In the Xizhou Municipal Government Compound, the two wide and tall iron pillar gates were tightly closed, and seven or eight security guards and the policemen from the dozen or so police stations who had just arrived stood in front of the iron gate in a straight line as if they were facing a great enemy.

It's not that they need to maintain order, in fact, although there are hundreds of workers from the Xizhou textile factory on the street not far outside, they don't react too much, and they don't make a loud noise, which doesn't feel very chaotic, and there are also a few leading men who are organizing a group, fiddling with some wide red banners full of words.

However, fortunately, there were no cars at night, so there was no traffic congestion, but by daytime, it is estimated that the place should be flooded.

Almost in a fragile state of balance between the two sides, Chen Yang's mayor's car slowly drove to the magnificent and majestic gate of the city government compound at night.

Sitting in the car, he silently watched the dense crowd on the sidewalk and road through the window glass, how could he not be surprised, and he still secretly locked his brows at this time. He felt a headache, and it was no wonder that when the former Secretary-General Zhang Yichi called him to report, he would show a state of being in a hurry and unable to speak the whole sentence.

He swept his eyes and saw one of the red banners hanging halfway up, with a large paragraph written on it -- "The homeless 3,000 workers of the Municipal Textile Factory collectively wept blood to the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government and to Mayor Chen Yang, hoping that the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government and Mayor Chen Yang can take back their lives, and we support the leadership of the Party, but our factory must not go bankrupt."

Seeing this sentence, Chen Yang didn't have to wait for anyone to report to him, he could already guess a rough idea, his eyes turned, and then he looked at the next one, which also had some not very harmonious slogans written - "Mayor Chen, please be merciful, please give us a little hope, we have to work, we have to eat, we have to live"

Subsequently, some employees put up slogans or banners that had been made in their hands, although the content was different, but in fact they were all talking about the same content.

Finally, Chen Yang couldn't bear to look at these employees under the banner of crying blood, withdrew his gaze from the car window, and lit a cigarette with a somewhat gloomy face.

The cause of the incident is actually not complicated, but if you really want to start from the beginning, it must be traced back to at least a month ago. At that time, after conducting a large-scale and thorough investigation of all the state-owned enterprises in difficulty in the city, Chen Yang waved his butcher's knife with ease, just as he had done when he was secretary of the Dongshangan County Party Committee, and decisively issued a decree to 23 of them that were already insolvent and did not see any hope of turning losses into profits.

This was originally a very normal government action, after all, Chen Yang, as the mayor of a city, could not let these enterprises drag down the development of Xizhou's economy year after year. And these difficult enterprises are not good, like bloodsucking worms, attached to the torso of Xizhou, an already terminally ill patient, and little by little corroded the already poor financial situation of Xizhou into more holes.

He already has an insight into the country's future policies, and he knows that soon, the state will issue a strategic guiding document on "Several Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Reform of State-owned Enterprises", a series of guidelines on the implementation of "putting down the burden, grasping the big and letting go of the small" for governments at all levels to deal with state-owned enterprises. "The strategic documents have also been introduced one after another, that is to say, what he is doing now is just to implement the country's major policies in advance, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Of course, when he signed this document, he did not know that the work would encounter resistance, that there would be many difficulties, and that the employees of the bankrupt enterprise would definitely have strong resistance, and in fact he had already prepared for the worst. However, he never imagined that at a time when reform and development had entered the 21 st year, and when the bankruptcy of enterprises and the layoff of workers had long ceased to be as dramatic as they were in the early 90s, the first batch of enterprises to carry out bankruptcy would react so strongly.

Yes, that's a bit more than he imagined.

Although he did something similar when he was still a secretary in Dongshan County, he sold almost all the state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises in Dongshan County at that time, and there were several small-scale riots in Dongshan County at that time, but due to poor organization, of course, the most important thing was that under Chen Yang's iron fist, it did not stir up half a blister. And after a year, the pockets bulged up, and the masses really got rid of poverty and became rich, and the masses all supported their Secretary Chen from the bottom of their hearts, not only did they not hear anyone call Secretary Chen "Chen sold out" in private, and even every family was eager to give Secretary Chen a god position, and he was offered as the God of Wealth. And some of Secretary Chen's harsh policies and some touching deeds were compiled into smooth words, written into documentary novels, and even adapted into local local dramas, which became countless good stories and were widely spread in Dongshan.

Of course, Chen Yang doesn't know all this, he is not a cadre who likes to listen to the praise of the masses. It's just that he can't control the thousands of mouths of the masses, and if these things are known to him, who has always been relatively low-key, he can only cry out in vain.

It's just that these things are important now.

The situation is clearly much worse now than it was then, and the organized actions of these workers suggest that the situation is much more complicated than it was then.

But then again, in fact, he can also choose to use conservative therapy, and spend three or five years slowly peeling off these factories one by one. But it's a pity that his character is destined that he has never been a cadre who wants to be a peace and stability officer, for him, if he doesn't seek politics in his position, he has nothing to do, and he has to get by, which is the biggest irresponsibility to the people.

Moreover, the most important thing is that his time is running out, he must let Xizhou happen in the shortest possible time, for a child of the red family who has the attention of high-level bigwigs and an amazing identity background, Xizhou is no longer just a place where he works, but also an extremely important critical stage in his political career, an important springboard.

Indeed, although he is now a department-level cadre, he seems to be in a high-ranking position with a bright future. But I personally know that between the two levels from the main hall to the deputy department, there is only half a level difference, but there is a gap that ordinary people cannot overcome, even if it is him, not to mention others, take his old opponent and cheap brother-in-law Comrade Fang Yi as an example, Fang Yi was promoted to the main hall at the age of thirty-three, but now he is forty years old, and he has done a lot of places, and he is also a first- or second-in-command, and the mayor is the secretary, but Rao is like this, his level is not moving, seven years have passed, and he is still a cadre at the department level.

Speaking of Fang Yi, I have to mention two more words here, since the last falling out, Fang Yi was transferred to a provincial capital city in the west to hibernate and hibernated, and there was no news for a long time. However, there have been rumors recently that he has finally relented, and I heard that he will be transferred to the Ministry of Supervision of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection soon. Like him, if he first raises the rank, trains in the central government for a few years, and then goes down to any province to become a vice governor or something, he is simply unaware, but his career will immediately become brighter, the haze will disappear, and it will be wider again. I have to say that this is a clever move to save the country with a curve.

Obviously, Chen Yang didn't want to spend a few years like this, and then ascend in a winding way. However, if he doesn't want to follow this path, at his age, he can only make some convincing results. Otherwise, even if he had the care of Old Man Chen, or even the appreciation of the principal, it was basically impossible for him to rise up so smoothly without having to go to the six ministries and commissions to mix with the idle duties of inspectors.

When the car slowly drove up a cement slope near the courtyard gate, Chen Yang's chaotic thoughts finally pulled out and returned to reality.

Although he didn't know why the employees of these bankrupt enterprises chose to make trouble at this time, judging from the reports made to him by the leading group of the municipal government in charge of the bankruptcy reorganization and resettlement of textile factories, it is obvious that there is a big difference between the two.

According to the report of the deputy mayor of the leading group, Wang Anguo, after the hard work of all the members of the leading group day and night, and during the many times to the grassroots to find front-line workers to chat and communicate, I learned their true thoughts, and they have those worries about their future life, and finally lived up to the mission, the leading group has done the ideological work of the workers, the workers are now full of spirit, the ideological state is stable, and the bankruptcy and resettlement of the city textile factory is also progressing very smoothly. As soon as the court's verdict is in place, the leading group can retire with success.

However, this is what Wang Anguo said about a full mental state? Is the state of mind stable?

Chen Yang couldn't help but glance at the far end outside the car window again

Window.

Not to mention, the employees are really in a full state of mind, but their mental heads are used to make slogans, and the whole formation has gone. And under the leadership of those men who seem to be small leaders, it is like a disciplined force with excellent skills.

Chen Yang only glanced at the black head, then immediately withdrew his gaze, and secretly shook his head with some annoyance, this Wang Anguo is really more than enough to succeed

Then, he snuffed out the cigarette butt and said to Liu Meng, who was concentrating on driving in front: "Xiao Liu, stop"

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A crisp brake sound sounded, and Honda stopped.

Chen Yang didn't think there was anything wrong, but he saw that his special car stopped at the half-slope position, and Zhang Yichi, who was already waiting at the gate of the courtyard, but was afraid of getting too close to the grass and snakes, was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and without saying a word, he led a large group of people, including cadres, security guards, and comrades from the police station, etc., twenty or thirty people rushed towards the place where Chen Yang parked, and the gate of the government compound, which was overcrowded just now, was empty in an instant.

No way, at all times and under all circumstances, the safety of leaders must be the first priority.

So, the comrades all showed unprecedented strength, Chen Yang just pushed the car door and got out of the car a few seconds, they had already run to the side of the Honda car for the first time, everyone's face was grim and abnormal, as if facing a great enemy surrounded Chen Yang's car, and formed a human wall between the Honda car and the masses on the road below as a barrier to protect the leader.

"Mayor, you'd better hurry up and enter the courtyard, you can't stay here longer."

Secretary-General Zhang Yichi said with an eager face, with a loyal posture of protecting the Lord. In the current Xizhou Municipal Government, he is one of the first cadres to take the initiative to approach Chen Yang, not that he is happy and convinced of Chen Yang or that Chen Yang deliberately wooed him, it is entirely because he is the chief steward of the municipal government, the position is not embarrassing or embarrassing, and if he wants to get closer to the municipal party committee, people may not treat him as his own, and if the new mayor is not satisfied, no one dares to talk about him directly, in short, he is now taking this step as a last resort. As for the ecstasy he felt when he learned about Chen Yang's origin from some channel in the future, it was a later story.

Chen Yang didn't move, his eyes quickly swept over the twenty-odd comrades, and then frowned, and asked in a deep voice: "Comrade Yichi, what about Vice Mayor Wang?" Didn't you have a notification? ”

To find the crux of the contradiction, it is of course the best choice to listen to the report of Wang Anguo, the leader of the leading group responsible for the bankruptcy and resettlement of textile factories.

Seeing that Chen Yang's face became more and more ugly, Zhang Yichi complained in his heart, there was such a big incident, even you were alarmed, did you dare not notify the group elder Wang?

He hurried up and replied: "Mayor, I have been in contact many times before, but Vice Mayor Wang's mobile phone has been turned off and can't get through, calling his landline at home, his lover is at home, but he said that he didn't come back from work tonight, but just went home to make a phone call, saying that he was doing workers' ideological work in a textile factory." ”

Although he has a good relationship with Wang Anguo in private, and he also knows that it is very unrighteous to say it so bluntly, but now that the situation is urgent, the boss is obviously a little angry, first Mingzhe protects himself and then talks about the rest, don't be hurt by mistake.

And this old Wang is really, usually in the city government is not very good, the last time he led a team to Shenzhen to engage in investment promotion, there was a scandal that some cadres in the team collectively went to Hong Kong to recruit J and refused to give money, because it is specifically in charge of science, education, culture and health, and the building near the water is the first to get the month, I heard that a young female teacher in the city economic cadre school is messing with men and women outside, and even he himself has seen Wang Anguo and his little lover eat alone in an entertainment venue in the city. It's just that this kind of thing is chasing the wind, and no one will be bored to find someone to be unlucky.

However, now is a critical period, and the resettlement team he led has not been disbanded, what is he running around, is he in such a hurry to meet his little lover? And he didn't open the phone, this time he couldn't complain about others, he brought it all on himself.

Although Chen Yang has been here for a short time, he has also heard some rumors about Wang Anguo in the government, and when he saw that the person who had an accident did not come in time, and the mobile phone could not be connected, he was a little annoyed, but now is not the time to be accountable, first solve the trouble in front of him, otherwise it will really become a big joke early tomorrow morning.

Immediately ordered in a deep voice: "In this way, you go and contact Secretary Han immediately." After a pause, he said, "Well, I'll report according to the actual situation." ”

"Okay."

Zhang Yichi went to do things immediately after answering, in fact, he has been waiting for Chen Yang's instructions for a long time, Secretary Han has been holding a meeting in the provincial capital recently, and he will definitely not be able to catch up for a while, but if it is not for Mayor Chen's own generation, he will not dare to report immediately, who knows what kind of tone the mayor will talk to Secretary Han in after calming things down.

As soon as he finished explaining, before Chen Yang could get rid of the comrades who were blocking him, he heard a sudden commotion from the direction of the street.

"Mayor Chen is here, look at the slope, that Honda is really Mayor Chen's car, over there, everyone go over there"

It seems that in just a short time, some sharp-eyed employees have recognized Chen Yang's car.

And one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and then, this noise was instantly amplified several times, and the hundreds of workers who were still staying on the road immediately spread the word, and in an instant they rushed to the slope like a tide.

Not good

The faces of the cadres and the people's police were stunned, and such a thought invariably popped up in their minds.

Among them, an officer of the security section of the city government rushed forward with a loudspeaker, constantly shouting loudly, trying to maintain order: "Please calm down, stand back, stand back a little, and pay attention to exercise restraint."

But the masses had come to the mayor to ask for an explanation, and when they heard that the mayor had arrived late at night, they were willing to back down half a step, and rushed up while shouting, led by a few radical workers.

"Mayor Chen, we want justice"

"Yes, our factory can still pay wages, why should we file for bankruptcy with the court?"

"Mayor Chen, our family is counting on it, you said that without the factory, how can our family live?"

Wave after wave of shouts swallowed up the roar of the security officer.

At this time, several radical worker leaders rushed to the front and asked loudly: "Mayor Chen, we want to know, is there a developer who has taken a fancy to the land of our factory, and the city thinks that the factory will be bankrupt and liquidated?" ”

"Yes, that's right, otherwise why would the factory leaders have hundreds of thousands of yuan in severance pay and unemployment benefits, but we ordinary workers only get less than 1,000 yuan in our hands?"

"Who said no, those bastards of theirs only knew about corruption and bankrupted our originally good factories, but now in the end there is nothing at all, and they can still receive hundreds of thousands of subsidies, and is there any reason for it? Mayor Chen, we want to ask you for an explanation."

"We're going to say the law"

When it comes to personal interests, especially when they hear that the so-called factory leaders have hundreds of thousands of dollars in land sales, it is like lighting a fire in the pile, and all the workers' feelings immediately become out of control, holding high the banners and slogans in their hands, shouting and rushing to Chen Yang's Honda car on the slope

Suddenly, the situation was extremely bad, and this surging crowd seemed to be likely to swallow up the area within a radius of more than ten square meters where the Honda car was located at any time.

"Mayor Chen, there are too many people on the scene, please hurry up."

"Li Suo, Gao Team, tell your people to be sure to protect Mayor Chen, did you hear it?"

"Mayor, go back to the car, I'll drive out"

A series of anxious voices sounded one after another, but Chen Yang did not take half a step back as he said.

Yes, even if he was facing hundreds of employees who were completely out of control at the moment, he did not show the slightest hint of panic or nervousness.

The vicissitudes of the sea show the true character of a hero, and not being afraid of danger is his forte.

I saw that he quickly pushed away the two security officers who were desperate to protect him, and tried to pull him to the gate of the compound, and then stepped on the metal shell of the Honda car with his hands and feet, jumped onto the roof of the carriage, raised his hands and shouted:

"Comrades, everyone calm me down, I'm Chen Yang"

Despite his loud roar, his voice was unusually faint in the turbulent waves, so weak that even the nearest government workers who were currently in a circle around the car could not hear it.

However, to the surprise of hundreds of people at the scene, it was this extremely weak voice at the scene that made the chaotic shouts of the whole scene gradually stop.

Perhaps, the workers stopped shouting because they were surprised by the young man who suddenly jumped onto the roof of the car, or maybe the crowd had already heard the last words he said - I am Chen Yang

Is he Chen Yang?

Is he the parent official of our Western Prefecture, Mayor Chen Yang, Chen?

In just a second, the eyes of all the workers were focused on the resolute and resolute young man standing coldly on the roof of the carriage.

Everyone's eyes were varied, some were stunned, some were reverent, some were subconsciously timid, but more were incredulous.

Indeed, this young man who claims to be the mayor is only twenty-five or sixteen years old, is he really Mayor Chen?

Seeing that the chaotic crowd at the scene showed signs of stabilizing, Chen Yang, who was standing on the roof of the car, breathed a sigh of relief, frowned slightly, and then stretched out his hand, and someone under the car next to him immediately handed him a megaphone.

"Comrades, I am Chen Yang, the mayor of Xizhou City, please be quiet and listen to me."

Since the noise was already very small at this time, the big guy could really hear the mayor's voice coming out of the loudspeaker.

And once it was really confirmed that this young man was Mayor Chen, the rest of the noise that was already small immediately subsided. At the same time, the complicated eyes just now were unified in an instant, and some awe rose in the hearts of these workers.

Perhaps, this is the invisible coercion brought to the big guy by the mayor, an official position that can only be looked up to in the eyes of ordinary people.

Just when the scene was chaotic because of Chen Yang's appearance, and it was also quiet because of his appearance, no one knew that at this time, in an inconspicuous corner of the crowd, a young girl in jeans and a white shirt was holding a notebook and quickly recording something. She is Xiao Nan, a young female reporter from the Xizhou correspondent station of the "Lingxi Daily", and she was busy changing a press release in her dormitory tonight, but when it was almost ten o'clock, an executive deputy editor-in-chief of the provincial newspaper personally called her and asked her to rush to the city government immediately to interview her. For a young reporter like her, who has just turned regular, it is self-evident what it means for the deputy editor-in-chief to personally call over to assign tasks.

To tell the truth, since she was sent to Xizhou, she has been doing some news reports without nutrition, not because she has not discovered the sensitivity of heavy news, but because all news articles that may affect harmony and stability, after she finished the interview and sent it back to the agency, 100% of them will go into the sea without any news, such as a press release she wrote some time ago about "Why Do Vietnam War Heroes Kneel", originally she thought that she wrote a very deep writing, which should be appreciated by the leadership, Who knew that after sending it, she was scolded by the director and her head stinked, if it weren't for the fact that she still had a little relationship with her family, she would have been removed from her post and investigated countless times.

In fact, as a professional journalist, she already had a certain understanding of today's incident before she arrived, and she had also heard a little about the bankruptcy reorganization of the city textile factory and the preparation of a public auction to liquidate all kinds of assets from various channels.

She originally just listened to it, anyway, even if she interviewed herself, it was useless to write a report and send it back, but who knows, now it seems that the meaning of the listening club is to follow up and report on the bankruptcy of the Xizhou textile factory, although she doesn't know what it means behind this, but she, a little girl who has always prided herself on having a sense of news justice, was unconsciously excited, and after receiving a call from the deputy editor-in-chief, she immediately packed up and rushed to the scene.

When there was a riot in front of her, she kept blending in with the chaotic crowd, for fear that if she went late, she would not be able to get first-hand valuable news or pictures.

However, at this critical juncture, Mayor Chen not only did not retreat half a step, but stood alone in the most conspicuous place, facing these hundreds of excited employees of bankrupt enterprises, just this fearlessness in the face of danger, is already admirable, and his fearless spirit of courage to take responsibility is really a world of difference compared with those leading cadres who want to find someone to come out first once they encounter something.

Therefore, although she was on the side of the rights workers from the bottom of her heart, she still couldn't help but be deeply shocked by this scene, and subconsciously took out her professional camera, secretly pressed the shutter, and snapped this precious moment. wW