Chapter 5 Mobilization

On Friday morning, Hou Weidong took a taxi to Qinglinchang Town.In order to keep a low profile, he got out of the car at the entrance and walked along the street towards the government compound. A small car drove out from the government office, bringing endless dust in front of him, like a sudden heavy snow, surrounding Hou Weidong tightly.Stores along the way dumped garbage on the side of the road, white garbage, leftover soup and water, shocking, but the residents of the town turned a blind eye to it.A girl who looked like a student brushed her teeth while standing on a pile of garbage. Hou Weidong met Yang Feng who came out of the Douhua restaurant, and couldn't help asking, "Why is the town so dirty?"

Yang Feng wiped the red chili oil on his mouth with a toilet paper, and said: "The cleaning team will come to collect the garbage in a while, and it will be fine when it is finished." Hou Weidong shook his head and said, "It's much dirtier than Shangqinglinchang Town." "Shangqinglinchang Township only has more than 700 people, and it is not open to traffic. Qinglinchang Township has a population of 3,000 people. There are too many people and vehicles, so it is naturally difficult to manage." Yesterday, I was still enjoying the fine wine and the scenery of the lake and mountains in Han Lake. Today, I returned to Qinglinchang Town to eat ashes and look at garbage. The contrast is too great.Hou Weidong patted the dust on his trouser legs and said, "The environment of the town should be cleaned up."

Hou Weidong came to Su Ming's office and said, "Mayor Su, I have been thinking about the tasks you assigned these days, and I have some ideas." Su Ming put down his pen and said, "Tell me." "The tasks faced by the townships are the same. It is not easy for the new government to grasp the characteristics. I found that there are two problems in Qinglin Township. One is that the construction of the township is chaotic. This feeling is particularly obvious after coming down; the second is that the environmental sanitation of the town is too poor, from the beginning to the end of the town, the hair and nostrils are all gray."

After Hou Weidong finished speaking, Su Ming asked, "What is your central meaning?" "I think that if our current government can change the appearance of Qinglin Township, and combine green mountains, green water and townships, we can create a beautiful and livable small township, just like the small townships in Europe. .If this matter is really done well, it will definitely cause a sensation in Yiyang and even Shazhou City." "The idea is very good, but the construction of such a small town will inevitably involve a lot of demolition, and it will definitely not be completed within three years. After three years, no one can tell whether you and I will be in Qinglin Town." Su Ming said.

"Su Town, every time I used to go down the mountain from Shangqinglin, I would always stand on the rock halfway up the hill for a while, and I could just see the panorama of Qinglinchang Town. Behind Changzhen, after turning over the gentle slope, there is a large flat land , we can build a new town behind the gentle slope without demolition. "If we can't build a new town for the time being, we can pay close attention to sanitation in the town. This is a real thing and it won't be too difficult. In addition, I got inspiration from Shangqinglin Primary School. The buildings in Shangqinglin Primary School are very old. Many osmanthus trees are planted, and the grade of the primary school has improved a lot. There are many wild osmanthus trees on Qinglin Mountain, and we can choose hundreds of them to turn Qinglin Town into an osmanthus town, which is a great feature."

"You make a lot of sense, let me think about it again." Su Ming listened carefully, but didn't express his opinion immediately. After Hou Weidong left, he took out the map of Qinglin Town and used a ruler to draw on the map.A good idea is like a layer of paper. When you poke it open, people suddenly realize that things can be done this way! After carefully studying the map, Su Ming became very interested in the idea of ​​rebuilding a new green forest. When Zhao Yongsheng pushed the door and walked in, he saw Su Ming concentrating on the map and asked, "Why do you look at the map?"

"Secretary Zhao, I have been thinking about the work of the new government, and today I have a bold idea, which may not be mature yet." Zhao Yongsheng put one hand on his waist and said: "It doesn't matter if you are immature. If you discuss more, you will naturally become mature." Hearing Su Ming's thoughts, he frowned and said: "This is a major issue that concerns the overall situation. , the project is too big, and with the financial resources of Qinglin Town, I am afraid it will not be completed in ten years. Moreover, the land is more than a hundred acres, all of which are fertile and ripe soil, so it is a pity to occupy it. Besides, the procedures are also very complicated, so it is easy to think of , it is very difficult to do.”

Su Ming seemed to have a new town in his eyes, and said: "We can design the overall design first, and then implement it step by step." Zhao Yongsheng did not agree to build another Qinglin Town at all. He changed the subject and said, "Tomorrow is the publicity and mobilization meeting for funeral reform. I am a little worried. Funeral reform will never be less difficult than family planning, especially in the early stage. Things are inevitable. Hou Weidong has not been tempered by the second-level team and is inexperienced. He messed up the pot, and we have to end it in the end."

Su Ming had more contact with Hou Weidong, and said: "Hou Weidong is both prudent and bold in doing things. I am more at ease when he handles things." Zhao Yongsheng said: "I hope he can do this well." He thought to himself: "As long as Hou Weidong messes things up, that's the best reason to take him down." Su Ming was very interested in the new plan, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "I think the plan to build a new town can be considered, so why not bring it up at the party-government joint meeting to see what everyone thinks? If everyone thinks Yes, you can ask the comrades from the construction committee to take a look."

Seeing that Su Ming was holding on to the topic of the new town, Zhao Yongsheng felt faintly unhappy, and said: "This is a major issue that concerns the whole town. If it was not brought up at this year's National People's Congress, don't bring it up again. If it is really necessary, report it to the county first. The government will implement it after the county government agrees." Seeing Zhao Yongsheng's attitude, Su Ming also calmed down, put the pencil on the drawing, and said reluctantly: "Okay, let's put aside the matter of building a new town for now."

A smile appeared on Zhao Yongsheng's face, and he said, "I went to the organization department of the county party committee the day before yesterday. The organization department requires every town to report to a village branch that has entered the village. As this year's rectification target, which village should we apply for?" Su Ming went through all the villages in his head, and said: "If you want to say that it is particularly bad, you can't say it all at once. If you use hard indicators such as overall planning of withdrawal and retention, agricultural tax, etc., I am afraid that you will have to count the villages on the other side of the Qinglin River. .” Holding the general's belly in his hands, Zhao Yongsheng said, "Mayor Su's suggestion is very good. According to this idea, the party and government joint meeting will be held next week. I will ask Liu Kun to bring this matter up." The day before the special meeting on funeral reform, Hou Weidong was sitting in the office revising his speech materials. Zhao Yongsheng called: "Hou Weidong, how are you preparing for tomorrow's meeting?" Hou Weidonghui reported: "Two important documents have been released, one is "Notice on Funeral Reform in Qinglin Township", the main content is the county's documents, and the content of Qinglin Town is added; the second is the funeral reform leader The group papers have been printed." "How will the meeting be held?" "Let me read the two documents first, then Su Zhen will talk about specific issues, and finally Secretary Zhao will make an important speech." Zhao Yongsheng had no objection to the agenda. He specifically explained: "The matter of land occupation fees is very sensitive. It must not be discussed at the meeting. It must not be written in black and white. You can only discuss it with the cadres of each village after the meeting is over." After talking with Hou Weidong, Zhao Yongsheng called Liu Kun to the office again, saying: "Funeral reform is difficult, and public opinion building is very important. The reason why you are in charge of publicity is to make the best use of your talents and give full play to your ability. There will be a funeral reform work meeting tomorrow. How is the promotion going?" Liu Kun said: "Secretary Zhao, don't worry, I've already made arrangements." In fact, he didn't make any arrangements. After he came out of Zhao Yongsheng's office, he found Zhou Jing, explained the tasks, and then returned to Yiyang County by car. There is no holiday in the whole town on Saturday.At 9 o'clock in the morning, the village branch secretaries and village committee directors of twelve villages came to the meeting room one after another.Hou Weidong was well prepared. When every village cadre entered the conference room, Cheng Yilin, a staff member of the social affairs office, sent a large envelope to the attendees. Inside the envelope were copies of county documents and relevant town documents. Encapsulating documents in large letters has become a popular practice in recent years. Most village cadres put the envelope aside, but a few village cadres opened the envelope and took out the document to read. At 9 o'clock, Zhao Yongsheng, Su Ming and Liu Kun came to the meeting room one after another, and at 9:10, the meeting officially started. The meeting was chaired by Su Ming, and Hou Weidong read the county and town level documents on the first agenda.The second agenda is for Liu Kun to arrange the publicity work for funeral reform.On the third agenda, Su Ming talked about the specific work.On the fourth agenda, Zhao Yongsheng made an important speech. In Hou Weidong's original meeting agenda, there was no such item as Liu Kun's speech.Before the morning meeting, Zhao Yongsheng temporarily decided to add such an agenda, and called Liu Kun: "This morning's meeting, you talk about the funeral reform and publicity work." Liu Kun attended the birthday dinner of Minister Liu Mingyang of the Organization Department last night.Liu Mingyang only invited three tables of guests. Due to the special relationship between the Liu family and the Liu family, all the Liu family attended the banquet.Liu Kun is a junior. He helps run up and down, and drinks with the guests. Most of the guests are county leaders. He drank a few more drinks and got drunk. Waking up on Saturday morning, Liu Kun came to Qinglin Town in a daze.Just after making the tea, he received a call from Zhao Yongsheng. He quickly turned to Hou Weidong's last speech, wrote a speech outline according to his train of thought, and went to the venue with his notebook. When it was Liu Kun's turn to speak, Liu Kun specifically talked about four points: one is to communicate in meetings; the other is to write slogans; the third is to broadcast propaganda; the fourth is to distribute leaflets. He was very principled, without specific requirements and standards for propaganda work, and the operability was not strong, Zhao Yongsheng couldn't help frowning. After the meeting was over, Su Yajun stood at the door and said loudly: "We will have lunch at Zhang's restaurant at noon, everyone, don't leave." The Zhangjia Restaurant is the best restaurant in Qinglinchang Town, which is equivalent to the restaurant next to the Shangqinglin Town Foundation. Village officials came to the restaurant in twos and threes with materials. Liu Kun was about to go downstairs when Zhao Yongsheng said, "Come to my office." Zhao Yongsheng attaches great importance to the publicity work of the funeral reform. After getting the publicity bag this morning, he found no publicity leaflets in it, so he called the publicity officer Zhou Jing to inquire. Zhou Jing is a technical secondary school student who graduated from an agricultural school in 1995. She was originally assigned to the agricultural machinery station.Her father was a leader in another town and knew Zhao Yongsheng well. The two families got together on New Year's Day, and Zhou Jing soon became a propaganda officer. "Secretary Liu asked me to write a leaflet, but I haven't written it yet." Zhou Jing's writing skills are average, and she bit her pen for a long time, but she still didn't finish writing. "Have you written out the templates of the propaganda slogans distributed to the villages?" Zhou Jing said embarrassingly: "I called the office of the Civil Affairs Bureau, and they said they would fax us this afternoon." The two things were not implemented, and Zhao Yongsheng was not very satisfied. Hearing Liu Kun's principled work arrangement at the meeting, he had an idea in his heart, so he called Liu Kun to the office. "Liu Kun, for today's meeting, have the propaganda outline and slogans been distributed to the village cadres?" Liu Kun explained the matter to Zhou Jing, the publicity officer. He was not very clear about the specific handling situation, so he said vaguely: "There are only a few slogans now, and we will distribute them after we find them all." Zhao Yongsheng's face darkened, and he said, "Propaganda work is a prelude to funeral reform. Without a strong public opinion environment, it will be very difficult to work in the future. Your work arrangements today have not been implemented. For example, each village has to post a few slogans. The level of the meeting, who will make the leaflets, who will distribute them, and how to distribute them should all be specified.” He said a few words, and changed into a sincere tone: "In doing specific work in the township, you can't do it too principled like in the county. On May 1, the new funeral method will be officially implemented, and we don't have much time left. You need to hurry up." Liu Kun nodded hastily, and said, "Secretary Zhao, I'll do it right away, and try to get the leaflets and slogans out tomorrow." After leaving Zhao Yongsheng's office, he called Zhou Jing to the office, and immediately said, "I told you the day before yesterday that I needed to write out the leaflets and slogans, why haven't I finished them yet?" Zhou Jing said aggrievedly: "I haven't done funeral reform, so I don't know how to write it." She just graduated from an agricultural school, and she looks like a little girl. When she was criticized by the leader, her eyes immediately turned red. Liu Kun's expression was ugly, and he said: "If you don't know, you can ask me, how can I put aside the assigned work! Today is such a good publicity opportunity, it was wasted by you." Zhou Jing wiped away her tears and said, "After I finish writing the propaganda outline, I will send it to the village." While the two were talking, Su Yajun from the Social Affairs Office came in and said, "Secretary Liu, everyone is going to Zhang's Restaurant and we are waiting for you." Liu Kun is most afraid of such occasions. Twenty-four village cadres, if each of them drinks one cup, it will be twenty-four cups.He declined: "Director Su, I have something to do, so I won't go." Su Yajun said: "Secretary Zhao and Mayor Su have both gone, and the village officials are waiting for your interview." Liu Kun heard that the two main leaders had gone, so he had to say: "Director Su wants to protect me. I drink a little, so I'm going to get down after two drinks." Su Yajun laughed and said, "Don't be afraid, Hou Weidong will play the leading role today." When we arrived at Zhang's restaurant, Zhao Yongsheng and Su Ming hadn't arrived yet. Except for the leader's table, other village cadres had already started drinking and punching. Hou Weidong was surrounded by village cadres in Shangqinglin, who took turns to toasting, and in a blink of an eye, he drank a dozen or so cups.After Zhao Yongsheng and Su Ming came to Zhang's restaurant, Hou Weidong got away and sat at the leader's table. After Qin Feiyue left Qinglin Town, Zhao Yongsheng had no opponents and became the real core.He has the demeanor of a leader, and said loudly to the village cadres: "Funeral reform is a very difficult job, and it is also a job that will benefit the future. Let's raise our glasses together. Starting tomorrow, we will work in the whole town. Vigorously doing publicity work, this glass of wine, everyone did it together." In the middle of the wine, Zhao Yongsheng mobilized the village cadres to say: "Hou Weidong is the leader in charge of the funeral work. If you want to do a good job in the funeral reform work, you must toast him. The better the toast, the easier it is to promote the work." At the wine table, Qin Dajiang and other village cadres, fearing that the world would not be chaotic, saw Zhao Yongsheng launching a war, and came over to toast with wine glasses.Although Hou Weidong was good at drinking, he couldn't stand the crowd. He said to the village officials with a sad face, "Secretary Zhao and Mayor Su are here, how can you respect me first?" Su Ming added fuel to the flames and said, "Weidong is the leader in charge of the funeral reform work. Today there is a mobilization meeting. You have to have a good drink with the secretary and directors. If you are drunk, you don't have to go to work in the afternoon." Liu Kun had a low drinking capacity and was criticized by Zhao Yongsheng. He was in a bad mood, so he shrank in a corner.Seeing that Hou Weidong and the village cadres got along well, he couldn't help but think of the failed general election, and a faint bitterness and hatred filled his heart. Hou Weidong was in the center of the vortex, one cup after another, without time to stop, and he did not know how many cups he drank, and finally reached the limit.He covered his mouth and ran towards the toilet outside the door. As soon as he reached the toilet door, a waterfall gushed out of his mouth like the water of the Yellow River. After Hou Weidong went out, Zhao Yongsheng asked Su Yajun, "How does Hou Weidong drink?" Su Yajun said with deep understanding: "Excellent." Zhao Yongsheng had a smile on his face, and said: "Hou Weidong can drink, but judging from today's performance, he probably can't drink Qin Dajiang." Su Yajun was convinced by Hou Weidong's drinking capacity, and said: "When you and Su Zhen didn't come, Hou Zhen drank at least ten glasses. Today Hou Zhen drank at least forty glasses at noon, and he basically didn't eat food." It was only then that Zhao Yongsheng believed in Hou Weidong's vastness. He said to Liu Kun, "You have to learn from Hou Weidong when it comes to drinking. The village officials are here today. Do you dare to walk around?" Liu Kun didn't dare to go on stage at all in this kind of situation, he quickly shook his head and said, "Secretary Zhao, I'm going to pass out after drinking five cups at most, so I really don't dare to go on stage." Zhao and Su were the top leaders. They didn't dare to drink too much at noon. After drinking a few cups, they mobilized the masses to fight against the masses and overwhelmed several village officials on the spot. When the show ended, Zhao and Su walked along the street towards the town government compound.A small car came in from outside the town, and when it passed them, it brought up a thick fog of dust. On the site of Qinglin Town, the cars from other places drove so fast, which made Zhao Yongsheng very angry, and said: "Whose car drove so fast after entering the town?" He fanned the dust in the air with his hand, and said to himself Said: "The sanitation of the town should be taken seriously." Su Ming interjected: "Mayor Zhong has a lot of things in charge, so the management of the town should be handed over to Hou Weidong. He is young, energetic, and his girlfriend is from a big city, so he should be able to manage the town well." Zhao Yongsheng didn't want to take care of such trivial matters, and said: "You are the mayor, just arrange it, and I have no objection." He pointed to the small car that drove into the town, and the seven-star Big Dipper on his face showed some dissatisfaction, and said: "This car has a Shazhou license plate, who are you looking for?"