After lunch, it was already two o'clock. Zhou Changquan and Chu Xiuhong returned to the provincial government, and Hou Weidong sent Liu Jie back to the singing and dancing troupe.

When getting off the bus, Liu Jie told Hou Weidong: "Wait a moment, I will give you two reception tickets. Today, the performance created by the Song and Dance Troupe has been rehearsing for half a year. It is worth watching. This is also our first performance to be commercialized. In the performance hall of the Song and Dance Troupe, please watch it."

After waiting for a while, Yan Zi took two tickets and walked out of the gate, walked to the side of the car, handed the ticket to Liu Jie. She nodded to Hou Weidong, then turned around and walked back to the gate of the singing and dancing troupe, leaving a straight back.

Liu Jie praised: "Yan Zi is now our pillar. She can endure loneliness and stay on the stage. It is rare for such a girl to be like this now."

Hou Weidong remembered the girls such as Zhu Yingying and Xiaoman from the Song and Dance Troupe, and said casually: "The path of life is your own choice, and everyone must be responsible for their choice."

Liu Jie joked: "Director Hou's words are very philosophical. I want to refine this sentence and hang it in our training hall." Before getting off the car, she said again: "Governor Zhou values ​​you the most. He said many times that you are the most promising."

Hou Weidong rested for a while at the Venus Star Hotel, called Xiaojia and said, "I am still in Lingxi. I made an appointment with Governor Zhou for dinner at noon. I will meet several leaders in the afternoon. Do you have time to go to Lingxi to see the performance of the Provincial Song and Dance Troupe."

Xiaojia said, "Director Xie and I made an appointment. Everyone made an appointment to play mahjong at night. It was not good to change the mind temporarily." She said, "You should live in the Venus Hotel again. Now we often go to Lingxi, so we might as well buy a house in Lingxi to avoid staying in the Venus Hotel every time. No matter how good the hotel is, it is not as comfortable as the home."

"When will you accompany me to see the house?"

"Want to try to get home next week, will you not be able to go home tomorrow?"

"This time I went to Lingxi, I was going to visit several leaders. I met Governor Zhou at noon and saw who was free in the afternoon. Then I wanted to meet Minister Zhao Dong."

"Zhao Dong is working on reducing the burden. You don't need to see him."

"He is in the provincial government, and the mountains and rivers do not turn around. It is inevitable that he will not meet in the future. It is beneficial to burn incense early."

Xiaojia sighed and said, "It's really tiring to be an official. In fact, with the current economic conditions, you don't have to care about your official position at all. Is the position of deputy mayor really worth your way around like this?"

Xiaojia's problem is actually a question that Hou Weidong often thinks about. In life and career, he actually does not have clear ideals and goals. He is pushed away one by one by one by one. Even if he has a goal, it is a short-term goal. After graduating from school, his ideals and career will become indifferent.

Everyone is a small boat. Navigating the sea of ​​society, people with strong abilities can barely grasp part of the channel of destiny. Those with weak abilities can only go with the flow.

Hou Weidong sat in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and thought for a while, and then he decisively pulled his thoughts from illusion to real problems. He was not a fanatic, but a practical worker, and he soon contacted Ding Yuan.

Ding Yuan had an important reception, so he could only meet another day.

Chen Shuguang accompanied Meng Hao to Beijing.

The last person on Hou Weidong's trip was Zhao Dong. In order to contact Zhao Dong, he made full preparations, first read the latest documents of the burden reduction office, found the office phone number of the burden reduction office, and then entered Zhao Dong's mobile phone number on the Shazhou Municipal Party Committee confidential phone book and entered his mobile phone number.

However, Zhao Dong, Ding Yuan, Chen Shuguang and others are different. The latter two are friends who often come and go, and visiting does not make people feel sudden. After the former left Shazhou, Hou Weidong did not have direct contact with him. When he went there rashly, if there is no appropriate reason, it will be too utilitarian.

Hou Weidong also reflected on himself: "It is difficult to do things if you don't burn incense and cram in the first place. In the future, you must cultivate the vision of fishing big fish with a long line."

However, since he has come, Hou Weidong is not willing to go for a waste of time. He has been on the Party Committee line before and has not had much contact with the government. His current goal is to Deputy Mayor of Shazhou. It is necessary to establish the relationship between the provincial government. Zhao Dong is a very critical figure.

After thinking carefully for a while, Hou Weidong called Duan Chuanlin and said, "Cunlin, I am Hou Weidong, right in the west of Linghe. Yesterday, I accidentally read your previous article, which is the article about the burden on farmers. Your article is very powerful. For this reason, the province has set up a special burden reduction office."

Duan Chuanlin said: "I was thinking about this a few days ago and was going to write a follow-up interview."

Hou Weidong laughed and said, "You quoted articles by Zhao Dong, the Organization Minister of Shazhou Municipal Party Committee, and Zhao Dong was transferred from the Municipal Party Committee and went to the burden reduction office to be deputy director."

"I learned about this later, and now I still feel sorry for this Minister Zhao Dong who dares to speak out."

Hou Weidong naturally proposed a suggestion to visit Zhao Dong: "Minister Zhao wrote an article to appeal to Chengjin. As the former secretary of the county party committee of Chengjin County, I feel that I owe him a favor. Since you want to write a follow-up visit, let's go to visit Minister Zhao together."

"Then I will follow Director Hou's arrangement."

Having found a suitable entry point, Hou Weidong planned to call the office of the burden reduction office first, and then inquire about Zhao Dong's recent situation through the burden reduction office. This would not easily arouse Zhao Dong's disgust and conceal his true intentions.

"Hello, I am the Shazhou Agricultural Machinery and Water Power Bureau. I want to ask Director Zhao Dong's phone number. I am his former subordinate."

The comrade who answered the phone from the burden reduction office heard: "Wait a minute, Director Zhao is next to you, I'll ask him to answer the phone."

This was beyond Hou Weidong's expectations. He originally thought that Zhao Dong had already been working in the provincial government, but he did not expect that he actually found Zhao Dong in the burden reduction office.

When Zhao Dong heard that someone from Shazhou Agricultural Machinery and Hydropower Bureau was looking for him, he secretly wondered. He took the phone call and said, "Lao Nan, I haven't heard your voice for a long time." Hou Weidong reported, "Minister Zhao, it's not Lao Nan, I am Hou Weidong. I have been transferred to the Agricultural Machinery and Hydropower Bureau for several months."

Zhao Dong was the Organization Minister of the Shazhou Municipal Party Committee and was very familiar with the following situation. He said in surprise: "How could you be transferred to the Agricultural Machinery and Water Power Bureau?" He only knew that Hou Weidong did not let Shengbao Group settle in Chengjin, so he was not very clear about what happened in the future.

Hou Weidong said briefly: "This matter was influenced by Shengbao Jibao. At that time, I did not agree to the conditions of Shengbao Group. Shengbao Group moved to Maodong, and I was transferred to the Agricultural Machinery and Hydropower Bureau."

Zhao Dong said: "Zhu Minsheng is not energetic enough. Practice has proved that when it comes to investment, we cannot pick up all the vegetables in the basket, we have to find projects that are suitable for the local area, and we have to have relatively fair conditions. Now Maodong has been in trouble with the Ministry of Land and Resources, which makes the province embarrassed." Speaking of this, he paused and asked, "Is there anything you have to do with me?"

Hou Weidong then expressed his intention and said, "Minister Zhao, do you remember the Hengshan who wrote the Inner Reference back then? This Hengshan has been from Shazhou for a long time. His father is Dean Duan of Shazhou College. He is working in political and economic commentary. I am now with him and want to invite Minister Zhao to have a meal together."

Zhao Dong had a good impression of Hou Weidong, and both of them were excluded by Zhu Minsheng. After hesitation, he still agreed to meet happily: "Then we will see you at 6 o'clock in the evening, and you can arrange the location. I only have one request, not to enter the hotel."

After putting down the phone, Zhao Dong said intimately: "Have Hou Weidong heard about my transfer? His phone call was to the burden reduction office. If I hadn't come to the burden reduction office to get things, I would definitely not have received this call. It seems that he does not know my new identity."

Governor Qian and Meng Haofang arrived in Beijing together. This time they went to Beijing was very important. The Secretary-General of the Provincial Government personally accompanied him. Zhao Dongchu arrived at the General Office of the Provincial Government. He was not familiar with the superiors and subordinates, so he stayed in Lingxi this time. He took advantage of this gap to get a few documents from the burden reduction office, and happened to receive a call from Hou Weidong.

The dinner was still set in Shazhou. Zhao Dong saw Duan Chuanlin, shook his hand, and smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Mr. Hengshan, who is so young with a sharp writing style, was so young. I was stabbed by your article."

Duan Chuanlin was full of sharpness and said, "There is one less Minister Zhao, but another Director Zhao. This is a blessing for the people of Lingxi. I have been reading the documents of the burden reduction office. Last year, Lingxi reduced the burden per capita for 49 yuan throughout the year. This forty-nine yuan is just a small number in the city, but it is enough for oil and salt in the countryside."

Zhao Dong is the director of the Provincial Burden Reduction Office, which has a deep understanding of the burden on farmers. He said: "The current Burden Reduction Office is to scratch the shoe and cannot solve the fundamental problem. Since there is no legal hard regulations and the difficulties of grassroots governments, the burden on farmers will always be springs. The province has a greater pressure and a lighter burden. If the province is under a little pressure, it will rebound immediately."

Duan Chuanlin said: "Director Zhao, I have a deep sense of this. At present, I am conducting an investigation into the burden on township governments. I have traveled to more than ten towns in the province. The conclusion is that 80% of township governments should go bankrupt. However, our system cannot make the first-level government bankrupt."

"I recently dissected Santai Township in Tiezhou City. This is a small township with only more than 10,000 people in the township, with a total debt of more than 6 million yuan. Among them, the debts owed by popularizing nine-year compulsory education meet the standards, rural primary and secondary school buildings meet the standards, etc. are as high as 3 million yuan; rural "three funds" are 400,000 yuan, corporate debts are 1.5 million yuan, and the fiscal deficits over the years have accumulated 1.05 million yuan."

"At present, I estimate that the fiscal deficit of townships in the province is 480 million yuan, and the hidden deficit is as high as 930 million yuan."

Zhao Dong was very interested in Duan Chuanlin's investigation and said, "Brother Chuanlin, don't rush to make this article an internal reference. Can you let me read it first? I have a channel to deliver this article to the main leaders of the provincial government." At this time, he still did not say that he was already Governor Qian's secretary.

Hou Weidong knew the meaning of Zhao Dong's words, saying: "I have worked in cities and counties, and I have a deep sense of this. The causes of the debt problems of township governments are complicated, the reasons for the system are unsatisfactory, the losses caused by organic decision-making mistakes, and some false political achievements of some cadres."

The three discussed the debt issues of township governments.

When they broke up, Hou Weidong asked: "I have benefited a lot from this conversation today. Director Zhao, has your phone changed? Or is it on the confidential phone book?"

Zhao Dong said: "That mobile phone number has been disabled. My mobile phone number is, if you have any questions, you can contact me directly."

He specifically said to Duan Chuanlin: "Cunlin's mobile phone number should be given to me. If you have any good topics, let's study them together."

After seeing off Zhao Dong and Duan Chuanlin, Hou Weidong recalled the details for a while and said intimately: "Today's arrangement is reasonable, and Zhao Dong should not be suspicious, and achieved the expected results."

He saw that it was still early, and thought of the two tickets sent by Liu Jie, so he drove to the Provincial Song and Dance Troupe Theater.
Chapter completed!