Standing in the company's large conference room, looking out the French windows, the rolling mountains are faintly visible, and the evening bells of a temple on Qionglong Mountain can be heard. Changqiao Town in the misty rain of Jiangnan is like a painting by a master, which makes people calm and peaceful.
But Wen Liang at this time did not have the blessing of being integrated into the mountains and rivers. He never wanted to speculate about others with the greatest malice, but the cruelty and horror of the world did not allow him to have naive fantasies about human hearts. No matter what Yao Shang's intentions were, no matter whether Biluochun was really involved in the political whirlpool of Wujiang or even Wuzhou, with Wen Liang's character, he would not passively let anyone lead him by the nose, anyone!
Want to use him as a chess piece? Wen Liang smiled coldly. That depends on whether he is willing to be a chess piece!
Venomous Snake left early after reporting, as he was not qualified to participate in these matters. Ye Zhiwei stood aside with his hands folded, looking at Wen Liang's back, lost in thought. He could not guess what this unfathomable young man was thinking about, but after the incident in Donghe Village, he also strengthened his confidence in Wen Liang like An Baoqing.
There seems to be nothing that cannot be solved in the hands of this gentle young man.
The door rang. Ye Zhiwei had already ordered that no one should disturb him. He turned back angrily, only to see An Baoqing and Fan Bo, dressed in dust, striding in. He hurriedly stepped forward and whispered, "Young Master Wen, President An is back."
An Baoqing's trip to Wuzhou went smoothly. He found the deputy mayor Yuan Changhe who had attended the listing ceremony. Deputy Mayor Yuan has always been very supportive of the tea company and happily attended the cocktail party. After a few rounds of passionate drinks, he was flattered by An Baoqing and revealed some inside information about the city. This year, there is indeed a deputy mayor who ranks last. Now many people are eyeing this position and are doing a lot of private activities. However, he stopped talking here and refused to reveal a word more.
Normally, he was just a deputy mayor, and a minor supporting role in the last-ranked extraordinary committee, so he shouldn't be so mysterious. But Yuan Changhe didn't want to say more. An Baoqing certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to ask directly if Fu Minzhi was one of these "many people". On the contrary, he admired Yuan Changhe's cautious attitude - cautiousness showed that this person could be a long-term investment. After a good meal and a good drink, Yuan Changhe was sent off respectfully, without giving him money or gifts. With his status, he didn't care about small amounts of money of a few thousand or tens of thousands. It was too big and difficult to spend. Since it was their first meeting, it was better to win over the relationship.
After hearing this, Wen Liang pondered for a long time, dipped his fingers in some tea, and drew strange lines on the conference table. He suddenly laughed and said, "This is interesting! The information revealed by Yao Shang, what we can verify, has been proven to be true, but the most important part has never been found out. After running around the county and the city, we are confused. It's true and false, real and fake. It's interesting, interesting!"
Ye Zhiwei and Fan Bo looked at each other, wondering what interesting thing Wen Liang had thought of. An Baoqing hesitated for a moment and asked, "Mr. Wen, do you feel something is wrong..."
Wen Liang waved his hand at him, walked to the side of the conference room and made a phone call. When he came back, he seemed to have forgotten what happened just now and smiled, "It's been a tiring day. Let's see what delicious food Mr. Ye has prepared for us. Let's eat!"
Minister An Bao had to hold back his doubts and nodded to Ye Zhiwei.
Ye Zhiwei had already ordered food at the restaurant opposite the company. In less than ten minutes, a table full of Suzhou-style dishes was served, including West Lake vinegar fish, Dongpo pork, salted duck, braised spare ribs, Taihu three whites, green snail shrimps, snowflake crab, braised river eel, etc. Different from the spicy dishes of Qingzhou, these were exquisite and elegant, making people's mouths water.
However, among the delicious food on the table, only Wen Liang was enjoying the meal. An Baoqing moved his chopsticks a few times and then put them down. Ye Zhiwei also stopped eating. Fan Bo looked at the two of them and followed suit.
"Eat, why are you just sitting there?" Wen Liang asked in surprise, then he thought about it and found it funny: "It's just a small matter, is it necessary to worry about it? Just relax, it's not a big deal."
An Baoqing was full of questions, so how could he relax so easily? He smiled bitterly and said, "I just drank too much with Yuan Changhe, so I really have no appetite. Young Master Wen, you haven't eaten for a day, so don't worry about us."
Wen Liang was about to tease him when the phone rang. He made a gesture to keep quiet, answered the call, and asked directly, "How is it?"
Ning Xi's voice came from the other end of the phone: "You guessed right, Suhai Province has been a bit chaotic recently! It seems that the reform of state-owned enterprises has taken a big step, and someone has seized the opportunity to attack Wei Qiwen for 'privatizing collective property' and 'taking the path of privatization', saying that he has dangerous extreme right tendencies, which has caused great controversy among the top leaders... The higher-ups are still watching and have not made any statement, but some people in the province can no longer hold back and have jumped out to fish in troubled waters. The situation is a bit complicated..."
Wei Qiwen is a senior official of Suhai Province. All economics students who have studied the reform process of state-owned enterprises in the 1990s will know this person. Because in the early 1990s, around 1994, in Suhai, where the private economy was most active, a quantitative reform movement of collective enterprises had quietly begun. This was the first large-scale property rights reform in the history of domestic enterprises, or strictly speaking, it was a property rights reform movement without specific regulations. Due to the lack of quantitative standards and evaluation systems, almost all places in Suhai adopted the "rough estimate" approach - the so-called "rough estimate" means roughly estimating, converting collective assets into funds at a very low evaluation value and incorporating them into the equity of the new enterprise, and the other shares are jointly owned by the original enterprise employees and investors. Then, the new enterprise uses the original enterprise's equipment free of charge, but all expenses are borne by the original enterprise. The result is very predictable. The new enterprise generates amazing profits, while the original enterprise undoubtedly falls into losses and is eventually merged by the new enterprise at a very small cost.
The quantitative reform at that time was roughly like this, creating countless millionaires and multi-millionaires. However, it was not until 1995 that the country began to pilot the property rights of state-owned enterprises. In other words, everything that happened in Suhai had been "operated underground" and had never been publicly recognized by the government.
Wen Liang just thought of this and called Ning Xi. He didn't expect Miss Ning to be so well-informed that she got such a big inside information in just one hour. He covered the phone and signaled An Baoqing and others to leave first. After they closed the door, he asked, "Who doesn't like him?"
After all, Suhai's spontaneous bottom-up reform had been carried out privately for a year or two. It chose to launch the reform when the country began to concentrate all its efforts on promoting the reform of state-owned enterprises. It can be said to be stable, accurate and ruthless.
Ning Xi chuckled and said, "There are many people who don't like him! You still don't understand, this attack is not just aimed at him, but also at the central government's state-owned enterprise reform! Suhai Province is a big tree that attracts the wind, and Wei Qiwen is not one of us. If someone uses this matter as an opportunity, it will kill two birds with one stone..."
Wen Liang suddenly realized that although he was able to use his keen sense and intelligence to unravel the fog and find the right clue with just a little information from his previous life, he was unable to go further and connect it to the disputes among different factions regarding reform in the upper echelons.
This has nothing to do with vision, it’s just that he is standing too low!
With Ning Xi's powerful and terrifying information network, Wen Liang's thoughts immediately became clear: No wonder the position of a deputy mayor is so mysterious. Whether it is An Baoqing, Fan Bo, Ye Zhiwei, or Viper, they have attacked from top to bottom, combined inside and outside, and tried their best but couldn't find out anything useful. Now that I think about it, it's natural. Wuzhou, as the capital of Suhai, must be the center of the vortex at this time. No one knows how this line struggle will win or lose, whether to stand on the side, wait and see, or personally go out to fight for wealth.
A difference of one thought can make a world of difference!
Therefore, the struggle was hidden in the dark, so no one knew whether Fu Minzhi was a capable candidate for deputy mayor, so Yuan Changhe stopped at that point and refused to say another word.
After figuring out the whole cause and effect, Wen Liang was confused. He just wanted to make some money from tea, but had no intention of getting involved in Su Hai's dangerous political game.
But it just so happens that I chose to enter Wujiang at this time. I'm so unlucky that even a fart can hit my heels!
"I'm curious, how did you guess that Su Hai is in chaos now? The attack on Wei Qiwen was only internal, and outsiders shouldn't know about it..."
Wen Liang laughed and said, "I'm more curious, how come you, a member of the Overseas Chinese Party, know everything about Su Hai?"
Ning Xi's voice was filled with a hint of laughter as she said, "Because Su Hai has a friend in me, a friend who can do anything!"
Wen Liang suppressed his curiosity and asked directly, "Who is the most likely candidate for Wu Zhou's deputy mayor position now?"
"One is Fu Minzhi, whom you mentioned. He has been in touch with the head of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee in the past two years, so he has the greatest chance of being promoted. Another one is Zhang Jiangan, who is currently a senior official in Pinglang District. He has a strong backing in Wuzhou and is also a very popular candidate! However, Zhang Jiangan seems to have seized on some mass incident involving tea farmers making trouble, and fabricated some black material to report the incident of Fu Minzhi inciting a civil uprising to the Municipal Party Committee. This matter is still only known to a few people, and the situation is not good for Fu Minzhi."
Wen Liang coughed lightly and said, "Um, Biluochun tea, I helped my friend get it, and the tea farmers who made trouble have been appeased..."
There was silence on the other end of the line for a moment, and then Ning Xi's loud laughter rang out: "Boss Wen, Boss Wen, I was wondering why you are so enthusiastic about Su Hai all of a sudden. It turns out that you have plunged headfirst into this muddy water?"
She was so smart that she immediately understood Wen Liang's current situation. She stopped laughing and said, "You have to make sure that the tea farmers' matter is foolproof. Fu Minzhi might be able to make a comeback with this! Zhang Jiangan only handed the materials to the Municipal Party Committee this afternoon. He probably doesn't know what happened in Wu Jiang."
Wen Liang cursed inwardly: MD, Fu Minzhi had time to go to a social event and drink at noon, but he was just staring at Yao Shang's butt, not knowing that his anus was about to be exploded by Zhang Jiangan!
His mind raced, and he suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question: "Ning Xi, which side are you, or you all, on?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations or monthly tickets on Qidian. Your support is my greatest motivation.) (To be continued)