Chapter 161: The Inside Story of the Zhenzhen Tears Project

Hezhou People's Square was built in the nineties of the last century, covering an area of about ten acres, but with the continuous development of social economy, the old square is obviously not compatible with the high-rise buildings rising from the ground around. Therefore, the year before last, the municipal party committee and government decided to renovate and expand the People's Square, demolishing all the surrounding urban village households, and expanding the square from the original more than 10 acres to more than 30 acres.

Because the square is located in the center of the city, the high land price is obvious, so although only more than 300 households need to be demolished, it is much more difficult and expensive than the suburbs. The Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have long anticipated this, and have done commercial operations in the overall plan, moving part of the land out and selling it to developers as commercial land, and then using part of the money from the land purchase for the renovation of the square and part for relocation and demolition compensation. In this way, not only the environment around the square is transformed, but also government funds are saved. That is, the government can completely renovate the old square without spending a penny.

However, this is far from the case. The government not only paid tens of millions of compensation for the demolition, but also left a new square full of devastation. And the initiators of this incident are the Yan brothers.

First of all, the Yan brothers first took advantage of Pi Guocheng's connections to contract the demolition and relocation projects of the surrounding residents in the name of the demolition company, and then organized people to incite the residents to make trouble in the city government, and then bribed the representatives of the local residents to negotiate with the city government, and raised the compensation standard for demolition and relocation again and again, from the initial compensation of 1,500 yuan per square meter to the last 2,700 yuan per square meter, which can be said to have almost doubled.

In this way, the money from the sale of commercial land is obviously no longer enough to meet the demolition of residents. At the office meeting of the municipal government, Pi Guocheng put forward the idea of subsidizing some money from the municipal treasury in a timely manner.

However, when the compensation was finally distributed, the Yan brothers paid it to the residents at the rate of 1,600 yuan per square meter. Because of the truth they concealed from the residents in advance, the residents also have a vague concept of the standard, not to mention that the compensation standard for this demolition is much higher than the previous demolitions in the city, so the surrounding residents did not say anything, so the Yan brothers easily made more than 100 million yuan from it.

In the auction of commercial land, the Yan brothers even took advantage of the underworld power of the Zhan Tianbiao Tianhu Gang to suppress the real estate companies that came to participate in the auction, and successfully included most of the plots in their pockets, and then turned around and sold. In this way, the Yan brothers reaped tens of millions of benefits from it.

The two blatant black-box operations obviously attracted the attention of the municipal party committee. In order to ascertain the truth of the matter, the city party committee set up a special investigation team to investigate the matter. After just a week of investigation, the truth was revealed. At this time, Pi Guocheng stood up and spoke, and took all the responsibility on himself, saying that as a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, executive deputy mayor, and the executive deputy leader of the leading group of the square project, he did not fulfill his obligations, and he was willing to take full responsibility for the following work.

In this way, the municipal party committee had no choice, Pi Guocheng was not a direct participant and was not directly responsible, even if it was handled, the leadership could only be held responsible, and it did not make much sense for the handling of the entire incident, so he had to order Pi Guocheng to rectify within a time limit.

Pi Guocheng said that he asked the Yan brothers to hand over more than 20 million illegal gains, which can be regarded as calming the matter.

However, the Yan brothers are not fuel-efficient lamps. In the process of renovating the square, he started to think crookedly, in order to save costs, the project that was originally going to be hardened and then paved with floor tiles was not even hardened, and the floor tiles were directly paved, and some building facilities could be saved and deducted, and as a result, a square of nearly 20 acres was renovated, and the more than 20 million yuan handed over was fished back.

And the square that has been renovated and expanded has also become the object of long-term criticism by the people of Hezhou, in less than half a year, the foundation of the square has a large area of subsidence, there are potholes everywhere, and it becomes a pool of water when it rains, and the street lamps, fitness equipment, and ornamental buildings are even worse and worse, rotten, and it can be said that it has reached the unbearable destination.

The second tofu slag project carried out by the Yan brothers is the Niangniang River flood control embankment. The Niangniang River is an extremely calm river and almost never overflows. The reason why the Hezhou Municipal Party Committee wants to carry out flood control and reinforcement of the Niangniang River is because of an archaeological discovery.

About five years ago, around the Dragon Boat Festival, a brick factory on the outskirts of Hezhou City accidentally discovered an ancient tomb from the Ming and Qing dynasties in the process of taking soil. After the research of experts from the provincial archaeological team and relevant experts from Hezhou University, it was found that this ancient tomb was the tomb of a local gentry in Hezhou in the early years of the Qing Dynasty. This gentry was obviously a man of culture, and in addition to a large number of funerary goods such as gold, silver, porcelain, etc., archaeologists also found many well-preserved books and manuscripts.

These manuscripts contain a large number of records of the customs and customs of River State, as well as natural disasters. Among them, there is a record of the flood outbreak in the state section of the Niangniang River. The record said that the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, that is, the first year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, should be calculated by the current chronology method should be the first four years of A.D., summer, from June to August, heavy rain fell in Hezhou, the Niangniang River flooded, the residents of more than ten miles on both sides of the river suffered disasters, countless deaths and injuries of people and animals, almost all the houses were destroyed, and the loss amounted to tens of millions of silver.

However, this is an archaeological discovery after all, and it did not attract the attention of the municipal party committee and the municipal government at the beginning, but it was only discussed in the academic community as a major archaeological discovery in the Hezhou area. Later, at a city-wide cultural symposium, Yang Zongxian, president of Hezhou University, brought up this matter, saying that since the Niangniang River has a history of flooding in history, it means that it is very likely that it will flood in the near future. For the sake of the residents on both sides of the strait living and working in peace and contentment, and for the sake of the long-term peace and stability of the Hezhou area, it is hoped that the municipal party committee and the municipal government will include the flood prevention work of the Niangniang River in their work plans and be prepared.

After hearing this, Liu Yunqi attached great importance to it, and immediately organized relevant geology and water conservancy experts to sample and analyze the soil quality of Niangniang and the surrounding rivers, and found that the records in the manuscript were not false, and the Niangniang River did show signs of flooding in history.

More than 300 years ago, the area of Hezhou Mansion was incomparable with that of today, it can be said that it is less than one-tenth of what it is now, and it is still some distance away from the Niangniang River. Now Hezhou City is not only much larger than the original, but also built on both sides of the Niangniang River, once flooded, the damage caused can be said to be unimaginable, and it must be much more serious than more than 300 years ago.

Therefore, after several special meetings and discussions, the municipal party committee and the municipal government finally decided to build the Niangniang River embankment.

However, this project, with a budget of nearly 200 million yuan, was built a veritable tofu scum project after the final bid fell into the hands of the Yan brothers. Cement and stone were first used for the construction of the embankment. The construction of the embankment was supposed to use waterproof concrete, but the Yan brothers used all ordinary concrete, resulting in a large number of cracks and spalling in less than half a year after the embankment was built. The place that was supposed to be reinforced with No. 14 rebar was used with No. 8 steel bar, which could not bear the weight of bluestone at all, and many places collapsed during the construction process, and after the construction was completed, even the weight of a truck could not bear it.

The people of Hezhou even joked: If you want to die, go to the river embankment. It means that the quality of the embankment is so poor that walking on it will be life-threatening.

Later, the city government felt that the embankment had collapsed and cracked just after it had been repaired, which really damaged the government's image, so it repaired the embankment once a year. Naturally, this project fell into the hands of the Yan brothers.

Yan Zhenzhen knew very well that these two projects alone were enough to kill her two elder brothers. The fire at the city gate affected the pond fish, and once Pi Guocheng fell, the first to bear the brunt of it must be his two elder brothers. After thinking about it again and again, for the sake of her two elder brothers, Yan Zhenzhen finally agreed to Pi Guocheng, but she still cried in Pi Guocheng's arms.

The British woman finally threatened to submit it to the embassy and forced the Pingnan City Public Security Bureau to file a case against Pi Jun for stabbing people. However, filing a case and solving a case are still two different things, although the Pingnan City Public Security Bureau filed a case, but only made a simple registration, and then ignored it, let alone sent someone to arrest Pi Jun.

Fortunately, Chen Mengyao's injuries were not serious, and after the operation, she could be discharged after recuperating in the hospital for a period of time.

On the day Chen Mengyao was discharged from the hospital, almost all the classmates in Class 3 of the second year of high school went to the hospital, including the head teachers Yin Juan and Li Ziming. At the instigation of everyone, Li Ziming gave a bouquet of flowers to Chen Mengyao. After receiving the flowers, Chen Mengyao blushed shyly, said thank you, and lowered her head. The classmates deliberately made a fuss and screamed again. It made Li Ziming a little embarrassed.

The British woman and Engineer Chen were also happy that their daughter could get the blessing of such a classmate, and the relationship between Li Ziming and Chen Mengyao also seemed to be much more generous to ordinary parents, which seemed to be a kind of acquiescence, or they didn't take it to heart at all. This may be the difference between Chinese and Western education.

There was laughter and laughter in the ward, and even the oppressive atmosphere was completely diluted. The nurse named Jingjing didn't know if she was interested or deliberately trying to block her classmates, and when she heard the laughter, she ran over from the nurse's station and said a lot of nonsense with a straight face.

After all, it was a hospital, and the classmates had no choice but to restrain themselves, help with their things, and quickly left the hospital.

However, when everyone left the gate of the hospital, they were blocked at the gate by the gloomy Pi Jun. When several female classmates saw Pi Jun, they hurriedly dodged to the side. Even the boys retreated, not daring to face up to this veritable demon of Pingnan No. 2 Middle School.

Pi Jun was holding a super large bouquet of roses in his hand, almost holding it in front of his chest, and when he saw Chen Mengyao coming out, he immediately knelt down on one knee, lifted the roses above his head, and sent them to Chen Mengyao, and said earnestly:

"Meng Yao, I'm sorry, can you forgive me?"