Seventy-three

At 10:41 a.m. on December 12, 1995, the Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China sent urgent telegrams to the Pingchuan Municipal CPC Committee and the Municipal People's Government, demanding that the principal responsible persons of the party and government of Pingchuan City immediately rush to the scene of the railing to guide and persuade the workers to retire and quickly resume the railway transportation of the Beijing-Guangzhou Line, which had been suspended.

At 10:45 a.m. on 12 December 1995, four minutes after receiving an urgent telegram from the State Council, Wu Mingxiong, secretary of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee, and Shu Huaru, deputy secretary of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee and mayor, rushed to the Shengli Coal Mine from the construction site of the suburban section of the city and county highway and the construction site of the second phase of the Pingchuan Power Plant. At the same moment, Cao Wuping, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and executive vice mayor, also roared out of the city public security bureau, and about 800 armed policemen, patrol police, and some temporarily organized personnel of the public security procuratorate, procuratorate, and judicial organs drove directly to the scene in various vehicles.

At 11:05 a.m., Xiao Daoqing, who had asked for leave from the municipal party committee and was on his way to the provincial capital, learned the news of lying on the rails, and made a phone call to Wu Mingxiong on his mobile phone in his special car. 2. In order to stop the development and expansion of turmoil, we must not be soft-hearted, and when it is time to use force, force must be used, and a small amount of bloodshed must be exchanged for bloodless in the future; 3. As the deputy secretary of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee, no matter how he disagreed with the implementation of this pilot program at the beginning, he still maintains a high degree of political consistency with the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee; Fourth, he is currently on his way to the provincial capital and is preparing to have his lipoma cut, and if the municipal party committee asks him to return to Pingchuan to participate in the handling of the incident, he will return immediately.

Wu Mingxiong immediately replied calmly and clearly: The matter is not serious enough to immediately convene a meeting of party and government cadres in the whole city, and the use of force is even more absurd. Therefore, the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee does not need Xiao Daoqing to come back, and the approved leave will still count, so Xiao Daoqing is asked to go for surgery with peace of mind, and he can rest in the provincial capital for a few more days after the operation.

This is exactly what Xiao Daoqing wanted, so at the busy moment when the members of the Standing Committee of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee were busy, Xiao Daoqing's special car still drove directly to the provincial capital at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

At 11:15 p.m., Wu Mingxiong, Shu Huaru, and Cao Wuping, the three principal responsible persons, met in front of a small village about 3 kilometers away from the scene of the railing, studied urgently for five minutes, and immediately decided on several things: 1. Strictly order the cadres of the armed police and the political and legal departments not to shoot at the people lying on the rails under any circumstances; 2. In view of the fact that there are more than 1,800 people participating in the lying tracks, and the situation is very serious, it is necessary to further mobilize the traffic police in the city and the public security bureau of Minjiao County to intervene; 3. Immediately broadcast propaganda to the masses lying on the rails and persuade them to leave the railway line; Fourth, when the dissuasion of the recalcitrant is ineffective, prepare for compulsory action, two people set up one, and set them off the railway line.

At 11:25 a.m., Cheng Weiqi, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and secretary of the Minjiao County Party Committee, rushed to the scene with the director of the Minjiao County Public Security Bureau and more than 300 cadres and policemen.

At 11:45 a.m., the broadcast of the powerful car radio station sounded, and before the announcement of the city was drafted, Wu Mingxiong spoke into the microphone in the radio car.

Wu Mingxiong said calmly and sternly: "I am Wu Mingxiong, secretary of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, and now I will say a few words to you on behalf of the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee and the city." The municipal party committee and the municipal government were very surprised and shocked by everyone's collective action today! No matter what opinions you have, no matter what reasons you have, you have violated the law by stepping on the Beijing-Guangzhou line and blocking the normal operation of this major artery! This cannot be allowed in any country, anywhere! I hope that you will think about it, be cool-headed, immediately retreat from the railway line, immediately restore the normal order of the railway, and do not go further and further on the road of breaking the law, causing the country and yourselves to pay a heavy price! I and the Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Party Committee both believe that only a very small number of people are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and the vast number of cadres and workers of the Shengli Coal Mine do not want to see such a situation. ”

Within a few minutes of Wu Mingxiong's brief speech, about six or seven hundred people on the rails retreated. These people were probably afraid that the public security officers would arrest them, so they scattered in all directions after leaving the railway line. The public security cadres and police strictly enforced the city's regulations, and opened up the net to the masses who voluntarily dispersed after following the advice, and not only did they fail to arrest them, but they also made the vigilance gap even wider.

At twelve o'clock, the official city ** announcement was broadcast.

The announcement ordered the personnel who were still gathered on the railway line to leave the scene immediately, and announced that the city would clear the scene 15 minutes after the announcement ended, and all those who were still gathered on the railway line when the scene was cleared would be fully responsible for all the consequences.

From 12:05 p.m. to 20 p.m., a large number of people lying on the rails retreated amid the repeated announcements, and less than 100 people gathered on the railway line for the final confrontation. But these more than 100 people were still waving red flags and banners in their hands, and the sound of the national anthem that had changed the words sounded again-

Arise, miners who do not want to be slaves,

Build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood,

The Shengli Coal Mine is at its most dangerous......

At 12:25 p.m., the public security and armed police rushed onto the railway line, and several people erected the last 100 people off the railway embankment, shocking the whole country The "12 December" lying on the rails incident, which ended without any bloodshed.

A week later, Tian Dadao, chairman and president of Hedong Village Jinlong Group, Zhang Changrong, workshop director of Shengli Mining Machinery Repair Plant, and Wang Zeyi, deputy head of Shengli Mine's former coal mining district 10, were simultaneously interrogated by the Pingchuan Municipal Public Security Bureau.

Tian Dadao was very surprised when he was detained, and slapped the table in the group office and asked the public security officers on official business, do you know who he is? The public security officer calmly told Tian Dadao that we not only know who you are, but also what you have done. You, Chairman Tian, should have come to our Public Security Bureau a long time ago to make it clear. It's late enough for us to ask you to go today.

The detention of Zhang Changrong and Wang Zeyi and the detention of Hotan Avenue are very different, and the two seem to have known what they have to face, and they are in a police car with a calm smile, which is quite a bit of the righteous and awe-inspiring style of the Communists back then.

In May 1996, the Pingchuan City Intermediate People's Court sentenced Tian Dadao to six years' imprisonment for the crimes of inciting and sabotaging railway traffic order and hooliganism, and sentenced Zhang Changrong to three years' imprisonment and Wang Zeyi to two years' imprisonment for the crime of disrupting railway traffic order.

Tian Dadao was forgotten, but Zhang Changrong and Wang Zeyi were regarded as legendary heroes by some cadres and masses of Shengli Mine, and they were mentioned again and again in private. A considerable number of cadres and masses believe that it was Zhang Changrong and Wang Zeyi who saved the Shengli Mine from the "most dangerous time" and that they are still workers in the state-run coal mines at the county and regimental levels.

However, sadly, affected by the lying rail incident, Zhuang Qunyi, chairman and president of Wanshan Group in Hexi Village, could not hold on under the hostile eyes of the miners, and was forced to withdraw from the joint mining cooperation with Shengli Mine......