Rebirth of the Rising Sun

But in fact, Xia Xiang, the person involved, really understood it very well. He still had to thank Feng Sizhe for the success of this matter. Of course, he still had to rely on himself to walk the rest of the way. Only if he worked hard could he reach a better and higher position.

Xia Xiang was about to be transferred, and the Guangxi Provincial Party Committee quickly discussed the position of the successor secretary. In fact, there was no need to discuss this position, as Zhu Lao and the Lu family had already made a proposal, and the successor was also decided. He was one of the Zhu faction members, or one of the Zhu faction's capable men, Che Zaichao.

Che Zaichao, born in 1952, whose ancestral home is in the Central Plains, worked his way up from the grassroots level and is currently employed in the Information Department of the Ministry of Public Security as the director of the Information Department. He was one of the cadres promoted by Zhu Tianjiang when he was in office and one of the cadres that Zhu's faction focused on training. It is rumored that this person has a very good eloquence and can often turn black into white and round into square, otherwise he would not have been the director of the Information Department.

This time, Che Zaichao was able to succeed Xia Xiang as the secretary of the Lianhua Municipal Party Committee. That was the result of discussions between Zhu Tianjiang and the Lu family. The Zhu family even made a lot of concessions for this. However, the details of the arrangements could not be known to the outside world. As Xia Xiang was transferred away, Zhu Tianjiang was also going to come to Lianhua City to take up his post.

Feng Sizhe was not very clear about Che Zaichao's character, and he did not have time to care about it now. Anyway, the two would meet sooner or later, and even fight each other. The first thing he had to do now was to see Xia Xiang off. The two had been partners for more than a year and had always had a harmonious relationship. Now that his old friend was leaving, he felt a little reluctant.

Public receptions and seeing offs are not allowed in the officialdom. For this reason, Feng Sizhe set up a large table in a relatively inconspicuous restaurant in Lianhua City as a farewell banquet to welcome Secretary Xia Xiang as he was going to take up his post in Harbin Province.

Xia Xiang also knew that the provincial documents would be issued soon, and he would not be able to stay in Lianhua City for too long, so he took this opportunity to introduce all his good connections in Lianhua City to Feng Sizhe. He was called together during dinner today, which could be regarded as a handover.

Xia Xiang was a man who only cared about his work and did not deliberately create and manage his own small circle, so he brought two members of the Municipal Party Committee, namely Wang Ben, the Municipal Party Committee Secretary-General, and Li Haiwen, the Secretary of the Huabei District Party Committee. These two people were considered to be Xia Xiang's relatives, so he took this opportunity to introduce them to Feng Sizhe.

The people brought by Feng Sizhe were Cheng Dashan, the head of the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, Dong Yongzhao, the deputy mayor, Guo Pingchuan, the military sub-district commander, and Xiang Feng, who had already served as the secretary of the Huanan District Party Committee. Judging from this camp, even if Xia Xiang left, Feng Sizhe would be able to fully control Lianhua City, because there were seven people having dinner together today. Even if Xia Xiang was not there, there were still six people, nearly half of the number of Lianhua City Party Committee Standing Committee members. I believe it is enough to deal with general matters.

At the table, Xia Xiang expressed his gratitude to everyone for their support for his work, and also told Wang Ben and Li Haiwen that they should work hard with Mayor Feng in the future. This was like entrusting an orphan to someone else, and Feng Sizhe naturally accepted it with pleasure.

In Feng Sizhe's opinion, it is certainly a good thing that Xia Xiang can achieve success and have a good future. He also believes that with Xia Xiang's work spirit, he will show his talent wherever he goes and will have a good future.

The meal was a very successful one. There was no grudge between everyone and no one was on guard against anyone else. The atmosphere was obviously very good.

Compared to the harmonious atmosphere in the restaurant, Ruan Guiben, who was staying at home, had some thoughts in his mind. Ever since the incident with the three people from the Bei family, he has been much more low-key. It can be said that no matter whether it is big or small, he completely follows Xia Xiang and Feng Sizhe's opinions. He even gave advice to Li Shuang when he encountered trouble. He knew that Feng Sizhe invited Xia Xiang to dinner today to see him off, and he even knew who was going to go, but what he couldn't figure out was why he was not invited.

Ruan Guiben was in a bad mood, and even felt a little aggrieved. He thought that he had already realized the mistakes he had made in the past, so why didn't others accept him? Why?

Just when Ruan Guiben was sitting alone at home, Xu Yongcheng, deputy mayor of Lianhua Municipal Government, came to visit him.

After Ping Yong was transferred away, Xu Yongcheng kept a low profile for a long time. In order to prevent others from catching him with any handle, he even ignored everything and pushed all the big and small matters onto Feng Sizhe. Because of this, the cadres below gave him the nickname "freeloader mayor", meaning that this mayor just eats for free every day and does nothing real.

Hearing such a name, he was of course very angry, but he could not do anything to change his mind, or he was waiting for an opportunity. He believed that Feng Sizhe could not work in Lianhua City for his whole life, so the day when he was transferred away would be the time for him to be proud. But after waiting for such a long time, the result was not Feng Sizhe's departure, but Xia Xiang's departure, which made him a little depressed. He wondered when this kind of cowardly behavior would end.

What’s more, hard work pays off. The deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, Ping Guowang, actually called him again and treated him as his own.

Ping Guowang actually looked down on Xu Yongcheng. He thought that he was not a capable cadre and would not be able to achieve anything great. But this time he had to call him. The reason was very simple. As a capable general of the Lu family, he had received a message from the Lu family, that is, to cooperate with the Zhu family to deal with Feng Sizhe. The next person who was transferred from the Information Department of the Ministry of Public Security to Lianhua City was Che Zaichao, who came for this purpose. What he needed to do was to find an insider in Lianhua City as early as possible so that Che Zaichao could start working quickly after arriving in Lianhua City.

In this way, Pingguo Wang thought of Xu Yongcheng and called him. After the call was connected, he expressed sympathy for Xu Yongcheng's situation and said that in view of this, if he wanted to change his current situation, he could get along well with Secretary Che Zaichao who was about to be transferred to Lianhua City and work together to do something big.

Xu Yongcheng certainly knew what it meant to listen to something important. He was very excited when his old leader called him again, so he agreed as soon as he opened his mouth.

Xu Yongcheng, who knew that he might turn over, thought further. He was thinking about how to make Che Zaichao pay more attention to him after he came. What should he do? After thinking about it, he thought of Ruan Guiben, who was in the same situation as him. He thought that Ruan Guiben was also forgotten by Xia Xiang and Feng Sizhe, so it should be easy to unite with him. By uniting with him, he could increase his authority in front of the new secretary. So he specially chose the time when Feng Sizhe was seeing Xia Xiang off and came to Ruan Guiben's house.

Xu Yongcheng and Ruan Guiben were usually just colleagues. Deep down, Ruan Guiben looked down on him, but since the man had come to his place, out of courtesy he couldn't just kick him out immediately, so he had to give up his seat and let him sit on the sofa in his living room.

Ruan Guiben was not very enthusiastic about him. Xu Yongcheng had thought of this before and he understood it. Indeed, with his current status in Lianhua City, it would be difficult for him to gain real respect wherever he went. Even among his subordinates, they would look down on him from the bottom of their hearts and would pretend to obey him but actually disobey him. But fortunately, he knew that this experience would soon end, and all this would truly change with the departure of Xia Xiang and the arrival of Che Zaichao.

"Secretary Ruan is so free at home. It seems that we are of the same kind. No one has invited me to dinner today." In order to have more resonance with Ruan Guiben, Xu Yongcheng adopted the approach of getting close to the other party first and maintaining the same status with the other party.

"Well, is that so?" Ruan Guiben answered absentmindedly. He knew that Feng Sizhe and Xia Xiang would not invite Xu Yongcheng to dinner no matter what, because they were not the same kind of people at all. On the other hand, he was completely different. He had something in common with them, that is, they all hoped that Lianhua City would be better. Based on this common point, both sides should have a common language.

"Haha, isn't it? As far as I know, Mayor Feng is hosting a farewell banquet for Comrade Xia Xiang today. Many comrades from our Municipal Committee are attending, but you and I are really idle at home, this..."

"Okay, stop talking." Hearing that Xu Yongcheng was still adding fuel to the fire at this time, Ruan Guiben interrupted him in time. In his opinion, Xia Xiang had not left yet, and he was at least still the secretary of Lianhua City. However, Xu Yongcheng no longer called him Secretary Xia, but changed to Comrade Xia Xiang. This small change was enough to prove how powerful this person was, and such a person should not be made friends with.

Xu Yongcheng did misunderstand Ruan Guiben's meaning. He thought that the other party didn't want to listen. But the more the other party didn't want to listen, the more he talked. He wanted to let the other party know that you, Ruan Guiben, always thought you were a good person, but the other party didn't buy your tricks at all. "Alas, there are some things that I don't say, you should also understand, this is the fact that happened, this cannot be changed, it seems that the other party is closer, it seems that no matter how hard we try..."

"Okay, Comrade Xu Yongcheng, please stop talking. If you came here just to talk about this matter, then I can tell you that I don't want to listen and you can leave now." Ruan Guiben heard that Xu Yongcheng didn't know what was good for him, so he immediately made the intention to send him away.

Ruan Gui was really annoyed, which forced Xu Yongcheng to interrupt what he was about to say and said, "Secretary Ruan, don't be anxious. In fact, I came here today to talk to you about something. It's about our new Secretary Che."

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