Chapter 9 9. Assistant to the Director

Originally, Ding Nengtong wanted to accompany Jin Weimin and Li Xinru to Dongzhou to meet Wu Dongming, but on the night he returned from Baiyun Temple, he received a call from Lu Lisheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and head of the Organization Department, claiming that he would assign a general to the Municipal Office in Beijing to be the director. The assistant, named Xi Tao, was named by Mayor Wu himself, and he, the head of the Organization Department, will personally send Xi Tao to the post.In addition, the leadership team of the Municipal Office in Beijing has also changed.As for the change, Ding Nengtong wanted to find out, but Lu Lisheng said, you will know when the time comes.

Ding Nengtong hung up the phone, feeling a little ominous in his heart. He wanted to mobilize the leadership team of the Municipal Office in Beijing. He did not say hello to him, the director of the Beijing Office and the party secretary of the Beijing Office. No mayor had ever personally intervened. The adjustment of the leadership team of the Beijing Office, because the executive deputy mayor is in charge of the Beijing Office.Ding Nengtong had no idea, so he had to dial Lin Dake's cell phone through Lin Dake's secretary. When Lin Dake received the call from Ding Neng, he had just finished entertaining the leaders of the China Machinery Industry Federation at the Caohekou Guest House.Ding Nengtong's tone on the phone was a little nervous, and Lin Dake knew what Ding Nengtong wanted to ask as soon as he heard it.

To be honest, Wu Dongming was a bit arbitrary about the adjustment of the leadership team of the Municipal Office in Beijing. He made the decision without saying hello to Lin Dake in advance. Lin Dake had a lot of ideas in his heart, but for the sake of team unity, Lin Dake did not no response. On the phone, Lin Dake said angrily: "Yes, the team members have indeed made some adjustments, but they haven't touched you. Why are you panicking? In the past two years, the Municipal Office in Beijing has been in terms of attracting investment and people's livelihood. The transformation of functions has been very effective. I see this, and Secretary Xia and Deputy Secretary Zhou also see it. I only want to ask you, no matter how the team is adjusted, you, the director of the Beijing Office, will not let you Work done in Beijing has declined!"

Hanging up Lin Dake's phone call, Ding Nengtong felt warm in his heart. He felt that his work was supported and affirmed by Secretary Xia of the Municipal Party Committee, Deputy Secretary Zhou, and Executive Deputy Mayor Lin Dake. He had no reason to worry about his position. Even if he is a secret agent, even if he is personally arranged by Mayor Wu, as long as he is in the hands of me, Ding Nengtong, the Golden Bodhisattva will turn you into a clay Bodhisattva. What Ding Nengtong couldn't figure out was, is it necessary for the head of the Organization Department to personally send a small assistant to the director of the Beijing Office?After thinking about it, Ding Nengtong suddenly realized that it was all caused by Xi Tao's brother who is the director of the Central Security Bureau.

Lu Lisheng was not very lucky in his official career. He had been promoted to the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee for less than half a year, and he had not resigned from the position of organization minister. The Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held. Reduce the number of deputy secretaries of local party committees, implement the division of responsibilities among the standing committees, and give full play to the role of collective leadership.” Qingjiang Province took the lead in "slimming down" and adopted the model of "one chief and two deputy". First, the deputy secretaries of the county and township party committees were streamlined.Then there are 15 cities above the prefectural level in the whole province. Before the change of the Dongzhou Municipal Party Committee, there were five deputy secretaries. In addition to the mayor, the other four deputy secretaries were in charge of party building work, organization department, veteran cadre work, ideology, and propaganda work. Disciplinary committee, political and legal work.

I thought that after Zhou Yongnian acted as the secretary of the municipal party committee for a period of time, the word "Dai" could be removed, but God failed. Zhou Yongnian's "Dai" was removed, but the word "Deputy" was not removed. Poor Lu Lisheng didn't even have this The word "deputy" was not kept either. After the party congress, Xia Wentian became the secretary of the Dongzhou Municipal Party Committee, and Lu Lisheng returned to his original position, a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and also the head of the Organization Department.No wonder, even Liu Guangda, who had been Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission for many years, became a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission.

However, Lu Lisheng is not interested in the “slimming” of provinces, cities, counties and townships this time. He has done some investigations and found that after the reform and opening up, the organization expanded more rapidly. In 1998, when the organization was reformed, the average financial support ratio in my country was 1:24 , That is to say, every twenty-four people have to support a state cadre who "eats financially", which is twelve times that of the beginning of liberation.Until now, it is still difficult for my country's party and government organizations to get out of the cycle of expansion-simplification-re-expansion.

Lin Bai, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, said at the enlarged meeting of the Provincial Party Committee: “Because there is no legally rigid regulation on the number of deputies, local governments often give special treatment to some people by adding a deputy. It is an important reason why the vicious cycle of expansion-simplification-re-expansion does not occur." Lu Lisheng disagreed with this view, and he felt that the original intention of "reducing the number of vices and slimming down" was good, but this time the party committee reduced the number of vices, which actually increased the number of secretaries. Powers are not conducive to inner-party democracy, and the intersection of party and government powers seems to increase the strength of the party's control of the government. The ultimate effect remains to be seen.

Now that the authority of the secretary has been increased, it has further stimulated Lu Lisheng's desire to advance to a higher level in his career, even if it is arranged in a different place.Lu Lisheng has been the head of the organization for many years and knows the importance of connections. When Wu Dongming called him and personally arranged for Xi Tao to be the assistant to the director of the Municipal Office in Beijing, and proposed adjustments to the leadership team of the Municipal Office in Beijing, he felt certain There must be a reason for leather trousers and cotton trousers. Either the leather trousers have no hair or the cotton trousers are thin.After understanding, Lu Lisheng discovered the value of Xi Tao, so he decided to go to Beijing himself.

Lu Lisheng and Xi Tao arrived at Beijing Garden at noon. The two of them did not take a plane or a train. Wu Dongming specially approved a Mercedes Benz 600 from the Municipal Reception Office to the Municipal Office in Beijing for the exclusive use of Xi Tao. He drove Lu Lisheng to Beijing in a Mercedes-Benz. After lunch, Lu Lisheng personally presided over the meeting of cadres above the Municipal Office in Beijing.At the meeting, Lu Lisheng introduced Xi Tao to the cadres above the Municipal Office in Beijing, and his tone seemed to be introducing the new director rather than the assistant to the new director, which made Ding Nengtong very upset.

But there are two people who are very happy. These two people are Hu Zhanfa, Ding Nengtong's assistant director and director of the information department, and Rong Guoku, assistant director and director of the office, because Lu Lisheng announced that Hu Zhanfa will be the director of the Chengdu Office of Dongzhou Municipal Government, and Rong Guoku will be transferred. The director of the Guangzhou Office of the Dongzhou Municipal Government, both of them have solved the real-time deputy bureau level.At the same time, Bai Lina was appointed as the assistant to the director of the Municipal Office in Beijing, and continued to serve as the director of the reception. Although Ding Nengtong was full of support for the organizational decision when he spoke at the meeting, he knew very well in his heart that sending away Hu Zhanfa and Rong Guoku was clearly intended to break my left and right arms, eliminate his core wings in the Municipal Office in Beijing, and weaken his position in the Municipal Office. The power of the Beijing Office.After Hu Zhanfa and Rong Guoku left, Yang Shanshui, the deputy director who had nothing to do with the world, and Bai Lina, the romantic widow, obviously paved the way for Xi Tao to compete against him in the future.Don't look at Xi Tao who has just taken up the post of assistant director and director of the information department, and he may soon be the deputy director or even the director.The more Ding Nengtong thought about it, the more he felt that his position was threatened. Xi Tao, who was originally very handsome, looked like a villain with mouse eyes and dog face no matter how he looked at it. In the afternoon, Lu Lisheng went to visit a deputy minister of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. Xi Tao, who had just taken office, was called to his office by Ding Nengtong.Xi Tao met Ding Nengtong for the first time in the ward where Wang Dingchen lived in Beijing 301 Hospital, and he felt that Ding Nengtong was a tricky, tactful, shrewd and capable person, but also scheming, and he was completely difficult to deal with.What frightened Xi Tao even more was that he realized that Ding Nengtong didn't like him in his bones. After Xi Tao graduated from the International Relations Institute in Beijing, he was assigned to work in the Dongzhou Security Bureau for almost ten years, and he was only a department-level cadre.Unexpectedly, when he met Mayor Wu Dongming by chance and was personally supported by Mayor Wu, Xi Tao was really flattered in his heart. As the saying goes, a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier.Xi Tao wanted to make some achievements on the security front.However, after ten years of hard work in the Municipal Security Bureau, he never had a chance to make his mark. Unexpectedly, Huang Tian paid off, allowing him to meet Mayor Wu, and he was promoted to two levels within a month.First, after Wang Dingchen was discharged from the hospital, he personally presided over the party group meeting of the bureau and promoted himself to be the deputy director of the anti-espionage department of the Municipal Security Bureau. Soon after receiving a notice from the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee, he was officially appointed as the assistant director of the Dongzhou Municipal Office in Beijing.Xi Tao has a feeling of reaching the sky in one step.His heart was full of gratitude to Mayor Wu. Xi Tao is a person who knows how to repay his kindness. He is determined to work hard after he arrives at the Municipal Office in Beijing, and will never disappoint Mayor Wu's expectations of him.Xi Tao is an introverted person, usually reticent, so few colleagues in the Municipal Security Bureau know the identity of his brother Xi Hai.Xi Tao has never realized that the identity of the eldest brother is a political resource that can make a future for himself. He just wants to show his elder brother his achievements by relying on his own ability. After returning from Beijing, Jiao Yunlong invited Xi Tao to dinner several times. In fact, Mayor Wu deliberately asked Jiao Yunlong to give Xi Tao a call. The real reason why the Security Bureau has been struggling for ten years without being promoted. Politics does not talk about real talents and learning, but politics talks about circles and tactics.Hearing Jiao Yunlong's theory at first, Xi Tao thought it was very fresh, but after thinking about it later, he was a little worried.Because he knows very well that once he joins this circle, his destiny will be linked with this circle. There used to be many prominent circles in Dongzhou official circles. Xiao Honglin, Jia Chaoxuan, Yuan Xifan, and He Zhendong all had their own circles, but now they all disappeared.But Xi Tao thought about it again, Mayor Wu is different from these people. When Wu Dongming was the secretary of the municipal party committee in Changshan City, the people of Changshan City called him the "civilian secretary" and had the reputation of "rooster".It is said that on the day he left Changshan, 50,000 to 60,000 citizens spontaneously took to the streets to see him off, handing him flowers and holding up banners to bless him. His convoy originally consisted of a police car, a minibus and two accompanying buses. Fifty or sixty taxi drivers formed spontaneously, and all of them turned on their emergency lights to follow Wu Dongming's convoy. Afterwards, dozens of see-off vehicles from all walks of life lined up for hundreds of meters, all the way to Dongzhou.You can't go wrong entering such a leadership circle.Only then did Xi Tao dispel his doubts. When Xi Tao walked into Ding Nengtong's office, Ding Nengtong was reading the "Beijing Times" of the day. When Tao Tao came, Ding Nengtong enthusiastically got up and made a cup of tea for Xi Tao, and then refilled his own teacup.Xi Tao did not sit on the sofa, but sat across from Ding Nengtong's boss platform, as if a subordinate was reporting work to his superior or listening to instructions.Ding Nengtong smiled, motioned for Xi Tao to sit on the sofa, and sat opposite Xi Tao himself. "Xi Tao, you are the backbone of the Municipal Security Bureau, and you are no stranger to information work. Although our Dongzhou Beijing Office has won the reputation of 'People's Office in Beijing' through the transformation of functions in the past two years, to tell you the truth, information work has always been It is our weakness. Now Mayor Wu personally arranges for you to take charge of the information work of the Municipal Office in Beijing. This also shows that the municipal party committee and government attach great importance to the work of our Beijing Office. Some plans for information work." Ding Nengtong has a gentle voice, a kind face, and a friendly demeanor, as if he were a close colleague.However, Xi Tao knew in his heart that Ding Nengtong was testing his talents. Xi Tao did not dare to neglect. Before he took office, he had done serious research on all aspects of the work of the Beijing Office, especially the information work. idea. "Director Ding, I did do some research on this aspect of work. Before coming here, Mayor Wu also gave instructions. I think the information work in the past was weak because our information collection work only stayed at the routine information level. Beijing It is the largest information collection and distribution center in the country. To do a good job in information work, we must not stick to the rules, we must develop new ideas, use new methods, adopt new methods, and continuously deepen the work content." Xi Tao made Ding Nengtong a little impressed. "So what is the general information you speak of?" "The information department should make great efforts to find information that is advanced, undisclosed, and limited in scope. It must also be time-sensitive and confidential. On the one hand, it must closely grasp the information requirements of city leaders, update service methods, and improve Adoption rate; on the other hand, strengthen the connection between the Beijing Office and the central ministries and commissions and Beijing, adopt various methods to collect information well, and open up new information sources on the basis of protecting the original information sources.” Xi Tao looked like a newborn calf, which made Ding Nengtong very uncomfortable. "Xi Tao, you have a good idea. You are indeed the backbone of the counterintelligence department. It's just that the information department is not the counterintelligence department of the Security Bureau after all, so you can't expose the fraud. My opinion is that while the information work of the Beijing Office is panning for gold in the sand, Focus on 'hot spots', make a fuss about the word 'new', and resolutely take the difficulties and hot spots in the work as the main feedback points for information. , to achieve 'what others have, what others have is new', strive to make information attract the attention of leaders, and provide services for leadership decision-making to the greatest extent. On the other hand, we must make a fuss around the word 'fast'. The timeliness of information determines Information is sometimes 'flash in the pan', and it must be 'quick' to win. Major issues and unexpected important situations that the leaders care about should be reported as soon as possible, and the 'blitzkrieg' should be done well. Just now you said that Mayor Wu gave a speech on the work of the Beijing Office There are instructions, what instructions did Mayor Wu make?" Ding Neng changed the conversation, trying to extract some of Wu Dongming's intentions from Xi Tao. Xi Tao seemed to have seen Ding Nengtong's thoughts, and said in a gentle manner: "Mayor Wu instructed that since it is the municipal government's office in Beijing, it should report valuable information to the mayor as soon as possible, instead of the leaders of the four major groups at the same time. In addition, the Mercedes-Benz specially approved by Mayor Wu from the Municipal Reception Office to the Beijing Office is used as Mayor Wu’s special vehicle for entering Beijing, and I am usually in charge of managing it.” Although Xi Tao spoke very calmly, every sentence stabbed Ding Nengtong's heart like a knife. He never expected that Mayor Wu would be so domineering. He had to stop and report to Mayor Wu instead. What would Secretary Xia think?What do Zhou Yongnian, Zhao Guoguang, Zhang Baochang and other leaders think of the Beijing Office?Ding Nengtong had mixed feelings in his heart.But Ding Nengtong is a man with a deep sense of city, even if his heart is burning with anger, he just talks nonchalantly, which makes people feel calm! "Xi Tao, how about this, the leaders of the four major teams of "Capital Information" will send out the same photo, and make a "Mayor's Reference" for Mayor Wu. The liaison office was originally in charge of Comrade Rong Guoku. Now that he has been transferred to Guangzhou to work I have become the director of the department, so you can take it too. After all, the information work is inseparable from the support of the liaison work. In the evening, I reserved a private room in the private restaurant of the government. Comrade Guoku, Shanshui and Lina all participated." Before Ding Nengtong finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xi Tao, "Director Ding, I'm afraid I can't do it at night. I promised Minister Lu to see my brother. My brother has already reserved a private room at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse to entertain Minister Lu at night, so... " "Minister Lu said he has something to do at night, so it's... well, since you have an arrangement, I'll meet you another day." Ding Nengtong said gently, but actually felt as if he had been stung by a wasp. Ding Nengtong knew in his heart that the reason why Xi Tao showed his whereabouts at night was to show off his strength on purpose.Originally, he was going to invite Lu Lisheng to dinner at night, but Lu Lisheng said that he had something to do that night, and it turned out that this was the matter. Ding Nengtong felt more and more pressure from Xi Tao.In the past, when Lu Lisheng came to Beijing, Ding Nengtong drove the car himself, and he never hid his whereabouts from him. When Xi Tao came, his own face could not keep up with the newly appointed assistant director, and Ding Nengtong felt a sense of crisis in his heart.