Chapter 247: A Strange Change
readx; Hulin's movement still alarmed the provincial party committee. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 Tian Wenjian, who had been resting in the guest house of Factory 315 for nearly half a month, was finally called back to Hulin by Li Zhiqiang to welcome the arrival of Zhao Zhengdong, secretary of the provincial party committee.
This is Zhao Zhengdong's second trip to Longjiang since taking office, and preparations from top to bottom are indispensable, but the general office of the provincial party committee called early in the morning, only asking Liu Dongchuan, secretary of the municipal party committee, and Cao Weixin, mayor of the city, to accompany him, and not to carry out any ceremony to usher in the send-off.
In a sense, the previous promises and the unauthorized issuance of the "Guidelines for Reducing the Burden on Farmers" are in line with the current system. In fact, the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Provincial Department of Supervision, the Provincial Department of Agriculture, the Provincial Department of Education, and the Provincial Department of Water Resources ...... More than a dozen other departments have formed a joint investigation team and are conducting on-the-spot investigations in various townships and towns in Hulin County.
The investigation team has not yet reached a conclusion on the previous work of the Hulin County Party Committee and the county political axe, as well as Tian Wenjian's "unorganized and undisciplined" behavior, but Zhao Zhengdong ran over inexplicably, which made Liu Dongchuan and Cao Weixin nervous, secretly wondering if the problem of Hulin was more serious than they imagined, and the investigation team stabbed the investigation results without communicating with the municipal party committee?
On issues related to his personal future, Liu Dongchuan did not dare to slack off. He had no idea of the intentions of the leaders, so he had to be cautious, and he would rather be criticized than call Li Zhiqiang and Tian Wenjian, who knew the situation, and wanted to take advantage of the more than two hours before Zhao Zhengdong's arrival to sharpen his guns, so as not to be caught off guard.
“…… The problems of the tiger forest are piled up, and it will take three or five years to find a solution, to say the least. ”
Looking at the surging river outside the ferry, Li Zhiqiang introduced in a very solemn manner: "Overburdening and seriously overstaffing is one aspect, and the ensuing land abandonment is the biggest problem at hand. ”
Liu Dongchuan half-leaned against the car window, took a deep puff of his cigarette, and asked in a foggy voice, "How serious is it?" ”
Li Zhiqiang sighed and said helplessly: "Secretary Liu, Mayor Cao, in fact, even if Deputy Secretary Tian didn't put that satellite, Hulin's tax collection this year would not be completed. The masses are very distrustful of the political axe! In their words, the county party committee's measures to reduce the burden of the county government axe are 'shouting fiercely now, there is a gust of wind up and down, and there will be an empty time after the autumn, and I will go out to work'.
Since the beginning of spring, the peasants in more than a dozen townships and towns have run out. From the sixth day of the first lunar month to the present, buses and trucks have been carrying peasants who have gone out to work day and night, rushing to cities in all directions of the country. In Sanmen Township, which has more than 50,000 people, there are only 21,000 laborers, and now nearly 30,000 people go out, of which laborers account for more than half.
The situation in other towns and villages is similar, the number of people going out is still rising, and it is estimated that the area of abandoned land and water in the county will reach 560,000 mu this year, accounting for 65% of the total area of the county! Although we are now going all out to do the work of transferring land and subcontracting, the situation is still not optimistic, and it is estimated that at least more than 200,000 mu will be abandoned this year. ”
Half of the people in a county ran away, and this news stunned Liu Dongchuan, and he was stunned for a while before he came to his senses, slapped the back of the chair, and asked in a fierce voice: "Comrade Zhiqiang, why didn't you report such a serious problem to us earlier?" ”
The mayor of the town stays in the town, the county mayor stays in the city, and the secretary of the municipal party committee and the mayor stay in the city. At present, officials only know how to engage in economic construction, but how many people really care about the peasants?
Liu Dongchuan's question made Li Zhiqiang cry and laugh, and he glanced back at Tian Wenjian beside him, and then said with a wry smile: "The price of grain is so low, the more you plant, the more you lose, and you have to bear such heavy taxes and fees, can the people have other choices?" Secretary Liu, this is not an isolated case, if nothing else, there is also a problem in Panshan and other counties. ”
If you want to leave, you can't stop it, and the agricultural tax on abandoned land will naturally not be collected, and the taxes and fees at the central, provincial, and municipal levels will not be less. As a result, the burden will only become heavier and heavier, and more and more people will be overwhelmed, and the area of abandoned land will undoubtedly increase next year, and the tax and fee apportioned per capita will naturally rise.
Thinking of this vicious cycle, Liu Dongchuan gasped, and then realized that Tian Wenjian's behavior may not be as out of line as imagined, and in a sense, it may be regarded as a remedy.
Looking at his uncertain face, Tian Wenjian sat up straight and said expressionlessly: "Compared with previous years, this year's outflow of personnel has new characteristics: first, blind flow, which used to be a purposeful flow, but this year, most peasants went out with a negative mood of 'trying their luck' and 'if they want to die in the city, they will never be peasants in the next life'; second, there are many people and many laborers. In the past, it was mainly girls and some surplus laborers who went out to work, but now they are men, women and children who go out together. In the past, when going out, they generally waited for the responsibility of the field to be subcontracted out before going out, and this year they left without even saying hello. If this continues, it won't take a few years for the administrative county of Hulin to exist in name only. ”
Seeing Cao Weixin's suspicious expression, Li Zhiqiang nodded heavily, and said thoughtfully: "Mayor Cao, Deputy Secretary Tian is not alarmist, the day before yesterday I went to the agricultural materials department and the seed company to go around, and found that as of the morning of March 1, the county's ammonium carbonate, phosphate fertilizer, agricultural film current inventory and sold agricultural materials combined, compared with the sales volume of the same period last year, still decreased by 388%, 36% and 60%, and the seed sales volume decreased by 667% compared with the same period last year. It can be seen from this that the peasants are more active in production and how serious is the lag in spring plowing and preparation! ”
Li Zhiqiang is a recognized expert on agriculture and agriculture, and his words still carry a lot of weight. Liu Dongchuan let out a long sigh and said solemnly: "Mayor Cao, I think that the municipal party committee and municipal axe must face up to the serious problem and start to study and solve the deep-seated problems, especially to study and solve the problem of the cycle of evil surnames caused by the excessive burden on farmers. ”
Cao Weixin pondered for a moment and said thoughtfully: "Yes, if you don't pay enough attention, there will be a big problem." The peasants are overburdened→ no one to plant the fields→ the burden on the acres of land decreases→ the burden on the capitation increases→ they abandon their fields and go out for a long time and do not return home→ the burden cannot be collected→ relying on usury to ensure their operation, hiring social hooligans to collect money, and collecting money to give kickbacks→ thus increasing the burden on the masses, and a vicious cycle has been formed.
At present, it is necessary to encourage some people to subcontract their farmland to others to go out to work, and at the same time support some people to cultivate more fields and cultivate good fields. It is necessary to establish a set of effective systems and coordinate the relationship between the two. It is necessary to resolutely, resolutely, and take a clear-cut stand to crack down on usury, and to reduce the excessively high interest rates of credit cooperatives to the extent permitted by the policy.
Otherwise, the peasants will farm and the cadres will collect fees and taxes, all of which will be working for usurers...... It is necessary to make a painful determination, streamline institutions and personnel, and comprehensively strengthen the ...... of rural financial management."
Personal prejudices aside, if it was half a year ago, Tian Wenjian would definitely applaud Cao Weixin's words. But after serving as the acting county magistrate for a few days, Tian Wenjian deeply understood that seeing problems does not mean that solving them does not mean that they can solve them, and many things are easier said than done.
Before he could speak, Liu Dongchuan's secretary climbed into the bus, pointed to the ferry looming on the river, and said impatiently: "Secretary Liu, Secretary Zhao of the Provincial Party Committee is on that ferry." ”
The No. 1 Provincial Party Committee arrived, but he couldn't sit in the car to greet him. Liu Dongchuan immediately stood up and said very seriously: "You two go back first, and we will arrive later." In terms of safety and security, we must be tight inside and loose outside, and there must be no more problems. ”
"Yes!"
After receiving the notice yesterday, the county party committee held an emergency meeting, from safety and security to cleaning and hygiene, the county party committee and county government axe to welcome the arrival of Secretary Zhao of the provincial party committee, everything was prepared. On the way from the ferry port of the development zone to Hulin, although there are few policemen in sight, all the intersections leading to the main road have been strictly blocked.
The wind and rain are smooth, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and there will definitely be no terrorists who attack and assassinate the leaders of the provincial party committee. Those key people who have a tendency to petition are closely monitored, and it is basically an impossible task to break through the blockade and run to file a lawsuit.
There is no doubt that Liu Dongchuan's worries are unnecessary. The wind and waves are calm along the way, if it is in summer, Zhao Zhengdong, the feudal official, can also enjoy the lakes and mountains on both sides of the highway.
Under the guidance of the open car with flashing police lights, the convoy slowly stopped in the compound of the county party committee. Li Zhiqiang hurriedly led the heads of the four sets of teams in Hulin to greet him, and lined up in a row according to the level of his position, waiting for Secretary Zhao of the Provincial Party Committee and other provincial leaders to get on the bus. The members of the investigation team headed by Deputy Secretary-General Chen of the Provincial Political Axe seemed to have forgotten that this was Hulin, and they were not hosts, so they actually stood in front of a group of county officials with a big grin.
A minute later, Zhao Zhengdong, accompanied by Liu Dongchuan and Cao Weixin, walked out of Coaster with a blank face. Chen Yong, the leader of the investigation team, nodded slightly, then turned around, glanced at Li Zhiqiang, Tian Wenjian and others, and said lightly: "Comrades Li Zhiqiang, Xiao Guanglu, Tian Wenjian, and the comrades of the investigation team went to have a symposium with me, and the other comrades of the county party committee and county government axe went back to work. ”
After finishing speaking, accompanied by the city leaders, he walked into the building without looking back.
I didn't even hold my hand, and the person who came was not good!
Is it a blessing or a curse, it is a disaster that can't be avoided, Li Zhiqiang sighed secretly and hurriedly followed.
The forum was held in the conference room of the Standing Committee on the fourth floor, and seeing the bigwigs of the investigation team staring at him intentionally or unintentionally, Tian Wenjian realized that this might be a high-level criticism meeting, and the object of criticism was himself.
Zhao Zhengdong is a typical northern man, about 1.8 meters tall, slightly fat, but sturdy, with short hair, very much like a man. Tian Wenjian is really no stranger to such a feudal official, he has taken pictures of him from afar before, and he is even the iron buddy of his junior An Xiaobin, but it is the first time that the eldest girl has been on the sedan chair as close as today.
One of the keys to officialdom is to be able to endure, just like Han Xin, to be able to endure the humiliation of the crotch, which is far from enough. Han Xin couldn't endure because of his small forbearance, and was finally destroyed by Liu Bang. People in officialdom definitely need to be forbearant, even if someone puts a knife on your neck, you have to endure it.
The person in front of him is a tolerant master, who took office single-handedly, and he can neither control the secretary's office meeting nor the Standing Committee. After a period of enduring humiliation, he was stunned to separate the monolithic localists of Province J and achieve the balance of power he expected.
"According to Comrade Dongchuan, not long after Comrade Li Zhiqiang and Comrade Tian Wenjian took office, I would like to invite Comrade Xiao Guanglu, deputy county magistrate of the Standing Committee, to first introduce the rural situation in Hulin County."
Zhao Zhengdong finally opened the chatterbox, looked around the crowd casually, and finally stopped his gaze on Xiao Guanglu. This surprised Tian Wenjian, after all, there were too many county officials in the whole province, and he was able to sit in the right seat, and he recognized Xiao Guanglu, the newly appointed deputy county magistrate of the Standing Committee, at a glance.
The secretary of the county party committee and the director of the Standing Committee of the county people's congress was here, but he let himself report his work first, which made Xiao Guanglu ecstatic. You must know that it is the secretary of the provincial party committee who listens to the report, not to mention that he is a small member of the Standing Committee and deputy county magistrate, even the secretary of the county party committee can meet and cannot ask for such an opportunity.
"Report ...... Report...... Report to Secretary Zhao, I ...... I...... The situation in the rural areas of our county in recent years has been good, and some problems are partial and individual...... It is a problem in the process of reform, and it is also a problem in the process of advancing. It is not the mainstream, the key is to develop, and development is the last word. Therefore, we actively respond to the call of the provincial party committee and the provincial political axe, firmly grasp the theme -- development, a good example of development, boost morale, and rely on a good model to drive development......"
Xiao Guanglu was flattered, and even his words were a little incoherent. However, Tian Wenjian didn't dare to compliment his words, he was completely avoiding contradictions, not talking about problems, and just singing praises. He also took out the Southern Biotechnology Group and asked Zhao Zhengdong for credit as a typical example of the adjustment of the agricultural structure in Hulin County.
The members of the investigation team entrusted by the department and bureau are all sitting, isn't this talking nonsense with their eyes open? Liu Dongchuan and Cao Weixin immediately frowned. To Tian Wenjian's surprise, Zhao Zhengdong listened solemnly, and recorded something in his notebook from time to time.
The order of the reports is a bit strange, and after Xiao Guanglu finished talking about it, Zhao Zhengdong went so far as to ask the members of the investigation team from the grain department to report on the results of the investigation on the grain collection issue raised by the Longjiang Municipal Party Committee when it applied for Hulin as a pilot project for tax and fee reform.
The director of the Food Department made Tian Wenjian even more angry, and even swore that the Hulin Food System did not violate the rules when implementing the central grain procurement policy, let alone cheating farmers and harming farmers. He relied on the list price on the purchase certificate, which was $0.55 per catty. As for why the actual settlement price of the peasants is only 0.38 yuan per catty, he does not care, he insists that the voucher is the fact.
The deputy director of the Department of Education also did not mention the problems of indiscriminate school fees, indiscriminate spending, surplus teachers, failure of teachers' morality, and poor study style, and did not care about the fact that more than 70 percent of the township's financial revenue was spent on education...... A female leader with an extraordinary temperament went so far as to say that the actual loan interest rate of 21 per thousand for the peasants was in line with the policy. The implication is that the central government says that it is not in line with the policy, so you can let the central government directly give Hulin a loan.
There are strange things every year, and this year is especially numerous. Feelings: This investigation team is here to oppose the reduction of burdens, not to investigate whether the burden on the peasants is heavy, and is there a problem with the existence of the tiger forest? Tian Wenjian was completely dumbfounded, and he couldn't come up with a reason for thinking about it for a long time.
After listening to the report for more than an hour, Zhao Zhengdong suddenly turned around and asked expressionlessly: "Comrade Dongchuan, do you have anything to add?" ”
Everyone says that the situation is very good, as the secretary of the Longjiang Municipal Party Committee, can he slap himself in the face in front of everyone at this time? Liu Dongchuan coughed dryly twice, and said with embarrassment: "The work of the investigation team is very meticulous, and I have nothing to add." ”
The symposium with such a high standard ended in such a mess. Li Zhiqiang and Tian Wenjian were listeners for a long time, and they didn't even have a chance to speak, so they could only hold back their anger and respectfully send Zhao Zhengdong out of the conference room with everyone.
Seeing everyone walking out of the building in twos and threes, Li Zhiqiang couldn't hold back any longer, leaned into Tian Wenjian's ear, and asked impatiently: "Xiao Tian, what's going on?" What exactly is the investigation team trying to do? ”
Tian Wenjian pondered for a moment, looked at Zhao Zhengdong, who was surrounded by everyone and got into the car, and said in frustration: "The wind direction has changed, if nothing else, this pilot will not be able to try." ”
"Why?" Li Zhiqiang was stunned, and he couldn't believe that this was true.
"You ask me, who do I ask?"
At this time, a staff member in his thirties ran up, stared at Tian Wenjian's eyes, and said with a smile: "Deputy Secretary Tian, please come with me." ”
Tian Wenjian, who was holding back the fire in his belly, didn't think about it, so he said angrily: "Wen Dami, you are such a big leader, why did you do this errand?" ”
Only then did Li Zhiqiang remember that the person in front of him seemed to be coming with Secretary Zhao of the Provincial Party Committee, and the words "Wen Da Secret" surprised him. What made him even more incredulous was that Secretary Wen was not angry at all, but laughed and said: "Then it depends on the person, let's go, don't let Secretary Zhao wait for a long time." ”
Tian Wenjian turned around, patted Li Zhiqiang's arm, and said with a wry smile: "Don't you want to ask why?" I'm going to ask you to understand. ”
Zhao Zhengdong did not return to the provincial capital, nor did he go to Longjiang, but stayed in the VIP building of the county hotel. The Security Department of the Municipal Public Security Bureau has taken over the hotel, with three steps and one post, two steps and one sentry, making it nervous, for fear that others will not know that there is a big leader living in it.
As soon as I walked into the VIP building, I saw Liu Dongchuan coming out of it with a complicated expression. Seeing that the secretary went in to report, Liu Dongchuan hurriedly came to Tian Wenjian's side and warned in a low voice: "Big things turn into small things, small things turn into nothing, don't make any more extraneous branches." ”
Tian Wenjian sighed, pointed in the direction of the county party committee, and said with a wry smile: "Isn't this an obvious matter?" ”
While speaking, Secretary Wen walked out, pointed to the room and said with a smile: "Deputy Secretary Tian, go in." ”
Zhao Zhengdong sat on the sofa and read the documents, and when he saw Tian Wenjian walking in, he put down the work in his hand, and asked lightly while motioning for him to sit down: "How is Xiaobin doing?" Did he say when he would be back? ”
Tian Wenjian was stunned for a moment, then bent down, took out a pen, wrote down a string of phone numbers quickly on a note on the coffee table, and said casually: "This is his phone number, if you want to know how he is doing now, just make a call." ”
"Things gather by like, people by groups, you two are really difficult brothers."
Everything at the symposium made Tian Wenjian extremely angry, how could he have the heart to talk to him, so he said lightly: "Secretary Zhao, you have a lot of opportunities, if there is no instruction, then I won't disturb your work." ”
To Tian Wenjian's surprise, Zhao Zhengdong suddenly raised his head, stared at his eyes, and said solemnly: "In the past, I always thought that peasants' feelings for land were innate, and it would never be difficult to give up.
But today, I understand a new truth, only when the land can bring benefits to the peasants, the peasants will have feelings for the land. There is no income from land, and no matter how clear the property rights are, the common people will not love the land and operate the land. This is very important for us to formulate rural policies! ”
When the problems of how to reduce the peasants' burdens and how to repay the huge debts of the rural areas and villages are prominent, the leaders always hold an attitude that they have nothing to do with themselves and hang up highly, and they do not hide the unique condescension of politicians, which makes Tian Wenjian very disgusted, and he can't help but say: "Far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and those policies are lagging behind in addition to lagging." Besides, even if there is a good policy, it must be implemented by good people. ”
Zhao Zhengdong didn't get angry, and he didn't continue, but turned his words, stared at his eyes, and said in an unquestionable tone: "Some things are not something you can solve if you want to, Hulin's matter is over here, your work organization has been arranged, the order will be issued in the afternoon, and you should be mentally prepared to return to Jiangcheng." ”
"I can't leave yet."
Zhao Zhengdong stood up suddenly, and said in a fierce voice: "The problem of the second child of the Li family, someone will take over, don't let down the kindness of others." ”
(To be continued)