53: Seeking attention

Zhang Delin organized his thoughts before speaking, "Town Mayor, what I want to report to you is about the renovation of the Town Primary School's playground.

You should already have a basic understanding of the playground renovations at the two schools in our town!

When Yu Hualin was in office, as principal, I was angry but dared not speak out. I once reported this matter to the County Education Bureau, but it all sank without a trace.

I knew that a mere principal like me couldn't shake Yu Hualin and his group, so I just let it be.

I admit my mistake to you, Town Mayor."

"This is not your fault. So many town leaders, whose ranks were higher than yours, couldn't stop Yu Hualin, let alone you!"

Lin Zifeng said understandingly.

"Thank you for your understanding and consideration, Town Mayor! What I want to report to you is that the construction company that renovated the school playground last time only hired a dozen workers to mess around on the school playground. The ground they made can't even be called a 'tofu-dreg project'.

A 'tofu-dreg project' at least looks decent on the surface!

But what about them? They merely leveled the circular road around the playground, sprinkled a layer of fine sand, a layer of cement, sprayed a layer of water, and then compacted it with a roller, calling it done. It was pure deception.

Even so, they deliberately dragged it out for over a month, and the children had no place for activities for over a month.

I heard that the funds for renovating the playground were considerable, Town Mayor. Can we build a permanent playground for our primary school?"

"I will pay attention to this matter. I will find a qualified and reputable construction company to complete this project.

We need to spend less money, and the project quality must be up to par."

Lin Zifeng agreed immediately without any hesitation.

Zhang Delin, full of gratitude, happily left.

Lin Zifeng saw that it was about time and walked out of his office towards the conference room.

When he entered the conference room, all the other members of the Heping Town leadership team were already present.

Seeing him walk in, they all stood up and greeted him with smiles. From their eyes, he noticed something more than usual.

He responded to everyone one by one but did not sit in the main seat, instead taking his original spot.

Seeing his actions, some people couldn't help but nod inwardly, thinking that even though their Town Mayor was young and the County Party Committee leaders had now put him in charge of Heping Town's overall work, he hadn't become complacent.

From his actions just now, it was clear that this Town Mayor was much more composed and reserved than his peers.

Just as everyone was lost in their thoughts, Lin Zifeng spoke, "The meeting will now begin.

Although the official notice has not yet been issued, I believe everyone should have received the news.

Our former Secretary of Heping Town, Yu Hualin, and former Deputy Secretary, Li Meide, have been taken into custody by relevant departments for committing serious errors.

Additionally, Yu Shuxin, the former director of the Finance Office, and Qian Ke, Yu Hualin's Secretary, are also implicated.

We must learn profound lessons from these individuals and hope that such incidents do not happen again in our Heping Town in the future.

The lessons are severe and worthy of vigilance from all of us!"

"Town Mayor, the authority for personnel appointments and removals of town leaders lies with The County Seat, but the Finance Office is a direct department of our government. Now that the director of the Finance Office has fallen, the various tasks of the Finance Office cannot be affected by this incident!

Therefore, I propose that we immediately elect a candidate for the new director to take charge of the Finance Office's work."

Organization Committee Member Chen Shuangjie was the first to speak.

He nodded in agreement and said, "This work is indeed urgent. Do you have a suitable candidate to nominate?"

"Based on my understanding, Comrade Li Weixin from the Finance Office is quite suitable in all aspects.

This Comrade graduated from Southeast University of Finance and Economics, has strong professional abilities, and strong principles.

Because he adhered to his own opinions and was very principled in his work, he was long marginalized and suppressed by Yu Shuxin.

Yu Shuxin, as a negative example, can attest to Comrade Li Weixin's stance."

Chen Shuangjie presented his well-prepared views.

Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission Zhang Zhenhua, seeing the two playing off each other, knew clearly that they had discussed this beforehand.

To assert his presence and right to speak, he calmly said, "The conclusion reached by Committee Member Chen is somewhat extreme.

Yu Hualin and the others are now all negative examples for us. They can attest to the stance of all cadres in Heping Town who haven't made mistakes. It's not possible to promote and use all cadres, is it?

We still need to use people according to their talents."

"Secretary Zhang, do you have a more suitable candidate?"

Lin Zifeng asked calmly.

"I think Zhang Eryong from the Finance Office is also very suitable."

Zhang Zhenhua directly put forward his preferred candidate.

Now, of the nine committee members in Heping Town, only seven remained, so Lin Zifeng looked at the remaining members and asked, "Does anyone else have a suitable candidate to recommend?"

Seeing everyone subtly shake their heads, he continued, "Then let's proceed with a show of hands vote for the two candidates.

First, we will vote on Comrade Zhang Eryong. Those who agree for Comrade Zhang Eryong to serve as the Director of the Finance Office, please raise your hands."

After saying this, he looked at everyone.

The reason he uncharacteristically voted on Zhang Eryong first was to see how many people supported Zhang Zhenhua.

He also knew that the candidate voted on first had a certain advantage; if the votes exceeded half, there would be no need to vote on the second candidate.

There was a reason why he took this risk. He had always felt that Zhang Zhenhua was not as simple as he appeared on the surface. He felt that Zhang Zhenhua's outward demeanor was an act, and he was actually deeply hidden.

He wanted to use this opportunity to see how many people supported him and how many supported the other side. This was also a test of Zhang Zhenhua.

Because from the beginning, he had already stated his position and attitude.

Hearing his words, everyone else was a little surprised, but only Zhang Zhenhua's eyes narrowed, and his heart trembled.

He had only intended to make his voice heard and show his presence, not to overturn Lin Zifeng's intention. The candidate he put forward was also just to make up the numbers.

But to his surprise, Lin Zifeng kicked the ball back to him.

He had no choice but to raise his right hand. After all, he couldn't not support the person he himself had nominated, could he? If he didn't, wouldn't that be like slapping himself in the face in public?

He was really afraid that he would be the only one to raise his hand; if that happened, he would be in an awkward position.

Fortunately, Qian Yonggui, the Minister of the Armed Forces Department, who had a good relationship with him, saw his predicament and, after a slight hesitation, still raised his hand.

Seeing Qian Yonggui raise his hand, Zhang Zhenhua breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the other party with immense gratitude.