Rebirth of Corrupt Officials

The speed of the municipal government was too fast; Jiang Xiaochuan had just processed Zhang Xiaoli’s resignation letter, and the superiors had already assigned someone to be his secretary.

However, this wasw understandable. As the deputy mayor with real power, Jiang Xiaochuan was also very busy with affairs. It was impossible to leave the position of secretary vacant too long. It should indeed be filled early.

When he came in the morning, he met Zhou Qian downstairs who had just gotten off the car. He looked normal, except for a layer of black and blue under his eyes, as if he hadn’t slept well.

Among all the senior municipal leaders, Zhou Qian was considered to be a very upright-looking person. He looked a bit serious. He was born with a Chinese character face, and his eyebrows made his eyes large. With that expression, he was indeed very masculine. It was only…

Thinking about Zhang Xiaoli, Jiang Xiaochuan wanted to sigh.

Jiang Xiaochuan greeted him, “Mayor Zhou seems to have not slept well.”

Hearing this, Zhou Qian raised his hand to touch his dark circles, “There have been a lot of things lately, I’ve been too busy, so I stayed up late.”

Naturally, you couldn’t fool someone with such an argument, and even if Jiang Xiaochuan knew, he couldn’t talk about it either. The municipal government wasn’t that simple.

A few days ago, there seemed to be a big problem with the foreign investment promotion department where they were in charge of finance.

In the end, this quota was not given to the super powerful Lisson Group. However, in the final quota allocation, several people in charge of economic matters were the deputy mayor, they argued fiercely, but in the end it was the mayor who made the decision to settle the matter.

The one who finally accepted the investment promotion and preferential policies turned out to be a little-known foreign company called Warwick, but Jiang Xiaochuan knew that—— Warwick was a high-tech chemical industry with high pollution, which was actually not in line with their original environmental plan.

As Jiang Xiaochuan walked, he thought about the muddy waters, Zhou Qian must have been involved in this investment promotion, but he didn’t know how much Zhang Xiaoli knew.

Pushing the door open, Jiang Xiaochuan suddenly paused.

He felt despicable, so why did he unknowingly start using the tricks and conspiracies from his previous life?

Zhang Xiaoli really wanted to stand up, but maybe the “stand up” she meant was not what Jiang Xiaochuan expected, but he named two people from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection who he felt he could trust, no matter what Zhang Xiaoli had planned before

After knowing that there was someone in the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection who could help her, she would definitely think about it – as for how to do it, that was beyond Jiang Xiaochuan’s control.

Jiang Xiaochuan suddenly lowered his head and laughed.

After all, those things that had become habits were deeply buried in his body, unconsciously affecting his decisions. He finally opened the door and saw an ordinary-looking young man standing in front of the desk packing his things.

When he saw Jiang Xiaochuan coming, he quickly bowed and saluted him: “Good morning, Mayor Jiang.”

This was the new partner. His secretary?

The Organization Department had previously informed Jiang Xiaochuan about the secretary’s personnel transfer, but Jiang Xiaochuan didn’t read it too carefully and didn’t know if the name of the new secretary in front of him was on it.

He just nodded and asked, “Who are you?”

The young man said hurriedly, “My name is Wei Lai.”

“Your name is future (weilai)?” Jiang Xiaochuan was stunned for a moment.

The corner of the young man’s mouth seemed to twitch, but he seemed to have long been used to other people’s question about his name.

When he spoke again, his expression was a little helpless: “It’s the ?? (for). Meaning they come and gone.” The Wei wasn’t the future.

Jiang Xiaochuan laughed, “Sorry, I always think about that future.”

Now it was Wei Lai’s turn to be confused. This deputy mayor would actually apologize to him? He quickly waved his hand: “Mayor Jiang, you are joking. Others often mishear my name.”

Jiang Xiaochuan suppressed the smile at the corner of his lips and reached out to pat his shoulder: “It’s a good name. You used to work as a secretary, right? My place here is similar to other places, as long as you do things efficiently.”

‘Talk less and do more’ – this was Jiang Xiaochuan’s only advice to him.

Wei Lai nodded, “Thank you, Mayor Jiang.”

“I have to go to a meeting in a while. You can prepare the materials for me and hand them over to my desk in a while.”

After that, Jiang Xiaochuan walked into the office.

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Today, there was a work report meeting for each department. It was in the top-level meeting hall.

For example, several senior officials from the municipal government would listen to reports from lower-level departments. Then several municipal leaders would discuss their work with each department. Finally, they would have to discuss their work with the whole leaders. People from the municipal party committee conducted work exchanges.

In short, he would spend almost the whole day in meetings. This was a tradition in Chengzhou and a tradition in China. What he loves was meetings, not the implementation of the decisions made at the meetings.

Jiang Xiaochuan quickly received the information compiled by Wei Lai. He took a pen and made some comments, which would help him listen to the report and speak better, and then looked at one of the documents.

That was Rong Family Club’s case. Human life lawsuits were not uncommon in Chengzhou, but there were not many human life lawsuits involving such special characters.

The death of Uncle Qiu’s son Qiu Yi clearly had a hidden secret. The efficiency of the police stations below was so slow on this case. They used to pay great attention to efficiency issues because it was related to the end-of-the-year assessment, but here, they seem to have completely forgotten about efficiency.

No matter how they checked, the information was the same with the first time they checked. It seems that this was the fact.

Looking at the information in his hand, Jiang Xiaochuan sneered.

Rong Shaobai, this was really a good trick.

Others always say that officials and businessmen were a family, but this sentence was suitable for Zhou Qian, Qian Qiming, and others, but when it came to Jiang Xiaochuan’s subordinates, it became a family of officials and bandits.

‘Isn’t Rong Shaobai a real “bandit”?’

The powerful forces that had been able to control the underworld in Chengzhou for so many years have indeed a wide network of contacts. Almost none of the departments under Jiang Xiaochuan were innocent. This was the helplessness of the modern political situation. Sometimes it wasn’t that officials didn’t want to act, but the actual situation forced them to prevent them from doing anything.

Cruelty was always reflected in these details, but it was impossible to ignore.

What was hidden behind this case?

Jiang Xiaochuan thought of Xue Yan’s words, holding these pages of A4 paper in his hand, and suddenly felt a little confused.

If even the old mayor who promoted him, who was now the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, had problems, then – how many clean people were there in this officialdom?

No wonder the Central Committee said that although the dangers outside the Party were huge, the threats within the Party couldn’t be ignored.

If corruption became common, it might end up like the Soviet Communist Party.

A certain party in the Soviet Union had 20 million members at that time, but it eventually collapsed due to the wave of liberalization and peaceful evolution in the West. It never recovered, and the Soviet Union collapsed two years later.

Jiang Xiaochuan believes that the Party Central Committee was far-sighted, and those who could reach their level really started from the overall situation.

It was a pity that after the red-headed document from the Party Central Committee came down, the party cadres below organized study, but it was no different from not having studied.

Jiang Xiaochuan turned the pen in his hand, then rubbed his wrist, and suddenly found that something was missing on his wrist – the bracelet with copper coins was missing.

Jiang Xiaochuan was stunned for a moment, stood up and looked around, then went out and followed the way he came, but there was no trace of the bracelet.

Wei Lai originally saw Jiang Xiaochuan going out in a hurry and thought he had something important to do, but now seeing him come back like this, he couldn’t help but feel a little strange.

“Mayor Jiang, what are you doing?”

Jiang Xiaochuan felt unspeakably irritable when facing Wei Lai. Although he had good intentions but he was in a hurry, he suppressed his impatience and smiled. “It’s nothing, go ahead with your works.”

‘Don’t interfere with the leaders’ affairs’ – Wei Lai suddenly remembered such a popular saying in the industry. He was startled and nodded hurriedly, “Okay.”

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It happened to be 9:20 in the morning when Jiang Xiaochuan went out with the documents.

He sat down at the venue and looked at the time on the wall clock. There were still only four minutes left.

Four minutes, logically everyone should arrive at this time, but when Jiang Xiaochuan scanned the venue, he found that very few people had arrived.

The Minister of Environment, Wei Dong, was sitting in the back row, with a gloomy expression on his face. His hands holding the folder were shaking, and his lips were moving slightly, as if he was saying something. Behind him, his secretary wearing black-rimmed glasses kept tugging on his sleeves, but Wei Dong ignored him and instead glared back fiercely.

Jiang Xiaochuan calmly withdrew his gaze. This meeting was really a good show.

He rubbed his temples to cheer up and waited quietly.

The meeting originally scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. started on time, but the participants arrived one after another. Even the mayor Fu Peng who presided over the meeting arrived late. He didn’t know how many people arrived at the meeting, and there were even more people. It was too late.

As Jiang Xiaochuan’s secretary, Wei Lai sat diagonally behind him with many documents in his hands. He quietly looked at Jiang Xiaochuan.

Mayor Jiang was indeed as handsome as they said. He was indeed a scholar, but there was no sourness in his every move, and his expression always seems to be so calm and composed, although today was his first time with Jiang Xiaochuan.

But Wei Lai always felt that his eyes were different from others, it looked like the expression of a man close to thirty years old.

Young Jiang Xiaochuan’s eyes revealed a change of vicissitudes of life.

Wei Lai suddenly had a strange illusion in his heart. The body and soul of the person in front of him might not match.

Of course, this was just an illusion.

Wei Lai didn’t think much. He began to recall today’s agenda in his mind, and then silently checked the documents.

When Fu Peng first became mayor, he was still a handsome middle-aged man, but after only a few months, his beer belly seemed to be slightly bulging, and it looked ridiculous like a pregnant woman when it was pressed in front of him.

He had just finished his official opening remarks, and just as he said “Who wants to speak first?”,

Environment Minister Wei Dong stood up and threw the document on the table in an angry manner.

Wei Dong was a very stubborn old party member. He has been in charge of the environment for a long time, but he had never seen such blatant acts of destruction, so he had to say, he must say, he felt that he would explode if he didn’t speak out.

“Why has no one informed me about the investment promotion project in Warwick that was approved a few days ago?! The pollution in Warwick is too heavy and cannot meet our investment promotion requirements. Mayor Zhou, Mayor Qian, you must give me an explanation!”

In fact, it wasn’t necessarily that Wei Dong was an upright person, but it was mostly related to political performance. Chengzhou’s environmental quality wasn’t up to standard, and it was Wei Dong, the environment minister, who was unlucky.

In the political arena, interest relationships were eternal.

The investment promotion by several mayors in charge of the economy had seriously violated Wei Dong’s interests as an environment minister, so he must stand up and defend these against this ridiculous decision.

Jiang Xiaochuan crossed his hands, fingers locked together and looked at the suddenly ugly faces of Zhou Qian, Qian Qiming, and Fu Peng. A good show was about to begin.