Chapter Twenty-Five Continues to Make Trouble in the End

  A group of people at the wine table, seeing the hotel owner rushing in hastily, someone couldn't help but ask: "Boss Li, what are you running for? You shouldn't be thinking of giving each leader a show, right?"

  After the man's words fell, a person known as Li Boss said hastily: "Everyone, let's talk about this later, go to the main hall and take a look, some of you are on TV now, your news is being broadcast on TV."

  "What? On TV? I don't remember being interviewed!" The crowd, filled with questions, followed Mr. Li to the hotel lobby, and indeed, at this moment, the TV in the hotel lobby was playing news about the village branch secretaries.

  This is the "Live in Chenzhou" column of HB Province Chenzhou TV Station. Many leaders in the city like to pay attention to this column, so this program has a great influence locally.

  At this time, the TV was playing a news program titled "Rural Black Workshop Has Been Operating for Many Years, Why Has No One Asked About It? Who Is Supporting It?" On the screen, several village branch secretaries from Wujiacun and Dujiacun were speaking loudly to Liu Li in front of the police station:

  Small workshops without production licenses are under the jurisdiction of the Administration for Industry and Commerce, unqualified fire facilities are under the jurisdiction of the Fire Brigade, and unqualified product quality is under the jurisdiction of the Quality Supervision Bureau.

  The factory site has hidden dangers, which is the responsibility of the Land Administration Bureau. The pollution of the surrounding air is the responsibility of the Environmental Protection Bureau. Those competent departments have not said to rectify, on what basis do you send the police station to let people stop production and rectify?

  "Hmph... Let's put it this way, if we don't agree, no one can shut down those workshops in the village. Do you believe that? Unless you, Officer Liu, have the ability to get all the relevant departments to join forces and enforce the law together."

  However, we are not afraid to tell you the truth. In fact, those functional departments have been settled by us, otherwise our village's small workshops would have been banned long ago and wouldn't be left until now.

  I thought we could have a good talk and negotiate, but I didn't expect that you, as a police officer, wouldn't understand the rules and wouldn't take us seriously. Since that's the case, let's see who has the harder backbone...

  After the news was played, the host commented randomly: "So many small workshops are hidden in villages. The police want to crack down on them, but they are obstructed by village cadres."

  Seeing this, I couldn't help but have a question: those small workshops have been operating until now, why did only the police officers from the police station discover their problems? And what about the directly responsible departments, why have they remained silent for so many years?

  "If it weren't for the civil police wanting to crack down on these illegal small workshops, would they continue to operate in the village? Is it really as the village cadres said? Have all the local functional departments been bribed? This station will continue to follow up on this matter..."

  Seeing this, those village branch secretaries were all scared silly, with cold sweat dripping from their foreheads like waterfalls. The village branch secretary of Wujiacun was so frightened that he stuttered: "Th...this is how things are? Wh...when was it taken? I...I don't remember at all?"

  "This setting looks like it's at a police station? It's strange, I didn't see anyone holding a camera back then. Where did this video come from? Alas... we're in trouble now, if our leaders see this news report, all ten of us are done for."

  As soon as the two village branch secretaries finished speaking, the person in charge of the ten small workshops next to them seemed to have thought of something. Their expression suddenly became very ugly, and one of the people in charge said with a gloomy face: "You're done for, we're finished too."

  "Woe is me...... You guys said it so bluntly on TV, the leaders of those departments like Industry and Commerce, Land Taxation, and Quality Supervision will have to investigate us to death to prove their innocence! We're done for, our business is finished. I guess we'll have to go find jobs from now on."

  Just as everyone was sighing, the mobile phones of the ten village branch secretaries rang one after another. After pressing the answer button, the hall was filled with curses:

  "Is this Wujiacun? How is it that you, as the village branch secretary, could say such nonsense and even have it recorded?"

  Is it Zhangjiacun? You immediately write an apology letter, a self-criticism, a review, and a repentance letter. Most importantly, you must write your resignation letter...

  Is that Dujiacun? Have you gone mad? How dare you utter such arrogant words? You've forgotten that your position as village head is just an agent...

  "Is that Hanjiacun? Where are you now? Comrades from the Discipline Inspection Commission want to meet with you and ask which functional department heads you have bribed..."

  The village branch secretary's phone had not yet hung up, and the mobile phones of the ten small workshop owners on the other side all rang again. After answering, these small workshop owners received a very sad news: the county has just formed a joint working group, in cooperation with the local police station, to conduct a joint law enforcement inspection on the ten small workshops.

  The next day, Liu Li drove a police car to escort the persons in charge of ten small workshops to report to the detention center. Before leaving, Director Du Zhiqing asked him to hurry back after sending the people away, because the county discipline inspection commission would interrogate the ten village branch secretaries today, and since the video was provided by Liu Li, the discipline inspection commission needed to find Liu Li to verify the process at that time.

  Something happened, Wang Shuji, the first-in-command of Deying Township, and Huang Xiangzhang, the second-in-command, couldn't even avoid debts anymore. They unusually appeared in the courtyard of the township government. It was unavoidable, as 28 village branch secretaries were present, except for the 9 who went out to work, leaving a total of 19 village branch secretaries in the township.

  Now there are ten problems, and the two of them, as the main leaders of the township, also have to bear corresponding leadership responsibilities. The Discipline Inspection Commission sent a working group of ten people to conduct inquiries in the courtyard of the Dizhang Township Government.

  After meeting with the people from the Discipline Inspection Commission in the countryside, the two leaders came to the police station to visit Liu Li, the hero of this time. After meeting, Secretary Wang tightly held Liu Li's hand: "The young man is impressive."

  Liu Li, do you know? In our county's 28 villages, 9 village branch secretaries are working outside, and now there are still 19 village branch secretaries working in their respective villages. However, after being questioned by the discipline inspection committee, it is estimated that all 10 of these village branch secretaries will be removed from office and go back home to farm.

  "Counting Tian Liangzong, who was sent to the detention center by you earlier, and now adding these ten village branch secretaries, in less than a week's time, you have actually eliminated eleven village branch secretaries. Such a thing has never happened in our HB Province before. For this, I can only say two words: 'admire'."

  "Thank you, leader, for your praise. I guarantee that I will continue to work hard and strive for new glory, achieving even better results on the existing foundation." Liu Li casually responded with a perfunctory phrase, but after saying it, he felt that the words were somewhat out of place.

  After listening to Liu Li's words, Wang Shuji's forehead flashed three black lines. Looking at Liu Li standing there with a silly smile, he said somewhat gloomily: "You'd better show some mercy, if you really create another glorious achievement, I'm afraid that by then, I won't even have one village branch secretary left under me."

  After finishing, Secretary Wang and the two of them inquired about the public security situation in Du Zhiging's jurisdiction. Just as Du Zhiging was reporting, Secretary Wang found that several cadres who had left their posts were walking towards him with invoices in hand. The two of them hastily made an excuse and then got in the car and left the place.

  As expected, after the working group of the Discipline Inspection Commission left, a disciplinary decision was made against the ten village branch secretaries on the same day. All ten village branch secretaries were dismissed from their posts, and the secretary of the district where the ten villages were located was also suspended for not taking action against the proliferation of small workshops in the district.

  As soon as the news spread, the whole Deying Township and even Gucheng County were in an uproar. Everyone was discussing the causes and consequences of this matter, and at the same time, Liu Da's reputation for being troublesome also quietly spread out without anyone noticing.