Niu Fan also felt helpless about Zhang Taizhong's attitude, because he, Niu Fan, knew Zhang Taizhong's character best.
Zhang Taizhong was born in the urban area of Antai. After graduating from high school, he was originally an electrician in a small street factory. In the early 1980s, various self-study examinations were raging, and Zhang Taizhong was also a member of that huge camp. After several years of hard study, most of the courses were passed.
After taking the make-up exam, I finally obtained a diploma from a TV university, and finally joined the ranks of intellectuals.
Later, with this diploma and his natural personality of adapting to the changing circumstances, he went from factory office, street office clerk to district government office secretary, all the way to the city government. When Niu Fan was the mayor of Shanyue District, Zhang Taizhong was the city government office
Deputy director, followed the then mayor Zhang Hao. Later, Zhang Hao was promoted to municipal party committee secretary, and he followed Wu Qi wholeheartedly. Zhang and Wu fought so fiercely that Zhang Taizhong could not offend both sides, which is unique in Antai officialdom.
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Regarding Zhang Taizhong's flattery, there have been many stories circulated in the agency - when Zhang Taizhong was working as an electrician in a small street factory, the director of the factory was an old revolutionary who had participated in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and one of his legs was a little lame. The conditions in the factory at that time were poor, let alone
There are only a few decent human-powered tricycles, and there are only a few pallet trucks. The factory director lives in the south gate, the factory is in the west of the city, and Zhang Taizhong's home is in the northeast corner of the city. The three points exactly form a triangle.
Because the efficiency and conditions in the factory were very poor, everyone's wages were low, and the burden on the factory director's family was heavy, the old revolutionary insisted on walking to and from get off work every day. In order to please the factory director, Zhang Taizhong actually arrived more than an hour early every day, starting from the northeast corner of Antai His family rode to the south of the city, stayed near the factory director's house, and waited for him to "accidentally" meet him when he came out. Then he rushed to the factory in the west of the city with the factory director on his back.
When I got off work in the evening, I naturally took the factory director home first and then turned back. Therefore, during the three years in the factory, my colleagues, including the factory director, always thought that Zhang Taizhong's home was in the south of the city.
In the mid-1990s, after several years of hard work, Zhang Taizhong was transferred from the factory to the street office, and finally got a loan from the urban district government office. He temporarily helped to participate in the establishment of the province's health city, doing various odd jobs between uploading and issuing orders.
On the surface, this kind of borrowing is only temporary, and the district government office is not a big agency, but Zhang Taizhong saw this as an opportunity. At that time, there were many people borrowed, and the time was only about half a year, so Zhang Taizhong was thinking about how to keep them.
At that time, the deputy district chief was a cadre transferred from the countryside. He liked to drink some wine, and even had a bite of braised river fish to go with the wine.
At that time, after years of farmland infrastructure construction in Antai rural areas, most of the small rivers and ditches had disappeared. The small miscellaneous fish that were an inch long and two fingers wide had almost become unearthed cultural relics. Most of the products sold by vendors in the market were fake products raised in ponds.
However, the deputy district chief is a real gourmet with a particularly sensitive sense of taste, and it is difficult to confuse whether the food is authentic or not. Therefore, while other loanees focused on their duties and were busy with various matters related to the establishment of a sanitary city, Zhang Taizhong found another way and focused on building a sanitary city.
I searched for small rivers and ditches in the vast countryside of Antai, and found the authentic small miscellaneous fish that the deputy district chief loved as expected.
During that cold winter, Zhang Taizhong traveled countless times on the narrow paths between urban and rural areas, busy with the delicious fish dishes for the deputy district mayor. In the end, the creation of the sanitary city failed, but Zhang Taizhong successfully stayed in the district office.
A few years later, Zhang Taizhong was transferred to the secretarial department of the city government, following a deputy mayor in charge of science, education, culture and health. The deputy mayor was a conservative and was formerly the principal of a normal school, and he had the aloof and arrogant attitude of an intellectual.
At first, the deputy mayor was a little disdainful because Zhang Taizhong's poor writing skills, what he wrote did not convey the meaning, and even had typos. In addition, Zhang Taizhong's flattering and submissive appearance also made this deputy mayor a little disdainful.
The scholar-type mayor felt very uncomfortable. Therefore, within a few days of getting along, the deputy mayor came up with the idea of changing his secretary. However, because he had just been elected, he was afraid that others would gossip, so he did not rush to implement it.
During this period, Zhang Taizhong naturally saw the signs early, and he was anxious and looking for breakthrough opportunities like a falcon. It happened that during that time, the deputy mayor's father was ill and came to the city from the countryside to recuperate. The old man didn't have any serious problems, except for a period of time.
The internal fire was particularly severe, and the constipation was severe. When he was holding it in, he was shaking all over, and was almost in pain, which made the filial deputy mayor and his family look on with tears. One time, Zhang Taizhong took the deputy mayor to work and happened to see this scene.
, without saying a word, he rolled up his sleeves and used his fingers to help the old man dig out the excrement bit by bit. The deputy mayor's family was moved to tears on the spot. For the next few months, Zhang Taizhong served the deputy mayor's father like this every day until his death.
He recovered from his illness and returned to his hometown. As a result, the deputy mayor's view of Zhang Taizhong changed drastically and he regarded him as a confidant from then on.
The most exciting story is naturally about Zhang Hao and Wu Qi.
When Zhang Hao was the mayor, Zhang Taizhong followed him as the deputy director of the office. Zhang Hao was a rough man, he was careless, and he was not strict with others, but Mrs. Zhang was a mistress who was not easy to serve.
Seeing that Zhang Hao looked so majestic and majestic outside, he could only behave himself in front of his wife.
When Zhang Hao was still in power in the county, it was said that one time because of a trivial family matter, his wife actually grabbed her husband’s ear and dragged him out from the Standing Committee meeting room in front of a group of Standing Committee members, saying that she wanted to go to the court for divorce.
Zhang later became the deputy mayor. Because of his affair with a waitress at the Antai Hotel, his wife also made endless noises in the courtyard of the city hall dormitory. The situation was comparable to Sun Xingzhe's riot in heaven.
For such a powerful wife, Zhang Taizhong adopted the approach of using softness to overcome strength. He spent a lot of time in Zhang's house, chatting with his wife to relieve boredom and doing housework. At that time, at Zhang Hao's house, Zhang Taizhong was shopping for rice, vegetables, and carrying things.
Come, mop the floor, wash dishes and wipe the table. I also help clean up the sanitary napkins that my wife took off when she was on her period.
Moreover, Zhang Taizhong understood Mrs. Zhang's preferences and always enthusiastically helped organize weddings and funerals. People from Zhang and Luo's official circles came to support her, and the birthdays of the family of three were celebrated several times a year. The most bizarre thing is that one year, Zhang Taizhong
Zhang Taizhong helped organize his wife's birthday four times, following the solar calendar and then the lunar calendar, even the leap month. Finally, he added a so-called "cross-day birthday", saying that it was midnight when she was born. In this way, he
He gained the appreciation of Mrs. Zhang. Later, Zhang Hao was promoted to Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and directly promoted Zhang Taizhong from Deputy Director of the Office to Deputy Secretary-General.
When Wu Qi was in charge of the municipal government, although his relationship with Zhang Hao was on the same level, he did not reject Zhang Taizhong because of this. On the contrary, Zhang Taizhong became his favorite within a short period of time.
The reason is said to be due to the training at the Central Party School after Wu Qi took office. After Wu Qi took over as the mayor of Antai, he participated in a youth class of the Central Party School for three months. This kind of closed training is disciplined
The requirements are strict and the life is relatively simple. For an official like Wu Qi, it is originally a boring job.
However, Zhang Taizhong discovered the mystery. He took the initiative to follow Beijing, quietly settled in the Antai Office in Beijing, and became Wu Qi's full-time escort. During this period, he mobilized all his connections in the capital, including Antai officials and businessmen.
And so on, rich banquets and entertainment are arranged every day.
On the other hand, important officials from counties (cities), districts, ministries, commissions, offices, and bureaus in Antai were planned to come to Beijing in batches to offer condolences. In addition to bringing some cigarettes, wine, tea and other goods, some officials
He also brought the woman Wu Qi liked along with him. In this way, Wu Qi's life in the Beijing Party School seemed busy and colorful. During his tenure, Zhang Taizhong was promoted again and became the chief manager of the city government.
Zhang Hao, Wu Qi and others also knew Zhang Taizhong's character and heard a lot of criticisms in the agency, but in the end they all liked and promoted him without exception. This formed a big paradox and a strange kind of
"Zhang Taizhong Phenomenon".
"Some cadres with poor abilities, average moral character, and poor reputation are precisely because they are relatively isolated among the masses and have a strong sense of crisis. Therefore, they dare not have personality or show off. They can only loyally follow the leadership.
, there is no other way out. For such a person, the leader does not need to be wary of any tricks or schemes he may play, nor is he afraid of him subverting his official position and authority. It is easy for the leader to rest assured. On the contrary, if the staff around him are too capable,
"They are strong, their level is too high, their mass base is too good, and they respond to everything from below. Such cadres are prone to making troubles, and are also prone to ambition and rebellion. Leaders are often not easy to control. Do you think they can make people feel at ease?" Zhang Hao once commented implicitly.