Absolute power in officialdom

Chapter 195 The Gynecological Examination Room, the Garden of Eden of Love

Sun Dewang accidentally knocked over a broom that was placed in the corner of the wall with a loud bang.

Wu Zhiyuan coughed deliberately.

Then they walked toward the village affairs disclosure board in the village office courtyard.

The "one issue, one discussion" public notice is still from three years ago.

The door to the gynecological examination room opened.

A burly, dark-skinned man walked out.

The burly man was very unhappy that his good deed had been interrupted.

"Hey, what are you doing here?"

Sun Dewang recognized the burly man, turned around, and said meaningfully, "Secretary Qian, what are you doing 'busy' in the gynecology examination room in broad daylight?"

The burly, dark-skinned man known as "Secretary Qian" is Qian Yougen, the Party Branch Secretary of Qingshanxia Village.

His zipper wasn't fully zipped up, and his face flushed red and then turned pale.

Upon seeing that it was Sun Dewang, he said irritably, "When did our Director Sun learn to eavesdrop? Director Huang and I were discussing gynecological examinations for women of childbearing age."

At this moment, a middle-aged woman came out.

The woman was in her forties, fair-skinned and plump, with an average appearance.

The woman's face was flushed, whether from happiness or shame at being caught in the act, it was hard to tell.

Sun Dewang sarcastically remarked, "Secretary Qian, you're working so hard! Too busy! Busy with women's work!"

Qian Yougen's face darkened further: "Director Sun, what do you mean by that? What are we village cadres busy with if not our work?"

Sun Dewang sneered, not bothering to argue with Qian Yougen, but instead turned to Wu Zhiyuan and introduced him: "Secretary Wu, this is Qian Yougen, the Party Branch Secretary of Qingshanxia Village."

This is Huang Jinxiang, the village's women's federation director and family planning specialist.

Qian Yougen sized up Wu Zhiyuan and tentatively asked, "You are—"

Sun Dewang said coldly, "Secretary Qian, I forgot to introduce you. This is Wu Zhiyuan, the newly appointed member of the county party committee and secretary of the town party committee."

Sun Dewang was greatly surprised.

He had already heard that a new Party Secretary was coming to the town, named Wu Zhiyuan.

According to normal procedures, the town should hold a meeting to announce the appointment. Why did he take office without any notice and come to the village to conduct an unannounced inspection?

"Secretary Wu?" Qian Yougen's smile was more like a grimace. "We had no idea you were coming today. We were completely unprepared. This is extremely rude!"

Wu Zhiyuan's words were laced with sarcasm: "Secretary Qian, you're quite dedicated to your work."

"Secretary Wu, please don't misunderstand. We were discussing the arrangements for health checkups for women of childbearing age in the village. Some details need further discussion..."

Qian Yougen's explanation seemed more like a blatant attempt to cover up his misdeeds.

Pointing to the dusty village affairs bulletin board, Wu Zhiyuan asked, "Is the village's daily work usually this thorough? People come looking for help, only to be turned away?"

Qian Yougen stammered and talked for a long time, but couldn't come up with a coherent explanation.

Wu Zhiyuan asked about some village work, but Qian Yougen either knew nothing about it or gave vague and incoherent answers.

"Director Sun, let's go!" Wu Zhiyuan said with a sullen face as he left the village office.

"Secretary Wu, come to my house for dinner tonight. My wife is a pretty good cook; I'll have her cook a few home-style dishes." Qian Yougen said with a fawning expression.

"No need!" Wu Zhiyuan walked away without looking back.

"Secretary Wu, don't be angry. It's not worth getting angry with this kind of person," Sun Dewang advised from the side.

"I'm not angry, I feel sad and a little scared."

A village secretary dared to act so brazenly in the village committee's gynecological examination room in broad daylight!

Does he have no regard for rules? Does he have any respect for the people or the organization?

This is just what we stumbled upon. What about the ones we didn't?

How many shady dealings are involved in the village's accounts, land expropriation compensation, and management of collective assets?

Can village officials like these effectively implement the Party's policies? Can they truly prioritize the interests of the people?

I think it's already good enough if he doesn't bankrupt the village and alienate the people!

"Actually, Secretary Wu, based on my understanding, Qian Yougen isn't the worst among the fifteen village secretaries in the town."

"Really? Director Sun, tell me more."

"Secretary Wu, take today's incident as an example. Qian Yougen only has affairs with village women, not with the young women and wives in the village."

Instead of booking a hotel room, he made do with what he had and stayed in the gynecological examination room.

If we book a hotel room and then have a meal at a restaurant, it will cost us a thousand or eight hundred yuan, and we'll have to get reimbursed for that expense back in the village.

They are very efficient; they get things done immediately and quickly.

Sun Dewang also joked: "They slept in a presidential suite on a simple gynecological examination bed."

As long as you have the sea in your heart, anywhere can be the Maldives;

Wherever there is love in your heart, there is an Eden of love.

Wu Zhiyuan smiled, a bitter smile.

"Director Sun, according to what you just said, some village officials are even worse than Qian Yougen?"

"Secretary Wu, I may be being a bit extreme, but in our Xindian Town, out of the fifteen village secretaries and village heads, there is only one who is truly dedicated to leading the villagers to prosperity, and that is Li Jinfu, the secretary of Gangwan Village."

Others, as long as they don't bully and oppress their fellow villagers, are already considered good cadres.

For example, in Longkou Village, where the iron ore mine is located, the village collective economy is good, and the village secretary and village head are both held by Song Xiaolong.

Song Xiaolong's older brother is Song Dalong, the deputy director of the county public security bureau.

Song Xiaolong was a local tyrant in the village, oppressing the people and bullying the villagers. The young women and wives in the village would all stay far away from him.

Longkou Village was his independent kingdom. He contracted out the village's collective forests and water areas to his relatives at low prices, and then subcontracted them out at high prices, making a fortune out of nothing.

He also oppressed the people. Old Liu's house in Longkou Village was in a good location, and Song Xiaolong wanted to have his cousin open a farmhouse restaurant there.

They insisted the house was an illegal structure and led a group of people to forcibly demolish it. When Lao Liu argued with them, he had two ribs broken and is now limping.

Sue? The police station went there, saying it was a dispute and they would mediate.

The town government reported it, but nothing was done. Song Xiaolong declared that in Longkou Village, his word was law.

Sun Dewang then mentioned Wang Youcai, the Party Secretary of Qingshui Village: "He is different from Song Xiaolong. He is very good at putting on a good show and is a well-known model village Party Secretary and a leader in getting rich in the county."

The greenhouse vegetable farming in Qingshui Village seems to be thriving, and the villagers appear to have made some money.

The problem is that he enriched the monks but impoverished the temple; more precisely, he enriched his own family but impoverished the collective and most of the villagers.

He embezzled a large sum of subsidies from higher-level governments by falsely reporting the area of ​​greenhouses and inflating material prices.

The agricultural supplies used in the greenhouse had to be bought from his sister-in-law's shop, which was expensive and of mediocre quality.

He is the chairman of the vegetable cooperative and controls the sales channels. If the vegetable price is low, he tells the villagers that the market is not good.

He sold it at a high price, and the bulk of the profit went into his own company's account.

The villagers work hard to grow vegetables and earn a meager living, but he pockets the lion's share.

This person is particularly adept at currying favor with superiors, speaking eloquently to the media, and presenting a glamorous image.

When leaders come from above, they often see rows of greenhouses and hear his endless stories of how he got rich, and they actually start to believe he's a capable person.

Wu Zhiyuan felt heavy-hearted.

If Sun Dewang's words are true, then Song Xiaolong is an outright tyrant, and Wang Youcai is a parasite who seizes wealth by trickery and coercion. One is overt, the other covert, yet both are eroding the foundation of the grassroots and harming the interests of the masses.

Sun Dewang concluded: "People like Qian Yougen, who are only corrupt in style and mediocre in ability, may be considered to be less harmful."

In the fifteen villages of Xindian Town, there are very few people like Li Jinfu from Gangwan Village who are truly dedicated and honest.

Most village committees are either controlled by people like Song Xiaolong and Wang Youcai, or by people like Qian Yougen who just coast along.

Good policies from above are either distorted or lost when they reach their hands.

The public has many complaints, but often they don't dare to complain, or they have nowhere to turn for help, and even if they do, it's useless.