When Lu Zhengdong went out, there was already a group of people standing at the gate, led by Hu Jinhai, and there were more than a dozen other people, including Ou Shaolin, executive deputy director of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, Jin Zhiwen, director of the Veteran Cadres Bureau of the Provincial Party Committee, and some other people, some Lu Zhengdong looked familiar, but he couldn't name them. Some of them he didn't know at all, and it was estimated that they were some department-level cadres from the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee and the Veteran Cadres Bureau of the Provincial Party Committee. There are also a few people who carry cameras and cameras, presumably reporters from newspapers and television stations. Everyone watched his car slowly stop, all smiling and ready to greet him.

Needless to say, they had already prepared in advance and contacted his secretary, and everyone was waiting for Wang Yiming here early. For these people, this is the number one priority today. Accompany Lu Zhengdong, the new secretary of the provincial party committee, to visit the old comrades.

Especially for Hu Jinhai, this has a different meaning.

The car stopped steadily, and Lu Zhengdong's secretary hurriedly went down and opened the back door for Lu Zhengdong.

Originally, Hu Jinhai was standing next to him, and when he stepped forward, he could personally open the door for Lu Zhengdong, but he hesitated and still didn't do it. Because so many people are watching from the side, as a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, doing such a low-level thing, some of them look down on themselves, and they are even a little cheap in the eyes of others. It's better to leave a small matter like a car door to their secretary.

So everyone smiled, looked at Lu Zhengdong, and nodded frequently.

Lu Zhengdong came down and shook hands with them one by one, and Hu Jinhai introduced the names and positions of several comrades, including those from the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee and those from the Veteran Cadres Bureau. There are also those of the Provincial Guard Bureau.

So everyone got into the car together. This time. The gate had already been opened, and there were five or six armed police soldiers standing guard at the door, all standing in a row, their bodies tensed, saluting their group of people.

So the group slipped into the courtyard and drove slowly along the path by the lake.

Cadres of the Security Bureau sitting in the back car. The families of the veteran cadres who are going to meet have been notified so that they can prepare for them.

The car went around the lakeside and parked in front of a villa. Everyone got out of the car and gathered at the gate of the villa. The accompanying staff, some holding flowers in their hands and some carrying fruit baskets, began to fiddle with the equipment in their hands, preparing to take pictures and shoot.

A while. The door of the villa opened, and a group of people came out of it. The leader is an old comrade who is not tall and has gray hair, but when he walks, his waist is straight, he is not in a hurry, and he is still very energetic. He wore a black woolen coat, the material was very good, and he looked like a high-end product, and he was followed by a young man in his thirties, who was always by his side. The wrinkles on his face and the ditches and bumps in the road make him look like a weather-beaten veteran leader with long-term experience in revolutionary struggle. No need to ask, he is the former secretary of the provincial party committee * who stomped his feet back then, and the entire Beihu Province was trembling three times.

Beside him, there is also an old woman about eighty years old, short, also gray-haired, wearing a dark blue down jacket, Lu Zhengdong is not the first time to Xiang Guangming's house, since he went to Beihu as the governor, he has been here several times, and naturally recognizes this as Xiang Guangming's wife.

It's been a very cold couple of days. The temperature dropped to around minus three degrees. Such a temperature may not be anything in the north, but here in Beihu, the humidity in the air is high, and once the temperature drops below ten degrees, it feels very cold. For the elderly, it is especially difficult.

There are five or six men and women in the back, and Lu Zhengdong can't recognize it, it is estimated that they are all their family members or nannies or something.

Lu Zhengdong hurriedly stepped forward, holding the old man's hand with both hands and shaking it gently, "Xiang Lao, is your old body okay?" ”

Xiang Guangming said in a loud voice: "Okay, okay, go and sit in the house!" It's cold outside. ”

Lu Zhengdong shook Xiang Guangming's wife's hand again and said, "Auntie, you are in good health!" ”

Xiang Guangming's wife said, "There's nothing wrong with it!" Thank you so much for coming to visit us! ”

Lu Zhengdong said: "We should be the younger generations, we should be, we should be. ”

So everyone gathered around and went into the house together.

The living room is not big, that is, more than thirty square meters, this is an old house, at that time, this was already the best condition. In the center of the living room, a pair of sofas were placed, and a large bouquet of flowers was placed on the coffee table in the middle. There are two couches on both sides, and there are two fiberglass coffee tables in the middle. The whole furnishings are very simple. The floor is still old-fashioned tiles, worn out in some places, and it is estimated that it has been used for decades and has not been replaced.

In the whole room, the most eye-catching thing is that around the walls, there are many group photos of leading comrades and Xiang Guangming, many of whom are core members of the first and second generations of leaders.

Xiang Guangming participated in the revolution very early, in the army in the early years, after the liberation of the country, he became a member of the southward cadres to Beihu, transferred to the local work, served as the secretary of the county party committee, secretary, regional commissioner, secretary of the prefectural party committee, and the fifth deputy secretary of the provincial party committee. After the end of the "Cultural Revolution", he was reinstated as a leading cadre, and became vice governor, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, executive vice governor, and finally governor in Beihu. In the mid-eighties of the twentieth century, he served as the secretary of the provincial party committee. During his tenure of office, Beihu Lake developed the most rapidly, with great development in industry, agriculture, and the tertiary industry, and a number of large enterprises were built, and the total industrial output value of Beihu exceeded the 100 billion yuan mark for the first time, surpassing the contribution of agriculture to the whole province. At the time, this was already a remarkable achievement. Bel Lake has always been a major agricultural province, and it was during his tenure that industry surpassed agriculture.

In his subsequent terms, due to ability or timing, the development of Beihu gradually slowed down, from mediocrity to decline, and the more this is the case, the more people think about his reign, and the more he is higher and higher among the cadres and masses in Beihu Province. Everyone's evaluation of this old man is that he is upright, honest, and open-minded, and that he is a time-tested old revolutionary. However, some leading cadres are not interested in him, thinking that he likes to put on old qualifications, likes to set off cannons, dares to say anything, is no longer in his position, has an unbalanced mentality, likes to say strange things, and sometimes speaks very sharply, which makes people unacceptable.

In the political arena of Beihu Province, there is such a rumor: in the early 90s, when Ni Zhihuai was first elected governor of Beihu Province, he visited Xiang Guangming's home out of courtesy. In front of everyone, the old man said unceremoniously: "Xiao Ni, I heard that there are a lot of discussions about you in society!" ”

When Xiang Guangming served as the secretary of the provincial party committee, Ni Zhihuai was the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee of the following prefecture-level city. At that time, there was a vacancy in the mayor of another city, and there were more than a dozen people competing for this position, and finally Xiang Guangli overrode the public opinion and persuaded more than a dozen other members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to promote the younger Ni Zhihuai to be the mayor. He believes that Ni Zhihuai is young and energetic, and he can be good at uniting people when he is motivated, and he is a cadre with a promising future. Since then, Ni Zhihuai has been running from time to time, and he has been on the fast track to promotion, from the mayor, secretary of the municipal party committee, member of the Standing Committee of the provincial party committee, executive vice governor, and finally at the age of fifty-two, he finally became the governor of Beihu Province, and he was also a very young governor at that time.

Xiang Guangming is not polite, always calling him "Xiao Ni." ”

At that time, it was the late 80s and early 90s, and the atmosphere of eating, drinking, and having fun, and being corrupt and degenerate in society was already very powerful, and officials at all levels, who were more daring, had begun to desperately make money and play with women. Invite guests to eat, eat lobster, abalone, delicacies from the mountains and seas, drink Moutai, Wuliangye, smoke and other brand-name cigarettes, as if this is not the case, it seems that it is not of grade enough.

After eating, they will also be arranged to sing in the song hall, and everyone will be accompanied by a scantily clad young lady, you can dance with your arms or touch your body casually. After the two sides negotiate the price, they can also go to the hotel to open a room for prostitution. Overnight, the street was full of saunas and massage parlors. Every night, the young ladies who scratch their heads and pose stand under the neon lights, constantly throwing flattering eyes at the men passing by, and for a while it has become the scenery of various places, even when they go to a remote small county town, it is also like this. People go crazy and pursue their own sensory stimulation. What kind of package**, **prostitution, drug abuse and drug trafficking, killing people and selling goods, and what social problems are not uncommon.

At that time, Xiang Guangming couldn't stand so many temptations, and some beauties took the initiative to throw themselves into their arms and make a plan for him, and he pushed the boat down the river and calculated it. The little girl who plays with it, the little daughter-in-law, there are too many to count, anyway, as long as there is a chance, he will not let it go, and when he is on a business trip to other provinces, he will even find prostitutes in local hotels. After his secretary was arrested, he confessed that he had personally gone to the nightclub in the hotel in person to select beautiful girls for his boss to stay in the hotel for him to prostitute.

When his subordinates bought officials from him, he gave him a lot of money, jewelry, and high-end gifts, and he did not refuse.

Those merchants who befriended him, in order to seek his care in business, also did everything possible to do what he liked, and wanted to play with women, so they arranged for him; If you want money, send it in a big way.

As the saying goes, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and he has so many problems and can still be promoted all the way, which naturally arouses the jealousy of many colleagues, and those people do everything possible to spread gossip that is not favorable to him.

Some things have been passed on with noses and eyes, as if they were true, and naturally some things have also reached Xiang Guangming's ears. Naturally, he had good intentions and reminded him. (To be continued......)