Sun Zongyuan used the "five plus two, day and night" working method of grassroots civil servants in his previous life thirty years in advance. I wonder if the leader who invented this method in his previous life is angry. Even if he is angry, what can be done?
Every other day, Village Chief Wang would come to inquire about the situation. According to him, Huohongyu was doing a very good job and Sun Zongyuan had a way.
On the fourth day, 80% of households in the village had collected taxes, and the progress reported by the township was second in the township.
90% completed on the fifth day.
On the sixth day, 96% of the work was completed, with 5 households remaining. The township's progress was 74%, and Huohongyu Village temporarily ranked first in the township in terms of collection progress.
In a week, Sun Zongyuan only goes home to change clothes for one night, and the rest of the time he eats and lives in Huohongyu.
At 5:30 pm on the sixth day, each group came back to review the situation.
One group was led by the village director (also a branch committee member). Except for the director's younger brother who was out of town for something and couldn't come back, the entire group completed the task. The director promised that if his younger brother didn't come back tomorrow, he would advance the money at 5 pm.
The leader of Group 2 is a branch committee member. There is a special household in his group. The previous branch secretary did not pay. He was held accountable and dismissed by his superiors because of a forest fire that burned an area of more than 200 acres. He was angry but could not vent it. Since he resigned as the branch secretary, he has not paid the "three increases and five integrations" and education surcharges in the past two years. He even seemed to be going against some of the village's work.
This branch committee member has been working with him since the last term and is a little intimidated by doing his job.
The third group was also led by a branch committee member. Two households did not complete their tasks:
One family consists of an old bachelor and four young bachelors. They haven't handed in their taxes for three years. Whenever the working group comes in, they look unhappy and it's impossible to do any work.
In another family, the woman is named Zhang Qiaoyun, 33 years old, who suffers from the sequelae of polio. She is clever and dexterous, and often weaves small gadgets to give to her neighbors. However, she cannot go up the mountain or down the farm. She has two daughters and one boy. The eldest is 10 years old and in the third grade, the second is 8 years old, and the youngest is 6 years old. Although they don't go to school, Zhang Qiaoyun teaches her children to read and count at home when she has nothing to do. Instead, she knows more words and studies better than other children who go to school. The family has an old mother in her sixties with poor eyesight. She can't see clearly beyond two meters.
So the man in this family is under a lot of pressure. The whole family depends on him to grow crops and raise fruit trees. He doesn't earn much money and lives a tight life.
The leader of Group 4 was a village committee member. The remaining household in his group was a 40-year-old named Nie, a stubborn holdout. He'd taken advantage of his wife's uncle's position as a group leader at a coal mine, and after three years of digging coal, he'd earned a small fortune. He felt he'd seen a lot outside and didn't take village officials seriously. He hadn't paid the "three levies, five unified taxes," or the education surcharge, for three or four years.
After listening to the reports from the four groups, these cadres were all worried and sighing. The problem had not been solved for three or two years, and they were worried about it every year. The people said that these cadres just bullied honest people, and they said that if those few did not pay, we would not pay anymore. This made the village cadres lose face and their prestige was reduced.
Jiang Zihai knew about this last year, but there was nothing he could do. He felt like it wouldn't be resolved this year.
Sun Zongyuan listened quietly, his mind full of thoughts. He felt quite experienced in mass work. In his previous life, he had been involved in urban renewal for many years, participating in and directing demolitions year after year for twelve consecutive years. The demolition area was nearly 20,000 mu, and the number of homes and businesses relocated was over 10,000. He had seen, dealt with, and handled every type of household he had to relocate. It was, along with family planning, considered "the most difficult job in the world." Yes, one cost lives, the other cost homes, and now, money. Neither job was easy.
"Even if the work is difficult, someone has to do it," Sun Zongyuan said after thinking for a while.
"You guys lead the way tomorrow, and I'll go from house to house to see the situation first."
The next morning, Sun Zongyu and the leader of Group 2 went to the home of the old branch secretary Nie Yiqi. Nie Yiqi was at home, and the village cadres introduced the two to each other and then left.
"Old Nie, you are also a party member and a veteran cadre. You know why I came to see you. I don't know what you are thinking?" Sun Zongyuan asked.
"Director Sun, I've been looking for a cadre to talk to about my anger for the past few years, but the village is afraid that I'll curse people, and the township is afraid that I'll pester people and cause trouble. That Jiang Zihai runs away when he sees me. Why would he run away? I don't hit anyone. Really! The more you ignore me, the more I pick a fight!"
Nie Yiqi said indignantly.
"Okay, I'm here. Tell me whatever you want to say. I'll help you if I can. If there's anything I can't solve due to my limited abilities, I'll report it to the higher-ups. Is that okay with you?"
"Brother, I'm satisfied with your attitude. I'm just feeling aggrieved, but it's actually not a big deal."
"Then tell me, I'm all ears."
"You know that I was dismissed from my post. There is actually an inside story." Nie said.
It turned out that when Nie was the secretary, a deputy township head had dinner at his home. On the way back at around 2:00 p.m., he relieved himself on the side of the road and threw away his cigarette butt. Half an hour later, a forest fire broke out. The deputy township head was scared and ran away. In order to evade responsibility, he said that the burned area was 300 acres instead of 70 or 80 acres of wasteland. He was directly silenced and dismissed from his post. He went to the leader to report the incident, but the previous secretary dismissed him without meeting him or listening to his explanation. Later, the previous secretary was transferred, and the deputy township head was also transferred. There was no possibility of solving the problem.
"Old Nie, you have to be responsible for what you say. How do you know it was caused by the deputy township head's cigarette butt?" Sun Zongyuan asked.
"We live in a mountainous village, so there aren't many people on the road. They tend to look at strangers more often. We live scattered around, and several people in the village noticed that, except for the deputy township head, they weren't walking on the road during that time. Besides, we mountain people are very sensitive to fire prevention, so no one would carelessly throw cigarette butts or other fire starters. If you don't believe me, I'll take you to ask those people."
Sun Zongyuan followed Nie to several houses and met with several witnesses.
It seemed that what they said was true, because a shepherd and a man working in the fields saw the deputy township chief going to the toilet, and a cigarette's time later, smoke and fire appeared in the place. Because there was a valley blocking the way, it took them and other villagers twenty minutes to put out the fire. The burning place was the bare cliff (an area with a lot of rocks), and the weeds and shrubs in the cracks of the rocks were burned. Seventy or eighty acres of land were put out by everyone, less than three hundred acres.
Sun Zongyuan followed the villagers to see the scene again. There were black marks on the rocks where the fire had burned. He personally measured and estimated that the area was about 70 to 80 acres.
On the way, he said to Nie, "Today, you must first pay the three increases and five unifications of the past few years in accordance with the regulations, and then write me a detailed account. I will report your case to Secretary Li separately and try to give you an explanation. However, as the branch secretary at the time, you are also responsible for not doing a good job of fire prevention on the 70 or 80 acres of land, and you must be punished."
"Okay, okay, I'll do as you say. The severity of the punishment isn't up to you full-time cadres. I just feel aggrieved and want to vent my anger and seek justice. I have no other thoughts. I'm sorry to have caused you so much trouble. Come to my house tonight and we'll have a drink!"
Of course Sun Zongyuan would not go to his house to drink.
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