The Chinese New Year, the mountains are much more lively than usual, the villagers who visit relatives and friends ride motorcycles around to pay New Year's greetings, and the back shelves of the cars are tied with cardboard boxes full of gifts, the most traffic-saving site for mobile phones.

In recent years, the economy has developed rapidly, and no matter how poor the family is, they can afford to buy motorcycles, and those with active minds can afford to buy cheaper pickup trucks and vans. Especially those cadres of Huaju Wood or Shanli People's Company, their monthly salary is thousands of yuan, and the usual expenses are not large, so buying a cheaper car is really nothing.

Li Jiaming, who spent the New Year at home, also had to go to pay New Year's greetings, so he took his wife and children out early in the morning, first to his grandmother's mother's house, then to other relatives' houses, and finally went around to Mr. Wang's house for dinner.

As much of Li Jiaming's surprise, he met his father-in-law, mother-in-law, and Song Xiaojun, who had already been delegated to be the secretary of the district party committee, at Mr. Wang's house. After more than ten years, Li Jiaming has to admit that he looked away back then, this Song Xiaojun is much stronger than his eldest brother and second brother, and he is a winner in all aspects such as character and ability.

At least, Song Xiaojun can maintain a good relationship with his classmates when he is proud and frustrated, and his two cousins are two faces. flattering himself and his father-in-law, although he is also enthusiastic in front of the villagers, he has a kind of high taste.

After the family of four paid New Year's greetings to the teacher and his wife, Liu Shasha took her children to the kitchen to help, Li Jiaming drank tea and chatted with the teacher and father-in-law, and Song Xiaojun, who had become the secretary of the district party committee, was their waiter. This is the ethics of officialdom, when Li Jiaming went to pay New Year's greetings to Wu Lao, who had given Sohu the green light to go public in the United States, Sima was already the deputy mayor of the capital, and he was still a secretary in front of Wu Lao.

Chatting, naturally, it is all over the world, and it will still be pulled back to Li Jiaming and his father-in-law. One is the best student, and the other is an old friend of the owner, in the eyes of Mr. Wang, who has been square all his life, there are no leaders and rich people. It is for this reason that he has been teaching all his life and has been the principal of a rural primary school for more than ten years. Because of this, students and old friends respect or respect him, and this is the charm of personality.

However, Mr. Wang is still unambiguous when he should open his mouth, such as the school bus problem in primary school. The townships and towns in Tonggu are not as good as those in neighboring counties, where people in the mountains have built small hydropower and edible fungus cultivation bases, and the local population is almost not outflowing, and students are still scattered in more than a dozen villages. Although Comrade Principal has retired, he is still seeking government when he is not in his position, and when he opens his mouth, he asks the students for three school buses, and they must be the kind of good cars with high safety factors, that is, the kind of luxury buses that leaders sit in the countryside.

This is no problem, Li Jiaming agreed, picked up the phone and called Mao Ling, ready to let him purchase three luxury buses in the provincial capital. But when Liu Benqiu, who had just come out of the bathroom, heard it, he stopped it and said, "Jiaming, this is the government's business." ”

"This ball?"

"Cheng Lin, Tonggu's annual financial income is almost 500 million, will it be this money?"

"How can government money be so easy to apply for?"

"That's not right", Liu Benqiu shook his head and said: "The tax is taken from the people, and the economy of Tonggu is so good, it is necessary to increase investment in education." ”

The truth is this truth, but unfortunately Tonggu is not Xunyang, even Xunyang is not up to someone Liu. When Liu Benqiu finished speaking, he realized that he had made an old mistake, and laughed at himself: "Hehe, a husband can't be without power for a day."

"You're not bad, you're going to be a minister, it's time to be content!"

Only Mr. Wang can say this, and it is impossible to say it if Li Jiaming is a son-in-law. The powerful deputy minister level and the powerless main department, except for those leaders who are about to retire, who wants to break the rank?

However, although he is almost powerless, as long as the appointment and dismissal documents are not issued, Secretary Liu is a dignified member of the provincial Standing Committee, not to mention that the leaders of the county have to stutter, even the two chief officials in the city have to be respectful to him. Taking a step back, even if he went to the capital to take up his post, officials at the county and city levels would have to listen to him. The outgoing secretary Liu Da made a phone call, and the secretary who was walking around the city immediately agreed to follow the instructions of the leaders of the provincial party committee and equip all township central primary schools with school buses before the Lantern Festival at the latest.

"This ball, you have the right not to expire?"

This kind of thing can only be said by Mr. Wang, and only by him can he say that Secretary Liu, who is about to arrive at the station, will not think much about it, and said with a wry smile: "What you said is right, if you don't use it, it will be invalid." Don't you know that there is a difference between being an official on the stage and not being on the stage, and that level is not of great use at all. ”

Or else?

Otherwise, Song Xiaojun, who was peeling peanuts to eat, would have been promoted from a staff member to the deputy hall in just over ten years, and would be promoted to the main hall?

is all cultivating descendants, so as not to have no one to take care of them after retirement, just like when Lao Cai was trapped in a small courtyard in the capital, Liu Benqiu instructed the Xunyang Beijing Office to take care of the old leaders. If it weren't for an old subordinate like Lao Liu, relying on Lao Cai's office funds of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, he used to have a clean breeze in his sleeves before, what could he do in the capital where it was not easy to live?

Of course, Liu Benqiu doesn't have to worry about these things, just the house that his wife hoarded in the capital is enough for them to be comfortable as a couple for a lifetime, not to mention that he also has a good daughter and son-in-law. He was in such a hurry to bring up Song Xiaojun before leaving office, mainly out of political legacy considerations.

Xunyang was developed by him, will the successor follow the rules or change his course?

Song Xiaojun is capable, politically loyal, and has deep roots in Xunyang officialdom, so it will not be so easy to forcibly promote him, and if the successor wants to change course in the future. As long as you survive these critical years and lay a solid foundation for Xunyang, Liu Benqiu will really rest assured.

Everyone has the desire to confide, and the people in this room are not old friends, sons-in-law, or old subordinates, and Liu Benqiu, who has spent a period of loss, sighed: "Alas, you have never been an official, and seeing a city become thriving in your own hands, that sense of accomplishment is indescribable." If I hadn't been able to do it this time, I'd rather not be that minister, and continue to be my head snake.

What's so good about the capital? Except for the top few people, who is not cautious and does not seek merit but no fault?"

complained two sentences in front of his old friend and son-in-law, and Secretary Liu felt that his complaint was too biased, and remedied: "However, there are some people who are not afraid of death." I know that Liu is crazy, that old railway is not afraid of death. ”

The people chatting here are all real family members, and their mouths are extremely tight, Li Jiaming heard his father-in-law talk about the discredited Liu madman, and hurriedly reminded: "Dad, stay away from him."

Thinking of the madman's audacity, he was sometimes ashamed of himself compared to the Yanagimoto ball he had come into contact with a few times, and said with emotion: "I know that it would be good if he retired earlier." ”

The son-in-law and son-in-law spoke half-revealingly, but Teacher Wang, who was puzzled in his heart, didn't ask, he was used to hearing these things when chatting with this student and old friends, and he was also used to it all rotting in his stomach. That crazy Liu can make Benqiu say this, he must also be a person who can do things and can do things, and it is very likely that he will end up in tragedy.

Alas, what's wrong with this society, the more capable people are, the more unlucky they are, no wonder those who are officials blow and pat all day long, just don't do their jobs.