Chapter 695

Chen Xiangui asked, "What material should these liquor bottles be made of? Still glass bottles?"

Su Xinghui said, "Not necessarily. Ceramics, glass, all can be used. Use different materials according to different styles."

Chen Xiangui looked at the design drawings of those liquor bottles, loving them more the more he looked. Su Xinghui said, "Director Chen, take these drawings. Make a batch of samples and see how the effect is."

Chen Xiangui stood up excitedly, "Alright, I'll go find the porcelain factory to make a few right now."

Watching Chen Xiangui's figure hurrying away, Su Xinghui smiled with relief. This could be considered killing two birds with one stone. If the winery could be saved, maybe the porcelain factory could be saved along with it.

Although the sky over Pengjiawanzhen was still shrouded in a solemn atmosphere, under Su Xinghui's efforts, the various tasks of Pengjiawanzhen were slowly getting on the right track.

The task Su Xinghui had been focusing on most these past few days was finding the persons in charge of all town-affiliated enterprises and giving them a strict order: absolutely no reimbursement of expenses for cadres of the town government and some town public institutions. While this order reduced the burden on enterprises, it also caused complaints among some cadres in the town.

Of course, no cadre dared to find Su Xinghui to raise objections. The expenses they reimbursed from enterprises before were simply not meant to be seen. They only dared to raise objections in private.

Town Party Secretary Qi Jian also clearly expressed his support for Su Xinghui. Other town leaders had no way out; on the surface, they still had to support Su Xinghui. Who would dare to openly oppose this measure of Su Xinghui?

Asking enterprises to reimburse expenses before was indeed an unwritten rule. Every town leader had reimbursed them and felt it was a matter of course. Otherwise, would they have to pay out of their own pockets when they went out to eat or travel? The problem was that unwritten rules could never be put on the table. Su Xinghui's approach occupied the high ground of righteousness, and no one could openly oppose it.

That night, at Peng Taiping's house, several town cadres were drinking here, taking the opportunity to express their anger to him.

Deputy Mayor Tong Yuejin raised his glass and said, "Secretary Peng, I toast you."

After Peng Taiping got drunk last time, it took him several days to recover. Now he could finally drink again. He raised his glass and drank with Tong Yuejin.

Tong Yuejin said indignantly, "Secretary Peng, tell me, is there any reason for this? The town's enterprises are managed by me, right? By what right does he, Su Xinghui, directly give orders to enterprises saying they aren't allowed to reimburse expenses? He didn't even discuss it with me. Isn't this too overbearing?"

Tong Yuejin knew about this matter on the third day after Su Xinghui gave orders to all enterprises. He took the invoice for treating a deputy county mayor to dinner and KTV in the county to the winery for reimbursement. However, Chen Xiangui told him with a troubled face that Mayor Su had said that from now on, people outside the winery were not allowed to reimburse invoices.

Tong Yuejin was very unhappy at the time and said, "Is it not allowed even if I come to reimburse?"

Chen Xiangui said, "Mayor Su gave a strict order. No one is allowed to reimburse. Otherwise, he will remove me from my position."

Tong Yuejin said with a straight face, "It seems that in your eyes, there is only Mayor Su, and not me, Mayor Tong."

Chen Xiangui smiled apologetically, "How could that be? Mayor Tong, it really is Mayor Su who gave the strict order. I have no way out. Otherwise, you can talk to Mayor Su. If he agrees, I have no objections."

Tong Yuejin left in a huff. Of course, he didn't dare to go find Su Xinghui. The scene of Peng Taiping hitting a snag in person last time was still fresh in his memory. So, today he invited a few people, brought two bottles of liquor, and came to Peng Taiping's house to complain.

Although Peng Taiping was severely disciplined by Su Xinghui last time, he was, after all, the backbone of the local cadres in Pengjiawan and the one with the strongest background. If there was anyone who could fight with Su Xinghui, he was the first choice.

Hearing Tong Yuejin's words, Peng Taiping said in a neither yin nor yang tone, "He is the town mayor, after all. He can manage anything. Yuejin, if you aren't convinced, you can totally go raise your opinion to him in person. If he doesn't accept the opinion, you can also raise it to Secretary Qi, the town Party committee, or even the county Party committee."

Peng Taiping understood Tong Yuejin's intention in saying this. Wasn't this just using him as a gun? He must have seen that he had a conflict with Su Xinghui and wanted to provoke him to come forward and fight with Su Xinghui, so that they would be the ones to benefit in the end.

He, Peng Taiping, was not a fool. Wasn't the loss he suffered last time enough? Yes, he, Peng Taiping, had a background; he had a cousin who was a deputy department-level official. But did Su Xinghui not have a background? In the past few days, Peng Taiping had flipped through the newspapers that reported on Su Xinghui again. The more he looked, the more cold sweat broke out on his back. With such a strong background, could he really fight Su Xinghui?

Peng Taiping was indeed old, which made him rely on his age to show off, but age also gradually wore down his sharpness. He would never impulsively fight with anyone again. Of course, he was still willing to hide behind the scenes and incite others to fight.

Tong Yuejin was a bit dumbfounded. Didn't Peng Taiping have a deep conflict with Su Xinghui? What he said should have made him stand out in righteous indignation, right? Why did he say that?

Tong Yuejin said stammeringly, "Secretary Peng, aren't you the deputy secretary in charge of organizational life? So I think I should raise my opinion to you."

Deputy Mayor Zhang Lihui also said, "That's right. I think Mayor Tong's opinion is well-raised. You are the backbone of us local cadres. Su Xinghui's style is so overbearing. If you don't manage it, we local cadres will be bullied miserably by these outside cadres."

Zhang Lihui was a transferred cadre. He didn't have much education and spoke straightforwardly, saying whatever he had to say.

Zhang Lihui also had an invoice refused when he went to the winery for reimbursement a few days ago. He scolded Chen Xiangui severely at the time and threatened to conduct a fire safety inspection on the winery. If the winery was unqualified, he would make them stop business for rectification.

Although Zhang Lihui was sharp-tongued, if you asked him to confront Su Xinghui hard, he didn't dare. Who said military-transferred cadres didn't have schemes? So, he also followed Tong Yuejin to find Peng Taiping.

The other cadres also began to complain about Su Xinghui's "misdeeds." They said indignantly that Su Xinghui was too overbearing, making the good Pengjiawanzhen a mess, not even taking Secretary Peng seriously. If this could be endured, what couldn't be?