In the middle of summer, the north and south of the river are flooded with torrential rain, and the Yellow River and the Yangtze River experience flood peaks again and again. The continuous torrential rain poured Yuan Jinpeng uneasy. Xiangyang Town has one small type one reservoir and three small type two reservoirs. In the past few days, there has been heavy rainfall, and the water level has risen suddenly. The implementation of the "Flood Control Law" began this year, and Yuan Jinpeng knew that once there was a flood prevention liability accident, it meant that he, the mayor of the town, had done his job. Although several county leaders are the leaders of the reservoir flood control hanging points, in the final analysis, the responsibility falls on Tan Yangchun and him. Moreover, the system of responsibility of the chief administrative officer is implemented for flood prevention and flood control, and the town mayor bears the brunt. He felt the need to visit a few more reservoirs, at least to have a bottom in his mind. As soon as I came down the stairs, I met Qiu Yong and Zuo Liusheng. Yuan Jinpeng thought, isn't there anyone who sues and petitions? Qiu Yong is also the director of the political research office of the county party committee, but he is in charge of letters and visits from the masses in the office of the county party committee.

I heard that Jindeshui was investigated, and Kong Lingchun, the leader of the provincial party committee, personally gave instructions. Tan Yangchun and Yuan Jinpeng were taken aback, Jindeshui is a banner in Xiangyang Town! Tan Yangchun took out a document and handed it to Qiu Yong: "Two directors, Jin Deshui is a rare good person. If he hadn't been an immigrant from Hunan, he wouldn't have been a village group leader. This is an investigation report written by two young people from the Provincial Party Committee's Agricultural and Industrial Office last year. ”

Qiu Yong took the material: "We also know that Jindeshui is a model worker in the province and often appears in newspapers. This time, the problem reported by the people's signatures is purely trivial, but with Secretary Kong's instructions, we must investigate clearly. ”

"It's strange that Secretary Kong gave instructions for such a thing." Tan Yangchun said puzzled.

Zuo Liusheng whispered: "Secretary Kong is also from Hunan, how this letter got to him, I will know later." ”

Tan Yangchun suddenly realized: "Oh! Would you like to send someone with you? ”

Qiu Yong said: "Don't bother, we have been to Zhoujia Village." ”

Sending away Qiu Yong and Zuo Liusheng, Tan Yangchun complained: "If you don't have to accompany you, you won't accompany you, what else are we doing?" How can I say that it is also a first-level party committee government! ”

Yuan Jinpeng said: "Secretary Kong gave instructions, the county leaders are not as good as facing the enemy? I'm afraid that we will protect Jindeshui, but it's understandable, it's good to come in and say hello. ”

"I don't believe there can be anything wrong with Jinde Water, check it!" Tan Yangchun said.

For Jindeshui, Tan Yangchun and Yuan Jinpeng have enough confidence. Similar capable and selfless people are like gold in the sand, too few! There are only 28 households in the remote Zhoujia village, all of whom are Hunan immigrants who moved from Xiangxiang County in the 70s because of the construction of the Shaoshan Irrigation District. Jin Deshui is the leader of the Zhoujia Village group. In the past few years, he has led everyone to plant mulberry and silkworm breeding and model pig breeding to get rich together. Last year, Zhoujia Village had a bumper harvest of grain, silkworm cocoons, rapeseed oil, tea oil, and live pigs, with a per capita net income of more than 5,000 yuan, which was a sensation and was reported by provincial newspapers and even the central media many times. After the Rural Work Office of the Provincial Party Committee sent people to conduct a special investigation, they said that the Zhoujiacun model is "a successful road to comprehensive agricultural development". What's more, Jin Deshui is humble, friendly, helpful, and selfless, and it is really incomprehensible that such a perfect person should be accused of being the leader of the provincial party committee.

Yuan Jinpeng was worried about the reservoir, sent Qiu Yong and a few people away, and went downstairs. As soon as the jeep started, Tan Yangchun rushed down and said that he would also go and have a look. Thinking that they would accompany Qiu Yong to dinner at noon, they went to the nearby Gongjiling Reservoir more than ten miles away. This is a small type of reservoir built in the early 70s, surrounded by high mountains on the east, south and north, and a tall and heavy embankment on the west, about 300 meters long. The water in the levee spread along the winding hills, and the water level was noticeably higher than the previous two days. The sediment carried by the torrent has not yet sunk to the bottom, and it is a turbid yellow, giving people a terrible feeling of being in the ocean.

Yuan Jinpeng looked worried: "It will be dangerous for a few more days, the culvert is too slow, and we opened the culvert a little late." ”

"It's been raining heavily for four days in a row, it's time to stop, and there will be sporadic light rain. In the first two years, the water was released, but it did not rain for several months, and the rice and vegetables downstream suffered from drought and were scolded to death by the people. Tan Yangchun said.

Yuan Jinpeng said puzzledly: "This year is really strange, usually the south floods and the north drought, or the north floods and the south drought, or the whole country is in good weather, where is the reason why the south and the north suffer such a big flood at the same time?" ”

Tan Yangchun said: "Didn't you say El Niño? We don't have a big river here, and the problem is not big. It's just that now that the early rice is heading and flowering, I'm afraid the loss is not small. ”

Yuan Jinpeng was still worried that the flood discharge would be too slow, so he approached a culvert: "It would be faster to change it to a spillway." ”

Tan Yangchun said: "Where to go for so much money? I have made a report, but I don't approve it. ”

When he returned to the town government and saw the jeep of the county party committee parked at the gate, Tan Yangchun said: "They came back so early, Jindeshui must be fine." ”

Things were not as Tan Yangchun expected. The complainant was Zhou Zhongqiu from Zhoujia Village, and during the Spring Festival, he went back to Hunan to visit relatives, and heard his cousin boast that he and Kong Lingchun were relatives. He was a little unhappy about the homestead and sericulture loans, so he wrote a letter of complaint and asked his cousin to pass it on, saying how Jin Deshui deliberately made things difficult for him. Today, Qiu Yong and Zuo Liusheng went to investigate, but he took the initiative to admit his mistake and said that he blamed Jin Deshui for his mistake. Last year, the county urban construction bureau made a village construction plan for Zhoujia Village, and all new houses were built in the new village. Zhou Zhongqiu applied to build a house next to the old house, but Jin Deshui disagreed. Later, several other families also applied to build houses next to the old house, but Jin Deshui did not agree. In this comparison, he felt that he was not looked at differently. The misunderstanding of the sericulture loan, he also slowly figured it out. Last year, the town's financial department supported the Zhoujia Village group with a low-interest loan of 26,000 yuan for sericulture production, and Jin Deshui gave the loan target to farmers who planted more than 10 acres of mulberry trees, and planted 15 acres of mulberry trees himself, but did not ask for a penny. He only planted four acres of mulberry trees, and it is reasonable that he did not get a loan.

Qiu Yong sighed: "Jin Deshui is really a good party member!" Since he became the leader of the villagers' group in 1985, he has not received a penny of the allowances and bonuses he is entitled to, and he has taken care of all the expenses incurred by the peasant households in settling grain payments and going out to do things for the masses, and has never shared them. ”

"Such a good person, there are still people who sue the provincial party committee!" Tan Yangchun said indignantly.

Zuo Liusheng said: "Secretary Kong is difficult, relatives in his hometown are looking for him, how can he make a difference without approving a few words?" ”

Yuan Jinpeng said with a smile: "Yes, the big leader also has three relatives and six relatives, so he has to give some face." This time, Zhou Zhongqiu took the initiative to admit his mistakes, which is a better result, so as not to embarrass you. ”

The rain finally stopped, and Yuan Jinpeng breathed a sigh of relief. However, the news of flood control and flood control in various places made him tense his nerves and did not dare to slack off at all. On August 1, the Hezhen Fortress in Jiayu County, Hubei Province collapsed, and 19 PLA officers and soldiers died in the rescue; On August 7, the embankment of the Jiujiang River of the Yangtze River burst, and the plugging was successful five days later; On August 22, the Songhua River experienced a once-in-150-year flood peak; On August 31, the Yangtze River experienced its eighth flood peak ....... In this thrilling flood relief campaign, nearly 100 people died in the Qingchuan area, causing direct economic losses of more than 5 billion yuan. But overall it was smooth and there were no major problems. However, Wei Dechang, the secretary of the prefectural party committee, got into trouble in another special exam and became the focus of the media.

In August, early rice was purchased in various parts of the Harukawa area. Unlike previous years, this year, the people are not active in handing over grain. The reason is very simple: the continuous floods began in May, and the output of early rice dropped sharply, and the grain station also had to withhold agricultural taxes, township co-ordination, and village retention. However, if the peasants do not pay grain, taxes and fees will not be settled, and this will make the finances of townships and towns, which are stretched thin, even worse and fall into a predicament. August and September of each year is the busiest time for the work of township and town cadres, and what they are busy with is "urging grain" -- town and village cadres go to their homes to urge peasant households to go to grain stations to pay grain so that taxes and fees can be withheld. If the peasant households insist on not paying the grain, the town and village cadres will forcibly open their warehouses and pick up the grain until the grain payment is sufficient to pay the agricultural tax, the township will make overall plans, and the village will keep it.

The wind rises at the end of Qingping. Dongba County, which is adjacent to Ping'an County, is located in the southern part of the Qingchuan Plain, with fertile fields and continuous fields, and is the largest granary in the Qingchuan area. At the beginning of August, the grain station opened the scales to collect grain, but very few farmers took the initiative to deliver the grain. In desperation, various townships and towns organized cadres to come to the door to "urge grain". Unexpectedly, this year's "grain urging" has encountered unprecedented resistance and resistance, and fierce clashes have broken out between cadres and peasants one after another, and contradictions have continued to intensify and conflicts have gradually escalated. On 19 August, six township government offices in Dongba County were besieged and smashed by a large number of peasants, and many cadres were injured, two of whom died of their injuries. On 21 August, the clashes affected 23 townships in seven counties in the Qingchuan region. The next day, Vice Governor Mao Siwei sat in Dongba County. Immediately afterwards, Kong Lingchun, the leader of the provincial party committee, came to Qingchuan and personally commanded the handling of the "19 August Incident."

This evil case has a wide scope, great impact, and is a sensation. At the beginning of September, a high-level joint investigation team was stationed in Harukawa to carry out an investigation. The investigation was led by a deputy ministerial-level leader, and the intensity of the investigation can be seen. There are many contents of the investigation, such as the situation of studying and implementing the spirit of the central government's work of reducing burdens, whether the peasants' overall retention and overall planning fees exceed 5 percent of the peasants' net income in the previous year, whether they withhold and pay other expenses other than agricultural taxes when purchasing grain, whether they have collected other funds from the peasants and apportioned funds, and whether the relevant leaders have made mistakes and responsibilities.

Wei Dechang felt that something was wrong, and his political life was like a candle in the wind. Kong Lingchun's arrival made him feel guilty, like sitting on pins and needles. The stationing of the high-level investigation team made him feel like a great enemy, and it was difficult for him to sleep and eat. He knew very well that the "19 August Incident" could not withstand investigation, and not to mention anything else, it would be a dead end to detain the township and coordinate the village's retention during the grain collection era. Even if he said that he did not know about this issue and ordered the use of public security and armed police to guide the situation to deteriorate, who could he blame for this? After the investigation team was stationed, he dialed the phone number of the chief's office in Beijing. The secretary first asked him to "wait", and after a while, he replied, "The chief is resting." When I called again the next day, the secretary directly said, "The chief is not convenient to answer your call." It goes without saying that this road is not going to work! The chief apparently knew what he wanted to say, and it seemed that the situation was very serious.

The matter was quickly verified, and the investigation team characterized the "19 August incident" as a "severe incident caused by the excessive burden on the peasants." In all fairness, it's a bit unjust to say "too heavy". In most localities, the overall collection and retention fee did not exceed 5 percent of last year's peasants' net income, and the absolute amount did not exceed last year's figure. The problem is that the Qingchuan area lacks the sensitivity it deserves, and in this year of catastrophe, it does not take into account the actual capacity of the common people. However, the central government's document clearly states that "at present, special attention should be paid to doing a good job in reducing the burden on peasants in poverty-stricken areas and disaster-stricken areas" and that "the various tax reduction and exemption policies stipulated by the central government must be implemented from village to household, and no department or unit may withhold the tax reduction and exemption quota."

As soon as the investigation team left, the rumor that Wei Dechang was about to be dismissed spread in an uproar. Wei Dechang knew that he had caused a big disaster this time, and he had no bottom in his heart, and it was inconvenient to ask around, so he had to be bored. Whatever others say, don't pay attention. Secretly hurry up to clean up the mess, so as not to be in a hurry once you are dismissed. After half a month, the discussion gradually subsided. Wei Dechang didn't dare to take it lightly, and was still nervous. Fortunately, he is a veteran of officialdom who has been trained for a long time, and he looks calm and relaxed every day. When it is time to go to the countryside, it is necessary to go to the countryside, to hold a meeting when it is time to hold a meeting, and to make a report as if it were a river. Qingchuan people sighed that Wei Dechang has a big background, and such a big thing has been wiped out.

That night, Wei Dechang rarely had no entertainment, and after dinner, he went for a walk with his wife in the neighborhood, and then rushed home to watch the news broadcast. Some people ridicule the fixed mode of news broadcasting: the leader is very busy, the motherland is very good, the West is very chaotic, and the scenery is unique here. can be a leading cadre at the department level, and watching news broadcasts is really indispensable, otherwise you won't be able to feel the direction of the wind and feel the trend. Wei Dechang has been apprehensive recently, and he must see it in every issue. After the news broadcast, there was a focus interview, and it turned out to be a matter of Qingchuan! He was immediately stunned! After reading it, I realized that it had nothing to do with the "19 August Incident," but was a matter of exposing the illegal handling of cases by the regional procuratorates and the collection of revenues and expenditures. Despite this, he still felt cold on his back, and anyway, it happened in the Harukawa area again. In a month, the nameless Qingchuan area unexpectedly showed its face one after another, causing a sensation all over the country! The "19 August Incident" has not yet been resolved, so how can we know that the procuratorate's affairs have not been strictly handled without the instructions of the central leadership? He suddenly felt like a stone that had fallen into a pond and sank in an instant.

On the eve of the National Day, several things finally settled. Wei Dechang was severely warned and punished by the party and transferred to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress. Zhang Shouzhuo, deputy secretary-general of the provincial party committee and director of the political research office, took over as secretary of the prefectural party committee. Others were also punished, the worst of which was Dongba County, where the secretary and county magistrate were demoted and transferred, and more than a dozen section-level cadres were dismissed. The affairs of the procuratorate alarmed the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the chief prosecutor was dismissed, and the other responsible persons were subjected to some painless disciplinary punishment.

Yuan Jinpeng thought that these things had nothing to do with him, just to see the excitement. Xiangyang Town's overall planning for the collection and payment of retention fees is not ideal, but fortunately, it is safe and sound, and there is no evil. However, it didn't take long for the prefectural committee to announce that Xie Jianping would be transferred to Dongba County to preside over the overall work. After he learned the news, he was both happy for the old leader, but also a little melancholy. Xie Jianping's transfer at this time is really not good news for him. The township election is approaching, and he has lost his most powerful support, which is really "a fire at the city gate, which affects the fish in the pond".

Zhang Shouzhuo is in the prime of life, with rich experience, confidence and clear thinking. According to common sense, he has just come to Qingchuan and will not adjust personnel for a year and a half. However, the township change is imminent, what should Dongba County do? This time, three fat vacancies were vacated, the chief prosecutor, the secretary of Dongba County, and the county magistrate. He felt that the chief prosecutor was the "knife handle" in his hand, and he could not be too anxious and perfunctory. However, the responsible person of the Dongba County Party Committee must be in place immediately, otherwise the change of township and town will be delayed. After soliciting opinions from all sides, he quickly cut through the mess and convened a meeting of the prefectural committee committee. Zhang Shouchou mentioned that Xie Jianping was the main leader of the Dongba County Party Committee, and some people said that family planning in Ping'an County still wore a "hat." Zhang Shouzhuo said: "Regulations are dead, people are alive, is it important to stipulate or work?" Then let Xie Jianping first serve as the deputy secretary of the county party committee and acting county magistrate, and preside over the overall work of the county party committee and county government. "The county magistrate of Ping'an County is temporarily vacant, and the executive deputy county magistrate temporarily presides over the work of the county government.