Chapter 375 Running around

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On January 18th, the winter vacation of the teachers and students of Hushan Middle School officially began, and Qian Jin began to be busy from the 18th.

Qian Jin's busyness has only one theme, that is, to bring gifts to the homes of leaders at all levels before the New Year of the old calendar. Every New Year's holiday, Chinese people have a good tradition of bringing gifts to visit relatives and friends to deepen their feelings and understanding with each other. These cadres at all levels who hold great power know very well that it is always better to burn incense and worship the Buddha on weekdays than to temporarily cling to Buddha's feet when something happens, so it has become a habit for some subordinates and grassroots cadres to go for a walk around the leaders' homes during the New Year's holidays, and Qian Jinzi will not be an exception.

Speaking of which, there are really a few things to pay attention to when giving gifts to leaders during the New Year's holidays.

The first is the choice of the timing of gift-giving. Many people know that they need to prepare a gift when asking someone to do an errand or meeting with a leader, but they can't find the right time. In fact, in life, there are many special opportunities, and giving gifts during the New Year is a good opportunity. A large part of China's long-standing traditional culture is reflected in festivals, such as the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and so on. When it comes to festive seasons, bringing gifts and going to the leader's house for a walk is the best time to enhance the relationship. Therefore, it is also justified to give gifts to leaders under the banner of festivals, which not only makes the other party unable to refuse, but also easy to achieve personal goals.

The second is to choose gifts properly. Generally speaking, if the gift is too light and has no special significance, it is easy for the leader to misunderstand that you look down on him. If the gift is too heavy, it will make the leader who receives the gift suspected of taking bribes. Therefore, the choice of gifts should be based on the leader's ability to accept them happily, and strive to spend less, do more, spend more money, and do good things. For example, during the Chinese New Year, special New Year's goods such as fish and meat are sent, and moon cakes, fresh fruits, and so on are sent during the Mid-Autumn Festival; you can also send special products from some places, such as seafood by the seaside, and mountain goods if you live by the mountain; Qian Jin chose this time to send special products from the Hushan area, Hushan vermicelli and beef and mutton.

Third, there are many particulars about the interval of gift-giving time, and the frequency of gift-giving is too high, which is not good for the gift-giver and the leader who receives the gift. If the frequency of gift-giving is too high, it may arouse the suspicion of others, and it is likely to attract the suspicion of bribery to the leader. Of course, if the relationship with the leader is very close, it is a different matter. For the giver, he can't stand it if he gives it too often, except for those who give gifts with public funds. Qian Jin is an old oilman who walks in officialdom, so he chooses the time to give gifts to leaders every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Spring Festival. In the eyes of the Chinese, the most important thing is these two traditional festivals, which are festive days for family reunion, and it is not wrong to choose this time to give gifts to leaders.

Secondly, there are also several taboos about giving gifts to leaders during the New Year's holidays. For example, you can't give expensive gifts to leaders in front of others, especially "money", not to mention that everyone knows this truth; for example, when you send things to leaders, you must tear off the price tags outside, regardless of whether you are sending valuable goods or not, or simply attach the store's ticket to the leader, so that the leader can flexibly handle the gifts you give.

Since ancient times, there has been a proverb: "Officials don't give gifts". Nowadays, giving gifts to leaders has gradually become a kind of social custom, and the vast majority of leaders who receive gifts, as long as the gifts given by their subordinates do not meet the standard of bribery, as long as they are not directly involved in money and power transactions, leaders are generally willing to accept them. But there is a problem with Chinese people, they are always afraid of owing others favors, and leaders are no exception. As a result, the closeness and care of the leader to the giver of gifts is inevitable, and the corrupt wind of money and power trading arises from this.

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Cadres like Qian Jin, who are at the grassroots level but hold heavy power, also have a lot of entanglements and helplessness in giving gifts to leaders at all levels.

If the gift to the leader itself is a kind of appearance, is a sign of respect and gratitude, then in this way, the gift can be no matter the severity, or by the way to send a few auspicious blessings for the festival, a few words of love, can fully reflect the original meaning of "light courtesy, affection and righteousness". But now, this tradition has changed its flavor, and whether or not to give gifts to leaders during the New Year's holidays has become a headache and entanglement for many people. I'm afraid that there will be a suspicion of sycophancy. If everyone sends it, but they don't send it, they will worry that the leader will have an opinion, saying that they are not sensible, and the next promotion and care may not have their own opportunities, and when they meet a small-minded leader, they may also wear "small shoes" openly and secretly.

As a result, many people regard the gift of the New Year's festival as a ladder of officialdom progress, as an opportunity to increase the impression score of the leader, once they need to find the leader to do things in the future, there is also a basis for communication, and those who dream of getting an official and a half-job, but also regard the New Year's gift to the leader as an indispensable process.

In the eyes of ordinary people, like Qian Jin's current situation, his cousin-in-law is the director of the powerful Education Bureau, and Qian Jin can walk sideways in the Huxian education system, so it doesn't matter if Qian Jin's gift is given during the New Year's holidays or not. But years of immersion in officialdom have made Qian Jin understand a truth, "No one is good for a thousand days, and no one is good for a hundred days." It doesn't count in the morning, and then it is empty. As a man, no one can be an official for a lifetime, and no one can see through the variables of life, and those who are courtiers today may be able to turn over as monarchs early tomorrow morning, so the two sentences of "casting a long line to catch big fish" and "casting a wide net and fishing more" have become the motto of Qian Jin's mixed officialdom.

There are not only leaders at all levels of the Huxian Education Bureau, but also some leaders of the Huxian County Government and Hushan Town Government, plus many leaders of brother schools at all levels who have helped Qian Jin, these are the objects of Qian Jin's visit. Qian Jin wants to take the opportunity of regaining power in Hushan Town this time to get back the face he lost in Mid-Levels Middle School, and he also wants to take this opportunity to connect and repair some useful social relationships. Qian Jin is not a person who does not repay his gratitude and is ungrateful, just take the opportunity of this New Year to express it one by one, anyway, to buy gifts and do not need money into his own pocket, it is the money of the town education committee and Hushan Middle School, the money is not enough to use the money to enter there is also a way, the town education committee and Hushan Middle School have pre-collected student book fees every semester, you can intercept a part of it, anyway, there is an opportunity to slowly fill in the Huxian Xinhua Bookstore in the future. In this regard, the township and town education committees and schools of all levels and types have always been the creditors of the Xinhua Bookstore in Huxian County, and the Xinhua Bookstore did not dare to ask the teachers for their crimes.

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Gift-giving during the New Year's holidays is a science, and receiving gifts is also a science.

People like Qian Jin, who sit on one side and also hold the power to manipulate the life and death of others, have a lot of people who give gifts to them on the occasion of the New Year's holidays, and the psychology of these gift-givers is basically the same as the psychology of money going in and out of gifts. Therefore, Qian Jin can especially put himself in the shoes of these gift-givers. First, if the relationship with the giver is not too close, the person who gives the gift must have a big desire, and the gift cannot be blindly accepted in the case of not knowing the details; second, in the presence of a third person, regardless of whether the gift is valuable or not, it cannot be accepted, so as not to be suspected of accepting bribes; third, after accepting the gift, it is necessary to return the gift on the spot, and the gift is not much, as long as it has that meaning, even if it is as small as a box of cigarettes, a bottle of wine, as long as the giver takes the gift away, it forms a relationship of human affection, and then no matter how others plant it, it is difficult for the person receiving the gift to be suspected of taking bribes.

As the saying goes, "once bitten by a snake for ten years, I am afraid of the well rope", Qian Jin was really helpless to do this, and the fall in Mid-Levels Middle School made Qian Jin still remember it vividly.