Fate is really a strange thing, some people are obscure all their lives, like dust, and some people are like Xiaoqiang who can't be killed, no matter how hard it is, they can get up and start all over again.

Xu Haodong believes in fate, and when he stands in the central square in front of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee Building, he feels that he is an unbeatable Xiaoqiang, destined to re-emerge from the crowd.

The notice was issued by the office of the municipal party committee by telephone, and Xu Haodong, a researcher of the CPPCC office, must rush to the No. 1 conference room on the fourth floor of the municipal party committee at 2:30 p.m. to accept the conversation of the first inspection group of the provincial party committee.

Within half a year, the first inspection team of the provincial party committee visited Haizhou City twice, the first time was called routine inspection, and the second time was to kill back the carbine, and the inspection team was as serious and sharp as the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, first swept out Zhuang Zida, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, and then took out the radish and brought out the mud, and pulled out Fang Yishan, member of the Standing Committee of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee and vice mayor, and Guo Tao, member of the Standing Committee of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee and senior official of Yunling City. Zhuang Zida, Fang Yishan and Guo Tao can be regarded as Xu Haodong's former nobles on his career, without them Xu Haodong would not have entered politics, and without them Xu Haodong would not have become the deputy mayor of Yunling City at the age of thirty.

Of course, without them, Xu Haodong would not have fallen from the position of acting mayor of Yunling City.

Xu Haodong, a normal student who graduated from university in the second year of the new century, was only a geography teacher in a township middle school at that time, and was fortunate enough to meet Zhuang Zida, who was then a high-ranking official of Yunling City, who came to the camp, and was transferred to the township party and government office as deputy director, and later promoted to acting director and director. Three years later, when Zhuang Zida was transferred to the Standing Committee of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor, Xu Haodong was already the deputy secretary of the township party committee and acting township head, and the mayor Fang Yishan took over as a senior official of Yunling City.

Haizhou City is a major economic city in Dongjiang Province, with the second largest GDP in the province, second only to the provincial capital, and Yunling is a county-level city. Under the jurisdiction of Haizhou City, it is the economic star of Haizhou City, the city's three districts, four counties and three cities, Yunling City is not only the first every year, but also its GDP accounts for more than one-third of Haizhou City, and has always been among the top 30 of the top 100 counties in the country for 20 years.

After Fang Yishan ascended, Mayor Guo Tao took over as a senior official of Yunling City, Guo Tao also trusted Xu Haodong, two years later, that is, three years ago, Mayor Zhang Guoming was transferred to the Central Party School to study, and the 31-year-old Xu Haodong served as the acting mayor, and the scenery was unlimited for a while.

But on the eve of the two sessions in Yunling City, Xu Haoran was announced to resign, on the grounds that he had made a serious political mistake, he was hung up after only one month and three days, and two months later, the Organization Department of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee made a decision, Xu Haodong was transferred to the Haizhou CPPCC Office as a division-level researcher, just like that, he was called the shortest-lived mayor in history, and became a joke in the Haizhou municipal arena.

The three secretaries of Yunling City are corrupt, as grasshoppers tied to the same rope, Xu Haodong will sooner or later be concerned by the organization, Zhuang Zida, Fang Yishan and Guo Tao are suspected of serious violations of law and discipline, and they are in the period of investigation by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Shuanggui, and it is a matter of time before they are handed over to the judicial organs.

Xu Haodong has been in the CPPCC for three whole years, the researcher is an idle position, no need to go to work, there is nothing to do, there are many old men and old ladies in the CPPCC, Xu Haodong is father is not a mother and does not hurt, as a politician who has been put into another book, Xu Haodong has become a forgotten person.

Xu Haodong's personal experience is not over, not long after he arrived at the CPPCC, Xu Yunxue, the wife of an English teacher, had a heart attack and left him and a pair of children to go west.

Xu Haodong completely collapsed. After a waterloo on his career, coupled with the pain of losing his wife, the high-spirited Xu Haodong in the past no longer exists.

The afternoon sun was a little dazzling, Xu Haodong withdrew his gaze from the towering municipal party committee building and walked down the steps into the municipal party committee building.

The municipal party committee building symbolizes power, but Xu Haodong does not feel this way, he has experienced ups and downs, and he has a considerable degree of immunity to power, not to mention that he is now a marginal person in the officialdom, and he can't experience the * and majesty of power at all.

But there is still a sensitivity to power. The inspection teams assigned by the provincial party committee generally do not have direct relations with the city party committee, and it is still less likely that they will set up their station or place of conversation in the city party committee building; when the first inspection group first came to Haizhou City, it was stationed in the guest house of the city garrison district. Looking back at the comeback this time, there can only be one explanation for setting up the office in the municipal party committee building, that is, we came with a clear task and goal, and this task and goal is the case of Zhuang Zida, Fang Yishan, and Guo Tao violating law and discipline.

Zhuang Zida has been in shuanggui for three and a half months, Shuanggui Fang Yishan has been in Shuanggui for more than two months, and Guo Tao has been in shuanggui for a month, but there is no further news, it is likely that the investigation of the three people has reached an impasse, and the arrival of the first inspection team should be to lift the anti-corruption cover in Haizhou City.

There were two people standing at the door of the No. 1 conference room on the fourth floor, an armed police officer and a staff member in a suit, Xu Haodong took out his work card and handed it to the staff, explaining that he was here on order, the other party first checked Xu Haodong's work card, then looked at his watch, and opened the briefcase in his hand, after confirming that it was correct, he nodded, pushed the spring door with one hand, and made a gesture of inviting in with the other hand.

There were three men and two women sitting in the conference room, and what Xu Haodong didn't expect was that one of them he knew, Xu Congliang, executive deputy secretary of the Haizhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection three years ago. Xu Haodong knew Xu Congliang too well, and three years ago it was this Xu Congliang, who announced to him on behalf of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection that he would first be subject to shuanggui, and a month later he was given a serious warning and a notice of criticism within the party, and he was also transferred from Yunling City to Haizhou City to serve as a researcher in the Haizhou CPPCC Office, thus making him the notorious shortest-lived mayor in history.

Xu Congliang, a 50-year-old native of Haizhou City, served as a county magistrate and a senior county official, was transferred to the provincial discipline inspection two years ago, and is said to be a leading member of the special case group for cases of violations of law and discipline by Zhuang Zida, Fang Yishan, and Guo Tao.

Still the kind of smile that is neither yin nor yang, Xu Congliang took the initiative to get up and came forward to shake hands with Xu Haodong, "Comrade Haodong, hello." ”

After all, it was a leader and an elder, Xu Haodong had no choice but to accompany a smiling face, "Secretary Xu, don't you know if I'm good?"

"Haha, there are emotions, there are emotions. Xu Congliang didn't mean to be angry, but smiled and introduced the other two men and two women to Xu Haodong, "Comrade Haodong, this is Comrade Zhang Zhengyang, our new senior official in Haizhou City, this is Comrade Chen Yiwei, Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee and head of the First Inspection Group of the Provincial Party Committee, Comrade Hao Yulan, Director of the Third Division of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Deputy Head of the First Inspection Group of the Provincial Party Committee, and Comrade Yao Yike, Chief of the Comprehensive Section of the Third Division of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, she is also a staff member of the First Inspection Group of the Provincial Party Committee, and she is responsible for the recording of our conversation. ”

Xu Haodong didn't move, because they were sitting opposite, he didn't walk over and shake hands one by one, but just nodded his head in greeting, "Secretary Xu, you don't seem to have introduced yourself yet." ”

"Oh, as for me, I was the deputy head of the first inspection group of the provincial party committee last time, and now I am a member of the Standing Committee of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee and a senior official of Haizhou City. ”

There was only one empty chair placed around the oval conference table, obviously reserved for the person to be talked, Xu Haodong was not polite, and while sitting down, he looked at the new high-ranking official Zhang Zhengyang of Haizhou City, a standard Chinese face, in his forties, his face was quite kind, but there was a faint sharpness between his eyebrows. Xu Haodong did not have this person in his memory, obviously he was parachuted down from the province, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the three members of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee were shuanggui for violating laws and disciplines, and the old secretary of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee could not escape the blame, so he could only go to the Provincial People's Congress in advance to drink tea and read the newspaper.

"Comrade Xu Congliang, please allow me to ask a question, is it the first inspection group of the provincial party committee that talks to me today, or the leaders of the municipal party committee who talk to me?"

Xu Congliang smiled and said: "Comrade Haodong, don't have any worries, today is the first inspection team of the provincial party committee to talk to you, because Secretary Zhang Zhengyang has just taken office and wants to learn about the situation in Haizhou City by the way, so he took the initiative to ask to participate in this conversation." ”

Zhang Zhengyang smiled and said, "Comrade Haodong, if you make a request, Comrade Congliang and I can avoid it. ”

"It doesn't matter. Xu Haodong smiled bitterly and said: "I will be shot while lying down, the three former secretaries of Yunling City have an accident, and I, as their former subordinate, you will definitely talk to me." Now I carry three notorious people, who are not only the shortest-lived mayor in history, but also the water dog and the dead pig, so I am not afraid of you beating the water dog, because my dead pig is not afraid of boiling water. ”

Zhang Zhengyang waved his hand and said, "Okay, then let's start." ”

Chen Yiwei said expressionlessly: "Comrade Xu Haodong, on behalf of the First Inspection Group of the Provincial Party Committee, we are talking to you and hope that you will answer our questions truthfully."

Xu Haodong nodded, "No problem, I must know everything." ”

"Comrade Xu Haodong, first of all, please talk about how you started in politics. ”

"I am the son of a worker in the former Yunling City 518 Military Factory, admitted to Dongjiang Provincial Normal College at the age of 17, at that time I was studying a junior college, majoring in political economy, and later went to college to study for one more year, and joined the party in college, after graduating in 2001, I was assigned to the local science teacher of Dachuan Township Middle School in Yunling City. On the Qingming Festival in April 2002, when the villagers accidentally set fire to the woods on the mountain when they went to the grave, I participated in the whole firefighting process, and also rescued Zhuang Zida, a senior official of Yunling City, who was squatting in Dachuan Township and participating in the firefighting. After the fire, Secretary Zhuang Zida personally proposed that I be awarded a meritorious service award, and personally instructed that I be transferred to Dachuan Township to serve as deputy director of the township party and government office, and soon as acting director and director, and I began to enter politics at that time. ”

"In this way, you are the life-saving benefactor of Secretary Zhuang Zida, and he is also your benefactor who has embarked on a career in office?"

"That's true, that's not wrong at all, I couldn't have entered politics without Secretary Zhuang Zida. However, I want to solemnly declare that politics is not my personal ideal, I talked about a girlfriend in college, that is, my late wife, she is from the provincial capital, and stayed in the provincial capital to work after graduating from university, so I was wholeheartedly preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, and wanted to continue my studies or find a job in the provincial capital, but Secretary Zhuang Zida said that you are a party member and must obey the organization's arrangement, and the organization asks you to be a cadre, so you have to be a cadre, and that's it, I stayed in Yunling and became a cadre. ”

Chen Yiwei continued to ask: "What do you think of Secretary Zhuang Zida?"

Xu Haodong said without hesitation: "Good people, good cadres, good leaders." ”

Chen Yiwei snorted lightly as if he was dissatisfied, "Comrade Xu Haodong, you have a high enough evaluation of Zhuang Zida." ”。

Xu Haodong said unhurriedly: "Team Leader Chen, a high-ranking city official took the lead in rushing into the sea of fire to rescue the trapped masses regardless of the danger to his own life, don't you think he is a good cadre and a good leader?"

"Well, that's right, what about Fang Yishan and Guo Tao?"