Chapter 5723

"What if they see? Just say I'm your husband." Zhao Desan said with a devilish grin.

"Do you believe I'll slap you to death? Talking nonsense!" Although the little beauty rolled her eyes, she actually felt beautiful inside when she heard Zhao Desan say this.

"If you don't behave, do you believe I'll throw you down right now?" Zhao Desan threatened with a stern face. This trick really worked. Seeing his majestic appearance, the little beauty calmed down, blushed, and quietly stayed in Zhao Desan's arms like a child.

Fortunately, it wasn't time for work yet, and there was no one in the courtyard of the Provincial Party Committee Trade Union. He didn't care about the strange looks people gave him along the way, found a pharmacy, bought painkillers under the ambiguous gaze of the pharmacy clerk, let Jin Lulu take them, and then the two parted ways at the entrance of the Provincial Party Committee Trade Union.

After Zhao Desan returned to the district and sat in his office for a while, he thought about an important matter in the district that hadn't been resolved: arranging the candidate for the Director of the Environmental Protection Bureau. Environmental protection work was now the top priority for the entire Chanba District, especially after the textile factory pollution incident was exposed. The higher-ups were watching the Chanba District's environmental work very closely, and the Environmental Protection Bureau being leaderless couldn't go on like this. Moreover, for this relatively important position, Zhao Desan felt he had to arrange a capable cadre he could trust. He didn't want any more trouble in environmental work.

After pondering in his office for a while, Zhao Desan gave orders to convene a meeting of the Chanba District Party Group in the conference room at ten o'clock.

At the meeting, Zhao Desan had the members of the Party Group recommend candidates they thought were capable of serving as the Director of the Environmental Protection Bureau. Finally, after some discussion, it was tentatively decided that Ji Shengli, Deputy Director of the Chanba District Development and Reform Commission, would serve as the Party Secretary of the Environmental Protection Bureau. Zhao Desan was quite confident in Ji Shengli's work ability. Although he hadn't interacted much with him, in his impression, Ji Shengli was a relatively submissive person, and his work at the Development and Reform Commission had always been orderly, with outstanding ability, meeting Zhao Desan's requirements for the Director of the Environmental Protection Bureau.

Although the Development and Reform Commission was a powerful department, the Deputy Director was only a deputy-division level, but the Director of the Environmental Protection Bureau was a division-level position. In this way, Ji Shengli could be considered promoted.

After the position of Ji Shengli was determined at the Party Group meeting, another thing Zhao Desan had to do was to find out whose connection he was. After all, as the top leader of the district, knowing the connections behind the Director of the Environmental Protection Bureau would make it easier to get along with him in the future.

But before Zhao Desan had time to inquire after the Party Group meeting, Hou Junshan, Director of the District Committee Office, ran into Zhao Desan's office to provide information.

Seeing Hou Junshan come in, Zhao Desan put down the newspaper in his hand, looked up, smiled politely, and asked: "Old Hou, what's the matter?"

"Secretary Zhao, here is a document." Hou Junshan said, placing a document on Zhao Desan's desk, and continued: "I just saw Comrade Shengli go to Secretary Wang's office." The fact that there was a conflict between Zhao Desan and Wang Leji was a secret known to many in the District Committee and District Government.

In the matter of the coking plant restructuring, Wang Leji had lost to Zhao Desan, and Gao Haiping had been sent to the frontier by Zhao Desan using the textile factory pollution exposure incident. Anyone with sense knew that Wang Leji, as an old comrade, would certainly not be convinced by Zhao Desan.

Gao Haiping, with Wang Leji's support, secretly exposed the textile factory pollution, finally forcing Zhao Desan to propose transferring Gao Haiping at the Party Group meeting. The matter had reached this point, and Wang Leji, for the sake of self-preservation, could only agree to Zhao Desan's idea of transferring Gao Haiping.

This resulted in Gao Haiping being sent to Chengbei Township by Zhao Desan. Of course, many people didn't know that Wang Leji agreed to this personnel transfer because Gao Haiping had done something to smear the Chanba District. Everyone thought Wang Leji did this because Zhao Desan had worked on him.

Gao Haiping was a force Wang Leji had always wanted to win over, but he was transferred so unceremoniously; it would be strange if Wang Leji didn't hate Zhao Desan.

Therefore, Hou Junshan, as a cadre in Zhao Desan's faction, after learning that the new candidate for the Director of the Environmental Protection Bureau had just been confirmed, saw that he hadn't first visited the top leader of the District Committee, Zhao Desan, but had gone to the office of the Executive Deputy Secretary, Wang Leji. Hou Junshan certainly had to report this to his leader.

Hearing the news provided by Hou Junshan, Zhao Desan frowned and fell into deep thought. According to normal procedures, after Ji Shengli was confirmed as the candidate for the Director of the Environmental Protection Bureau, he should have first visited the top leader of the district to express his attitude toward doing a good job in environmental protection in the future, and only then should he have visited the second-in-command, Executive Deputy Secretary Wang Leji.

But before Ji Shengli had visited Zhao Desan, he had first gone to Wang Leji's office, which made Zhao Desan find it quite intriguing.

Zhao Desan thought for a moment, then said: "Alright, I know." After Hou Junshan nodded and went out, Zhao Desan picked up the document he had left on the table to read. After more than ten minutes, a 'dong-dong-dong' knocking sound came from outside. Zhao Desan responded: "Please come in." After the office door was pushed open, Zhao Desan looked up and found it was Ji Shengli walking in with a smile. As soon as he entered, he said respectfully with a smile: "Secretary Zhao, I originally intended to ask for your instructions on work first, but as soon as I arrived at the District Committee, I was called over by Secretary Wang." Ji Shengli was quite shrewd; as soon as he entered, he first explained that he had been to Wang Leji's side.

Clearly, he also understood that in a place as small as the District Committee, his visit to Wang Leji's office could never be hidden from Zhao Desan, so it was better to tell the truth.

Zhao Desan smiled and pointed to the chair in front of the desk: "Sit." Zhao Desan didn't let Ji Shengli sit on the sofa, but let him sit in the chair opposite him, clearly wanting to wait for Ji Shengli to put his arms on the desk later so he could probe the psychological state of this new candidate for the Director of the Environmental Protection Bureau. Years of training in the officialdom had given him the ability to observe words and expressions.

Ji Shengli naturally didn't know Zhao Desan's thoughts and obediently sat in the chair opposite Zhao Desan.

Then Zhao Desan picked up a box of cigarettes, handed one to Ji Shengli, and smiled: "Smoke one, don't be restrained in my office." Zhao Desan's observation ability was very strong; he saw that Ji Shengli's right index and middle fingers were already stained yellow, so he knew Ji Shengli was an old smoker.

Ji Shengli smiled. He had just watched Wang Leji smoke in Wang Leji's office, and Wang Leji hadn't offered him one, nor had he dared to smoke.

Although he had smoked a cigarette in the hallway before coming to Zhao Desan's office to satisfy his craving, seeing the 'Hard Zhonghua' on Zhao Desan's table, his craving came back. So he gave a dry laugh and took Zhao Desan's cigarette and lit it.

The taste of Hard Zhonghua was indeed good. Although he was the Deputy Director of the Development and Reform Commission, he usually smoked the best Yunyan, which cost twenty yuan. Hard Zhonghua wasn't something one had all the time.

Ji Shengli smoked the cigarette Zhao Desan gave him and immersed himself in the enjoyment. After enjoying two puffs, he realized he had only been smoking himself, while Zhao Desan hadn't smoked yet.

So Ji Shengli hurriedly took out one of his own cigarettes and handed it over, saying with a flattering smile: "Secretary Zhao." Zhao Desan shook his head and said: "I just smoked, you keep this pack of cigarettes." Ji Shengli was stunned and wanted to extinguish the cigarette in his hand because he knew that if the leader wasn't smoking, it certainly wasn't appropriate for him to make the leader smoke secondhand smoke here.

Zhao Desan smiled and stopped him, saying: "You smoke, my throat is a bit uncomfortable, I've been smoking less lately." Ji Shengli gave a dry laugh, which suddenly made him feel a bit strange.

Just now, Wang Leji had talked to him for a long time, and he hadn't been able to smoke a single cigarette. But here at the top leader's place, Zhao Desan didn't smoke but instead let him smoke. Although this couldn't explain any major problem, it at least showed that this young man, Zhao Desan, didn't have official airs.

(Chapter 3119: Just Say It's You...)

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