Chapter 357: Apology is worthless
As soon as Chen Huai answered the phone, Song Hongjun shouted: "Where have you gone? Have you ever returned from London by plane? Why didn't you see your figure after getting off the plane for so long? You just turned off your phone when you call your phone. You are now on, but where are you?"
"You went to the airport to pick me up?" Chen Huai asked.
"Yes, I'm still at the airport now." Song Hongjun said.
"I got off the plane and went to the pick-up hall, didn't you see you?" Chen Huai asked strangely. Song Hongjun knew the flight he was on, and today there was a flight from London to Yanjing. Song Hongjun could not have missed the flight time. Moreover, in the pick-up hall, Liu Fulong and Zhang Biqiang fought for several minutes. Such a big disturbance, if Song Hongjun was waiting for him in the pick-up hall, he would not have noticed it.
"Who is going to go into the pick-up hall to waste time? I parked the car at the opening where you came out. I waited for a long time but didn't see you out..." Song Hongjun said.
Chen Huai smiled bitterly, this was also the disadvantage of Song Hongjun's abuse of privilege.
If Song Hongjun went into the pick-up hall honestly and waited for him, he would not have missed it. But Song Hongjun drove the car directly outside the pick-up hall to wait for the rabbit. They did not leave the pick-up hall, but went directly to the airport police station from the side and then rushed from the police station to the city. Of course, they had to go to Song Hongjun.
Chen Huai couldn't explain the matter again on the phone with Song Hongjun, and asked him to drive to Qinghe Hotel to meet them before talking about it. He didn't care whether Song Hongjun was shouting at Qu on the phone and hung up his phone.
Ji Chengxi smiled. He knew what Song Hongjun was. He was able to drive to the airport to pick up Chen Huai, which showed that Chen Huai's popularity in the Song family was not as bad as outsiders imagined.
When Song Hongjun rushed over and started eating, Ji Chengxi asked Chen Huai in detail. Zhang Biqiang and Liu Fulong had a conflict after flying back to the country, and told Chen Huai about Liu Fulong's father and Liu Chuandong's situation in Qinghe.
"Liu Chuandong was the Organization Minister of Qinghe Municipal Party Committee. He served as the deputy secretary of the Party and the masses the year before, in charge of publicity and organizational work; Qinghe's mayor was transferred to the Provincial CPPCC at the beginning of the year, and Liu Chuandong temporarily acted as mayor... By the way, I remember Cheng Yi's hometown is also from Qinghe, and Secretary Cheng should be clearer about Qinghe's situation."
There is no overlap in the powers of the Standing Committee of Donghua City. If the Organization Minister and the Propaganda Minister are both members of the Standing Committee, there is no situation where the Deputy Secretary is in charge of the Organization Department and the Propaganda Department, which can effectively guarantee the collective decision-making power of the Standing Committee meeting.
The deputy secretary of the Party and Mass in Qinghe City is in charge of publicity and organizational work, which shows that the power of the Party Committee in Qinghe City is mainly concentrated in the secretary's office meeting. Ji Chengxi added that Liu Chuandong served as the Organization Minister of the Qinghe Municipal Party Committee before he served as the Party and Mass Secretary, which naturally implies that Liu Chuandong's local power in Qinghe is deeply rooted.
Qinghe City is a city with relatively strong economic foundation in Hebei Province. Although it is not a sub-provincial or independent city, the secretary of the Qinghe Municipal Party Committee usually serves as a member of the Standing Committee of Hebei Province.
Whether it is the provincial power level or the central reserve cadres, there have always been many people watching the party and government positions in Qinghe City. Liu Chuandong, who was promoted from the prefecture-level organization minister, cannot be regarded as the best candidate for the mayor of Qinghe City. At this time, the Hebei Province wants to use Liu Chuandong as the mayor, which means that Liu Chuandong has a strong support besides Qinghe City.
Chen Huai is not clear about the relationship between Liu Chuandong and Cheng Wenguang now, but he can also understand that after Ji Chengxi arrives in the local area, he will feel more or less pressure when facing a local snake like Liu Chuandong.
As for the conflict between him and Liu Fulong, Chen Huai didn't have to worry about anything at all. He took the blame. Even if Liu Chuandong had a close relationship with Cheng Wenguang, it would be that Liu Chuandong was escorting his unsatisfactory son and ran over to apologize to him. He might not be willing to deal with it.
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Before Song Hongjun came from the airport, Chen Huai and Ji Chengxi were chatting, and the door of the private room was pushed open from outside. Xiao Yujie, director of the Qinghe City Beijing Office, leaned in and greeted Ji Chengxi, and said, "Secretary Ji, Mr. Yu of Jingrui happened to be in Beijing, and wanted to come over to say hello to District Mayor Chen..."
Xiao Yujie has a relatively low qualification in the Qinghe officialdom, but he is still the first director who has just been promoted. Ji Chengxi did not take the attitude of a young master in the capital and stood up and asked Xiao Yujie: "Mr. Yu is also in Yanjing? Then invite him over quickly. I happened to introduce District Mayor Chen to him..."
Chen Huai was a guest. He and Cheng Yi were sitting and not moving. They were diagonally facing the door. They could see a middle-aged man with a national face standing behind Xiao Yujie, wearing light metal glasses. He thought to himself, is he the so-called "Mr. Yu"?
Cheng Yi quietly told him: "Yu Peili's father is the boss of a private enterprise in Qinghe..."
Chen Huai said intimately: Liu Fulong is the deputy secretary of the Qinghe Municipal Party Committee and the son of the acting mayor. Yu Peili is the daughter of the boss of Qinghe private enterprises. It is a good "marriage". No wonder Liu Fulong dares to be so "abusive" in front of Yu Peili.
Yu Wenfei walked in, bowed to Ji Chengxi with a smile on his face, and said, "Secretary Ji came to Beijing. I realized it until now that I realized it. I am really sorry, sorry."
"Mr. Yu, you are a busy man in Qinghe. You are so flirting with that," Ji Chengxi smiled and asked Yu Wenfei and Xiao Yujie to come in and introduce Chen Huai to them. "Mr. Yu is a big entrepreneur in Qinghe City. Jingrui Group contributes tens of millions of taxes to the local area every year. Before I arrived in Qinghe, I heard of his name. District Mayor Chen, you and Mr. Yu should have a very common language."
"Yu Wenfei, I will ask District Mayor Shen for more advice in the future." Yu Wenfei bowed and reached out.
Chen Huai stood up and shook hands with Yu Wenfei, and said simply: "Hello, lucky to be." Looking at Yu Wenfei's eyes, he confirmed that Yu Wenfei didn't know his specific identity, and reached out to ask Yu Wenfei to sit down first, glanced at Liu Fulong, who was still standing outside the door, Yu Peili glanced at him and said nothing.
Yu Wenfei did not sit down, owed his body, and continued to say humbly: "The unpleasant thing happened today. When Mayor Liu found out, he was very angry with Fulong's behavior. He scolded him hard on the phone and asked him and Peili to come and apologize to District Mayor Chen, and make a deep review. Mayor Liu also asked me to apologize to District Mayor Chen on behalf of him."
"What a big deal, can I still care about him?" Chen Huai didn't look at Liu Fulong outside the door, but just smiled faintly and said, "Mr. Yu, sit down with Director Xiao. Everyone should stand in the private room. This is a bit weird."
Yu Wenfei winked at his daughter outside the door, and asked them to come in and apologize to Chen Huai in person. Liu Fulong pushed the door in and didn't look up at him at all. He was so angry that his nostrils opened, but had to apologize in a low voice: "Today, I am young, impulsive and ignorant. You are a lot of District Mayor Chen. If you want to scold and punish me, I can bear it..."
Chen Huai still smiled and said, "Mr. Yu, what a big deal, do you think this is? How embarrassed I am to do this?"
Seeing Chen Huai's attitude, Yu Wenfei had no choice but to let Liu Fulong and his daughter go out first and close the door of the private room.
Zhang Biqiang sat aside, but was frightened. He naturally hoped that everyone would laugh. When something happened today, it would be best for him. He would no longer have to worry about revenge on Liu Fulong.
However, Chen Huai did not accept Liu Fulong's apology at all and ignored it. Zhang Biqiang couldn't say anything.
Zhang Biqiang thought about it carefully. It seemed that Chen Huai didn't suffer any loss at all today. He thought to himself, the big shot was offended. If he didn't have any attitude, it would be looked down upon, right?
When Cheng Yi was in the UK, she had a close relationship with Yu Peili. After all, when she first arrived in the UK, there were not many people who could meet and contact. At this time, she saw Peili and Liu Fulong walking out together, and she felt that Chen Huai was a little unkind, but Chen Huai was offended today, which was indeed unkind and arrogant.
Ji Chengxi was always observing Chen Huai. Before Xiao Yujie brought Yu Wenfei into the box, he gave Chen Huai some hints, and deliberately did not introduce Chen Huai's specific identity and position in detail. After all, he was looking at whether Chen Huai was sensitive enough, whether he reacted quickly enough, and whether he could take a proper position.
Seeing that Chen Huai ignored Liu Fulong's apology at all, Ji Chengxi laughed and said, "Don't mention the small matter," he asked Chen Huai again, "When Brother Hongjun comes, do you want to taste our Jihe wine?"
Chen Huai could see that Cheng Yi didn't seem to like his inhumanity, but his posture had to be put on - they had been sitting in the private room for almost half an hour. In this half hour, Liu Fulong should have reported everything that happened to him, Liu Chuandong.
Liu Chuandong did not contact Cheng Wenguang directly to apologize, and he didn't even know his specific identity at all. Chen Huai was almost sure that Liu Chuandong and Cheng Wenguang were not particularly close.
Ji Chengxi went to Beijing and stayed at Qinghe Hotel. It was impossible for Yu Wenfei to know.
Yu Wenfei had not shown up before and said hello to Ji Chengxi. Most of the time he wanted to be with Ji Chengxi in Qinghe and not to be in the river. He followed Liu Chuandong and did not offend Ji Chengxi, and he didn't want to run over to see Ji Chengxi's face.
From this point of view, Liu Chuandong's control over Qinghe City is quite reliable.
The Ji family asked Ji Chengxi to start with the secretary of the Jihe County Party Committee of Qinghe City, hoping that he could take root in Qinghe; Ji Chengxi and Liu Chuandong and other local ruling factions in Qinghe may not have severe conflicts, but there will most likely be some difficult conflicts.
At this time, if Cheng Wenguang had no close relationship with Liu Chuandong, he should use this conflict to decisively break off the previously not-so-close relationship. There is no need to let Cheng Wenguang let the Song faction send a kidnap for a place like Liu Chuandong. After all, the Song faction should maintain relatively consistent interests with the Ji faction at a higher level.
Chen Huai couldn't explain the power of this, but the conflict that happened today must be told to Cheng Wenguang to know that he would not accept Liu Fulong's apology casually - Liu Fulong's apology, how much money can it be worth?
Since everyone was worried, the banquet ended quickly after Song Hongjun rushed over.
Ji Chengxi arranged a separate rest room to chat with Chen Huai and Song Hongjun. Yu Wenfei and Xiao Yujie said goodbye and did not come over to disturb him. Hearing Chen Huai talk about the details of the airport conflict, Song Hongjun's attitude was clearer: "A little yamen in a place actually had insignificant thoughts. How much does his apology cost?"
When Chen Huai heard Song Hongjun speak so bluntly, he could only smile bitterly. This boy wanted to keep the purity of the circle at all, so he had such a big opinion on Liu Fulong. However, if this was passed on to Cheng Wenguang by Song Hongjun, it would basically cut off the involvement between the Song faction and Liu Chuandong and other Qinghe places in power.
Cheng Wenguang would be happy, Chen Huai didn’t know:
If Cheng Wenguang had the same heart as Song, Chen Huai would offend Liu Fulong for no reason today, and Liu Fulong had an indecent thought about Cheng Wenguang's daughter and decisively cut off contact with Liu Chuandong, there would be no unhappy.
If Cheng Wenguang had not been determined to tie the Song-class tree, the local power officials in Qinghe's hometown might have recruited him for his own use in the future, so he would not have been happy to have broken off contact with local power-based factions such as Liu Chuandong.
When Chen Huai thought of the complexity in the officialdom, he felt a headache.
Chapter completed!