Chapter 13 eleven

It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon when Xia Zhongmin got the information about the joint investigation team's accident.Before receiving the shocking news from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm, he and Deputy Mayor Li Guangyu had been working at the sandstone field in Dongwang Village. The taxi driver brought him to the gate of the city hall at 5:40 in the morning. It took him 20 minutes to send the ex-military workers and cadres who were sitting quietly at the gate of the government home. He only said one sentence at that time: " Four days ago, the city government started to solve your problem. If you still can’t solve it before the end of the month, I will be laid off with you!” The demobilized soldiers left immediately.

Then it took him another 40 minutes to shut down all the engineering teams in the Jinsheng District of Hongqi Street. The method was also very simple: he notified the heads of the engineering teams under construction to hold an extremely brief meeting, announcing on the spot that the City Construction Committee The dean of the Planning Institute will be suspended for inspection from now on, and the Municipal Construction Engineering Bureau will be merged by the Municipal Construction Corporation.Those who refuse to obey will not only receive no compensation for their losses, but will also be severely punished.After speaking, Xia Zhongmin turned around and left, leaving behind a room full of stunned engineering team leaders, big and small, for a long time.

Xia Zhongmin understood that if he didn't explain, it didn't mean that he didn't explain.Right now, he has to cut through the mess quickly, otherwise, if he delays for a while, once it becomes a fact, even if he pays ten times and a hundred times the price, he will not even try to make up for the loss!He knew that there would be a price to pay for doing so, but it was worth it!Otherwise, the eight years in Dianjiang would have been for nothing! Dongwang Village was originally a poor mountain village, but in less than ten years, it suddenly became rich overnight and became a well-known high-quality sand and gravel field.

It was already past ten o'clock in the morning when Xia Zhongmin arrived at the gravel field in Dongwang Village. Li Zhaoyu explained the problem and crux to him in just three minutes. More than 90% of the stone and yellow sand used in urban construction and transportation construction in Dianjiang City come from here.Most of the nearly 2,000 temporary workers working here are from Henan, Sichuan, Shanxi and other places.Most of these migrant workers have worked here for several years, forming hills and gangs one by one.Today, not to mention that the local people have nothing to do with them, even the local police station, district and town leading cadres can do nothing to them.

Xia Zhongmin and Li Zhaoyu thought about how to treat this rapidly developing malignant tumor many times, but they failed every time.One reason is that these people seem to be extremely obedient and obedient to the leaders at the city level on the surface, and rarely directly conflict.Secondly, these people have various backgrounds and influences behind them, and at critical moments, you can't do anything to them at all.Thirdly, they did occupy most of the production capacity of Dongwang Village's gravel quarry. Once they had a problem, it would inevitably affect the construction of the entire city government.As a result, the thorough treatment of potential contradictions and problems here has been delayed again and again.

Just at noon yesterday, a team of nearly 1,000 temporary workers suddenly drove into the sand and gravel field of Dongwang Village. These temporary workers were basically local villagers in Dawang Town where the sand and gravel field of Dongwang Village was located.As soon as they came, as locals, they forcibly occupied more than 40% of the working surface of the sand and gravel field, saying that this was the decision of the Dongwang Village Committee and the Dawang Town Party Committee and Government. It was like a bomb detonated in an explosive depot, and the whole sandstone suddenly became a battlefield filled with gunpowder.Almost all work areas have come to a standstill, and migrant workers from various factions and groups in various places have formed tense camps.

It was almost eleven o'clock, and the level of chaos was almost at the point of death.Xia Zhongmin tentatively asked Li Zhaoyu, "Can we make a decisive decision now and come up with the most effective method?" "There are ways: first, immediately call Chen Zhengxiang, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and ask him to immediately summon all the leading members of the four major teams of the Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government, Municipal People's Congress, and Political Consultative Conference to rush to the gravel field. Second, immediately call Dongwang Village and Dawang Town issued a written notice asking them to arrive at the gravel site before 7:30."

"Are you going to push all the responsibilities out?" "Yes." Li Zhaoyu said firmly. "They did this because they wanted to put all the responsibility on us, and now we can only do the opposite." "Nonsense!" Xia Zhongmin snorted, "If you're telling the truth, what else can you do?" Li Zhaoyu was determined to go all out: "There is only one way, which is to immediately take over the sand and gravel field in the name of the municipal government, and at the same time use the site broadcast to inform the site of the ownership of the original work section and working surface, including the original workers, foremen, The person in charge will not move, and everyone will continue to work at their respective positions. All the villagers who are stationed today will gather here immediately, and we will re-divide them with work sections. Obey the priority arrangement of the organization, refuse to obey orders, and refuse to arrange any work sections. We must be strict with those who take the lead in rioting. Pursue it to the end and never tolerate it.”

Xia Zhongmin thought about it silently for two minutes, and then said, "Can we arrange for these more than a thousand villagers?" "What arrangement! Do you think they really want to throw stones and sieve sand here?" Li Zhaoyu said angrily: "Dawang Town is next to Dianjiang City, and the farmers in Dawang Town only need to supply Dianjiang City with vegetables and non-staple food. , They are not short of work! The reason why they come here is that Dongwang Village can make a lot of money without paying, and they are jealous of the newly built row of two-story buildings in Dongwang Village! I really want them to be migrant workers , only four to five hundred yuan a month, sleeping like a kennel, eating like pig food, they must kill the director of the Party Secretary of Dongwang Village!"

"I know about this." Xia Zhongmin said while pondering, "The problem is that since you agreed, you have to make arrangements for them, so what arrangement? How?" "That's easy to handle. If you want to develop, just allocate a piece of land for them to develop. If you want ready-made ones, let them send representatives to negotiate and negotiate. Once the negotiations and negotiations have results, then do whatever you want But there is a premise that during the negotiation period, no one has the right to interfere with all the work of the sand and quarry. Otherwise, no matter who it is, it will be severely investigated and dealt with."

Xia Zhongmin fell into deep thought again.He hadn't thought about Li Zhaoyu's suggestion.Since he was appointed as the executive deputy mayor, he has thought about it many times. If there is no major surgery in this place, a major accident will happen sooner or later.Even if you do it now, it is by no means so easy.Dawang Town is the largest and richest town in Dianjiang City, and the Jiangbei District where it is located is the district with the most problems and the most complicated personnel relations in Dianjiang City.The party secretary of Jiangbei District is the eldest son-in-law of Liu Shibei, the former secretary of the Dianjiang Municipal Party Committee, and the report letter signed by Liu Weige and other deputies to the National People's Congress that he saw last night happened in this district.Once you poke this hornet's nest, it's almost like poking a bunch of hornet's nests.Just like what Chen Zhengxiang, the secretary of the municipal party committee, told him, if you can't bear it, you will make troubles and make great plans. When you change the term safely and smoothly, you will become the mayor smoothly, and after a year or two, you will be the secretary of the municipal party committee in peace. You can do whatever you want, at that time, who can do nothing to win you? But if you really wanted to, you should have done it eight years ago.There were many people who warned you at the beginning and never listened to it.It has been more than eight years, is it still unavoidable in the end? After much deliberation, there is still no way out. I can only choose to work, I would rather let others drive me away! In the end, he said to Li Zhaoyu: "Okay, I will do it according to your opinion, but there is one thing, not in the name of the city government." Li Zhaoyu was a little anxious, "That won't work, even if the other deputy mayors can not speak for the time being, but since Secretary Chen is the secretary and mayor, he has to bear the responsibility of the mayor! You must express your opinion immediately!" "Forget it, don't count on him." Xia Zhongmin said: "You and I both know that the search is useless. He must still be his way. Each hits fifty, and then drags it down. Everything is stable." "But he is the mayor! The mayor doesn't say anything, so what name do we use to do all this?" "I've made up my mind, in the name of the eight rectifications of the municipal party committee and the municipal government!" Xia Zhongmin seems to have made a decision, "I am the eighth of Dianjiang city's city appearance, transportation, environmental protection, engineering, including cracking down on gangsters and cleaning up the 'five small' factories and mines." The commander-in-chief of the rectification, you are the first deputy commander-in-chief, and the rectification of the sandstone field in Dongwang Village is completely within our management scope." Li Zhaoyu looked at Xia Zhongmin and said seriously, "Zhongmin, I cannot agree to your suggestion. There are not many days until the party congress and the people's congress change! Why are you offending such a large group of people now?" Li Zhaoyu almost yelled up. "Then what do you want me to do!" Xia Zhongmin couldn't help raising his voice. "Look at the situation here, isn't it obvious that we want to stop production here? Once production is suspended here, more than 80% of the municipal projects in Dianjiang City will be paralyzed within two days! I am the executive deputy mayor, and you are in charge of urban construction. The deputy mayor, the projects are all paralyzed, who can we run away from?" "It shouldn't be the two of us's business! Since it is the responsibility, then no one can run away! How can there be such a good thing in the world, they will eat the fried beans, and we will pay for the broken casserole!" "Zhaoyu, we can't reach that step yet." "I'm not as optimistic as you are!" Li Zhaoyu interrupted Xia Zhongmin, "I'll tell you the truth, I've been checked by someone in the past two days. It's the niece and son-in-law of the head of the Municipal Party Committee, and Du Zhenhai, the director of the Dongwang Village Committee and the deputy mayor of Dawang Town, do you know who it is? He is the nephew of Liu Shibei's sister-in-law, and he is still dating Wang Siji's niece! There is also Jiangbei District The secretary of the district committee, he is Liu Shibei's eldest son-in-law! Think about it, what is the relationship between these people! The whole thing is a net, and we will let him stick to it now! Wang Siji is in charge of the organization and personnel work, and the head of the organization is Responsible for receiving and arranging your investigation, Liu Shibei is the former secretary of the municipal party committee, and originally wanted to punish you to death, but you handed it to others with a knife!" "Okay, Zhaoyu, don't be so impulsive Can you let me finish my sentence first?" Xia Zhongmin tried to calm himself down, "Listen to me first, we can't do this anymore and wait to argue with them. The sandstone field in Dongwang Village, we have to take care of it sooner or later. , now it seems that the sooner the better, otherwise if something big happens, we will be destroyed here! I have thought about it carefully just now: first, this gravel field is not actually monopolizing us, but Our city government monopolizes it! The prosperity and development of the sand and gravel field in Dongwang Village relies on the rapid development and vigorous construction of the Dianjiang Municipal Government in recent years. Tens of millions of funds are poured here, which is unfair to the entire Dawang Town, the entire Jiangbei District, and the entire Dianjiang City! With cars, most of the money did not really fall into the hands of the people in Dongwang Village, let alone those migrant workers who worked hard and only earned a few hundred yuan a month. The people who are not four get a lot of money from the middle link. This is also unfair to the people of Dongwang Village and the migrant workers here! Third, due to the vicious profit Competition and contention, this place has long been a crime-prone area with the nature of the underworld. It has not only threatened the stability and security of the entire village, town, and district, but has also begun to threaten the vital interests of most ordinary people in this area! This is Said, the weather, the location, the harmony of the people, it does not occupy either side! As long as we go all out and give it a go, I absolutely believe that most of the people in Dianjiang City, including the Jiangbei District of Dawang Town, Dongwang Village, will support us." "After talking for a long time, it's still superficial!" Although Li Zhaoyu softened his tone, he still didn't hold any hope. "Even if we have the support of the majority of the masses, so what? So what? At the critical moment, they won't be the ones who voted for you as secretary and mayor!" "Okay! I don't have time to compete with you now. Zhaoyu, listen, I have made a decision. From now on, everything will be done as I said. You should broadcast the announcement immediately, and only those villagers who have just arrived must do it." Arrive in half an hour, and I will speak at that time, without my signal, you don't say anything, don't do anything. If you really support me, then do as I say..." Everything went smoothly than expected. In fact, it didn't take half an hour at all. In less than 20 minutes, nearly seven or eight hundred villagers who just arrived today gathered on the open ground in front of the sand and gravel field office. When Xia Zhongmin started to speak, it was already 1:50 in the afternoon.The villagers, who were hungry and sweaty under the scorching sun, couldn't bear it anymore at this moment, and they all took out the dry food, melons and fruits and non-staple food they brought, and ate them in big mouthfuls. Seeing everyone eating happily, Xia Zhongmin and Li Zhaoyu also started eating.While eating, Xia Zhongmin stood up suddenly, turned around and walked to the construction site. In less than a quarter of an hour, he brought over a dozen migrant workers who had been working here all year round. Gradually, the noise of the villagers eating and drinking became smaller and smaller.The whole body of these migrant workers from other places was almost tanned black. Compared with the colorful clothes of the villagers, they almost looked like a group of beggars.The food in their hands was all the cheapest black brown rice dumpling in the local area, and the dishes they ate consisted of a few shreds of salted fish, a few strands of pickled vegetables, and half a bowl of fried fennel white. Xia Zhongmin began to speak at this time.From migrant workers to villagers, there was no one who didn't know Xia Zhongmin, so when he opened his mouth, the surroundings fell silent. "In the past few years, our Dianjiang City has almost used sand and stone from Dongwang Village. So, is it because the stone and sand here are easy to dig? No! Everyone has seen it just now. It’s not easy! Take sand as an example, to mine a hundred square meters of sand, three to five hundred square meters of clay and stones have to be transported away! Over the years, no one can count how many stones and sands have been dug here in total, like About five or six mountains of the size in front of us have been moved away! Who dug and leveled all the mountains and ditches? In fact, everyone knows that they are the ones! That’s what you think Poor migrant workers!" Xia Zhongmin pointed at the migrant workers lined up in front of him, and suddenly became impulsive.He walked over to the migrant workers in three steps and two steps, spread the hands of the two migrant workers casually, then raised them high towards everyone, and said: "Look at their hands! Look at their nails! Can you find a complete place? Look at their bodies, how many have no wounds? Since I came to our Dianjiang, since I came Here, in the past six or seven years, there have been more than 20 migrant workers who have died here! The number of serious injuries has reached 160. Multiple!" Suddenly there was an uproar in the open ground, a commotion, and after two or three minutes, it gradually subsided. "However, for these migrant workers who died because of their work, the minimum compensation was only 6,000 yuan, and the maximum was only 30,000 yuan! They worked an average of more than 12 hours a day, and they never had Sundays or holidays! In special circumstances, they sometimes have to work eighteen or nineteen hours a day, or even more than twenty hours! If it rains and the project is rushed, it is common for them to stay awake for days and nights! But why? Their wages and treatment just can’t be paid? In the past two years, I have to settle accounts for them every year. Take last year as an example, in addition to the nearly 10 million arrears, the entire Dianjiang municipal project was paid to Dongwang The sum of the various funds for the sand and quarry in the village is no less than 30 million! That is to say, even if nothing else is counted, the total output value of the sand and quarry in Dongwang Village last year was at least nearly 40 million. Then , How much is the total cost of paying workers’ wages? The maximum is about 10 million. Then, after deducting the profits and taxes that should be paid, depreciation fees, and management fees, it is still 10 million in a mess. That is to say, two Ten million is enough! Enough to pay these workers wages, enough to pay management fees to the managers of Dongwang Village and Dawang Town, enough to pay profits and taxes to the country, and enough for the fiscal revenue of the local village committee and town government. There are also machines Maintenance, management of factories and mines are all enough! Then, where did the nearly 20 million go? At least there is a figure as big as more than 10 million. Where did it all go? Who will eat it? Who will let it go? Take it!" There was an uproar again below, and it couldn't calm down for a long time.After five or six minutes, it slowly returned to calm. "Someone may ask me, you mayor, what do you want to tell us here today? In a word, we are investigating! We are investigating! Dongwang Village sandstone field has been in and out for more than ten years. Everyone Do the math, how much money fell into the black hole? Let me tell you the truth now, the joint investigation team sent by the province and city is investigating this problem! We must investigate the problem here to the end. We must also give everyone a realistic explanation!" Having said this, Xia Zhongmin stopped, looked straight at everyone, and didn't speak for a full minute. "Folks! Do you want me to continue with the following? We ordinary people have good legs and don't step in the mud, but why do you have to wade in muddy water here at this time? If Dawang Town is in a remote mountainous area, then When you come here, I will definitely help you find jobs, and the wages are definitely not lower than that of migrant workers from other places, but you are not, because you don’t need it at all! You are close to Dianjiang City, and the worst thing you can do is to live in the fields If you plant a piece of pumpkin, you will definitely earn more money than here! What are you trying to do? Do you want to hinder the investigation of the provincial and municipal joint investigation team, or do you want to fight against the eight rectifications in the city? I will give you a day and a night, and you all Think about it! If you think about it and want to come tomorrow, we will assign tasks to everyone." Half an hour after Xia Zhongmin finished speaking, nearly a thousand villagers left.Before the villagers had left the construction site for half an hour, the director and branch secretary of the Dongwang Village Committee showed up on the construction site. Then, as if it had been discussed, twenty minutes later, the mayor of Dawang Town and the secretary of the town party committee also rushed to the construction site. Before he could say anything, Xia Zhongmin's cell phone rang. Last night, no, at four o'clock this morning, a fire broke out in the residence of the provincial and municipal joint investigation team. A small building was completely burned down, causing one death and two injuries!