Chapter 69 There’s Wine Tonight

Ye Maocong got out of the elevator and the elevator door closed.

Zhou Chao looked at Xu Yanqing and asked, "Is there any investment promotion task tonight?"

Xu Yanqing said yes, but now he regretted it. How good was it to click on the 29th floor just now? It's really boring to have to spend two more floors with Zhou Chao for no reason.

They have different paths and do not agree with each other, so there is no need to say more.

When the elevator reached the 32nd floor, they said goodbye to each other and gave each other the dignity they deserved with their long-term experience in officialdom.

Xu Yanqing stepped out of the elevator, and Zhou Chao couldn't wait to close the door.

Xu Yanqing waited on the 32nd floor for a while before he pressed the button and waited for another elevator to come down.

When he went down to the 25th floor, as expected, Ye Maocong was waiting for him.

Xu Yanqing stretched out his hand first, "Minister Ye."

Ye Maocong stopped smiling politely and shook hands with him, "District Chief Xu."

"Regional work is trivial. Compared with ministries and commissions, the pressure is much greater." Ye Maocong spoke, first focusing on work. Cut in.

Xu Yanqing said, "In this regard, you have been in charge of local governments. You are a senior and a role model."

Ye Maocong said, "It is a bit difficult to promote the financial reform pilot."

Xu Yanqing said, "Yes, to solve the problem, we must always We need to break through some bottlenecks."

Ye Maocong said, "Of course, the previous reforms have done all the superficial work, and the deep-seated problems will naturally affect interests,"

Xu Yanqing said, "It is harder to affect interests than to affect the soul . "

Ye Maocong said, "Reform is meaningless if it doesn't involve interests." Xu Yanqing

nodded and said, "Yes."

Within a few words, the two people had unexpectedly agreed on each other.

Xu Yanqing said, "Minister Ye has both theoretical foundation and practical experience. I will ask more advice from you in the future."

Ye Maocong said, "Speaking of theoretical foundation, Xu District was already famous when he was in the ministry. I often see you. "He Qing is the one who commented in the daily newspaper, right?"

Xu Yanqing said, "It's just a humble opinion."

Ye Maocong smiled and said, "A person with such insight is not a shallow person. I have been thinking about you." What kind of charm did Xiaoxian never forget?"

Xu Yanqing heard him mention it so calmly and said, "People who can appreciate her are wise."

Ye Maocong asked bluntly, "Even if you divorce Han Yun, It's hard for you to get off the Su family's boat. What do you want Xiaoxian to do? Isn't it selfish of you to let her wait like this?"

Xu Yanqing asked, "Did she tell you what happened back then?"

Ye Maocong paused. He said, "No. She only told me that you are the ex she can't forget."

This time it was Xu Yanqing's turn to be silent.

After a while, Xu Yanqing asked Ye Maocong, "After this is over, does Minister Ye have time?"

Ye Maocong said, "If you give her to me, I will have plenty of time."

Xu Yanqing felt that it was expected when he heard his refusal. , Xu Yanqing said, "There is no give-and-take in feelings. She was willing to wait for me, but I failed her in the end. But if she chooses the minister, I will still bless her. My only hope is that she can be happy, no matter who she is with." Together."

When you fall deeply in love, your only wish is for the other person to be happy. Ye Maocong understands it, but he has never experienced it.

Xu Yanqing's expression when he said this actually made Ye Maocong feel envious.

The two were silent for a moment.

At this moment, Fan Bin, the deputy secretary-general in charge of Mayor Shao's daily work, came out to urge him.

Ye Maocong then adjusted his suit and said to Xu Yanqing, "Since there is wine tonight, I am willing to listen to the story."

Xu Yanqing did not expect that he would finally agree, nodded, and then made a gesture of invitation.

Entering the private room, the view of the river is charming.

The night is bright and the glass produces light.

It is the most charming scenery in this city.

Mayor Shao sat in the middle of the sofa, surrounded by people.

Except for Pan Yijun, the others are basically leaders of the commission and bureau who have had a casual relationship or worked with each other.

Chu Yunxiang, director of the Municipal Investment Commission, Ye Zheng, director of the Commerce and Trade Commission, and Huo Xinlei, Xu Yanqing's old friend and director of the Construction Bureau, were all there.

For gatherings of this scale, the people must be the ones Mayor Shao trusts the most.

During the banquet, Mayor Shao said to Ye Maocong, "Maocong, Yan Qing came from me, and he is the person I brought out. Later he went to the capital, and he has become more experienced over the years. But the experience of being in charge of politics It's not enough. It's not like you are in charge outside, so I think the organization department has carefully considered the arrangements for coming back this time." After

hearing this, Xu Yanqing walked behind Ye Maocong with a cup in hand.

Ye Maocong also added some wine and stood up, and said to Mayor Shao, "I just chatted with District Chief Xu for a while. I admire District Chief Xu for his profound theoretical knowledge and sophisticated views."

Xu Yanqing said modestly, "Where, Ye The minister has both theory and practice. I would like to ask you for more advice if I have the opportunity."

Mayor Shao smiled and watched the two of them drink a full glass.

The people at the banquet are all good drinkers and are engaged in economic work. They must have clear thinking and a good drinker.

After a few bottles of white wine, I was only slightly tipsy.

At the end of the conversation, we talked about the economic situation.

In recent years, there has been strong downward pressure, few new growth points, and weak sustainability of public policies. These are all real problems currently faced.

As a former public policy maker, Xu Yanqing has a lot of insights.

However, in front of a group of big guys here, Xu Yanqing would only say a few words occasionally when Mayor Shao asked him, and he would give some reference opinions from a practical level, otherwise it would appear to be rhetoric.

During the banquet, Mayor Shao frequently introduced Ye Maocong. Ye Maocong was considered a foreigner at this table, and everyone else had worked together. Therefore, he needed a leader to guide him, and Shao Chen was the most suitable.

Xu Yanqing and Pan Yijun were at the end, and everyone could see that Mayor Shao was hosting a banquet for Ye Maocong today.

Xu Yanqing contacted the rumors he had heard before and found out that it was because of the connection between the Ye family and Mayor Shao's mother.

After eating for more than two hours, Zhou Chao couldn't bear it anymore and called Ye Maocong.

Ye Maocong took a look and pressed it.

Zhou Chao didn't dare to act rashly, so he sent a message asking: Minister, is it convenient for me to reward you?

Ye Maocong was holding a cup and talking to Ye Zheng, director of the Municipal Commerce and Trade Commission. Pan Yijun, as Ye Zheng's subordinate, was also standing beside him. When he saw the call notification from Zhou Chao on Ye Maocong's mobile phone, he couldn't help but glance at Xu Yanqing.

Pan Yijun toasted, and Xu Yanqing went to toast again. When he came back, Pan Yijun touched him with his arm and asked in his ear, "Ye Maocong is familiar with your Zhou Chao?"

Xu Yanqing wiped his mouth and said, "The elevator in front of you I met Zhou Chao while he was having dinner upstairs and invited Minister Ye to come over for a drink. "

Pan Yijun laughed and said, "You're quite good at seizing the opportunity. Minister Ye agreed to go?"

Xu Yanqing curled up the corner of his mouth, drank the wine, and relaxed a little, "Minister Ye asked Zhou Chao to take care of Xiaoxian, so he will go."

Pan Yijun almost choked to death on the food he just put into his mouth.

He hurriedly swallowed it, and when he picked up the cup, he wanted to take a sip of water, but he didn't know it was wine, and he choked again.

Xu Yanqing laughed at him, "Speaking of Xiaoxian, why are you so embarrassed?"

I didn't expect this guy to be in the mood to joke.

Pan Yijun asked him, "What's going on?"

Xu Yanqing said, "Zhou Chao is now Xiaoxian's superior district chief, and she was transferred to the Construction Management Center."

Pan Yijun was speechless. Zhou Chao and Xu Yanqing didn't get along. He knew of.

He was about to say something else, but Xu Yanqing pushed him. It turned out that Mayor Shao asked Pan Yijun to come over and propose a toast, so the topic was dropped.

At 10:30 in the evening, when everyone was finally ready to disperse, Ye Maocong replied to Zhou Chao and asked: Is it convenient to come here now?

Zhou Chao had been waiting, and even thought of waiting on the 25th floor, but after all, he didn't know who Ye Maocong was having dinner with, so it was inappropriate to go there rashly, so he made no move.

Ye Maocong was on his way after all. As soon as Zhou Chao received the news, he quickly went to the elevator to wait for Ye Maocong.

When everyone arrived downstairs, they saw Mayor Shao off first, and then left one after another.

Ye Maocong put on his coat and said to Yu Ren, "I forgot my things upstairs, go get them."

In terms of rank and qualifications, Pan Yijun was the least qualified.

Xu Yanqing pulled Pan Yijun and said, "We will accompany the minister up, and we will help him arrange a driver later."

The others then dispersed without any objection.

Accompanying Ye Maocong back to the elevator hall, and when they entered the elevator, Xu Yanqing pressed the button for the 3rd floor and the 35th floor. He said to Ye Maocong, "Minister Ye, I'll wait for you at the coffee bar on the third floor."

Ye Maocong nodded and said hello, Pan Yijun Only then did he realize that Ye Maocong was going to see Zhou Chao.

When they reached the third floor, the two of them got out of the elevator first. Seeing Ye Maocong going upstairs, Pan Yijun clicked his tongue and said, "You guys really know how to play."

Xu Yanqing raised his eyebrows and said, "It's just to avoid unnecessary trouble. You have something to do." You can leave first."

Pan Yijun snorted, "Just tell me if you want me to leave, so you can make progress every year with the Organization Department?"

Xu Yanqing said, "I'm talking to him . "Xian, do you want to participate?"

Pan Yijun asked, "What's going on?"

Xu Yanqing said, "I guess it's Wu Tingtao. I don't know what the relationship between Xiaoxian and Wu Tingtao is. Anyway, Wu Tingtao treats her as his daughter." The Ye family has a good relationship, so——"

"So President Wu asked Ye Maocong to take care of Xiaoxian?"

Xu Yanqing laughed and said, "It's so easy. It was Teacher Wu who pulled Xiaoxian and Ye Maocong on a blind date."

Pan Yijun's chin dropped . It's about to fall.

Xu Yanqing sighed and said, "It's already a very complicated relationship anyway, and this one is not bad. When we met just now, we exchanged a few words and made an appointment to have a deep chat."

Now Pan Yijun understood Yes, he said, "It is true that Ye Maocong is more suitable to take care of Xiaoxian than you."

Xu Yanqing raised his eyebrows with an unhappy expression.

Look, whenever Xia Jinxian is mentioned, Xu Yanqing makes a bad face.

Pan Yijun was used to his attitude of focusing on sex over friends. He raised his hands in surrender and said, "Okay, okay, I won't delay you guys chatting about your Xiaoxian. I'm leaving. Can't I just leave?"

Xu Yanqing Smiling, he patted Pan Yijun on the shoulder and said, "Okay, I'll make it up to you next time."

Pan Yijun muttered, "To make it up to a ghost, I believe you are evil."

Ye Maocong went up to the 35th floor. Zhou Chao and others had already He was greeted at the door. He hadn't drunk much at this point. It was probably because he was waiting for him and he hadn't had enough fun yet.

However, Ye Maocong has long been used to this kind of situation.

He cupped his fists and said, "I'm sorry, I'm here with the leader downstairs. I'm late. Please don't blame me."

He is the most powerful person present, who dares to blame him?

Ye Maocong was welcomed into the private room. There were brand new bowls and chopsticks and a table of dishes on the table.

This thoughtfulness did not make Ye Maocong feel happy. He said to Zhou Chao, "I'm dragging you all to wait for me. In fact, I just came over to chat with you."

A person following him quickly said enthusiastically, "The minister is here, how can I use leftovers? We didn't eat much in the front, we were all waiting for the minister, so we were a little hungry."

Ye Maocong smiled, he raised his wrist and looked at the time and said, "I'm getting older and can't stay up late, so I'll sit down and leave in 20 minutes. Don’t delay everyone’s enjoyment.”

Several people tried to persuade them to stay, but Ye Maocong just raised his hand to add some wine to the small cup on the table, and asked, “Zhou District, can you introduce me to you?

” Chao then signaled others to hurry up and get the wine glasses, and everyone brought wine glasses and jugs over to toast Ye Maocong.

Ye Maocong is also a veteran of the wine shop. With a quick glance, he knew that everyone present was obviously following the lead of the man next to Zhou Chao.

He recognized this person, the vice president of a Chinese bank, in charge of investment, financing and credit business.

This person can be regarded as a pawn of Han Jianjun, but because Ye Maocong has a good relationship with Bank of China, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, and China Development Bank, he never looked for Chinese capital when he was in charge.

After Zhou Chao introduced the president, he introduced other people around him one by one, including Ge Dong, the deputy director of District F.

Ge Dong was different from Ye Maocong's imagination. He was quite fair and gentle and didn't talk much.

It was difficult for Ye Maocong to associate this person with being domineering and arbitrary.

However, looking at the people at today's dinner table, there are the vice president of the bank, the district chief in charge of approving projects, and interestingly, the deputy director of the Municipal Construction Bureau.

Their chief was downstairs just now. I wonder if the deputy chief knew about it.

There were also two private enterprise owners present. They said it was due to family nepotism, but they clearly looked like political brokers.

This kind of dinner party is clearly a profit delivery chain. It is simply a closed-loop management, and no one involved in the link can escape.

But Zhou Chao was quite bold in bringing these people together so openly.

People are divided into groups, and it is obvious that the gentle Ge Dong is not as gentle and gentle as he looks on the outside.

The two private enterprise bosses took turns toasting and passing cigarettes to Ye Maocong.

To Ye Maocong, they most mentioned his uncle who worked in a central enterprise, but they did not dare to directly mention his father, a minister.

Ye Maocong smiled, drank half the glass of wine, but didn't finish it, and didn't pick up the cigarette.

Their words did not expose their lies.

His brother-in-law had never mentioned these two people, and Ye Maocong had never even heard of them. They were not well-known companies at all.

This is what businessmen are like. Having seen each other on mobile news means they have met each other, and having met each other means they have eaten together. After eating, they have become familiar with each other, and they are buddies. In short, you can exaggerate as much as you want.

For example, if you have a drink with him today and you go out tomorrow, you can boast that you can talk to him and that he is a friend.

Ye Maocong always stayed away from such people.

But after all, Zhou Chao kindly invited her, and Xiaoxian still asked him to take care of her, so Ye Maocong had to give him face and sat down patiently.

During this period, several entrepreneurs kept praising Zhou Chao and Ge Dong as good cadres who serve the people wholeheartedly and good leaders who are responsible and accomplished.

Ye Maocong asked, "Has District Chief Ge been working in District F before? What projects have been introduced?"

Ge Dong then came over to toast and said humbly, "I used to work with District Zhou in District K, and then District Zhou moved to the new district, and I I was transferred to District F. I was the one who promoted the Haizhong Real Estate project in District K. "

This Haizhong project was indeed well-known at the time. It was regarded as a landmark case of the successful transformation of backward commercial entities in District K. .

But at the same time, this is also accompanied by a lot of controversy.

Ge Dong's report letter also contains a lot of content about illegal approval of the Haizhong project. One of the stakeholders is a real estate company held by Jin Guohua's Vanzhong Group.

Ye Maocong just listened calmly and did not express his position, but Zhou Chao enthusiastically asked Ge Dong to toast.

Ye Maocong thought to himself, who does Zhou Chao think he is? If anyone surrenders, he will gladly accept it, and the world should be his at this moment.

Sometimes, a person is so eager for a future that he becomes as impatient as a monkey, playing tricks that others find ridiculous.