On July 20, 2002, Dongchuan Town held a party committee meeting to bid farewell to the old secretary and welcome the new secretary. The new secretary's surname is Zhang. He is only thirty-five years old. He is young and promising. He doesn't speak much, but he speaks loudly. After the meeting, people walked and whispered: Can a new secretary do it? The key to whether they can continue to work depends on whether the dispute between the Zhen Coking Chemical Plant and Tamura can be resolved as soon as possible.
The coking plant in the town is a pillar industry in the town and is famous throughout the city. The factory director is a well-known entrepreneur with deep pockets. Tiancun is the largest village in the town. Secretary Ma in the village has a high prestige among the people and is also a member of the town party committee. The road used by the coking plant vehicles is a dirt road in Tamun. Due to the large number of vehicles, the road is often damaged, so the village sends people to intercept the coking plant trucks to prevent the vehicles from entering or exiting. The coking plant also compensated the village some money for this. However, both the factory director and Secretary Ma were arrogant and did not take each other seriously. They each insisted on their own reasons and never reached an agreement. Travel to the coking plant was intermittent, and eventually the two sides fought and broke out. The town and city came forward several times but failed to reach an agreement. The former town secretary was affected by this and was transferred from Dongchuan Town.
After the party committee meeting, Secretary Tamura hurried home. On the way, he received a call from the newly arrived town party committee secretary, indicating that he wanted to go home for dinner. Secretary Ma felt excited and hurriedly notified the village cadres to come home to accompany the new secretary and have a drink with him. Half an hour later, the new secretary sat on Secretary Ma’s bed. The village cadres enthusiastically toasted Secretary Zhang. Secretary Zhang welcomed everyone who came, and everyone exchanged glasses. It was very lively. After an hour, seven people drank six bottles. The cadres all drank till their faces turned red. Secretary Ma tried to ask: Secretary Zhang, do you still want to drink? Secretary Zhang paused and said, I respect everyone for the last bottle. After saying that, he opened the wine, poured it for everyone, and said loudly: Everyone sitting here is older than me. I'll give you one drink for my elder brother, and I'll give you three glasses for my younger brother. After that, I'll drink three glasses in a row. How could the village cadres allow the secretary to drink three glasses of wine by himself? They drank three glasses of wine one after another. After drinking, he was already swaying around, holding the secretary's hand, holding his shoulders and expressing his loyalty!
After dinner, everyone held the secretary's hand and refused to let him go, until he played four rounds of mahjong. So we played four more rounds of mahjong. Finally, Secretary Zhang held the cadre’s hand and said: Brother, we can’t play anymore, we have to go to the city for a meeting tomorrow morning. After that, with the help of everyone, he got into the car.
The car went out for tens of meters. The cadres who were seeing him off were about to leave when they suddenly found that the car had backed up again. Secretary Zhang rolled down the glass and said to a group of village cadres: Brother, what's going on with the road between our village and the coking plant? This group of cadres rushed to say: It's nothing, just listen to Secretary Zhang. The car window rolled down again, and Secretary Zhang walked away.
I heard that after Secretary Zhang left, he lived in the coking plant. The next morning, the factory director took Secretary Zhang to visit the coking plant and inspected the disputed road outside the plant.
In the afternoon of the next day, the enlarged meeting of the town party committee was held. A major decision was made at the meeting: the "dispute road" between the coking plant and Tamura was to be widened again and paved into a cement road. At the meeting, Secretary Zhang talked about the role and significance of road construction. He highly appreciated Secretary Tamura Ma's spirit of caring about the interests of the people and taking into account the overall situation of Daquan Town, and praised the coking plant's generous donation and road construction for the people. Amid warm applause, both Tamura and the coking plant made positive statements. Two months later, a wide asphalt road was built. All the cadres in the town admired Secretary Zhang with admiration.
Insight into worldly matters is knowledge, and understanding human feelings is knowledge. When working with rural cadres and the masses, we need to be both reasonable and emotional.
