Chapter 86: Becoming a Standing Committee Member
The Municipal Education Bureau Director Chen Xiaojun has been in dire straits these past two days and is extremely anxious. As the top leader of the city's education work, although Tengliang County No. 1 Middle School is under the management of the county, the education system has gradually changed to two-way management, with local governments and vertical departments .
Therefore, Chen Xiaojun cannot escape the blame for what happened to Teng Liang. As for the poisoning case in the cafeteria of No. 1 Middle School, he still had the confidence to overcome the crisis. But when the incident of teachers' family members forcing students to sell their virginity occurred, he started to worry.
The economy is in command, and many major tasks have to give way to economic construction . What is the economy? To put it bluntly, it is money. With the development of economic construction, the value system of the entire society has been completely based on the amount of money.
The education system was also inevitably affected.
When the social status of a nouveau riche who has not even graduated from elementary school and a teacher undergoes a fundamental change, the social values of being respected, valued and demanded in society also undergo a reversal.
To put it bluntly, a boss with a fortune of one million yuan enjoys a far greater status in society than a capable, qualified, responsible and ambitious teacher.
This is the process of reform. Only when the whole society gradually becomes prosperous can we start to focus on solving the strange phenomenon of value loss.
Chen Xiaojun has been engaged in education management for many years, so he certainly knows how much resentment teachers have in their hearts right now.
Working more but getting paid less, from being highly sought after and respected before, suddenly being ignored, earning a meager salary, not starving but not getting rich either, watching those who are far less knowledgeable than oneself, surrounded this mentality began to become distorted and angry.
As a result, some teachers have abandoned their professional ethics and indulged in eating, drinking, gambling, and whoring, doing whatever they want. Teaching and educating is no longer an ideal and noble career, but a way to get a salary.
Anyway, I didn't get one more point than anyone else, I attended classes on time, cheated, and focused my mind on pleasure and decadence.
This is why incidents of selling virginity and poisoning occur.
Ten years ago, was it possible? It was unimaginable! What about now? One by one, if you look carefully, you will find so many stupid things.
Chen Xiaojun asked himself: in recent years, even he himself has cooled down his initial enthusiasm for education, and is more concerned with building relationships, forming gangs, and providing excellent educational resources for friends and brothers from all walks of life in exchange for the interests of others.
What kind of responsibility do you take?
Chen Xiaojun had worked as director for four years, so he was certainly aware of his responsibilities afterwards.
He went to report to the municipal party secretary and admitted his mistakes. Due to carelessness and insufficient detail in his work, he neglected the political and ideological work for teachers and the propaganda and education for teachers.
Zhao Mingfang did not make a direct statement, but asked him to go to Vice Mayor Hu and come up with a plan as soon as possible on what to do with the city's education work next and what measures to take to prevent the tragedy of Teng Liang from happening again.
Due to the strong intervention of the provincial and municipal leaders, the news of the virginity selling incident was eventually blocked, and a series of actions were taken against the township middle school principal, teacher, deputy township head, deputy county head, and county head who caused the incident.
It was under such circumstances that Hu Jiao officially took up his post, and his first move as a new official was to the Longtong City education system.
Two days later, the "Longtong City Education Reform Work Report" made by the Municipal Education Bureau Director Chen Xiaojun was passed unanimously by the Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee.
The next day, the municipal party secretary came to talk to Hu Jiao and formally asked Hu Jiao on behalf of the organization, "I am entrusted by the provincial party committee leaders to talk to you on behalf of the organization. Comrade Hu Jiao, since you are a doctor of law, the current standing committee of Longtong City is short of a secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission. After research by the organization, you are recommended for the position."
Hu Jiao had not heard any rumors beforehand. The news came too suddenly. He had some good feelings towards Shen Yifu, the Organization Minister of the Provincial Party Committee, but he did not expect that the other party would not reveal any rumors about such a big thing.
"I am grateful for the trust the organization has placed in me. I will resolutely obey the organization's arrangements and assignments and support the leadership of the municipal party committee."
Seeing Hu Jiao's expression, Zhao Mingfang was very satisfied and nodded. "Comrade Hu Jiao, do you have confidence in the political and legal work? After all, you are now in charge of science, education and health, and you also have a heavy burden on the government side. In the short term, the municipal party committee will not consider adjusting the division of labor. You alone are equivalent to doing the leadership work of two people."
Hu Jiao's expression was very sincere. "I am still young and may not have enough work experience in all aspects. I hope the leaders of the provincial and municipal party committees can give me more guidance. I am confident that under the leadership of the municipal party committee, with the guidance and guidance of the municipal party committee leaders, I will immerse myself in the new work as soon as possible, cooperate with the city's central work, and safeguard Longtong's economic development."
When Zhao Mingfang heard this, he nodded in his heart. He was indeed a talented man with three degrees. His words took into account both public and private interests, and were reasonable and emotional. They not only expressed his willingness to follow the footsteps of the Municipal Party Committee, but also demonstrated his personal abilities.
"Okay, let's stop here for today's talk. You should pack up in the afternoon. You still have to go to the Provincial Party Committee. This time the Provincial Party Committee has appointed you as the Secretary of Political and Legal Affairs, and there will be a personnel adjustment for the team."
After coming out of Zhao Mingfang's office, Hu Jiao still felt a little empty. He became a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo?
It seemed like there was no prior warning at all. This damn place in the southwest is really hard to figure out.
Shaking his head, he decided to go to the provincial capital to get some information without worrying about anything else.
The education and rectification work has been formally documented. As for the enforcement efforts below, Hu Jiao does not have time to supervise and understand it for the time being.
It was already evening when they arrived at the provincial capital. This time Hu Jiao did not bring Jiang Yifan with him. Lao Li drove him there. The two of them checked into two rooms at the Fufeng Municipal Party Committee Guesthouse and had a quick bite to eat.
After traveling 700 kilometers, both the driver and the passenger were tired and rested early.
The next day, I went to the provincial party committee to queue up, but still didn't see the provincial party committee secretary Chen Runsheng, so I had to change the route. From the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee onwards, there was not a single big shot at home.
In the end, I met two of them, one was Chen Shaoyuan, secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and the other was Shen Yifu.
Chen Shaoyuan acted indifferent and cold. After saying a few words of encouragement in a routine manner, he started looking at his watch.
Hu Jiao was furious. Since he couldn't figure out the situation, he decided to just go straight to Shen Yifu.
"Thank you, Minister Shen!"
Shen Yifu shook his head. "This matter has nothing to do with me. Haha, just go back to work. Tomorrow, I will personally send you and... By the way, the person going down this time is the director of the Second Secretary Department of the Provincial Party Committee, Comrade Hu Weiliang. He used to be the assistant secretary of Secretary Chen of the Provincial Party Committee. I hope you can cooperate with us."
Hu Jiao was secretly shocked. Something was not right. The full-time secretary of the provincial party secretary was going to work as the disciplinary committee secretary?
"Minister Shen, I wonder what position Comrade Hu Weiliang will take up next?"
"Oh, Weiliang will be the secretary general, and Comrade Li Hong will be the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission. This was decided a long time ago, but it was delayed because of Tengliang's incident."
Hu Jiao heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that he was going to be the secretary-general. The Longtong Municipal Party Committee would be lively in the future. Secretary Chen of the Provincial Party Committee had put people around him under Zhao Mingfang's nose, and it seemed that he was dissatisfied with Zhao Mingfang.
According to convention, the municipal party committee secretary-general usually works with the secretary, one in charge at a time. This time, the provincial party committee secretary's full-time secretary came, and Zhao Mingfang was afraid that he would feel a little uncomfortable.
Can the municipal party secretary trust the provincial party secretary to give orders?
On November 11, Singles' Day, the Longtong Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee was finally complete. This time, two new members were added, namely the new Political and Legal Affairs Commission Secretary and Deputy Mayor Hu Jiao, and the new Municipal Party Committee Secretary Hu Weiliang.
The appointment of Li Hong, former secretary-general of the municipal party committee, as secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection is a major step forward.
Among the three, Li Hong has undoubtedly made the most progress, but she is not the most successful. The most successful is Hu Jiao, who has been in office for less than two months and has already been promoted from a deputy mayor at the bottom of the ranking to the Standing Committee, and at the same time has taken over the powerful position of Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission.
The members of the Longtong Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee became: Zhao Mingfang, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Congress, Zhou Shengling, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, Yao Qisheng and Du Chen, Deputy Secretaries, Li Hong, Secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, Wu Jinshan, Executive Deputy Mayor, Jiang Aihua, Organization Department Director, Deng Yunjing, Propaganda Department Director, Liu Mengjie, Standing Committee Deputy Mayor, Hu Jiao, Secretary of the Municipal Political and Legal Affairs Commission and Deputy Mayor, Hu Weiliang, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and Wang Xiongwei, Political Commissar of the Military Sub-district. A total of eleven people.
Through observation, Hu Jiao discovered that there was some resentment among the members of the Standing Committee, the most direct of which were Organization Minister Jiang Aihua and Executive Vice Mayor Wu Jinshan.
Jiang Aihua had ideas about Li Hong's promotion to the position of Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission. Li Hong, who used to be ranked last among the Standing Committee members, suddenly jumped ahead of him.
Wu Jinshan did not expect that the newly arrived Hu Jiao would suddenly emerge as a rising star and surpass him.
Both Mayor Zhou and he had hinted to the current Public Security Bureau Chief Quan Deyou about the post of Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, but man proposes, God disposes, and the bigwigs of the provincial party committee came up with many strange tricks, which completely disrupted the previous plans.
It now seems that the municipal party committee still has more control than the municipal government. However, from the eager look Zhou Shengling gave Hu Jiao and Hu Weiliang, it is not difficult to find that the mayor has started to think about it again.
And there is Jiang Aihua.
Only Zhao Mingfang knew the target of this personnel adjustment, which was of course him as the municipal party secretary.
It seems that Mayor Zhou's unremitting complaints finally impressed the provincial leaders.
Hu Jiao, there are variables, Jiang Aihua, it should be no problem to caress it down. What about Hu Weiliang? This is a nail house.
Zhao Mingfang silently calculated that among the 11 standing committee members, only Li Hong, Jiang Aihua, Deng Yunjing, and Liu Mengjie were completely on his side. Including himself, there were only five people. It seemed that Hu Jiao was very important.
The next step is to help him capture the police, otherwise Hu Jiao might take a wait-and-see attitude, which will be detrimental to his control of the situation.
Shen Yifu stayed for a day and returned to the provincial capital the next day.
Teng Liang’s matter needed to be dealt with urgently, and the provincial party committee completed Long Tong’s team in the hope of cutting the Gordian knot.
Tengliang County Mayor Liu Lei was removed from his post, expelled from the party, and dismissed from public office. Since he had no financial problems, he was exempted from judicial proceedings.
Peng Zhi, secretary of the Tengliang County Party Committee, was held responsible for leadership, given a demerit within the Party, and transferred to the position of vice chairman of the Municipal Trade Union.
All members of the Standing Committee attended the meeting today to discuss the appointment and removal of the leadership team of Tengliang County. Yao Qisheng, as the head of the investigation team, introduced the specific circumstances of the poisoning and the handling decisions of the relevant responsible persons. After the Standing Committee members unanimously approved it, Organization Minister Jiang Aihua began to introduce the cadre inspection of the two main leaders of Tengliang.
First of all, the position of county party secretary. After preliminary communication among the secretaries, Comrade Chen Xiaojun, director of the Municipal Education Bureau, was recommended to serve as the secretary of the Tengliang County Party Committee.
Comrade Zeng Lanfang, former deputy secretary of the county party committee, was recommended to serve as county magistrate.
Since the deputy secretaries had reached a consensus, Hu Jiao and Hu Weiliang did not express any opinions, and each personnel appointment and removal was passed smoothly.
After raising their hands four times in a row, Hu Jiao and Hu Weiliang kept abstaining from voting. Meeting Zhao Mingfang's gaze, Hu Jiao smiled reluctantly, "I am an outsider. This is my first time attending the Standing Committee. I don't understand the situation, so I won't express any opinion."
Hu Nanliang is just 37 years old. He used to teach at the Party School of Fufeng Municipal Party Committee. He has a very solid foundation in writing. Three years ago, when Chen Runsheng, the provincial party secretary, took office, he specifically asked for him. He followed Secretary Chen for three years. Now he has been transferred to another place and has officially stepped into a leadership position.
"I'm the same as Secretary Hu."
Zhao Mingfang nodded. There were eleven standing committee members, and two abstained from voting, which was an odd number. There should be no surprises in the selection of the director of education who had not been agreed upon with Zhou Shengling and Yao Qisheng.
Jiang Aihua continued to submit opinions on the candidates for the Director of the Longtong Municipal Education Bureau. This time there were three candidates, nominated by Zhao Mingfang, Zhou Shengling and Yao Qisheng.
Director of the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau Yang Gan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Government Liu Luo, and Deputy Director of the Education Bureau Tu Guangcheng.
Each of the three has his own advantages. Yang Gan has been a director for ten years. Before that, he served as deputy county magistrate, deputy secretary, deputy director of the Forestry Bureau, deputy director of the Civil Affairs Bureau, and finally director of the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau. He is now almost fifty years old, or forty-eight and a half to be exact. His university diploma was obtained through correspondence courses.
Hu Jiao's impression of Yang Gan is that he is steady and sincere.
The second was Liu Luo, who was nominated by Zhou Shengling. Hu Jiao was also familiar with this woman. After all, it was Liu Luo who received and arranged everything for Hu Jiao on his first day in Longtong.
Finally, there is Tu Guangcheng, nominated by Deputy Secretary Yao. He graduated from Southwest Normal University with a master's degree. He is 35 years old and has been working for ten years. He has served as a teacher, dean of studies, vice principal, principal, assistant director, and deputy director. He has very rich experience in education management and a high level of management.
Jiang Aihua had just finished introducing the situation when Zhao Mingfang directly called on Hu Jiao, "Secretary Hu, you know these three comrades, right? You are in charge of science and education. What do you think?"
Hu Jiao nodded. "The municipal party committee has approved the education rectification work. The specific work ideas, goals, responsibilities, rectification efforts, methods and approaches have been detailed. Can the rectification work be successfully completed? It depends on how determined the party committees and governments, as well as the education system, are from top to bottom, how strong their execution is, and whether their work style is strong enough. By the way, I would like to mention that a leadership group for education rectification work has been established, with an office under it. The director of the Education Bureau is the director of the office and is also the person directly responsible for implementing the education reform work of the municipal party committee and government. Therefore, in my personal opinion, I hope that the candidate who will succeed the director of the Education Bureau will have a bit of an iron fist."
Zhao Mingfang nodded, but he didn't intend to let him go. "Which of the three comrades proposed by the organization do you think is suitable?"
This is forcing him to make a clear statement. Hu Jiao was a little depressed, but the smile on his face remained unchanged. "Yang Gan is an old comrade. I have met him once, but we are not close friends. Liu Luo has certain work ability, but I don't know him well. As for Comrade Tu Guangcheng, I haven't met him yet, so I reserve my opinion."
Zhao Mingfang's expression did not change at all. He looked at Li Hong and said, "Everyone, please speak freely and share your ideas."
Li Hong knocked on the table. This was his habit. He would knock on the table twice before every speech. "As Secretary Hu said, the specific implementation methods of the education reform have been discussed and approved by the Municipal Party Committee and formally implemented. So the key to the selection of the director of the Education Bureau is whether he has the ability to carry out this work from beginning to end? I have known these three comrades. Old Yang is steady, and Xiao Liu may be slightly lacking in experience. As for Xiao Tu, he came from the education industry and knows the situation very well. However, education reform is not done behind closed doors. It must be coordinated and unified with all parties. I am worried whether he can be ruthless. So after comprehensive consideration, it is still Old Yang."
As soon as Li Hong finished speaking, Wu Jinshan immediately joined in, "I'd like to say a few words, education reform, education reform itself is to combat bad teaching styles, rectify the work style of education, what is its fundamental purpose? It is to make the city's education work take a big step forward, towards professional, standardized, and transparent management. The specific work must be implemented by tens of millions of teachers, not by cadres at any level, or any leader. So, we can't let laymen command professionals. If that happens, it will be a mess. How will it end? What will the superiors think?"
Hu Jiao's heart skipped a beat. It was strange. Why did Wu Jinshan turn his guns to support Lao Yao?
