June 25, 1998, 12 o'clock, Binhai City embankment
The tide is turbulent, the waves crash on the shore, and the turbid Changjiang River water is rolling eastward.
On the embankment, an off-road jeep was driving slowly, and Wang Shaobo, secretary of the Binhai Municipal Party Committee, who was holding a walkie-talkie, was directing the flood control work of the 30-mile embankment in front of the walkie-talkie. The weather was sunny, but the river wind was surprisingly strong, and sometimes with bursts of fishy smell and water vapor, it suddenly rushed into the car, allowing Wang Shaobo to appreciate the thrilling feeling.
It is indeed thrilling, Wang Shaobo looked at the tumbling and roaring river and thought, if there is a gap in the defense line of the thirty-mile river, where the embankment is broken, the loss is not a matter of hundreds of millions, it is likely to be more than a billion, dozens of billions! The coastal city under his leadership is not an ordinary small county, but a large county-level city with a population of more than one million, and is not only the most economically powerful county-level city in Binh Duong, but also in the province. In recent years, under the general recession of township enterprises across the country, the development momentum of Binhai has been strong and unabated, and it has reached the point where there are two thirds of the world, in the words of the Binh Duong Municipal Party Committee document, it is called fruitful. No matter what, he couldn't let the river defense line fall in his hands and soak this fruitful fruit into the river.
When I saw Jiang Chaolin on the embankment last night, Jiang Chaolin said with a black face: "From now on, your Binhai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Party Committee must focus on flood control, and there must be a main person in charge on duty on the embankment, and if necessary, even the municipal party committee has to move me to the embankment!" If there is a problem in the river defense and the Binhai City is flooded, your municipal party committee team will have to take the blame and resign! ”
Since this morning, more than half of the leading bodies of the city party committee have gone up to the embankment, separately commanding the migrant workers to reinforce the dangerous section of the embankment day and night, and more than 10,000 migrant workers in the seven townships and towns along the river have already gone up to the embankment, and nearly 30,000 people have been rotated and mobile personnel have been replaced. All the accumulation workers and voluntary workers in the rural areas were used, and even the personnel of the government agencies were also used. The slogan put forward by Wang Shaobo on behalf of the Binhai Municipal Party Committee is: "Pledge to live and die together with the river embankment."
Now that this slogan has been turned into a placard erected on the river embankment, Wang Shaobo got out of the car and saw that under a placard not far away, many migrant workers and cadres were loading soil and stones into straw bales. Several dump trucks and road rolling mills also drove up, the sound of the machine rumbled, and the black smoke was bursting, and from a distance, it really looked like a war.
At this time, the walkie-talkie in Wang Shaobo's hand rang: "Secretary Wang, Secretary Wang, did you hear that?" Please reply. ”
Wang Shaobo replied into the intercom: "I'm Wang Shaobo, I'll listen." ”
"I am Li Sanli, Secretary of the Party Committee of Li Weizi's Town, we have a dangerous situation here, due to the impact of the river, more than 20 meters of embankment is collapsing, the situation is ...... It's serious, you...... Would you like to come and see? ”
Wang Shaobo was angry when he heard it: "The impact of the river? There is also a river impact in other places, why didn't it collapse, only you Li Weizi collapsed? Li Sanli, let me ask you: How do you do your flood control work? Have you conscientiously implemented the instructions of the municipal party committee and the municipal government on flood control and flood control? ! ”
The voice on the walkie-talkie was crying: "Secretary Wang, this is ...... You can't really blame us for this, the soil quality of our embankment is too poor, you can just come and see it......"
Wang Shaobo was impatient: "Okay, okay, don't panic first, I'll go over immediately!" With that, he jumped into the jeep and said to the driver: "Drive quickly, go to Li Weizi!" Sitting in the bumpy car, Wang Shaobo was still yelling, "Li Sanli, you can listen to me, even if the soil quality is poor, you can't escape your responsibility!" Is this soil just starting to get worse today, huh? Have you been paying attention? What are you doing?! It's really not good, all of you officials will fill the river for me! That's it! ”
rushed to Li Weizi Duan to take a look, the situation was really serious. Although the embankment was strengthened in the dry season, and in some places the slope protection was repaired with stones, but because the soil quality was too poor, the sand and soil under the stones were washed away by the flood, and a section of embankment about 20 meters long collapsed, and even a Jiefang car parked on the embankment to unload stones also fell into the water. Fortunately, there were no casualties when Wang Shaobo arrived.
Wang Shaobo, who was anxious, became unreasonable, and while holding a walkie-talkie and busy on the embankment, he pointed at the nose of Li Sanli, Secretary of the Party Committee of Li Weizi Town, and scolded: "...... You fools! Why don't you build more slope protection to the bottom of the river? Why can't you travel a few more miles to get the soil? ”
Li Sanli argued: "Secretary Wang, you don't know, most of the dozens of miles around our township are sandy ......."
Wang Shaobo didn't listen at all, his eyes were fixed on the river water that was lapping the shore under his feet and the river embankment that was still collapsing from time to time, and shouted into the walkie-talkie: "Hey, hey, did Daquan Township hear it?" Hurry up and transfer your people and cars to me for me, and get to Li Weizi section immediately, immediately! The car is full of stones, and if you make a mistake, I will remove you all! ”
Li Sanli was still chattering on the side: "Secretary Wang, this really doesn't blame us, we have always conscientiously implemented the instructions of the municipal party committee and the municipal government......
Wang Shaobo was furious: "It's implemented like this? Don't emphasize objectivity to me, go to work, it's your luck if you don't break the embankment today, if you break the embankment, you all give me a resignation report! ”
Someone kindly reminded: "Secretary Wang, you stand back, don't fall into the river, there is still a collapse in front of you." ”
Wang Shaobo had a dark face and said angrily: "You all stand forward for me, and the party members and cadres take the lead!" ”
The party members and cadres of Li Sanli and Li Weizi all stood forward honestly, lifting sandbags and stones and throwing them into the river, splashing water everywhere. Some nearby farmers also donated their large wardrobes, and one by one they loaded them with earth and stones and sank them into the river, gradually making a little appearance between the collapsed remnant slope and the current embankment, and half of the Jiefang truck, which had sunk earlier, was exposed.
At one o'clock, the convoy of stone in Daquan Township came up, and the people also came up, Wang Shaobo was a little more settled, remembering that he would go to Pingyang at 3 o'clock in the afternoon to hold a meeting of the city's party and government cadres, so he prepared to leave Li Weizi.
However, at this time, the sky was surrounded by dark clouds, and the raindrops of beans fell down, and the embankment that had not yet been tamped was still in danger. Wang Shaobo didn't dare to leave, so he told Mayor Jiang Kunhua on the intercom that he should go to Pingyang for a meeting first and go later.
I didn't think about it, but I didn't make it, when the migrant workers with Li Weizi were piling in the wind and rain, a wave swept Wang Shaobo and the two migrant workers into the river, if it wasn't for the rope tied around the waist of Wang Shaobo and the two migrant workers, it would really flow eastward with the spring water of the river.
Dragged up from the water by his comrades on the shore, Wang Shaobo's face was covered in blood and he was unconscious.
The stones that sank into the river bank almost killed Wang Shaobo......