Chapter 53: The Principle of Better to be Lacking than Excessive

  To ensure Zou Wenming's authority and position in the Xinleng County Taxation Bureau Party Group, Xu Fei again painstakingly arranged for two newly promoted deputy directors from other county and city taxation bureaus to serve as party group members in the Xinleng County Taxation Bureau, while transferring Huang Letian, the former head of the Inspection Bureau who had just been promoted, to the Baozhu County Taxation Bureau to serve as the head of the Discipline Inspection Group.

  In this way, among the five party group members of the new Leng County Bureau, the old deputy director Jin Chengliang was originally very close to Zou Wenming, and Su Lihua was a non-interfering peacemaker. Two newly promoted deputy directors who were exchanged from outside counties and cities, one had shallow qualifications, and two had no foundation in the county bureau, can only consciously maintain the authority of the first-in-command...

  Xu Fei did this to reduce the resistance from Zou Wenming in promoting Ye Ming, so as to smoothly complete his original plan of directly promoting Ye Ming to be in charge of the First Division.

  Zou Wenming is now grateful to Xu Fei and Ye Ming, so he understands Xu Fei's intentions. In just one week after taking office as the first-in-command, he began to work on selecting and appointing mid-level cadres.

  To ensure that the position of the head of the Public Security Bureau can be vacated, and to clear the way for Ye Ming's actual control, Zou Wenming put a lot of thought into designing the middle-level leadership selection and appointment plan, and finally formed a draft.

  Then he went through the work of several other party group members one by one, and only then did the teaching department issue the plan.

  According to this plan, in the county bureau's selection of middle-level leading positions this time, there are two positions: one is the office director position left vacant by Chen Weiping, and the other is the head of the First Division - because previously, the original head of the First Division had been transferred to be the head of the Inspection Bureau, replacing the original head of the Inspection Bureau Huang Letian who had already been promoted.

  Program requirements: Cadres participating in the middle-level leadership competition must clearly indicate which position they are competing for when signing up. At the same time, applicants must undergo qualification review and only those who meet the following points can sign up to compete for the position of Director of a Division:

  One is to have participated in tax work for more than 10 years;

  Two is under 40 years old.

  Three is a bachelor's degree or above in taxation or economic management major.

  Four is to serve as deputy middle-level for more than three years.

  As soon as the registration conditions were released, only three people met the requirements: Ou Yangming, Deputy Director of the First Bureau, Zeng Zhan, Deputy Director of the Inspection Bureau, and Xiao Zhihui, Acting Director of the Office.

  Xiao Zhihui, however, had his heart set on competing for the office director position and therefore did not sign up to participate in the competition for the bureau chief position.

  In the end, only Ou Yangming and Zeng Zhan were left to compete for the position of head of the One Division Bureau.

  At the same time, the plan also made it clear that in accordance with the principle of "better to have a vacancy than fill it inadequately", if during the party group's examination process, the candidate for the position does not receive three or more votes from members of the party group, then the position will be temporarily left vacant, and will be filled later when someone who meets all the conditions comes along.

  And this "better fewer but better" principle is the clever strategy that Zou Wenming painstakingly researched to vacate the position of head of a sub-bureau.

  But Ou Yangming and Zeng Zhan didn't pay special attention to this. Especially Ou Yangming, who had been excited for the past few days, as if he had been injected with chicken blood - in his opinion, the conditions specified in the job application scheme seemed to be tailor-made for him, every one of which he met, and every one of which matched his experience.

  From this, he drew a conclusion: The county bureau party group finally began to attach importance to this professional and technical personnel who had been the deputy director for five or six years.

  Now, his only competitor is Zeng Zhan. This Zeng Zhan was promoted later than himself, has less seniority than himself, is younger than himself, and has poorer abilities than himself. Moreover, he's a "old yellow cow" who only knows how to work hard with his head down, doesn't know how to build relationships or take the back door, and isn't very close to the middle-level cadres in the county bureau.

  The most important thing is: Zeng Zhan's exam absolutely won't win himself. And this time the competition plan clearly stipulates that participants must first take a business exam, and the exam score accounts for 50% of the comprehensive score...

  With these few points of judgment, Ouyang Ming felt that this position as the head of a small department was almost within his grasp!

  So, in the past few days, he kept running to the homes of middle-level cadres who had voting rights for evaluation and assessment. Every time he went to a home, he brought two top-grade Furongwang cigarettes - this was equivalent to buying the evaluation votes from these middle-level cadres, and he also achieved his goal: all the cadres he visited promised to vote for him.

  In addition, he also used the evening to visit several members of the bureau's party group with cigarettes and wine or red envelopes. Among them, Su Lihua and Jin Chengliang accepted his gifts, but the other two newly arrived deputy directors resolutely refused his red envelope.

  There was only one person, Wenming Zou, whom he didn't dare to visit with gifts, because he knew that Wenming Zou never accepted red envelopes or bribes from subordinates or taxpayers.

  Despite this, Ouyang Ming was still optimistic about his prospects for the job: as long as he scored higher than Zeng Zhan in the exam and got more votes than Zeng Zhan in the democratic evaluation, then the party organization's review would basically be just a formality...

  That day, he suddenly walked into Ye Ming's office and saw that only Ye Ming was sitting there. He smiled and said: "Brother, this time you're competing for the deputy position, it should be a sure thing. I think you've been in the office for so many years, but still need to go out and do some business, interact with taxpayers more, accumulate some connections, and make things easier when going out or doing business in the future. How about this: if I succeed in competing for the head of the first branch this time, I'll ask the party group to transfer you to the first branch as my deputy, and we two brothers will work together to make the first branch's work exciting and achieve some results. What do you think?"

  Ye Ming saw his complacent expression and inexplicably felt a twinge of guilt in her heart, while also feeling a little sorry for him: such an intelligent person, yet he hadn't noticed the most crucial point in Zou Wenming's plan, and still thought that the position of deputy director was already his for the taking...

  Of course, this secret can't be revealed to Ouyang Ming. So after listening to Ouyang Ming's enthusiastic proposal, he just calmly said: "Thank you brother for looking up to me. If there is such an opportunity, I will definitely strive for it."

  A week later, through the selection and appointment procedures of business examination, democratic appraisal, and party group investigation, Xiao Zhihui was determined as the candidate for the director of the office, and Ye Ming, Chen Yi and four others were determined as candidates for deputy director of the first branch bureau, deputy director of the office and other positions.

  Ouyang Ming, who had the greatest expectations for this job, passed the examination and democratic evaluation, but was eliminated because he did not receive more than three votes of approval from party group members during the party group review. Zeng Zhan, who was next in line to be reviewed, also failed to receive more than three votes of approval from party group members.

  Accordingly, in accordance with the principle of "better to be lacking than to have too much", the position of head of a sub-bureau was left vacant.