Give Xia Xiang ten years to a blue sky in the west. What Xia wants is not a group of bureaucrats who fight for power and profit only for personal interests, but an alliance that can unite around him, give advice on his ideals, and add luster to his blueprint.

Xia Xiang drank the coffee in the cup in one go and said loudly: "Minister of the East, I will definitely let go of my hands and feet to show my ambitions when I come to the West Province. I will only ask you one thing, do you want to stick to the rules or innovate?"

The implication of sticking to the rules and pioneering innovation is whether to fight for personal gain within the circle of the Western Province for personal gain, or to look at the country and dare to plead for the people for the future of the Western Province?

Dongfang Xiao just swallowed a sip of coffee. Although she added sugar, the bitter taste was only covered up and not eliminated. There is bitterness in sweetness, sweetness in bitterness, and half of bitterness and joy, just like her ever-changing mood.

Xia Xiang’s question was very sharp and direct. What was placed in front of her was a very difficult multiple-choice question.

Although Xia Xiang's idea, or the governance ideas after taking office in the West Province, has not been clearly stated, if Dongfang Xiao is not clear about Xia Xiang's current situation of taking advantage of the salary level of the West Province, she would be too lack of political wisdom if she would use it to give a comment on the situation in the country, and thus implying his future governance direction.

Unexpectedly, the chips that needed to bet on the bet in one step were much larger than she thought, which made her hesitate for a moment and didn't know how to choose.

While hesitating, the door of the room was knocked on. Tang Tianyun pushed open a crack in the door and whispered: "Leader, Deputy Secretary Lu Yuanyuan, called."

Lu Yuanyuan? Dongfang Xiao was stunned. Lu Yuanyuan, the former director of the Provincial Party Committee, how could Lu Yuanyuan call Xia Xiang? After thinking about it, I couldn't help but feel relieved. Lu Yuanyuan was transferred from Yan Province to the Western Province as the Minister of the Provincial Party Committee, and then transferred to another province to serve as the deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee.

After thinking about this festival, Dongfang Xiao once again recalled that the Western Province was not only when Cao Yongguo was the governor, but also when Xing Duantai presided over the comprehensive work. The above people all met or were familiar with Xia Xiang, and even were intimate. That is to say, Xia Xiang had already had a deep foundation in the Western Province before the future.

Dongfang Xiao always thought that she was the first leader of the Western Provincial Party Committee to move closer to Xia Xiang. Now, after suddenly awakening, after thinking about it carefully, her previous confidence had completely disappeared. Xia Xiang came to Xi Xiang to take office, and there was no shortage of guides. Maybe the person who secretly moved closer to Xia Xiang was far beyond her imagination!

...

The reason why Xia Xiang is very affectionate about Western Province is not only that Western Province is the first major road of his official journey, but also that Western Province has too many acquaintances. Cao Yongguo needs to be mentioned. As early as before Cao Yongguo, Xing Duantai served as the Secretary of the Western Provincial Party Committee.

Although Xia Xiang and Xing Duantai are not very close, it is reasonable, and Xing Duantai and Cao Yongguo have close ties.

While in the capital, Xia Xiang not only met Cao Yongguo, but also met Xing Duantai, who had already retired and lived in the capital for a long time.

The talks between Xing Duantai and Xia Xiang lasted for three hours. Before they could finish their feelings, they also had a meal together. During the meal, Xing Duantai was very interested and said a deep emotion: "Since Yongguo, you go to the Western Province, and the Western Province will finally see the light of day again."

Xia thought to understand what Xing Duantai meant, not that the Western Province saw the light of heaven again, but that Xing Duantai’s legacy in the Western Province saw the light of heaven again. Since Cao Yongguo and Lei Zhixue, Xing Duantai, Lu Yuanyuan and Cao Yongguo have been operating in the Western Province for many years. Driven by Lei Zhixue’s airtight Tai Chi massager, it has now been broken and there is no moment of mutual echo.

The three of them worked in the Western Province one after another. Although their term of office was not long, they lasted for five or six years. Moreover, they were a provincial party secretary, a provincial party committee organization minister, and a governor, who held key positions one after another. Even if they were low-key and pragmatic, they would cultivate a lot of power openly and secretly. However, the combined power of the three was wiped out by Lei Zhixue in a few years. This shows that Lei Zhixue's political skills are indeed extraordinary.

In the officialdom, there are many precedents of sweeping the power of his predecessors, but like Lei Zhixue, he took great ruthless measures under the gentle drizzle, transferred Xing Duantai's confidants from key positions, left Lu Yuanyuan's direct descendants idle, and retreated Cao Yongguo's subordinates to the second line. Such and so on, they were all completely defeated and reopened.

Unlike somewhere who used the massive crackdown on gangs and evil to cleanse up the power of his ex, Lei Zhixue's cleverness is that he boiled frogs in warm water, and without hesitation, he completely controlled the overall situation of the Western Province!

During his time in Beijing, Xia Xiang not only had an in-depth talk with Xing Duantai, but also received a call from Lu Yuanyuan.

If we talk about Xing Duantai, Lu Yuanyuan and Cao Yongguo, who has the most dispersed forces in the Western Province and has the deepest hidden power. It is not Xing Duantai, who once served as the secretary of the provincial party committee, but Lu Yuanyuan, the lowest level among the three!

The remaining forces of Xing Duantai were most thoroughly cleaned up, both because he had been away from the Western Province for the longest time and because he had promoted the forces in the Western Province occupied the most important positions. Cao Yongguo's forces were least cleaned up because he cultivated the fewest confidants. In contrast, the forces were not much cleaned up, but the one that retained the most was Lu Yuanyuan.

In fact, Lu Yuanyuan promoted his confidants not at all compared to Xing Duantai, but Lu Yuanyuan has a characteristic of being a person. He promoted a certain person and did not particularly show his respect for a certain person, and he rarely had personal relationships with him. It was all official and business interactions, but he often reached out to pull a hand when a person needed it most, so that the benefitor would always remember it.

It is precisely because of this that many of Lu Yuanyuan's forces are hidden deep, and even scholars as smart as Lei Zhi can't find them all, so that in a future duel, a major accident occurred...

This is a later story, so I won't mention it for now.

...

Facing the chilly spring breeze of Jinyang, when Xia Xiang and Tang Tianyun left Prague, it was eight or nine o'clock at night. The night in Jinyang was far less than the bustling and noisy city of Yangcheng. The excessive air pollution caused no star to be seen in the city's night sky. In just one day, a layer of dust had fallen on Xia Xiang's leather shoes.

After getting in the car, he waved to Dongfang Xiao, who was still standing at the door and watching politely, and Xia Xiang asked the driver to drive away.

As soon as the car moved, Tang Tianyun smiled and said, "Leader, Minister Dongfang is very interesting. He was radical when he was in the capital. When he returned to Jinyang, he was cautious again..."

After Tang Tianyun handed Lu Yuanyuan's phone number to Xia Xiang, Xia Xiang hung up the phone after answering it for a short time. He did not avoid Dongfang Xiao, and believed that Dongfang Xiao heard some meaningful content from the brief conversation.

In fact, the result of listening or not listening is the same. Just let Dongfang Xiao know that it was Lu Yuanyuan who called. I believe that Dongfang Xiao's intelligence can be clear at a glance.

Dongfang Xiao was indeed clicked through, but she still did not answer Xia Xiang's questions directly, but did not escape Xia Xiang's questions. Instead, she retreated to advance and adopted a cautious procrastination tactic on the grounds that she would go back and sort out some information before reporting to Xia Xiang in detail.

Xia Xiang smiled at Tang Tianyun's statement: "After staying in the Western Province for a long time, people who have ideas will be much more cautious. When it comes to choosing whether to serve the country or the people, many people will choose to serve the country. The commonly said about serving the country and the people are actually two concepts, and it has to be said to be a kind of sorrow."

Tang Tianyun nodded: "This is the norm in officialdom, and there is no way. Every level of officials does not need to be responsible to the people, they only need to be responsible to the people who promote them. If we want to change the poor and backward appearance of Western Province, we must dare to bargain with the central government. I believe that most people will not step beyond the thunder."

After learning that Xia Xiang would take him to the West Province to take office, Tang Tianyun was surprised and did a lot of work, and in-depth study of the history and current situation of the West Province, and also knew that the reason why the West Province has the highest per capita resource share but is still one of the poorest provinces in the country is that the coal and electricity in the West Province, and the West Province does not have the right to operate independently!

That is to say, the resources of the West Province are the resources of the country, and the poverty of the West Province is the poverty of the West Province itself!

Let’s talk about coal resources first. The western province produces coal, but does not have independent management rights. On the surface, it is nationalized in operation, but in fact, the management rights of coal resources are in the hands of some powerful people in the capital.

A modern, German-style coal mining station was built decades ago in Dahua City, Western Province, which was clean, safe and large-scale production. As a result, this coal mining station that was supposed to be promoted to the whole province was nationalized and was directly under the capital in administrative terms!

There is also the Taicheng Power Plant, which is the largest thermal power plant in Asia under construction, but the power produced will be transported to Suzhou Province at an absolutely low price. Why does the Western Province have to lose money to make an indelible contribution to Suzhou Province? In a word, national interests need it.

The country not only competes for profit with the people, but also with the provinces. The Western Province is to contribute resources to the country under the strong control of the country and leave poverty, backwardness and pollution to itself. And in the long run, what will the Western Province eventually get?

The serious consequence of over-mining is that the famous coal-producing Yuncheng City, the entire underground is mined. One-eighth of the area in the entire western province, including Jinyang, has been hollowed out due to coal mining. That is to say, one-eighth of the people of the western province are living on towers in the air. They will step on the air at some point, and then there will be a bottomless nightmare.

Western Province has become the first national-level pilot zone in the province. It cannot just shout empty calls without taking practical actions, do not seek policy tilt towards the country, and do not take the power of independence into your own hands. The tomorrow of Western Province will always be a cloud of black fog and a gray sky.

"Leader, tomorrow's itinerary has been arranged, please take a look." Tang Tianyun handed the itinerary to Xia Xiang.

Xia Xiang waved his hand, didn't look at it, and said with a smile: "There is no need to arrange the itinerary. The itinerary is disrupted. Tomorrow, there will be a more lively show. If I guess correctly, Lei Zhixue already knows that I'm in Jinyang."

Tang Tianyun was very surprised: "How could it be?"
Chapter completed!