Chapter 165: The supervision team leader. Chapter 166: Here I come
In the front row, Xu Changcheng and Zhou Zhaofeng exchanged an almost imperceptible glance. Both had their eyelids half lowered and their bodies turned slightly sideways. The broad, heavyset men looked below the rostrum and swept their smiling gazes steadily across the room, while all manner of thoughts raced through their minds.
The two had already made their positions known in veiled terms well before the incident.
Before meetings like this, the city's senior officials would privately coordinate their speeches in advance. Since everyone spoke about frameworks and the meeting's themes, they needed to discuss which subjects and angles their respective drafts covered and which areas to avoid, so they would not sound repetitive.
But Su Licheng was newly arrived, and the division of duties among his assigned secretaries had yet to be sorted out. Besides Cheng Ruinian, he had two other secretaries, but they had either been assigned other work or excluded from preparations for this achievements conference.
The speech Geng Luoxiang was delivering onstage was not merely similar to Su Licheng's. It was exactly the same one.
Geng Luoxiang spoke first. When Su Licheng took the stage, he would probably be dumbstruck on the spot. In their view, however capable and accomplished Su Licheng might be, he could not possibly improvise a speech effortlessly. Besides, how long had he been in Huangcheng? How much did he know about its circumstances? His understanding of the province's comprehensive governance work was largely hazy. If he took the stage, his speech would inevitably be riddled with flaws. That would deal a heavy blow to his authority as an administrator and might even directly affect his future career.
Guo Huai, secretary-general of the Municipal Government, had rather mixed feelings at that