This is how the story begins.

On Tuesday, when she went to work, Ms. Lu heard the shocking news that Ms. Li's husband had been beaten to death. Lu Qi couldn't take care of asking for leave from Assistant Liu, who always stepped on the order of the unit, and hurriedly went to Li Suyi's house.

Li Suyi is Lu Qi's classmate in high school and a friend who has been with him for decades.

Li Suyi, who was shocked by the bad news, has been sent to the hospital. At Li Suyi's house, Lu Qi learned the general situation of the matter from colleagues and friends who came to condole: Li Suyi's mother-in-law has an ancestral house on Huajin Road, and because of the demolition of the shantytown around Huajin Road, Li Suyi's mother-in-law became a "nail household" because the other party did not agree to her conditions. Yesterday afternoon, when the old lady was taking a nap alone, a group of unknown people broke into the house, wrapped up the screaming old lady with a sheet and carried her to the street, and then haphazardly moved out large pieces of furniture and electrical appliances and piled them up in the shade of the trees on the street. The whole process takes less than half an hour. Because the neighbors of the row of houses have all moved away, only the old lady's family is left, except for the demolition team is the frightened old man, no one called the police and left video evidence.

Li Suyi's husband, who rushed back after hearing the news, clashed with the demolition team who was cleaning up the scene, and was hit on the head by a hard object in the chaos.

Li Suyi's husband is also an employee of Red Star Company, an honest plumber. Lu Qi never imagined that such a tragic thing would happen. She asked Li Suyi's hospital, called her immediate boss to ask for leave, asked the factory office for a car, and prepared to go to the hospital to visit her old classmates who were in a desperate situation. Before leaving, Lu Qi said indignantly to Sun Dunquan, who rushed to hear the news, "You must sue him!" Sue the real estate company behind the demolition company! Sue them to ruin their homes! ”

"Don't be naïve. Behind the other party stood Donghu Industrial. What do you think you can do? It would be better to get more pensions. Do you believe it or not? It must be a temporary worker who causes death, or there is no specific murderer at all, the scene is chaotic, the mistake hurts people, and it is just mediated and resolved. ”

"This is not like the Sun Dunquan I know." In Lu Qi's impression, Sun Dunquan is an "angry youth".

"If I had to go back a few years, I might be the same as you think. It seems that the walls of the Red Star should have been torn down a long time ago. You're going to see Li Suyi, right? Don't mislead her. She's pathetic enough. ”

"I don't believe it! Didn't the factory come forward? That's our people. ”

"That's for you! I've had nothing to do with Red Star for a long time. Look here, apart from a few friends, did the company leaders come forward? Have it? Sun Dunquan pulled Lu Qi, who was a little dazed, aside, "By the way, let me tell you something important, your new boss will be here soon." ”

"Who? Do I know each other? Lu Qi asked.

"It's someone you know but certainly didn't expect, Tao Tang!"

"Tao Tang?! Are you mistaken? Lu Qi was taken aback.

"I listened to him say it himself, it was last night. Hehe, let's see how our old classmate cleans up the mess of Red Star. ”

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The new appointment of Tao Tang by the headquarters was very sudden and almost silent.

As usual, Tao Tang, director of the Political Research Office, cleaned the office, made a cup of Longjing for himself as usual, and then started the day's work.

His job is mainly three things. The first was reading, the internal circulation, and the seven newspapers he had subscribed to; The second is to write materials, mainly to draft speeches and board-level documents for Feng Dong; The third is to participate in some meetings that must be attended or follow Feng Dong to investigate and inspect subordinate enterprises.

Reading accounts for about half of Tao Tang's time. The time to write the manuscript is much less, and he is quick to get the materials that others need two or three days to come up with, and he often gets them done in two or three hours. Second, there are not many materials that require him to do it himself. Originally, there were few documents at the level of the board of directors and the party group, and he still had two guys with good writing. There were even fewer meetings, since he was transferred back to the headquarters from Shengdong Company, except for the meeting convened by Feng Dong, none of the other leaders attended, and only sent his deputies to attend.

Today, he went through the eighteen copies in the folder and signed his name one by one. As soon as I picked up the first newspaper, there was a knock on the office door. Huang Fuhe, deputy director of the general office, came in and said to him, "Director Tao, the chairman invites you to his office." ”

"Okay, go right away."

He called Li Jing to take the documents, and did not go to Feng Shizhao immediately, but sat quietly for ten minutes before going to the chairman's office on the third floor.

"Sit," Feng Shizhao, whose eyes were always swollen, pointed to the chair opposite.

Tao Tang sat down in the designated seat, only to find that there were two other people in the office, Mr. Qi and Vice President Qin, who was in charge of personnel, were there.

"Mr. Qi, come on." Feng Shizhao looked at Qi Jianmin, general manager of the group.

"Comrade Tao Tang, the party group has studied your work and decided to make a move," Qi Jianmin said slowly, ...... said.

Tao Tang looked at Qi Jianmin calmly, his face expressionless.

"There's something going on over there with Red Star, you must have heard about it, right?"

Red Star is a first-class subsidiary of the group and one of the most important subsidiaries of the group. Since last year, it has fallen into the whirlpool, starting from the fall of its director of the procurement department, which has successively brought out the problems of the company's leadership. In March, Yang Wenhuan, the deputy general manager in charge of procurement, was taken away by the provincial anti-corruption bureau for investigation. A month later, that is, a week ago, Song Yue, chairman and general manager of Red Star Company, was officially regulated by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection. As the director of the Political Research Office of the headquarters, Tao Tang certainly knew what happened to Red Star.

Tao Tang thought about it in his heart, but still looked at Mr. Qi expressionlessly, "I've heard some ......."

General Manager Qi Jianmin still maintained his usual speed of speech, "Yang Wenhuan and Song Yue have been investigated one after another, and the headquarters must strengthen the leadership of Red Star Company to stabilize the situation." Feng Dong proposed that you replace Song Yue as the chairman and general manager of Red Star Company, and the party group meeting has already approved this proposal......"

"I'm not suitable." Tao Tang said calmly.

"Why?" Qin Haitao asked dissatisfiedly. He had an opinion of Tao Tang, even though they had not worked together for long at headquarters. In Qin Haitao's eyes, Tao Tang has always been hesitant to remove him as the number one leader of Shengdong Company, and he showed that except for Feng Shizhao, he did not buy other leaders at work.

The proposal for Tao Tang to be the chairman and general manager of Red Star was put forward by Feng Shizhao. Because Tao Tang had the qualifications to serve in Shengdong, there was no too strong opposition at the party group meeting and passed smoothly. But Mr. Qin suspects that Mr. Feng, who made the proposal, was under some kind of pressure. As far as Feng Shizhao's personality is concerned, he may not be willing to let the unruly Tao Tang become the leader of the group's main subsidiaries again. Song Yue has fallen, and a new person in charge must be sent to Red Star, but it should not be Tao Tang.

It was Feng Shizhao's proposal to transfer Tao Tang back to Yanjing from Shengdong Company, where the situation had completely improved. At that time, Feng Shizhao was not the leader of the group, but the general manager. Regarding Feng Shizhao's motion to transfer Tao Tang back to the headquarters for rotation, there were different opinions at that party group meeting, because Tao Tang did a really good job in Shengdong. The voices that had questioned his qualifications and abilities basically disappeared with the rapid and benign development of Shengdong Company. It's a bit child's fun to take a few real-name report letters to say something, which of those feudal officials has not been reported? What's more, the real-name reporting of Tao Tang's content is not an economic issue, but a style issue. Tao Tang is a widower, and it is a to be intimate with some women! As for the letters that anonymously reported Tao Tang's corruption, it was even less of a problem. Under normal circumstances, the group discipline inspection team will not take anonymous letters seriously.

Feng Shizhao's motion was supported by An Daoyong, the leader of the group at the time, and was passed. Tao Tang left Binjiang and returned to the Yenching headquarters as the director of the Policy Research Office. In the eyes of most people, Tao Tang was "degraded". The director of the Policy Research Office is at the same level as the chairman and general manager of Shengdong Company, but the importance is obviously not as good as the latter. Because the latter has a much wider upward channel. Moreover, personal income will shrink by a large margin. For ordinary people, earning two or three hundred thousand less a year is a big deal anyway.

But there is another explanation, that is, Feng Shizhao is particularly important to Tao Tang. Frequent job rotation is generally a harbinger of promotion and reuse. Tao Tang has experience in the headquarters, but he has not been the head of the department, which is a flaw. The director of the Political Research Office is an important position, not as complicated as the Development Strategy Department, the Operation Department, and the Finance Department, but it is the think tank of the main leaders of the headquarters. It is difficult to say that there is no deep meaning in arranging Tao Tang in such a position. Facts have also proved this, when An Daoyong was transferred from the group to serve as the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee of a southern province, Feng Shizhao sat on the throne of the group's leader, and almost all of his important manuscripts were written by Tao Tang, the evidence is that Feng Dong's speech style has changed. Moreover, as long as Feng Shizhao "goes out on patrol", there must be Tao Tang among the accompanying attachés, and at the level of department director, the ranking is only after Yuan Changhai, the director of the development strategy department with old qualifications. This strengthened Qin Haitao's view that Feng Shizhao cultivated Tao Tang as the second echelon.

But Qin Haitao later heard two other statements that Tao Tang was transferred from Shengdong, one of which was that he offended An Daoyong, the number one at the time. The news came from the development strategy department, which roughly means that Adaoyong intends to let Shengdong Company carry out in-depth cooperation with Binjiang City, sell land to Binjiang, and resell some assets and business to private enterprises in Binjiang City. The introduction of reform into a deeper level is allowed to be discussed and piloted, and the group is engaged in industrial restructuring and product transformation and upgrading in recent years. The development strategy department also came up with specific opinions, but it was blocked by Shengdong Company.

This is a strange thing. In general, it is not possible for a subsidiary to overturn a decision from the head office. The weapon offered by Shengdong Company is the resolution of the workers' congress. Because, legally speaking, any major merger and sale of a company's assets must be held at the Workers' Congress. The plan was put to the meeting, but it was rejected. Somehow, An Daoyong suppressed the matter to death. Soon, Adaoyong was transferred, and the new position was a high promotion for Adaoyong, which also shows that Adaoyong did not encounter a crisis in his career.

However, the resistance to superiors at the Workers' Congress is big news. Qin Haitao came to a conclusion from this, if Tao Tang is not weak and unable to control the situation, then he is a mallet. Tao Tang is certainly not the former, and his iron-fisted style in Shengdong has long proven his super control over Shengdong Company. This person has only served in Shengdong for more than three years, and he has replaced three deputy general managers, and most of the middle level has been replaced by him! In the regular annual evaluation of Shengdong, Taotang's mass support is extremely high, which is rare among the more than 40 subsidiaries with headquarters all over the country. This can only show that Tao Tang did use the workers' congress to resist a major decision of the headquarters.

The second is that Tao Tang is under secret investigation. Whether it is a fact or not, Qin Haitao does not know. However, the discipline inspection team of the headquarters did send a large audit team to Shengdong, which exceeded the normal scale of outgoing audits. That's how the rumors were born. Now that the audit team has withdrawn, Qin Haitao has not seen the conclusion.

What does it mean that Feng Shizhao sent Tao Tang to the Red Star on fire now? In less than two months, Red Star Company planted two executives one after another, including Song Yue, the number one. There are many rumors, people's hearts are unstable, and it is difficult to return to the accumulation of business problems in Red Star, sending Tao Tang to Red Star, is it to fight the fire or denigrate? Qin Haitao really can't say.

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"My question is still inconclusive." Tao Tang smiled, "It's not appropriate to let a person with a reputation for violating discipline replace one who has been subject to shuanggui, right?" ”

"What conclusion do you want? The organization's appointment of you is the best conclusion. Feng Shizhao raised his voice.

"Xiao Tao, those reports against you in Shengdong have proven to be false accusations, so don't be emotional. Organizational decisions are prudent. At the moment, you are the most suitable person for that position. Qi Jianmin said.

"Tao Tang! What kind of bargaining are you haggling with the organization? Well? Feng Shizhao suddenly stood up and stared at Tao Tang.

"Mr. Feng, I'm telling the truth, I'm just not suitable." Tao Tang innocently looked at Feng Shizhao, who was a little annoyed.

"It's not up to you to decide whether it's suitable or not! Give you a day to hand over the work, and the day after tomorrow, I'll send it over personally. When Feng Shizhao served as the director of the group's planning department, Tao Tang was the youngest deputy director under him, and it was he who recommended Tao Tang to go to the Middle East Division of the foreign trade company as the director. It was there that Tao Tang's talent got the attention of the headquarters, and thus entered the fast lane of his career. Therefore, Feng Shizhao was not so polite to Tao Tang.

"Mr. Feng, if you say that, I have nothing to say," Tao Tang said calmly, "However, I want to remind the organization that I am a child of Red Star, I was born there, and my youth was spent there." Today, most of my family still lives and works there...... In the current situation, it seems that I should not return to work at Red Star in order to avoid suspicion. ”

"Many of the top leaders have grown up step by step from the grassroots level, such as ......President Qiu of the Northern Electromechanical," Qi Jianmin said gently, "What you said, the party group has carefully considered it." I believe that you will handle all kinds of relationships well. Your understanding of the Red Star is an irreplaceable advantage. ”

"Moreover, your treatment is only higher than now...... Qin Haitao interjected.

"Vice President Qin, I'm not thinking about treatment." Tao Tang stood up, "What is the situation with Red Star, the three leaders are clear. How can I dare to take that mess? It doesn't matter if I can't complete the task, I will be dismissed and punished, it is a big stall with assets of 20 billion yuan and more than 20,000 employees, how can I explain it to the organization? ”

"If you want to go, you have to do it well! Do you mean that all of us don't know anyone? Feng Shizhao finally couldn't help it and slapped the table.

"As far as I know, Red Star has not been able to pay wages for two months."

"Of course it won't let you go empty-handed." Qi Jianmin smiled and said, "The financial company has prepared a current loan of 100 million yuan for you, and the outstanding supporting funds within the system will also be dealt with first, and at least more than 100 million yuan will be solved for you in a month." In the long run, if Red Star's strategic reorganization with Hiraizumi City can be negotiated, your life will be much better. At that time, the headquarters still had to look at your face. ”

"No, I know the rules of the headquarters, and the land transfer and overall relocation are not things that I can decide. Moreover, the land transfer fee will not be left to Red Star. ”

"Enough! So be it. Feng Shizhao stood up, "If you still remember that you are a party member, don't question the organization's decision." At present, Red Star is very unstable, after you go, the first thing is to stabilize the morale of the army and complete this year's tasks well. If necessary, the headquarters will fully respect your opinions. The second is to plan the structural adjustment and strategic reorganization of Red Star, which is both a rare opportunity and a huge challenge for Red Star. Of course, the latter is a big deal, and the headquarters will pay close attention to it, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten there. As for the Political Research Office, the headquarters has decided that Lan Yuanzhen will replace you, and you can hand him over to him today. ”

Tao Tang returned home later than usual because of the handover work.

A year ago, he was transferred from Shengdong to the headquarters, and he thought that the president would stay in Shengdong, so he bought a house in Binjiang, but now it seems that it may have been a mistake. The parents are used to living there, and the daughter is in junior high school, so it is not appropriate to change the environment. So when he came to Yanjing, he left his parents and daughter in Shengdong. With his salary, it is also more difficult to buy a house in Yanjing, and Tao Tang is not ready to settle in Yanjing. Fortunately, the group has its own real estate, and the general affairs transferred him a three-bedroom old house not far from the headquarters office, and the monthly rent is symbolic, which is also an internal benefit. So Tao Tang took his mother-in-law from his hometown to Yanjing and asked his mother-in-law to be his "nanny" for more than a year.

"Why is it so late today?" Qiao Xiuying had already prepared dinner and waited for her son-in-law to come back. After coming to Yanjing headquarters for more than a year, Tao Tang rarely worked overtime, except for business trips, he always arrived home on time.

"Mom, my job has changed...... Tao Tang took the teacup handed by his mother-in-law.

"What's changing?"

"I've been transferred to Hiraizumi, and I'll report the day after tomorrow."

"Really? Is it the Red Star Factory? ”

"There's just a red star over there, where else can I go?"

Qiao Xiuying stood up, "Just stopped for a few days...... Doesn't this toss people? ”

"I didn't want to go, but I couldn't. You've already talked to me above......"

"Is it the number one?"

"Hmm."

"I'll come with you." Qiao Xiuying has long regarded her son-in-law as a son, especially after her only daughter died in a bizarre car accident.

"Mom, that's how I think about it. I'm sure I'm going to be busy for a while, and you're going to a strange place, and it's boring. Secondly, my parents have long been clamoring to go back to Pingquan, in that case, it is more appropriate for you to go back to Binjiang, Xiaohe is about to go to high school, and he also needs to be managed...... It's just hard for you. ”

Qiao Xiuying was silent for a long time, "It's okay, your parents want to go back to Pingquan, don't stop you." There are always their roots. ”

"I won't stop you."

"I heard you say that the Red Star Factory was very difficult before, but this time you can't play with your life like before. I'm getting older, so I have to cherish my body......"

"Don't worry. I know how to do it. It's also the last time, and when Xiaohe goes to college, he will be free. ”

"I'm going to tell you about that. Xiaolan has been gone for six years, and you must find a companion. Xiao Ke is sincere to you, you must take it seriously......"

"Mom, don't worry about it." Tao Tang glanced at the family photo on the wall, his wife Fang Lan looked at him with a smile, he stood up, "I know what to do, let's eat." ”