Chapter 654: Appeal: Making Su Yang Kneel and Beg for Twin Ditch Large Koji to Resume Work

This scene really frightened Zhang Chaoxia; she was afraid that if Geng Miao's strike went off target, he might accidentally send him away, which would be terribly unjust.

After Geng Miao finished venting, he comforted: "I think we could do this: let the relevant leaders in the city also go put pressure on Su Yang, and at the same time have all units immediately go on strike, paralyzing the whole county. I don't believe he can bear this responsibility or handle this situation!"

Zhang Chaoxia's words made Geng Miao's eyes light up. Earlier he had indeed underestimated the opponent, so he hadn't thought of this; he only wanted to create a brief paralysis and chaos in the county, enough to leave Su Yang at a loss, and with pressure from above, Su Yang would have no choice but to admit defeat, come begging him, and slink away.

But given the current situation, it seems necessary to make those who usually benefit from him take some concrete action for him.

"Good! You really gave me a good suggestion; I want to see how he copes when despised by ten thousand people!" After saying that, he sent another message.

Other matters he couldn't easily handle, but in Lieshan Xian doing this is as easy as moving his lips and fingers. Everyone wants this benefit, and having taken it for many years, these people have long grown accustomed to it, even regarding those so-called improper incomes as legitimate expenses.

If these were really taken away, without saying more, they'd have to pull out their own cash at New Year—who could bear that? It's like a beggar asking for money: you give him a small coin every day, and though it's little, he's come to treat that coin as a habitual income.

If one day you suddenly stop giving it, he'll think you owe him that coin, turn around and curse you, even curse your family. Although this example isn't perfect, the essence is much the same.

The only difference is that they will shift all of Geng Miao's traces onto Su Yang. Anyway, when the time comes, the whole county's officials will act together, and they won't fear what Su Yang might do to them—if they say they'll strike, they'll strike.

Moreover, they never had any interest in work; they just went to drink tea, read newspapers, and play cards—especially cards, which required finding a place outside, since openly playing in the office was improper. Now they can openly go out to play mahjong.

Of course, even those present or sitting in the office may not all have phones, so delivering this message to them won't be that fast; at the very least there must be a transmission process—it can't be a one-key broadcast, nor can a group message be sent for them to reply received.

On the county government compound, a weasel-eyed man scanned the crowd, then fixed his gaze on several people and said: "Just us few will talk with County Magistrate Su, but we want to talk right here in this compound—we don't want to go to the office or anything."

"I've heard that you officials, under the pretense of talking, lure people in from the front, then have the police take them out the back door. We won't give you that chance, and before the matter is settled, nobody will disperse; we'll talk under everyone's supervision."

Ye Xianggao and Wen Qiren exchanged a glance, thinking this guy is quite clever; if he really went to the office with Su Yang, then Su Yang having Sun Chengjun take the person out the back door would be perfectly justified.

Previously, various so-called petitions or demonstrations in front of the government compound were basically handled this way: when there were many people during the day, you could make a fuss; the police and relevant leaders on site merely kept an eye on those who jumped the most and shouted the loudest, who might be the behind-the-scenes organizers.

When it got late and there were fewer people, or when this bunch dispersed without achieving anything, they would look up these people's information and directly arrest the ringleader. Of course, even if they couldn't bring themselves to do so, if the situation forced a talk, it would basically be front door in, back door out—this leader and such troublemakers would talk.

The reason they come to cause trouble is that they've encountered something basically unsolvable; when the problem can't be solved and it escalates to this point, frankly it's because behind the scenes there are ties to local officials, or even because these messy situations were designed behind the scenes—perhaps due to governmental supervisory responsibility, or improper personnel assignments, etc.

It's impossible to lose face over this, and even more impossible to allow something that seems to damage the government's dignity to happen. Thinking that Su Yang, whether he was just being polite earlier or really intends to do this, right now Su Yang simply doesn't have the chance to directly take them away.

Su Yang of course also knows in his heart who is behind these people, so when these few come before him, he has people bring a few chairs and a table, and he himself takes paper and pen, preparing to make a record. After all, with many people and many opinions, he isn't a computer; he ought to write things down.

"Alright, now you can raise any problems; what we can solve we'll settle on the spot, what we can't we'll discuss in a meeting, and if even the meeting can't resolve it, we'll apply to higher government departments for assistance."

At this point the weasel-eyed man said: "I'm from the bus company; previously our benefits were always good, so our company operated normally, but since you came, all kinds of suppression and targeting of local enterprise development, especially aimed at our local economic pillar, Twin Ditch Large Koji, have indirectly caused Twin Ditch Large Koji to halt production."

"If Twin Ditch Large Koji stops production, that means no one rides the bus, no one riding means we can't operate, not operating means we can't pay wages, which means we have no income—so why are we still running this bus?"

"So my demand is that you apologize to Twin Ditch Large Koji and let them resume work and production."

As his words fell, the taxi company's representatives basically said the same thing, plus the wholesale market and other service industries.

In short, in a nutshell, today's situation is entirely caused by Su Yang, so these indirect victims have come to him, speaking very angrily; if killing weren't illegal, they'd probably tear Su Yang apart alive right now.

Among them, the most furious are the representatives of Twin Ditch Large Koji; their whole family, old and young, from gatekeeper to cleaner, then to the production and packaging workshop—although there is no management, leadership, or middle-level cadre, six out of the eight family members work at Twin Ditch Large Koji Winery.

Moreover, they are cousins of Geng Miao, also considered in-laws, and relying on that connection, although their family are all workers, in Lieshan Xian they are absolutely over 90% of middle-class families.

Thus, their family losses are not small, since on the days Twin Ditch Large Koji is halted, it's impossible to pay them wages. Superficially this halt seems to be, in essence, aimed at dealing with Su Yang, using it to pressure him to bow and yield, to roll out of Lieshan Xian.

But only someone whose whole family works in all departments of Twin Ditch Large Koji knows that Twin Ditch Large Koji now is simply overcapacity, with warehouses piled high with unsold liquor.

The current baijiu market is no longer what it was two years ago; high-end baijiu is everywhere, and even the mid-high end has no share for them.

What appears to be an infinitely prosperous enterprise actually has little money left on the books; if this continues, normal operation will be difficult—this too counts as its final glory.

Therefore, whether it's pinning this debt on Su Yang or rushing to make money while there's still a little time left, he is the most eager to jump out and oppose Su Yang.

Su Yang seriously wrote down everyone's problems one by one, even if the essence of the problem is merely that his arrival affected the normal operation of Twin Ditch Large Koji Winery, causing its work stoppage and production halt, leading to these events; still Su Yang recorded each separately, of course mainly noting the industry corresponding to each person.

"Good, I've noted down all the problems; now I will begin to answer each of your questions one by one."