Qi Tianxiang and Luo Jian were invited to the leadership seat by Huang Fenglin, and sat down peacefully amid everyone's applause. Even though it was a circular sofa meeting, the seats were arranged in advance.

After sitting down, Luo Jian watched everyone sit down one after another, so he glanced at Qi Tianxiang with a smile, and after exchanging knowing eyes, his gaze turned to Huang Fenglin, and ordered with a little seriousness: "Let's start!" ”

There are not many words, but they are majestic enough, and they also have enough commanding meaning, which well reflects the power and majesty of Luo Jian as the executive vice governor of the provincial government and the leader in charge of financial operation.

Huang Fenglin seemed to have become accustomed to and accepted Luo Jian's majesty, seeing Luo Jian's expression and instructions, he immediately understood, hurriedly picked up the materials on the coffee table, hurriedly flipped through them, turned sideways to Qi Tianxiang and Luo Jian and said with a solemn expression: "I will first briefly report to Governor Qi and Governor Luo on the overall financial revenue and expenditure of the province in the first half of the year, and several other comrades will make detailed reports on specific items. ”

Qi Tianxiang bowed his head slightly in agreement, and motioned to Huang Fenglin to continue with his eyes. After getting Qi Tianxiang's approval and encouraging eyes, Huang Fenglin began a brief report. It is said to be brief, but in fact, it is not rough at all, let alone hasty, and it can even be said to be meticulous, which is not too much at all.

Qi Tianxiang was very aware of Huang Fenglin's language skills, and he also knew what this brief meant, so he listened carefully to the report with great interest, and also showed enough patience and interest.

Huang Fenglin has already mentioned the two comrades "Xiangdong" and "Wanfang" he just mentioned, and the three of them have built the main leadership collective of the Provincial Department of Finance, Huang Fenglin is the director, and the other two Lu Xiangdong and Hou Wanfang are the deputy directors, although there are several other deputy directors and department-level leaders, but the three main responsible comrades who are present at the meeting today are the directors of various key departments.

Compared with other business departments and bureaus in the province, the Department of Finance, as an important department of the province's fiscal revenue and expenditure, holds an important financial lifeline, has always been an indispensable top priority, and also has an extremely important position and role in the province's pattern. In terms of responsibilities, the business is more professional and meticulous, and there are many differences from other departments and bureaus, and the simplest point is the professionalism and continuity of leading cadres. Few of the leaders of the Department of Finance have been transferred, and basically they have accumulated over the years to reach this position, and the most common way is for the director of the provincial and local taxation bureau to take over, even if he cannot become the director of the finance department in one step, but it is necessary to become the director of the finance department. As a result, there are very few new recruits to this position in this department, and there are very few transitional cadres who serve as finance ministers.

In addition to professionalism, it is trust, there is also experience and operational ability, this kind of requirements are doomed, and the Minister of Finance is unlikely to be lightly entrusted with the heavy responsibility. It is precisely for this reason that many finance ministers can be promoted to vice governors without having experience in performing duties at the grassroots level, and other departments and bureaus rarely have such preferential treatment, which also shows the importance of this position.

Huang Fenglin and Lu Xiangdong and Hou Wanfang are such typical examples, the three of them are the three directors of the local taxation bureau in Hehai Province, and there is no transition in the middle, it can also be clearly seen that the inheritance relationship between the director of finance and the director of the local taxation bureau, Huang Fenglin has the role of absolute senior brother and leader, which can be clearly seen from his tone and style.

Qi Tianxiang is not familiar with Huang Fenglin, and he doesn't know much about several other deputy directors, which is not only because Qi Tianxiang is not very keen on intersection, but also because of the professional business field of the Department of Finance and the existence of authoritative departments. Even after Qi Tianxiang became the governor of the provincial government, he paid little attention to the financial power, and did not incorporate it into his jurisdiction as usual, but still handed it over to Luo Jian. In addition to the reluctance to seize power, this is more about easing the relationship with team members.

But for Huang Fenglin, Qi Tianxiang still knows a lot, in addition to his computer brain as the province's financial system, more is his superhuman memory and natural sensitivity to numbers, these legendary experiences are constantly spreading, and they are constantly being continued and refreshed. There was a record of Huang Fenglin's report for three hours without looking at any information, and there was also a record of the financial work report of the two sessions of the province, without reading the speech and the numbers were not bad at all, and even the data from a few years ago, without deliberately thinking about blurting out accurate classics. These are all reflected in the not very conspicuous thin man in front of him, which makes people can't believe it, and can't help but admire.

Qi Tianxiang once comprehended Huang Fenglin's extraordinary memory, once in the National Development and Reform Commission project expenditure coordination meeting, the National Development and Reform Commission director Wang Junming said a set of data, Huang Fenglin was questioned at the beginning, and bluntly pointed out that Wang Junming's figures were wrong, and it was the gap between the amount of provisions and expenditures. At that time, Wang Junming couldn't get off the stage, so that after comparing the materials, he found that it was indeed an error in the data, which made Wang Junming blush, and he could only blush and apologize.

Qi Tianxiang has not experienced many such cases, but he has heard a lot, so it is not strange for Huang Fenglin to just glance at the materials and talk eloquently, but instead took out a notebook and pen to record the important figures in Huang Fenglin's report in detail, so as to have a clear understanding and grasp of these key data.

That is, he doesn't care about his financial advantages, Qi Tianxiang only needs to listen carefully to the report, and he doesn't need to know all the income and expenditure, this should be Qi Tianxiang's own business, but now Luo Jian is taking on the responsibility of supervision.

The convention believes that the number one leader should have people, money, and materials firmly in his hands, so that he can be at ease and better control the situation. Qi Tianxiang does not think so, people, money, and things are of course important, but the more important things are, the more they need to invest huge energy, and in the era of increasingly transparent information and regulatory channels, such power not only means responsibility, but also consumes a huge amount of time and energy, as long as there is heart and intentions, who will manage it is the same, and will not be the power of others, it will eventually lose power, on the contrary, because of the existence of decision-making power, more firmly control the exercise of power.

Just like Luo Jian now, although he is in charge of the power of financial and economic operation, and seems to have unlimited scenery, he must know every aspect of fiscal revenue and expenditure, and he must also give necessary explanations for the reasons and effects of each expenditure. In the face of possible criticism and discontented remarks, it is not so easy to prove one's innocence, there must be enough reasons to support the conclusion, and explaining the reasons is the most difficult thing to do.

Qi Tianxiang can be relatively detached, he only needs to attend the financial revenue and expenditure report meeting presided over by Luo Jian on time and listen to the corresponding data report, but Luo Jian has to prepare for such a meeting seriously, and needs to carefully review the report materials of the Department of Finance, and even Huang Fenglin, Lu Xiangdong and Hou Wanfang, the two deputy directors, have a lot of complicated data to screen the reasonableness.

Therefore, during the whole meeting, Luo Jian never raised his head from the materials, not only Huang Fenglin's unscripted report, but also Lu Xiangdong and Hou Wanfang's explanations, which made Luo Jian not only listen carefully, but also keep up with their ideas, so that the meeting became a test and supervision for him.

Since it was the last meeting in the morning, the time control was not very strict, and after Huang Fenglin and the other two deputy directors finished their reports, the heads of the departments attending the meeting also gave necessary explanations on some income expectations and expenditure items in response to Qi Tianxiang's questions. It was easy to stay up until the end of the meeting, Qi Tianxiang and Luo Jian left the conference room with the applause and cheers of all the participants, walked out of the No. 9 small building for a long time, and after declining the send-off of Huang Fenglin and others, Luo Jian took a long breath and was relieved from the tense atmosphere of the meeting.

"In less than a morning meeting, listening to the report can make people tired half to death, it's really unpredictable!" Walking side by side on the corridor, Luo Jian didn't wait to walk to the podium where he was resting, and said with deep feeling: "There is no trivial matter in finance, and it is worthy of its name!" When there is no leisure in this stall, I really envy your ability to control, not only can I hear the problem, but also grasp the crux of the problem. ”

Qi Tianxiang walked slowly, knowing that Luo Jian had the meaning of complaining and showing merit, so he smiled faintly and said: "I didn't see that you were overstretched, but through such a report, I saw the effectiveness of your control of financial revenue and expenditure, didn't I see a few department directors praising you openly and secretly?" Without you, others really can't play it. ”

Luo Jian was skeptical of Qi Tianxiang's words, and glanced at Qi Tianxiang with a side face seriously, and his heart was very useful, but he said modestly: "With your words at the bottom, I can't say anything hard, I can only do my best to do it reluctantly, and the daughter-in-law is difficult to cook without rice, we still have rice in the pot, so it won't come to the point where I can't move!" ”

Seeing that Qi Tianxiang smiled and didn't answer, Luo Jian continued: "But then again, you and I have so many things at hand now, and the financial income and expenditure situation so far is quite ideal, I really don't have too much energy to think about the streamlining of the organization, you are energetic and easy to do everywhere, but I am lacking in skills and powerless." ”

Listening to Luo Jian's words, Qi Tianxiang glanced at him seriously, and wanted to say something seriously about this matter, but when he was about to walk to the front of the podium, there were many people waiting, so he still smiled and said meaningfully to Luo Jian: "People have no foresight, there must be near-term worries!" It looks like the garden is full of greenery, but the season is no longer the germination period when new greenery gradually grows full of greenery, so it is better to take precautions as soon as possible! ”

As he spoke, Qi Tianxiang walked briskly with a smile on his face, walking towards the waiting crowd.