Chapter 19 1. Sugar Daddy

After returning to Dongzhou, the first duty room of the Secretary of the Municipal Government Office called me and said that people from the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection had been looking for me. "What's the matter?" I asked nervously. "I don't know what happened, but I found it with the executive deputy mayor. Mayor Du instructed that we must find you." The person in the duty room said. I thought to myself, Zhang Guochang had already been injected to death, and I have resigned for almost a year, so why is the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection looking for me?After thinking about it, as the saying goes, don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts calling the door, go and have a look, then I went to the Heishuihe clubhouse.This is the place dedicated to shuanggui cadres for the "Li Zhang Big Case".At most, there were more than 200 people in Shuanggui.

I walked into room 408, and there were two people sitting in the room. "Is it from the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection? Who is Director Liang?" I asked. "Who are you?" asked one of them, who was in his fifties or thirties. "I'm Remo." "Oh, it's Secretary Lei. My surname is Liang." Director Liang came over to shake my hand enthusiastically. "We are from the Research Office of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, and this is Lao Luo, the deputy director." Lao Luo also shook my hand. "Comrade Lu Qing, secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, gave us a project titled 'how to regulate the behavior of the staff around leading cadres'. You used to be Zhang Guochang's secretary. It was not easy to be able to control yourself in the 'Li Zhang case'! I would like to ask you to talk about how to be a good leadership secretary." Old Liang said politely.

I couldn't laugh or cry when I heard this question. I thought to myself, how can I control myself, but Zhang Guochang didn't bring himself on issues such as gambling. If I bring myself, can I not go?Escaping this catastrophe can only be said to be a blessing among misfortunes.It is not realistic to say that there is no subjective self-control. At least I know Zhang Guochang best, and I know what I do better.Usually try to find your own position, as long as you don't go offside in your work and life, you will have a basic point. Secretaries are small people who live in the core of power. The concealment of secretaries in the operation of power makes them easy to be reused, and at the same time they are easy to become victims of power struggles and combinations.

Not long after I took office, I discovered that the political life of the Dongzhou Municipal Government was no longer normal. People like Li Guofan and Zhang Guochang had never lived in any organization, and had become self-employed within the party. People had no way to achieve their goals through normal channels, and could only use Money for lubricant.As Li Guofan said in his confession: "I forgot the oath I made at the people's meeting where I became the mayor of Dongzhou, 'the people elected me as the mayor, and I became the mayor for the people'. I alienated the power granted by the people into personal power and made myself a big hit , with black hands, on the one hand doing good things for the common people, on the other hand engaging in corrupt double-dealers behind the scenes."

"As Zhang Guochang's secretary, I have a simple vigilance, and this vigilance grows with him as time goes on," I said frankly to Lao Liang and Lao Luo, "One is that Zhang Guochang worships Buddha when he sees Buddha, and he can't afford to kneel for long. Second, although I did not go overseas with him to gamble, he did not hide from me the tickets for Hong Kong gambling boats. Once in the car, he used his mobile phone to chat with a Hong Kong friend in front of me and the driver Li Liang. Call and book three tickets for the "Oriental Princess". I already knew that the "Oriental Princess" is a gambling boat, because "The Gambler" co-produced by Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau was filmed on this gambling boat."

A deputy secretary-general of Dongzhou City had been to the Philippines with Zhang Guochang. This deputy secretary-general was single-handedly selected by Zhang Guochang.During his stay in the Philippines, he and Zhang Guochang visited various casinos in the Philippines.After he returned to China, he said to me, "The boss is so bullish in the casino, he wears a Vajra Wheel on his chest, a diamond ring and a bracelet on his hands, a necklace around his neck, and a gold cigarette holder in his mouth." Bullshit, I gasped. I know that working with such a leader can be as scary as it gets.Officialdom has been a pool of unfathomable water since ancient times.How deep and muddy the water in Dongzhou officialdom is, it is difficult for anyone who is not in it to describe it, and it is difficult for me, who is in it, to recognize the "true face of Lushan Mountain".

In Dongzhou, the secretary of the mayor is under one person and over ten thousand, and even the leaders of the general office have to be courteous.The secretaries are in a state of "herding sheep", and it depends on their own self-cultivation and luck if something goes wrong. The secretary of the executive deputy mayor like me is different from the secretary of the general deputy mayor. Zhang Guochang holds power, people, money, and things in his hands, and he has the intention of taking over the world with Li Guofan. Something must happen. There are more than 400 leaders of the committees, offices, bureaus, and districts that Zhang Guochang is in charge of. Anyone who reports to Zhang Guochang must make an appointment with the secretary first.If you don't let any leader see you, you have to lie, saying that Mayor Zhang went to a meeting in the province, Governor Gao Yuan went to talk to him, and went to the grassroots, etc.

Secretaries are all experts in lying, and they need to be smart, and they must be believed by others, otherwise they will offend others. They lie every day, and if they don't believe them for a few days, they will offend everyone. As long as Zhang Guochang is in the office, there will be an endless stream of people seeing him.These people first waited in my office, and I arranged to see whoever I saw first. Zhang Guochang's office was in the back room, and mine was in the outer room, with a door in between. Listen, after I arranged for people to go in, I closed the door, and I had no idea what was said or done inside.Know some things and pretend not to know.

In fact, even if Zhang Guochang wanted to hide things from me, he couldn't hide them.As many people want to curry favor with the mayor, there are as many people who want to curry favor with the secretary, and even the secretary's information network is wider than the leader's, because the secretary can pretend to be a tiger, and also has concealment.For example, Zhang Guochang never told me about gambling, especially about gambling in Hong Kong and Macau. I don’t seem to know anything about it when I’m not around, but I can judge.He has been to Hong Kong so many times, not to say that some things have to be done in Hong Kong, and Dongzhou is fine, but every time he can find a reason to go to Hong Kong, and then go to Macau to gamble.He not only gambles overseas, but also gambles once a week in Dongzhou City.

There is a big hotel in Dongzhou called Red Star Hotel, the owner is Liu Artai, who was the first to start his business by opening a karaoke hall in Dongzhou. His quality is a chicken head, but he and Zhang Guochang are close buddies.Zhang Guochang stayed at the Red Star Hotel for one night every week. In order to take good care of the elder brother, the God of Wealth, Liu Artai specially decorated the room, and the escort lady changed every week because he was afraid of recognizing Zhang Guochang.Zhang Guochang likes to eat shark's fin and abalone, so Liu Artai hired a chef from Hong Kong with a high salary.

When I first worked as a secretary, Zhang Guochang said to me every weekend, "I've been tired for a week, go to the Red Star Hotel to rest." I took him there with the driver Li Liang, but everyone in Dongzhou knows that the Red Star Hotel is a chicken. Wo, there are so many beautiful women, and there are no good people who go there all the time. Over time, even the traffic police at the intersection discovered Zhang Guochang's secret of always going to the Red Star Hotel and spread it everywhere.After Zhang Guochang heard about it, he withdrew the post and changed it to automatic monitoring.Zhang Guochang didn't know that these were deceptions. After a long time, even Liu Artai was not wary of talking in front of me. "Leimo, do you know how much the boss won tonight?" One day Liu Artai bragged and slipped. "How much did you win?" I asked curiously. "More than one hundred thousand!" I was dumbfounded after hearing this. Which of the leaders above the deputy mayor level in Dongzhou City doesn't have a few big money buddies?The closest buddy with Li Guofan is not Yang Si, but a man named Mu Ding. Mu Ding was born as a soldier, with a round face, light eyebrows, piercing eyes, medium build, slightly fat, and a natural and rich expression. When Li Guofan was the county magistrate, this person was the director of Li Guofan's county government office, which can be called a direct descendant.After Li Guofan was promoted to be the deputy mayor of Xizhou City, he was transferred to the Municipal Construction Committee as the deputy director. After Li Guofan was promoted to the deputy governor of Qingjiang Province to be in charge of the construction of the whole province, Mu Ding seized the opportunity to resign and start real estate development. Li Guofan's close friends, who granted land loans, quickly expanded the business.Mudin likes women. Dongzhou City held two Miss Clove Contests, and both champions were embraced by Mudin. One became Mudin's wife after divorce, and the other became his "second wife" after marriage.It is said that he got on well with the two women. I have a friend named Wen Qingyun, who is also engaged in real estate, and Mudin is buddies.Wen Qingyun and Zhang Guochang know each other, but the relationship is not strong, and they want to open the gap through me.Wen Qingyun knew that Zhang Guochang was particularly interested in Li Guofan's whereabouts, so he often told me about Li Guofan's whereabouts from Mu Ding's mouth.Because as long as Li Guofan is on a business trip in China, Mudin must make arrangements first, and then greet him at the airport. Li Guofan likes to live in the five-star hotel presidential suite, and Mudin arranges all business trips wherever he goes.Every time Li Guofan had a tryst with Chen Mei, Mu Ding drove the car.Muding is more loyal than Liu Artai, and more righteous than Liu Artai. Li Guofan knows people better than Zhang Guochang, as long as he can lead Zhang Guochang to eat, drink and have fun, Zhang Guochang will treat him as a friend.Li Guofan is not the case. The people he makes are all knowledgeable and loyal, and Mu Ding is one of them. After Li Guofan's case was revealed, it was confirmed that he had embezzled more than 20 million yuan. Li Guofan admitted that a quarter of it was given by Mu Ding, which shows that Mu Ding is a person who knows how to repay his kindness.But Liu Artai only gave Zhang Guochang a few hundred thousand yuan, and the tangible and intangible benefits Liu Artai got from Zhang Guochang were incalculable. He borrowed Zhang Guochang's umbrella to open an underground casino in the Red Star Hotel. Make money every day. After the incident, Liu Artai voluntarily confessed and was released without charge, while Mudin fled fearing the crime.It is said that he fled to Myanmar and worked as the general manager of a casino.Before Mudin fled, he borrowed a large sum of money from Wen Qingyun. Wen Qingyun went to Myanmar to find Mudin, lived in Myanmar for a month, and returned empty-handed.As soon as Mudin joined the underworld, he could only go on the run from now on. The owner of the casino where Muding was the general manager was named Pu, who was said to be from Dongzhou. He had worked as a horse boy in Macau casinos and considered himself a veteran in the gambling world.After returning to Dongzhou, I went to the underground casino of the Red Star Hotel every night to gamble. One night, the servant boss met an opponent. This opponent was a woman, and the two started betting as soon as they called out. At first, he didn't think highly of this woman at all. Later, the more he gambled, the more he lost. , became friends.It was only later that I found out that the female boss ran a clothing company and was born to be a gambler. The two had similar likes and dislikes. In addition, the servant boss was very handsome, and the two attracted opposite sexes, so they lived together.Hearing that Myanmar can invest in casinos, where they can use their gambling skills, the two went to Myanmar together and established a firm foothold within a few years. According to Wen Qingyun, people who gamble in casinos in Myanmar are wealthy businessmen from mainland China.I met a girl named Guan Chun while chatting online, and he worked as an accountant in Boss Bo's casino.When we met at a pottery bar called Sensuo Nixing, I asked her where she worked, and she told me that she worked as an accountant in a big casino in Myanmar.I didn't believe it at all.Later, what she said was basically consistent with what Wen Qingyun told me, so I couldn't believe it. "Guan Chun, how did you get to the casino in Myanmar?" I asked curiously. "I recruited online. The working conditions there are good, with modern management. I'm back this time for vacation." "Guan Chun, can your parents rest assured?" "I'm already twenty-two years old. My parents only have a daughter like me. They listen to me."