Li Rui said: "Mayor Chen is the deputy mayor outside?"

The director nodded, probably thinking that this was equivalent to betraying the superior leader. His face was a little unnatural, and he hurriedly remedy: "Actually, it's not that Mayor Chen, it's really that the villagers are too rude. There are already agricultural experts who have given professional explanations. They insist on not believing it and have to come over to cause trouble. If it were any leader, it wouldn't be possible to spoil them, right?"

"The agricultural experts gave a professional explanation?" Li Rui repeated this sentence with a sarcastic expression and said, "Not to mention whether the agricultural experts you invited, I will ask you, as the director of the petition office responsible for receiving visits, did you go to their fields to investigate when you first received the villagers' reports on the situation?"

The director said embarrassedly: "I...I am not an expert in agriculture. I don't know how to farm and pesticides. Even if I investigated it in the past, I couldn't find anything."

"I'll ask if you've been to the field?"

The director heard Li Rui's tone sternly, and finally realized that he was in a disadvantage and shook his head in embarrassment.

Li Rui patiently taught him: "If you don't know how to farm and pesticides, you don't have to go to the field investigation in person? You are responsible for receiving the visits. Do you just listen to the record and at most report to your superiors. Is this over? When did the petition work become so easy? Tell me? Can this solve the problem? Or do you expect your superiors to solve the problem for you? Then what do you want you, the director of the petition office? Let me tell you, if you can go out on the first time to investigate and go to the field investigation, you will know the real reason for the crops' harvest. By the way, you are not using the word "no harvest", but "no growth". You are using the word "no growth". This is a hundred thousand miles apart from "no harvest". Is this also one of the reasons why you don't care about it at all? You have lost a lot of guilt because of this, right?"

The director's face turned red and white when he heard it. He stood in front of Li Rui in a stiff manner and did not dare to move. His arms trembled undetectedly.

Before Li Rui could finish his words, "If you investigate a little, you will find that the so-called agricultural expert's investigation results are purely nonsense! If you investigate a little, you will not let the pollution accident reach this point today, and you will not let me scold you when you stand here today!"

Li Rui stared at him with a pity and pointed to the door and said, "Go out and call that Mayor Chen in!"

The director was as if he was amnesty, turned around and walked towards the door. After a while, the Mayor Chen walked in and said with a smirk: "County Magistrate Li, are you looking for me?"

Li Rui said straight to the point: "I want to ask you about the villagers of Bahu in Xiliqing Village who visited the town government."

Mayor Chen said in a humble tone: "Okay, ask."

"Did the eight villagers come to the town to report the situation? Did you ignore them and cause them to sit in the third day and expand the situation to a worsening level?"

Mayor Chen's face changed, and he knew that the director of the petition office who had just left had sold him. He was secretly annoyed, but he could only say with a stingy, "Yes, but this is not my fault. The experts from the Agriculture Bureau have long given reasonable explanations, but they just refused to accept it. They came to the town government to cause trouble many times, and we were really annoyed by them. This time, we simply ignored them and planned to go home if they get upset by themselves."

"Who called the policeman who called him to arrest people from the town police station? Is it you?"

Mayor Chen said carefully: "It's me, but I asked the secretary before calling."

"Hmm?" Li Rui heard something wrong sensitively and asked, "The secretary you asked for instructions? Why didn't you ask for instructions from the mayor?"

Mayor Chen said: "The mayor was in the county at that time and was too busy, so I asked me to discuss with the secretary."

Li Rui thought for a moment and said, "Even if you asked the secretary, who was the first person to think of the idea of ​​calling the police to arrest people? Is it you?"

Mayor Chen said with a bitter face: "It's me, I can't do anything. They made too much trouble. They sat on the ground one by one, which had a very bad impact. Some people were trying to drink pesticides. I was afraid something happened, so I thought of arresting them first and letting them go back when they stopped making trouble. I had no choice."

Li Rui said angrily: "Who gives you the power to arrest people at will? Even if you are the deputy mayor, do you have the power to arrest the people under your rule? This matter is obviously because your work is not done well and you are not able to fully solve it, but in the end, you resort to the public security organs seeking temporary stability through violence. You are deceiving yourself!"

Mayor Chen sighed bitterly: "County Magistrate Li, we really have no better way. Those villagers are simply unruly people. They can only use duplicates to deal with unruly people."

It was fine if Li Rui didn't listen to this, but he was even more furious when he heard it and cursed: "Troubled people? Don't label me as a big hat to the villagers at any time! There are no bad people in the new era and new society. What you call bad people is completely making excuses for your incompetence, stupidity and inaction! I think the level of your deputy mayor is at best to be a deputy village chief, and you are waiting to be dealt with!"

Mayor Chen was startled by the boss, but he didn't believe that Li Rui, an ordinary deputy county magistrate, could deal with him. He asked tentatively: "County Magistrate Li, you...you want to deal with me?"

Li Rui snorted coldly: "Of course I am not qualified to deal with you, but the county magistrate can. This time I am entrusted by the county magistrate to deal with this matter. My investigation results will be reported to her. If she knows what you have done, do you still want to continue to be the deputy mayor?"

Mayor Chen's face changed drastically, and he hurriedly begged: "No, don't, don't blame me for this, County Magistrate Li, I... I'm honest, I'm not the leader in this matter at all, I'm also obeying the secretary, it's all he asked me to do."

Li Rui narrowed his eyes slightly, and suddenly recalled what happened in the brick factory before. At that time, Feng Wei, the owner of the brick factory, had just rushed back to the factory. When he walked to Niu Jin to greet him, he specifically mentioned it and said that the Party Secretary of Liqing Town was his relative and brother-in-law. Contact Mayor Chen’s words now, is it a typical case of collusion between officials and businessmen and oppressing the people? He said: "Tell me clearly!"

Mayor Chen hurriedly said: "Actually, when the crops were first victimized last autumn, and when the villagers complained everywhere, Secretary Yang had already intervened. He asked me to deal with the matter with full authority and gave me advice, asking me to invite someone from the county agricultural bureau to make up an excuse to fool the villagers to calm the situation. I invited Song Da, the chief of the agricultural department of the county agricultural bureau, to come over. He is my old classmate and asked him to help in this matter. Song Da went around the victim farmland and used too many pesticides as a reason, saying that he would give the villagers a cigarette afterwards. After Song Da left, Secretary Yang and I thought that this matter was settled and that there would be no more villagers causing trouble in the future. But this year, it was because of spring wheat..."

Li Rui asked in a flash: "Do you know what the relationship between Secretary Yang and Feng Wei, the owner of the brick factory?"

Mayor Chen nodded and said, "I know, I'm very familiar with each other. Secretary Yang is Feng Wei's cousin-law. Although he is a cousin, Secretary Yang's wife and Feng Wei's cousin-sibling are as close as their own siblings, so the two families have a very good relationship and are very close. As far as I know, the arable land occupied by Feng Wei's brick factory was also rented by Secretary Yang."

Li Rui said: "You keep talking."

Mayor Chen said: "After the trouble this year, Secretary Yang and I understand that if they beat pesticides too much, they will be fooled by the villagers. However, Secretary Yang is too lazy to find excuses anymore, so he decided to use this excuse as a temporary shield. If he can resist the complaints for a while, he will resist the villagers for a while. If he can't resist, he will think of ways. At the same time, Secretary Yang also ordered Feng Wei to compensate each household for 200 yuan per mu of land to block their mouths and prevent them from making trouble. Who knew that Feng Wei was a stingy man, reluctant to give the money, and he kept dragging it out. Then the matter became more and more trouble, and finally the town government came..."

Li Rui sneered twice. The person surnamed Yang was the party secretary of the town party committee. He had a little vision and knew that it was better to be loose than to block and try to avoid the expansion of conflicts. However, Feng Wei, a businessman, was greedy and short-sighted, and he was reluctant to give out the compensation of 6,000 yuan for 30 acres of land, so he magnified the situation in front of Bu Yubing. If he knew the tragic end he was about to face, he would probably have to pay 6,000 yuan, even 60,000 yuan.

Mayor Chen continued: "After the trouble came to the government compound, Secretary Yang asked me to try every means to persuade the villagers to go home. I also sent many subordinates to persuade them, but it was useless, so I could only give up the advice. Secretary Yang waited for two days, but when the villagers were not back, he was angry. While asking Feng Wei to come out to compensate, he told me to prepare to use the last resort, which was to ask the police station to mobilize police forces to detain them in the name of the villagers attacking public offices, so that they would know that they were afraid and would not dare to make trouble in the future.

I didn't dare at first, but Secretary Yang advised me that we had professional explanations given by experts from the Agricultural Bureau. No matter where we were put, we were right. The villagers ignored it. What's so scary? I thought about it and agreed. It just so happened that Feng Wei gave too little compensation. Secretary Yang asked him to give two hundred acres of land, but he only gave one hundred and five. The eight villagers didn't agree. They were very excited. They caught him and asked him to pay more, and even beat him. I took the opportunity to call the police station to arrest people..."

Li Rui listened to the entire process and also understood the two dark stories of this incident. One of the dark stories was that Feng Wei, the owner of the brick factory, created environmental pollution under the banner of environmental protection standards, which caused the crops of 30 acres of land near the factory to be completely harvested; the second of the dark stories was that Feng Wei and his cousin, Yang Xu, the Party Secretary of Liqing Town, colluded with officials and businessmen to jointly suppress the petition complaints of victimized villagers. Of course, there were some small dark stories in it, such as the collusion between Mayor Chen and his old classmate, Song Da, the so-called "expert" of the Agriculture Bureau. The two dark stories and these small dark stories made the whole incident full of dark stories, making it difficult to see the light. If it weren't for investigating this incident personally, it would be unimaginable that the darkness of Liqing Town was in Qing Town. He asked: "If you do your best to help Yang Xu in doing things like this, he shouldn't treat you badly, right? Did he promise you any benefits?"
Chapter completed!