Shen Huai sat in the office, also feeling a bit sentimental. To be exact, before he came to Meixi Town, his administrative level was just at the section chief level. However, in the domestic officialdom environment, he was only 24 years old, and even if he went to a rural town, it was usually impossible for him to take charge of both the party and government.

  In just three months, he went from being the deputy secretary of the town party committee to directly taking on the role of party committee secretary, skipping over the government's top position, which is at least a small promotion miracle in Donghua's official circles.

  "Knock knock knock", the office door outside was knocked open, Shen Hui looked up to see Du Jian pushing the door and walking in.

  The asset management department occupies the east side of the first floor of the office building. Guo Quan shares an office with Chu Qiang, Hu Xuebin and others. Shen Hua's office is in the inner room, and the doors between them are usually open; there is also a data room cum safe deposit box room.

  After the enterprise changed its assets, Shen Hua moved the office downstairs, and Du Jian had never stepped through this door. Du Jian pushed open the door and came in, Guo Quan, Hu Xuebin, Chu Qiang and others were all quite surprised, standing up to greet: "Secretary Du." Their eyes couldn't hide their astonished expressions.

  "Director Du, isn't it time for the meeting?" Shen Huai walked out and took over Guo Quan's watch on the table to check the time, indeed it was time for the meeting.

  "Right, I'll call you and Old Guo to go to the meeting." Du Jian smiled slightly, standing at the door, intimately like a family member, waiting for Shen Huai and Guo Quan to take their notebooks and leave together.

  Guo Quan suppressed the astonishment in his heart, having no idea what medicine Du Jian had taken wrongly, but it was inconvenient to ask Shen Huai what had happened in front of him, so he could only follow silently behind and go upstairs.

  On the second floor meeting, He Qing she coincidentally came down from the third floor with a notebook and said to Shen Huai with a smile: "I just received a call from Tao Secretary, congratulations to you; also congratulations to Du Secretary for becoming a leader in the county, in the future, Mei Creek Town still needs Secretary Du to continue to take care of it in the county..."

  Guo Quan only then knew that the personnel changes in Meixi Town had been settled today, and he secretly felt: so fast.

  However, Guo Quan was also secretly happy for Shen Huai from the bottom of his heart. Although he didn't know whether Shen Huai would continue to serve as the director of the Assets Office after becoming the Party Committee Secretary, the status of the Assets Office in the town would undoubtedly be further elevated.

  This is also a good thing for Guo Quan.

  Guo Quan could also understand Du Jian's initiative to show kindness when he came downstairs.

  Guo Quan didn't know what position Du Jian would get in the county, but he thought it wouldn't be a good one.

  However, after what happened at Meixi Middle School yesterday, Du Jian may want to leave Meixi Town even more urgently. Otherwise, don't mention good or bad positions, if another vicious incident occurs, it's hard to say whether Du Jian can still get a position.

  At the entrance of the conference room, Shen Hua smiled and let Du Jian and He Qing enter first.

  Shen Huai sometimes thought that before the situation in Meixi Town and the steel plant, Du Jian had to take a lot of responsibility. If he really went to investigate, he believed that he could find big problems from Du Jian's body. But when he came to Meixi Town, he wanted to do something, not just being stubbornly righteous. Sometimes compromise was a necessary pragmatic attitude.

  In domestic officialdom, sometimes personality must be vague and must have no edges, this is called having the demeanor of a great general.

  The party and government meetings of Meixi Town are held once every half month, except for major events, the secretary of the Party Committee has the power to decide to convene an emergency meeting for collective discussion.

  Apart from one deputy town head who was on a business trip, all the party committee members including Li Feng and Huang Xinliang, as well as the heads of various stations who were allowed to attend the meeting, had already arrived at the conference room.

  Du Jian walked to the front of the conference table and said: "Before the meeting, I'd like to share a piece of good news with everyone. The county is considering letting young and capable cadres play a bigger role. This morning's county standing committee meeting made a decision: I will be transferred to work in the county, and after that, Secretary Shen will lead you all to continue doing revolutionary work as the head of Meixi Town. Let's congratulate Secretary Shen..."

  There were a few people in the conference room who already knew the news, most of them looked surprised, this news was a bit too sudden for them, but it didn't stop them from taking out all their enthusiasm to applaud with Du Jian.

  Du Jian wanted Shen Hua to sit at the conference table in the middle, and gave up his usual seat to Shen Hua.

  Shen Huai pushed the way: "Secretary Du is our class leader for a day in Meixi Town..." Still insisting on sitting with He Qing She, Secretary Du's right-hand man, he sat down and said some polite words like "Meixi Town's development over the years cannot be separated from Secretary Du, Secretary Du's hard work and outstanding achievements".

  Due to the sudden incident at Meixi Middle School yesterday, today's entire party and government meeting schedule was disrupted.

  Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee Li Feng first introduced the investigation of the case and the review of Lu Xiaoshan's issue by the county public security bureau's investigation team. Once it is decided to dig deeper, naturally there will be no shortage of things to uncover.

  Especially since Li Feng has decided to treat Lu Xiaoshan as a scapegoat in order to clear his own responsibility, he naturally does not allow Lu Xiaoshan to interfere with the case again. Until the Municipal Public Security Bureau took over the case, Lu Xiaoshan did not have the opportunity to collude with his wife's brother and six other suspects.

  Yang Chengming and Kou Jing confirmed the injury situation and immediately transferred it to the Criminal Investigation Brigade for handling.

  In order to achieve meritorious service and reduce punishment, on the same night, someone confessed that Lu Xiaoshan's brother-in-law operated a beauty and leisure house on Taowen Road. His brother-in-law and accomplices would often use "playing friends" to lure beautiful girls, enticing them with temptation, and then forcing these young girls to sell their bodies in the leisure house. The protective umbrella for Lu Xiaoshan's brother-in-law operating the sex and love den on Taowen Road was a deputy director who had been transferred from Meixi Town Police Station to Taowen Road Police Station. Lu Xiaoshan was aware of this...

  The city bureau raided a beauty and leisure house operated by Lu Xiaoshan's brother-in-law on Taowang Road, arresting two managers and rescuing seven girls, the youngest of whom was under 14 years old.

  After an emergency communication between the municipal bureau and the county, measures were taken against Lu Xiaoshan and the deputy director of Taowang Road Police Station as well as another civilian involved in the case overnight, suddenly becoming a major case in the public security system.

  The nature of the case is far more sinister than anyone had imagined. Previously, everyone thought that Lu Xiaoshan's wife's brother would not be able to escape this time; now it can't help but think that Lu Xiaoshan's wife's brother may not even be able to save his life this time.

  Li Feng introduced the case and also slammed his fist on the table, expressing his indignation.

  Shen Huai did not expect the case to be so heinous either, and he remained silent throughout the meeting without saying much.

  If a tragedy occurs in someone else's family, the feeling may be weaker. Thinking of Lu Xiaoshan's wife and brother, who had a clear target and rushed towards Xiao Li, Shen Hua also felt a lingering fear.

  Mei Xi Middle School principal Zhou Xiaozhou also reviewed his mistakes at the meeting and resigned as director of the town's education office. The position of director of the town's education office is temporarily held by Town Mayor He Qingshe.

  Next, we also discussed strengthening the security management of all primary and secondary schools in the town and the town area. After all, it still comes down to money.

  There are only about 10 days left before the Spring Festival, and the town has almost spent all the money that can be spent. It's hard to squeeze out more money to subsidize the school, so it was decided that the police station and the joint defense team would set up a patrol post at Meixi Middle School. During the Spring Festival, strengthen the inspection and management of entertainment venues such as billiards rooms, video halls, and game machine halls in the town.

  The two predetermined topics of raising funds for house building and bridge construction were hastily discussed without reaching any conclusion.

  Whether it was Du Jian or He Qing She, they both wanted to leave the two matters until Shen Huai officially took over as Party Secretary and let him make the decision.

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  "Still short of money?"

  After the meeting, He Qing followed to the Assets Office to smoke. Although he had just taken up the post of Director of the Town Education Bureau, he still had a thorough understanding of the educational problems in Meixi Town, after all, the Education Bureau was also under his jurisdiction before.

  Shen Huai and Guo Quan, along with He Qing She, the three old smokers filled the office with smoke, still discussing Mei Xi Middle School.

  "In the past, the town would submit taxes to the county, and the county would then allocate them back to the town. The special funds were not easily touched by anyone, so we still allocated sufficient education funds to each school," said He Qing She. "In 1992, Mei Xi Town implemented a financial package, and the education funds allocated by the county did not increase again. As a result, the salaries of teachers and staff remained at the level before 1992, which was only 280 yuan per month. In the past two years, prices have risen sharply, and the salaries of teachers in other towns have increased to over 300 yuan. The school's teachers are very dissatisfied with this situation, so they don't have much enthusiasm for teaching. However, if we want to supplement their salaries, we can't get money from the county, so the town can only use non-tax revenue to make up for it."

  He Qing told Shen Huai that he had just arrived at the township and didn't understand the ins and outs, so she explained the financial problems in detail to him.

  "The town's financial autonomy mainly relies on non-tax revenue. However, by the end of the year, the money that can be flexibly controlled by the town is only around 4 million yuan. The people in the government are still looking forward to their year-end bonuses, and they come to ask every now and then. If it's lower than last year's number, I, as the town head, will definitely be scolded behind my back..."

  "It's also true that Meixi Town is a stepmother's child." Guo Quan couldn't help but complain.

  "What was the number last year?" Shen Hua asked.

  "Eight, six, four, three, two." He Qing said.

  Shen Huai nodded, indicating he understood.

  The full-time staff gets 8,000 yuan, the part-time staff gets 6,000 yuan, the stationmaster of the stock level gets 4,000 yuan, the administrative staff gets 3,000 yuan, and the institutional staff gets 2,000 yuan. This is the year-end bonus for the Meixi Town Government Office staff. Almost all towns in Donghua area are at this level.

  Economically developed and fiscally affluent towns, as well as those with business projects, will have higher standards. This can be grasped by oneself, just don't set the bar too high or create too much imbalance within the town.

  This should be the most headache for Du Jian and He Qing she until the end of the year, but the county clearly wants to complete the personnel adjustment of Meixi Town before the Spring Festival, so He Qing she naturally also raised this issue with Shen Huai.

  He Qing Society grasped the financial department and refused to let go of the last 400,000 yuan in order to pay for the year-end bonus.

  Shen Hua is not yet the party secretary and has restrained from making a statement.

  He Qing returned to the office upstairs, Shen Huai thought of introducing clients for Sun Ya Lin, dialed Sun Ya Lin's mobile phone and asked if she was interested in entertaining a few potential clients tonight.

  "I've been to Meixi Town twice, and you didn't even offer me a cup of tea or a meal, all you think about is mooching off me, do you want to lose face?" Sun Yalin's voice on the phone was a bit noisy, it was unclear where she was.

  "My monthly salary is 600, which translates to a daily living expense of 20 yuan. How about I treat you to a meal? Sure thing, you pick the place." Shen Hua said straightforwardly.

  "...Sun Yalin was silent for a while, seemingly talking to someone else, and after a moment, said, "It's no problem to have you extorted a bit, but apart from Meixi Steel Factory setting up its main account in Yeshin, the clients you introduce also need to be worth it..."