Rebirth of Minister Qi

Chapter 304: Fooling Chen Chao

So, the outward manifestation is that he likes to hear his subordinates say these corny words to him, especially when they sound like they are crying, which makes Qi Tongwei feel secretly happy. Of course, he will still speak in a high-sounding manner.

People like Chen Jin, Zhang Shan, Yang Zhengwei and others, in fact, can see that Qi Tongwei likes this approach. Some people in the Public Security Bureau were taught by them. If you say something to express your loyalty, the leader will feel comfortable. Although he may criticize you verbally, he will feel good about you in his heart.

Chen Chao is also a shrewd man. He can see that Qi Tongwei does not love money or power, but there are always things he likes. He also likes fame, the praise of ordinary people, and the clumsy flattery of his subordinates.

It is also obvious that the situation in the new district is now clear. District Mayor Jin will be promoted to the position of district party secretary. Although the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee has been replaced as the district party secretary, it is obvious that it is just a part-time position that does not take care of things. The actual matters are still decided by Jin and Qi.

The next district chief must be Executive Director Qi. This can be seen from the division of labor in many tasks. If Old Chen doesn't hold this powerful figure in his arms, wouldn't that be a fool?

In the past, he didn't take the initiative to flatter the leaders. That was because he was in his forties and saw no hope of promotion. He just wanted to do the job at hand well, clean up his mess, and retire peacefully. He was tired of flattering the leaders anymore.

After retiring from the army in his teens, he became a full-time section chief in his early thirties. Old Chen used to be a man with a keen sense of smell, but he was constantly disappointed and disheartened in the following ten years. The words of each leader were sweeter than Yang Yuying's singing, but what they did were more shameless than the last.

Now that the dead tree has come back to life, Old Chen naturally has to pick up his traditional skills and frantically flatter a young man who is almost twenty years younger than him.

But it was also strange that when standing in front of Qi Tongwei, Chen Chao felt as if he was facing a senior leader in his fifties and subconsciously ignored his young face.

"Okay, sit down, we are all colleagues at the same level, don't be so polite.

I heard from my colleagues that you did a great job in fighting the drought this time. Please tell us more about it.”

When Chen Chao saw Qi Tongwei, he got straight to the point in just a few words. He also began to understand his leader's working style, which was to put small talk before business.

So Chen Chao sat down on the chair seriously and took out his notebook.

"General Manager, as you expected, in July, after more than ten days of continuous high temperatures, drought conditions occurred.

The water levels in the reservoirs in some villages in Zhoushi Street and Shangqiao Street are too low.

So I urgently contacted the fire brigade and private companies and used new fire trucks to bring water over.

At the same time, in accordance with your instructions, simple pipelines were laid to divert water from the Qinshan Town Reservoir and the river in Yongqing County.

Thanks to timely action and the fact that the drought did not last too long, the lives of the people were not affected.”

Qi Tongwei nodded repeatedly after listening to this. He took the document handed over by Chen Chao and looked at it. He found that this old Chen was indeed a talent in scheduling. He did things flawlessly. In addition, he had a lot of experience and knew everyone in the district. He could get things done very quickly.

Chen Chao did not say the rest of the words on his own initiative, and his document only covered a part of it. Of course, he was waiting for Qi Tongwei to supplement it. This was a superb way to flatter, waiting for the leader to supplement it.

"You have done a good job in emergency measures."

When Qi Tongwei said this, Chen Chao quickly wrote it down in his notebook and put on the look of a model student. Since the emergency measures were praised, the leader would definitely talk about the long-term mechanism next. Chen Chao deliberately did not mention this and just waited here.

“Next we need to establish a long-term mechanism. These procedures require you to go through hard work, one of which is to build a water plant.

We have communicated with the city many times on this matter and have already come up with a preliminary plan, because we are also responsible for the water supply of two districts in the city.

Therefore, we still have to cooperate in most of the work. The water plant will draw water from the river in Yongqing County and use that place as the main water source.

At the same time, we have several medium-sized reservoirs here as transit and supplement, and you have to make good connections in this regard.

The private water plants will be acquired by the municipal water plants in due course, and the price will be determined according to regulations.”

In fact, Chen Chao has always known about this matter. The private water plant that has always refused to agree to the city's acquisition is located in Xiaqiao Street. It has been in operation for decades and is now raising the price.

“The price of that water plant is too high. We have discussed it several times with the street, but they don’t agree.

There is currently no good solution.

The city water plant's budget is only a few million, but they asked for 10 million. Isn't this extortion?

Back then, their private water plant only cost tens of thousands of yuan to build.”

Qi Tongwei looked at the table and thought of a solution.

"He built this private water plant with the help of his father, who was the former county magistrate, and it didn't even have all the necessary formalities.

The most important thing is, has he paid any taxes in the past twenty years?

Which state-owned enterprise was he affiliated with when he founded it? "

When Qi Tongwei reminded Chen Chao, he actually remembered this incident.

"Yes, they were affiliated with a company in the town. Later, the company went bankrupt, and they became independent.

As for paying taxes, I think I have never paid any.”

"That's right. The law stipulates that such livelihood enterprises have their own tax rates, which are slightly lower than those of ordinary enterprises, but they basically pay taxes unconditionally.

They have not paid a penny now, and although it was just an affiliated company in the past, it was still considered a state-owned enterprise.

In this way, you let the people from the water plant and the tax bureau go there together, if they refuse to accept the conditions we offer.

Immediately close the accounts and check the taxes, and hold them accountable for embezzling state-owned assets.

However, there is no need to be so extreme. If you let the news out, they will be the ones who will be anxious."

When working at the grassroots level, we cannot rigidly follow the laws and regulations. If we do not leave a way out for others, there will be a few stubborn petitioners. According to the current rules, the emergence of such petitioners is very disadvantageous to the government.

Furthermore, some of the historical issues left over from the past twenty years may not be compatible with current laws, and forcibly enforcing current laws will only intensify conflicts.

Qi Tongwei has always believed that if he has a knife in his hand, he can scare people to death just by holding it up. But when he really chops down, people are not afraid anymore.

Just like in a football match, the player on defense often only needs to follow the player with the ball closely to put huge pressure on the opponent. If he attacks blindly, the opponent will be prepared for this move and will shake the ball away with a turn.

The same principle applies when working at the grassroots level. If you know that someone is violating the rules, you can use it as a card to scare them. If you really use it and they have caused huge losses, they will not give in and will fight you to the death.