Ma Yang walked to the window suspiciously, looked at the dark crowd in the courtyard, frowned and asked, "County Magistrate Li, what are you asking me to see?" ”

"You can help me see which of these people are the leaders of the factory." Li Xiaoning said lightly.

Ma Yang's gaze wandered back and forth in the crowd a few times, then shook his head and said, "No." ”

"Not one?" Li Xiaoning asked with a smile.

"Not a single one." Ma Yang nodded and said, "The cement factory is a state-owned enterprise, and the leading cadres are still relatively conscious. ”

"Okay, I got it." Li Xiaoning said noncommittally. In my heart, I began to scold my mother: bullshit is conscious. These workers are so organized and orderly, saying that there is no support from the factory leaders, and the ghost believes it. It must be those factory leaders who are behind the bad work, but they slip their heads and deliberately don't come forward.

As he spoke, Li Xiaoning followed Ma Yang downstairs and came to the workers.

When the workers saw Ma Yang coming out with a young man, they immediately became noisy, "The surname is Ma, don't come to coax us, we won't believe you." Hurry up and call the county magistrate out, we will not see the county magistrate today, and we will never leave. ”

Li Xiaoning looked around, then walked to a pickup truck, jumped into the compartment, and said loudly: "Workers! I'm the new acting county magistrate, Li Xiaoning. You want to see me, and I'm coming. ”

The workers fell silent, looking at each other, their faces full of disbelief, and after a while, one of the older workers took the lead and said, "Young man, who are you fooling?" Can you be a county magistrate? My grandchildren are almost as old as you. ”

Li Xiaoning smiled and said, "Old man." Why should I lie to you? What's the good of lying to you? ”

Everyone thought about it, at this time, others couldn't hide, where did anyone take the initiative to pretend to be the county magistrate and rush forward? But Li Xiaoning's age is too young, and everyone is still a little suspicious, so they went to Ma Yang for confirmation.

Ma Yang couldn't wait for everyone's firepower to turn to Li Xiaoning, so he hurriedly said, "I can testify!" This is really the new county magistrate Li. If you have any requirements, just tell County Magistrate Li. He will definitely give everyone a satisfactory answer. ”

"Good. Since you are really the county magistrate, then we will look for you. After the workers confirmed Li Xiaoning's identity, they all shifted their attention to Li Xiaoning, and began to shout:

"County Magistrate Li, you have to call the shots for us!"

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and pay us wages."

", if you don't give money today, I won't leave!"

"We don't ask too much, just pay us less of our salary."

"You eat fragrant and drink spicy food, and you don't care about the life or death of the people?"

Li Xiaoning stood on the pickup truck, silent, always smiling, as if the big guy was not scolding him.

The workers vented, and when they saw that Li Xiaoning didn't pick up their stubble at all, they also felt bored, and their voices gradually became quieter. A strong man said angrily, "Why are you dumb? It's talking! ”

Li Xiaoning smiled slightly and said, "When you're done, I'll talk about it." It's okay, you can go on. Anyway, the more you say, the less I say. ”

This time the workers were silent, and they found that this young county magistrate was really different from the other officials. In the past, when they came to make trouble, those officials were desperately trying to tell the truth, but Li Xiaoning was good and didn't speak directly. The workers had a way to deal with the rhetorical cadres, but they had nothing to do with the young county magistrate who was sitting firmly in Diaoyutai.

Seeing that everyone was quiet, Li Xiaoning said: "I took a cursory look, there are about 300 workers here today, there are many people, and the sun outside is quite poisonous, so let's do it." We selected 10 delegates to come with me into the conference room to talk. The rest of us go back and rest first, okay? ”

The workers all stood still in place, and it was still the old man who spoke to Li Xiaoning at the beginning who spoke: "County Magistrate Li, you have to have a conscience to be a man." ”

Li Xiaoning was stunned for a moment and asked, "Uncle, how do you say this?" ”

The old man sighed and said, "Seeing that you are so young, you have become such a big official, I guess you haven't suffered anything, right?" You may not be able to understand it. But I ask you to put yourself in our shoes. If it's you, you can't get paid for a year, your family has no food, you can't afford to see a doctor when you're sick, and your children can't afford to go to school, what should you do? Now that we can't live, you can still coax and push, and deal with the past, do you still have a human conscience? Are you still *** cadres? ”

After listening to the old man's words, Li Xiaoning understood why he said that he had no conscience, it turned out that the old man regarded what he had just said as perfunctory. Thinking of this, he said in a deep voice: "Old man. I can understand you. You may think that I am some second generation official or rich second generation, but you are wrong. I am also a child of a poor family, my home is in Caoqiao Town, Xinpi County, I also had a hard life when I was a child, only one of the three meals a day has vegetables, and the pancakes are moldy and reluctant to throw them away. ”

"Oops, I recognize him." A voice suddenly sounded in the crowd, "He is the child of the old Li family in our village, I saw him familiar just now, and I didn't dare to recognize him." ”

Li Xiaoning looked at that person, smiled and said, "I also recognize you when you speak." Although we are not a family, according to the name of the village, I should call you Fourth Uncle. ”

"Yes, yes. Oh, I didn't expect you're now a county magistrate. The man's face was happy and reverent.

"Hey, Yu Si, is he really from your village?" The people next to him asked.

"Really, really. I hugged him when he was a kid. Yu Si said excitedly, "Don't worry. He's a man who doesn't forget his roots, and I'm sure he won't fool us like the other officials. ”

"Okay. In that case, we will believe you once. As long as he can pay us today, he can say anything. ”

Li Xiaoning said loudly: "Workers, I understand your anxious feelings. But things have to be solved step by step, and I believe you also know that it is unrealistic to get your salary today. You'll have to let me find a solution to the problem. ”

A man next to Yu Si said: "Then you can tell me the time, when we can find a way, we will sit here and wait." You can study slowly when you are full of food and drink all day, we can't wait long when we are hungry, and we can only last ten days and half a month at most. ”

Thinking that these workers had been forced by the government's repeated pushing, when they heard this, everyone immediately followed the shouts, and the whole yard suddenly became a mess again.

Seeing this situation, Li Xiaoning knew that it would be impossible to calm everyone's anger without giving everyone a clear answer. Then he said loudly, "Good! It is limited to half a month, and I will definitely solve everyone's problems within half a month. ”

Everyone immediately calmed down, their faces were full of disbelief, and after a while, the old man asked, "What you said is true?" ”

"I just want to lie to you, but I have to have the courage to deceive." Li Xiaoning smiled and said, "Don't forget." Fourth Uncle Yu knows where my family is. If I can't solve everyone's problems in half a month, you don't have to block the door of the government anymore. Just go and block the door of my house. ”

Everyone saw that Li Xiaoning's words had already reached this point, and they also understood that the salary could not come down in a day, and saying that they would not leave without getting the salary was just a gesture. In order to force the government to make concessions. Now that Li Xiaoning has clearly replied that the problem will be solved within half a month, it is not interesting to stay any longer. Anyway, the big guys haven't been paid for more than a year, and they don't care about waiting for another fifteen days.

Finally some people began to turn away, such a group seemed solid, but in fact it was very unreliable, one person left, and the others would leave to follow, so in less than five minutes, the county compound returned to peace.

After the last worker left, Li Xiaoning returned to the office, found the address book, dialed Lian Yu's phone, and said politely: "Secretary Lian, let me report to you." ”

Lian Yu was very unhappy at this time, because Ma Yang had already called him in advance to report that Li Xiaoning had promised to solve the problem of the wages of the workers in the cement factory within half a month. He felt that this Li Xiaoning was too good at taking it for granted. The problem that so many people haven't solved for more than a year, can you Li Xiaoning solve it in ten days?

Therefore, as soon as the phone was connected, Lian Yu first criticized Li Xiaoning, saying that he was ignorant and made decisions on his own, and if the matter could not be solved, how would it end.

Li Xiaoning originally wanted to wait patiently for Lian Yu to finish venting before speaking, but this secretary Lian trained people like an old lady, and Rory was speechless. He really couldn't listen anymore, so he interrupted loudly: "Secretary Lian, shouldn't you listen to my thoughts first, and it's not too late to criticize?" ”

Lian Yu didn't expect Li Xiaoning to directly confront herself, she was even more angry, and said irritably: "Then you say, I'll see what tricks you can conjure?" ”

Li Xiaoning said calmly: "Actually, this problem is very easy to solve. We only need to auction off the cement factory, and then use the money from the auction to insure the workers and buy out the seniority, and we can completely get rid of this burden. ”

After listening to Li Xiaoning's words, Lian Yu did not agree as Li Xiaoning imagined, but sneered and said, "What good way can I do it?" Do you think we haven't thought of it? At a young age, I don't know how thick the sky is, and it's so simple to think about problems......"

Li Xiaoning frowned, interrupted Lian Yu and said, "Secretary Lian, do you mean that this method is not feasible?" ”

"Of course not!"