On July 10, 2000, at the meeting of the city's cadres presided over by Cui Jingqun, secretary of the Huanghai Municipal Party Committee, Deng Renjie, director of the Organization Department of the Ludong Provincial Party Committee, announced the personnel appointment decision of the Central Committee and the Provincial Party Committee, appointing Tang Yi as a member, standing committee member and deputy secretary of the Huanghai Municipal Party Committee.

In the afternoon, the Standing Committee of the Huanghai Municipal People's Congress passed a resolution to appoint Tang Yi as the deputy mayor and acting mayor of the Huanghai Municipal People's Political Axe.

In the evening, in the welcome pavilion of the Huanghai Hotel, Cui Jingqun and all the members of the Standing Committee of the Huanghai Municipal Party Committee took the wind and washed the dust for Tang Yi.

There are thirteen members of the Standing Committee of the Huanghai Municipal Party Committee, Cui Jingqun, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Lin Weiguo, Director of the Municipal People's Congress, Huang Xiangdong, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Organization Department, Zeng Qingming, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, Wang Lizhen, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and President of the Municipal Party School, Li Xiaohan, Commander of the Huanghai Municipal Garrison District, Zhang Dingzhong, Secretary of the Municipal Legal Committee and Director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Zhang Qiang, Director of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, Zhou Wenkai, Executive Deputy Mayor of the Municipal People's Political Axe, Qian Youzhi, Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee, Zhao Enhong, Deputy Mayor of the Municipal People's Political Axe, and Lv Zhen, Director of the United Front Work Department of the Municipal Party Committee. plus Tang Yi, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and acting mayor, a total of 13 standing committee members.

At the reception banquet, it was naturally all empty words, and everyone looked at each other.

And Tang Yi paid the most attention to Huang Xiangdong, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and head of the organization department, Huang Xiangdong is nearly fifty years old, and has worked in the organization department of the Yellow Sea for more than 20 years. The occasional sentence can often make people think deeply about the meaning.

Lin Weiguo, director of the Municipal People's Congress, is about to arrive at the station in a few years, this deputy ministerial-level official seems to be staying in the Yellow Sea to retire, looking at him with a breezy and calm, always amiable smile, and speaking without a trace of anger, he really looks like an old man waiting for retirement, but the more this is the case, the more vigilant Tang Yi becomes, this is the way to go deep.

One fox is enough to give Tang Yi a headache, what about two? Tang Yi was really skeptical about whether it was a wise decision for him to come to the Yellow Sea.

Just these two people who have already announced the personnel of the Yellow Sea are still in the hands of that person, not to mention that most of the rest of the Standing Committee members are also close to that side.

After the banquet, Tang Yi was arranged to stay in the No. 3 villa of the Welcome Pavilion, which is composed of exquisite two-story villas, facing the mountains and the sea, and the scenery is extremely beautiful.

Manager Xiao of the Welcome Pavilion is a beautiful lady in her forties, she looks very capable, she led a ten-class delicate waiter to lead Tang Yi into the villa area, and said while walking: "Mayor Tang, although Xiao Qin has just been recruited, she is very clever, she will be responsible for the hygiene of Building 3 in the future, if you are not satisfied, I will help you change the waiter immediately." ”

Tang Yi nodded slightly.

Manager Xiao answered the phone outside, Xiao Qin led Tang Yi into the No. 3 villa, and introduced the use of the room and some utensils to Tang Yi, Xiao Qin is a novice, very young, when introduced to the big massage table in the bathroom, Xiao Qin blushed, but still had to introduce its usage in a soft voice, Tang Yi waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I'll go out at night and come back later." ”

Xiao Qin hurriedly said: "I'm in the duty room, call me when you come back, and I'll help you open the door." ”

Tang Yi smiled: "No need, just give me the key." ”

"Ahh Xiao Qin handed the room card to Tang Yi, she heard Manager Xiao say that most of the leaders felt that it was too troublesome to bring the key to the room, so they could only be a little troublesome for these waiters, and many times they had to wait for the leaders to come back before they could sleep peacefully, and they didn't want the new mayor to be very different.

Out of the villa, Manager Xiao also finished the call, and heard that Secretary Tang was going out for a walk, so he hurriedly said: "You just came to the Yellow Sea, and you are not familiar with the place, I have to call Secretary Cui for instructions." ”

Tang Yi smiled, "I'm not a child, so don't talk to Secretary Cui." ”

In fact, he didn't mean anything else when he said this, but Manager Xiao had a keen sense of politics, and immediately said: "That's okay, but I have to call the city bureau and ask them to arrange someone to protect you, Mayor Tang, you also have to be considerate of my work, don't you?" ”

Tang Yi thought about it and nodded slightly, Manager Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, although the new mayor is young, he is not like some upstarts, many officials know that they are mavericks, and they don't want to think about how many people under them will be frightened.

Manager Xiao said again: "Mayor Tang, then let's go into the house and wait, I will call Deputy Director Wang of the Municipal Bureau and ask him to send someone to send a car." "I paid attention to what I said this time, and I didn't mention another member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, after all, she still knows a lot of things about the Huanghai Municipal Party Committee in this position.

Tang Yi nodded and entered the villa.

Manager Xiao didn't follow up, but dialed the phone of Wang Biao, executive deputy director of the Municipal Bureau, Wang Biao heard Manager Xiao's voice, and said impatiently: "I said it earlier, that thing can't be done!" ”

Manager Xiao smiled: "Wang Ju, the first thing I thought of was to call you." ”

"The first call? What do you mean? Wang Biao's voice was low.

Manager Xiao smiled and said, "Mayor Tang, if you want to go out for a walk, don't you arrange someone to protect you?" ”

Wang Biao was stunned, and then smiled: "Okay, I know!" The tone was much better.

Manager Xiao hung up the phone happily, the seemingly simple things of others in the officialdom are full of mysteries, which can be regarded as a big favor for Wang Biao.

In the living room, Tang Yi drank the tea made by Xiao Qin, silent, and it was difficult to see what he was thinking.

Xiao Jing smiled and said, "Mayor Tang, they will be here in a while." ”

Tang Yi nodded, looked at his watch, and it was a quarter past nine.

Ten minutes later, two plainclothes Santanas from the city bureau drove a car without a police car logo to the Yingbin Pavilion, one was the deputy head of the criminal investigation detachment, surnamed Yang, and the other was an ordinary criminal policeman.

Tang Yi shook hands politely with the two, neither amiable nor cold, Manager Xiao kept observing Tang Yi, and when Tang Yi and the two police officers came out of the villa, he immediately sighed, no matter how young he was? How can an official of this status be easily seen through by himself?

He went out of the villa with Xiao Qin, and told Xiao Qin to lock the door, and he must wait for Mayor Tang to come back at night before sleeping, Manager Xiao pondered again, and dialed Secretary Cui's number to report Mayor Tang's whereabouts.

Secretary Cui's voice was very calm, "Xiao Xiao, it is right to care about Mayor Tang, but you should pay attention to proportion, is this call necessary?" ”

Manager Xiao smiled: "I know, I'm not afraid that Mayor Tang is unfamiliar with his life and will have some accidents?" ”

Secretary Cui's tone was a little reproachful: "Why is the security in the Yellow Sea so bad in your opinion?" ”

Manager Xiao didn't dare to say any more, and hung up the phone.

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The night view of the Yellow Sea is extremely beautiful, the rows of high-rise buildings are resplendent and graceful under the night light, the traffic on the road shuttles endlessly, the car lights are like weaving, on both sides of the road, the pines and cypresses stand lush and green, the flowers are vibrantly open, wandering in the streets, the modern high-rise buildings with artistic surnames and the flowers and pines on both sides of the street reflect each other, make people feel relaxed and happy. There are very few pedestrians riding bicycles on the sidewalks, and from time to time some fashionably dressed, young and lively girls will come out of the flow of people, adding a beautiful scenery to this garden-like city.

Team Yang and criminal policeman Xiao Zhao followed Tang Yi four or five steps away, which was not too close, and they could deal with emergencies in time.

Tang Yi took out the phone, dialed Ye Xiaolu's number, and turned off the phone again, Tang Yi smiled, and put the phone back in the bag.

Ye Xiaolu's mother's matter has already started to call someone to investigate, the most outstanding private detective in Hong Kong in terms of searching for people, and asked a friend from the Ministry of Public Security to open a letter of introduction, basically in China can get the cooperation of the public security agencies, of course, the so-called cooperation is only to inquire about some population files, anonymous corpse cases, etc., and it is not a big fanfare to help the detectives go to the police to find people.

Although there is little hope of finding Ye Xiaolu's mother, Tang Yi still hopes to talk to Ye Xiaolu when she is idle, after all, after she knows her identity, the two have no time to talk about it anymore.

Tang Yi suddenly turned around and said with a smile: "Team Yang, Officer Zhao, let's find a place to smoke cigarettes, the air on the street is too good, people are reluctant to waste it." ”

Team Yang hurriedly trotted a few steps to catch up and said, "Mayor Tang, it's okay, come and smoke me." He took out a bag of China from his pocket, and then he was full of regret, what kind of courtesy? It's not going to be easy. But it was not easy to put the Chinese up again at this time, so he smiled and said, "My friend just gave me a pack of cigarettes." After saying that, I regretted it, and I wanted to cover it up.

Tang Yi didn't seem to care much about his actions, waved his hand and said: "The environment of the Yellow Sea is very good, especially this street, it is very beautiful, although it is not realistic to introduce a regulation prohibiting smoking on the street, but we must set an example and encourage citizens to smoke in designated places." ”

"Yes, yes." Team Yang breathed a sigh of relief, looked around, and pointed to the brightly lit building not far away: "Then go to the Great Eastern Commercial Building?" There is a dedicated smoking area inside. ”

Tang Yi nodded, and Team Yang and Xiao Zhao hurriedly led the way in front and led Tang Yi towards the Great Eastern Commercial Building.

The lights in the commercial building are bright, the flow of people is like a tide, there is a special smoking rest area on the first floor, soft sofas, and ashtrays on the coffee table. ”

Team Yang and Xiao Zhao sat down, Tang Yi took out the British cigarettes brought by Ye Xiaolu from his handbag, and then smiled slightly, and Ye Xiaolu's voice seemed to sound in his ears again, "British cigarettes, you can have a product and talk nonsense with friends." ”

In the UK, Tang Yi remembered Chen Ke who was far away in a foreign country, although he often used ICQ to contact, but he hadn't seen Chen Ke's beautiful face for a long time, and he really missed it.

His heart was a little confused, he shook his head, Tang Yi threw a cigarette to the two police officers, and Team Yang took the cigarette and hurriedly took out the lighter to help Tang Yi light it.

Tang Yi didn't speak, smoked silently, and the two police officers could only sit and accompany them, occasionally making eye contact.

The two men in suits and leather shoes next to him suddenly talked loudly, which also attracted Tang Yi's attention, because they were talking about Zhang Dingzhong, secretary of the Huanghai Municipal Legal Committee and director of the Public Security Bureau, and Tang Yi, who had just arrived.

A man was asking in surprise: "Lao Chen, is the mayor of the central airborne really here to take down the smile?" ”

"Isn't it just for him, how deep is Zhang Dingzhong's foundation in our Yellow Sea? If he is not a cadre under the Central Committee, who can move him? Didn't Mayor Li be defeated by him? Lao Chen looks like a know-it-all.

The person who spoke first said strangely: "Why did the central government move Zhang Dingzhong?" Isn't he doing a good job of policing our Yellow Sea? ”

Lao Chen lowered his voice mysteriously: "You don't know this, right?" Zhang Dingzhong played too much and offended a certain son in the central government, besides, how many things has he done over the years? I heard that ......" Lao Chen looked around, and his voice was lowered, "I heard that he has too many lovers, and the above has long been dissatisfied with him!" ”

Tang Yi snuffed out his cigarette, stood up and walked out, Team Yang and Xiao Zhao hurriedly followed, Team Yang secretly looked at Tang Yi's expression, and pondered how Mayor Tang should answer what he asked about Director Zhang, but Tang Yi was enjoying the night view on the street, as if he hadn't heard anything just now.

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The Huanghai Municipal Axe Office Building is an eleven-storey fan-shaped building, facing the sea in front of it, facing Wugong Mountain in the east, there is a four-season evergreen lawn in front of the door, and the red sculpture "Wind of the Yellow Sea" stands in the center of the south end of the square, and the momentum is magnificent.

Tang Yi's first day of work was mainly to familiarize himself with the environment, and after holding an executive meeting of the political axe in the morning and having a preliminary understanding and contact with the cadres of the municipal government, he walked around the political axe building in the afternoon, accompanied by executive vice mayor Zhou Wenkai and Deng Wenzhi, secretary general of the political axe.

Tang Yi ended up in his lavish office on the 11th floor, with a large desk with abstract artwork and natural decorative stones, and bookshelves filled with tone-on-tone leather albums and elegant and unconventional sketches of authentic artists. , the mahogany floor can illuminate the human figure.

After Deng Wenzhi reported some general information about the municipal axe to Tang Yi, he presented several personnel lists to Tang Yi and said: "Mayor, these comrades are all good cadres in the secretariat of the General Office, can you take a look?" ”

Tang Yi smiled and waved his hand, saying, "You help me choose, I believe in your vision." ”

Deng Wenzhi nodded, "That's it, I'll go back and think about it." ”

The four major teams of the sub-provincial city are the deputy department, the deputy is the main department, and so on, the ministries and commissions are the deputy department-level institutions, and some titles are also different from the prefecture-level cities, such as the municipal axe office is called the general office.

Moreover, the treatment of cadres in Huanghai City is the same as that of other sub-provincial cities, and they are often on par with the province, for example, if they are not assigned to the main department, they often enjoy the treatment of cadres at the department level.

Deng Wenzhi is a deputy department-level cadre to enjoy the treatment of the main hall, Tang Yi has studied his information, since Mayor Li took office, he has been the secretary general of the municipal axe, should be very valued by Mayor Li, Tang Yi just came to the Yellow Sea, naturally there is no idea of replacing the secretary general, all the operation of the municipal axe is still stable as well, observe, and observe, this is the short-term goal that Tang Yi set for himself.

Deng Wenzhi began to report to Tang Yi about the work arrangements for the past few days, and as he was talking, the office door was knocked gently, Deng Wenzhi hurriedly opened the door, and it was Liu Yiwang, director of the Organ Affairs Administration, who had just been established, and was a municipal institution that unified the management of the logistics affairs of the municipal organs and related reception work, and was subordinate to the Municipal Axe General Office.

Liu Yiwang came to ask Tang Yi about the allocation of housing, in the Standing Committee, the villa where Mayor Li lived was vacant, but Liu Yiwang was careful in his words, after all, Mayor Li was forced to leave, many leaders pay attention to this, and most of them will feel that it is unlucky to live in it, but the Standing Committee House is empty such a villa, and there is no other villa to accommodate Mayor Tang, after all, since there is an empty house, it is not good to drive away the family members of the old leader.

The Yellow Sea is known as one of the most suitable cities for human habitation, the Standing Committee is a small villa group near the sea, the environment is excellent, the old secretary of the municipal party committee ten years ago, the current governor of Xu, the family has been living in the Standing Committee of the Yellow Sea, in addition to five or six former members of the Standing Committee of the municipal party committee still retain their houses, most of these standing committee members are still serving in Ludong or other provinces and cities in key departments, unless necessary, no one will really let their families move out.

Sure enough, when Mayor Tang heard that it was the villa where Mayor Li lived, he waved his hand and said, "Wait until I discuss it with my lover." ”

Liu Yiwang glanced at Deng Wenzhi, but he wondered in his heart, whether he really wanted to rectify the Standing Committee, but he didn't know if Mayor Tang would find trouble if he didn't have satisfactory housing.

But now is not the time to think about this, Liu Yiwang smiled again: "Secretary Tang, there is also your car, when Mayor Li was here, because of the heavy reception task, under normal circumstances, the political axe reception car is used, our political axe reception car has two Mercedes-Benz, a BMW, you are the same, often have to meet guests, I think, it is better to dial a reception car for you." ”

Tang Yi waved his hand and said, "According to the documents of the official car." ”

Liu Yiwang said: "Then you wait, let's study it, help you buy a new car according to the documents, and temporarily arrange a reception car for you to use in a short period of time." ”

Tang Yi nodded.

Liu Yiwang also introduced to Tang Yi the situation of the driver assigned to him, who is a demobilized soldier with 16 years of driving experience, and has won many awards in the army's logistics team.

After Tang Yi read the driver's information and expressed his approval, Liu Yiwang called again, and a few minutes later, a burly man knocked on the door and entered the office, Liu Yiwang smiled and said: "Mayor Tang, this is Li Aijun." ”

Li Aijun greeted Mayor Tang with some restraint, Tang Yi nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "I will work hard for you in the future." ”

"It's not hard, it's not hard." Li Aijun replied repeatedly.

After Liu Yiwang asked Tang Yi for nothing else, he led Li Aijun out of the office.

Outside the door, Liu Yiwang suddenly became cordial to Li Aijun, and said with a smile: "Aijun, in the future, you must study seriously in front of Mayor Tang and strive for early progress." ”

Li Aijun was puzzled by Director Liu's sudden change of attitude, although he was able to enter the municipal government as a driver when he changed jobs, which was the way Director Liu took the door, and he was a distant relative of Director Liu, and he also gave a very generous gift, but Director Liu has always ignored him, and he never looked at him as if he didn't know him in the unit.

Liu Yiwang patted Li Aijun on the shoulder again and said with a smile: "Do you know how many people are fighting for this errand?" The drivers of the whole situation are not only idle, but many drivers with posts also came to me and asked me to help them recommend them to Mayor Tang, but I recommended you, do you know why? ”

Li Aijun also knew how to be flexible, and said busily: "I know, my brother-in-law has always taken care of me, I know this." ”

Liu Yiwang laughed and said, "I know that I am not wrong about you, work hard, especially at the beginning, and you must leave a good impression on Mayor Tang!" Also, you don't have a phone right now, do you? I'll come to the bureau tomorrow and help you do it. ”

Li Aijun smiled and nodded, for the first time, he had the feeling of being integrated into the organ system, in the past, he watched those drivers busy, talking about leadership, and striving for progress. He always felt that he was an outsider, watching a play, and today, he really had the feeling that he could finally perform on stage.

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At the end of the afternoon work, sitting in the old Mercedes-Benz S350, Tang Yi shook his head, in recent years, the central government has been very strict with the control of cadres with cars, and the documents have been issued three times, but there are also countermeasures at the local level, and the reception of cars is undoubtedly a good disguise. Due to special circumstances, the procurement standards for the reception cars of the foreign affairs departments, the vehicles used by state guests to open the road, and the reception offices of various provinces are not limited by the national standards for the allocation of official vehicles, and the number and specifications of the foreign guests received by the Yellow Sea every year are very high, so there is nothing wrong with buying a few high-end reception cars, but the problem lies in the fact that some cadres have cleverly set up a project to turn the reception cars into their own official cars or even private cars for use.

Li Aijun couldn't put it down and stroked the smooth lines of the car, but he never imagined that he would have the opportunity to drive this luxury car that made all drivers salivate and cost more than one million yuan.

After getting out of the car, Li Aijun asked: "Mayor, go back to the guest house?" ”

Tang Yi said: "Silver Moon Garden." ”

Li Aijun didn't ask much, and turned the steering wheel to Haijin Road.

Silver Moon Garden is a newly completed community, and the four high-rise buildings at the southernmost end of the community are duplex residences, which are the so-called building-in-building structure.

Under the guidance of Tang Yi, Mercedes-Benz parked next to a dark green sedan in front of a high-rise building, as a driver, it is a habit to look at the license plate, Li Aijun is no exception, looking at the license plate of the car, it is a staggering moment, it is a navy license plate, and it is a trumpet.

Li Aijun got out of the car and trotted to help Tang Yi pull the car door, but saw the dark green sedan door open, and a Qingli female officer in a snow-white uniform came down inside. That's scary, isn't it?

saw that Mayor Tang had already walked over, gently took the hand of the Qingli female officer, but turned back to himself and said, "Love the army, this is my lover." ”

Li Aijun immediately felt very comfortable in his heart, but the mayor didn't regard himself as a transparent person.

The female officer looked at her with clear eyes, and Li Aijun subconsciously stood up and saluted, and said loudly: "Good chief!" ”

The little sister returned a military salute, then turned her head to Tang Yi and said, "Come, go up and have a look." ”

(To be continued)