Chapter 11 The Mayor's Courage
For Phoenix Lake, Lin Chendu, who has been in Dongping for more than a year, is no stranger, and he also swam in the lake in the summer. In his memory, Phoenix Lake is surrounded by green willows, green grass, and white egrets fly up from time to time in the sparkling lake, stretching their elegant posture. But when he saw this famous lake in Dongping again today, he couldn't help but be stunned. As far as the eye can see, the lake is full of dead fish, shrimp and crabs, and there are many fishing boats on the lake that are busy salvaging these dead fish and shrimp, and most of the boats are piled up. Many people are busy while shedding tears of sadness. That kind of scene is really shocking.
Although he had heard about the situation here before he came, when he saw it with his own eyes, Lin Chenwan couldn't help but be shocked by everything in front of him and was speechless for a long time. After a long time, he sighed lightly, and turned his head to look at Yang Weiguo again, only to see that Yang Weiguo's eyes had been looking out the window, with no expression on his face, but Lin Chenwan noticed that Yang Weiguo's right hand on his thigh was clenched tightly, and the green tendons on his fist seemed to be beating.
Along the Phoenix Lake, before the convoy arrived at the Sun Paper Group Company, it saw an extraordinary building rising from the shore of the Phoenix Lake from a distance, the dark blue glass curtain wall emitted dazzling light under the sunlight, and a huge sun symbol on the top of the building could be seen from afar.
"It's not a small scale." Yang Weiguo seemed to say to himself, but there was a hint of coldness in his tone.
"Sun Paper is the largest papermaking enterprise in Huachuan Province, which was originally located in Heyang. After expressing the intention of relocating from Heyang, many places rushed to issue invitations. To be able to settle in our Dongping, it is said that the city has given extremely generous preferential conditions. Lin Chenwan whispered to Yang Weiguo.
As a secretary, he has the responsibility and obligation to tell Yang Weiguo what he knows, although he, a half-baked secretary, only knows a little scratch.
Yang Weiguo nodded slightly, but didn't say anything, but he also had some ideas in his heart.
In his opinion, if there is not any problem, why would this Sun Paper suddenly have to relocate if it is good in the provincial capital? Most of them are also because of pollution and environmental problems, they can't stay in the provincial capital, so they have to move to other places. And such a provincial abandoned enterprise, Dongping spent a lot of money to pull it back like a baby, this kind of behavior that only sees the current interests, but ignores environmental protection and people's health, makes him both angry and helpless.
This kind of thing is not uncommon for him. For the sake of political performance, officials will naturally consciously or unconsciously ignore many issues when attracting investment. Anyway, it is an iron-clad government official, and everyone wants to achieve immediate results during their time in power, and what kind of negative impact it will bring to the local area is not within their consideration, and who knows where they have been promoted when the time comes?
There are still hundreds of meters away from Sun Paper, and the car can no longer pass, several police cars that have been overturned to the ground, and the unrecognizable police cars have blocked the road tightly, the windows of the car have all been smashed, and one of them has disappeared without even four wheels, and the scene is a mess. And across the police car, there was a black pressure inside, and Lin Chenwan made a rough estimate that there were probably no less than one or two thousand people present. Everyone was furious and noisy, asking the factory to give an explanation. Inside, the two large iron doors of Sun Paper were tightly closed, and there were still many traces of being knocked on them. In front of the iron gate, dozens of policemen formed a human wall, trying their best to maintain order, many of them were untidy because of pushing and grabbing, and some even had blue and purple faces. There was also a man standing on the roof of a police car with a megaphone and shouting something in his lungs, but his voice was already drowned out by the raging noise of the scene, and he couldn't hear anything clearly.
"Mayor Yang, that is Guo Minggang, the head of Tanghu Township." Lin Chenwan stammered a little and introduced to Yang Weiguo. Facing this kind of big scene for the first time, he couldn't help but feel a little dry mouth, his heart was pounding, and he didn't seem to even dare to come out.
Yang Weiguo glanced at Guo Minggang, who was sweating profusely, with some deep meaning, and didn't speak, but pulled the car door and walked out. Lin Chenwan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly opened the car door and ran down.
"Mayor Yang, there is danger ahead, so let's wait for the armed police to come before going over?" Seeing Yang Weiguo get out of the car, Wang Jian also hurriedly ran up with a few policemen, looked at the crowd in front of him, and said to Yang Weiguo with a nervous face. Although he also brought more than 20 policemen this time, compared to the thousands of people, this little power is really insignificant, like a stone thrown into the sea, and even the waves can't splash.
Yang Weiguo glared at Wang Jian and said, "What are you waiting for? Wait any longer and something will happen. With that, he turned and strode into the crowd.
Wang Jian was scolded in public, and his face was red and white, and he was extremely embarrassed.
"Director Wang, don't mind, Mayor Yang is also in a hurry." Lin Chendui whispered a word as he walked past him.
If it was usual, Lin Chendui would not pay attention to such a small role as Lin Chendui, but at this moment, hearing Lin Chendui's words, Wang Jian's heart was hot, and he nodded towards Lin Chendui with a little gratitude, and reprimanded loudly to the subordinates who were hugging him with a dark face: "What are you doing in a daze?" Why don't you hurry up and protect Mayor Yang? Paralyzed, if something goes wrong, fucking fuck me out. ”
After that, he took out the phone again, dialed a number, and shouted inside: "Captain Chen, have you arrived?" What the? Still on the way? My brother, please hurry up, the situation is urgent, and our Mayor Yang has already entered......"
If Mayor Yang really wants to do something here, then he, the director of the public security bureau, may come to an end.
Looking at the crowd of people in front of him who were angry and surging in, Guo Minggang was also helpless. He was almost speechless because he had been shouting loudly for a long time.
In fact, he also had a fire in his heart. At the beginning, Guo Minggang raised a thousand hands to support the Sun Paper to settle in Tanghu, but he was resolutely opposed to building a factory on the shore of Phoenix Lake. For this reason, he has reported to the city more than once. However, his efforts did not change the determination of the city, but from the signing of the contract to the laying of the foundation of the factory, and then to the formal production, all the things during the period were handled by Feng Dayong, secretary of the party committee of the city and township, and he was completely put aside as the head of the township. Guo Minggang didn't want to care about this mess, out of sight and out of mind. Unexpectedly, now that things have developed to such a point, Feng Dayong has avoided it, and Mayor Zhang, who is in charge of industry in the city, has repeatedly shirked it, and he, the township head, has been pushed to the forefront in desperation, and he has no choice but to stand on the front line.
However, the angry farmers don't seem to buy his account as the head of the township, let him talk about it, not only did it not get any effect, but in the surging public sentiment, the scene is almost out of control, even he does not know who punched him in the chaos, and now half of his face is still hot and painful. The person in charge of Sun Paper, no matter how he coordinated and communicated, was always unwilling to come forward to solve the problem, and repeatedly accused Guo Minggang of not providing a good development environment for the company and violating the agreement signed at the beginning. If the local government can't resolve the matter as soon as possible, he will spread the word about it to the whole country.
is paralyzed, it's really bad luck for eight lifetimes. Guo Minggang scolded secretly in his heart, but the work had to be done.
"Folks, folks, please calm down." Guo Minggang didn't care about the sweat on his head and his throat that was about to smoke, and shouted loudly over and over again: "Don't worry, the government will definitely investigate this matter and give you an explanation." Please don't gather around here, it's a mistake to make......"
"The fart government is not a collusion between officials and businessmen, but only knows how to harm our people."
"You fucking get off, we're not going to listen to you, we're going to see the owner of the paper mill."
"Yes, tell the boss to get out and give us an explanation!"
"Paralyzed Dog's Legs ......"
Guo Minggang's persuasion not only did not have any effect, but completely ignited the dissatisfaction of the farmers. The shouting and scolding suddenly came one after another, and many people wanted to rush forward to pull him down, but fortunately, the police in front tried their best to stop the guards, and he escaped the catastrophe for the time being. However, the situation at the scene is gradually out of control, many farmers who have lost their patience and reason in front have once again had physical contact with the police, and the people behind are surging, like waves of surging waves towards the gate. Overwhelmed, the first few policemen collapsed, and the crowd surged forward......
Seeing this scene, Guo Minggang's face turned pale and his eyes were about to split.
This chaotic scene is most prone to stampede accidents, the impact of the collapse of the Jihe Highway Bridge has not been eliminated, if there are any casualties here, the name Dongping may once again resound in the land of China. This responsibility, not to mention that he is a small township head, even if he is a mayor or governor, I am afraid he will not be able to bear it.
At this moment, I heard three crisp gunshots "bang bang bang" ringing in my ears, which immediately interrupted all the noisy and chaotic sounds. The surging crowd couldn't help but stagnate, and everyone was stunned, and their eyes looked towards the place where the gunshots rang out.
But in the crowd, more than a dozen policemen were nervously guarding the surroundings, and among them there were two men in civilian clothes, one of whom looked less than forty, with a majestic figure and a very imposing demeanor, a middle-aged man with a pistol in his hand and an angry gaze at the crowd around him, and his sharp gaze made people dare not look directly.
"I am Yang Weiguo, the mayor of Dongping City, if you have anything to say to me, I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer." After handing the gun back to a police officer, Yang Weiguo said loudly as he struggled to the front. After a pause, he said sharply: "But if you are congested here again and seriously disrupt social order, it will not only bring serious safety risks, but also commit a crime." Believe it or not, I'm going to arrest you all? ””
The noise immediately subsided.
As an official-oriented country, people seem to have an inexplicable sense of awe for officials subconsciously, let alone the mayor who is still high? Although they don't know what the mayor looks like, they can look at the nervousness of those policemen.
And Guo Minggang also looked at Yang Weiguo dumbfounded, and for a while, his heart was very complicated. The situation was serious, and Mayor Zhang was reluctant to come forward, so he called Mayor Yang's office as a last resort, but he didn't expect Mayor Yang to come to the scene so soon. This made him very happy and apprehensive at the same time. If I failed to deal with the problem in time, I am afraid that I will not be able to leave a good impression in front of this new leader.
All eyes were focused on Yang Weiguo, and Lin Chendu, who was beside Yang Weiguo, was also nervous, his facial muscles were stiff, his palms were full of sweat, and his body was trembling slightly, worried that these angry farmers would suddenly rush up. But apparently his worries were unfounded.
After a moment of silence, there was another uproar in the crowd, and someone shouted in dissatisfaction, "If it weren't for the fact that there was no way, we wouldn't want to gather around here." ”
"Yes, is it easy for us to work hard all year round to raise these fish, shrimp and crabs? If they don't compensate, we won't go. ”
"You officials don't care about us, we have to figure it out on our own."
……
There was a commotion at the scene, and everyone seemed very indignant.
Yang Weiguo frowned slightly, and was about to say something, when he suddenly heard a woman's mournful cry: "Mayor Yang, you have to be the master for us!" As soon as the words fell, an unkempt woman in her thirties rushed out of the crowd with a panicked child and rushed directly towards Yang Weiguo. Several policemen on the periphery immediately stopped them outside as if they were facing a great enemy. Seeing that she couldn't rush in, the woman and the child knelt on the ground, burst into tears, and shouted in a trembling voice: "We orphans and widows live by raising some crabs, and now all the crabs are dead, how can we live?" Oh my God......"
Seeing that Yang Weiguo was about to walk over despite the persuasion of Wang Jian and others, Lin Chenwan hurriedly rushed to the front to help the two mothers up, and said with relief: "This eldest sister, don't worry." As soon as Mayor Yang heard about the incident, he immediately rushed here, and he will definitely investigate the matter strictly and give you justice. ”
Yang Weiguo glanced at the woman who was still wiping her tears, his eyes swept over everyone's faces, and said loudly: "Folks, I have heard what happened to you, please rest assured, I am here to guarantee with my personality and the black yarn hat on my head that if it is verified that the water pollution of Phoenix Lake is caused by Sun Paper, I will definitely instruct Sun Paper to compensate everyone for all losses." If you still can't believe it, you can elect a few trustworthy representatives to supervise the whole process and see if I, Yang Weiguo, will not be untrustworthy. If there is, I don't need everyone to call me out of class, I Yang Weiguo will automatically resign! ”
Hearing Yang Weiguo's sonorous and powerful words, many people began to talk about each other, and their emotions were not as excited as Fang Cai.
At this time, I heard someone shouting, "How long will it take?" Don't wait for us to go back and there is no response, we little people can't afford it. ”
"Yes, you officials like to perfunctory us the most, when will the problem be solved?"
Everyone shouted again.
"Three days." Yang Weiguo glanced around at everyone, and waited for nearly a minute before saying categorically: "Within three days, I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer." ”