Silver Jasmine just said two words: "Thank you." ”

Jin Jasmine smiled happily: "Thank you Mayor Xia for your face, I have a little secret to tell you......" While speaking, she suddenly made a bold move, leaned into Xia Xiang's ear, whispered something, and then grinned, and ran away hand in hand with Silver Jasmine.

Xia Xiang was slightly stunned, then shook his head and smiled.

When he returned to the city party committee, he immediately received a notice that a meeting of the standing committee would be convened.

Li Caiyuan put down the phone and said to Xia Xiang with a worried face: "Mayor Xia, Secretary Ai is angry!" "In the meeting room of the Standing Committee, almost all the Standing Committee members have arrived, only Ai Chengwen and Liu Yilin have not yet appeared.

Ai Chengwen's angry voice was faintly heard from outside, but Liu Yilin's response was not heard.

Although he is far from knowing Liu Yilin, Xia Xiang can still guess that Liu Yilin should still argue with Ai Chengwen with a non-slow look.

If nothing else, it must be for the nomination of the Executive Deputy Director of the Financial Services Bureau.

Gu Xiangguo sat in the second place with a calm face, and when Xia Xiang looked at him, he unexpectedly responded, and nodded slightly at Xia Xiang, as if he was a gesture and a greeting, which surprised many people.

The performance of the other Standing Committee members fell as Xia Xiang expected, calm and calm, absent-minded, and there were people and spirits, some people stared at the blue sky outside the window, only Zhang Yingji's attitude was the most playful, he was also sitting upright, with a serious expression, but he was playing with a ballpoint pen, and he seemed to be playing with relish.

As the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, Zhang Yingji has personnel power in his hands, but when Ai Chengwen and Liu Yilin quarreled, it was a little incomprehensible to stay out of the matter.

As long as it involves personnel, his opinion is crucial, whether it is biased towards Ai Chengwen or Liu Yilin, it will bring great pressure to the other party.

Now he looks relaxed, is it really none of his business, or is he deliberately doing it for others to see? As a matter of fact, although there are many members of the Standing Committee, there are only a few people who have the right to speak on personnel issues.

If it was only the personnel appointment of the municipal party committee, even Xia Xiang would not have much right to speak, but the personnel transfer within the scope of the municipal government was within his division of labor, and he still had a certain right to make suggestions.

After a few more minutes, Ai Chengwen and Liu Yilin came in one after the other.

Ai Chengwen looked angry, and glared at Xia Xiang as soon as he entered the door.

Liu Yilin is still the same, calm and calm, and there seems to be no mood swings at all.

Xia Xiang saw that Liu Yilin's chest was slightly undulating, and there was a slight mist in his eyes, and he seemed to be angry.

However, her qi cultivation skills are indeed extraordinary, the distance from the door to the seat is only a few meters, and after she sits down, she is almost completely calm.

It's not simple, Xia Xiang also secretly admired.

Ai Chengwen's gaze swept over everyone's faces in turn, majestic and cold, and the authority of the secretary was unobstructed, and he was the most elegant and majestic leader Xia Xiang had ever seen.

When Ai Chengwen's gaze met his gaze, Xia Xiang could clearly feel the dissatisfaction and doubts in Ai Chengwen's gaze, Xia Xiang directly ignored it, he had seen a lot of leaders of the provincial party committee, and he didn't feel any pressure on Ai Chengwen's pretended majestic gaze.

When Ai Chengwen's gaze fell on Zhang Yingji's face, there was a little more helplessness...... Keenly capturing this detail made Xia Xiang have a little more guess in his heart.

If it goes well, today is the first confrontation at the Standing Committee since he came to Lang City, maybe it will be a head-to-head confrontation, and it is the best time for him to distinguish the positions of various factions and people! To put it bluntly, it was his intention to take the opportunity to promote the nomination of the executive deputy director of the Finance Bureau, that is, to pluck a key string in Langshi to see what moving music could be played.

Ai Chengwen cleared his throat and said in Mandarin with a slight local accent: "Comrades, the main topic of today's meeting is the nomination of the executive deputy director of the Finance Bureau...... Mayor Xia went to the Municipal Finance Bureau to inspect the work, but mentioned the candidate for the executive deputy director of the Finance Bureau, which surprised Director Linghu.

But Mayor Xia had to ask several deputy directors to express their position, and the deputy directors had no choice but to nominate Luo Qing.

Comrade Luo Qing is an old financial officer who has worked in the financial system for more than 10 years, and he has always worked diligently, but there are also some shortcomings. ”

Basically, the nomination of the executive deputy director of the Finance Bureau does not need to be discussed by the Standing Committee, and the secretary's office meeting can be decided.

It was submitted to the Standing Committee for discussion and raised by the secretary himself, which proved a problem: the secretary, deputy secretary and organization minister were too different in the nomination of candidates, and they could not reach a consensus at the secretary's office meeting! The secretary's office meeting is the greatest symbol of the secretary's power, and it is also the embodiment of the secretary's will, which is basically based on the secretary's opinions, and even if there are differences and opinions, they will be resolved at the secretary's office meeting, and it is easy not to submit major differences to the Standing Committee.

Otherwise, if the secretary's will is not carried out at the Standing Committee, it will be the greatest failure of the secretary's authority.

Along with the reform of the political system, in order to further restrain the expansion of the power of the secretary and the one-word hall, the central authorities have clearly stipulated that the agenda items formed by the secretary's office meeting shall not be used as resolutions, and the secretary's office meeting is not a decision-making body, and when the Standing Committee discusses issues, it should not first bring out the opinions discussed by the secretary's office meeting, so as not to affect the opinions expressed by other committee members.

If the opinions of the majority of comrades are inconsistent with those discussed by the secretary's office meeting and are reasonable, the opinions of the secretary's office meeting should be discarded and everyone's opinions should be adopted.

Ai Chengwen's speech just now, although he did not clearly indicate what his attitude was, his words still revealed strong dissatisfaction with Xia Xiang's excessive move, and it was obviously also intended to beat Xia Xiang in public on the occasion of the convening of the Standing Committee.

As soon as Ai Chengwen finished speaking, everyone's eyes fell on Xia Xiang.

Xia Xiang was fine, gently put down the notepad in his hand, and said unhurriedly: "The Finance Bureau holds the city's money bag and is a key department.

At that time, he just said it casually, but he didn't expect to get a warm response from several deputy directors immediately, which also shows that the party group of the Finance Bureau is still very considerate of Director Linghu, and the comrades are concerned about Director Linghu's health and don't want him to work too hard.

I saw Director Linghu with white hair, and I couldn't bear to ......" and "......", and Deputy Mayor Tu Yun couldn't help laughing.

Xia Xiang is too bad, and he said it very implicitly, but there was no irony in his words, which not only pointed out that Ling Hu Bai's power was unpopular, but also implied that Ling Hu Bai was too old - in fact, Ling Hu Bai was 45 years old, not too big - but he had white hair, which was really eye-catching, but Xia Xiang was associated with overwork, and there was really a set.

Not only Tu Yun laughed out loud, but also Lu Yike, secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Tian Huishu, commander of the military division, also laughed secretly, but their concentration was better, but there was a smile in their eyes, and the expression on their faces was quite normal.

Ai Chengwen didn't expect Xia Xiang's counterattack to be so direct, although it was in a relaxed tone, but it was also an attitude of not giving an inch, he was about to get angry, and wanted to use the authority of the secretary to suppress Xia Xiang, so that Xia Xiang would be in trouble if he was right everywhere in the future, and when he turned his eyes, he inadvertently saw Gu Xiangguo's eyes showing an expectant look, and Zhang Yingji also smiled lightly, which seemed to be gloating...... In the end, he did not slap the palm on the table, but reached out and picked up Luo Qing's information, pretended to glance at it a few times, and then said: "Comrade Xia Xiang has worked seriously and diligently as soon as he took office, focusing on the big picture and starting from the small, and his style is very solid, which is worthy of praise." ”

He also deliberately smiled and nodded to Xia Xiang, and then raised the information in his hand, "Comrades, please continue to express your views and speak freely, the Standing Committee is a democratic decision-making body, and the minority obeys the majority." ”

Gu Xiangguo was stunned, Ai Chengwen controlled his emotions, he didn't get angry, but to his surprise, he and Tu Yun glanced at each other, and there was a touch of disappointment in their eyes.

Ai Chengwen's dramatic scene just now fell in the eyes of everyone, and everyone had a sense of proportion, knowing that Xia Xiang wanted to use Luo Qing's nomination to pry a fulcrum of interest between Ai Chengwen and Gu Xiangguo, so as to achieve his own goals.

Lu Yike first smiled and glanced at Xia Xiang: "I believe in Mayor Xia's vision, since he personally went to the Finance Bureau to order the general, I will vote in favor." ”

Lu Yike's words are intriguing, which means that he doesn't look at Luo Qing's own ability, doesn't look at Gu Xiangguo's face, and ignores Ai Chengwen's attitude, his vote in favor is ostensibly for Luo Qing, but actually for Xia Xiang.

As soon as Lu Yike's words fell, Ai Chengwen and Gu Xiangguo both cast complicated glances.

Not to mention that they were surprised, even Xia Xiang was slightly surprised, Lu Yi was not sincerely helping him, but gave him a hint - it was a gesture to test whether he and him could become allies on the Standing Committee.

Xia wanted to repay the favor, and nodded slightly at Lu Yi in response.

Zhang Yingji's expression was very serious, and her tone was very calm: "Since it is the opinion of the party group of the Finance Bureau, and it is an internal personnel adjustment, I don't think there is any need to discuss it with great fanfare, and basically everyone has no objections, right?" "Zhang Ying's words are very inappropriate, if Ai Chengwen should be qualified to make a decision, he will be acting on behalf of him.

It's interesting, it's really interesting, the Standing Committee of Lang City is really a pool of muddy water, although they are all sitting together, but the water is too muddy, and they can't see who is standing with whom.

Xia Xiang glanced at Zhang Yingji with interest.

Ai Chengwen immediately said with an unhappy face: "Comrade Sakura's words are not right, the Standing Committee is originally a place for everyone to express their opinions, how can you not let comrades speak?" Besides, if the comrades have any objections, how do you know? It was a bad word, but everyone seemed to have gotten used to it, and no one was surprised.

It is estimated that the contradiction between Ai Chengwen and Zhang Yingzhi is not a day or two.

Li Xiaoliang, Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee, said in a timely manner: "Secretary Ai is right, no matter how big or small, it is our responsibility.

It can't be said that it is a trivial matter and just deal with it, that is a sign of irresponsibility.

Moreover, Mayor Xia personally visited the Finance Bureau to reach the conclusion, which should attract our attention.

Personally, I believe that Comrade Luo Qing is competent for the job of executive deputy director. ”

Li Xiaoliang is the chief steward of the municipal party committee, and there is no doubt that his speech just now shows that there is enough tacit understanding between him and Ai Chengwen.

Xia Xiang also came to the conclusion that Li Xiaoliang should be the one who can best understand Ai Chengwen's intentions among the members of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Xiaoliang finished speaking, Wu Xiaoming expressed his position: "The Secretary-General's statement is very good and profound, and I have benefited a lot."

At the same time, I also support Comrade Luo Qing's nomination. ”

Xia Xiang further came to the conclusion that among Ai Chengwen's team, Li Xiaoliang and Wu Xiaoming are the two most critical figures.

Pan Shuzhi, the head of the United Front Work Department, laughed: "The discussion among the comrades is very warm, very good, very good, I vote for it!" "Another member of Ai Chengwen's faction, Xia Xiang watched coldly, thinking that no matter what, today's harvest is okay, at least he has roughly figured out Ai Chengwen's lineage.

After a moment of coldness, Tu Yun finally spoke: "I also agree with Comrade Luo Qing's nomination. ”

The words were very short, there were no additional additions, just a look at Xia Xiang intentionally or unintentionally.

As Gu Xiangguo's most trusted person, Tu Yun's speech means the beginning of Gu Xiangguo's statement.

Subsequently, Lu Hongzhan and Liu Kai both spoke in support.

In this way, Xia Xiang has a general idea in his heart, Ai Chengwen's family, headed by Ai Chengwen, has Li Xiaoliang, Secretary General of the Municipal Party Committee, Wu Xiaoming, Secretary of the Mayor of Wutang, and Pan Shuzhi, Minister of United Front Work.

Gu Xiangguo's first line, mainly Gu Xiangguo, has Deputy Mayor Tu Yun, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee and Director of the Public Security Bureau Lu Hongzhan, and Propaganda Minister Liu Kai, also a total of four people, equal to Ai Chengwen in terms of numbers, but because Gu Xiangguo is the second-in-command and has no personnel power, there are no heavyweight municipal party committee figures in his first department, such as Deputy Secretary Zhang Yingji and Organization Minister Liu Yilin, and the strength is greatly reduced.

No matter which side of Ai Chengwen and Gu Xiangguo can win over Zhang Yingzhi or Liu Yilin, their strength will increase greatly.

However, judging by the situation, it is unlikely.

Zhang Ying's position, Xia Xiang is not very clear, Liu Yilin seems to be alone, but when Xia Xiang was secretly observing just now, he found that she and Lu Yike had a subtle communication, although the communication between the two was very hidden and not easy to detect, but it still did not hide from Xia Xiang's eyes.

Of course, Lu Yike, as the deputy secretary and secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, is also a very powerful figure, and if he leans towards either side, he will change the existing situation.

But the problem is that the more people who can change the situation, the more they wait for the price to sell, and refuse to take a stand early, perhaps because of a matter of principle, or in pursuit of profit maximization.

Tian Huishu, commander of the military division, is also unclear, but his voice in the Standing Committee is too weak, and it is estimated that the minority obeys the majority vote in normal times, either supporting Ai Chengwen or sending favors.

The power of the centrist is really huge, Xia Xiang sighed slightly, not to mention himself, it is Zhang Yingji, Liu Yilin and Lu Yike, which are all real power figures in Lang City, but they are not controlled by either the secretary and the mayor, I have to say that it is the sadness of Ai Chengwen and Gu Xiangguo.

In the end, after Liu Yilin and Tian Huishu expressed their support, Gu Xiangguo also voted in favor, and Ai Chengwen made a decision, formed a formal resolution, and passed Luo Qing's nomination.

A nomination turmoil started with the quarrel between Ai Chengwen and Liu Yilin, but ended with a unanimous vote.

Some people think that Ai Chengwen lost, and most people think that Gu Xiangguo won, but Ai Chengwen and Gu Xiangguo both understand in their hearts that in fact, there is only one winner, and that is Xia Xiang.

Xia Xiang was nominated as the deputy director of the Finance Bureau to find out the position of everyone in the Standing Committee, and because Luo Qing successfully passed the nomination, the hidden danger of the contradiction between Ai Chengwen and Gu Xiangguo was buried in the Finance Bureau, killing two birds with one stone.

In fact, Xia Xiang didn't kill two birds with one stone, he counted them in one fell swoop, and completely received the effect he wanted.

After this incident, he not only had a clear idea of the positions of the various Standing Committee members, but also formed a clear idea in his heart for the first time, how to take the next step, how to have a good relationship with Oh Chen, how to survive in the gap between Ai Chengwen and Gu Xiangguo, and so on.

After the meeting, Xia Xiang returned to the office, Li Caiyuan had already poured hot water, and sincerely thanked Xia Xiang again: "Thank you Mayor Xia for helping me a lot, I have nothing to repay, so I will go all the way with you." ”

Xia wanted to know that Li Caiyuan had made up his mind, so he nodded: "I won't say anything superfluous, just tell you one thing, I have also worked in many places, and I have never let anyone around me suffer!" Li Caiyuan nodded gratefully, didn't say anything more, and turned around and went out.

As soon as he went out for a while, he knocked on the door and came in: "Mayor Xia, Secretary General Tang is here." ”

Xia Xiang smiled knowingly, Tang Huaye is here, and if it is expected, it is to show loyalty.

Xia Xiang guessed correctly, Tang Hualai had indeed made up his mind to follow Xia Xiang closely.

After a series of events, he recognized a reality, Xia Xiang will never treat the people around him badly, and it is worth him to follow, and the second is that the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee has just passed Luo Qing's nomination, which makes him understand one thing better, Mayor Xia has the means, courage, and is a leader who has to wait.

After Tang Hua came in, he couldn't let go of it a little, so he stood at first and refused to sit down.

Seeing this, Xia Xiang didn't deliberately give up his seat, and smiled: "Lao Tang, you have been in Lang City for a long time, and you have seen all the things today, so you will definitely have some ideas."

Don't be restrained in front of me, just say whatever you want.

Of course, I don't want to say it, and I don't force you. ”

Tang Hua made up his mind when he came to Lang City, when Mayor Xia just came to Lang City, it was when he needed to use people, and now he was standing in line to send charcoal in the snow, and when Mayor Xia gained a firm foothold in the future, he would show his loyalty, but it was just the icing on the cake, maybe Mayor Xia would not be able to look down on it! "Mayor Xia, there is a situation I want to report to you, Yang Bin, the driver arranged by the Standing Secretary-General for you, was originally the driver of the deputy director of the National People's Congress, and was later dismissed from public office by Mayor Rui because of a trivial matter.

"Oh?" Xia Xiang immediately became interested, and another breakthrough point, "Why did Mayor Rui fire Yang Bin?" ”