Chapter 37: The Mayor

  Huang Zhengming and Yuan Weihua received the notice one after another. After learning that Wei Chengxu was coming, they each had their own thoughts. Huang Zhengming thought that since the mayor was coming, he might make a decision, and this mayor was very powerful. To let Qinghe Town stand out, only the old chief could meet with him to talk; while Yuan Weihua was very pleased in his heart, this condition was already there, and whoever came from Lishan Town would have to give a big thumbs up.

  As the mayor was present, Huang Zhengming, Yuan Weihua and the main leaders of the four teams were waiting at the junction of Xinqiao and Fuhai districts to escort the mayor into Xinqiao.

  Huang Zhengming and Yuan Weihua were called onto Wei Chengxu's car, "First go to Lingshan, then Luohetown, don't notify the town leaders, I'm just going for a stroll, finally to Qinghe."

  Huang Zhengming heard the mayor's instructions and immediately contacted Zhao Yanli in the first car, asking her to drive along the route requested by Wei Chengxu just now.

  Weichengxu's evaluation of Lingshan Town is: a town that is moving towards the level of developed areas; and his evaluation of Luhe Town is: enthusiastic masses, developed agriculture. In fact, Weichengxu's two evaluations have already eliminated these two towns, it's just that no one can understand this meaning now. Lingshan Town has almost become a developed area, introducing an industrial park will make the economy, capital and various interests too concentrated. Luhe Town is good at agriculture, so doing industry will affect its own advantages, anyway, it will be counterproductive.

  After finishing in Luohe Town, Wei Chengxu said to Yuan Weihua, who was patting his horse's buttocks beside him, "Now notify the team from Qinghe Town and find a conference room to wait for me."

  Yuan Weihua immediately put it into practice, but he and other surrounding leaders guessed whether the mayor would lean towards Qinghe Town, what was the reason?

  Chen Liji, Chen Gong, Zhang Zhuli, Ning Wenjing and other town leaders rushed back to Qinghe Town Government from all directions after receiving the notice, waiting for the leader's inspection. They didn't know that the mayor had not met with local leaders in the other two towns, so they thought it was just a formality. After arranging people to clean up the conference room, a group of people stood neatly at the government gate, tilting their heads and looking towards the direction of Xin Bridge Road.

  The car arrived, and Yuan Weihua got out of the passenger seat, personally opened the rear door, and Huang Zhengming quickly stood aside after getting out from behind. A man in his 40s with a tall stature got out of the car, exuding an air of maturity and stability that was evident even when he was younger.

  The mayor was very kind and gave a smile to the waiting crowd, "Secretary Huang, Mayor Yuan, why don't you introduce yourselves."

  Huang Zhengming started with Chen Liji, then it was Deputy Mayor Chen Gong. The mayor stared at Chen Gong for a while, "Very young and handsome, good prospects." Then he simply shook hands with the people behind him. The mayor even said a word to Chen Gong alone, this Chen Gong seems to have already entered the mayor's eyes, this is what everyone sees now.

  Everyone followed Wei Chengxu in order of their positions, with Chen Gong leading the way to the conference room at the front. From the entrance to the third-floor conference room, Chen Gong felt Wei Chengxu's gaze on him constantly, and he was sure that it was his first time seeing Wei Chengxu, but also had a feeling of having seen him before.

  The meeting began, and Wei Chengxu delivered a speech on the podium. "Comrades, this time the city attaches great importance to the site selection work of the industrial park, which is now nearing its end. You, Qinghe Town, are also one of the candidate towns. Your foundation is currently very poor, but I saw hope in your reports and reality, I saw fighting spirit and cohesion... Secretary Huang, who is in charge of Qinghe's declaration work?"

  When it was confirmed that it was Chen Gong, Wei Chengxu looked at Chen Gong and nodded, "Hmm, Comrade Chen Gong is very good, young and talented, creative, with a spirit of progress. Our current cadres need to be like Chen Gong, those conservative, self-satisfied, and complacent cadres are too many, which slows down our development speed, and dare not try, how can we know what is right or wrong? I have high hopes for your Qinghe Town, if you can follow your planned goals and direction, the industrial park settling in Qinghe will be a great decision..."

  After the meeting, in Chen Gong's office.

  Wei Chengxu asked Huang Zhengming, whether Chen Gong was the acting town head. After getting a positive answer from Huang Zhengming, Wei Chengxu put forward Chen Gong's personnel organization requirements in front of Chen Gong, guaranteeing that Chen Gong would become the secretary of Qinghe Town within a year.

  Wei Chengxu had said so much, Huang Zhengming naturally understood that this industrial park must be located in Qinghe, and the development of this industrial park was entirely up to Chen Gong to handle. It seemed that Chen Gong was holding onto a big tree, and Huang Zhengming weighed the pros and cons before immediately agreeing to the request.

  Huang Zhengming saw Wei Chengxu seemed to have something to say to Chen Gong alone, so he tactfully left. "Chen Gong, this Qinghe will be handed over to you in the future, develop it well. Mayor Wei, I'll leave first." Huang Zhengming also couldn't understand why Wei Chengxu attached such importance to Chen Gong tomorrow, was it because of Old Chief's reason? No, if Old Chief arranged for Wei Chengxu to help, then there was no need for him to intervene personally.

  Chen Gong saw Wei Chengxu still standing, "Mayor, you sit down, we've all worked together for a whole morning, I'll refill your tea."

  Wei Chengxu sat on the small sofa, waving his hand to indicate that there was no need to add water. "Chen Gong, you also sit down and talk about your plans and ideas for the development of the industrial park."

  Chen Gong is young, has a strong work ethic, and dares to think big, but that doesn't mean he has the experience to do these things well. He talked non-stop about how an industrial park in Qinghe would develop and grow, many of his ideas were indeed creative, but to Wei Chengxu, they were simply childish. However, he liked Chen Gong's imagination, even if some of it was unrealistic.

  "Wei Chengxu didn't want to discourage Chen Gong's confidence, "Hmm, not bad, a very bold idea, but it's best to combine it with reality slowly, so that it has operability. While developing, we should explore and connect theory with practice. I've told you, my opinion is that this industrial park should be located in Qinghe, and it should be managed by a young leader, which is you. I hope you won't disappoint everyone."

  Chen Gong had inquired from Mao Ren Guang that in this rich coastal city, the words of Mayor Wei Cheng Xiu were more effective than those of the Secretary. He knew that if the investigation team came to fix it, there was less than 10% chance of success, but as soon as the mayor opened his mouth, the chance was over 80%. Immediately showing determination, "Don't worry, Mayor, if Qinghe Town can successfully introduce the industrial park, I will lead the leaders to overcome difficulties, go on business trips, serve enterprises, and develop the scale of the park. If it's not done well, I will resign voluntarily."

  "No need to be so exaggerated, whether the park is doing well or not is not one person's responsibility, it's related to the district and our city. Do you think your town can attract any enterprise to invest? Can solve what kind of problem for enterprises? You're already doing a good job if you can do the coordination work properly. By the way, that main road must be repaired according to standard, don't skimp on it. In the future when the park is built, the traffic volume will be huge, widening the road is one of the best things your town has done." Wei Chengxu felt that Chen was a bit overconfident, but he also liked this kind of boldness.

  "Alright, I'll head back to the city first. Hope Qinghe can win in the end, good luck kid." Wei Chengxu stood up and opened the door to walk out, Chen Gong followed behind him, sending him all the way to the parking lot.

  After that, until Wei Chengxu's car left everyone's sight, Wei Chengxu didn't even glance at Chen Gong once, making Chen Gong wonder if the mayor had mistaken him for someone else. Now that he has reacted, it was Huang Zhengming's words that brought Chen Gong back to reality: "You'll be officially taking office as town head soon, so prepare well, you're having a double happiness." The double happiness refers to being promoted from acting town head to official town head and the garden district's household registration.

  "Dad, how's Chen Gong? He's pretty good, right?" Wei Shuqin asked the middle-aged man sitting across from her as they ate dinner at home.

  "Superficial, arrogant, self-aggrandizing, and unrealistic. In short, not a reliable cadre." The middle-aged man looked up at Wei Shuqin and said.

  Middle-aged people are naturally Wei Chengxu who patrols Qinghe during the day.

  To help his daughter's suitor, Wei Chengxu this time went against the majority and personally came to the scene to give Chen Gong a boost, it can be said that he gave Chen Gong enough face.

  "Dad, you shouldn't be opposed to it anymore, right? Passing is fine, why are you being so strict?" Wei Shuqin gave a piece of meat to Wei Chengxu.

  Wei Cheng put down his chopsticks, "I'm strict with you because I'm responsible for you. I only have one precious daughter, and I don't want her to be deceived by some bad person. Your character is okay, but your ability still needs to be observed. I don't want my daughter to follow a useless person in the future. Being a town head or bureau chief means nothing; if someone says you're useless one day, you'll have to step down. That classmate of yours, the son of the provincial committee secretary-general, has already been appointed as the head of a district local tax bureau and his prospects are limitless. With family backing, even if he doesn't make it big, he won't end up in a miserable situation. Chen Gong, Shu Qin, can I be at ease handing you over to him? He still needs to work harder and meet my requirements. A person without background wants to marry my daughter; at the very least, he should be a district-level leader."

  Wei Shuqin waved her chopsticks and said, "Her father is now the mayor or bureau chief, it's easy to get mixed up in this, isn't he some kind of district leader? In the future, unless you become a central government official, you won't be able to marry her, will she still be single at 70 or 80?"

  Wei Chengxu said to make Wei Shuqin feel at ease, "This time the industrial park location I gave him an opportunity, gave him a platform to show himself. Such a good opportunity if you can't grasp it well, then you shouldn't be together. If this industrial park becomes big and strong, he will not only be able to take care of one district leader's position."

  Southern Provincial Government

  "Director, it seems that you don't need to show up in person. The Fuhai Industrial Park has basically been confirmed to be located in Qinghe. Chen Gong's luck is really good." Secretary Wang reported to Provincial Governor Du Minghe.

  Du Minghe only knew that he had mentioned to his original subordinate Huang Zhengming, letting Qinghe enter the list of candidates. Huang Zhengming should not have the ability to let the city decide on Qinghe, so he asked Secretary Wang what was going on.

  It wasn't until later that I found out, according to Secretary Wang's internal information, Chen Gong had a good female comrade who was the only daughter of Fu Hai Mayor Wei Chengxu. It turns out that man cannot compete with heaven, and since heaven is helping Chen Gong, there is no need for Governor Li to intervene again.

  Du Minghe analyzed the situation, "Secretary Wang, don't go and greet any leaders for now. Let Chen Gong fly under Wei Chengxu's protection for a while longer. In a year, Wei Chengxu will be transferred to the southern city, that will be the real test for Chen Gong. By then, it won't be too late for me to make my move."

  "Yes, Governor." After Secretary Wang left the governor's office, Du Minghe was still thinking about Chen Gong's affairs alone. It's interesting that two "enemies" have come together on one road, and so many years of grudges should also be settled. I won't report to Old Man Chen for the time being, or he will definitely disagree with the two of them being together.