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

"Is he worthy?"

Jiang Yiming laughed and said, "Don't worry, I won't apologize to him."

"Okay, as long as you have a plan in mind."

On his way back to the park, Jiang Yiming called Liao Xiandong, the newly promoted Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission and Director of the Public Security Bureau.

"Secretary Yiming, what brings you to call me?"

Liao Xiandong's cheerful voice came through the microphone.

"I originally planned to go to the county committee compound to report to you today, but something came up and I couldn't make it. So I can only call you to report first."

"Haha, you're just a Party Working Committee Secretary of the industrial park, you should report to Secretary Ma, why are you reporting to me?"

Liao Xiandong laughed.

"You are a member of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and you are also my superior. Isn't it only right that I report to my superior?"

Jiang Yiming laughed and said, "So I've completed my online registration, right? Now it's time to officially report on my work."

"Okay, you've completed your registration. Now tell me what you need me for."

Liao Xiandong laughed.

"Tomorrow I'm leading all my colleagues from the park to Yunhu Village for a series of learning activities, one of which is legal education. I'd like to ask if you could send a few people to give lectures on legal knowledge to our cadres and residents. Would that be convenient for you?"

"What's inconvenient about that? We had similar tasks all along."

Liao Xiandong agreed without hesitation, and said with a smile, "I'll have Guangyong take the lead, and go over with people from the county discipline inspection commission, the court, and the procuratorate to give you a legal education session."

"Thank you for your support, Secretary Liao. I will definitely visit you another day."

After chatting for a couple of minutes, I hung up the phone.

A few minutes later, Tang Guangyong called.

The main thing is to agree on the time and the content to be discussed.

The next morning, Jiang Yiming and Wang Jiajia set off for Yunhu Village ahead of everyone else.

The two knocked on Li Quanyou's door.

When Li Quanyou saw Jiang Yiming and Wang Jiajia, he was startled.

"Secretary Jiang, what brings you to my house?"

Li Quanyou peeked in, and seeing that no one was around, he quickly said, "Come in quickly, don't let anyone else see us."

"Why are you afraid of being seen? We're not criminals, why are you so nervous?"

Wang Jiajia was speechless.

“You’ve offended Hu Decheng. If I get close to you, he’ll definitely make trouble for me.”

Is he really that scary?

"Heh, even Secretary Jiang, the top official of the industrial park, was defeated by him. Today, he even had to apologize to him in front of all the villagers. Don't you think he's terrifying?"

Li Quanyou poured them both a glass of water and said, "I'm sorry to offend you both. Please tell me what you need to say and leave as soon as you're done. I'll treat you to a meal at the park another day and apologize to you then."

Jiang Yiming sat down unhurriedly and said with a smile, "I came to invite you to come out of seclusion."

"You hate Hu Decheng for exploiting the people and neglecting his duties, right? I'm here to ask you, if you had the opportunity to become the village head, could you lead the villagers of Yunhu Village to prosperity?"

"If I were the village head, I would teach everyone my breeding techniques for free and lead them to prosperity."

Li Quanyou said, "After I came back, I suddenly realized something."

"A person should do at least one meaningful thing in their lifetime, so that they will not have lived in vain."

"It's just that my abilities are limited, and it's so difficult to do something meaningful."

"As long as you say this."

Jiang Yiming stood up and said, "Remember to go during the meeting; there's a good show to watch."

"You have such a good attitude. Apologizing to someone and calling it a good show."

Li Quanyou found it difficult to understand Jiang Yiming's thoughts.

At 9:10, both the park's cadres and the public security, procuratorate, and judicial personnel led by Tang Guangyong had arrived at the Yunhu Village Committee.

The villagers of Yunhu Village were almost all present because Hu Decheng had been urging them to come to the meeting since 6 o'clock.

"Secretary Jiang, may the meeting begin?"

Hu Decheng inquired.

"let's start."

Jiang Yiming nodded.

Hu Decheng flicked the microphone and said with a smile, "Today's meeting officially begins. First, let's give a warm round of applause to Tang Guangyong, member of the Party Committee and Director of the Political Department of the County Public Security Bureau, relevant leaders from the public security, procuratorate and court, as well as Secretary Jiang of the industrial park and other leaders."

clap clap clap...

After the applause subsided, Hu Decheng continued.

"Today we have five items on the agenda. The first item is that Comrade Jiang Yiming, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of Xinping County Industrial Park, apologizes to Comrade Hu Decheng, Secretary of the Party Branch and Director of Yunhu Village."

"As everyone knows, Secretary Jiang wrongly accused me and dismissed me from my post, which caused me great harm. Fortunately, Secretary Jiang is a leader who can admit his mistakes and correct them. After realizing his error, he took the initiative to apologize to me in front of the park cadres and all the villagers."

“At first I thought it was wrong. Secretary Jiang is a leader, how could I ask him to apologize to me? But then I thought about it. How could I refuse when a leader apologizes to me? Wouldn’t that be disobeying the leader’s orders and ruining the leader’s reputation?”

"Now I will hand the microphone to Secretary Jiang and ask him to apologize to me sincerely and earnestly."

After Hu Decheng finished speaking, he placed the microphone in front of Jiang Yiming, his face full of undisguised smugness.

He curried favor with the county leaders and completely disregarded Jiang Yiming.

All eyes fell on Jiang Yiming, and many people looked at him with disdain.

After taking the microphone, Jiang Yiming said, "I really want to be serious, earnest and sincere in my apology today."

"As the deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee, although I have just taken office, I am responsible for the affairs of the entire park. Whether it happened before or after my arrival, I must take responsibility."

"This apology is on behalf of the entire park..."

"Ahem, Secretary Jiang, if you don't want to apologize, please say so in advance. I think it's inappropriate for you to apologize on behalf of the entire park."

“This is your personal fault, there’s no need to escalate it to the entire park. It’s very inappropriate for you to apologize to Hu Decheng on behalf of the entire park.”

Du Weizhong spoke up to stop him.

“Secretary Weizhong is right, Secretary Jiang, your personal apology is enough, don’t drag everyone else into it.”

Liu Yuanjie echoed.

The other cadres and staff members, though silent, all nodded in agreement, agreeing with what Du Weizhong and the others said.

"Comrade Weizhong is right, Hu Decheng is indeed not qualified to make me and the park apologize."

Jiang Yiming nodded.

Hu Decheng immediately objected.

"Secretary Jiang, how can you go back on your word?"

Hu Decheng said angrily, "You clearly agreed to apologize, why did you change your mind?"

"I didn't say I wouldn't apologize."

Jiang Yiming stood up and said solemnly, "I want to apologize to the innocent people of Yunhu Village who were exploited by you. I want to apologize on behalf of the park to all the villagers of Yunhu Village. It is our dereliction of duty that has caused you to live in dire straits for so long."

"I'm sorry, I don't ask for your forgiveness, but I will try my best to resolve this matter!"

After speaking, he bowed to the villagers of Yunhu Village.