Qi Tongwei: Sign-in relationship started during student days

Chapter 539 Secretary

In recent days, Wu Huiying, secretary general of the municipal party committee, has been so anxious that blisters have appeared on the corners of her mouth.

Two new leaders took office and the task of selecting new secretaries and drivers fell on her.

At first she was very happy, because being able to choose a close associate for the leader represented absolute trust.

She also took the opportunity to recommend several younger people who were related to her. The city party secretary made quick progress and accepted her recommendation without much effort. However, it became a big problem for Mayor Qi Tongwei.

The driver was fine, but the secretary recommended seven or eight options and the other party was not satisfied with any of them.

She wanted to find out what the mayor wanted, but he just said casually: We have to get along well.

No, this is not about choosing a blind date, why would we need to have good rapport?

No matter how much you complain, you still have to get things done, because he is the leader.

Seeing that she couldn't handle the problem, Wu Huiying dragged in Fan Taiping, the secretary general of the municipal government who was supposed to be responsible, and the latter got on board her pirate ship.

"Director Fan, does our secretariat have any writers that Mayor Qi hasn't met?" Wu Huiying asked Fan Taiping while inspecting the party and government departments.

Fan Taiping thought about it carefully and shook his head, "We've chosen everything we can. If nothing works, let's go look for it down there."

The ones Fan Taiping mentioned were the municipal bureaus, districts and counties.

"Isn't this a bit too much of a fuss? It's just a secretary, not a concubine selection. If the noise gets out of hand, we'll still be the ones to take the blame."

Fan Taiping muttered, "I think so too. I've never heard of choosing a secretary based on liking each other."

Wu Huiying glared at the other person, and the latter shrank his neck.

At this time, a dark-skinned, thin man came towards them holding a stack of documents.

The man was wearing a Dacron shirt that was more than ten years old, which immediately caught the attention of both men.

Seeing the two leaders, the skinny man quickly made way, bowed slightly, and called out, "Secretary-General Wu, Secretary-General Fan."

The two nodded slightly and were about to brush shoulders when Fan Taiping stopped and said, "You...you are not that...that."

"Secretary Fan, my name is Wang Wenjie."

"Yes, yes, we were in the same department back then. I remember you came a little later than me."

Wang Wenjie smiled and said, "Secretary Fan, you have a really good memory. I came here in 82, two years after you. Back then, you were the one who taught me how to get familiar with the department's work."

Fan Taiping also smiled. "Yes, you were quite good at writing back then. By the way, which department are you in now? I haven't seen you for a long time."

Wang Wenjie smiled wryly and replied, "You're too kind. These are just some amateur tricks. I'm in the archives right now."

Archives room. Fan Taiping was stunned for a moment.

No wonder he had no impression. The archives room was the Lingnan and Ningguta of the Municipal Party Committee, where he was exiled.

Fan Taiping finally remembered that Wang Wenjie was once a talented person in the secretariat, but was later sent to the archives because he refused to sing the praises of a leader. At that time, he had already been appointed as deputy mayor, and because of the uproar caused by this incident, even he had heard about it.

I didn't expect that I would become the government secretary-general, a director-level cadre, while the other party was still a small clerk.

"The archives room is pretty good too. They have some free time every day, unlike us who are always busy."

"Old Fan." Seeing that Fan Taiping was about to talk non-stop, Wu Huiying urged him on.

"Okay, then you go ahead and do your thing. I have something else to do. Let's talk next time."

"Okay, goodbye Secretary-General Wu, goodbye Secretary-General Fan."

"Goodbye."

After separating from Wang Wenjie, Fan Taiping's mind kept echoing with the scenes of that year.

Actually, the other party is half of my apprentice. I didn't expect that because of my youthful recklessness back then, I would waste more than ten years. What a cruel fate.

"Old Fan, what do you think of these?" Wu Huiying interrupted Fan Taiping's thoughts by pointing at the clerk in an office.

Fan Taiping looked up at the doorplate and realized that they had already walked into the Party History Room.

Fan Taiping shook his head. "Not really. I know a few of the people here. They have rigid mindsets. I don't think they can keep up with Mayor Qi's pace." He paused, then said, "Commissioner Wu, what do you think of Wang Wenjie?"

Thinking that there was a friendship involved, Fan Taiping mentioned it in passing.

"That guy?" Wu Huiying rolled her eyes at Fan Taiping. "Look at him. He looks like an old dried vegetable. Standing next to Mayor Qi, do they look good together? And it's almost the millennium, and he's still wearing clothes from over a decade ago. Isn't his thinking rigid?"

If you ask him to be the mayor's secretary and Mayor Qi finds out, he'll think we're just trying to fool him. No, no, no."

Fan Taiping was quite optimistic. He had figured out Qi Tongwei's character and thought he should be an upright person.

Cherish heroes, respect heroes, people like Wang Wenjie may really become what the other party needs.

"Commissioner Wu, you don't know this, but this guy is really good with his pen. If he hadn't refused to kowtow to the powerful back then, his achievements would probably be no less than mine now."

Wu Huiying heard this and said, "That's even more unacceptable. What does a secretary do? To put it bluntly, they serve people. How can such a person be so noble? If we offend Mayor Qi, we will both be in trouble."

What Wu Huiying said makes a lot of sense. If you are too stubborn in the officialdom, you won’t get far.

It's really sad to think about it. If everyone has to be weak to climb up, what will the entire Chinese political environment be like in a few decades? Will anyone still have the courage to compete with foreigners?

Fan Taiping shook his head, and the two of them began searching in the Municipal Party Committee compound again.

Neither of them noticed that their every move was being watched by a pair of eyes in the distance. It was the Wang Wenjie they were talking about.

Wang Wenjie had been in the archives room for so many years and had never been bumped into by Fan Taiping. How come he ran into him today? It was completely intentional on his part.

He is indeed noble. As the saying goes, jade can be broken into pieces, but its whiteness cannot be changed; bamboo can be burned, but its joints cannot be destroyed!

He had originally planned to maintain his integrity and waste his life, until the party and government conference, when the young mayor's ear-shaking speech reignited his passion.

When he heard some people in the municipal party committee talking about how the new mayor had not yet chosen a suitable secretary, he became even more certain that this mayor was the one he was waiting for.

So he set his sights on Fan Taiping, the city government's secretary general, whom he had known in the past.

In order to make the secretary general remember him, he deliberately wore Dacron clothes from more than ten years ago. All this was to evoke Fan Taiping's long-forgotten memories. Now it seems that everything is going smoothly.

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