Chapter 1042 Fighting with Weapons

Lin Sen and Zhao Xiaolong's third stop, Zaozhuang, Beizhuang Town, Zhoucun.

As soon as they entered Zhoucun, Lin Sen and Zhao Xiaolong heard a gunshot.

"what happened?"

Zhao Xiaolong asked.

Dahua has been at peace for a long time, and civilian guns have been forcibly confiscated. Where is the sound of gunfire?

"I didn't know. It's better to be careful."

Lin Sen wanted to find a place to hide, but they found that the people in the village did not flee in all directions, but went in the same direction, and many of them were holding hoes and shovels in their hands.

"Isn't this a fight with people from other villages over water sources?"

Fighting for water sources has been an eternal theme in rural areas since ancient times. Fighting over water sources was common in the past.

However, in Dahua today, this situation is much less common.

After all, Dahua has been actively building water conservancy projects, and in the process of building water conservancy projects, they generally do not favor any one place, just to avoid fights.

"Go over and have a look."

Lin Sen said.

If only people from two villages were fighting, outsiders like them would be absolutely safe.

They followed the villagers and ran to a reservoir.

Then, they did see two groups of people.

But it didn't look like a fight between two villages, because there were only a few people in one group, but they all had guns in their hands.

A normal fight between two villages should have about the same number of people and similar weapons and equipment, not like this.

Lin Sen and the others squeezed past and found that one person had been shot in the abdomen and was bleeding.

The five men with guns were already surrounded by angry villagers. But because they were afraid of the opponent's guns, no one dared to take the lead and charge forward.

Among the two groups, there was another person calling for calm on both sides.

Lin Sen saw the other party's armband and determined that he was a veteran and the head of the village.

"Everyone, calm down, put down your weapons, and speak slowly if you have anything to say."

Zhou Lang stood between the two groups, trying his best to prevent the conflict from escalating.

"Zhou Xiong, get out of our way. We were all ridden on our heads and shitted. You, the village chief, are useless."

The villagers were furious and looked like they wanted to beat Zhou Lang up too.

Zhou Lang was very tired of this. Although he was also a Zhou villager, he was not from Zhou village.

He was useful to Zhou Cun in the past, so everyone naturally obeyed him. But now that he was unable to protect the interests of the villagers, he was inevitably criticized. He was even nicknamed Zhou Xiong, which meant that he was useless.

"I will shoot anyone who dares to take another step forward."

The five people who were surrounded were also very nervous. After all, there were many people in Zhoucun. Even if they had guns, once the other party rushed forward desperately, with a distance of less than three meters between the two sides, the five of them would definitely be torn into pieces.

"Stop it, everyone. I am the deputy section chief of the Development Section of the Ministry of Agriculture in Nanjing, and I am in the sixth grade. Are you going to rebel?"

Seeing that the two sides were getting more and more excited, Lin Sen ignored the whole story and stood up to calm the matter down first.

If a fight really breaks out, at least six or seven people will die in this armed fight. This is already a big event.

It would be fine if he didn't meet him, but if he did meet him and didn't stop him, he would inevitably be criticized.

Development Section of the Ministry of Agriculture, what the hell?

In fact, many people have no idea what an official position is.

Fortunately, Lin Sen said that he was of the sixth grade, which made some people know that the person in front of them was a high official.

After all, the mayor of their city is only from the sixth rank.

"Mr. Section Chief, you came just in time."

Zhou Lang seemed to have found a savior.

At this time, other people were also shouting for Lin Sen to make the decision for them.

It's not that they are really reasonable or trust Lin Sen, the main thing is that they don't want to fight those people with guns.

Who wants to die if he can live?

In the past, it was okay to work hard if you couldn't survive, but now, even if you give in today, you can still live in the future.

The bloody nature of these people is inversely proportional to comfort to a certain extent. The more comfortable life becomes, the less they want to work hard.

"Put down your weapons first, send the injured to first aid, and then tell me the whole story. I will naturally urge your mayor to handle it impartially..."

Lin Sen is a high-ranking official and has a great intimidation effect on ordinary people.

He spoke, and the villagers temporarily put down their weapons. Some carried the injured to treatment, while others began to complain to Lin Sen.

The cause of the matter can be said to be simple or complicated.

To put it simply, these five men with guns contracted the Zhoucun Reservoir to raise fish.

Then, villagers in Zhoucun often went to the reservoir to steal fish and sell them. This time someone stole fish again and was caught. The two sides clashed, and then one of them fired.

It sounds like the villagers are at fault.

But in fact, rural problems are often very complex.

The villagers of Zhoucun have been fishing in this reservoir for generations, and they all believe that this reservoir belongs to Zhoucun.

Now, if someone puts some fish fry in the reservoir and says that the reservoir is contracted by them, how can the villagers of Zhoucun agree?

Besides, they didn’t get a dime of contract money.

The villagers were dissatisfied and the contractor was also angry.

I spent money on the contract, and spent money on raising fish fry, and then watched helplessly as people from Zhoucun kept stealing fish. It was unbearable for anyone.

After listening to the complaints from both sides, Lin Sen was completely clear in his heart.

This is a question of resource ownership, and it is currently a fuzzy area for Dahua.

Those important mineral resources already have clear ownership and belong to the imperial court.

However, Dahua currently has no explicit regulations for small reservoirs like this.

A certain local official must have taken advantage of this loophole and contracted it to others privately. But in this process, the feelings of Zhoucun people were ignored.

Knowing the whole story, Lin Sen promised to solve it.

Then, he found the mayor of Zaozhuang and talked about it.

The mayor of Zaozhuang didn't want to bring this kind of embarrassing matter to the public, and promised that it would be properly resolved.

Lin Sen estimated that he should punish the official who made the decision without authorization and then give some compensation to the people of Zhoucun.

However, this has nothing to do with Lin Sen.

What he has to do is to record the case and then write some opinions and submit it.

If the big bosses above take it seriously, they might sit down and discuss the ownership of these less important resources.

If the people above do not pay attention to it, then it will be difficult to say, and this problem may be dragged on.

There are many things that Dahua needs to deal with. Things like this that are not particularly urgent are usually postponed.

There are actually many similar things like this in Dahua.

But it doesn’t matter, Dahua is always improving and getting better.