Mountains of swords and seas of fire

When I was not an official, I always felt that those who flattered the leaders were pathetic. When I became an official, and then flattered officials who were bigger than myself, this psychological imbalance diminished.Li Miao is such a person, at least he is very fluent in flattering Zhou Zhiqin now.It seems very sad to become such a person, but how many people wait for such a sad opportunity and have no hope in their lives. Society is such a cruel and ruthless battlefield.Those with power dominate the game above, while the unarmed struggle below.And Li Miao is the kind caught in the middle, neither up nor down.Going back to the prototype is not reconciled, and it is better than ascending to the top.

When Tan Liyun went to bed, she found that Li Miao was still looking at the ceiling with her eyes open like two tubes.

She didn't speak, and lay down beside her.Li Miao turned over and rushed towards her, trying to kiss her, but was dodged.

"What's wrong?"

"Go to sleep, I have an early flight to Shenzhen tomorrow morning, so I have to get up early."

"We haven't done it in a long time."

Tan Liyun laughed with a snort, pushed Li Miao's face away, and said, "It's time for old couples, go to bed quickly."

"What are you busy with recently?"

"Hey, Director Li finally remembered to care about me?"

"I've never been as busy as you."

"How do you say that?"

"Dealing with people is the most tiring thing. I used to be a clerk and was nothing more than being instructed by the leader. It was the brain that was tired. Now that I am instructing people, it is the heart that is tired. I feel tired every day."

"Then it's time to go to bed early, it's late..." Tan Liyun kissed Li Miao's forehead, then turned to sleep in the closet.

Li Miao opened her mouth, but stopped talking.

During the meeting, Zhou Zhiqin saw Li Miao playing with his mobile phone again, so he called his name and asked him about the project of the outside line class.

Li Miao didn't expect to be called by name, and immediately stood up straight like a primary school student answering a question.The answer was not bad, but it lacked the artistry of the leader, so Zhou Zhiqin barely gave him a [-] out of [-].

After the meeting was over, Zhou Zhiqin called Li Miao to his office. Li Miao looked a little embarrassed. He knew that Zhou Zhiqin was going to tell him something.

As a result, Zhou Zhiqin didn't talk about work immediately, but instead glanced at Li Miao's wrist and said, "The watch is good."

Ever since that time playing mahjong, Zhou Zhiqin couldn't control himself, and always liked to look at Li Miao's hand.

When Li Miao heard Zhou Zhiqin's words, she immediately thought of buying a watch for Director Zhou, and silently wrote it down.

After talking about the watch, Zhou Zhiqin felt that the atmosphere was getting better, so he changed the subject: "This time the engineering audit of the line work area, the bureau is going to invite an outside company to audit."

"Don't let the audit department do it?"

"Internal audit...is always inferior to external audit."

Li Miao immediately realized that Zhou Yi, the deputy head of the audit department, was Zhou Zhiqin's cousin. This time, the line work area had a total of more than 6000 million projects, and the previous first and final trials must have been tricky.

Thinking of this, Li Miao felt a little unconvinced, no matter how he was single-handedly promoted by Zhou Zhiqin, it was too obvious to be partial to his cousin at this time.

Because Li Miao had a knot in his heart, he spoke in a somewhat offensive tone: "Ju Zhou, this is not very good. Many projects are open contracts. At that time, the audit also issued a report and signed it. Now to review, our financial It’s hard to talk.”

"Then you think Jin Yiwu will judge your finances, and you won't be in trouble? You always feel a little uncomfortable when you take his place."

"I know this, but now the financial accounts are in a mess, and the external audit is prone to problems."

"Don't worry, they have to give me the purpose of the report first. Just prepare as much as you can."

Li Miao was still a little reluctant.

After all, he seldom saw this kind of big scene, and he didn't know how big the external trial was. Besides helping Zhou Zhiqin with his personal relations, he always had some small hands and feet, and he was afraid of being discovered.Li Miao didn't know what to do, and he wasn't sure what Zhou Zhiqin's attitude would be.

Back in his office, Li Miao threw a stack of documents on the desk as soon as he closed the door.

In fact, this is not the first time that such a situation has happened. I used to think that it was understandable for Zhou Zhiqin to favor Zhou Yi, but it is not Li Miao's job to wipe people's buttocks. Heaping projects, there are a lot of tricks in it, and just a little bit can make him unable to do financial work in this life again.Zhou Zhiqin made himself feel like he was doing well.

The anger in my heart can't be directed at Zhou Zhiqin, Li Miao can only be angry with herself, and she still has to put on a smiling face when she turns around when she goes out, and she can't let others see what it is, and then add fuel and vinegar to make irresponsible remarks.The relationship between him and Zhou Zhiqin cannot withstand provocation.

Li Miao got angry and went to order a watch for Zhou Zhiqin, and the 10,000+ was poured out again.It's not that he is reluctant to give up money, but he feels that he has spent enough money and energy on Zhou, and in the end he is worse than a relative who only knows how to stab people.Feeling blocked is inevitable.

In the evening, Li Miao rarely pushed back all the social gatherings, and worked overtime until after nine o'clock before returning home.

Tan Liyun was also a little puzzled when she received his call, but she still tried her best to come back by 11 o'clock.

After entering the door, Tan Liyun asked before seeing Li Miao's people: "What's so urgent?"

"Can you give me some invoices now? I'm about to have an external audit here, and the bureau arranges to invite the company for the external audit at the end of the month."

"How much? What type?"

"It's best to be an invoice for construction materials. The project in the line work area has been reported to the State Grid Corporation, and now the higher-ups have to issue an audit report from the bureau. It was not a big deal at first. Zhou Zhiqin insisted on protecting Zhou Yi, afraid of him. If there is a problem with the ones signed before, it is recommended to ask for an external audit. He is not afraid of an external audit, and I am against the thunder. Now I probably do the math, and at least one or two million invoices are needed."

"How long have you been in office? Are you brave enough?"

"Do you think I'm the only one? It's not Zhou Zhiqin's bad debts. I didn't think there would be an external audit. If I wanted to do a self-examination, the bureau wouldn't take it seriously. I'll give them a few accounts at random. Check it out."

Tan Liyun didn't expect Li Miao's loophole to be so big. Although she has a big business, she doesn't have the ability to get 200 million raw material invoices in three to five days.

Here Li Miao is anxious like an ant on a hot pot, but she is not in a hurry.Now her mind was completely occupied by another matter.

She was going to discuss divorce with Li Miao.

Li Miao also looked at Tan Liyun earnestly, hoping that his almighty wife would readily nod and say that she would handle this matter.

Seeing that Tan Liyun didn't speak, Li Miao asked again: "It's not true, 50 yuan can be done first. I also moved some of them myself. They were all empty projects, and there was an accident when I checked. Zhou Zhiqin was also a contractor who returned to him. It’s not easy to go wrong.”

Tan Liyun glanced at Li Miao, and said slowly: "I can't get you so much for a while. You usually order food and beverages, and the advertisements are easy to talk about. How can you usually issue so many invoices for materials. And you do The bill can’t be so large, it’s going to be broken. Why don’t you ask Zhou Zhiqin about this matter, he has so many contractors who are closely related to him.”

"Forget it, he wasn't very happy because I said a few words today, so he didn't call me for dinner tonight."

"That's how you are. Would you lose a piece of meat if you said soft words to others? You should go and find out Zhou Zhiqin's tone about this matter, and see if the bureau is going to help the line work area, or whether it is going to ignore it."

"Let's get ready in the bureau. Secretary Yang is also inseparable from this matter. Everyone is staring at the line work area and the reconstruction of the rural power grid for money."

"Then what are you afraid of? Look at your guts." Tan Liyun paused, with a disgusted expression on her face, probably thinking that even if Li Miao became an official, she would not be able to produce food, "And Zhou Yi, you can also beat the side drums Well, since Zhou Zhiqin can trust him, it would be good for you to ask him to place a bet on Zhou Zhiqin."

Li Miao didn't speak, so he didn't want to expose his man's jealousy, he would never go to Zhou Yi anyway.

Two mornings later, Zhou Zhiqin returned to the office after the court meeting, and found an unremarkable black box on the table. When he opened it, he found that it was a watch, which was the same brand as Li Miao's that he had praised two days ago.Zhou Zhiqin smiled a little, closed the box, and put it in the briefcase casually.Zhou Zhiqin once again felt good about Li Miao's ability to handle affairs.

Zhou Zhiqin didn't mention the watch to Li Miao again.Li Miao didn't see him wearing that watch either. Of course, he didn't expect that because he bought a watch of the same series as the one he was wearing, Director Zhou put it away nicely and didn't wear it out to make a statement.

Although if it was someone else, they would probably blame Li Miao for not being low-key and thoughtful, but Zhou Zhiqin didn't blame him, he liked it a lot.

Not to be high-profile, but to make Li Miao feel that he is not harsh on him in small things, and a special relationship will gradually form between the two of them.Zhou Zhiqin is not "Zhuge Liang". He doesn't believe that leaders can conquer subordinates with so-called charisma and make people willingly work for themselves.He didn't feel that his life was better than Liu Bei's, and the people below had no selfishness.What he has to do is control, using various things to control the people who work for him.Whether it is money or power, he is not stingy about it.Because he knows very well that no one in this world can ride the wind and waves with a boat rowed by one person.

Li Miao played a cautious role in the matter of meeting the external trial, and he did not respond at all.

Tan Liyun's words made him feel confident, not because he thought Zhou Zhiqin would protect him, but because more than one leader in the bureau was involved in the construction of the line work area. If the State Grid Company wanted to investigate, there would be some evidence, otherwise such a thing would Waste of money.Then he, a little chief financial officer, is afraid of being an ass there, and the bureau will naturally wrestle with him.What he had to do was to let Zhou Zhiqin divide the risk equally between himself and Zhou Yi.You can't just carry the thunder yourself to make others happy, Li Miao's little plan is crackling.

Looking at the audit report sent by the office, Zhou Zhiqin wanted to slap Hu Limiao for the first time.

He trusted Li Miao very much, and he also believed in himself, so he felt that after giving Li Miao that hint, Li Miao should be very clear that he wanted to get rid of Zhou Yi from these messy things.In the end, Li Miao came up with a passive challenge, and a lot of problems were on the surface. It seemed that the situation in the whole situation was just that - a rotten hornet's nest.They can't poke anywhere, and the other bureau chiefs have also seen the audit report at the moment, some are gloating, and some are frightened.But everyone looked calm on the surface.

As expected, Li Miao was called to Secretary Yang's office, followed by Director Wang, and finally Zhou Zhiqin.

The two people in front knew that Li Miao was from Zhou Zhiqin, so it was inevitable that their words would be a little too blunt.Who would have thought that as soon as he entered Zhou Zhiqin's office, he would be scolded: "You only pretend to be ping pong balls in your head?!"

Li Miao immediately put on an extremely wronged look to Zhou Zhiqin.

Zhou Zhiqin couldn't continue cursing immediately, because Li Miao's expression made him feel hot all over.His brain could no longer concentrate on being angry, and some other small bubbles rushed in, disturbing him.

Li Miao was wearing a dark blue thin sweater with a white collared shirt inside. He had a beautiful inverted triangle figure wrapped in firm muscles. He was already good-looking, but the clothes made him even more elegant. Zhou Zhiqin had always I didn't look at him carefully, and now I can't bear to look away after looking at him, and of course I can't bear to curse.

"Zhou Ju, I tried my best, but I...don't dare to let the people below help me with these accounts. I have already worked overtime for several nights, and the serious ones are covered. I really can't care about the others. gone."

Zhou Zhiqin knew that these were lies, and he dared to hand over the accounts to the people below, so there was nothing to be afraid of at this time, but since Li Miao said so, he was setting up a platform for each other.He can't always stand on the top and not get off, just get off when he has to.

"I know that financial work is not easy to do, so I put you in that position. You have to check on me carefully, and this kind of thing can't happen a second time."

"I know, Zhou Ju, I will be careful in the future, and there will be no more temporary cramps."

Zhou Zhiqin glanced at Li Miao, this man was really unforgiving, and in the end he put a load of responsibility on himself, as if he was powerless to fight back when he made a surprise attack.After Zhou Zhiqin was hit like this, the fire in his heart flared up again.

"I don't care if you hug Buddha's feet temporarily or usually, this kind of thing can't happen again. I don't like to clean up this kind of thing."

The muscles on Li Miao's back tightened. Zhou Zhiqin said this for the second time since he came in. It seemed that he was really angry. Naturally, Li Miao didn't dare to do it again, and immediately lowered himself, wishing he could get down to the ground. Go up, "I didn't handle this matter well, Zhou Ju gave me a chance, and I will definitely do it well in the future."

"Go back, I will ask Director Jin to produce an internal audit report, and then I will take it to Beijing to report on my work. What to do, you can figure it out..."

"I'll go back and deal with it right away, Director Jin will have no problem."

"I hope that this time you patted your chest and promised that things will be okay."

"Trust me once, Ju Zhou."

Zhou Zhiqin was taken aback again, he didn't know if it was his own illusion, or his brain's reaction had gone wrong, but he actually felt that Li Miao's tone of voice was coquettish.Stretching his eye sockets, Zhou Zhiqin forced a smile, and Li Miao put his heart back into his atrium, and walked out of his office disheartened.

Li Miao knew that in the end things would still fall on her own head, and she was a life-saver, but with Zhou Yi and Jin Yiwu coming to support her, Li Miao was still in a good mood.This kind of emotion is probably because he felt that he had secretly made a move with Zhou Zhiqin, and he narrowly won.

As for Jin Yiwu, Li Miao had been with him for five or six years. In terms of understanding, he knew Zhou Zhiqin much better than he did.

Jin Yiwu is a typical type of person who has no skills but only engages in interpersonal relationships. He also has a pig face and a clear heart. No one dares to underestimate him.

When Li Miao was in the financial department, his relationship with Jin Yiwu was so-so, because he was the only certified public accountant, so the leaders above were a little jealous.Of course, in the end, this fear became true, and he took the position that should have been Jin Yicheng's turn.However, now everyone in the bureau who wants to greet Jin Yicheng can line up at the gate of the bureau. Li Miao is not in a hurry, let alone that Jin Yicheng will trip him up. on sheep.

Zhou Zhiqin was worried that Li Miao would not be able to handle some things well. Although this person is 35 or [-] years old, he has only been in the middle for half a year. Biting, Li Miao sometimes speaks too bluntly, and people don't even know when they get in.It's normal for him to be a little worried.

On the other hand, Li Miao is very confident in himself, and has already thought up a series of plans to win Jin Yiwu, and also wants to use this to ease the embarrassment of the last competition with Jin Yiwu.

Jin Yiwu is an old fritter in the officialdom. He has been a middle-level cadre for nearly ten years, so he is very clear about the situation in the bureau.

So when Li Miao delivered it to the door, he was not polite at all, he took what should be taken, eaten what should be eaten, and did not miss anything that should be enjoyed.Of course, he didn't make things difficult for Li Miao. Li Miao is now a celebrity in front of Zhou Zhiqin, so there's no need for him to make trouble with the "upstart" in this bureau.What's more, the finance department didn't become the head of the audit department, and Jin Yiwu didn't have too much resentment, which Li Miao and Zhou Zhiqin didn't expect.

Some people, who offend you even a little bit, will stick to you for the rest of their lives; some people, who seem to have never cared about you all their lives, end up killing you as soon as they get in power.There are only two types of people in the bureau, and Jin Yiwu is just the latter.

Besides, Zhou Yi, a group of people here are so busy with the construction of the line work area that their buttocks are not on the bench. He is very happy, and he goes down to eat and drink with the contractor, let alone reaching out for envelopes.

Zhou Zhiqin was very unhappy when he heard the wind, and sat alone in the office thinking.

Li Miao's current living habit is to knock on Zhou Zhiqin's office door at four o'clock every afternoon. As long as he is not busy, the two will go out to play cards.Li Miao seemed to have taken over the duties of the office and became Zhou Zhiqin's personal secretary.Today he knocked on the door as usual, but a few minutes earlier.

Zhou Zhiqin took a sip from his teacup and asked him, "Are you free today? Are you busy with the audit?"

"Director Jin is such a sensible person, why should we be busy? He is very busy all by himself."

"Yes, everyone can do it, only Zhou Yi makes trouble for me every day."

When Li Miao heard that it was a sensitive topic, even though she really wanted to complain, she still pulled the zipper on her mouth.

Zhou Zhiqin raised his head, seeing Li Miao's expression of restraint and not daring to speak, he felt relieved for a while.For some reason, Li Miao seemed to him like a child who had just graduated and was assigned to work. He was obviously only seven years younger than him, but he always "impressed" him.

"sit down……"

Li Miao's ass seemed to be stained with 502, and immediately placed her butt firmly on the sofa in front of Zhou Zhiqin, raised her head, her face tensed, and waited excitedly for Zhou Zhiqin to speak.

Li Miao looked uneasy, but Zhou Zhiqin looked a little lonely, which made the expressions of the two very inconsistent at the moment.

"Actually, I also know that Zhou Yi's mud can't support a wall."

Li Miao immediately comforted him with a serious face: "That's not what you said, Ju Zhou. Director Zhou is also young, so he rushed a little bit."

"On this one, I have cleaned up a lot of messes for him. If you want to make money, you have to have enough brains. Some people are fine after eating salt for a lifetime, and some people choke to death after eating a single salt."

Li Miao nodded sincerely, he agreed with this truth, and Zhou Yi seemed to be that brainless, if Zhou Zhiqin hadn't covered him, he might have "died" early.Moreover, Zhou Zhiqin had put in a lot of thought, put him in the audit department, if he was changed to the marketing department or the agricultural electricity department, it would be no wonder that there would be a mess that couldn't be cleaned up.

In fact, Li Miao was also very curious about why people like Zhou Zhiqin would always protect a cousin.Not to mention his cousin, in Li Miao's eyes, Zhou Zhiqin is a ruthless person who doesn't even care about his own brothers.

Zhou Zhiqin took out a cigarette from the cigarette box on the table, Li Miao saw it, immediately got up with the speed of a tornado, ignited the lighter, and put it on, the speed made Zhou Zhiqin stunned for a moment.He moved the cigarette over and tapped Li Miao's beautiful fingers, feeling very satisfied, and decided to light cigarettes in front of Li Miao more in the future.

"It turned out that when the college entrance examination was resumed, I was still in the countryside. I didn't go back to the city. I didn't catch up in the first year. The second year of the exam was still divided into spring and autumn. In the spring, I was only 16 points away. At that time, I really wanted to come out of the countryside. Every day I got up at dawn to read and review. Zhou Yi was three years younger than me. At that time, I went to the countryside in the same place to jump in the queue. He was in poor health since he was a child. It took five or six hours to drive a bamboo pole weighing more than ten kilograms, and my hands would be sore all night. If he hadn't helped me with the farm work at that time, I would not have been admitted to university at all, and I would not have come out."

It's not that Li Miao has never suffered, of course he knows the difficulties of that kind of situation, and he also somewhat understands Zhou Zhiqin's psychology of repaying Zhou Yi.

"Later, I couldn't transfer the materials for the political review. Seeing that the admissions were almost finished, I had no choice. At that time, I was still Zhou Yi's mother, and she memorized it! Small needlework and small commodities came over and helped me coax the village secretary. If it wasn't for me at that time My mother works in a department store, whoever can get those things, I can't get admitted that year at all."

"Hey, it wasn't easy back then..."

"You young people don't understand the hardships of that era." Zhou Zhiqin shook his head and puffed out a puff of smoke.

Li Miao also fell silent. It is a joke to say that people should not believe in feelings in the officialdom, and to repay kindness, but seeing Zhou Zhiqin's expression, Li Miao couldn't help but want to believe in the person in front of him. He is a very affectionate person.

Zhou Zhiqin and the director of the line work area will soon go to Beijing to report on their work. Li Miao knows that Zhou Zhiqin has a strong relationship with the personnel director of the State Grid Corporation, so he is not worried that Zhou Zhiqin will not be able to solve the problems in the bureau when he returns to Beijing.

Li Miao felt that Zhou Zhiqin was also very strange. He didn't know if it was obsessive-compulsive disorder or something. He would call himself every night to ask about the work in the bureau.

Of course, after this situation lasted for four days, Li Miao felt that Zhou Zhiqin might be trying to express himself—that he was a good horse that was valued.

So, apart from picking up her daughter home every night, Li Miao has another habit of waiting for Zhou Zhiqin's call.

In addition to asking about the situation in the bureau, Zhou Zhiqin also revealed some news to Li Miao from time to time.In fact, it wasn't that he was looking for something to say, he wanted to listen to Li Miao's voice for a while, he wanted to give Li Miao a little test, to see if his mouth was tight or not.

After Li Miao reports to the leader every day, he will sit alone on the sofa and think about the problem. The problem he thinks about is self-evident—what does Zhou Zhiqin mean.

Since ancient times, it is the most difficult to figure out what to do in the officialdom.If this is done well, if you can't be "Heshen", you can at least be a "Eunuch".

Li Miao was flustered with exhaustion, because Zhou Zhiqin was too difficult to figure out.

He didn't know that in the eyes of outsiders, he was serving Zhou Zhiqin with a sharpened head. He just felt that he didn't know what Zhou Zhiqin wanted.

On the day Zhou Zhiqin was going to come back, Li Miao sorted out a bunch of catering invoices, which were generated when Jin Yicheng was invited, and he took the pile of invoices to Deputy Director Lin's office to sign.

Usually, he asked Zhou Zhiqin to sign these things, and Zhou Zhiqin usually didn't read them, and Li Miao pasted up a thick stack of catering receipts.

But the tent was to be set up that day, and Li Miao didn't know that Zhou Zhiqin came back early.

Deputy Director Lin is in his early fifties, and he is considered to have retired to the second line. According to the bureau's regulations, all bureau leaders and middle-level cadres at the age of 55 must become investigators, that is, hand over their power and keep their annual salary.So among the seven or eight deputy directors in the bureau, three of them are basically going to be investigators in two or three years, so everyone is just doing face-saving work and doesn't pay much attention to them.

That's why Li Miao went to Deputy Director Lin to sign it.Moreover, before Li Miao was promoted, he had a good relationship with Deputy Lin.It should be easy to get through.

Unexpectedly, Deputy Lin picked up the stack of neatly pasted invoices, looked at them, and flipped through them again, but did not intend to sign immediately.

Li Miao immediately smiled flatteringly, leaned over, and said in a low voice, "This is the invoice for a recent treat, during the external audit..."

"Let me see first."

"Bureau Lin, what's the point of this? It must be within the public relations fee of the bureau, and it won't exceed it. Just sign it, so I can settle the bill."

"You have become the director, and you still do the accounting yourself?"

Li Miao's mouth was rough, and he said, "You don't go to work every day."

Deputy Lin gave Li Miao a white look with a smile, and then suddenly stopped turning over the invoice, "What is this? I ate thirty-seven thousand in a humble house? One meal? Is your invoice real?"

"Of course it's true, how dare I make fun of this?"

"Which leader?"

Li Miao made a nonsense casually, "Secretary Yang is treating guests."

Deputy Lin glanced at the time below, and smiled, "Well, on the 24th, I'm with Secretary Yang, isn't it a humble house?"

"Oh, sign it, Chief Lin! Please do me a favor..." Li Miao leaned over, handed the pen to Deputy Lin, and burst into laughter.

"Didn't you buy a fake invoice?"

"Ouch! Fuck me!" Li Miao's face flushed. Did he buy fake invoices for 3 to [-] yuan? !

But Li Miao also knew that Deputy Lin was joking, so he didn't turn his back on him, and could only slander a few words in his stomach.

After that, Li Miao got very close, almost grabbing Deputy Director Lin's hand to sign.The two were chatting, when suddenly someone knocked on the door twice, and they opened it and walked in.

Li Miao and Deputy Director Lin looked up together and saw Zhou Zhiqin at the same time.

Deputy Director Lin immediately bowed his head and signed the letter, sorry to embarrass Li Miao again.Li Miao quickly slipped to Zhou Zhiqin's side with the signed folder, and said with a flattering smile, "Ju Zhou, you're back so soon, is everything going well?"

"Successful." Zhou Zhiqin's tone sounded unhappy. Li Miao thought he was unhappy when he saw that he had come to find someone else to sign, so he flattered him immediately: "With your help, there is nothing that cannot be fixed." .”

"I have something to tell Director Lin, you go back first."

"Okay, okay, you guys are busy." After speaking, Li Miao smiled back at Deputy Director Lin and blinked his eyes.

When Li Miao brought them to the door, Zhou Zhiqin couldn't hold back, and said annoyedly: "This ghost boy, come to you to sign the travel expenses again?"

"No, those who treat guests, hey, miscellaneous, I'll tease him a few words."

Zhou Zhiqin turned his head away, his face darkened even more.