The three secretaries sat down in the living room, and Professor Xu got up to clean up the kitchen of the dining room, taking the opportunity to avoid it. Liu Mingrui said, we just talk casually, and the professor doesn't have to leave. Professor Xu said that after finishing the housework, he would come back to audit and study.

Xu Haodong said: "Two secretaries, the old man doesn't care about politics, he is a pure scholar, if it weren't for me, he might not have been involved in politics in his life." ”

Chen Yibo sighed a little, "Compared with the old man, we are ordinary people." ”

Liu Mingrui deeply agreed, "Yibo, you are right, the old man is the real intellectual." ”

Xu Haodong said with a smile: "Regarding intellectuals, I can talk about one of my mother-in-law's views. My mother-in-law thinks that the current definition of intellectuals is too broad. When intellectuals enter politics, they are no longer intellectuals; When intellectuals do business, they cease to be intellectuals; When intellectuals become experts, or even the spokesmen of a certain department or a certain interest group, they cease to be intellectuals...... In short, only those who are immersed in learning and who make a career out of disseminating knowledge are true intellectuals. ”

Chen Yibo said: "This statement is very correct. ”

Xu Haodong nodded and said, "So, the old couple has a temper, and they look at the business card first." For example, if you two have a job title printed on your business card, that's fine. But if you have some working graduate students, and master's or doctorates, then I'm sorry, they'll think you're posing as intellectuals, and they're not going to get involved with you. ”

Chen Yibo and Liu Mingrui both laughed.

After laughing, the topic finally came to "politics".

Chen Yibo asked: "Haodong, who have you seen with so many new leaders?" ”

"Seeing is a must." Xu Haodong said: "However, tonight must be as many people as the carp crossing the river, I don't join in this excitement." Besides, both of you have asked me out, and I don't want to be seen as a man who sees the new and abandons the old. ”

Chen Yibo was happy, "Hehe, this sounds comfortable." ”

Liu Mingrui smiled and asked, "Haodong, how many new leaders do you know?" ”

Xu Haodong said: "Two, Bai Jinghong, Chen Changjiang." ”

Chen Yibo said evilly: "There is a third one." ”

Liu Mingrui also has the same expression as Chen Yibo.

Xu Haodong smiled helplessly, "It seems that the memories of the two of them are not bad." ”

Chen Yibo smiled and said: "Nonsense, Mingrui and I are both old Dongjiang, how can we not know the story of you and Minister Shen Fangzhou." ”

Xu Haodong asked: "Two, I just asked, you said, what happened back then, could it be a problem?" ”

Chen Yibo said: "Mingrui, you say it first. ”

Liu Mingrui thought about it and said: "Probably not, Minister Shen Fangzhou has been in the two western provinces for eight years, and he came up step by step, and I heard that the local official reputation is also very good." The fact that the Central Committee was able to appoint him and send him back to Dongjiang Province to work and to take up the post of organization minister with great responsibility is enough to show that he has become a relatively mature politician. As a politician, you should be calm in the face of your past mistakes. So I conclude that he can't do anything to you, on the contrary, he will cherish the relationship with you more. ”

Chen Yibo said: "First of all, I agree with Mingrui's judgment that everyone understands people, and the past will not be a problem. Secondly, Minister Shen Fangzhou was actually quite wronged in that incident, I was working in the Provincial Development and Reform Commission at the time, and I knew some inside information. The promotion of the cultivation of medicinal herbs is a verbal instruction of a certain provincial leader, a collective decision of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and a suggestion of some pseudo-experts. Therefore, Minister Shen Fangzhou is also a victim, but he just happens to be the one who bears the blame. ”

Xu Haodong smiled and said: "However, even if there was no such thing, he was very unkind to see me, and in the process of my promotion to deputy mayor, he always had a negative attitude." ”

Chen Yibo said with a smile: "I have to be fair about this, there are three main reasons why Shen Fangzhou was not optimistic about you at that time. First, the factional struggle in Haizhou City at that time was very serious, and the so-called Yunling Gang was one of them, and when appointing cadres from Yunling, we must be very cautious, and the opposition force must be strong. Two, how old were you then? Twenty-eight or nine years old, cadres of this age should be promoted to the deputy department level, and there are few in the province, that is, the Communist Youth League system is more likely, can't people put a few question marks? Three, at that time, you should not be inconspicuous, at most you are a little famous in Yunling City, if you have the current fame and performance, no one will definitely object to your allocation. ”

Xu Haodong nodded and said, "That's right, I may have thought too much." ”

Liu Mingrui smiled and said, "As for now, you can sit back and relax." First, you have been tested for a long time, you have been checked several times, and you have no problem politically, economically, and in style. Second, you have outstanding political achievements, excellent reputation, and an Internet celebrity with tens of millions of fans, unless you have a major accident, or you are asking for trouble, no one dares to touch you easily. Third, everyone knows that you are a banner set up by Secretary Li Zhihong, and with the support of Secretary Li Zhihong, no one dares to fight your idea. ”

Xu Haodong said: "Secretary Mingrui, you are really good at talking, and you have a flag, but fortunately you didn't say that I am personally dependent." ”

Liu Mingrui smiled, "Haha, I don't mean that." ”

Xu Haodong said: "Also, why no one is beating my idea, isn't this coordination meeting and article just hitting my idea?" ”

Liu Mingrui said: "Regarding this incident, Yibo knows more about the inside story than I do. ”

Chen Yibo said: "Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this incident has a reason, and it is closely related to the anti-corruption storm at the beginning of the year, and it is a counterattack by corrupt forces. On the surface, it is attacking Yunling City and you, Xu Haodong, but in fact, it is the Dongjiang Provincial Party Committee and Secretary Li Zhihong, and you are characterizing it as a contradiction between us and the enemy, which is really a wise move. The other party launched an attack on the occasion of the coordination meeting, because the coordination meeting invited Avink and Jian Chunting, and the two of them justifiably used the platform of the coordination meeting, which made this incident have such a big impact. ”

Liu Mingrui said: "They engaged in sabotage, and as a result, the coordination committee was burdened. ”

Xu Haodong asked: "Deputy Secretary Zeng Xianren was transferred, should it be related to this incident?" ”

Chen Yibo said: "Needless to say, in the anti-corruption storm at the beginning of the year, most of the cadres who fell were cadres who he strongly promoted, not to mention whether he had other problems, at least he had to bear the responsibility of knowing people and not noticing, and this alone was enough for him to drink a pot." ”

Liu Mingrui said: "Deputy Secretary Zeng Xianren was transferred, and that was a certainty. It is said that it was originally flat, but as soon as the incident came out, the high-level people were furious. As a result, he was transferred to another province to become a vice chairman of the provincial CPPCC, and it is safe to say that his political life has basically ended. ”

Xu Haodong said: "I have great admiration for Deputy Secretary Zeng Xianren's profound knowledge. A smart man, a smart man who did something too clever. ”