Chapter 711: Opportunism 9

1.

The tree planting site for the 21st Arbor Day in Huxian County was selected on a small mound in the south of the city, close to the Chengguan Town Government Station, and the area is not large, and there can be dozens of acres of land.

At this time, colorful flags were displayed on the small mound, dozens of vehicles of all sizes and more than 300 people surrounded the small mound.

The relevant departments of the tree pit have already arranged for excavators to dig it, and the saplings have already been transported and placed on the edge of the pit, and several water trucks of the garden department have already stopped and waited beside the mound, and the shovels and buckets used for planting trees have also been neatly placed, and the shovels for the leaders have even been tied with red silk cloth.

This scene, no matter how you look at it, does not look like planting trees, but more like a stage for "show". All this seems to be "acting", and the relevant departments have been busy setting up the stage for many days, waiting for the "protagonists" to take the stage and start the gong.

In fact, this kind of "show off of political achievements" abounds. Every year around Arbor Day in March, we flip through the newspapers and see an overwhelming number of news reports about tree planting. Local governments exaggerate the data on afforestation like "putting satellites", such as how many tens of thousands of trees have been planted in a certain county, city or township, and how many thousands of acres of trees have been planted. As for how many trees will be planted, maybe only God knows. If we really calculate according to the afforestation data reported by various localities every year, since the establishment of Arbor Day in 1979, 20 years have passed, and if these data are taken together, the land of China may have long become a "forest state" and a "green land", but what is the reality? How many local governments only look at the quantity of trees planted by the localities, but do not pay attention to the quality, planting trees in spring, yellow in summer, dying in autumn, going to the stove in winter, and planting trees in the coming year are still busy, resulting in "planting trees every year without seeing trees, and afforestation over the years." In some cases, some local governments have vigorously engaged in formalism, regarding afforestation as a task to cope with inspections, digging pits and planting, reporting statistics, and summing up and commending them; some have simply regarded voluntary tree planting as a "project for political achievements" that has been published on television and in newspapers.

Just like the Arbor Day activity organized by the Huxian County Government and the Youth League and County Party Committee, although it is the day of the "Arbor Day" prescribed by the state, according to the lunar calendar, it has not yet left the New Year's Gate, and the earth is still in a semi-frozen state, so it is not suitable for tree planting activities at all.

Arbor Day swarming to plant trees, in fact, is the same as Teacher's Day with departments and leaders to give condolences to teachers, "3.15" relevant functional departments to check the quality of goods, this is the same phenomenon, that is, the emphasis on form, light substance, heavy ceremony, light content, is a kind of vain and untruthful atmosphere, in the final analysis, it is "bureaucracy" in trouble.

To completely change this phenomenon, in addition to strengthening standardized management in terms of system, it is more important to guide and change the ideological concepts of leading cadres at all levels. Just like Arbor Day, the connotation of Arbor Day is not just as simple as planting a tree, but a forward-looking green and environmentally friendly life concept. This concept should not only be on Arbor Day, but every day, starting from the side, starting from small things, and developing an environmentally friendly living habit. However, it is indeed a bit difficult to get officials at all levels to do this in a short period of time.

2.

Now everything is ready, just wait for the county magistrate to give an order, and the Arbor Day activity can be officially launched.

At half past nine o'clock in the morning, with the order of the county magistrate, the 21st Arbor Day activity in Huxian County was vigorously launched.

Leaders at all levels, led by several members of the county party committee and county government, wore suits and leather shoes, wore white gloves, held shovels tied with red ribbons, and smiled, accompanied by several high school students in school uniforms, watering the soil for the saplings.

At this time, the busiest are the reporters of TV stations and newspapers, who are busy taking pictures and videos of leaders at all levels, and they are very busy.

Volunteers from other enterprises and institutions planted trees and watered their respective territories according to the previously demarcated division of labor areas, but there were no reporters around them, and no one left a photo of these sweaty people recording their labor scenes.

At ten o'clock, the leaders at all levels who took the lead in completing the tree planting task got into the car and left the scene.

After the leaders left, the scene of planting trees on the small mound became chaotic, and many people from government agencies and units secretly threw away their shovels and buckets to find a place to rest, and some people took the opportunity to quietly slip away. The most obedient are the students of Huxian No. 1 Middle School and Experimental High School, who are still working in full swing under the greeting of the leading teacher.

Zhu Hongtu, who has been busy with Zhou Chuntao, took the opportunity to pull Zhou Chuntao out of the circle, and on the path under the mound, Zhu Hongtu had already arranged a car to wait there, and it was none other than Zhu Hongtu's younger brother Zhu Pengfei. In order to achieve the purpose of banqueting Zhou Chuntao, Zhu Hongtu did not hesitate to let his younger brother, who drove a private taxi, put down his business and came over to help.

In the car, Zhu Hongtu and Zhou Chuntao were talking and laughing while drinking mineral water, and after these few hours of intimate contact and communication, Zhu Hongtu and Zhou Chuntao really looked like a pair of good friends who had nothing to say.

After drinking a bottle of mineral water, under Zhu Hongtu's signal, Zhu Pengfei's car slowly drove away from the tree planting site and headed towards the county seat.

Zhou Chuntao is a human being, not a god, on such a cold day, without the supervision and attention of the leader, he will naturally not let go of the opportunity to be lazy, Zhu Hongtu's move is just in line with Zhou Chuntao's intentions, so he doesn't care about Zhu Hongtu's self-reliance.

3.

At the same time, Zhuang Shitao hired Lao Liu's "Xiali" taxi, pulling ten catties of beef and twenty catties of vermicelli, and had already arrived at the Huxian Education Bureau, waiting patiently for Zhu Hongtu's call at an intersection from the Education Bureau.

At half past ten, Zhu Pengfei's car stopped in front of a restaurant called "Jixiang Restaurant" not far from the Education Bureau. After the car stopped, Zhu Hongtu excused himself to have arrived at the meal, and pulled Zhou Chuntao into the restaurant without saying anything.

Zhou Chuntao and Zhu Hongtu have had several contacts before, but they are all general friendships on many occasions, and they can't talk about friendship, that is, they just know each other. Zhu Hongtu left the impression on Zhou Chuntao that he was clever and sleek, and belonged to the kind of character who was exquisite. Originally, Zhou Chuntao was not very "cold" to people like Zhu Hongtu. However, through this morning's exchange, Zhou Chuntao felt that he liked Zhu Hongtu a little. Thinking about it, who doesn't want to be respected and held by others? Zhu Hongtu's approach just satisfies Zhou Chuntao's vanity that he may not even want to admit.

So, after Zhou Chuntao made a slight excuse, he followed Zhu Hongtu into the hotel. Isn't it just a shameful thing to think about it?

Zhou Chuntao never expected that from the moment he stepped into the hotel, he had fallen into the "trap" carefully arranged for him by Zhu Hongtu and Zhuang Shitao.