The next day, Qin Shengli took Liu Mingyuan, Wu Wei and the accountant, women's director, and planning and fertility specialist of the brigade to Daqinzhuang together. Before the new captain was elected, Qin Zhongliang was still asked to convene each member of the club for a meeting as the captain.

Before the election, the meeting once again read out the commune's decision on the punishment of Qin Zhongliang, and repeatedly stressed that everyone participating in today's meeting must vote, and finally the candidate with a majority of the votes was elected captain.

When the people at the venue received the ballots, they were as cold as yesterday afternoon, and they did not have much enthusiasm. Occasionally, there are people who walk up to the ballot box to vote, but they are also unhappy and bitter, as if they have endless bitterness and unhappiness in their hearts. But in any case, people reluctantly cast their votes, waiting for the results of the election to their satisfaction or disappointment.

"Is there anyone who hasn't put their ballot in the ballot box? Hurry up and fill in the candidate's name and vote in, and immediately start unboxing and counting the results. Qin Shengli said to the crowd below.

There is no reflection below the venue.

"Good. Now that everyone has voted for their votes, now elect honest people you believe to come to the stage to sing, scrutine, and write, and count the voting results. Secretary Qin waited for a while, saw that no one voted anymore, and said to everyone.

Under the recommendation of the masses, the tellers, scrutineers, and tellers stepped forward and began to count the votes of the electees. After nearly 40 minutes of counting and counting votes, the election results were obtained: Qin Zhongliang had 258 votes, Baolian had 36 votes, Huanqing had 10 votes, Da Niu had 7 votes, Qin Gao had 6 votes, and Xiong Meng had 4 votes.

In the face of the election results, all the leading cadres of the brigade felt unexpected, you look at me, I look at you, and finally focused on Qin Shengli, the secretary of the brigade. Through eye contact, Qin Shengli knew that the other cadres were also in the same dilemma as himself, so he said to the excited crowd: "The election results have come out, everyone should go home, I and the other comrades will report the results to the commune leaders when they go back, and after asking them for their decision, I will immediately return to announce the election results to everyone." ”

"Secretary Qin, now you declare that the captain is Qin Zhongliang, because everyone trusts him the most. His vote was the highest, didn't you just say that it was decided with more than 50 percent of the votes? You can't push it now! We can't be disappointed, we can't be untrustworthy, we can't go against our will, so announce it! The people at the venue rushed forward one after another, demanding that Qin Shengli immediately announce the result of Qin Zhongliang's election as captain.

"Good, good! Everyone should know that my power is limited, and I can only announce the issue of deciding the captain of a production team as big as Daqinzhuang after it should be approved or agreed by the superior leaders. Qin Shengli said to everyone.

"Since you can't be a family, why did you say that before the meeting? Words don't count! Qin Changyu muttered.

"How can you speak like that to the secretary? Some of the big questions are that one person can do what the Lord did? You have to study it collectively or report it to your superiors and decide! Wu Wei, the commander of the militia battalion of the brigade, said to Qin Changyu sharply.

"Soon to give you an answer, soon!" Liu Mingyuan, deputy secretary of the brigade, relieved Qin Shengli's siege and said to the masses.

The high mood of the crowd was calmed down, and they waited for the cadres of the brigade to report to the Commune and give them a satisfactory answer. On the way home, everyone was full of hope for the future of Daqinzhuang, with happy smiles on their faces, imagining the harvest and satisfaction they would get, but they were also skeptical and uneasy.

"What should I do, Secretary Qin? The masses of Daqinzhuang always focus their wishes on Qin Zhongliang, and the number of votes of others is too different from half of the votes, how can you be sure? On the way back from Daqinzhuang, Deputy Secretary Liu Mingyuan said to Qin Shengli.

"It's no wonder that most people voted for Qin Zhongliang, in the past few years when he was the captain, he has indeed made great development in production, so that the masses have received a lot of benefits, from less than 100 catties per capita in the afternoon season, to more than 300 catties this year, there is no in our whole brigade and even the whole commune!" Wu Wei, the commander of the militia battalion, said, "Ask the leaders of the commune if they can stop pursuing the trivial matter of distributing the chaff and water and grain, and let him continue to do it?" In the big picture, his achievements are still not small after all, and his merits outweigh his faults. If there is a real change of people, so that production declines, and the masses complain, I am afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses! It's not a small number of ten catties and eight catties per person! ”

"What to do? Is the decision of the Commune the decision of the Commune the decision of the Commune to be changed at will? Qin Shengli said, "Unless they lead the revision of the decision and come up with a new punishment opinion, they can announce it to the masses." Otherwise, none of us have the right to do this! ”

"I can't decide what to do, simply, the child cried and hugged his mother. Report to the Commune on these two elections and let them decide! How can you be sure that the number of votes for others does not exceed half of the number of participants, not even one-third, one-quarter, or one-fifth? Liu Mingyuan said.

Several cadres of the brigade discussed and discussed all the way, and it was not easy to make decisions.

"Secretary, is this okay?" Ma Hongliang, who planned to plan for fertility, stopped talking and asked Qin Shengli.

"If you have any good suggestions, just say it, don't ramble!" Qin Shengli said to Ma Hongliang, "Working together, what do you say!" ”

"When the re-election, let the members exclude Qin Zhongliang's name and only run among the other people who were elected today, what do you think?" Ma Hongliang said.

"What do you say about this? Before the meeting, the commune's opinions on Qin Zhongliang's handling of Qin Zhongliang were repeatedly read out, which was to tell everyone not to elect Qin Zhongliang, but the masses' ** rights could not be deprived, and they had to write Qin Zhongliang's name on the ballot, what should they do? Qin Shengli thought for a while and said, "Okay." In the afternoon, let's directly tell the masses not to write Qin Zhongliang's name on the ballot, and see if anyone can have more than half of the votes. ”

After discussing the matter, the cadres of the brigade went home to prepare for the election in the afternoon.