"Secretary Sun, you're here..." Next to a sunken square for the tourism festival under construction in the west of Shanhai City, the city government's No. 1 car was parked here. Li Jingping was personally supervising the demolition of a statue of a tiger trampling a dragon on the square. The director of the general supervision of the construction project next to him smiled, but his expression was extremely awkward. When Sun Wei appeared, Li Jingping just waved to him.
Sun Wei hurried over and came to Li Jingping, smiling bitterly, "Mayor Li, please stop making fun of me. They said you came here early in the morning to supervise the removal of the statue..." Sun Wei saw that Director Wang next to him looked embarrassed, so he said, "In fact, Mayor Li, this statue was carved by Director Wang and someone from the Provincial Artists Association. It took several months. This is the artist's hard work. Do your part for our Shanhai..."
Li Jingping stopped teasing Sun Wei and said calmly, "I have said more than once that building the Shanhai venue for the Tourism Festival is a project that benefits the people of Shanhai. It cannot be high and mighty and divorced from the masses. The sculpture is a tiger riding a dragon. What does it mean? When the statue was erected, I heard an interesting saying that it was a tribute to me. The place where I was born is called Huyan. This is called 'dragon riding tiger'?"
The director next to him who was in charge of exhibition construction supervision turned pale and tried to make a few excuses, but they were unconvincing.
"Let's not talk about the moral. This statue is also very vulgar. People who don't know would think that our Shanhai City is a nouveau riche. Is it appropriate to erect such a statue in one of these impoverished counties? If the statue is erected, how will future generations view and evaluate us? When the International Tourism Festival comes, people will point at this statue and ask about its origin. Do you want me, Li Jingping, to become a laughing stock?"
Li Jingping got angry. The person in charge of the engineering team, the chief supervisor, made a profound self-examination and walked with Sun Wei to inspect the construction site. Sun Wei said sincerely, "Mayor Li, I also want to apologize to you. I also failed to supervise this matter. I knew that Director Wang was looking for a theme design. Initially, it was said that there were two mascots, representing the mountains and seas, the roar of tigers and the roar of dragons, and they would become famous all over the world in this tourism festival. I have never seen the design drawing. I didn't expect it to be like this."
Li Jingping looked over, his eyes softened. "This statue has only been erected for a few days. I also heard this from people who wanted to show off their achievements. You don't know, it's not your fault... Often, what goes up often goes down. Don't think I'm sensitive. In this matter, it's better to be cautious and close the loopholes than to make up for it later if there are any mistakes. I did this alone, and everyone below did the same. What would that look like? False reputation is the most detrimental thing to people. As long as you do things well and make a place feel the convenience and improvement of life brought about by the changes, people will naturally remember you for the rest of their lives. It's not that you can do a good job of feng shui by erecting a statue or setting up a bewitching Bagua formation. Inferior statues are looking for a sense of existence. Superior sculptures are imprinted on people's hearts. I want to erect a statue, and I want to erect a superior statue."
Sun Wei nodded. He knew that many leaders, when in charge of a region, would like to leave their mark in various places. This was Li Jingping's brilliance and wisdom. He handled government affairs very efficiently, but he was extremely disgusted with such flattering behavior. Instead, he always emphasized keeping a low profile and doing practical things. Sun Wei knew that his political wisdom was definitely not as good as his, and he felt that Li Jingping's way of doing things was perfect for governing a city and a region. This was the embodiment of great wisdom.
But even so, there are still many problems in reality. Sun Wei knows that what Li Jingping wants to do is too big in this mountain and sea. Not to mention too much, just shutting down the coal mines and developing environmental tourism are enough to hire murderers in the past era... The interests of all parties touched will be counterattacked by an invisible net. In the end, it depends on whether he can suppress this net or it will tie his hands and feet.
So Li Shi also had reasons to be cautious. If he failed to find out what happened today, who knows who would hear about it in the future, and how much trouble it would cause him. This is the difficulty of doing things. Sometimes, even if you accomplish a hundred things, if you are not careful in one of them, you will probably be criticized.
"Let's not talk about this anymore... How are things going over there?"
Sun Wei talked about several meetings and project visits that Li Jingping had recently supervised and supervised, including the handling of an economic dispute case. After the report was completed, Sun Wei remembered something and said, "There is one more thing... I had dinner with an old classmate the day before yesterday, and I ran into Cheng Ran at the music city. Some small things happened, which was quite interesting..."
Then Sun Wei told Li Jingping about Cheng Ran's affairs.
Li Jingping was quite amused. "Liu Zhongping asked his son to host a banquet for Xie Houming's son Xie Feibai, but he followed Cheng Ran and left halfway? Just tore down the stage like that?"
"It is said that Liu Zhongping heard that Xie Feibai's grades had improved a lot in No. 1 High School, so he asked his son Liu Jin to hold a celebration banquet. As a result, everyone thought that Xie Feibai had cheated to get his grades. Xie Feibai was embarrassed at the time, so Cheng Ran went up and took him away..."
Sun Wei serves Li Jingping, but he is not always busy with work. Sometimes they go hiking together in their spare time. They also talk about many things without any worldly concerns. For example, Sun Wei would share interesting things like today.
Li Jingping laughed, "It was so hard to get a good score, but in the end, people accused him of plagiarism. Xie Houming's son is really unlucky... But, he really didn't plagiarize, right?"
Sun Wei shrugged and said, "When I first saw Cheng Ran, I thought he was chasing after this kind of party and trying to curry favor with others... But from all the signs, he must have been pushed by his friends to attend, and he went there involuntarily, and that's how it happened afterwards... No one knew what the relationship between Xie Feibai and Xie Houming was, so when Xie Feibai left behind a large group of people who came for him and followed Cheng Ran, the whole room went haywire... Many people asked about his background and what was going on..."
Knowing that Li Jingping was interested, Sun Wei described the situation in as much detail as possible, telling it as a short story.
Li Jingping's mouth curved up, obviously imagining the situation at that time. Sun Wei had been his secretary for so many years, of course he knew his taste. Although Li Jingping had a high status, he often had little hobbies that were not easy for outsiders to see. Being in his position, he was not necessarily high and mighty. Li Jingping had one way when he was working, and another way in private life. Sometimes he would recommend songs, TV shows and movies to him, and he was no different from ordinary people. He would talk about how good this was, how good that was, and what was interesting, with a beaming face... As his chief secretary, Sun Wei had more contact with this aspect of his life.
Sun Wei continued, "Ha, in that situation, he probably just ran into it... but he was accidentally involved in this kind of thing and offended a lot of people... If it were me, I would definitely say, what the hell is wrong with you!"
"In fact, he could have just left it alone... but he risked offending others by rescuing Xie Feibai. This obviously did him no good... Cheng Ran, the investigator of the 62nd major case, is so smart that he would actually do this? Does he really regard Xie Feibai as a friend?"
Li Jingping thought for a moment and said, "Maybe, I don't see the people in that circle as a threat..."
Sun Wei was stunned for a moment, "You mean..."
"He dared to touch the Liu Zhiguo gang involved in the June 2nd case... Those people..."
Li Jingping paused and looked into the distance.
The square is sunken, and a bustling construction site extends in front of it, with picturesque mountains and sea in the distance.
"Heh... what's that?"