Osan is home to skyscrapers, glass-curtained buildings, advertisements of Western models on huge electronic screens that make the city so fashionable and cosmopolitan, whites and blacks walking through the streets without attracting too much attention from passers-by, avant-garde girls whistling past in famous cars, and crazy fans waiting for a superstar to attend the premiere of their movie in front of the cinema.

Although the party carried out a harsh ideological struggle after the turmoil, the central government still showed a certain degree of tolerance towards Oshan, after all, it is already a business card for the country's opening up to the outside world, in order to break Western sanctions and avoid excessive demonization of China by the West, compared with the Southern Special Economic Zone, Oshan, which is close to Beijing and Tianjin, seems to be more representative of China's sincere desire for common prosperity with Shijie.

In fact, at the end of last year, a red capitalist with special connections abroad invited more than 100 well-known entrepreneurs from all over the world to China to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his company in his personal name.

In fact, any mature politician can come to the conclusion that economic sanctions have no practical significance for this vast country, and will not bring any trouble to its ruling party, but may dampen the country's enthusiasm for opening its doors to the outside world, making it more closed, withdrawn and dangerous.

Sanctions against China have gradually become in name only.

It was in this context that Lu Zheng came to Wushan.

The nine-storey office building of the Wushan Municipal Government has become more and more distant from the Municipal Party Committee compound after its westward relocation, which also makes Wushan significantly different from the traditional office of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government in most cities in the mainland.

The mayor's office was originally designed on the sixth floor, but the former Mayor Peng liked to look from a high point of view, so he moved to the top floor.

In fact, some employees of the municipal government are no strangers to Lu Zheng, and for Lu Zheng, there are many familiar faces in the municipal government compound, especially grassroots workers, after all, many people may serve conscientiously in this compound for a lifetime.

The members of the leading group of the municipal government are also familiar with the majority, taking several deputy mayors as examples, there are Chen Jiaqiang, Wang Futing, Liu Shoucheng and Zhang Heping, four deputy mayors, all of whom are old acquaintances, among which Chen Jiaqiang is a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor.

Wang Futing has a deep relationship with Lu Zheng, Lu Zheng worked in the Education Commission for just a few months in his early years, when Wang Futing was the director of the Education Commission, Wang Futing was promoted to deputy mayor when Lu Zheng actually controlled Wushan, and his promotion was naturally inseparable from Lu Zheng.

Zhang Heping, an old comrade, saw that he was about to retire, and he made several reports, hoping to work at the people's congress.

As for Liu Shoucheng, another acquaintance, the deputy mayor, the relationship with Lu Zheng was cold and then hot, and when Lu Zheng was in the provincial capital, Liu Shoucheng also went to see Lu Zheng several times.

On the morning of the second day after attending the city's ministerial meeting in the auditorium of the municipal party committee, Lu Zheng held a short meeting in the auditorium on the first floor of the municipal government, which was regarded as meeting with everyone, and in the afternoon, he held a meeting in the conference room on the sixth floor, and got acquainted with several deputy mayors and mayor's assistants.

"It is estimated that many comrades who know me are muttering in their hearts now, why did Hu Hansan come back again?" Lu Zheng's opening remarks caused a burst of laughter in the conference room.

Lu Zheng took a sip of tea with a smile and said: "Comrades who have not worked with me, don't know me, let's understand it slowly in the future, I have a wish, to build our Wushan better, not only to have high-rise buildings, but also to have vitality, to inherit and carry forward the civic culture of our city, and to serve the citizens more haode." ”

As soon as Lu Zheng's voice fell, Chen Jiaqiang and Wang Futing took the lead in applauding, and Chen Jiaqiang said with a smile: "You are the old leader of Wushan, Wushan has developed for ten years, and many things are your first creation. ”

Although Chen Jiaqiang was promoted to executive vice mayor and entered the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, the authority established by Lu Zheng in the past seemed to be in front of him at this time, not to mention Lu Zheng's actions in the provincial capital, so that the old people who knew Lu Zheng here knew that although there were several ups and downs, Lu Zheng was still the same Lu Zheng, or the strong steel company that had no room for resistance.

Listening to Chen Jiaqiang's words, He Jinxing was extremely surprised, when Lao Peng was there, although Chen Jiaqiang and Lao Peng were relatively close, he was not so obedient in private.

He Jinxing was transferred from Wuxiang to Wushan two years ago, and now he is the deputy mayor who is only ranked after Chen Jiaqiang, and Huo Qinqun Xiangshang reported that in order to meet the new needs of economic development, he plans to promote a deputy mayor to the Standing Committee, so that the party committee can better grasp the pulse of Wushan's economic development, and Huo Qinqun intends to nominate the deputy mayor to enter the Standing Committee, which is He Jinxing.

Lu Zheng also glanced at He Jinxing a few times when he spoke, but did not say anything.

After the meeting, Chen Jiaqiang followed Lu Zheng into Lu Zheng's office, chatted for about half an hour, and after Chen Jiaqiang left, Wang Futing came upstairs again and entered Lu Zheng's office.

After Wang Futing left, Zeng Jiang, deputy secretary-general of the municipal government, deputy director of the office, and director of the Administration of Organ Affairs, walked in with a smile.

Lu Zheng smiled: "Lao Zeng, have you been quite haode recently?" ”

Zeng Jiang hurriedly smiled: "It's very haode, mayor, we are all very happy that you can come back." ”

When Lu Zheng was first transferred from Guangning to the Municipal Advisory Committee, Zeng Jiang was the deputy director of the first office of the Organization Department, and he would not be very polite to Lu Zheng at that time, and then the two had several intersections, and with Lu Zheng's promotion, Zeng Jiang's attitude towards Lu Zheng also changed, not to mention now, although the Organ Affairs Administration Bureau of Wushan is clearly at the department level, and the two levels are only two levels apart, but the distance can be described as a moat.

Zeng Jiang smiled again and said: "Director Sun is not here, if there is anything, you can directly ask me to do it, the Standing Committee has cleaned it up, you see if there is anything that needs to be moved, I will take the workers over." ”

Sun Duoxiang, secretary general of the municipal government and director of the office, followed the delegation to go abroad for inspection, but he was afraid that he would be in a hurry abroad.

Zeng Jiang thought about Sun Duoxiang's current expression, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Lu Zheng nodded slightly and said, "Besides, Wushan is my home, I'll think about where to live, the Standing Committee is not good, the air is a little muddy." ”

Zeng Jiang hurriedly agreed, pondering the meaning of the mayor's words, and didn't know if he was hinting at something.

Lu Zheng thought for a while and said, "By the way, Xiao Xie, it's my former secretary Xie Kun, what is he doing now?" You talk to him, transfer him over, or use the old man more conveniently, of course, you have to ask for his personal opinion first. ”

Zeng Jiang smiled and said yes, Lu Zheng said "The old man is easy to use", and he is also an old man.

I want to thank Kun again, you are also bitter.

After Lu Zheng was dismissed from all his positions in Wushan City, Xie Kun, the secretary, was naturally implicated, although he had a hard pen, but no leader would use him again, and later, Xie Kun was sent to the district, and it was really unclear what he was doing now.

As he was talking, the phone on Lu Zheng's desk rang, and a call came from the office, saying that Liu Tie, the deputy head of Binhai New Area, was here, and asked the mayor if he had time to see him.

The entire comprehensive office is for the mayor, responsible for drafting important documents of the municipal government and important speeches of the mayor; Responsible for the preparation, recording, sorting, proofreading and proofreading of the plenary meeting of the municipal government, the executive meeting of the municipal government, the mayor's office meeting and other important meeting materials; Undertake the drafting, revision and proofreading of documents and materials within the scope of contact, and participate in relevant coordination work; Participate in comprehensive investigation and research work, and synthesize relevant materials; Undertake the mayor's daily work arrangements and services; Handle other matters assigned by the leader, etc.

The nature of the work is similar, but the service objects are the remaining deputy mayors.

Generally speaking, if Xie Kun is transferred to the municipal government office as Lu Zheng's full-time secretary, he is not at the same level and does not concurrently serve as the deputy director of the municipal government office, so he should also be appointed as the director of the comprehensive department or related positions

Hearing that Liu Tie was coming, Lu Zheng was silent for a while: "Please let him in." ”

Zeng Jiang said goodbye, Lu Zheng sighed softly in his heart, in the past two years, Liu Tie has been affected by himself a lot, although he tried his best to avoid contact with Osan Yubu, but a lot of information inevitably came into his ears. For example, Liu Tie, as a Lu faction general with a label on his head, after he left Wushan, his fate took a sharp turn, originally, he was the mayor's assistant and director of the Planning Commission, as long as he left a few months later, he was clearly promoted to the deputy department level or even promoted to the deputy mayor is a sure thing, but after he left, Huo Qinqun was appointed as the secretary of the Wushan Municipal Party Committee A few days later, Liu Tie was dismissed from the post of director of the Planning Commission, and within a month, he was dismissed as the assistant mayor and transferred to the director of the Forestry Bureau, and then he was transferred to the deputy head of the Binhai New Area. Until now.

Zhang Qingtian has a similar fate, and now he is the director of the Meteorological Bureau, compared to Liu Tie's ability to contact government affairs, perhaps Zhang Qingtian, who is already unwilling to be dull, is more tormented during this time.

When Liu Tie came in and saw the frown at the corners of Liu Tie's eyes, as well as the gray hair growing on his temples, Lu Zheng chuckled in his heart, it looked like Liu Tie was ten years old.

got up suddenly and walked over, hugged Liu Tie, patted him on the shoulder hard, and hugged him hard, the corners of Lu Zheng's eyes were slightly wet.

Liu Tie wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it anymore under Lu Zheng's embrace, all kinds of tastes, everything was in plain sight.

After a while, Lu Zheng slowly let go of him.

"Mayor, you're old." Liu Tie sighed softly.

Lu Zheng nodded silently, was silent for a while, and said: "These two years can be regarded as a purgatory, for you, me, Qingtian, and many of us are a purgatory that has been turned over and over in the furnace, but we will also be reborn in this purgatory."

Liu Tie nodded slightly, and suddenly smiled, "I'm finally relieved, as long as you don't lose the courage to move forward, there are many, many people in Qingtian and I, and I will always support you." He also said, "Before coming, Daqing repeatedly entrusted me to greet you. ”

Lu Zheng also smiled, "Yes, Daqing is also in Binhai New Area now, and the two of you have mixed together." ”

At the same time.

In a spacious and elegant office somewhere in Wushan, there was a middle-aged Yu Bu with a very dignified face, and in front of his desk, there was a white-faced Yu Buzheng who sneered and said: "Lu Zheng is here, and now many people are moving very much." ”

The middle-aged Yu Bu smiled, got up slowly, paced to the floor-to-ceiling window, looked at the tall buildings in the distance, thoughtfully, and after a while, said: "Tell them to move, there is no harm in moving more." ”

After getting off work, Lu Zheng got into Huzi's car, thought about it and said, "Don't go back to the hotel, go to Dashu Rong, there is our land." ”

The Banyan was originally the name of a village on the outskirts of Osan Mountain, but with the rapid expansion of Osan Mountain, it has become an urban village, where many outsiders who do small businesses and migrant workers who come to Osan to work like to rent a house.

Wei Xiangxiu had already bought more than a dozen acres of land near the big tree banyan, perhaps because she was grateful for the loneliness of taking care of her younger brother and sister, so she may have been using the land to make money, but later, she built a kindergarten on this land, and the fees are particularly low, because it is very close to the urban village where migrant workers gather, and the students of this kindergarten are mainly foreign children who do not have a household registration in Wushan.

As you pass by the minaret-shaped kindergarten gate, you can see children playing on various children's playground equipment.

Listening to the cheerful singing of the children in the garden, Lu Zheng nodded slightly.

Around the kindergarten around a circle, the kindergarten is behind a row of bungalow yards, here is called Jianshe West Street, go inside you can see the bustling vendor stalls, is a small market, not far away, surrounded by high-rise buildings, are the new residential and commercial areas, will be surrounded by here.

Huzi looked at the house number, stopped in front of a courtyard, and said, "Is this here?" ”

Lu Zheng nodded, he had been here once.

Huzi opened the courtyard gate and drove the car in, the high-walled compound, the door was very strict, and inside was a concrete structure bungalow, Huzi smiled and said: "This is still a look, not so shabby." ”

But when the door was opened and he entered the house, Huzi was immediately dumbfounded, this set of bungalows is luxuriously decorated, and the area is particularly large, larger than Lu Zheng's residence in Taihua Building, there are more than a dozen rooms, master bedroom, guest bedroom, maid's room, living room, dining room, kitchen, washroom, it can really be said to be unique.

Huzi didn't think it was right, from the outside, this house was just the emerging six-house layout, not big, and immediately understood, and said: "This is to open up the houses on both sides, in fact, we are three courtyards?" But from the outside, it's still a courtyard? ”

Lu Zheng said: "What you Sister Xiangxiu said is right, this is hidden in the city." Laughed again: "As long as she has a lot of thoughts, she doesn't need to be so troublesome." ”

Huzi said: "It's pretty good here, it's more convenient than living in a villa, the conditions are good, it's low-key, and it's close to the people's voice, but safety is a problem, I'll be hospitalized in the wing, that's the guardhouse in Sister Xiangxiu's drawings, right?" ”

Lu Zheng smiled: "Whatever you want." In fact, the outside wing room is also connected to the side yard wing, the environment is very comfortable, compared to the city center two-bedroom to live comfortably, the biggest advantage here is the quiet environment, the air quality is also high.

"Here, look at the front yard." Lu Zheng opened the floor-to-ceiling curtains in the living room.

Huzi was slightly stunned and said, "There is still a yard ahead?" ”

Lu Zheng nodded and said, "The south courtyard is in front, isn't this connected to the three main houses in the south?" To the south of the main house is the kindergarten complex. As he spoke, he said, "There are people in the courtyard." ”

Du Xiaohu hurriedly leaned over to take a look, and saw that the environment in the courtyard was excellent, with purple and red flower beds, stone benches and stone tables, weeping willows, and a man in a suit and leather shoes was going to the east gate of the courtyard.

Lu Zheng stretched out his hand to open the door and said, "Let's see what it does." ”

The door creaked, the man in the suit seemed to be startled, turned around, he was immediately stunned, Lu Zheng was also stunned, the man who was dressed very magnificently was Bai Xiaoshuang's father, Bai Erqiang.

Lu Zheng walked over with a smile and asked, "Why are you here?" "I heard Wei Xiangxiu say, Bai Erqiang followed people to run errands and did business, but he was cheated by the leather bag company, and the boss counted on his head, which made him owe a lot of debts.

Bai Erqiang was stunned for a while, pointed to the east door, and said, "My little supermarket is here, I went home to pick up something just now." As he spoke, he pointed to the three bungalows next to the guide.

Lu Zhengqi said: "Aren't these houses the houses of the Hope Kindergarten?" ”

Bai Erqiang said: "Yes, my daughter-in-law works in the kindergarten, and the kindergarten rents me a family room, and I also call the kindergarten at night or something." ”

Lu Zheng was even more surprised: "Your daughter-in-law? ”

Bai Erqiang Rao was thick-skinned, and he couldn't help but sneer, saying: "The first one left, I was considered to be out of the house, and the one I found later is now helping the kindergarten with logistics." ”

Lu Zheng hadn't heard Wei Xiangxiu say anything about these situations, so he nodded, and didn't ask any more.

Bai Erqiang hesitated and asked cautiously: "You, you came to Osan to do business?" ”

Lu Zheng nodded with a smile and said, "Job transfer." Well, you can go and sit in your shop when you have time. ”

Bai Erqiang hurriedly agreed twice and walked away quickly.

Looking at his back, Lu Zheng smiled, in fact, Bai Erqiang was upside down, but he was quite energetic, but his temperament was more obscene.

In the evening, Lu Zheng came to the Pearl Hotel, in fact, it was the original Changming Hotel, which was acquired by the Pearl Hotel Group, renovated and opened at the beginning of this year after building an annex building.

The annex building is seven floors high, each floor has a sky corridor connected to the main building of the Pearl Hotel, the annex building is mainly catering and recreational facilities, Lu Zheng ordered a private room on the second floor of the annex building, and today he arrived at the earliest.

After Liu Tie, Zhang Qingtian and Zhou Daqing arrived one after another, Liu Tie smiled and said: "The old leader still talks about pomp and circumstance, and those of us who are subordinates can rest assured." Everyone laughed.

Zhou Daqingqi said: "Leader, just us?" ”

Lu Zheng smiled: "I should have invited too many people to dinner, but today, just the three of you, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I want to hear you talk." ”