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When he got off work at night, Lu Rui's phone rang, and it was an unfamiliar number. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Lu Rui has two telephones, one for work and one for personal use. The one who works is basically external, and the general colleagues or something, Lu Rui leaves that phone number. And a personal phone call is only told by people close to you. The work number is usually changed every time you go to a place, but the private number has not changed for so many years.

Looking at the unfamiliar number, Lu Rui pressed the connect button: "Hello." ”

"Secretary Lu? I'm labor. A slightly excited voice came.

Lu Rui was slightly stunned, but in his mind, he thought of the person who was labor, when he was in Muyang, he was a subordinate when he was in Muyang, the director of education who was a teacher, and a good person who would rather do hard labor than let his children go to school. Later, he was promoted to the position of executive deputy county magistrate, and not long after he was transferred, I heard that he was also promoted, and it seemed that he was transferred to another district as a district head.

"Secretary, we haven't seen each other for years." There was a touch of gloom in the voice of labor.

Lu Rui listened to his slightly vicissitudes of tone, and was also very emotional, since he left Muyang, there is really not much communication with these old subordinates, and many people's future development is not clear to themselves, just like labor, at the beginning, he only knew that he was the district head, this was still when he was in Qingjiang, once he went to a meeting in the province to hear about it, and then gradually lost contact.

It's not that Lu Rui is unkind, he really doesn't have that ability, he is just a department-level cadre now, even if he cultivates his own power, he doesn't have the ability to let these people gather under his banner, you must know that officialdom is a place, if you want others to follow you, at least you have to ensure that others can have interests at all, and Lu Rui is just a department-level cadre, so naturally he doesn't have that certainty.

"yes, I haven't seen you in years. How have you been in the past few years? Lu Rui sighed in his heart, and asked with concern about labor, after all, he was his old subordinate, and he was still very concerned.

"I was transferred to Qihe City last year. Be the deputy mayor. Labor also knows that Lu Rui must not know his recent situation, after all, it has been four or five years since he left H Province, so he directly said that Lu Rui was stunned, Qihe City is the second largest city in H Province, and Labor can be transferred there as deputy mayor, at least it shows that he is in the position of a department-level cadre. A lot has been achieved. This also shows that he didn't look at the wrong person at the beginning, and this cadre who was born as a teacher is a material that can be made.

"Congratulations, congratulations!" Lu Rui said continuously.

Labor smiled bitterly: "Secretary, in front of you, what do I have to be proud of." He admired his old leader, a 32-year-old department-level cadre. There are only a handful of people in the country, not to mention that the achievements made by others forced the leaders above to let him slow down. How capable does this have to be? What's more, if Lu Rui is a real department-level cadre in the capital, he enjoys the treatment of a deputy minister. And what about yourself? A nominal deputy mayor, who can't even enter the Standing Committee, ranks last in the municipal government, and is in charge of such unpopular work as culture, education, and sanitation.

As soon as Lu Rui heard this, he understood that there was resentment in his heart, and when he thought about it, he understood, smiled and did not speak. He thinks more clearly than labor, although if he is a deputy mayor who has no real power and is in charge of less important work, he may not have a comfortable life as a county magistrate, but after all, he has taken a step forward in his career. On the way for county-level cadres to enter the city-level power center, the standard pattern is to promote the county-level leader to the number one leader of the relatively important city-level organs directly under the city, and gradually progress to the deputy department level.

A situation like labor. At least it is a step forward in the official career, and the official who will be promoted in the future is also the main hall, not the main office.

Of course, Lu Rui will not tell labor directly, some things can only be comprehended by himself, otherwise it will be difficult to progress in officialdom.

"Secretary Lu, hehe, I'll still call you Lu Bureau." Labor said politely.

Lu Rui smiled lightly: "Don't be so polite, you and I are old friends, so you don't need to see each other so much." He was telling the truth, Lu Rui was very enthusiastic about his former subordinates.

Labor nodded, he also knew Lu Rui's temper, he was not the kind of person who was entangled in the title, and said with a deep groan: "Lu Ju, are you free at night?" I'm in the capital, I haven't seen you in a while, and I want to treat you to a meal. ”

Lu Rui was stunned: "Are you in the capital?" ”

Labor said: "Yes, let's do something." ”

Haha laughed, Lu Rui said: "That's good, others are not free to entertain, I will definitely be there if you have a treat." After a pause, he said: "But tonight it won't work, I made an appointment with Vice Governor Cheng of Jinxi in the evening, tomorrow night, how about it?" ”

Labor nodded: "Okay, tomorrow at eight o'clock in the evening, Beijing Huafu Hotel." ”

Lu Rui agreed, and then put down the phone.

On the other side of the phone, it wasn't until Lu Rui hung up the phone that he let out a long breath of labor, as if he had unloaded some heavy burden.

Sitting next to him was a woman of the same grade as him, who was looking at him anxiously at this time: "How is it?" What did Secretary Lu say? ”

"Zuo Mei, do you think this thing can be done?" Labor lit a cigarette and took a few puffs and asked the woman. This is a standard room with a comfortable environment. Two large double beds with crisp white sheets give a quiet, hygienic and warm feeling, while Labor is sitting on a soft sofa chair by the window, flicking his cigarette ash into the ashtray on the small round table.

Zuo Mei is the wife of labor, and she was the one who married the poor boy of labor despite her identity as the daughter of the executive deputy director of the Department of Finance.

"Okay, this is your last resort, my dad is retired, and my brother has been transferred to another place, so I can't help us much. Secretary Lu is your old leader, if he can't help, do you think you can still find someone else? Zuo Mei held a teacup in her hand, drinking it and analyzing it to her husband.

Qihe City is an old industrial base, or in other words, the entire Qihe area was originally a key industrial base of the country, and it was also a famous big city in the country back then, and after 30 years of reform and opening up, it has become a third-tier city and a poor place.

Labor is an ambitious person, although he is in charge of culture, education and health work in Qihe, but he is very happy, after all, he is a teacher, he still has feelings for the cause of education, and he hopes to make achievements. Therefore, not long after taking office, he put forward a plan to improve the city's education situation, to put it bluntly, to inspect the city's primary and secondary schools and repair schools with relatively difficult teaching conditions.

Who knows, the slogan is easy to shout. It is difficult to implement, and most importantly, there is no funding. For this reason, he ran to the Municipal Finance Bureau, the Provincial Department of Finance, and the Provincial Department of Education for an unknown number of times, and he got a lot of approvals, but the funds were not in place.

The excuse in the province is that there is not so much allocation, and in the city it is that there are financial difficulties. If it weren't for the fact that his father-in-law was the leader of the Provincial Finance Department in the past and helped get hundreds of thousands of grants, I'm afraid this plan would have been stranded long ago. But compared to the plan of labor, hundreds of thousands are just a drop in the bucket.

Labor also knows that he, the deputy mayor with no background and no backing, wants to do things, and there are a lot of constraints, and the lack of attention from above and the lack of cooperation from below make him gradually a little unhappy.

At this time, Zuo Mei learned through her father's old relationship that the State Council was preparing to allocate funds to educationally underdeveloped areas to support the development of local education. This news rekindled the hope of labor, and he knew very well that this was probably his last chance.

Zuo Mei is a smart person, she knows her husband's thoughts, so she persuades labor to go to the capital to run funds, after all, if you wait for the funds to be allocated to H Province, and then distributed by the Provincial Department of Finance, Qihe City does not know if you can drink a sip of soup, this year, as long as it is a special allocation, regardless of whether it meets the conditions or not, there is no local one who does not want to get a piece of the pie. Labor also felt that what his wife said was reasonable, so he simply came to the capital, hoping to directly determine the amount of Qihe's special funds from the ministries and commissions, and it would be great if he could run out more funds.

On the second day after the labor came to the capital, Jia Nengtong, the mayor of Qihe City, also came to the capital, the purpose of which was to build an urban infrastructure project in Qihe City, saying that it was to repair the highway that runs through the seven districts and nine counties of Qihe City.

Jia Nengtong naturally also saw labor, he didn't pay attention to the deputy mayor who ranked last, he was not even a deputy mayor who was not a member of the Standing Committee, and the power in his hands was even inferior to a strong county party secretary, if it weren't for the fact that he had a former vice governor's father-in-law, Jia Nengtong would even owe a smile to labor.

At this moment, there was a soft knock on the door of the room, and Zuo Mei stood up and went to open the door.

Outside the door stood a beautiful woman in her thirties, Yu Lina, deputy director of the Qihe Municipal Beijing Office.

"Director Yu, what's wrong?" Zuo Mei asked with a smile.

"Director Zuo, Mayor Jia is waiting for you downstairs, and Director Chen is also there." Yu Lina said with a smile. Zuo Mei is the director of the Planning Department of the Provincial Department of Finance, and this time she was on a business trip, and she accompanied her husband to the capital to run a project.

Zuo Mei knows that the reason why Jia Nengtong is not bad to herself and her husband is because of her father's relationship on the one hand, and on the other hand, because of her current position, otherwise how could a mayor at the department level be so kind to her as a director and her husband as a deputy mayor with no real power? Even when you eat, you have to call your husband and wife, obviously just to save face.! ~！