Chapter 61: The Silence of the Lambs
Yang Tao is an ordinary coal miner in Panmei Coal Mine, and his daily life begins and ends in the dark. There is only one monthly holiday to get together with your family and enjoy the warmth of the family.
Yang Tao was the happiest when he was with his son Yang Ye, whenever he saw Yang Ye's immature smiling face, he felt that all his hard work was worth it.
Yang Tao is a native of Mingnan, he is very familiar with Mingnan, he is also familiar with Pan's Group, as the largest private enterprise in Mingnan, he and his wife are small screws in this large group, and most of their food, clothing, housing and transportation are also from Pan's Group's subordinate enterprises. For Yang Moss, this is his world.
Yang Tao is very satisfied with his living situation, two taels of wine at lunch every day, chatting with his co-workers during the work break, and everyone gets together to play cards during the break, this is Yang Tao's most familiar life, he feels that he will always live like this.
If Yang Mo is dissatisfied with Mingnan, it is the bad air here, and there is always a pungent smell in the air in Mingnan.
For Yang Moss, this kind of sour air is a normal taste, he has long been familiar with this smell, but Yang Ye has not yet adapted to the sour smell in the air, and every time the season changes, he begins to cough continuously, and Yang Moss's wife can only take her son to the hospital every now and then.
Yang Tao didn't have anything to do about it, looking at his son's thin body shaking when he coughed, Yang Tao could only look forward to paying his salary as soon as possible, and he could buy more food for his son to replenish his body.
Yang Tao always felt that Yang Ye often coughed because his resistance was too poor, and he felt that as long as he let his son eat better and stronger, his resistance would be stronger, and he would not cough like this anymore.
Fortunately, Yang Tao is glad that his salary is quite good in Mingnan, and he can get home 10,000 yuan every month, he knows that the money is exchanged for his life, but he still thinks it is worth it.
In Yang Moss's opinion, it is not terrible if the money is not spent when people die, and it is worth it if the money is left for the wife and children, as long as the wife and children are doing well. But if people live without money, it is really difficult to move an inch, let alone marry a wife and have children, and it is difficult to say whether they can eat tomorrow's breakfast.
Yang Tao has no culture, only one body of strength, so he thinks that Panmei Coal Mine is the most suitable job for him, and he is full of gratitude to the Pan Group and the Pan family for this, and he is glad that he can get this job to support his family.
It's a pity that there are unforeseen circumstances, Yang Mo never thought that the coal economy would also have a sluggish day, it seems that in a blink of an eye, those long queues of coal trucks are gone, and there are only a few coal trucks left in the yard every day to load coal there.
It is not only the coal trucks that have been reduced, but also the wages of Yang Moss. Yang Moss's salary fell again and again, which made him extremely annoyed, and he couldn't understand why his life was becoming less and less valuable.
Yang Tao became irritable, and when Yang Ye coughed, Yang Tao was no longer distressed but began to scold, scolding Yang Ye for spending too much money on his illness, scolding Yang Ye for coughing and coughing every day, so that he could not live in peace when he could finally rest, and scolded Yang Ye for not taking care of his family and raising a child who was sick every day.
Yang Tao gradually changed from getting up early and greedy for darkness every day to working every other day, and later to working one day and resting for two days. Originally, Yang Tao had more time to spend with his family, but Yang Tao couldn't be happy, the sharp drop in wages made him worry about his family's livelihood, and this invisible pressure made him nowhere to release, so he could only drink and scold others to anesthetize himself to make him feel better.
Yang Mo was not happy when he heard that the national environmental protection inspection team was coming to Mingnan, although he knew that these people were here to protect the environment and let everyone have a more comfortable living space, but Yang Mo did not care about environmental issues, and he was not interested in whether the living space was comfortable. For him, life is the most important thing, and if he wants to live, he must earn enough money to support his family.
But every time the national environmental protection inspection team comes to the coal mine, they have to stop work, and once they stop working, they have no income, and their family has no food. Therefore, Yang Tao gritted his teeth with hatred whenever he mentioned these people, thinking that they made his family hungry.
Yang Tao does not understand the behavior of these environmental protection workers, his idea is very simple, eating is the most important thing, and it is meaningless to not even eat a good environment. If you can't eat, what's the use of those green waters and green mountains?
What's more, in Yang Moss's view, these people are thundering and raining every time, and when they come, the surrounding coal mines, chemical plants, paper mills, etc. have stopped production because of their arrival, but as soon as they leave, they still produce what they should produce, and the pollution is still polluted, those factories have not changed at all, and the sour smell in the air has not changed in the slightest.
In Yang Tao's view, the arrival of the national environmental protection inspection team will not affect the big bosses who open factories and mines, but ordinary people like themselves will suffer from this. After all, a day of work stoppage means that the family will not earn the family's rations for a day, and the family will starve, so Yang Tao is very disgusted with these big leaders who don't know the suffering of the world.
But this time, even Yang Tao felt that it was different from before, they stayed longer this time than before, and they seemed to be prepared, they knew all the pollution sources in Mingnan well, and pointed to the key points, which made those local leaders break out in a cold sweat.
What's even more puzzling is that in the past, when these people came, those petitioners and complainants had already been locked up or intercepted five kilometers away, but this time someone actually entered the hotel where the environmental protection inspection team was located. Those who stopped and intercepted the interviews were not praised for their positive work, but were criticized.
Yang Tao is all too familiar with these petitioners, some of whom are obviously richer than themselves, but they keep petitioning, and petitioning has become a profession for these people. But some inactive leaders often take good care of these people in order to calm things down, which makes Yang Tao feel dissatisfied.
Yang Tao even felt that this was a crying child with milk to eat, and his hard work was not as good as these troublemakers, Yang Tao felt that this was God's injustice. But he is just an ordinary person, even if he is dissatisfied, what can he do?
Of course, Yang Tao knew that some of the petitioners were really wronged. Just like Yang Moss's co-worker, who fell to the ground while digging coal in the mine for some reason, and later went to the hospital to find out that he had silicosis, and died not long after.
His family had lost their pillars and could not open the pot, but the pension in the mine was pitifully small, and it was used up when the worker was treated, and his family borrowed a lot of money to treat him.
But after so long, I didn't see a result. Later, even Yang Mo no longer sympathized with them, but regarded them as a joke, thinking that it was a joke that they wanted to bring down the big tree of the Pan Group, and that it was a joke that they said that the Pan Group was only trying to pollute the environment for profit.
Slowly, Yang Tao began to feel that the continuous petitions of the workers' families were just wanting the Pan Group to lose more money, and it was the workers' families who were insatiable. But this time, the worker's family also entered the hotel where the inspection team was located.
The workers in the mine also began to discuss the pollution caused by the Pan Group to Mingnan, and the air quality in Mingnan has deteriorated in recent years, many people in Mingnan have become sick, and more people often cough, which makes those workers in Yang Tao also begin to question whether the Pan Group's behavior is really right? Or is it really time to rectify the environmental pollution problem in Mingnan.
Yang Tao was originally dismissive of these remarks, he felt that these people were chewing the root of the tongue, he himself had lived in Mingnan for so many years and had not seen any disease, and the environmental pollution in Mingnan was not a day or two, he didn't think it was a problem, and even felt that it was just a by-product produced for eating, but he couldn't choke on food because of the existence of by-products!
But Yang Tao listened to the workers talk about these words, and his own concept gradually changed, and he even vaguely felt that his son's cough may be because of the poor air quality in Mingnan, in other words, because of this Pan Group.
But even if it is because of the Pan Group, what can be done? After all, they still have to rely on the Pan Group to earn money and eat, and Yang Tao has seen those people who petitioned against the Pan Group being put in a miserable manner, and has seen those people being beaten on the head and bleeding.
Yang Mos's subconscious told him that this Pan Group was not so simple, and it was impossible for a few ordinary people to bring it down, so there was no need to expect any changes.
As soon as the inspection team lived in Mingnan, there was no sign of leaving, and Yang Tao also felt that the inspection team would not be so easy to fool this time, he didn't know if it would change the sky, and he was not in the mood to think about these problems.
The most important thing for Yang Mo is to eat enough and not let his family go hungry. In a way, he didn't even want to let the Pan Group fall like that. Because even if the Pan Group is a big source of pollution, the pollution does not make it impossible for him to live, but if the Pan Group falls and he has no job, the family may really not survive.
At this time, Pan Lun had returned to Mingnan from Manthorn Plus, and when he watched those people who wanted to sue him swagger into the residence of the inspection team, but those people in Mingnan had no intention of stopping him, he couldn't help but feel that the people he had raised and promoted before were all white-eyed wolves, and they would not play any role at the critical moment.
In order to prevent the inspection team from discovering the pollution of the Pan Group, Pan Lun began to send his subordinates to coerce and lure those who petitioned to make trouble, but there were still stunned people who did not go in to find the inspection team.
Pan Lun had a headache at this time, but he couldn't command these people from the center. I can only go around to find out the news, try to prevent the people of the inspection team from coming into contact with the bad things of my group, and at the same time silently pray in my heart for the people of the inspection team to leave.
Contrary to expectations, the members of the inspection team have not left, and are still investigating the environmental pollution of the Pan Group.
Unbeknownst to Pan Lun, another group of people was also eyeing him at this time, and was conducting a secret investigation into his Pan Group. This group of people is the White Tiger Group. They have been returning from Manchu to Manchu and have been investigating Pan Lun in Mingnan for nearly half a month. At this time, Pan Lun had no idea about the arrival of the White Tiger Group, and his mind was completely on the inspector team.
After nearly a month, it was almost the time of the Chinese New Year, the inspection team left Mingnan, and Pan Lun was relieved, he felt that he had finally overcome the difficulties again, so he let those factories that had stopped start to resume work, and continue to make money for themselves to make up for the losses of these days.
The inspection team left, and Pan Lun began his life as the head of the underground organization again, and began to socialize with each other on his own.
For Pan Lun, the affairs of the Pan Group are settled, and the Manthorn Plus side seems to have calmed down as before, Wang Zhi told Pan Lun that although Hai Feng and they are gone, they have not appeared in Pan Lun's casino again.
Pan Lun's casino, as always, brought him a lot of money, and the business of Spinach.com was rising, making Pan Lun make a lot of money. Pan Lun felt that all the gloom had passed, and even the call with Song Xin had returned to his previous state of triumph.
At the beginning, Song Xin also reminded Pan Lun not to be careless and to be careful of Haifeng and them. But later, Song Xin was no longer cautious. Song Xin also helped Pan Lun find Haifeng's traces, and Song Xin told Pan Lun that Haifeng had returned to China and would not pose a threat to Spinach.com.
Pan Lun can finally put the troubles of these days behind him and start preparing for the New Year. In his opinion, everything has passed, and he is still the eldest son of the Pan family who can cover the sky with one hand in Mingnan, and he is still the big boss of the spinach network who is making money every day.
Pan Lun has already made plans for the coming year, and he plans to move the spinach net back to China and his own territory after the New Year, so that he will no longer have weaknesses, and he will no longer have to be afraid of Haifeng or the like.
What Pan Lun didn't know was that the inspection team hadn't actually left, and this time the inspection team had actually secretly entered Mingnan before Pan Lun got the news, and found a lot of evidence of environmental pollution by the Pan Group, and then got a lot of feedback from the masses, and was ready to take action against the Pan Group.
The reason why the inspection team did not take action against the Pan Group, but left Mingnan was because Qiu Zhiyong informed the inspection team of the actions of the White Tiger Group, and let the inspection team know that the Pan Group not only polluted the environment, but also involved more crimes. In order not to affect the investigation of the White Tiger Group, they pretended to leave Mingnan.
It didn't take long for the White Tiger Group to grasp all the evidence of Pan Lun's crimes, not only Pan Lun's illegal behavior over there, but even Pan Lun's actions in Mingnan, just waiting for the final blow.
Hai Feng returned to Mingcheng to report to Qiu Zhiyong and the inspection team, and it was clear to everyone in the White Tiger Group that they could end the battle before the New Year, and wipe out Pan Lun, a villain who had done a lot of evil, and everyone was ready for the final blow.
At this time, Mingnan was peaceful, everyone was busy preparing for the New Year, and in the lively atmosphere of this festival preparation, a big war was about to begin......