Nominal: The Handong Game, the Energy System's Counterattack

Regarding the punishment of the mayor of Yantai City, and the subsequent handling of the 368 officials.

The Standing Committee's conclusion at the time was simple: to avoid a blanket approach and not to punish all of these people.

Otherwise, the entire city of Yantai will be in chaos.

According to Zhao Lichun and the Standing Committee at the time, the Discipline Inspection Commission should intervene first and investigate gradually.

The process will be handled step by step, while the assessment of reserve cadres will be intensified.

While maintaining the overall stability of the Iwata team, we will deal with and marginalize these people step by step.

After listening, Sha Ruijin nodded.

He expressed his approval of the handling methods adopted by the previous Party Secretary Zhao Lichun and the Standing Committee.

"Comrade Yuliang and everyone's speech just now has given me a lot of new information."

"This further confirms my judgment that the problem lies with the cadre team in Handong."

"The time has come for a solution, but how do we solve it?"

"It's actually very simple, just follow the Party's discipline and national laws."

After listening to Li Dakang's account, Sha Ruijin gave a concluding speech.

After listening to what Li Dakang and Gao Yuliang had just said, Zhou Chuyi knew that they had both been tricked by Sha Ruijin.

It must be said that Sha Ruijin is quite adept at political maneuvering.

Before he knew it, Gao Yuliang and Li Dakang, the two chess players from Handong, had started fighting according to his plan.

In response to Li Dakang, Sha Ruijin pointed out the mass incident at the 116 wind turbine factory, which led to questions about Ding Yizhen and the Organization Minister of the Jingzhou Municipal Party Committee.

In response to Gao Yuliang, the issue of Qi Tongwei was directly pointed out.

Driven by their own selfish motives, the two were forced to relentlessly attack each other.

In order to protect themselves and their own people, they had to exaggerate the problems of individual cadres.

The corruption and misconduct issues of the few officials that were investigated were gradually brought to light as problems that were prevalent throughout the entire officialdom of Handong.

That's exactly what Sha Ruijin wanted.

The next step is to freeze the promotions of 125 people.

"I've said these things more than once when I was the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission."

"But it just can't be done." Tian Guofu was a good straight man, directly echoing Sha Ruijin's words.

"Why can't we do it? It's really just a matter of whether we want to do it, whether we dare to do it, and whether we have a sense of responsibility."

"For example, those female cadres we just talked about, they slept with the head of the organization department and were promoted from section chief to division chief."

"I'd like to ask, what about those who work diligently and achieve great things?"

"Is it fair to cadres who remain in the same position for ten or twenty years?"

Sha Ruijin felt that his first Standing Committee meeting in Handong was entirely under his control.

After asking the question, he glanced at all the Standing Committee members and then answered himself: "It's unfair."

"If this isn't addressed, everyone will follow suit, and then the Party's work style, the government's work style, and the social atmosphere will be completely corrupted."

Sha Ruijin's rhetorical question put pressure on all the Standing Committee members.

The entire conference room fell silent immediately.

Well, if we oppose Secretary Sha now, wouldn't that be going against the greater good?

However, Zhou Chuyi was anxious, as the entire Standing Committee's rhythm was now completely controlled by Sha Ruijin.

If things continue like this, when he proposes freezing promotions for cadres, no one will dare to object.

Of course, the three members of the provincial government's standing committee did not object to freezing the salaries of these 125 officials.

After all, it won't have much impact on the provincial government, but it would be best if others objected.

He nudged He Zhenhui, the executive vice governor next to him, who understood and secretly pressed his phone in his pocket.

On Governor Liu's end, his cell phone vibrated a few times in his pocket.

He secretly took it out and glanced at it, and when he saw that it was He Zhenhui's phone number, he immediately understood.

Before the Standing Committee meeting began, he had an in-depth conversation with Zhou Chuyi.

Zhou Chuyi had reported on the disposal and investigation of more than 20 tons of gasoline in the Dafeng Factory area.

The entire venue was relatively quiet, and no one made any moves. However, Governor Liu's use of his phone caught the attention of Sha Ruijin.

At this moment, Sha Ruijin seemed to remember that Governor Liu was his deputy class monitor.

He now had the entire Standing Committee situation under control, although he understood that Governor Liu was about to retire and wouldn't be involved in much affairs.

Therefore, before the Standing Committee meeting, he did not hold a three-person or five-person meeting with Governor Liu and others.

However, things went more smoothly than he had expected, now that the overall situation was settled.

Sha Ruijin decided to demonstrate his magnanimity and tolerance; he couldn't let Governor Liu, the second-in-command, remain silent throughout the entire meeting.

However, he would soon regret his decision.

Seeing that Governor Liu had glanced at his phone, Sha Ruijin smiled and looked at Governor Liu.

"Governor Liu, you are the governor of Handong Province and the second-in-command of the provincial party committee. What are your thoughts on the issues that everyone has just discussed?"

Sha Ruijin waited for Governor Liu to follow his lead and say that the problems with the cadre team in Handong had reached a point where they absolutely had to be resolved.

He then said a few more words and directly proposed freezing the appointments of these 125 cadres.

So, Sha Ruijin won a great victory at today's Standing Committee meeting.

As for the mass incident at Dafeng Factory? It was just a pretext for him to give Li Dakang and his ilk a warning.

Sha Ruijin pointed to Governor Liu, drawing the attention of all the Standing Committee members.

Governor Liu pretended to look up blankly, glanced around, secretly stuffed his phone into his pocket, straightened his posture, and coughed twice.

"Huh? It's my turn to speak?"

Then, he slowly raised his hands to the table and picked up the meeting agenda.

"Before the meeting, I took a look at the agenda for this Standing Committee meeting."

"One is the discussion on the follow-up handling of the mass incident that just occurred at the No. 116 wind farms."

"One is the discussion of cadre personnel issues."

"When our Standing Committee holds meetings, we go through each item one by one."

"So far, the discussion has been very heated, ranging from the mass incident at Dafeng Factory to the problems with our province's cadre team."

"We've been discussing this for so long, and our Standing Committee still hasn't finished its agenda."

Governor Liu paused for a moment, then smiled and looked at everyone in the hall.

Meeting Sha Ruijin's smiling eyes, he complimented Sha Ruijin.

"Secretary Sha's assessment of the mass incident at the No. 116 wind farm was that it was neither a typical demolition dispute nor a simple economic dispute."

"It was a serious mass incident triggered by official corruption."

"The corrupt behavior of our cadres has exacerbated and intensified widespread social contradictions."

Governor Liu spoke slowly, occasionally glancing at the members of the Standing Committee, but everyone listened attentively to the old governor.

Seeing that Governor Liu had brought up the January 16 Incident again, Sha Ruijin narrowed his eyes.

He didn't understand what the governor, who was only a few months away from retirement, was trying to say.