Chapter 2124: Marginalizing Zhou Andong

Hu Dajun looked at the half-person-high gold Guanyin and said with a smile: "Old Jiao, you put Hu San Tai Ye and Hu San Tai Nai beside the Guanyin Bodhisattva. Even if something happens to you, the two of them wouldn't dare to come out to protect you."

"You know a fart." Jiao Liwei snorted: "Get out quickly, don't disturb the Immortal Family's rest."

Hu Dajun smiled: "Didn't you say that a high-ranking person had opened the light for the Bodhisattva? It just so happens that I haven't been very smooth during this period, so I'll offer a stick of incense to the Bodhisattva."

This guy picked up a stick of incense, took a lighter out of his pocket, and was about to light it when he was immediately stopped by Jiao Liwei.

"Wait!" Jiao Liwei hurriedly said: "You can't offer incense here."

Hu Dajun frowned and said with displeasure: "Why can't I?"

"What is incense fire?" Jiao Liwei said with dissatisfaction: "Don't you know that family inheritance is inheriting incense fire? Borrowing my incense fire is cutting off my inheritance."

Hu Dajun's face turned black. If it were someone else talking to him like this, he would have slapped them across the face long ago.

But Jiao Liwei was different. He was the Executive Vice Plant Director, a member of the Party Committee, and his father-in-law was the Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee and Director of the General Office, Zhang Qinghe.

If he fell out with Jiao Liwei over such a small matter, it wouldn't be good for him, not to mention that it was on the eve of this storm.

What was more important was that this guy was very superstitious, but simple-minded, and spent all day engaging in these god-and-ghost things, which was very suitable to be used as a gun.

"Then what should I do?"

"Give money!" Jiao Liwei stretched out his hand: "Give me incense money and it'll be no problem."

"How much money?" Hu Dajun didn't care either and took out his wallet from his pocket.

Jiao Liwei glanced at the wallet: "Five hundred!"

Hu Dajun's hand, which was taking out money, paused, widened his eyes, and asked: "How much?"

"Five hundred!" Jiao Liwei repeated it again, the expression on his face looking very serious.

"..."

Hu Dajun took a deep breath. This dog thing actually extorted me. If you weren't a good gun, I would definitely make you look good.

Hu Dajun didn't lack these five hundred yuan, but being extorted by a subordinate while being a dignified plant director naturally wouldn't make him feel happy, but he gave the money in the end.

Jiao Liwei collected the money. Seeing Hu Dajun holding the lighter and about to light the incense, he stopped him again.

"What is it again?"

Hu Dajun was so stifled. If he found a temple with monks to offer incense, it wouldn't cost five hundred yuan, and there wouldn't be so many things like yours.

"You can't use a lighter to light incense. There are matches there. Use matches to light it."

Hu Dajun asked with some confusion: "Is there any saying about this?"

"Of course there is!" Jiao Liwei said: "Match fire is wealth fire. Using matches to light incense, wealth will come on its own."

Hu Dajun was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized the meaning and laughed out loud. But he had only laughed twice when he was interrupted by Jiao Liwei.

"Don't laugh so loudly." Jiao Liwei was even more dissatisfied: "Laughing loudly in front of the Bodhisattva is disrespectful. How will the Bodhisattva protect you like this?"

"Got it!"

Hu Dajun said with depression, put away the lighter, picked up the matches, lit the incense, placed it in the incense burner, then knelt down and respectfully kowtowed three times.

He didn't believe in these things before; he just suddenly remembered the rumors about Jiao Liwei. This guy was originally just a clerk in the township government. According to normal development, it would be the ancestral grave smoking green smoke for him to solve the regular section level before retirement.

But the final development exceeded everyone's expectations. No one was clear whether this guy's ancestral grave smoked green smoke, but many people knew that Jiao Liwei had met a Taoist priest who looked at the feng shui of the ancestral grave, and then moved the ancestral grave.

Not many days after moving the grave, by chance, he met his current wife. Then this guy opened the road to the sky. Up to now, he served as the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Vice Plant Director of the Woolen Textile Mill.

He was a proper deputy department level, and just over forty years old, absolutely in the prime of his life. After waiting for two years to walk the relationship and transfer to the ministry agency, the one taking over as plant director would definitely be Jiao Liwei.

Therefore, he felt that toward the upcoming Zhou Andong, Jiao Liwei should be even more angry than him, because Zhou Andong blocked Jiao Liwei's path.

You must know that in the ministry agency, between principal and deputy, speaking of it, it's just one level difference, but in reality, that is a chasm that is difficult to cross. Even if you rely on a big mountain, wanting to turn over isn't that easy.

But in an enterprise, principal and deputy is just a small hurdle. Wanting to cross it is relatively easy. So, Zhou Andong's arrival definitely made Jiao Liwei very, very angry.

As for him, if he could transfer to the ministry, he would definitely accept it gladly. But he had only been plant director for a year or so, and his qualifications weren't enough. Wanting to transfer to the ministry to serve as a principal position leader was simply impossible.

Therefore, he was also very angry and unwilling, because waiting for another two years would be enough, but now the best result was to go to another enterprise to serve as plant director.

At his current age, as long as he went to another enterprise, he would be waiting until retirement. Unless he went to a key enterprise like BAIC, but the difficulty of going to BAIC was even greater than going to the ministry.

So, he was now sick and seeking medical advice, thinking of the rumors about Jiao Liwei, wanting to worship, hoping that if it was effective, it would protect him through this crisis?

After offering incense and kowtowing, the two walked out of the lounge, came to the office outside, and sat on the sofa.

Hu Dajun had been to Jiao Liwei's office more than once. He didn't feel anything before, because his office was even bigger and more luxurious than this.

But just after offering incense and kowtowing to the Bodhisattva, he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt Jiao Liwei's office was brighter than his office.

"Comrade Liwei!" Hu Dajun said with a smile: "Has your office also been looked at for feng shui?"

"Of course!"

Regarding the matter of feng shui, Jiao Liwei never avoided it. Not only plant leaders, but even some workers knew that Deputy Plant Director Jiao was very superstitious.

"I invited a master to arrange this."

Hu Dajun smiled noncommittally, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and handed one to Jiao Liwei.

"Zhou Andong is coming. I don't care; I'm already at this age. If the organization tells me to make way, I'll make way. If they tell me to go anywhere, I'll go. Anyway, going anywhere is retirement.

But you are different. You are young and have more room for development. According to normal circumstances, I will transfer away in another two years, and you will take over my position. At that time, you will only be forty-three years old. Entering the ministry before fifty will definitely be no problem at all.

But Zhou Andong is parachuted down, and you will have to stumble for five or six years in this position. By the time he transfers away and you take over, you'll be almost fifty. Wanting to enter the ministry will have no chance at all.

Another thing is transferring to the ministry, but you should be very clear that even if you have your father-in-law's relationship network, entering the ministry with a deputy department level and wanting to go further is also very difficult."

"Chi-la," Jiao Liwei habitually took the matches and lit the cigarette: "I have also thought about this problem, but there is no way. The arm cannot twist the thigh. Zhou Andong entering the Woolen Textile Mill is already a nail on the board, not something you or I can stop."

"I didn't say stop it either!"

Hu Dajun didn't take out his pure silver lighter this time, but picked up the matches on the coffee table, lit the cigarette in his mouth, puffed on it, and then continued.

"Just like you said, the arm cannot twist the thigh. Zhou Andong's arrival cannot be stopped, but we cannot do nothing and let that guy ride on our heads to shit and piss."

Jiao Liwei smoked silently. Amidst the smoke, he looked at Hu Dajun and asked calmly: "What do you plan to do?"

Hu Dajun's mouth corners rose slightly, revealing a confident smile, as if everything was under control.

"We can unite to marginalize him, letting his orders only stay in the office. Then, we will create some chaos and let him fall into a predicament.

A leader who cannot unite the team, a leader who makes the plant chaotic as soon as he comes—how do you think the superior leaders will view him?"

Jiao Liwei answered without hesitation: "Naturally, they will think his ability is insufficient."

"Very correct!" Hu Dajun slapped his thigh hard and said excitedly: "I admit that Zhou Andong has indeed achieved some results in the commercial field, but he has no experience in managing a large state-owned enterprise of 40,000 people.

That's right, he once served as a state-owned enterprise plant director, but how can a small local plant like the Jiangzhou Winery be compared with the Woolen Textile Mill? It's simply the difference between heaven and earth, like the gap between an infant and a giant.

Therefore, pulling him too high all at once, he definitely won't be able to stand firm, won't be able to unite the leadership team, won't be able to grasp the right to speak, won't be able to carry out work normally, let alone reform. In the end, the superiors will definitely be furious and let Zhou Andong get out."

Jiao Liwei looked at the smoke gradually dissipating in front of him, his eyes flashed, but he didn't speak.

"Comrade Liwei!" Hu Dajun continued earnestly: "As long as Zhou Andong gets out, the one who successfully takes the position will definitely be you."

A trace of an intriguing smile appeared on Jiao Liwei's face, but it disappeared quickly.

Are you treating me like a fool, or treating the superior leaders like fools?

You transferred away, letting us make trouble at home. Even if Zhou Andong finally gets out, the superiors will definitely hit the board.

And as the Executive Vice Plant Director, when the board comes down, the first one to be hit will be me.

The final result is that the superiors will continue to parachute another plant director down. Of course, there will be another result.

That is you, Hu Dajun, being transferred back to continue serving as plant director. Although this possibility is not great, you, Hu Dajun, are so cunning, can you have no preparation?

Hu Dajun stopped talking. He believed Jiao Liwei would make the correct judgment. And in these past few days, he had been jumping up and down, talking to almost all cadres above the middle level, with one purpose: to marginalize Zhou Andong and make the plant chaotic.

And he had indeed received a reply from his old leader: as long as Zhou Andong couldn't carry out work and the plant had some problems, Zhou Andong definitely wouldn't be able to stand firm, and he would be transferred back to continue serving as plant director. ===== CHAPTER 2125 =====