Every time in the dead of night, when there is no need to put on a moving smile to deal with anyone, Xiao Daoqing will think almost tragically: his dual life, physical life and political life are full of vitality, it can accept any challenge, any tribulation, any setback, and will never be easily destroyed by anyone. He Xiao Daoqing is not a coward who will break his bones if he falls a few times in the officialdom gladiatorial fight, let alone an echo worm who snorts and falls with the wind, but a heroic soldier who still dares to fight alone and is good at fighting alone in a difficult environment of enduring humiliation and burden.

Yes, in the gladiatorial battles with Wu Mingxiong, he failed again and again, sometimes he was defeated very badly, very faceless, and even the old leader Xie Xuedong, who trusted him so much in the past, and even all the standing committee members of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee were estranged from him, but he still insisted on fighting. In the past two years, he has hardly missed a single opportunity to wage war against Wu Mingxiong, and if he cannot fight a regular war, he will fight a guerrilla war.

It was he Xiao Daoqing who instructed his wife to take advantage of the dawn when there were no cross-border vehicles on the ring road to take pictures of the empty road surface and send it to the "American Daily" through a friend to publish it, and appallingly asked: "Does the economically underdeveloped Pingchuan need this huge football stadium with a length of 60 kilometers?" ”

Or is he Xiao Daoqing, who took the news pictures of the labor scenes of migrant workers on the construction site of the second phase of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, and after partially enlarged it, he posted it in the ** newspaper, with an even more terrifying headline: "The great backbone of the people of Pingchuan is covered with blood and sweat, and what is carried is the great vanity of the local party and government bureaucrats in Pingchuan!" ”

At the first meeting of the Standing Committee to study the issue of the pilot reform of the Shengli Mine, Xiao Daoqing again found an opportunity for himself to conduct guerrilla warfare and even regular warfare, and made a decision to support Cao Wuping on the spot. Xiao Daoqing is by no means a whim, but the result of careful consideration.

It is clear that the reform pilot of the Shengli mine is very risky, and it can even be said that it is infinite. As the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee in charge of trade union work, Xiao Daoqing knows too well the thinking of the workers. But because of this, he wanted to support Cao Wuping, so that the executive deputy mayor, who has now become unbelievable, unconsciously picked up Wu Mingxiong's spear to attack Wu Mingxiong's shield. Doesn't Wu Mingxiong have the courage and courage? Isn't it just saying that we want to deepen reform? Then give it a try at the Shengli Mine and see how the 8,500 Chinese industrial workers teach you high-ranking bureaucrats!

This ending is actually very clear, no matter how Wu Mingxiong chooses, he has already lost before he chooses. If this is really done, the 8,500 miners will inevitably have to fight hard with Wu Mingxiong and Cao Wuping, and it is very likely that they will make trouble in the province and in front of Qian Xianghui and Xie Xuedong. Naturally, the workers would not come to the city to visit and meditate, but would go south to the provincial capital to find the provincial party committee and meditate in front of the provincial party committee. And if he didn't do it, Wu Mingxiong's shield would be broken by Cao Wuping's spear: You Wu Mingxiong are just like this, in order to retire successfully, in order to climb up in the end, you don't dare to carry out a coal mine reform pilot! What are you bragging about?! At the same time, this will inevitably arouse the dissatisfaction of Cao Wuping, Shu Huaru, and many members of the Standing Committee.

Wu Mingxiong is really bold, at this point, even as an opponent, Xiao Daoqing is also convinced. Wu Mingxiong knew that there was a risk in this matter, and he had already stated the risk factors at the first Standing Committee meeting, but he still presided over the approval of Cao Wuping's pilot plan at the second enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee this morning.

This really made Xiao Daoqing very happy.

In the afternoon, when accompanying Director Qin of the Provincial Family Planning Commission to Minjiao County to inspect the work, Xiao Daoqing hung up a phone call to Wu Mingxiong in Minjiao County in front of Director Qin and Wu Kaizhen, the female county magistrate of Minjiao County, and timely withdrew the support given to Cao Wuping in the past for the reform pilot, and said to Wu Mingxiong in a very melancholy tone: "Secretary Wu, I have thought about it again and again, and I feel that the risk of the Shengli Mine Reform Pilot is still very great!" The views you made at the first Standing Committee meeting are very reasonable: The system problem is a big problem, and unlike water conservancy and donating some money on roads, if you don't make a good fuss, there may be a big problem, and it will cause trouble in the province or even to the central government. ”

Wu Mingxiong asked coldly: "Comrade Daoqing, what do you say?" The decision we just passed in the morning, after a lunch, a few burps changed in a dozen years, and then the decision was withdrawn? Is this serious? ”

Xiao Daoqing hurriedly explained: "Secretary Wu, I didn't say that I wanted to take back the decision. I mean, I'm still one of the responsible persons of the Pingchuan City CPC Committee, and since I've thought about this issue, I have to speak out openly and honestly in the spirit of being responsible to the party and the people. ”

Wu Mingxiong asked, "Deputy Secretary Xiao, are you above board?" How many phone calls did you make after the first Standing Committee ended? What was said? What was done? Do you want me Wu Mingxiong to make further clarifications for you? Is the risk question you raised today really just come up with it? I ask you to pay attention, don't be a person in front of you, and a ghost behind your back! Don't keep thinking about other people's armies! It's not good! ”

Xiao Daoqing didn't have any shame on his face and tone: "Old Wu, I can also make it clear to you, the few phone calls I have made are all about work." As the deputy secretary of the Pingchuan City CPC Committee, I have the right and obligation to discuss work issues with any comrade at any time. I'm calling you now, still to discuss work with you. I would like to state it again, and I ask you to write it down: At 4:55 p.m. on 11 December 1995, I firmly believe that this reform experiment in the Shengli Coal Mine cannot be carried out at present and that the conditions are not ripe. If you and the Standing Committee do not accept my opinion, I will not be responsible for all the consequences arising therefrom! ”

Wu Mingxiong was so angry that even Director Qin of the Provincial Family Planning Commission and Wu Kaizhen, the female county magistrate, could hear it clearly: "Deputy Secretary Xiao, I see that you are faint again!" Do you really think that you can influence a Pingchuan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China with a set of yin and yang? If you say do it, this municipal party committee will do it; If you don't do it, will this municipal party committee stop? I don't know what you're up to! Now I will also make it clear to you: The Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China passed this reform pilot plan not forced out by your Deputy Secretary Xiao, and if there is any problem in the future, you do not want Deputy Secretary Xiao to bear any responsibility! I, Wu Mingxiong and other members of the Standing Committee of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee, have never expected you, Deputy Secretary Xiao, to bear any responsibility! This should satisfy you, right?! ”

Of course, Xiao Daoqing was very satisfied, he had pushed an angry old lion into a huge whirlpool that was bound to be destroyed. What's even more wonderful is that after kicking the old lion down the whirlpool, he made his sober understanding of the whirlpool openly, and still maintained a glorious record of innocence and infallibility.

However, putting down the phone, in front of Director Qin and Wu Kaizhen of the Provincial Family Planning Commission, Xiao Daoqing made a very helpless look and said: "We, Secretary Wu, are too stubborn, too arbitrary, and our personal prejudices among comrades are too deep!" He let out a long sigh, shook his head again, and said, "I can be regarded as benevolent and righteous to this old comrade!" ”

Wu Kaizhen did not express Xiao Daoqing's words.

Director Qin, who didn't know about Pingchuan's situation, said: "Maybe Pingchuan is famous, and Secretary Wu's own reputation is also big, so he doesn't look at the comrades in his eyes, right?" Actually, it's not good, it's easy to make mistakes. ”

At this time, not to mention Cao Wuping, Shu Huaru, Wu Mingxiong, even Xiao Daoqing, who was expected to have an accident, did not expect that the matter would be so big, it was a big storm that caused a sensation across the country, and it was too late to stop it. Eighteen hours later, at about 10 a.m. on 12 December 1995, 1,800 miners from the Shengli Coal Mine in Pingchuan City, dissatisfied with the pilot reform plan, rushed to the Beijing-Guangzhou Line to lie on the tracks in one fell swoop, causing the transportation of the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, which connects the two megacities in northern and southern China, to be interrupted for 2 hours and 37 minutes, disrupting the normal operation of the railways throughout the country and causing the "12 December Incident" that shocked the whole country.