Chapter 003: Undercurrent (I)
On the first day after the official appointment, the Wu City Government was in office
The clock hand had already turned past seven o'clock, and Executive Vice Mayor Wang He's phone call had been going on for nearly an hour, and it was not over.
On Huang Ping's side, the mobile phone and landline rang in turn. Zheng Guanghua, the boss of Guanghua Group, was urging him on the phone for the third time, and his tone seemed a little impatient. Daughter Tingting is even a text message and a phone call, one with a pound of "voice? obviously cried, and even counted the bad deeds of my father who usually didn't keep his promises. On the other end of the phone, his wife Zhang Ping also added fuel to the fire, complaining that her husband shouldn't be so procrastinating on his daughter's birthday.
Both like catties. The firefighters who are tired of coping with it, and the little daughter-in-law who is used to being obedient, Huang Ping dealt with Zheng Guanghua in a low voice, and changed his tricks to coax Tingting.
In fact, Mayor Wang's office is diagonally opposite Huang Ping, with only a wide corridor in between. In the party committee and government organs of Wucheng City, almost all the offices of secretaries, mayors and secretaries are laid out in this way.
The benefits of such a setup are clear. On the one hand, sitting on Huang Ping's personal position, anyone who comes up from the elevator to enter the mayor's office must first pass through the secretary's room, so that the secretary can guide the guests, or ask the leader for instructions, reports, appointments, or directly block the leader; On the other hand, when the doors on both sides are open, Huang Ping can look at the mayor's office opposite, and the leader can greet the secretary when he has something, just shout lightly or nod his head and wave his hand.
Right now, although the door on Mayor Wang's side is closed, he can vaguely hear the buzzing of the camp inside, but he can't knock on the door and go in to urge, even if Zheng Guanghua is crooked on the phone. Of course, Huang Ping knows the importance of Mayor Wang's call, or in other words, only he can gain insight.
When the phone rang, Mayor Wang happened to go to the bathroom, and Huang Ping answered it as usual. It shows Huang Ping's personal accomplishment, and also sets off the overall quality of Wang He, the deputy mayor and even the entire Wucheng city government organs. The other party responded very indifferently, and did not report his name and identity according to the normal logic of playing cards, and only asked Wang and his comrades to speak, and his voice was obviously very low.
With the human sense of hearing trained by many years of secretarial experience, Huang Ping immediately heard the voice of the director of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee. But since the other party didn't report it, he would never take the initiative to greet him. This kind of response has nothing to do with politeness or the like, nor does it have to do with personal self-esteem, but is a necessary quality for a good secretary.
In Huang Ping's view, if the secretarial profession can also be independent into a profession, then in addition to many well-known explicit rules in this profession, there must be some lesser-known unspoken rules. Don't ask what you shouldn't. What should not be understood, when to walk in front of the leader, where to fall behind the leader, and so on, such common sense things probably belong to the scope of what the secretary should know and should know, and it is to show the rules.
And a person with a special identity like Director Guan, at such a sensitive moment, made such a phone call with an obviously mysterious tone, but Mayor Wang was no longer there to answer on his behalf, whether he should actively show his enthusiasm, take the initiative to introduce himself, and call each other the other party, but not all secretaries can be as accurate as Huang Ping. When he was complacent, Mayor Wang came in after a small explanation, Huang Ping only said that he asked to wait a while, then handed the phone to the leader, and quietly locked the door when he left.
Don't underestimate Huang Ping's above-mentioned seemingly subtle demeanor, which just shows that he is a me. A master who is familiar with the unspoken rules of the industry. Some people have worked in the secretary position for most of their lives, until their heads fall out, their teeth are all loose, and their beards are white, and they still haven't been able to comprehend 12 out of 10, while Huang Ping has only been in the secretary position for ten years, and he is already familiar with it and even perfected it. This kind of comprehension and cultivation shows Huang Ping's "goodness".
The word "not bad" comes from the mouth of Mayor Wang, who has said it more than once, but never in front of Huang Ping, not to mention, Wang He was originally a secretary, and he can get such comments in Wucheng, which shows that it is not perfunctory, and the gold content is not low. Just because of this. The "good" evaluation made Huang Ping earn enough face in the secretary circle. After thinking about it, Huang Ping pondered the phone number of Director Guan. Director Guan is a classmate of Mayor Wang He's Provincial Party School, and he is in charge of the city and county cadre department in the ministry, and it is said that he will soon be promoted to vice minister. Yesterday, Secretary Xiao Ding took office, and the provincial leaders who accompanied him, in addition to Secretary You Jing and Minister Cheng Lin, were the most important in terms of the position of director of Shuguan, but he only came to Wucheng yesterday, and he came to call again at this time today, which must be related to the upcoming change of the Wucheng City Government team and the future and fate of Mayor Wang himself.
With the sudden death of the old secretary, many people began to discuss whether Ren Xuanping, the mayor, would fill the position of secretary of the municipal party committee. But soon the No. 1 document of the provincial party committee came down, shattering this speculation. Huang Ping's heart was also disappointed. Isn't it? If Mayor Ren is promoted to secretary of the municipal party committee, then Wang He, as the executive vice mayor, will also be very capable of "taking a step forward." became the mayor, and then he Huang Ping will also become the first secretary of the city government, although the merger of the municipal party committee and the city government makes the position of the first secretary not as good as elsewhere, but even if it is the second secretary, at least in the six districts and five cities of Wucheng, he still represents the first secretary of the city government!
It's a pity that this kind of thinking is no longer possible, as soon as the young secretary of the municipal party committee comes, there is no possibility of replacing the mayor, and of course Wang and the mayor will not find the "shortage" to move forward. But there is also an "insider." The news came out that the provincial party committee took into account the age of the mayor and intended to transfer the mayor to a provincial organ, and perhaps, he would be the head of a certain department. Moreover, it is said that Mayor Electhira himself also has such thoughts, otherwise he would not have casually mentioned that he was "better to be a department director" during the luncheon of city leaders yesterday.
As a result, the new secretary network has arrived, but now there are still two or three months before the election, and the people have begun to circulate the composition of the new government team. As usual, there are many versions, thousands of changes, and all kinds of things, but there is only one position candidate Wang He, who is almost 145 years old, executive vice mayor, who is about to be resigned from vice president and promoted to mayor of Wucheng. It is said that some people in the city government have begun to act in advance, or to inquire in detail about Mayor Wang's circle of friends, social relations, personal hobbies, or to ask officials who have a good personal relationship with Mayor Wang to introduce and aid them.
Huang Ping, who was originally too eye-catching in Jichuan. As a result, it gradually surfaced and was pushed to the foreground three. Of course, it is inconvenient for everyone to say anything on the occasion, but in private, some people congratulated Huang Ping in advance, saying that they should take more care of them in the future, or that they should not forget each other, and so on. There are also people who get along very well and simply say bluntly, saying that Mayor Wang has become a regular, and you kid will definitely follow the work of a division commander and brigade commander, is it possible that buddies will also get a little light by the way, and it is not possible to get a regiment commander and battalion commander under you? What about Huang Ping. His face was still invulnerable, and his mouth was smiling: "Cut!" I am a soft-spoken little secretary, who was born to run errands and carry bags, and any care and wealth are all nonsense. "In my heart, I poured it as sweet and moisturized as honey. Yes, Mayor Wang has become a regular, at least the problem of the deputy director of the general office of the municipal government can definitely be solved, and even if he is not careful, it is not impossible for the deputy secretary general of the municipal government to do so!
In fact, Huang Ping knows better than anyone that as long as Mayor Wang is promoted, it is equivalent to his promotion, which is just the truth that a rising tide lifts all boats. In this way, hasn't this ** cadre system fallen into the bad habits and clichés of feudal society where one person has attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascends to heaven? Not really. Huang Ping has a unique understanding of the relationship between leaders and secretaries, who advance and retreat together, grow together, and complement each other. I remember that not long after he entered the office of the municipal party committee, he once participated in the secretary business training, and Wang He, who was still the last deputy mayor at that time, also came to give a lesson. As an old secretary who has worked beside the leaders of the provincial and municipal party committees for many years, Wang Heyu has a deep understanding and a particularly good experience in the secretary post, especially when talking about the relationship between leaders and secretaries, he repeatedly used two words and teeth to rely on each other, and the lips and teeth are cold. These eight words shocked Huang Ping at that time, and also completely subverted some of his preconceptions about the secretarial profession.
The relationship between the leader and the secretary is not only a subordinate relationship between the leader and the led, between the superior and the subordinate, nor is it by no means a vulgar interpretation of the master and the servant, the command and the obedience, and the title of the secretary is not synonymous with serving people, patting on the back, and flattering. Lips and teeth, intimate but independent, dignified, image and full of infinite affection, between the leader and the secretary thus elevated to the mountain and water to find a soulmate, the Boya factor period and break the piano. It was Mayor Wang's words that made Huang Ping have a deeper understanding of "the death of a confidant". At that time, he longed for how good it would be if he could be the secretary of a leader like Mayor Wang. Fortunately, just four years later, his wish came true, and he and Mayor Wang really formed a pair of lips and teeth that coexisted with each other.
It's 7:20, and the mayor of the opposite gate still hasn't moved. At this time, Huang Ping was also a little anxious in his heart. His anxiety was not entirely due to the constant urging of Zheng Guanghua and Tingting, but because of Mayor Wang's long-term phone call, he faintly felt something wrong.
"Why isn't it over yet? Is there something wrong with the re-election? Could it be that the mayor of the election is suddenly not ready to move the nest? Huang Ping thought.
He knew that Wang He was not a mother-in-law's character, not to mention making a phone call, and even the formal meeting report was not too particular about hypocrisy and grievances. The pace of the leadership change is approaching, and it is said that the province has begun to solicit opinions from all sides and recommend the search for suitable candidates. When Director Guan called at this time, it should belong to the kind of people who go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, because they don't have any work affiliation, and they usually don't contact each other during working hours. This call lasted for so long, which naturally shows that not only is the topic of discussion important, but also may have encountered some burr problems. Turning off the lights and making the phone do call forwarding, it definitely means do not disturb.
During this period, Huang Ping made technical handling of all the calls to Mayor Wang, and some inconsequential phone appointments were all tactfully and resolutely rejected without exception. At this time, as a competent secretary, Huang Pingzi will keep Mayor Wang free from any kind of interference. As for that Zheng Guanghua, although he has a very strong relationship with Mayor Wang, and Huang Ping is also a brother to him, Mayor Wang has long promised to help him receive a foreign businessman at night, and it is said that Guanghua Group is negotiating a new joint venture project with the other party, with an investment scale of more than 100 million US dollars, but that project is still not comparable with Mayor Wang's mediation and telephone at this time. Therefore, Huang Ping ignored Zheng Guanghua's increasingly irrepressible anger, what about hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign investment? Are there still few foreign businessmen who come to invest in Wucheng now? But can Wang He be promoted to mayor smoothly. Maybe there won't be a second chance! He was really a little anxious and felt guilty, but it was the family's daughter Tingting.
While Huang Ping was alone in the office, Wang He's telephone conversation with Director Guan was in full swing.
Wang He knew that Zheng Guanghua had a dinner party, and it was a Canadian Chinese businessman who came to discuss the project, so he asked him to come forward to receive it, which not only represented the city, but also had personal friendship; Secretary Huang Ping's daughter Tingting has a birthday today, and she has asked him for leave in the afternoon; The wall clock in the secretary's room across from it also rings automatically every half hour, accompanied by a voice prompt that it is now a certain time and a certain minute. But since I answered the call from Director Guan, these trivial things have been hidden behind the scenes, and they have gradually ceased to exist.
To him, nothing was more important than Director Kwan's phone call. And the content of the phone call also surprised him very much.
At the two sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) early next year, because of the "cross-century" relationship, it is very likely that the governments at the prefectural and city levels in the province will have a "small term of change" and the mayor of Wucheng will be elected for more than one term, and although he is not over 55 years old, it is not ironclad that he will not be able to be re-elected.
But he raised the limelight of the provincial organs very strongly, from the beginning of the rumors to be the director of a certain department, to now it is rumored that it may be the deputy secretary general of the provincial party committee, it is said that there is no wind and no waves, this possibility is very great, after all, the new secretary is young and an outsider, the provincial party committee is worried that there is such an old qualification as the mayor in the mayor position will make Secretary Xiao unable to show, which is also a very common thought. Moreover, Mayor Ren did not receive the baton at such an age and when the old secretary died, and he must have resistance to Secretary Xiao in his heart, so choosing to transfer Mayor Ren at this time would be a very normal solution.
In this way, according to the common practice, as a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor, he should naturally take over the post of mayor. However, in Chinese officialdom, as long as the documents are not issued or the organization does not talk to you for a day, there will be too many uncertainties at any time, making this so-called practice an exception or even an accident. A few years ago, there was a period of rumors that the secretary of the municipal party committee was going to the province to take charge of industry, and it was said that the provincial leaders had greeted him privately. The city also began to celebrate and see him off, but in the end, it was still over, and there was no follow-up, and some people even thought that this was a major reason why Secretary Dong was depressed and finally died of illness in recent years.
"The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee has just listened to the special report, and according to the instructions of the Provincial Party Committee to the secretary, the plan for the election of the municipal government will make major changes. There are some situations that may not even be under the control of our department, and you have to be mentally prepared to go straight to the topic when the director comes up, and there is no hustle and no transition.
"Can you elaborate on that?" Wang He knew that if there were no urgent or important changes, Director Guan would not use a landline to contact him in the office.
"Secretary Xiang, Secretary You, Minister Cheng Lin and the Standing Committee are also principled opinions, and the specific rules and regulations need to be further refined in the back department and department, but a few points have been basically decided." As he spoke, there was the sound of paper flipping on Director Guan's side, and Wang He knew that he was looking for the meeting minutes.
Sure enough, Director Guan began to read from the script: "First, increase the intensity of democratic evaluation and recommendation, and the personnel participating in the evaluation and recommendation should be more extensive and representative, and the results should play a greater role in the use of cadres; Second, the selection of candidates is no longer limited to a small category, and the vision should be broader, and strive to make participation and competitiveness stronger; Third, on the basis of paying attention to morality and diligence, we should raise integrity to a higher height, resolutely prevent promotion with illness, and put an end to the promotion of the front and the fall of the horse; Fourth, age and education have changed from a hard burden to a reference basis, and the upper and lower restrictive conditions are no longer as harsh as in the past
While listening, Wang He quietly wrote down the main points with a pen. By the time Director Guan finished reading, he had actually roughly comprehended the main idea. However, due to the haste of the incident, he still hoped that Director Kwan would be able to explain more clearly.
According to Secretary Xiang's opinion, the policy on the use of cadres in this re-election should reflect the spirit of bullying and innovation, and reflect the truth-seeking and pragmatic style.
In Director Guan's view, these four principles are actually a subversion of the cadre policy that has been in use for many years. In the past few years, major cadre changes, such as the change of prefectural and municipal governments and the replacement of mayors, have mostly been based on the recommendation of leaders and organizational decisions, and the decision-making power has often ended up in the hands of a few principal leaders. The so-called democratic recommendation, evaluation, and the like are either going through the motions, or just as a reference or even decoration. In recent years, the so-called voting in many localities has been limited to the appointment of cadres at the first level of the section and department, and in some cases, the main posts have been circled by the leaders, and the secondary posts have been put out for voting.
And now, suddenly raising the democratic evaluation and recommendation to a very high level, it is not just a few leaders who nod their heads to decide, but also the perception and votes from the people are very important, and even become the decisive factor. If you really want to cross this bottom line of employing people, then the scope of selection and employment will expand geometrically. Therefore, in the past, when a mayor retired, most of them followed the natural replacement procedure, and even if the executive vice mayor was not the only candidate, the selection range was only expanded to the level of deputy secretary of the municipal party committee.
Nowadays, all members of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and deputy mayors on both sides of a municipal party committee and government, as long as the basic conditions are met, are likely to participate, and the uncertainty will expand a lot. As for the article on paying attention to integrity, at present, it is only lip service and writing on paper, just like the conditions such as political consciousness and ideological quality, as long as the officials who have not been sentenced to shuanggui and sentence, they can all be compared with Jiao Yulu and Zhang Side, so it is still impossible to grasp it if it is really implemented.
"Age and education are relaxed, that is the most important one, and it must not be taken lightly. You must know that as far as a city is concerned, as long as the age is relaxed by one year, the educational background will be reduced by one middle. grade, it may mean that there will be several competitors suddenly, and Director Guan's tone suddenly increased.
"Why do we have to relax age and education? Wang Henaturally also paid attention to the fourth point, and did not understand it. Over the years, there have been many changes in the cadre policy, but the younger and more knowledgeable have almost become an iron law, and in recent years, the age has become more and more stuck, and the educational background has become higher and higher, which has made many people successful, and at the same time, it has also blocked the pace of many people from continuing to advance. A 45-year-old cadre with a master's degree like Wang He is the biggest beneficiary of the above policy.
Secretary Xiang felt that many young cadres were keen to change their age and get diplomas all day long, and did not pay much attention to their actual work, and as a result, some people were very young, highly educated, and had a very bad job, which made some comrades who worked hard and experienced lose their competitive advantage. told the secretary that he must break this frame this time, even if he steps down in the future, others will change this article back to Director Guan explained.
"Alas" sighed, expressing the helplessness and disappointment in Wang He's heart. In fact, how did he know that Secretary Xiang was only dissatisfied with the sudden transfer of a young cadre to the top of almost the most important city under his command, and implemented this dissatisfaction into his own administration? It is also a coincidence that Secretary Xiang has only been in office for a few days. The first thing was that the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee sent down a document asking the provincial party committee to consider a personnel appointment, not to mention it, it was naturally about Xiao Zhen's appointment proposal in Wucheng. So the first provincial party committee document issued by Secretary Zhou after he became the secretary of the provincial party committee was about the appointment of Xiao Ding. However, Secretary Xiang is Chairman Lu's old subordinate, and he is quite dissatisfied with the Xiao family's strength in Jiangdong, and this time he was able to win the post of secretary of the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee, and Chairman Lu pushed him out with the help of several unknown east winds, so he will show his existence as soon as he comes.
"Don't let up!" Director Kwan encouraged: "The reason why I told you the inside story for the first time is that I hope you will pay attention to it and reconsider your competitive strategy to ensure that nothing goes wrong." You must know that opportunities and difficulties are equal for all, and if you are one step ahead of others and prepared, you will have a few more chances of winning than them" Thank you! With your brother's reminder and support, I will definitely strive for success! Wang He responded sincerely. He suddenly realized that he had only paid attention to those articles just now, and it was a little late to say a word of thanks.
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