The next day, Xian Chaowen convened a meeting of relevant units and departments in the city, and Bao Feiyang, as one of the protagonists, of course had to rush over to participate. But he had just arrived at the conference room to say hello to the host Xian Chaowen, and before his butt leaned on the chair, he received a call from Deputy Director Yan Anping: "Director Bao, it's not good, the seed company in our development zone has let people smash it." ”

"Development Zone Seed Company? What the hell is going on, you say slowly. Bao Feiyang was more anxious when he heard Yan Anping's voice, and hurriedly walked to the side and said to him.

"It is the seed company in our development zone that operates a wheat seed called Qiangmai No. 5, and the farmers in several villages of Wanggang Township, Lingang Economic Development Zone, bought the seed company's No. 5 wheat seed and sowed it into the farmland, and the result is that since the beginning of the year, the wheat with this Qiangmai No. 5 has begun to have leaf rust and a large area of death. The farmers came to ask for an explanation, but the seed company refused to pay compensation, and a conflict broke out between the two sides. Yan Anping hurriedly said.

"Did the police notify you? Take control of the situation first, and I'll be there right away. Bao Feiyang frowned and asked as he walked outside.

The area of the Lingang Development Zone is more than 70 square kilometers, and because the investment is not very smooth, the place that has been built in the area is only a dozen square kilometers, and it is divided into several areas, and the other areas are still large areas of farmland.

The management committee of the development zone is different from the administrative structure of the district and town, they belong to the municipal government, and their main work is land development, investment attraction and economic construction in the district, and the corresponding village groups and townships are responsible for agricultural affairs.

This incident involved more than a dozen administrative villages in the two townships and towns under the jurisdiction of the development zone.

The situation of Haizhou Lingang Economic Development Zone is not the same as that of other development zones, usually the development zone is specially set aside by the government for industrial and land development, the area is usually not large, and the development zone under the prefecture level is generally only a few dozen square kilometers, not more than 100 square kilometers. Equivalent to the size of an ordinary township area.

As one of the first dozen coastal cities in the country to open up, Haizhou City has established a development zone as early as the early 80s. However, the original development zone did not include the port area, after Xue Shaohua went to Haizhou City to serve as the leader of the municipal party committee, he proposed to develop the industry of Haizhou Lingang Economic Development Zone, and Jiangbei Province also proposed to develop the economy of Haizhou Bay, so the area under the jurisdiction of the original Haizhou Economic and Technological Development Zone was adjusted. The area along the coastline has suddenly changed from more than 70 square kilometers to more than 170 square kilometers, and Haizhou City has directly assigned two coastal towns that originally belonged to other counties and districts to the Haizhou Economic and Technological Development Zone for management.

The official name of the development zone is still Haizhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, but Haizhou people are accustomed to calling the adjusted development zone Haizhou Lingang Economic Development Zone, and sometimes the two newly zoned Linhai towns are called Lingang Economic Development Zone, and the place where the old development zone was originally called Haizhou Economic Development Zone.

Usually, the focus of the development zone is to attract investment and industrial construction, but after the adjustment of the Haizhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, most of the land has not been developed for industry, so this part of the land should be the same as before. To carry out agricultural development, of course, as the vanguard of reform and opening up, the agriculture of the Haizhou Economic and Technological Development Zone and the agriculture in other places cannot be exactly the same; two years ago, the Economic Development Zone proposed to engage in agriculture with special characteristics, and the Management Committee of the Economic Development Zone set up the Economic Development Zone Seed Company on the basis of the former Haizhou Wanggang Township Seed Company, and the Tongguò Seed Company vigorously promoted improved varieties and special planting.

After two or three years of development. The agriculture of the two townships of the Lingang Economic Development Zone in Haizhou City has indeed stepped out of the characteristic road and began to export vegetables to Japan.

However, compared to vegetable farming. These two townships still account for more than half of the grain cultivation area.

Haizhou is located near the north-south dividing line of the Huaxia Kingdom, with a warm climate, and can grow two crops a year, usually one season of rice and one season of wheat.

The people of Haizhou City are accustomed to eating rice, so they have to keep the rest of the rations after the rice is handed over, and the wheat usually only keeps a small part. Most of them will be sold, which is also the main income of the honest farmer for a year.

Although Bao Feiyang has just arrived in Haizhou City, Wanghai County and Haizhou City are adjacent to each other, and the situation in the two places is similar, and he knows very well what a bad wheat harvest means for farmers. A bad harvest means that farmers do not receive any income from this season's wheat. Instead, it has to be posted into a lot of capital.

Pesticides, chemical fertilizers, mechanized irrigation fees, plus seed money, these basically account for about one-third to one-half of the ordinary income from selling grain, plus the two taxes to be paid, the net income is only about one-third of the income from selling grain, and this is not counting labor.

Now that the income from selling grain is gone, the peasants not only cannot make any money, but also have to put a lot of money into it, and even some peasant households may not be able to paste all the income from selling autumn grain, which means that the income of these peasants throughout the year is lost, and they may have to put their savings from previous years into it a little, and for the peasants in the development zone, whose life is already tight, their livelihood will suddenly become a problem.

Unlike the peasants in the economically developed areas, the peasants' incomes in the Lingang Economic Development Zone are still very low, and they can't make much money in normal years, and their savings are limited.

Bao Feiyang was still on the way, and he successively received a call from Xue Shaohua, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and Chen Yuqing, the mayor, Xue Shaohua was okay, and told him on the phone to stabilize the situation and not to let the contradiction intensify, Chen Yuqing reprimanded him fiercely on the phone, and said very sternly: "Is there anything greasy behind this matter, what kind of person is mad and harms the interests of innocent people, we must find out clearly, no matter who is involved, we must investigate to the end, and we must severely punish them." ”

Bao Feiyang has just arrived in the development zone, and this matter naturally has nothing to do with him, and Bao Feiyang is also very angry about this matter, and immediately expressed his attitude to Chen Yuqing: "Please rest assured that the mayor will investigate this matter clearly, deal with it strictly, and never let go of any relevant responsible person." ”

When Bao Feiyang arrived at the Seed Company in the Development Zone, the situation had already been initially brought under control, and the police from the Police Substation of the Development Zone and the Wanggang Township Police Station had already arrived at the scene and stopped the farmers who had come to protest outside the gate of the Seed Company in the Development Zone.

Wu Yucheng was arranged by Yan Anping to wait outside for Bao Feiyang. At this time, seeing Bao Feiyang rushing over, Wu Yucheng immediately greeted him and reported the latest situation to Bao Feiyang.

"Wang Zhonghou, the manager of the seed company in the development zone, let the farmers be injured, and now they have been sent to the hospital, and the counter in the business hall in front of the seed company has also been smashed, and the farmers' feelings are more excited, almost causing a bigger incident, but fortunately, the police force of the police station of the development zone came in time, and Yao Gensheng, the old secretary of Wanggang Township, also took the risk of being beaten in front of the farmers, so that the farmers should not be impulsive, and the situation was initially stabilized." Wu Yucheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with some fear, this kind of thing that may affect stability has always been what officials are most afraid of seeing, many times when there are many people, there is no way to control the situation, maybe someone will say two radical words in it, it will cause an uncontrollable incident.

"Director Bao, as you can see now, even if the shape is initially stabilized, the farmers are still gathered outside and refuse to leave, asking the development zone to give them an explanation." Wu Yucheng finally said.

Bao Feiyang glanced at the excited farmers gathered outside the seed company, frowned and asked Wu Yucheng: "What is the specific situation of this matter, is there a statement from the seed company?" ”

Wu Yucheng reported: "Director Yan has begun to investigate this matter, according to the reaction of Wanggang Township, about half a month ago, some farmers found that the situation was not right, the wheat in the field appeared leaf rust, at that time the township agricultural technology station instructed everyone to spray pesticides, the result is not only not controlled, but more and more wheat fields are infected, and now there are about seven villages and more than 20 production teams of tens of thousands of acres of wheat fields infected with disease, according to the people of the agricultural technology station, these wheat spraying has no effect, basically the harvest has become a foregone conclusion." ”

"The people in the village said that they later inquired with each other and found that the infected wheat was all using the improved seed Qiangmai No. 5 promoted by the development seed company, and the township investigation also proved that the infected wheat was all using the seeds of Qiangmai No. 5, and in the same village, there was no problem with the wheat of other wheat seeds, only the wheat of Qiangmai No. 5 had a problem, so everyone thought that there was a problem with the seeds of the seed company in the development zone, so they would come to the seed company of the development zone to ask for an explanation."

Bao Feiyang nodded with a stern expression: "Is there something wrong with all the wheat that uses Qiangmai No. 5?" ”

Wu Yucheng said: "No, but most of the Qiangmai No. 5 have problems, and now I know that there are three villages that have been wiped out, and there are two villages where some of the Qiangmai No. 5 have no problems, and the situation in the other two villages is not very clear, and people are being sent to investigate." ”

"How is Empress Wang Zhong's condition?" Bao Feiyang said with a strong suppression of anger.

According to Wu Yucheng's description, a slightly more normal person knows that there must be a problem with the seed company's Qiangmai No. 5, otherwise there would not be a situation where only the Qiangmai No. 5 wheat is infected with wheat rust, while the other wheat is unharmed.

Wu Yucheng said: "Wang Zhonghou asked a few farmers to beat him, but Secretary Yao came in time and persuaded the farmers, although Wang Zhonghou was sent to the hospital with some minor injuries, but there should be no major problems." (To be continued......)