A police car clears the road in front, followed by an imported luxury bus. In the bus sat the veteran comrades of the visiting group brought by Sun Likun, accompanied by Tang Ping and Liu Shengli. Along the way, the atmosphere was very good, the old comrades talked and laughed freely, and from time to time asked about some information, Tang Ping pointed to the street scene outside the window, and made an introduction with great interest, which won a lot of encouraging applause from Sun Likun and the old comrades.

Sun Likun said: "Comrade Tang Ping, did a good job, ah? Yangshan is simply the same every year! ”

Tang Ping said: "Old Sun, there are many difficulties and problems, and it depends on the victory over them!" ”

Sun Likun immediately asked: "Shengli, why are you, the new mayor, going to burn these three fires?" ”

Liu Shengli waved his hand again and again: "I don't have any fire to burn, I just want to do something practical for the people in a down-to-earth manner." ”

Sun Likun smiled: "Okay, good." Then he asked, "Is your mother well?" ”

Liu Shengli said: "Okay, I will educate Qian Yuan and me." Whenever there was a corruption case in the newspaper, she would cut it out and show it to me, and she would say, 'This article is important, I think it is worth reading.......'"

Sun Likun laughed: "I have simply become the secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection in your family!" ”

When visiting the mine park, Tang Ping quietly stopped Liu Shengli and said: "Shengli, Sun Lao and so many old comrades have come to our Yangshan, the opportunity is rare, I think the work should be done first." ”

Liu Shengli asked: "Secretary Tang, what do you do?" ”

Tang Ping said: "What are you pretending to be foolish for me? Please help us change our plans in the province! ”

Liu Shengli said: "Secretary Tang, didn't you give me a month? It's better not to rush yet, right? ”

Tang Ping said: "I'm not in a hurry, but I want to do the work first." ”

Liu Shengli said: "Secretary Tang, Chen Tao has a plan, I don't know if you have seen it?" ”

Tang Ping was stunned: "What?" Mayor Liu, did you bet on Chen Tao's whimsical idea? ”

Liu Shengli smiled tactfully: "Secretary Tang, you can't say that Chen Tao's idea is whimsical, right?" Even Vice Mayor Zheng thinks it's feasible! ”

Tang Ping said: "Lao Zheng, why don't I know their opinions? ”

Liu Shengli still smiled: "Your big boss has a hammer, who dares to speak......

At this time, Sun Likun, who had already walked to the stele of the miners' monument, shouted: "Comrade Tang Ping, you come up!" Hey, let me ask you, is this miner statue Liu Cunyi? ”

Only then did Tang Ping stop arguing with Liu Shengli and walked quickly onto the stele: "Old Sun, you have good eyesight, this statue is carved with Liu Cunyi as a model, symbolizing the miner group!" ”

Sun Likun nodded slightly, pointed to the statue and said to Liu Shengli: "Victory, this is your example!" ”

When Tang Ping heard this, he couldn't help but have an idea, and without discussing it with Liu Shengli, he suddenly suggested: "Old Sun, tonight, let's accompany you to see if the Hongqi Coal Mine where Cunyi has worked?" Mayor Liu and I will accompany you! ”

Sun Likun said: "Okay, good, let's go to the miners' homes to see the new changes in reform and opening up!" ”

Liu Shengli hesitated: "Secretary Tang, this ...... Is that good? ”

Tang Ping waved his hand: "What's wrong?" I'm a truth-seeking person, and I'm not afraid of being ugly! ”

Sun Likun was taken aback by the sight of the Hongqi Coal Mine, which had been reforming and opening up for nearly 20 years, and the Hongqi Coal Mine was still the same as it had been – even worse than it had been back then. The old bungalows, built in the fifties, are dilapidated and still have no money for major repairs. There is not much difference between the Chen Mine Chief's house they went to and Liu Cunyi's home back then. The facilities and furniture in the house are very old, and there is hardly a single new appliance or furniture.

Sun Likun looked around and sighed: "Comrade Tang Ping, Yangshan has changed a lot, but the Hongqi Coal Mine has not changed much!" Yes? Look at this tattered appearance, does it have a bit of a new atmosphere of reform and opening up? It's not that I'm criticizing you, you, the secretary of the municipal party committee, are responsible! And you, Mayor Liu, you are also responsible! ”

Liu Shengli said nefactorily: "Yes, Secretary Sun, we are all responsible. ”

Tang Ping immediately picked it up: "Mayor Liu, it's good that we can realize our responsibility!" He took Mine Chief Chen's hand, "Come, come, victory, I'll introduce you to Mine Chief Chen." Like me, Mine Chief Chen is also your father's old partner, who traveled from Anhui to Yangshan with your father, and eleven years ago, he gave your father a funeral with 8,000 miners from the Hongqi Mine. Mine Chief Chen, can you tell Mr. Sun and Mayor Liu how many comrades have died underground since the liberation of the Hongqi Coal Mine? Also, how many comrades died from occupational diseases such as silicosis? ”

Mine Chief Chen thought for a moment and said: "No less than 800 comrades died of occupational diseases and no less than 2,000 people were disabled due to work-related injuries. When I retired, there were more than 1,200 families of the dead and wounded miners who needed to be compensated. ”

Tang Ping said sadly: "Mayor Liu, this is history, this is sacrifice - this means that in peacetime, the Red Flag Mine is still going on a bloody war!" The casualties for more than forty years are so enormous! Now, the resources of the Hongqi mine are gradually depleted, so many people can't eat, are we worthy of history? Conscience is not reproachful?! You also heard Elder Sun's criticism of us just now, and you still say that you are not in a hurry?! ”

Liu Shengli looked helpless: "I know what Secretary Tang and Mine Chief Chen said, but with the current actual situation in Yangshan City, I can't rush out on a sunny day!" ”

Sun Likun looked at Liu Shengli in amazement, with a stunned expression: "Shengli, why are you talking like that?!" ”

Liu Shengli fully understood Tang Ping's intentions, and had to make his words clear: "But, Secretary Tang, no matter how urgent we are, we can't sacrifice the interests of future generations!" ”

Tang Ping's face pulled: "Don't I want to leave a garden-like city to future generations?" But, comrade, let's face it! Let me tell you, Chen Tao's plan won't work! The city can't come up with so much money all at once! ”

Liu Shengli suppressed it and smiled reluctantly: "Secretary Tang, didn't you give me a month?" Changed your mind? ”

Tang Ping didn't admit it: "Three days, now I will only give you three days, I just want you to be in a hurry!" ”

Liu Shengli thought for a while: "Okay, three days is three days, and after three days, I will make a detailed report to you and the municipal party committee!" ”

Mine Chief Chen interjected at this time: "Mayor Liu, the situation of the Hongqi Mine really has to be resolved, alas, it is a good thing that your father left early, and I don't know how sad it will be to see the Hongqi Mine fall to this point alive!" ”

Liu Shengli comforted: "The mine is also like a person, there is life and death, Uncle Chen, you have to look at it." ”

Mine Chief Chen said: "I can't see it!" Mayor Liu, this reform and opening up has been carried out for almost 20 years, and Yangshan has become unrecognizable, but there are so many debts here! The Hongqi mine was transferred from the ministry to the province, and from the province to the city, and everyone regarded it as a big burden! If it's not our Secretary Tang who is in charge, who will take it? ”

Liu Shengli glanced at Tang Ping: "Secretary Tang has a conscience. ”

Mine Chief Chen was even more excited: "But how is this burden caused?" Where has the accumulation of Hongqi Mine gone for decades? Wasn't it all transferred away by the state free of charge during the planned economy era? Mayor Liu, you also have to have a conscience, and you have to support Secretary Tang to solve the problem of the Red Flag Mine as soon as possible! ”

Liu Shengli said with a smile: "Uncle Chen, don't worry, the problem must be solved, but how to solve it, the city is studying - including the transformation of this new workers' village." We won't let it go into the next century in this guise! It has entered the next century in this way, which is not only a shame for me as a mayor, but also a shame for the Chinese Communists! ”

Mine Chief Chen held Liu Shengli's hand and said again and again: "That's good, that's good!" There are more solutions than difficulties - that's what your dad used to say when he was alive! ”

On the way back to Yangshan City from the Hongqi Mine, Tang Ping pulled Sun Likun into his car, and then told Sun Likun about the dispute between himself and Liu Shengli, and finally spread his hands and asked Sun Likun: "Sun Lao, you also saw that the coal ash everywhere in the mining area is dirty and messy, can you build a science and technology park?" What is not whimsical? ”

Sun Likun also shook his head: "It's a little romantic!" ”

Tang Ping said: "So, Elder Sun, you should help us do the work of changing the plan first." ”

Sun Likun smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that my influence is limited." ”

Tang Ping said: "Old Sun, the influence is limited, but there is always influence!" ”

Sun Likun said: "Let's see when the time comes!" Then he asked, "Do you regret that victory is coming?" ”

Tang Ping shook his head: "The child is our own child, just beat more, I'm not polite to her!" This kid also has strengths, quite mature, not bureaucratic, has been mayor for twenty days, and has been running down for more than ten days, and even I often can't find her. He sighed and said, "Young man, your brain is better than ours, and you may be able to come up with a trick!" I deliberately forced her today! ”

Sun Likun patted Tang Ping on the shoulder: "That's right, our old comrades should not only care for and care for young cadres, but also let them do things, otherwise, this class will not be able to continue!" ”