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Chapter 6 Circles

Although Chen Ping went to the Shanghai Office in Jiangyin on the first day and had a disagreement with the other two leaders here, this did not affect Chen Ping's smooth takeover of the position of inspector in Shanghai Office. According to the private instructions of the Wuxi Municipal Party Committee, Chen Ping was only responsible for assisting the work of Du Jianmin, the Director of the Shanghai Office. He was not in charge of any department below, nor did he have the right to handle problems by himself, and he became a glorious idle cadre.

This was decided before Chen Ping came to Shanghai, and Chen Ping also decided to take a good rest in Shanghai for a while, so he had no objection when Du Jianmin assigned work arrangements.

Chen Ping's behavior made Du Jianmin secretly relieved, because in his opinion, judging from Chen Ping's behavior this morning, he should be the kind of young and energetic type. In addition, he was just sent out from the Wuxi officialdom and was still full of anger. Therefore, he made such a fuss in the morning, with an aggressive momentum and no face for the indigenous cadres stationed in Shanghai. In this way, Du Jianmin was afraid that he would force the other party to be too ruthless and make him mess with him, and things would become difficult to deal with. No matter how the officials' thoughts are based on stability, they would not want to see any unexpected things happening. However, he could not ignore the instructions of his old leader in Wuxi. As a result, Du Jianmin could only arrange the work tasks in a very conflicted and trembling manner.

At night, according to the old rules in the officialdom, Du Jianmin naturally wanted to hold a table for Chen Ping in a hotel to celebrate the banquet. Although Chen Ping was idle, the rules in the officialdom could not be broken. Therefore, at the guesthouse in Shanghai at night, all the cadres and ordinary employees of the entire Shanghai office were still summoned to set up four tables.

The four tables are clearly divided, namely one table of leading cadres, one table of office workers stationed in Shanghai, and two tables of non-staff personnel.

Another interesting thing is that at the table of leading cadres, although everyone knows that Chen Ping was actually demoted, they still enthusiastically said congratulations to Chen Ping, as if nothing had happened and everything was as usual.

In this regard, Chen Ping could only helplessly exclaim the thickness of the faces of these officials.

After dinner, Chen Ping returned to the room. Although Chen Ping actually had no power in the Shanghai Office, he did not want to do anything shocking and terrifying in the Shanghai Office. However, based on the habit of accumulating official experience in the officialdom, Chen Ping still sorted out the information of the entire Shanghai Office.

The Shanghai Office is actually a section-level department affiliated to the Jiangyin Municipal Government. He does not have much content. There are only so many people in the entire leadership. The top leader is Du Jianmin. Logically speaking, Chen Ping should be the second-in-command, but now the second-in-command is Ding Lei, who looks only at the sight and doesn’t know what the relationship with Du Jianmin is. In addition to the two of them, the member of the Party Leadership Group of the Shanghai Office also has a Wei Zhenxing, director of the Information Office who is responsible for collecting information in Shanghai and its surrounding areas.

There is no doubt that Ding Lei must have followed Du Jianmin. As for Wei Zhenxing, who was not here in the afternoon, he should be the confidant of a leader in Jiangyin or Wuxi, who came here to work hard to gain experience and achieve merits and see the world.

Since Chen Ping didn't take it too seriously about the Shanghai office, he just made a rough analysis and then went to bed. The next morning, Chen Ping got up early, had breakfast, walked to Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street and the Bund to experience the prosperity of Shanghai. Finally, he estimated that time and called Zhou Baochang, the professor of the Party School, again.

This was the time when Han Jianfeng took the initiative to tell Chen Ping yesterday. It was just the time when Zhou Baochang was fine. Judging from Han Jianfeng's tone and his behavior, Chen Ping could guess that although his performance yesterday was not very good, it at least left a very special impression on Zhou Baochang. Otherwise, Han Jianfeng would not have called to tell him about such an insignificant thing.

Chen Ping understood that he was recommended by Han Jianfeng, so no matter whether the result was good or bad, Zhou Baochang should have a call to Han Jianfeng. Maybe Zhou Baochang did not express his opinion before leaving yesterday, and he also showed a little dislike for him. However, no one can tell the truth about the officialdom these days, especially Zhou Baochang, an old fox who looks white, has thunder in his chest and a face like a flat lake, must be a piece of cake. So what's strange about him not expressing his opinion in order to deliberately hold his airs?

However, from common sense, if the other party really looks down on him, then when it comes to Han Jianfeng's ears, he will definitely hit him, but the facts are not the case now.

If he wasn't very impressed by himself, why did he tell himself his rest time while he was idle? Wasn't he just thinking about calling himself again?

Even though Chen Ping was a little disgusted with this behavior of holding his own identity, there was no way. Who made the other party a person with identity? He could only call him properly. After all, Zhou Baochang was the most important thing that Chen Ping must do when he came to Shanghai.

Maybe Zhou Baochang is nominally just a professor at the Party School, but Chen Ping knows that he is definitely not that simple.

Not to mention anything else, just Han Jianfeng. Although it seems that he has found a second-generation official wife and has become successful through his father-in-law's relationship, don't forget that China is composed of circles of various classes. Everyone lives in his own circle. This circle is invisible and intangible, but it clearly divides the positioning of everyone in the circle. People in the upper-level circles will not get into the circle below, and people in the lower circles will find it difficult to get into the circle above. Even if they are lucky enough to get into the circle, if they do not have strong power guarantees, they will be squeezed out.

Just like the situation Chen Ping encountered in Wuxi, it may seem that he was excluded because of Liu Jianghai, but in fact, he was trying to get into the upper circle that did not originally belong to him, which led to unanimous exclusion in that circle.

To put it bluntly, this situation is that the people in the upper circle subconsciously look down on the people in the lower circle and have an instinctive repulsion towards the people in the lower circle.

Then, Han Jianfeng, whose background is not much different from Chen Ping, should be the same as Chen Ping. If he wants to marry a second-generation official, first of all, the other party’s parents cannot agree. After all, Han Jianfeng does not belong to their circle, and they will feel that letting people from a lower circle enter the door is a shame. Secondly, most women have good face, and they will feel that it is embarrassing to marry people from a lower circle. The fundamental reason is that in the other party’s heart, they feel that they are not equal to you at all. This is what is called a person who is not a world.

But in fact, Han Jianfeng married a second-generation official, but this is not a myth of the Phoenix Man, but it is just because Han Jianfeng also has the same circle resources as her, so that the other party can accept them. The center of Han Jianfeng's circle resources is Zhou Baochang, a professor at the Party School.

Chen Ping has been a cadre at the level of the department for more than three years after entering the system. It can be said that he has the ability to get involved in the officialdom. What he lacks now is to make this circle recognize his resources.

This is the result of Chen Ping's thinking after being squeezed out by the entire Wuxi officialdom. So now that Han Jianfeng has pushed this resource in front of him, he must find a way to seize it.

Of course, Chen Ping also thought that since the officialdom is so difficult and tiring, why don’t he give up? Anyway, he is also a billionaire, isn’t it good to enjoy the money?

But later Chen Ping thought that no matter what he did in China, he could not do without the yamen. Not to mention anything else, just talk about Li Jupeng and Luo Han’s lending company. If he had no relationship with Han Jianfeng, then the company would not have been opened. Even if he did any other business, the same was true. There was a fundamental difference between having a relationship and not having a relationship. The second-generation official can achieve twice the result with half the effort than ordinary people when doing business.

Maybe indignation or helplessness, but this is reality.
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