forest Law" of the People's Republic of China?

Before he opened his mouth, a "Jiefang" truck came out of the corner in front, rumbling and jolting left and right, and it was fully loaded with large tree trunks that had been forked.Li Xiangnan stood in the middle of the road and waved to stop the car. The driver leaned out of the car window, with a rough and thin face, red eyes, and the smell of alcohol from his mouth: "What are you doing?" "Where did you cut down the tree?" Li Xiangnan frowned and looked at him, then took out a cigarette, and asked calmly while bowing his head. "Can you control it?" The driver said cursing again.

There were three or five sweaty farmers sitting on the trees in the car, and they also stared and shouted like an argument: "Fuck off the Forestry Bureau." "Drive, don't bother with them." "This forest does not belong to them." "Don't be afraid You guys, we can chop if we want." Li Xiangnan looked at the farmers in the car, and then looked at the white letters painted on the car: "You are from the Guling County Grain Bureau, right?" He turned his gaze to the driver. "How is it?" "Then come down." Li Xiangnan waved his hand in a low voice.

"How old are you?" "Me?" Li Xiangnan looked at the other party carefully and snorted ironically. "Is it Lai Sheng?" Feng Yaozu came up from behind the crowd and said to the driver, "This is the new secretary of our county party committee." The driver named Lai Sheng was dumbfounded, he recognized Feng Yaozu.After opening the car door, he grabbed the back of his neck and slid down to get out of the car. "What's going on here?" Li Xiangnan pointed to the wood on the cart and asked. "It's theirs. They chopped it up. They want to sell it to copper mines as utility poles. I'll pull it for them." "What good do you have?" Li Xiangnan looked at the other party and continued to ask. "I... there are a few small ones on it, which are what I want." Seeing that something was wrong, those farmers got out of the car one by one. "Did you chop it up individually or collectively?" Li Xiangnan looked at them and asked. They looked at each other: "Personal." "Your personal ones, send them, and the copper mine will be bought?" "……yes." "How much did you sell in total, not just one car or two?" Several people looked at each other without saying a word. "Where did you cut the tree, from the state-owned forest farm?" They looked at each other again, and one of the young farmers with a scar on his forehead argued disapprovingly, "Then it will belong to our village." "How old are you? What year were you born?... Born in 1956? This mountain forest was set aside for a state-owned forest farm in 1953, do you know? Return it to you?" "There are also trees we planted..." "It was operated by the state and the collective. What right do you have to cut it? Who approved it?" "They are bullying others." The young farmer lowered his head and muttered vaguely. Hearing what he said, Li Xiangnan looked back at the bulletin board, pointed at it and said, "It seems that you wrote this big-character poster?" The young peasant glanced at the big-character poster on the bulletin board behind the crowd, his eyes flickered For a moment, it seemed like he wanted to deny it. "How many people are there in your logging committee?" "...just me." He replied in a low voice. "You know how to read, take a look at what is written on this bulletin board?" The young farmer looked up quickly, then lowered his head and said, "Forest law." "What is it called, do you know? Have you ever been to court?" "No, no." The young farmer with a scar on his forehead was sweating. "Cut down forests casually, you have already violated one law. Another "deforestation committee" is called to set up an illegal organization, post it on the forest law notice, and threaten the forest watchers. This is another law, you know? Think Do you live in a classroom?" "No, I don't want to." "What about you, my national employee comrade?" Li Xiangnan turned his gaze to the driver again, "Are you going to live in the shift too?" The driver was also sweating on his face. "Okay, you'd better get in the car." Li Xiangnan looked at the farmers and said. Several of them looked at Li Xiangnan in surprise and bewilderment. "Get in the car," Li Xiangnan said to the driver, "go with them to the County Public Security Bureau and surrender yourself." A few people suddenly panicked, and begged for forgiveness: "We won't do it in the future." "The future is the future. Can you ignore the past? If you kill someone and say that you can't do it after the last sentence, you'll be fine?" Several farmers looked at each other and argued with some grievances: "We are not the only ones who have cut down trees." "Don't worry about other people, look after yourself. Take the initiative to go to the Public Security Bureau to explain clearly the back and forth of your illegal tree felling, and try to deal with it leniently." Li Xiangnan said seriously, paused for a moment, then softened his tone, "You can say that I let you go. You can also say that you went on your own initiative, okay?" He shifted his gaze to the face of the young farmer with a scar on his forehead, "You have to be willing to reduce your crime a little bit," he said. He turned his head and pointed to the big-character poster on the bulletin board, "Tear it off right now. It's just pasted, but no one has seen it, so just tear it up yourself. Okay?" The young peasants hurriedly nodded and ran to tear up the big-character posters. Liu Mao found a suitable angle and took another photo.Just in time for the notice board and the truck full of trees to be photographed.Just now it was the "Warning" posted by the "Felling Commission" on the "Forest Act", now it is the big trucks under the "Forest Act" blatantly driving past the felled trees.The problems illustrated by these two scenes are too acute.He even thought of the title of the short article that published the two photos: "Trucks driven under the Forest Act". The girl came to her senses when she saw Liu Mao taking pictures. She had been watching the young secretary of the county party committee with great interest just now, fascinated.This Li Xiangnan really looked like that, she was very strict and measured, but she forgot to take a picture.Seeing that Liu Mao finished taking the photo, she hesitated for a moment, she didn't want to follow others.Seeing that the driver had gotten into the car and started the motor, she quickly took out the camera from her satchel, and found that she could only take a complete picture of the bulletin board and the truck by standing where Liu Mao took the picture just now.She wanted to avoid the angle chosen by others, but she couldn't dodge left and right, so that was the only way she could do it.Obviously, the composition of the viewfinder is the same as my own.She and Liu Mao looked at each other very interestingly, smiled, and walked to the front. "We just don't follow the law and don't enforce it strictly." Looking at the truck driving away, Zhuang Wenyi commented impassionedly and fiercely, "If the law is not enforced, it still means that there is no law. Now, the key is to resolutely enforce the law." "But the 'key' you mentioned, how can it be done?" Li Xiangnan said to Zhuang Wenyi as he walked, "If it can't be done, then the 'key' is not just a sentence?" "The key is that we didn't want to enforce the law firmly." "Why don't you want to? Don't you really want to? The central government and the State Council and the governments at all levels make repeated orders, issue notices, formulate laws, and publish articles in newspapers every day. Don't you also think about it?" "Just thinking about it is not enough, the key now is not doing it." Li Xiangnan smiled teasingly: "Your 'key' has many levels. But why so many people want to do things, but they don't actually do it, or they do it but never really do it. What is the deep reason? Hold us down?" Zhuang Wenyi adjusted his glasses and thought for a while: "We should estimate from the overall economic and political situation, or in other words, we should analyze it at the level of historical philosophy." "Yes. This way we have more and more common language." Li Xiangnan laughed. "I'm being assimilated by your thoughts along the way." Zhuang Wenyi was also happy. As the mountain road turned, a shocking barbaric scene unfolded in front of my eyes. This is a large mountain forest that has been cleared by the state-owned forest farm.There are tree stumps of different heights all over the mountains and plains, and some tree stumps are as high as chest.Liu Mao took out a steel tape measure and measured it. It was 1.3 meters.Li Xiangnan looked at the ruler in Liu Mao's hand with a gloomy expression.There are chopped tree branches and bark piled up in a row, and there are also chopped tree ends five or six meters long.Presumably, the loggers felled and processed on the spot at the beginning, and there were several wooden frames for processing wood in the pile of branches that were abandoned here.Waste wood chips are all over the mountains and plains, and some of them are more than one meter long.The fine wood chips and sawdust are thickly layered under the feet, absorbing moisture, and the feet are wet and soft.The deep ruts that have not been washed away by the rain, the flat cars, the carriages, and the cars, are full of rainwater.Some puddles ooze horse dung yellow soup.Liu Mao picked up a squashed lantern from the rutted mud, which attracted everyone's attention. It obviously recorded the all-night felling with bright lights and noisy people and horses. Li Xiangnan stepped forward in front of the standing committee members of the county party committee, stepping over the branches all over the road.When the anger exceeds the limit, turn to calm.This forest farm had already been hacked down before he came to the ancient mausoleum. As soon as the hacking started, the provincial newspaper published letters from readers.Social contradictions have always been deeply interested in nature, and all tendencies can only be brought into a certain track under the regulations of a more powerful situation.The whole job of the statesman is to make the best use of the situation, to bring out the new situation out of the old situation. They climbed up the mountain without stopping too much beside another forest that was being felled. It was the mountain forest of the Maoerling Squad of the Fenghuangling Brigade. The road turned and sloped, and it was adjacent to the barren state-run forest.Halfway up the hillside, there is still thick pale green mixed with pines, cypresses, locust trees and elms, and only tree stumps are left on the lower half of the slope.Twenty or thirty farmers are splitting into two groups and pulling big saws to saw trees.A big poplar tree crashed and fell down, crushing two small trees.On the downhill road, two rubber-tyred tractors with trailers parked abruptly. "Cut it off, what are you doing?" Li Xiangnan and the Standing Committee members stopped and asked. The farmers looked at this group of "from above" people who had suddenly entered the mountain with a little bewilderment. "We contracted the small coal kiln in the team, and cut down the tree to support the roof." A group of farmers replied, they were loading the whole logs on the tractor. "We are a brick kiln, and we have also contracted it." A short, dark and thin man among another group of farmers replied.Li Xiangnan took a glance. They saw the whole felled tree into short pieces and split them on the spot, and then put them on the tractor trailer. Li Xiangnan looked at the standing committee members and said nothing.Anyone who thinks that the deforestation can be stopped simply by punishing those who break the law (and even that cannot be done now) is naive and stupid.This collective forest was collectively cut down to burn bricks, dig coal, and get rich. What law can you say he violated? When they boarded Wuji Ridge, they were greeted by hundreds of people in darkness.So many people gathered on the top of the deserted mountain, exuding thick smoke and noisy words.At this volley and open height, it creates a unique grandeur.It reminds one of man's vigorous and sometimes barbaric occupation of nature, just as he sees dense crowds appearing in any desolate sea, Gobi, and uninhabited mountain forest.They were all pre-notified by the county party committee according to Li Xiangnan's instructions the day before yesterday.Here are the first and second in command of all bureaus and communes in the county, party secretaries and brigade leaders of 300 brigades.Inform them to come this morning to attend the on-site meeting against deforestation.This is the highest peak, and you can see the Gaojialing and the pan-top pine below.Seeing the county standing committee members coming, the gathered crowd dispersed and fell silent.He stood up while squatting, and walked over from a distance. Standing on a slightly higher stone, Li Xiangnan glanced at the dark crowd and smiled gently in his heart when he saw that they were carrying water bottles and dry food.He raised his voice and spoke to the crowd: "It's the busy season of farming, and it's a bit tiring for everyone to travel dozens or hundreds of miles to the meeting, and to go up such a high mountain. Of course, everyone is not an ordinary 'citizen'. Hey." He smiled a little humorously, "But this 'min', we have to do something now. Because it is very important, it concerns our future generations." He paused, his eyebrows furrowed slightly: "It's a meeting, why? How about going up to the highest peak? It’s very simple, standing here can give you an overview of the damage done to the forest by the Phoenix Ridge Brigade.” He scanned the crowd, “Is Gao Liangjie here?” "Not yet, something happened in Fenghuang Ridge, and someone hacked the forest again." Someone replied. Li Xiangnan frowned suddenly.There was another hacking incident in Fenghuang Ridge, what happened?After the meeting here, I will go to the scene immediately. "Okay, then let's start the on-site meeting first. Let's look around together." He said, pointing in all directions.The crowd moved slowly on the top of the mountain following the tide of the Standing Committee members, looking around. I don't know when the sky has been covered with leaden gray clouds, and what unfolds under the clouds is a picture of human beings harming nature, and nature taking revenge on human beings.Adjacent to the hills to the north.There are desolate hillsides that have been cut down everywhere, and some even the grass has been burned, and the slopes that have been reclaimed indiscriminately have been washed to pieces by the mountains and rivers.Only in the northeast direction, across a mountain ridge, you can vaguely see a fluffy green like a phoenix, that is Fenghuang Ridge.Turning to the south, there is also Bald Mountain and Bald Slope.Some, probably were bald mountains in the past, and are still bald now; some, once covered with virgin forests, were cut down;The earth hills were washed into thousands of gullies by the rain, and the terraced fields were opened layer by layer.There is a temple on the steep slope in the middle of the mountain opposite, the flying pavilions are connected, and the buildings and halls are stacked. That is Xuanzhong Temple, a famous scenic spot both at home and abroad.Because the pine forest above was pushed bald, the gullies rushed out by the mountain torrents pointed directly at the temple, and the walls of the temple had begun to collapse. Li Xiangnan turned around, turned to Zhuang Wenyi, Long Jinsheng and other members of the Standing Committee, and said solemnly: "Don't take it so simple that we stop deforestation. Can’t stop it? We need to analyze the root cause here. It’s not just a random deforestation.” "Yes." Zhuang Wenyi nodded and said, "It is rooted in profound economic and political interests. A few years ago, some cadres wanted to build more Dazhai fields to seek credit for promotion, and this personal political interest also caused many mountains and forests to be cut down. Lose." Li Xiangnan said: "Lao Zhuang's view of the problem is very profound. Various economic and political interests, some of which are illegal, legal, unreasonable, and reasonable, come together to produce such a chaotic situation. Deforestation. And any interest, when you leave it unchecked, has a spontaneous tendency to expand infinitely. Isn't it?" "Like the farmers on the truck that I met just now, if you don't restrict them, they just want to sell more and more." Long Jinsheng interjected. "Old Dragon is right. So if we want to stop deforestation, we must study the power balance. Where is our power? Except for the actual power balance, all subjective wishes are useless." Li Xiangnan paused For a moment, "In addition, we need to conduct a specific analysis of various interests that lead to deforestation, some of which must be stopped rigidly, and some that must be guided. Farmers want to burn bricks to get rich, right? Yes. How should the fuel problem be solved? What? If these problems are not resolved, the trees will still be cut down.” "Oh, I see that deforestation is getting more and more serious in the whole country now, why can't it be stopped?" Long Jinsheng sighed while smoking a cigarette. "Why can't you stop?" Li Xiangnan asked. "I think it's still too little." Long Jinsheng said angrily. "Yes." Li Xiangnan said vehemently, "I think this trend has to continue. To a certain extent, it is really harmful. If it continues like this, it will be terrible, and it will be impossible to live. Everyone will have a real determination. It’s time to stop. Things will be reversed.” He stared at the hillside in front of him with a trace of seriousness in his eyes, “But it’s a bit late.” He turned his head and looked at Zhuang Wenyi, “It seems that long-term interests do not always prevail. Long-term interests can finally show their strength in the long run, and at the moment, immediate interests often appear more important and stronger. Quick success and quick benefits cannot be eliminated even in ten thousand years.” "We can't control the affairs of the whole country. From today on in Guling County, we must resolutely stop." Long Jinsheng said. Li Xiangnan felt this kind of understanding and support: "Old Dragon, let's talk about it later in the meeting." Long Jinsheng nodded: "OK." will start.The crowd squirmed and gathered.Li Xiangnan looked around at the dark crowd, waited for a while, and announced: "Comrade Long Jinsheng is now invited to speak on behalf of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee." "Comrades, everyone has seen what you need to see." Long Jinsheng said with a heavy tone, "The trees have been cut down. The mountains are all bald. The railways and roads have been broken. Get rich, get rich! , Where can this barren mountain get rich? In the end, it will be poor and naked." The crowd was quiet. "Everyone is born and raised in the ancient mausoleum, right? Among the people who came here today, many are over fifty years old, right? Some of them have grandchildren, right?... Let's cut down a barren mountain and leave it for future generations An ancient tomb without even a tree? Is the secretary of the Miaocun Commune here?" Long Jinsheng looked at the crowd and asked slowly. "Here we come." A gray-haired, honest-looking veteran cadre in his sixties walked two steps out of the crowd and replied in a hoarse voice.His name is Yang Maoshan. "Old Yang, this is all under your jurisdiction?" Long Jinsheng asked. "Yes." The Fenghuangling Brigade belongs to the Miaocun Commune. "You know about the relevant notices from the central government, right?" "Know...know." "Have you read the instruction from the county party committee a month ago?" "Look, Secretary Li gave instructions when he first came to the county." "How did you approve it?" "Resolute measures must be taken to stop..." "anything else?" "Otherwise, the main leaders of the commune will be dealt with severely." "Why haven't you stopped yet, are you still chopping?" "I... didn't do a good job." "If it's not done well, what should we do?" Yang Maoshan lowered his head, sweating profusely.This is an old comrade who has worked hard all his life.Li Xiangnan couldn't help but feel some compassion.The crowd fell silent. "On behalf of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee, I am announcing a decision on the treatment of Comrade Yang Maoshan." Long Jinsheng broke the silence and said. The crowd was shaken. "This is a decision made by the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee on the way up the mountain just now." Long Jinsheng explained, then coughed, and announced in a solemn tone that he didn't usually have: "In view of Comrade Yang Maoshan's negligence and dereliction of duty in Miaocun Commune , Ineffective in curbing deforestation, the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee decided to revoke all positions inside and outside the party. The decision is over." "Do you have any opinions or something to say?" Long Jinsheng looked at Yang Maoshan and asked. Yang Maoshan lowered his head: "I...have nothing to say, I didn't do a good job." Yang Maoshan shook his head, his voice choked. "Do you have any comments?" "I have a point of view." A low-pitched voice that took courage to utter was the deputy secretary of Miaocun Commune, a young cadre in his thirties.He said with some embarrassment and stubbornness: "Lao Yang should not bear the responsibility alone. The party committee of our commune is all responsible, and the main responsibility should be borne by me. I am in charge of forestry work." Long Jinsheng glanced at the young man: "You will be held accountable. Now, let's deal with the top leaders first." "Is it because he is the number one leader?" The young man wanted to argue, he murmured for a while, then raised his head and said excitedly, "But we have to look at a cadre historically." He turned to Li Xiangnan who was beside Long Jinsheng, "Old Yang I have worked for the party for ten years, so I don’t read it? Lao Yang has been working in this area since the War of Resistance Against Japan. Which of the cadres in our commune was not trained by him? He has done a thousand or ten thousand jobs in his life, but he has not done them now. What a good thing, not even given a chance to correct mistakes? Secretary Li, I can't figure it out.... I hope the county party committee can reconsider." There was a wordless commotion in the crowd. "We also hope that the county party committee can reconsider the punishment of Lao Yang." Another cadre in his fifties from the Miaocun Commune said cautiously in the crowd. "If the county party committee punishes Lao Yang like this, please ask the county party committee to remove me from my post," said the young deputy secretary of the commune. Li Xiangnan twitched sullenly.Is the punishment of Yang Maoshan too harsh?He saw again the drooping top of his head with thinning white hair.However, he knew that this treatment was absolutely necessary. Long Jinsheng began to speak: "If you have an opinion, you can raise it or keep it. Whether you should be dismissed or not is a matter for the county party committee to consider." He still took his time, "If you want to blackmail the party, then Not only can you resign, but you can also voluntarily quit the party.” The whole venue fell silent. "Do you have any comments on the decision to deal with Comrade Yang Maoshan?" Long Jinsheng looked at the crowd and asked. The crowd fell silent. "If you have an opinion, you can bring it up again at the meeting. Now, on behalf of the Standing Committee, I will announce the second decision." The crowd is watching. "From today onwards, after the brigades and communes go back, they will immediately investigate the situation of deforestation in your area, and take measures to stop this trend. Within half a month, which brigade has not completely stopped this trend?" If there is a trend, remove the position of the first and second in command of the brigade. If any commune can't stop this unhealthy trend within a month, remove the post of the first and second in command of the commune's party committee. If it is not completely stopped in Guling County within the next two months Comrade Xiang Nan, secretary of the county party committee, will resign voluntarily and ask the higher-level party committee to give party discipline punishment. This is the report he has already made to the prefectural committee and the military order he issued to the prefectural committee. The military order issued. Everyone heard it, right?" The crowd was quiet.Long Jinsheng's hoarse voice echoed above people's heads. "Xiang Nan, what else do you want to say?" Long Jinsheng turned his head and asked. Li Xiangnan nodded.He faced the crowd, hundreds of pairs of eyes watched him. "Everyone has feelings for the ancient tomb." Li Xiangnan said slowly, "Some comrades may know that I was also born in the ancient tomb, and we should all have feelings for the ancient tomb. Let's build the ancient tomb into a capable A place that can be explained to future generations." The crowd fell silent.The female reporter from Xinhua News Agency and Liu Mao were recording something quickly. "Old Yang," Li Xiangnan looked at Yang Maoshan in the crowd, and comforted his elders, "You have to understand. I know your blood pressure is high and your health is not good." With his gray head lowered, he nodded slowly. "Some comrades may not understand your punishment. From participating in the revolution in 1938 to now, you have worked for the people for more than 40 years. During the war, you were injured more than a dozen times. Miaocun Commune is tens of miles away. In the mountainous area, which ridge did not shed your blood and sweat? Since the land reform, in these 20 brigades and 300 natural villages, there is not a single big animal that you have not touched, right? Let alone people." He paused, "How can the people forget the work you have done for decades?" The venue was so silent that even the sound of footsteps could be heard. "You are a good comrade." Li Xiangnan continued, "However, under the new situation, you failed to solve new problems in a timely and effective manner, causing such serious forest destruction and such serious losses within the Miaocun Commune, this is unforgivable Negligence of duty. Now, of course, you are not the only one who is ineffective in stopping deforestation. However, if you do not have strict requirements, you cannot stop this wind of tree-cutting. So should this strict requirement start with a general comrade, or should How about starting with a consistently good comrade?" Pause and silence. "You can still do your job after your post is revoked. Go down and do more investigations. How should we stop deforestation? How should we solve the policy issues of forest management. I brought you a special report today. A few typical materials, about the contracting experience of forest farms, forestry teams, and forestry households, for your reference." The gray head nodded slightly. "I hope that through your own work, you can help Guling County solve such a big problem involving future generations, and use your lessons and experience to do an important job for Guling County when you are 60 years old." Li Xiangnan released He lowered his voice, "I also hope that you can give the county party committee a final chance to revoke your punishment." The gray head hung down, trembling slightly.