Chapter 2156 Testing Intentions

Qin Feng smiled. Wu Zhitao's deliberate flattery was too crude. He had never heard that having a clean home could become a role model.

However, it doesn’t matter whether Wu Zhitao’s flattery is too crude. What is important is the attitude Wu Zhitao conveyed when he came in.

Qin Feng was chatting with Wu Zhitao while carefully savoring the intention behind Wu Zhitao's humble attitude today.

As a city leader, Qin Feng inquired about some work arrangements in Tai'an County, and Wu Zhitao also reported to Qin Feng in a serious manner on the progress of various work in Tai'an County.

The two of them chatted awkwardly for about half an hour, and then Wu Zhitao respectfully stood up and said goodbye.

Qin Feng stood up and pretended to see Wu Zhitao off, but in fact he just stood beside the sofa and didn't move. Wu Zhitao hurriedly said please stay, and then left Qin Feng's house.

After Wu Zhitao left, Qin Feng walked to the entrance door and saw several gift boxes placed next to the shoe cabinet when Wu Zhitao came in.

The things Wu Zhitao gave were naturally very valuable. Qin Feng roughly estimated the market value of these few gifts to be around fifteen thousand.

The reason why Wu Zhitao came to wish him a happy new year today and was so humble and gave him a big gift was naturally because Qin Feng was promoted to member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee.

As a member of the Municipal Party Committee, Qin Feng has the right to participate in the decision-making of the highest meeting of the entire Xiquan City, and also has the right to make suggestions and vote on personnel matters. As long as Wu Zhitao is not stupid, he will naturally try his best to ease the relationship with Qin Feng. The cost of offending a member of the Municipal Party Committee will be huge.

In addition, Qin Feng became the executive vice mayor, which was fundamentally different from the general vice mayors before. If Tai'an County wanted to get policy, financial and project support from the municipal government in the future, even if Liu Xiaoping stood behind him, Qin Feng was a hurdle he would never be able to get around.

In the past, Qin Feng was just an ordinary deputy mayor. Even if Qin Feng wanted to deliberately block Tai'an County, as long as Liu Xiaoping agreed, Qin Feng's opinion was actually not important and could not be stopped at all.

But it’s different now. If Qin Feng firmly disagrees, even if Liu Xiaoping agrees, this matter will be difficult to handle, or even impossible to accomplish.

Especially for projects involving poverty alleviation, even if Liu Xiaoping agrees, it will not be passed as long as Qin Feng expresses his disapproval, because Qin Feng is the leader of the Municipal Party Committee in charge of poverty alleviation work, and he has more say in this area than Liu Xiaoping, the mayor.

Of course, these are very important, but they are not enough to make Wu Zhitao suddenly put himself aside and personally visit Qin Feng to wish him a happy new year and give him a valuable gift.

Qin Feng guessed that there were two main reasons behind Wu Zhitao coming here to pay his respects to him today, or that he was authorized by the two big men behind him.

The first one is naturally Liu Xiaoping. Ever since Liu Xiaoping invited Qin Feng to Meiling Villa for dinner last time, Liu Xiaoping has been particularly enthusiastic towards Qin Feng. And this time Wu Zhitao personally came to pay New Year's greetings on New Year's Day naturally at the instruction of Liu Xiaoping. The purpose was to further show goodwill to Qin Feng on behalf of Liu Xiaoping, so that Qin Feng would consider his own interests and would not take sides in the subsequent fight between Liu Xiaoping and Xie Zhiguo.

In addition to this, Qin Feng analyzed that Wu Zhitao's visit this time should be more or less to test Qin Feng's intentions on behalf of Deng Xiaogang, the eldest son of Vice Governor Deng Qiuping.

Tai'an County's relocation poverty alleviation project began at the beginning of last year. The entire project is worth hundreds of millions of yuan. Although the company president who won the bid for the entire project is Li Haiqing, Li Haiqing is just a figurehead. In fact, the real boss is Deng Xiaogang, the son of the vice governor, and everyone calls him Master Deng.

After learning that this project was undertaken by Deng Xiaogang, Qin Feng knew that the project was very complicated and that there would be many tricks involved.

From the very beginning, Qin Feng wanted to prevent the project from being handed over to Deng Xiaogang, because it would obviously greatly damage the interests of the relocated poor people.

But in the end, Qin Feng did not play much of a role in this matter. First of all, of course, he had no way to stop this matter at that time. Secondly, Qin Feng also had some ideas of political risk avoidance. This project involved Liu Xiaoping, Huang Jiancheng and the entire Tai'an County power circle. Of course, more importantly, it involved the powerful deputy governor Deng Qiuping. It was not certain whether Qin Feng, a small deputy mayor, could obstruct this matter, but as long as he obstructed it, he would definitely get into trouble.

Therefore, Qin Feng did not obstruct the relocation project at that time, and deliberately avoided it. Although this project was a poverty alleviation project, Qin Feng, the deputy mayor in charge of poverty alleviation, hardly asked about the project. He only visited it symbolically once, and all other matters were handled by Jiang Pingyuan, director of the Poverty Alleviation Office. Of course, this project was mainly handled by Tai'an County.

During this period, Deng Xiaogang personally came to Qin Feng twice, and proposed some ideas about increasing project funds and changing the bidding contract. In fact, he tried his best to list some reasons to increase project funds, hoping that the municipal government would provide more additional project funding.

It was obvious that Deng Xiaogang was trying to siphon funds from the municipal government. At that time, Qin Feng was in charge of poverty alleviation work and his signature was needed.

Qin Feng did not directly reject Deng Xiaogang, but he did not agree either. He just asked Deng Xiaogang to produce a complete and convincing application report, and then have it reviewed by Tai'an County and the Poverty Alleviation Office, the two competent authorities. He would take a look at it after the two competent authorities had reviewed and approved it.

In short, Qin Feng kept trying every possible way to delay this matter, and finally it was delayed until Qin Feng went to Beijing to study, and this matter was entirely handed over to Huang Jiancheng.

Huang Jiancheng was in charge of this and signed the agreement in less than half a month. Then we went through various procedures, including the mayor Liu Xiaoping's agreement. In less than two months, the city's finance department added another 50 million yuan in special poverty alleviation funds to the poverty alleviation and relocation project.

Now, the entire project is in the final stage, and many items need to be inspected and finally allocated funds. Qin Feng is back again. As a poverty alleviation project, Qin Feng has absolute say, and many things require Qin Feng's final consent. If Qin Feng does not sign, the money cannot be transferred to Deng Xiaogang's arms.

At the same time, Deng Xiaogang was not satisfied and continued to apply to the Poverty Alleviation Office for additional construction funds. These applications were approved by the Poverty Alleviation Office, but since the beginning of the year, Qin Feng had kept them under the cabinet and pretended not to see them.

Qin Feng is very smart. He will not sign his consent, but he will not clearly sign the three words "disagree" either. He will just keep suppressing it. He is not stupid. He will not be a bad guy if he can avoid it. It is no joke to offend a powerful deputy governor.