Jiang Xiaochuan arrived at the gate of Rongyuan Heavy Industry. As soon as the car stopped, he saw an excited crowd in front of him. Those people were shouting and extremely excited. The security personnel of Rongyuan Heavy Industry were forcibly pushing these people away, lest they come in and cause trouble.

As soon as Jiang Xiaochuan’s car stopped, he was immediately recognized. This was a car with a leadership plate.

So, the anger of these people suddenly transferred, and someone waved his hand and shouted: “The leaders from above are here!”

Jiang Xiaochuan had encountered such a scene countless time before, and he was quite calm. He knew that people working in state-owned enterprises still knew the rules very well, and generally, they wouldn’t do anything exaggerated. At this time, he couldn’t sit in the car and be blocked. Being stuck in the car would not only ruin his face, but also Jiang Xiaochuan’s future.

So, before Wei Lai had time to stop him, Jiang Xiaochuan opened the car door and stood in front of everyone.

He got out of the car extremely quickly, without any sloppiness at all. He looked full of energy. As soon as he stood outside the car, standing tall in a suit, he actually gave off a kind of majestic power.

There was a kind of aura called “official aura,” and Jiang Xiaochuan seemed to have always had a strong aura.

He had a clear conscience. When he stood up, he still had a kind of righteous toughness. He spoke before everyone could react: “I know everyone is angry now, but please look at everything calmly. If you have any grievances, please let me know. I will clarify the situation before making any decisions. I am Jiang Xiaochuan, deputy secretary of the Chengzhou Municipal Party Committee and acting mayor. You must know me. As soon as I received the report below, I came here. I have not had time to prepare. I hope everyone will give me time to understand the matter.”

It was true, Jiang Xiaochuan did not lie. It had only taken a short time for them to gather to cause trouble, but Mayor Jiang had already arrived. This was really fast. Unexpectedly, based on the timing, he did come with sincerity, so many people calmed down.

However, some people were still filled with righteous indignation, “What else do you not know? You are just a bunch of corrupt officials! Didn’t you agree to provide subsidies to retired employees? Now that you have completed the layoffs task, but you have not fulfilled your promise, you ruined our life.”

“Employment subsidies should be given to us. What will we do as unemployed people? Others say that we have an iron rice bowl*, but now that the iron rice bowl is lost. You group of moths, are still eating our subsidies. This is simply going to kill us and suck our blood dry!”

[Iron rice bowl: a stable income for a lifetime]

“Bah!” Someone spitted on the ground.

At first, Jiang Xiaochuan was able to calm the entire audience, but as that person spoke, the anger that had been suppressed by his previous speech seemed to come up.

But Jiang Xiaochuan’s attention was not focused on this. He just caught the key words in the other party’s words: “Hasn’t the subsidy been allocated a long time ago?

“I haven’t seen mine yet!”

“Humph, it’s because of those scumbags!”

“It’s all you corrupt officials. Nine out of ten officials are corrupt. You just said official words, it’s all up to you whether it was right or wrong. What about us little people? We didn’t even have a place to talk?”

“Rongyuan Heavy Industries are asking us to go! But my son is still hospitalized with a high fever and we have no money for medical expenses. If you don’t pay the subsidy, I will fight with you!”

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The scene suddenly became chaotic. Wei Lai rushed over and stood in front of Jiang Xiaochuan and asked everyone to calm down, even the drivers from behind came to help ward off the excited crowd. Behind them, the guards from Rongyuan Heavy Industry saw that Mayor Jiang was surrounded. Suddenly, as if their souls replaced by soldiers, they quickly came out and violently pulled the people away, using police batons and electric tools.

Immediately, someone fell from the force, which caused a burst of panic and anger. Someone shouted: “Killing people! They are going to kill people and silence them!”

Jiang Xiaochuan suddenly became anxious: “Don’t do it, don’t do anything, calm down!”

The guards over there also knew that they had done something wrong because as soon as they took action, the people around them became angry. The people were full of anger because they didn’t receive the subsidy, but now this guards were so arrogant and overbearing, beating people as soon as they come up.

Even rabbit would bite people if it was surrounded, and the weak people also had three points of energy. Okay, the guards wanted to fight, they also wanted it too!

Immediately, some people rolled up their sleeves and started fighting with the guards. The scene was a mess.

While Wei Lai tried his best to keep these people away, he shouted at the top of his voice for everyone to calm down and promised that the matter would be handled appropriately, but his voice was suppressed by the angry curses and could not be heard at all.

It was bad, he knew it was really bad this time.

Such chaos… he was afraid that…

Jiang Xiaochuan also knew that the situation was not good. It had been fine before, but now, because of the sudden action from the guards, the tense atmosphere was immediately detonated, just like a buried bomb. The bomb exploded unexpectedly when it was least needed.

But Jiang Xiaochuan smelled a conspiracy. The people who interrupted several times seemed to be detonating this explosive, and the subsequent development was unexpectedly fast.

He believed this was a deliberate conspiracy!

Dai Xu!

Just when he was thinking about this, a pair of sinister and vicious eyes in the crowd were already staring at Jiang Xiaochuan.

Jiang Xiaochuan was thinking about how to persuade these people, but before he could speak, he suddenly felt a sharp pain on his forehead, as if he had been hit by something, followed by a kind of numbness and inability to feel anything. Dizzy and nauseous, his vision was once again rendered red, all red, and his eyes were out of focus.

Jiang Xiaochuan unconsciously raised his head and looked around him. Everyone gradually became quiet. His eyes swept across these people. He really didn’t feel what happened. He only saw everyone had a look of horror.

He said: “Everyone is finally quiet…”

Wei Lai stood beside Jiang Xiaochuan, holding him with trembling hands, and there was huge panic in his eyes.

Jiang Xiaochuan didn’t understand what he was looking at. He raised his hand and touched his forehead along Wei Lai’s line of sight. Suddenly he touched a sticky substance with the unique fishy smell of blood.

He finally came to his senses; someone had hit him with a brick.

The laid-off employees of Rongyuan Heavy Industry had gathered in a crowd to cause trouble, and angrily hit Mayor Jiang Xiaochuan on the head with a brick – this would probably be the headline on the news tomorrow morning…