When they arrived in Qilitang Town, the person who received them said that only Deputy Mayor Lu Feng was there, and that he was convening a meeting of several village cadres.

Hua Nianping asked for the opinions of Secretary-General Hao and Yao Yong, and said how about going directly to the venue to listen?

Both of them thought Hua Nianping's idea was ridiculous, thinking that all over the country, there was no senior executive at the department level who listened to the meeting of a section-level mayor, and he was also a deputy mayor.

They were taken into the town's conference room.

Lu Feng was speaking to several village cadres when he suddenly saw Hua Nianping and others coming in, and immediately got up from his seat and planned to come over to greet him.

Hua Nianping waved his hand to Lu Feng and motioned for them to continue the meeting.

He sat quietly on a chair at the door, looking at the rural grassroots cadres one by one, showing great interest. Secretary-General Hao and Yao Yong also quietly found a place for each.

The three of them listened for a while and understood that the meeting was studying and arranging the general election of the village committee.

Lu Feng said: "Village officials are also officials, and the city people's congress and the CPPCC elect standing committee members, and we elect village cadres. The difference is that they are elected by a difference, and our village officials are directly elected. Every villager has the right to sign up for the election, and everyone will choose whoever can do a good job, and the town will not recommend candidates this year. ”

A village cadre said: "If no one signs up, I will do enough in just one term, and I don't plan to sign up for the election this year!" ”

Lu Feng smiled and said: "I thought about it, it doesn't matter if no one signs up, the villagers can jointly recommend it, the key is to find people who are fair and trustworthy to everyone, especially to mobilize people with honest eyes to rush up to participate in the direct election!" ”

Another village cadre said: "I am afraid that, as in previous years, powerful people will engage in forced elections, and rich people will engage in bribery elections!" ”

Lu Feng said: "I have also thought about this issue, and this year we will all implement on-the-spot voting, on-the-spot counting, and on-the-spot announcement." If you believe me, every village will go to the scene for this year's re-election of the village committees, saying that it is to guide the election, but in fact it is also supervision. What else do you have to say? ”

Everyone said no, so Lu Feng announced the dismissal of the meeting.

Hua Nianping saw that Lu Feng's speech at the meeting was crisp and neat, and he knew everything well, and he admired this township cadre who was not tall very much.

Lu Feng sent a few village cadres away, immediately returned to the conference room, and asked, "Commissioner Hua, why did you leaders come to the town in person, and do you have any major things to arrange?" ”

Hua Nianping asked Lu Feng to sit down first and asked, "I remember I heard you say that I studied bioengineering in college, so I want to learn something about Xinhua Pharmaceutical Factory and this profession from you, are you familiar with it?" ”

Lu Feng said: "My sister and brother-in-law both work in Xinhua Pharmaceutical Factory, my sister does technical testing, and my brother-in-law runs the sales business, and I often listen to them discuss things in the factory. As you know, Commissioner Hua, I majored in chemical and biological engineering, and I work in this town, so I am more concerned about the affairs of Xinhua Pharmaceutical Factory. ”

Hua Nianping said: "Very good, please tell me as thoroughly as possible about what you know!" ”

When Lu Feng heard Commissioner Hua use the word "please" to let him express his opinion, he immediately felt flattered and happy, and no longer had any scruples in his heart.

He said: "In fact, according to me, Xinhua Pharmaceutical Factory is a very good enterprise, but it has not been well managed over the years, mainly because the system and mechanism are not good. There are two serious problems in the factory that need to be solved, one is the high production cost, the high overhead, and the low resource efficiency. ”

Lv Feng gave an example: "For example, in the production of citric acid, the main raw materials are corn and dried potatoes, which can be processed into many by-products after fermentation, but the factory does not make good use of them; Second, environmental pollution has not been solved, there are both water pollution and air pollution, and the lysine production process can produce a large number of sulfur-containing substances, which is very harmful to the human body. ”

Lu Feng then analyzed: "This time the death of several elderly people in the nursing home, in addition to dietary factors, air pollution is also one of the triggers, and the more terrible long-term breathing of this sulfur-containing air can lead to the production of cancer cells and some viruses." I have noticed that in the villages around the Xinhua Pharmaceutical Factory, more and more women are giving birth to children with deformities or cerebral palsy. ”

Hua Nianping's mood became heavier and heavier, and he felt that he was in a dilemma, on the one hand, the local economic development of Huai Listed City and the growth of the benefits of Enyuan Group, and on the other hand, the livelihood of the people.

He remembered a paper he wrote many years ago, called "The Impact of China's Economic Development on the World Economy", which mentioned that there are many items that are no longer produced or restricted in foreign countries, and more than 50 percent of them are supplied to Western developed countries at the expense of the environment in the development process, and citric acid and amino acids seem to be among the examples in his article.

Secretary-General Hao reminded Hua Nianping that it was past 12 o'clock at noon, and it was time to eat, and Hua Nianping asked him to arrange for him to eat in the town's canteen.

Lu Feng said that the canteen has been closed because he is sometimes the only one left who eats in the town's canteen, and he feels that it is a bit wasteful, so he ordered it to be closed temporarily. When he needs to eat, he usually goes to the family local restaurant opened by Uncle Yan.

Yao Yong said that when they rushed back to the guest house restaurant to eat at this time, I am afraid that they are already leftovers and cold soup, and they have not eaten local vegetables in the countryside for a long time, so they proposed to go to Uncle Yan to try it.

Hua Nianping didn't want to go back and trouble the chef of the restaurant to cook for him alone, expressing respect for everyone's "public opinion" for lunch.

Uncle Yan's local restaurant is really very distinctive, especially the two dishes of stewed mutton and scrambled eggs, which make several people eat with relish. Uncle Yan came in when they were about to finish their meal and asked Commissioner Hua if he was satisfied with the meal.

Hua Nianping replied that this was the most delicious meal after coming to Huai to go public.

Uncle Yan said that the table is full of green food, the vegetables are grown in his own field, and the chickens and sheep are also fed by himself, and the shortcomings are that the water used for watering vegetables and the water for chickens and sheep to drink are all polluted by the Xinhua Pharmaceutical Factory.

When Secretary-General Hao and Yao Yong heard this, they thought that this could still be said to be green, and immediately stopped their chopsticks.

At this time, there was a sudden cry of a woman outside, and then a few middle-aged men were heard scolding. Uncle Yan hurriedly said goodbye and walked away when he heard the voice, Lu Feng seemed to be hooked by the woman's cry, and he lost the rice bowl he had just eaten a few bites and went out.

Hua Nianping waited in the house for a while and didn't see Lu Feng come back, so they had to go out of the restaurant and wait for him on the side of the road.

Not long after the three of them stood up, they saw four or five men come out of the restaurant in a menacing manner, and board the two cars parked at the door one after another. I saw Uncle Yan running out after them, stuffing a big red paper bag into the open car window.

No, the red paper bag immediately flew out of the car and fell at the feet of Uncle Yan, bursting, and a large pile of hundred-yuan bills were scattered all over the ground.

Uncle Yan looked at the two cars that were speeding away, frowning.

Hua Nianping and the three of them stepped forward to pick up the money on the ground, sorted it out and handed it to Uncle Yan, and asked him what was going on?