Chapter 668: Turn Grief and Indignation into Strength!

Tang Ye dragged his suitcase to the small hotel he had checked into on his first day arriving in Dayu County.

The landlady recognized him at a glance and asked, "Are you here to check in?"

Tang Ye smiled and replied, "Yes, for one night."

The landlady took the ID card Tang Ye handed over and asked indirectly, "Looking at your situation, are you no longer working at the Coal Transportation and Sales Company?"

Tang Ye gave a faint smile: "That's right, I found a new job and will report to the new unit tomorrow."

The landlady looked at him in surprise: "Really? Where is the new place?"

Tang Ye did not go into too much detail: "The County Government."

The landlady gave Tang Ye another surprised look, muttering to herself that this kid couldn't possibly be bragging, could he?

But she quickly congratulated him: "That's wonderful! No wonder, if it were me, I'd jump ship too!"

While Tang Ye was registering his information, the landlady suddenly slapped her forehead, remembering something: "Right, not long after you left that day, Teacher Huang came looking for you."

Tang Ye looked at the landlady with some surprise: "Did she have something to find me for?"

The landlady said: "She said her mobile phone was broken and she hadn't saved your number, so later I gave her the number from the registration book. You two haven't been in touch since?"

Tang Ye paused for a moment, then smiled and explained: "To be honest with you, Teacher Huang and I aren't very close, so we haven't been in touch."

The landlady gave him another surprised look: "I thought Teacher Huang was quite concerned about you."

Tang Ye explained: "Teacher Huang is a rather warm-hearted person; she felt I was an outsider who had just arrived in Dayu, so she was willing to help me."

The landlady said with a smile: "Teacher Huang is indeed very good; she has strong teaching abilities, is particularly serious and responsible toward her students, and even uses her own salary to support them."

Tang Ye pondered to himself, not expecting Huang Sitian to have such a side; he couldn't help but feel a bit guilty, thinking he should have been more honest with her back then.

Perhaps because he was a repeat customer, the landlady chose a larger room for Tang Ye.

Tang Ye closed the door, opened his laptop, and organized the information he had collected over the past few days into an electronic document.

After more than ten days of field inspections, open and covert investigations, and personal experience, Tang Ye had collected a large amount of data and also figured out the true situation of this state-owned enterprise, the Dayu Xian Coal Transportation and Sales Company.

Regarding coal procurement, Hu Dake and several senior executives colluded with coal mine owners to falsely inflate coal purchase prices, and they were not strict about quality control, leading to coal that did not meet standards, with various indicators far from the requirements of purchasing enterprises.

This caused Dayu's coal to have a terrible reputation in the market, and sales volume was shrinking day by day.

In terms of enterprise management, due to loose systems and poor management, employees lacked a sense of identification with the enterprise.

Coupled with meager wages and dissatisfaction with the corruption and decadence of the management, some employees, after becoming pessimistic and disappointed, would express their emotions in extreme ways; some just muddled along, while others chose to report them.

In terms of sales, although Tang Ye had not seen the relevant data, he could analyze one conclusion: Dayu's sales costs were far higher than those of other competitors.

The senior management headed by Hu Dake maliciously misappropriated coal funds, causing a large number of dead and bad debts.

The reason this company could still maintain operations was mainly due to the special industrial relief funds for poverty-stricken counties allocated by the provincial finance department.

However, these parasites had clearly hollowed out the company, yet they were still racking their brains to squeeze out the final benefits in other ways.

Every so often, they would incite employees to go to the County Government to block the doors and cause trouble, demanding that their problems be solved.

The next morning, Tang Ye carried his luggage to the county's long-distance bus station to head to the capital of Shaanxi Province to attend the mobilization meeting for this group of Exchange Cadres.

The others had gathered in Qiongjin before coming to Shaanxi together, so they were already familiar with each other on the way.

After Tang Ye finished checking into the hotel, he received a notification from Jin Jili.

"County Magistrate Tang, a brief mobilization meeting will be held at the hotel tomorrow morning, and in the afternoon, comrades from the Organization Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee will take you to assume your new posts."

"Understood, Division Chief Jin, I have already arrived at the hotel and will definitely attend on time tomorrow."

Hanging up Tang Ye's call, Jin Jili rubbed his temples, pondering to himself: Tang Ye didn't gather in Qiongjin, giving people a sense of being unorganized, undisciplined, and doing as he pleased.

However, Jin Jili also knew clearly that Tang Ye might be using this way to vent his dissatisfaction.

Arranging him in Dayu County for this exchange was indeed somewhat unjustifiable.

This involved the power struggle between Cheng Guodong and He Haiyang.

In his view, Tang Ye's luck couldn't be considered terrible—he had caught the last bus—but it definitely couldn't be called good, because this road was rugged and muddy.

His phone rang; it was He Haiyang calling.

He Haiyang's tone carried a hint of displeasure: "Has Tang Ye checked in?"

Jin Jili replied: "He has already checked in."

He Haiyang said in a deep voice: "Some comrades show dissatisfaction with this mission from the very beginning; cases like Tang Ye's must be put on record and included in the assessment later. Our exchange this time must have a sense of competition; for those personnel at the bottom of the rankings, we must increase the sense of urgency for elimination, otherwise they will lack motivation."

Jin Jili quickly replied: "Understood, Department Head He, I will implement it."

He Haiyang gave an "mm" and hung up the phone, stroking his chin in deep thought for a long time, sneering in his heart: Don't think that just because you grabbed this cadre exchange opportunity, I have no way to strike at Tang Ye.

As long as I increase the assessment mechanism and implement bottom-tier elimination, I will be able to snipe at him when the time comes.

He Haiyang's plan was to let Tang Ye suffer for two years in Dayu County and end up with nothing to show for it.

The next morning, the cross-provincial cadre exchange mobilization meeting was held at the hotel conference center.

He Haiyang delivered a mobilization speech on behalf of the Organization Department of the Huai Provincial Party Committee:

"The 'Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals: Exhausting Numbers' says: 'Flowing water does not rot, and door hinges do not get worm-eaten; this is because of movement.' The construction of the cadre team is the same; it requires reasonable and orderly movement to continuously improve overall vitality and immunity..."

Tang Ye thought to himself that He Haiyang's speech draft was quite high-level, with an elegant, Confucian-scholar temperament between the lines.

However, he had no good feelings toward He Haiyang and knew that this person was a great mountain standing in front of him.

After the meeting ended, the group dispersed from Xijing to various counties.

The two cadres sitting next to Tang Ye seemed to have a good relationship, whispering to each other from time to time.

After Tang Ye left, one of them said sarcastically: "Tang Ye is really young, but it's a pity he was assigned to Dayu County."

"You don't know about this; Dayu County was decided by Department Head He."

"Department Head He thinks highly of Tang Ye!"

"Isn't that so! It's said that the upcoming bottom-tier elimination assessment plan was also tailor-made for him."

The barbed gossip naturally reached Tang Ye's ears.

To say he wasn't the least bit depressed would certainly be a lie.

But he knew clearly in his heart that he absolutely could not be defeated by these words; on the contrary, he had to turn grief and indignation into strength.