Although there are many people making appointments for dinner, Zhou Qibao also took time to clean up so that he could get into the role as soon as possible and went home directly after returning from the county.

My son was on winter vacation, and I didn’t know where he went. His lover Ji Sujuan was preparing supper in the kitchen. When he saw Zhou Qibao coming back, he asked in surprise: “Didn’t you say you went to Xiapu today? Why did you come back so early?”

"I'm back..." Zhou Qibao was thinking about something else in his mind. When he heard his lover's question, he responded casually, and walked towards the study with his briefcase.

Seeing her husband's absent-minded look, Ji Sujuan felt a little nervous, and came to the study and asked worriedly: "No, you are only on your first day today to work in Xiapu. Is Chen Manzi going to show you the advice?"

"Ah," Zhou Qibao didn't know something was wrong, so he told his wife to think about the incident, frowned and said, "What are you talking about? Today's matter is over. I'm back from the county. Where will I go if I don't go home? I don't have anyone outside, what do you think is wrong?"

"You took office on the first day today. The county did not arrange a reception banquet. You said nothing was wrong?" Ji Sujuan called Zhou Qibao and said dissatisfied. "Besides, how difficult it is to deal with Chen Manzi. I didn't know it on the first day. Secretary Tan asked him to squeeze him away. Others know that you and Chen Manzi are not in the way, and they insist on sending you to Xiapu. How could you have any kindness? You took a bus out in the morning, and my eyelids were beating all day long when I arrived at the unit. Our center knew that you were transferred to Xiapu today. Many people came to me today, and they were congratulating. They were not gloating at all. They just thought I couldn't see it. I had been heartbroken all day long, and when I came back, I asked you, are you still doing this for me?"

"Okay, okay," Zhou Qibao could only raise his hand to beg for mercy when he heard his wife nagging. He didn't want to cause a family storm inexplicably, and said, "Today I went to Xiapu County to perform my duties. It went smoothly, even smoother than I thought. Then I had nothing to do in the evening and came back. I didn't expect whether the banquet would be held. At noon, Yu Chengzhen was also in Xiapu. Everyone just had a casual lunch in the cafeteria. Don't think about it in the wrong place."

"Don't I care about you?" Ji Sujuan said aggrievedly.

"Okay, I appreciate it," Zhou Qibao smiled bitterly, "Although the job was very smooth today, this position is not easy to do. You know that you have to enter the role as soon as possible to reduce passivity. I came back so early today, and I want to take good care of my future work ideas - you are busy with the supper project first, and I will report to you specifically when you get free later."

"What job do I want you to report? I won't bother you if I go out to cook." Ji Sujuan said, but took out the cigarette and lighter from the desk.

When his wife walked out, Zhou Qibao pulled the chair to the window and looked at the flowers and trees in the yard that were rolling with winter branches and leaves.

Except for a few people who know it well, few people in the city know that he was transferred to Xiapu for office due to the instruction of Xu Pei, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, so it is normal to have all kinds of suspicions. There are even many acquaintances in the city who have greeted him in the past few days and hesitated a lot. They are just speculations about who he offended and forced him to be bullied under Chen Huai's hands, so that he can understand the world's coldness more deeply.

However, my wife, who knew that things were going to go wrong, was worried that he would not go well in office today and would be threatened by Chen Huai, so she had to ask Zhou Qibao to think more.

When Zhou Qibao took the bus to Xiapu in the morning, he never thought that today would be so smooth. When he thought about the way back to the city just now, Guo Chengze called and thought that he was probably afraid that something bad would happen if he took office today.

Unexpectedly, nothing happened today; is that abnormal?

Although the cigarette and lighter on the desk were taken out for his wife, there were cigarettes and lighters in his briefcase. Zhou Qibao took out a cigarette and lit a cigarette, and looked at the snow on the branches of flowers and trees in the yard to smoke.

The doorbell rang downstairs, and Zhou Qibao didn't know who came to the door at this time, and he didn't move while sitting there. Then he heard the voice of Deputy Mayor Chen Weili ringing downstairs:

"I just saw Lao Zhou's car. Lao Zhou returned from Xiapu so early?"

Zhou Qibao hurriedly went downstairs to ask Chen Weili to come upstairs to sit, and the two sat in front of the window to smoke.

You can also guess why Chen Weili came to this. Zhou Qibao took the initiative to talk about some things about the meeting and work handover after visiting Xiapu today:

"After Deputy Secretary Yu left, he mainly talked about the work handover. There was basically no major adjustment in the division of labor in the government. Dai Quan still had to focus on the work of Xinpu Port and Xinpu Development Zone; after Zhao Tianming was transferred to Tangzha District, I was mainly responsible for the work he was in charge..."

As the county magistrate, Zhou Qibao should be in charge of government work in full, but the county needs to obtain important economic and people's livelihood affairs discussed at the Standing Committee. Zhou Qibao cannot expect to compete with Chen Huai for decision-making power. However, whether he wants to be just a county magistrate when he goes to Xiapu County, it actually depends on how much power he can control in the daily work of the government.

Whether Chen Huai cooperated with Zhou Qibao to serve as county magistrate in Xiapu was his superficial attitude. The key was to see whether he led the division of labor among the Standing Committee and how the county government team made adjustments in charge of the work.

If all the important daily work and administrative departments are in charge of Chen Huai’s confidant deputy county magistrates, deputy county magistrates, and assistant county magistrates in the division of labor of the county party committee members of the county government, if Zhou Qibao is in charge of all important daily tasks and administrative departments, besides being responsible for signing in Xiapu County, what other county magistrates can there be?

Chen Weili was still surprised when he heard Zhou Qibao say that Chen Huai decided to take over all the administrative departments in charge of Zhao Tianming's previous work and the administrative departments he was in charge.

Chen Huai used to be the secretary and county magistrate. As his main assistant, Zhao Tianming not only presided over the daily work of the county government, but also directly in charge of major work and important departments such as supervision, finance, audit, urban and rural planning, urban appearance management, comprehensive public security, government procurement, agriculture and water conservancy.

Zhao Tianming was transferred to Tangzha District as the district mayor. If the county's work does not make major adjustments, Dai Quan, who succeeded as executive deputy county magistrate, will also focus on Xinpu Port and Xinpu Development Zone. The vacant work will be mainly taken over by Zhou Qibao directly, which means that Chen Huai's transfer to Zhou Qibao is really not an ordinary cooperation.

Such a result was unexpected, and thought about it carefully and in love. Chen Weili pondered for a moment, sighed lightly, and said, "I went back to Xucheng a few days ago and met Secretary Tan. Secretary Tan also said that sometimes we have to admit that we really despised him before."

Zhou Qibao smiled and smiled.

He picked up the materials from the desk and handed them to Chen Weili, saying, "Xiapu reported a plan of 4 billion to the county before the New Year, but according to this material, there is no problem with the total fiscal and tax revenue of Xiapu County in 1999 exceeding 5 billion. Xinpu Steel and Xinpu Refining and Chemical have been driving the local fiscal and taxation too strongly..."

Chen Weili understood what Zhou Qibao's opinion was, and he was transferred back to Donghua as deputy mayor. It has been a while since he looked back on many things and could see more thoroughly and comprehensively.

The Meigang System is not simply rooted in the officialdom, but a deeper political and industrial economy. It is a kind of integration between the Meigang System. It looks like there are no one in the province on the surface. However, at this time, no one can deny that the Meigang System is at a deeper level and has a stronger influence on the people's livelihood and industrial economy in Huaihai Province.

Chen Huai can control the right to speak at a higher level. He is definitely not able to be controlled by Zhou Qibao and Qi Jingyao in Xiapu County. Once a higher-level struggle is involved, it is difficult for Chen Huai to seize anything in Xiapu County. Chen Huai delegates power to Zhou Qibao, and even Qi Jingyao's position on the county people's congress is also the confidence he has at this time. What's more, Zhou Qibao and Qi Jingyao cannot simply unite. Zhou Qibao even has to beware of Qi Jingyao, who is not a good person, and he will take a bite.

At present, in addition to the support of provincial party secretary Zhong Limin, the conflict between Secretary Xu Pei and Governor Zhao Qiuhua is more prominent in the province, which determines the complex relationship between Donghua City and no one can use simple means to clamp the Meigang system.

After a while, Zhou Qibao smiled again and said, "The atmosphere in Donghua in the past two years is quite strange. It seems that many people have forced Mei Gang into the rhythm of doing things..."

After hearing what Zhou Qibao said, Chen Weili also smiled bitterly:

Yin Wei's scheming has not been able to bring down Chen Huai over the years. Provincial Party Secretary Zhong Limin has publicly supported Mei Gang. Secretary Xu Pei has to meet and talk with Chen Huai. Everyone wants to compete for the right to speak. In addition to making some achievements, what better way can there be?

Including Chen Baoqi, we are doing everything possible to promote the completion of projects such as Xinjin Port and Xinjin Steel as soon as possible.

Chen Huai bypassed the city and directly handed over the management rights of the Huaihai government construction fund to the province. In the future, one-quarter of the total fiscal and tax revenue would be paid every year - such a large amount of funds flowed out of Donghua, and the city had no say. If there was no opinion or emotion, it would be impossible.
Chapter completed!