Chapter 322 Earthquake. Internal Conflict
Chu An looked at the display on the thermometer and fell into deep thought. Everything was clearly moving in a good direction. Even the temperature was lower than in the previous life. Why did the earthquake happen earlier? Could it be true, as Gu Ye said, that a magnitude 10 earthquake would be split into two?
On the other side, in the conference room of the C City base.
The new base chief Lian Yi organized the first base development seminar after the temperature stabilized, requiring all cadres at the deputy department level and above and the captains of the joint defense team to attend, and also invited Tang Chen.
As a result, on the day of the meeting, there were only more than thirty people in the conference room with a capacity of 100!
Two deputy base commanders, Bai Ruoyu and Eugene; two assistants, Baili Lu and Guan Ming; four building commanders, Guan Shanyue, Hu Tao, Zhou Zeyong and Wan Qian.
The base director, deputy base director and assistant all sat in leadership seats, with the ministers sitting in the first row below, government functional departments on the left, and the public security joint defense department on the right.
At this time, sitting in the first and second rows on the left were Wang Desheng, director of the Bidding Department, and Liu Chuan, deputy director; Yin Jia, deputy director of the Office, Ge Wei, director of the Publicity Department, and Huo Sisi, recorder; and Yin Tianlin, representative of the Quality Inspection Department.
The Resources Department, Production Department, Logistics Department, and Health Department have suffered heavy casualties and currently have no chief or deputy chief executive. Each department sent a staff representative to participate, who sat in the three rows on the left and beyond.
Looking at the entire venue, there was no one on the right.
Lian Yi, who was standing in front of him, had veins throbbing on his forehead. He squinted his eyes and scanned everyone, finally fixing his gaze on Bai Ruoyu. He was the only one in the entire venue who came out of the public security exit.
"Where are Tang Chen, Zhang Zhao, Director Wang, Director Li, Captain Niu, and the 24 captains of the joint defense teams?"
Bai Ruoyu was very calm, he stood up slightly and responded, "I don't know, how about I ask someone to go take a look."
Eugene had to stare wildly to hold back his laughter. During the hottest 20 days, it was always the joint defense team members who were on the front line, carrying corpses, carrying out earthquake relief, maintaining security on the base, and even cooking in the cafeteria in the end.
In 20 days, 226 people died in the joint defense team, 441 were seriously ill and hospitalized, 1,198 were mildly ill, and the rest were barely holding on. As a result, Zhang Zhao was scolded by Lian Yi for just applying for more water resources for the joint defense team.
That’s not all. He believed that the joint defense team was not capable enough and wanted to establish a public security team. He asked his secretary to draw up a plan, which has now been circulated among senior management.
It is said that a new official will make three big moves upon taking office. Everyone knows this truth, but no one expected that Lian Yixiang would burn down half of the base.
At first, Tang Chen thought he didn't understand the situation of the base, and explained the situation of the joint defense team to him again and again. But he called his superiors directly to report that Tang Chen had interfered in the internal affairs of the C City base, causing a large loss of materials in the base and a large number of joint defense team members sacrificed, and put all the blame on Tang Chen.
In view of the severity of the disaster, the higher-ups are unable to send an investigation team to conduct in-depth verification at the C City base, and have temporarily frozen Tang Chen's management rights over the base.
Director Wang was the first one to disagree and made a phone call. The explanation given by his superiors was that Lian Yi was the person in charge who had just been selected by the higher-ups and they had to trust and support him no matter what and protect him even if he made a mistake. Their words and actions implied that they were bullying the outsiders with their own.
This is intolerable, so we have the situation we have today.
After Bai Ruoyu finished speaking, Lian Yi slammed the table in anger, his eyes wide open. Everyone knew that he and the two old foxes in the Public Security Bureau were in the same boat, and the joint defense team were all the former subordinates of the two old foxes.
Eugene saw that the situation was not good, so he suppressed his smile and hurriedly stood up to smooth things over. "Captain, is it possible that the notice had the wrong time?"
Lian Yi was not tall, and when he stood up, his upper body was only higher than the desk. His face looked so gloomy that it could rain. If it was a normal meeting, it would be fine, but this was a meeting attended by almost all employees in the entire department and line.
The personal secretary next to him was a 40-year-old lady who was still charming. Upon hearing this, she quickly explained, "It's impossible. In addition to sending the email, I also sent it to the mobile phone communication group."
Eugene raised his eyebrows. "Oh, maybe the signal was bad, so I didn't see the message on my phone. Besides, for such an important matter, of course I have to go to each leader's house to inform them face to face. How can I just send an email or group notification? At least I have to make a phone call."
The secretary blushed immediately, took two steps forward and tried to defend himself: "This is how we sent notifications before, why doesn't it work this time? Are your phones just for show?"
After saying this, she also felt that she had overstepped her bounds. But since it had come to this, she couldn't let the dirty water be on herself, so she didn't apologize.
"Watch your words." Eugene shouted, his leader's authority immediately on his face, "Don't you know what you do? Or has no one taught you?"
"I..."
"That's enough."
The secretary wanted to explain, but Lian Yi stopped her loudly, "You have no right to speak here."
After scolding his own people, he turned his gaze to Eugene, "I can discipline my own people, but what about yours? They didn't even attend such an important meeting. Is this the style of the C City Base? No wonder the higher-ups don't promote or appoint anyone from among you. They can't find someone with a big picture view who can handle the big task. If I hadn't come, the C City Base would have been defeated by you sooner or later."
Wang Desheng, director of the Bidding Department, rolled his eyes and quickly stood up to help. "This matter has gone a bit too far. It's totally disorganized and undisciplined. Deputy Minister Liu, go find them now. How could none of them come?"
When Liu Chuan was called out, he felt as disgusted as if he had eaten a fly, but since he was the minister, he could only endure the nausea and stand up.
"Wait." Bai Ruoyu called him, slowly stood up, and pulled Eugene, who was already furious and about to scold, and said, "Tell me why they didn't come."
"I don't want to hear your explanation. Don't they have a mouth? Why don't they speak for themselves?" Lian Yi slammed the table and angrily said, "Do you know how many letters of complaint I have received? Some people even reported Director Wang Kuan for sending hot weapons to refugees outside the base without regrets, and Director Li Zhuomin for colluding with evil forces to monopolize the market."
Eugene's eyes widened bigger than a cow's. Whose eyes are not working well? He even reported it with his real name. If their corneas are not useful, please donate them to people in need.
Lian Yi's words did not stop Bai Ruoyu's actions. He stood up from his seat and limped to the front of the podium.
Then he slowly turned around and spoke gloomily, "Wang Kuan, the former director of the Xicheng Branch, is now a third-level police inspector. He was injured in the counterattack at the base and has not been discharged from the hospital yet. During his hospitalization, he was injured again when rescuing important hospital equipment from the earthquake. He just woke up from the intensive care unit yesterday;
Li Zhuomin, former director of the Nancheng Branch, now a second-level police inspector, volunteered to join the corpse transport team during the extreme heat and is currently under observation in the intensive care unit after suffering a sudden cerebral infarction;
Zhang Zhao, the general manager of the joint defense team, was injured in the leg while trying to save his comrades during the extremely hot weather. Due to the lack of medical resources in the hospital and the widespread infection, he was at risk of amputation. Of the 24 joint defense team leaders, 7 died and 17 were hospitalized; in the entire joint defense team, only one female special forces leader remained on the front line.
There were also volunteers at the base, 147 people were recruited, 1 died, and 39 were hospitalized.
I…"
He patted his chest, breathing heavily, and asked a soul-searching question, "I would like to ask, do you know why you are still able to attend today's meeting intact?"
Bai Ruoyu wiped his moist eyes. It was true that some people in the joint defense team did not want to come, but there were more people who could not come, and would never come again.
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