Rebirth of the Rising Sun

The next step was to win over the Minister of United Front Work Ding Yi.

Ding Yi has a reputation as an old antique. He has always been very low-key in his work and life. He would only speak up when ethnic conflicts arose, and he seldom expressed his opinions at other times. So when Che Zaichao asked him to dinner, he refused, but just let someone know that he would respect the municipal party secretary, and generally he would not object to Che Zaichao's proposal.

With Ding Yi's words, Che Zaichao felt relieved. In fact, he couldn't promise anything to others. It was already very good that others could respect him as the secretary of the municipal party committee.

In fact, there are more than one person who has this mentality, including the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission Chen Zhenghai. They all know that the municipal party committee is bigger than the municipal government in Lianhua City. As the saying goes, the party leads everything, so out of this mentality they still respect the car that is overtaking.

With this calculation, Che Zaichao already has quite a few supporters in the municipal party committee. Including the executive vice mayor Xu Yongcheng who voted for him the earliest, the political and legal committee secretary Huang Lin who just voted for him, and the propaganda minister Song Jian, plus Chen Zhenghai and Ding Yi who have agreed to support him, Che Zaichao already has six votes in the municipal party committee, which is on par with Feng Sizhe.

Feeling that the time was ripe, Che Zaichao convened the second municipal party committee standing committee meeting since he came to Lianhua City. In the standing committee, he selected the top ten most outstanding cadres of Lianhua City that year who were reported to the Guangxi Provincial Party Committee.

He and Feng Sizhe are going to compete on this list of ten people.

These so-called top ten outstanding cadres became the reason for the first struggle between Feng and Che. During this period, both sides did some work. Of course, Che Zaichao's work was more complete. For example, he nominated five of the ten names.

Because of one of the people, he and Feng Sizhe had a dispute over this person. This person was Wu Sheng, the current acting director of the Lianhua City Finance Bureau.

Back then, when Feng Sizhe first came to Lianhua City, the director at that time was called Ni Dahong. He was both the director of the Finance Bureau and the deputy mayor. It could be said that his position was very important. However, because he wanted to make things difficult for Feng Sizhe, he was later taken down by Xia Xiang and Feng Sizhe. Since then, the Municipal Finance Bureau has been managed by a man named Wu Sheng. As the deputy director, he became the acting director. The reason why there has been no election for a director is because of Xia Xiang. Xia Xiang wants to know that economic development cannot be separated from financial support. So at his insistence, the Municipal Finance Bureau has always been managed by Feng Sizhe himself. In this way, with Feng Sizhe's ability, it doesn't matter whether there is a director or not.

But after Xia Xiang left, Che Zaichao arrived, and he immediately wanted to snatch this piece of fat from Feng Sizhe's mouth. Coincidentally, Wu Sheng also came to Che Zaichao under the introduction of Xu Yongcheng and expressed his loyalty. He said that as long as he could be in charge of the Finance Bureau, he would definitely fully respect Secretary Che Zaichao.

In this way, Che Zaichao chose this as a breakthrough point, thinking of having a round of competition with Feng Sizhe.

With Che Zaichao's tacit approval, Wu Sheng's name appeared among the ten outstanding cadres of Lianhua City who were reported to the higher authorities. When Feng Sizhe saw this name at the meeting, he was obviously stunned. He couldn't understand why the Municipal Party Committee reported Wu Sheng, who was not very outstanding in his work. It would be fine if Che Zaichao didn't know about this matter, after all, he had just arrived not long ago, but Wang Ben, the secretary general of the Municipal Party Committee, should not be unaware of it, so he looked at Wang Ben who was sitting in the meeting room. He wanted to hear this person's explanation.

Wang Ben was forced to do this this time. It was Che Zaichao who talked to him and forced him to do this. He was someone else's subordinate and had his own reasons. There was nothing he could do. When he met Feng Sizhe's gaze, he could only shake his head and then look at Che Zaichao.

Feng Sizhe saw Wang Ben's performance, and he immediately understood that it was all Che Zaichao's idea. A few days ago, he heard Chen Guangming report that Deputy Mayor Xu Yongcheng had been in close contact with Wu Sheng recently, but he hadn't thought too much about it. Now he understood that the other party wanted to take action against the power he controlled.

"Okay, comrades, the list of the top ten outstanding cadres has been reported. Please think about it. Haha, there is actually nothing to consider. In order not to embarrass you this time, the Municipal Party Committee has only selected ten comrades. This way, there is no need to argue about anything. As long as you agree, just nod and approve it." Che Zaichao looked at everyone with a smile on his face. This time he had made sufficient preparations. In order to allow Wu Sheng to get this honor, he did not even prepare more candidates for everyone to choose from as usual. Instead, he selected exactly ten people. He believed that in this way, there would be nothing to argue about. This was also a preparation for Wu Sheng to be on the list.

The real purpose of Che Zaichao doing this is not just to promote Wu Sheng, he has a more important purpose in doing this, that is, if Wu Sheng's name is reported and the provincial party committee approves it, then after the new year, he can consider letting Wu Sheng take over the Finance Bureau in an all-round way. In this case, Feng Sizhe must withdraw from here.

What is the symbol of being in charge of a city? To put it bluntly, it is just two things: one is to manage people, and the other is to manage money. As long as he can grasp these two points, he will be the undisputed leader of Lianhua City. But usually, the municipal party committee manages people, and the municipal government manages money. But in order to complete the task assigned by the chief, Che Zaichao must grab both of them. Only in this way can he effectively reduce Feng Sizhe's authority. Think about it, a mayor has no say in personnel matters and is restricted in money matters. Will his job be easy?

In this spirit, today's meeting was held, and Wu Sheng's name was listed on the list.

Looking at Wu Sheng's name, Feng Sizhe hadn't said anything yet, but Deputy Mayor Dong Yongzhao spoke first, "Secretary Che, Mayor Feng and all comrades, I have objections to this list."

It is Dong Yongzhao's usual style to give his opinions right away. Perhaps because he is old and will retire soon, Dong Yongzhao is not afraid of offending anyone. As long as he thinks something is unfair, he will speak out.

He had hoped that Feng Sizhe would raise objections. If so, Wu Sheng would definitely bear a grudge. But now Dong Yongzhao had raised it, which made Che Zaichao somewhat disappointed. But it didn't matter. He believed that Dong Yongzhao alone could not stir up any trouble. When he couldn't stand it anymore, Feng Sizhe would always stand up for him. That would still offend people.

Che Zaichao figured this out, so he looked at Dong Yongzhao and asked with a smile, "Mayor Yongzhao, what's the problem?"

"I support the other nine people on the list. After all, they have worked very hard over the past year. But I really don't understand Wu Sheng. What kind of achievements has he made? Why do we have to report his name? There are so many outstanding cadres in our city, but he won't get the chance anyway."

Dong Yongzhao was not polite. He stated his opinion right away and expressed his incomprehension of Wu Sheng appearing on the list.

In fact, he was not the only one who did not understand. Others did not understand either, but they were just not as straightforward as him. Now that someone had taken the lead, others would not speak up and wait to see what Che Zaichao would say.

Che Zaichao wanted to wait for more people to come out, but after waiting for a long time, he didn't see anyone else speak, so he had no choice but to say, "Well, if it's just Comrade Yongzhao who holds this view, I don't think it's enough to prove anything. You know, a person's view of things is always one-sided. Of course, I'm not saying that Comrade Yongzhao is inaccurate in judging people. I just think that since the comrades of the Municipal Party Committee can report Wu Sheng's name, he must have some merits."

Che Zaichao said this in order to get more people to jump out of this matter, because he has already made all the preparations for this matter, and he is just waiting for some people to jump out and give them a good blow.

As soon as he said this, someone did jump out, but it was not Feng Sizhe as he had imagined, but the city division commander Guo Pingchuan. "Well, although I am not very familiar with the work of Lianhua City, I have been here for a few years and have heard of some cadres. Besides, I came to Lianhua City earlier than some people, and from what I have heard, Wu Sheng does not seem to be very outstanding. After listening to Comrade Dong Yongzhao's opinion, I have this mentality even more, so I support Mayor Dong."

As the only member of the military standing committee, Guo Pingchuan is not restricted by Che Zaichao's power and has great autonomy, so he dares to speak out. He even pointed out that although Che Zaichao is the secretary of the municipal party committee, he has been in Lianhua City for too short a time and his understanding of this person may not be as good as his own.

Guo Pingchuan's words had a hint of accusation, but Che Zaichao couldn't help but hear it. His eyes twitched a few times, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he tried hard to suppress his anger.

Feng Sizhe paid close attention to this detail. Looking at Che Zaichao's cunningness, he secretly admired him in his heart, but he also stepped up his precautions against this man. This man was really an opponent and he could not be careless. He originally wanted to speak after Dong Yongzhao, but now he kept his mouth shut and wanted to see the situation before speaking.

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