Rebirth of the Rising Sun

It turned out that Liu Jianmin, the director of the Civil Affairs Bureau, had given Deng Lei a document to apply for funds. The document was about the pension for the families of the coal mine collapse case that shocked the whole country half a year ago. After reading the document, he felt that it should have been handled long ago, so he signed the document and sent it to the Municipal Finance Bureau. However, at that time, he not only wrote his name and the word "agree", but also wrote an instruction to send the document to Comrade Ru Honghai for review. But why is it gone now?

Seeing Deng Lei's confused look, Feng Sizhe smiled and shook his head. "I have already asked a specialist to verify the matter. I just want to ask one thing. When you signed, did you use two pens to write?"

Feng Sizhe asked this, and Deng Lei thought about it, and the answer came out. "Yes, it was not in the office at that time, but when I went to the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau to inspect the work. The document was delivered by Liu Jianmin, and he also took my pen. I signed my name with a pen, but I don't know why, the pen ran out of ink after writing my name. Then Director Liu handed me a second pen, and then I didn't think too much, and wrote another handwriting to send to Mayor Ru Honghai for review. Now it seems that everything written by the second pen is gone."

"Haha, that's right. I asked someone to identify it and the result showed that the ink of the second pen is the latest special liquid from abroad. The writing will completely disappear after a few hours. It seems like this is a trap set by others." Feng Sizhe said as if he fully understood the situation.

"Ah? How could this be? What's the point of them doing this?" Deng Lei felt confused when he heard Feng Sizhe's somewhat far-fetched explanation.

"What's the point? Through this matter, you can let Mayor Ru's opinion on you. I think Mayor Ru should know about this matter now. I think he will be angry. He will think that you don't value him and make your own decisions on some work?" Feng Sizhe can think of it. This must be from Mou Guoyang. Only this person can come up with such a dirty idea. The purpose is of course very simple, that is, to make Ru Honghai and Deng Lei fight each other. In many cases, weakening the opponent's strength is to increase one's own strength. Of course, it can be seen from this incident that Mou Guoyang still does not trust Ru Honghai and is still thinking about using various methods to attack him. Think about it, if Ru Honghai and Deng Lei break up, then the Qin faction's alliance will no longer exist. At that time, Ru Honghai will not have the support of Deng Lei. Mou Guoyang only needs to turn his face, and the power of the municipal government may fall into the hands of the executive vice mayor Yang Chao. In this way, the Gan faction will control the municipal government as it wishes.

The incident happened because of Feng Sizhe, who thinks about things in the long term and in an organized manner. Otherwise, if it were any other confused cadre, he would inevitably blame Deng Lei for this matter. After all, the financial aspect is under the jurisdiction of the municipal government, and Deng Lei, as a deputy mayor, took money from the lower levels, and it was a considerable amount, but he did not even inform the mayor. What he did was indeed wrong.

Deng Lei was so angry when he heard Feng Sizhe's answer. Of course, he was even more grateful to Feng Sizhe. "Thank you, Secretary Feng. I was indeed careless this time. I will definitely use my own pen when signing any document in the future. I also want to go to Mayor Ru to explain the situation. What do you think?"

"Hey, listen to me, it's better not to go there for now. I think Mayor Ru will be angry about this matter. The reason why he hasn't done anything yet is probably that he is looking for an opportunity. Now that you take the initiative to go there, unpleasant things are bound to happen." Feng Sizhe persuaded Deng Lei.

But Deng Lei didn't want to listen to this. In his opinion, he and Ru Honghai were from the same family. As long as he explained the reason, he would definitely understand him. "No, Secretary Feng, I think I should tell Mayor Ru. I believe he will believe me."

Deng Lei insisted, what else could Feng Sizhe say? "Well, if Mayor Deng thinks so, then you can go. But if something unpleasant really happens, I advise you to stay calm. Also, you'd better not mention me, otherwise I'm afraid Mayor Ru will be even angrier."

"Thank you Secretary Feng for your reminder. I think I should know what to do." Deng Lei kept Feng Sizhe's kind words in mind. He thought that as long as he took the initiative to explain the matter, Ru Honghai would definitely believe him.

Seeing Deng Lei leave with full confidence, Feng Sizhe, who was sitting in the office, shook his head. "This Deng Lei is still too idealistic. Doesn't he know that the most taboo thing among officials is to exceed their authority? Deng Lei was set up and did something beyond his authority. It is inevitable that Ru Honghai will be angry. Deng Lei went to explain at this moment without any preparation. I think things will not have any good results. And if the two people of the Qin faction quarreled, the people of the Gan faction would naturally benefit the most from the same market. They hope that others who are against the Gan faction will get into trouble. It would be great for them to watch the fun from the sidelines.

It's just that the Gan faction can watch the fun, but Feng Sizhe cannot. He wants to take advantage of this period when the Gan faction's attention is focused on the central government's decisions and the infighting among the Qin faction to do other things, such as taking the opportunity to quickly win over the city's propaganda chief Wang Shiguang and the United Front Minister Wang Lixue to his side. If he can control these two votes, then his voice in the future municipal party committee standing committee meetings will be greatly increased, and it may be possible to break the long-term situation in which the Gan faction has isolated itself from the city.

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In the mayor's office, Ru Honghai listened quietly to Deng Lei's explanation, then waved his hand, "Okay, you can leave if there is nothing else."

Seeing Ru Honghai's stern face and his complete disbelief in him, Deng Lei said anxiously, "What? Mayor Ru doesn't believe me? Everything I said is true?"

"Really? What? Do you think I'm a three-year-old child? You also said that the handwriting on the document disappeared by itself. Do you think this is a spy movie during the war? Do you think I will believe it?" Ru Honghai didn't want to get angry at Deng Lei. He just wanted to save all these things. When he went to the Qin Department during the Chinese New Year, he would take the initiative to report these situations to the Qin Department. You know, he also has people in the Qin Department. (Speaking of it, the Qin Department is not a monolithic entity. There are also some branches of the Qin Department under the Qin Department headed by Qin Xianghua. Strictly speaking, Ru Honghai and Deng Lei's superiors are not the same person, so it is inevitable that there will be gaps.) Then let these people see who did something wrong in Tongda City. But what he didn't expect was that Deng Lei actually took the initiative to find him and told him about this matter. What's even more ridiculous is that he made up such an outrageous reason. How can he not be angry? It's okay if he didn't report it to himself, but after the incident, he still wanted to lie to himself. This is what he can't stand.

"Why don't you believe it? This is the fact. If you don't believe it, you can go ask Secretary Feng. Even Secretary Feng said that he asked someone to identify it. The fact is just as I said?" Deng Lei looked at Ru Honghai who didn't believe what he said, and in a hurry he forgot the instructions given to him by Feng Sizhe.

Sure enough, it would be fine if Feng Sizhe was not mentioned. Once this person was mentioned, Ru Honghai became even angrier. "What? You went to ask Secretary Feng? Well, since you trust him so much, just listen to him. You don't have to report anything to me in the future. I will report to the higher-ups and say that you and Secretary Feng are together. I think the higher-ups will understand you. After all, you are not an ordinary cadre. You also have the power to choose your future path, right?"

Ru Honghai actually took advantage of this incident to say that Deng Lei and Feng Sizhe got together and forgot that he was a member of the Qin clan. How could Deng Lei accept these words?

"Mayor Ru, what do you mean? I don't have any of the ideas you mentioned." Deng Lei explained angrily.

"Hmph! You know whether it happened or not. Okay, there is no need for you to explain anything to me about this matter. This time I'll let it go because we are all colleagues, but if it happens next time, don't blame me for being rude to you. You can leave now." After saying these words, Ru Honghai made a gesture to see him off.

Deng Lei really didn't expect that Secretary Feng Sizhe, who was not from the same department, would trust him so much and understand him. On the contrary, Mayor Ru Honghai, who was from the same department, did not trust him. He felt a burst of heartache and didn't know how he left the mayor's office. After returning to his office, Deng Lei fell into deep thought. The current environment of Tongda City made him a little unsure about what to do next. Was it really as Director Ren Tianfang said, that he should listen to Feng Sizhe? Thinking carefully, this might be a good choice.

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Feng Sizhe was meeting with Comrade Wang Lixue, member of the Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Municipal United Front Work Department, in his office.

"Secretary Feng, it's all thanks to you that my son can come to Beijing to work as a reporter. I heard from my son that he was included in the special quota and many of his classmates envy him." Wang Lixue sat opposite Feng Sizhe and said with a very grateful look.

"Minister Wang, you are too polite. This is because your son has good conditions. I asked someone to inquire about him at school. He is both good in character and academic performance, and has always been the top student in the class. Such talents should be placed in positions where they are most needed. You don't need to thank me. This is all because of the education we, as parents, have given our children." Feng Sizhe said politely to Wang Lixue with a smile.