The next morning, Lu Rui brought Zhang Qingbin to the private room of the booked hotel. Since Zhang Qingbin had already defected to him, it was equivalent to his own people. As for his future performance, Lu Rui believed that as long as he always maintained his current strength, Zhang Qingbin would have no reason to betray him. After all, no matter what, the most taboo thing in the officialdom is to change the family. Unless something irresistible happens or Lu Rui himself falls, Zhang Qingbin has no reason to betray Lu Rui. Otherwise, even if he defects to others, the other party will suspect whether he will betray him again.
The most important thing is that Lu Rui is convinced that as long as he gives Zhang Qingbin enough benefits, he will follow him wholeheartedly.
The most important thing in the officialdom is interest relations. As long as Lu Rui is able to tie Zhang Qingbin's interests to his own, he may have the potential to master Zhang Qingbin, or make Zhang Qingbin willingly work hard around him.
After saying hello to Du Zhenyu, Lu Rui smiled and introduced: "Uncle, this is Director Zhang of our Renqing Municipal Finance Bureau, a very capable old comrade."
Zhang Qingbin quickly greeted Du Zhenyu respectfully. He was not familiar with Du Zhenyu before. After all, he was just a low-ranking deputy director of Renqing Municipal Finance Bureau, while Du Zhenyu was the executive deputy director of the Provincial Finance Department and the top leader under the director. The status between the two can be said to be the difference between heaven and earth. Not to mention having dinner together, even when inspecting work, he could only shake hands with Du Zhenyu, and he didn't even have the opportunity to introduce himself.
Du Zhenyu smiled slightly, stood up and shook hands with Zhang Qingbin, and said with a smile: "Comrade Zhang Qingbin, right, Lu Rui mentioned you to me. He is very capable!"
When Zhang Qingbin heard this, his whole body bent even more and said respectfully: "Thanks to Director Du for his help this time. Thank you for your help."
Waving his hand, Du Zhenyu said, "Don't be so polite, are the materials ready?"
Lu Rui nodded: "We are all ready. This time, let Director Zhang get to know several leaders of the provincial bank. We will trouble them more in the future."
Du Zhenyu nodded: "It's good, I can't let you, the mayor, run a loan every time, what's the matter? By the way, Du Fei was caught by me and didn't let him mess around outside. Discuss something with you, and let him go to your subordinates to exercise? This child is too wild and is still uncertain when he is over 20 years old. I'm cruel this time. If it doesn't make any corrections, throw it into the army!"
Lu Rui was slightly stunned. Then he laughed. He didn't expect Du Fei was still a naughty guy, but then he thought about it. This guy dared to rely on his family's relationship to be in the financial circle. He was definitely not a fuel-efficient lamp, but he really couldn't arrange him around him. After thinking about it, he looked at Zhang Qingbin: "Comrade Qingbin. Is there any position in the Finance Bureau that can be arranged?"
Zhang Qingbin was stunned at first, then frowned. He had to think about this question carefully. After all, this person was not an ordinary person. If he had arranged Master Du in the Municipal Finance Bureau and such a big Buddha was there, it would be really difficult for him to do his work.
After thinking about it, Zhang Qingbin suddenly had his eyes lit up and he slowly spoke: "Mayor Lu, Director Du, there is a position, but I don't know what level of Mr. Du is. That's right. For the ongoing renovation and construction project of the new urban area in the city, the Finance Bureau needs to be responsible for the new urban area renovation and construction project leadership group, so we have established a comprehensive finance department, which is mainly responsible for financial issues. For such loans, the comprehensive department is mainly responsible for the comprehensive department. I don't know Mr. Du..." He didn't finish his words, but the meaning was very obvious, and he wanted Du Fei to work in this comprehensive department.
Du Zhenyu thought about it. If his son went to that office, he would have Lu Rui's care, and if he was dealing with the bank, he would have no big problems. He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll bother Comrade Qingbin."
After a while, President Lao of the Provincial Construction Bank and President Chu of the Provincial Construction Bank came together. After a greeting, Du Zhenyu introduced the identities of Lu Rui and Zhang Qingbin. Several people were familiar with each other. Since the two presidents were invited by Du Zhenyu, they naturally had a close relationship with him.
President Chu smiled and said, "Old Du, just say it, how can we help with this matter?"
Du Zhenyu smiled slightly and nodded at Lu Rui.
Lu Rui briefly introduced the current development status of Renqing City and the difficulties encountered in the construction of the new urban area to the two presidents, and hoped that ICBC and CCB could provide some support to Renqing City in terms of finance.
Neither of them immediately made a statement. President Lao pondered for a moment and asked, "Have you brought all the materials?"
Zhang Qingbin nodded repeatedly and reached out to hand them in duplicate materials, both of which were about applying for loans.
After taking it, President Lao and President Chu did not look at it, but just smiled and said that they would go back to study it.
Seeing that they did not express their opinions, Zhang Qingbin looked at Lu Rui with a look of help, but when he saw Lu Rui shook his head, he could only smile helplessly.
Lu Rui smiled and picked up the wine glass to persuade everyone to drink. He naturally could see that whether it was President Lao or President Chu, he was a little afraid when facing Du Zhenyu, and even similar to the trend of pleasing. However, after all, everyone is on the table and has great authority. Naturally, it is impossible for him to do things as unbearable as a street gangster. He naturally shows that he is very subtle.
Du Zhenyu did not hide this from Lu Rui. After the two of them said goodbye and left, Du Zhenyu explained to Lu Rui: "My eldest brother-in-law is the deputy governor of the central bank and is in charge of our southwest area, so these people are very afraid of me."
Lu Rui nodded, but he understood the power of the Du family in his heart. No wonder he could stand in Governors for many years. The connotation and background in it were definitely far from comparable to ordinary families. Mr. Du would rather retire than go to Beijing back then, because he wanted to be at peace and leisure in Governors. It was not unreasonable.
Everyone has different focus points and the conclusions they have come to are naturally different. In Zhang Qingbin's eyes, Director Du was very polite to Mayor Lu, and seemed to have the intention of making friends. The two presidents were obviously flattering to Director Du, and they felt a little bit like subordinates and superiors. But Mayor Lu was different. He spoke to Director Du very casually and did not feel restrained at all. Even every time Mayor Lu said something, Director Du couldn't help but nodded, unlike as he was to the two bank presidents.
Zhang Qingbin sat there silently, thinking about the purpose of Mayor Lu bringing him here today. Although he was to get to know these big guys and make friends with them so that he could avoid detours in the future, but is there any other meaning?
Lu Rui returned to Renqing City the next afternoon. The loan matter was almost over, and Zhang Qingbin had to go away by himself.
The car slowly drove into the community where Lu Rui lived and saw a small figure in front of him swaying on a bicycle. Lu Rui frowned.
Zhang Haiyang, who had just met with Lu Rui in the government office, smiled and said, "It seems to be crystal."
Lu Rui was stunned, Crystal? When did this girl learn to ride a bike? What if she falls? How did the nanny Xiao Qin do things? How could she let her child ride a bike outside alone? Cars come and go in this community, what should I do if something happens!
Zhang Haiyang saw Lu Rui’s face unhappy expression from the rearview mirror and quickly said, “Crystal is very smart. I saw Xiuyan teaching her to ride a bicycle a few days ago. Well, isn’t that Xiuyan? She was sitting there and watching. It’s okay. Mayor, Crystal is ten years old. She can ride such a small car.”
Lu Rui was a little surprised. It seemed that Xiao Shuijing had asked her to learn to ride a bike once, but she had learned it in just a few days. In her impression, the little girl was always the kind of person who was not very smart. Unexpectedly, she became smarter now.
Seeing the bicycle in front of him walking slowly, Lu Rui couldn't help but shake his head and laughed, and said to Zhang Jun: "Master Zhang, stop here."
Zhang Jun nodded and agreed and stopped the car.
When Lu Rui got off the car, he thought for a while and said to Zhang Haiyang: "Help me pay attention to it and see if there is a car suitable for a girl in her twenties."
Zhang Haiyang was stunned, looked at Lu Rui with a little strangeness, then remembered and said, "Do you want Xiuyan to learn to drive?"
Lu Rui nodded: "It's not good for her to always go back and forth between Hai'an and Renqing. Let's drive it. I'll discuss with her and find a driver."
Before Zhang Haiyang could speak, Zhang Jun smiled honestly and said, "Mayor, why are you looking for a driver? Just let Miss Xiuyan learn from me."
After laughing silently, Lu Rui nodded and said, "It's good, it's good."
As he said that, he walked out of the car and reminded Zhang Haiyang and Zhang Jun, saying, "There are gifts given by others in the trunk. You two should take them back and share them. There is no need to take them with me. Don't be polite to me." He said the gifts given to him by Du Fei, Luo Yongyuan and others in the trunk.
Zhang Haiyang and the others also knew Lu Rui's temper. This family was too rich and didn't care about these things outside. The two of them didn't say anything and left in the car backwards.
Lu Rui walked not far behind Xiao Shuijing, watching her ride her bike carefully, shook her head angry and funny, and wandered slowly in the middle of the road. Is this also called riding a bicycle?
However, he did not dare to speak loudly, so as not to scare the little girl. What if he fell down?
After finally waiting for Xiao Shuijing, she might have been tired of riding, got out of the car clumsily and shouted to her sister beside her: "Sister, I'm tired!"
Lu Ruicai smiled slightly and said in a whisper: "Little girl, are you also called riding a bike?" (To be continued)