Behind the scenes

Chapter 52

"How about your lady? I heard that you are very young and beautiful, and a big girl. Do you want a child?"

"Are you kidding me? How old am I? Can I still have children?"

"Why not? Now that science has advanced, men in their 60s or even 70s can still have children."

"Don't tease me. Even if I could, I wouldn't want it. After all, our ages are too different, and we often think and act differently. I often treat her as a child. Do you think it's strange? How did you find her?"

"What's the matter, isn't it fashionable to look for young people now? You brought this leader when you became the mayor."

"Stop mocking me, I'm not the mayor anymore."

"It's okay if you're not the mayor. There are only a few who are mayors. When I married you, I never thought about what kind of official or mayor you would be in the future. If you don't become a mayor, you will live in the lives of ordinary people. Day, what's wrong with it?"

"But me, but I always miss you, how much I want to be with you!"

"The fate between us is gone, you can live a good life, I'm leaving."

"Don't, don't go. Don't go." Li Zimin shouted loudly, and stepped forward to hold her hand tightly.

"People, wake up, wake up." Someone called him loudly and shook his hand.

Li Zimin opened his eyes and looked intently. Hu Min was sitting at the head of his bed, shaking his hand.Only then did he realize that he had had a dream.

"Zimin, what's wrong with you? Shouting and screaming?" Hu Min asked with concern.

"I had a dream." Li Zimin said.

"Is someone chasing you? This man is very powerful, rich and powerful, and there is nothing he can't do. He has a lot of people under him. They, they want your life..." Hu Min's voice was a little trembling .

Li Zimin shook his head helplessly.

"My people, how many times have I told you that you should never take care of things that should not be taken care of. You are no longer the mayor, and you don't need to make decisions about some things. There is the secretary of the municipal party committee, and There are so many deputy mayors, who are you going to offend? Whether Liuhe Village is built well or not, what does it matter to you? You are not greedy, occupying women, and not engaging in women. You are already a good cadre, go ahead What are you doing to offend that person? Do you know how busy that person is? He is a person who is known in the province and in our city. He wants money and people, let alone you are a retired second-line consultant Cadres, even the current secretaries and mayors, all want to give others face, what are you trying to do by doing this?" Hu Min's face was very ugly.

"Xiao Min, what do you think we should do as cadres? Do we want to enjoy our own happiness? Or do we want to do something practical for the common people? Earn unconscionable money and ignore it?" Li Zimin had a serious face when he said this.

"You don't need to take care of it directly. There are so many cadres in the Communist Party. Some are more powerful than you, and some are more powerful than you. Why don't they take care of them, but let you, an old man, take care of them. Now What era is it, and you don’t even look at it. When you were the mayor, you did your best, and you were not greedy or greedy, but you were elected by a good People’s Congress. After you came down, who will speak for you? Did you arrange it for you? What about so many party cadres? They all hid in the back, and no one made decisions for you. It’s not easy to arrange in the province, and I can’t go to other cities. It’s fine if you don’t ask, but whoever is like you is more active when you become a consultant than when you were the mayor. You can care whether you should care or not. You know whether others are annoying you or not, so I can only say that. Whoever runs all the way to the dark like you, you won't listen to my words at all, it's better now, it doesn't count if you get shot, this matter can't be over, they will definitely kill you."

"What's the matter? I have one, come on, let them do it clearly, I, Li Zimin, am not afraid of this." Li Zimin became angry and lost his temper at Hu Min.

Hu Min didn't show weakness either, she stood up from Li Zimin's bed at once, "Don't be rude to me, I kindly came to persuade you, you just treat me like this? It's really unlucky to be with you."

This sentence hurt Li Zimin deeply. He forced himself to sit up from the bed and yelled: "If you are unlucky, just leave. I won't stop you."

"Let's go." Hu Min turned to leave.They were arguing so loudly that the director of the cadre ward was alarmed. The director who entered the room took Hu Min's hand, "Doctor Hu, the patient should be quiet, don't make him angry."

"I made him angry? Did he let me live with peace of mind?" Hu Min roared loudly, and then ran out of the ward crying loudly.The director of the ward persuaded Li Zimin again, saying that Hu Min was in a bad mood, self-willed, etc., and told Li Zimin not to get angry and to recover from his illness. He also left the ward after speaking.

The ward was quiet, only Li Zimin was left alone.He closed his eyes, thinking quietly.

At around eight o'clock in the evening, Hu Min came to Li Zimin's ward again. Her eyes were red, her eyeballs were swollen, and she seemed to have lost weight.She sat down on Li Zimin's bed without saying a word, looked at Li Zimin for a while, and then said, "Zimin, I'm in a bad mood this morning, and what I said may be wrong, don't worry about it."

Li Zimin nodded, "I know you are doing it for my own good."

"My son, I've thought about some things for a long time, but I can't open my mouth to you. I thought about it all afternoon today, and I still want to talk to you." Hu Min seemed to have made up his mind.

"Okay, tell me!" Li Zimin said calmly.

"Zimin, I want to leave this hospital and Xianghan City. I want to go abroad. I am a medical student. Going abroad has a promising future. One of my university classmates is in Australia. He did a good job there. He I have gone through various procedures for going to Australia for me. I used to be unable to make up my mind and was hesitant. This afternoon, I finally made up my mind and I want to go."

"Since you are really determined to leave, I will agree." Li Zimin still replied calmly.

"My son, I, I'm a little sorry for you..." Hu Min's face was full of regret.

"What is there to be sorry about? You have your ambitions and pursuits. You are still young, so it is completely understandable to want to start your own business. If you have any difficulties going abroad, I can still help you."

What Li Zimin said made Hu Min cry again.

50
More than a month has passed.

The season has also moved from midsummer to late autumn, and the beginning of winter will soon be here.In more than a month, Li Zimin's injury has basically healed.During his stay in the hospital, Zhao Qingming, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, came to the hospital to see him twice in person.The first time was the third day after he was shot. Before going to Beijing for a meeting, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee hurriedly came to the hospital to visit him and express his condolences.The second time was in the morning five days ago. Zhao Qingming, accompanied by Zhu Yunhe, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Minister of Organization, and Gu Yishun, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, visited him again.Seeing that his body was recovering well and his face was flushed, the secretary of the Provincial Party Committee took his hand and said, "Okay, my people, I can't knock you down with a single shot."

Li Zimin said with a smile: "The older generation of revolutionaries have gone through the hail of bullets, so I don't care about it."

The Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee told him that after the study of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, it has been formally decided to remove Liu Rong from his positions as Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, and has decided to file a case to investigate his financial problems. The Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress will also perform legal procedures tomorrow.Liu Yunna's issue has been formally handed over to the judiciary.In the process of studying the candidates for the mayor of Xianghan, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee fully listened to the opinions of Gu Yishun, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and decided that Li Zimin should be the mayor, and the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress would be the deputy mayor and acting mayor first according to legal procedures. He will be re-elected as mayor at the Second Session of the Tenth National People's Congress in January next year.The secretary of the provincial party committee came to visit him this time, but also to ask for opinions, to see what other thoughts he had personally.

After hearing this, Li Zimin thought for a while and said: "I am very grateful to the provincial party committee for trusting me, but I have also thought a lot these days. After thinking about it, I think I am not suitable to be the mayor. After all, I am 56 years old. After the new year, I will be 57. The position of mayor should be given to younger people. They are more liberated than us, and their bodies and energy are stronger than ours. After all, careers belong to young people!"

Gu Yishun was very surprised by Li Zimin's words. He hurriedly took Li Zimin's words, "Zimin, you have to do it. In our Xianghan City, I think you are qualified to be the mayor. With our cooperation for more than a year It’s also quite good, you are wrong, tell me who you want to be the mayor? Besides, letting you be the mayor is also a verification of the problems in the election of the mayor at the National People’s Congress last year. It proves that the original decision of the provincial party committee was correct.”

After listening to Gu Yishun's words, Li Zimin shook his head with a smile, "The provincial committee's decision is correct, but I don't want to be mayor now, so this decision is also correct."

"You, are you afraid of being shot? Don't you dare to be the mayor?" Gu Yishun asked bluntly in front of the secretary of the provincial party committee and the head of the organization.

Li Zimin laughed again, "Secretary Gu, what is it to shoot? What is it to take my life away? People will die sooner or later. I always think that this career should be for young people. Should I be a city worker?" The mayor doesn’t matter anymore. If a better young man is elected as the mayor, he will work hard and train hard in this key position. Maybe he will become a useful talent for the country in the future. For young people, opportunities and positions are very important , I want to leave this opportunity and position to young people. Please rest assured that I will not be the mayor, but I will still be this consultant, and I will work hard for the party and fulfill my duties for the people as before."

"Yes, but you are not the one, who else in Xianghan City can be the one?" Gu Yishun shook his head.

Li Zimin said: "The whole province is so big, if Xianghan can't be elected, let the whole province choose! I believe the provincial party committee will be able to elect an excellent young mayor."

After hearing Li Zimin's words, Zhao Qingming and Zhu Yunhe looked at each other.Zhao Qingming said: "Comrade Zimin, thank you very much for standing so high and seeing so far. The Provincial Committee has seriously considered your opinions."

Three days later, the provincial party committee selected a young mayor from a nearby city, and successfully passed the appointment of the standing committee of the city's people's congress.

Early this morning, Bai Zhi, the deputy director of the government office, came to the hospital. When he entered the door, he said, "Consultant Li, I am going out with you today to relax."

"Yeah, I've been here for more than a month, and I'm almost isolated from the world. How are those projects going? I'm so anxious that I can't sleep well." Li Zimin said while getting dressed.

Today is the trial run of the carbon disulfide production line of Xianghan Chemical General Plant. After repeated requests from Li Zimin, Gu Yishun, secretary of the municipal party committee, agreed to let him go out and have a look. little problem.

When the car got out of the hospital, Li Zimin looked east and west in the car, as if he had just returned to Xianghan from another place, he couldn't see enough.The car soon arrived at the gate of the General Chemical Plant. The factory manager Zheng Gang had led a group of people to wait there. Seeing Li Zimin get out of the car, he hurried over to meet him, "Mayor Li, hello, welcome. You are hospitalized, the hospital is so strict, and you have been there three times but have not let you in, really."

"I'm all right now! How's the progress of the project?" Li Zimin asked with concern.

"It's quite smooth. Let's go. I'll show you." Zheng Gang said, leading Li Zimin into the factory.The factory has changed a lot. Several imported devices stand tall, and some newly added pipe networks and equipment have been installed.When they came to the main control room, dozens of brand-new computers were connected into a network to control the entire production process of the two assembly lines.Zheng Gang said: The carbon disulfide project was fully opened last night. The imported key equipment has increased the output and improved the quality. It is estimated that the output will be twice that of the past. Moreover, the market for this product is currently optimistic, and the export volume has increased. Prices are up, and the economics are much better than predicted in the past.Li Zimin nodded after listening.They walked out of the main control room and came to the northeast corner of the factory. Here is the newly launched [-]-ton methionine project.The main body of the tall factory building has been completed, and equipment installation is in progress inside. Three European experts from the ATC company were directing on the spot. The equipment components were hoisted by the crane, dazzling sparks flashed from each electric welding machine, whistles sounded, and the roar of the machines rang together.Zheng Gang said that now is the critical moment for equipment installation. The equipment will be basically installed in March next year, and commissioning will be carried out in four, five, six and three months. If it goes well, production can start in the second half of the year.

Li Zimin nodded as he watched. He walked around the factory for more than an hour.After the transfer, he suddenly said to Zheng Gang, "I want to see Zhou Changxue's wife Xu Wenli".Zheng Gang looked at Li Zimin with admiration, "Mayor Li, it's been almost a year, you can still remember him and call his wife's name, I admire you."

Zheng Gang led Li Zimin to see Xu Wenli in the accounting office of the factory. She was fatter and paler than before. Li Zimin stepped forward and held her hand, "Xiao Xu, let me come and see you. Are there any difficulties?"

"Thank you, Mayor Li, you haven't forgotten Changxue, and you haven't forgotten us. My child and I live a good life without any difficulties."

(End of this chapter)