At Li Dongfang's suggestion, the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee became an enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee, which was expanded to include leading cadres at or above the deputy municipal level in the four groups of the Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal People's Congress, and the Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference, including He Jiaguo, assistant to the mayor. In order to avoid unnecessary interference, the General Office of the Municipal Party Committee, in accordance with Li Dongfang's request, chose the meeting site in the building of the New District Management Committee, which is far away from the urban area. The meeting was originally scheduled for two full days, but because there were more issues to be discussed and some issues were more controversial, it was extended by one day, and in addition to the weekend and Sunday that was originally scheduled, a normal working day was added.

On the morning of the first day, Qian Fanxing presided over the meeting, and Li Dongfang delivered a long speech entitled "Seeking Truth from Facts, Pioneering and Enterprising, Being Responsible to History, and Being Responsible to the People" -- a speech that was later jokingly called Khrushchev's "secret report" by some comrades. In this speech, Li Dongfang, in his capacity as a former leader of Xiajiang City and now secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, conducted a profound introspection on the history of Xiajiang's current passive situation, took the initiative to make self-criticism, and admitted that he bears an unshirkable historical responsibility for the mistakes made in the decision-making of the International Industrial Park and the Xiajiang New Area. When reviewing the two major mistakes, Li Dongfang did not mention Zhong Mingren, secretary of the provincial party committee, nor Zhao Qigong, vice governor of the province, and only cautiously used the words "former principal responsible comrade" and "former secretary of the municipal party committee" when the subject could not be absent.

The participants could see that Li Dongfang had good intentions and would rather wronged himself than expand the contradictions.

However, during the lunch break, many comrades still discussed in private, saying that Li Dongfang's move was unwise and that he was suspected of trying to cover it up. The matter is very clear: the International Industrial Park and the Xiajiang New Area are not Li Dongfang's decisions, and the responsibility should be borne by Zhong Mingren and Zhao Qigong. You have the privilege of making decisions, and of course the responsibility is yours.

After hearing these discussions, Li Dongfang made a supplementary speech in the afternoon, focusing on democratic decision-making.

Li Dongfang said: "Comrades, I ask you to review the party constitution, which article of our party constitution stipulates that the top leader has the privilege of making decisions? Not really! The party constitution clearly stipulates the principle of democratic centralism of the party, and the question is, have we exercised our democratic rights? When discussing a major policy decision that has a bearing on the interests of the people, are we looking at the scientific nature of the decision itself, or are we looking at the face of the number one leader? Do you want to go over and see the faces of the people? I must admit that what I used to see was the face of the leader. It's not that I haven't thought about the scientific nature of the decision-making itself, but I can't take it into account after the leader has made up his mind. What is the reason for this reality? Quite simply, our system is a system that is responsible to the top, not to the bottom. The fundamental purpose of our party is to serve the people, and if we do not look at whether the people are happy or not, but only whether the higher authorities are happy or not, we will deviate from the party's fundamental purpose and make mistakes! Don't think it's not your fault, don't think it's just the fault of the number one, you look at the face of the leader and raise your hand, you are responsible, you can't rely on it in a hundred years! Therefore, I am not trying to excuse anyone today, and I admit that I am responsible for the mistakes in the history of Xiajiang. The principal leading comrades of the former Xiajiang City CPC Committee are all very open-minded and have a good democratic style! Their good style has also deeply influenced me, so I hope that this enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee can also truly embody intra-party democracy, talk openly about all issues of our city's cross-century development, and it doesn't matter if you complain and scold your mother! It is much better for you to complain and scold your mother at the Standing Committee today than to make a wrong decision and cause losses, and let the people scold your mother in the future! ”

Although Li Dongfang talked a lot about the democratic style of Zhong Mingren and Zhao Qigong in his supplementary speech in the afternoon, and carefully maintained the historical image of the two top leaders in front of him, trouble should still come.

Just after dinner in the evening, Zhao Qigong's phone hung up in Li Dongfang's room, and reminded Li Dongfang very unceremoniously, asking Li Dongfang not to despise his predecessors, saying that our reform is to cross the river by feeling the stones, and it is to explore, and there will always be mistakes in exploration, even the central government has mistakes, not to mention the city-level leaders of our inland provinces? Zhao Qigong also reminded meaningfully that others are soft-spoken and can not be cared about, but I am afraid that Comrade Zhong Mingren will not have no attitude, right? Li Dongfang desperately explained, but Zhao Qigong did not have the patience to listen, and repeatedly warned Li Dongfang that he wanted Li Dongfang to learn from him, balance his mentality, and not be desperate because he could not enter the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee. As soon as Zhao Qigong put down the phone, Zhong Mingren's secretary also called, asking Li Dongfang to send a copy of his speech to the General Hospital of the Military Region as soon as possible, saying that Zhong Mingren, who was being hospitalized in the General Hospital for a physical examination, wanted to take a look.

Li Dongfang knew that the small report had already been typed, and he was targeted by the two old leaders, so it seemed that he simply sent a report to Zhao Qigong and let them judge each other. Since the contradiction cannot be avoided, let's face it squarely.

There are also many people who support Li Dongfang, and they are not ordinary figures.

Long Zhenyu, chairman of the Municipal People's Congress, and Fang Bing, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, spoke highly of Li Dongfang's speech, and said in their speeches at the discussion meeting held after dinner that the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee was a very good start, and that the party's good tradition of seeking truth from facts and the good style of criticism and self-criticism have returned. Long Zhenyu's qualifications are not below Zhong Mingren, and he has always had conflicts with Zhong Mingren, so he has no scruples when he speaks, and he mentioned Zhong Mingren by name several times in his speech. He pointed out: It is an undeniable fact that Comrade Akihito is a pioneering cadre, one of the commanders of our province's reform and opening up in the past 21 years, and has made great contributions to our Xiajiang City and Xichuan Province. However, our comrade commander is more authoritarian, domineering, and less democratic. Carrying the official seal of the Organization Department, he said that whoever was dismissed would be exempted, which had never happened in the history of the Xiajiang Party, and he made a very bad start. It was this domineering attitude that caused the blockade of speech, and frightened the then director of the environmental protection bureau into not speaking out on the issue of decision-making in the international industrial park.

Long Zhenyu also criticized Li Dongfang: "...... Comrade Dongfang, you advocate seeking truth from facts, have courage and courage, but you still have concerns! I won't talk about anything else, but I'll just say one thing: What kind of good democratic style do Comrade Zhong Mingren and Comrade Zhao Qigong have? How did this good democratic style affect you so deeply? It's not true, and I don't think it's true! Comrade Zhong Mingren lacks the spirit of democracy in decision-making and employing people, and Comrade Zhao Qigong is the same, and he is even better! Comrade Zhao Qigong's arbitrariness on the issue of cadres and personnel is far superior to Zhong Mingren, and he does not allow other members of the Standing Committee to interfere at all, and Tian Zhuangda was appointed by him, and I think he should bear the main leadership responsibility for the major and important cases of the investment company! Mr. Fang, you have been the head of the organization department, and you have a good understanding of this situation, can you also talk about it? ”

Fang Bing, chairman of the CPPCC, and Long Zhenyu have always had contradictions, but they have greater opinions on Zhao Qigong, so it is rare to support Long Zhenyu on this occasion - Fang Bing has been the organization minister under Zhao Qigong for more than a year, because he did not listen to the greetings, he was transferred to the head of the propaganda department, and he has a lot of opinions on Zhao Qigong's arbitrariness on the issue of employing people.

Fang Bing waited for Long Zhenyu's words to fall and said, "Let's talk about it." I fully agree with Director Long's opinion. In order to sum up the lessons and lessons in employing people, I cannot but say some harsh and foul words today: Comrades, our organization department must not become the number one organization department, but must truly become the party's organization department in terms of form and content. It is too dangerous to use human rights in the hands of the number one, and if the quality of the number one is good, it can be regarded as a blessing for the organization, and the people are lucky, but the quality is not good? What about people like Tian Zhuangda? Our party is about to collapse, and the common people are about to suffer! Comrades, look at the reality of our Xiajiang! The city investment company has rotted two sets of teams one after another, and the whole team is paralyzed there, and more than a dozen cadres above the deputy department level are still unfavorable; What happened to Hongfeng Mall? How did you lose the case in our Intermediate Court? What's going on with that Deng Shuanglin in the middle court? How did he, the dean, come up? Is it competent? There are no ghosts in this lawsuit! Net use of this kind of person, what does he Zhao Qigong think? I didn't want to say these words, there is no condition to speak, and it's useless to say it, who cares about you? Today, the comrades in the East have this democratic spirit and the grace to listen to different opinions. Let's throw bricks and lead the way! ”

Li Dongfang saw that Long Zhenyu and Fang Bing's attitudes were quite intense, and in order to ease the atmosphere, he interjected with a smile: "It can't be said that Secretary Zhong and Governor Zhao have any selfish motives on the issue of employing people. ”

Fang Bing was unceremoniously: "What does this mean?" Explain that Comrade Zhao Qigong is selfless? I don't think so. Comrade Jiaguo has courage and knowledge, and he is a doctor of economics, why can't he use it? Facts have proved that Comrade Jiaguo's assistant to the mayor arrested the case of Hongfeng Mall as soon as he took office, which won the hearts of the party and the people! I don't think he dares to use his comrades in the country! ”

Long Zhenyu also agreed: "What is particularly valuable is that the comrade of the family and the country stresses principles and conscience, and recognizes things but not people. Now it is openly said in the society that a lawsuit is a relationship, how many relationships are there behind Hongfeng Mall? Who knows? Who wants to bother with that? It is also the comrades of the family and the country who dare to poke this hornet's nest. He Jiaguo, who was sitting on the opposite corner, smiled at him, "Comrade Jiaguo, I think you have to be mentally prepared, if you continue to do this, even Governor Zhao will not like you!" ”

This atmosphere of democratic speech within the party also stirred up He Jiaguo's heart.

He Jiaguo didn't express any opinions on Zhong Mingren and Zhao Qigong, so he followed the words of Long Zhenyu and Fang Bing, and expressed his attitude on the issue of Hongfeng Mall: "Long Lao, Fang Lao, thank you for your support and encouragement, Hongfeng Mall, you can rest assured, I don't care how many backstage Zhao Juanjuan has, and no matter who is involved, what to do!" Whether Governor Zhao likes it or not, I can't care about it - I'm not the mayor's assistant for him! ”

Li Dongfang knocked on the table and made a tiger face: "Mayor He, don't talk too far, and be sober-minded!" ”

He Jiaguo realized something at this time, so he stopped and didn't continue.

Fang Bing, chairman of the CPPCC, interjected again: "Comrade Dongfang, I think you and the municipal party committee should be sober, Zhao Juanjuan, this woman is not simple, many people call her Mayor Zhao in private." Who is supporting this Mayor Zhao? Why support it? There is no room for conclusions. But no one is blind, the verdict is there! Speaking of this, Fang Bing suddenly became excited, and said quite emotionally, "My Fang Bing has figured it out, anyway, the chairman of this CPPCC will be completely down, and I don't care who it is!" We have to be responsible for the party and the people! I'm going to be ruthless today, and I'll put a hard sentence here: I don't care who you are, no matter how high your status is, no matter how big an official you are, and when it comes to your affairs, you have to make it clear to me, and you have to give an explanation to the party and the people! Hu Changqing and Cheng Kejie are not small, and they have to go in when they should go in, which is called Skynet's restoration and negligence! ”

At this time, Li Dongfang saw clearly that Fang Bing was "forcing the palace". In Fang Bing's eyes, he, Li Dongfang, and Zhao Qigong have been in the team for eight years, and Zhao Qigong is the one who helped him up, and he is the person on Zhao Qigong's line. took the opportunity to force him to tear his face and turn against Zhao Qigong, not only to win the hearts of the people, but also to vent his grievances for many years. This resentment is not only against Zhao Qigong, but also against him Li Dongfang. If he hadn't been in the way, the secretary of the municipal party committee today might have been Fang Bing.

On the first night of the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee, Li Dongfang suffered from insomnia, and he found himself in a trap he had dug up. His original intention was not to settle old historical accounts, still less to hold Zhong Mingren and Zhao Qigong accountable for their negligence, but only to unify his thinking on the basis of improving inner-party democracy and to realistically determine the goal of struggle for the cross-century development of Xiajiang. Unexpectedly, as soon as the magic bottle of democracy was opened, the situation was out of control. Long Zhenyu blamed Zhong Mingren by name, Fang Bing almost openly declared war on Zhao Qigong, and He Jiaguo, a political fool, did not understand the grievances and grievances in the history of the Xiajiang cadre team, and also coaxed. Qian Fanxing's attitude became subtle, and he didn't express a word of opinion for a whole day and a night, according to Qian Fanxing's self-righteous personality, this is very abnormal. In the past, no matter what meeting was held, Qian Fanxing always had to speak, always interjected, and sometimes even ignored the occasion, which made Li Dongfang often very annoyed in his heart. Now, Li Dongfang needs this comrade mayor to interject very much, but the comrade mayor does not interject, and actually draws ducks and chickens in his notebook. Qian Fanxing is a cadre from the province, and he has nothing to do with any cadres on any line in Xiajiang, when Fang Bing and Long Zhenyu spoke too much, he could stand up and stop him with his detached identity, and he shouldn't have watched these two old comrades make the ** smell so strong. But Qian Fanxing sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and didn't even take a breath of air, which was really intriguing.

Hengzhi couldn't sleep, so Li Dong conveniently called Qian Fanxing's room and wanted to talk to Qian Fanxing.

The phone in Qian Fanxing's room was not answered. Let the secretary ask in the past to find out that after the discussion in the evening, Qian Fanxing went back to the city, where he went and what he was doing, no one could say clearly. Qian Fanxing only left one sentence for the comrades of the conference affairs group: He will rush back early tomorrow morning, and he will not miss the meeting tomorrow morning.

Li Dongfang couldn't help but feel gloomy for a while, and a deep loneliness filled his heart like a tide.