This issue can explain why many leaders don't get along. County heads and executive deputy county heads, county heads and party secretaries, party secretaries and deputy party secretaries often find themselves at odds because they are people with roughly the same amount of power.

Unless one side has an exceptionally strong background and ability, and lacks overwhelming power, there will always be struggle.

A simple example: a scavenger won't be jealous of how much someone who drives a luxury car earns, but he will be jealous of how much more scavengers his fellow scavengers collect. That's the nature of uniformity.

Without unity, there is no struggle. But since there is unity and the power and status of both sides are roughly equal, struggle will inevitably arise. This is independent of human will; as long as unity exists, there will always be struggle.

Li Xiuyuan is the executive deputy mayor, and Wang Zhixing is the deputy mayor. Li Xiuyuan has connections, while Wang Zhixing is senior, so there must be some conflict between them.

This can also be seen from the Meilin Village project. Wang Yongde, as Wang Zhixing's cousin, took the lead in resisting the demolition policy. Did Wang Zhixing really not play a role in this?

Even if Wang Zhixing didn't deliberately instigate it behind the scenes, it's still related to Wang Zhixing, and there's no need to investigate that.

In this situation, Li Xiuyuan was still able to comfort Wang Zhixing and speak up for him, which is enough to demonstrate Li Xiuyuan's magnanimity.

"Yes, Secretary Song, this is my first time meeting Comrade Xiuyuan, but I can tell that he is indeed a good person and has not let County Head Yun down," Zeng Ming said with a smile.

Song Huai'an nodded, said nothing more, and told Zeng Ming to go about his business. He then called Yun Yanchang's secretary, Li Boyang, to schedule a time to report the situation to Yun Yanchang.

Since it involved a project in Meilin Village, Yun Yanchang took it very seriously. Although it wasn't a big deal, he still had to report it.

However, Yun Yanchang was unavailable that day, so they rescheduled for the next day, Wednesday.

After getting off work in the afternoon, Li Xiuyuan called Wang Zhitao, and they drove to the county. When they arrived at the entrance of Huangyuan Restaurant, Chen Guangda was already waiting at the door.

"Mayor Li, Director Wang." Chen Guangda greeted Li Xiuyuan and Wang Zhitao as they got out of the car.

Li Xiuyuan smiled and nodded. After greeting Chen Guangda, he sat down in the private room of the restaurant. Tonight was a dinner appointment with Wang Qidong, the Minister of the Organization Department.

After escorting Li Xiuyuan and Wang Zhitao to their private room at the restaurant, Chen Guangda poured them tea and then said to Li Xiuyuan, "Mayor Li, please wait a moment. I think Minister Qidong will be here soon. I'll go out to greet him."

"Okay." Li Xiuyuan nodded with a smile.

Chen Guangda arrived at the back door of the restaurant, and soon Wang Qidong's car arrived. Chen Guangda went up, opened the car door, and greeted Wang Qidong with a big smile: "Minister Qidong, welcome, welcome. Thank you for your help today."

Wang Qidong's willingness to stand up for him and Li Xiuyuan is a way of supporting him, which will make his future projects in Meilin Village much smoother.

However, Wang Qidong did not look too good today. After getting out of the car, he glanced at Chen Guangda without saying a word and went directly into Huangyuan Hotel through the back door.