I asked with concern: "Brother, your talent and ability deserve a higher position and you should go further."
He sighed softly, his expression showing a bit of helplessness: "To be honest, I'm struggling with this matter."
I frowned slightly, puzzled. "Oh? Brother, you want to take the next step in the relationship? What's so tangled about this?"
He hesitated to speak, then slowly said: "Boss Feng wants me to leave the Science and Technology Department and go to the grassroots. I also know that I can't be a pawn in a government office with little money. But my wife and children are in the provincial capital, and I am going back to my hometown alone. How hard it is to live apart in these two places. Just look at my brother and you will know."
My heart moved, and I quickly asked, "Brother, are you going back to our city?"
He nodded, with a hint of hesitation in his eyes: "Mr. Feng always wants me to be the deputy mayor."
I said with genuine joy, "Why are you still hesitating? This is a great opportunity to cross the threshold of deputy director. Once you cross it, you will have a bright future ahead of you."
After hearing this, he fell into deep thought: "That's true. But the interpersonal relationships in the city are complicated, like an invisible net. If you are not careful, you will be trapped, and you may even be doomed."
I vaguely heard the deep meaning in his words: "Are you talking about Xu Guangming?"
He nodded slightly, and at the same time deliberately lowered his voice, and said mysteriously: "General Feng, the underground 'Organization Minister', has tremendous power and can call the wind and rain. If he wants you to advance, you will rise to the top; if he wants you to be ruined, it will only take a few minutes."
The doubts in my heart became stronger and stronger, and I couldn't help asking, "Do you know how Xu Guangming offended Mr. Feng?" My words were full of curiosity and exploration of this secret of officialdom.
He said slowly: "I don't know the details, but it's probably because Xu Guangming's son had a good relationship with Mr. Feng and was also a member of the Qingxie Society. It was Mr. Feng who helped him become the president of the City Bank in the city."
I listened attentively, and couldn't help but marvel in my heart that Yue Mingyuan was really omnipresent and omnipresent, and it seemed that his influence was everywhere in the officialdom.
Hu Haiyang continued, "Last year, the city bank was restructured from being solely state-owned to being state-controlled, achieving the goal of increasing capital and restructuring. Mr. Feng's Qicheng Capital invested 100 million yuan and became a shareholder."
I couldn't help but wonder, "Isn't this a good thing?"
He smiled slightly, with a hint of deep meaning in his smile: "How can Mr. Feng be enthusiastic about public welfare? Besides, the balance sheet of City Bank is not good and the profit is low."
An idea suddenly flashed through my mind, and I blurted out: "Capital leverage?"
He smiled knowingly and couldn't help but praise: "Otherwise why does Mr. Feng praise you? You really understand everything. It's just as you think. Mr. Feng injected 100 million and wanted to borrow 300 million from the City Bank."
My mind suddenly became clear. It must be that Xu Guangming's sons did not let Yue Mingyuan get what he wanted and touched his interests, which made him want to get rid of them.
Hu Haiyang said slowly: "I don't know whether Xu Guangming's son is ignorant of current affairs or for other reasons, but the loan has not been approved, which makes President Feng very proud. He found a reason and put him in jail. Xu Guangming loves his son so much that he went to the province to ask for help and seek justice for his son, which made President Feng very embarrassed, so he put him in jail as well."
I asked curiously, "Was it Feng Lei who did it?"
He shook his head decisively: "He is not that important yet, he is just a bully. The one who can bring down Xu Guangming must be a leader at a higher level. After all, Xu Guangming has been in the officialdom for so many years, and he is not in vain. How can he be brought down so easily?"
I sighed, feeling a surge of emotion about the unpredictable officialdom: "A deputy department-level cadre fell just like that. It's incredible to think about it."
Hu Haiyang's tone was indifferent and showed the vicissitudes of life: "During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong were both high-ranking officials, but they fell overnight. Xu Guangming was unable to understand his position, and the result he had today was his own fault."
Just as I was about to express my different opinion, there were two knocks on the door.
Then the door was half opened, and the beautiful woman walked in wearing high heels, her dark green cheongsam wrapped around her slender figure. She bowed slightly and said, "Director Lu is here."
Before she finished her words, Lu Yuting had already stepped into the box in leather boots. She usually wears neat suits, but today she changed into a beige woolen coat. The hem of the coat went past her knees, revealing the tight black knitted skirt underneath, outlining her graceful curves. She casually threw the burgundy cashmere scarf over the back of the chair, and her earrings swayed slightly with her movement, adding a touch of laziness and coolness to her look.
"Oh, sorry to have kept you two waiting." Her voice had a hint of coquettishness at the end, but it also revealed her composure towards her superiors.
Hu Haiyang immediately responded, with a smile in his eyes: "Waiting for Jia to keep a date is also a kind of mood." After saying this, he glanced at me meaningfully, with unspoken ridicule in his eyes.
I bowed slightly: "I was just chatting with Mr. Hu, and I didn't feel the time was unbearable."
Lu Yuting sat down gracefully, tapping the table with her fingertips painted with burgundy nail polish: "Xiaohui, is the kitchen preparing a hundred-flower banquet?"
Oh, it turns out this girl’s name is Xiaohui.
"Yes, I prepared it as you ordered." Xiao Hui answered immediately, her posture as straight as a bamboo, "What kind of drinks would you like?"
Lu Yuting took off her sunglasses and tapped the table, thinking for a moment: "It's all your own fault, so don't drink those strong liquors that hurt your liver. Bring me two pots of rose oolong, and some osmanthus honey." She turned her head and raised her eyebrows at me, with a hint of kindness in her eyes, "County Magistrate Guan has been overworked recently, this Hundred Flowers Banquet is suitable for you to recuperate."
Hu Haiyang sighed exaggeratedly: "Director Lu's partiality is too obvious. I was looking forward to having a meal of abalone, shark's fin and fish maw with Mr. Feng."
"Director Hu has seen so much of the world, how could he still be interested in those vulgar things?" Lu Yuting smiled softly, covering her lips, and the black skirt under her coat rippled with her movements, "This Hundred Flowers Banquet uses seasonal flower petals picked from the morning dew, a secret unique to Longting, which can't even be invited to the banquet of the Provincial Party Committee." After saying this, she raised her hand and gestured, "Xiaohui, tell the kitchen to serve the dishes quickly."
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