Rebirth of Minister Qi

As for why we didn't take a plane directly to Lincheng, the reason was very simple. Lincheng had no airport. Even Luzhou, the most economically prosperous city in Handong, had no airport. There was only one civil airport in the entire province, which was Jingzhou.

In a few years, many military airports in Handong will be handed over to local governments and expanded into civil airports. Now, taking a plane is too much of a luxury for ordinary people. Only those in state-owned units and a group of people who have become rich can afford it.

The old man once told the leaders of the Civil Aviation Administration of China that in the future they should all switch to corporate operations, with administration separate from business.

At that time, the leaders of the Civil Aviation Administration of China were very nervous and retorted that ordinary people could not afford it. In fact, people really could not afford it at that time. They had to get letters of introduction from state-owned units to fly. That's why there was Maotai and cigarettes on the plane.

No one expected that the economy would develop so rapidly after reform and opening up. Only that old man truly foresaw it and vigorously promoted it.

The plane landed at Jingzhou Airport, and this time it was Huang Xiaobin, executive deputy director of the Guangming District Branch of the Jingzhou Public Security Bureau, who came to pick it up in person.

"Captain Huang, how come you came in person? I'm flattered."

Qi Tongwei stepped forward and hugged Huang Xiaobin. Huang Xiaobin was also an outstanding young cadre. He became a deputy director at the age of 37 or 38. It seemed that he would take over as the director of the branch bureau next, which meant he would be at the director level.

It’s just that sub-provincial cities have a unique level, called municipal-managed deputy bureau level and municipal-managed bureau level.

This level is very strange. The deputy bureau level under municipal management is a senior director, which is slightly higher than the ordinary director position, but in the general level, it is still a director.

For example, the difference between a municipal-level deputy bureau-level official and an ordinary director-level official is like the difference between an ordinary deputy county magistrate and a standing committee deputy county magistrate in a county team. Sub-provincial cities have regulations that in order to become a municipal-level director-level official (deputy department-level official), one must have experienced the municipal-level deputy bureau-level official career, and cannot be directly promoted from an ordinary director-level official.

Therefore, in practice, if Huang Xiaobin took the position described in the novel, that is, the director of Guangming Branch, he would be clearly at the deputy director level. Even if he concurrently served as a deputy of the district party committee and government, he would only be renamed a deputy bureau-level cadre under the municipal management, which would still be at the deputy director level.

Unlike Qi Tongwei, if he had become the director of the Jiangbei New District Branch, he would have been at the section level, and concurrently served as a deputy of the district party committee and government, and would have been directly promoted to the deputy division level.

"Tongwei, who told you to transfer those two little monkeys to Jiangdong Province?"

Qi Tongwei now had some understanding. It seemed that his power was beyond the imagination of his old leader.

This was an inter-provincial transfer, especially for two clerk-level positions (later called section officers). There were a lot of departments and people involved. Huang Xiaobin himself was transferred across cities to Jingzhou, and he knew very well how complicated the procedures were. There were hundreds of stamps involved.

The superiors have agreed, but the people in charge don't care. If you don't use some connections to smooth things over, they will just throw your materials aside. Unless a big shot in the public security system personally asks his secretary to help with the formalities, it will only be possible to do it so quickly.

Qi Tongwei has at least a director of the public security department behind him, who may even be a vice-provincial-level boss. This is why he was able to do things so smoothly. It can be said that everyone in the Lincheng Public Security Bureau was shocked. After knowing Qi Tongwei's power, many people wanted to find Qi Tongwei to build a relationship with him.

However, due to the limitations of this era, Qi Tongwei threw away his pager and did not give his mobile phone number to many people except Huang Xiaobin. He did give the address for sending letters to people in the bureau, but the address was in the dormitory of the GA department. Qi Tongwei was in Jiangdong, so how could they be contacted? Naturally, the letters to maintain contact fell into the sea. In addition, Qi Tongwei received a terrifying number of letters from readers, and the dormitory managers were used to it. A large bag of letters would be thrown into the dormitory every month, and it was impossible to tell who sent them. They were all so urgent, and the wording of those urging for updates was more severe than the last.

Many people also found Huang Xiaobin, and some wanted to change the status quo, even by transferring to other provinces, but Huang Xiaobin refused them all and did not even mention it to Qi Tongwei.

But this also reminded him that Qi Tongwei could actually be considered a political resource. What if Huang Xiaobin's backer in Jingzhou fell? What if he retired? All of these were possible. But Qi Tongwei was different. He was not even 25 years old at most, and his birthday hadn't even arrived yet.

He will only get promoted higher and higher in the future. If Qi Tongwei is promoted to director, no, no, no, what if he becomes a minister? Then the tremendous power and the snow-white shirt will be so terrifying.

Anyway, don't look down on a young man just because he is poor. Fortunately, Huang Xiaobin himself did not treat Qi Tongwei badly. After knowing that his application for transfer to Beijing was rejected, he immediately used a lot of connections to get Qi Tongwei many honors. All of these were his credit.

"Tongwei, when you come to Jingzhou this time, you must let me host you tonight. Without those two little monkeys to liven up the atmosphere, I will invite two good friends from Jingzhou to come over."

Qi Tongwei replied with a smile.

"No problem, but Captain Huang, please don't brag about me to your friends. Keep a low profile.

We are family, so I won't hide it from you. I transferred those two little monkeys to Jiangdong, which was already a favor given by the leaders of the department.

After all, I am just a small police officer at the section level, and I dare not ask for more for the sake of my leader’s face.”

"I understand, I understand. Let's not talk about this anymore. How long do you plan to stay in Handong this time?"

Qi Tongwei thought about it and decided that he still needed to go to Beijing early on the third or fourth day of the Lunar New Year. Not to mention those leaders and teachers who had to pay New Year's greetings, he had to take his parents to visit Zhang Ruonan's house this time. Before coming back, Qi Tongwei told his parents about Xiao Ning living at his mother-in-law's house, and was severely criticized by his parents. There were countless cases where the sister-in-law interfered in the family and caused conflicts. His mother didn't want Xiao Ning to live with Qi Tongwei, and now he had to trouble his mother-in-law to take care of her, which made the face-conscious old couple very ashamed.

The two elders and Qi Tongwei agreed to go to Beijing together to pay New Year's greetings to his parents-in-law. It would also be a chance for the two families to meet and arrange the marriage as soon as possible.

Although Qi Tongwei was considered a top figure in Yongqing County and had hundreds of police officers under him, and every leader would greet Qi Tongwei with a smile and bend down to offer him a cigarette, but in front of his parents, especially on matters like this, he had no say and could only nod his head, saying yes, yes, yes, right, yes, okay, okay.

"On the third or fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the whole family will go to the capital together to finalize the marriage."

Huang Xiaobin looked surprised.

"This is a big deal, do you need my help?"