In June of a certain year near the new century, the sky in Qihe City was dark and gloomy, like a huge iron pot falling down, which made people feel extremely depressed, as if they couldn't even breathe, and the torrential rain was pouring down. Although it was still afternoon, it was so dark that I could barely see my fingers.

The two off-road vehicles turned on their headlights and galloped on the highway from Qihe to Yunhu in the rain.

It is a new, six-lane highway in both directions, built to the highest quality standards, with most sections of the road being viaducts, and the cost is much higher than that of ordinary highways. When the construction plan was only made three years ago, there were not without disagreement in the city. Some city leaders believe that in order to save money, it is better not to build so many viaducts.

In the end, it was Mayor Fan Hongyu who made the decision to build the viaduct.

Mayor Fan's opinion is very clear, the highway should try not to occupy fertile land, in addition, the Qi River is on the shore of the big lake, the flood control task is very heavy, the roadbed of the expressway should be as high as possible above the ground to a certain height, in case of flooding, the smooth flow of the highway can be guaranteed.

Mayor Fan's strength in the city is well known. As soon as he slapped the board, the other comrades no longer objected.

Three years ago, Rong Qigao, the former secretary of the Qingshan Provincial Party Committee, was transferred to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) as vice chairman, and Comrade You Limin, the veteran leader of Fan Hongyu, took over the post of secretary of the Qingshan Provincial Party Committee. Comrade Qiu Mingshan, another veteran leader of Fan Hongyu, was formally appointed director of the National Leading Office for the Restructuring of Public Enterprises as early as four years ago, at the ministerial level. Fan Hongyu's father, Fan Weiguo, the former secretary of the Yanhua Prefectural Party Committee, was transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture as a vice minister. Gao Jie's father, Fan Hongyu's father-in-law, Gao Xinghan, became the governor of Haixi Province a few years ago.

Mayor Xiao Fan is full of confidence.

Now it turns out that Fan Hongyu's original decision was completely correct.

Since the beginning of summer this year, heavy rains have fallen in the major river basins, and a major flood has taken place in the entire river basin. As a city along the lake and along the river. The pressure on flood prevention and rescue work in Qihe City is unprecedentedly heavy.

Five years ago, when Fan Hongyu became the executive vice mayor of Qihe City, he put the improvement of the highway transportation network in the first place, borrowed heavily to build several high-grade highways in Qihe City, and made up his mind to comprehensively upgrade the city's highway transportation network.

Now the rain is pouring down, and the floods are raging, and many roads are flooded or semi-submerged. Traffic disruptions. Only these newly built high-grade highways, with high foundations and good quality, are still open to traffic, and immediately become the lifeline of the city's flood control and disaster relief.

Huang Zixuan, executive vice mayor of Qihe City, sat in the off-road vehicle behind him. Looking at the torrential rain outside the window, looking at all kinds of vehicles running on the highway, I admired Secretary Fan's foresight.

Secretary Fan is like this, and his vision is far more long-term than that of ordinary cadres.

When Fan Hongyu made many decisions, many comrades did not understand them, and they couldn't help but secretly slander Comrade Fan for being too domineering. Unable to listen to different opinions. But after two or three years, when they looked back at those decisions, everyone was surprised to find that Secretary Fan still had foresight. Secretary Fan's astonishing foresight of future changes in the situation. It's really not something that ordinary people can match.

Soon, the two off-road vehicles got off the highway and went straight to Luhua Town, Yunhu County.

On the flood control embankment in Luhua Town, countless people are busy. Some people wore raincoats. There are also many people who just wear a plastic sheet on their bodies and use it as a raincoat. Better than nothing. At a glance, at least six or seven hundred people are fighting to strengthen the embankment.

Several large machines roared, fighting with the crowd.

There are a lot of gas lamps and iodine-tungsten lamps around it, which illuminates the construction site.

The two off-road vehicles stopped at the edge of the construction site and could not move any further, and the front was full of mud and would sink in.

Fan Hongyu, secretary of the Qihe Municipal Party Committee, got out of the car first, and Chen Heping, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and secretary general of the Municipal Party Committee, who came with him, tightly opened an umbrella and covered Secretary Fan's head. Fan Hongyu raised his hand and gently pushed the umbrella aside.

He was wearing a raincoat, but he was soaking wet.

Secretary Fan didn't come from the city, but rushed to Yunhu from another county. During the flood season, Fan Hongyu rarely stayed in the city, and went straight to the front line of flood control to personally inspect and supervise the work of flood prevention and rescue.

Going deep into the front line and going deep into the grassroots is Secretary Fan's consistent work style.

Someone had sharp eyes, and immediately shouted: "It's Secretary Fan, Secretary Fan is here......"

A large group of people suddenly stopped what they were doing and rushed to this direction. Fan Hongyu is the old county magistrate of Yunhu County, and many "old people" in Luhua Town know him. Secretary Fan's prestige in Yunhu is extremely high, and it has never been reduced in the slightest because he left Yunhu.

A man in his early thirties, also wearing a raincoat and stepping on thick mud, walked over with one foot high and one foot low, and shouted: "Secretary, why are you here?" ”

If you look closely, it is Fan Hongyu's former correspondent in Yunhu County, and Lei Ming, the current secretary of the Yunhu County Party Committee.

Fan Hongyu smiled and said, "This Luhua Town is opened by your Lei Ming's family, I can't come if you can come?" ”

Seeing the thunder on the flood control embankment, Fan Hongyu was very satisfied. Most of the cadres he picked up single-handedly adhered to his style of doing things, and they were never sloppy in their work.

Lei Ming opened his big mouth, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth, and said with a smile: "Secretary don't worry, there is no problem with Yunhu." ”

Before Fan Hongyu could speak, Huang Zixuan, executive deputy mayor and executive deputy commander of the Municipal Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, spoke, nodded his thunderous nose, and said: "Okay, you are thundering, this tone is really not small." ”

"Hehe, Mayor Huang, you know my character, there is one thing to say and two to say, if you are not ninety percent sure, I don't dare to boast about such Haikou in front of the leader."

Lei Ming said with a smile, and nodded to Chen Heping, secretary general of the municipal party committee.

The three city leaders who came here are all old acquaintances of Lei Ming.

Fan Hongyu asked: "Luhua Town is no problem, what about other places, have you been to see them?" ”

Lei Ming nodded vigorously and said, "I've been to see it, I just came from Xingang, and the embankment is quite strong and can withstand it." ”

Fan Hongyu said: "Thunder, don't take it lightly. This year's flood is a once-in-a-century event. It was bigger than all the floods of previous years. It's bigger than the flood we had eight years ago, and we have to be 100 percent safe. ”

Eight years ago, Fan Hongyu had just taken office as the acting county magistrate of Yunhu County, when he encountered a major flood once in 30 years, Luhua Town directly burst the embankment, Fan Hongyu was swept into the flood and almost died honorably.

Lei Ming hurriedly said: "Please rest assured, I understand." In the past few years, we have never saved money for flood control, and every section of the embankment has been repeatedly reinforced, and many sections of the embankment have been rebuilt. I checked it and found no major hidden dangers. Our duty system has been put in place, and random inspections have been carried out from time to time, and leading cadres who are not on duty will be dismissed on the spot. ”

These are the rules set by Fan Hongyu when he was the secretary of the Yunhu County Party Committee, and they have not changed for many years, and every secretary of the county party committee has unswervingly implemented these rules and regulations.

Regarding Lei Ming's words, Fan Hongyu still trusts him very much.

"Let's go up to the embankment and have a look."

Rao is like this, Fan Hongyu still refuses to be sloppy, waved his hand, and walked forward. Everyone hurriedly followed closely.

"Secretary Fan is good."

"Secretary Fan, come home and take a look?"

"Secretary Fan......"

Along the way, many people rushed to greet Fan Hongyu, the wind was howling, the torrential rain was like a note, everyone was almost shouting at the top of their voices, and their faces showed excitement and admiration.

After these years of development, the economic development of Yunhu County has become more and more rapid, and it is no longer Yunhu when Fan Hongyu first took office eight years ago, and last year it successfully ranked among the top ten counties in the national economy. For a county in the hinterland, this is an extremely rare honor. The people of Yunhu County have benefited, and they have not forgotten to dig wells, and at this moment, they are very kind when they see Secretary Fan.

A sentence to go home and take a look at it says it all.

The masses of Yunhu regard Secretary Fan as their own family!

Fan Hongyu nodded all the way, greeted the crowd, and squeezed the palms stretched out in front of him, no matter how much mud was on these rough palms.

Ascending the embankment, the gentle and clear Qingshan Lake in the past has long since changed its appearance, the dirty muddy water is tumbling, roaring, wave after wave, slamming into the embankment, splashing, just wanting to tear the people on the embankment down.

The coming force is fierce.

Fan Hongyu's eyes narrowed slightly, looked at the tumbling and roaring lake, and after a while, he said: "This flood is indeed more violent than in previous years. ”

"Yes, secretary, according to the flood warning information of the Central Meteorological Observatory, almost all river basins in the upper reaches, including the main stream of tributaries, have greatly exceeded the warning water level. The first wave of the flood will arrive in our city in two days. We're all under attack! ”

Huang Zixuan said loudly on the side.

On one side is the main stream of the river, on the other side is Qingshan Lake, Qihe urban area and most counties are threatened by the flood peak, and the flood control situation in the city is extremely severe.

Chen Heping also said on the side: "It is estimated that when the first wave of flood peaks reaches us, it will exceed the second-level warning level." ”

"Don't be afraid, you can withstand it!"

Fan Hongyu said in a low voice.

Chen Heping nodded. Over the years, Fan Hongyu has never relaxed his flood control work, and has invested large sums of money again and again to strengthen and reinforce the city's flood control embankments. If this can't be resisted, then it can really only be said to be providence.

While he was talking, Chen Heping's mobile phone rang rapidly, Chen Heping hurriedly took out his mobile phone, pressed the answer button, answered a few words loudly, his face changed slightly, and said: "Okay, okay, I'll report to the secretary immediately, okay, okay......"

Fan Hongyu looked at him, and Huang Zixuan and Lei Ming showed nervousness.

Could it be that the first wave of the flood has not yet arrived, and there is a danger?

Chen Heping hurriedly said: "Secretary, it's Mayor Lu's call, Premier Hong has arrived in the province, accompanied by Secretary Qiu and Governor Cao, and has already set off to our city, Mayor Lu asks you to rush back to the city immediately." ”