After asking Liu Xicai to help the company apply for a certificate, Xia Jiao immediately gave him a red envelope of 4,000 yuan. Liu Xicai just declined it slightly and accepted it with a smile.
Over the next month or so, Xia Jiao truly understood the level of "robbing" officials at the Beishan County Cultural Bureau.
From the day Liu Xicai agreed to help her, almost every week he would invite several leaders of the Cultural Bureau out to eat, drink and sing. Sometimes it was the top leader Gu Xin and several deputy directors, sometimes it was the heads of the market stocks and the cultural inspection brigade.
And the staff, sometimes related personnel from other stock rooms, sometimes it was Liu Xicai who invited her to pay the bill for a private treat...
Three weeks later, Xia Jiao has already given away more than 20,000 yuan in red envelopes to leaders of the Cultural Bureau, and spent more than 30,000 yuan on dinners and singing. The total expenditure has been nearly 60,000 yuan, but the matter of applying for the certificate is still there.
No progress.
Xia Jiao pressed Liu Xicai several times, and he explained this every time: The Blue Moon Performing Arts Center is relatively large and has a large investment, which can easily attract the attention of the superiors. If there are any violations, they must be carefully studied and dealt with properly. County Bureau Leaders
Regarding the issue of the Blue Moon Performing Arts Center being established in a residential area, we are reporting to our superiors for instructions and requesting the county party committee and government, as well as the Min'an City Cultural Bureau, to allow Blue Moon to carry out business activities at its current address.
Liu Xicai also emphasized that in order to get the superior departments to stay away from Blue Moon's illegal site selection, Director Gu invited Secretary Ye of the County Party Committee, County Magistrate Zhong and Director Xu of the Min'an City Cultural Bureau to have dinner and tea many times, spending 10,000 yuan on his own.
Duan Duan finally got the reluctant consent from Secretary Ye, County Magistrate Zhong, Director Xu and others. But
Yes, because this performing arts center is located opposite a residential area, the Cultural Affairs Bureau has to coordinate with the Public Security Bureau, Fire Brigade, Industry and Commerce Bureau and other functional departments to win their understanding and support. Otherwise, even if the Cultural Affairs Bureau applies for a "Cultural Business Permit"
》, the safety licenses of the public security bureau and fire brigade may not be obtained...
At this point, Xia Jiao finally understood that the gangsters in the County Cultural Bureau had regarded the Blue Moon Performing Arts Center as a "big piece of meat" and were ready to slaughter it ruthlessly.
She analyzed: Beishan County is a poor county, and the consumption level of urban residents is not high. The entertainment venues in the county include only a dozen low-grade song and dance halls, and some Internet cafes, ice rinks, game rooms, and billiards that are behind the times.
In the office, the cultural and entertainment industry is very underdeveloped, so the county cultural bureau has become a Qingshui yamen, and those leaders rarely have the opportunity to go outside to make money and extort money.
Now, an entertainment city with an investment of tens of millions suddenly appeared in the county. The owner was from out of town and seemed to be very rich. So, they focused on this "big fat" and asked Liu Xicai to come forward to contact him first.
He then went on to introduce officials and clerks, big and small, to come to Blue Moon to "eat big money." In order to carve out as much of this "fat meat" as possible, they found various reasons to delay the application, in order to get Xia Jiao to treat them again.
, give another gift...
As for Liu Xicai's lie that Gu Xin, the top leader of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, had invited Secretary Ye, County Magistrate and other leaders to dinner and tea many times because of the Blue Moon issue, Xia Jiao absolutely did not believe it: such a small issue can be decided by the police.
There is no need for the leaders of the county committee and county government to take responsibility for this matter. Moreover, she never believed that Ye Ming would accept Gu Xin's many banquets because of such a small problem. Even if he did entertain Ye Ming, it must be for
Other things…
After understanding the key, Xia Jiao felt very angry and wanted to have a loud quarrel with Liu Xicai. But after thinking about it carefully, the Cultural Bureau was the most important supervisory unit in the future operation of the entertainment city.
You are often subject to inspections by the cultural inspection brigade. If you offend these people now, they will often come to the entertainment city for "inspections" in the future, grab pigtails, and often fine you or order you to suspend business for rectification, which will be a very troublesome problem.
Therefore, she could only swallow her anger and continue to treat guests and give gifts according to their requirements. She also "compensated" Gu Xin with more than 10,000 yuan for treating Secretary Ye and other leaders to dinner and tea according to Liu Xicai's instructions...
On the morning when Ye Ming met her, Liu Xicai called her again and told her that she had made an appointment with Director Gu, several deputy directors, and Captain Gao Biao of the Cultural Inspection Brigade to have dinner together at noon today. The place was still on Xinhua Road.
“Double Tree Tea Restaurant”.
From Liu Xicai's words, Xia Jiao vaguely knew that this "Yilin Tea Restaurant" was opened by Gu Xin's sister-in-law. In fact, the backstage boss was Gu Xin. After eating a few meals, Xia Jiao discovered that as long as it was her treat
, the waiter did not bring the menu, but Gu Xin or others arranged the "special dishes" in the store.
"Colorful dishes", and these so-called "special dishes" are just ordinary dishes such as "steamed sand turtle", "braised pigeon with gastrodia elata", "braised pork trotters", "braised pork belly with lily", etc., but the prices are very high.
Expensive. Sometimes five or six people have a meal and drink one or two bottles of mid-range liquor, and the bill costs three to four thousand yuan.
Once, after Xia Jiao spent more than 3,000 yuan to treat Gu Xin and the others, she asked Xia Feifei to bring a few local employees to this tea restaurant the next day, and ordered the same eight dishes from the same brand as the Xiantian treat.
After eating two bottles of liquor, she went to check out and found that it only cost 1,800 yuan. In other words, when she invited Gu Xin and the others to dinner, the store deliberately raised the price of vegetables and drinks, almost doubling the price...
However, even though she knew there was something fishy involved, Xia Jiao still agreed to treat the guests in order to get the certificate as soon as possible. Moreover, when she returned to Blue Moon and met Ye Ming on the way, she did not reveal anything about herself to him.
The words that were slaughtered by the people from the Cultural Bureau were just because they did not want to cause trouble for Ye Ming, and they did not want the people from the Cultural Bureau to know about their relationship with Ye Ming...
When she and Ye Ming returned to the box after saying goodbye, Gu Xin and others had already finished a bottle of Wuliangye, and the dishes on the table were already in a mess. Seeing her come in, Liu Xi, who was half drunk, immediately stood up and started eating.
He grabbed her arm, pulled her to sit next to Gu Xin, and shouted: "Miss Jiaojiao, you just asked for leave and went back to deal with it."
The thing is, Director Gu is no longer interested in drinking. He keeps urging me to call you and ask you to come back quickly. He said that if you don’t come, Wuliangye will taste like boiled water and has no taste at all. It’ll be fine now that you’re here.
Add a few more dishes and ask the waiter to bring two bottles of Wuliangye, and you can have a good drink with us, Director Gu."
With that said, he didn't care whether Xia Jiao agreed or not. He called the waiter in, added four more dishes, brought two bottles of Wuliangye, asked the waiter to open them, and first poured Xia Jiao slowly with a wine dispenser.
He forced her to drink three cups first, saying it was "a penalty for being late."
Xia Jiao glanced sideways and found that Gu Xin had been scanning her face and chest lustfully, and she couldn't help but feel disgusted: every time he ate, this old guy used some seemingly romantic words to tease herself, and often praised herself for her beauty.
He has a beautiful face, and is said to have met countless admirers, but girls with both natural beauty and business talent like Miss Jiaojiao are still rare.
Chapter completed!