Chapter 189: Gao Yuanfei

Since this semester, Lu Fan's emphasis on the senior year of high school and the third year of junior high school has been obvious to all in the education system. Just by pushing the door to listen to classes, he has exceeded 30 sessions, invisibly increasing the pressure on teachers, who are afraid that the director will suddenly "break into" the classroom to listen, so they are more attentive in classroom teaching than in previous years.

On December 1, Lu Fan, as usual, came to the senior high school's senior grade group to communicate with everyone.

The teachers were very familiar with this diligent Education Bureau Director. During the communication, a teacher suddenly said: "Director Lu, I want to make a suggestion."

Lu Fan laughed: "I'm not afraid of you making suggestions; I'm only afraid you won't. I came here to help everyone solve their worries, so you can devote yourself to education and teaching work. I, this director, am your chief logistics director!"

The teacher said: "Then I'll be a vanguard and boldly suggest! There are too many messy tasks in the school. A single phone call from a leader means work must start. Many notices are temporary, so we can only stay up late to organize and collect data, such as statistics on students' health, home visit tasks, poverty alleviation tasks, special tasks, urban creation and evaluation tasks, street and community affairs, education publicity activities, forced apportionment of irrelevant affairs, etc., and various inspections, making people miserable. We feel we have become tools, making people exhausted!"

Lu Fan nodded and said: "I have also felt this problem. Actually, everyone is very responsible and has never felt tired or burdened because of undertaking too much education, teaching, and research work, and everyone is very willing to do it!"

Someone said: "That's for sure. Education, teaching, and research are the main duties. Since we are in this line of work, we must have professional spirit and professional ethics. As the saying goes, 'one cannot use one's mind for two things.' Our daily teaching pressure is already very high. Undertaking more social responsibilities will inevitably affect our main duties."

Lu Fan said decisively: "Then let's reduce the burden for you frontline teachers! This problem is very complex. I will organize a meeting of the Education Bureau Party Committee to study it when I go back, striving to come up with a method within three days, so you can teach with peace of mind and strive to rush for a 'Qingbei' for me next year!"

The teachers all laughed. This director keeps "Qingbei" on his lips all the time; it has become his obsession!

Returning to the unit, Lu Fan immediately convened a bureau party committee meeting, also inviting school principal representatives from high schools, junior high schools, and elementary schools, as well as teacher representatives, to discuss how to reduce the burden on teachers.

After the meeting started, everyone listed the tasks teachers had to do one by one, and found that there were as many as 60 tasks.

Lu Fan sighed: "You don't know until you look; you are shocked when you look! We should indeed reflect on whether we have held too many meetings and issued too many documents. Most of these tasks are documents issued by our Education Bureau, and we go to inspect them for no reason. The starting point may be good, and some are requirements from higher-level departments. But the final result is that teachers are not allowed to calm down and devote their energy to education and teaching.

Let's discuss it properly today. If we cancel content unrelated to education, especially for teachers in the third year of junior high and senior high, we must achieve maximum burden reduction! For example, handwritten newspaper assignments, cancel various useless check-ins, cancel meaningless photo-uploading tasks, cancel video-watching tasks, cancel parent committees, cancel class groups, and other burdens. If we can cancel them, we cancel them. If we can't, I suggest the school arrange for someone to be responsible for dealing with higher-level inspections!

I don't require us to win this or that honor; I only want the students' good grades! Maybe some people will say that focusing only on grades is not good for children's growth, but I think it's all nonsense. The system for selecting talents is just like this. If you don't speak with grades, what can you do? What can rural children use to compete with children in big cities? Scores—we still have a way. Aren't this year's middle and high school entrance exams examples? So, today's meeting must achieve the goal of comprehensively reducing the burden on teachers. We won't disperse until we are satisfied with the meeting!"

Lu Fan's words shocked everyone, feeling that this director was indeed different.

The tone of the meeting was set. Everyone was an expert in education, so they expressed their opinions one after another. The meeting atmosphere was very enthusiastic, and everyone was still unsatisfied until seven o'clock in the evening!

At this time, County Committee Office Director Liu Guannan walked into County Party Secretary Gao Yuanfei's residence with a briefcase.

After chatting for a few sentences, Liu Guannan said straightforwardly: I want to advance! I want to be deputy county chief!

At the same time, he placed the large and thick "briefcase" in front of Gao Yuanfei!

If it were before, Gao Yuanfei might not even consider it. But now, Gao Yuanfei's mentality had changed greatly. In a few more years, he would retire to the second line. If you don't use power, it will expire!

After thinking for a long time, Gao Yuanfei said: "Guannan, I understand your work, but you also know that the County Committee only has the right to recommend, and the final decision on who to use rests with the Municipal Committee and the Organization Department!"

"Secretary, I naturally understand, but the County Committee's recommendation is equally important. The Municipal Committee will carefully consider your opinion. I won't be reconciled if I don't try!"

"Fine, then I will try. You must prepare for both possibilities."

"Hmm, if I get it, it's my luck; if I lose it, it's my fate! I can accept any result."

Ten minutes later, Liu Guannan left the apartment, and both chose to forget the "briefcase," which lay quietly on Gao Yuanfei's coffee table.

On December 2, Gao Yuanfei stayed in the office for a while and then went to the city to recommend deputy county chief candidates to Secretary Li Mingzhou and the Organization Department.

After queuing for a while, Gao Yuanfei met Secretary Li Mingzhou and said respectfully: "Secretary Li, I am here to report work!"

Li Mingzhou smiled: "Yuanfei, I also want to talk to you. Ningyang has a vacancy for a deputy county chief. What are your thoughts?"

"Secretary, after extensively soliciting opinions and combining the actual situation, the Ningyang County Committee recommends County Committee Office Director Liu Guannan and Economic Development Bureau Director Li Shengjie as candidates. These two comrades have no problems with qualifications or ability..."

After saying a lot, Li Mingzhou didn't listen to a single word.

After the "nonsense" was finished, Li Mingzhou said: "Ningyang's education work this year is quite eye-catching. What's that name? That Education Bureau Director, who seems to have won a national honor—is he not in the scope of consideration?"

"Secretary, the Education Bureau Director is named Lu Fan. This comrade is indeed very enthusiastic about work and has achieved certain results, but his qualifications are still shallow. He can be trained for a few more years. Promoting him now won't convince the public. He can be cultivated as a reserve cadre."

Gao Yuanfei might have been hit hard and his brain was short-circuited. The Municipal Party Secretary had already hinted so much, but he still couldn't see the situation clearly, or didn't want to see it clearly. Anyway, he insisted on his own opinion.

Originally, he intended to comfort him a few words, after all, he had previously listed him as a deputy department-level leadership candidate, and the halfway abortion was indeed a big blow. Unexpectedly, he was so stubborn, and he didn't want to talk to him about other work. Li Mingzhou said: "Hmm, I have noted your opinion, and the Municipal Committee will fully consider it. I have another meeting later, so you go back to work first!"

"Understood, Secretary. If you have anything, feel free to instruct me."

Then, Gao Yuanfei went to the Municipal Organization Department to recommend deputy county chief candidates to Minister Zhang Rongqu.

Minister Zhang was very shrewd and treated Gao Yuanfei's recommendations seriously, but never expressed his stance, always saying some ambiguous words.

The attitudes of the two leaders gave Gao Yuanfei an illusion, thinking that the leaders agreed with his recommendations.

Returning to the county, he immediately called Liu Guannan and told him to wait for good news.

On December 5, 2014, Tsinghua University held the Private Economy New Year Forum. This was a stage and feast for private entrepreneurs to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and to carry forward the past and open up the future. It invited thousands of people from politics, industry, academia, and research to attend and participate in this forum. As the Student Union President, Lu Yao was busy to the point of not touching the ground.

Chen Xu's research institute also received an invitation. Originally, he had no interest in these activities, but he suddenly thought of the beautiful figure that lingered in his heart, so he took the initiative to fight for a quota with the director.

On the morning of the event, Wang Rong saw her son shave his stubble clean and tidy himself up, and asked curiously: "Xiaoxu, what are you going to do?"

Chen Xu showed a bright smile and said: "Mom, I'm going to participate in Tsinghua's Private Economy New Year Forum to understand the current economic development trend."

"Son, I think you are not interested in the wine? Go, be bolder! No matter what you do, Mom supports you!"

Arriving at Jinchunyuan, Chen Xu saw the figure he had been dreaming of at a glance.

At this moment, Lu Yao was busy guiding participants to register and enter the venue, her movements skilled, natural, generous, and appropriate.

Chen Xu stood quietly on the side, watching her working seriously, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

A year later, she seemed to have become more mature and steady, but that vitality and confidence had not diminished in the slightest.

Her smile was like a flower, and her eyes revealed firmness and persistence, making Chen Xu unable to help wanting to get close and feel the charm she radiated.

Chen Xu took a deep breath, trying to calm his mood, and when he walked slowly to Lu Yao, he asked softly: "Hello, is this where I register?" His eyes were full of expectation, hoping Lu Yao could recognize him.

However, to Chen Xu's disappointment, the beauty in front of him just gave a polite smile and replied with her sweet voice: "Hello, please sign in here. The meeting will start at 9 o'clock. There are table signs on each seat, and this is the seating chart." Her tone and expression were very natural.

Chen Xu carefully observed her expression, trying to find even a trace of familiarity, but the result disappointed him greatly.

From Lu Yao's eyes, Chen Xu couldn't see any fluctuation; she was really just looking at a stranger.

A wave of unspeakable disappointment surged in his heart. Chen Xu squeezed out a smile, signed his name, and turned to walk toward the venue.

But before leaving, he couldn't help but look back, sighing in his heart: Ask the world what love is, the red dust has its own infatuated people; I keep you in my heart, but you look at me as if I were a stranger.

The situation last year floated before his eyes, truly keeping an expectation, a helplessness of not being able to get, a cherish of not having possessed, an encounter that ended before it even began!

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