Xia Xiang was angry, but Lian Ruohan smiled and said softly: "I thought you had always been calm and moderate, and you wouldn't get angry, but I didn't expect that there were times when you had a blood surname." Okay, thank you for standing up for me, it's okay, right? Seeing that Xia Xiang didn't speak, she smiled even more happily, "It's really rare for a big man to be as careful as a woman!" Forget it, I know you have something to do, I'll go find Mucuna in the evening, and I'll explain to her today's events. ”

Xia Xiang didn't actually mean to be angry with Lian Ruohan, but he didn't want to be led by her all the time, after all, he didn't know the real purpose of her always following him, although he didn't seem to have any malicious intentions, and he didn't have anything to be calculated by others - but after all, her origin was unknown, and she didn't know which interests were involved, so she had to be cautious.

Being angry with her is also a temptation.

After Lian Ruohan left, he called Li Hongjiang again and asked him to book a hotel. Li Hongjiang said that he had already booked the location, in room 310 of the mansion gate, and he arrived immediately when he said hello. Xia Xiang was still quite satisfied with Li Hongjiang's work efficiency, so he made an appointment with Li Hongjiang to meet first.

The mansion gate is located under the viaduct of Anding Road, although the location is average, but the business is quite prosperous, it is an authentic Beijing restaurant, there are not only authentic roast duck, but also Beijing sauce fried meat, glass meat balls, watercress fish and other Beijing flavor food, unique in Yan City. When Xia wanted to arrive, Li Hongjiang was greeting him from the door: "Secretary Xia is here, just in time, I just arrived." ”

In fact, Xia Xiang had already seen Li Hongjiang sitting in the hall waiting, and now he pretended to come out at the same time as him to greet him, which was also a good feeling, and he had a good impression of him in his heart, and decided that he was still a friend worth making.

When the two came to the private room, they asked for a pot of tea first, and Xia Xiang stopped going around the corner, and asked straight to the point: "Has Manager Li heard of Nanfang Yijian?" ”

Since Li Hongjiang knew that Xia Xiang was the secretary of the county party committee secretary and was now a deputy section-level cadre, he had a little more respect and enthusiasm for Xia Xiang in his heart. He is the manager of the second construction branch of the province, which is a division-level unit, the head of the first branch, and also the section level. He is more than ten years older than Xia Xiang, and he is keen on promotion, so he naturally knows the doorway in officialdom, as the secretary of the county party committee, starting from the grassroots level, this is a typical type of promising cadre, unlike him, although it is also considered a section level, but it is only the level of an enterprise, and the level of the party and government organs can not be compared.

And he also knew that Xia Xiang was the boyfriend of the director's daughter, and the director's daughter's boyfriend did not follow Director Cao, but went down to the county with a county party secretary. In his opinion, Xia Xiang's background is deep enough, the road is wide enough, there is the secretary of the county party committee behind him, there is the director of the provincial bureau, and now he wants to introduce the secretary general of the municipal axe to know him, he is not very old, how can there be a backstage at the county, city, and provincial levels?

Li Hongjiang was both envious and excited, and he was glad that he could meet such a friend as Xia Xiang.

"I've heard that a small company that doesn't enter the stream, one has no technology, no capital, and three qualifications, so it's not worth mentioning." Nanfang No. 1 Construction also approached the provincial No. 2 Construction and asked for affiliation, but was rejected by the No. 2 Construction. Li Jianghong is also a middle-level leader of the Second Construction, and he has also been in contact with the people of the First Construction in the South, and he has no good impression of their useless company.

Xia Xiang thought that it was the southern construction that was despised and rejected by large and small construction companies in Yan Province, and later after gaining power, all construction companies in Yan Province were suppressed, co-opted and acquired, and dozens of companies were crushed and destroyed, causing a big earthquake to the construction industry in Yan Province.

Before any large company really grows, it doesn't have the momentum to swallow mountains and rivers, just like Microsoft was just a small company that couldn't be smaller, and it was once looked down upon by many people. Now the south of the construction is still very weak, is bent on affiliation or subcontracting, in Yan Province in the construction industry to eat, is in the low-level stage of looking for food, there is milk is the mother, their current requirements are very simple, is from the hands of large construction companies, and then contract some small projects, to be able to feed the hundreds of people they brought from the south.

The best way to minimize damage is to strangle the tumor in its cradle before it grows. Of course, Xia Xiang didn't want to completely drive Nanfang Yijian out of the Yan Provincial Market, which was unrealistic and impossible. Since Nanfang Yijian is here, he has taken a fancy to the relationship between Gao Chengsong's wife Jing Xiaoying, why not bring them over when Nanfang Yijian has not been forced to be cornered and desperate? The method of boiling frogs in warm water is adopted, and the projects are assigned to them, so that they can continue to work on small projects, and they cannot grasp large projects, and firmly grasp the initiative.

But Xia Xiang also knew that his thoughts could not be completely told to Li Hongjiang, so he could only adopt the method of half true and half false, so that Li Hongjiang would follow his advice and slowly win over and divide the southern Yijian, so as not to let them have the strength, opportunity and time to grow.

"Yes, the strength of the Southern First Construction is indeed not good, but the southern workers they brought are skillful, work hard, and are willing to endure hardships, if the project in the hands of Manager Li is too busy, you can take proper care of them, and you can make friends." What Xia wants to say is also the truth, the southern workers are more able to endure hardships and do a good job, especially the decoration project is better than the northern workers.

Li Hongjiang heard the voice: "Nanfang Yijian is the relationship between Secretary Xia?" Why didn't you say it earlier, as long as you open your mouth, I have several projects in the Electric Power Bureau and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, all of which are found in another construction team, you say, there is no problem with a few hundred more people going in, and they will be divided into one building, about five million projects, is it enough? ”

5 million is still a bit less, Xia Xiang is from a building background, he also knows that the four high-rise buildings of the Electric Power Bureau, the cost of a single building is more than 10 million, and the budget of the industrial and commercial building of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau is not less than 20 million. The Electric Power Bureau and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau are both rich units, and the project money is not a problem, as long as it is related, there is no phenomenon of pressure payment. Li Hongjiang opened his mouth and said 5 million, but he still fought a lot of ambushes.

Xia Xiang smiled, didn't speak, and took a sip of tea: "Which university did Manager Li graduate from?" ”

"School of Architecture, why did Secretary Xia ask about this?" Li Hongjiang didn't understand it all of a sudden, he was stunned for a moment, and suddenly slapped his head and smiled embarrassedly, "Look at my surname, I forgot that Secretary Xia also graduated from the School of Architecture, it turns out that we are still alumni, what I said, alumni are classmates, classmates are one of the three most ironclad relationships, just by virtue of this relationship, I will give you 10 million projects, how about it?" ”

"It's not for me, it's for the south." Xia Xiang smiled with satisfaction, "Manager Li, I just came back from Ba County, and I haven't had time to see Uncle Cao yet, so I'll go to see him in the past two days." By the way, there is one thing I want to give you a thorough understanding in advance, Uncle Cao may not be in the position of the Urban Renewal Bureau soon......"

Li Hongjiang also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart when he saw that Xia Xiang was satisfied, and secretly scolded himself for being stupid, forgetting what Xia Xiang was studying. He also heard one or two rumors about Cao Yongguo's transfer, so he was not surprised at all: "I also heard about it, and it spread quite strongly, saying that he was going to the Surveying and Mapping Bureau, but now there is no movement, what is the situation?" ”

Cao Yongguo is really going to be transferred, and Xia Xiang's aura as the future director's son-in-law will be weakened a lot, but what makes Li Hongjiang still excited is Xia Xiang's calmness, which always gives people a deep hidden feeling, just like when he called and asked to introduce himself to the secretary general of the municipal axe, he was surprised, and he always guessed in his heart, what other powerful people are behind Xia Xiang?

"Uncle Cao will still be transferred, and he will not be in the position of director of the urban construction bureau for too long, and it is not easy to say where he will go, but one thing is certain, he will not go to the Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, and he will be promoted." Although Xia Xiang has not yet met Cao Yongguo, he has been in contact with Gao Hai again today, and has learned the other side of Chen Feng from his mouth, knowing that Cao Yongguo's appointment as the executive vice mayor of Yan City is basically a foregone conclusion, and there will be no more major accidents, otherwise there will definitely be other rumors in the province. There has been no movement yet, and it is estimated that the forces of all sides are compromising and are preparing to introduce a final plan.

No matter what concessions Secretary Lu will make to Gao Chengsong, Cao Yongguo, as a scholar-type cadre, does not have too direct conflict with Gao Chengsong, and the executive vice mayor of Yan City is a hot potato at the moment, Mayor Chen Feng is too strong, Cui Xiang, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, is a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, although the executive deputy mayor has a key position and great power, he is also subject to too many constraints, and it is not easy to make political achievements, but it is easy to fall behind. Therefore, Cao Yongguo does not have too strong competitors in the current situation, and Gao Chengsong is still holding his mouth down, but he just wants to bargain again.

Li Hongjiang immediately pricked up his ears and was very interested in Cao Yongguo's movements: "Where will Director Cao go?" Everyone is not an outsider, so let's reveal it to a small one. ”

Xia Xiang wanted to deliberately adjust Li Hongjiang's appetite, but he didn't say it, but said another thing that made him even more excited: "I estimate that since Uncle Cao is going to be promoted, before he leaves the Urban Construction Bureau, he may propose a plan to adjust the middle-level cadres to the general managers of several subordinate construction companies......

If Cao Yongguo is transferred to the Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, he will propose an adjustment plan before leaving, and when he leaves, most people will leave, and no one will do it. But if he is promoted, even if he leaves the construction industry, but he really wants to become a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and the executive deputy mayor, it is equivalent to one foot has stepped into the threshold of the vice provincial level.

Li Hongjiang's eyes lit up, and he stood up as if he was drunk: "Secretary Xia, Brother Xia, I'll call you brother, I have no other merits, that is, I am sincere to my friends and brothers, and today I will recognize you as a brother." I don't dare to say anything about the sword mountain and the sea of fire in the future, but as long as it is within my power, if I don't do it for you, I will be the one who crawls on the ground......" He stretched his middle finger forward, and the other four fingers pointed down, making a gesture of Wang Ba.

Li Hongjiang's statement is understandable, to be honest, he has been in a construction company for a long time, whether it is a branch manager or a general manager of a large company, he has a rude side. He had personally seen the general manager of the second construction company take off his shoes when he was in a meeting, put one foot on the ground and the other on the chair, and spitted and spoke, calling on everyone to build civilly. Not to mention the branch manager, who walks around the construction site every day, trains the workers, scolds the mother when he opens his mouth and closes his mouth, and swears more neatly than the workers.

Xia Xiang opened Li Hongjiang's hand as soon as he stretched out his hand, and scolded: "What's the use of you being a king, and you can't eat it?" I don't believe you, and I still tell you this, and I also introduce you to the Secretary-General Gao? It's not the last time I was at the construction site of Jiajia Supermarket, I just looked at your brother and was a friend who could be trusted. ”

"That's right, I, Li Hongjiang, am enough friends, I don't dare to say anything else, as long as I recognize my friends, I am absolutely unambiguous." He picked up a cup of tea, "Come, brother, replace wine with tea, drink this tea, you will be a bosom friend in the future, you help me, I will help you, whoever has difficulties and does not help, who is a bastard!" ”

Xia Xiang drank tea with Li Hongjiang, and laughed a few more words before saying: "In this way, Brother Li, I will introduce you to Secretary-General Gao, you just listen, talk less and do more, when the time comes, you will benefit from it, believe me?" ”

"Believe, whoever doesn't believe is a puppy!" Li Hongjiang slapped his thigh, his heart was happy, thinking that the last time he decided to start work for Jiajia Supermarket, it was the wisest and greatest decision he had made in his life, he looked at the watch in his hand, "What time will I pick up Secretary General Gao?" My car is a Jetta, the grade is not high, will it be too shabby? ”

It's not okay to have a car, Xia Xiang was negligent about this problem, thought about it, or called Gao Hai again to ask for instructions, familiar with it, etiquette is coming, after all, Gao Hai is also a person with status.

Gao Hai laughed when he heard this: "What big deal should I do, and this little thing can be troublesome?" Say the place, I'll let the driver take me there, you just wait. He knew that Xia Xiang would definitely be polite, so he emphasized in an unquestionable tone, "Come with me again, I'll go to Ding Shan to sue you!" ”

Hearing Xia Xiang say that he didn't need to pick up Gao Hai, Li Hongjiang was even more convinced that Xia Xiang and Gao Hai had a great relationship, and only when the relationship was familiar to a certain extent, would he speak so casually, so he asked tentatively: "How did you and Secretary General Gao meet?" Is it convenient to reveal? ”

Xia Xiang didn't have anything to hide, so he said: "Secretary General Gao is Secretary Li's old classmate......"

Li Hongjiang nodded, showing a smile of understanding. Xia Xiang is Secretary Li's secretary and must be the person he trusts the most. Secretary-General Gao is Secretary Li's old classmate, and the meaning of the old classmate is very rich, and he can be commensurate with the old classmate, and they are all in the officialdom, and the relationship between them is extraordinary.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Gao Hai came. Of course, Xia Xiang and Li Hongjiang didn't sit stupidly in the private room and wait, the two of them counted the time and went to the door to greet them. Gao Hai didn't let the driver go upstairs, and simply said a few words to Li Hongjiang, and then went into the private room and sat down together.

(To be continued)