Chapter 77: The Eldest is Angry, Consequences are Severe (Part 2)

  The Municipal Radio and Television Bureau is not a powerful unit, it doesn't have the qualifications to call out its superiors, if a small deputy section-level cadre in the Municipal Radio and Television Bureau dares to come to the Municipal Motorcycle Manufacturing Factory to show off his power and extort money, then Lin Hongfei, the factory director, would be finished. Since Wang Qunsheng is not a development object worthy of attention, then Director Guo must give an explanation to his superior, Vice Mayor Cheng, otherwise, it would be embarrassing for Vice Mayor Cheng: How could this happen? How can just anyone come and bully me? Do they think the vice mayor is not a cadre?

  However, Deputy Mayor Cheng was not very satisfied with Director Deng's handling of the matter. "Little Deng, I don't think a deputy director of an office would dare ask the municipal motorcycle factory to reimburse his expenses. Haven't you thought about the reasons behind this?"

  Director Deng's sweat suddenly came down: Vice Mayor Cheng, what do you mean by this? Isn't this clearly accusing him of covering up for certain people? But Vice Mayor Cheng's accusation is quite reasonable. A small deputy director of a municipal bureau office, just a sesame-sized deputy departmental cadre, dares to rush into a regular enterprise and demand that the other party reimburse his expenses... This is indeed somewhat unreasonable! Who gave him such great audacity? There must be a reason for this!

  Paralyzed Wang Qunsheng, I'm going to get you killed! Director Deng was so angry that he wanted to call Wang Qunsheng back and beat him up to vent his anger. On the other hand, he still had to continue pretending to be obedient, "Yes, yes, Mayor, you are right, I will go investigate now."

  "Hmm, can your broadcasting bureau investigate clearly? If not, I'll give my comrades in the public security system a call." Vice Mayor Cheng's words implied that he was extremely dissatisfied with Director Deng's handling of the matter.

  "No, no, no," Director Deng was not only frightened but almost paralyzed with fear. What did it mean? Let the public security comrades come over? That would be a great loss of face for the Radio and Television Bureau, and perhaps even Secretary Dong would find out. If the big boss of Beiguan City had an opinion about himself, that would be terrible.

  Director Deng made a decisive decision: whoever was playing tricks inside didn't matter; since you're not making me happy, I won't make you happy either. "Mayor, we can investigate clearly, we must investigate clearly. Give me half a day... no! Three hours, three hours' time, and I will definitely get to the bottom of this."

  "Alright..." Deputy Mayor Cheng also knew he couldn't push too hard, "Three hours then, I'll be waiting for your call in three hours."

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  Director Deng had enough pressure and motivation, and within three hours, the situation was clear: this matter actually had little to do with Deputy Director Wang, who was just an unfortunate scapegoat. The root of the problem lay with Deputy Director Sun Cuguang, who had gone on a business trip to Beijing recently. It's unclear what he did in Beijing, but when he returned, he brought back receipts for over 40,000 yuan to be reimbursed.

  If it were a group account, that would be fine, but this is such a large sum of money for just one person, Sun Deputy Director. In 1991, 40,000 yuan was a huge amount of money. Sun Deputy Director's monthly salary was only 400 yuan, which was already considered high. How could the bureau's finance department dare to reimburse the full amount? After gritting his teeth and thinking for half a day, they finally reimbursed 20,000 yuan, but even this was in violation of many regulations.

  The problem is, after reimbursing 20,000, aren't there still 20,000 that haven't been reimbursed? Deputy Director Sun thought for half a day and came up with an idea: I heard that the Municipal Motorcycle Manufacturing Factory had borrowed 200 million from the Municipal Industrial and Commercial Bank. I'll go find them to reimburse 20,000, isn't that reasonable?

  Of course, this matter cannot be handled by Deputy Director Sun himself. After all, he is also a deputy department-level cadre and would not want to lose face. So naturally, the task fell on Wang Qunsheng's head.

  The whole story has finally been clarified.

  It's said that a 200,000 yuan matter is just a small issue for a prefecture-level city's municipal government, and it would be problematic to reimburse an individual for such an amount at one time. However, the problem lies in the fact that this matter was personally reported by Dongfang Xiaoling to Vice Mayor Cheng, who oversees the entire motorcycle manufacturing factory, making the issue more serious.

  Everyone thinks that Dongfang Xiaoling is representing Secretary Dongfang to "supervise the country". Now, does Dongfang Xiaoling's meaning represent Secretary Dongfang's meaning? Is Secretary Dongfang testing himself? This question cannot be thought about by Deputy Mayor Cheng. Although he is a person in Secretary Dongfang's line, his weight is clearly not ranked first, which is undoubtedly true. Deputy Mayor Cheng also knows that if he wants to get ahead, he must satisfy Secretary Dongfang no matter what... especially the matter of the municipal motorcycle factory.

  It's hard to say, but 40,000 yuan in '91 was still a significant amount; it can be said that it's simple, but actually it's not simple. A deputy director of the municipal bureau is not worth 40,000 yuan? Hmm, let's see what Secretary Dong has to say about this matter.

  After Vice Mayor Cheng reported the situation to Secretary Dong, Secretary Dong gave instructions: suggested adjusting Comrade Sun Cunguang's work division and suggested investigating whether Comrade Sun Cunguang had economic problems.

  The investigation results naturally found that Sun Cunguang had a small problem, but the problem was not big and did not reach the level of being a policy issue. However, small problems are still problems and need to be solved. The position of Deputy Director Sun Cunguang has not changed, but his division of labor has been adjusted. He previously oversaw the third set of programs for Beiguan City TV Station, assisted with fire safety and security work, was in charge of propaganda work, contacted various departments of the district committee and government, and presided over party branch work. After the adjustment, he is now in charge of scientific progress, business development, internal logistics, trade union women's work.

  Everyone knows that SARFT is just a regulatory body, what can it do in terms of technological advancement and family planning? This is SARFT, not the Ministry of Science and Technology or the Family Planning Commission.

  The Oriental Secretary's statement on this matter is a severe warning in itself: "Damn it, who dares to recklessly stretch out their hand towards the Municipal Motorcycle Factory again? Does he really think I don't dare to strip him of his position?"

  Before Dongfang Secretary issued a stern warning to the big and small leaders in the city, although no one dared to reach out to the municipal motorcycle factory, but in fact, there were undercurrents surging, and many people were waiting to see Lin Hongfei's joke, rubbing their fists and palms, waiting for an opportunity to cut a piece of meat from the 200 million to fatten their family's purse.