It was almost noon, and Xue Xiang finally stepped into Zhou Mingfang's office under the leadership of Shi.

Zhou Mingfang is nearly half a hundred years old, and in the current hall cadres, he can barely be regarded as a young and strong faction, born with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and his dress is also very simple. As soon as Xue Xiang entered the door, he stood up from the desk with a smile: "Xue Xiang, wait a long time, haha, don't think that I have a big shelf and don't give us the face of the top students of Beijing University, on the contrary, I am deliberately jamming the time here, and invite our County Magistrate Xue to lunch, I don't know if I can appreciate my face?" ”

Zhou Mingfang first "Xue Xiang", then "Beijing University top student", and finally "Xue County Magistrate", three titles, with different meanings, layer by layer, but it makes people feel like a spring breeze and is very close, which is probably the legendary leader's art of talking.

Zhou Mingfang was invited, but Xue Xiang couldn't ask for it, after all, Chinese people are used to doing things at the dinner table, and this time, this Commissioner Zhou gave him a good opportunity.

Lunch was eaten in the canteen of the local party committee, and it was not in a single room, but a secluded place was chosen in the corner, and the diners in the hall obviously knew Zhou Mingfang, and there were a lot of greetings, but no one came over, and the surrounding seats were deliberately vacant, and no one showed surprise on their faces, obviously Zhou Mingfang often ate in this hall, not in front of Xue Xiang.

The lunch was so simple that Xue Xiang stared, and he didn't serve a few bowls and plates of separate dishes, but used two huge enamel jars on a tray, the rice in the jar sank to the bottom, fried cabbage, and pickled radish were occasionally mixed in, and the only meat dish was three large fat slices, which were greasy and dazzling.

Zhou Mingfang took the rice bowl. picked up the bamboo chopsticks on the table, and was not polite, and ate it with his head down, compared to Xue Xiang on weekdays. And Xue Laosan saw the radish and cabbage in the bowl, as well as the whitened fat meat, and he really lost his appetite. He was a hedonistic temperament, and since the time of the crossing, he has been as luxurious as he can in terms of food, even in the harsh conditions of the backing mountain. He Xue Laosan is also a ton of chicken, duck and fish.

The bowl of rice in front of me can be said to be the most choked one I have ever seen in my life. Zhou Mingfang moved very fast, and half of the jar was eliminated with his eyes, especially the three fat slices in the bowl, and he went down early, and he suddenly saw that Xue Xiang did not move in the bowl. actually put the chopsticks into Xue Xiang's jar, saw the three pieces of fat and sandwiched them, stabbed them, and slipped off one piece, but the other two pieces were copied into his own bowl by the old man, and the old man sighed. He stretched out his chopsticks again, as if he didn't want to take away the last piece of fat.

At this moment, Xue Xiang woke up like a dream, quickly turned the porcelain jar, and protected each other with his cross arms: "Commissioner Zhou." There's no such thing as you, there's just this bit of meat in my bowl, you snatched it all, what do I eat? As soon as he spoke, Xue Laosan waved his chopsticks and stuffed them into his mouth. In just over a few minutes, a large vat full of nearly two catties of dry goods was all eaten by him.

Zhou Mingfang stared at the last piece of fat slices and the empty porcelain jar in Xue Xiang's mouth, stunned, and at the end, he gave a thumbs up: "Go away!" ”

The inexplicable three words, but Xue Xiang knew what they meant. It's just to say, I didn't expect him Xue to be not a pampered person and can endure hardships!

If you want to say that Xue Xiangfangcai's nonsense eats seas, there is really an element of performance, and since contact, he has roughly glimpsed Zhou Mingfang's style. This is a typical old-school cadre, hard-working, disgusted with pleasure, if he Xue still hopes to gain the favor of others and get things done, then the bowl of rice in front of him must be eaten, not only must be eaten, but also must be eaten sweetly, and the fragrance can be eaten.

Yes, Xue Laosan's teeth were bitten, his heart was horizontal, and he fell into his mouth.

As soon as the two stopped, Shi took two cups of tea, saying that it was a cup, and it was also contained in a porcelain jar, the tea was muddy, and the tea soup was red and black, and at a glance they knew that it was a big tree leaf of five cents and a pound. Now that he knew what Commissioner Zhou liked, Xue Laosan simply loaded it to the end, picked up the porcelain jar and took a big mouthful.

Sure enough, a smile appeared on Zhou Mingfang's face: "Xue Xiang, you are good!" At first, I thought that you were born in the capital and studied at Beijing University, and you will inevitably have arrogance, but I didn't expect to see it today, but it impressed me. ”

Xue Xiang still looked like a pure white rabbit: "Commissioner Zhou, you have a good reputation, don't forget, I have been the captain of the backer for more than a year, what hardship have I not suffered?" ”

Zhou Mingfang waved his hand and said with a smile: "You don't have to go to the countryside, you have suffered hardship, I remember that someone ate a lot of chickens and eggs from the members' houses back then." ”

After a brush, Xue Xiang's old face, which was already as thick as a city wall, finally turned red again, after all, he lied to his face, was poked, and was pierced by his own Shangguan, this feeling is really embarrassing, how embarrassing it is.

It turned out that Zhou Mingfang was referring to Xue Xiang, and when Guo Min's family in Chengtian County searched for Xue Xiang's crimes in the backing mountain, bourgeois hedonism was one of them, and naturally he ate hundreds of chickens and countless eggs in the whole brigade. At that time, before the direction of public opinion had not yet deflected, Xue was criticized by major newspapers across the country because of this.

Zhou Mingfang brought up the old matter again, not because he wanted to see Xue Laosan make a fool of himself, but when he saw his red face, he changed the topic and said: "Okay, it's okay if you don't mention the backer, it's okay if you mention the backer, then I want to ask you a question, you Xue Xiang has only been to the backer for more than a year, so you tossed out such a scene, you have not been short when you arrived in Xiaoshan County, why haven't you seen any improvement in Xiaoshan County, is it because you don't do your best, or is Jiang Lang exhausted?" ”

The old man's question is really sharp, so that Xue Xiang wants to argue speechlessly, although there are many truths that can be said, such as "I am in the backing of the mountain, specializing in dictatorship, and in Xiaoshan County, everywhere is the elbow", and for example, "The backer of the mountain is united, the masses are single, there are many officials and people in Xiaoshan County, and it takes a lot of effort to deal with the relationship, how can I do things honestly?" "Wait.

But these truths are unspeakable, because the higher-level leaders will not listen to your many excuses, and the lower-level cadres should be a panacea in their eyes, and everything is omnipotent, after all, the leader is not obliged to help you sort out all the obstacles, and it is your responsibility to make achievements, otherwise what use do you want.

Seeing that Xue Xiang was silent, Zhou Mingfang had a better impression of him, as an old cadre, of course he knew the truth that adapting measures to local conditions and changing things from time to time, if Xue Xiang really justified the reason, he would instead look down on this star cadre, "Okay, don't talk about it, you are looking for me today, you are here to ask for help, everything else is easy to say, if you want money, please don't open your mouth." ”

Zhou Mingfang asked Xue Laosan not to open his mouth, but Xue Laosan refused to listen, the little white rabbit had to pretend when he should pretend, but when he should pull down his face, he had to be shameless. If he was easily dismissed by a sentence, could it be that he Xue came here early in the morning just to eat a meal of radish and cabbage?

"Commissioner Zhou, I did come to you today for help, but not to ask for money, mainly to talk about the production of Jiande Hardware Factory in our county." Xue Laosan also knows the skills of talking, two things, it is relatively simple to do first.

Zhou Mingfang took a sip of tea and said: "I have heard a little about the hardware factory, and the trouble is really unusual, why, it has not subsided yet?" ”

But said that the boiler explosion of Jiande Hardware Factory, and the subsequent worker conflict, such a big movement, it is almost impossible to completely seal it, Zhou Mingfang has heard about it, and Xue Xiang is not curious, "Now the mood of the workers has stabilized, and the rescue and comfort work has come to an end, and the factory has resumed normal production." ”

"Oh, it's very good, in such a short time, the situation has been controlled, it can be seen that you are doing a very good job, so why do you still mention that there is a problem with the hardware factory, what is the problem?"

"The work is carried out under the leadership of the secretary of the county party committee, I dare not take credit, as for the hardware factory, it seems that it is back on the right track, but there are still many problems inside, the most important thing is that the triangular debt problem is simply the biggest economic burden of the hardware factory!"

Zhou Mingfang tapped the desktop and said, "What can you do?" ”

Xue Xiangdao: "I can't talk about the way, I just hope that the local committee can agree to decouple our hardware factory from the upstream and downstream?" ”

Speaking of which, triangular debt is nothing more than A owes B, B owes C, and C owes A, which is like a circulating pipeline, suddenly at a bend, three big pits appeared, and the water flowed into the pits, and the circulation stagnated. Originally, after the debts were offset by each other, the three big holes were filled, and the economy was restored to smoothness, but things in the world have always been easier said than done, even if they all know the truth, but in order to do accounts, the small abacus of the leaders, and the contradictions between factories, but the pits can not always be filled. The result was a triangular debt, which in turn became a crisis. In 91, the republic broke out in the triangular debt crisis of state-owned enterprises, and it took a lot of energy to clean it up after the iron-fisted prime minister took office.

Take Jiande Hardware Factory as an example, his upstream - the other three factories in the Huayuan area that produce tripods, bicycles, and simple bearings, owe it the cost of OEM nuts, tripods, and outer ring wheels, and Jiande Hardware Factory itself owes the downstream - iron factory, paint factory, coal factory material costs, originally, if the accounts on both sides are offset, the hardware factory should still have a balance, but now, he is stuck by the upstream and downstream is unsustainable, and can not survive.

Hearing Xue Xiang's request for decoupling, Zhou Mingfang was shocked: "Is it your idea, or is it the opinion of your county party committee?" ”

In fact, it is no wonder that Zhou Mingfang was surprised, because in his opinion, this decoupling is simply pushing the hardware factory to death. Because in these years, the factories are all state-owned, there is no sense of competition at all, and the higher authorities issue production tasks and are responsible for the deployment of the produced products, that is, the factory is only responsible for production, and does not need to worry about sales. As soon as the hardware factory is decoupled, the higher-level departments will not care about its life and death, and there is no need to help it find business.

And the hardware factory is in the extremely low-end of the downstream industry, its downstream is basically a raw material factory, and the republic is currently a shortage of raw materials, the hardware factory decoupled, raw materials this piece has more surplus, Q