A police car clears the road in front, followed by an imported luxury bus. In the bus sat the veteran comrades of the visiting group brought by Sun Likun, accompanied by Tang Ping and Liu Shengli. Along the way, the atmosphere was very good, the old comrades talked and laughed freely, and from time to time asked about some information, Tang Ping pointed to the street scene outside the window, and made an introduction with great interest, which won a lot of encouraging applause from Sun Likun and the old comrades.

Sun Likun said: "Comrade Tang Ping, did a good job, ah? Yangshan is simply the same every year!"

Tang Ping said: "Old Sun, there are many difficulties and problems, and it is up to us to win them!"

Sun Likun immediately asked: "Shengli, why are you, the new mayor, going to burn these three fires?"

Liu Shengli waved his hand again and again: "I don't have any fire to burn, I just want to do something practical for the people in a down-to-earth manner." ”

Sun Likun smiled: "Okay, good." Then he asked, "Is your mother well?"

Liu Shengli said: "Okay, I will educate Qian Yuan and me." Whenever there was a corruption case in the newspaper, she would cut it out and show it to me, and she would say, 'This article is important, I think it is worth reading.......'"

Sun Likun laughed: "I have simply become the secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection in your family!"

When visiting the mine park, Tang Ping quietly stopped Liu Shengli and said: "Shengli, Sun Lao and so many old comrades have come to our Yangshan, the opportunity is rare, I think the work should be done first." ”

Liu Shengli asked, "Secretary Tang, what do you do?"

Tang Ping said: "What are you pretending to be foolish for me? Please ask Sun Lao and them to help us go to the province to change the plan!"

Liu Shengli said: "Secretary Tang, didn't you give me a month?

Tang Ping said: "I'm not in a hurry, but I want to do the work first." ”

Liu Shengli said: "Secretary Tang, Chen Tao has a plan, I don't know if you have seen it?"

Tang Ping was stunned: "What? Mayor Liu, you bet the treasure on Chen Tao's whimsical idea?"

Liu Shengli smiled tactfully: "Secretary Tang, it can't be said that Chen Tao's idea is whimsical, right? Even Vice Mayor Zheng thinks it's feasible!"

Tang Ping said: "Lao Zheng, why don't I know their opinions?"

Liu Shengli still smiled: "Your big boss has a hammer, who dares to speak......

At this time, Sun Likun, who had already walked to the miners' monument, shouted: "Comrade Tang Ping, you come up! Hey, let me ask you, is this miner's statue Liu Cunyi?"

Tang Ping stopped arguing with Liu Shengli and walked quickly to the tablet: "Old Sun, you have good eyesight, this statue is carved with Liu Cunyi as a model, symbolizing the miner group!"

Sun Likun nodded slightly, pointed to the statue and said to Liu Shengli: "Victory, this is your example!"

When Tang Ping heard this, he couldn't help but have an idea, and without discussing it with Liu Shengli, he suddenly suggested: "Old Sun, tonight, let's accompany you to see the Hongqi Coal Mine where Cunyi worked, okay?

Sun Likun said: "Okay, good, let's go to the miners' homes to see the new changes in reform and opening up!"

Liu Shengli hesitated: "Secretary Tang, this ...... Is that good?"

Tang Ping waved his hand: "What's wrong? I'm a truth-seeking person and I'm not afraid of being ugly!"

Sun Likun was taken aback by the sight of the Hongqi Coal Mine, which had been reforming and opening up for nearly 20 years, and the Hongqi Coal Mine was still the same as it had been – even worse than it had been back then. The old bungalows, built in the fifties, are dilapidated and still have no money for major repairs. There is not much difference between the Chen Mine Chief's house they went to and Liu Cunyi's home back then. The facilities and furniture in the house are very old, and there is hardly a single new appliance or furniture.

Sun Likun looked around and sighed: "Comrade Tang Ping, Yangshan has changed greatly, but the Hongqi Coal Mine has not changed much! Ahh

Liu Shengli said nefactorily: "Yes, Secretary Sun, we are all responsible. ”

Tang Ping immediately picked it up: "Mayor Liu, it's good that we can realize our responsibility!" took Mine Chief Chen's hand, "Come, come, victory, I'll introduce you to Mine Chief Chen." Like me, Mine Chief Chen is also your father's old partner, who traveled from Anhui to Yangshan with your father, and eleven years ago, he gave your father a funeral with 8,000 miners from the Hongqi Mine. Mine Chief Chen, can you tell Mr. Sun and Mayor Liu how many comrades have died underground since the liberation of the Hongqi Coal Mine? In addition, how many comrades have died of silicosis and other occupational diseases?

Mine Chief Chen thought for a moment and said: "No less than 800 comrades died of occupational diseases and no less than 2,000 people were disabled due to work-related injuries. When I retired, there were more than 1,200 families of the dead and wounded miners who needed to be compensated. ”

Tang Ping said bitterly: "Mayor Liu, this is history, this is sacrifice -- that is to say, in the years of peace, the Hongqi mine is still waging a bloody war! The casualties over the past 40 years and more have been so huge! Now that the resources of the Hongqi mine have gradually been depleted, so many people cannot eat, are we worthy of history? Are we not to be blamed on our conscience? You have also heard the criticism that Elder Sun just made to us, and you still say that you are not in a hurry?!"

Liu Shengli looked helpless: "I know what Secretary Tang and Mine Chief Chen said, but as far as the actual situation of Yangshan City is concerned, I can't rush out on a sunny day!"

Sun Likun looked at Liu Shengli in amazement, with a stunned expression: "Shengli, why are you talking like that?!"

Liu Shengli completely understood Tang Ping's intentions, and had to make his words clear: "But, Secretary Tang, no matter how urgent we are, we can't sacrifice the interests of future generations!"

Tang Ping's face pulled: "Don't I want to leave a garden-like city to future generations? But, comrade, we have to face reality! Let me tell you, Chen Tao's plan will not work! The city will not be able to come up with so much money at once!"

Liu Shengli suppressed it and reluctantly smiled: "Secretary Tang, didn't you give me a month?

Tang Ping didn't admit it: "Three days, now I will only give you three days, I just want you to be in a hurry!"

Liu Shengli thought for a while: "Okay, three days is three days, and after three days, I will make a detailed report to you and the municipal party committee!"

Mine Chief Chen interjected at this time: "Mayor Liu, the situation of the Hongqi Mine really has to be resolved, alas, it is a good thing that your father left early, and if you really live to see the Hongqi Mine fall to this point, I don't know how sad it will be!"

Liu Shengli comforted: "The mine is also like a person, there is life and death, Uncle Chen, you have to look at it." ”

Mine Chief Chen said: "I can't look at it! Mayor Liu, after nearly 20 years of reform and opening up, Yangshan has become unrecognizable, but there are so many debts here! The Hongqi Mine has been transferred from the ministry to the province and from the province to the city, and everyone regards it as a big burden! If it is not our Secretary Tang who is in charge, who will take it?"

Liu Shengli glanced at Tang Ping: "Secretary Tang has a conscience. ”

Mine Chief Chen was even more excited: "But how did this burden come about? Where did all the accumulation of the Hongqi Mine go over the past few decades? Didn't they all be transferred away by the state without compensation during the planned economy era? Mayor Liu, you also have to have a conscience, and you must support Secretary Tang to solve the problem of the Hongqi Mine as soon as possible!"

Liu Shengli said with a smile: "Uncle Chen, don't worry, the problem must be solved, but how to solve it, the city is studying - including the transformation of this new workers' village." We will not let it enter the next century in this way! It will not only be a shame for me as a mayor, but also a shame for the Chinese Communists!"

Mine Chief Chen shook Liu Shengli's hand and said again and again: "That's good, that's good! There are always more ways than difficulties -- this is what your father often said when he was alive!"

On the way back to Yangshan City from the Hongqi Mine, Tang Ping pulled Sun Likun into his car, and only then did he tell Sun Likun about the dispute between himself and Liu Shengli, and finally spread his hands and asked Sun Likun: "Old Sun, you also saw that the coal ash everywhere in the mining area is dirty and messy, can you build a science and technology park? Isn't it whimsical?"

Sun Likun also shook his head: "It's a little romantic!"

Tang Ping said: "So, Elder Sun, you should help us do the work of changing the plan first." ”

Sun Likun smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that my influence is limited." ”

Tang Ping said: "Old Sun, the influence is limited, but there is always influence!"

Sun Likun then said, "Let's see when the time comes!" and then asked, "Do you regret that victory is coming?"

Tang Ping shook his head: "The child is our own child, just beat her more, I'm not polite to her! This child also has strengths, quite mature, not bureaucratic, has been the mayor for twenty days, and has been running below for more than ten days, even I often can't find her." He sighed, and said, "Young man, her brain is better than ours, and she may be able to come up with a trick! I deliberately forced her today!"

Sun Likun patted Tang Ping on the shoulder: "That's right, our old comrades should not only care for and care for young cadres, but also let them do things, otherwise, this class will not be able to continue!"