Rebirth of the Rising Sun

Feng Sizhe accidentally heard Secretary Chen Guangming talking about Minister Wang's son. He knew that his son was going to graduate today and that he had applied to be a reporter for the National Radio and Television Station. As a national unit, there were naturally many people who wanted to get in. It was not just about being good in character and academics. You needed to have deep social connections. Although Wang Lixue was a well-known figure in Tongda City, he was not so popular outside of this place. Therefore, after knowing that Minister Wang and his family were worried about his son, Feng Sizhe called Ren Yingying in Kyoto and asked her to get the matter done.

Ren Yingying is now a reporter for Xinhua News Agency. With her background, she has a certain influence in the news industry. It would be much better if she could handle the matter. In addition, it was arranged by Feng Sizhe, so Ren Yingying felt obliged to do it. It didn't take long for Ren Yingying to complete all the necessary procedures.

His son's job was settled, which was equivalent to removing a worry from Wang Lixue's heart. So he came to thank Feng Sizhe, and actually came to express his intention to join him. Think about it, why should others help you with your son's affairs? On the other hand, since they can let your son go to such a good unit, if they are angry, they can still use other methods to pull your son out of such a unit. For this reason, even for the future of his family, Wang Lixue should have an attitude. What's more, he also saw the beautiful things Feng Sizhe did after he came to Tongda City. It can be said that he admired Feng Sizhe's ability, courage, and personal charm. So he took this opportunity to join him.

Feng Sizhe knew clearly what Wang Lixue's statement meant, and of course he accepted it with appreciation. With Wang Lixue's vote in hand, Feng Sizhe's authority in the municipal party committee would only increase, and his success rate would be much higher in the future.

This is what Feng Sizhe did with Wang Lixue's matter, and he also put the same thought into the city's Propaganda Minister Wang Shiguang.

Wang Shiguang has a cousin who has a very good relationship with him. They grew up together and have a deep relationship. But accidentally, his cousin offended a high-ranking official while doing business in Zhongzhou Province. Then, he was set up and charged with bribery by the judicial authorities at that time. Although he has a cousin who is an official in Tongda City and his position is not low, he cannot reach Zhongzhou Province. Therefore, he can only watch his cousin being arrested and has no way to do anything. Under such circumstances, Feng Sizhe called Lv Xianwen, the current Organization Minister of the Provincial Party Committee of Zhongzhou Province.

Because of his cousin Lu Zhuo's matter, the two have always had a good relationship and often contact each other during the New Year and other holidays. Now that Feng Sizhe called to talk about such a thing, Lu Xianwen would of course take it seriously, and he immediately asked about the matter.

The people below naturally dared not neglect the matter that the Provincial Party Committee Organization Minister was concerned about. Soon, they found out that Wang Shiguang's cousin was wrongly accused, and immediately rehabilitated him. In seven days, he regained his freedom. At this time, Feng Sizhe notified Wang Shiguang to go with him to the intersection of Tongda City to pick up someone. The other party was personally sent by Lv Xianwen's secretary. When the two sides met, the other party also very politely conveyed Minister Lv's intention to let Feng Sizhe go to Zhongzhou to be a guest when he was free. Seeing that his cousin was fine so quickly, and seeing that the visitor was so polite to Feng Sizhe, Wang Shiguang felt a lot.

After much deliberation, he finally chose to join Feng Sizhe, not for anything else, but simply to repay the favor. Not to mention, Feng Sizhe was someone he admired very much in terms of ability and means.

The two events in succession allowed Feng Sizhe to control the votes of two city standing committee members, which was enough to increase his voice in the municipal party committee. The funny thing was that the Gan faction had been busy with the 18 coal mining licenses and had no time to care about Feng Sizhe's affairs, and even didn't care much about Feng Sizhe's private contact with Wang Lixue and Wang Shiguang.

Looking at the list of the municipal party committee standing committee members, Feng Sizhe ticked the names of Wang Lixue and Wang Shiguang. With this calculation, Feng Sizhe already controlled five votes out of the thirteen municipal party committee standing committee members, namely, Organization Minister Duan Hewei, Propaganda Minister Wang Shiguang, United Front Minister Wang Lixue, Deputy Mayor Deng Lei, Military Sub-district Commander Li Pwei, plus his own vote, it was already six votes, nearly half. If he could pull in one more person, he would be able to completely control the initiative at the municipal party committee standing committee meeting with an absolute advantage.

For the next vote, Feng Sizhe chose and chose, and finally targeted Hong Tao, the secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, whom Commander Li Pwei had been trying to persuade.

Feng Sizhe was very clear that this vote would not be easy to get, so he was waiting for an opportunity and watching slowly.

Compared with Feng Sizhe's efforts, Mou Guoyang was also busy with something. The state has issued a regulation, which is to reorganize the secretary system. The regulations stipulate that in the future, the deputy secretaries of provincial, municipal, and county (district) level units will no longer be part-time, but full-time. Take the city-level unit as an example. In the past, the municipal party committee had five secretaries, namely the municipal party secretary, the first deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, that is, the mayor, the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee in charge of personnel, and the part-time deputy secretary, the municipal discipline inspection secretary, and the part-time secretary of the municipal political law committee secretary. But after this reform, in addition to the municipal party secretary and the first deputy secretary who is the mayor, the municipal party committee only has one full-time deputy secretary.

The secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and the secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission no longer serve as deputy secretaries part-time, which has invisibly increased the power of the full-time deputy secretary. In the future, this full-time deputy secretary will not only have a say in personnel matters, but also in economic matters. It can be said that the power of this deputy secretary has been greatly enhanced. Mou Guoyang, who was originally the deputy secretary in charge of personnel of the Municipal Party Committee, was of course very confident about this position. He even called Gan Hao on this matter and expressed his thoughts.

Gan Hao was quite straightforward and said that he would inform some people in the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee about this matter. This matter was originally a small matter, and Gan Hao said so, so the success rate would naturally be very high. Gan Hao was waiting for the latest order from the Provincial Party Committee.

As time went by, the deadline issued by the central government to invalidate the 18 mining licenses was approaching, and Gan Hao finally got the document passed by the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee, and finally sent the provincial and municipal applications that disagreed to the State Council.

He thought that with his father in the State Council and opposition from the provincial and municipal levels, this matter would soon have a good result. However, to Gan Hao's surprise, Comrade Bao Jingguo actually held a firm opposition attitude on this matter and did not even take Gan Qixian's face into consideration. No matter how nicely Gan Qixian reported the matter to him, he would not give in.

Perhaps Comrade Bao Jingguo also knew that he would retire within a year, and he wanted to do some practical and good things before retiring, so he did not care about the face of other colleagues. This made Gan Qixian very distressed, but he really had no way to do it, because others were the principal and he was only the deputy.

After getting stuck with Bao Jingguo, Gan Qixian thought of some other ways. He called some comrades from other leading departments or called some retired old leaders to ask for their opinions. He wanted to find allies to put pressure on Comrade Bao Jingguo, but to his surprise, many people's attitude towards this matter was consistent with Comrade Bao Jingguo's. Faced with this result, Gan Qixian was a little confused. He always thought that Bao Jingguo's actions had offended a lot of people. At this moment, if he raised objections to his resolution, someone would definitely respond. But why was no one willing to stand up in the end?

Feng Sizhe had figured out the truth that Gan Qixian couldn't understand a long time ago, which was that the Gan family had dominated the coal industry for too long, and some people had long been fed up with it. When Gan Qixian was about to retire one year, naturally some people would want to take advantage of the situation. At this time, Comrade Bao Jingguo just stood up, and naturally everyone would agree with his decision.

Even his father was helpless about this matter, so Gan Hao became nervous. Seeing that the deadline set by the central government was approaching, he frantically wandered around the circles of young masters and young ladies in Kyoto, thinking about whether he could sell the 18 mining licenses in his hands at a low price, so as to reduce his losses.

Feng Sizhe, who had been prepared for this, immediately implemented his counter-plan. Immediately, Duan Shao, Guo Shao, Zu Shao, Wang Shao, Gu Shao and others, who had already made arrangements with him, stood up and called on everyone not to buy these certificates, saying it was totally uneconomical.

Come to think of it, it requires an investment of at least 1.5 billion, and the funds must be in place after purchasing the license. Building a factory and purchasing machines are all essential in a short period of time. This is far from being achieved by just having money. After all, the time is too short. If one of the items is not done well, then when the deadline comes, the purchased mining license will be invalidated.

Under such public opinion, the descendants of the Lu family, Wen family, Zhu family and other large families who had originally wanted to buy the certificate also gave up. In this way, the time lasted until the one-month deadline given by the central government. Just before the Spring Festival in 2002, the central government's decision took effect. Gan Hao suffered a huge loss in this matter.

From a direct perspective, the 18 mining licenses in Gan Hao's hands were invalidated, resulting in a direct loss of more than 1 billion yuan. Next, the Tongda coal mining industry, which was originally controlled by the Gan group, was greatly weakened by the entry of five companies including the Duan group. It can be said that in the coal industry, the Gan family's monopoly model was completely defeated.

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