Rebirth of the Rising Sun

Pi Taisheng was Sun Shicun's man, that was how it looked to outsiders, but the truth was that he was more of Qi Hengsan's man.

Pi Taisheng is also a native of Dahu County. Born in such a small place, he has one thing in common with many grassroots cadres, that is, he has no backers. Because he has no backers, although he has some scheming, some skills and some abilities, he ultimately only stays at the position of deputy secretary of Dahu County.

Because he had no backing, Pi Taisheng understood the difficulties of having no backing even more. So when Qi Hengsan showed a hint of his intention to win him over, he joined the Qi family without hesitation.

It is an indisputable fact that Qi Hengsan has a brother-in-law who is the secretary of the Yongyang Municipal Party Committee. To put it bluntly, the reason why Pi Taisheng joined Qi Hengsan was not because of the Qi family, but because of Song Changhe, the secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, who was related to the Qi family. Pi Taisheng believed that as long as he had a backer in the city, he would most likely go to other counties to serve as the county magistrate or even the county party secretary.

There is an unwritten rule in the central government that locals will hardly be promoted to the top leader in the local area. This is also to avoid some major mistakes. For this reason, Pi Taisheng set his sights on other Zhou counties. He also believed that with his qualifications and abilities, he would not have any problems being appointed as a county magistrate or secretary. After all, he was only 46 years old, and there were still nearly ten years before the retirement at the county and department level. If he worked hard in these ten years, it would not be impossible for him to reach the bureau level.

Because of this thought, after receiving the call from Qi Hengsan just now, he decided to do his best to help the Qi family. First, try not to give Qi Hengsan any punishment, and second, drag Feng Sizhe into it. The scene in the office where Feng Sizhe used force to force Qi Hengsan to kneel made County Magistrate Qi feel ashamed, and he vowed to take revenge.

Qi Hengsan spoke, and also said that he would take Pi Taisheng to the city to meet the secretary general in a while. This was a perfect pie, so Pi Taisheng rushed in desperately after County Magistrate Fang had just expressed his opinion, in order to drag Feng Sizhe into the water. Hehe, the young County Magistrate Feng had just been in Dahu County for half a month, and he had not made any achievements. He was directly given a warning. I think this must be an obstacle to his progress.

"Well, I also agree with Secretary Pi's opinion. As both of them are deputy county chiefs, isn't it a bit against the rules for Feng Sizhe to attack Qi Hengsan? You don't know what people in the county party committee building are saying now. They all say that County Chief Qi was forced to kneel down and beg for mercy by County Chief Feng. This has a very bad influence, so I agree." Yang Chao, the secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, who was sitting nearby, spoke up to help and expressed his agreement before the others could react. This meant that two of the five people agreed to punish Feng Sizhe. In other words, if one more person agreed, Feng Sizhe would basically have to get punished.

Fang Xianzhi didn't expect things to turn out like this. In fact, even Sun Shicun didn't expect that today's meeting was to discuss what kind of punishment to give to Qi Hengsan and Lin Jianli, but how did it come to Feng Sizhe again? Thinking of the call from Mayor Sun, if he really reported that Feng Sizhe was also punished, he was afraid that the mayor would really be angry.

"Well, let me reiterate one point. This meeting is about the violations of Comrades Lin Jianli and Qi Hengsan. It has nothing to do with Comrade Feng Sizhe..."

"How is there no connection? Didn't the fight happen in County Magistrate Feng's office? Wasn't it because the staff around County Magistrate Feng took sides? In that case, how could Comrade Qi Hengsan's nose bleed? If there was no bleeding, why would County Magistrate Qi be so impulsive? Why did he hit the person who took sides? And in the end, County Magistrate Feng even fought with Comrade Qi Hengsan. Isn't this enough reason to severely punish him?" Without waiting for Sun Shicun to speak, Pi Taisheng asked a series of questions, forcing Sun Shicun to hold back his words.

Sun Shicun knew that Pi Taisheng wanted to get close to Qi Hengsan, but he didn't expect that the other party was so anxious and insisted on dragging Feng Sizhe into it. If that was the case, then wouldn't this meeting be completely meaningless? If he had known that this would be the case, he would have listened to the county magistrate directly giving Qi Hengsan a serious warning and then announcing the matter. The matter had already been announced, and he didn't believe that anyone could overturn the decision of the county secretary and the county magistrate.

Fang Xianzhi was also in a headache. He knew that Feng Sizhe could not be dragged into this matter. Besides, Comrade Feng Sizhe did nothing wrong. Seeing someone making trouble, he hated his decision very much. If he had known this would happen, he would have listened to Secretary Sun and given Qi Hengsan a simple warning. After all, they were all warnings, and the punishment had the same meaning.

That's right, to put it bluntly, the meaning of the punishment for a warning and a severe warning is the same, that is, no promotion to a higher position or rank, and no promotion to a higher salary grade within six months. It's just that the latter is more serious than the former.

But just to show that the incident was more serious, and even to give Qi Hengsan a warning, Fang Xianzhi advocated giving a serious warning instead of a warning, but he didn't expect that it would lead to a counterattack from Qi Hengsan's forces. Now there are two votes, if there is one more vote in favor, then he, as the county magistrate, would really have a hard time saying anything. In order to avoid making the matter worse and going in the wrong direction, Fang Xianzhi only focused his attention on Sun Shicun, thinking that Secretary Sun, as the top leader, should not be like Pi Taisheng without political considerations.

Of course, Sun Shicun would not go along with Pi Taisheng and the others on this matter. But after all, two votes had been cast to implicate Feng Sizhe, and thinking that if he did not find a good reason to remove Feng Sizhe in a one-man show manner, it might cause the displeasure of Song Changhe, the secretary general of the Municipal Party Committee, he looked directly past Wu Guangrong, the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, and looked at Li Yige, the director of the County Party Committee Office.

Li Yige was stunned. When he saw Sun Shicun's gaze, he knew it was time for him to make a decision. Yes, although he was not a member of the secretary's office meeting, he saw what happened today from beginning to end, so his words would naturally attract a certain amount of attention. He wondered in his heart how he got involved in such a thing? What should he say next? For a moment, Li Yige only felt nervous sweat on his head.