Chapter 2338: Knock Knock

After listening to Peng Zhen's words, Qin Feng smiled.

"Secretary-General, do you think it's appropriate for me to meet with General Yang in Xidu before I go to Shazhou to take up my post? What will other comrades in Shazhou think of me?" Qin Feng asked.

"Mr. Yang must have arranged a five-star hotel, right? Is it appropriate for me, a mayor, to eat and drink lavishly with a corporate CEO in a five-star hotel?" Qin Feng asked again.

"Secretary-General, as a party member and cadre, we must strictly discipline ourselves and uphold party spirit and principles."

"I don't know what the political ecology and cadre style of the Shazhou Municipal Government were like before, and I don't care, but after I came, I had to be strict, and it had to start with me." Qin Feng looked at Peng Zhen and said coldly.

Peng Zhen listened to Qin Feng's lecture respectfully, then stood up and said, "I'm sorry, Mayor. I didn't have a high enough political awareness and political acumen, so I didn't consider this. I apologize to the mayor and will seriously reflect on it when I return. I will never make the same mistake again."

While Peng Zhen was talking to Qin Feng, Chen Guohua had been eating with his head down, but his ears were never idle. He could hear clearly the conversation between Qin Feng and Peng Zhen, as well as the subtext behind the conversation.

"Let's not talk about work anymore, come and have dinner!" Qin Feng said with a smile.

After finishing their meal, Peng Zhen and Chen Guohua left Qin Feng's room, and staff came to clean the table.

Peng Zhen and Chen Guohua walked out of Qin Feng's room.

"Director Chen, good trick." Peng Zhen looked at Chen Guohua and snorted coldly.

Chen Guohua frowned, thought for a moment, and guessed what Peng Zhen meant.

"Does the Secretary-General have any misunderstandings about me?" Chen Guohua asked.

"You know whether there is a misunderstanding or not, Chen Guohua, there are two points I need to remind you. First, you are only the deputy secretary-general, and some matters of the municipal government are not your turn to make decisions."

"Secondly, even the mayor of Shazhou may not be able to call the shots completely, not to mention that he is a monk from outside the area. If you bet your entire fortune on him, you may end up dying without a burial place."

After saying this, Peng Zhen glanced at Chen Guohua coldly, then turned around and walked away.

Chen Guohua frowned. He knew that Peng Zhen misunderstood that Qin Feng had played a trick on him about going to the banquet today because it was because he, Chen Guohua, had been instigating Qin Feng these days.

Although Qin Feng made an excuse that he was not feeling well and later explained that it was inconvenient for him to meet with entrepreneur Yang Zhijie, everyone actually knew that Qin Feng was deliberately trying to warn Peng Zhen.

Qin Feng naturally didn't know about what happened between Peng Zhen and Chen Guohua, and he didn't bother to know.

Qin Feng had been planning to do this since Peng Zhen had forced him to have dinner with Yang Zhijie today. He not only wanted to teach Peng Zhen a lesson, but also wanted to convey his attitude to Yang Zhijie.

From the moment he met Peng Zhen today, Qin Feng vaguely felt a hint of "disrespect" from Peng Zhen.

In fact, there was nothing wrong with Peng Zhen's attitude towards Qin Feng. As the secretary-general, everything he did was appropriate and did not offend Qin Feng in any way. He also provided Qin Feng with very good service.

But superficial expression is one thing, and the emotions revealed inadvertently and some behavioral details cannot be concealed. It was from these subtle details that Qin Feng felt that Peng Zhen did not seem to think much of him as the mayor.

Qin Feng could actually understand this. Peng Zhen was in his fifties, while he, Qin Feng, was only thirty-five or thirty-six years old. In this circle where seniority was important, it was natural for Peng Zhen to look down on Qin Feng.

Secondly, Qin Feng came to Ganliang and Shazhou alone. Although Qin Feng has not yet reported to Shazhou to take up his post, in fact, the people in Shazhou must have studied Qin Feng very thoroughly and must know that Qin Feng has no one to rely on in Ganliang. Moreover, when he came to Ganliang this time, none of the most important leaders in the province met Qin Feng, which naturally conveyed to the outside world that the main leaders of the province did not value Qin Feng.

Under such circumstances, it was very natural for Peng Zhen to look down on Qin Feng.

Of course, Qin Feng didn't care about Peng Zhen's contempt for him. He had never been a petty person. The reason why he wanted to give Peng Zhen a warning today was because Peng Zhen had gone too far in asking him to have dinner with Yang Zhijie.

Although Peng Zhen had been analyzing to Qin Feng why he had to go, Peng Zhen had inadvertently always been standing on Yang Zhijie's side, rather than on Qin Feng's side or the municipal government's side.

As the secretary general of a municipal government, Peng Zhen should naturally stand on the side of the municipal government and Qin Feng, but in fact Peng Zhen has always been lobbying for Yang Zhijie. This is a typical case of sitting on the wrong side of the fence.

Moreover, Qin Feng was very dissatisfied with Peng Zhen's "forcing" him to have dinner with Yang Zhijie, so Qin Feng gave this warning as a reminder to Yang Zhijie.

Of course, what Qin Feng wanted most was to convey some information to Yang Zhijie.

Qi Yaqiu is dead. Although the official investigation concluded that he died in a traffic accident, everyone knows how he actually died.

As Qi Yaqiu's successor, Qin Feng's attitude is very important and very subtle, because Yang Zhijie will treat Qi Yaqiu in the same way as Qin Feng.

Yang Zhijie ran to Xidu to meet Qin Feng originally to test Qin Feng's attitude. If Qin Feng went to see Yang Zhijie obediently, it would mean that Qin Feng was ready to give in to Yang Zhijie and came to Shazhou to be obedient.

Not only did Qin Feng not go today, but he also played a trick on Yang Zhijie, which was to tell Yang Zhijie clearly that he, Qin Feng, was not that easy to talk to. He also expressed strong dissatisfaction and anger towards Yang Zhijie, angry that the Yang family dared to take action against a mayor.

Of course, Qin Feng did this to test the Yang family.

Qin Feng stood by the window smoking a cigarette, looking at Xidu, the largest and most prosperous metropolis in the entire Northwest, and suddenly felt that coming to the Northwest was beginning to be quite interesting.

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The next morning, Qin Feng's motorcade went to the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee again and waited downstairs of the Organization Department for a while. Soon, the deputy director of the Organization Department who was responsible for sending Qin Feng to Shazhou to take office came down.

Qin Feng exchanged a few brief greetings with the other party, and then they each got in their own cars and set off for the sandbar.

The entire journey from Xidu to Shazhou is more than 700 kilometers and takes eight or nine hours by car. This distance is not surprising for a province in the northwest.

Of course, Shazhou, as the second largest city in Ganliang, has its own airport and direct flights to Xidu. However, due to the temporary arrangement of Qin Feng's appointment and the large number of accompanying people, it was difficult to arrange a flight and the flight times did not match, so he arranged to take a car to Shazhou to take office.