Rebirth of the Rising Sun

Feng Sizhe pointed at Chen Guangming behind him. Then Chen Guangming smiled at Di Quan. He already felt that the secretary general did not take his leader seriously, so he did not need to take this person seriously.

"Oh, is that so? All right then. Please ask Secretary Chen to come to my office after you finish the formalities, and I will tell you the division of work that belongs to you." Seeing that the other person already brought his own secretary, Di Quan was not surprised. After all, it was not the first time that he had encountered such a thing as bringing his own secretary.

"Okay, thank you Secretary-General Di." Chen Guangming responded politely.

Di Quan seemed to have not heard Chen Guangming's words of thanks, and he didn't even nod in return. Just as if he hadn't heard it, he walked forward with his head held high, heading for Feng Sizhe's deputy mayor's office.

Feng Sizhe also noticed Di Quan's rudeness. When the other party took big strides and got farther away from him, he turned around and blinked at Chen Guangming behind him, then said, "Don't be impatient. One day, I will make you look down on him as well." After saying this, Feng Sizhe also took big strides and followed Di Quan's footsteps, leaving Chen Guangming standing there in a daze.

Chen Guangming didn't expect that the leader would speak so humorously, and would take such a small matter to heart. "Haha." He stood there and smiled foolishly, "Okay, then let's work together for this goal." After setting a goal in his mind, Chen Guangming followed Feng Sizhe's footsteps.

Feng Sizhe's office is not like other cities' standing committee and deputy mayor positions. He is not in the middle, and is relatively far away from the mayor and executive deputy mayor's positions. He is in a room at the end of the conference room. Just by looking at the location of the room, you can feel that this person is trying to ignore you and embarrass you.

After walking into the office and sitting on the dusty office chair, Feng Sizhe said with a self-satisfied feeling, "Well, this place is not bad, so let's leave it at that."

Seeing Feng Sizhe say that he was very satisfied, Di Quan couldn't help but look down on this young deputy mayor even more in his heart, but he still said, "Oh, okay, since Deputy Mayor Feng is satisfied with this place, then my mission is accomplished. Just please don't forget the mayor's office meeting at two o'clock." After saying that, he turned around and left without caring whether Feng Sizhe had other arrangements.

Looking at Di Quan's proud figure leaving, Feng Sizhe said to Chen Guangming, "Go, get a basin of water, let's clean it up together." As a deputy mayor, and a deputy mayor who has become a permanent member of the party, it is hard to imagine that his desk would be so dirty. The people here looked down on him, as if Feng Sizhe was reminded of how he looked when he first arrived in Dahu. He remembered that he had to ride a bicycle to inspect work in the countryside at that time, but it didn't matter. It took him less than a year to turn everything around. Standing in this office today, Feng Sizhe also believed that it would not take too long for him to be criticized again. He always remembered the slogan he once shouted, "Development is the hard truth." As long as he did everything there and his achievements were there, no one would dare to look down on him.

Despite Chen Guangming's repeated attempts to stop him, Feng Sizhe still picked up a towel and helped clean up the office. Then, five minutes before two o'clock, Chen Guangming had already prepared paper and pen for him, as well as everything for the meeting.

Feng Sizhe walked into the office and went to the meeting room next door. The only advantage of his office was that it was close to the meeting room.

When Feng Sizhe walked into the conference room, there were already twelve people standing inside, including eight deputy mayors and four assistant mayors. In other words, all the senior government officials of Haibei City were here. In other words, there were a total of eleven mayors and deputy mayors in Haibei City, in addition to four assistant mayors who were equivalent to deputy mayors.

Several of them came earlier. They had seen Feng Sizhe cleaning his office with a towel. The deputy mayor had to do this, which made those who saw it feel ashamed. The slogan of self-reliance had long been forgotten in their continuous upward climb over the years. Their ideas had changed. In their opinion, a deputy mayor of a city had to do this kind of work, which was actually a manifestation of incompetence.

Therefore, after Feng Sizhe walked into the meeting room, almost everyone saw him, but no one came forward to greet him. Instead, they continued to chat with each other in groups of three or four, treating Feng Sizhe as a transparent person. This was something he had not expected before.

Feng Sizhe had imagined the situation of Haibei Municipal Government many times. He sometimes thought that the economic development of Haibei City was so backward. In addition to the fact that there were mostly ethnic minorities in the city, the leadership of the municipal government should also be responsible. However, the main responsibility should be on the mayor. In addition to the mayor, the executive vice mayor is also responsible. They are in their positions but do not do their job, which is actually the embodiment of mediocre officials. For Feng Sizhe, he even thinks that it is not a big deal for officials to be less corrupt sometimes. As long as he is a capable official who can truly create for the people and generate income for the country, it is understandable that he has a little dirty hands and feet. After all, officials are also human beings, and everyone is selfish. This is better than those who are greedy for money but do not do anything.

He thought the situation was already very bad. He thought it was because the mayor and the executive vice mayor did not set a good example. As for the other vice mayors, there should be sensible people, capable people, and upright people among them. The world is like this. There is black and white. It is impossible for a place to be completely black or completely white. For example, there are bad people among the police, and there are good people with conscience among the gangsters. But now he saw the eyes of these twelve people who were equivalent to the vice mayors looking at him, and he suddenly felt sad. He suddenly felt that the Haibei Municipal Government team was rotten. What's wrong with these people? Don't they have the courage to say a word to him?

Feng Sizhe found a relatively secluded place and sat down alone. At this moment, he suddenly felt that his way forward in Haibei City was confused. He suddenly felt that it would be very difficult to accomplish anything here. In fact, this place was not like when he first arrived in Dahu County. At least at that time there was Deputy County Mayor Zhang Youlun. Deputy County Mayor Wang Ming had righteousness in his heart, but why couldn't he see such a person in Haibei City?

While Feng Sizhe was still sighing at his colleagues, those people were also secretly watching him. They seemed to feel relieved seeing Feng Sizhe sitting alone in the corner at this time.

People are like this, they are all jealous. Look at the people in this room, who are all over 40, some are even over 50, but look at Feng Sizhe, he is not even 30 years old. Facing such a young man, they will certainly feel dissatisfied. When they were this age, they were just a deputy section chief or at most a section chief, and they felt very great at that time. Otherwise, why do people get angry when they compare themselves to others? Facing Feng Sizhe, who is much younger than them, they are certainly unbalanced, and this balance begins to target him.

The door was pushed open less than five minutes after Feng Sizhe entered the conference room. If someone looked at the watch at this time, they would find that the time was exactly two o'clock. It can be seen that the person who came in this time should be very punctual.

The people who pushed the door were Executive Vice Mayor Song Dexiang and Secretary General of the Municipal Government Office Di Quan. The first person who walked in with his head held high was indeed the Deputy Secretary of the Haibei Municipal Party Committee and Mayor Liu Wenhua. His appearance immediately made the conference room, which was still full of discussions, quiet down. Then everyone stood up, looking respectful and waiting for Mayor Liu Wenhua.

Liu Wenhua walked in with a smile, and nodded in satisfaction at everyone's attitude towards him. When he saw Feng Sizhe, who had come to report in the morning, had been pushed aside by everyone without him saying anything, his eyes sparkled with satisfaction. "Haha, everyone, please take a seat, please take a seat, we are all comrades, no need to be so polite."

Although Liu Wenhua said this, no one dared to sit down first. Anyone with a little common sense at this time knew that this was just a polite remark. So whoever dared to really sit down at this time would definitely be remembered by Liu Wenhua, and then they would be in trouble.

Liu Wenhua didn't care whether everyone sat down or not, he just found the first seat and sat down, until then, everyone else returned to their seats. The executive vice mayor Song Dexiang also trotted over to the seat next to Liu Wenhua and sat down, then to his left, where Feng Sizhe should have sat, Di Quan sat, holding a notebook.

As a meeting recorder, he actually sat in the position that a member of the Standing Committee and deputy mayor should sit in. This was an overstep in itself, but no one said anything, as if this was a normal thing. Even Feng Sizhe did not say anything. Of course, his silence did not mean that he had no thoughts, but he deeply understood that this was not the time to argue with villains. If he argued with villains, his status would be lowered, and he would be no different from a villain.