Tang Cheng immediately replied: "For the time being, the armed police cannot be dispatched to participate, the police must be on the periphery, do not provoke and arrest the peasant brothers, and all the policemen involved in the handling must be restrained and try their best to meet the demands of the peasants." To prevent the situation from deteriorating further, you Zhang Shengju should rush to the scene immediately, stability is overriding everything, and the situation cannot be escalated again. I'm already on my way. ”

Zhang Shengju immediately nodded and complied.

Zhang Shengju immediately set off and personally rushed to the Jibu grain depot.

After Zhang Shengju arrived, he immediately set up an on-site command center three kilometers away from the Jibu grain depot, and the Gunan City police carried out the necessary security protection for this command center to ensure the safety of the cadres. Zhang Shengju first put himself in an absolute safety.

This Zhang Shengju is the secretary of the municipal party committee, and his life is relatively precious, and when he holds the post of secretary of the municipal party committee, he cherishes his life even more, and the old peasants are all cheap lives, and if they exchange one life for another, Zhang Shengju will lose a lot! Therefore, Zhang Shengju did not have the courage to go deep into the hinterland of the peasants' troubles, but found a commanding heights in the periphery, and then used sufficient police protection to ensure his own safety. Zhang Shengju and a group of members of the Standing Committee of the Gunan City Municipal Party Committee first thought of their own personal safety, and they must first be guaranteed.

After Zhang Shengju and several comrades of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee arrived, Zhang Shengju immediately made arrangements for the work, and asked his subordinates to use on-the-spot propaganda means to negotiate and meet with the peasant representatives and listen to the peasants' voices. Willingness to settle disputes peacefully.

The news was transmitted to the peasant camp, and because of the spirit of Tang Cheng's instructions, the police, who maintained order at the scene, restrained their hard-line attitude and adopted restraint methods, so that the situation did not deteriorate further, and the distance between the peasants and the police flashed a mile each, and the two sides turned from the initial fierce battle to a tactical confrontation.

Just like the battlefield in ancient times, it was divided into two camps, and in the middle was the field of horse warfare. Both sides were their own soldiers, and neither dared to be the first to enter the other party's camp.

On the peasants' side, they got the news and asked to send 18 peasant representatives to the headquarters to negotiate with Zhang Shengju, secretary of the Gunan City CPC Committee.

An elderly peasant, surnamed Wang, shook his head and said: "No, I am from the past, and I am well-informed, and there are two kinds of people in the world who are the most untrustworthy, one is the face of a liar, and the other is the mouth of an official! We are now so crowded that they dare not come to us to arrest people, and if 18 of you go to their headquarters, they will directly arrest you and send you to prison! This is their poisonous ploy, luring the enemy into depth, we must not be fooled." ”

As soon as Wang Laohan reminded, the other people present also echoed, and the older people all said: "Yes, yes, those of them who are officials, they are the most untrustworthy, and they are all literate people, who have read the Book of the Three Kingdoms and understand stratagems, they are using the most poisonous strategy to lure the king into the urn, and when the eighteen of us enter their headquarters, they will directly arrest people and put the eighteen of you in prison!" This kind of trick, their government people don't know how many times it has evolved, and how many innocent people have harmed us, we must not be fooled again!"

Reminded by the older farmers, the farmers rejected Zhang Shengju's proposal. If you really want to negotiate, want to settle the matter peacefully, resolve the dispute, and humbly listen to the opinions of our peasants, then ask the secretary of the municipal party committee and the mayor of Gunan City to come to our peasants' side in person, and we will talk about the problem.

Zhang Shengju, secretary of the municipal party committee of Gunan City, and Lu Lijiang, the mayor of Gunan City, almost didn't get their noses crooked when they heard it. Lu Lijiang shouted: "It's really earth-shattering, a group of rabble, they dare to bargain with our government! They want us to go to their camp to negotiate, they are all outlaws, and they have done everything! What if they take us hostage! I don't want to be this cannon fodder! Simply, Secretary Zhang, don't entangle with them, transfer the armed police, use force to clear the scene, give them an hour to think about it, and if they refuse to leave, and those who are obsessed will be killed! Let's see if they can withdraw or not!"

Zhang Shengju was also inclined to Lu Lijiang's opinion, and asked the secretary of the municipal party committee and the mayor to go to the peasants' encirclement to discuss matters, but the two of them absolutely did not have such great courage, and if it was a condition put forward by the peasants, it was a sky-high asking price, and the government could not meet it, and the peasants would lose their minds, directly detain the leaders, take hostages to meet their goals, retaliate against Zhang Shengju and Lu Lijiang, and cause injuries to death! What should we do? Both of them are precious bodies, and this bet is not acceptable.

Zhang Shengju said to the person in charge of the correspondence between the two sides: "Well, you tell the peasant representatives that the two of us cannot go to the peasant camp for negotiations, and if the peasant brothers really have a request, they can send 18 deputies to our place for talks, and if this proposal cannot be passed, we can send the director of the office of our municipal party committee, who has full powers to represent our municipal party committee and government, to talk with the peasant representatives." ”

The correspondent had no choice but to return to the peasant camp again and give feedback to the peasant representatives on Zhang Shengju's opinions.

When the peasant representative heard this, a man named Xu Sanmao shouted: "They don't trust us! A mayor who doesn't even dare to come to meet with us clearly has no sincerity and doesn't want to solve the problem at all!"

Wang Laohan said: "The same reason, we sent 18 people in the past, and if they change their fortunes, they will directly arrest 18 of us and put them in prison!"

Xu Sanmao said: "Can we let them send five or six petty officials to come and talk!"

One of the peasants immediately retorted: "They sent two petty officials, but they didn't care about anything at all, and they didn't dare to say anything on the spot when they came, they just fooled us at all, and in the final analysis, they didn't pay attention to our people, and they didn't believe us or treat us as human beings, no matter whether our people lived or died." ”

Another common man said: "Yes, there is not a good person in the government or in office, and there is no one who is truly heart-to-heart with our people, and they all regard us peasants as enemies! If they are unkind, don't blame us for being unjust, and resolutely fight against them to the end." ”

There are also peasants who raised their arms and said: "Yes, it is better to die standing than to live on knees, we peasants have always been mud in the eyes of officials, and today, our piece of mud must be thrown on their officials." ”

"Resolutely fight their officials to the end!"

"If we don't see food prices go up, we won't withdraw our troops!"

"If we don't release the peasant brothers who have been arrested in prison, we will fight with their public security!"

Suddenly, here in the peasant camp, the crowd was excited, vowing to fight to the death with the government and public security!