Qin Xiyue finally fell out with the delegation.

Originally, Qin Xiyue didn't want to participate in this investigation, time did not allow, it was about to pass the winter, and the saplings that had not yet matured at the experimental site had to be cared for, and the desert institute had to take out a sum of money every year to hire people to take care of the saplings, in case they froze to death in winter or were trampled by sheep. In addition, he and Che Shusheng privately contacted many experts, scholars, representatives, and committee members, and jointly made suggestions to the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Congress, and the National People's Congress, requesting that the establishment of the Huyang River Basin Comprehensive Management Bureau be planned as soon as possible, and the river basin management committee, which sounded very mysterious and practical, but did not do anything and could not do anything, was abolished, and the management of the Huyang River Basin was included in the first management sequence, so as to fundamentally solve the problem that no one can manage anyone who wants to. This is only half done, and he wants to make preparations before the next people's congress. But the Provincial People's Congress asked him to participate by name, and he couldn't help but come. After all, supervising and commenting on local work is also a duty that **** should perform, and after some hesitation, he still came. At the beginning, Qin Xiyue was full of interest, followed the delegation, kept walking, kept watching, and kept expressing his opinions. The construction of a new socialist countryside is a major strategic decision put forward by the party in the new historical period, and it is an inevitable requirement to effectively solve the problems of agriculture and rural areas and realize the coordinated economic and social development of urban and rural areas. But looking at it, his dissatisfaction came up. First, the people's congress organized a group to go to the grassroots level this time, nominally to evaluate and supervise the work of the local government, to see what the local government has done in building a new socialist countryside, and what has not been done in place. In fact, it has evolved into a sightseeing tour. Everywhere you go, not only hug you before and after, but also usher in the send-off, what you want to see can't see, what you don't want to see, send it to your eyes. And, even if you see a problem, you won't be asked to say it. Deputy Director Li of the National People's Congress has stressed many times that the general principle of this time is to affirm more and criticize less, to encourage the local government more, and to give the local government less discouragement. Under this principle, most of the delegates kept their mouths shut, and some even closed their eyes. When I saw the problem, I pretended not to see it, and when I saw it, I just said a few words without pain, which was perfunctory.

Qin Xiyue can't do it, his eyes are used to picking thorns, and his mouth is even more unobstructed, and he can't close it if he wants to. If you don't let him look at it, you can watch it hard; If you don't let him say it, you will say it. As a result, Deputy Director Li was unhappy, and at several symposiums, Deputy Director Li interrupted him: "What's the matter with you, Lao Qin, you always disagree with everyone?" ”

"Am I against everyone? It's everyone who's going against me, right? Qin Xiyue craned his neck and looked at Deputy Director Li with dissatisfaction. Deputy Director Li argued with him twice, and later, after no longer arguing, he thought of a way, went to a place, and let people accompany Qin Xiyue alone, what he wanted to see, what he wanted to say, just say it, anyway, he just can't say it at the meeting.

Despite this, Qin Xiyue still put the cannon at the meeting.

He was angry at the wall of shame.

Qin Xiyue and the others came to the eastern part of the province this time, and they set off from the provincial capital and walked east from station to station, which was exactly the opposite direction to Hu Haoyue of the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee. The eastern region is an underdeveloped area of the province, with large mountains and deep ravines, drought and water shortage, and is a typical loess high slope zone. In the early winter, the crops have already been harvested, and the already bare mountains are even more pale, desolate, and withered. Walking on the undulating yellow earth, people's hearts can't help but be heavy. They first went to Lingxi County, a well-known champion county in the country, and conducted research there for a week. Lingxi is one of the 18 arid counties in the country and one of the 12 extremely poor counties in the country. It is densely populated, the vegetation is scarce, and the problem of drinking water for people and animals has not been completely solved until now. The local farmers all eat kiln water, and the continuous drought in recent years has reduced the amount of rain and snow from the sky, and the draft has become more and more problematic. Ten years ago, the province launched the Yellow River irrigation project, hoping to divert the surging Yellow River water to Lingxi. However, halfway through the project, because of the complex geological conditions of the rolling mountains, the construction of crossing the mountains is quite difficult, and the leakage problem of the loess layer cannot be effectively solved, so the project was forced to be discontinued. A few years ago, the province carried out the Mother Earth Water Cellar Project, and wanted to build a water cellar for the local farmers, but unfortunately this project was later due to the construction party cutting corners, coupled with the project responsible department for a large amount of embezzlement of project funds, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the farmers, and the project did not end, and the "Mother Earth" became a pain in the hearts of the people. Maybe it's too bitter, the people here have a thought, for the children to go to school, rather live in a cave, never build a house for the rest of their lives, but also for a college student. Lingxi's college entrance examination admission rate has ranked first in the province for 15 consecutive years, and famous universities such as Tsinghua University and Peking University can receive students from Lingxi, the poorest place in Northwest China, every year. When Qin Xiyue first became a ****, he had been to Lingxi, and it was the Department of Education that organized them to come to Lingxi to inspect the nine-year compulsory education. But there was one thing that touched him deeply. That is what the people of Lingxi put forward: "No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, and no matter how drought you are, you can't dry your children". At that time, he also wrote an article calling this the "Lingxi Spirit". Five or six years have passed, and Lingxi is still the same, and there is no change in sight, the only difference is that the rickshaws on the street have become "ground rats" (a simple motor vehicle that the locals use as taxis). Sitting on the "ground mouse", Qin Xiyue's eyes were full of gray faces and dirty heads. The scenery that once shocked his eyes reappeared, and it was a street of thrift goods.

I'm afraid that you won't be able to find such a street in the whole country. The old goods sold here are all old goods recovered from the city, obsolete sofas, furniture, and beds. Even the old clothes, old socks, and torn trousers that the city people have eliminated are hung up half a street here. A few years ago, Qin Xiyue urgently appealed to the relevant departments to ban this thrift market because he saw the old bras and stockings with holes in the city women. But his voice was strongly opposed by Lingxi: "We also want to sell new goods, but the people have to have money in their hands, and the money is used for the children to study, and the clothes can only be saved and saved." ”

Thinking about the prosperity of the metropolis, thinking about the luxury and waste of the people in the city, and then looking at the bleak scenery here, Qin Xiyue's heart is as heavy as filling with yellow sand. It was on this day that he saw an even more dazzling scene.

The fig wall was built ten kilometers away from the county seat, in a village called Gaolingdun. This is Qin Xiyue's first stop in Lingxi, accompanied by the leaders of the city, county and township levels, and it was a deputy county magistrate of the county who introduced the experience of building the new countryside, and he pointed to the 300-meter long wall and said, this is a new attempt to occupy the countryside with culture, because of the poor economic conditions in Lingxi, television is not too popular, and the amount of information about the peasants is very small. What is also important is to make use of this wall to set up propaganda columns and blackboard newspapers to promptly publicize to the broad masses of peasants the documents and spirit of the central authorities, the party's policy of enriching the people, and the good people and good deeds that have emerged in the construction of the new socialist countryside. Qin Xiyue found that there was indeed a column on the wall, and the full text of the No. 1 document of the Central Committee was posted, as well as the party newspapers of the provinces and cities and the notices of related activities for the construction of new rural areas. Amid the applause of the delegates, Qin Xiyue looked around the cultural wall and found that this wall was particularly interesting, it was built along the highway, and cleverly used the wall to cover the dilapidated appearance of Gaolingdun Village. The 300-meter cultural long wall is made of exquisite materials, and the middle 200 meters are also pasted with tiles, and the top of the wall is paved with golden glazed tiles, which looks very magnificent. In the back, it is full of domestic garbage, pig manure and dog feces are piled up in piles. Not far from the wall are the low houses of the villagers. Compared to the houses of the villagers, the walls are really two worlds, the old and the new. Because of the first time he saw this wall, Qin Xiyue didn't say anything, but in his heart, he was muttering, this is the construction of a new countryside?

After looking all the way, Qin Xiyue found that half of the so-called new rural construction has been implemented, and half of it has made the scene below. In particular, the cultural wall is almost overflowing, and you can see this kind of wall almost every other county. Although the names are different, some are called cultural walls, some are called century walls, and some are called propaganda walls, but the purpose is to cover the appearance of the village and let passing vehicles see the new wall at a glance. The construction method of the walls is also different, some build a special wall, and some tear up the old courtyard wall of the peasants and build a new wall with bricks, but the common feature is that these walls are built along the highway and in obvious areas. Qin Xiyue indignantly called it a "wall of shame". He said at the meeting: "If the construction of our new countryside continues in this direction, it will become a game and a prank. Deputy Director Li also criticized him, saying that he was not serious in his speech. Qin Xiyue stood up angrily and said angrily at Deputy Director Li: "Spend the country's money and build a few walls of shame, this is called serious?" Deputy Director Li sighed helplessly: "Lao Qin, you are too right-minded, why can't you see the results anywhere, according to what you say, the comrades below are not doing their jobs, they are all playing games?" ”

Qin Xiyue said: "If this is also called work, I would rather not do it!" ”

Quarrel after quarrel, and the deputies have to watch and comment all the way. When it arrived in Laogou Township, Pingxi County, Qinling City, the old revolutionary base area, the fire in Qinxiyue could not be contained.

Qinling is the easternmost city of the province, located at the foot of the famous Qinling Mountain, over the Qinling Mountains, is the revolutionary holy land of Yan'an. It used to be a place where sparks were lit and where the seeds of revolution were sown, but because of the deep mountains and ravines, the economic conditions here have always been very poor, and the masses in the old area are still living a very difficult life. To build a new socialist countryside, Qinling is the key point, and it is also a demonstration area in the province. But the wind of falsehood in Qinling is more serious than anywhere else.

As soon as Qin Xiyue and the others entered Laogou Village, they saw an incomparably magnificent wall, which was five kilometers long. White tile veneer, golden glazed tile roof, very beautifully built. The wall did not learn what columns other places to do, but used golden tiles to post a few lines of big characters such as "Laogou Greenhouse Vegetable Demonstration Area of the New Socialist Countryside" and "Emancipate the Mind, Change Concepts, and Actively Respond to the Great Call of the Central Committee, Provinces and Cities to Build a New Socialist Countryside", which is very dazzling, Qin Xiyue They are still a few kilometers away from the wall, and they can clearly see the words on the wall.

One representative said, "This is what is called spectacular!" When I got closer, I saw that the wall had just been built, and the wall still smelled of wetness. To Qin Xiyue's surprise, although this wall was built on the side of the road, it was some distance from the village. In other words, he is not the kind of "wall of shame" that Qin Xiyue criticized. Behind the wall, there is a plastic greenhouse one by one. According to the magistrate of Pingxi County, the purpose of building this wall is to arouse the confidence of the people in the old area in scientific farming. In the past, only wheat and artichoke were planted in the old areas, the yield was very low, and the peasants' incomes were also very low; after extensive investigation and various arguments, the counties and townships proposed in the spring of last year that they should introduce greenhouse planting technology in the old areas, thoroughly adjust and change the crop planting structure in the old areas, and make full use of the characteristics of long sunlight hours, so that the proportion of crops planted in Laogou Village has been greatly adjusted. Experts were invited from the Provincial Agricultural College for guidance, and agricultural technology stations were also set up in counties and townships, and soil experts were dispatched to serve in the villages to teach farmers scientific farming techniques. After a year of experiments, Laogou, a place where can't eat fresh vegetables all year round, actually produced its own vegetables. This is a historic leap forward and a landmark achievement in the construction of the new countryside. The county and township plan to take Laogou Village as a demonstration point to promote greenhouse planting throughout the township and county, and to build the old revolutionary base into a vegetable base in Qinling.

After some bold remarks, the delegates walked into the greenhouse to inspect the site. Fresh vegetables such as tomatoes, eggplants, and cucumbers are indeed grown in the greenhouses, and the faces of the growers are indeed filled with sweet smiles. But Qin Xiyue just felt that something was wrong, and there was a question in his mind: how much money would be spent on such a luxurious wall, and if these banknotes were used properly, they could also do a lot of things for the countryside.

On this day, he deserted, and instead of returning to his hometown with the delegation, he sneaked into a village a few miles from the wall. As a result, Qin Xiyue discovered a shocking lie: Laogou Village not only deceived the county, but also deceived the representatives of this car, and even deceived the people in the old area who were honest!

The greenhouse was erected after the house was demolished!

Villagers said that in the beginning, the shading wall in Laogou Village, like other places, was also built to cover the dilapidated houses, but it was slightly longer than other places, half of it, and was built outside the village, along the crop fields. Later, the villagers asked the village to build a greenhouse, and half of it was built, which did not look very elegant, and the villagers' houses destroyed the scenery. So the township and the village decided to let the villagers relocate and make room for the greenhouse, saying that only in this way can the wall play a role and make the greenhouse more spectacular. Of course, the villagers are not happy, how can it be so easy to move a house? The township held several meetings and agreed to compensate each household for the relocation fee of 1,000 yuan, but the villagers still did not move, so the township came to a forced demolition and forcibly ripped off the houses of 12 families.

Now, more than a year later, these 12 families still live at the foot of the mountain, five miles away from the village. The house was picked up, and it could not be built twice, so the relocated households had to dig a cave at the bottom of the mountain. Qin Xiyue followed the villagers to the bottom of the mountain, only to see the twelve holes, one hole after another, in front of the eyes in turn, with mud and stones in front of the small yard, it became a temporary home. When asked why they didn't build a house, some villagers said that the township made up 1,000 yuan, and then charged each household 5,000 yuan for building a greenhouse, but the villagers couldn't pay it, so the villagers asked the villagers to borrow money from the credit cooperative. Regardless of whether the villagers agree or not, if there is a greenhouse, the township is responsible for the loan, and the income from the greenhouse in the first three years is used to repay the loan.

"A greenhouse will beat us into a debt den, and I'm afraid we won't be able to pay it off in this life." Some villagers choked up and said.

Qin Xiyue asked carefully, only to know that the so-called greenhouse was not like the county and township report, which was spontaneously built by the villagers. In order to compete for the first place in the county, the township is forced to carry out apportionment, as long as the responsibility field is on the side of the road, all greenhouses will be built, each greenhouse investment is more than 10,000 yuan, the township is responsible for the subsidy of 3,000, and the rest is borne by the villagers. Those who cannot pay the cash will be issued loans by the credit cooperatives, and whoever dares to disobey will not let their children go to school, and the police station will punish them according to the public security punishment regulations. The villagers in the old area were timid, and when they saw the police car coming, they obediently signed the contract.

"Ridiculous, ridiculous!" Qin Xiyue couldn't help it anymore, how could there be such a ridiculous thing in the world, in order to carry out image projects and face projects, he actually drove the people out of the village and into the cave. Winter has arrived, and the northwest wind is howling, rolling in dust and wrapped in cold, blowing from afar. The villagers cowered and hid in the sun. Looking at the villagers in tattered clothes, Qin Xiyue thought to himself, how can they survive the winter?

After staying in the cave for the night, Qin Xiyue rushed to the countryside and broke into the venue. The township chief was reporting his experience to the delegates, but Qin Xiyue interrupted him sharply, pointed at his nose and said, "You still have the face to make a report, are you embarrassed to sum up your experience?" I ask you, what about the houses of the twelve families? The township chief was frightened by Qin Xiyue's actions, and he was stunned for a while, Qin Xiyue grabbed the microphone and said, "Don't you dare to answer?" Well, I'll answer for you. He paused, adjusted his emotions, and said in an almost tragic voice: "We keep saying that we want everything for the people and adhere to the fundamental interests of the masses, but what about our approach? Comrades, I invite you to go to Laogou Village again to take a look at the twelve families, their houses have been picked up by the township, because they can't afford to build a new house, they can only live in a broken cave at the bottom of the mountain. Last winter, none of the twelve families had a stove, why? Can't afford coal. In order to complete the task of building a greenhouse issued by the township, they borrowed money, had two families, and even promised their sixteen-year-old daughter to others in advance, just to receive a few financial gifts. The masses in the old areas have outdated concepts, and they are afraid of taking out loans, believing that if they take out loans, they will be inferior to others and will become debtors. For this reason, they cut back on food and clothing, and the family only spends a few hundred yuan a year. I run my own greenhouse, but I am reluctant to eat a fresh vegetable. What about our township cadres? From the construction of the greenhouse to the present, every time I go down, the villagers have to kill chickens and sheep, and buy wine to entertain. I really can't think that you can eat the sheep and drink the wine? You are drinking wine, drinking the blood of the common people......"

His tears came out, in fact, his tears have not dried since last night. Every time the villagers talk about something, he has to flow once. At this moment, he really can't control it, and he doesn't want to control it. Yiren burst into tears and continued: "This way, I held back and endured, I think I, Qin Xiyue, may really be an overly radical person, a person who has no sunshine in his heart. However, I still want to say that if the construction of the new countryside continues in this way, it will not only harm the broad masses of peasants, but will also damage the image of our party and the relationship between the party and the masses. This is wrong, comrades, we can no longer deceive ourselves, all of us here are experts and people's representatives. What is a representative? It is the reassuring people elected by the broad masses of the people with their fists raised, and their vote for us with that sacred vote means that they have entrusted us with our responsibilities and given us our hopes. If a deputy does not speak for the broad masses and blindly speaks official words, lies and conscience, is he still worthy of being a deputy? ”

Deputy Director Li couldn't sit still, this was like a summary meeting, which simply made Qin Xiyue a complaint meeting. He stood up angrily and shouted at Qin Xiyue: "Old Qin! ”

Qin Xiyue rolled his gaze and pressed at Deputy Director Li: "Don't stop me today, I am a representative elected by the people, not a certain official who gave it to me." Even if I, Qin Xiyue, lose my head, I have to say the words that I hold in my heart. Deputy Director Li, could you please answer me truthfully, what is the real purpose of the NPC's organization of this review and investigation? If it's just to say good things, in order to put gold on some people's faces, I, Qin Xiyue, will leave the team now! ”

Deputy Director Li was stopped by him, and he didn't expect Qin Xiyue to question him with such words.

"You don't dare to answer no? Well, I said what I thought, and this time, my biggest feeling is one word: false! We are not the Lord of the Stove, we can't do the kind of good things that God says, and we return to the palace to send auspicious things, we are not talking machines, we are people! If you are a human being, you have to speak human words and do personnel! What I have seen and heard along the way, I Qin Xiyue will not be stuffy in my stomach, this time I go back, I want to write to the Central Committee, to the National People's Congress, I don't believe it, this bureaucratic style of deceiving the upper and lower levels will not be able to help it, I don't believe that the new rural construction proposed by the Central Committee will be such a method! This is in the old revolutionary base area, comrades, do we have the face to face those dead revolutionary martyrs, and to face this land that was once stained red with blood? Now, I formally propose to the meeting that I am leaving! ”

After speaking, he threw down the microphone and strode out of the venue, and the cry of "Old Qin Old Qin" came from behind him, Qin Xiyue seemed to have his ears behind him, and he couldn't hear it anymore.