Anhai has developed rapidly and changed a lot over the years, building many high-rise buildings, but after all, it is a county-level city, and there are neither antique teahouses nor particularly high-end cafes.

In fact, Han Xiaowu didn't like to go to those places either, considering that his old classmates wanted to find a quiet place to talk, and he thought the barbecue restaurant was too noisy, so he simply took him to a Hong Kong-style tea restaurant behind Universal Studios.

I asked for two cups of tea, ordered a few side dishes, and chatted freely while eating at the Luotian Tea House full of literary and artistic style sitting at the door of the restaurant.

"This place is good, although it is opened in the city center, but it is quiet in the middle of the city, and it is a bit emotional, so you should bring your girlfriend with you, right?"

"I found out about this shop when I was running along the river with my niece, and it was a good feeling, and I have been here a few times. It's a pity that business is not very good, and I can't see a few customers every time I come. ”

Han Xiaowu glanced back at the empty hall, and said helplessly: "The main reason is that the population of Anhai is too small, and it is a little better at night, and there are not a few people in sight on the most lively people's road behind it during the day." ”

Zhang Xingming held the teacup and muttered: "Eight hundred and seventy thousand, that's not much." ”

"The 870,000 you mentioned is the total population of the city. It is not an urban population, let alone a resident population. Han Xiaowu paused, and said: "Anhai attaches great importance to basic education, and the results of every college entrance examination are good, and even rank among the best in all districts and counties in the province, which is both a good thing and a bad thing, because few young people who are willing to come back after the exam." ”

"It's not just Anhai, it's the same everywhere else. Zhang Xingming didn't want to turn a good class reunion into a "work meeting", so he immediately changed the topic, looked at the river in front of him and asked, "Is this a landscape river?"

"It's not. ”

"The lighting project is well done, it looks beautiful on the bridge, I thought it was a landscape river. ”

"Speaking of this river, there is history, it was dug in the Han Dynasty, called Shangguanyun Salt River. In ancient times, there was a sea from Zai'er to the east, and there were many salt farms by the sea, and the salt produced in those salt farms was transported out through this river......"

Seeing that his old classmates were like a few treasures, Zhang Xingming couldn't help but smile and said: "Mr. Han, I didn't expect you to have a study on this!"

"I heard from a friend," Han Xiaowu explained while beckoning him to eat: "I am the director and deputy secretary general of the new association, and one of the vice presidents of our new association is a writer, and he is writing the history of Anhai and even our hometown of Fu'an. He has researched a lot of historical materials in order to write this book, and he has studied this aspect very much. ”

"I said how do you have the leisure to study this, it turns out that I heard from others. ”

"There must be my teacher in a threesome, read more books, and learn more is not harmful. ”

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, it's been a long time since I've been able to calm down and read this book properly. Zhang Xingming took a bite of the food, put down his chopsticks and said: "Xiaowu, since you can blend into the Maritime Federation and the New Alliance, and you can mix like a fish in water in Anhai, this shows that the United Front Work Department is not ignorant of your situation. ”

"That's for sure, otherwise people can make me the secretary general?"

"But since they know your situation, how can the city only let you be the secretary general of these sororities?"

"What do you mean?"

"Talents like you should be reused!"

"What kind of talent am I?" Han Xiaowu asked rhetorically, thought about it and said: "The United Front Work Department does not fully understand my situation, only knows that I have worked in an investment bank before, and I thought that I was originally selling bonds in an investment bank. What's more, if you really talk about talents, then Anhai has more talents. If even someone like me is entrusted with a heavy responsibility, it will not be impossible to retain talent. ”

"Why can't I keep it, I think Anhai's talent policy is very good. ”

"Okay?" Han Xiaowu picked up the chopsticks and said lightly: "I haven't dealt with the local party committee and government before, so I don't know much about it." After several months of dealing with each other, I found out that the local party committee and government were too utilitarian. ”

"What's utilitarian?"

"To use a few simple analogies, if the fat man has the intention to invest in Anhai, even if it is just an intention, the city must be very enthusiastic. In short, when there is a big project, even if it is just a small project of tens of millions, it is very important from top to bottom, which is what you said in the group in the afternoon that the business environment is very good. ”

Looking at the thoughtful look of his old classmates, Han Xiaowu changed his words: "But as far as I know, the backbone of Anhai's economy is not the foreign monks introduced by beating gongs and drums in recent years, but local grassroots enterprises! Most of the jobs are provided by local grassroots enterprises.

The city may feel that local enterprises have little potential to tap, so they shift their focus to those foreign monks, anyway, the attitude towards local enterprises is completely different from the attitude towards those foreign monks, and those merchants who have not even decided to invest. This makes many local entrepreneurs uncomfortable, even chilling. ”

"How do you know that local businesses are the backbone?"

"Because Anhai's largest accounting firm is always my friend, I often go to his place for tea and have been invited to give lectures. He provides agency accounting, auditing and other services to hundreds of local enterprises, and the number of invoices issued from him each year is first-hand. ”

As long as it is a leader, who doesn't like big projects, who doesn't like GDP to rise?

Thinking of this, Zhang Xingming nodded slightly and didn't say anything more.

Han Xiaowu sighed lightly, and continued: "A few days ago, I had dinner with the CEO of a real estate company, and he was just as chilling. Before the big developers from outside came to Anhai, he began to engage in real estate, and he was a big taxpayer, although he made money, he also contributed to the economy of Anhai.

But some time ago, the city put up for auction a piece of land, and invited many big developers from outside, but none of the local developers were invited, and no one knew about it, and there was no place to go, and there was no chance to bid. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Zhang Xingming asked subconsciously.

"It's true. In other aspects, such as those social groups, when people come out to do public welfare or culture, and need to report their results, the relevant departments will go to people and ask them to fill out the form, or provide this or that kind of materials.

Of course, this may be just a job for the person in charge of a specific job, but it can feel very bad for others. Because those staff members represent not only themselves, but also the municipal party committee and municipal government. ”

Han Xiaowu touched the corners of his mouth, and continued: "You asked me on the way here, since you have retired, why do you only stay for two or three months and have to leave, it is because it is boring to work in the community."

All kinds of formalism, all kinds of deception, all day long 'paper work', no matter what has to be on the wall. There is a whole floor, and only the few walls outside the bathroom are not easy to use to escape, which is ridiculous to think about. ”

Zhang Xingming could understand his feelings, and was silent for a while before raising his head and said, "Don't say that the temple in the community is too small, I think the temple in Anhai is too small, and it can't keep people like you." ”

"Actually, I shouldn't have such a mentality, because whether it's on the wall, or engaging in those empty heads, it's no different from my previous roadshows. The reason why the mentality will collapse is probably because I have been here for a few months, and I have feelings for this place, and I love and hate it. ”

"If you can't stand it, why don't you change it?"

"How can we change it, use formalism to oppose formalism? Don't say that I am a flat-headed commoner, I am afraid that even you, Lao Zhang, the deputy mayor, will not be able to change. ”

"Just don't think about me like that?"

"I'm not optimistic, I don't believe we can make a bet. ”

"What bet?" Zhang Xingming asked with a smile looking at him.

Han Xiaowu knocked on the table and said with a smile: "Bet on whether you will be a reception cadre, a meeting cadre, and a presiding cadre after your work division is clear." Bet on whether you will go through the motions and read the draft that someone has prepared for you. ”

"It's not interesting to bet this with me, I'm on a temporary job, I'm here to learn!"

"Lao Zhang, don't be upset when you say it, I think you leaders are like actors, acting every day. ”

Zhang Xingming couldn't stand it anymore, pointed at him and scolded with a smile: "Xiaowu, you're not giving me a pick-up, you're deliberately disgusting me! Don't wait for two or three months, you can go now, you can go wherever you want, go as far as possible, I don't want you to hide in the corner and watch my jokes." ”

"It's unbearable? No wonder the ancients were loyal to their words. ”

"Is it interesting to hit me?"

"It's boring," Han Xiaowu took a few deep breaths in a row, smiled and picked up the teacup: "Don't talk about that, let's go, welcome to Anhai." ”

"That's pretty much it. Zhang Xingming took a sip of tea, put down the cup and asked: "I'll leave in two or three months, Xiaowu, does this mean that you will have to 'white plus black' and 'five plus two' next, overcome difficulties, and strive to win this love battle within two or three months?"

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, I haven't thought about it yet. ”

"What haven't you thought about?"

Han Xiaowu scratched his neck and said with a bitter face: "I'm a little confused now, I don't know what I want, and I don't even know if I like that girl or not." ”

"It's the trouble of the rich again!"

"It has nothing to do with whether I have money or not, I feel like something is wrong with my mental state. ”

"What has nothing to do with whether you have money or not? If you kid has no money, if you are busy from morning to night, every day to support your family, your mental state will definitely not be a problem. Zhang Xingming snorted coldly, pointed at him again, and said, "You are idle, because you have nothing to do, you are thinking nonsense all day long!"

"But I'm not idle," Han Xiaowu pushed his hand away, and said unconvinced: "I'm very busy, the United Front, the Youth League Committee, caring for the next generation, security, people's armed forces and the six small industries are shoulder-to-shoulder, and I am also responsible for the area, I am really busy." ”

Zhang Xingming didn't know what to say about him, so he simply asked, "Li Yu, do you remember?"

Han Xiaowu thought about it for a while, and couldn't help laughing: "Remember, a real beauty, even if I don't remember you, I won't forget her." One year higher than us, a real beauty, Lao Tong chased it back then, but unfortunately he didn't catch up, hahahaha. ”

"She's not like the class leader, she hasn't changed much, and she's still beautiful!"

Zhang Xingming smiled and continued: "She is now in Jiangcheng and married to a big boss. Every day, I am busy with beauty, hair, yoga, body training, tea art, dancing, and painting, and now I seem to be learning some kind of meditation. The schedule is full, and it's busier than you. But the last time I met her in the mall, she told my wife that she was very empty and confused, and that she was the symptom you are now!"