The dinner party soon arrived at the scheduled start time.
I stepped into the banquet hall at the right time in the middle of the week.
There were hundreds of people attending the dinner, and these hundreds of people basically covered the most cutting-edge figures in Qingjiang's political and business circles.
If there was an explosion in this hall at this time, it would be enough to cut off the top of Qingjiang's pyramid.
Zhou Zhong walked by with a reserved smile on his face, saying hello to the left and right, and walked onto the stage of the banquet hall.
Standing on the stage, looking at the hundreds of pairs of eyes under the stage, although the stage is only more than 20 centimeters higher than the surroundings, in the eyes of the people at this time in the middle of the week, it feels like they are on the verge of reaching the top!
From the second-in-command to the first-in-command in the government, it seems like it is just a step forward. However, how difficult this step is to pass is like a matter of drinking water, knowing whether it is warm or not.
Zhou Zhongzheng knew very well that if it hadn't been for Sun Zhongkang's somewhat inexplicable and sudden downfall, he would probably have been wasting his final political career in the position of executive deputy until he was about to retire. If he had operated properly
After a while, maybe you can adjust to the Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference and hold the position of chairman, raising your administrative level to another level.
If this is the case, Zhou Zhongzheng actually doesn’t have too many regrets. After all, there are so many people who have spent their entire lives in officialdom and wasted their time trying to make progress at the department level. After spending their entire lives fighting at the department level, they have never been able to get to the next level.
There are as many people as there are stars in the sky, and among them there are definitely not a few who are truly capable and capable.
All they lack is some luck and people who appreciate them.
Unlike most foreign elites who are concentrated in the business world, in mainland China, almost all the truly talented and capable people are within the system. In such fierce and even brutal competition, Zhou Zhongzheng was able to climb to his current high position.
, he is actually quite contented, but somewhat unwilling to do so.
But Sun Zhongkang's sudden accident gave him this golden opportunity.
Subsequently, with the tacit understanding formed by several factions, Sun Zhongkang was completely captured as expected, and Zhou Zhongzheng got his wish and sat on the mayor's seat that he had been dreaming of for who knows how long!
Since Qingjiang is a city at the deputy provincial level, although the mayor cannot sit on the Standing Committee of the Provincial Committee like the secretary, he is still at the deputy ministerial level, and has stepped from the executive deputy mayor at the department level to the deputy ministerial level.
Mayor, in the officialdom, this step can even be regarded as a leap over the dragon's gate!
Throughout the continent, there are more than 100,000 department-level cadres, but less than 2,000 ministerial-level cadres. To jump from one in 100,000 to one in 2,000, it is no wonder that Zheng Zheng was so high-spirited in the middle of the week.
Although the relevant promotion documents have not yet been issued, everything is basically confirmed. When the National People's Congress officially approves the election next year, Zhou Zhongzheng will become a real senior cadre.
And as a person's position gets higher and higher, his ambition often becomes bigger and bigger.
That's exactly what happened during the middle of the week.
After finally becoming the acting mayor, the issues Zhou Zhongzheng was thinking about immediately changed drastically. What he wants now is to get enough say from Qin Songlin!
He doesn't want to be a law-abiding mayor like Sun Zhongkang. His roots in Qingjiang are much deeper than Sun Zhongkang's, so he wants to have real rights!
Even if you can't stand up to Qin Songlin, you should at least be able to implement your own will on some more important matters!
Tonight’s banquet is the first step!
After standing on the stage and speaking humorously for more than ten minutes, Zhou Zhongzheng finally controlled himself from going into a long speech, and then the whole dinner officially began.
The dinner was held in a manner more similar to a Western cocktail party. Food was completely self-service, and drinks were carried by more than a dozen staff on trays at any time and shuttled back and forth among the crowd.
As Zhou Zhong got off the stage, melodious music immediately sounded in the entire hall, and some people began to dance slow ballroom dancing to the music.
The dance is never the purpose. It is the most important thing to take this rare opportunity for everyone to get together, chat with each other, and try to reach some cooperation intentions as much as possible.
Ye Su was about to drag Su Yunxuan to the self-service tables to get some desserts, but before he could make any move, Zhou Qian wandered over again.
"Principal Su, I hope to have the honor of inviting you to dance with me."
Zhou Qian said in a very gentlemanly manner.
"Sorry, I came with a dance partner. If I want to dance, he will accompany me."
Su Yunxuan politely refused.
Zhou Qian glanced at Ye Su, then shook his head and said with a smile: "Principal Su, it's not that I'm a talkative person, it's just that... some elegant dance steps are not something just anyone can dance. Although some people have very outstanding appearances, But apart from being put up as a clothes rack, it really has no other use."
"But I'm from the Appearance Association. If a person doesn't even look good, I won't be interested in doing other things with him."
Su Yunxuan said without giving Zhou Qian any face.
Ye Su stood aside with a smile without saying a word, as if these things had nothing to do with him.
Zhou Qian's face froze. Although Su Yunxuan said this, he felt a lot of anger in his heart, but it didn't show on the surface. He just cursed secretly in his heart, thinking that after catching up with Su Yunxuan, he would ravage Su Yunxuan to vent his anger. anger.
While comforting himself in this way, Zhou Qian turned to look at Ye Su, the smile on his face turned dangerous and said: "Teacher Ye Su, how about you lend me your female partner for a dance?"
"Excuse me? Principal Su only belongs to herself. I am not qualified to make the decision for her."
Ye Su said with a smile.
Of course you can't make the decision for your principal! But when you stand here, don't you feel like you are a light bulb?
Zhou Qian was thinking in his mind, but he said: "Haha, this is just a joke. I mean, those who can attend tonight's banquet are all real big shots. With your status, if Principal Su hadn't led you Come on, I'm afraid you will never have the chance to meet these people in your life. Don't you want to take advantage of this time to get to know more people? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If that big shot really appreciates you, you don't have to just If you become an ordinary university teacher, if you are lucky, you may be able to squeeze into Qingjiang's upper class society."
"Really? It sounds very tempting, but it always feels like it's too troublesome. It's better for me to hold on to our principal here. If she falls in love with me and is willing to be with me, wouldn't that be more convenient? convenient?"
Ye Su pretended to think for a while and then said seriously.
Zhou Gan looked at Ye Su blankly, and after confirming that Ye Su was not joking, he immediately said in a dumbfounded voice: "Brother, are you okay? Can your principal like you?"
"Is this impossible? Men are not afraid of having nothing. Who made me handsome? If you could be as handsome as me, you would have the same confidence as me."
Ye Su said with a look on his face that he wanted to be beaten.