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

"Please trouble you, Mr. Jiang, to pour some for me too."

Su Yun said, "As a former colleague, I should drink to celebrate Director Jiang's success."

Jiang Yongchen was a little confused. Yesterday, he noticed that Su Yun and Jiang Yiming's relationship seemed unusual, like they were dating. But today, they seemed like strangers.

Jiang Yiming was about to dissuade him, but under the urging of Chen Wei and others, Jiang Yongchen had no choice but to pour the wine.

After the drinking session, Jiang Yiming was quite drunk, but much better than yesterday. After all, yesterday he had to force himself to drink every last drop, regardless of whether he could drink or not.

"Yiming, as you requested, we have prepared a case of special-supply liquor for each person."

"Okay, you and I will move the wine to their car together. Including yesterday's, you can calculate the total bill, and I will give you the money later."

"What's the money? This is like advertising for our winery. If the leaders think it's good, we can promote it and the profits will increase."

Jiang Yongchen said, "Alright, you don't need to worry about this anymore."

Jiang Yiming didn't say much, and served wine to everyone one by one.

"Director Qiao, this is a special supply wine from Yusha Winery. You can't buy it anywhere else. Take it home for your family to try. If they like it, let me know and I'll send you a few more cases."

"Then I won't be polite."

Qiao Xiaomai pulled Jiang Yiming aside and said, "Director Jiang, I heard you're going to the city in a few days to attend a training course for young and middle-aged cadres. Write down my husband's number. If anything comes up, just call him directly. I'll let him know in advance. Xie Yanhua, 139037..."

Jiang Yiming was startled. He had seen the notice for the training course, and the person in charge of this training course was Xie Yanhua, whose position was a member of the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee.

No wonder Qiao Xiaomai was able to become the director of the subdistrict office at such a young age!

"Thank you, Director Qiao. When I get to the city, I will definitely visit Minister Xie and report to the leaders."

Jiang Yiming saved the number on his phone and then put Qiao Xiaomai in the car.

When the group from the Organization Department arrived, Chen Wei said, "Ya Jing, hand Xiao Su over to Yi Ming, and he will escort her back."

"Brother Wei, isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

"What's wrong with that? It's your home game today, and someone got drunk. You're not going to take them home, are you expecting us to?"

Chen Wei waved his hand and said, "Yiming, we're leaving now. Let's get together another day."

Looking at Su Yun in his arms, Jiang Yiming felt a little embarrassed. He knew perfectly well that Chen Wei and the others wanted to match him up with Su Yun.

The problem is, the two of them already made things clear yesterday.

"Fifth Brother, please arrange for someone to send Su Yun and me back."

"Sixth Brother, what's going on between you and Section Chief Su?"

Jiang Yongchen said, "I've been through this before, and I can tell that Section Chief Su is interested in you. Don't let her down. As a man, you should be more considerate."

"I know, Fifth Brother. You've had quite a bit to drink too. Go back and rest."

Jiang Yiming couldn't explain, so he got into Jiang Yongchen's car and went to Su Yun's house.

Although Su Yun was very light, carrying her up to the fifth floor still exhausted Jiang Yiming.

After placing Su Yun on the bed and wiping her down with a damp towel, Jiang Yiming went to the kitchen to make two bowls of ginger soup.

After feeding Su Yun, he lay down to rest.

After all, Su Yun was drunk, and he was worried about leaving her alone at home; that wouldn't be manly of him.

The next morning, Jiang Yiming bought eight-treasure porridge and steamed buns. When he returned, Su Yun was already awake and washing up in the bathroom.

"Sister Su, I've put breakfast on the table. Remember to eat it later."

Jiang Yiming put down his things and quickly left.

He didn't know how to face Su Yun.

Jiang Yiming did not return to the county committee compound, but instead called Wan Wenbing to meet him.

"Brother Jiang, you were looking for me?"

"Ask you something."

Jiang Yiming said, "Do you know the relationship between your director Xu Hui and Guo Hongliang?"

Yesterday, based on Tang Guangyong's account, he sensed that the relationship between Xu Hui and Guo Hongliang was quite unusual.

Wan Wenbing looked around and said, "I'm telling you, you absolutely mustn't tell anyone else, or you'll get into big trouble."

“Once, our director got drunk, and I was responsible for picking him up and dropping him off. From what he was saying, his sister had a special relationship with Guo Hongliang.”

“I don’t think he’s lying, otherwise, with his abilities, he could never have become the director.”

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Yiming said, "I'll have Director Tang transfer you out. You don't need to do anything else, just keep a close eye on Xu Hui's sister and find out her address and the people she associates with."

"Brother Jiang, I'll follow your instructions."

Wan Wenbing knew this was dangerous, but he did not hesitate.

The only way he could repay Jiang Yiming was to work hard for him.

Jiang Yiming called Tang Guangyong and asked him to help him extract Wan Wenbing and hand him over. As for what to do with it, he didn't say, and Tang Guangyong wisely didn't ask.

"I've already given the instructions. Once you get back to the station and receive the notification, act immediately. I'll be waiting for your news."

After making the arrangements, Jiang Yiming returned to the county party committee office.

Today he will accompany Ma Qiyun to inspect five enterprises, including Yusha Winery, State-owned Cotton Mill, and State-owned Machinery Factory.

All township party committee leaders, county department leaders, and county government leaders must participate.

This is in preparation for comprehensively promoting enterprise reform.

The county government deployed Coaster buses and minibuses to ensure transportation for the mission.

County Party Secretary Ma Qiyun, County Mayor Jiang Xuangui, as well as members of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee and other county leaders were all in car number 1.

Other township and county leaders sat in the four cars behind.

On car number 1, Ma Qiyun looked out the window, occasionally offering his opinions and ideas.

Huang Yonglin took out his notebook and made notes. After the survey was over, he would study which issues could be implemented, which needed to be temporarily shelved, the reasons for the shelving, and which issues needed to be discussed. He would need to come up with preliminary plans for each of these issues.

During this period, Jiang Xuangui and other county leaders would occasionally chime in or express their own opinions.

During the conversation, Jiang Xuangui suddenly spoke up: "Secretary Qiyun, the county government has several important matters that need to be discussed at the Standing Committee meeting. Could you see if you have time to arrange it and set a time so that the county government can prepare in advance?"

The entire car fell silent instantly.

Everyone present knew that Jiang Xuangui's suggestion to convene a Standing Committee meeting in front of everyone was to force Ma Qiyun to make a decision.

If he keeps delaying the game, it means that Ma Qiyun is insecure and not confident of winning, and it will also make people underestimate his authority.

If a meeting were to be held, under the current circumstances, it would be difficult for Ma Qiyun to obtain more than half of the votes. In that case, he would be unable to remove Qiu Tian from his post, which would seriously affect his authority.

Therefore, Ma Qiyun is now in a dilemma.

In particular, Jiang Xuangui acted out of character, not going to Ma Qiyun's office alone to discuss the meeting time, but instead asking about the Standing Committee's meeting time in public.

They simply didn't want to give Ma Qiyun a way out.

Everyone looked at Ma Qiyun, waiting to see how he would respond.