Chapter Sixteen: Quota Expenses

  Yang Jie felt that Liu Fei's tone of speaking to him seemed somewhat different from before.

  Specifically what's wrong, Yang Jie couldn't say, only feeling that it had a slightly spoiled taste.

  But Liu Fei spoke to him like this, he felt very comfortable and didn't think too much, smiling and saying: "How's the file looking? Share some with me, two people can choose together, it will be much faster, try to get these materials done today."

  Liu Fei smiled and walked back to her own desk, took a pile of unread documents from the table, divided them in half and handed one half to Yang Jie who was sitting opposite.

  Looking at Liu Fei with a smiling face, she no longer had the cold expression she used to have in Wanhe County. At this moment, Liu Fei was like a blooming peony, pleasing to the eye and delightful to behold, making Yang Jie, who sat opposite her, feast his eyes.

  "Knock knock."

  There were two short knocks on the office door. Liu Fei looked up from the documents in her hand, got up and walked over to open the door.

  "Anything wrong, Sister Ren?" The door opened and Liu Fei saw that it was Ren Hui Ling from the office.

  "Little Liu, why is your office phone always busy? The director asked Yang to go to his office for a visit."

  At the moment when Ren Hui Ling opened the door of the Foreign Liaison Group office, she carefully sized up Liu Fei, then glanced around at Yang Jie in the office, and after seeing that they were both dressed neatly and nothing was out of place, she threw down this sentence with a gloomy tone, turned around and walked towards the office.

  Liu Fei has experienced many ups and downs over the years, seen all sorts of human relationships, and has become much more mature as a person.

  She knew that office politics could also be deadly, so when Ren Hui Ling looked at her and Yang Jie, Liu Fei understood what she meant. However, since the other party didn't say anything, she couldn't lash out, so she could only glare at Ren Hui Ling's back with a cold gaze.

  Yang Jie didn't notice Ren Hui Ling's silent but meaningful gaze, and upon hearing that Zhou Dequan was looking for him, he hastily put down the documents in his hand, looked at the computer which wasn't turned off, and only then remembered that there was only one telephone line in the office, if he dialed to get online, no one would be able to call in from outside.

  Hurry to cut off the dial-up connection, turn off the computer, and then Yang Jie instructed Liu Fei to continue screening materials. He walked out of the office and stood in front of Zhou Dequan's office door, knocking gently twice.

  "Come in!"

  After hearing Zhou Dequan's energetic voice, Yang Jie opened the door and walked into the office, seeing Zhou Dequan with an angry face sitting on the sofa in the reception area.

  Yang Jie walked up and came to Zhou Dequan's side, "Director, you asked for me?"

  "Sit down!" Zhou Dequan's expression slightly improved upon seeing Yang Jie, and he motioned for Yang to take a seat. Only then did he say in a low voice: "Young Yang, you've also seen the situation at the provincial office. Zhu Jiangxin and Wang Qunsheng rely on their seniority, with more connections in the province than us. They don't even consider us worthy of attention."

  People fight for a breath of air, Buddhas fight for a stick of incense. In the provincial office, I only have you as someone trustworthy. I know you've just arrived in the provincial city and are unfamiliar with the place, but time waits for no man, and our opponents won't wait for us either. Therefore, I hope you can continue to work hard, quickly get familiar with the business, achieve new results, and strike at those people's arrogant complacency."

  "Yes! Please rest assured, Director, the external liaison group will be more courageous after being ashamed and create new achievements."

  Yang Jie looked at Zhou Dequan, who was filled with righteous indignation, and felt very disdainful of him. As an old man in the county party committee office, he should have had a lot of experience in struggle, but after being stationed in the provincial office for a week, he hadn't even established his basic prestige, so how could Yang Jie look up to him?

  However, Zhou Defang is still the deputy director of the county party committee office after all. He is Yang Jie's direct superior, and now they are in a relationship where one's success or failure affects the other. Unless Yang Jie leaves his post at the provincial government office to return to the county, he really needs to make good plans for Zhou Defang.

  "Director, I met with the general manager of Rongcheng Fufeng Company, Pang Zheng, yesterday. He has agreed to visit Yuhang County at an appropriate time. I'd like to follow up on this lead and hope to achieve new results for our county's investment promotion work as soon as possible." Yang Jie's words made Zhou Dequan's eyes light up.

  Yang Jie came to the provincial city for only two days, and unexpectedly met with the boss of a company in the provincial city, and reached a preliminary intention of inspection. This was an unexpected joy for Zhou Dequan.

  "Not bad! Just arrived in Chengdu and already achieved something, it seems that my decision to fight for a dedicated car for the external liaison group at the meeting was correct! You go ahead and do what you need to, if you need any support just let me know, I'll fully support your work!" At this time, Zhou Dequan only had Yang Jie as his trusted subordinate, so supporting Yang Jie was equivalent to supporting his own work, which made him very pleased.

  "Thank you, Director, for your support! I will follow this direction and strive to achieve even greater results as soon as possible!" Yang Jie nodded in response, thinking of the limited budget for each group, and hastily asked: "Director, I heard from Old Zheng that each group in the provincial office has a limited budget, including telephone fees for the office, fuel and maintenance costs for official vehicles, and external reception expenses, etc. Are there quotas for these?"

  Zhou Dequan nodded slightly and said, "The work of the Provincial Office is very special. It is the liaison institution of Yuhang County in the province, and all the expenses are allocated by the county finance. In the previous liaison period, the core was mainly composed of information group and reception service group, because the work undertaken by these two groups is extremely important."

  As the provincial stationed units need to undertake more functional businesses, in order to better complete various tasks in the county, the Provincial Office was established on the basis of the former Liaison Office, adding two departments: External Liaison Division and Security Division.

  The Information Department and Reception Service Department had a budget of 700,000 yuan each last year, and this year it has reached 1 million yuan. The External Liaison Department is mainly responsible for attracting investment, so the budget is relatively sufficient, with a quota of 500,000 yuan this year.

  The budgeted expenses are the funds within the budget, which is allocated by the Financial Bureau's Budget Department based on the actual needs of the Provincial Office, and then distributed to each group according to their work requirements.

  The money has been allocated by the finance bureau to the account of the provincial office. If the provincial office exceeds the budget due to actual needs, it will have to apply for special funds from the county itself.

  Of course, the provincial office is a special institution. For example, the reception service group is mainly responsible for receiving and assisting county leaders in carrying out various tasks in the provincial city. When the leader arrives at the provincial city, eating, drinking, going to the toilet, and sleeping are all taken care of by the reception service group. Overspending is a common occurrence, so it's necessary to go through other channels and report expenses back to the county separately.

  Zhu Jiangxin has extensive connections in the provincial capital and is mainly responsible for relevant work related to the information group, while Zhou Dequan, the director, can only be responsible for the reception service group's work. In short, two directors, each of whom is also in charge of a large group stationed in the province.

  However, in reality, the reception service group's cadres Zhang Wei and Zheng Xiaohang were both Zhu Jiangxin's people, so Zhou Dequan was marginalized, and it can be said that he was just a figurehead, unable to control the reception service group.

  "Director, does the external liaison group have a budget of 500,000 yuan this year? Is this amount arranged by our group independently?" Yang Jie did not expect that the external liaison group's fixed budget would be as much as 500,000 yuan.

  "Yes, the external liaison group's fixed expenses are 500,000. After the provincial office was established, the money has been transferred to the provincial office account. This amount will be allocated by the external liaison group according to actual work needs. As long as it is for work purposes and can provide a regular invoice, the external liaison group can make its own arrangements." Zhou Dequan is the master of the provincial office, naturally knowing the financial situation of the provincial office. Seeing Yang Jie's excitement, he couldn't help but smile slightly.

  "Xiao Yang, the 500,000 yuan budget can be used as needed, but the main purpose of the external liaison group's expenses is to attract more foreign investment for the county and achieve greater success in the economic development of Xunhe County. Therefore, you must be cautious and avoid any mistakes."

  "Understood, sir!"

  Yang Jie listened to Zhou Dequan's reminder, his face was very serious. He understood what Zhou Dequan reminded him of and asked clearly about the daily account reporting and advance payment of expenses before Yang Jie bid farewell and left Zhou Dequan's office.

  Now that he knew the amount of the information group's expenses, Yang Jie naturally had a plan in mind. If Wang Qunsheng took away the external liaison group's special car, then he would have to swallow this bitter fruit and use the information group's funds to do things for the external liaison group.

  The work in the provincial office is monotonous and dull, especially when the work has not yet entered a state of normalcy, it feels even more aimless. Wanting to do things, but not knowing where to start.

  Time flies by in a hurry, when night falls, the stars are dotted with a crescent moon hanging high, and everyone enters the fragrance of dreams.

  A figure appeared in the parking lot of the Huohe Hotel's rear courtyard, dodging the security guard on duty at the deputy building hall and arriving in front of a black Santana with license plate number Jiang A20533.

  Skilled use of steel wire to open Santana's car door, the black shadow took advantage of the night color to cover up, opened the engine compartment, fiddled with it for a while, and then quickly cleared away relevant traces, and quietly climbed up to the deputy building, disappearing without a trace.

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