Coming out of the conference room, Qi Tianxiang, accompanied by Feng Juncai, walked directly out of the county government compound, walked to the Heyang Hotel opposite, and after a simple wash in the room, he went straight to the hotel restaurant. [Ran^Text^Library] []

Due to the fact that I went to a village along the Dongheyan River in the afternoon, it seemed that the time was a little tighter, and the report meeting of the county party committee and the county government, although it was repeatedly compressed, ended close to 7 o'clock in the evening, and the dinner with the leaders of several major teams in Heyang could only be postponed.

Different levels, different levels, especially not very familiar, such a dinner can have many names, dinner, feast, party, in fact, it is a dinner, the only difference is that there is wine, which seems to be able to add to the fun, but it is still far from the excitement or enthusiasm.

There were two round tables in a large private room, and the leaders of several major teams in the county sat together, Qi Tianxiang was naturally the chief position, and naturally he wanted to say a few words politely, but it was only a courtesy toast or toast. No matter how much you say on such an occasion, it is superfluous, and you seem to know this truth, so whether it is Qi Tianxiang or Feng Juncai, it is a brief blessing, and the scale of enthusiasm and words is grasped in a proportionate manner.

After a few rounds of toasting, the dishes are almost served, after a simple greeting, Qi Tianxiang proposed to serve the staple food, and they all understood that the banquet had come to an end, and more people who were well versed in officialdom knew the subtlety of it. This is not only a way to connect with each other, but also a necessity to network relationships and build circles.

Talking is naturally a treatment that only the top party and government leaders can have, and this is a fact that no one can change. Even if it is not a formal conversation, it needs to be accompanied by one of the top leaders of the party and government, after all, it is unthinkable for the leader to spend the time alone after dinner and before going to bed. Unless the leader deliberately asks for it, or has a private conversation with someone else, the top local party and government leaders will not give up such a rare opportunity to get close to the leader.

Qi Tianxiang returned to the room accompanied by Feng Juncai, and began to look at the furnishings in the room when he entered the door, a not small room, separated by a screen with openwork through the air, forming two independent spaces for rest and reception, the facilities are not high-end, but they are clean and tidy, and he nodded with satisfaction.

"I can only grieve Secretary Qi, this is a good hotel in our county, and it may not be satisfactory to Secretary Qi." After Feng Juncai entered the room, he hurriedly poured tea for Qi Tianxiang, and explained with a humble smile while busy working: "The conditions in the county are not good, mainly because there are not many guests who need to stay overnight, so they don't want to invest too much in this area. ”

"The first half of the sentence is hypocrisy, and the second half of the sentence is the true meaning." Qi Tianxiang retracted his gaze, glanced at Feng Juncai casually, and said teasingly: "The main thing is that no leader is willing to spend the night here, less than a hundred kilometers away, after crossing the bridge, he will return to Hezhou, who will spend the night here!" ”

Qi Tianxiang said lightly, not as if he didn't care about Feng Juncai's lost expression, slowly sat down on the sofa, and stretched out his hand to signal Feng Juncai to sit down. In just a moment, the smile disappeared from Qi Tianxiang's face, his expression slowly became solemn, his eyes began to become sharp, he looked at Feng Juncai fixedly, and said seriously: "Let's talk about it!" ”

Feng Juncai already understood the meaning of the question from the change in Qi Tianxiang's expression, and also knew what Qi Tianxiang asked him to say, hesitated for a moment, and suddenly stood up as if he had made up his mind, looked at Qi Tianxiang and said firmly: "I request the municipal party committee to remove me from the post of secretary of the Heyang County Party Committee and elect someone else to serve as the secretary of the county party committee." ”

Qi Tianxiang didn't seem to be surprised at Feng Juncai's sudden move, looked at Feng Juncai lightly, and asked slowly: "Tell me the reason, your ass is not clean?" Or is there some reason that can't be explained? ”

"There are a lot of reasons, but I really can't explain them." Qi Tianxiang's words seemed to stimulate Feng Juncai, hesitated for a moment, and blushed and said: "I don't dare to say that it is as clear as water and as bright as a mirror, but there is no real estate in Hezhou, my wife and children are all in China, and I moved my family to Heyang three years ago, you can ask Secretary Qi to come to my home to see, what is wrong with me." ”

"What are you going to do? Protest? Dissatisfied? Do you feel like you're at a loss? Qi Tianxiang stood up angrily, his hot eyes glared at Feng Juncai, as if the depression of the afternoon was caused by him, and sarcastically and harshly: "I am as clear as water and as bright as a mirror, my wife and children have suffered in Heyang County with me, and I have been forgotten by the municipal party committee and municipal government for more than three years, and no one has seen the achievements of my hard work, please go to the municipal government to be the deputy mayor, or simply go to the municipal party committee to be the secretary of the municipal party committee." ”

"Secretary Qi, don't be angry, please sit, please sit." Qi Tianxiang's sudden anger shocked Feng Juncai, his flustered eyes were full of timidity, and he hurriedly persuaded nervously: "Don't be angry, I didn't mean that, I really didn't mean that." ”

"What do you mean! The strong dragon is difficult to suppress the head snake, and it has been physically and mentally exhausted for several years, but it still can't change the increasingly bad development environment of Heyang County, isn't it! Qi Tianxiang glared at Feng Juncai fiercely, sat down slowly, softened his tone and said: "The cadres are very resistant, all kinds of forces are intricate, there is a lot of interference in everything, there are constraints everywhere, it is too difficult to do something, isn't that what it means!" ”

"Secretary Qi knows my situation well, knows all the difficulties and difficulties, and doesn't hide it from Secretary Qi, I am really struggling, and I really can't do it!" Feng Juncai said that he was sad, and he swallowed a little, but he forcibly said: "How did I come here, maybe Secretary Qi doesn't know very well, in the past few years, I have been a man with my tail between my legs and doing things carefully, I am really physically and mentally exhausted!" ”

"Be content! No one asks you to demolish and build blindly, no one writes a note to call relatives and friends to approve land for development, no one hints that you pay tribute and give benefits, and put you in a few districts of the city to try, can you still be alone, and can you still be known as clear as water and as clear as a mirror? Don't think that a small number of cadres in the past few years can prove your integrity, show your style of doing things without discrimination, and share the hardships with local cadres, and you can lead everyone to follow by example? What about the facts? What does it prove, it proves that you have cashed out your rights to others, it proves your weakness, what else can you prove? Qi Tianxiang criticized him like a cannonball, as if he was accusing Feng Juncai, and seemed to be reflecting on himself, perhaps because he felt that his tone was too harsh, so he waved his hand and motioned for Feng Juncai to sit down, and still said sternly: "Do you know the real reason why I don't leave at night?" Any idea what I really meant in my mixed words at the afternoon meeting? ”

"Secretary Qi was right in his criticism, and the fierce criticism was really enlightening, which made me wake up suddenly." Feng Juncai quickly understood the true intention of Qi Tianxiang's anger, looked at Qi Tianxiang with emotion, and smiled impressively, "I was bitten by a snake, and I was afraid of the well rope for ten years, which is really scary." ”

"Give me a detour, let Xiao report to the county magistrate, leave room for yourself, resign and leave a way out for yourself, do you really think that I, Qi Tianxiang, am so easy to fool, I really don't know what I want to know?" Qi Tianxiang glanced at Feng Juncai with sharp eyes, raised his wrist and glanced at his watch, stopped Feng Juncai's intention to speak, thought for a while and said, "Look at what the county magistrate Xiaoxiang is doing?" Let him get some food and drinks, and let's have a good talk. ”

"It is estimated that I am playing cards with Secretary General Yao and Secretary Zhang, and there are just four people at a table, and the beauties are gathering, and they are not tired of fighting." Seeing that Qi Tianxiang's mood was gradually improving, Feng Juncai cheered up and stood up with a smile, and hurriedly walked out of the room to make arrangements.

Looking at the back of Feng Juncai's departure, Qi Tianxiang fell into deep thought, from the circle in the conference room to the intention to resign just now, it seems that the wedding in the morning is not simple, at least it does not look simple on the surface. From Feng Juncai's grievances just now, the rumors about him that Qi Tianxiang heard were verified, and he also understood the reason why he took the initiative to ask to come to Heyang County to serve.

Feng Juncai also graduated from the Agricultural University in his early years, and has always been at the grassroots level or in agriculture over the years, not only as a deputy county magistrate in charge of agriculture, but also as the mayor of the city for a short time, and finally fixed in the position of the director of the municipal agricultural bureau. The on-site office meeting collided with the housing construction in front of Secretary Longjiang, making the mayor unable to get off the stage in front of many bureau and committee leaders. Although he made a special trip to review the construction of the house afterwards, the construction of the house still did not give up, and still strongly advocated the removal of his post as director of the agricultural bureau Shuwei Lixin, and finally Longjiang and Xi Ni suggested that he voluntarily ask to come to Heyang County to extinguish the fire, and let him go to Heyang to serve as the secretary of the county party committee.

Feng Juncai, who was helpless, moved his family to Heyang County together, this kind of demonstrative behavior stimulated the construction of the house, and made it clear in private and in public several times that as long as his house was built in Hezhou City for a day, he Feng Juncai would not want to return to Hezhou City.

Such rumors were originally just passed on as jokes, and Qi Tianxiang didn't take it very seriously, he really didn't think of this episode this time, and he didn't really want to ask about these old things, but he didn't expect that these would become a lingering nightmare in Feng Juncai's heart. For several years, I have been working in a huge shadow, always being marginalized, suffering from my heart.

Qi Tianxiang couldn't help but think of the sad situation of the Russian writer Chekov's novel "The Man in the Suit", and not only felt inexplicable sympathy and pity for Feng Juncai.

"It's a good time to play cards, what kind of wine to drink! I haven't had enough to eat at night. Yao Ling pouted and protested dissatisfiedly when she entered the door, the expression on her face was very aggrieved, "It's easy to fight, and if there are a few more handfuls, I will beat the county magistrate under the table, and I was stirred up by Lao Feng, it's really disappointing!" ”

"I'm not going to ask you to drink, you just have to sleep well, otherwise what's the matter, let your family protector drive over and pick you up?" Qi Tianxiang said with a smile, and then changed his tone and teased: "I just don't know if our criminal police captain has time." ”

"Vice captain, what a big officer, whether I have time, just to see if I'm in the mood." Yao Ling said with sharp teeth: "I am upset when I look at him, I can't wait to see him every day!" ”

"This is easy to do, stabbing him in Heyang County, and making Lao Feng the director of the public security bureau, is it good to be responsible for fighting gangsters and eliminating evil." Qi Tianxiang looked at Yao Ling, and said half-seriously and half-jokingly: "Why don't you come over and change positions with Lao Feng, you are a county party secretary and a public security director, is it okay to open a mom-and-pop shop?" ”

"Didn't you say drinking? How can you still get this to the county magistrate, Xiao Zhang, you don't urge it. Qi Tianxiang's words made it difficult for Yao Ling to deal with, but she still didn't give up, so she had to turn to Xiao Zhang and said, "Let Secretary Qi just wait, can you bear it?" ”

"I wasn't going to let you drink, you can continue to play cards with Xiao Zhang and Xiao Wang, and I will have two drinks with Lao Feng and Xiao Xiang." Qi Tianxiang's mood gradually improved, he looked at Yao Ling and said with a smile: "Can't you let Xiao Xiang County Magistrate drill the table first, and then come to drink?" ”

"I think it's okay, or the secretary presides over justice, towards his own people." Yao Ling giggled, and just saw Xiang Youzhi carrying wine and entering the door with the waiter, so she said bluntly: "Secretary Qi asked you to come over in a while, drill the table and come over to drink." ”

"What kind of rules are these? Now that Hezhou City has become popular to drill the table before drinking? It's not like here, where we're all kneeling on the washboard after drinking. Xiang Youzhi pretended to be confused and teased, which immediately caused a burst of unbridled laughter in the room, Xiang Youzhi looked at the young waiter and couldn't help but cover his mouth and laugh, so he said: "Young people don't catch up with this fashion, it's the provincial capital, let's not learn in a small place, do you hear?" ”

Qi Tianxiang looked at Xiang Youzhi appreciatively, and appreciated the wit and agility of this young man, and when he saw that his words were inappropriate for the waiter to hear, he was able to deal with and turn around quickly, he was very sophisticated and alert, so he coughed and said slowly: "Go ahead with your own business!" ”

Qi Tianxiang's words were like an amnesty order, Yao Ling and Xiao Zhang both exited the room in a funny way, and soon the room was clean, Xiang Youzhi put a few plates brought by the waiter, poured the dishes on the plates, and then opened the wine bottle, and slowly poured the wine glass full, the action was sharp and fast, and it seemed that he was also very skilled.

Qi Tianxiang didn't wait for Feng Juncai and Xiang Youzhi, he picked up the wine glass, raised it falsely, poured the wine into his mouth in one gulp, watched the two of them drink the wine, and gestured to pour the wine to Youzhi, and the second glass of wine was also drunk in one go, until he drank the third glass of wine, he slowly picked up a piece of beef and put it in his mouth, chewed it slowly, until the beef was completely swallowed in his stomach, and then slowly said: "Let's talk about it, which of you two will say?" ”

Feng Juncai silently watched Qi Tianxiang's actions, and a wave of admiration rose in his heart, secretly admiring Qi Tianxiang's veteran officialdom experience, self-explanatory domineering and self-confidence, which was vividly demonstrated from the way of drinking and acting in these three glasses of wine, which not only came from position and power, but also the comprehensive use of wisdom and judgment was innate, and it was impossible to learn.

"I'll tell you!" Feng Juncai stopped Xiang Youzhi's actions, looked at Qi Tianxiang seriously and said: "Don't hide it from Secretary Qi, for the sake of what you saw in the morning, the two of us did have opinions, and I advocate not reporting to you for the time being, and after we investigate in detail, we will report to you after coming up with handling opinions." ”

Facing Qi Tianxiang's eyes looking at him intently, Feng Juncai said honestly: "Things are simple, the son of the director of the village committee married the daughter of the secretary of the county political and legal committee, and a grand wedding ceremony was held today, so that Secretary Qi bumped into it." ”

"It's not simple that the director of the village committee is not just a small village official, but a well-known private entrepreneur in Heyang County, the vice chairman of the county CPPCC, the leader of rural prosperity, the chairman and general manager of Hexi Group, with a net worth of hundreds of millions. Feng Juncai said slowly, but his tone and demeanor were not as smooth as his tone, and he gradually became angry, "The village chief, the vice chairman of the CPPCC, the group boss, the famous entrepreneur, all kinds of red-topped people are all in one, and they are hot in themselves, and now they have become sons and daughters with the secretary of the county political and legal committee, and they really affect the whole body!" ”

Xu Hu used to be an ordinary farmer, went out to work for a few years, accumulated some funds, suddenly decided to go back to the village to run for the village director, and promised to give each villager who voted 2,000 yuan in benefits, the result was naturally successfully elected, in the past few years, not only created a lot of enterprises, but also the original village collective prefabricated factory, feed factory have been pounded into their own hands, under his hands to raise a group of thugs, the villagers have dissatisfaction or different opinions, either beating or scolding, the villagers dare not speak, although the public security bureau has dealt with several times according to the report, but it's all aimed at the thugs below, and they can't move him at all. Xiang Youzhi continued Feng Juncai's words: "He has done a lot of things with money in recent years, the relationship network in the county is intertwined, and there are also many relationships in Hezhou City, which has reached the point of pervasiveness, which is a headache." ”

"What are you going to do?" Qi Tianxiang looked at Feng Juncai, then at Xiang Youzhi, and said solemnly: "Just let it go, just let him become bigger?" ”

"Strike, resolutely strike, I have discussed with the county magistrate just now, let go of me, the secretary of the county party committee, and I must completely eradicate this cancer, and I can't let him harm the people." Feng Juncai straightened his neck and expressed his determination categorically, "It is true that it can no longer be allowed to develop, the problem of embezzlement of collective assets, the problem of the people in the fish and meat township, the problem of corporate pollution, these problems are all infinitely harmful, and what is even more terrible is that the resulting conduction effect has now appeared in several different towns and villages, and such signs and phenomena have appeared." ”

"We all understand the truth of raising tigers, tigers hurt people, and tails are difficult to fall, but many people don't understand the truth of raising cats, and don't pay attention to them. Everyone knows that tigers hurt people and they are vigilant enough, but cats are the opposite, not only cute, but also can catch mice and make people happy. It is these characteristics that people spoil it, protect it, and even indulge it, when it does not catch mice and steals fish and fish, it often thinks that it is a trivial matter and does not care, and when excessive indulgence is not satisfied, it shows its full mouth of fangs. Because it lives around people, and even more so is a part of the family, when it harms the family and the surrounding area, the harm is greater and more direct, and the harm to treat it is no more than two methods, one is tolerant, one is abandoned, the result of tolerance may hurt the children in the family, and the result of abandonment is to become a stray cat, a carrier of germs and diseases. ”

Qi Tianxiang was slow, but he said solemnly, looking at Feng Juncai and Xiang Youzhi's gaze was grim, and his words were still slow and relaxed, "Whether it is a tiger or a cat, it can't harm the people, compared to the majesty of the tiger, a small cat may be more harmful, because it is closest to the people, the closest to life, and the harm caused is often immediate, and any remedy will not help, and no matter how good and more you do, its harm will be wasted." ”

"As long as I am determined, as long as I am willing to do it, I can do my best to provide support and help." Qi Tianxiang looked at the two of them and said meaningfully: "My eldest brother is an expert in fighting gangsters and eliminating evil, of course, his position may be higher, it is impossible to come directly to Heyang County to help you catch cats, and there is a more suitable candidate, that is, Yao Ling's husband, who was born in the special forces of the army, and a well-known criminal police officer in the city bureau, these two people came forward to organize a capable team to completely eradicate the underworld forces in Heyang County, defeat the village bandits and village tyrants who harm the people, and return the people of Heyang to a healthy ecological environment, a real clear water and blue sky." ”

"It would be great if we could get the support and help of the Public Security Department and the Criminal Police Team of the Municipal Bureau, and we will be confident that we will follow Secretary Qi's instructions to return a healthy ecological environment to the people and give Heyang a real clear water and blue sky." Feng Juncai glanced at Xiang Youzhi excitedly, and said happily: "No matter how difficult the work is, we are confident." ”

"Grassroots work is no trivial matter! You should understand that it is these village-level grassroots organizations that let the people see the image of the party and the government and see the real society, and the common people do not have too high education and too high consciousness, but they all look at what you do and keep it in mind, so when it comes to dealing with the people, no matter who you are, you should not be capricious. Qi Tianxiang looked at Feng Juncai and Xiang Youzhi, his expression became stern, and his words became cold, "Don't be capricious about power, the right is given by the people, you can give it to you, or you can take it away at any time." Don't be capricious if you have money, all the money is the hard-earned money in the pockets of the people, the people can't let you exploit and cheat forever, never forget the "Internationale", and the truth that water can carry a boat and can overturn a boat. If you are famous, you can't be capricious, your reputation is held out by the people, and it is also given by the people. Many people don't understand these simple truths now, or pretend not to understand, so they should let the facts tell them what the people are and what the society is. ”

Qi Tianxiang's righteous words had a deep meaning, not so much for Feng Juncai and Xiang Youzhi to listen to, but for the declaration in his heart, which was for himself, so that Feng Juncai and Xiang Youzhi could only nod in admiration and did not continue, and such words continued until Feng Juncai and Xiang Youzhi said goodbye, and they still echoed in Qi Tianxiang's mind for a long time, and did not disappear for a long time.

Although the day's inspection and research were tiring, Qi Tianxiang had insomnia that night.