Chapter 2350: The "Strong Bag" Mayor

"Where is this?" Qin Feng knew that this was Shao Hongli's seat, but he still deliberately asked Peng Zhen who was sitting at the last seat.

"This is Mayor Hongli. Mayor Hongli called earlier and said that he was busy with some work and couldn't change his time, so..." Peng Zhen hurriedly explained.

After Peng Zhen finished speaking, everyone looked at Qin Feng. Everyone knew that Shao Hongli was deliberately not giving face to Qin Feng, the new mayor, and deliberately sabotaging him. The excuse of being busy with work was just an excuse. What kind of work could be more important than the first meeting with the new mayor? And the meeting schedule had been arranged for many days.

Shao Hongli did this on purpose. Not only did he completely disregard Qin Feng, the mayor, but he also deliberately embarrassed Qin Feng.

Everyone present was just watching the fun, wanting to see how Qin Feng would deal with Shao Hongli. After all, this was Qin Feng's first appearance, and Shao Hongli was so disrespectful to Qin Feng. If Qin Feng didn't teach Shao Hongli a lesson, how would he be able to gain a foothold in the city government in the future? Where was the mayor's prestige?

When everyone thought Qin Feng would be angry, he smiled and said, "Work is important, Secretary General, send a copy of our meeting minutes to Mayor Hongli later."

Qin Feng's answer surprised everyone. They never expected that Qin Feng was not angry at all. Instead, he cared about Shao Hongli. This was really too cowardly.

Qin Feng's performance was very poor, which made some people disappointed in him, and some people showed contempt and disdain towards him.

Qin Feng knew very well what the people present were thinking, but he did not take it seriously. He lowered his head and looked at a printed speech that had been placed in front of him. Then he picked up the teacup, took two sips of tea, and then pretended to cough twice.

Qin Feng then picked up the speech prepared for him by the secretariat and read it verbatim:

Comrades, today is my first day working in Shazhou. I feel a great sense of responsibility and am full of confidence to be able to work side by side with you.

First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the provincial and municipal party committees for their trust, and also thank the comrades for laying a solid foundation for the development of Shazhou in the early stage.

Here, I would like to express my opinion to everyone. I suggest that we should start from scratch with a "zero mentality", work hard with a "test attitude", serve the people with the "character of a public servant", and work together with our comrades to write a new chapter of high-quality development of Shazhou...

After reading to the end, Qin Feng simply took the manuscript in his hands and read from it.

Qin Feng's action made everyone present look down on him even more.

The manuscripts of leaders' speeches are naturally written by special secretaries in the secretariat, but this is only for some large and important meetings. Today is an internal high-level meeting of the municipal government's leadership team. Generally speaking, who would read the manuscript at such a meeting?

The office prepared in advance due to their job responsibilities regardless of whether Qin Feng would read it aloud or not, and they did not give the manuscript to Qin Feng for review in advance, which means that the office did not expect Qin Feng to read it aloud.

In the eyes of the leaders present, Qin Feng even needed to read from a script at this kind of meeting, which was enough to show that Qin Feng had no ideas at all and was a complete fool.

Qin Feng didn't care what others thought. He continued to read from the manuscript:

First, inheritance and relay, building consensus...

Second, focus on key points and make breakthroughs...

Third, we should work together to strive for excellence...

Qin Feng was speaking from a manuscript. Some of the deputy mayors sitting at the table began to doze off, while others simply took out their cell phones and started playing.

Qin Feng was also very dissatisfied with these scholars who wrote the manuscripts. It was clearly just a formality, but they insisted on writing such long manuscripts, forcing him to patiently read them all:

First, we need momentum from the industry...

Second, we need to improve people’s livelihood…

Third, we need efficiency in governance…

"Comrades, the new journey has begun. Let us, under the strong leadership of the municipal party committee, work together to create a better tomorrow for Shazhou with the spirit of success not necessarily depends on me and the responsibility of success must be mine!"

"thank you all!"

Qin Feng finally finished reading this manuscript which was as long as an old lady's foot binding. After finishing it, he let out a long sigh of relief.

After Qin Feng finished reading, many deputy mayors had not yet reacted. They were either in a daze, dozing off, or still playing with their phones.

Peng Zhen was the first to react and led the applause. Then the other deputy mayors reacted and followed suit.

This meeting actually does not have any specific content. It is just a meeting for the new mayor Qin Feng to meet these deputy mayors, so according to the agenda everyone will say a few words. Executive Vice Mayor Shao Hongli will welcome Qin Feng's arrival on behalf of the Shazhou Municipal Government and make a speech.

But now Shao Hongli suddenly didn't come, so the most important link was cancelled.

After Qin Feng finished speaking, each deputy mayor gave a brief formal report on the work under their charge, and then the meeting adjourned.

The first meeting Qin Feng held after arriving in Shazhou City ended abruptly due to Shao Hongli's absence. However, Qin Feng was not angry and still walked out of the meeting room with a smile on his face.

Tao Yun, who was standing at the door waiting, saw Qin Feng coming out, and hurriedly ran in, took Qin Feng's teacup, and followed Qin Feng back to the office.

"Go and get me all the economic data reports of Shazhou in recent years. Don't disturb me unless it's important." Qin Feng said to Tao Yun after returning to the office.

"Okay." Tao Yun said and prepared to go out.

"Wait a minute, go ask Mayor Hongli if he is in the office, and then go and ask Mayor Hongli personally when it is convenient. If it is convenient, I will go over to talk to him about work." Qin Feng stopped Tao Yun.

"You went to Mayor Hongli?" Tao Yun thought he had heard wrong. Qin Feng was the mayor and Shao Hongli was the deputy mayor. How could Qin Feng go to Shao Hongli's office to discuss work with Shao Hongli?

"Yes, just do what you are told to do, and don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask." Qin Feng was somewhat dissatisfied with Tao Yun. Logically speaking, after working in the government for many years, his political wisdom and emotional intelligence were very high, and he shouldn't ask a question in return.

"Okay, I'll go ask now..." Tao Yun ran out quickly.

Qin Feng spent his first morning at work like this. At noon, he ate some Jiangnan-style stir-fried dishes specially prepared for him in the small cafeteria of the city government. After returning to the office, Qin Feng took a comfortable nap in the lounge behind the bookshelf.

Because Qin Feng didn't allow any work to be arranged, he had no work arrangements for the whole afternoon. If Qin Feng wanted, he could sleep until he got off work, but Qin Feng still strictly followed the work schedule and just took a nap in bed for a while.

After getting up, Qin Feng began to carefully look through the various economic data of Shazhou City over the years that were piled on the table like a mountain.