Chapter 475: Everyone Wants to Go Through Su Yang's Back Door

Bai Yutang said, "Director Su, rest assured, this will absolutely not set a precedent, it will absolutely not set a precedent."

However, a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes; he's still too young, unable to resist temptation. Many people want to eat these local specialties, but these local specialties are tasty yet hard to digest.

Just as he was secretly feeling pleased there, Su Yang added, "Old Bai, you don't have any ulterior motives, do you? I'm not one to overthink; my thoughts are rather simple. Mainly, seeing your sincerity, I wanted to accept your local specialty. Don't get me into trouble."

"In the future we'll work together long-term; with your goodwill, I'll naturally look after what I can, and for what I can't, don't blame me."

"Besides, I always feel like someone's outside; otherwise I'd just... forget it. It's enough that you mean well."

Su Yang said, then pushed the local specialty back toward him.

Bai Yutang hurriedly said, "Director Su, I just checked outside and there's no one. Rest assured, I'm giving you this gift wholeheartedly."

"How dare I tamper with this? Please accept it with peace of mind. Besides, there are rules in this circle; anyone who dares to play tricks here will be cutting off their own lineage."

Upon hearing "cut off descendants," Su Yang instinctively crossed his legs, thinking, "You old bastard, you're really ruthless..."

He stood up, glanced out the window, then carefully placed the local specialty into his drawer, saying, "Good, since it's like that, I'll accept it with peace of mind."

"From now on we're all our own people; speak up about anything, and share any benefits."

Bai Yutang then grinned and said, "Good, good, good, then I'm relieved. Please take care of me in future work, Director Su. Just give me some soup when we eat meat."

He then lowered his voice and said, "I've heard these past two days that the county currently has no plan to appoint a township director. Do you know anything about this, Director Su?"

Su Yang had been thinking about how to spread the news of promoting a township director within the township government, but this guy actually walked right into it.

He then said, "Regarding this matter, I also heard from the Organization Department that they might promote someone from the current team, but I'm not yet clear on the specific criteria or requirements."

"Of course, the only thing certain is that the promotion will come from the current Party Committee team, as this aligns with the organization's consistent personnel principle."

"You also know it's impossible for both the secretary and the township director to be parachuted down from above; that wouldn't benefit the township's development."

Upon hearing this, Bai Yutang was overjoyed; he had previously thought that the reason they hadn't directly appointed a township director was possibly to promote someone in place.

However, considering the current situation of Xiushui Township, he wondered if an in-place promotion might be overly idealistic, after all, he knows the state of Xiushui Township.

But now that Su Yang has said all this, he feels more reassured; the seniority of these Party Committee members in Xiushui Township can be said to be the oldest, and in principle, their chances are the greatest.

Moreover, he can also appropriately seek someone from the county to lobby.

"Old Bai, I still have a few other things to attend to; otherwise let's talk another day?" Su Yang felt the information had been pretty much disclosed, so he simply issued the eviction order.

Bai Yutang gave a hehe laugh, "Oh, I won't disturb Secretary Su. I'll invite Secretary Su to a meal at an outside restaurant tonight."

After leaving, he took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, head held high, walking with an eight-shaped stride toward his office, even unconsciously humming a little tune.

Previously, he had been suppressed by Cui Mingjiu, his ambitions having no outlet; but now it's different—Cui Mingjiu is gone and Su Yang is an outsider.

Moreover, in his judgment, someone like Su Yang wouldn't stay long even in Xiushui Township—at most a year or two.

As long as he becomes the township director, in two years he'll naturally succeed as the Township Party Committee Secretary; thereafter, this Xiushui Township will be his domain, and at that time even young ladies and married women will come flocking to him.

It must be said, he still judged correctly on one point: Su Yang indeed couldn't stay that long in Xiushui Township, but whether he can actually become the director is another matter.

After Bai Yutang left, Discipline Committee Member Gao Haisheng entered.

After Gao Haisheng came in, he basically said the same thing: "Secretary Su, we've finally awaited your arrival. Before, you didn't know how badly Cui Mingjiu had harmed us, constantly suppressing and bullying us."

"Some things, I believe you've seen clearly—he is the local tyrant of the township, his word is law, allowing no opposition."

"If we don't obey him, lightly we get scolded by him pointing at our noses, heavily we get punched and kicked."

"We say we're this office, but in reality he treats us like dogs, not regarding us as human at all,"

"Please forgive our past actions, of course this isn't just empty talk asking for your tolerance; I have a small gift here—don't take it to heart, it's actually just a congratulatory present for your promotion to secretary."

"Please don't refuse; if you do, I'll have nowhere to save face."

"Although it's not much, it's enough for you to buy a house in the county; I heard you haven't bought one there yet."

Su Yang thought to himself, "Now they're giving gifts so blatantly?"

Indeed, backwardness has its reasons; even gift-giving is this backward. Although Flower Field Town is also declining, when they give you gifts they at least know to hide it a bit in the tea canister.

Moreover, they're not as blatant as them, directly listing the uses.

Put nicely, it's a lack of political savvy; put bluntly, they have no brains.

"Old Gao, this isn't appropriate, right? If I'm not mistaken, you should be a Discipline Committee Member. You say you're a leader in charge of the Discipline Inspection Commission, yet you're doing this—what would others say if they saw?"

"Besides, I'm not the secretary here, just a deputy director of the Poverty Alleviation Office; calling me that is also inappropriate."

"As long as the goodwill is there, I don't need the gifts; otherwise, like your recent incident, Lu Kai and Cui Ming were both imprisoned for corruption and bribery."

"Doing this is knowingly breaking the law while defying it."

Gao Haisheng said with a grin, "Secretary Su, look at what you're saying—haven't Cui Mingjiu and his gang all been locked up now? And as long as neither of us speaks, who would know?"

"Besides, what's this bribery talk? Speaking so harshly, according to you I'm a Discipline Committee Member; they couldn't possibly investigate me, right?"

Su Yang replied after listening, "That makes sense—heaven knows, earth knows, you know, I know; then this matter, rotten to the core, nobody knows."

"How about this: I'll accept your goodwill, and in the future please support the township's work more, because now that Xiushui Township has had such a big incident, the higher-ups are all watching us."

Gao Haisheng said, "Secretary Su, I've heard that the township director will be promoted from our locality; you have absolute recommendation power on this, you see..."