Chapter 782 Calm, take the chestnut from the fire

Without mentioning everyone's thoughts and speculations, they were surprised when they saw Xia Xiang, as if they were very surprised by Jasmine's appearance, and they couldn't help but make people wonder, could Mayor Xia not join forces with Chen, and he was also kept in the dark about what happened today?

If you can't guess, you don't have to worry about it. Anyway, they are just following their fate and have no power to decide. Just listen to whoever has the power. The people who are worried about are Secretary Ai and Mayor Gu. By the way, after Mayor Gu left early, Chen Cai came out like this. It seems that he was intentionally flashing through Mayor Gu.

In the future, the situation in Langshi will become more and more complicated, and you have to stand up as soon as possible.

But then I thought, today was the right place. Not only did I eat and drink for free, but I also had gifts to take. Everyone knows that Chen has always been generous. The gifts he gave were not less than 2,000 yuan, and they were all high-end and practical gifts.

I made money, but today I made money. Many people smiled happily. Oh, although Chen was generous, many people knew their weight and it was not worth it. Chen gave gifts. Today, he was able to get the famous gift from Chen, which really benefited from Mayor Xia.

Xia Xiang was not happy at all. Oh, Chen's move was completely a way to lift him up and make him the target of public criticism. The higher he was, the more he would arouse the jealousy and guard against other members of the Standing Committee!

Oh, Chen either wanted to deliberately praise himself, or pushed himself into his carefully designed trap step by step...

Although Xia Xiang could guess Chen's intentions, he could not stop everyone from taking advantage of it. However, he laughed in his heart. Oh, Chen may not really want to make friends with him, or want him to use his position to give him any convenience. Perhaps it is not known that he has other plans. No matter what, Chen has his Zhang Liang plan, and he also has his own ladder.

Let's wait and see.

When others showed goodwill, he naturally couldn't accept it calmly, so he stood up and smiled and said, "Thank you Mr. Chen for your kindness on my behalf. Mr. Chen is so enthusiastic and polite. Now I have realized the hospitality of the people of Lang City and are more confident in working in Lang City in the future. I will definitely thank Mr. Chen in person if I have time. I feel guilty about accepting it and guilty about accepting it!"

Xia Xiang hugged his fists, with sincerity on his face.

Jasmine stuck out her tongue: "Mayor Xia is the one who is polite. A little gift is not worthy of respect. My father even said that he must apologize to you in person if he has the chance."

Apologize? Everyone was shocked. With Chen's position in Lang City, when did he say anything about apologizing to others? Even Ai Chengwen doesn't have the ability to suppress Chen Yitou, let Chen say soft words! Xia Xiang and Chen have what kind of holidays are worth it? Chen mobilized so much and asked his precious daughter to come forward to show his goodwill in public?

Ai Chengwen's eyes flashed and he glanced at Xia Xiang coldly.

Liu Yilin also looked at Xia Xiang meaningfully, and then her eyes fell on Jasmine, which was full of speculation.

However, Lu Yike, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, looked at no one, just lowered his head to drink, and there was a faint smile on his face.

After the banquet, everyone received a gift downstairs. As expected, the gift was a brand of ties and shirts, with a market value of more than 2,000 yuan. It was a good thing to eat, drink and take gifts. Everyone left happily and felt grateful to Xia Xiang.

Thank you no matter how grateful you are, small benefits are not enough to make people remember what Xia Xiang is good, and maybe you will forget it in a blink of an eye.

Xia Xiang didn't see Chen downstairs - of course she wouldn't see him. Oh, if Chen showed up, she wouldn't let his daughter show up in public - but he never recognized whether Jasmine was Jin Moli or Yin Moli. When asked her, she smiled and shook her head.

I don’t care, let’s talk about it later. After all, Chen has been in the city for a long time. He has just arrived and wants to make some achievements, he must first follow the local customs.

In the evening, Xia Xiang lived in the Municipal Party Committee Guesthouse. Two beautiful waitresses were enthusiastic about packing things for him, but he refused. Lang City was full of traps, political pitfalls, and maybe there were lusts, so he would not have any quality and would have anything to do with the waitress.

When he was about to go to bed, Liu Yilin called and said he had something to talk to him. Xia Xiang refused without hesitation on the grounds that it was too late and inconvenient. Liu Yilin was too shrewd, especially when the scene at the Standing Committee made it difficult for him to accept, so it was better to keep a proper distance.

Two days later, the Lang Municipal People's Congress held a meeting and passed the appointment of Xia Xiang's deputy mayor. The Director of the People's Congress Ai Chengwen personally issued a letter of appointment to Xia Xiang, which was considered to have determined the position of Deputy Mayor Xia Xiang in the legal procedures.

In the afternoon of the same day, the municipal government held an executive meeting and readjusted the division of labor of the government team. The meeting decided that Comrade Xia Xiang was the executive vice mayor. The division of labor was as follows: responsible for the executive work of the municipal government, in charge of finance, taxation, agriculture and rural areas, agricultural machinery, civil affairs, streets, townships, human resources and social security, reemployment, water conservancy, population and family planning, forestry, poverty alleviation and development, supply and marketing cooperatives, aging, disability federation, meteorological, earthquake, administrative education work, etc.

Although Xia Xiang is in charge of the most important finance and taxation, Tu Yun is in charge of development and reform, science and technology, major projects, intellectual property rights, high-tech industrial parks, high-tech industrial belts, entrepreneurship of international students and telecommunications operations, and is also in control. Some of the work is also very important, and should be under the jurisdiction of the Executive Vice Mayor, such as major projects and high-tech industrial parks, as well as urban construction work.

The work in urban construction is not under Tu Yun, but is under the charge of another deputy mayor Shao Ding. Shao Ding's personality is a bit similar to Wu Gangde. It is said that he has worked in urban management before. Of course, he is big and thick and very majestic, and is not comparable to Wu Gangde's thinness.

As soon as the People's Congress meeting was held and the government executive meeting was implemented, Xia Xiang's position as executive vice mayor was considered to have completed all the procedures, and Xia Xiang officially became the deputy mayor of Lang City in the legal sense!

At the same time, because the noise and excitement brought by Xia Xiang's appointment also quietly calmed down, Langshi returned to the track and restored its original peace and order.

Xia Xiang started to work and was immediately busy. After all, it involved handover and familiarity. A big deal of things was overwhelming. Fortunately, Xia Xiang was very strong and showed her youthful advantages. Finally, within three days, she completed the handover and got to know the basic situation.

In theory, before Regen retired, he should have persisted until the last moment and waited for Xia Xiang to take office before resigning. However, Regen stepped down a few days in advance on the grounds of poor health. And when he handed over the work, he only came to the municipal party committee once. He only met Xia Xiang for less than half an hour and could not wait to leave, as if he was by nature in the municipal party committee for one more minute.

However, although it only took half an hour to contact, Xia Xiang had a preliminary impression of Regen.

Regen, 60, is in a very good mental state, with a red face and a combed hair without any hair. You can tell at a glance that he is usually very careful in maintenance. He is tall, striding with his head and stalking as fast as he walks. He only looks at his walking posture and thinks he is a person with a hot personality, but in fact it is not entirely true. When handing over work, Xia Xiang realized his careful and safe side, and he thought about all aspects of things very thoughtfully, with almost no missing. Moreover, his memory is amazing, and he remembers many previous big and small things, handled by people, and even data clearly.

Even Xia Xiang secretly admired Regen's memory and meticulous work attitude, and expressed his gratitude to the begonia he gave him in person. Regen laughed and waved his hands repeatedly: "Don't thank me, don't thank me, I'm just borrowing flowers to offer Buddha. Begonia was given to me by Comrade Chen A. I don't know how to grow flowers myself. It's better to keep it."

Xia Xiang expressed his gratitude to Ruigen for actively cooperating with the work and invited him to visit the municipal party committee when he was free. Ruigen agreed readily and asked Xia Xiang to visit his home if he had time: "I heard that Mayor Xia was alone in Lang City and did not bring his family here? If he had time, he would come to his house to sit there. My wife is still very good at cooking, so you can ensure that you are satisfied with the food."

It can be said that the first meeting between Xia Xiang and Ruigen can even be described as having a happy conversation, but Xia Xiang understands that Ruigen also has an unfathomable mind under the surface of being rough and generous.

Of course, it is understandable that people who have been in the officialdom for a lifetime will not have much thought? Just kidding, how can a person without level be as good as a fish in the officialdom? Besides, he was once listed as the number one figure in Tianzi.

After finally getting busy with the first wave of work, Xia Xiang finally had some free time, so he thought about things while watering the flowers. Oh, the begonia specially given to Ruigen by Chen should be said to be a witness to the close relationship between the two. Why didn't Ruigen move away? Is there anything else that's wrong with it?

After watering the flowers, Xia Xiang sat on the chair and reached out to pour water. After drinking two sips of water, he realized something was wrong. He had been in Lang City for a few days and had also designated Li Caiyuan as his secretary. Until today, Li Caiyuan didn't even show his face!

It was a little too much, and Xia Xiang couldn't help but get angry. He had forgotten about his secretary's affairs recently and did everything himself. No wonder he always felt that he was missing something and was so tired that he was really not used to it without a secretary. He picked up the phone and called Chang Shuxin.

As a result, Chang Shuxin said that Li Caiyuan had taken sick leave and had not been to work for three or four days.

Xia Xiang pondered for a moment, and then hung up the phone without saying anything.

Xia Xiang is in charge of a lot of work, and he really needs a helper. Although he is in charge of the eight pillar industries in Lang City, leading industries such as electronic information, exhibition and tourism, automobile and motorcycle parts industry, agricultural and livestock products and processing, wood processing and furniture manufacturing, printing and packaging, new building materials, real estate, etc., although he is not in charge of many, he is also in charge of agricultural and livestock products and processing, wood processing and furniture manufacturing, which is also the stall he is responsible for.

The economic structure of Lang City is still balanced and there are not many unreasonable places. Of course, it is also related to the unfast economic development and the small economic scale of Lang City. Heavy and light industries are not very developed. Lang City was established late, the city was young, and the burden of the industrial structure was light, so adjustments were relatively easy. Compared with other old industrial bases, the economic pressure was much smaller and you could move forward with light equipment.

The economic layout of Langshi has basically formed a pyramid-shaped modern industrial system with two iconic industries such as electronic information and leisure business as the "top" and advanced manufacturing, modern service industry, new agriculture as the "top body" and traditional advantageous industries as the "tower foundation". From Xia Xiang's perspective, it is not allowed to admit that the layout is very reasonable and is a reasonable long-term development plan.

There is no shortage of talents everywhere. Langshi's economic structure is reasonable and has a long-term vision. If it comes from Ai Chengwen, Ai Chengwen is indeed not simple.

Xia Xiang is more clear that in the era of rapid rise in high housing prices, any local government has the idea of ​​selling land to develop real estate, because the rise in housing prices is the most effective, direct, and worry-free, so you can enjoy the fruits without any hard work. This is also one of the main reasons why local governments indulge in high housing prices.

In Lang City, sooner or later, it will also be troubled by high housing prices.

The expansion and soaring housing prices in the capital have made many people in Beijing turn their attention to houses in Yan Province. Lang City, the closest to the capital, is naturally the first to be hit. Wutang City, the closest to the capital, is the first choice for people in Beijing to buy houses outside the capital.

In later generations, the housing prices in Wutang City once rose to more than 10,000 yuan per square meter. Although Wutang City is adjacent to Beijing, its income is much worse. Many real estate speculators in Beijing have caused the citizens of Wutang to complain because the excessive rise in housing prices has increased their living burden.

At this stage, the housing prices in Wutang City are already one level higher than those in Lang City and much higher than Yan City. At this time, many real estate speculators from Beijing have come to Wutang City to invest in real estate, just to wait for appreciation and make a big profit.

Xia Xiang sorted out his thoughts and sorted out the next work focus. It was already dark. He was about to get off work when someone knocked on the door, and Liu Yilin walked in with a smile on his face.

"Mayor Xia, where to eat at night? I happen to be alone, so why not go eat something together and have a companion." Xia Xiang knew about Liu Yilin's family situation. She was married, but her husband was not around and was far away in Qingcheng City, Qi Province.

Liu Yilin didn't know whether she was walking too fast or the office heating was overheated, her chest was undulating and her cheeks were rosy, and the mature charm of a woman in her 30s was fully revealed. I have to say that when they thought about being alone, it was easy for ordinary men to think a lot.

Fortunately, Xia Xiang is not an ordinary man.

Xia Xiang politely declined Liu Yilin's kindness: "I made an appointment with someone tonight. I'm sorry, Minister Liu, I'll treat you next time."

Liu Yilin obviously didn't expect Xia Xiang to refuse, so she lost her mind. Then she tried hard to calm down and nodded and smiled: "Okay, since Mayor Xia still has something to do, I won't disturb you."

Xia Xiang sent Liu Yilin to the door, suddenly remembered something and asked, "Do you know where Li Caiyuan lives?"

Xia Xiang really asked the right person. As the Minister of Organization, Liu Yilin also checked Li Caiyuan's personal information during the last promotion storm and knew his home address.

Xia Xiang did not go directly to Li Caiyuan's house, but went to have a meal alone, planning to go after dinner. He did not make an appointment, but just didn't want to have dinner with Liu Yilin. He was not afraid of causing trouble, but was deliberately alienated from her.

Liu Yilin was too thoughtful. On several occasions, she deliberately tried him or used his power to make trouble, which made him displeased. It is better to keep a certain distance at this stage.

And in fact, he was not familiar with the place in Lang City and no one could make an appointment. Of course, no one invited him to dinner. At least there were many people in the municipal government team who were interested in getting closer to him. Moreover, within the scope of his work, many companies and bosses wanted to invite him to dinner, but he refused. He would not even go to Chen's banquet, and he would not want to show up for the time being if others were invited to dinner.

The situation in Langshi is too complicated. It takes three steps to look at it. It is indeed much more dangerous than he imagined. He has just arrived for a while, and he has not even figured out the positions of Ai Chengwen and Gu Xiangguo, and he also knows nothing about the complex relationship between the members of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, so he will not take it rashly.

Xia Xiang came to a rather distinctive dumpling restaurant called Kaizhuo Dumplings. After asking for half a pound, she sat in a window and ate it with relish.

Halfway through the meal, the phone rang. When he saw that Lian Ruohan was calling, he laughed and answered, "I'm having a meal. You call me. Are you cooking? Suddenly I remembered that I was alone, so I called to comfort me?"

"Ah, you're so amazing, you'll be right as soon as you guess." Lian Ruohan smiled happily, "Do you want me to come and accompany you now? It's here in an hour."

Lian Ruohan's voice was tempting at night, especially because she deliberately spoke with a sharp voice, which reminded Xia Xiang of many intoxicating nights when she was with her.

"Farewell, it's not safe to drive at night. Besides, I've just settled down and waited for two days before talking about it." Xia Xiang also missed Lian Ruohan, but now there will be someone to pay attention to his every move in Lang City. I'll keep a low profile for a while. "The situation in Lang City is very complicated. I'm a newcomer, so it's better to be an honest person first."

"It's strange that you have to be honest. Wherever you go, there will be a mess." Lian Ruohan doesn't care about Xia Xiang's situation. Perhaps in her eyes, there is no difficulty that Xia Xiang can't solve. "By the way, grandpa and dad mentioned you today..."

"What did you say to me?" Xia Xiang pretended to be careless, but in fact he was listening carefully. Now that Mr. Wu and Wu Caiyang mentioned him, it would not be mentioned casually. It should be related to his coming to Lang City to take office.

"Grandpa said, your path is very dangerous." Lian Ruohan's voice did not fluctuate. Obviously, she did not agree with Mr. Wu's words. "Dad said that the path was taken by himself, which was dangerous, but it may not be without gain."

Wu Caiyang has an adventurous personality in his bones. It seems that he came to Langshi. In Wu Caiyang's eyes, even if he was trying to win the fire, as long as he succeeded, it would be worth it no matter how dangerous it was.
Chapter completed!