In officialdom: After she left, I rose rapidly through the ranks!

The morning passed by little by little.

Everything seemed calm, but Chen Jingcheng, sitting in the General Affairs Department's office, knew better than anyone that beneath this calm lay a raging storm.

At this moment, all the leaders and cadres in the county had their eyes fixed on the county party committee and county government compound. Everyone was waiting for the outcome of the Standing Committee meeting.

This Standing Committee meeting is different from the previous ones. This Standing Committee meeting will be the first overt political struggle between Secretary Zhao and County Head Li.

Only after this meeting will everyone understand just how much power County Chief Li has in Linchuan County.

Although no one thought Li Feitu would win, given his tough stance, his status as a newly-turned-35-year-old county magistrate from the province with a powerful background, it remains to be seen whether he can succeed in Linchuan County. After this incident, we'll find out.

Everyone thought Li Feitu would lose, but how he would lose and by how much was another question.

Linchuan County has a total of eleven standing committee members, and many people are betting on how many votes Li Feitu will get at this meeting.

If he ends up with only one vote for himself, while the other ten votes all go against him, that would be a huge joke.

If it really comes to that, will Li Feitu still be able to stay in Linchuan County?

Whether it's banning public officials from drinking on weekdays, Chen Jingcheng's deputy section chief position, or anything else, it seems that from now on, Li Feitu's authority will suffer a devastating blow, and his situation will be less than half of what it is now.

Many people felt that Li Feitu was being too hasty. He had only been there for a little over a month. Even if he was dissatisfied with Secretary Zhao and wanted to confront him, he should have been more patient. At the very least, he should have waited until he was more confident in his abilities before making any moves.

But now, let alone meeting them at the Standing Committee meeting, they probably haven't even been able to completely appease the leaders at the county government level.

This is really too reckless.

"Young man, impatient," is how many leaders currently describe Li Feitu.

Everyone felt that Li Feitu was too impulsive, and that he was destroying his own foundation.

However, only Li Feitu and Chen Jingcheng knew that Li Feitu did this not only because he didn't want to wait any longer, but also because there was another very important reason: the Standing Committee might lose, but sometimes, losing is winning, and winning is losing!

This time, everyone will know who won and who lost after the Standing Committee meeting ends.

Just look at how you lost and how you won.

At noon, Chen Jingcheng did not go home for lunch, but ate at the small canteen.

The small canteen is not where county leaders eat, but it is where all the staff in the compound eat. Sometimes, groups of three or five people gather there, and information is extremely concentrated.

Chen Jingcheng is now well-known in the compound. Everyone knows he is a rising star, someone who was just transferred to the county government office and became the county magistrate's secretary and director of the supervision office. Even the content of today's meeting has been spread.

Chen Jingcheng was personally nominated by County Magistrate Li Feitu for promotion to deputy section chief.

It would be a lie to say I'm not envious.

Many people greeted Chen Jingcheng, and he responded with a smile. Even if they were from the county party committee office, not the government office, Chen Jingcheng showed no hostility.

In fact, the power struggle between the Party Secretary and the County Head doesn't have much impact on many of their staff members, and there's no question of taking sides. Those are things that leaders need to consider. Most of them aren't even at the deputy section chief level. Aside from feeling some pride in their unit and perhaps a bit arrogant, they really don't get much of a chance.

At 1 p.m., the notice from the County Party Committee Office was issued.

The county party committee convened a meeting of its standing committee at 4 p.m. in the meeting room on the fourth floor of the county party committee building.

The attendees were naturally the members of the Standing Committee. The attending units included the executive deputy director of the County Party Committee Office, the director of the Government Office, and the directors of the Party Committee's supervision system. This time, the meeting notice from the County Party Committee Office also clearly stated that the head of the Government Supervision Office would attend.

In other words, Chen Jingcheng will also be a formal attendee at this meeting.

When the meeting notice was released, many people felt strange, but since it was already announced, naturally no one said or thought much about it.

After all, this was related to Chen Jingcheng, and most importantly, the outcome of the meeting, the main focus of the meeting, was not on those who were merely observing, but on the county party secretary and county head who were present at the meeting.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Li Feitu was sitting in his office.

He didn't go out to chat with anyone or talk to anyone; the office was unusually quiet today.

It was as if everyone was waiting, waiting for an outcome.

Chen Jingcheng did not disturb Li Feitu and sat in his office waiting.

At 3:50, Chen Jingcheng got up and knocked on Li Feitu's door.

Upon entering the office, Chen Jingcheng was taken aback by the sight of the smoke-filled space.

In his memory, Li Feitu did smoke, but in fact, he wasn't addicted to cigarettes.

I only smoke one occasionally.

But today, in the past hour or so, Li Feitu has smoked at least five or six cigarettes.

This alone shows that Li Feitu was not entirely at peace.

After all, this matter concerns the overall situation, and Li Feitu also felt the pressure.

Chen Jingcheng took a deep breath, walked up to Li Feitu, and said softly, "County Chief, it's 3:50. The Standing Committee meeting will be held in ten minutes."

Li Feitu nodded, paused for a moment, then looked up at Chen Jingcheng and said with a smile, "Jingcheng, are you nervous?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Jingcheng paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "To be honest, I am indeed a little nervous."

"Although I was just attending the meeting, it was still a meeting of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee, so it would be a lie to say I wasn't nervous."

"Besides, you're even planning to mention my name at the meeting."

Li Feitu laughed heartily, nodded, and said, "It's good to be nervous, but there's no need to be too nervous."

"In fact, I'm a little nervous too. After all, the political landscape of Linchuan County will change after this."

"Although I'm confident, I'm still a little nervous."

"But it's okay, neither of us needs to be too nervous. We've already come this far, so let's just wait and see!"

As he spoke, Li Feitu stood up and checked the time.

"Inform Director Gao that we can set off now."

"There's no need to rush to enter at the last minute."

Upon hearing this, Chen Jingcheng immediately went to inform Director Gao.

Afterwards, Chen Jingcheng and Director Gao accompanied Li Feitu up to the fourth floor.

When they arrived at the conference room, the venue had already been set up. However, at this moment, apart from the staff, no one else was present.

Li Feitu sat down in his seat.

Chen Jingcheng and Director Gao were seated in the audience seats.

Looking at the eleven name cards on the conference table, Chen Jingcheng couldn't help but feel a little excited.

The eleven people who will be sitting in the meeting room at this meeting are now the highest-level decision-makers in the entire Linchuan County.

Their decision concerns everything in Linchuan County, and the joys and sorrows of its 800,000 residents.

Here, we discuss major events that affect the entire Linchuan County.

As for Chen Jingcheng, although he was not qualified to sit at the conference table with his own place card or his own seat.

But he was already seated in the audience.

For him, being able to walk into this conference room and participate in this meeting at this moment is something that many people dream of and long for.

Being able to enter this place already signifies everything.

Even just attending as an observer!