Suddenly, a car stopped beside him, and Ye Qingping, who was answering his mobile phone, was startled, and Yi Haitao rolled down the window and waved to him.

Ye Qingping said "see you again" to the person on the phone, opened the car door and came up, saying: "Teacher, this car is well changed, not eye-catching, not publicized, or you think more thoughtfully." ”

Yi Haitao smiled and said, "Qingping, thank you, Xie Lu, help me introduce Minister Lin." ”

"Hehe, you're lucky, teacher, and I'm happy to catch up with Minister Lin." Ye Qingping said: "I originally wanted to ask Minister Lin for leave, but I didn't expect Minister Lin to hear that you were coming, and he said that he would meet you very happily, and let you go to his house, which is a rare treatment." You may not know that Minister Lin usually does not welcome people to his house. ”

Chu Tianshu listened, and secretly was happy for Yi Haitao, according to this, Lin Guodong was very optimistic about him.

Of course, Yi Haitao was also very excited, and he asked: "Qingping, you help me with the staff officer, this is the first time I go to Minister Lin's house, what should I prepare?" ”

"I'm really not sure about that. I only know that Minister Lin is very disgusted with eating, drinking, and running and sending off. Ye Qingping thought for a while and said, "Minister Lin likes calligraphy, otherwise, you bring some good rice paper, and Minister Lin wants to ask, and you will ask for words." Teacher, what do you think? ”

Yi Haitao said: "I know this, Minister Lin has said many times on various occasions that he only agrees with cadres who are down-to-earth and practical, and most opposes those cadres who can only run for official positions." ”

"yes." Ye Qingping sighed: "Although Minister Lin's attitude is very clear, there are always people who ask for a way to treat and give gifts. I really admire the ability of some people, the relationship can be found all over the world, and it is more difficult to refuse than to accept at this time. Alas, everyone thinks that the cadres of the organization department are popular, but who would have thought that it would be difficult for Minister Lin, the head of the organization, to do it. ”

This should be true.

Yi Haitao has been in the officialdom for more than 10 years, and knows very well that no matter how many official positions are set, they will always be in short supply, and they will always be a scarce resource.

He can quite understand the difficulties that Ye Qingping said, he said: "There are so many leading cadres in the province, all of them are demanding progress, and there are always more butts than positions, especially important posts, which must not only select talents and use energy, but also take care of all aspects, and it is really not easy to be at the mercy of them." ”

Ye Qingping felt that there were too many words, so he stopped talking and instructed Chu Tianshu to stop at a stationery store.

Chu Tianshu got out of the car, quickly bought things, and came to the car again.

Yi Haitao took it, held it in his hand, and looked at it, the two knives were good rice paper, three brushes of different sizes and two bottles of ink.

Ye Qingping looked at it and said with a smile: "Xiao Chu, you are Lang Fei." ”

Chu Tianshu started the car and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Ye Qingping said: "Minister Lin uses a bucket pen for writing, and you can't use these brushes at all; Also, when he writes, he is used to grinding ink with an inkstone, and he doesn't use ink at all. You bought these things, not Lang fee what? ”

Yi Haitao said: "Qingping, Lang can't afford it, Minister Lin can't take it back if he doesn't need it, and I can practice when I have time." ”

Ye Qingping nodded and didn't say more.

Generally speaking, the hobbies of leaders are often magnified into the hobbies of most cadres.

For example, if the leader likes to play Go, there will be a few pairs of high-end clouds in the office of the cadres under him, so that he can ask the leader for a few tricks at any time. If the leader likes to play table tennis, the cadres in various cities will bring a racket with them, and they can accompany the leader to warm up when they are on a business trip with the leader.

If a leader with a hobby does not move his position for more than ten years, perhaps there will be an amateur Go master or table tennis master among the local cadres.

The same is true when it comes to southeastern officialdom.

Nan Yanping, secretary of the provincial party committee, loves to eat mutton steamed buns from the northwest, and there are more mutton soup restaurants in Linjiang City, which are rarely seen; Provincial Governor Qiao Mingsong likes theoretical research, and leading cadres from all over the country are proud to publish articles in magazines such as "Theory and Practice"; Lin Guodong, director of the organization department of the provincial party committee, likes calligraphy, and almost all the cadres in the provincial organization system can lift the pen.

Yi Haitao proposed to go back to practice calligraphy, which is also a posture and way to keep in line with the leader.

Under Ye Qingping's guidance, Chu Tianshu drove the car to the family compound of the provincial party committee.

On the way, Chu Tianshu was very curious, and asked Ye Qingping about the situation of the provincial party committee's family compound while driving.

Ye Qingping was afraid that Yi Haitao would talk about sensitive topics again, so he took Chu Tianshu's words and introduced them endlessly.

Before the liberation of the Provincial Party Committee's family compound, it was a park, and then pushed back to the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was the private garden of a famous local wealthy businessman. There are artificial mountains, artificial lakes, quiet trees, and some historical heritage.

The only thing that is incongruous is that the first secretary of the provincial party committee of the southeast province was a cadre of the Anti-Japanese Federation who came all the way from the northeast, and he was not used to looking down on the wooden beam mansions of the southern capitalists, so he ordered the demolition of more than 20 old mansions and the construction of seven sets of Russian-style two-story small western-style buildings, which were specially used as the residences of the seven senior leaders of the provincial party committee at that time.

At the beginning, it was stipulated that only provincial-level leaders were eligible to live in small western-style buildings. Until the end of the seventies, this regulation was well enforced, without the slightest breakthrough or flexibility. One of the important reasons is that in the past few decades of provincial-level leaders, there have been only a few people, this one has left and that one has come, and seven sets of small western-style buildings are basically enough.

After the reform and opening up, the situation has undergone earth-shaking changes, and first a number of veteran cadres have retired and joined the advisory committee. The person is no longer in place, but the rank is there, and the treatment cannot be changed. Therefore, the new provincial leaders will not be able to live in small western-style buildings.

In order to solve this difficult problem, the provincial party committee built another villa complex for the retired veteran cadres to live in.

But within a few years, this villa complex was overcrowded again, and the key is that although some leaders have come down, they still enjoy the treatment of provincial leaders, and even some people, before abdication, were deputy provincial level, and when they abdicated, they rose by half a level and enjoyed the treatment of the provincial level.

One of the most important aspects of this treatment is to live in a villa.

Also, the leader died, the widow is still there, and no one can go to the tea to drive the old woman out, so it has become the norm that the villa is not enough to live, and the second villa group has to be repaired.

In order to distinguish, the first villa group is called District A, and the second villa group is called District B.

In this way, there is not much difference in treatment between the abdicated leader and the incumbent leader.

However, only the incumbent provincial leaders and the top-ranked Standing Committee members are eligible to live in small western-style buildings, and this rule has not changed.

The Standing Committee members at the bottom of the rankings can only see the stitches in District A and Area B, and be neighbors with the retired old leaders of the CPPCC, and the old leaders are unhappy with the treatment of the new leaders getting better and better, so they will consciously or unconsciously play the role of supervision, so that the new Standing Committee members will sometimes feel a lot of inconvenience, and even a little awkward.

In order to solve this problem, the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee has come up with another way: In addition to having a villa in District A and District B, the incumbent Standing Committee also has a separate split-story building in the Lotus Hotel, which is a little smaller than the villa, nominally in order to facilitate the current leaders to handle some official business at night without being affected by their families.

The Lotus Hotel was the guest house of the Provincial Party Committee in the early days, with a back door and a family compound of the Provincial Party Committee, and a side door connected to the Lotus Lake Park. In addition to a few buildings, there is also a group of split-level buildings with independent courtyards, which are not called Area C, but VIP buildings, to show that they are different from the villas where the leaders live.

When the central leaders come to the southeastern province, they generally arrange to live in the VIP building.

Several leaders of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee have villas in the small western-style building, District A and Area B that are living rooms for living with their families, and a set of split-level buildings are also allocated in the VIP building for evening office or reception.

Lin Guodong came down from the Organization Department of the Central Committee, and the General Office originally allocated a villa in District B, but he did not agree to live in it, on the grounds that he did not bring his family to it, but only one person occupied two sets of living rooms, and at least two internal staff had to be arranged, and all living and office facilities had to be prepared for two, which was too expensive.

He said that living in a split-level building in the VIP building, the life and office of a bachelor can be solved.

However, Ye Qingping said that Lin Guodong was not falsely troublesome, but it was more for the sake of quietness.

According to his level, he is also eligible to live in a single-family villa in Zone B. But after moving in, you have to be neighbors with other members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and old leaders, and it is inconvenient for each other to go in and out every day, so it is better to live alone in the VIP building.

This is also the reason why the small western-style buildings of the secretary of the provincial party committee and the governor of the province are separated at the east and west ends of the compound and do not look at each other.

When the car arrived at the door of the provincial party committee's family compound, Chu Tianshu automatically got out of the car and walked to the guardhouse.

This kind of heavily guarded ** residence, not to mention a taxi, is a BMW Land Rover without a pass and reservation, you have to honestly park at the side door and obediently get out of the car to register.

Chu Tianshu showed his ID and said, "We are here to see Minister Lin Guodong, and we have an appointment. ”

The guard in the guardhouse coldly opened the appointment record book, his face softened slightly, checked Chu Tianshu's identity documents, handed him the registration book, and pointed to the signing office.

Chu Tianshu smiled, signed it, and drove towards the compound.

Under the lights, the courtyard is full of flowers, the road is lined with delicate Australian lawns, and not far away there are two artificial lakes the size of football fields, the clear water of which is flooded with microwaves, and there is a pavilion in the middle of the lake, and the pavilion is facing several small Russian-style western-style buildings to the east.

When Chu Tianshu saw it, he couldn't help but be in awe, because the few people who lived in these nine small western-style buildings were in control of the fate of tens of millions of people in Southeast Province.

The car passed through the compound and went to the VIP building behind, and Chu Tianshu suddenly had an unbelievable thought: When can I take Wanqing and my children to live in these small western-style buildings?

Although this thought was only fleeting, it really startled him, and he suddenly had a feeling of rebellion intending to usurp power and seize power.

However, it was such a flash of thought, but it made the pursuit buried in Chu Tianshu's heart concrete, that is, to work hard and strive to live in a small western-style building with his wife and children as soon as possible!