On December 15, the Central Party School opened a theoretical seminar for department-level cadres. All the cadres participating in this class are department-level cadres of the central government and various ministries and commissions of the State Council, and the number of cadres is 30.

The situation in this class is a bit peculiar. Generally speaking, the students who go to the Central Party School to study are full-time students, and they eat and live in the party school. However, this class studied intensively for 10 days from the 16th to the 25th of each month, and the rest of the time was self-studying, without the need to go to school, for a total of six months. In this way, all trainees are learning on the job.

After reporting to the party school, the whole class first went to the classroom to gather. The tutor was a Marxist-Leninist philosophy teacher in his early fifties who wore black-rimmed glasses. He introduced himself: "Students, it's a pleasure to meet you. I have read the resumes of all the students, all of them are department-level cadres of the Central Committee and various ministries and commissions of the State Council. Let me introduce myself first, the surname of the contemptible person is Jiang, and the single name is a 'ping', Jiang Ping, the river rat in the Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness, has the same name and surname as me......"

A light-hearted voice suddenly came from the classroom.

It turned out that this Mr. Jiang was relatively thin, with a sharpened face and a few whiskers on his chin.

“…… I am a teacher of Marxist-Leninist philosophy, and I have been assigned by the Academic Affairs Office of the Party School to serve as a tutor for our department-level cadre theory seminar, and I will spend six months of study and life with all of you. Next, please introduce yourself first, and then recommend the squad leader and deputy squad leader. Just start with the first row, the first row. ”

The cadres in the first row and the first column are from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection's Rectification Room, a tall northern man, and he introduced loudly: "Qiu Yuchao, director of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection's Rectification Room, all leaders take care of me!" ”

Jiang Ping smiled: "There are no leaders here, only classmates." ”

A burst of light-hearted laughter.

The second cadre stood up and said with a smile: "My name is Zhu Qingcai, director of the Office of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. In my opinion, the squad leader should choose Director Qiu, who is the director of the wind correction room. As the leader of our class, the class style must be very positive. ”

Everyone crackled and applauded.

Qiu Yuchao hurriedly stood up and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, our class is a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, don't make a hasty decision, please raise your hands to vote after introducing yourself." ”

The third self-introduction was a female cadre, and the introduction was very concise, saying: "Qin Xiaofeng." Deputy Director-General of the Department of Education, Science and Culture of the Ministry of Finance. ”

Zhu Qingcai was more active, turned around and applauded and said: "It turns out that our class still has leaders of the Ministry of Finance, so we don't have to worry about the dinner now." ”

Qin Xiaofeng replied to him: "Director Zhu, is the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television so poor that you have no money to eat?" Don't think we don't know, one advertising revenue is tens of millions. ”

There was another burst of light laughter in the classroom.

After the thirty people introduced themselves, Ye Zhiran counted them in his heart. Sixteen cadres at the department level and 14 cadres at the deputy department level are basically divided in half. Since all the students in this class come from ministries and commissions and institutions directly under the central government, among the 30 people present, there will be many provincial and ministerial-level leaders in the future, and even go to higher positions, which everyone knows very well. Therefore, I dare not underestimate anyone, and after each student introduces himself, he can get warm applause.

Party school class study has always put learning second, and making friends in the first place.

After introducing themselves, everyone is planning to recommend the squad leader and deputy squad leader.

Because Zhu Qingcai took the lead, Qiu Yuchao served as the squad leader; The deputy squad leader was elected by everyone. In the end, Cong Huaqiang, director of the Regional Economic Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, received the most votes. As for Ye Zhiran's Central Committee of the Communist Youth League ~ Records ~ Records, in the eyes of everyone, he does not have much real power, and it is common to drown in many officials with prominent backgrounds.

The next day.

I heard that Lu Daojun, executive vice president of the Party School, Huang Zhong, executive vice president of the Party School, and Qi Qiming, deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, will attend the opening ceremony, and the whole class came to the conference room early.

The conference room has a total of six long tables, arranged in six rows and spaced at regular intervals. The long table top is covered with a lake-blue tablecloth. There are name tags on them; Behind the bench tables are black leather chairs, six in each row. The first row is the podium, which is about three meters away from the second row, facing the remaining five rows of seats. The famous brands of "Lu Daojun", "Huang Zhong" and "Qi Qiming" are impressively in the center.

Ye Zhiran looked for his name tag after entering the conference room and found that it was in the middle of the third row.

It stands to reason that these thirty people are all here to study, and they are all classmates in the class, and there is no need to be respectful or humble. However, when the party school staff arranged places for them, they could still clearly see the high and low. Sixteen cadres at the department level are in the first three rows, and 14 cadres at the deputy department level are in the last three rows, and two of them are arranged in the third row.

When Ye Zhiran walked to his seat, he saw Wang Juan sitting behind him, smiled, nodded, and said hello.

Among these 30 students, there are five female cadres, in addition to Qin Xiaofeng from the Ministry of Finance, Cai Lianfang from the Ministry of Information Industry, Wang Xuan, assistant director of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and others.

Wang Juan smiled and said: "Ye Shu~Ji, the three topics of this theoretical seminar are very difficult for me, you have both local work experience and theoretical level, you want to help me more." ”

There are three research topics in this theoretical seminar: first, the application of Marxist-Leninist philosophy in the new stage; second, the country's energy strategy for the next two decades; Third, how to carry out in-depth reform of state-owned enterprises. In order to discuss and study these three topics, it is necessary to systematically learn relevant theoretical knowledge and grasp first-hand information.

Because Ye Zhiran was more familiar with Wang Juan, he didn't come to pretend to be a hypocrisy, and said with a smile: "No problem, when the time comes, you can talk to the counselor and be in a group with me." ”

The two of them said a few words so casually. Because Wang Juan once went to Russia with Ye Zhiran to investigate, and experienced a special event in the middle, she and Ye Zhiran can be regarded as having shared hardships, so her speech and smile are very cordial, and the sense of trust and casualness that she will not even notice will naturally be revealed.

Someone is upset.

It turned out that there was a deputy department-level cadre in this class, who worked in the Development and Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, named Lu Shenping, who had recently taken refuge in Zhang Hansheng, one of the four young people in Beijing, and felt good about himself. For various reasons, he divorced his ex-wife a year ago, and then set his sights on Wang Xuan, who works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Although Wang Juan is not particularly beautiful, her temperament, demeanor, and figure are all excellent, very feminine, and she is related to Vice Premier Yu, and her ability is also very strong, and her development prospects are promising.

At this time, seeing Wang Juan and Ye Zhiran talking and laughing, that kind of smile had never bloomed in front of him, and that Ye Zhiran grew like a jade tree in the wind, and his heart suddenly became uncomfortable.

He walked to the middle of the third row with his seat card, and said coldly to Ye Zhiran: "Ye Shu~ Ji, let's change the position, you sit on the side." ”

The sixteen department-level cadres all sat in the first three rows, and because of the number of people, two seats were vacated in the third row, and two deputy department-level cadres were arranged, and Lu Shenping was in the rightmost seat in the third row.

Because Lu Shenping said carelessly, Ye Zhiran was stunned when he heard this, and glanced at Lu Shenping in some surprise.

In this department-level cadre theory seminar, Ye Zhiran was originally very low-key, and the position of secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League ~ secretary ~ secretary ~ secretary is indeed bland in such a class. Perhaps, in Lu Shenping's view, Ye Zhiran's actual power is far less than that of him, the director of the Department of Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture. In addition, there was already some jealousy in my heart, and the tone of my mouth was **.

Wang Juan frowned and said, "Lu Shenping, have you trespassed?" The middle position is assigned to cadres at the department level. ”

Lu Shenping said disappreciatively: "He, a department-level cadre, has less power than me, Mr. Nan Guo." ”

At this moment, everyone looked back at Lu Shenping and Ye Zhiran in surprise.

A deputy department-level dares not to say in person that the Central Committee of the League ~ the book of the department ~ is indiscriminate! That's what I said! Moreover, in front of so many people, this is the rhythm of slapping the face!

Wang Juan was the first to lose his breath, his face was blank, and he said, "Lu Shenping, how do you speak?" Ye Shu ~ Ji is indiscriminate, what are you? I really don't see that there are people in this class who are more promising than Ye Shu~Ji! ”

As soon as this statement came out, it was shocking again!

Originally! Lu Shenping said that Ye Zhiran is Mr. Nan Guo, which is indeed a bit excessive, but this Wang Juan said that no one in this team is more promising than Ye Zhiran, which seems to be more unreliable than Lu Shenping.

In particular, Qiu Yuchao, Cong Huaqiang and other cadres who are only a stone's throw away from the deputy ministerial-level cadres are even more disapproving, this Wang Xuan, in terms of position, is just an assistant to the director, and he barely entered the deputy department-level sequence, ranking last among the thirty people, and sure enough, the level of speaking is also the lowest!

Lu Shenping couldn't pull his face anymore, and scolded the one next door! Could it be that this woman really fell in love with Ye Zhiran? Even the way of speaking is obviously unclear! He said angrily: "Wang Xuan, what's the matter with you? Do you help him speak or not help me speak? We've been friends for more than a year. ”

Wang Juan is often squeezed by Yu Hong to the point that she can't speak, just because she is not used to Yu Hong's open-mouthedness, it does not mean that her language ability is not good, on the contrary, as an official working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, language is her strength.

She smiled and said, "Director Lu, it's because I've known you for more than a year and I'm half a friend that I kindly remind you that your vision is too bad." ”

Lu Shenping felt that he couldn't get off the stage in front of so many people, so he didn't think about whether he would offend Ye Zhiran, so he stiffened his neck and said, "Did I say something wrong?" Don't look at me as just the deputy director of the Department of Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture, if I put it at the local level, I will immediately be a substantive cadre at the department level. How to compare, it's not weaker than the Central Book of the Regiment ~ Remembering the Office Book ~ Remembering, right? ”