Jagged city

Jagged City - Chapter 120 Two Controlling the Situation

At one o'clock in the morning, Lin Tao was still in the study, as if he had made a big decision before turning on the computer and typing a line of text messages. 【 _ 】Reply soon - see you in 10 minutes.Lin Tao lit a cigarette and waited for Di Anne's video.Looking at the cigarette smoke, his thoughts turned to the matter of Xiliang.Lin Tao doesn't smoke at all, and only occasionally smokes one when he is troubled. There are two Chinese in the drawer under Lin Tao's desk, which are the filial piety of his subordinates. The officials in the district took action upon hearing the news, and there was an endless stream of gifts, almost all of which were stopped by Xiao Qin, but it was inhumane not to accept them at all, so tea, tobacco, alcohol, nutritional products and so on were basically accepted.Xiliang is an agricultural city, and there are many cattle and sheep in the countryside, so a whole box of lamb chops is a special gift of Xiliang.

Cigarettes and alcohol can be stored. The lamb chops can only be stored in the refrigerator, but only in one box. Lin Tao and Xiaoqin can’t eat lamb chops for three meals a day. The orphanage established has improved food for more than a dozen orphans.Lin Tao was considering whether to build an orphanage in Xiliang or the capital of Northwest Province, and the money was of course contributed by Junlian Group.Although Lin Tao didn't know how the higher authorities would arrange for him, Lin Tao estimated that he would not be able to leave the Northwest within a year or two.Therefore, Lin Tao intends to allow Junlian Group to enter the Northwest, and he feels safe with his own people nearby, which is a kind of spiritual belonging.But a small knife would be a big problem. If he was ruthless in Xiliang, the people around Lin Tao would inevitably be hurt.The company's entry into Xiliang may be hindered, and the company's safety cannot be guaranteed.

"Yes!" Lin Tao patted the table, and a flash of light flashed in his mind. He thought of the five special forces recommended by Wang Han. If he established a security company, he could solve many problems.Lin Tao couldn't help but be impressed by his cleverness, and felt a little leisurely.

"What are you laughing at? You seem to be very happy!" Diane appeared in the video.

"Hehe, of course I'm happy to see you." Seeing Diane's beautiful face, Lin Tao was indeed very happy.

"Glib, I thought you forgot about me. You haven't contacted me for a month." Diane said with her lips pouted. Before Lin Tao returned to China, he indulged in indulgence for several months, but after Lin Tao left, he felt more empty in his heart.This pain of lovesickness cannot be solved by making a phone call every month, and Lin Tao has nothing to do. Lin Tao has a wife and children in China, and he is a happy little family.You can't have both, so you can only wrong Diane. I hope that the relationship between the two will gradually fade across the Pacific Ocean.Di Anne is a person who understands the general situation. Although she hates Lin Tao a little bit in her heart, she can't blame others, especially in the United States. Lovers or friends with benefits.Diane only has Lin Tao in her heart and looks down on others, so she can only suffer herself.Diane didn't bother too much, and soon talked about Lin Tao's work in China.

Lin Tao told Dai Anni about domestic affairs, especially the recent annihilation of the Small Knife Society in Xiliang, which made Di Anni amazed. She did not expect such a large underworld organization in China, and the Small Knife Society was a private secret organization in the Qing Dynasty in China. The record was found in the seventh year of Qianlong (1742).Mainly in Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, Taiwan and other places.It was originally established by some civilians to bring their own knives in order to protect each other, and it has nothing to do with anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty.Small knives appeared many times during the Opium War, the late Qing Dynasty, and the period of warlord chaos.After liberation, there used to be a suppression of reactionary sects and Taoist organizations in China, but the Xiaodaohui disappeared. It was only in the past three to five years that Guoan knew that the Xiaodaohui had taken root in the Northwest.According to the investigation, the Small Knife Society is extremely large, with its organizations spread all over the world, and it is a huge economic group.Underworld business is only one of the sources of income for the Small Knife Society, and the government has no right to ban many legitimate businesses.A knife with such a complicated background will make people unable to start. That is to say, Lin Tao first entered Xiliang, from mistakenly attacking to vigorously suppressing Xiliang, and returning Xiliang to a clear sky, but this is just a mouth of Xiaodaohui.

Now that the Little Knife Society is watching the government, what is it thinking? To wipe out Xiliang is a way to get rid of it, or to deal with the Little Knife Society in an all-round way.The government stopped the expansion of the incident and did not act in a unified manner. It just shouted and killed in Xiliang, and was also observing the reaction of the Small Knife Society.Will Xiaodao resist violently with all his strength? He infiltrated and pressured through various economic and political means, not only the province, but also the upper-level leaders in the country have also received pressure.Therefore, the originally comprehensive plan to clear up was put on hold for the time being.Xiliang has become an anti-crime and anti-pornography operation. The words of the Small Knife Club have not been seen in documents or media, so there are many speculations from the outside world. In the end, it comes down to Lin Tao. The mayor, as a result, was retaliated against.This is the conclusion of the outside rumors.

Di Anni was also very worried when she heard Lin Tao's words. Although Lin Tao's martial arts skills are excellent, he is hard to guard against black guns.Di Anni asked Lin Tao to pay more attention to safety. Seeing Di Anni's worried face, Lin Tao felt even more sorry for the dewy couple.Later, Lin Tao changed the topic to the embassy, ​​recruiting a third-class secretary.Di Anni asked Lin Tao how he knew about it. When Lin Tao talked about his relationship with Wang Han and Wang Lan, Di Anni said coquettishly, "I said, why are you calling me so kindly? It turns out that you need something from me!"

Lin Tao said with an embarrassed smile: "I mainly want to ask about your recent situation. I just mentioned it by the way. If you can do it, you can do it. In fact, the domestic development is not bad."

"Okay, don't quibble, it should be early in the morning on your side, go to bed early! If you don't call me for a month in the future, I will directly kill you at your house."

"You don't mean it, do you?" Lin Tao didn't want Xiao Xiao to meet Di Anne, it would be a disaster.

"It scares you, Virtue?" Diane rolled her eyes, and the video was interrupted.Lin Tao heaved a sigh of relief, facing the lover's attack, Lin Tao is indeed still tender.And that's what Diane likes about Lin Tao. If Lin Tao is really flirtatious and easy to deal with, Diane will never like him.Lin Tao sat for a while to stabilize his emotions, then climbed to the top of the building along the window, and began to meditate and perform exercises.

In this small six-story building, Lin Tao basically works until about 12:30 in the morning every day, then climbs to the top of the building to do exercises for two hours, punches and kicks a few times at three o'clock in the morning, and goes to bed at four o'clock , Get up at six, have breakfast at 06:30, breakfast is made by Shen Yue, and go to the city hall at seven.This is Lin Tao's routine.

Lin Tao drives a private car to and from get off work, and wears sunglasses. There is no one in this community who knows that a deputy mayor lives here. Lin Tao lives reclusively, but few people know him.

This morning, Lin Tao brought his secretary, Xiao Fang, and several people from the National Development and Reform Commission to Xiliang Electronics Factory. This was Lin Tao's second visit to the factory.This Xiliang Idea Factory has a long history. It was established at the beginning of liberation. It produces radios, radios and so on. Processing some electronic components for other factories, assembling some audio-visual and so on, half-dead, the government only sees input and no output.It has been five or six years since the enterprise reform in the southeast was completed, which is also caused by the special geographical environment.

The biggest selling point of this factory now is the land.The old state-owned factory covers an area of ​​30 mu. It is located in the north of Xiliang City, and there are villages and towns further north.Now the factory is half idle, and many workshops have been transformed into vegetable market stalls.In the morning, this place becomes the largest morning market in the north of Xiliang City, and it is extremely lively.Instead, the factory workers entered work through a small door on the west side. Lin Tao came here for the first time, and he couldn't laugh or cry when he saw this scene.Now the staff of the enterprise reform office advocates that half of the Xiliang Electronics Factory will be built as a market, and half will be auctioned off. The money from the auction will be used to buy out the workers' seniority.Most of the leaders in the city also agree with this opinion.The factory workers are facing a buyout, and their emotions are very unstable. Although there is no siege of the city government yet, petitioning or something?But it is also unstable.Lin Tao and Deputy Mayor Zhang Yun have sent people to the factory to preach to appease the workers, and Chairman Song of the trade union is actively cooperating.However, Lin Tao was still surrounded by workers during his second inspection today. Dozens of workers in their [-]s and [-]s shouted, "The factory cannot be auctioned. This is ruining our jobs."

"When will we be reimbursed for our medical expenses? If we sell the factory, who shall we turn to?"

"Is the government still a party-led government?"

"When will the salary be paid last month?"

The old men and women on the 600th also arrived one after another, which was a mess.Although the country is undergoing medical reform, Xiliang Electronics Factory has not reimbursed nearly [-] million medical expenses accumulated over the years.It is a big hole for Xiliang's finances.

Five or six police officers were a bit powerless to maintain order, so Chairman Song led the security department to maintain the scene.Lin Tao's first visit was done in secret. He just went in to take a quick look. The workers didn't know that he was the deputy mayor. In a large factory with 20 workers, who cares how many people there are.Lin Tao followed Chairman Song around.Did not alarm other leaders.People who saw it thought it was Chairman Song's relatives and nephews who were going to work in the factory as workers.This time, Lin Tao was driving a government Santana, other people were driving Zhonghua, and a van came in from the main entrance, which of course attracted the attention of the workers, especially the morning market at the main entrance, where most of the stalls were factory workers. dependents.In the past few days, the factory has been going on in big meetings and small meetings, saying that they want to sell the factory.Although the salary of five to six hundred yuan is very small, it is also the source of income for the workers to survive. Many of them have worked in this large factory for three generations. Just like their own family, they cannot communicate emotionally.Then there are these workers who set up stalls, and there is no industry and commerce to pay them taxes.Where to set up a stall after selling the factory!So follow suit.The happiest person was Sun Dianrong, the boss of the factory, the brother-in-law of Section Chief Wu of the Office Sales Department of the electronics factory, who was also a worker in the factory.It is said that he is a tyrant. He has dominated the morning market for a long time. No one in the industry and commerce dares to collect taxes in the electronics factory. The main reason is that he organizes people to resist.He charged two yuan for needles, thread, and brains at a small stall, five yuan for a three-two basket of vegetables, and ten to twenty yuan for a stall selling meat and clothes.In short, he can collect about 3000 yuan every morning.Excluding the wages of his subordinates and making a contribution to the leader, he can get 3 yuan a month. Such a large amount of income is about to be cut off by the government. What can he do?Of course not, so he organized his subordinates, as well as some friends in the factory to make a fuss, and sent someone to find the old patient to reimburse the medical expenses.There were also those who followed the onlookers and shouted for wages.Blocked Lin Tao, Zhang Yun and others outside the office building.

"Leave me alone. This is the leader of the municipal government. Don't make noise!" Chairman Song shouted, but it didn't work at all. Instead, the workers gathered more and more.

"F*ck, corrupt officials, why sell the factory?"

"Whoosh—" Tomatoes and eggs flew over, and several city government officials jumped around. After getting an egg on the forehead, Mayor Zhang quickly hid in the car.The others also got into the van, not daring to get out.Xiao Qin dodged left and right, but he didn't escape a rotten persimmon, which hit his chest. Lin Tao could clearly see the seven and eight beating people, and they basically hid in the crowd and took the lead in shouting.Lin Tao jumped directly onto the roof of the Santana.With a wave of the hand.

"Quiet!"

There seemed to be a thunder in everyone's ears, which was deafening, and almost knocked out several old men and women. Fortunately, there were so many people and someone was supporting them.Lin Tao couldn't care less, shouted, and looked around, hundreds of people felt that the young man on the roof of the car looked chilly, and the huge empty field was silent for a while.

"Everyone, please be quiet. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Lin Tao and I am the executive deputy mayor of Xiliang City. You may have heard that Liao Wendong, the leader of the underworld in Xiliang City, was shot dead by me. I used this gun—"

Lin Tao raised his silver pistol and stared at the seven or eight beating workers, scaring a few of them to take two steps back, only to be blocked by the workers behind him, and then stabilized.There was a murderous look in Lin Tao's eyes, especially for the few people who were being watched.

"Why did I shoot Liao Wendong? Chairman Song of your trade union saw it clearly—" Lin Tao's voice didn't seem very loud, but workers standing five or sixty meters away could hear him clearly.

"That day, I went to visit a poor household in our electronics factory. Li Hongyun, many people may recognize Li Hongyun. She is also a worker in the electronics factory. Her father-in-law is old and frail, deaf and blurred. In high school, Li Hongyun maintained a family by herself, and it was very hard to go out early and return home late. The family of five mainly relied on the four to five hundred yuan wages from the factory to maintain their livelihoods. The living conditions can be imagined. Yaomei is sixteen or seventeen years old. It’s the time when girls in the city are the most beautiful, but the clothes they wear are—” Lin Tao told about the tragic situation of Li Hongyun’s family, which made the factory workers feel the same. At first, they were frightened by Lin Tao’s shouting, but now Lin Tao told the truth move.

Lin Tao changed the subject and said: "Li Hongyun's family background not only did not make people feel sympathetic, but also attracted gangster Liao Wendong's underlings nicknamed Iron Legs, loan sharks, and forced Li Hongyun to sell his daughter. I was rushing to the scene at the time, almost out of breath He vomited blood, Li Hongyun was punched and kicked, Yaomei was dragged by gangsters, her husband was crawling on the ground crying, the old man was blind and bedridden, Yang Bailao and Xi'er were not as miserable as Li Hongyun's family, I couldn't understand this when I transferred from the army to Xiliang , Is this the old society? There are still people who are forced to sell their sons and daughters to repay usury, do you think this kind of underworld should be killed!"

"It's time to kill! Kill those bastards!"

"It should be killed, everyone should be shot!"

Lin Tao waved his hand to calm everyone's emotions, and the scene became quiet again. Hundreds of people waited for Lin Tao to continue speaking.The scene was completely controlled by Lin Tao.Deputy Mayor Zhang Yun and others secretly admired Lin Tao, who was able to overwhelm the main scene at such a young age.Several people got out of the car quietly and stood beside them, ignoring the dirt on their bodies.You can't watch Lin Tao sing a solo show alone!

"When Chairman Song and my secretary Xiao Fang went to stop them, those three scoundrels moved their knives." Lin Tao pointed to Chairman Song and Fang Liang beside the car.

"These gangsters are simply vicious. I was transferred from the army. Our soldiers shed their blood to defend the country and the people, not to protect the gangsters. I kicked one of the three gangsters to death on the spot, and seriously injured the other two!"

"Good kick!"

"It's so heartwarming!"

"Good death!" Hundreds of people cheered and applauded.

Lin Tao motioned for silence again, and the crowd immediately fell silent following Lin Tao's gesture.

"The matter is not over yet. Liao Wendong, the biggest underworld leader in Xiliang City, rushed into Li Hongyun's house with a dozen of his subordinates. This Liao Wendong actually pointed a gun at me and wanted to kill me. If I didn't have a gun, I might be a newcomer. The first mayor in China to be shot by the underworld. The tradition of our soldiers is to deal with the enemy as ruthlessly as the autumn wind sweeps the fallen leaves. Liao Wendong is a bully in Xiliang and the enemy of the people of Xiliang. Therefore, I shot him. He forced Let the workers sell women, he wants to shoot the mayor, he deserves to die!" Lin Tao's voice was high, his eyes were cold, making people daunting.Hey, why is no one applauding? Lin Tao looked around, but there was no sound.Lin Tao calmed down and asked, "Do you think Liao Wendong should be killed?"

"Should kill!"

"It's time to kill! You should peel the daylilies and light the sky lantern!" An old man shouted after him, shaking his walking stick.Sun Dianrong next to him took two steps back, thinking, Liao Wendong should be killed, why are you staring at me, old horse?Lin Tao was startled when he heard the old man's slogan, "Peel off the daylilies and light the sky lanterns" This is too harsh.

Lin Tao signaled to be quiet again, and continued: "Liao Wendong's subordinates are forcing Li Hongyun's family to a dead end. If Li Hongyun loses his job, can the family survive? Can the government make Li Hongyun unemployed and force Li Hongyun's family to death? Is Liao Wendong still an asshole? Is that still our Chinese government? Absolutely not. Our government is a government of the people, a government that seeks the interests of the common people—"

Then, Lin Tao spoke impassionedly about the history of Xiliang Electronics Factory, its contribution to the country, and the names of more than a dozen national and provincial model workers, which made the old workers of the electronics factory very excited.Then Lin Tao talked about **Ten years later, the economic development along the coast and electronics factories are getting into trouble step by step. The factories are losing money year after year. In the electronics factory, what I said was heartbreaking.Some old and middle-aged workers began to cry, and the young workers were also mourning.I am sighing in my heart, yes, this young Mayor Lin has spoken to everyone's heart, why are we in our twenties trapped here? Could it be that the old man and lady with a cane and shouting for medical expenses is our future life?The heart is extremely unwilling to spit out.

"The leaders of the Xiliang government are troubled when they see the glorious electronics factory in the past falling into the current predicament. They are sad for the old workers who have made outstanding contributions but cannot be reimbursed for old medical expenses. They are distressed for the young children of our electronics factory who wasted their youth. How? Do we want to continue to maintain this electronics factory with a debt of 3000 million yuan and become a stagnant water? Do we still want to see our young children grow old with a salary of four to five hundred yuan a month? Do you want to follow into this quagmire?" Lin Tao's words hurt the workers of the electronics factory. Although the big family of the electronics factory has raised tens of thousands of people, when it was time to leave, the workers' expressions were depressed.

"Then what shall we do?"

"Are you really going to sell the factory?"——

Everyone was talking, but there was no shouting.Lin Tao went on to say: "At present, the Xiliang government is still studying. I came today to learn more about the situation of the factory. No matter where the electronics factory is going? The Xiliang government will definitely seek the best interests for the brothers and sisters of the electronics factory. I First of all, I promise here that if the old backlog of medical bills meets the reimbursement conditions, it will definitely be resolved within half a month, and the one month's wages in arrears will be paid within half a month. As for how to solve the problem of the electronics factory's outlet, the government still needs to listen to the factory. The opinions of workers and leaders are guaranteed to be open and transparent. What everyone has to do now is to send the old comrades home, and the workers can work normally.”

"Can you guarantee what you said?" Sun Dianrong shouted in the crowd.

"Yeah, the city government has always been more thunderous than rainy."

"I'm speaking on behalf of the Xiliang government. If you don't solve the medical bills and wage arrears within half a month, you can take a basket of rotten eggs to the city government, go to my Lin Tao's office, and directly pin it on my head. If you still have eggs in your pockets today, don’t throw them out, just wait for NO.16 to hit me.” Lin Tao pointed at Sun Dianrong and the others and said with a smile.The workers looked at Lin Tao's smile like the sunshine that melted the ice, full of warmth, not as murderous and scary as it was at the beginning, everyone burst into laughter.Instead, Sun Dianrong and the others were taken aback, thinking, this mayor's eyes are really poisonous!

"Everyone, let's leave. Those who go to work hurry to work, and those who have nothing to do go home quickly." Chairman Song disperses the crowd.The workers discussed and dispersed slowly.But there are still quite a few people who stopped to watch the young mayor, thinking in their hearts, the deputy mayor is too young, the deputy mayor must be 35 or [-] years old, he looks like a young man!There were more than a dozen young female workers chattering in the distance, imagining how wonderful it would be if the deputy mayor was her boyfriend. I don't know what woman has such a blessing?When Lin Tao looked at them with eyes and a smile, several girls turned red.Then there was a burst of laughter, and he ran after him.

"Chairman Song, I won't go to see your leaders anymore, let your factory director and deputy factory director meet me at the municipal government!" Lin Tao greeted everyone to get in the car, and before leaving, he looked at the leaders who came out of the office building to watch the excitement There was a sneer.

Lin Tao drove away with the motorcade, five or six leaders of the electronics factory looked at each other in blank dismay.When Chairman Song told them to go to the city hall to talk, his face was even more ugly.

"Director Jin, this Mayor Lin is not kind!"

"If he wants to take us under the knife, he is still young." A deputy factory manager said.

"I'm afraid, Lao Jin is also a deputy department leader. What's wrong with him?"

Factory Manager Jin looked at the fleet going away, but said nothing, and the deputy factory managers didn't know what this Factory Manager Jin, who had been in power for 20 years, was thinking?After making a few complaints, he was in a daze with Director Jin.