Song Qiguang made very careful arrangements. He divided his troops into two groups and went all the way to instigate the owner of the refinery not to cooperate with the man named Liang.

The other way is to create rumors, arouse the anger of the masses, and incite the masses to gather and cause trouble.

He has used this trick repeatedly, and his men have become perfect at it with practice.

Let’s talk about the first group of people first.

In private, he was actually the owner of an oil refinery owned by Song Qiguang. He was sent by Director Song as a lobbyist to persuade the factory owners who were suspending production and waiting.

The refinery owners who received a notice from the city to go to the city to negotiate with Boss Liang are immersed in pain.

They were also very worried about whether the suspension of production and strike to put pressure on the city would be effective.

After receiving a notice from the city that boss Liang, who was planning to treat their emissions for free, was back, the factory owners were overjoyed and immediately prepared to go to the city to negotiate.

But they were stopped by lobbyists sent by Song Qiguang.

These colleagues who came to intervene did not just talk nonsense, they came with detailed data.

Or do the economic calculations for the factory bosses.

These ironclad facts and detailed data tell the factory bosses that for highly polluting enterprises such as oil refineries, there is no profit at all if they want to meet the emission standards.

All the money I earn is used for environmental protection.

In the end these lobbyists concluded:

"Our refineries have indeed caused pollution to the local environment.

But the leaders above cannot just take it at face value. They should know better than we do that local tax revenue mainly depends on us.

You see, local roads, education, medical care, etc. are all better developed than other places. Isn’t it all the money spent by us refineries?

If we spent all the money we earn on environmental protection, the environment might be better, but can our refinery still survive?

In fact, to put it bluntly, our interests are consistent with those above. Although we can eat and drink, we can do what we do.

If we don't eat or poop, we won't be able to do anything.

Our refineries have closed down, and the local economy has also collapsed.

Therefore, we can only temporarily suspend production and let the superiors feel the pressure caused by our suspension of production.

If the higher authorities feel that this is unbearable, they will definitely ask the environmental protection department to lower the environmental impact assessment standards and issue us pollution discharge certificates.

Only in this way can we ensure the profits of our refineries.

Only then can we continue to survive.”

These great principles of the lobbyists were actually taught to them by Song Qiguang'er.

I have to admit that from a certain perspective, this is indeed true.

It is also very convincing to these factory owners who are worried and suffering from the pain of production shutdown every day.

However, after all, the losses caused by the suspension of production must be borne by the factory owners themselves. If production is suspended for one day, the losses will be huge, which makes the factory owners feel more uncomfortable than cutting meat.

Although the lobbyists' arguments were very convincing, the factory owners still hesitated and asked:

"Isn't this the same boss Liang who came back last time?

He has advanced environmental protection technology at his disposal, and promised to install emission collection equipment for us free of charge, and also dispatched technical personnel for free.

Although this makes the process a little more complicated, we will also have to incur some expenses for it.

But Boss Liang said that this cost is a drop in the bucket for our refinery and has little impact on profits.

In this way, our emissions will meet the standards and we will get the emissions permit.

Why bother to follow the others and challenge them?"

"Do you believe such a thing?" The lobbyist made an expression as if he was looking at a fool and said:

"What do we do? We are businessmen running a business, right?

The purpose of businessmen is to make money. If we don't make money, the business will definitely not be able to continue.

The man named Liang is a businessman. Just like us, he comes here to make money.

Profitability is the basis for the survival of all businessmen. There is no free lunch in the world.

What Mr. Liang did was completely contrary to the nature of business and is logically unjustifiable.

The only explanation is that either the person named Liang is a liar and has other agendas.

Either he does it for free in the early stage, and then when our refinery becomes dependent on these processing facilities, he starts charging for various reasons."

This set of logical and complete arguments convinced those factory bosses who "happily went ahead".

Everyone then ignored the city’s notice and continued to suspend production and wait and see.

The group of troops sent by Song Qiguang achieved remarkable results.

But with the second team, the situation is no longer what it used to be, and the work is not going so smoothly.

Because the villagers in each village seem to be no longer so easily mobilized.

When rumors spread again in the village, most villagers expressed doubts about the rumors.

Or dubious.

First of all, the publicity of the last visiting group not only convinced the villagers, but also made them yearn for enterprises like Jimin Refinery.

Now rumors are spreading again, and the villagers feel that these rumors are not credible because they feel that the city will not lie to people.

The city sent leaders to take everyone to visit the Jimin Refinery, and personally promised that what is being built now is an enterprise like the Jimin Refinery.

This is what should be believed.

Because after all, there is such a big factory there, and no one can hide what kind of enterprise it will build.

It's impossible for the city to do such low-level things.

Therefore, although the rumors spread fiercely, most villagers no longer felt like they were instantly ignited and going crazy like before.

This is really discouraging.

The internal lines arranged by Song Qiguang in various villages were mainly coordinated and led by a gangster in Wannan Town nicknamed "Nan Batian".

Just by hearing this name, you know that Nan Batian is a tyrant in the town.

He has many younger brothers under his command.

In the past, Nan Batian, in addition to doing the normal business expected of a local hegemon, also had an important source of income, stealing oil.

As the saying goes, he relies on mountains and rivers to live in a place where oil is everywhere. If he can't make a fortune by relying on oil products, then there is no point in being a local hegemon.

Stealing oil is also called "gas rat" by the locals. To put it bluntly, it feels like half-stealing and half-robbing.

Anyway, as long as the oil can be sucked away from under your nose without anyone noticing, it's called stealing.

If you are discovered while stealing, don’t be afraid, because you have already prepared an armed confrontation.

Whether it's an oil refinery or a driver pulling oil, catching a thief is enough, and it's a matter of "degree" that needs to be carefully grasped.

Because you don't dare to offend these gangsters.

You can figure out for yourself what the consequences will be if you are severely offended.

In fact, not only oil extraction and refining areas, but also any other area that relies on energy will breed such dominating local ruffians. They do not work or produce, but they also rely on energy to make a fortune.

The reason is that the energy industry is actually synonymous with huge profit industries.

This familiar passage from "Das Kapital" is praised by everyone:

“If there is a 10% profit, capital will be used everywhere; if there is a 20% profit, capital will be active.

With a 50% profit, capital will take desperate risks.

For 100% profit, capital dares to trample all human laws.

With a profit of more than 300%, capital will dare to commit any crime and even risk hanging."

Ruffians will never disappear in any era or anywhere.

In areas with dense profit-making industries, this type of strongman is more obvious.

Just like Nan Batian, his evil deeds are in direct proportion to his wealth.

The more fierce you are, the more money you will make.

The more money he gets, the more powerful he becomes and the more arrogant and fierce he becomes.

Not only did these small local refineries dare not offend him severely, but they also needed help from Nan Batian in many places.

For example, when a village is severely polluted and the villagers cannot bear it any longer and gather together to demand an explanation from the oil refinery, the oil refinery often does not talk directly to the villagers.

Instead, he secretly found Nan Batian and asked him to come forward to deal with the troublesome villagers.

He will give Nan Batian a huge reward afterwards.

When one refinery does this, other refineries see the benefits of using Nan Batian's power and follow suit.

When a mass incident occurs, go to Nan Batian for help in solving the problem.
To be continued...