During the period of the People's Commune, the village chief was the captain of the production brigade; After the dissolution of the People's Commune, for example, Yunwu County has now taken the lead in carrying out institutional reforms, and the village chief is the director of the villagers' committee with the surname of the masses elected in accordance with the Organic Law of the Villagers' Committees, and the term of office is three years, and he can be re-elected. The village head is a village cadre, not a cadre of a state organ, and his salary is provided by the local treasury.

The village party branch is the most basic party organization of our party, and its secretary is called the village party secretary. The village party secretary is generally elected by the party members of the village party branch, and is appointed by the higher-level party organization for special reasons.

However, in many villages, it is generally the village party secretary and village director (that is, the director of the villagers' committee, that is, the village head), this kind of one-person concurrent situation is quite common, commonly known as "one shoulder", but Shi Yanfeng believes that this is actually inappropriate, because the village party secretary and the village director are two positions, if it is held by one person, it is very likely to affect the process of rural grassroots boiling.

An important feature of villagers' self-government is that under the organization of villagers' committees, villagers practice self-management, self-education, and self-service. As the person in charge of the villagers' self-government organization, the director of the villagers' village committee is the direct organizer of the villagers' self-government, and should be elected by the villagers, which is also an important embodiment of the villagers' right to cook openly. If the secretary of the village party branch is also the head of the village committee, even if it is elected by the villagers, it will make the villagers feel that their autonomy is in vain. Moreover, in essence, we will return to the old road of not separating the "government" from the party and replacing the "government" with the party.

In addition, the two positions of village party secretary and village director are held by one person, which is also easy for the village party secretary to lose due supervision and is easy to breed [***]. The village party secretary and village director are two people, and they have the side of mutual support and cooperation, as well as the side of mutual restraint and supervision, which is beneficial to the work style of village cadres and can systematically control the paternalistic style and unclean behavior among rural cadres. If the village party secretary is allowed to concurrently serve as the village director, the power in the two aspects will be concentrated in one person, and the major and small matters in the village will be decided by one person, and who will carry out effective supervision? If the quality of the person who is part-time is not high, [***] may be born from this. Therefore, from the perspective of improving the party's work style and building a clean and honest government in rural areas, and from the perspective of the mechanism for preventing rural grassroots cadres, it is not appropriate for the secretary of the village party branch to concurrently serve as the director of the village committee.

However, this kind of thing cannot be forcibly assigned, after all, the village chief is elected by the villagers, and according to reason, the village party secretary can also participate in the election as long as he meets the conditions.

The election meeting in Hanjiaping Village was decent, with a big red banner drawn between two tall cedar trees, and below the banner was the rostrum, several square tables were put together, and Shi Yanfeng, Li Lei, Huang Tiecheng, Han Fengshou, Han Hui, and several old men in the village who were old and bearded and respected were sitting in groups.

Others looked for a place to stand or sit, some young men even climbed to the tree, looking at the darkness from a distance, some women comrades even hugged their children, sitting on the stones in public to nurse the children, from time to time there were laughter, the people of Hanjiaping Village were still quite prosperous.

The reason why the two comrades, Han Fengshou and Han Hui, sat next to Shi Yanfeng was because the two of them were candidates for the village party secretary, because, in addition to Han Zhuo, there were only these two party members in the village, and according to the regulations, the village party secretary must be born among the party members. It would not be realistic for the higher authorities to send one from somewhere else. First, the geographical location is too remote, and second, a person with a foreign surname came to be the village party secretary, and the work could not be carried out.

Shi Yanfeng was thinking about the work of rural grassroots organizations, anyway, now in the countryside, he thought of where he wanted to go, and discussed it with several comrades beside him. In fact, naturally he alone said a lot, and the rest of the comrades, the old man, all smiled and cooperated. Shi Yanfeng casually glanced at Han Fengshou and Han Hui, and he didn't know if these two people understood, anyway, he had the meaning in his words.

"Township Chief, the time is almost up, look, are we starting?" Han Fengshou glanced at the noisy crowd and asked Shi Yanfeng.

"Are you all here?" Shi Yanfeng asked.

"It's almost, it is estimated that only Han will save them if they are not present, and it is estimated that they want to give up the right to vote this time!" Han Fengshou said with a smile.

"Okay, let's get started!" Shi Yanfeng nodded, Han Cun, Han Fei's group naturally couldn't come over, because this election basically had nothing to do with them, and last night, after the discussion of several white-bearded elders in the village, Han Cun's position as patriarch was also removed and replaced by an old man in his eighties, in fact, it was impossible for that old man to take care of anything. From now on, it is estimated that the people in the village will not be afraid of Han Preservation anymore.

Han Fengshou stood up with a smile, opened his throat and shouted to the crowd: "Everyone be quiet, everyone be quiet!" Immediately, everyone fell silent, stopped talking to each other, and looked at the rostrum together.

Today's election meeting was presided over by Han Fengshou, he cleared his throat and shouted loudly: "Folks, today is a good day, it is the first Ming Boiled Election Conference in our Hanjiaping Village, and it is also a great moment for everyone to exercise their voting rights. Next, I would like to ask our esteemed Township Mayor Shi to give you a few words! Everyone applauds! ”

As he spoke, Han Fengshou took the lead in applauding violently, and the villagers also crackled, but they welcomed it vigorously. After all, from noon yesterday to noon today, for a whole day, Shi Yanfeng communicated with the villagers, went deep into the masses, and mingled, everyone admired this young little township chief very much, it can be said that Shi Yanfeng's popularity is still very high.

Shi Yanfeng stood up with a smile, pressed his hands virtually, and everyone immediately quieted down.

"Folks, let me say a few words, because today, I am not the protagonist, I and Director Li, Deputy Stationmaster Huang, are just spectators, witnesses, we will not interfere, will not interfere with the final election results, the entire election process will be carried out in an open, fair and fair manner, wish, Hanjiaping Village unprecedented first Ming Cook election, a complete success, today's protagonist, is you~!!"

With Shi Yanfeng's shout, everyone cheered, jumped, and the applause was surging, and they heard the respect for each of them from Shi Yanfeng's words. Yes, respect, before, how could a leader from the township be so polite? Those people are all high-minded, even if they chat with us mud legs, they are extremely disdainful. This is a good mayor!

Shi Yanfeng had to press his hands again, signaled everyone to be quiet, and arched his hand at everyone, thanked everyone for their enthusiasm, and said loudly: "I hope everyone will actively participate, no matter who it is, as long as it is a villager in Hanjiaping Village, they all have the right to vote and participate in the election of the village head!" Okay, that's all I have to say, let's start the election! ”

The applause was thunderous!

The next work will be handed over to Han Fengshou to preside, the first round is the election of the village party secretary, there are only two candidates, that is, Han Fengshou and Han Hui, this, the villagers have long known, there is no objection, after intense voting, statistical work, Han Fengshou won with 328 votes, 86 votes ahead of Han Hui, and was elected as the village party secretary of Hanjiaping Village. Of course, this is actually related to Han Fengshou's age and seniority in the village, Han Hui is a junior after all, and it is not bad to have such a high support rate.

However, then there were more candidates for the village chief! Because Shi Yanfeng said that everyone can try and run, a total of nineteen candidates for village chief were born after intense registration. However, neither Han Fengshou nor Han Hui came to participate in the election of the village head, although, according to the regulations, the village party secretary can also run for the village head, but Han Fengshou is very smart, from the previous words, he was sensitive to the perception that Shi Yanfeng, the township head, intended to separate the party and the government, so he did not participate in the village head election. Although Han Hui is not the village party secretary, he is also a member of the village party branch, and the party and government are separated, so of course it is not easy for him to stir up.

Shi Yanfeng was quite satisfied with this, at least, the two people in front of him were very smart and thorough.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Han Tugen, with the encouragement of his son Han Song, also stood on the election platform. The 19 candidates, young and old, grandparents and grandchildren, each of the village chief candidates gave speeches, canvassed for votes, and then there was an open voting and counting of votes.

Since everyone is a fellow villager, the whole process is full of laughter, but it is also solemn and rigorous, the counting of votes is open to the public, remember clearly on the small blackboard, there are countless pairs of eyes staring, it can be said that it is completely eliminated from the dark box!

Han Tugen won perfectly with 103 votes. The reason why the number of votes is far less than that of Han Fengshou is because in the subsequent village head election, there were as many as 19 candidates, and the votes were scattered. The second place was a middle-aged man surnamed Han in his 40s, with 87 votes.

In his speech, Shi Yanfeng congratulated Han Fengshou and Han Tugen, who were elected as the village party secretary and village director, and encouraged them to cooperate with each other in the future, supervise each other, and jointly manage the affairs of the village, and lead the villagers to get rid of poverty and become rich. In addition, tell the villagers that if there is anything that cannot be solved in the future, they can go to the township at any time to report the situation to him, naturally because they are afraid that Han Zuo's group will make trouble and retaliate later. However, this may be a small surname.

As for other positions, such as women's directors, clerks, militia battalion commanders, etc., it is up to the village to settle the appointments themselves.

Shi Yanfeng stayed in Hanjiaping Village for two or three days, continued to understand the situation, guided the work, and then left to the next village to investigate.

About a week later, Shi Yanfeng took a detour and came to the construction site of the No. 2 Primary School in Yangjiakou Township.