Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Fire Secretary Huo's fire is forced out in this way

That's right, Huo Ronggui was planning to be "taken" by himself.He knows that as long as "some things" get into trouble to a certain extent, the result will be: those who are mainly responsible will be "surgered".Once an accident, major event, or political event occurs in Wuwei, he is the secretary of the municipal party committee, and it will be difficult to avoid it. The "Three Niu Disturbance" caused such a stir, not to mention what netizens said, even the authoritative "Procuratorial News" these days have publicly said that the "public election" between him and Wuwei is "illegal".The Party’s regulations on the appointment of cadres clearly state that anyone who fails to follow the “organizational principles” and “regulations” on employment issues will be severely dealt with by the organization and party discipline.

"Wuwei's actions have seriously violated the central government's policy. The secretary of the municipal party committee should be arrested!" This is said on the Internet, and the strange calls received by the municipal party committee's office are even more aggressive. As for Huo Ronggui, he received calls from friends and former colleagues In the phone calls that came, there were more or less signs of this. "Ronggui, I said that we couldn't persuade you if you wanted to go down. This time, it's okay. The hero will die before his ambition is paid. It's too late to regret!" Before Huo Ronggui came to Wuwei, he was the deputy secretary general and office of the provincial government. The director of the department and the deputy secretary of the party group are important positions with "real power".Huo Ronggui is also a young cadre of the "post-60s". If he stays in this position, he only needs to "go up enough" to have a bright future.In fact, maybe you don't need to make much effort, just lean against a big tree, and you will have a bright future.However, Huo Ronggui did not. He called young cadres to the front line at the provincial party committee. Inspired by the spirit of realizing Gansu's leapfrog development, he resolutely bid farewell to his wife and children, left the provincial government compound where he had worked for more than ten years, and came to the whole country. Wuwei, one of the most backward regional cities in the province.

"Gansu is in the west of China, and it is a backward area in the whole west. It doesn't have the policy advantages of Tibet and Xinjiang, or even the policy advantages of Qinghai and Ningxia. It only has a unique geographical location, a thousand-year-old desert, drought and harsh conditions. Climate and other natural environment. Wuwei is also a backward area in Gansu. It has neither the advantages of Lanzhou and Baiyin in the east surrounded by the Yellow River, nor the industrial advantages of cities such as Xichang and Jiuquan in the west. Only the Qilian Mountains that have been here for hundreds of millions of years Be with the two deserts that are becoming more and more rampant and crazy-Badain Jaran and Tengger. When I chose to go to Wuwei, some people said that I was stupid and could not pick meat. They said that when eating at the same table, someone picked a piece of fat The meat is in your mouth, it’s good for you, but you picked a hard bone to gnaw, what can you get out of it? But I think differently: since you want to do it, you should find the hardest bone to gnaw. This is in line with my personality and also the development of Gansu. What is actually most needed. In a word: Someone needs to do real work! Hard work! Work that will help change Gansu's backwardness! I came to Wuwei for this purpose..." Huo Ronggui is actually my "Gansu resident" During the interview and investigation activities of "Traveling", he was the first person from Wuwei who came into contact with comrades from the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee.

Huo Ronggui admires Qiu He, the former party secretary of Suqian, Jiangsu, very much. "At that time, Suqian's status in Jiangsu was similar to ours in Wuwei in Gansu. It was the most backward place and had no resource advantages. But Qiu He was great. He was not afraid of falling behind, let alone unwilling to fall behind. He has made a name for himself and turned the backward Suqian into an advanced area of ​​economic development in northern Jiangsu." Talking to Huo Ronggui for 3 hours, I could hear "Qiu He" and "Suqian" at least 5 times from his mouth. The "Road of Enmity and Harmony" or "Suqian Development Model" has been deeply imprinted in Huo Ronggui's heart.

The two names "Huo Ronggui" and "Jiao Sanniu" seem to be very different: the elders who named the former must be looking forward to the prosperity and wealth of the family one day, so they simply used "Ronggui" as the name of their children and grandchildren; The latter is an out-of-the-ordinary naming method: the three babies, let’s call them one cow, two cows, and three cows!In fact, Huo Ronggui and Jiao Sanniu came from the same family background—farmers, but Huo Ronggui's family has literate people, while Jiao Sanniu's family has no literate people.

Huo Ronggui was also a "cow" when he was a child. He plowed the land, planted potatoes, and picked up cow dung. After graduating from university, he first worked in the Land Reclamation Bureau.Apart from his surname, all his "honour" is that he later became a promising man, entered the provincial government compound, and worked from the deputy division secretary to the director of the division, the director of the general office, and the deputy secretary general of the provincial government. There are not many fire surnames.Huo Ronggui has a fiery nature, and the word "fire" has also made him a fiery character: anxious, easy to lose his temper, and swears at others when he speaks!No matter what happens, when encountering resistance and things that cannot be pushed, he, Huo Ronggui, will scold you to death.

"It's so strange, we like to be scolded by the fire secretary!" Wuwei cadre said. "So cheap? Why?" I asked. "Because we are poor here, and we are decades behind others. In the past, we seemed indifferent. No one talked about you, let alone scolded you. The thinking became more rigid. Secretary Huo came. He saw that Wuwei was backward and the people’s life was not good. This way, we are refreshed, and we have the energy to work. It is inevitable that sometimes we do well and sometimes we do poorly. When we do well, Secretary Huo follows us like a child. Let's have fun together, and when he doesn't do well, he tends to lose his temper. Everyone understands that he is doing it for our Wuwei's good, so we think he is cute and amiable when he loses his temper. Don’t be wronged. Wuwei needs this kind of passionate fire from Secretary Huo, otherwise there will be no hope for a rigid and backward Wuwei...”Wuwei people said so.

When I told Secretary Huo Ronggui what the masses said, his face turned red, and he quickly said: "I have a bad temper. It is not a good thing to get angry when something happens. However, I do feel that sometimes being a leader in a backward area, I want to Pushing for something to be done quickly, to be done quickly, without losing your temper seems to be difficult." Huo Ronggui's anger is indeed unusual, and I can feel it deeply during the few days of interaction with him, and perhaps it is his anger that made me see the essence of the "Jiao Sanniu Incident"—— Let us first understand the history of Wuwei!This is definitely not a superfluous topic, as a philosopher said, "History is the best reference for all success or failure in reality."Many "onces" in the history of Wuwei reflect an immortal truth and meaning.

Wuwei had a long period of green mountains and clear waters in ancient times, especially the dense forests, criss-crossing rivers, and numerous lakes around Qilian Mountain. The Majiayao culture more than 5,000 years ago once became the representative of the advanced farming society in western China.In ancient times, Wuwei was called Liangzhou. At that time, the three tribes of Xirong, Wusun and Yuezhi lived here for a long time. Later, another powerful nomadic tribe, the Xiongnu, appeared here and gradually occupied a dominant position.Before and after the Western Han Dynasty, the Han court formed political alliances with the Wusun and Yuezhi tribes several times through marriage and other means, thus establishing a political relationship with the Central Plains regime for hundreds of years.However, due to the strong nomadic military strength of the Xiongnu tribe, it posed a great threat to the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty.In order to pacify the invasion of the Western Regions, the Han Dynasty fought hard for several times, but all returned without success. Therefore, the Xiongnu ridiculed that "the Han Dynasty is invincible."In the third year of Yuanshou (120 BC), a young huss general under Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty proposed to conquer the Huns.Many veteran officials in the imperial court shook their heads: "He is too immature and should not be in charge."Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was not the case, and insisted on using this person to fight in the Western Regions.This young general is the famous Huo Qubing in history.In the second year, Huo Qubing led 10,000 cavalry troops out of Longxi to the west, crossed Yanzhi Mountain (now Shandan County, Gansu Province), and entered the hinterland of the Huns for more than a thousand miles. Wang, finally drove the enemy soldiers out of Yumen Pass, thereby pacifying the territory of the Western Regions along the Hexi Corridor, and included Jiuquan, Zhangye, Dunhuang, etc. in the territory of the Han Dynasty.In order to commemorate and commend Huo Qubing's achievements, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty specially established a place name of "Wuwei" and established Wuwei County.After Huo Qubing was pacified in the Western Regions, the famous Silk Road, a commercial passageway, was quickly built, which made the Hexi Corridor a grand occasion of "merchants and peddlers, Japanese money under the plug" and "envoys looking at each other in the road". Since then, this area has become a The most prosperous area in western China.

Huo Qubing was only 23 years old when he made great achievements in the Western Regions.So when this year's "Three Niu Disturbance" appeared, many netizens in Shanxi were very happy, saying: In ancient times, there was Huo Qubing who fought in the Western Regions at the age of 23, and created the prosperity of the western part of the Chinese nation for more than a hundred years; It is reasonable to start a business and serve as the deputy county level in Wuwei at the age of 23!Because Huo Qubing and Jiao Sanniu are both Jin nationality.The pride of Shanxi people is understandable.

Let's talk about the second prosperous period of Wuwei in history, that is, the "Five Cools" and the Tang Dynasty.This is also related to the appearance of an important person, he is Zhang Gui, a native of Hexi.This person originally worked in the capital. He was a clean and honest official with outstanding achievements and ambitions.Witnessing the chaotic political situation in the court, he volunteered to return to the remote Liangzhou to serve as governor.In 301 A.D., after he went to Wuwei in the Western Regions, he took "the people of Wu'an, thinking about serving the country at the top, and serving the family at the bottom" as his own responsibility. While calming down the disturbances in the west, he also built water conservancy, developed production, and revitalized culture and education, which soon shocked Hexi.At this time, the Central Plains was in chaos, but only Hexi was free from war, politically stable, and economically developed, making it a peaceful place for China to live.Taking advantage of the war in the Central Plains, Zhang Gui resettled a large number of refugees and many literati and celebrities who fled to the Western Regions, and gave them the opportunity to create and spread culture, which led to the rapid development of Hexi's economy and culture, and Wuwei City has become a Western Region that can be compared with Luoyang. famous city.After Zhang Gui's death, his sons and descendants inherited the ways of their ancestors, which made this place flourish and develop for decades. By the time of Zhang Gui's grandson, Zhang Jun, this place had become a town governing three prefectures and twenty-two counties. The most prosperous area in the Western Regions, all countries in the Western Regions have to pay tribute here. Therefore, there is a saying in the historian circle: There is one in Xiliang, and Hexi will prosper for a hundred years.This "one sheet" refers to Zhang Gui and his descendants of the Zhang family. After 589 AD, the Sui and Tang Dynasties unified China again.Liangzhou became an important town in the Western Regions under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty. In view of Wuwei's important position, the great ancestor Li Yuan specially appointed his second son Li Shimin, who was rich in talent and general plan, who later opened up and established the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, as the governor of Liangzhou.Due to the continuation and influence of the great cause created by the founder Zhang, coupled with the leadership of several Ming emperors in the Tang Dynasty, the Wuwei area has achieved unprecedented economic and cultural development during the three hundred years of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. "Tong Dian" records: In the eighth year of Tianbao, the total harvest of the country's farmland was 1.91 million stones, of which the Helong area reached 710,000 stones, accounting for 37% of the national total!The court officials said happily: "Liangzhou is like Sudi." Sudi is the southern Jiangsu area of ​​our country, and the prosperity of Wuwei can be seen!Cen Can, the great poet of Tang Dynasty at that time, wrote such a poem excitedly after he visited Wuwei: "The crescent moon shines on the top of the city, and the moon rises on the top of the city to shine on Liangzhou. There are 100,000 houses in the seven cities of Liangzhou, and the barbarians half-unloaded their bombs." Pipa..." vividly depicts the prosperity and well-being of Wuwei City, which is as famous as Yangzhou and Luoyang.Ancient Wuwei, that is, Liangzhou, and in the "Three Hundred Tang Poems" we read today, there are at least one or twenty poems praising Liangzhou.For example, Yuan Zhen's "Xiliang Opera": "I heard that in the past, Xiliangzhou was full of people. The wine was cooked and enjoyed, and the red and green flags were red and green." Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Bai Juyi, Wang Changling, etc. Many famous Liangzhou-themed poems have been left behind.Like Wang Zhihuan's "The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, an isolated city of Wanren Mountain. Why should the Qiang flute complain about the willows, the spring breeze does not pass through the Yumen Pass", Wang Han's "Grape Wine Luminous Cup, if you want to drink the pipa, immediately call. Drunk lying on the battlefield Lord Mo laughs, since ancient times How many people will fight back" are all classic handed down poems left by the poet when he was in Wuwei.Liangzhou has always been a place that literati yearned for in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Even Lu You, a great poet of the Song Dynasty 500 years later, was fascinated by this place: "Liangzhou's daughters are full of tall buildings, and they comb their hair like Kyoto." The "Liangzhou Frontier Poetry" written by Wuwei in the Tang Dynasty was a wonderful flower of Tang culture, which greatly influenced the Chinese culture at that time, especially the poetry circle.Du Fu once praised Li Bai's poems as "Li Hou has good lines, often like Yin Keng", which means that Li Bai's masterpieces are both like Li Hou's spirit and Yin Keng's wind.Both Li Hou and Yin Keng were from Wuwei, and they were outstanding representatives of the "Liangzhou School" poets.It can be seen that the influence of Wuwei culture at that time. For more than two hundred years from the second year of Tang Guangde (764 AD) to the Chunhua period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Hexi area was basically separated from the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the ancient Liangzhou was occupied by the Six Fans. In 1999, Li Jiqian, the leader of the Dangxiang tribe, captured Liangzhou, and his descendants established the Xixia Kingdom. There are not many records of the history of Xixia, but after a trip to Wuwei, I realized how powerful and glorious this very mysterious Western Dynasty was, especially the unique culture it created, which is infinitely impressive.Today there is the Xixia Museum in Wuwei, which exhibits and stores the cultural relics and relics of Xixia excavated in different periods, the incredible Xixia characters, the extremely beautiful silk fabrics with extremely high weaving skills and patterns, which are incomparable. The silver wares and stele inscriptions made people often clap their hands and applaud after seeing them, it's amazing! The creation of Xixia civilization originated from a wise emperor, Li Yuanhao, the grandson of Li Jiqian. Review the past dynasties, count the romantic figures. Talk about prosperity and decline, and listen to ancient rhyme music. When I went to Wuwei for an interview, I originally went there because of the "Three Niu Disturbance", and I met people to talk about things day and night. In the few days of Qingming Festival, dozens of people in the local area lost their vacation with me.Coming in a hurry, leaving in a hurry.But on the day before I left, Secretary Huo Ronggui must personally take me to see a temple "by the way" on the way back.When I got there, I knew that the temple was called "Kumarajiva Temple". The abbot in the temple is a scholar-type eminent monk with a doctorate title. After his introduction, I knew that I had arrived at a Buddhist holy place in China: it turns out that Buddhism that was spread from India and Nepal to China actually originated from Wuwei! This is also because one person came to Wuwei to have such a profound and extensive Buddhist culture in China in the future.This person is Kumarajiva.His ancestors were from the Western Regions, and he himself grew up in Kucha. He is proficient in Buddhist Mahayana and Hinayana scriptures, and he also bypasses Brahman philosophy.In 382 A.D., Lu Guang, the former general of the Qin Dynasty, conquered many small countries such as Qiuci during his expedition to the Western Regions. Lu Guang, who loved talents since childhood, was very interested in the Buddhist culture of the Western Regions, so he invited Kumarajiva, an eminent monk from the Western Regions, to teach him in the Central Plains. The land spread Buddhism.Unexpectedly, there were frequent wars, and Chang'an's dynasty was changing, and the Buddhist master Kumarajiva was abandoned alone in Wuwei and no one was in charge.Kumarajiva, who didn't know a single word of Chinese, started to learn Chinese from the local people word by word in order to preach Buddhist scriptures, until he mastered it, and then began to translate the scriptures, which lasted for 17 years!Later, the Chang'an court "liberated" Wuwei again, and learned that the master was still in Wuwei.At that time, Kumarajiva was already 58 years old, and he was too thin to look like a human being.The emperor was surprised, delighted and moved when he learned about it. He immediately sent someone to invite Kumarajiva to the capital, and gave him a very high courtesy. It took another 8 years to translate and spread Buddhist scriptures together.Kumarajiva and his disciples translated a total of 98 Buddhist scriptures. The ones that have been handed down today include the Dapin Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, the Vimalakirti Sutra, the Miaofa Lotus Sutra, the Theory of Great Wisdom, and the "On Reality" and other Buddhist classics.Kumarajiva came to China and spread Buddhist scriptures to the land of China much earlier than Master Xuanzang (Tang Monk) we are familiar with, especially his translation of Buddhist scriptures is unparalleled.Kumarajiva is extremely rigorous about his knowledge, and the works translated by him are almost perfect in terms of meaning and sound.Before his death, this Buddhist master and famous translator made a great wish, saying that if his hand-translation did not lose the original meaning, his tongue would not be burnt when he was burned after death.Legend has it that when he passed away and burned himself, only his tongue was not burned, and it was still as bright red as alive, becoming an immortal relic.The court deeply respected Kumarajiva, and finally transported his tongue relic from Chang'an to Wuwei City, where he had lived for 17 years, and built a pagoda there to bury him.The Rosh Pagoda that still stands on the North Street of Wuwei City today is a physical witness left in history by this great man in the Buddhist world. "Wuwei in history has been glorious several times, and in every glorious history, there are almost one or a few or even a large number of handsome talents. Because of their existence, there are so many classics handed down in Wuwei and even the whole of western China. Let us tell stories that are worthy of the pride of our descendants..." After visiting the Kumarajiva Temple, Secretary Huo Ronggui said these words with great emotion on the way to send me back to Lanzhou.Added a sentence at the end: "I graduated from the Department of History of Lanzhou University with a master's degree, and I care more about historical experience than others." I didn't respond to him, but from his dignified expression, I once again felt the mood and state of mind that he repeatedly told me in this interview why he was so "drastic" and engaged in "public elections"—— "I was forced out!" Huo Ronggui repeated this sentence many times.Especially after the "Three Niu Disturbance" came out, he said this on many occasions. In January 2010, Huo Ronggui came to Wuwei from the provincial government compound in Lanzhou to serve as the secretary of the municipal party committee and director of the National People's Congress.He came here to change the backwardness here.In the first few weeks, whenever he was free, he almost did one thing: look at the map, look at the map of Wuwei.But the more I looked at it, the more frightened I became, because there were two large deserts hanging over Wuwei's head: Badain Jaran and Tengger.These two deserts occupy 91% of the area in Minqin County, the largest, and are gradually invading the hinterland of Wuwei year by year.If Minqin couldn't keep it, Wuwei was completely destroyed. Therefore, Minqin's desertification prevention and control became a major event in Wuwei and Gansu, and it naturally alarmed the decision-making at the national level.At this stage, the world's desert prevention and control experience is basically one method: use the water resources in the region and then carry out artificial planting.The surface water in Wuwei is mainly dominated by the Shiyang River Basin.The domestic and production water in the whole territory depends on the water of Shiyang River.However, due to environmental deterioration and human factors in the Shiyang River Basin for many years, its water flow has been greatly reduced, and its water quality has been deteriorating day by day.The prosperity and prosperity of Wuwei in history is not unrelated to the rich water resources in the Shiyang River Basin. However, after entering the 21st century, the "Northern Jiangnan River" in the Hexi Corridor has exhausted. For this reason, Premier Wen Jiabao, who is familiar with the situation in this area, has been alarmed many times. .The repeated instructions from Zhongnanhai have made the local government and the people deeply feel the great responsibility, and they have put in a lot of effort, but the results have not been great. Why?Huo Ronggui came to Wuwei to work in mid-January 2010. Apart from some necessary procedural working hours, the first place he most wanted to go was Minqin County on the edge of the desert.After working for 10 days, after the "two sessions", Huo Ronggui went to the desert, to the tiger's mouth that wanted to swallow his Wuwei anytime and anywhere-the desert wind mouth is on the ground...the wind there is too strong, when the wind blows, people can't stand Can't help it, the tornado-like dust in the sky can push tanks tens of meters away, how can a mere human body stand? "How many outlets like this are there?" Huo Ronggui asked the local cadres. "There should be two or three hundred of them, large and small!" "When the wind blows every year, how many of your cadres have stood on the wind?" Huo Ronggui asked. "..." No one answered. "Well, from now on, whenever the wind blows, your county cadres will come, and I will come too! Let's stand together at the vents to feel the power of the desert, but more importantly, think of ways to block these vents! "Huo Ronggui said. "Secretary Huo, this wind energy buried the camel..." "I know... because the wind is strong, so the cadres should take the lead to stand in the wind. Otherwise, we will always shout that the common people should come to prevent and control sand. If we don't stand on the wind, the sand will never be cured!" Huo Ronggui's face was solemn and serious. "I want to come to Laohukou for more stops..." Huo Ronggui added as he left the outlet. Another half month later, Huo Ronggui came to Changning Township on the edge of Minqin for the second time to investigate.The local people were very surprised. They did not expect that on the first day after the Spring Festival holiday, "high officials from the city" would come to their homes to discuss with everyone how to prevent and control desertification and get rich. In the two years since he took office in early 2010, Huo Ronggui has come to Minqin more than a dozen times, basically for one thing: to prevent and control desertification, and to help the people find ways to get rich together with the county cadres.In particular, the development model of "facility agriculture + characteristic forest and fruit industry" proposed by him has enabled Minqin County to quickly achieve results in exploring the combination of ecological economy, circular economy and sand industry in terms of water saving and income increase. "If the environment in the Shiyang River Basin does not change fundamentally within a year, I will resign!" Huo Ronggui unequivocally issued a military order in front of the masses and cadres in order to grasp the fundamentals of desertification prevention and control in Minqin and Wuwei. "It depends on man's efforts. Nothing can be separated from human efforts." Huo Ronggui told me that through various measures in the past two years, the mining of groundwater in Minqin County can be controlled at 89 million cubic meters, and 100,000 mu of new agriculture has been built. , develop 120,000 mu of characteristic forest and fruit industry, 330,000 mu of artificial afforestation, and 310,000 mu of closed hills for afforestation and grass.Among them, the work of desertification control and ecological restoration in the Shiyang River Basin has achieved the most results.Qingtu Lake, which has been dry for 51 years, has formed an artificial seasonal water surface for two consecutive years.Especially after building four different types of sand prevention and control demonstration areas, such as high ecological type, economical type, and ecological economic compound type, in Qingtu Lake, Laohukou, and Longwangmiao according to local conditions, plus the 408-kilometer wind and sand control demonstration area in the bordering area of ​​the desert. A 300-kilometer-long protective forest belt was built online, effectively blocking 191 air outlets, and greatly changing the overall natural environment of Minqin County. "Last year, during the "two sessions" of the country, Premier Wen Jiabao heard about the environmental changes in the Shiyang River Basin and the results of desertification control in Minqin County. He was very happy to praise: it is a remarkable achievement!" Looking at the photos in the information, Huo Ronggui has only been in Wuwei for two years, and he has changed from a "white-faced official" in an office to a "black iron tower".This kind of change can sometimes explain some problems for a grassroots leader. "The biggest obstacle to the development of Wuwei is water shortage. The annual precipitation here is less than 120 millimeters, but the evaporation is more than 240 millimeters. The per capita water resources are one-half of the province's and one-fourth of the country's. But I am researching However, I found that there is still a fundamental problem of water shortage here: there is no water in the first place, but more than 90% of the total water consumption in Wuwei is used for agriculture and daily life in the countryside. It is originally arid and deserted, and people dig wells to get water. The wells are dug deeper every year, and as a result, there is less and less land to irrigate. Hundreds of thousands of people live on mountains without water sources. It is getting more and more expensive, and the farmers on the mountain are getting poorer and poorer... This is the result of traditional water use." Huo Ronggui thought all day long about completely changing Wuwei's backwardness, and soon he touched the main contradiction that caused Wuwei's backwardness , So he put forward the three major strategies of "ecological city", "industrial strong city", and "urban-rural integration", as well as measures to scientifically solve "structural water shortage" and let farmers and herdsmen in mountainous areas "go down the mountain to Sichuan". When the farmers heard that they were asked to move down the mountain, some people refused to live or die, saying that their ancestors had always lived on the mountain and were used to drinking cellar water.Some people even have only an old quilt left at home, and they would rather borrow money to buy water than leave the earthen hut in the mountain nest. "The backwardness of traditional concepts prevents these people from ever getting rich." Huo Ronggui's decision-making needs to face this group of people. It costs about 100,000 yuan to resettle a family of farmers on the mountain to live in the foothills. 10,000 households are worth 1 billion yuan, and Wuwei's annual disposable income is only about 1 billion yuan.Where does the money come from?Industrial development is the only way.So Huo Ronggui and a group of municipal party committee members, while proposing "industrial strength", learned from Jiangsu Suqian's approach: mobilize cadres at all levels to take action to attract investment projects. Suqian is a backward area in Jiangsu, but compared to Wuwei's conditions, it can be regarded as a paradise for investment.When Qiu He was in Suqian, in order to catch investment projects, the most prominent method was to be ruthless in the issue of employment. The "Suqian model" does this: "Change people if you don't change your mind, change people if you are not in the state, and replace people if you don't see results." It also stipulates that "the bottom five agencies and units shall not be recommended or promoted by the entire department; for two consecutive years The top two leaders will take the blame and resign, and all members of the leadership team will be held accountable.”There are also "five uniform" requirements: if the municipal departments have not made substantial progress in attracting investment, the entire department shall not recommend or promote cadres; Not allowed to become a full-time employee, and those who cannot be transferred by the due date will have to cancel the "assistant" qualification; municipal departments that fail to fully complete the target tasks will not be rated as advanced units for target management, and the local post subsidies for the current year's cadres and workers will be deducted according to the unfinished ratio; Probationary cadres who have not completed the task of attracting investment are not allowed to become regulars and promoted.Qiu He and the "Suqian Model" were later famous and successful because of these ruthless tactics. Huo Ronggui really wanted to learn from Qiu He, and he always mentioned the "Suqian model" at every meeting. Not long after he arrived in Wuwei, he proposed "strict management of cadres and kindness to the masses" among cadres, "uniting people's hearts through development, Use projects to measure political performance” slogans.In Wuwei, such slogans can be seen everywhere, and even became the Spring Festival couplets at the gate of the municipal party committee compound. Huo Ronggui hung "Eclectic use of talents, grasping projects out of thin air" as a Spring Festival couplet at the door of the house where he lived. "It's not that I value projects too much, but that there are too few projects in Wuwei!" Huo Ronggui replied, and then he changed the subject, his voice louder than that of the tiger's mouth: "In Wuwei, what is more terrifying than having few projects is that there are no projects. Talent! What we lack the most is talent! Talent—" Huo Ronggui is a passionate person. He said that practice has taught him a truth: as a person with ambition, responsibility, and mission, it is not scary to be a leader in any place. "The natural conditions are poor, the social foundation is poor, the economy is no longer You are backward, and these things can be changed. The most frightening thing is that there are no people, no talents, no people and talents who will work together with you! This is what Wuwei or the entire western region lacks!" Huo Ronggui pointed his finger at me and said: "The Municipal Party Committee put forward the strategy of 'strengthening the city through industry', but I managed more than 800 county-level cadres in the city, only to find 42 people who had ever been involved in industry, and none of the rest. I have worked in industry, and in the end, a person like me who has been sitting on the bench in the provincial government is also counted as someone who 'knows industry'! Do you think it is ridiculous?" The ridiculous thing is not only the situation of cadres.Ordinary talents are even scarcer.In Wuwei's entire cadre team, undergraduates and above accounted for 16% of the total number of cadres, which was lower than the national level in the 1970s.By the end of 2009, there were only 3 doctoral students in Wuwei.Wuwei really has no talent?Can't find talent?No, but the word "poor" has made countless talents "peacock fly southeast"! "In these years, even the sparrows have been flying!" Huo Ronggui said that in the 30 years since the resumption of the college entrance examination, more than 56,000 people in Wuwei were admitted to undergraduates, but only more than 5,000 people returned to their hometowns to work.Wuwei has a tradition of emphasizing education in ancient times. From 2000 to the present, 69 people have been admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University. This ratio is quite good among regional cities in the country. None of the outstanding talents returned to work in Wuwei. Everyone has their own aspirations, and no matter how close their relatives are, they can't be pulled back. What's more, among the parents in Wuwei, no one wants to let their children who have flown out of poverty return to Wuwei. This is Wuwei's embarrassment and Wuwei's pain. Now that Wuwei wants to develop and change its appearance, Huo Ronggui, the municipal party committee, and the municipal government are faced with outstanding problems.Do things the old way?Raising the taller among the dwarfs is equivalent to changing the soup without changing the medicine.Want to break through?Rules and regulations lay in front of me like a spider's web... What should I do? Emancipate your mind and innovate boldly!Huo Ronggui knocked on the table again and again at the meeting of the municipal party committee and the city's cadres, and said in a loud voice: If you want to change Wuwei's backwardness, you can only achieve transformation and leapfrogging!To achieve leapfrog development, the only way is to emancipate the mind!To emancipate the mind, we must keep pace with the times, seek truth from facts, and work creatively! "Talent is the bottleneck of Wuwei's development." The problem is clearly posed.The problem of talents is not as simple as attracting investment. Someone comes to talk, and once the conditions are right, the contract can be signed and started.The problem of talents must first solve the existing people's ideology. "Since we have no one of our own, should we bring in from outside?" "Should." "Then we will learn from others and recruit from all over the country." "Try it, it might work." So under the auspices of Huo Ronggui, Wuwei took out 11 industrial leadership positions at the end of 2010, recruiting for the first time across the country.According to the requirements of the relevant personnel selection in the province, it will be carried out in accordance with the method of recruiting one and selecting ten.One month after spending hundreds of thousands of yuan to advertise in the Central Newspaper, only 20 people came to sign up. Wuwei, Gansu?Never heard of that place!20 people signed up to be Amitabha!The organization department checked the 20 people who signed up, and 8 people did not meet the basic requirements. 12 people sign up and compete for 11 positions, how to do it?It doesn't meet the recruitment method!Had to abort. Wu Wei lost face.Huo Ronggui and the municipal party committee deeply felt "the embarrassment of Wuwei". Huo Ronggui is a person who refuses to admit defeat. He and the municipal party committee team have made up their minds to change the appearance of Wuwei, so they don't care much about "face"! "Wuwei is so short of high-end talents, is there any shortcut?" One day, Huo Ronggui asked the head of the organization, Li Mingsheng. "Yes! The province signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Tsinghua University the year before last. Every year, a group of graduates from Tsinghua University will be selected to come to Gansu..." Li Mingsheng said. "Why don't we go and snatch people over for such a good thing? You send people there right away!" Huo Ronggui gave his head of the organization a heavy push, and grabbed him again: "No, I'll go!" Later, Huo Ronggui really went to Tsinghua University in person. In this way, in 2010, he got 3 Tsinghua graduates to Wuwei, and 4 more Tsinghua students came to settle in the next year. "They are all excellent students from Tsinghua University, and they are good young people with great ambitions. We must care and love them like babies!" Huo Ronggui has a preference for these seven graduates from Tsinghua University. "Why not? They are really good! We Wuwei people's own children have studied at Tsinghua University and Peking University and don't want to go back to their hometown to work. People hear that we are backward here, giving up high salaries and superior conditions in the city, and staying away from their parents. He also brought his young wife to Wuwei to start a business and build with us, such good young people and outstanding talents, who else should we love if we don’t love them?” Huo Ronggui still had an unspoken fire in his heart. After the "Three Niu Disturbance" came out, some people continued to raise such questions on the Internet: Why did you Wuwei set up a "green channel" for promotion for Tsinghua graduates, and did not give such and such a university and other young people the opportunity?What is the truth behind it? Huo Ronggui's fire suddenly exploded: After we recruited at Tsinghua University, we also went to XX University and XX University, where we gave speeches and reports several times a day, and our voices became hoarse , but people look down on us Wuwei at all, no one signed up!This is the truth! Huo Ronggui's difficulties were not understood by outsiders before, let alone understood.Poor, Wuwei is a poor country, what kind of favorable conditions do you have to attract us to work and settle down?At that time, Huo Ronggui also said a lot of "benefits", but people scoffed at them, and didn't pay attention to them at all. Some people even sneered: You just gave me a bureau chief or a department chief, and this handsome guy and this lady are still the same. not interested! "Now we have gone through strict examinations and selection procedures one after another. We have really recommended several outstanding young people with aspirations to positions at the county level. Some people have criticized us for 'giving favor' to Tsinghua University and using the central government's cadre and personnel system' It’s a joke’. This is not true, at least people with this kind of prejudice don’t understand our starting point and selection process, let alone the real situation of these outstanding Tsinghua students!” When Huo Ronggui said these things, he was always impassioned. After the failure of the first national recruitment, when the municipal party committee decided to recruit 31 county-level executive and deputy county-level positions according to the specific work needs of the strategy of "strengthening the city through industry", there was still great controversy.First of all, everyone is worried about whether there will be another failed recruitment like the first time.If it fails again, how will Wuwei end up?Huo Ronggui, how will you explain to the people of Wuwei City? "Any kind of possibility is possible. We can't stop the strategy of attracting talents just because of one failure. Recruiting people is a bit like attracting investment. You can't do business once the negotiation fails and then you don't try again. How can you wait until the sky falls?饼呢？优秀人才比天上的馅饼还要珍贵，我们不下几次甚至十几次的诚心，金凤凰是不会飞到我们武威这棵树上的。只要我们心诚，对武威的需求宣传到位，再把工作做得更细一点，就一定会招到我们所急需的人才！”火荣贵信心始终不动摇。 对于新一次的面向全国招聘工作，市委十分重视，多次研究方案。其间有人提出：中央对西部地区引进人才有些特殊政策，我们武威应当根据自己的实际情况，在遵循中央人事制度的前提下，再把思想解放一点，比如对“211”大学的毕业生，能否开一点特殊优惠的口子？ 具体说？火荣贵说。 这类毕业生如果在武威工作满两年的，是不是就可以参加这次报考副县级？ 我看可以。火荣贵问常委们：你们觉得呢？ 中央有关选拔录用干部制度是我们党和国家培养干部的“大法”，我们西部贫穷地区，可以在这个“大法”的基础上，实事求是地为引进人才开展富有成效的工作。可以破一破规矩嘛！常委们最后意见一致。 还有一个想法：这两年清华大学先后来了7名有为青年，这些孩子个个非常优秀，能不能在这次“公选”中也给他们一个机会？火荣贵把闷在自己心里的一个愿望说了出来。 对啊，这几个年轻人可是我们的宝贝！应当对他们门槛再低一些。 是嘛，这才叫“不拘一格选人才”！ 可他们最多才工作一年多，还有几个只有半年工作经历。这与干部选拔条件差距太大了，会不会有问题呀？ 《条例》写得清楚，这方面越轨了，处分也是不轻的啊！ 明生，你向省委组织部请示一下。为慎重起见，火荣贵叮嘱组织部长李明生，末后他说：我真心希望这批孩子中有人能够考上，不过他们考不上也非常正常，毕竟他们工作经历短了些。随机缘吧！ “说实话，我没有想过像焦三牛他们才半年工作经历的几位清华生能够过五关斩六将，竟然脱颖而出，被成功录用！”火荣贵事后这样对我说，“当初仅是出于对他们几个有一份特别厚爱，希望给他们一个机会去试试，哪想焦三牛他们真的太优秀了！那天最后一关，是我们市委常委票决，每人一票，从两个候选人中选一个，当最后看到焦三牛等几位清华毕业生被通过时，我真的非常激动，有点像看到自己的孩子中了状元似的。我实在是为他们的胜出而感到由衷高兴！” 说到这里，火荣贵的眼睛有些湿润。 “还仅仅是一年前的事，那天我们好不容易盼到一位外商到咱武威来谈项目，结果他来了，谈项目的同志急着给我打电话，说市里没有翻译，人家外商要走。我说先把他稳住，随后我赶紧给兰州方面打电话，请求省外事部门借一位同志来给我们当翻译，才算了了一件事。现在我不用这么尴尬了。焦三牛是清华大学的英语专业毕业生，他当外事办副主任，接待外商外宾这一摊他可以给我们担起来了！”火荣贵解了一块心病。 “公选领导干部的公示出来后，网上和社会反应很大，有人对23岁的焦三牛能不能胜任副县级领导表示怀疑。我也不是没有想过这个问题，可后来一想：为什么焦三牛不行？他一定行！我火荣贵当年不也是23岁当了副县级干部嘛！那时没有党政干部选拔条例，但我们就是这样当上了干部，而且后来证明干得并不差！今天焦三牛为什么就不行呢？他一定行，三牛肯定比我火荣贵强，我当副县级时是一个普通大学毕业生，人家焦三牛是清华大学毕业的，我23岁当得了副县级，他焦三牛肯定不会比我火荣贵差！” “三牛风波”被炒得最热闹时，有记者逼着火荣贵回答“凭什么你们认为没有多少工作经历的23岁的焦三牛能胜任副县级领导”时，火荣贵只得这样回答。 “你们这样做，不觉得是严重违反中央政策吗？身为市委书记的你，是不是应该清楚地认识到自己应负什么样的责任？” “啪——！”这一回火荣贵真的火了，他的拳头重重地砸在桌子上，说：“我负什么责任自己清楚，我只知道武威现在还很穷，一直拖着甘肃省经济的后腿，我的180多万老百姓还没有过上好日子，他们甚至连一口干净的水都吃不上。我想让他们过上好一点的日子，所以我们想把生态农业和工业搞上去，可现在没有人才，我们通过公选把焦三牛他们提拔推选上来了，就是想让这些有志向、有抱负的青年人能够施展才能，为武威、为中国西部贡献青春和热血！这样的想法和做法，有哪一点与中央政策相悖？你们听过胡锦涛总书记在去年'七一'建党纪念大会上的讲话吗？你们听听总书记是不是这么说的——'回顾我们党90年的发展历程，我们有一个共同的感觉，这就是，我们党从成立之日起，就始终代表广大青年、赢得广大青年、依靠广大青年……我们党的队伍里始终活跃着怀抱崇高理想、充满奋斗激情的青年人，这是我们党历经90年风雨而依然保持蓬勃生机的一个重要保证。青年是祖国的未来、民族的希望，也是我们党的未来和希望。全党都要关注青年、关心青年、关爱青年，倾听青年心声，鼓励青年成长，支持青年创业。党对青年寄予厚望，人民对青年寄予厚望。全国广大青年一定要深刻了解近代以来中国人民和中华民族不懈奋斗的光荣历史和伟大历程，永远热爱我们伟大的祖国，永远热爱我们伟大的人民，永远热爱我们伟大的中华民族，坚定理想信念，增长知识本领，锤炼品德意志，矢志奋斗拼搏，在人生的广阔舞台上充分发挥聪明才智、尽情展现人生价值，让青春在为党和人民建功立业中焕发出绚丽光彩……”火荣贵竟然一字不落地将胡锦涛七一讲话中关于青年问题的一段话全都背了出来。 还有谁想知道火荣贵为什么要竭力通过公选想把焦三牛这样的优秀青年推荐到武威的领导岗位上？ 还有谁想知道？ Of course there is.Who is that?这回不是网民了，也不是其他社会杂音，而是中组部。 “中组部要派调查组来了！” 火荣贵的眼睛一下瞪圆了：中组部也要来人啦？