Pan Shihua naturally did not want the merger of the two towns of Meixi and Hetang.

Shen Huai directly mentioned the merger of the two towns in front of Tan Qiping and Xiong Wenbin, and Pan Shihua didn't need to worry about having no way to explain to Xiong Wenbin, it wasn't that he didn't work hard, Zhou Ming's position was not in Shen Huai's merger, but Pan Shihua still breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't go along.

There is no other reason, at the meeting of the district standing committee eight days ago, it was he who pushed Zhou Ming to Hetang to be the mayor of the town, and because other district standing committee members held that Xiong Wenbin should not be offended, Yang Yuquan was also forced to vaguely agree to this matter.

It has only been eight days since the district standing committee meeting to discuss, and Shen Huai has promoted the merger and development of the two towns - whether Yang Yuquan has been ventilated by Shen Huai in advance, it is difficult for everyone to guess, but everyone knows that Pan Shihua, as the deputy secretary and district head, must be completely kept in the dark and played with the palms.

For those who really know the truth, they will feel that it doesn't matter if Pan Shihua didn't get Shen Huai's ventilation in advance, and there is not only one middle-level cadre in Donghua who slapped Shen Huai's face during this time, and Pan Shihua has nothing to be ashamed of. But up and down, there are more people who don't know the truth, seeing that a district chief can't suppress the secretary of the township party committee, and treats a township party secretary as a monkey, he becomes Pan Shihua's laughing stock.

Pan Shihua informed Yuan Hongjun to come over half an hour early, because he thought that Yuan Hongjun was sitting well in the position of party secretary of Hetang Town, and should be very resistant to the merger of the two towns.

He wanted Yuan Hongjun to make his objections clear at the afternoon meeting, so that he would have an excuse to delay. He could see that Tan Qiping may not be very much in favor of the merger and development of the two towns, and sometimes he just kicked the ball to the district because he lacked an excuse to refuse directly, and if there were differences and disputes in the district, the matter could be dragged on.

For many grassroots cadres, the secretary of the town party committee is a goal that has been tirelessly pursued all their lives, but who will easily give up? Pan Shihua is not very familiar with Yuan Hongjun, but he believes that it is impossible for Yuan Hongjun to abandon the post of secretary of the town party committee and be willing to live below Shen Huai or be transferred to another idle post in the district.

It's just that when he saw Yuan Hongjun and Shen Huai entering the district government building together, Pan Shihua's heart was a little cold.

Yuan Hongjun and Shen Huai came over earlier than the agreed time, and Yang Yuquan took it upon himself to call them to his office.

Yang Yuquan also had to feel Yuan Hongjun's attitude first, the merger of the two towns, other things are just that, the key is to abolish the administrative establishment of a town, and the personnel changes will be great.

The merger and development of the two towns is naturally the merger of Meixi Town with Hetang Town, and the deputy secretary and deputy mayor can be set up a few more, but there are only two vacancies in the main party and government positions.

The mayor of Hetang Town does not have any great ability and background, and he is also old, so he was originally going to be transferred to the District People's Congress to give up the seat to Zhou Ming, but if the two towns merge, Shen Huai and He Qingshe will cooperate with the team in Meixi Town, and Shen Huai has no intention of squeezing He Qingshe away, so the new town will not settle Yuan Hongjun and Zhou Ming, and at the same time, there will be no two real vacancies at the department level to settle the two of them.

This is also Yang Yuquan's biggest headache.

Yang Yuquan made tea for Yuan Hongjun and Shen Huai, and he sat on the chair with a pot of tea in a dark canned glass bottle, and said: "The two of you came here together, you should have communicated about the merger of the two towns, Yuan Hongjun, what do you think of the merger of the two towns?"

"Merging with Meixi Town and developing at the same pace is a good thing that the 40,000 people in Hetang are looking forward to, and of course I support it," Yuan Hongjun immediately expressed his attitude, "but I have a request......

"Okay, you say. When Yang Yuquan saw Yuan Hongjun coming over with Shen Huai, he knew that he would not openly refuse the merger of the two towns, and he could agree to set this tone, and it was reasonable for Yuan Hongjun to make some requests, and Yang Yuquan motioned for him to continue.

"It has only been half a year since I was transferred to Hetang Town, but in the past six months, I have seen the rapid rise of Meixi Town around me, and I am both happy and surprised at the same time. I always think that Meixi Town can take off like this, there must be experience that we have not yet mastered and comprehended. I just wanted to find an opportunity to ask Secretary Shen for advice," Yuan Hongjun said, "I hope that after the merger of the two towns, I can go directly to the new town to have the opportunity to learn from Secretary Shen......"

"Oh......" Yang Yuquan heard that Yuan Hongjun meant to enter the new town team, but he glanced at Shen Huai hesitantly, I don't know if Shen Huai had agreed with Yuan Hongjun beforehand, and I don't know how Shen Huai persuaded He Qingshe to give up the position of second-in-command to Yuan Hongjun?

"Of course, Mayor He is also the object of my study. Yuan Hongjun saw Yang Yuquan's hesitation and added.

Under Shen Huai, this is easy to understand, but Yuan Hongjun's willingness to succumb to He Qingshe is still a little surprising to Yang Yuquan.

However, Yuan Hongjun said this, and Yang Yuquan was easy to do.

When Shen Huai first came to Meixi Town, he also went to serve as a deputy section at the level of a regular section, and it was not difficult to arrange a deputy secretary position for Yuan Hongjun in the new town.

Although it is difficult for the rest of Zhou Ming to handle, after all, Zhou Ming's appointment has not been officially issued, and the person has not yet gone to the township, so it is really not possible, so it is not impossible to squeeze out a seat in the district for him.

After a few more idle words, the director of the district party committee office held a notice meeting. Yang Yuquan asked the director of the district party committee office to take Shen Huai and Yuan Hongjun to the conference room first, and he went around the corridor for half a circle, knocked on the door and walked to Pan Shihua's office, and said: "Old Pan, it's time for the meeting, let's go over together." ”

Pan Shihua took the document he was approving at hand, took out the notebook and pen from the drawer, and walked to the conference room with Yang Yuquan. In the corridor, Yang Yuquan said to Pan Shihua: "I talked to Yuan Hongjun, and after the merger of the two towns, he is willing to become the deputy secretary. Secretary-General Xiong, are you going to communicate at night?"

Pan Shihua was slightly shocked, nodded, pushed the door into the conference room, and saw Yuan Hongjun and Shen Huai sitting in the corner of the conference room smoking, I really couldn't guess what Yuan Hongjun thought in his heart, the secretary of the party committee of a town, not to mention the merger of the new town, to fight for the position of the first leader, how could he be willing to fall into the third leader?

"District Chief Pan......" Yuan Hongjun saw Pan Shihua come in, stood up and greeted him, he also saw the confusion in Pan Shihua's eyes, there are indeed many people who can't figure out why he is willing to succumb to He Qingshe.

From the morning when he learned about the merger of the two towns, Yuan Hongjun went from resisting to accepting the reality, and also went through some ideological struggles.

Perhaps before ninety-three years, Hetang Town was not much behind Meixi Town. Meixi Town has taken advantage of the central town, and its fiscal revenue is only 6 million, while Hetang Town's fiscal revenue is less than 4 million, but its population is smaller, and the difference is not too big.

It was less than a year before the gap really widened.

Under Shen Huai's strong control, Meixi Town rose rapidly.

In addition to the two large-scale enterprises of Meigang and Ziluo Home Textiles, which have been thoroughly rectified and straightened out the road of development, there are also five or six small processing small enterprises newly established in Meixi Town in the first half of the year. At the same time, under the pull of several large-scale projects such as freight terminals, fund-raising housing construction, and Meigang's technical transformation and expansion, the town's financial revenue directly broke 10 million in June, and the financial revenue of Hetang Town in the first half of the year was not even one-fifth of it.

In this case, even if Hetang Town maintains the Duli system, it will also pale the remarkable achievements of Meixi Town.

Meixi Town's fiscal revenue has risen, and the people's income has increased, and the income of people who eat public houses will naturally rise in a straight line with the fiscal revenue. The two towns are so close to each other, and they are also divided into Tangzha District at the same time, and the party members and cadres between the two towns are often in contact, so there will inevitably be comparisons between them.

This effect has been abruptly manifested in the first half of the year, and the official salary of the administrative staff in Meixi Town has not increased much, and it still stops at the level of 280 yuan per month for ordinary clerks, but it cannot withstand the festival fee every other day, and it is 6800 yuan per shot.

The benefits enjoyed by the administrative staff of Meixi Town have already made the party members and cadres of Hetang Town covetous and complaining, openly and secretly accusing their town leaders of being incompetent. It's no wonder that the party members and cadres of the two towns often encounter each other when they have something to do, Hetang Town is a gold leaf and a big front door, and Meixi Town is a cloud smoke and red plum, who has a taste in their hearts?

In the crowd at the official meal, the number of teachers and staff is much larger than that of the town government.

In Meixi Town, for example, there are only 70 or 80 government workers on the staff, but there are as many as 400 teachers and staff in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the center of the town, while the number of teachers and staff in primary and secondary schools in Hetang Town is slightly smaller, but there are 300 people.

The salaries of the teachers and staff in Meixi Town were only adjusted to the same level as Hetang Town at the end of last year, but they were adjusted twice in the first half of this year, reaching the average level of other towns in Tangzha District, reaching more than 400 yuan per month, directly leaving Hetang Town behind.

Not to mention the salaries of teachers in Hetang Town, who are currently working in Hetang Town, have been lowered by Meixi Town, because of the snowstorm at the end of last year, the town was not allowed to transfer 150,000 yuan from the education fund to make up for the gap in disaster relief. Teachers are only paid half of their salaries for three consecutive months after the New Year, and this money has not been made up until now.

Teachers, these small and medium-sized intellectuals, do not expect to be officials and make a fortune, nor are they afraid that Yuan Hongjun will be dismissed from their public office, and they are even happier to scold Yuan Hongjun behind their backs.

In the past few months, Yuan Hongjun has been under a lot of pressure.

If you don't want to be a foil for Meixi Town and Shen Huai all the time, if you don't want to be angry with the party members and cadres below, it is a good way to merge into Meixi Town, so that at least financially you can share the benefits brought by the rapid development of Meixi Town, which is also the willingness of a wider range of party members and the masses.

As for the power of the secretary of the town party committee -- if the party members and cadres below are questioned all day long, if the district is disappointed in the work results of Hetang Town, if the grassroots masses are full of grievances, even if they occupy the position of the town party committee secretary, they will not have much prestige -- the grassroots leaders who have lost their prestige actually do not have much power.

Yuan Hongjun will naturally consider the question of his stay after the merger of the two towns, he didn't think about competing with Shen Huai, but he knew that He Qingshe and Shen Huai had a tacit understanding to cooperate with the team, Meixi Town has such achievements, He Qingshe has no merit and hard work, and Shen Huai and the district are unlikely to suppress He Qingshe.

The options left for him are actually very limited, one is to go to the district, and the other is to be the third-in-command in the merged Xinzhen team, not even the third-in-command, and he has to rank behind Li Feng.

Yuan Hongjun knew that his lack of background in Tangzha District was a fatal wound, and he really wanted to be transferred to the district, ranking in seniority, even if he got to a regular position at this time, it would be difficult for him to have a chance to improve in the future.

In this case, Yuan Hongjun was thinking, what would happen if he took a step back?

Shen Huai is not good in a thousand ways, but one thing is worth affirming, as long as there are people who have the ability to work in Meixi Town, they can basically be reused.

Guo Quan kicked out Meigang for Shen Huai, but he didn't suppress it for long, and he was soon reused by Shen Huai, and now serves as a member of the town party committee, director of the asset office and executive deputy general manager of the town real estate company.

Even Huang Xinliang, who has a grudge with Shen Huai and everyone has always thought that he will give Shen Huai a miserable rectification, not only did he not give a miserable rectification, but he was recently promoted to serve as the deputy mayor, and at the same time he was in charge of the work of the Party and Government Office and the Education Office.

At this time, no one who knew some details would regard Shen Huai as an ordinary secretary of the town party committee. If Shen Huai wasn't really young, relying on his achievements in leading Mei Gang would be enough for him to rise quickly. Shen Huai wants to rise quickly, even if he doesn't work very hard to promote new letters and old people, He Qingshe, Li Feng and others, they can also get a more important position in Tangzha District by virtue of their outstanding achievements in building a team with Shen Huai in Meixi Town.

The choice in front of Yuan Hongjun is actually to hold on to the position of Zhengke now, or to take a step back, in exchange for a broader space for development that may exist in the future......