Siheyuan: Back to 50 years ago, Shazhu joined the army

When Zhao Lichun arrived at the municipal party secretary's office, Feng Ke, the municipal party secretary who was sitting outside the general office, immediately greeted him.

"Deputy Mayor Zhao, you are here. Secretary Fang has been waiting for you here for a long time. Please go in quickly."

Zhao Lichun nodded, and quickly walked forward to turn the door handle.

"Secretary Fang, I'm Zhao Lichun, I'm coming in."

Then he opened the door and walked straight in.

When he entered the municipal party secretary's office, he saw Fang Hai sitting leisurely in a chair drinking tea.

When Fang Hai saw Zhao Lichun coming, he immediately stood up politely and greeted him warmly.

"Lichun, you are here, hurry up... hurry up and sit down."

Fang Hai's behavior really made Zhao Lichun feel helpless.

"Secretary Fang, you are so polite. I am a little flattered by your doing this."

Hearing what Zhao Lichun said, Fang Hai waved his hand.

"Lichun, you don't have to be so restrained in front of me. You can just call me Lao Fang or Fang Hai."

When Zhao Lichun heard this, he was even more confused.

Fang Hai also saw the doubt in Zhao Lichun's heart and immediately explained it to him.

"Lichun, I think you can guess that I am also a member of the Fang family. I am Fang Bo's cousin."

Zhao Lichun was quite surprised to hear Fang Hai's answer. He didn't expect that the Fang family would really do what they said and someone would come to help him so soon.

But he felt that instead of sending someone to assist him, it would be better to promote himself directly."

As a veteran who had been immersed in the officialdom for many years, Fang Hai saw through Zhao Lichun's inner thoughts at a glance, and immediately began to persuade him: "Lichun, I know you must be wondering now, why our Fang family didn't use resources and relationships to directly pull you up, but instead spent so much effort.

In fact, the reason is very simple. Although our Fang family has many connections and personal connections, we believe in doing things step by step. At most, we can give you some help within the conditions permitted by the rules. It is impossible for you, a deputy mayor, to be directly promoted to the position of mayor.

Not only is it inappropriate to do so, it may even lead to being targeted by disciplinary authorities, which would be counterproductive.

My uncle has already told me that I will try my best to help you improve, so you just need to do your job well, and I will take care of the rest."

After hearing what Fang Hai said, Zhao Lichun felt relieved because he knew that he was right.

Forcing things to grow is not a good thing.

"Okay, Secretary Fang, I understand."

Fang Hai was very pleased to see that Zhao Lichun understood things immediately, because he liked dealing with such smart people.

"By the way, Lichun, do you know some of the bad practices and preferences of the cadres in our municipal party committee?"

After hearing what Fang Hai said, Zhao Lichun immediately thought of what the other party was going to do?

"Secretary Fang, are you planning to use this opportunity to remove these cadres from the team one by one?"

Fang Hai admitted it without hesitation.

"Yes, the task my third uncle gave me was to keep Xin'an City firmly under my control."

When Zhao Lichun heard the news, he couldn't help but break into a cold sweat for those cadres.

Because he knew that Fang Hai's words were actually a hint to him that their Fang family was planning to eliminate dissidents and cultivate their own people.

Although he didn't understand why the Fang family valued Zhong'an City so much, now that he had already joined the Fang family, he had to follow them all the way no matter what they did.

Afterwards, the two had an in-depth exchange, and Zhao Lichun left the municipal party secretary's office contentedly.

Because he knew that as long as he followed Fang Hai's plan, his continued progress was a foregone conclusion.

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On the other hand, the news of the private meeting between Zhao Lichun and the new municipal party secretary Fang Hai soon reached the ears of Zhang Ping, the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee.

At this time, in addition to him, there was also Executive Vice Mayor Ma Tao in his office.

"Ma, what do you think this newly appointed Secretary Fang is up to?

On the first day in office, he raised so many questions frankly and pointed out some shortcomings in our Xin'an City.

In addition, I also heard that he had a private meeting with Zhao Lichun not long ago and talked for almost an hour. Although I don’t know what they talked about, I always have a feeling that it is not a good thing.

I don’t know what kind of luck Zhao Lichun had that allowed him to cling to the thighs of the Fang family. If I remember correctly, this Fang Hai is the second generation of the Fang family and one of the few members of the Fang family who is active in the officialdom.”

In response to Zhang Ping's doubts, Ma Tao, the executive vice mayor, gave his own thoughts and opinions after careful consideration.

"Deputy Secretary Zhang, I think there are two possibilities. The first is that Secretary Fang probably wants to make some political achievements.

In this way, he can use our Xin'an City as a springboard to advance to the provincial level again.

Another possibility is that he may want to integrate all the mountains in our Xin'an City together.

You also know that our Xin'an City is currently a mixed bag of good and bad people, with many factions and everyone is not of one mind.

For example, the former municipal party secretary Lu Xiong was a group of his own, and now the mayor Lu Chuan and the discipline inspection committee secretary Xie Liangping are in the same group, while you, Deputy Secretary Zhang, and I are one, and there are too many others to list.

So I wondered if Secretary Fang's actions were intended to integrate Xin'an City."

Zhang Ping agreed with Ma Tao's guess.

"Okay, General Manager Ma, what you said makes a lot of sense. We have to pay more attention to it in the future."

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For the following period of time, Fang Hai, as the newly appointed secretary of the Xin'an Municipal Party Committee, was everywhere trying to win over people's hearts and form cliques.

Before long, he gained the support of Wang Li, the city's public security bureau chief and deputy mayor.

Although he was newly appointed, as the top leader of Xin'an City, with the support of the Fang family, winning people's hearts was naturally easy for him.

Half a month later, in order to get promoted and clear the stumbling blocks, Zhao Lichun, Wang Li and Fang Hai got together to discuss and agreed to each other's plan.

As the saying goes, the officialdom is like a battlefield, it's either you die or I die, and you absolutely cannot be too soft-hearted.

This is the heartfelt words that Zhao Lichun's father Zhao Daqiang once told him, and it has also become his personal motto.

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