Chapter 1, The Bride Price Crisis

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The National Day has just passed.

The weather in the north is getting cooler in the morning and evening, and the sky seems to be higher and bluer.

The red and yellow colors that symbolize the harvest at the tips of the trees and in the depths of the grass have begun to infect the hues of autumn.

As soon as they went to work after the holiday, cadres at or above the department level in Zhengfeng County, Shangyang City, Donghe Province, received a notice that at 10 o'clock in the morning, a meeting of the county's leading cadres was held in the county's multi-functional conference room.

Well-informed people have learned that the content of the meeting is that, according to the arrangements of the provincial party committee, leaders of the organization department of the city party committee will come to the county to announce the appointment of the new secretary of the county party committee.

After receiving the notice, the party committee secretaries and township mayors who were far away in the townships and towns hurriedly settled down the work at hand and immediately drove to the county.

The clock on the wall of the conference room on the second floor of the Xiling Town Government was pointed to nine o'clock when the town party committee office meeting was over.

The secretary and the mayor each returned to their offices to prepare to leave for the county.

Shao Hongwei, the deputy mayor in charge of agriculture, walked out of the conference room.

Passing by the agricultural economic station on the first floor, Wang Xingquan, a clerk who had been waiting at the door, hurriedly followed behind.

Shao Hongwei is 1.8 meters tall and walks with the wind.

Wang Xingquan behind him is a head shorter, slightly thin, and looks like an accessory for the former to buy one and get one free.

Shao Hongwei didn't look back, and his loud voice echoed in the corridor on the first floor.

"Has the phone number of the Fan branch secretary of Dongdian Village been connected?"

Wang Xingquan trotted a few steps, trying to keep up with Shao's magnificent pace.

"It's working, but I just don't connect."

"Call the village chief." The instructions are concise and straightforward.

Out of the office building, Shao Hongwei took out the car key and pressed it.

"Chirp".

In the yard, a second-hand Haval H6 responded.

"I also called, and I was on the phone all the time."

Hearing this answer, Shao Hongwei, who had already walked to the front of the car, put his hand on the doorknob and frowned:

"What are you doing, saying that you will go to their village today and solve the unsalable problem of vegetable cooperatives on the spot, why don't you answer the phone?"

Wang Xingquan came to the other side of the car, looked up at the deputy mayor and asked, "Then should we still go?" ”

Shao Hongwei opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat, and the body trembled.

Shaking his head, he said to Wang Xingquan:

"Get in the car. These two things don't answer the phone, so let's go straight to the village. ”

"Okay, Mayor Shao." Wang Xingquan happily agreed, opened the car door, and sat down in the passenger seat quickly.

Shao Hongwei started the car, looked at the rearview mirror, and poured out of the gate of the town government, and then taught Wang Xingquan a lesson:

"I said, isn't your kid's brain bad?"

"Huh......?" Wang Xingquan has a black line in his head.

"How many times have I told you, I'm not some shit mayor. If you embezzle the word 'deputy', can you get rich or can you increase your size? ”

Wang Xingquan pulled out the seat belt and fastened it, his face was stunned, and he was unconvinced:

"When people are called positions, they are willing to shout loudly. It's good that you like to be called the deputy mayor. ”

The car bumped over the potholed shoulder of the road and got on the country road to Dongdian Village, Shao Hongwei turned his head and scolded:

"You know the! You call the mayor of the town, what will Secretary Huang and Mayor Ma think when they hear it? Want to be promoted, want to go crazy, do it yourself? ”

"Besides, if you want to take off that 'vice', can you rely on the mouths of you people? Is there a to worry about these every day? Yes, it's better to study more problems. ”

"'Study more, talk less about women,' your motto."

After saying this, Wang Xingquan sighed with emotion:

"Shaozhen, to tell you the truth, among these leaders in Xiling Town, we still love to follow you. You are real and real, not false. ”

Ahead, a flock of sheep was crossing the road, and Shao Hongwei slowed down and stopped to give way.

"Come on, don't give me a disguised ass here, it doesn't have any gold at all. I don't have the right to turn you into a regular again. ”

As he spoke, he lowered the window of the car, looked at the fellow behind the flock, smiled and nodded.

The shepherd saw that it was Shao Hongwei, and shouted in the local dialect: "Mayor Shao! Miles and then go to the village? ”

"yes, dude. How many sheep do you have at home? ”

"Eighty."

The shepherd gestured with his thumb and forefinger, and with his other hand flicked the whip, urging the flock to pass quickly.

The car started again, and Wang Xingquan showed a victor's smile:

"Look, the shepherds also call you the mayor!"

Shao Hongwei smiled bitterly, and turned to a serious face:

"Who called, you are not allowed to call in the town, don't give me anything to do, remember?"

"Remember, Shao...... Deputy...... Mayor. Wang Xingquan deliberately made a long sound.

In Russia, Wang Xingquan solemnly raised a question:

"Shaozhen, I heard that the new secretary of the county this time was sent by the city, what is the background, do you know?"

He felt that it was awkward to add the word "vice", so he simply omitted it as "Shaozhen".

Shao Hongwei glanced at him and asked rhetorically, "You know?" ”

Wang Xingquan pursed his lips, "Even you, the leader, don't know where I gossip." ”

Since Shao Hongwei left the county party committee office ten months ago, he has been immersed in his work, and he has not deliberately inquired about the origin of the new secretary. What's more, knowing early and knowing later doesn't have any effect on me, so I simply said:

"You little clerk who eats turnips, what the hell is the heart of the organization department. When the secretary and the mayor come back from the meeting, they will know. ”

Wang Xingquan sighed:

"Alas, I'm just looking forward to having a secretary like Secretary Han this time, so that we can get our Zhengfeng County up."

"Originally, when Secretary Han was here, everything was very improving, and the momentum at the bottom also came up, but who knows......"

Wang Xingquan saw that the driver's seat was in deep thought, so he stopped chattering knowingly.

Shao Hongwei is 26 years old this year. Five years ago, after graduating from the Chinese Department of Donghe University in 211, he studied and excelled, and entered the Zhengfeng County Government as a clerk.

Because of his excellent writing and flexible brain, he served as the vice president and seat of the student union in the school, and was selected by the new secretary of the county party committee Han the following year to join the county party committee office as his secretary.

In the third year of following Secretary Han, Shao Hongwei was transferred to the deputy department and became the leader in the same batch of public examinations.

Just when he was in high spirits and ready to show his skills, a year ago, Secretary Han, who had just passed his fifties, suddenly had a heart attack and fell at work.

The unexpected death of the old secretary brought Shao's career to an abrupt halt. The former secretary of the county party committee has become a semi-unemployed person.

Since ancient times: a gentleman and a courtier, the later dynasty does not need the former dynasty.

Shao Hongwei, a seedling grass stained with the dew of the former secretary, naturally could not enter the sight of other leaders.

After a few months of playing and running errands in the county party committee office, there happened to be a vacancy in the deputy position in Xiling Town, and Shao Hongwei took the initiative to apply for the grassroots level.

The new secretary agreed to this request without much thought.

Among the thirteen townships and towns in Zhengfeng County, Xiling Town, as the bottom of the economic ranking, has just been lifted out of poverty and the backward towns in the county have been avoided. Someone took the initiative to apply to go there, and the new secretary had no reason to disagree.

The reason why Shao Hongwei applied to go to the township was that he did not want to stay in the extremely snobbish atmosphere of the county party committee office; The second is that he learned a lot of the essence of being an official with Secretary Han back then, and he wanted to practice at the grassroots level.

The former Shao Hongwei, after being admitted to public office, was also full of spirits.

You must know that in the ranks of civil servants, many people are "seven officials in front of the prime minister since ancient times" and "cadres in the secretarial circle"

You must know that in the ranks of civil servants, many people have worked hard for most of their lives, and they are only at the section level.

Being able to mix with a deputy director-level treatment is already the ceiling of their needs.

At that time, Shao Hongwei scoffed at this.

He likes history and is high-spirited, and the ideal in his mind is also the kind of "loess cushion road, clean water splashing street", which was called "eight sedan chairs" in ancient times, and now he has to be the head of the city.

At the wine table, he only brought a glass of wine for the "county department level", and did not say anything about his hidden ambitions.

Drinking among classmates has always been open-mouthed, and he has long learned the "poisonous tongue" kung fu of these guys.

In the eyes of these guys, you can't have privacy, even if it's just a pair of underwear, they have to pull away and look at it.

If you are not careful, you may continue to be the laughing stock of everyone's talk for decades.

In the past few years after graduation, thanks to the old secretary's "prudent words and deeds", he learned the city government that he did not have when he was a student.

For work, the old secretary has established a style of doing things for him to move forward bravely.

This kind of courage and perseverance must have soil.

The so-called "people abandon me and take it", instead of being aggrieved in the county, it is better to go to Xiling Town, a poor and backward township, to give it a show.

Even if you can't get ahead, at least you will end up happy.

It can be regarded as an experience, and it can also be regarded as an accumulation. Maybe in the future, a leader with a discerning eye will find his pearl on the beach.

There is always an ideal, what if it is realized?

It was based on the seemingly naΓ―ve idea that Shao Hongwei resolutely came to Xiling Town and became the last deputy mayor in charge of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and water.

The most backward township, the lowest-ranked deputy position, this springboard, just able to put down the toes, is really broad enough.

Who knows, the new secretary of the transitional county party committee only stayed in Zhengfeng for one year, and then he was transferred to the city with a relationship. Therefore, this time, Zhengfeng County is about to usher in a new secretary of the county party committee.

The dissatisfaction in Wang Xingquan's mouth just now refers to the fact that in this year, the development plan led by many old secretaries in Zhengfeng County has come to a halt.

Although on the surface, the secretary is in charge of the cadres and the county magistrate is in charge of the economy, but in an economically backward county like Zhengfeng, the secretary still has the final say on the major policies.

The cadres below naturally acted according to the eyes of the above, and even the small clerks at the grassroots level felt the obvious gap.

For Shao Hongwei at the executive level, the difficulties are not limited to these.

Take Huang Xiaopo, secretary of the town party committee, as an example, he has been criticized by Secretary Han many times because of his ineffective work.

The so-called "those who don't love others, and their surplus", therefore, Huang Xiaopo did not welcome the arrival of Shao Hongwei.

Before requesting to go to the township, Shao Hongwei was also somewhat entangled in this delicate relationship with Huang Xiaopo.

Later, when I thought about it, I didn't know the year of the monkey and the month of the horse when other towns were vacant. Besides, I, Shao Hongwei, am going to do work, just like the old secretary said, work must be treated with a work attitude.

If Huang Xiaopo can't even let go of these things, it's a problem with his pattern.

Shao Hongwei is not a person who eats and waits for death, and he doesn't care too much about these ozone layer things.

Although he is unable to influence the overall development of the town, he has been conscientious and hard to do his job within the scope of his responsibility.

In the ten months he came to Xiling Town, Shao Hongwei traveled to 16 administrative villages. When there is work in the village that needs to be coordinated, or the village cooperatives and some village-run enterprises need support, they are all on-site office and door-to-door service as they are now.

A few days ago, on the way to explore as a donkey friend in other provinces, Shao Hongwei received a call from the director of the Dongdian Village Vegetable Cooperative, saying that the vegetables in more than 300 greenhouses in the village were unsalable, and many villagers were almost unable to stand it, so they asked the town leaders to coordinate.

Shao Hongwei immediately called the village party secretary and the village head, and as soon as he got to work, he went to Dongdian Village to work on the spot and find a way to solve it.

But these two guys don't answer the phone for no reason, what the hell is going on?

Shao Hongwei was anxious and drove the car fast.

"The great river flows eastward, and the stars in the sky join the Beidou......"

Suddenly, the mobile phone in the box in front of the gear handler sang.

Shao Hongwei glanced down, showing that it was "Secretary Huang Xiaopo", and pressed the hands-free button.

"Deputy Mayor Shao, where are you?" An unusually cold voice immediately came from the microphone.

"Secretary Huang, I'm on my way to Dongdian Village."

"You still go to the village to do a fart at this juncture, hurry up to the county and see what you have done!"

"Secretary Huang, what's wrong?"

"What's the matter, the county called, and more than a dozen vegetable trucks in Dongdian Village blocked the entrance of the county government."

"What?"

Shao Hongwei was shocked, and stepped on his right foot fiercely.

"Squeak Squeak......"

With the screeching sound of brake pads rubbing against the wheels, the second-hand Haval H6 frustrated and stopped on the country road.

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