Rebirth of the Rising Sun

"Yes, Mayor Feng, right? I am Chen Ping. I hope Mayor Feng will not mind my presumptuous call today. Do you have time now? Can you come to our Haibei Municipal Office in Beijing?" Chen Ping was obviously excited when he received Feng Sizhe's call, but he was also a little anxious.

Feng Sizhe was a person who didn't like to procrastinate. When he heard that the other party asked him to go now, he didn't think too much, "Okay, the address is..." He read the address on He Shasha's note. After confirming it, Feng Sizhe hung up the phone and called Li Shuang. Chen Hu followed behind him, and the two cars drove towards the Haibei Municipal Office in Beijing.

At the gate of the Beijing Office, a man in his thirties wearing glasses was looking around. When he saw Feng Sizhe's car approaching, he ran over and opened the door for Feng Sizhe. "You are Mayor Feng, right? I am Chen Ping. You can call me Xiao Chen."

It is obvious that Chen Ping is older than Feng Sizhe, but he still lowers himself like this, no doubt because his position is not as high as Feng Sizhe's.

Feng Sizhe didn't want to argue too much, "Yes, Director Chen, right? Hello, I'm Feng Sizhe."

"Hello, Mayor Feng. Come on, please visit our Haibei Municipal Office in Beijing. This can be regarded as an advance inspection by the leadership." Seeing Feng Sizhe coming, Chen Ping was no longer in a hurry. He smiled and led Feng Sizhe to the Haibei Municipal Office in Beijing.

The so-called Haibei City Office in Beijing is just a three-story building that looks like a small hotel, or even worse than a small hotel. At that time, the whole country was developing rapidly, so many offices in Beijing were established. They rented a small house in Kyoto with money from the city and set up departments, under the pretext of attracting projects and funds. But later generations proved that many of the Beijing offices at that time were just a deaf ear and decoration. Not many of them really worked. Instead, everyone used this agency to build relationships or to rest.

So deep down, Feng Sizhe didn't have a very good impression of the Beijing Office. He only walked into this three-story building because he wanted to understand the situation in Haibei.

There was a heavily made-up woman in the lobby of the small building, who seemed to be a receptionist. When she saw Chen Ping walking in with such a young man, she just raised her head and then took a small mirror to put on makeup to show off her beauty.

"Di Meili, this is the new deputy mayor of our Haibei City. Why don't you come and greet him?" Chen Ping couldn't help feeling angry when he saw the girl ignoring him, and more of an embarrassment, as if he was afraid that the other party would look down on him, so he quickly brought up Feng Sizhe's identity.

"Oh? The newly appointed deputy mayor, haha, the one in charge of education, right? Let me tell you, Chen Ping, I will go out with Director Liu in a while. We are going to meet a big client, so you should be the one to receive such a leader." The beautiful girl named Di Mei just raised her head, and then went on to do what she was supposed to do, not taking Feng Sizhe seriously at all.

Feng Sizhe, who was standing here, was very curious. Could it be that a deputy mayor couldn't impress a receptionist? Or was it that she had been in Kyoto for too long and was used to seeing big leaders, so a deputy mayor couldn't attract her attention?

Seeing Di Meili leave like this, Chen Ping said to Feng Sizhe embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, Mayor Feng, Meili is like this, and our Director Liu also spoils him, so I..." Hehe." Chen Ping smiled very awkwardly.

It was at this time that Feng Sizhe realized that Chen Ping was not the full-time director of the Haibei Municipal Office in Beijing, but a deputy director. No wonder even the girl who was just working as a receptionist ignored him. But he was a deputy mayor after all. Even if he was in charge of education, he was still a deputy mayor. Didn't this girl know how to show due respect to her leader?

Although Feng Sizhe didn't say anything, Chen Ping still saw through his thoughts, "Haha, Mayor Feng, the situation is like this, this Miss Di Meili is very good with our Director Liu Neng, and Director Liu is the cousin of our Haibei City Mayor Liu Wenhua, so they..."

Chen Ping didn't say anything next, but Feng Sizhe already understood.

He had read relevant information about Haibei City, and knew some information about the ruling figures there, such as Liu Wenhua, whom he had learned about. This person was the mayor of Haibei City, a department-level cadre, and could be said to be a native of Haibei City. He was 51 years old now, and it was estimated that if he did well, he would still have some room for development, at least he would have room to become the next municipal party secretary.

It turns out that this woman hooked up with Liu Neng, the director of the Beijing Office, and Liu Neng's cousin is the mayor of Haibei City, so the other party can ignore her. Feng Sizhe now understands the link. It seems that people everywhere are the same, and they all have the problem of power.

"It doesn't matter. I'm just here to take a look." Feng Sizhe didn't take the girl's attitude towards him to heart. She was just a girl who might not even have a job. Feng Sizhe couldn't take her attitude to heart.

"Okay, then Mayor Feng, please follow me upstairs." Seeing that Feng Sizhe was not angry because of Meili's attitude, Chen Ping couldn't help but think that this leader was indeed magnanimous, and then he led the way up to the second floor.

"Mayor Feng, look, this is the conference room. Inside are posters of the most beautiful scenery in Haibei City, as well as some beautiful brochures we printed. Generally, this is also the place to receive outsiders. This is also where we often work." Chen Ping said as he kept pointing at the murals on the wall, holding in his hand a brochure that looked roughly bound.

Feng Sizhe had been to Bai Zhifei's Feida Packaging Company, and had seen countless beautifully crafted posters in later life. To be honest, there was no way to compare the one Chen Ping was handing over to him. It was not that the ones he had seen were too good, but the one Chen Ping handed over was really unbearable to look at.

After just fiddling with it casually, Feng Sizhe had an idea in his mind. Haibei City is a city by the sea, and it is such a beautiful seaside bay. However, it is not reflected at all in this brochure. He said it would be better if it didn't exist. At least without this brochure, people could still imagine it out of thin air. Now that it is available, even the most basic imagination has disappeared.

He threw the album onto the long table in the conference room. He felt that the Haibei Office in Beijing was not worthy of praise for its behavior.

Seeing Feng Sizhe's face full of dissatisfaction, Chen Ping seemed a little worried on the surface, but he was actually very happy in his heart. His eyes showed a kind of excitement. And it was this excitement that Feng Sizhe happened to catch. He suddenly discovered Chen Ping's performance and had more thoughts in his mind. Could it be that Chen Ping's invitation to visit the Beijing Office was fake, and he actually wanted to tell him the current situation of Haibei's Beijing Office?

While Feng Sizhe was thinking about this, Chen Ping came over and said, "Mayor Feng, this is the office of several directors and staff members of our Beijing Office. Would you like to take a look? The upstairs is where we usually rest. Oh, sometimes the city leaders come to Kyoto for business and meetings, and they also stay upstairs here."

"Yeah." Feng Sizhe nodded. The Beijing Office was indeed used for the leaders to take a break, and the so-called business was just a cover. Of course, they would also deal with some departments in Kyoto and build relationships, just to ask for money from the higher-ups. It was difficult to negotiate any good projects with them.

"Director Chen, who is this?" Just as Feng Sizhe and Chen Ping were standing in the staircase corridor on the second floor, a fat man came down from the third floor, followed by the lady named Di Meili.

"Director Liu, come here, let me introduce you. This is Deputy Mayor Feng Sizhe who will be taking office in our Haibei City soon. Mayor Feng, this is Director Liu Neng of our Haibei Office in Kyoto." As soon as Chen Ping saw the fat man, he immediately stood aside respectfully and introduced the two of them to each other.

"Oh, this is Mayor Feng. He is indeed young and promising. Haha. I, Liu Neng, am currently the director of our city's Kyoto office. Haha, if you have anything in Kyoto, you can come to me and I will do my best." After Chen Ping finished introducing him, Liu Neng showed a pair of big yellow teeth and said to Feng Sizhe with a forced smile.

Judging from Liu Neng's current performance, Feng Sizhe could feel that he should have known about his existence a long time ago. This was probably what Miss Di Meili told him when she came upstairs. But to be honest, he was really incompetent. He actually told me that I could ask him to do anything in Kyoto. Let me ask you, if Feng Sizhe couldn't do it in Kyoto, then how could he, a small director of the Beijing Office at the prefecture level, do it? Obviously, he didn't understand and investigate himself clearly, and he didn't do his homework thoroughly.

But Feng Sizhe didn't want to expose it. He was from Kyoto, which was nothing special. There was no need to say it now. Besides, the other party was obviously a relative of Mayor Liu, and he didn't want to offend him before he got to work, so he smiled at Liu Neng and said, "Okay, Director Liu, I will definitely speak up if there is anything."

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