After the meeting ended, Li Xiuyuan and Hou Peng were the first to come out of the conference room. Li Xiuyuan did not go back to his own office, but followed Hou Peng into his office.
After chatting for a while, Li Xiuyuan casually said before leaving, "By the way, Mayor, it seems that Deputy Mayor Wang went to Secretary Zhang's office to report on his work a couple of days ago. I don't know what they talked about, but I heard he stayed for a long time."
Hou Peng paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "I see. Deputy Mayor Wang must have some work to do, right?"
"Pretending, still pretending," Li Xiuyuan thought to himself, but nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, that's what I was thinking too. I guess you, Mayor, assigned him some work to report over, so he remembered to say something. If there's nothing else, I'll head over now."
"Okay, you go ahead and get busy." Hou Peng nodded and reached for a cigarette.
Before Li Xiuyuan left, he noticed that Hou Peng had a cigarette in his mouth, but the cigarette butt was upside down, and he was even using a lighter to light it.
After Li Xiuyuan disappeared, Hou Peng noticed that he was holding the cigarette upside down, but he was no longer in the mood for smoking. Wang Zhixing went to find Zhang Xingguo. It's not that the deputy mayor can't report to Zhang Xingguo.
The key issue is that there hasn't been any work that needs to be reported to the Party Secretary recently.
The town's Party committee and government are two separate bodies. When communication with Zhang Xingguo's side is needed, Zhang Xingguo usually handles it himself. If his subordinates have any issues, they just need to report them to him.
What matters does Wang Zhixing need to report to Zhang Xingguo?
Unless it's work that I arranged myself that requires reporting to Zhang Xingguo, but I'm sure I haven't arranged any such work recently.
Of course, this is what Li Xiuyuan said. Maybe Li Xiuyuan is just trying to make Wang Zhixing jealous. That's possible. But look at how Li Xiuyuan completely dominated Wang Zhixing at today's meeting. Li Xiuyuan has many ways to deal with Wang Zhixing. Does he need to use such a low-level method?
They were fair and square; Wang Zhixing was no match for them.
Such schemes and tricks are even less necessary.
However, Hou Peng did not completely believe Li Xiuyuan's words. Even if Wang Zhixing really went to Zhang Xingguo's place, it did not prove anything. It was possible that Wang Zhixing had just gone there by chance.
However, this incident served as a reminder to Hou Peng that he should be more careful around Wang Zhixing in the future.
The town government's power is limited. Before Li Xiuyuan arrived, he held most of the power and then delegated some to Wang Zhixing, the deputy mayor.
Now that Li Xiuyuan has arrived and forcibly cut off a piece of the spoils, there aren't enough to go around, so naturally, the villain Wang Zhixing has emerged.
The appearance of a villain doesn't necessarily mean that the person is inherently evil. Villains are born because there isn't enough profit to go around. The villain in the town government was Li Xiuyuan.
He wanted to seize the benefits, but now Li Xiuyuan has firmly obtained the power and benefits he wanted, and has reached a certain level of cooperation with him, so Wang Zhixing's interests are no longer enough.
Therefore, it is quite possible that Wang Zhixing is now seeking external assistance and trying to achieve some of his political goals through Zhang Xingguo.
However, this was a different story for Hou Peng. Firstly, Wang Zhixing's actions constituted betrayal. Secondly, if Zhang Xingguo were to use Wang Zhixing to extend his influence into the town government, it would further shrink Hou Peng's power.
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