The atmosphere of the dinner was warm and the guests and hosts were all happy. By the time Zhu Yan came out of the Wuhai County Party Secretary Wei Guo’s room, it was already past nine o’clock.

Zhu Yan's body was a little fat, and he looked tired when he stood in the elevator.

Hou Weidong said in his heart: "The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. Zhu Yan is in charge of such a large county. There are too many things waiting for him to make decisions every day, and too many people waiting for him to receive him, which is really tiring."

When they arrived at the hotel hall, Zhu Yan ordered: "You ask Master Liu to leave first, let's take a taxi to the factory building of Yiyang Local Products Company to take a look."

There are several mountains around Yiyang, which are rich in "copper bars". The top of the copper bars is like a coin, and the overall color is brass, so it is named Tonggang Ru. The copper bars have a very fresh taste and are very popular among the Japanese. In the mid-1980s, Yiyang Local Products Company was one of the few companies in Shazhou that could make foreign exchange. The canned copper bars produced were very popular and can be regarded as Yiyang's pillar industry. One enterprise has brought at least thousands of farmers to production.

However, after entering the 1990s, due to backward technology and single marketing methods, the canned copper bars gradually withdrew from coastal cities, and the Japanese began to be less interested in canned products. Yiyang Local Products Company's benefits became worse and worse. The local Products Company had accumulated more than 500 people in-service and retired employees. The once glorious company has reached the verge of bankruptcy.

When Hou Weidong heard that he wanted to take a taxi, he hesitated for a moment and said, "Secretary Zhu, I have a pickup truck. Can I take this truck to the local product company?" Since he is a secretary, even if he is someone around Zhu Yan, Hou Weidong thinks it is better to be honest in most matters, and this will make Zhu Yan feel more sincere.

Zhu Yan glanced at him, "Do you have a private car? How's the technology?"

Hou Weidong smiled and said, "Don't worry, Secretary. My skills are also good. I will have a working meal outside tonight, and I don't get a drop of wine."

Lao Liu heard that Zhu Yan was not taking his car, and his expression was a little strange. He was rubbing in the car for a while before he drove away.

Hou Weidong walked quickly towards Liang Bifa's yard, and soon drove the car to the front of Yiyang Hotel and got in the car. Zhu Yan sat in the passenger seat and praised: "The inside of your car is very clean. The smell inside is also good."

Hou Weidong smiled "Hey, hey" and said, "The private car will naturally be cleaner." He said to himself: "I wish the secretary has a good family environment since he was a child, and he likes to be clean and tidy."

Zhu Yan asked: "Xiao Hou has not worked for a few years. Why did he buy a pickup truck? I have read your files. Your mother is a teacher and your father is a policeman. They can't afford this truck with their salary."

Zhu Yan asked this, his attitude was calm and straightforward.

"Secretary Zhu, after I graduated, I was assigned to work in Qinglin Town. Then I went to Shangqinglin working group and served as a deputy team leader. Shangqinglin contains extremely rich mineral resources. However, there is no road access, and there is only a treasure mountain that cannot be mined. After the Shangqinglin Highway was built, I jointly opened a stone yard with the village cadre Zeng Xiangang in the name of my mother Liu Guangfen. When the highway was built, the stone yard made some money."

Most of what Hou Weidong said was the truth, but he did not say it all. For example, how many stone fields he had, annual profits, and shares of Seiko Group, these are his secrets and cannot be told to the outside world.

Zhu Yan basically understood these situations from Tie Ruiqing. Seeing that Hou Weidong had not concealed at all, he thought to himself: "As the saying goes, the heart is selfless and the world is wide. What Hou Weidong said is basically the same as what Tie Ruiqing described. This young man can still trust."

There are three main reasons why Zhu Yan wanted to use Hou Weidong. The main reason is that the story of Hou Weidong building roads told by Tie Ruiqing. Tie Ruiqing is not a person in the officialdom, so he naturally would not use official tricks to exaggerate it. Hou Weidong's image of independent road construction left a deep impression on Zhu Yan; the second reason is that Hou Weidong was the deputy mayor and his funeral reform was particularly outstanding. Deputy County Mayor Gao praised the young deputy mayor at the meeting many times; the third reason is that Hou Weidong graduated from the Law Department of Shazhou University, and Zhu Yan always wanted to be a secretary who understands the law.

After Zhu Yan came to Yiyang to work, the headache was that the cadres' thoughts were rigid and the system had many disadvantages. Cadres were busy with relationships and disputes rather than creative work. He was very realistic and knew that with the accumulation of practice, it would be difficult for Yugong to move mountains to move mountains. He just used his own power to carry out the work of knocking and beating within the system.

Seeing that Zhu Yan didn't say anything, Hou Weidong said: "Now the villagers who work in the stone yard can earn 600 or 700 yuan a month. They can spend about 1,000 yuan a month on technical projects such as artillery firemen. Because of the opening of the stone yard in Qinglin, many families have been lifted out of poverty and become rich."

Hou Weidong's actions on Qinglin Mountain have the spirit of pioneering and innovative young people. Zhu Yan secretly appreciated it, but did not express his opinion.

In the officialdom, not expressing one's attitude is just a matter of not expressing one's opinion, but Hou Weidong has not yet fully understood this truth at this time.

After turning a few small slopes, I entered the territory of Yiyang Local Products Company. The residential areas scattered along the slopes were all the housing for employees of Yiyang Company. Zhu Yan got off the car, left the main road, and walked along the street to the residential areas.

This is a typical old residential area with dilapidated houses and many illegally built sheds and single brick houses. The aroma of food also rushes straight to the streets. In some places, the sewers were obviously blocked, and residents poured dirty water directly into the sewers on the streets.

Zhu Yan frowned and looked at the messy residential area. When he walked to the entrance of the factory, General Iron had already locked the door. The factory was completely in the darkness, without a trace of light. He stood outside the factory, motionless, and didn't know what he was thinking.

Hou Weidong didn't dare to disturb him, so he just accompanied him outside the factory.

"who?"

Three flashlights suddenly flashed in the darkness, shining on Zhu Yan and Hou Weidong, and the three of them rushed out of the darkness.

"What are you two doing here sneakily?" A hoarse voice rang out majestically.

Hou Weidong stepped forward, blocked Zhu Yan, and calmly said, "What does sneaky mean? Oh, don't shine randomly." He covered the three flashlights with his hands and asked back, "What are you doing?"

"I'm from the factory protection team." He said hoarsely: "There have been things thrown in the factory these two days. It's so dark and the ones standing here must be not good people. Come with us to the police station."

Zhu Yan held his hands behind his back to see how Hou Weidong dealt with the scene.

Hou Weidong had a county party committee work certificate issued by the Organization Department in his pocket, so he was not anxious and said slowly: "Do you think we are like stealing things like this? Besides, what's the point of stealing this dark factory?"

The hoarse voice heard Hou Weidong look down on the factory and said angrily, "Why do young people say this? Don't underestimate this factory. When the benefits are good, we all have to pay hundreds of wages. Although these machines and equipment can't be opened, selling scrap iron is worth a lot."

Another man took the flashlight and illuminated Hou Weidong from top to bottom, saying, "He wore leather shoes and white clothes. It was not like stealing scrap iron."

Hou Weidong said in his heart: "Zhu Yan came to the factory tonight, which must have a deep meaning. The materials obtained in this case are the most real, and I will lead them to tell the truth."

"I used to study at Shazhou College and came here. I remember this factory is very popular. Why is it like this now?"

He cursed with a hoarse voice: "Who officials in the factory have a bad conscience, eat and drink every day, and the monthly food expenses are about 100,000 yuan. He also picks up and delivers it to the car every day."

Hou Weidong: "How many factory leaders and how many cars are there?"

"One factory director, two deputy factory directors. Three of them have small cars. The worst is Santana. The leaders of these factory leaders are all in a dark mind, and they are sitting on the hard-earned money of the workers."

One person added: "The workers can't even pay for medical expenses. A few days ago, Mr. Liu got sick and his wife went to ask for finance. A person in his fifties just wanted to kneel down to those little girls. I worked in finance for sixteen years and was kicked away. Now all the big and small leaders in the factory have IOUs in the factory. If all the funds occupied by private people are paid back, the factory will have working capital."

He said in a hoarse voice in an angry voice: "What's the use of saying this? I heard that the factory is going to buy it for the Japanese, and then we will become Japanese slaves." He shook the door hard, and the iron lock on the door made a rustling sound.

He cursed rudely again: "We are still protecting the factory, protecting someone, letting the people in the factory steal it, and finally there is still a few money in our hands." He seemed to be the head of these people, and waved to Hou Weidong and said: "It is useless to tell you these things. Go away quickly. There are no street lights in the factory, so be careful of being stolen."

Zhu Yan said aside: "Let's go."

In the dark streets, Zhu Yan and Hou Weidong didn't speak, so they got on the pickup truck. Zhu Yan said, "You go from here to Yiyang Hotel, transfer to Yiyang Middle School, and then send me home."

"I don't want to be Zhu Qingtian. Qingtian is a tragedy in modern society." After sighing, Zhu Yan leaned on the car chair and thought about the problem silently for a while before saying: "The frozen sky ruler is not a cold day. If the system does not change, things like local products will never be eliminated."

In order to invest in Seiko Group, Hou Weidong read a lot of books on economics and said in a modest and studious tone: "Secretary Zhu, if you reconstruct the local product company according to the corporate governance structure, you don't know how the effect is?"

Zhu Yan was deeply influenced by his family and liked to study. He was a famous study secretary among the four county party secretaries. He also studied corporate governance and said: "The corporate governance structure is not omnipotent. In the past, he talked about contracting, but it seemed that it worked as soon as contracting. Now he talked about corporate governance structure. It seems that a company could solve problems by building a company. In fact, in a developed capitalist society, the serious corporate governance structure also goes bankrupt every year."

He also said: "When I was a county magistrate, I participated in exchange activities between the Lingxi county magistrate and the British mayors' association. British mayors heard that county magistrates also had to manage the economy, and they found it incredible. In their opinion, the government is the government, the makers and maintainers of market rules, not market participants."

Hou Weidong drove attentively and passed Yiyang Hotel. He saw many vehicles parked outside the door and two police vehicles. When he arrived at Yiyang Middle School, he happened to encounter the school’s evening self-study and there were many vehicles outside the school gate. In Yiyang County, there were not many private cars. After all, it was a very small number of people who bought private cars like Hou Weidong. In other words, most of them parked in hotels and schools were public cars.

Hou Weidong looked at Zhu Yan with his eyes. Zhu Yan was just silent and did not judge too much about this matter.

When he went to bed at night, Hou Weidong tossed and turned a question: "I told Zhu Yan about the stone yard today. Are you smart or stupid?" After thinking about it, he couldn't think of his eyebrows. He said on the bed: "A person dies and his eggs are facing the sky, and he will never die for thousands of years. Sleep."

After saying this slander, he turned around and fell asleep.

The next morning, Hou Weidong arrived at the office early. As soon as he arrived at the courtyard, he saw Ren Lindu and walked in.

Ren Lindu had one of his eyes and was not energetic. When he went upstairs side by side with Hou Weidong, he said, "It would be great if I had half of Weidong's alcohol. Secretary Zhao was too damn drunk, so I couldn't be embarrassed. I vomited upside down at home yesterday."

The two of them rushed to do the cleaning, one mopping the floor and the other wiping the table.

After cleaning, the phone on Hou Weidong's desk rang. He quickly arrived at Zhu Yan's office, and Standing Committee Member Ji was standing in front of Zhu Yan's desk.

Zhu Yan put a thick stack of documents in front of him. He handed a document to Ji Haiyang and said, "Wait for a while and contacted County Mayor Ma. Take some time today and I will discuss the recent industrial projects with him."

He also said: "Director Ji, you ask a deputy to each of the audit, finance and discipline inspection committees to attend a small meeting, and you will preside over the meeting. The specific task is to form a joint investigation team of three companies. The scale is not large, just three or four people. Enter Yiyang Local Products Company in the name of daily audits. Pay special attention to investigating whether there are any factory cadres who misappropriate public funds and report the results to me."
Chapter completed!