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Chapter 86 Emergency Water Purchase (Subscription Request)
"Everyone get up, everyone get up!"

Lu Changge mobilized all the people in 308. Even Tang Huaicheng, the dead pig, had fallen asleep, but he woke him up and started them in one second.

"What's wrong?" Lao Tang looked confused and his eyes were red.

"Put on your clothes first and move quickly. Zuo Shuya called me and said the tap water stinks. I checked and it's the same here. I guess it's a common phenomenon. We have to go to the supermarket to buy water!" He explained briefly.

As he spoke, he touched his pocket. He usually carried only about four or five thousand in cash, which should be enough to buy some water.

"What the hell, is there such a thing?!" Li Ming jumped up and got out of bed.

"Yes, let's go with more people and try to move as many as possible."

Lu Changge was a little anxious. Water was still very heavy. Getting enough water for several days at one time was not a problem with money, but transportation.

Cheng Yongyi also got down from the upper bunk and said in time, "I have a car."

"Where?"

"It's parked downstairs. I drove here from home. But it's a sedan, so there's no room for all of us."

Lu Changge thought quickly and said, "How about this? Let's split up. Lao Cheng and I will drive to the supermarket outside the school. The four of you will go to the convenience store downstairs to buy. Don't move it upstairs; climbing stairs is too tiring. Let's move everything to the first-floor garage I rented. Chuan Kun, do you have the key?"

"I have the key." Hui Chuankun also came down from the upper bunk.

Only Old Tang was still conscious, rubbing his eyes and still looking a bit grumpy. "No, is there any need to be so nervous? It's already so late, can't we do it tomorrow?"

Cheng Yongyi kicked him lightly as he got out of bed. "If you don't get up, I'll make you drink stinky water! This is an algae outbreak, you know?"

Lu Changge was too lazy to care about him. He dragged Cheng Yongyi downstairs and asked on the way, "How did you know about the blue algae outbreak?"

"He's a local. It's not the first time I've met him."

Well, then it will happen even faster, which means other locals will definitely react quickly. After tonight, the purified water in the supermarket will definitely be sold out.

When he got downstairs, Zuo Shuya had already run over and was waiting, gasping for breath with her hands covering her knees.

Without further ado, the three of them got in the car and left.

Lu Changge only had time to make a phone call after getting in the car, luckily the other party answered the call quickly.

"An Yan, don't say anything. Listen to me first. Go downstairs and buy some water. Purified water or mineral water will do. Mobilize your roommates. If they want to go, they can go. If they don't want to go, don't bother them. After you buy the water, ride your bike to the garage I rented. You can't move more than a few boxes. Li Ming, Qin Jun, and the others are already working. Just go over there. The door is open."

The other party was of course shocked, "What's wrong, Changge? What happened?"

"I'll explain it later. Just do as I say. I'm taking Lao Cheng's car to the big supermarket outside the school. We'll meet in the garage."

"it is good!"

After hanging up the phone, Lu Changge was still frowning and thinking, wondering if he had missed anything.

He was actually quite calm, but his state was very different from usual.

Zuo Shuya noticed that he was a little serious, so she grabbed his hand and said, "It's okay, you've already thought of it."

There was a hint of warmth in the palm of his hand, like a trickle of water flowing through dry land, and Lu Changge's breathing rhythm had returned to normal.

"Old Lu, there's no need to be so anxious. Like I said, this isn't the first time."

Lu Changge didn't say anything. Cheng Yongyi was right. Indeed, there had been several outbreaks of blue algae in the 90s, but the one that really caused the water crisis for residents was the one in 07, which was also a major news in the country that year.

Later, Taihu Lake blue algae were included in textbooks to explain why economic development cannot come at the expense of the environment.

He remembered a number: within these few days, about 70% of the residents had no water supply.

After Lu Changge calmed down, he suddenly thought of something. He slowly said to Zuo Shuya, "I forgot one thing. Xu Weiguo works at the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau."

Generally, for such emergencies, the municipal government will take the lead in forming a command center or emergency team to quickly deal with the emergency in the form of a battle.

This kind of command center requires representatives from all relevant departments.

Because the management authority of many things is not only related to a certain department, it also requires the joint efforts of ministries, commissions and bureaus to deal with them.

Something like water should belong to the water administration department, right? Probably.

Does that have anything to do with environmental protection? It's inseparable.

In addition, the management authority of some major lakes or rivers will be directly under the Ministry of Water Resources, such as the Yellow River Conservancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources.

Furthermore, to resolve a crisis, various resources usually need to be deployed, which cannot be done by relying solely on functional agencies. The city leaders must personally come forward to coordinate.

However, before officially making the call, he thought about it. If he rashly told Xu Weiguo the news, what could Xu Weiguo do?
As a business department head who interacts with leadership, Lu Changge clearly understands that the core of reporting to leaders isn't about asking questions, but about offering suggestions. Materialistically speaking, no one is god. Leaders are merely higher-ranking; are they necessarily omniscient and omnipotent? Definitely not. Throw a bunch of questions at them, and they'll still have their heads exploded.

And in order to pretend, I can't show it, it's so uncomfortable.

So, you can ask questions, but you must follow up with your own suggestions. Plan 1, Plan 2, Plan 3... What are the specifics, the pros and cons of each, list them to your leader, and then let him make the decision.

In a word, leaders must be given multiple-choice questions, not fill-in-the-blank questions.

So Lu Changge was thinking about how to deal with this crisis.

"Do you want to ask him for help?" Zuo Shuya asked.

"I'm not asking him for help, I'm telling him about this."

Lu Changge believed that the countermeasures he proposed must have been thought of by the people above him, but no matter how powerful a person is, if he suddenly encounters such a thing, he will need time to calm himself down and sort out the information.

Moreover, if you worry too much, you will be confused. Once you are panicked, it is better for him to see things from an outsider's perspective more objectively. Therefore, his advance thinking will definitely help him.

However, he didn't have much of a draft, so he could only list it briefly in his mind, just like when he urgently reported his work to his leader in his previous life. In this state, his mind was fully open.

It was almost 10 o'clock, and he had never tried to call Xu Weiguo at this time.

The first time, the call didn’t go through.

"Is he asleep?" Zuo Shuya guessed.

"Sleep?" Lu Changge chuckled with difficulty, "He won't be able to sleep these past few nights."

So I continued to play the second one.

Fortunately, someone answered the second call.

"Hello, Changge?"

Listening to the tone, Xu Weiguo seemed quite calm, and still had a doubt as to why Lu Changge called him so late.

"Uncle Xu, it's me, Lu Changge. There's an emergency I'd like to briefly discuss with you. Have you received the news that the tap water is smelly?"

He spoke very quickly and finished his words in a flash.

The other party was silent for a while, then replied: "Not yet."

No?

No way?
Lu Changge was a little puzzled. Logically speaking, such important matters would circulate faster within the government because everyone would judge the severity of the matter and would not conceal it unless they encountered someone who was not in their right mind.

But then he thought that Xu Weiguo must be lying, and because of work discipline, he did not dare to reveal such information to himself.

This explanation may be more reasonable.

In any case, he was not here to gather information, he was here to deliver emergency measures.

"Uncle Xu, you can try your own faucet. We have a lot of problems here at school. It's not just someone's pipes that are contaminated, it must be a problem with the water source at the water plant. You know, incidents like this will become major news tomorrow."

At this point, Lu Changge began to slow down his speech. He needed to think and speak clearly, while also giving Xu Weiguo some time to digest the information. "Considering that this might have something to do with the Environmental Protection Bureau, I've thought of a few emergency measures. If you have time, could you please tell me about them?"

Xu Weiguo on the other end was a little shocked. In fact, he was getting dressed at home at that time.

That's right, he had received notice to hold an emergency meeting overnight.

The meeting is chaired by the main leaders of the municipal party committee and government. Once the top leaders sit on the stage, they will definitely ask the directors all kinds of questions to understand the situation. However, the top directors generally do not manage specific affairs. In fact, most of the people who really understand the situation are the directors of the business departments.

However, Jiangzhou City is so large, can the director grasp the situation in every place in real time? Now that something has happened, he also needs time to collect relevant information, such as the cause of the incident, the current development stage, etc.

I'm afraid the people above me will get impatient and not care about you. They only care about the results and don't understand the situation. They might even scold you. What the hell do you do?

So at this time, he needs a life-saving straw, and anyone and any information may help him.

So he put his phone on the table and turned on speakerphone, freeing his hands to put on his socks, while saying, "You say!"

"Okay." Lu Changge took a deep breath, as if he had found the state of reporting and handling his work in his previous life. "Time is short, I can only think of two principles and 2 handling methods. I will go through them one by one."

"10?!" Xu Weiguo was surprised.

"Correct."

"Okay, then you say it."

(End of this chapter)