Chapter 9 Distribution of Year-end Bonus

  Chen Gong personally went out to greet them. As soon as they met, before he could say anything, Yuan Weihua spoke up, "Has Director Wang from the Provincial Seismological Bureau arrived?"

  "Yes, in the conference room." Chen Gong replied.

  Yuan Weihua suddenly sprinted forward with a small running motion, and it was unclear whether he knew where the earthquake relief meeting room was.

  The conference room of the Seismological Bureau was not hard to find, Yuan Weihua saw Yang Yan inside and immediately walked in, asking Yang Yan to introduce the leaders of the seismic system.

  Yuan Weihua shook hands with the leaders of the earthquake system one by one, especially when he heard Director Wang Shuai, his eyes lit up like a light bulb, "Director Wang, please sit down, everyone else don't stand, sit, sit."

  Wang Shuai didn't know that his arrival would attract the attention of the Xin Qiao District Committee Secretary, Yang Jiong had contacted him beforehand, well, since the secretary is here, it's a good opportunity to settle the things that weren't settled earlier.

  Wang Shuai gave Chen Gong a look, and Chen Gong immediately brought up the topic with Yuan Weihua, "Secretary Yuan, Director Wang is very concerned about our new bridge. Yesterday, a strong earthquake occurred in Huaxia coastal area, and Director Wang learned that the southern part of our new bridge district belongs to an extension segment of the seismic belt, so he was extremely nervous and rushed here early this morning. He will also go on-site inspection soon."

  Yuan Weihua immediately agreed and said to go to the scene now, and asked in Wang Shuai's ear, "Director Wang, do you know if there have been any earthquakes in our southern province recently?"

  Wang Shuai thought it was strange that Yuan Weihua would ask this, and Wang Shuai suspected that Yuan Weihua might be over-tense from last night's earthquake. However, in order to fool the secretary, Wang Shuai had no choice but to ramble on, speaking very softly to Yuan Weihua, "Whether our province will experience an earthquake recently is still under further monitoring. In order to ensure the accuracy of earthquake forecasting, the provincial government is also equipping each region with advanced seismic monitoring equipment. According to foreign seismic departments' predictions, there will be another earthquake in China, but the specific location cannot be determined for now."

  Yuan Weihua's face suddenly turned very pale. "Quickly, let's go to the scene and take a look. Did you bring the expert?"

  Chen Gong also felt that Yuan Weihua's behavior and words were very abnormal, and asked the district head Yang Xian beside him. Yang Xian shook his head and said he didn't quite understand it either. This Secretary Yuan was usually so arrogant and domineering, but today he seemed to have changed from a tiger into a mouse.

  It's actually a story, Yuan Weihua experienced an earthquake while studying abroad. At that time, Yuan Weihua was giving a speech on the 20th floor of a high-rise building, suddenly feeling the ground shaking violently, his whole body was tossed about by nature's power, and he was so scared that he ran out of the room, leaving everyone behind. Luckily, he survived and was rescued from under the rubble, and even met with leaders from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, which led to him being promoted from a department head to a district head.

  So Secretary Yuan Weihua is not afraid of anything, just afraid of earthquakes, he has experienced the severity.

  Upon arrival at the scene, Chen Gong said on one side that this place is where the seismic monitoring station will be built soon. The data analyzed here can yield relatively accurate results.

  Chen Gong called the head of the monitoring and forecasting department, Xie Mingjun, to the front of the leaders, letting him explain technically. Everyone listened and nodded, including outsiders like Yuan Weihua, who felt that he seemed to have understood it too.

  "Hey, Director Xie, what you said sounds good, but it's hard to put into practice. The handling of land use rights, the project's approval and planning, the province only approves a few monitoring stations each year, and they don't give us any money for the land. I think it'll take at least three to five years to complete this smoothly."

  Yuan Weihua can't wait that long, what if an earthquake happens one day? "Director Wang came to our Xin Qiao personally today, we must let him have a good time here, and as the host, we also wish the leaders of the provincial and municipal earthquake bureau a happy new year."

  Wang Shuai immediately refused, saying that there were many things going on at work and at home in the past few days, and he had to return to Nancheng early.

  Yuan Weihua immediately asked further, "Director Wang, how many earthquake monitoring stations are approved for construction in our southern province every year?"

  Wang Shuai compared his fingers and said that in general, new projects will not exceed 40, and renovation and expansion projects will not exceed 10. Yuan Weihua can use up the terrible indicator, "Chen Gong, you immediately make a report to the provincial bureau, start the project after the New Year, and strive for Director Wang's support."

  Wang Shuai thought that Yuan Weihua was no longer a problem, so he told Yuan Weihua that one of the 40 indicators must have land first, otherwise this indicator would be wasted.

  Yuan Weihua immediately called Yang Qian, who was beside him, and said that the departments of land, planning, and development and reform would be personally coordinated by District Mayor Yang Qian. Following the principle of handling special matters in a special way, all procedures would be simplified and expedited.

  Chen Gong was relieved, and Wang Shuai concluded, "Secretary Yuan, Mayor Yang, and Director Chen, after you have resolved the land issue here, immediately send me a report, and I will personally approve it. If it's late, I won't guarantee anything."

  Yuan Weihua gave Yang Qian another order, asking him to supervise the whole process and complete it after a month of the festival.

  Actually, what Chen Gong needs most now is to get the district to approve and issue the target award of 15,000 yuan. "Secretary Yuan, these days our bureau's employees are very motivated, I heard that other units have already received their target awards, but ours in the Earthquake Bureau has not been implemented yet, I'm under a lot of pressure too."

  Yuan Weihua thought for a moment and indeed did not have the target reward report from the Seismological Bureau to sign, so he hurriedly asked about Yang Qian's situation, because only after Yang Qian signed it would it be submitted to him for final review.

  Because of Wang Shuai's relationship, Yang Qian made it easier to report to Yuan Weihua, saying that he was afraid other units would have opinions, thinking that earthquake work is not important, but the money received is close to the important department's money, and it just so happened that he hadn't had time to ask for instructions from Yuan Weihua yet.

  Yuan Weihua's attitude became tough, and he said to Yang Qian, "Some people like to talk nonsense and have an unbalanced mind. Take care of your own business, eat the rice in your own bowl, don't worry about how much is in other people's bowls, and ignore these rumors. Hurry up and finish it."

  In order to avoid delays, Wang Shuai played the role of a catalyst on the side, saying that he felt that the Xin Qiao Party Committee and government were concerned about the earthquake system, and also said that next year's work was heavy, so they would first send some money to stabilize everyone's minds. Yuan Weihua listened carefully and immediately called Zhang Ju, director of the Finance Bureau, asking him to bring the report forms prepared by the Earthquake Bureau to the scene. Anyway, Yang Qian and himself were both here, and they could sign the documents immediately, and go to the bank for transfer the next day.

  Yuan Weihua signed the bonus report of the Seismological Bureau on the spot and left first, because he thought that building a modern seismic monitoring station here was an unchangeable fact.

  Chen Gong and Yang Qian tried to persuade Wang Shuai and his group to stay for dinner, but they couldn't. Chen thought that he would invite Director Wang alone another time. When Yang Qian saw Director Wang off at the car, he said something that caught Chen's attention. Yang actually addressed Director Wang as "old leader". Chen suddenly understood a lot of things - it turned out that Yang and Director Wang had an old relationship. That explained why Yang had come to the Seismological Bureau, and today his stance was completely on the side of the Seismological Bureau.

  As expected, under the care of leaders from all sides, the bonus was transferred to the account of the Seismological Bureau, but ordinary employees of the bureau did not see anyone happy.

  Only Tian Guangrong and Deng Peng felt happy. Chen Gong called Deputy Director Deng Peng, who liked to sing a different tune, and Director Xu into the office. "You said we're about to distribute the money to each person's head, why isn't anyone excited? Director Xu, are you sure there were only a few thousand yuan last year?"

  Director Xu replied, "Of course, it's just a few thousand yuan, I don't dare say more. Some things still need to be communicated between leaders."

  Deng Peng knocked on the table, "Director Chen, this way, you get 60,000, our two deputy directors get 40,000 each, middle-level cadres get 20,000 each, and the remaining staff will divide the rest. Do you think this is reasonable?"

  Chen Gong roughly calculated that the average per person would be 15,000 yuan, making a total of nearly 300,000 yuan. If the leaders take their share according to Deng Peng's standard, ordinary personnel will only have 4,000 to 5,000 yuan left.

  At this time, Chen Gong also reacted and realized why none of the staff members were excited. It turned out that no matter how much bonus the bureau fought for, it was all for the leaders to fight for, and had nothing to do with them, so who could get excited about it?

  Chen Gong had never participated in the distribution of year-end bonuses when he was in the township and management committee, so he didn't know there was such a situation. Even when he was the mayor of Qinghe, it was always up to the secretary to make decisions, and he only cared about whether there was money on his salary card.

  Chen Gong pretended to be puzzled, "Didn't our bureau apply for 15,000 yuan per person?"

  Director Xu didn't know what Chen Gong meant and replied that it was indeed 15,000 yuan.

  Chen Gong asked Deng Peng, "You, as the deputy director, tell me what is the average amount per person?" Deng Peng replied affirmatively that it was 15,000 yuan. Chen Gong slapped the table and said, "Since you two know that the average amount per person is 15,000 yuan, send it out immediately. Director Xu, if any employee's card has even one cent less, use your salary to make up for it."

  Director Xu stood there, not daring to say a word, not daring to ask, and not daring to explain, foolishly staring at Deng Peng.

  Deng Peng felt uncomfortable in his heart, how could this be a stubborn official who didn't want money, "Chen said so, you 80,000."

  Chen Gong slammed his hand on the table, "I think you've been deputy director for too long and have become stupid. What does it mean to have an average of 15,000 yuan per person? You don't understand. Tell me, who stipulated that our leading cadres' bonuses should float upwards? Do you think your work is very tiring? Are the frontline workers tired? Besides occasionally going upstairs to attend meetings and assigning tasks to those below, what else can you do? Ah, I think it's reasonable to distribute the leaders' money evenly among the working staff."

  Deng Peng saw Chen Gong get angry, but he wasn't one to be trifled with. Let him say whatever he wanted, "You can tell you, Director Chen, this is how the bonus has always been distributed, it's a tradition in our bureau, we've always done it this way." After saying that, he turned his head away.

  Chen Gong said with a big air, "What tradition is not man-made rules? I am the party secretary and director of this place. I want to change the tradition. Director Xu, go and execute it immediately. It must be done before the end of work this afternoon. If you middle-level leaders and two deputy directors have any opinions, then take out the money and distribute it to ordinary working staff."

  Chen Gong finished speaking and walked out of his office.