Gao Dekun said: "Li Tianyi, let me tell you this, although Jia Lianqing is very likely to be a corrupt official in the eyes of many of you, but for those of us who are his descendants, we all know that he is indeed not a corrupt official, because we have bribed him many times, but he has never accepted it, not only has he not accepted it, but his family has never accepted it." ”

Hearing this, Li Tianyi's eyes widened, and a look of surprise appeared on his face: "Is this unlikely?"

Gao Dekun said: "What's impossible? Just like you said before, although Secretary Jia Lianqing is not a corrupt official, he is definitely not a good official, because what he is greedy for is not money, but fame and power. ”

Li Tianyi squinted his eyes and stared at Gao Dekun: "What do you mean by being greedy for fame and power?"

Gao Dekun said: "Let me give you an example, we have to go to Secretary Jia's house to visit him every New Year's holiday, so we always have to bring gifts when we go to visit the New Year, right?"

Li Tianyi nodded.

"At the beginning, we brought a lot of famous cigarettes and wine, especially money, but the tobacco and alcohol Secretary Jia left within the scope of the principle, and the money or anything was not collected, so in this case, we will go next time, we must bring other things, and then I don't know who spread the practice, that is, every time we go to Secretary Jia's house to visit, we must come up with a political achievement that is enough to satisfy Secretary Jia, and the bulk of this political achievement should be counted on Secretary Jia's head, every time we do this, Secretary Jia is very happy. And it is precisely because Secretary Jia has always been able to obtain a lot of political achievements that he was able to be promoted from an executive vice mayor to a mayor, and from a mayor to the secretary of the municipal party committee in less than ten years after I followed him.

This is Secretary Jia's way of being an official.

And Secretary Jia's style is very strong, he likes to make a statement, and he is very circle-conscious, and he takes great care of us and his descendants, so we are also promoted very quickly, and Secretary Jia once said that he will spend five or six years to make the entire Phoenix City up and down, and all counties and districts are full of his descendants! Because the more people he has, the better he will say. The easier it will be for the policies and intentions he has developed to be implemented. ”

After Gao Dekun finished speaking, Li Tianyi couldn't help but be stunned, and it wasn't until this time that he figured out why the officials on Jia Lianqing's side were so loyal to Jia Lianqing many times, it turned out that the root of the matter was here.

If what Gao Dekun said is true, then Jia Lianqing is still a very special person.

At this time, Gao Dekun continued: "Li Tianyi, there is one thing you can't imagine, Secretary Jia's principle of employing people is also very unique, although many times, Secretary Jia keeps saying that he wants to use people on the basis of merit, in fact, Secretary Jia's principle of employing people is very simple, that is, whoever is loyal to him, he will use whom, whoever is close to him, who can be recognized, he will use whom."

It is precisely because of this that Secretary Jia's descendants are of mixed quality, including young talents like Wu Junhao and greedy people like me and Wang Zhengxiao. Of course, there are also some people who are capable and honest, which is also Secretary Jia's cleverness. ”

Li Tianyi was eye-opening this time and asked, "Could it be that these honest people are also loyal to Jia Lianqing?"

Gao Dekun shook his head: "This is not necessarily, there are indeed some people with special personalities, but most of them have been promoted because of Jia Lianqing's appreciation, although he is clear for officials, but officialdom is an era of principles after all, whether these people admit it or not, since Jia Lianqing promoted them, then others will regard them as Jia Lianqing's people."

And the reason why Jia Lianqing wants to do this, in fact, to put it bluntly, his fundamental purpose is still fame and power, because Jia Lianqing knows very well that his camp can't all be people like me and Wang Zhengxiao, although we can provide the most solid foundation for his power, but because of our limited ability, we can't make real achievements for him, therefore, he also needs people with ability, strength, and official virtue to grow his face and fight for him. ”

After Li Tianyi listened, he suddenly realized that he had to give Jia Lianqing a thumbs up.

Li Tianyi frowned and looked at Gao Dekun and said, "Gao Dekun, there is one thing I don't understand, so I also want to know about it." ”

Gao Dekun smiled: "You ask, anyway, I know what my ending is, and now it doesn't matter to me anything, I just hope to be able to confess and be lenient and make meritorious contributions." ”

Li Tianyi nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, Gao Dekun, you are smart enough." The question I want to ask is, I hear you now put your knowledge and understanding of Jia Lianqing on the table, it seems that you have a deep grudge against Jia Lianqing, but all your promotions were all promoted by Jia Lianqing, why do you still have such a grudge against him? Do you think that your corruption is caused by Jia Lianqing?"

Gao Dekun smiled bitterly and said, "Li Tianyi, you don't understand this." My promotion and promotion are indeed operated by Secretary Jia, but I also have to pay, although what I pay is not money, but those political performance projects. Li Tianyi, do you know? When I was an official, I was also a person with ideals and ambitions, and I also hoped to be able to do more good things for the people, and I also knew that the political performance projects were all face-saving projects, which were not beneficial to the people, and even cost the people and money in many cases, but did you know what? If I didn't do the performance project, what would I do to curry favor with Secretary Jia, who didn't like money?

If I can't come up with a performance project that makes Secretary Jia more excited than other officials, why does Secretary Jia provoke me? Who is not promoted?

But you should not forget that the performance project is not so easy to get! Because there are not many fools up and down? If you want to win the performance project, you have to set up the project, right? After the project is approved, you still need to run for funds, right?

Where does the money come from? It must come out of the financial funds, but now that the financial audit is so strict, it is becoming more and more difficult to adapt the funds, so at this time, I need to play some marginal balls. For example, if I want to start a performance project now, then I need to go to the city to run projects and funds, but our Shunhe County Finance can't come up with so much money for me to do public relations, and even if I have money, it is difficult to pass the audit.

At this time, I can only go to those coal mine bosses, and they will pay or even make connections to help me go to Phoenix City or even the province to dredge up the relationship and win the project.

But if the coal boss contributes money and effort, they must reciprocate, so I have no money, so what can I give them back? I can only use the power in my hands to fight for some benefits for them. Therefore, the trading of power for money is inevitable. Those coal bosses naturally can't take benefits in vain, so while getting the benefits I gave them and helping me complete the political performance project, they will naturally be filial piety, and I, three or five thousand is not too little, three or five million is not too much, and slowly all of them are numb. ”

Saying this, Gao Dekun smiled self-deprecatingly, his face was full of sweet memories, and in the end, it turned into deep depression.

The sweetness, excitement and happiness when receiving the money eventually became eternal memories with the investigation of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, and what awaited him was the severe punishment of the law.

"Li Tianyi, do you know? I am a lover of literature, I usually like to write some articles and send them anonymously to major literary journals and magazines when I have nothing to do, and now I have a preliminary plan, and when I go to prison in the future, I will write a memoir in prison, I want to record the process of my corruption and degeneration, and provide some warnings for future generations. When he said this, Gao Dekun was embarrassed.

Li Tianyi looked at Gao Dekun's expression, sighed and said: "Gao Dekun, Gao Dekun, I can feel from your conversation just now, you are still an ideal official, but unfortunately, you turned back too late, you still haven't stopped after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and what awaits you will be severely punished by the law." Tell me about Wang Zhengxiao, secretary of your county party committee, what kind of person is he?"

"Wang Zhengxiao?" At the mention of this name, the corners of Gao Dekun's mouth showed a trace of disdainful mockery, this reaction was greatly unexpected by Li Tianyi, you know, from the moment he just arrived in Shunhe County, he saw Gao Dekun treating Wang Zhengxiao with absolute respect, without the slightest deviation, but now looking at Gao Dekun's expression, it seems that he is very disdainful of Wang Zhengxiao.

At this time, Gao Dekun said: "Li Tianyi, to be honest, although I have degenerated, I still have some conscience after all, and when I am doing political performance projects, I will still try my best to do something meaningful for the people when I use power to grab benefits."

But this Wang Zhengxiao, with all due respect, his ability to develop the economy is very weak, and his understanding of the party's policies is also very shallow, many times, many of our wrong decisions in Shunhe County are decided by him at any time by patting his head, the only thing he is good at is to slap the leader on the horse, play with the means of subordinates to control the balance, and crack down on wooing, I think, in our county party committee, if you want to say who the most unqualified person is, it must be Wang Zhengxiao. Not only did he not do his job properly, but he also sold his official mantle, and he was able to sell an ordinary deputy mayor of a township for a high price of 300,000 yuan! The director of a county town can sell at different prices according to different positions, and it can be said that he is the most corrupt person in our Shunhe County.

However, because he has a very good relationship with Secretary Jia, he has been able to get away with it!"