Deputy Director Pang looked like he was about to die a martyr's death, but the words that came out of his thick lips on his chubby face were filled with righteousness.
If he wasn't a world-class acting master who could tell that this fatty wasn't acting and that he was speaking from the bottom of his heart, Chen Guang would have thought that he was deliberately lying to him.
But now it seemed that even though this man had lost his edge in the system, and his hands weren't all that clean, he still had a sense of justice in his heart.
Humans were always complicated, and there were rarely absolute good and evil people.
Just like the corrupt official He Shen of the Qing Dynasty. Even though he was extremely wealthy, in a TV series, He Shen was still able to tell Ji Xiaolan an analysis of the corrupt and honest officials that he spoke of.
No one was perfect, and no one was perfect. Corrupt officials might be corrupt, but they could also be capable officials.
If the water was too clear, there would be no fish. If all the corrupt officials in the world were strangled to death, and all the clean and honest officials were put in charge, order would still collapse, and the people would still suffer.
Corrupt officials and capable officials weren't opposites, and they usually coexisted.
At least this Deputy Commissioner Pang was a capable official who could be corrupt, but also wanted to do something practical.
He knew that he would offend Chen Guang in this regard, but he still dared to speak the truth, and expressed his hope that Tiansong would take over the responsibility to save Tongshan River. This was enough to prove his courage.
Of course, Deputy Commissioner Pang was indeed impressive, because he could grasp Chen Guang's preferences and personality from the many trivial things he had heard about Chen Guang.
As long as his starting point was for the sake of the people of Tongshan City and the devastated Tongshan River, even if Chen Guang would be unhappy, he wouldn't really take revenge on him. Instead, he would admire him.
Deputy Commissioner Pang had a good grasp of the situation.
"Deputy Commissioner Pang, I really have to look at you in a different light."
"You flatter me."
"But I really don't want my money to go down the drain like this."
Deputy Commissioner Pang's face stiffened. "So, President Chen, do you have any way to solve the current situation where the emissions are not up to standard?"
Chen Guang shook his head. "No."
"Then, on behalf of the people of Tongshan City, I beg you, President Chen, to be merciful and let us live."
Chen Guang didn't answer his question. He only said, "Let's take a look around first."
In this way, Deputy Bureau Chief Pang took Chen Guang down the Tongshan River Basin for two days. They even looked at the river basins of Yueshan City.
When Chen Guang returned to the hotel, it was already past ten o 'clock the next night. His mood was indescribably heavy.
Along the way, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he really couldn't imagine how much damage the Tongshan Industrial Factory had caused to this place.
The river ecosystem had been completely destroyed. Several lakes along the way would erupt with cyanobacteria every July and August. The aquaculture industry of Tongshan City was almost completely destroyed.
The most tragic were several villages that used to drink underground water along the river. The elderly who stayed behind suffered from various chronic diseases because of drinking water quality problems. There were even some children who were only a few years old who were disabled or deformed because of diseases they had when they were young.
No matter how cold-hearted a person was, watching a seven or eight-year-old child stretch out his deformed little hand that was only three to four inches long and as thin as two fingers to help his hunchbacked grandfather and grandmother clean up the dishes with difficulty, he would feel extremely sour in his heart.
In recent years, because of the situation of the Tongshan Industrial Factory, the production of many enterprises in the industrial park had been greatly affected. At the most serious time, all of them had to stop production for rectification.
However, the economy always had to develop. The industrial structure of the industrial park had been adjusted again and again. The pollution situation in the past two years had been much better than in the past. However, the most serious damage was caused in the first two years. At that time, the management was not as strict as it was now, and there were the most problems left.
The teratogenicity and carcinogenicity had already occurred, and it was already irreversible.
Chen Guang secretly clenched his fists when he remembered his original intention of choosing environmental science, a relatively unpopular subject, when he applied for university.
Along the way, Deputy Commissioner Pang wiped his tears more than once. When Chen Guang looked at him, he awkwardly forced a smile and said, "I'm sorry to let you see such a joke, Mr. Chen. I've been to these villages many times in the past, and I always leave crying. Although the water supply in the villages is now widespread, some children can't go back because of their deformities. "
Before leaving, Chen Guang did not give Deputy Commissioner Pang a definite answer. Whether or not he could stop Tiansong, even if Deputy Commissioner Pang wanted to say something several times, but stopped himself.
Chen Guang was very unwilling. He had never failed to do what he wanted to do.
However, based on the current situation, it was obvious that letting the Tiansong Water Group take over was the best choice for everyone.
He could use his connections to pressure Tiansong, and at least get some compensation to stop the losses. He did not need to invest more.
With Tiansong Water's current strength, the entire Tongshan Industrial Plant should be able to handle at least three standards of discharge.
However, Chen Guang felt that this was not what he wanted.
Since he had seen these things, and he had personally participated in it, he wanted to use his own strength to do something for this place.
However, donating money to help those victims would not solve the problem, and the area affected was too large. Even with his current net worth, it would be a drop in the bucket.
He did not want to admit and accept failure, and he did not want Song Ningyuan to be proud. However, he could not let Tongshan Industrial Plant continue to harm this river because of his own selfishness.
Ever since he became an adult, he had rarely been in such a torturous situation.
Then what should I do?
Chen Guang fell asleep in a daze. In his sleep, he saw the dirty, black, and smelly ditches with rotten mud floating on the surface and mosquitoes flying around. The old people and children with black spots on their faces and bent arms walked out of the dilapidated tile-roofed houses.
The next morning, when he arrived at the company, he was greeted by a group of uninvited guests.
The project manager of Tiansong Water had brought a team to scout ahead of time.
At first, Chen Guang did not intend to pay attention to this group of people, nor did he let Guo Ming pay attention to them. He arranged for a low-level employee to take this group of people around the factory.
"The people from Tiansong are too disrespectful. After all, this factory is still our Xia Guang Environmental Protection Company. What's the meaning of bringing a designer to take the measurements now?"
Guo Ming stood by the window of Chen Guang's office and looked down.
Chen Guang shrugged. "They're sure that we won't pass next week's inspection."
"But they can't be so arrogant!"
Guo Ming was very indignant. He used to work for Boss Xia, so he didn't feel like they were enemies. He took care of how much money he got.
However, things were different now. The boss had changed to an old acquaintance, Chen Guang. Guo Ming couldn't help but feel indignant for Chen Guang.
Chen Guang curled his lips. "What can we do? Beat them up? "
If it had been the day before yesterday, he might have had this idea. At the very least, he would have blocked all the people from Tiansong at the door.
However, after visiting the Tongshan River area the day before yesterday, Chen Guang himself was quite confused and wavering. Until now, he hadn't been able to make up his mind.
He didn't want to admit defeat, so he had to use his connections to deceive everyone. If he wanted to live up to his conscience, he had to use funds from the Tianguang Group, at least 300 million yuan to fill this hole.
Coupled with the 170 million yuan that Liu Li had lost before, it meant that he would have to spend 500 million yuan to do this.
Even if he passed the inspection smoothly and the rebuilt Tongshan Industrial Factory could meet the standards and continue to collect sewage fees for the remaining 12 years, it would be almost impossible to recover the cost.
For him, it would be a complete failure if he couldn't make money.
In a sense, from the moment he got involved in this matter, he had already lost.
No matter how unwilling he was, he knew rationally that the best choice was to stop here, hand over the factory to Tiansong Water Group, and ask for some transfer fees. This was the optimal decision.
The people from Tiansong Water Group were busy in the factory all day. At four o 'clock in the afternoon, they still found Guo Ming.
From the beginning, Chen Guang had been wearing a wide-brimmed hat and hiding in the crowd behind Guo Ming. He covered his face and pretended to be a young employee of the factory.
Coupled with his casual attire that was rich with the smell of a student, he did look quite like one.
"Manager Guo, why don't you take an early leave from tomorrow onwards? Isn't it a waste of time for you to stay here now? During the review next week, you can just go through the motions and put on an act, right? "
Xie Yue, the leader of the Tiansong Water Group, who was in charge of this matter, went straight to the point as soon as he entered the door. He was a little arrogant and proud.
Guo Ming quietly turned his head to look at Chen Guang, who had lowered the brim of his hat, and squeezed out an ugly smile on his face. "Manager Xie, you must be joking. Our Director Chen just said a few days ago that we have to stand up for the last shift. "
"Stand up for what last shift? It's already like this. There's not much to hope for that Director Chen of yours. He's someone who could still buy Xia Guang at this time. If he says something you don't like, there's no other explanation other than that he has a screw loose in his head. "
Xie Yue waved his hands rather impatiently, before raising his brows at the designers and engineering team behind him.
Clearly, Xie Yue knew that Xia Guang's new boss was surnamed Chen, but had not known that it was Chen Guang.
The somewhat two-faced Deputy Director Pang probably hadn't warned him in advance.
Hearing that Chen Guang was being 'scolded' again, Guo Ming sneaked a look at Chen Guang. Still not seeing his expression, he began to worry for Xie Yue's safety.
I hope you'll still be able to walk out later.
A man with gold-rimmed spectacles who looked like an engineer walked out from behind Xie Yue, spreading out a map in his hands and placing it on the desk. "Um, Manager Guo, it's actually like this. We've also taken into consideration the special circumstances of the Tongshan Factory, and the tasks given to us by the higher-ups are also very tight. Once we take over, we'll have to come up with a rectification plan as soon as possible. As soon as we start work here, the enterprises in the industrial park will have to build their own water storage tanks, or they'll have to close down and reorganize. Our Tiansong Factory will have to resume operations in six months at most, and meet the discharge standards. "
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