Nominal: The Handong Game, the Energy System's Counterattack

After the matter was over, Li Dakang asked Wu Xiongfei if he had anything to say.

Then it's no wonder Wu Xiongfei is trying to make his presence felt again.

Wu Xiongfei smiled and nodded at Li Dakang, stood up, placed his hands on the table, and looked at the cadres from Jingzhou City present.

"I want to reiterate the core principle: the resettlement of employees at Dafeng Factory is essentially a labor dispute and a commercial liability dispute, and is by no means a responsibility of the government to cover up the issue with public finances."

"The government's core responsibilities are administrative coordination, market supervision, urging enterprises to fulfill their responsibilities, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of employees, and maintaining social stability. It has no legal obligation to provide financial support."

"Even for the sake of maintaining stability, the government needs to temporarily advance funds to quell the situation."

"We must also follow compliant and legal channels, and absolutely cannot illegally apportion, misappropriate, or list expenses."

"Maintaining stability is important, but maintaining stability is absolutely not an excuse for violating discipline, and emergency situations are absolutely not a reason to cross the bottom line of the law, the red line of discipline, or the rules and regulations."

"The mass incident at Dafeng Factory is a good example. We cadres may have only encountered such a sudden mass incident once in all these years."

Upon hearing this, Li Dakang's face darkened.

He didn't expect that Wu Xiongfei was still making veiled accusations, that such a thing would happen under his leadership, Li Dakang's leadership.

Why did this incident at Dafeng Factory happen?

"On the surface, it's a dispute over equity, a conflict over demolition, or a conflict between the factory protection team and the demolition team."

"But if we dig deeper, where does the root of the problem lie?"

"The root cause lies with some of our cadres, who only look upwards and never downwards."

"They only focus on GDP and project implementation, but they fail to see the well-being of the people and hear their voices!"

Snapped!

Li Dakang slammed his hand on the table. "Wu Xiongfei, what do you mean by this?"

"Secretary Li, what's wrong?" Wu Xiongfei pretended not to understand. "The solution to this matter has been decided."

"I'd like to take this opportunity to discuss with my comrades and summarize our experiences and lessons learned; it's a kind of learning process, after all."

Was there a problem with what I just said?

Li Dakang stared intently at Wu Xiongfei with his dead fish eyes. "This is a meeting to address the aftermath of the January 16 Incident, not a place for you to give lectures."

Wu Xiongfei turned to look at the big screen and nodded. "Secretary Li is right. Today is the meeting for the aftermath of the January 16 Incident."

"The post-incident work plan for the January 16th Incident has just been discussed. Does Secretary Li have any other work arrangements?"

Li Dakang remained silent, still staring at Wu Xiongfei.

"Comrades, does anyone have any other opinions regarding the work arrangements for the January 16th Incident?"

Seeing Wu Xiongfei's performance today, no one dared to utter a sound.

"Secretary Li, look, the discussion on handling the matter has ended. On behalf of the municipal government, I will summarize the painful lessons learned from the Dafeng Factory incident."

"What's the problem?"

"It's fine, summarizing lessons learned is fine, but don't go too far off track." Li Dakang was really starting to lose his composure.

"They only focus on GDP, they can't see the well-being of the people, and they can't hear their voices!" Wu Xiongfei's words were so obviously aimed at Li Dakang, who couldn't see it?

"Is this going too far?" Wu Xiongfei shrugged. "It seems that the statements made by Provincial Party Secretary Sha and Governor Liu regarding the Dafeng Factory 116 incident are the same as what I said."

"Does Secretary Li have a different opinion regarding the No. 116 wind power plant incident?"

"Why don't we take this opportunity for Secretary Li to give a speech to everyone?"

"You!" Li Dakang's hand trembled as he pointed at Wu Xiongfei.

Sha Ruijin and Governor Liu did indeed say that at the Standing Committee meeting.

However, they are the top leader and the second-in-command of the provincial party committee, so what are you, Wu Xiongfei?

They can criticize me? You're not even a member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, what right do you have to criticize me, Li Dakang?

Li Dakang took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the surging anger in his heart: "What I mean is, the situation is urgent now."

"Once the solution is finalized, we must immediately arrange its implementation. After the matter is resolved, we will hold a special meeting to summarize the experience."

Wu Xiongfei smiled slightly and raised his hand: "Hey, Secretary Li, you just asked me if I had anything to say, so I'll just go along with what you wanted to say. Why are you getting so worked up?"

"The plan has been finalized, but the procedures are not yet complete. The Municipal Party Committee Office, the Municipal Government Office, and the People's Congress still need to sign and stamp it before it can be officially issued."

"It is precisely because the situation is urgent that we need to prevent our comrades from encountering new problems in the subsequent handling of the situation."

"I was just thinking of giving each of our leading cadres a good look in the mirror, washing away the dust, and winding ourselves up mentally."

"Aside from city-wide cadre meetings, it's rare for all the cadres in Jingzhou to gather like this, with leaders from several different teams all present."

"Perfect timing! I just got back from the Party training school, and I have some insights to share with our comrades. Is that alright?"

Li Dakang had never expected Wu Xiongfei to be so difficult to deal with. Suppressing his anger to the extreme, he shouted in a deep voice, "This isn't a party meeting; is this the time for study?"

"Hey, Secretary Li, as a comrade, I have to say, as the Party Secretary of the city, your thinking is very dangerous."

"Our party's cadres must never forget to study the directives from their superiors."

"Especially you, as the top leader, should guide Party members and cadres to study and improve their Party spirit."

"Okay, okay, okay, go ahead and tell me, tell me properly, let's see what you can come up with." Li Dakang didn't expect Wu Xiongfei to be so good at labeling people, and he sat down with a thud.

If we really stop him from speaking, what will become of Li Dakang, the municipal party secretary, if word gets out about what happened today?

"Secretary Li, I won't say much, just about the Dafeng Factory incident. I'll summarize the lessons learned and it will be quick."

Wu Xiongfei looked at Li Dakang with a smile, then paused for two seconds before continuing to stab Li Dakang with the knife.

"Our initial intention in undertaking the Guangming Peak project and boosting GDP was to develop Jingzhou, and that was correct."

"But what is the purpose of development?"

"It's for the sake of improving people's lives, not for a few impressive statistics, and certainly not for the promotion of certain officials!"

"On the issue of Dafeng Factory, are some of our comrades, including myself, too eager for quick results?"

"Do you believe that for the sake of the bigger picture and to attract investment, the interests of a few can be sacrificed?"

"Do you think these workers' demands are 'troublesome,' or just unreasonable demands from 'holdout' residents?"

"I would like to ask my comrades here, how many times have the workers of Dafeng Factory petitioned the authorities after their shares were illegally pledged and exchanged?"

"How long have their legal rights been violated? Why didn't we discover it sooner?"

"Why did no one do anything about it even after it was discovered?"

"Why did we have to wait until they gathered together, picked up shovels, sticks, and even lit torches before we paid 'great attention'?"

At this point, Wu Xiongfei secretly glanced at Li Dakang and, sure enough, saw that his face was as black as night. He felt a surge of satisfaction.

"This is typical bureaucracy! It's being out of touch with the masses!"

"We've turned 'maintaining stability' into 'covering up stability.' We don't dredge the river channels normally; we only try to plug it when it bursts. And what's the result?"

"The people paid a bloody price, and we also paid the price of social stability, and the credibility of the Party and the government!"

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After restraining Li Dakang, Wu Xiongfei continued to give a Party lecture to the comrades in the meeting, enjoying the sight of Li Dakang's dark expression. He couldn't be happier.