The Official Ladder: I ascend to the pinnacle of power, wielding the power of life and death.

“Secretary Weizhong’s concerns are not unfounded. I just received a project notification from the Municipal Finance Bureau, which provides subsidies of 1.6 million yuan to support the upgrading of agricultural product processing enterprises in our industrial park and the development of the agricultural industry. The subsidy for upgrading processing enterprises is 1 million yuan, and the subsidy for agricultural industry development is 600,000 yuan.”

Jiang Yiming took the document and handed it to Du Weizhong.

Liu Yuanjie and the others hurriedly surrounded the document, and when they saw the project funding notification letter, they all screamed with excitement.

"Secretary Jiang, you're amazing! The county had no money, but you managed to get it from the city."

Liu Yuanjie smiled and said, "With this money, our policies can be implemented on time."

"Secretary Jiang, I never expected you to have connections in the city."

Du Weizhong was full of praise.

"There's no time to lose, Secretary Weizhong. Please fill out the requisition form according to the procedure, and we'll go to the Finance Bureau together to ask Director Zhu for the money."

Jiang Yiming made the arrangements.

"Okay, wait for me for half an hour, I'll go with you."

Half an hour later, Jiang Yiming and Du Weizhong arrived at the Finance Bureau. After explaining their purpose, Zhu Xinglei warmly greeted the two of them.

"Secretary Jiang, you are truly a capable person."

Zhu Xinglei praised, "If all the other departments in our county could be as self-reliant as you and secure funding for our county from the city, my job as the finance bureau chief would be much easier."

"My work is just a small fry, nothing compared to Director Zhu. The funds that Director Zhu and a group of leaders from the Finance Bureau secured from higher authorities are the real big prize."

Jiang Yiming smiled and said, "Director Zhu, we need this money urgently. We hope Director Zhu will sign off on the disbursement as soon as possible."

As he spoke, he took out two packs of Zhonghua cigarettes from his bag and placed them on the table: "Director Zhu, I know you like to smoke, so I stole two packs from my dad's collection. Please don't mind."

"Brother Jiang, you're too kind. There's no need for this between us. Since you've brought it up, I'll sign it now and the funds will be disbursed tomorrow!"

As Zhu Xinglei spoke, he discreetly took the cigarettes off the table and put them in the drawer.

He then signed the receipt directly.

"Thank you for your support, Director Zhu. It's almost time to get off work, let's have a quick meal together."

Jiang Yiming extended an invitation.

"Secretary Yiming, thank you very much for your invitation, but I already have plans. Let's get together another day."

Zhu Xinglei politely declined.

"Alright, then we won't bother Director Zhu any longer. Next time, we'll arrange a time with Director Zhu in advance so we can get together."

Jiang Yiming and Du Weizhong left the Finance Bureau together.

On the way back, Du Weizhong said happily, "I didn't expect Director Zhu to agree to approve the money for us so readily. I was worried that he would find an excuse to misappropriate our money. Secretary Jiang, you have a lot of influence. Normally, if we want money, we have to make four or five trips to get it."

"To be honest, I don't have much of a relationship with him. I originally planned to ask Secretary Ma to come forward personally."

Jiang Yiming shook his head and said, "I just didn't expect him to be so easy to talk to. I hope he keeps his word and doesn't just try to fool us."

Back at the management committee, Wang Jiajia knocked on the door and came in to report on her work.

“Secretary Jiang, I really don’t know how to thank you enough. You not only solved my husband’s employment problem, but also transferred him to the city. How can I ever repay this kindness?”

Wang Jiajia said with deep gratitude.

"Now you have the chance to repay me."

Jiang Yiming said, "There is a little girl named Li Yuanyuan in Yunhu Village. She is very smart. Her father was a soldier who died in the flood relief efforts in 98. Her mother is also missing. Hu Decheng took her father's pension, which made life very difficult for the grandfather and granddaughter. Little Yuanyuan is eight years old this year and has never been to school."

"Therefore, I plan to sponsor Xiaoyuan's schooling until she starts working."

“Your husband happens to be a primary school teacher. How about he tutors Xiaoyuan every weekend until she can keep up with the lessons?”

"Secretary Jiang, you are the true guardian of the people."

Wang Jiajia patted her chest and assured him, "My husband may not be good at anything else, but he is very responsible. There will be absolutely no problem entrusting this matter to him."

"Row."

Jiang Yiming nodded and said, "Keep this a secret for me. I don't want to complicate things."

“Sometimes a single act of kindness can change a person’s life. Doing such small things when we are within our power is also a very meaningful thing. I don’t want to make it public knowledge and make this matter impure.”

"Okay, I'll keep it a secret for you, Secretary."

Wang Jiajia admired Jiang Yiming more and more.

He's young and handsome, a graduate of a prestigious university, and most importantly, a good official.

When others do this, they want the whole world to know.

Jiang Yiming, however, did not want others to know.

"Secretary, I just can't understand why there are still people who don't understand you or like you, even though you are such a good official."

"There are people who don't like the RMB, let alone me."

Jiang Yiming smiled and said, "I don't need everyone to understand me as an official, as long as I do my job well and have a clear conscience; I also don't need everyone to like me, as long as I do my best and have a clear conscience."

The following day, Jiang Yiming visited two communities in the park and some residents to learn about their living conditions and the urgent problems that needed to be solved.

In summary, everyone wants to find a job and receive their salary as soon as possible.

Therefore, Jiang Yiming chaired the first meeting of the Enterprise Reform Leading Group.

"Based on our visits, most of the community residents were previously employed, and they urgently hope that businesses will resume production, generate profits, and pay their wages."

Jiang Yiming said, "Judging from the current situation, all the companies in the park are on the verge of bankruptcy. It's harder than climbing to heaven to expect them to start operating again. Therefore, we need to actively attract large enterprises and companies to our park, merge with those loss-making small enterprises, absorb the remaining employees, and contribute tax revenue to the park."

"This is the policy on attracting enterprises that Comrade Liu Xinbin previously drafted. I have made some modifications based on it. Please take a look and see if there is anything that needs to be changed."

Du Weizhong carefully studied the relevant policies.

"The efforts are greater than before, but relatively speaking, it still can't compare with prefecture-level cities. With our conditions, it's difficult to attract strong companies, right?"

Du Weizhong spoke up.

“I agree with Secretary Du’s statement. Our industrial park had also considered this approach before, but after comparing it with the preferential policies in other places, we gave up on it completely.”

Liu Yuanjie said, "We can't offer them enough preferential policies, and our geographical location isn't advantageous, so it's probably difficult to attract them here."

"If things are easy to do, there's no need for meetings."

Jiang Yiming said, "It's precisely because things are difficult and require encountering setbacks that they are all the more worthwhile to do."

"Tomorrow morning, I will lead a team to Shanghai to attract investment. Secretary Weizhong will stay in the park to implement the policies that have been agreed upon as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, Secretary, I will follow your instructions and implement all policies effectively."

Du Weizhong assured him.

However, just after Jiang Yiming and his men left Xinping County, a major incident occurred in the industrial park.