Updated: 2012-10-19

Pan Shihua naturally did not want the merger of Meixi and Hetang towns.

Chen Huai mentioned the merger of the two towns directly in front of Tan Qiping and Xiong Wenbin. Pan Shihua didn't have to worry about not being able to explain to Xiong Wenbin. It was not that he didn't work hard, but that Chen Huai's position was not merged, but Pan Shihua still kept his breath and couldn't do it.

The reason was nothing else. At the district standing committee meeting eight days ago, he tried his best to become the mayor of Hetang. Because other district standing committee members were not allowed to offend Xiong Wenbin, Yang Yuquan was forced to agree vaguely.

It has only been eight days since the district standing committee meeting to discuss, and Chen Huai has promoted the merger and development of the two towns. It is hard for everyone to guess whether Yang Yuquan has received prior ventilation from Chen Huai, but everyone knows that Pan Shihua, as the deputy secretary, must be completely kept in the dark and played with him in his hands.

For those who really know the truth, it doesn't matter if Pan Shihua didn't get Chen Huai's revelation in advance. During this period, it was not only Pan Shihua who slapped Chen Huai's face, and Pan Shihua was not ashamed of anything. But more people who didn't know the truth were. Seeing that a district chief could not suppress the township party committee secretary, he treated a township party secretary as a monkey, and treated it as Pan Shihua's laughing stock.

Pan Shihua informed Yuan Hongjun that he came half an hour earlier, thinking that Yuan Hongjun was sitting well in the seat of Hetang Town Party Committee Secretary, which should be very resistant to the merger of the two towns.

He wanted Yuan Hongjun to clearly raise objections at the afternoon meeting so that he could have an excuse to delay. He could see that Tan Qiping might not agree with the merger and development of the two towns. Sometimes he just lacked the excuse of directly refusing, so he kicked the ball into the district. If there were differences and disputes in the district, this matter could be delayed.

For many grassroots cadres, the town party committee secretary is a goal that they have been pursuing tirelessly throughout their lives. Who would easily abandon it if they sit? Pan Shihua is not very familiar with Yuan Hongjun, but he believes that Yuan Hongjun cannot abandon the position of the town party committee secretary and will be willing to live under Shenhuai or be transferred to the district to hold another idle position.

However, when Pan Shihua saw Yuan Hongjun and Chen Huai enter the district government building together, he felt a little disappointed.

Yuan Hongjun, Chen Huai came earlier than the agreed time, and Yang Yuquan took the initiative and called them to his office.

Yang Yuquan also needs to touch Yuan Hongjun's attitude first. If the two towns merge, other things will be just about it. The key is to abolish the administrative organization of a town, and there will be great changes in personnel.

When the two towns merge and develop, Meixi Town will naturally be the annexation of Hetang Town. The deputy secretary and deputy mayor can set up several more, but there are only two main positions in the party and government.

The mayor of Hetang Town has no great ability or background and is old. He was originally going to transfer the seats to Zhou Ming to give up. However, if the two towns merge, Chen Huai and He Qingshe will work together in Meixi Town. Chen Huai did not want to squeeze He Qingshe away. The new town would not have the seats of Yuan Hongjun and Zhou Ming. At the same time, the district could not squeeze out two section-level real-time shortages to settle them.

This is also the most troublesome thing for Yang Yuquan.

Yang Yuquan made tea to Yuan Hongjun, Chen Huai and the others. He sat on the chair with a pot of tea in dark canned glass bottles and said, "You two come together, and you should have communicated about the merger of the two towns. Yuan Hongjun, what do you think about the merger of the two towns?"

"Merging with Meixi Town and developing in a step-by-step manner is a good thing that the 40,000 people in Hetang hope for. Of course, I support it," Yuan Hongjun immediately expressed his attitude, "but I have a request..."

"Okay, you say." When Yang Yuquan saw Yuan Hongjun and Chen Huai coming together, he knew that he would not publicly refuse the merger of the two towns and could agree to set this tone. It was reasonable for Yuan Hongjun to make some requests, and Yang Yuquan signaled him to continue.

"I have been transferred to Hetang Town for half a year, but in the past six months I have seen Meixi Town rise rapidly, I am both happy and surprised and amazed by Meixi Town. I always think that if Meixi Town can soar, we must have experience that we have not mastered and understood. I just want to find an opportunity to ask Secretary Chen for advice," Yuan Hongjun said, "I hope that after the two towns merge, I can go directly to Xinzhen to have the opportunity to study..."

"Oh..." Yang Yuquan heard that Yuan Hongjun meant that he wanted to enter the new town team, but hesitated to look at Chen Huai. I wonder if Chen Huai had made an agreement with Yuan Hongjun in advance, and I wonder how Chen Huai convinced He Qingshe to give the second-in-command position to Yuan Hongjun?

"Of course, Mayor He is also the object of my study." Yuan Hongjun added another sentence when he saw Yang Yuquan's hesitation.

It is easy to understand if you live under the Shenhuai River; however, it is a bit surprising that Yuan Hongjun is willing to live under the Heqing Society.

However, it would be easier for Yang Yuquan to do this.

When Chen Huai first arrived in Meixi Town, he also took up a deputy position at the level of a regular section. It was not difficult for Xinzhen to arrange a position as deputy secretary for Yuan Hongjun.

Although the remaining Zhou Ming is difficult to deal with, Zhou Ming's appointment has not been officially issued after all. It is not possible to force a position in the district to squeeze out a full-time position in the district.

After talking a few more words, the director of the district committee office informed him to attend the meeting. Yang Yuquan asked the director of the district committee office to take Chen Huai, Yuan Hongjun went to the conference room first, and he went around the corridor for half a circle, knocked on the door and walked to Pan Shihua's office, and said, "Old Pan, it's time for the meeting, let's go together."

Pan Shihua took the documents that were being approved by him, took out the record book and pen from the drawer, and walked to the conference room with Yang Yuquan. In the corridor, Yang Yuquan said to Pan Shihua: "I have talked to Yuan Hongjun. After the two towns merge, he is willing to be the deputy secretary. Secretary Xiong, should you communicate at night?"

Pan Shihua was slightly shocked, nodded, pushed the door and entered the conference room. Seeing Yuan Hongjun and Chen Huai sitting in the corner of the conference room smoking, I couldn't guess what Yuan Hongjun was thinking. He was a town party secretary, and the new town merger, so why would he be willing to be the third leader?

"District Mayor Pan..." Yuan Hongjun saw Pan Shihua coming in and stood up to greet him. He also saw the doubts in Pan Shihua's eyes. There were indeed many people who couldn't understand why he was willing to surrender to He Qingshe.

Since I learned about the merger of the two towns in the morning, Yuan Hongjun has also struggled with thoughts from resisting to accepting reality.

Perhaps before 1993, Hetang Town was not much behind Meixi Town. Meixi Town took advantage of the central town and its fiscal revenue was only 6 million. Although Hetang Town's fiscal revenue was less than 4 million, its population was smaller, and the difference was not too big.

It will only take less than a year to truly widen the gap.

Under Shen Huai's strong control, Meixi Town rose rapidly.

In addition to Meigang and Ziluo Home Textiles, two large-scale enterprises, have been completely rectified and the development path has been straightened out, there are also five or six small small processing enterprises newly established in Meixi Town in the first half of the year. In addition, driven by several large-scale projects such as freight terminals, fund-raising housing construction, and Meigang technical transformation and expansion, the town's fiscal revenue exceeded 10 million in June, and Hetang Town's fiscal revenue in the first half of the year was even less than one-fifth of it, which suddenly made a huge difference.

Under such circumstances, even if Hetang Town maintains the highest-level system, it will set off the achievements that Meixi Town has attracted dullness.

As the fiscal revenue of Meixi Town increases, the income of the people increases. The income of people who eat the public naturally increases sharply with the fiscal revenue. The two towns are so close and are divided into Tangzha District at the same time. Party members and cadres between the two towns have frequent contact, so there will inevitably be comparisons between them.

This impact was suddenly revealed in the first half of the year. Of course, the official salary of Meixi Town administrators has not increased much, but it is still at the level of 280 yuan per month for ordinary clerks, but it cannot resist the holiday fees every now and then, and the payment is 680 yuan.

The benefits enjoyed by the administrative staff of Meixi Town have already caused the party members and cadres of Hetang Town to be so envious that they complained, and they both accused their leaders of being incompetent in public and secretly. It is no wonder that the party members and cadres of the two towns often encounter any problems. Hetang Town is a golden leaf, Daqianmen, Meixi Town is a cloud smoke, and Hongmei. Who feels like it?

There are much more staff members in the crowds of people eating public meals than those in the town government.

Taking Meixi Town as an example, there are only seventy or eighty government staff members, but there are more than 400 teachers and staff in primary and secondary schools and town central kindergartens; the number of teachers and staff in primary and secondary schools in Hetang Town is slightly smaller, but there are also three hundred.

The wages of the staff of Meixi Town’s in-house staff were only adjusted to a level comparable to that of Hetang Town at the end of last year, but in the first half of this year, it adjusted twice in succession, reaching the average level of other townships in Tangzha District, reaching more than 400 yuan per month, leaving Hetang Town behind.

The salary of the in-house teacher in Hetang Town was not to be reduced to Meixi Town, because of the snow disaster at the end of last year, the town was not allowed to withdraw 150,000 yuan from the education funds to make up for the vacancies. The teachers only paid half of the salary for three consecutive months after the New Year, and the money has not been compensated until now.

Teachers and other small and medium-sized intellectuals do not expect to become officials and make money, nor are they afraid that Yuan Hongjun will be dismissed from their public office, and they will be even more happy to scold Yuan Hongjun behind their backs.

Yuan Hongjun has been under great pressure in the past few months.

If you don’t want to keep giving Meixi Town and serve as a foil for Shen Huai, if you don’t want to give resentment to the party members and cadres below, it would be a way to incorporate it into Meixi Town. At least in terms of finance, you can share the benefits brought by the rapid development of Meixi Town, which is also the willingness of a larger-scale party member and the masses.

As for the power of the town party committee secretary - if the party members and cadres below are questioned all day long, if the district is disappointed with the work achievements of Hetang Town, if the grassroots people are resentful, even if they occupy the position of the town party committee secretary, they will not have much prestige - grassroots leaders who lose prestige actually do not have much power.

Yuan Hongjun naturally also considered his stay or not after the merger of the two towns. He did not think about competing with Chen Huai, but he also knew that He Qingshe and Chen Huai teamed up to cooperate tacitly. Meixi Town has such achievements, and He Qingshe has no contribution and hard work. Chen Huai and the district are unlikely to suppress He Qingshe.

The choices left for him are actually very limited. One is to go to the district and the other is to go to the merged new town team to be the third leader. Even the third leader cannot be the third leader, and they have to be ranked behind Li Feng.

Yuan Hongjun knew that he had no background in Tangzha District, which was a fatal injury. If he really wanted to be transferred to the district and ranked seniority, even if he got a full-time position at this time, he would not have the opportunity to make progress in the future.

In this case, Yuan Hongjun was wondering, what would happen if he took a step back?

There are many bad things in Shenhuai, but one thing is worthy of recognition. As long as people with work ability in Meixi Town can basically be reused.

Guo Quan kicked Meigang out of Chen Huai, but did not suppress it for long. He was soon reused by Chen Huai. He is now a member of the town party committee, director of the Assets Office and executive deputy general manager of the town real estate company.

Even though he had a feud with Chen Huai, everyone always thought that he would punish Chen Huai very badly. In fact, not only did he not punish him very badly, he was promoted recently to serve as deputy mayor, and was also in charge of the work of the Party and Government Office and the Education Office.

By this time, no one who knows some details will regard Chen Huai as an ordinary town party secretary. If Chen Huai was not really young, the achievements he had led Mei Gang to be able to be promoted quickly. Chen Huai had to be promoted quickly, even if he did not give great effort to promote new letters, old people, He Qingshe, Li Feng and others, he could still get a more important position in Tangzha District with his outstanding political achievements in building a team with Chen Huai in Meixi Town.

The choice before Yuan Hongjun is actually to hold the position of Zhengke now, or take a step back in exchange for a broader development space that may be available in the future...
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