Family connections: From special recruitment by the county committee to the pinnacle of power

Swish!

All eyes turned to Xu Hansheng.

Su Jie and Du Xinyang both wore meaningful smiles, probably because they already knew about Li Qiang's arrangements and were secretly sneering to themselves.

The gazes of the others, however, were rather complicated.

Logically speaking, Li Qiang shouldn't be targeting a specially admitted student, so what's going on?

Xu He, standing next to him, suddenly became serious. Entrusting such an important task to Xu Hansheng meant that he would also have to play a supporting role.

From the very beginning, Li Qiang had said that Xu Hansheng was to learn and improve under his guidance, and that the work assigned to Xu Hansheng was essentially the same as Xu He's work.

Just as everyone was waiting with mixed expressions for Li Qiang's next move, Li Qiang smiled and looked at Xu Hansheng and said, "Comrade Xu Hansheng, given your special talent in attracting investment, you and Comrade Xu He will follow up on the liaison work regarding Qingshan City Tiancheng Holdings."

"I think we should see some results within a week. Director Xu and I will report to County Chief Lin truthfully next Monday. So, although a week seems like plenty of time, we need to speed things up."

They've arrived!

As Xu Hansheng made notes in his work log, he secretly began to calculate. This investment promotion work did indeed require the proactive collection of information on various projects, but the initial information collection work was done by the Investment Promotion Bureau, and then the Secretariat of the County Government Office would go to connect with the companies to understand their needs and questions, and then report to the leaders.

Usually, the county head is in charge of the negotiations, and the party secretary leads the team to accompany the inspection. What happens after that is naturally none of Xu Hansheng's business. However, Xu Hansheng knows about this Tiancheng Holdings project. He has been in contact with them for half a year. Until now, the receipt is still blank, which means that the previous attempts to contact them were all unsuccessful.

This is clearly a trap set for Xu Hansheng, waiting for him to jump into it.

"Comrade Xu Hansheng, do you have confidence?"

Li Qiang looked at Xu Hansheng with a smile.

Xu Hansheng closed his notebook, stood up, and said, "Section Chief Li, I will do my best to complete the initial contact work as soon as possible."

After saying that, Xu Hansheng sat back down in his original seat.

There was no other way. Even though he knew it was a trap, Xu Hansheng had to say it. He couldn't just make excuses to avoid doing the work his boss had just assigned him. That would be irresponsible, and Li Qiang could use that as an excuse to turn against Xu Hansheng on the spot.

If we were to report this to Xu Changqing, it would be tantamount to handing a knife to him.

Xu Hansheng would never do something so stupid.

Seeing that Xu Hansheng was completely unaware and even sat back in his original seat with a smile on his face, Li Qiang couldn't help but sneer inwardly.

He had accompanied Xu Changqing to personally negotiate with this company, but even when Xu Changqing went in person, they didn't give him any face. Xu Hansheng was just a lowly clerk, so they wouldn't take him seriously at all.

When Xu Hansheng returned with the blank receipt, that was the time for him to use it as an excuse to make trouble for Xu Hansheng!

Thinking of this, Li Qiang was in a great mood. As long as he completed the task assigned by Director Xu, his future path would be much smoother.

Moreover, Xu Changqing promised him that as long as Xu Hansheng was ousted, his younger brother, who lived far away in Ping'an Township, could take over Xu Hansheng's position at any time.

The two brothers work in the same department, so Li Qiang can take care of them more.

Immediately afterwards, Li Qiang began assigning tasks to the others.

Xu Hansheng could tell at a glance that Li Qiang was clearly biased towards Su Jie, and had assigned Su Jie to do some of the work of organizing meetings for the leaders.

This arrangement was to give her more opportunities to make a good impression on the leaders, and important speeches were all assigned to Lao Shen.

Du Xinyang's job is also quite easy. His main task is to sort out some policy documents, forward them to various townships, and supervise their implementation.

Even Liu Haitao's job was very easy; he was just asked to liaise with various government departments in the county and sort out policy documents.

This is actually a job that can build connections. Although you can't show your face to the big leaders in the county, you can get acquainted with the office directors of various bureaus and agencies.

This will also be somewhat helpful for Liu Haitao's future career.

At least once you get to know them well, you'll have a smooth path whenever you need to help your superiors with anything, unlike Xu Hansheng and Xu He, who faced obstacles at every turn.

In short, this is the best life available to anyone other than Su Jie and Du Xinyang.

It seems that Li Qiang takes good care of Liu Haitao.

Even the work of Mavis Hee and others is very easy.

As for Xu He, he has always been in charge of corporate liaison work. Xu Hansheng's work is his work, which means that Xu He and Xu Hansheng are essentially tied together.

Xu Hansheng was punished, and naturally Xu He would also be implicated.

Finally, Li Qiang's gaze swept across everyone's faces, finally landing on Xu Hansheng. He smiled and said, "Alright, everyone needs to work harder this week, especially Comrade Xu Hansheng and Comrade Xu He; your work is particularly important!"

"Although Comrade Xu Hansheng is very capable, he has only been working for a short time. If there is anything he does not understand, he must ask Comrade Xu He for advice and learning."

Xu Hansheng nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, Section Chief Li, I will definitely learn from Senior Xu He."

Don't be fooled by his smiling face; he's cursing under his breath. This guy dug a pit for him and expects a thank you!

"Alright, everyone go back to your work, meeting adjourned!"

After Li Qiang finished speaking, he turned and left the large office.

In an instant, the entire department was bustling with activity.

Xu He, however, calmly sipped his tea.

Liu Haitao had already started checking the documents, while Xu He calmly sipped his tea. It wasn't that he wasn't in a hurry, but rather that connecting with Tiancheng Holdings was an impossible task; the outcome would be the same either way, so he wasn't anxious.

While drinking tea, he started looking up the relevant files. At first, he thought it was just a matter of reporting the information submitted by the Investment Promotion Bureau and then making some phone calls.

If it succeeds, great; if it doesn't, just wait to be criticized.

However, when he turned to the page about Tiancheng Holdings, his expression immediately turned grim. It was completely empty, with no information except for an office phone number.

It's unclear whether the Investment Promotion Bureau simply didn't report it, or whether Li Qiang and Xu Changqing never even bothered to submit it beforehand.

How can he copy from a blank file?

Is this some kind of pretense?

Xu He immediately lost his composure and hurriedly grabbed the landline on his desk to call the Investment Promotion Bureau.

However, the other party was not in a hurry at all and directly used various difficulties to shirk all responsibility.

Although this initiative to connect with businesses is proactive by the government, the businesses are not interested and are simply ignoring it, which is something no one can do.

"I don't care what you say, you have to submit your report by noon, or I'll report it directly to the higher-ups!"

Now that the matter was at hand, Xu He became anxious and his tone became more forceful.

His anxiety made the operator on the other end of the line anxious too, who yelled, "Then you should go and report it! The company won't even meet with us, how are we supposed to get this kind of information?"

Bang!

The other end of the phone hung up immediately.

Xu He immediately became furious and was about to dial again when Xu Hansheng quickly stepped forward and grabbed Xu He's hand holding the receiver, saying, "Brother Xu, calm down, let me try calling."