1. Mobilization meeting

As soon as the sky was bright, Wang Mingkun came to Minqiang in a hurry.

Wang Mingkun knocked on the window with his big thick hand and said, "Minqiang, Minqiang!" Get up. Li Minqiang was woken up by Wang Mingkun's loud voice, and he agreed while getting dressed.

Li Minqiang thought about it well last night, got up early to pick up a few loads of water and clean the yard, but some things that happened after arriving home always turned in his mind, and he couldn't get rid of it, and the alarm clock on the table pointed to a point that he didn't feel sleepy yet. He didn't know when he fell asleep in a daze, and he didn't wake up until Wang Mingkun slammed his window.

Li Minqiang got off the kang and put on his shoes, but before the door was fully opened, Wang Mingkun squeezed in: "Hey, the sun is going to dry your butt and you can't get up." ”

Li Minqiang smiled and said: "What a happy post, make you happy like this." ”

"Having you breakfast and going to town for a meeting is about repairing the reservoir. I met Uncle Ota last night, and he asked me to tell you, but you weren't there when I came to look for you, and I don't know where you were. I didn't get a good night's sleep after hearing the news, so I hurried early in the morning...... Hey. Then he remembered what he was holding, "This is what Jinhua made for you last night." As he spoke, he put the shoulder pad in his hand on the kang.

Li Minqiang said movingly: "I have to thank my sister-in-law." ”

Wang Mingkun waved his big hand and said, "Thank you, you're not an outsider." ”

Li Minqiang changed the conversation and said: "It's not enough for you to be happy, you have to work hard, but don't go to the construction site as a straw bag to show off your appearance." ”

Wang Mingkun patted his chest, showed a full of energy and said: "If you want to talk about straw bales, it won't be my turn, as for you, hum, I'm really a little worried." ”

"Ho, it's blowing before you go into battle."

Wang Mingkun glared and said: "I'm not bragging, I don't believe that we will see you on the construction site, and it would be strange if I didn't convince you." Then he said very seriously, "To be honest, I guess you go to the town for a meeting to assign tasks, you have to show the prestige of our Shagang Village people there, you can grab a hard task, I can guarantee, except for Li Xiaobao's lazy man who is not angry, a few of us will go to the construction site to promise to give you face." ”

In the conference room of the Mingyang town government, there are already a lot of participants sitting in front of the beige rectangular conference table, and the people attending the meeting are the responsible persons and some village cadres who participated in the construction of the reservoir in various villages. In short, almost everyone wants to confess their news on this occasion and get some new news to enrich their brains. Only Wu Yunxia, the director of the town's women's office, sat on the side and looked at a study material and had nothing to say, because everyone who attended the meeting was gay men, so she felt that it was a little inconvenient to interject, but she listened to everyone's jokes while reading the materials, and when she heard something interesting, she grinned silently. Everyone was talking, laughing, and smoking, the unique smell of cigarettes filled the entire conference room, and from time to time there was a choking coughing sound, Wu Yunxia walked over and opened half of the window, so that the air in the room became a little fresher.

Li Minqiang came relatively early, and when he saw that the people for the meeting had not yet arrived, he came to the office of Tian Yongsheng, secretary of the town party committee. He had two purposes for looking for Tian Yongsheng: one was to find out what he wanted to know, so that he could pick up the right task and grab it when the time came; Second, Tian Yongsheng learned about the situation in Shagang Village and wanted to report to him about his decision to stay in the countryside so that he could get help from the leaders.

Three months ago, after the former secretary of the township party committee was dismissed, the county party committee transferred Tian Yongsheng, the head of Nanhe Township, to take over as secretary. He is forty-one years old, of medium height, with a square face, and because he has worked in the grassroots rural areas for many years, the skin on his face looks very rough, as if he has not slept well for several nights, and his two eyes are deeply sunken. At this time, he was lying on his desk, holding a thick red and blue pencil in his right hand, holding his head in his left hand, and his tireless eyes were engrossed in staring at the newly issued document of the county party committee's "Opinions on Strengthening the County's Water Conservancy Construction" spread out on the desk. Some paragraphs of the document are painted in red and blue, and various symbols are drawn in some places, which seems to chew on the spirit of the document enough. The sound of the phone interrupted his train of thought, and as soon as he picked up the phone, Li Minqiang knocked on the door and came in.

Tian Yongsheng took the microphone, nodded to Minqiang with a smile, pointed to the sofa next to him, and motioned for him to sit down.

"Hey, I'm Tian Yongsheng, oh, I heard you, hello Director Tan? …… Well, it is not good for the county to increase funds, which means that the county funds are not sufficient,...... Well, well, we're going to have a meeting this morning to study it, and we'll give you a detailed report after the meeting. Okay, goodbye. ”

Tian Yongsheng put down the phone and said: "You also heard just now that the county will not increase the funds for us to repair the reservoir, and we want to do everyone's work well, carry forward the spirit of hard struggle, and overcome difficulties by ourselves." Moreover, according to the overall deployment of the county party committee, we are required to complete the project ahead of schedule without increasing personnel and funds, and we must not miss the spring plowing and spring sowing work at the latest. ”

Li Minqiang stood up and said firmly: "If there are difficulties to overcome by yourself, you are not afraid of heavy tasks, the more arduous the task, the more you can test people and train people!" Leave us with the hardest bones. ”

Tian Yongsheng smiled and said: "It's really worthy of being a person from the army, and his words are hard." Let's not talk about anything else, let's talk about you first. Minqiang, you did a good job! In response to the call of the CPC Central Committee to shake off poverty and become rich in rural areas, the government has arranged for you not to work in the cities, but to work in the countryside to help the peasants shake off poverty and become rich, which is not easy for ordinary people to do. The construction of the new countryside is very much in need of talents with ambition, thinking and level like you. I have already reviewed your file in the county, you are an outstanding cadre in the army, the company you lead is an advanced company, you have made a collective third-class meritorious service, and you yourself have also been awarded a second-class meritorious service. It's not easy! I informed the comrades in the town about your situation, and they all said that they would learn from you. ”

Li Minqiang smiled and said: "Secretary Tian, in fact, I am not as good as you say, and this can only show that in the past, I still have problems with this person, and I still need you to help me more in the actual work in the future." I didn't want to stay in the countryside, but when I came back, I found that Shagang Village was still very poor, and the villagers were still living a hard life, so I was unwilling. Some people say that I am here to be in the limelight, but in fact I am not, Shagang Village is the place where I was born and raised, and I have feelings for the land and people here, and I sincerely hope that the villagers can live a good life. ”

"Therefore, as soon as you arrived home, you were going to rush to the front line, and the town party committee decided to form a platoon of 37 migrant workers from your village, Zhangzhuang Village, and Xinxing Village, with you as the platoon commander and Daniel Zhang, deputy secretary of the Zhangzhuang Village branch, as the deputy platoon leader. What do you think? ”

Li Minqiang was stunned for a moment and said, "Secretary Tian, I just arrived home, can I do it?" ”

Tian Yongsheng immediately took over the words and said, "What, I'm afraid of difficulties?" "The more arduous the task, the more it can test and train people"! If you can lead a company in the army, can't you lead a platoon of migrant workers? I'm sure you'll be able to take it with you. Tian Yongsheng said that he was so sure.

Li Minqiang also said: "I am not familiar with the situation when I first arrived at home, and besides, there is a difference between leading the militia and leading soldiers in the army. ”

Tian Yongsheng said: "The people of the whole country are studying the PLA, and basically all the people who went to the construction site this time are militiamen, and the construction site is living a collective life, which is a good opportunity to learn from the PLA. Make a good example for the migrant workers on the entire construction site. I'm sure you will. To tell the truth, you, the platoon commander of the migrant workers' platoon, were specially proposed by me to the town party committee. Is there anything else you have to say? ”

What else does Li Minqiang have to say, he has been a soldier for eight years, and he has never shirked the burden on the leader's shoulders, no matter how heavy the weight is, he said with a ruddy face: "Secretary Tian, since the organization trusts me and gives me the task, I will throw off my arms and try to do it!" ”

Tian Yongsheng's shiny purple face was full of joy, and he patted Minqiang on the shoulder and said, "Okay! I believe you will definitely do a good job! ”

Tian Yongsheng, who has been engaged in leadership work for many years, has developed the habit of being willing to "give the truth" to his subordinates at any time when encountering problems; through casual conversations with his subordinates or the masses, he breaks down and crumples the party's principles, policies, work requirements, and issues that should be paid attention to them. He often said: The masses have infinite creativity, and if the broad masses of the people do not consciously take action, it is impossible for a leader to have great ability to accomplish a thing. When the masses truly understand that the party's propositions are consistent with their fundamental interests, they will work hard and create many good methods in the course of their work, often achieving unexpected and perfect results in their work. Tian Yongsheng's work method, which is good at following the mass line, has indeed tasted a lot of sweetness.

At this time, Tian Yongsheng was thinking that in order to accomplish the arduous task of repairing the reservoir, it was all the more necessary to briefly and clearly explain the spirit of the instructions given by the higher authorities and exchange views. So he said: "The county party committee has repeatedly stressed that we must attach importance to the overall situation, carry forward the spirit of Yugong to move mountains, and do a good job in this project, no matter how great the difficulties, we must complete it on time. How is the migrant workers' organization in your village? Did you encounter any difficult things? ”

When Li Minqiang heard Tian Yongsheng ask him about the situation in Shagang Village, a storm immediately appeared in front of him on the issue of migrant workers in the construction of the reservoir. However, he did not want to show the problems to the leaders and distract the leaders' work energy, so he said: "The migrant workers have been organized, and although they have encountered some problems, they have been solved, and they can set off as soon as they give an order." ”

After listening to Li Minqiang's words, Tian Yongsheng's repercussions were aroused: After the county party committee made the decision to repair the reservoir, some people thought that the project would not make much profit to the town, so they did not pay much attention to this work; after repeated explanations, they complained that the county had too tight a fund card for repairing the reservoir, did not fully consider the livelihood of the migrant workers, and felt embarrassed about completing this task. Thinking of this, he deeply felt that it would not be smooth sailing to do any job well, and it would take hard work.

Tian Yongsheng still had to talk to Li Minqiang, and Secretary Zhou came in and said, "Secretary Tian, the people for the meeting have arrived." Tian Yongsheng picked up the materials on the table and walked into the conference room with Minqiang.

The layout of the conference room is very simple, and there is a "Zhaozhuang Reservoir Construction Diagram" hanging on the front wall, which is marked with different colors on the tasks shared by the townships and towns in the county. The participants sat in a circle around the long conference table, and many people sat against the wall outside the table, squeezing the small conference room to the brim.

At the beginning of the meeting, Mayor Chang Ziming used his rough voice to convey the spirit of the instructions of the county party committee on the construction of the reservoir and the specific arrangements for the construction of the reservoir, and gave a detailed introduction to everyone. He also explained the situation of the personnel who participated in the construction of the reservoir: 130 migrant workers in the town participated in the construction of the reservoir and formed a company, with Chang Ziming, the mayor of the town, as the company commander, and Chen Wenjun, deputy secretary of the town party committee, as the deputy company commander. There are three platoons, and the list of chief and deputy platoon commanders is announced respectively. Each platoon has three squads, and the squad leader of each squad is appointed by the platoon leader.

Tian Yongsheng said in his speech: "As you know, our county is threatened by drought almost every year, and now the county party committee has decided to mobilize thousands of troops and dozens of large equipment in the county to build a large reservoir in Zhaozhuang in the west of the county in the winter for two months, and the completion of this reservoir will irrigate 20 percent of the land in the west of the city. In other places, some small reservoirs will be built and some deep-water wells will be drilled, so that we can change the situation in our county in which cotton is planted without rain in spring, corn is sown in summer, wheat is planted in autumn, and men, women, and children fight drought three times a year. ”

Tian Yongsheng's speech was applauded by the participants.

Tian Yongsheng continued: "However, there is another problem that I have to make clear to everyone, this project is time-tight, there are many participants and equipment, but the funds allocated from above are not much, which requires everyone to carry forward the spirit of hard work, be diligent and thrifty, and conscientiously find ways to overcome difficulties." ”

Tian Yongsheng's words caused the following discussion.

Tian Yongsheng continued: "Today we will hold a democratic meeting, and everyone should actively speak at this meeting. He elbowed Deputy Secretary Chen Wenjun, who was sitting next to him and was thinking about the problem, and said, "Old Chen, you are the commander of the construction site, what do you have to say?" ”

Chen Wenjun and Tian Yongsheng were about the same age, wearing a pair of black wide-rimmed glasses on his serious rectangular face, and two small eyes shining brightly behind the lenses. He is a graduate of the Agricultural University, transferred from the county agricultural bureau, and has been the deputy secretary of the party committee in Mingyang Town for more than three years.

Chen Wenjun raised his head, lifted his glasses on the bridge of his nose, glanced at everyone, and said, "I'll say a few words, but what I said didn't interest everyone." The county party committee's decision to repair the reservoir is correct, and its correctness has just been explained by Mayor Chang and Secretary Hetian, so I will not repeat it. I don't think there will be any big problems with the enthusiasm of the migrant workers on the construction site, and the most worrying thing is the financial problem, and I hope to think about it seriously. Just now, Secretary Tian said that we should be diligent and thrifty in water control, which I agree, but the money that should be spent still has to be spent, and the money that should be used has to be used. It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice, I'm afraid this is true, right? Therefore, my opinion is to ask the county for more funding. ”

At this time, someone took over the topic: "I think what Secretary Chen said is reasonable, the cost of vehicle maintenance, equipment repair, tool purchase and other expenses on the construction site is more, and everything has to be costed." As the saying goes, more money doesn't burn your hands. It's better to have more money, and you can return it if you can't use it up, so be prepared. If you don't use the money at the right time, you'll be blind. ”

Another person said: "For such a big stall, the vehicles used need to drink oil, the migrant workers who go there need to eat, the migrant workers who are sick need medical treatment, and the utensils are broken and need to be repaired." There is also a shed, it is winter, a shed has at least two layers of linoleum and one linoleum, and the shed has to have a stove to burn coal, right? Wait, no one can do without money. ”

Another person said: "If the funds are insufficient, the livelihood of migrant workers will be affected, and the progress of the project will not be guaranteed, which is a big problem." ”

Almost everyone was whispering to each other, explaining their different opinions.

Tian Yongsheng saw Li Minqiang, who was sitting against the wall at the back, bowing his head and saying nothing: "Comrade Minqiang, although you have just returned from the army, you can't just bring your ears and mouth to the meeting, don't you also talk about it?" ”

Li Minqiang stood up, his voice trembling a little because of the excitement in his heart: "I just came back from the army, and I don't know about some situations, so I can only say my personal thoughts." I believe that in times of difficulty, we must see the strength of the masses and their determination to shake off poverty and become rich. In the project of repairing the reservoir, funds are scarce, so it is necessary to carry forward the spirit of working diligently and thriftily, and fully mobilize the masses to find a way. As the saying goes, in all difficulties, it is not difficult to rely on the masses. As long as we believe in the masses and rely on the masses, there will be no difficulties that cannot be overcome! Things are man-made, and the road is walked by people! ”

"That's right!" Everyone's eyes turned to Tian Yongsheng, and he stood up and said: "Comrades, I think Comrade Li Minqiang is right, no matter what we do, we must not forget the words 'diligence and thrift' and 'relying on the masses'. Our current conditions are better than before, and many times better, but no matter how the living conditions change, the spirit of self-reliance and hard work cannot be lost! I believe that the masses rely on the masses, and this road cannot be lost! It is a fact that the funds for the construction of the reservoir are insufficient, and we have also reported this to the county, and the director of the Water Conservancy Bureau, Tan, just called and said that the problem of funds is not easy to solve for a while. Could it be that if there are difficulties, the reservoir project will not be carried out? The strength of the masses is infinite, and as long as we work together, we will definitely be able to overcome difficulties and successfully complete the task! Tian Yongsheng sat down and continued, "As long as everyone uses their brains to find a way, the problem can be solved." For example, when a comrade mentioned the issue of work sheds just now, I learned from several villages that the linoleum, wood, and straw used to repair the canals last time, as well as the stoves used for heating, have not broken down, and they can continue to be used this time. ”

At this time, someone said: "We still have six rolls of linoleum that we have not used up last time we dug the canal, and there is still some wood that can be used again, so the problem of the shed does not need to be considered by the town, and we can solve it by ourselves." ”

"We can do it ourselves!"

"We still have some linoleum in our village storehouse that can be used."

"We still have some strawberries in our village!"

……

Everyone was like fifteen women doing homely things, and they reported all kinds of materials for building sheds in stock, it didn't matter at this time, Chen Wenjun's face was swollen and red, and he said to Tian Yongsheng: "So I don't use my brain, and I'm subjective." ”