South to North: A Prison Guard at the Beginning

Chapter 346 Li Zhiming's Attitude

"Director Li, your idea is very dangerous. The people in there are not our enemies, they are the people! Since there is a problem, we must solve it instead of just avoiding it!" Yuan Mu frowned and criticized.

After hearing what Yuan Mu said, Li Huai immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly apologized.

"I'm sorry, boss. That's not what I meant. It's just that this involves your personal safety."

"Back then, the great man was able to go deep into the masses and become one with the people. We officials should come from the people and go to the people. This is what a Communist should do! Get out of the car!" After saying that, Yuan Mu opened the car door and got out directly without caring about anything else.

Seeing this, Li Huai and Song Zian quickly opened the car door and followed.

In fact, Yuan Mu himself knew that this demolition work was difficult to do. There were bad people among the people. Some people would do anything to raise the price of demolition. But what can you do? You are doing this. The people have given you power, so you have to consider the people. Not all people are bad. Only a small part of them are bad.

Yuan Mu and the other two walked into the bungalow area. It was indeed a bit dirty and messy here, and there was even a foul odor coming from the public toilet. This was still cold, and if it were summer, the smell would definitely be even stronger. This was the real life of the lower class. He himself had once been a member of the lower class, and he understood it all.

When he lived in the Ningyang Railway compound, there were no private toilets, only public ones like this one. The smell was really strong in the summer.

After talking with some of the local residents, I learned that most of them are unwilling to relocate because the money offered is too little. Another group of people are unwilling to leave because, after all, they have lived here for most of their lives and they are all elderly.

After understanding the situation clearly, Yuan Mu left here. Then he took a car to travel around Daoli District. One day was definitely not enough. It took him a week to stroll around the entire Daoli District. Now he has a general understanding of the current situation in Daoli District.

In general, the most important thing in Daoli District now is the demolition work. There are a dozen old residential areas and other buildings such as old vegetable markets that need to be demolished. The facilities here are old and the environment is dirty and messy and they are no longer suitable to continue to exist.

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In the Daoli District Government, in the office of District Party Secretary Li Zhiming, Yuan Mu was here at this time, and the two were sitting on the sofa.

"Comrade Yuan Mu, what is the matter with you coming to my place today?" Li Zhiming asked with a smile as he handed Yuan Mu a cigarette.

Yuan Mu also smiled, lit the cigarette for him and then lit one for himself.

"Secretary Li, I do have something to talk to you about today."

"Oh? You say." Li Zhiming nodded with a smile on his face.

"It's like this. Recently, I took some people to the grassroots to investigate and found that there are big problems in our district. Most of the people in the demolition team are local thugs. They threaten the people with sticks. I think this is not acceptable. We need to come up with a reasonable solution to solve this problem."

"What do you think?" Li Zhiming asked thoughtfully.

"I propose that the district committee take the lead in setting up a demolition team, with you as the team leader and me as the deputy team leader, to complete the demolition work smoothly. Also, these hooligans and idlers must be properly managed. I propose that we launch a cleanup campaign in our district, led by the district public security bureau, to arrest those hooligans who should be arrested and sentence those who should be sentenced! We can't let the people poke our spines."

Li Zhiming looked at Yuan Mu for a few seconds, then flicked the ash from his cigarette and changed his sitting position.

"Comrade Yuan Mu, your idea is good, but the demolition work is not that easy."

"Of course I know it's not easy, but just because it's not easy, should we not do it? Just because it's not easy, should we just let those little thugs do whatever they want? Someone has to do this, right?" Yuan Mu frowned.

"Comrade Yuan Mu, I understand your feelings. I also want the demolition work to be completed as soon as possible, but there are too many issues involved and it is not that easy." Li Zhiming still said the same thing. What he meant was that he neither supported nor opposed it.

Yuan Mu frowned and looked at Li Zhiming. He felt that he was not in a hurry at all. Wasn't he afraid of being held accountable by his superiors? Or was there really some unspeakable secret? Oh, I am tired. Can't I just do something good every day?

"Secretary Li, what do you think about the demolition team?"

"Sure, I support it in principle, but now it's different from before. Comrade Yuan Mu, now that you're here, I've taken over the district government's affairs. It's better for the district government to take the lead in the demolition work, and the district committee is not suitable to intervene."

After hearing this, Yuan Mu seemed to understand a little. It seemed that Li Zhiming was afraid of taking responsibility. He might think that his demolition team was a joke. He fundamentally did not think that he could solve the problem. To put it bluntly, he did not trust himself.

"Well, the district government will lead the demolition team, and I will be the team leader. Secretary Li, what do you think?"

"Okay, I have no objection." Li Zhiming nodded with a smile.

"Well, then, let's hold a standing committee meeting tomorrow morning?"

"Okay, okay."

"Okay, Secretary Li, I'll leave first then."

"Okay, I won't see you off." Li Zhiming stood up and nodded with a smile.

Li Zhiming's smile disappeared until Yuan Mu's figure disappeared. He sat down with a disdainful smile on his face.

"Humph! What about the demolition team? If demolition was so easy, why would it have been delayed until now? Just do it. This thing doesn't make any noise once it's done."

"Knock! Knock! Knock!" Just then, there was a knock on the door.

"Ah, Old Jia, come in." Li Zhiming looked up and saw that the person knocking on the door was Jia Hewei, director of the district party committee office. Jia Hewei was Li Zhiming's absolute confidant and they had a very good personal relationship.

Jia Weihe didn't hesitate to close the door and walked to the sofa and sat down.

"Secretary Li, I saw District Chief Yuan just left?"

"Yeah, he just left for a while." Li Zhiming nodded.

"I heard that when District Chief Yuan went down, the first thing he did was to blame Cao Baosheng. He called him over and gave him a good scolding."

"It really happened. There's nothing we can do. We just happened to be there. I've told them many times that they should be low-key when dealing with such things and not always think of resolving them with violence. But they didn't listen." Li Zhiming shrugged.

"Secretary Li, should we remind them? I think District Chief Yuan is quite motivated."