Yang Haifan just turned 30 this year and lived in Pujiang, the largest industrial city in China since childhood. His father was the leader of a company in Pujiang and was defeated during the movement. After graduating from high school, Yang Haifan was delegated to Tongchuan County, Nanjiang Province as an educated youth in accordance with the policy. Because of his intelligence and ability, he quickly gained the favor of cadres in charge of the educated youth site. He joined the county agricultural machinery factory during a recruitment. A few years later, he was attracted by Xie Kai, the secretary of the county party committee, who came to inspect the work, and transferred to himself as a secretary.

After the movement, Yang Haifan's father returned to work. According to the policy, Yang Haifan was qualified to be transferred back to Pujiang to work, but he chose to give up. When he returned to Pujiang to visit relatives, he once visited his youthful playmates. The young people who had just returned to Pujiang from educated youth sites in various places were still unemployed, or were placed in some factories, restaurants and other places to do chores, and their lives were not satisfactory. Most people were already married and took their wives and children to rely on their parents. In the eyes of Pujiang people, they were all unpromising generations.

Yang Haifan is currently the secretary of the county party secretary, with the title of deputy director of the county party committee office, and is a deputy section-level cadre. In Tongchuan County, except for a few county leaders, whoever saw him was not polite to say Director Yang or Section Chief Yang, and he would be reluctant to let him throw away such a position and go back to Pujiang to eat and wait for death.

Yang Haifan had high expectations for himself since he was a child. When he was a child, he had dreamed of becoming a great scientist or a great inventor. But reality destroyed his dream of college, making him unable to carry a hoe to the red land of Nanjiang River to repair the earth. After the movement, the country put forward a slogan centered on economic construction. The small Tongchuan County was also racking its brains to think about how to carry out construction, but it was limited to conditions and it was difficult to move forward.

At this moment, a German-funded enterprise fell from the sky. Yang Haifan's excitement after hearing this news even surpassed Fan Yongkang and Xiong Xiaoqing, the first and second-in-commands in the county. For Fan and Xiong, being able to build a joint venture is just the political achievements they had before retirement, and they may also increase their position by one or two by relying on such political achievements. But for Yang Haifan, this is an opportunity to change his destiny. He is still young and has a long way to go. What he wants to get from this company and what he can get from this company is much more than these two leaders.

Driver Li Ming sent Fan Yongkang and Xiong Xiaoqing to the guesthouse, then drove Yang Haifan to the provincial capital Xinling in a car. The old-fashioned jeep was very bumpy on the disrepaired highway, but Yang Haifan didn't care at all. He explained to Li Ming, then curled up in the back seat wrapped in a military coat and fell asleep. He knew that he would face a difficult negotiation tomorrow, and he would have to maintain his spirits and win the negotiation with the strongest attitude.

When it was almost dawn, the jeep came to the contact point in Xinling in Tongchuan County. The signs hanging outside here were Tongchuan County Commercial Bureau and Supply and Marketing Cooperative's Xinling Procurement Station, but in fact it was the Tongchuan Provincial Office. This was also said publicly within the county party committee and county government.

Geng Jinbao, the director of the Provincial Office who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by the knock on the door. He was full of anger and opened the door in his coat. He was about to roar. He looked closely and saw that Yang Haifan, the secretary, was standing in front of him. The expression on his face suddenly changed to a sweet smile. He hurriedly greeted: "It's Director Yang, come in, come in, come in, come in, it's too cold outside... Why, are you here? Secretary Xie didn't come?"

"Old Geng, I'm disturbing you from having a good dream." Yang Haifan gave Geng Jinbao a smile and then ordered: "Please ask someone to make some food. Xiao Li and I are both hungry. After dinner, you arrange a residence for Xiao Li. Don't think about sleeping anymore. You have to do things with me. This is what Secretary Fan and County Magistrate Xiong explain, an urgent matter!"

Geng Jinbao quickly knocked on the door next to him, woke up the waiters in the office, and asked them to get up and cook for Yang Haifan and the others. Yang Haifan pulled Geng Jinbao into the office and asked anxiously: "Old Geng, Feng Weiren, the old expert in the Metallurgy Department in our county, do you know the situation of his family?"

"Old Feng? His son is Feng Li. He is a teacher at Xinling No. 2 Middle School. When Mr. Feng died two years ago, I went to his house on behalf of the county to visit him." Geng Jinbao replied, "Where is his family situation, his wife is a big group, with two sons. The eldest son works as a temporary worker in the Metallurgy Department, and the second son seems to be still unemployed."

"No wonder, no wonder Secretary Fan always says that Lao Geng is really a living map of Tongchuan in Xinling, and there is nothing you don't know about." Yang Haifan gave Geng Jinbao a verbal praise without hesitation, which made Geng Jinbao so happy that he couldn't find the North.

"Director Yang, you drove more than 100 kilometers to Xinling overnight. Could it be that you are looking for Feng Li? Are you the county going to visit fellow townsmen in Xinling? Then there are County Mayor Wang who is now in the provincial government, County Mayor Z who is in the Commercial Department and the others..."

Geng Jinbao cleverly reported the roster to Yang Haifan. The people he mentioned were all from Tongchuan County. Currently, people with some power in the province are those stationed in the provincial office who have to visit them every holiday. In contrast, because Feng Weiren has no real power, even when he was alive, he was only occasionally invited to meet the situation and enjoyed the treatment of special visits once, which was after his death.

Yang Haifan waved his hand, interrupted Geng Jinbao's narration, and said, "I'm here this time to visit Feng Li, you don't have to worry about the specific matters. Also, if I come to Xinling to find Feng Li, you must keep it absolutely confidential and not leak it out. In this way, you should prepare more gifts for New Year's greetings, and prepare according to the standards of wishing to provincial leaders. After dawn, I will go to Feng Li's house."

When Yang Haifan talked about this level, Geng Jinbao naturally understood what he should do. The provincial office is doing this kind of relationship work, which often involves some things that are not worthy of being told to others. Geng Jinbao knows what to ask and what not to ask.

While Geng Jinbao was preparing things, Yang Haifan fell on the marching bed in the office for a short while. It was getting brighter and the sound of firecrackers lit up outside, far and near. On the second day of the Lunar New Year is the day when my grandson greeted my grandmother's house, and as usual, he set off firecrackers to greet her. Yang Haifan got up and wiped his face at the faucet outside. Geng Jinbao had already piled up big bags of gifts on the back seat of the jeep. Yang Haifan took the keys he asked for from Li Ming, started the jeep, and drove towards Feng Li's house.
Chapter completed!