The election in Hetang Village was scheduled to start at 10 a.m., and He Jiaguo was the first to come to Taiping Town just after 8 a.m.

At this time, Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou were already waiting at the gate, and as usual, they were still very respectful.

He Jiaguo was in a very good mood, and as soon as he got off the bus at the gate of the courtyard, he said: "Lao Ji, Lao Liu, today is a great day of commemorative significance for our Taiping Town,—— the first truly democratically elected village committee is about to be produced." ”

Ji Fushun smacked his lips and said, "Mayor He, I hope this is not paying for tuition." ”

He Jiaguo was unhappy: "Old man, it's not me who criticizes you again: why are you so pessimistic as a comrade?" I've been talking to you less these days? Why haven't you strengthened your sense of democracy and the rule of law? Why don't you have any democratic spirit at all? ”

Ji Fushun said with a bitter face: "Mayor He, why are you still criticizing?" Aren't we executing what we understand, and executing what we don't understand? You said to change the style of work, we change the style, let the tea barrel we put the tea barrel, let the towel we hang the towel, but you see, before and after less than a month, I bought eight towels, five of them were hung and lost, and the other three were as dirty as rags, and even the big tea barrel was stolen by thieves the night before yesterday. ”

Only then did He Jiaguo notice that the big green tea barrel he had seen when he came last time was gone, and a few towels hanging in the communication room were gone, only the "Twenty Rules of Conduct for Cadres of Taiping Town" on the wall was still hanging there in the guise of dog meat, and one of them was: "The reception of the masses is warm and thoughtful, and the towels are handed first and then the tea is sent." ”

He Jiaguo asked, "Why was it stolen?" Such a big tea barrel! ”

Liu Quanyou seemed to flatter, and said sarcastically: "Mayor He, we have reported the case to the police station, and Director Zhang is bringing in the investigation, and the preliminary estimate is that the case was done by more than two thieves together." I told Director Zhang, these two thieves are also too bold, they stole the big tea barrel of **, or the tea barrel that Mayor He instructed to put at the door, we must pay attention to it ideologically! ”

He Jiaguo decided that this was ridicule and asked Liu Quanyou: "What do you mean?" Do you want me to pay you a tea bucket? ”

Liu Quanyou was a little scared, and hurriedly explained: "Mayor He, if you lend me courage, I don't dare to let you pay for it!" I emphasize your instructions to make Director Zhang really attach importance to it ideologically and grasp it as a big case! Otherwise, if you lose, the people will think you stole it! ”

Ji Fushun smiled and said: "Mayor He, a broken tea bucket is nothing serious, but this also shows a problem, the people are such a quality, we can't be too eager to be leaders, whether it is democracy or the legal system, we have to come step by step." ”

He Jiaguo saw the fame, and his tone became stern: "Oh, you two deliberately gave me a lesson today, didn't you?" The election is coming up and you want me to change my mind? I tell you: I will not change this idea, and if I change it, it will be a violation of the law and a violation of the "Organic Law of the Villagers' Committee", and I advise you to read the "Organic Law of the Villagers' Committee" again immediately, and there is still time to do so! ”

After that, he ignored Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou, and walked straight to the town's ** office building, looking very angry.

Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou looked at each other, one after the other, and followed.

Ji Fu walked a few steps closely, caught up with He Jiaguo and said with a smile: "Mayor He, don't be angry, you talk so much about democracy to the villagers of Hetang Village, and you also talk about democracy to our rural grassroots cadres, you have to let us speak, let's talk about it, and the implementation will be carried out according to the ......."

He Jiaguo suddenly stopped at the top of the stairs: "Old plan, have you carried out what I said?" ”

Ji Fushun didn't know what was going on, and looked at He Jiaguo suspiciously: "What didn't I do?" This tea bucket and towel ......"

He Jiaguo stared at Ji Fushun: "Don't stop the tea bucket and towel, and don't wrap around me, let me ask you: After I left that time, did you handcuff that Hao Lao Er again?" Handcuffed overnight at the rabbit market with a morning? ”

Ji Fushun was stunned and shouted injustice: "Mayor He, you ...... Where did you hear that? Yes...... What is the factual basis? They all slander good people like this, how will our comrades below work in the future! ”

Liu Quanyou also helped: "Yes, Mayor He, I will prove that Lao Ji really has never handcuffed Hao Lao Er again." ”

He Jiaguo said angrily: "Don't argue, it was Hao Lao Er who wrote me a letter from the people to reflect!" ”

Ji Fushun didn't look at He Jiaguo, but sighed to Liu Quanyou and said, "Liu Zhen, look at this Hao Er, what should we do with him?" I had such a good conversation with him at that time, he shed tears, changed his hexagram as soon as he went out, and wrote a letter to Mayor He, can Mayor He not misunderstand? ”

Liu Quanyou said: "That's it, it seems that talking about the heart is not a good way to solve the problem!" ”

He Jiaguo glared at Liu Quanyou: "Yes, as soon as I leave, you will handcuff him again, this method is good!" ”

Ji Fushun didn't explain, after going upstairs, he went to his office, took out the note written by Hao Lao Er and handed it to He Jiaguo: "Mayor He, I won't say anything, you can see for yourself, this is the material written by Hao Lao Er after I had an in-depth conversation with Hao Lao Er that day, fortunately I kept it, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to say it clearly even if I was full of mouth today." ”

He Jiaguo took the material and swept it, and then returned it to Ji Fushun: "I have seen this kind of material too much, as soon as the handcuffs are on and the electric batons arrive, you will write how people write them!" Don't think I'm so ignorant of what's going on! Let me tell you, I've been running the political and legal committee for a while, why don't you know? Ji Fushun still wanted to explain, but He Jiaguo didn't want to listen to it, and waved his hand straight, "Okay, okay, don't talk about it, old man, I'm not a bureaucrat, I also know about this Hao Laoer, it's really not a good thing, but it's not right for you to do this!" Today's main issue is the election, which is a democratic issue, and we will find time to talk about the legal system. ”

So, on the issue of democracy, He Jiaguo said that Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou wrote it in a small book, and they didn't know whether it was true or false. He Jiaguo said very concretely: The election in Hetang Village is a pilot project, and it is the first time in Shayang and the Xiajiang area, and all sides are paying more attention to it, and the Civil Affairs Bureau will come and many reporters will come to cover the election. He demanded that Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou must take into account the overall situation today, be politically consistent with him, regardless of whether they are ideologically compatible, and can only say good and bad about the democratic election, and no matter what the final result of the election is.

As soon as He Jiaguo finished his instructions, before Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou could express their positions, Shen Xiaoyang and a large group of reporters from newspapers, radio stations, and television stations arrived, and immediately began to interview, asking town leaders Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou to talk about their views on democratic elections. Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou forced a smile, said what He Jiaguo had repeatedly said to them, and kicked the ball to He Jiaguo, saying that it was mainly because the city attached importance to it, and Mayor He cared, so it was better to ask Mayor He to talk. He Jiaguo talked eloquently, from the old democracy to the new democracy, from Sun Yat-sen's democratic ideal to Mao **'s democratic ideal, and the conclusion is that the democratic ideals of the two historical figures have actually not been realized at the grassroots level in China, and only in today's era of reform and opening up, under the condition of governing the country according to law, with the guarantee of the "Organic Law of the Village Committee", can the real grassroots democracy be realized, and today Hetang Village has taken this historic step.

While talking, Secretary Ji of the Shayang County Party Committee and a group of people and several leaders of the Civil Affairs Bureau arrived again, and when they looked at their watches, the time was already 9:10, and everyone got into the car and rushed to Hetang Village happily.

On this day, Hetang Village was more lively than the New Year, and even dozens of girls and young men who had been working outside all the year round also came back, and the six hundred and eighty-seven villagers had reached six hundred and sixty-six, and the villagers all said that this number was auspicious, six or six Shun. People from several surrounding villages also came to see the excitement, and the two avenues in the east and west of the village were crowded with people, and the open space on one side of the avenue was full of bicycles. In front of the village committee and on the walls of the houses on both sides of the village road, there are a lot of colorful slogans, most of which are formal slogans put up by the villagers organized by the election committee. What is "being the master of the house and casting a sacred vote", what is "implementing the "Organic Law of the Village Committee" and electing according to law", "please fulfill the sacred rights of a citizen", and so on.

There are also irregular slogans, and He Jiaguo saw one: "Choose Gan Ziyu, you are indispensable for making a fortune!" I don't know who wrote a line of small words with an ink pen on it: "Fuck the fart, you want to get rich, raise rabbits quickly, please vote for Duan Inheritance and Bai Fengshan!" ”

He Jiaguo pointed to the slogan and smiled, and said to Ji Fushun, who was walking beside him: "The democratic atmosphere is still very strong!" ”

Ji Fu said with a smile: "If it is a little stronger, it will have a bit of a '*****' taste!" ”

He Jiaguo was very disappointed, glared at Ji Fushun fiercely, turned his head and said to Secretary Ji of the Shayang County Party Committee again: "Secretary Ji, if Gan Ziyu is selected, are you afraid of the leader of the Shayang County Party Committee?" ”

Secretary Ji said: "What is there to be afraid of? As long as he is legitimately elected. He then asked Ji Fushun, "Comrade Fushun, have you found any such cases of buying votes and bribing votes during this period?" ”

Ji Fushun said: "I didn't find out, there have been a lot of mutual abuse, one street against each other, two families standing on the roof arguing, and personal attacks in small prints." ”

Secretary Ji said: "This is also normal, Chinese-style democracy, Taiwan is still fighting at the meeting!" Fighting itself is also a means of defending oneself. ”

He Jiaguo said: "It should be said that it is the initial stage of democracy, and wherever democracy is practiced, it will go through such a stage......

Saying all the way, the leaders and reporters came to the main election venue in front of the small building of the village committee.

At 10 o'clock, the official election began, and because journalists, especially TV reporters, needed more detailed interview materials, they made a request to the Election Committee: the two candidates for village committee directors were asked to give their campaign speeches again before voting. The comrades of the election committee discussed it, agreed, and came over again to ask for Ji Fushun's opinion.

With so many city and county leaders sitting by his side, how dare Ji Fushun have any opinions?

By the way, Ji Fu became unprecedentedly democratic, secretly glanced at He Jiaguo, and said very kindly: "You can decide for yourself." ”

As a result, the Election Committee announced that for the sake of prudence, the voting time would be postponed by half an hour, and the candidates for village chief, Gan Ziyu and Duan Jiji, would make their final speeches to all the villagers, each of whom would be 15 minutes.

The branch secretary Duan Hei spoke to all the villagers in front of the camera lens, and admitted that some party members and comrades in the village, especially Lao Gan and Lao Nie of the previous village committee, had ruined the image of party members and cadres, and the first thing he had to do after taking office was to restore the villagers' confidence in party members and cadres, and be ready to lead by example, even if he lost ten pounds and twenty pounds of meat, he should strive to get the village's economy up as soon as possible. Second, grasp the production of small coal kilns, and collect the three small coal kilns that were privately contracted to individuals by the previous village committee, or compete fairly and re-contract, make the village's finances public, and accept the supervision of the villagers in all economic transactions; The third is to set up a transport team to transport human manure back from the city, to carry out green pollution-free watermelons, melons, and old gourds, and to carry out a plan to grow vegetables and get rich in the village.

Ji Fushun took the lead in applauding Duan Heiji, and He Jiaguo and others also applauded.

When applauding, He Jiaguo quietly said to Ji Fushun: "This section of inheritance is very good, seek truth from facts!" ”

Ji Fushun said: "Mayor He, listen, Gan Ziyu is better than Xiao Duan, and he wants to use gossip prediction to bring the villagers to get rich!" ”

When Ji Fushun and He Jiaguo exchanged ears, the radiant fourth gentleman Gan Ziyu had already walked in front of everyone and spoke with the microphone. The first sentence shocked the four people: "Twenty years after our Hetang village in the south, this situation can no longer continue, we must have what the developed areas in the south have, and we must have what the developed areas in the south do not have!" ”

Applause immediately rang out, from the villagers.

Gan Ziyu eats with a clever mouth, and has been wandering outside for many years, everyone has seen it, and it is really a good conversation. Because of the presence of the leaders of the city, county and town levels, they stopped talking about gossip and prediction, and talked about the wonderful outside world, talked about getting rich with information, and changed their concepts. In order to win votes, the small coal kiln and meat rabbit breeding, which have always been valued by the villagers, not only did not lose it, but also made an imaginative play on the issue of sales, selling rabbits and pumpkins on the Internet. Finally, when it comes to anti-corruption, he plans to start with Lao Gan and Lao Nie, and go all the way to the first three village committees, as long as they eat more and occupy more, let them spit it out. Gan Ziyu didn't know what the basis was, and insisted that the money he withdrew from was enough to set up a few small factories in Hetang Village.

The applause rang out again, again from the villagers' group, more enthusiastically and more persistently than the last applause.

At half past ten, voting began at the same time at four polling points in the village, voting ended at 12 o'clock, and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the election results came out: Duan Heiji received 291 votes, Gan Ziyu received 470 votes, and 5 invalid votes. Gan Ziyu was elected chairman of the sixth village committee of Hetang Village by a margin of 179 votes over Duan Jiji, and Duan Jiji's village director and Bai Fengshan's deputy director were all defeated.

As soon as the election results were announced, Ji Fushun was discouraged, feeling that he had been slapped by Gan Ziyu, and congratulated Gan Ziyu on his head, and did not even return to the town office, so he got into He Jiaguo's car and wanted to go back to the city with He Jiaguo's car to see a doctor.