"Shaoping, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, and you are a person who really does practical things. Now that the province is launching poverty alleviation tasks, the need is to support people like you who can do practical things. Now our cadres are corrupt and degenerate. There are so many people who are trying to deceive others but how many of them can do practical things? It’s heartbreaking!”
Li Zhenbang lit the cigarette and smoked slowly.
"Speaking of this issue, I feel very anxious in my heart. How many years have we been the ruling party? How serious has the current corruption trend become? We are a people's government serving the people, but now there are a few cadres who are sincere To serve the people?”
"Some time ago, the person who detonated explosives in front of the provincial government and blew himself up alive was also from Cangyang, right?" Li Zhenbang asked solemnly.
Chen Shaoping nodded and replied: "Yes, this person is a villager from Haiyuan Village, Haicheng Town, Cangyang County. His name is Yu Jinlong!"
"How much grievance and anger does a person have to feel before he would choose to tie explosives to his body, come to the door of the provincial government, and blow himself up to death?"
Li Zhenbang flicked the ashes on the ashtray, and then said: "In the subsequent investigation report, the relevant departments actually defined him as an anti-social element, saying that he suffered from throat cancer and had no money for treatment, so he had to choose to go to the hospital for treatment." He took his own life in front of the provincial government in a sensational way, or he said it through the media. In a few words, he completely negated the life of a person who had just died!"
"Is the truth really what they say? I don't believe it. The current media is full of nonsense and confuses right and wrong! They have already lost the most basic moral bottom line!"
"Uncle Li, I am the person with the most say on this issue, not only because I am now the county magistrate of Cangyang County, but also because I used to be the director of the Haicheng Lake Development Office!"
Chen Shaoping slowly told Li Zhenbang how the Yang Group entered the Haicheng Lake development project, how it sold land in Haiwan Village for money, and forced the villagers to build villas out of their own pockets according to the contract.
Li Zhenbang was silent for a long time. Li Zhenbang was very familiar with the Yang Group. Because of their relationship with the provincial governor Gao Mingliang, Li Zhenbang had frequent dealings with them.
I also heard a lot of negative news about the Yang Group in Jingcheng, but Li Zhenbang didn't pay attention, thinking it was false news released by some malicious competitors in the society.
After all, they were directly linked to Governor Gao, so Li Zhenbang believed that they would not do anything too extreme.
However, from now on, Li Zhenbang still made the mistake of being dark under the light.
"Did Governor Gao not know that Brother Yang Jindong of the Yang Group was doing this outside? Or did he get Governor Gao's tacit approval?" Li Zhenbang was thinking about this issue silently.
At this time, Li Yutong gently knocked on the study door.
"Dad, brother Shaoping, we can have dinner!" Li Yutong said with a smile.
Li Zhenbang stood up, with a smile on his face again: "Shaoping, let's go to dinner. Tonight, you can have two drinks with me!"
"Dad, the doctor recommended that you stop drinking!"
Li Yutong said immediately when he heard that his father wanted to drink.
"It doesn't matter if you drink it once in a while. Besides, the quality of wine depends on your character. Dad has to check it for you!"
Li Zhenbang said jokingly.
Li Yutong's face turned red with embarrassment. She held her father's hand and looked at Chen Shaoping with blinking eyes.
At the dinner table, Li Zhenbang wanted to drink white wine, but his family always opposed it, so he finally had to change the white wine to red wine.
Li Zhenbang took a sip, shook his head and said, "There is really no taste in drinking foreigners' wine. There is also the liquor left by our ancestors. It has a solemn and solemn atmosphere, which is in line with the blood of our Chinese nation!"
"Drinking can reflect the blood of the nation! I think the drinking culture in official circles is getting more and more intense now. It's simply that you can't have fun without drinking, and you can't work without drinking!" Zheng Hongfang said at the side.
At a dinner like this, Chen Shaoping could only listen quietly. If someone hadn't asked, Chen Shaoping wouldn't have been able to interrupt easily.
"Shaoping, you work at the grassroots level, so you should have a good drinking capacity, right?" Li Zhenbang asked with a smile.
"My drinking capacity is not bad!" Chen Shaoping said with a smile.
"Dad, brother Shaoping's drinking capacity is not only okay, people call him Cangyang Jiushao, he can hold two kilograms of liquor!" Li Yutong said at the side.
After hearing this, Zheng Hongfang immediately looked at Chen Shaoping and shook her head, saying, "You can't drink like that. You are still young. If you get sick when you get older, it will be too late for you to regret it!"
"Thank you, Aunt Zheng, for reminding me. That's how much I drank when I used to work in the township. Now that I work in the county government, I rarely get drunk!" Chen Shaoping said.
"I understand the situation of grassroots work. It's impossible not to drink, but you have to do a good job even if you drink. If you only drink and don't do your work, you will become a loser!"
Li Zhenbang said jokingly.
Chen Shaoping and Li Yutong were not mentioned at the dinner table. After the meal, everyone sat in the living room and drank tea.
Li Zhenbang first mentioned the matter of Chen Shaoping and Li Yutong:
"Shaoping, Yutong, the relationship between you two is your young people's own business. We will not get involved or interfere. It is completely left to you young people to handle it yourself!"
Zheng Hongfang seemed a little unhappy when she saw Li Zhenbang's attitude. She continued: "I just have a daughter. She has been with me since she was a child. When she gets married, I will keep her by my side. I don't want her to be with me." I would be even more reluctant to get married...especially somewhere far away!"
Zheng Hongfang's meaning has been made very clear. She hopes that her daughter will stay in Jingcheng and not get married, but become a wife.
At the same time, Zheng Hongfang also considered Chen Shaoping's age.
Chen Shaoping can give up everything now and come to work in the provincial capital, but if Chen Shaoping is to marry into the Li family, it will be a bit difficult. This involves the defense of ethics in rural Cangyang!
There is a saying in Cangyang that the eldest son is not allowed to marry into the family. It is said that the eldest son brings shame to his ancestors, makes his parents unable to hold their heads high, and makes his neighbors laugh at him. The second is that family fortune will decline.
Chen Shaoping didn't really believe in the decline of his family's fortune, as there was no basis for it.
But it is a big deal to bring shame to our ancestors, make our parents unable to hold their heads high, and make our neighbors laugh at us.
Especially in rural areas, Chen Shaoping's parents have always been honest and responsible, but they have high moral character and value reputation most.
What people say is scary! If they were allowed to make their neighbors laugh at them, it would be more uncomfortable than killing them.
Moreover, they are used to living in rural areas and are not used to living in county towns, let alone bringing them to live in big cities like Jingcheng...
After hearing what Li Yutong's mother said, Chen Shaoping didn't know how to answer for a while...
