Chapter 271: Chief of the Budget Division
Ye Ming has long heard Yu Heguang say: This year, the economic situation in Beishan County continued to decline, the county paper mill, a cement factory, and the second cement plant closed down one after another, the real estate market collapsed, and the CEOs of the three largest real estate development companies owed a lot of debts and ran away, reducing the local tax revenue by more than 80 million yuan in total, resulting in the local tax revenue in the first half of the year only completing 25% of the annual plan, disrupting this year's financial budget plan.
As a result, since March, the salaries of some grassroots civil servants and primary and secondary school teachers have begun to be in arrears. In May, some primary and secondary school teachers gathered at the entrance of the county government to ask for their salaries, demanding that they be paid their arrears immediately, otherwise they would go to the homes of the leaders of the county party committee and county government for dinner.
At that time, Zhang Jiankun wanted Xu Tailai, the executive deputy county magistrate in charge of finance and trade, to do the work of a salary-seeking teacher, and told Xu Tailai that he had gone to the provincial finance department to coordinate and ask for help, and the leaders of the finance department, taking into account the actual difficulties of Beishan County, promised to allocate the 50 million yuan of special financial subsidies for poor counties that should have been allocated in the second half of the year in mid-June. So, by mid-June, the arrears of wages will be paid off in full.
Therefore, Xu Tailai made a promise to the teachers who asked for salaries according to what Zhang Jiankun told him: Before June 20, he would definitely pay them all the arrears of salaries, and asked them to trust the government and him as the executive deputy county magistrate.
At that time, in order to appease the excited teachers as soon as possible, he also left a cruel sentence, saying that if the arrears of the teachers' salaries had not been paid off by June 20, everyone could go to his office and overturn his desk......
Thinking of this, Ye Ming asked Xu Jirong with a little doubt: "Director Xu, since Zhang Jiankun said that the Provincial Department of Finance can allocate 50 million subsidy funds in advance, it should be able to pay off all the arrears of wages, could it be that Xu Tailai misappropriated this fund for other purposes?" If that's the case, then it's understandable that the teachers are tipping over his desk, and who told him to make that promise in the first place? Making promises and not keeping them is undermining the credibility of the government! ”
Xu Jirong smiled bitterly and said, "Secretary Ye, Lao Xu is also suffering now!" At the beginning, Zhang Jiankun said with confidence, saying that the financial subsidy would definitely be in place in mid-June. Unexpectedly, in early June, Lao Xu took people to the Provincial Department of Finance to go through the formalities, and Feng Jialiang, director of the Budget Department, suddenly turned his face, saying that the Department of Finance was now in financial difficulties, and not only could not allocate the 50 million yuan in advance, but even in the second half of the year, it would have to reduce 20 million yuan, and could only allocate 30 million yuan to Beishan County.
Lao Xu was dumbfounded at the time and asked why he wanted to reduce 20 million yuan. Feng Jialiang said eloquently: Beishan County's original annual special subsidy fund was only 80 million yuan, and 20 million yuan was temporarily increased at the request of Secretary Zhang Jiankun two years ago, not a fixed subsidy fund. This year, the Ministry of Finance is in financial difficulties, so this temporary subsidy of 20 million yuan must be cancelled. ”
As soon as Ye Ming heard the last few words, he thought that Zhang Jiankun was making an obstruction, so he asked angrily: "Is it because Zhang Jiankun told him something that Director Feng of the Finance Department did this, so he deliberately wanted to embarrass the county party committee and county government?" ”
"Not really. Xu Tailai was picked up by Zhang Jiankun, and the relationship between the two has always been good. Moreover, Xu Tailai admires Zhang Jiankun very much, the reason why he wanted to make that kind of promise to the teacher at the beginning was because he believed in Zhang Jiankun's ability too much, and he believed in what he said too much, which led to him being lifted off his desk now, making him very passive and embarrassed. Of course, Zhang Jiankun does not want his cronies to fall into a crisis, so it is very unlikely that he will go to Feng Jialiang to speak ill of him and prevent him from allocating funds. ”
"Then what does Feng Jialiang mean? Did Xu Tailai offend him? Or was it because he didn't pay him a tribute in time, so he deliberately wanted to get stuck? ”
Xu Jirong was silent for a moment, and said cautiously: "Secretary Ye, I just learned from Xu Tailai that Director Feng of this budget department is the cousin of Xie Benwu and Xie Benyu's brothers. At the beginning, Xie Benwu was full of bad deeds and notoriety, but Zhang Jiankun still suggested that the municipal party committee promote him to deputy county magistrate, because his cousin occupied the key position of budget director in the provincial finance department, whether it was the city or the county, they all asked him, and Zhang Jiankun used this reason to persuade the leaders of the municipal party committee to promote Xie Benwu.
In fact, Xie Benwu's promotion has indeed brought tangible benefits to Beishan County: in the year Xie Benwu was promoted, the Department of Finance temporarily increased Beishan County's special subsidy funds by 20 million yuan. At the same time, because Xie Benwu was in charge of urban construction, he personally went to the Finance Department to find his cousin and won two urban road reconstruction funds for the county, with a total amount of more than 80 million yuan.
Zhang Jiankun has said many times at the Standing Committee: Xie Benwu is a great hero of Beishan County and has made special contributions to the development of Beishan County. It is precisely for this reason that Xie Benwu became more and more arrogant, and finally developed to the rampant level of beating the county magistrate and the secretary of the county party committee. At the beginning, our county party committee reported to the municipal party committee the problem of Xie Benwu's beating, and the reason why Secretary Wei and Mayor Wu wanted to settle the matter and not deal with him was also to take into account the factors of Director Feng Jialiang.
Therefore, I analyze: Feng Jialiang deliberately embarrassed our county government this time because his cousin Xie Benwu was severely punished, and he held a grudge because of this, which was a deliberate act of revenge. In fact, he did say in front of Xu Tailai that our county party committee did not consider Xie Benwu's contribution to the county at all, but he held on to a little problem, which is a typical behavior of crossing the river and demolishing bridges, rabbits and dead dogs. At that time, Xu Tailai had a premonition that something was not good, and then something happened that he refused to pay. ”
Only then did Ye Ming understand the cause and effect of the matter, and said with a sneer: "In this way, that Director Feng is going to avenge his cousin's shame and revenge." Director Xu, you tell Xu Tailai: I will rush back before nine o'clock tomorrow morning. If a teacher comes to surround him before this, let him say as good things as he can, and wait for me to go back and deal with it. You also have to tell him not to take drastic action, let alone mobilize the police to drive away the teachers who are asking for wages. If that happens, it will exacerbate the conflict and create an unmanageable situation. ”
After hanging up Xu Jirong's phone, it happened that the dish had already been served, Ye Ming picked up the wine glass, and toasted Chen Guitian, *, and Xia Wei with a glass of wine respectively, and was about to tell Chen Guitian and Xia Wei, the two old criminal policemen, about Liu Zhiping's suicide, but the mobile phone rang again, and when he looked at the number, it was Hu Tong, deputy secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, called.
Ye Ming hurriedly answered the phone and said hello to Hu Tong.
Hu Tong lowered his voice and said, "Brother Ye, is Li Zheng, the director of the National People's Congress in Beishan, your opponent?" I just got the exact news that Secretary Wang Hao has ordered the Min'an Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection to investigate and deal with him. Moreover, Secretary Wang has arranged for Hao Yingling, director of the Law Enforcement Supervision Office, to lead a supervision team to Min'an to supervise the investigation and handling of Li Zheng. That's good news for you! ”