Chapter 12 Approval
In 1990, Professor Wang served as an editor of the Central Party History Office. The following year, he was responsible for writing the fourth chapter of the book "Seventieth Anniversary of the New China Communist Party", the history of the party during the Anti-Japanese War. The most important of these was the Yan'an Rectification Movement, which was the first time the theory of "great man thought" was proposed.
Professor Wang appointed Hu Jiao to draft the chapter on the "Rectification Movement" in order to train and examine this favorite disciple.
The "Rectification Movement" had only a few thousand words. Hu Jiao revised it fifteen times and read hundreds of thousands of words of party history materials before finally finalizing it.
After being submitted to the Party History Office, this chapter was the only one that was not revised. After being deliberated by dozens of theorists, it was decided to print and publish it according to the original manuscript.
Professor Wang holds several positions, two of the most important of which are editor of the Central Party History Office and visiting professor of the Central Party School.
After the publication of the book "Seventieth Anniversary", in accordance with the requirements of the Central Committee, several scholars responsible for writing the book went to various provincial party schools in different regions to give lectures at the end of 1993. The recipients of the lectures were mainly the main party and government leading cadres at the department level. Nanzhao Province happened to be Professor Wang's region and was also the last stop of his tour.
Hu Jiao is Professor Wang's favorite student, so this time Professor Wang wrote a letter in advance asking Hu Jiao to meet him in the provincial capital. The main reason was that he hoped Hu Jiao would go to the Provincial Party School to explain this chapter to him.
What was unexpected was that Hu Jiao was still assisting in the investigation of the case and was in solitary confinement at the time.
When the appointed time came, Professor Wang did not see Hu Jiao, and he felt strange. This student was honest and trustworthy, and he would never be rude as long as he received his letter. Moreover, with such an opportunity, he believed that Hu Jiao would understand his intention.
So when he was having dinner with the provincial party committee leadership team, Professor Wang specifically mentioned Hu Jiao and the chapter on the Rectification Movement in the book "Seventieth Anniversary", which was written by Hu Jiao.
Of course, Professor Wang did not specifically point out or request anything, but the Provincial Party Secretary Fang Shiyun stared at the Deputy Secretary Wu Chengjing for a few seconds without saying a word.
The next day Hu Jiao was released.
Hu Jiao learned about all this after he went to the Provincial Party School and talked with the teachers.
Professor Wang was very angry and said that he didn't care about other people's corruption, but when it came to his favorite student, a graduate student who graduated with excellent grades, if Hu Jiao had not insisted on coming back, Professor Wang would have given up the idea of letting Hu Jiao pursue a doctorate or stay in the Central Party History Office after several unsuccessful attempts to persuade him.
A small deputy secretary of a town party committee embezzled millions? Would a person who studied party principles as a profession do such a thing? And how long had Hu Jiao been in office?
What made Professor Wang most angry was that Hu Jiao was confined for three whole months!
After Hu Jiao left, Professor Wang became angrier and angrier. Local party members and cadres formed cliques and factions, attacked and persecuted people, and completely deviated from the party's purpose. Fifty years ago, the great leader made sharp criticisms of this phenomenon. Unexpectedly, fifty years later, it has revived in the party.
Recalling the "Rectification Movement" written by Hu Jiao, Professor Wang wrote an indignant article entitled "Problems in the Work Style of Party Members and Cadres in the New Era", taking Hu Jiao's incident as an example and reporting it in two copies to the General Office of the Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council.
On the third day, Hu Jiao stood elegantly in front of the podium of the Provincial Party School and explained the "rectification movement" to the provincial and municipal officials of Nanzhao Province in an easy-to-understand manner. He constantly quoted the speeches and articles of great men, combined with the historical background, the background of the times, the complex struggle environment, and how the Central Committee started with the party style, the style of study, and the style of writing, carried out criticism and self-criticism within the party, comprehensively unified thoughts and understandings, and corrected various work styles, thus laying a solid foundation for winning the national victory.
Normally, such temporary theoretical study classes are boring and tedious. Many party members and cadres have great resistance to them.
But what Hu Jiao said was different. From a theoretical perspective, the "rectification movement" was mediocre. Everything he said was superficial, just sloganeering and empty talk.
After all, in today's era, provincial and municipal officials have to go through situations like this several times a year.
But what is the unspoken significance of the “Rectification Movement”?
That is the art of leadership, the art of struggle.
Through the "Rectification Movement", the leader completely grasped the power of the Party, government and military with his aboveboard conspiracy and upright kingly way. He established an unshakable lofty status through his "great man thought", and thus led the entire Party and the entire army to a comprehensive victory.
As for the so-called criticism and self-criticism, the Central Committee at that time placed the emphasis on self-criticism and required all comrades in the Party to engage in self-criticism. In turn, it gave comrades who had committed various mistakes a chance, mainly with the aim of "curing illnesses and saving lives."
That is to say, admit your mistakes and still be a good comrade, don't bully others, don't attack, don't retaliate. A slap in the face and a candy will make people convinced.
Of course, the great man pointed out the various work style problems existing within the Party, which were indeed very insightful, including problems of subjectivism, factionalism, cliques, party jargon, etc. Therefore, the great man first proposed "seek truth from facts."
When Hu Jiao finished his lecture, the audience burst into warm applause. The leaders present had studied the "great man's thought" to varying degrees and in varying degrees. Each had his own experience, but Hu Jiao focused on one thing. Although the content seemed to be only a few thousand words, it led to many wonderful conversations, which was refreshing. Many people who had not understood or understood deeply before did benefit a lot from Hu Jiao's explanation.
The lecture had just ended when the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee received two heavy replies.
Hu Jiao didn’t know, and neither did Provincial Party Secretary Fang Zhengyun.
Led by Fang Shiyun, a group of cadres surrounded Professor Wang and his apprentice Hu Jiao and had an enthusiastic discussion.
When the personal secretary finished the call in the Party School office, he hurried to Fang Shiyun and whispered a few words, causing the usually calm secretary to change his expression slightly.
"Focus on improving the economy."
Looking at the blank sentence on Professor Wang's article, Fang Zhengyun fell into deep thought. Fang Zhengyun had read Professor Wang's article several times. This article was not published in the internal reference, and there was no response in any form.
Just one sentence.
Wu Chengjing took the manuscript handed to him by Fang Zhengyun. The sentence on the manuscript tightly tangled his two drooping eyebrows together. His usually dignified expression now looked particularly solemn.
Secretary General of the Provincial Party Committee Wu Changjun personally received a call from the Central Committee. The chief's secretary relayed the call, saying that the chief said to leave it to Fang Zhengyun, and didn't say anything else.
The two secretaries of Nanzhao Province sat facing each other in silence. After a few minutes, Fang Zhengyun took the manuscript handed over by Wu Chengjing and said indifferently, "That's it. The original arrangement remains unchanged."
Wu Chengjing stood up, took the step he had already taken, and looked at Fang Shiyun, "Secretary Shiyun, do you want to transfer Hu Jiao to the provincial government?"
Fang Shiyun's eyes tilted slightly upwards, which was a characteristic of his happy expression . Wu Chengjing's face froze and he patted his forehead, "Look at me, I'm leaving."
Fang Shiyun stopped him, "Secretary Chengjing, don't take it to heart." Pointing to the words in the reply, "We just need to boost the economy."
Wu Chengjing felt sad in his heart. This time, he could only cooperate with the outsider.
That afternoon, at the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Deng Chuanwen, the Provincial Party Committee Organization Minister, nominated again Hu Jianguo, the former Organization Minister of the Fenghuang Municipal Party Committee, as the Deputy Secretary of the Hongjiang Municipal Party Committee, adding another important responsibility to the position that Hu Jian was originally scheduled to serve as the Standing Committee Deputy Mayor.
Wu Chengjing affirmed Hu Jianguo's ability, and Fang Shiyun agreed.
He had been in the provincial capital for five days. Except for giving a lecture on the third day for Professor Wang, Hu Jiao was drafted by Professor Wang to take his place in the classroom for several days in a row.
Hu Jiao's performance also won the favor of these leadership students. The young man standing on the podium was bright and confident, and spoke briskly. He occasionally brought up a few anecdotes about celebrities. Most of the early leaders in the party were humorous and witty.
During the lecture, Hu Jiao used it from time to time, with very good effect.
In fact, in the minds of these leading cadres, there is a fundamental difference between listening to an old man’s explanation and listening to a young man’s explanation.
First of all, there is no psychological rejection, on the contrary, it is an advantage. After all, Hu Jiao is just a minor department head, and the level gap is too far. Although he is said to be giving lectures, most of the time he is in discussions.
However, the topic was led by Hu Jiao, and the 70-year party history was gradually advanced according to Professor Wang's lecture progress.
When talking about the Great Leap Forward period, Professor Wang took the initiative to stop Hu Jiao's task. The following part about the Cultural Revolution was not something Hu Jiao could handle, and some topics would involve sensitive areas, so perhaps some sharp discussions would occur.
Professor Wang was deeply touched by this.
Hu Jiao had one purpose yet to be achieved in his trip to the provincial capital, which was a reunion with old classmates.
We can take this opportunity to take action.
During the few days that Hu Jiao lectured at the Party School , he left a deep impression on people, but no one discussed Hu Jiao's future in private.
Perhaps the central government's reply was "accidentally" leaked from the provincial party committee. In any case, the party and government leading cadres at the provincial and municipal levels remained silent on Hu Jiao's affairs.
Hu Jiao didn't know about Professor Wang's article, let alone the central government's reply. He could understand the teacher's painstaking efforts, which was the teacher's kindness in helping him get on the horse and send him on his way.
Therefore, the lessons during these three days were taught in an exceptionally lively manner, and we gave our all so as not to tarnish the teacher's reputation.
It is enough to leave an impression in the minds of the main leading cadres of Nanzhao Province. I don’t ask for a rapid promotion from then on, but I just hope I don’t have to be “confined for three months” again.
Hu Jiao didn't have many classmates in the provincial capital. There were three of them in college, all girls. In that year's college entrance examination, only four of them from Nanzhao were admitted. The others were a few classmates from Renmin University, or to be more precise, all of them were his fellow students.
Two of them are liberal arts and two are science, and they were split equally. Because they studied different majors, after graduation, one of the science students was awarded a government-sponsored study abroad program and the other stayed in the Capital Research Institute to do scientific research.
Hu Jiao and another classmate who majored in liberal arts were not only high school classmates, but also in the same college in college, the College of Literature and History. He was in the Chinese department, and Li Juan was in the history department.
Li Juan is the daughter of Li Mingyong, the party secretary of Fenghuang City. She is one year older than Hu Jiao. The two were classmates from the first year of high school until they graduated from college. In addition to Hu Jianguo's relationship with Li Mingyong as a colleague, and Li Aiju's relationship with Li Mingyong's family, the two families got along well, and Hu Jiao and Li Juan became classmates and friends.
Li Mingyong's wife works in the Provincial Women's Federation. He was promoted from deputy secretary-general of the provincial party committee to deputy secretary, acting mayor, mayor, and now secretary of Phoenix. When he was transferred to Phoenix, his daughter was in high school. His wife took care of her husband's work for her daughter's studies and was transferred to the Phoenix Women's Federation at the same time.
It was not until Li Juan was admitted to university and Li Mingyong became mayor that she was transferred back to the Provincial Women's Federation to take care of the two elderly people.
It can be said that Li Juan's mother has many similarities with Li Aiju. Both of them focus on their husbands, children and families.
Of course, the two children also worked hard and were admitted as the first and third in the province in the college entrance examination. It was said in Fenghuang No. 1 Middle School that Hu Jiao was a son of destiny and Li Juan was a daughter of destiny.
Even though the school atmosphere in the late 1980s was still serious, there were still many admirers who secretly loved the two of them throughout the school.
Their teachers and classmates, and even Li Mingyong and Hu Jianguo, all thought that as long as nothing went wrong, this golden boy and girl would be a match made in heaven.
Unfortunately, the opposite happened.
Hu Jiao is a sissy who is slow to realize things about love between men and women and is basically an insulator. Even though Li Juan has a crush on him, it is all in vain if Hu Jiao is not attracted to her.
It was not until her senior year, when graduation was approaching, that Li Juan finally could not resist the advances of a classmate and announced that she had entered the realm of love early.
After hearing the news, Hu Jiao held his guitar and sang by the lotus pond in the college, alone, with only his guitar, for an entire night.
It's not a broken heart, nor is it painful. I just feel lost in my heart that my classmate and friend of so many years has become someone else's girlfriend.
Later, Hu Jiao graduated and returned to Phoenix. A year later, he was admitted to graduate school. However, many twists and turns happened to Li Juan.
First, after graduating from university, her boyfriend's application to stay on to teach at the school was rejected, and he was assigned to work in a state-owned enterprise in his hometown in the west. She originally wanted to follow his husband, but under the strong opposition of Li Mingyong and his wife, she had to return to Nanzhao and join the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee.
In the second year of her work, she heard that Hu Jiao was admitted to graduate school. Her boyfriend went to Nanzhao to meet her several times, but was secretly intercepted by Li Mingyong and his wife, so he had to break up with her.
Reality and ideals usually cannot be bridged.
Li Juan is not the type of player who fights back, and her boyfriend also wants to kill the thief, but he is powerless to do anything about it.
Social classes, no matter what era, whether they are acknowledged or not, always exist in people's minds.
Li Juan could only turn her attention to studying, but her mother restricted her daughter to applying for graduate school in her own province in order to prevent her from pretending to obey. If they passed the entrance exam and ended up getting entangled with each other, it would be rude to separate them.
Li Juan has had a very miserable life in the past two years, and was dragged by her mother to go on several blind dates.
Li Mingyong's wife He Banghui is the daughter of the former provincial party secretary. She is an old cadre who moved south and settled in Nanzhao for decades until her retirement.
He Banghui was born in a high-ranking official family. As the eldest child in the family, the concept of marrying well was particularly prominent among them.
Back then in Fenghuang City, Hu Jianguo was only the county party secretary and Li Mingyong was already the acting mayor. The only time he truly accepted Hu Jianguo and his family was because Hu Jianguo was promoted to deputy director of the Organization Department, and Hu Jiao surpassed Li Juan and remained firmly at the top of the entire grade.
Since the broadcast of "Dream of Red Mansions" on CCTV, Hu Jiao, with his effeminate personality, has become a popular handsome man.
He Banghui also felt that Hu Jiao was barely worthy of Li Juan. When they were still in college, the two of them traveled back and forth together during holidays, and He Banghui thought that the arrangements for their children were almost settled.
But no matter how much he planned, he never expected that a poor boy from the West would show up halfway.
In this regard, He Banghui can be said to have both resentment and love for Hu Jiao. She resents this boy for being so stupid, but also likes Hu Jiao's Jia Baoyu-like cuteness.
Li Juan and Hu Jiao don't have a connection, and the Western Boy has also lost touch. He Banghui is a bit angry and wants to find a son-in-law who is better than Hu Jiao.
What does the Women's Federation do? It does women's work (sweat). Matchmaking and matchmaking are women's work. After He Banghui spread the word, the sisters of the Women's Federation went all out to help Li Juan match up with various outstanding young people.
