Chapter 391

Her figure looked exquisite wrapped in the dark green cheongsam. The more Zhao Desan looked, the more he wanted her to wear this cheongsam to do that thing. He wondered how great it would be.

He stared at her for a good while, and only when he heard coughing in the corridor did he quickly turn around and walk toward the office.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Vice Mayor Yu came to the bureau to hold a bureau-wide meeting on the restructuring of the coal industry in Yuyang City. At the meeting, he took Gao Husheng's incident as a typical example for a profound analysis, using it as a model to conduct a profound ideological education for everyone in the bureau. "You cannot let them do whatever they want just because they gave you money. In the end, the ones who will be unlucky are you!..." Vice Mayor Yu's words touched Zhao Desan, a little rookie who had just entered officialdom, very deeply. He also warned himself in his heart that he must never be captured by the sugar-coated bullets of those coal bosses in the future and must be a person with a big-picture view.

Of course, the theme of this meeting was about coal industry restructuring. Vice Mayor Yu conveyed the unanimous opinion of the Municipal Party Committee and the municipal government to all employees of the Coal Bureau, handing the acquisition matter to the Coal Bureau to handle single-handedly, and starting a comprehensive investigation of several capable enterprises, intending for one of them to take over.

At the end of the meeting, Vice Mayor Yu praised Zhao Desan in front of everyone in the bureau and personally made the decision to let Director Zhang promote him to the section chief of the Quality and Safety Section of the Coal Bureau. This decision was naturally a good thing for both Director Zhang and Zhao Desan. When he was temporarily appointed as the acting section chief of the Quality and Safety Section a few days ago, some people in the bureau were dissatisfied in private. This time, Vice Mayor Yu made the decision personally, and Director Zhang also felt that she had a way out.

Regarding this decision, everyone in the bureau agreed verbally, but Vice Deputy Director Wang was very dissatisfied in his heart. For a time, it was as if a seasoning bottle had been overturned, and he had a mixed feeling.

In his short career of more than a year at the Coal Bureau, Zhao Desan had completed a double jump, transforming from a small clerk who initially got in through money and connections into a section-level cadre of the Coal Bureau. At less than twenty-five years old, he became the youngest section-level cadre in the history of the Yuyang Coal Bureau.

In the afternoon, a personnel appointment letter was delivered to Zhao Desan by Zhang Xiaoyan. The moment he took the appointment letter, he suddenly felt that the responsibility on his shoulders had invisibly increased a lot. He was not in a hurry to be complacent but was planning his next work plan in his heart, starting a comprehensive investigation of several major mining enterprises and writing an investigation report.

Lin Dafa wanted to participate in the acquisition. After acquiring Gao Husheng's coal mine, his next plan was to rely on his relationship with Coal Bureau Director Zhang Ailing to wipe out Ma Lan's Xinmao Mining, completely monopolizing the coal industry structure chain in Yuyang City. After the meeting that afternoon, Zhang Ailing leaked the Municipal Party Committee's decision to Lin Dafa, asking him to prepare in advance for various inspections.

Lin Dafa was determined to win the acquisition. That night, he made an appointment to meet Director Zhang at a restaurant to discuss the matter. At the same time, Zhao Desan also notified Ma Lan of this matter via text message, asking her to start preparing accordingly.

In a private room at the restaurant, Lin Dafa stuffed a large paper package to Director Zhang and smiled cunningly, "Director Zhang, this matter depends entirely on you. Now that Gao Husheng has been dealt with, the only one left in Yuyang City who can compete with our Lin family is that widow surnamed Ren."

Director Zhang glanced at the paper package placed in front of her, smiled knowingly, and said, "Old Lin, why are you still so direct? I'll try my best to help you with this matter, but you can't just look for me. The assessment report is specifically the responsibility of the people below in our bureau. I'll just keep an eye on it when the time comes. If there's any omission and it's reported to the Municipal Party Committee, then you can't blame me for not helping you." As she spoke, she picked up the paper package and stuffed it into her handbag without changing her expression.

"Oh? How so?"

"Vice Mayor Yu specifically pointed out that our bureau should conduct a comprehensive investigation before the acquisition and conduct a comprehensive assessment. The investigation is led by Section Chief Liu of our bureau's Quality and Safety Section, and the specific assessment report is also completed by the Quality and Safety Section, so I have to analyze specific things specifically."

"Section Chief Liu? Which Section Chief Liu?" Lin Dafa asked with a puzzled look, "Isn't the section chief of your bureau's Quality and Safety Section that Song... Song something?" Lin Dafa couldn't remember Song Jihong's name for a moment.

Zhang Ailing said, "! He was removed long ago, wasn't it because of the accident at Gao Husheng's coal mine? At that time, for fear that the city would blame us, the bureau didn't dare to report it to the Municipal Party Committee. I don't know how the city found out about this. Vice Mayor Yu got angry and removed him. Now it's Comrade Xiao Zhao from the bureau."

"Comrade Xiao Zhao?" Lin Dafa thought for a moment, "Is it the young man you brought when you were eating with Vice Mayor Yu next to the Municipal Party Committee that time?"

"Yes, that's him."

"It's him? That young man doesn't look very old, how did he... become your section chief of the Quality and Safety Section?"

"The young man is not very old, but his work ability is excellent, and he has shared a lot of burdens for me. And this time, it was Vice Mayor Yu who personally made the decision when holding a meeting in the bureau. Vice Mayor Yu values him very much, so you have to look at his face this time,"

"Old Zhang, I understand." Lin Dafa smiled knowingly twice.

After lunch the next day, as soon as Zhao Desan returned to the office, he saw something wrapped in a newspaper on the table. Strange, Su Jing asked for leave today and didn't come. Who came to the office? He was puzzled as he walked forward to pick up the thing wrapped in newspaper. It felt heavy. He had already guessed in his mind what was wrapped inside. Just as he opened a corner of the paper package, the words "100 yuan" were revealed. Zhao Desan was a little panicked for a moment, and he was also confused and puzzled.

It could be said that there were few people who were not moved by such a thick stack of money. Although Zhao Desan had secretly made a "military order" not to be bewitched by the sugar-coated bullets, he couldn't help but be a little moved. Holding this package of money in his hand, a smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

Just as he was staring blankly at Chairman Mao on the RMB, the office door was suddenly knocked. He responded, "Come in," while hurriedly walking behind the table to face the door. In his anxiety, he hid the package of money behind his back.

As soon as the door was pushed open, the person who came in was Li Shanshan. She was originally smiling, but when she saw Zhao Desan staring at her with strange eyes, she thought there was something wrong with her. She lowered her head and carefully examined her attire, finding nothing wrong? She raised her head and asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"No... nothing," Zhao Desan's expression was slightly panicked, but he still asked her calmly, "Secretary Li, what are your instructions again?"

"Section Chief Liu, you are a leader now, how would I dare," Li Shanshan joked with him, walking toward him while laughing.

If she got close to him and discovered the package hidden behind his back, he would be finished. He felt that this package of money was a bit hot, like a hot potato, and he wanted to get rid of it quickly. He hurriedly asked, "What on earth do you want with me?"

"Director Zhang is calling you up," Li Shanshan walked up and stood across the table from him, smiling at him a bit foolishly.

Zhao Desan was eager to send her away and hurriedly said, "Then... then you go up first, I... I'll be there right away." As he spoke, he felt sweat in his palms, as if he were holding not a stack of money, but a dynamite pack.

Li Shanshan noticed that his expression was a bit strange, but Director Zhang had asked her to call Zhao Desan, and she couldn't stay too long, so she didn't ask to the end and smiled, "That's fine, I'll go up first, you come up right away."

"Mm, I'll be there right away."

Watching Li Shanshan leave, Zhao Desan felt a stone fall from his heart. He let out a long breath, feeling cold sweat on his back. He took out the stack of money hidden behind his back, took a look at it, quickly opened the drawer, stuffed it in, and for safety's sake, locked the drawer before going out.