Chapter 3396

Lu Weifeng's downfall served as a wake-up call for cadres throughout the city. Su Xinghui took this opportunity to propose to Municipal Party Committee Secretary Zhao Yichen and Discipline Inspection Commission Secretary Tang Wenyao that Party conduct and clean governance education be carried out throughout the city.

Zhao Yichen and Tang Wenyao both highly agreed with Su Xinghui's words. In fact, Party conduct and clean governance education was conducted every year in Baozhou, but generally speaking, such education was just a formality, and everyone didn't take it seriously, so the effect of the education was not very good.

But now it seemed that it wouldn't work without strengthening Party conduct and clean governance education. Su Xinghui kept a very close watch on the functional departments he was in charge of, yet there were still people like Lu Weifeng who took risks for profit. This proved that Party conduct and clean governance education had to be grasped.

Su Xinghui actually sometimes thought in the middle of the night about how to carry out this clean governance construction. He also knew that it was impossible to completely eradicate corruption; the human heart was the most complex thing, and human greed was endless.

In this world, the vast majority of people were greedy. If given enough temptation, they would all reach out. Don't look at those ordinary people who usually curse corrupt officials the hardest; in reality, if they themselves became officials, they would still be greedy. This was determined by human nature.

How many people, when they first became officials, were full of passion and wanted to be clean officials, and were even once pioneers in anti-corruption, but later failed to maintain their integrity in their later years and became the corrupt officials they once despised?

Take Su Xinghui himself, for example. After his rebirth, he of course also wanted to be a clean official, but he knew that if he held such great power now, yet lived a life of poverty, whether he could resist such huge temptation was something only heaven knew.

Su Xinghui was still willing to believe that he had firm beliefs, and even if he remained poor, he could still be a gentleman who persists in poverty. However, even if he could do this, could he guarantee that everyone under him could do the same?

In fact, Su Xinghui sometimes also thought that perhaps the income of those of them who held great power was a bit too low. Compared with their contributions, this income was not worth mentioning, and this was also the reason why they developed an unbalanced mentality.

With Su Xinghui's contributions, how much salary would be appropriate to pay him? How much contribution had he made in Shangjun, Changshan, Chongjin, Baozhou, and other places? The GDP he added to the country could be said to be in the hundreds of billions, but his monthly salary was only a little over one thousand; this was completely incomparable to his contributions.

Furthermore, his subordinates Xing Guodong, Luo Guoxiu, Xia Song, Che Hongwei, Chen Zengxiang, Liu Xin, Yu Shuyao, Zhang Feng, Yao Zhi, and others were all elites of this society, and the contributions they made were also very huge, yet their salaries were even lower than Su Xinghui's.

Therefore, Su Xinghui could sometimes understand those who made plans for themselves. However, such understanding did not mean he would sympathize with or let these people off. If you make plans for yourself, this is unfair to others because you hold power in your hands.

Su Xinghui could dig out these pests, but if the soil that produced these pests was not cleared, these pests would only be produced continuously, which was not what Su Xinghui wanted to see. He had also been thinking about how to prevent small problems from becoming big ones and let these pests lose the soil for their growth.

He also made some efforts, such as trying his best to create more benefits for his subordinates, making their lives as good as possible. He also tried his best to help his subordinates solve some practical family problems, so they had no worries and could devote all their energy to work.

He also often reprimanded the subordinates he thought highly of, making them afraid to have other thoughts. He was also strengthening the supervision of cadres in these important positions, so they had no opportunity to make mistakes.

Su Xinghui never felt that the traditional clean governance education would really have a very good effect. He himself felt annoyed listening to such preaching. If he wasn't a reborn person who had already earned enough money to live a comfortable life and had a special sense of mission, he wouldn't dare to say he could be so clean as to not take a single thing.

However, education was always better than no education. Frequently reprimanding those cadres and staff could always make them nervous, and examples like Lu Weifeng could also make them feel fearful, so the probability of taking risks would always be lower.

Taking this opportunity, the Baozhou Municipal Party Committee held a city-wide mid-level cadre meeting. All cadres at the section level or above in the city went to the Baozhou Auditorium to attend this meeting. The theme of the meeting was to strengthen the construction of Party conduct and clean governance. Leaders such as Zhao Yichen, Wei Ziming, Liu Qirui, Tang Wenyao, Xin Jing, and Su Xinghui all gave speeches.

Su Xinghui's speech could be considered very grounded. He said to all the cadres in the audience that many people entered the system to work, and what they thought about was nothing more than two things: promotion and getting rich. His words made everyone laugh.

Next, Su Xinghui said something shocking. He said that wanting to be promoted and get rich was not a bad thing, and he hoped that all cadres could be promoted and get rich. His words caused an uproar among everyone. Mayor Su was actually openly advocating for promotion and getting rich at a Party conduct and clean governance meeting?

Su Xinghui said that promotion was fine, but one had to speak through achievements. The cadre assessment system currently being promoted by the Municipal Party Committee was to encourage everyone to make achievements in their work and then get promoted. Such promotion was something he, Su Xinghui, was also very happy to see.

But if everyone wanted to get promoted through crooked paths, sorry, it was impossible to get promoted that way, and he, Su Xinghui, would be the first to disagree.

Su Xinghui's words made everyone nod. So that was what Su Xinghui meant by promotion.

Su Xinghui also said that wanting to get rich was also fine, but one had to go through legitimate channels. As long as your achievements were outstanding and the city's finances were affluent, everyone's salary and benefits could naturally be improved. Wasn't this also a way to get rich?

And your legal income could also be invested and managed through some legitimate investment channels. If operated well, you could also get rich.

Su Xinghui's words made everyone laugh again. Everyone knew that Su Xinghui was a big wealthy man, and his money was all earned from selling paintings and investments. So Su Xinghui's words could be considered leading by example. Of course, everyone also knew that Su Xinghui's path to wealth was not something everyone could replicate.

Su Xinghui also warned them that if they wanted to invest, they could only go through legitimate channels, and investment also had risks, so they must be cautious and not affect their normal work.

Su Xinghui finally said that wanting to get rich was fine, but one must absolutely not engage in crooked paths. If one engaged in crooked paths, he would borrow the words of a founding father: Don't reach out, and if you reach out, you will definitely be caught. Lu Weifeng was a living example.

Su Xinghui's speech received the warmest applause because his speech was indeed too grounded. He encouraged everyone to be promoted and get rich, but all through legitimate channels, and his words were also very persuasive.

Among those who worked under Su Xinghui, those who had outstanding work achievements, which one hadn't been promoted? And in the past few years, Su Xinghui had enlivened Baozhou's economy, and these cadres and staff had indeed received real benefits. Their income compared to a few years ago had more than doubled; the worst had at least increased by more than two times.

Therefore, Su Xinghui had great prestige in the hearts of ordinary cadres and staff in Baozhou, and everyone believed what he said.

This Party conduct and clean governance activity was also a very timely wake-up call for the cadres and staff of Baozhou, making them tighten their ideological strings. Those who wanted to reach out had to weigh what would happen if they were caught.

After this city-wide meeting, the leaders of various counties, districts, and municipal units returned and conveyed the spirit of the meeting to all cadres and staff in their respective units, allowing everyone to receive an education on Party conduct and clean governance and tighten their ideological strings.

As for the candidate for the Director of the Real Estate Management Bureau, after careful consideration, the Baozhou Municipal Party Committee promoted Xu Guoqing, the former office director within the Urban Construction Committee, to serve as the Director of the Real Estate Management Bureau.

Before Xu Guoqing took office, Su Xinghui also had a talk with him. The focus of the talk was, of course, to carry out a rectification campaign within the Real Estate Management Bureau and severely rectify the unhealthy tendencies within the bureau.

It could be said that the entire atmosphere of the Real Estate Management Bureau had been spoiled by Lu Weifeng. This time, many cadres and staff within the entire bureau were punished, and the current morale of the bureau was very low. Xu Guoqing's task was to improve the atmosphere of the bureau, boost morale, and make the Real Estate Management Bureau a unit with a clean and upright atmosphere.