Provincial Party Committee

Chapter 28

Mei Zhihong recognized him at first glance, and one of them was Qin Dalong, head of the organization of Xijiang Provincial Party Committee. Both of them were on the same front, and they had been doing organizational work for a long time, and they often bumped into each other in meetings.Mei Zhihong hurried forward, took Qin Dalong's hand, and shook it vigorously.

Qin Dalong quickly introduced the man beside him to Mei Zhihong and said, "Meibu, this is Gao Tianmin, Secretary-General of our Xijiang Provincial Party Committee."

Gao Tianmin hurriedly shook Mei Zhihong's hand and said, "Minister Mei, welcome, welcome, the journey has been hard, hard work."

Before Mei Zhihong had time to introduce, Gao Tianmin held Wang Yiming's hand and said, "Is this Secretary Wang Yiming? I'm Gao Tianmin. Secretary Yang specially arranged for me and Minister Qin to pick up Secretary Wang and Mei's secretary. "

Wang Yiming took a quick look at Gao Tianmin, and saw that he seemed to be five or six years older than himself. He was not tall, fat, with a tall belly, large forehead, big eyes, bulbous nose, and a fleshy face. It looks like Hongfu Qitian.According to Wang Yiming's experience, the officials who grow up like this are all very lucky people. They can eat, drink, play and shoot, and they are smooth in the officialdom. They seem to be rude and unkempt, but in fact they are all rough Careful and extremely shrewd in heart, such a person, with a simple and honest appearance, is actually the most difficult to deal with.

Wang Yiming immediately had a smile on his face, and said: "Hello, Secretary-General, it's a pleasure to meet you. Thank you very much." He shook Gao Tianmin's hand, shook it symbolically a few times, and then let go, shaking each other one by one. The hands of Qin Dalong and several others.

The passengers in the back have already come out one after another. There are too many people here, so it is not easy to stay for a long time. Gao Tianmin hurriedly greeted everyone, went out from the VIP passage, and sat in the lounge first, waiting for the checked luggage.

Wang Yiming went to the bathroom first to relax, followed by his secretary Xiao Gong.After they came out, the staff waiting at the door hurriedly led the way and took Wang Yiming to a conference room dedicated to receiving leaders.After resting there for more than ten minutes, everyone talked about some irrelevant topics in a lively atmosphere.No matter what Wang Yiming said, everyone was laughing, anyway, they were all laughing, and they didn't know why the question was so funny.People who are in the officialdom now have learned to smile when they have not learned anything. Whenever they see their superiors, they always greet them with smiles.

After the luggage was collected, everyone left the lounge and walked out of the waiting hall of the airport.Wang Yiming saw several cars parked at the entrance of the hall.The leader is a white police car with a special horn installed on it, which looks like a police clearing car.

In the middle is an imported Toyota minibus with large windows and a very wide field of vision. It is the vehicle that the central leaders on TV went to inspect.

Followed by an off-road vehicle, used to put luggage.

Behind the luggage cart are two black Audi sedans, probably Gao Tianmin and Qin Dalong's special cars.They came in their own cars, met at the airport, picked up Mei Zhihong and Wang Yiming here, and took a minibus back to the city together. Their cars had to be empty, and the driver followed them.

Mei Zhihong and Wang Yiming sat in the first and second rows of the minibus.Gao Tianmin and Qin Dalong sat on the single seat near the window on the right, and several secretaries and other staff sat in the back.The police car in front moved slowly, and the four cars behind followed one by one. With their fleet lights flashing, they drove off the curve at the airport and came to the main road. They lined up in a row and drove at a constant speed according to the established speed.

It takes about half an hour to drive from the airport to the city center. Wang Yiming looked at the scenery outside through the window.Here in Xijiang, compared with Beijing, it is indeed a different scene.There are green mountains and green waters everywhere. On both sides of the airport expressway, there are hills and hills with green and lush trees.The hillside vegetation protection on both sides of the road has also been carefully constructed and maintained.It is not too much to say that flowers and plants are everywhere, and birds are singing and flowers are fragrant everywhere.The natural conditions here are not bad, with abundant precipitation, warm climate, lush trees, and green everywhere.

Gao Tianmin next to him pointed to the verdant hills everywhere, and said to Mei Zhihong and Wang Yiming: "Our airport road can be said to be the most beautiful airport expressway in China. Every place I saw was carefully designed. Last year, the president of an African country visited Xijiang. He praised that this is the most beautiful airport expressway he has ever seen in his life. He has been to the world Many places, including those developed countries, have never seen such a beautiful expressway. So our Secretary Chunfeng and Governor Fangming both said that the airport expressway is a business card of our Xijiang, and we must maintain it well so that Everyone who comes to Xijiang will have a good mood and a good first impression when they get off the plane."

Mei Zhihong said: "Okay, that's good. It's my first time to Xijiang. I didn't expect it to be so beautiful. I thought you were a backward area, and there should be a certain gap in infrastructure compared with the developed coastal areas. Now It seems that they are not behind at all, and in some places, they are even stronger than them!"

Qin Dalong said: "In all fairness, Xijiang's natural conditions and resource conditions are not bad, even compared with other places, there are still great advantages, but for a long time, the gap with advanced regions has become wider and wider, and the most important thing is corruption. , the leadership team is incompetent and does not do business, making the people below at a loss. The train runs fast, it all depends on the headband! The leaders take the lead, and the people below are even more lawless, so the big officials are greedy, and the small officials are greedy. , the hearts of the people are scattered, and they don’t do practical things, so the gap with the advanced areas is widening.”

Qin Dalong is a foreigner. He has just exchanged and worked as the organization director of Xijiang Province for two years. He is in charge of cadres and has a certain understanding of the situation of cadres in Xijiang Province.He knows that here, good cadres are those who can drink, and everyone admires cadres who can drink, brag, shoot, and touch. cadres with social activity ability.As for whether such cadres can do things, whether they can do things, the common people don't know, anyway, they know that such a person will be a good official.When you become a big official, someone will naturally blow the trumpet for you.

Qin Dalong came from a developed area for exchanges. Although he tried his best to suppress his temper and adapt to the environment here, sometimes when he met foreigners and talked about Xijiang, he still couldn't hold back his words. He liked to compare Xijiang with other provinces. As soon as they run a horse, they will say some uncomfortable words for local Xijiang officials.

In the whole car, apart from the driver, Gao Tianmin was the only local who heard Qin Dalong speak now.He is a native of Xijiang, a local school.Besides, he is a cadre that fits Xijiang's characteristics very well. He can drink, brag, and of course be able to do things. Otherwise, Secretary Yang would not have promoted him, a local, to be the Secretary General of the Provincial Party Committee.

After listening to Qin Dalong's words, Gao Tianmin felt a little uncomfortable, but he couldn't get angry in front of the two guests who had just arrived.Besides, Qin Dalong is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, with the same rank as himself, so even if he had a fit, it would not be good to face him in front of him, hurt his peace, and some things would be difficult to handle in the future.He knew that Qin Dalong was usually a very cautious person. He was born in an organization, and he had that professional characteristic. He just wanted to get close to Mei Zhihong, and when he got carried away, he would talk about it. His goal was not Facing me, Gao Tianmin's.He said it to Xie Qingsong and Qian Minggui, those officials who committed the crime. Those are things that people on the earth know. There is no need for me, Gao Tianmin, to take responsibility and look for trouble.So Gao Tianmin pretended to be nothing to do with himself, looked at the scenery outside the window, and remained silent.

Everyone is a smart person, and the expression on his face was caught by everyone. Qin Dalong also suddenly realized that his words were inappropriate, but he had already said it, and there was no way to remedy it, so he had to cover it up and change it. One topic, continue chatting with Mei Zhihong.

Wang Yiming glanced at them, and captured their every move in his mind. He smiled in his heart and thought of the saying "too much talk is bound to be lost".In the officialdom, where you talk about gossip, if you are not careful, you will offend someone, and you sometimes don't know it yourself.

Wang Yiming had been to Xijiang many times, so he was naturally not as excited as Mei Zhihong. He was looking at the scenery outside the window, but he was thinking of another thing.These five cars lined up in a row, pulling the siren, is there any need to enter the city with such vigor and vigor.

According to Wang Yiming's idea, this minibus would have far exceeded the standard.There are [-] or [-] seats on it, even if you put your luggage, you can also seat more than a dozen people. Such a car can be connected with people to carry luggage.But that would be less grand.

Now, there are special police cars clearing the way, there are empty minibuses for sightseeing along the way, and there is a Toyota off-road in the back for pulling luggage.At the end are two black Audi cars, which are the special cars of Gao Tianmin and Qin Dalong.It is conceivable that they drove to the airport from different places and at different times in their own cars.

So many people, so many cars, burning so much oil, and paying tolls, just to pick up such a mere four people, not to mention wasting time, a provincial party committee secretary, a provincial party committee organization Ministers, such high-level officials, their several hours were wasted in the process of welcoming and sending them off.All this is to create a face for the higher-level officials, so that people will leave an impression of hospitality and etiquette on you.

The price paid for such a habit is simply too expensive.

Officials' time, vehicle wear, gasoline consumption, all over the country, large and small officials, and millions of buses, what a terrible figure that would be!

Wang Yiming has read reports that the annual cost of public transport is hundreds of billions of yuan. This is only the consumption of vehicles, as well as the driver's salary, and various benefits are not included.The most frightening thing is that the officials' time is silently wasted in this way. They could have used this precious time to do something more meaningful.

When he was in the ministry, he also ran to the airport many times to pick up and drop off people. In addition to the time spent in traffic jams on the road, at the end of the day, when encountering such an incident, in order to show respect for the superiors, he could hardly do anything. something happened.

Watching the news on TV, he knew that the leaders of the central government did the same thing, pick up the plane and send it off.Waiting under the gangway, sending flowers, taking pictures, shaking hands, hugging, and getting news, became the most important work.Just look at a leader's schedule and watch the news.Both domestic and foreign guests are like this, in order to show our enthusiasm and politeness, a country of etiquette, a great country.

But at what cost?How many resources are we consuming that shouldn't be?Corruption and waste are great crimes!How much exorbitant taxes do ordinary people have to pay to support the consumption of such a large-scale bureaucratic collective in the world?This may be one of the reasons why ordinary people work hard for a long time but still do not get rich!
The car entered the urban area, and it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, which was the peak time for citizens to go to work. Wang Yiming saw that at each intersection passing by, there were crowds of people, cars, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians. Became a dragon.

In order to maintain the speed, as soon as the convoy entered the urban area, they pulled up the siren and flashed the police lights, and a stern voice came out from the loudspeaker: "The vehicles in front, pull over, pull over! Did you hear that, what about you! 25926, what's the matter with you? Don't give way! Step aside, step aside!" The voices became more and more serious, and they could be heard clearly through the glass. It is estimated that this voice can be transmitted hundreds of meters away.The citizens on the side of the road all raised their heads angrily, with hostility in their eyes, looking at the string of vehicles, they might be secretly scolding their mothers in their hearts: "Damn, what's so great! These high officials are blind all day long Put on a show! Delay me from walking to work!"

Wang Yiming took a look. There was a local vehicle with the license plate number 25926 in front of him. Hearing the horn, he turned sharply, pulled over and slowed down, and gave way to the fast lane.Along the way, through the car window, he received countless looks full of contempt, hostility or flattery.He knew that he, a peasant boy, had now completely escaped the life of the lower classes and had become a big shot.

But this kind of life made him feel even more uneasy.In the eyes of others, things that should be taken for granted, such as this scene and this style, but he does not feel pleasure at all, and even has a deep sense of guilt. He feels that he is just rushing, and there is nothing urgent , disturbed the lives of so many people for no reason, and made them complain. Such things cannot be done in the future.

If it weren't for Mei Zhihong, a leader of the Central Organization Department, in the car, Wang Yiming would have already spoken to tell the police car to go away.He felt that it would be nothing if he silently obeyed the traffic rules and spent more than ten minutes.

Wang Yiming feels that after being an official for so many years, he is still able to understand people's feelings, often consider problems, and can exchange hearts. Sensitive, even unforgettable.Because I encountered these problems back then, I was touched psychologically.

The second is that I have not completely forgotten my roots and divorced from the masses.It was old man Zhao who often praised him: "You boy, you still have the qualities of a peasant boy. Never forget where your roots are, and don't forget your roots!"

But in real life, once many people are in a high position, they forget their roots, their brains swell rapidly, they don’t know the heights of the heavens and the earth, what they say and do, they are completely divorced from the masses, and they become moths of society, worms of the world. The scourge, and finally ended up ruined and infamous for thousands of years.

The police car did not slow down all the way, and the minibus followed closely, twisting and turning, and entered a large courtyard.There are towering trees everywhere, flowers and plants everywhere, and the buildings are well arranged, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, hidden among all kinds of trees, it looks quiet and elegant.

Wang Yiming lived in this place before. This is the famous Xijiang Hotel, the most famous five-star hotel in Xijiang, used to receive state leaders.In the past, Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou visited Xijiang and stayed in this hotel.From the current point of view, the facility is a bit old, but it occupies a large area, the location is good, it is close to the West River, and the scenery is beautiful, so it is still attractive to foreign guests.

The car stopped in front of a new building, and Wang Yiming saw that a large number of people had already waited below to greet them there.

Gao Tianmin got out of the car first, and introduced the people waiting next to Mei Zhihong and Wang Yiming who got off next.

A man in a suit came up, with a bright smile on his face, big eyes, medium height, a green beard, and a straight back.Gao Tianmin introduced: "This is Zhai Junming, Director of the Provincial Reception Office."

The one behind is a 40-year-old lesbian, tall, fair-skinned, wearing a dark blue woolen suit, with big eyes and an oval face, looking beautiful and elegant.

Gao Tianmin introduced, "This is Qu Liya, the manager of Xijiang Hotel."

Everyone shook hands and greeted each other in turn.

After exchanging pleasantries, Qu Liya led everyone into the hall.

Wang Yiming looked up and saw that there was a plaque on the top of this building, with three big gold-plated characters of "Wangjiang Tower" written on it. The calligraphy could be seen to be from the hands of famous masters. It is powerful and magnificent.

After entering the hall, I realized that this is a newly built villa.There are three floors inside, and each floor has more than a dozen rooms.Near the end of the stairs, there is a large suite, which is what we usually call the presidential suite.Wang Yiming was assigned to a suite on the second floor, and Mei Zhihong was assigned to a suite on the third floor.

I went to the room to look around, put down my luggage, and washed my hands. Mr. Qu came to greet everyone and went to the restaurant on the first floor to have lunch.

The dishes came up in a while, and they were all famous dishes in Xijiang, wild fish in the river, wild chickens and ducks, seafood airlifted from other places, and wild wild pork.

The wine is Wuliangye, as well as good red wine. The waiter puts white wine glasses, red wine glasses, and drink glasses in front of everyone.

Gao Tianmin picked up a glass of Wuliangye, stood up, and said: "First of all, on behalf of Secretary Yang of the Provincial Party Committee, I would like to extend a warm welcome to the members of the Mei Ministry and Secretary Wang! Everyone is tired from the journey, so I won't say much, let's eat first , drink, since it is noon, I think you can do whatever you want! Everyone has a drink, eat more vegetables, and have a good rest."

Everyone stood up together, drank the white wine in front of them, put down their glasses, and began to eat vegetables.

Wang Yiming drank the white wine in front of him, ate some dishes, had a drink with Gao Tianmin alone, a drink with Qin Dalong, and a drink with Mei Zhihong specifically.Then he put down his wine glass and stopped drinking white wine.He has always been very restrained in drinking, and never drinks too much unless it is absolutely necessary.

When Zhai Junming and Qu Liya came to toast again, Wang Yiming didn't want to drink anymore, so he picked up the drinking cups.Zhai Junming was still able to talk, but when he saw that Wang Yiming didn't drink, he changed it into a drink cup, touched it, stopped talking, and sat back in his seat.

And Qu Liya, although she is a girl, is not easy to deal with. She is also a person who has been on the battlefield for a long time. Liquor, you must give me a bit of face for this lady."

Wang Yiming was embarrassed to take another drink glass, so he picked up the empty wine glass and asked the waiter to fill it up. He touched the glass with her and said, "Okay, I drink liquor. Men and women are not equal. I should take special care of you."

When Qu Liya saw Wang Yiming showing her face in this way, she immediately became excited and said, "Since Secretary Wang thinks highly of me so much, how about I have a drink with you?"

Wang Yiming knew that a woman like her was used to being aggressive, and had been in the officialdom for a long time. Using this method to get close to high officials may have been tried and tested.Think about it, at the wine table, who would not give face to a beautiful woman.

(End of this chapter)