Chapter 805

Sun Kangyao half-bent his body and said, "County Magistrate Su, I, I especially thank you for giving me this opportunity this time. I will definitely work well in the future and repay you."

Su Yang couldn't listen any longer, interrupted and said, "Bureau Chief Sun, don't be so formal, sit down and let's chat slowly."

"Before this, I want to correct you a bit: you are not to repay me, nor do you need to thank me."

"Being able to promote you to Bureau Chief is the trust of the Cultivation Organization toward you, and it is the recognition of your Work Ability by all the County Standing Committee Members."

"In the future, doing your job well at your post is being responsible to yourself and also giving an account to the Cultivation Organization."

"I have looked over your resume; you graduated from Shanghai Finance and Economics University, right?"

"Logically speaking, you should have had the opportunity to work in a big city, and the treatment would be much better than being an ordinary cadre in our county."

"Why did you choose to come back?"

Sun Kangyao said: "County Magistrate Su, actually my family is right here, and my parents are both farmers; they worked hard to support me through college. If I had stayed elsewhere, I would have had no chance to fulfill my filial duty to them."

"Moreover, you also know that struggling in a big city is not that simple; although the income is high and the benefits are good, the expenses are also high."

"For someone like me, going out alone to make a living, if I truly want to establish myself, without a major opportunity, it would take more than a decade of struggle."

"Moreover, the vast majority of people spend their whole lives rushing to work, and frankly speaking, they lack the ability to bring their parents over to support them."

"After getting married, they also have their own family to feed, and they simply cannot find the time to visit their parents."

"In short, once you stay in a big city, you completely lose the chance to repay your parents' kindness; you can only become a labor machine."

"Furthermore, I am by nature quite traditional; all my relatives and friends are here, and I also do not want to stay elsewhere."

"His remarks, in the system, are very unwelcome; everyone likes to hear talk about being proactive, how to serve the Cultivation Organization, how to be loyal to leaders, and so on."

"But in Su Yang's eyes, such a person is the most genuine, without speaking those high-sounding words."

He said: "I quite agree with your idea, but the political environment in Lieshan Xian is not good; I heard that the reason you were able to become Deputy Chief is because of your business ability."

"The Finance Bureau needs someone like you to solve business-related problems, and even so, your position as Deputy Chief still lacks the authority of those section chiefs below."

"If the Finance Bureau were placed in your hands, could you suppress those people? Could you make those below obey you?"

Sun Kangyao said: "The political ecology in our county before was indeed not good."

"Everyone had no mind to focus on work; they were all thinking about how to ingratiate themselves with Geng Miao and his Cultivation Clan."

"Thinking about how to get into the core circle of Geng Miao's family."

"But now that you have come, you have also eradicated Geng Miao, this tumor, and all those previous bad practices have been corrected."

"Now everyone in the bureau, aside from work, is still work; no one dares to have ulterior motives."

"I think that in such a work environment, everyone will naturally unite together and raise work efficiency."

"And I only need to do my own work well; I do not need to expend a lot of energy on management."

"Of course, the most important thing here is to help County Magistrate Su guard the money bag; every penny that comes in must be used where it should be."

"Money that should not be spent, money that should not be moved, must absolutely not be touched; without your instructions, County Magistrate Su, any allocation is invalid."

Su Yang nodded slightly; this seems reasonable, now the cadres in the county, each one is butt-up working, who has time to entertain those thoughts.

He almost wished to cut himself off completely from the past, and with Secretary Hou Junlai's recent vigorous inspection of all county cadres, they are all as wound up as clockwork.

The key is that Sun Kangyao looks honest and straightforward, just as Hou Junlai and his group said before: he suffered from being honest, so he has always been placed at the bottom.

That actually seems not so honest after all; on the contrary, he is quite eloquent.

In the past, hearing such words would have made him feel cheesy, and he couldn't help but mock or refute them a couple of times.

But now he has a strange feeling; hearing these words, he actually feels warm all over.

Specifically, when did this feeling arise? Roughly after he took down Geng Miao and began to preside over the work of the whole county.

Asking himself, the fundamental purpose of his letting Sun Kangyao come over for a talk was precisely to have Sun Kangyao express loyalty.

But this kind of thing cannot be overdone; if one really grips the Finance Bureau too tightly, it will provoke resentment from others, which may not be good.

He solemnly corrected: "Bureau Chief Sun, what you said is also not right; the Finance Bureau is not your Finance Bureau, nor is it my Finance Bureau."

"The Finance Bureau's annual budget allocation is planned; under normal circumstances, you just follow the plan."

"Rather than requiring my signature or a phone notice to you before allocating funds, which would be unacceptable, as it would make others think I am engaging in some privilege."

"It could even create a negative influence within the leadership team."

"But if someone wants to disrupt the prearranged plan, make an ad hoc allocation, or take care of certain relation households, strongly demanding you to make payments, you can instead uphold the principle."

"If you truly encounter a problem that cannot be solved, or a situation you cannot cope with, you can also directly come to me."

"Your current workload is not that great; it's just making up for previous work."

"But in the coming days, several sums of money will come in; the first installment from the city will allocate to us nearly half a year's cadre salaries and other expenses, possibly amounting to tens of millions."

"The second sum of money is all the illegal gains of Geng Miao and his group, as well as the proceeds from auctioning their black-and-gray assets under their name."

"This money will also remain in our county's finance; its purpose is to improve the welfare benefits of our cadres."

"For example, bonuses issued during holidays and festivals, etc."

"It is also expected to amount to tens of millions."

"Regarding how to motivate the cadres and how to give them bonuses fairly and justly, your Finance Bureau needs to come up with a plan."

Sun Kangyao momentarily failed to react to what this was about; he had been worried about how to solve the wages for these two months.

And since he had just taken office, he couldn't go begging Su Yang with a shameless face; otherwise people would think this newly appointed Bureau Chief has no ability at all.

But relying on himself, where could he go to solve these problems? Which leader of the Municipal Finance Bureau would give him face?

But who would have expected that Su Yang, with a single move, would already have resolved his hidden worry.

What he least expected was that, after the removal of Geng Miao's cash red packets and shopping vouchers—those gray benefits given to all county civil servants—everyone secretly complained, with some people drinking a little liquor at home and still pointing fingers and cursing.

As a result, this County Magistrate Su has already been seeking welfare for everyone.

With such a leader, who in the future would dare to gossip behind his back? He would certainly go up and give them a thorough dressing-down.