Name: My father Yuan Mu

Take the following topic for example.

"Comrades, the next topic is the appointment of the mayor of Luzhou City. As you all know, Comrade Tian Hongyi has been away from Luzhou for some time. During this period, Comrade Yuan Mu has been serving as mayor concurrently."

"Comrade Yuan Mu has a heavy burden on his shoulders, so we urgently need a candidate to serve as mayor. So today, comrades will discuss this issue to see if there is a suitable candidate. Comrade Tianhua, it is now your turn to announce the mayoral candidate." Wen Huarong said while observing the expressions and movements of the people below.

What he was most concerned about were Yuan Mu and the others. He saw that they didn't even look away, as if they didn't hear anything. This made Wen Huarong even more worried, as it proved that they had already reached a consensus in private.

So he turned his gaze to Jiang Hongtu again. At this time, Governor Jiang was looking at Liu Tianhua, pretending to listen attentively.

Liang Qunfeng was writing and drawing on the notebook, but no one knew what he was writing. Liu Tianhua coughed twice, picked up the document in front of him and began to read.

"Secretary Wen, comrades, following the recommendation of the Luzhou Municipal Party Committee and other comrades, we now have four candidates."

"The first candidate is Tao Jingye, the current Party Secretary of Taijiang City. He was born in 1940 and is now 54 years old. He started working in 1958 and joined our Party in 1960. He is an outstanding Party member. He has served as Party Secretary of Wutu Township, Hailing County, Taijiang City, Handong Province, and Deputy County Magistrate, Deputy Secretary of the County Party Committee, and County Magistrate of Jiangtai County."

"In 1980, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Taijiang Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Organization. He later served as Executive Vice Mayor, Deputy Secretary, and Mayor. He is currently Secretary of the Taijiang Municipal Party Committee and Director of the People's Congress."

"Comrade Tao Jingye has been working diligently and competently for 36 years and is now nominated to be the deputy secretary of the Standing Committee of the Luzhou Municipal Party Committee and mayor."

"The second candidate is Kang Gaoyi, current member of the Standing Committee of the Lüzhou Municipal Party Committee and full-time Deputy Secretary. He was born in 1947 and is now 47 years old. He started working in 1966 and joined our party in 1969. He is an outstanding member..."

The third one is a little-known figure named Ren Zhiye, who is also at the level of a director-general, but it is obvious that he is just here to run for the position.

But when Liu Tianhua said the name of the fourth person, not only the people from Yuan Mu's faction were shocked, even the few people from Wen Huarong's faction looked at Wen Huarong in disbelief.

The most shocked person was Jiang Hongtu. He looked at Wen Huarong next to him with an incredible expression, while Wen Huarong drank a sip of tea with a calm look.

Because many of them did not expect the person Liu Tianhua announced, including Jiang Hongtu, because this person was called Wan Chenghong!

Of course, the name is nothing special, but his identity is extraordinary. Wan Chenghong is the Secretary-General of the Handong Provincial Government!

Everyone present knew that when Jiang Hongtu took office, he brought no one but only one person, Wan Chenghong!

Who would have brought him all this way if he wasn't a trusted aide? Wan Chenghong's relationship with Jiang Hongtu was definitely special; he was definitely the most loyal of subordinates. Yuan Mu had previously inquired about this, and he knew that Wan Chenghong had been with Jiang Hongtu during his time in Lin Province. Back then, Jiang Hongtu was still the Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, while Wan Chenghong was a Deputy Department Director.

This time when he came to Handong Province to take office, Jiang Hongtu directly arranged him to be the secretary-general of the provincial government. Everyone knows that this is just a transition. He has been in office for too short a time. It is estimated that after a while he will demote Wan Chenghong to be a mayor or directly promote him to be the secretary of the municipal party committee.

The Standing Committee meeting room was completely silent. Wen Huarong had played this game very well! He knew he didn't have the upper hand in the Standing Committee meeting and that he might not be able to get the position of Mayor of Luzhou. So he decided to go all out. What I can't get, you, Yuan Mu, can't get either.

Yuan Mu was filled with thoughts. It seemed that Wen Huarong had asked Liu Tianhua to add this quota temporarily, and it was not mentioned at the secretary's office meeting or the five-member group meeting. Normally, his operation was unreasonable, but how could there be so many reasonable things?

Although Wen Huarong's authority in Handong Province is not as strong as that of the provincial party secretaries in other provinces, he is still the provincial party secretary and has the power to do such a small thing.

Wen Huarong's move was a pure conspiracy. The Handong Province is now clearly divided between Chu and Han. Yuan Mu and Wen Huarong have basically the same number of votes in the Standing Committee meeting. It can be said that neither side can do anything to the other.

What to do then? All we can do is look for the remaining few. If they can join one of the factions, the balance will tilt in that direction.

Wen Huarong's actions almost indicate that he has no intention of placing his own people in Luzhou. If Yuan Mu insists on letting Kang Gao take the position, there will inevitably be a conflict with Jiang Hongtu.

Don’t be fooled by Jiang Hongtu’s usual indifferent look. That’s because he hasn’t established a firm foothold in Handong yet. But now that such a good thing has happened to him, do you think he will be tempted?

Jiang Hongtu's foothold in Handong was already unstable, and he had almost no available people under his command. Of course, he would not miss such a good opportunity.

At this time, Jiang Hongtu coughed lightly twice, sat up straight and looked around.

In fact, he was also very surprised and shocked. He did not expect that Wen Huarong would add Wan Chenghong's name to the candidates for mayor of Luzhou.

According to his previous thinking, he would not have conflicts with others for the time being. Even if the two sides fought each other, he would profit from it if there was a chance.

But now it seems that he can no longer wait for that time. The current opportunity is too good. Although he originally planned to transfer Wan Chenghong to a certain city as the secretary of the municipal party committee after a while, he has no problem paying something for it.

But the position of mayor of Luzhou is much more attractive than the secretary of the municipal party committee of other prefecture-level cities. Under Yuan Mu's development in recent years, Luzhou's economy has skyrocketed, and its status as a sub-provincial city is a foregone conclusion. It will be completely transformed in two years at most. By that time, Luzhou's upper and lower levels will be upgraded by half a level. By that time, the mayor of Luzhou will not be at the level of a full-time department head, but at the level of a vice-ministerial department.

As long as he can catch this express train, Wan Chenghong's development will achieve a class leap. He has made up his mind that no matter what, he must fight for this opportunity for his confidant.

If he missed this opportunity, he wouldn't know when the next one would come. Maybe he would offend Yuan Mu this time, but he couldn't care less. He would just do it first.