Rebirth of the Rising Sun

After sending Susie away, Feng Sizhe took a hot bath and then sat at the desk in the room to read documents. These were some agricultural matters in the county over the past two days, which were sent here by Zhou Xingxing in the afternoon. He wanted to know about every detail.

Feng Sizhe, who was sitting and reading documents seriously, heard a knock on the door. He thought it was Zhou Xingxing coming to bring him food, so he smiled and said, "Come in."

The door was pushed open, but the person who came in was not Zhou Xingxing but Li Yi Ge, the director of the county party committee office.

As soon as he saw Li Yige coming in, Feng Sizhe quickly stood up and said, "Hey, Brother Li, why are you here?"

Ever since the last talk between the two, Feng Sizhe called Li Yi Ge "Brother Li" in private occasions, and Li Yi Ge also called Feng Sizhe "Sizhe".

"Haha, Sizhe, aren't you welcome, Brother Li? I just saw that you've worked hard and just came back, so I brought you some delicious food." As he spoke, Li Yi Ge raised his hand, and a food box appeared in the air.

"Haha, Brother Li is really considerate of me. He knows that I haven't had time to eat after rushing back." Feng Sizhe smiled and reached out to take it. At the same time, he was also impressed by Li Yi Ge's attentiveness. This was supposed to be the job of his secretary, but now he has done it. You know, they are all members of the county party committee standing committee and deputy division-level cadres.

After watching Feng Sizhe wolfing down his food, Li Yige laughed and said, "How is it, is there no problem with the flood prevention work in Huodian Township?"

"Everything is fine. The military water pumps are very powerful. The water pumping speed is much faster than those pumps distributed by the county and purchased by the village. In addition, the capacity of the Xida River has been expanded, so I guess there won't be any big problems this time." When talking about flood prevention work, Feng Sizhe was obviously very excited.

"Well, that's good. Sizhe has worked hard recently, but..." When he said "but", Li Yi Ge raised his head and glanced at Feng Sizhe, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Just what? Brother Li, don't leave your words halfway. It makes people anxious. Haha." Feng Sizhe said in a relaxed manner, but he did see something bad in Li Yi Ge's eyes.

"Hey." Li Yi Ge sighed heavily, took out a cigarette, lit one, and threw one to Feng Sizhe. Then he said slowly, "It's just that Secretary Sun seems to have some opinions about you now?"

"Well, why is that?" Feng Sizhe was puzzled when he heard that Sun Shicun had a problem with him. He worked so hard, how could he have a problem with him, not to mention praising himself? Could it be that he was too active in his work and his performance was too outstanding? No way, he was at the deputy director level, and he could not threaten the head of the county party committee at the director level for the time being.

"Why don't you know? I'm not saying anything wrong to you, but sometimes you do stretch your hands too far." Seeing Feng Sizhe's puzzled face, Li Yi Ge shook his head. In his opinion, Feng Sizhe's ability to play dumb was really extraordinary.

"Huh? What do you mean by 'overreaching'? I really don't understand. Brother Li, just get straight to the point. It's tiring to keep guessing like this." This is because Feng Sizhe believed that he and Li Yi Ge had a very close relationship, otherwise he would not have said such words without any political experience.

Seeing that Feng Sizhe didn't seem to be pretending and indeed seemed a little confused, Li Yi Ge had a feeling that what Zhou Xingxing did was not instructed by the person in front of him, and it was even possible that Feng Sizhe didn't even know about this matter.

"Well, it seems that Sizhe really doesn't know what happened. I think I really need to remind you. This is what happened. It started yesterday afternoon..."

Li Yi Ge told everything he knew about what Zhou Xingxing did yesterday without hiding anything.

Yesterday afternoon, after Zhou Xingxing went to Ruan Jisheng's house for dinner, at the instigation of Ruan Xiaoqing, he went to the office of Organization Minister Niu Daxin as soon as he got to work in the afternoon and told him bluntly that Du Kui was not suitable to be the deputy director of the County Transportation Bureau, and his qualifications were obviously insufficient. He hoped that Minister Niu could see the situation clearly and not do anything that violated organizational principles.

For a small secretary at the section level, it was obviously incorrect and somewhat overstepping his authority to speak to the county party committee member and county organization minister in this way. However, because he was Feng Sizhe's secretary, Niu Daxin really didn't dare to do anything to him.

Finally, Zhou Xingxing was persuaded to leave, and then Niu Daxin immediately reported the matter to Secretary Sun of the County Party Committee.

After hearing Niu Daxin's report, Secretary Sun also slammed the table and sighed that Zhou Xingxing really didn't know the seriousness of the matter. How could he speak to a county party committee's organization minister like this? Although he was angry, Sun Shicun did not mean to cause trouble for Zhou Xingxing, because he didn't know whether Feng Sizhe was behind this matter, and whether all this was the intention of County Magistrate Feng?

Finally, Secretary Sun asked Niu Daxin to go back first, and then called Li Yi Ge and told him about the matter, hoping that he could find out about Feng Sizhe's background. If it was really him who did it, then he should tell him that as an executive deputy county magistrate, not even a deputy secretary, he should not overreach.

This sentence clearly has a warning meaning. That's right, even though Feng Sizhe has been very powerful recently, when it comes to the personnel issues that the county party secretary pays the most attention to, he will naturally not give Feng Sizhe any face. This is how it is in politics. You and I may be an alliance today, but we may become enemies tomorrow because of issues of interest.

Li Yi Ge had no intention of hiding anything, but told the truth about Secretary Sun's attitude. After saying this, he looked at Feng Sizhe seriously, wondering if he could tell from this whether he was really unaware of the matter.

Feng Sizhe had never thought that Zhou Xingxing would do such a thing when he was only in the countryside for two days. Once this happened, it would definitely have an impact on him, and it was a bad impact. But from the other side of the matter, it is not difficult to see that through this incident, it can also be seen that Secretary Sun was only a temporary alliance when he joined hands with him to take down Pi Taisheng in the previous incident. When it really involves his own interests, if necessary, he will still take action against him.

This incident made Feng Sizhe think a lot. Originally, Pi Taisheng was arrested and the county lost a deputy secretary. He didn't plan to intervene in this matter. He thought that the superiors would decide and Secretary Sun would recommend him. This could be considered as a favor to him. But now it seems that this position is still very important and cannot be easily given to others. Otherwise, if this person is under Secretary Sun's command, there is no guarantee that he will not end up in the same boat with Secretary Sun and eventually bully him.

Of course, these were just his thoughts. Li Yige, who was standing by, could never have imagined that Feng Sizhe had thought about so many things in just a short while. "Sizhe, why don't you say something? Are you the one behind this?"

"Haha, Brother Li, if I say that I just learned about this matter after hearing what you said, would you believe it?" Feng Sizhe asked Li Yi Ge, and then said, "Actually, these are not important. What's important is that Secretary Sun wants to know my current attitude, right? It's very simple. My principle is that I won't intervene if it's not my responsibility. But now that I know about it first and my secretary has intervened, then if I let it go because of what Secretary Sun said, what will others think and what will happen? Brother Li, have you considered this?"

When Feng Sizhe asked this, Li Yi Ge really didn't know how to answer.

From a certain perspective, the secretary's words represent the leader's intentions. Since Zhou Xingxing has intervened in the selection of the deputy director of the Transportation Bureau, this matter can no longer be separated from Feng Sizhe himself. If Feng Sizhe retreats at this time because of Secretary Sun's words, or even does nothing, it is inevitable that people will think that County Magistrate Feng did this because he was afraid of Secretary Sun. In that case, Feng Sizhe's prestige will be severely hit. Li Yige can certainly understand this, but this matter is unusual. After thinking about it, Li Yige finally said, "But as far as I know, Du Kui is a relative of Secretary Sun's mother's family. If that's the case..."

"Brother Li, I respect you because I think you are a good cadre with organization and principles. You must be very clear that the party's principle of employing people is to appoint people based on merit, not nepotism, right? But as party cadres and leaders of Dahu County, we know that Du Kui's qualifications are not enough, but we still open a backdoor for him. Isn't this a violation of our party principles? So my opinion is that Du Kui must not be appointed as deputy director of the Transportation Bureau."

Feng Sizhe clearly stated his attitude, which also moved Li Yige. Feng Sizhe was right. Li Yige put himself in a wrong position in this matter. He only thought about Secretary Sun's feelings and forgot that he was a party member and a cadre.

"Well, Sizhe said it very well, and I support you. I will tell Secretary Sun about it later." Li Yi Ge seemed to have made a great decision before saying this, but just as he said this, Feng Sizhe stretched out his index finger and waved it.