Rebirth of the Rising Sun

Thanks to Xiao Ming 168 for voting for the gold medal for the genius. Thanks from the prodigal son!!!

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Looking at Zhou Xingxing standing in front of him, Feng Sizhe waved his hand and said, "Secretary Zhou, go back to your work."

In the past, Feng Sizhe always called Zhou Xingxing "Xiao Zhou". So suddenly he called him by his name and position, which showed his attitude.

No matter what Zhou Xingxing is thinking at this moment, Feng Sizhe has more important things to do, which is the development of Dahu County.

People say that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. The road from Dahu County to the city is okay, after all, it is a provincial road, but the road from the county to the townships is really bad. Small-chassis cars can't go there at all, and large-tonnage cars can't go there either. The only thing that can go there is a medium-sized passenger car, which moves slowly on the road that can barely be called a road.

Under such circumstances, it will naturally have a great impact on the agriculture of Dahu County, which is expected to have a bumper harvest at the end of the year. Wouldn't it be a bad thing if the good things could not be shipped out?

To this end, Feng Sizhe made a special trip to the city regarding this issue and asked the city party secretary Cai Xingmin and mayor Chang Ning for policies.

Because Secretary Cai had told his secretary Wang Yong that Feng Sizhe could be summoned as an exception, so he was able to meet the municipal party secretary. Otherwise, it would be very difficult for a deputy county chief to meet the municipal party secretary. Even if a county chief or county party secretary wanted to meet the municipal party secretary, they had to make an appointment in advance to see if the leader was available.

Secretary Cai was quite supportive, perhaps because of Feng Sizhe's background. He knew that County Magistrate Feng was not a simple person. Guan Changxiao, the head of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, treated him well. He even heard that Comrade Deng Wanfang, the Standing Committee member and the Deputy Governor, also had some contacts with him. Secretary Cai would not want to offend such a person. Therefore, when Feng Sizhe submitted a report asking for money to build a road, he approved it with a stroke of his pen.

Feng Sizhe came to Mayor Chang Ning with Secretary Cai's signature.

Compared to Chang Ning, Feng Sizhe naturally had much more. After being informed by Chi Qiang, he entered the office of Mayor Chang, handed the report in his hand and said, "Mayor, I'm here to ask for money this time. Please see how much you can help our Dahu County."

Looking at Feng Sizhe's natural expression, as if he was at home, Chang Ning chuckled.

A competent leader must be multifaceted, knowing what to say to different people and what attitude to have. This includes attitude towards superiors, and attitudes towards people of different levels. Attitude towards subordinates, and different attitudes towards different people in the subordinates, and so on. Take Feng Sizhe for example, you can't just treat him as your subordinate, you have to treat him as a friend. In this way, Feng Sizhe's naturalness will not only not make him angry, but also make him a little happy. He doesn't treat him as an outsider, which is also a manifestation of a close relationship between the two sides.

"There's tea, pour it yourself." After saying this, Chang Ning took Feng Sizhe's report on applying for road construction funds and began to read it.

After about three to five minutes, Feng Sizhe had just finished his tea, and Chang Ning put the report down. Then, he looked at Feng Sizhe with a playful tone and said, "You are good at it. Go to Secretary Cai first and ask him to sign it. Then you will have the imperial sword. Then you can use this report to pressure me, right?"

"How dare I, even if. I'm just worried that the mayor is under too much pressure, so I went to find Secretary Cai first. Isn't this equivalent to sharing some of the pressure with you? This is a good thing. Look at you, why would you miss me like this?" Feng Sizhe shook his head, as if he would never admit it.

"Humph!" Chang Ning shook his head and smiled bitterly at Feng Sizhe's rogue face. "Sizhe, since Secretary Cai has already approved it, then I, the mayor, will definitely agree..."

"What's wrong? Does the mayor want to cheat?" Feng Sizhe sensed something wrong with the tone when Chang Ning said this.

"No, no, how could that be. Of course I agree to your request. Besides, I am a man of my words. Since I promised Mr. Bai from Pengfei Company last time, didn't I ask people to build a road from Yongyang to Dahu County?" Chang Ning saw that Feng Sizhe seemed to have misinterpreted his words, so he quickly explained. "Hey, you don't know, the city's finances are not abundant, and the most important thing is that although the Municipal Finance Bureau is under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Government, in fact, my words don't count there. The leaders there have always listened to Deputy Secretary Qiu Fugui and others. Even if I approve this note, I'm afraid you can't come up with the money."

Chang Ning shook his head. He didn't want to talk about some situations in the city. It seemed as if he was incompetent if he did so. But there were some things he had to talk about. If he didn't, Feng Sizhe would inevitably think that he didn't want to contribute. He had no choice but to tell him some of the actual situations.

"So that's how it is." Hearing Chang Ning say this, Feng Sizhe shook his head painfully.

The most powerful and important departments of local governments are generally two things: people and money. Personnel issues and financial issues are always the main projects that leaders have to focus on. For example, under normal circumstances, the secretary is in charge of personnel and the mayor is in charge of finance. This is a good division of labor, but sometimes this division of labor becomes superficial, and it is not actually the case. For example, in Dahu County, personnel issues are not necessarily decided by the county party secretary Sun Shicun, and financial issues are not decided by the county magistrate Fang Xianzhi. It seems that this problem is still very common. This is the case in Dahu County, and the same is true in Yongyang City. As the mayor, Chang Ning, the top leader of the municipal government, can't even control the financial gate. This alone shows that he, the mayor, has not fully entered the working state.

"What should we do?" Feng Sizhe asked back. If the mayor couldn't control the Municipal Finance Bureau, how could he, a small deputy county chief, get money from it? Feng Sizhe's current work focus is still in Dahu County. If he is asked to cause trouble in the city, he can't do it now.

"What can I do? Even if there is policy support, I still have to figure out the financial resources myself." Chang Ning spread his hands and acted as if he was helpless.

Chang Ning did this not because he didn't want to help Feng Sizhe, but because he really had the will but not the ability. Feng Sizhe saw and heard all of this, and after thinking about it, it was also a good thing to give policies, so he said, "Mayor Chang, if you say so, then I have to propose policies."

"Well, go ahead and ask. I'm listening." Chang Ning nodded. He wanted to see what Feng Sizhe would ask for next.

Feng Sizhe laughed. Since the city finances cannot afford the money for road construction, I think it is not too much to ask the municipal party committee to exempt our Dahu County from agricultural tax. Of course, it will only take three years. Three years will be enough. In this way, I can let the people build the road, and use the wages of road construction to pay the agricultural tax, and the road can be built. "

Chang Ning didn't expect Feng Sizhe to put forward such a condition. To be honest, half of Dahu County's fiscal revenue comes from the state's relief subsidies, and part comes from their county's agricultural taxes. Basically, Dahu County has never paid a penny to the city. On the contrary, they would be very lucky if they didn't ask the city for money.

Therefore, whether to exempt agricultural tax for three years actually has little to do with the city, but it is actually closely related to Dahu County. Thinking that the city can't get the money from the county anyway, it's just three years, so what if he agrees to it, he nodded, "Well, exempting agricultural tax for three years and letting you use the money to build roads is also a solution, but have you thought about it? Whether your county can pass it, you have to know that this matter has little to do with the city, and the county is the immediate beneficiary of this matter."

What Chang Ning said was right. Feng Sizhe certainly knew that the final crux of the matter was still in the county, but he had to get an attitude from the city. Only with this attitude from the city could he go back and talk about it.

"Well, I know. I just need you to say a word when the county is verifying the truth of this matter. I will take care of the rest." Feng Sizhe nodded solemnly.

"Okay, if your county called me to ask about this, I would tell the truth." Chang Ning thought that since Feng Sizhe said this, he must have known it in his mind. So it would be good to leave this matter to him. The situation is that the city does not have money to give to Dahu County to build roads. If they can raise funds on their own, this is of course a good thing.

After getting a confirmed reply from Chang Ning, Feng Sizhe left the Municipal Party Committee and first went to the Municipal Finance Bureau. As expected, they said they had no money, so he drove back to the county.

As soon as he returned to the county, Feng Sizhe went up to the third floor and headed straight to Sun Shicun's office. Sun Shicun knew that he had something to say, so he politely invited him in.

"Haha, County Magistrate Feng, you've worked hard. How's it going? Did you get the money from the city this time?" Sun Shicun had received reports about the repair of the roads in the county, and he hoped that this could be done. This would be a great achievement for him as the county party secretary. For this reason, he knew about Feng Sizhe's request for money from the city, and even supported it. After all, if the money came, he could accomplish great things, and if it didn't, he wouldn't lose anything.

Feng Sizhe knew that as the county party secretary, he was still very concerned about his trip to Yongyang City. After a long sigh, he slowly said, "Oh, don't mention it. The city has money."