Chapter 57 of Volume 1: Big Shots All Have Drivers

  The fourth update is here, but the red tickets haven't exceeded 9,000, how sad!

  Xu Xiting and Zhao Dong were left in the conference room to continue discussing the rectification plan, while Shen Hua went upstairs and walked into the factory director's office, which was still unfamiliar to him.

  Tangerine wood flooring, looks like high-end office furniture, money tree potted plants, really has the style of former factory director Du Jian.

  Du Jian's personal belongings have all been taken away, and the files in the filing cabinet are still relatively tidy, but it can't be seen from the surface whether anything is missing or not. The handover form was placed on the office desk, Shen Hui didn't have time to take a look today either, nor did he care much, after all, the factory director who was responsible for the handover was Du Jian's confidant.

  "Director Shen..."

  Shen Hua put down the handover form, turned his head back and saw that the face was Du Jian's driver. He hadn't thought of his name for half a day, probably because he had never heard anyone mention it before. He asked, "Who are you?"

  "I'm Shao Zheng, previously Driver Du's chauffeur," said Shao Zheng, handing over the keys in his hand. "These are the Passat car keys, Director Du said to give them to you. There are two more drivers on duty at Xiao Che Ban, Director Shen, you can choose whoever you want as your dedicated driver, maybe wait until tomorrow when everyone is here?"

  Shen Hua looked at the car key in Shao Zheng's hand, and Shao Zheng mentioned that Director Du was the factory director Du Gui, who was also Du Jian's cousin and a loyal supporter of Du Jian in the steel plant.

  He probably thought he would be purged, so Du Gui didn't bother with Shen Huai either. He just did what needed to be done and left as soon as work hours were over, not counting himself among the current 26-person interim management team. This includes Wang Gang, who was appointed head of the Security Department at yesterday's party-government meeting, but today he didn't dare come to report for duty or look for trouble.

  The steel plant's efficiency is even worse, but the management level has all the enjoyment without falling behind.

  Including imported Passat, there are eight cars in total. The factory has a special small car driver team with eight drivers.

  Passat is usually Du Jian's ride, but after yesterday's incident, this morning, Du Jian returned the car along with the driver and another Santana that was occupied by the town.

  As the best sedan of the steel factory, from top to bottom, everyone thinks Passat should be used by Shen Hua, so although the director of the factory has already gone off duty, he still arranges Shao Zheng to stay and wait for Shen Hua.

  "It's getting late, why haven't you gone off work? Just let another driver hand over the car keys to me?" Shen Hua asked Shao Zheng.

  According to strict regulations, township cadres, whether secretaries or town mayors, should not be equipped with full-time drivers. However, as long as the finances permit, cases like Du Jian's, where the driver is assigned to a related unit and enjoys full-time driver treatment, are common.

  Shao Zheng, being Du Jian's dedicated driver, should naturally be a trusted person. In this day and age, not many people know how to drive a small car, so even if he leaves the steel factory, and even if Du Jian doesn't help him find work, he shouldn't have trouble finding a meal ticket.

  Shen Huai found it strange that Shao Zheng stayed behind, he looked to be around thirty-five or thirty-six years old, with dark skin and a medium build, looking quite sturdy, perhaps a retired soldier, but at this time it was not convenient to go through personnel files.

  "I'm waiting for Qian Wenhui to get off work together." Shao Zheng smiled awkwardly, and Shen Huai's question made him sense a strong distrust.

  "Oh." Shen Huai responded with a dazed "oh".

  Qian Wenhui was the head of the finance department, a petite and elegant woman who was currently continuing to participate in the discussion on rectifying production in the conference room downstairs.

  Shen Huai did not expect that Du Jian's former driver and the head of the finance department were actually husband and wife.

  The skirt relationship of the steel plant is complicated, and Shen Hua mainly focused on the peripheral network that sucked blood from the steel plant in the early stage. In a short period of time, it was not possible to fully understand all the relationships within the steel plant.

  Xu Xiting didn't deliberately remind Zhao Dong about financial issues before this either.

  Generally speaking, Du Jian should grasp the steel plant, the director of the factory, the full-time driver and the financial manager, all of whom should be trusted people.

  After knowing that Shao Zheng and Qian Wen Hui were husband and wife, Shen Huai's doubts deepened. Why didn't Qian Wen Hui and Shao Zheng have the idea of voluntarily resigning?

  "I'm going to the town government, can you drive me there?" Shen Hui didn't immediately suggest changing drivers either. Anyway, he also had a driver's license, and some private matters weren't allowed to involve Shao Zheng for now. Before understanding the situation clearly, it wasn't necessary to kick him out along with Qian Wen Hui just yet.

  "I'll go get the car from the parking lot first..." Shao Zheng didn't say much more and went downstairs.

  Shen Huai looked at the file cabinet with a stack of files, and during the day he was in the workshop, without having the opportunity to formally access the steel plant's formal documents. He originally planned to look at the personnel files first, but Shao Zheng called him over, deciding to look at the financial data instead, taking the thick file bag in his hand, and then went downstairs.

  The financial situation of the steel mill is also something that must be grasped at the first time.

  Time was too tight, and it would take only three or five minutes to rush to the town government. Shen Hua sat in the car and continued to review the materials.

  Shao Zheng's driving skills are truly impressive. On the bumpy road of Xuetang Street, Shen Hua hardly felt the car moving at all.

  Shen Hua flipped through a few pages, then flipped to the end and confirmed that there was indeed Wang Wen's signature. But judging from this financial report, it was done very professionally, and almost no loopholes could be seen in terms of finance, which was probably the only bright spot Shen Hua saw in the entire municipal steel plant.

  Of course, Shen Hua also knew that the more beautifully the account was done, the financial loopholes might be covered up even more thoroughly.

  "Looking at the financial report, shouldn't Qian Kechang be from a finance background?" Shen Hua closed the file and asked Shao Zheng.

  When Shao Zheng heard Shen Hua praising his loved one, he smiled in the rearview mirror and said: "They say that Wen Hui is the first registered accountant in Meixi Town..."

  Shen Huai nodded, and Mei Xi Steel Plant, as a large-scale enterprise with an output value of around 100 million yuan, had been highly valued by the city and county. It was not surprising that they could have professional talents like Xu Xiting and Qian Wenhui.

  It is crucial whether these professionals are sufficient in number and can play their role or not.

  They soon arrived at the town government, a three-story building. The third floor where all the leaders of the town were located, except for He Qing's office which was still lit up, the offices of several deputy secretaries and deputy mayors were also lit up.

  The third floor has three rooms with lights off: one is the file printing room, one is Huang Xinliang's party and government office, and one is Du Jian's secretary office.

  Shen Huai smiled in his heart: Today, nothing special happened again, and these people in the town are really patient.

  Shen Hua let Shao Zheng return directly to the steel plant to continue his shift, and he casually took the file bag and went upstairs.

  Yesterday's incident had a profound impact on Meixi Town. Almost all the town officials were dispatched to maintain order at the steel plant, and deputy town leaders above entered the factory building, witnessing the changes before and after the situation turned around.

  Although Shen Hua was only a deputy secretary, he was a full-time cadre at the department level, and his position was originally above that of other deputy secretaries and deputy mayors. Yesterday's situation, people who understand some official rules can guess that Shen Hua has a strong backstage supporter who can force Mayor Gao Tianhe to bow his head.

  Who eats too much and dies of suffocation, who dislikes the hardness of the head, must go to collide with this big stone in Shenhuai?

  Du Jian's loss of power is also evident.

  Tao Jixing, the county party secretary and former backer of Du Jian, made no comment on yesterday's events, while acting county head Ge Yongqiu explicitly attributed the responsibility for the steel mill's operational difficulties to Du Jian, supporting Shen Hua's thorough purge of the mill's management.

  Today, in broad daylight, the cadres in the town are all guessing: will Secretary Du Jian be directly dismissed or transferred to another remote place? Or will he suffer a more severe punishment and go straight to prison?

  At this time, the cadres in the town were afraid of not being able to get rid of their relationship with Party Secretary Du Jian. Except for those few wasps that had already been tied together with a rope, who else dared to get too close to him?

  Yesterday, in the conference room of the steel factory, Shen Huai also clearly stated that he wanted to promote He Qing She to a higher position and preside over the town's work. Those several deputy secretaries and deputy town leaders, even if they felt that Shen Huai was not easy to get close to, from then on, standing with He Qing She became an obviously wise choice.

  Du Jian never fully recovered from yesterday's blow, and today's two meetings, presided over by He Qing, also made him feel a sense of control he had never experienced before.

  However, He Qing didn't let joy get to his head. He was very clear about who brought this change and actively contacted Shen Huai in the afternoon.

  It was just Shen Hua who was stuck with the steel plant's affairs, and he stayed in the office at night waiting for Shen Hua to come over and meet up. He didn't feel that it was already after 9 o'clock, and the time was very late. Those few deputy jobs who wanted to make a good impression and draw a clear line with Du Jian also knew to honestly stay put in the office.

  Shen Hua went straight up to the third floor, ignoring the deputy mayor, deputy secretary and party committee members who were still on guard in the government building, and directly knocked on the door of He Qing's office.

  Shen Huai just rushed over and met with He Qing She for a moment. At this time, he didn't have the energy to ask about the town's affairs in detail.

  This afternoon there were two relatively important meetings in town and he was absent from both of them on leave, without even having the chance to meet with village cadres.

  Shen Huai just wanted to know if the situation in the town had changed after what happened yesterday.

  Township work is complex and complicated, involving birth control, agricultural taxes, land contracting, river course water conservancy construction, house foundation illegal construction, primary and secondary education, as well as industrial and commercial tax collection, township security sanitation comprehensive management, all of which require direct contact with farmers and town residents, and will encounter various troublesome matters.

  Shen Huai didn't have three heads and six arms, even if he had the opportunity to take control of all the power in Meixi Town right now, he wouldn't be able to handle it, taking on so many complicated things by himself.

  So for now, Shen Hua can only support He Qingsha in controlling the situation on the government's side.