Even though Zhao Haizhu gave so many legitimate reasons, the villagers still harbored a strong resentment towards the relocation, but they couldn't come up with any serious reasons to object at the moment.
The group got up feeling frustrated, and then went back feeling resentful; everyone was left with a bitter taste in their mouths.
More and more people came to the village entrance to read the notice, and the resentment among the villagers of Zhao Family Village grew stronger.
This is their ancestral home, and all the appliances and furniture in the house are the fruits of their hard work.
Now, a single sentence from above is enough to make them give up everything and leave their hometown. This is simply too hard for them to accept.
As the villagers walked home from the village committee, they passed through the farmland. Looking at the lush green rice paddies, a wave of sadness washed over them.
It's late February now, and the crops have just been planted. According to the news, a major flood is expected in June, by which time the crops will be almost fully grown.
Are we just going to watch our family's food supply for a year be washed away by the flood?
Thousands of villages and towns along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have received relevant notices one after another. Notices to relocate the masses have been posted on bulletin boards. As time becomes more and more urgent, the number of words in the notices is also getting shorter and shorter.
During this period, news reports from major television stations and newspapers have almost all emphasized the same thing: to do a good job in flood control and disaster relief in the three major river basins of the Yangtze River, Nenjiang River and Songhua River.
Residents in low-lying areas should be relocated promptly, and flood control supplies should be delivered in a timely manner.
Every day, village officials would use a loudspeaker to walk from one end of the village to the other, urging everyone to pack their things, report to the village committee, and board the bus to leave.
But several days have passed, and the villagers still haven't made a move.
One day, two buses arrived at the entrance of Zhao Family Village. Zhao Haizhu and Party Secretary Zhao Chang'an waited at the entrance, but no one came out.
"Today is the last day of the deadline," Zhao Haizhu said calmly under immense pressure, "not a single family in our Zhao Family Village has moved out."
Secretary Zhao Chang'an seemed to have been mentally prepared, saying, "Asking everyone to leave their hometowns and become far away from their homeland is inherently a difficult thing for most people to do."
The bus had been waiting for almost half an hour, and both drivers were getting impatient.
"Has anyone moved out of your Zhao Family Village? If no one has, we're leaving."
"The neighboring villages are waiting for us to pick them up."
Zhao Chang'an and Zhao Haizhu exchanged a glance, both too bitter to speak.
"I'll wait another half hour. If they still haven't come out in half an hour, we're really leaving!" the driver gave as an ultimatum.
After hearing this, Zhao Haizhu sighed and said helplessly, "Brother, please wait a little longer. I'll go to the village and try to persuade them."
About half an hour later, Zhao Haizhu and Zhao Chang'an came out of the village.
"We've talked them until their lips were hoarse, but they just wouldn't move," Secretary Zhao said to the two drivers.
The driver rolled his eyes, inserted the key, started the car, and prepared to leave. He said to the village chief and secretary, "If you don't leave now, the government won't force you, but the flood won't wait for anyone."
"If Zhao Family Village gets flooded, where can you hide?"
After saying this, the two buses drove away one after the other, leaving behind only a stench of exhaust fumes.
It has been more than ten days since the notice was posted in the village, and they have done everything they could.
There are many similar situations to Zhao Family Village. The villagers are unwilling to move. If a flood really breaks out and someone is killed, the responsibility will still fall on the grassroots cadres.
Township governments can neither force nor comply, so they can only put the pressure of persuasion on grassroots cadres.
The persuasion work is still in full swing. Lin Zhiyuan and Chen Dong have prepared enough supplies within their capabilities. After that, all the decisions made by the government will be beyond their control.
"Man proposes, God disposes." Chen Dong watched the news reports of villagers shedding tears on the relocation bus, refusing to leave no matter what. He felt sorry for them, having to give up their homes, but he also resented them for not being able to see the situation clearly and make a decision sooner.
Just then, Lin Zhiyuan came in from outside with a grin, saying, "The chickens in the New Territories are ready to be sold."
Out of sight, out of mind, Chen Dong simply closed the computer screen and instructed Lin Zhiyuan, "Immediately apply for quarantine from the Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Fisheries Department and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention."
"We need to get their official seal to prove that the live poultry and suckling pigs in our farm are safe meat."
Lin Zhiyuan said excitedly, "I'll go right away."
It takes at least ten days to half a month to complete the procedures between the mainland and Hunan. Even with the green channel, it will still take at least three days.
In Hong Kong, the prices of all meats except chicken are rising, and children have been without meat for almost two months.
Hong Kong has, to some extent, controlled the spread of avian influenza through extreme culling policies.
Hong Kong has achieved remarkable results in preventing imported cases and domestic transmission of the virus in a short period of time.
However, this resulted in a consequence: the meat on the outside couldn't get in, and the meat on the inside couldn't get out, so it had to be destroyed.
The mainland sent a batch of reserve meat, but because the mainland was also affected by the avian flu epidemic, even though it could provide meat to Hong Kong, the quantity was not large. This was more of a gesture of goodwill and could not solve their actual problems.
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