Chapter 805: Response (please subscribe for the fourth update!)
When Lu Rui heard Yan Zhongtian's words, he was stunned at first, and then laughed. Yan Zhongtian seemed to know him, which was a bit interesting.
Lu Rui had a heart to make friends with this provincial party secretary. After taking a sip of tea, Lu Rui began to chat with Yan Zhongtian. After all, the two were less than four years apart, and they had a little bit of common language. On the contrary, Huang Zhanjun was over 40 years old and had nothing to say with Yan Zhongtian, who was in his early thirties.
The profession of secretary is a major feature of the Chinese officialdom. Generally speaking, secretaries are divided into categories. To be precise, they are basically divided into life secretaries and work secretaries. Moreover, according to the regulations of the Central Committee and the State Council, there is no qualification to equip full-time secretaries at the county level. This full-time secretary is mainly a life secretarial secretary. The county-level secretary is mainly a work secretary, or there is also a name called a text secretary, which is organized in offices in various places. As long as the job is, it is responsible for writing materials to the leaders.
When you reach the municipal level, you will start to have full-time secretary. Just like Zhang Haiyang is like Lu Rui now. A leader has a special secretary in charge. The secretary of a municipal leader has the function of a life secretary. For example, Zhang Haiyang is the work secretary and a life secretary. He is responsible for arranging the leader's daily schedule and providing personal services for the leader, and drafting documents for the leader, such as speeches. As for the secretary of the provincial leader, it is more detailed. First of all, there must be a person around the provincial leader who is similar to a life secretary and who serves as a work secretary. This person is generally the secretary general or deputy secretary general. In addition, each provincial party leader is also equipped with a life secretary, and the main job is only one thing, that is, provide logistics services to the leaders.
The secretary has a profound knowledge. Not to mention anything else, there are people on the street who compiled a book to sell it. It can be seen that there are so many intriguing things in it. How to be a good secretary to a leader? Lu Rui knew very well that this was a great subject. He was also a secretary, so he naturally knew that being a secretary was usually a person with extremely cautious personality, just like he was, cautiously afraid of making mistakes around the leader. Of course, the most important thing is to pay attention to his words and deeds. No matter what kind of leader he was, he did not like the secretary around him as a person who talked a lot.
With this awareness, Lu Rui naturally would not talk about political affairs with Yan Zhongtian. Instead, he talked to him about some of his experiences abroad. Lu Rui has been to many places, South Korea and the United States, and he has been ahead of this era. Many places have made Yan Zhongtian feel deeply moved, such as the casino in Las Vegas, the madness of Wall Street, etc., who can be the secretary of the provincial party committee and is called the first secretary of the provincial party committee. Yan Zhongtian is naturally not a fuel-efficient lamp. When he felt Lu Rui's kindness, he also smiled and quarreled with Lu Rui, and followed Lu Rui's words and chatted with seemingly irrelevant words. The two of them were talking about these topics for a while.
"Mayor Lu, next time you have the chance to go to H Province, you have to take me to see the echo spring water of Muyang City." Yan Zhongtian said with a smile.
Lu Rui nodded: "Okay, when will you have a chance? Please ask Director Yan to take a look."
Yan Zhongtian was originally recommended by Zeng Zhen to the provincial party secretary Xiao Qun. He was able to be a secretary by Xiao Qun for six years, which shows that this person is definitely Xiao Qun's confidant. Lu Rui had heard Li Yifeng mention to him before that Xiao Qun was a cadre who had landed in Beijing to G Province. He had a very high skill and had overwhelmed the major factions in G Province in a few years. The most important thing is that Xiao Qun has not many confidants. Among the 13 Standing Committee members of the Provincial Party Committee, there were only three or two people who were really close to him.
Cadres at the vice governor level or above are all cadres managed by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and are cadres under the jurisdiction of Beijing. Especially the appointment of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee firmly grasps the central government. The appointment of all deputy ministerial officials, especially the appointment of the Standing Committee, touches the eyes of all forces. However, among these positions, there are a few exceptions, and there are two positions. When appointing the central government, it must respect the wishes of the local provincial party secretary, or to be precise, these two positions are basically nominated by the local provincial party secretary. One is the Minister of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, and the other is the Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee.
Both the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Committee are very clear that the principle of the Party managing cadres must be unswervingly adhered to. Those who assist the secretary in managing cadres' personnel work in detail are not the deputy secretary of the Party and the masses, but the Minister of Organization. If the Minister of Organization and the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee cannot be in the same mind, then the personnel work in this area will inevitably be out of control. By the same token, the Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee is the arm of the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and is specialized in handling the daily affairs of the Provincial Party Committee for the Secretary. If even the Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee and the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee are not on the same line, it means that the daily work of the entire Provincial Party Committee will be separated from normal leadership. To put it bluntly, there will be a tendency for the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee to be overturned, and this is something that the Central Committee cannot allow.
Therefore, the attitude of the provincial party secretary is crucial to the candidates for the provincial party committee organization minister and the provincial party secretary.
The reason why Lu Rui knew about this was because Li Yifeng told Lu Rui that Yan Zhongtian’s father-in-law was Wang Peichang, the director of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, and Wang Peichang was considered to be the future successor of Xiao Qun, a group of forces in G Province. Xiao Qun’s term of office was still three years. Three years later, it is very likely that Minister Wang became the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and led the Xiao faction in the entire G Province.
At this moment, the inside phone on Yan Zhongtian’s desk rang. He answered it, nodded respectfully and agreed, then put down the phone and said politely to Lu Rui and Huang Zhanjun: "Secretary Huang, Mayor Lu, let you wait for a long time. Secretary Xiao invites you both in."
Huang Zhanjun nodded: "I'm in trouble."
Lu Rui smiled and said, "Thank you for your good tea. I'll treat you to tea too if you have time."
Yan Zhongtian nodded slightly: "Okay, I will taste Mayor Lu's treasures well at that time."
The three of them walked into the office of Xiao Qun, the provincial party secretary, one after another. Huang Zhanjun and Lu Rui stood there, but they didn't stop in their eyes. Instead, they walked to the water dispenser beside them, took out two cups, and then went to Xiao Qun's desk to take Xiao Qun's tea cup, brewed a cup of tea for the three of them, and then turned around and left the office.
Xiao Qun didn't say anything, Lu Rui and Huang Zhanjun didn't know what to say, but the three of them were silent. Lu Rui and the other two stood there and did not dare to sit down, so they could only watch the provincial party secretary silently looking at the documents. If it were ordinary people who faced such a situation, they would tremble all over when facing the majesty of the top leader of the provincial party committee. Maybe they would have been unable to stand this majesty of the momentum and collapsed. However, whether it was Huang Zhanjun or Lu Rui, they were all guys who had seen the world and countless big names. Their background and status determined that they would not be so embarrassing. Although they knew that Xiao Qun was in a bad mood now, both of them stood there calmly and didn't say anything.
After a while, Xiao Qun slowly put down the documents in his hand, looked at Huang Zhanjun, who was silent on his face, and Lu Rui, who was breathing calmly, said lightly: "How about it, are there any questions to explain to me?"
Huang Zhanjun shook his head: "If you are wrong, you are wrong. If our work is not done properly, it will lead to such a major incident. I am willing to take all the responsibility!"
Xiao Qun nodded without comment, but did not speak, but turned his eyes to Lu Rui's direction.
His throat was a little dry and thrust for a while. Lu Rui was silent for a while, and suddenly said, "Well, Secretary Xiao, I'm a little thirsty."
With a silent smile, Xiao Qun waved his hand, pointed to the teacup on the coffee table and said to Lu Rui: "Drink that, so that no one will say that I am abusive cadre."
Huang Zhanjun was stunned and wanted to throw away his embarrassing deputy. He didn't even say he was thirsty when he reported his work in front of the provincial party secretary. This was too disrespectful to the leader. Especially Lu Rui also acted as if I was very grateful to the leader. My attitude and I were familiar with him made Huang Zhanjun secretly dissatisfied.
When he walked to the coffee table, he reached out to pick up the teacup. Lu Rui raised his neck and drank it all. After finishing his work, he even smashed his mouth. Then he smiled and said in a deep voice to Xiao Qun: "Secretary Huang, that's right. The major fire that occurred in the National Grain Reserve Depot of Qingtan County, Renqing City was initially investigated and caused by the aging of the wires and disrepair. However, after review by the public security organs, we found that although the fire did not cause death or loss, a large amount of grain stored in the National Grain Depot of Qingtan County has now disappeared. The burning of the warehouse is just some so-called waste products that no one has ever wanted. The public security organs suspect that the national grain reserve in the grain depot had long been resold by the collusion between the management personnel of the grain depot and some illegal merchants. And this fire was probably done by some people with ulterior motives."
After Lu Rui finished these words, even Huang Zhanjun was stunned. He was notified to come to the provincial capital to attend the meeting. Even after entering the provincial capital, he could only know more than Lu Rui. What will the provincial party committee do? He was also blinded by his eyes. But he never expected that Lu Rui was so brave that he would come to such a conclusion directly in front of the provincial party secretary.
"Comrade Lu Rui, do you have any basis for this matter? Don't guess comrades, it's bad. "Xiao Qun asked Lu Rui slowly, but ignored Huang Zhanjun who wanted to speak.
When Lu Rui hesitated slightly, he heard Xiao Qun, the provincial party secretary, laughing and said lightly: "You don't have to worry about any problems. I just ask you, I hope you can speak your own words."
Nodding slightly, Lu Rui was naturally aimless. Before entering the provincial capital, he had already called Zeng Lizhen, the secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection. Coupled with Yao Guangming's investigation, Lu Rui is now very sure.