Chapter Twenty-Two
The Party Secretary of Tinglin Town was very enthusiastic about this literary and artistic project. He specially convened a meeting, which was attended by all the leaders of Tinglin Town. He said:
Ah, our Tinglin Town Popo Cup Literary and Art Competition is a great thing. It fully demonstrates the spirit of open thinking and daring to innovate. This competition not only promotes the economy of Tinglin Town and boosts domestic demand but also greatly enriches the people's amateur life. Under the guidance of the government, they fully demonstrate their talents, bravely show themselves, and enthusiastically participate in the event, achieving a full participation of everyone having a voice, every family having a voice, and every village having a voice. This competition has significant meaning for preventing the loss of our traditional culture. I suggest that we should make this competition an annual event, striving to make it a spectacular, high-quality, and classic event with national influence. At the same time, during the first Tinglin Town Popo Cup Literary and Art Competition, our town's investment promotion office will hold a large-scale investment promotion activity, combining the competition with investment promotion, making friends through the competition, using literature and art as a platform for economic development, and joining hands to achieve harmony!
The party secretary said so, and the people below definitely can't slack off. Chinese officials and junior high school students are alike in that they like to imitate their superiors and leaders, who are their idols. The way they gesture and speak will be unconsciously imitated by their subordinates. Of course, the subordinates won't admit this; they'll think it's because the leader's speech is so infectious that it has infected them. Although, in the eyes of normal people, their speeches are the most unimpressive, to those within the same system, these empty words are indeed deeply moving and inspiring, with every sentence being so profound that it can be deleted without affecting the meaning they want to convey, because the meaning is already conveyed through a deep and meaningful glance. The secretary's words are very valuable to them, full of information, and eloquent. The secretary likes to use parallel sentences, which he uses masterfully, unlike others who use them in a layered and progressive way; the secretary's parallel sentences are filled with proletarian care, without any class distinction - they're just three synonymous phrases used to emphasize and re-emphasize. Of course, there's also an important reason: saying it this way saves him some brainpower, thinking about what to say next. Most importantly, when the secretary wasn't yet a secretary, his leader spoke like this too.
The town mayor stood up and said:
The secretary said it was very good, this competition is the first major event in Tinglin Town recently, the top priority. Here, I announce the establishment of the Preparatory Committee, and the honorary chairman of the committee is our Secretary Gou, as well as the Chairman of the Board of Popo Printing Factory, Lu Jinbo, and the Vice-Chairman of the District Literary Federation, Zheng. The Executive Chairman is me, and the Secretary-General is Yang, the head of the Town Cultural Station. Yang, you will have to work harder now, as most of the preparations will be your responsibility. Additionally, Comrade Niu from the Police Station has a lot of experience with large-scale events like this and can assist you. The Deputy Secretary-General is Director Shi, who is in charge of the town's cable TV, he is an active member in this aspect and can help everyone with many things. The members of the Preparatory Committee are...
After finishing the task, the town mayor vaguely felt that he didn't say it smoothly. On the one hand, he didn't deviate from the script, after all, so many people couldn't remember, and most importantly, due to the limitations of the text style, he only said a sentence of parallelism, which was really suffocating.
After the preparatory meeting, the town mayor convened a secret meeting with departments such as investment promotion, taxation, urban construction, and land management. The general content of the meeting was that this investment promotion conference must attract influential enterprises, like the Popo Printing Factory. Tinglin Town must become bigger, the largest project in the country, the largest project in Asia. For example, the PX project that was suspended in Xiamen can be introduced to Tinglin Town. If there is pollution, it can be treated; without pollution, there is no political achievement; without pollution, there is no progress. The PX project is too conspicuous, so just change its name to XP, what's wrong with that? People will think it's a software company.
In terms of policy, we must be lenient; in taxation, we must implement special policies to attract these large companies. In land management, we must flatten the land in advance. The rural layout of Tinglin Town is very unreasonable, and farmers' houses are too scattered, which is not conducive to development, especially large-scale development. If those big enterprises come here and see that the demolition work is difficult to progress, they will be discouraged.
So, we must do a good job in advance, tell the farmers that collective interests are above everything, and being a "nail household" is shameful. If necessary, we can forcibly demolish their houses, first detain them, but then do a good job of consolation work afterwards. The compensation price cannot be changed, but we can appropriately give each farmer's family an additional quota for urban household registration. Tell them that their house is gone, and if they continue to make trouble, they won't get the quota.
For extreme "nail households", the public security department must pay attention to surveillance, and during demolition, implement a policy of "one village, one compensation". That is, only when the entire village moves away can the compensation be fully allocated. If there is one household that refuses to move, each household will have 20% of their compensation withheld until that household moves.
In this way, we can create a spontaneous movement among the people, thoroughly isolating individualism in the face of collectivism, and thus ensuring the maximum mobilization of ideology.
For a group of nail households, we should adopt the method of fixed-point pollution. That is to build small chemical plants next to their villages, with wind direction and drainage direction facing these nail households. We can also give these chemical plants some relaxation in environmental monitoring because they are serving the collective interest, sacrificing small interests for the greater good. In this way, within a year, they will voluntarily ask to relocate. However, during the relocation process, comrades must pay attention not to let all farmers move into town, as this would leave no place for our migrant workers to live. We need to find a piece of land with the least economic value and build a new village for farmers who didn't move into town. The houses in this village should be well-planned, not scattered like before, but rather uniform, five hundred meters per row, ten meters apart, so that they are close together, lively, and convenient for government management. Let's call this village Harmony Village. The entire relocation work should be completed within a year. Tinglin Town must prepare to become the largest industrial town in Asia. When others are still demolishing and relocating, we have already prepared, which is our advantage, our foresight. The Boprinting Factory is an example. If we hadn't leveled this land in advance, perhaps the project wouldn't have been signed so quickly. As long as it's the largest project in Asia, we will give it extremely favorable policies to create an effect and drive other projects.
Also, during the demolition process, find a house in Huanghuacun Village that won't be demolished, but have the people move out and turn it into an ancestral home and cultural relic site, as well as a base for patriotic education for students. Find a sculptor to randomly carve a woman and say it's a statue of Huang Xiaohua, then find a writer to come up with a few words. While grasping at economic benefits, culture can't be lost.
After finishing the task, everyone praised the town mayor for his courage. The town mayor smiled and said: It's all for the sake of the common people.
