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Chapter 27 Black Terror (1)
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On the east bank of the middle reaches of the Qingyang River, there is a new industrial city——Qingyang City. Along the river, there is a large industrial zone called Qingyang Industrial Zone. There are nearly [-] large, medium and small enterprises in the industrial zone. , most of which are paper mills and pulp mills.

Today, "Qingyang Paper" has become a well-known brand in the province.

One day at noon in July, the scorching sun was the hottest time of the day. People hid in air-conditioned rooms and took a nap. At the gate of Qingyang Industrial Zone, a group of people stood looking forward under the scorching sun. , waiting eagerly for something.

The one standing at the front was none other than Zhao Yihai, the deputy mayor of Qingyang City in charge of industry.

The plump middle-aged man who followed Deputy Mayor Zhao was named Peng Mingyang. He was the owner of Mingyang Paper Factory, the largest paper mill in the industrial zone, and the president of Qingyang Paper Industry Association. In Qingyang City, Peng Mingyang The boss is a character who can call the wind and rain.

Standing behind Deputy Mayor Zhao and Peng Mingyang are the directors and deputy directors of the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau and the heads of some enterprises in the industrial zone.

Further back, there was a large banner hanging on the gate: Welcome the leaders of the Provincial Environmental Protection Department to come to our city to inspect the work.

It turned out that these officials and entrepreneurs were here to wait and welcome the leaders of the province who came down to inspect the work.

After only a few minutes of standing under the scorching sun, everyone was already sweating hotly.

Deputy Mayor Zhao kept looking down at his watch, and kept looking up at the other end of the concrete road, with an anxious expression on his face.

After waiting for a while, I suddenly heard two horns beeping, and two cars drove towards the gate of the industrial area one after the other.

"Here we come." Peng Mingyang recognized that this was the license plate of the provincial capital, and hurriedly called out.

The car stopped slowly, the door opened, and a fair-skinned, potbellied official stepped out from a Mercedes-Benz in front.Deputy Mayor Zhao recognized that it was Wei Weihua, the deputy director of the Provincial Environmental Protection Department, and hurriedly led the crowd to meet him. While holding the right hand of Deputy Director Wei with both hands, he said with a smile on his face: "Welcome Director Wei to come to my office." City inspection work."

Wei Weihua squinted a pair of small eyes, with an approachable smile on his face. While shaking hands with everyone, he pointed to the clear-faced middle-aged man wearing glasses who got out of the Mercedes-Benz with him and introduced: "This This is Ning Zezheng, the newly appointed chief engineer of our department."

Pointing to the two young men who got out of the car behind, he said with a smile, "I don't need to introduce these two."

Since the establishment of Mingyang Paper Mill, Peng Mingyang has dealt with people from the Department of Environmental Protection. Naturally, he recognized the two as inspector Shen Jian and assistant inspector Yang Hui. "We haven't seen each other for a long time, so we have to have a good drink today."

A group of people boarded the car again, led by the two Audis of Deputy Mayor Zhao and Peng Mingyang, the two special cars from the provincial capital were greeted into the industrial area by crowds, turned two corners, and arrived at the industrial area The guest house stopped.

Deputy Director Wei and his party just sat down in the air-conditioned air-conditioned room, and immediately a beautiful waitress brought iced watermelon and honeydew melon, Deputy Director Wei laughed and said: "I was so hot on the way. .” Rolling up his sleeves, he ate two chunks of icy cantaloupe.

Peng Mingyang saw the leader's thoughts, got up and said: "Director Wei, Mr. Ning, you have worked hard all the way, we have already arranged rooms for the four of you at Qingyang Hotel. Look at this hot day, why don't we go to the hotel first Arrange some programs to cool off the heat?"

Before he finished speaking, Ning Zezheng stood up suddenly and said: "Director Peng, we have received a joint report from more than 600 villagers in the lower reaches of the Qingyang River, saying that several enterprises headed by your Mingyang Paper Factory have exceeded the standard for a long time. Qingyang River discharges industrial waste water, seriously polluting the downstream water quality, and now the Hedong Village and Hexi Village on both sides of the Qingyang River downstream have become well-known "cancer villages". He attaches great importance to it and instructs the environmental protection department to deal with it strictly and quickly. Director Wei and us are here today to investigate this matter."

"Oh, false accusation, this is definitely a false accusation. At the beginning of the year, our factory recruited a group of workers from downstream. Later, they were collectively fired for not working seriously. They must have held grudges after returning, so they jointly wrote a letter to falsely accuse and retaliate." Peng Mingyang looked at Weixing Hua innocently, "Director Wei, you have to be the master of our company."

"Yeah, it's not easy to run a business well. A big tree attracts the wind. If the business is booming, envy and false accusations are unavoidable. The key depends on whether our relevant leadership departments can keep their eyes open and distinguish right from wrong." Deputy Mayor Zhao He said in time, "Mr. Ning, it is true to say that some enterprises in our industrial zone missed, stole, or exceeded the emission standards, but this has happened many years ago. In recent years, we have also realized that the development The economy cannot kill chickens for quick success, let alone pollute and deteriorate the environment. Now our enterprises have imported advanced modern production lines from abroad and established their own sewage treatment equipment. Every drop of water has reached the discharge standard set by the environmental protection department. Of course, we are not afraid of the shadow, and we welcome the leaders of the provincial environmental protection department to come to inspect and guide the work. If it is really found that the company has violated the regulations, it will be shut down for rectification , Fines, as long as the environmental protection department greets us, we will definitely adopt, approve, and implement. Mr. Ning need not worry, in our Qingyang City, there is absolutely no such thing as 'local protectionism'."

Ning Zezheng raised his brows and said, "Okay, with Mayor Zhao's words, we can rest assured. Director Peng, we will talk about cooling off the heat later. It is important to do business. You should take us to your paper factory first." Let's take a tour of the factory."

Peng Mingyang said bluntly: "Okay, welcome to our factory to visit and guide the work." So, led and accompanied by Deputy Mayor Zhao Yihai, the working group of the Provincial Environmental Protection Department drove directly into the famous factory located in the center of the industrial zone. Yang Paper Mill.

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Mingyang Paper Factory covers an area of ​​tens of mu. There are several large factory buildings. The only sound in the factory area is the roar of machinery. From time to time, there are large trucks coming in and out. It seems busy and orderly.There are not many such large-scale paper mills in the province.

The raw materials for papermaking are mainly plant fibers, such as wood, straw, wheat straw, corn stalks, bagasse, etc.The production of paper can be roughly divided into two processes, namely pulping and papermaking.

Weixinghua and his party first walked into the pulping workshop to have a look.

In the paper industry, pulping is an important and complex process.In the boiler room, many workers added caustic soda to piles of raw materials and pushed them into the high-heat boiler for cooking; by the washing pool, workers were cleaning the freshly cooked materials, removing unnecessary components, retaining fibers, and making Slurry; In the bleaching room, workers are bleaching the slurry with bleaching powder...

They then came to the papermaking workshop, where workers are skillfully picking up the pulp, dehydrating it, pressing it to dry, and finally sorting it into paper.

After visiting the production process of the paper mill, Ning Zezheng immediately became suspicious of Zhao Yihai's high-sounding words: "all advanced modern production lines have been imported from abroad", and the paper mill used by this famous paper mill is obviously still traditional. way of production.

As an environmental protection professional, he knows that the traditional paper industry is a light industry with a large output but a lot of water and serious environmental pollution.If the wastewater from paper mills is discharged into rivers without effective treatment, the organic matter in the wastewater will ferment, oxidize, and decompose, consuming oxygen in the water, and causing aquatic organisms such as fish and shellfish to die due to hypoxia; Sawdust, grass clippings, rotten weeds, rotten pulp, etc. sink into the bottom of the water, silt the river bed, and continuously produce poisonous gas during slow fermentation; in addition, the waste water also contains some carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic toxic and harmful substances, which seriously threaten the coastal areas. Residents' health is not conducive to farmland irrigation.If the contents of the report letter are true, then...

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a heavy burden on his shoulders.

"Director Peng, take us to the sewage outlet of your factory." He glanced at Peng Mingyang and said.

The sewage outlet of Mingyang Paper Mill is located behind the paper workshop. Not far from the back door, you can see a huge water storage tank. The waste water generated by various processes in the paper mill is continuously discharged into the pool through three pipes. The pool was filled with black sewage, and there was a pungent and unpleasant smell in the air, which made everyone want to cover their noses.

There is a water-retaining dam downstream of the pool, and a machine room is built on the dam, and the four machines in it make a loud roar and are running at full capacity.

There is a large pipeline at the bottom of the dam, and the treated wastewater is rushing down, passing through the channel, and flowing into the Qingyang River not far away.

The black and smelly water tumbling into the front is in stark contrast to the transparent clear water pouring out from the back.

Standing on the dam, Peng Mingyang introduced: "As early as a few years ago, our factory responded to the call of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, raised more than 2000 million yuan of self-raised funds, and built a sewage treatment system combining anaerobic and aerobic processes. All the waste water produced by our factory has reached the national industrial discharge standard."

After visiting such a large-scale and expensive sewage treatment facility, even Ning Zezheng, the always picky chief engineer, couldn't help but secretly nodded, and asked the assistant inspector Yang Hui to take a water sample at the mouth of the canal under the dam, and quickly monitor the water quality. After a test, the water quality has reached the discharge standard.

The provincial environmental protection experts then inspected several other small and medium-sized paper mills, and found that each factory has its own complete sewage purification equipment, and the waste water discharged into Qingyang River has reached the standard.

Deputy Mayor Zhao, who had been by his side all the time, said proudly, "Well, I'm not lying, am I? Every drop of water discharged from our industrial zone meets the standard."

Deputy Director Wei glared at Ning Zezheng with a slightly serious look, as if to blame him for being so aggressive and acting like a businessman, but in the end nothing was found, which made both the host and the guest a little embarrassed.He said to the inspector Shen Jian who was filling out the "On-Site Inspection Record Form", "You fill in the column of inspection results with 'emissions up to standard' and I will sign it."

"Wait a minute." Ning Zezheng suddenly stopped Shen Jian and said, "It's still too early to fill in the inspection results."

Deputy Director Wei asked with displeasure, "Chief Engineer Ning, what else do you want?"

Ning Zezheng said: "Checking the sewage discharge of midstream enterprises is only part of our inspection work. I think we should also go to the downstream to take a look, and take one or two water samples to test, and then it is not too late to draw conclusions. "

Deputy Director Wei snorted, looked at the venomous sunlight outside the window and stopped talking.

Deputy Mayor Zhao saw the leader's fear of difficulties, and said with a smile: "It's a hot day, and the leaders of the provincial capital who came from afar are required to brave the scorching sun and the scorching heat to catch up with the uneven embankment road for thirty or forty miles. , to take a trip downstream, there is really no need for this, everyone agrees, right?" Seeing that everyone nodded in agreement, he continued, "But Mr. Ning's insistence is also right, no matter what, the work procedures cannot be missed, you No matter how well the sewage in the middle reaches is treated, if the water quality in the downstream has not been tested, there is no effective proof. I think this is the case, the leader will go to the downstream to inspect the work in person, and we will send one or two competent people to drive to the downstream to collect some water samples. When you come back, let President Ning do a laboratory test, and then President Ning can also fill in the report and report to the higher authorities."

Ning Zezheng said: "It is very particular about taking water samples, how can you just ask someone to do it?"

At this moment, the door of the lounge opened, and a burly young man walked in from the outside, standing quietly beside Peng Mingyang.This man's name is Lu Lu, and he is Peng Mingyang's brother-in-law and bodyguard.

Seeing his brother-in-law, Peng Mingyang rolled his eyes and had an idea, and said, "Mr. Ning, can you see if this works? You and Director Wei go to the hotel to rest first, and leave Inspector Shen or Assistant Yang behind. I will let my driver The Army drove him downriver to get a water sample and back."

Deputy Director Wei hurriedly said: "Okay, let Xiao Yang have a hard time."

Ning Zezheng was about to say something, but Zhao Yihai, Peng Mingyang and others had already swarmed up, carried him and Weixinghua out of the door, and someone behind him shouted cheerfully: "Go, go, go to the hotel, after finishing business, what should I do next?" We're on our own show."

When he was about to leave, Peng Mingyang suddenly turned his head and gave his brother-in-law a meaningful look.

Lu Jun understood and hurriedly followed to the door.

Peng Mingyang fell behind the crowd and asked in a low voice, "How is things going?"

Lu Lu nodded and said, "Brother-in-law, don't worry, everything is properly arranged and absolutely nothing will go wrong."

Peng Mingyang nodded in satisfaction, quickened his pace, and caught up with the person in front.

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From the middle reaches of the Qingyang River down for more than ten li, the water gradually changed color, and mosquitoes and flies flew in groups on the river surface, and further down, the river water was turbid and black, with no aquatic plants growing, no trace of fish and shrimp, and maggots everywhere. It stinks.

It seems that what flows in the river is no longer river water, but spoiled dark soy sauce.

On both banks of the lower reaches of the Qingyang River, there is a village stretching along the embankment. The one on the east bank is called Hedong Village, and the one on the west bank is called Hexi Village.

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the fireball-like sun was still scorching the earth. On the barren river embankment in Hedong Village, there stood a thin, 22-year-old young man wearing glasses. , building a pergola with his hands, looking upstream along the embankment, the scorching sun has burned his skin red and purple, it can be seen that he has stood on this furnace-like embankment for a long time.

After an unknown amount of time, finally, the embankment was filled with dust, and a black Audi drove quickly from the direction of Qingyang City through the heat wave.The young man wearing glasses looked happy and hurried to the side of the road, closely watching the movement of the Audi car.

When the Audi car arrived at the direction of Hedong Village, it didn't stop on the embankment, turned around, drove down the embankment slope, and drove directly into the village, stopping at the gate of He Changgeng, the village owner.

When He Changgeng heard the horn, he ran out in a hurry, said a few words to the people in the car, and got into the car with a smile on his face.

The car turned a big bend, drove out of the village, and went southeast along a main road.

Knowing that the road leads directly to the Hongfa Hotel in the town, the young man immediately showed disappointment and sat down on the hot embankment. After a while, he stood up unwillingly and stared blankly. Looking at the intersection, it seemed that he was waiting for the Audi to come back.

About two hours later, in the evening, the black Audi finally turned back, but only stopped at the entrance of the village to let the belching village director get out of the car, then climbed up the embankment, and walked towards Qingyang City. The direction went.

"Leave just like that?" The young man watched "Audi" leave, stamped his feet angrily, and he, who never cursed, couldn't help but cursed in despair, "These bastards."

The young man's name is Cui Suoping, a native of Hedong Village. He is the only college student trained in the village over the years. He has just graduated from the chemistry department of a university in Wuhan.

When he was in high school and college, his grandfather, father, and eldest sister died of cancer successively. Since then, the number of people in the village who died of cancer suddenly increased.

Seeing the Qingyang River, which was originally clear and full of fish and shrimps, gradually turned turbid and black, and turned into a stinky river, Cui Suoping, who studied in the Department of Chemistry, began to suspect that the reason why his hometown became a "cancer village" might be related to the pollution of the river. , Metamorphism related.

He took some samples of water back to the school for laboratory testing, and the results were surprising. The "mother river" that the villagers on both sides of the strait depended on for their survival was actually contaminated with nitrite, chloroform and other carcinogenic substances. Five types of water.

How could the originally rippling Qingyang River turn into a turbid, black and smelly "river of death"?

Through the investigation, it was found that the deterioration of the water quality in the lower reaches of the Qingyang River endangered the health of villagers on both sides of the river.

In order to grasp the first-hand information and evidence, sue these unscrupulous enterprises, and restore Qingyang River to save the elders in his hometown from the clutches of the "cancer village" with its clear and beautiful river, Cui Suoping was in the fourth grade of university. At that time, taking advantage of the school's internship, I applied to Mingyang Paper Mill in Qingyang City as a paper worker.

After several months of undercover investigation, the paper mill basically grasped the evidence of smuggling and leaking.

After graduating from university, he gave up the high-paying jobs introduced by his teachers and friends. He returned to his hometown, contacted more than [-] villagers in Hexi and Hedong villages who had suffered from sewage, and jointly wrote a report letter to the Provincial Environmental Protection Department.

The sky paid off, and finally, the experience and situation of the villagers in the two villages in Hedong and Hexi attracted the attention of relevant leaders of relevant departments.

Cui Suoping was very excited after seeing the news on the TV news that the provincial environmental protection work inspection team went to Qingyang Industrial Zone of Qingyang City to make a surprise inspection of the sewage discharge of various factories and mines.

He speculated that the inspection team must go to the downstream for on-the-spot investigation, take water samples to test the water quality, and visit the villagers to investigate the situation, so he has been standing on the embankment and waiting, preparing to collect some of the materials and photos he has worked so hard to collect when the inspection team arrives. Submit other important evidence for reference.

Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time under the scorching sun under the scorching heat, the people from the Environmental Protection Department came, but they didn't even get out of the car, and drove to the restaurant in the town for a while before returning.

It really makes no sense!

How did that happen?Have things changed, or...

What to do now?

He knows that the inspection team from the provincial capital will leave Qingyang City to inspect environmental protection work in other places before noon tomorrow. Judging from the current situation, it is obvious that Peng Mingyang played tricks in front of the working group and deceived the provincial leaders and the work team. personnel.

This hard-working report is likely to be nothing like this.

(End of this chapter)