In name only: The land of Handong, I shall rule its fate.

"What's wrong!"

Li Dakang pushed open Zhang Shuli's office door, and Zhang Shuli's liaison officer didn't dare to stop him.

"Secretary Li, please have a seat."

Zhang Shuli stood up to give way, but not forgetting to tidy up the several handwritten annotated documents on the table and neatly place them on the table.

"Ding Yizhen served as the Party Secretary of Guangming District for nearly four years, and was mainly responsible for projects such as the renovation of the old city, investment promotion for industrial land, and Guangming Peak."

"When we were sorting through the documents, we discovered something shocking: Ding Yizhen had sold off all the industrial land in Guangming District, and the purchase prices for the companies were generally lower than the market prices, which was clearly an illegal land approval."

"In addition to these, the old city renovation also involves common crimes such as fabricating demolition households, misappropriating demolition compensation and resettlement housing, prematurely removing properties from the market, overvaluing and over-subsidizing properties, and bribery. Almost every crime that can be seen has been seen in Guangming District."

"There are also crimes of abuse of power, such as misappropriation of special funds for other areas."

"The most crucial thing is this."

Zhang Shuli handed the last document in his hand to Li Dakang, revealing that 5 million yuan of funds for the renovation of the shantytown in Jingzhou Miners' New District had been misappropriated.

Looking at the report written in black and white, and the data that Zhang Shuli had deliberately circled, Li Dakang felt cold sweat break out on his back.

As expected! As expected!

Something's wrong with Jingzhou, very wrong.

Li Dakang suddenly looked up, his cold gaze sweeping over Zhang Shuli. He instinctively wanted to curse him, saying that the municipal party secretary was a useless bum who couldn't find anything at all.

But it was abruptly stopped.

Zhang Shuli had reported this long ago, but not in such detail as it is now. To hold Zhang Shuli accountable now would be to slap himself in the face.

"What about Ding Yizhen? What did he say?"

Li Dakang then changed the subject.

"Ding Yizhen confessed to everything, but he tried to escape during the arrest and was stopped by the disciplinary committee cadres who were secretly monitoring him."

"Furthermore, Ding Yizhen admitted that he and Cai Chenggong jointly operated a coal mine, but the business has been unprofitable in recent years and is completely in debt. Moreover, in order to acquire this coal mine, he bribed a director of the Jingzhou Energy Bureau, and together with other projects, he paid a total of more than 1500 million yuan in six installments."

"Cai Chenggong used the fact that the two of them jointly owned a coal mine as leverage to blackmail him into delaying the demolition and continuing production under the pretext of completing the orders he had already received. However, he denied participating in the violent resistance to the demolition."

"Finally, the 5 million yuan renovation fund for the miners' new village was misappropriated. Ding Yizhen said that Shi Hongxing, the general manager of Jingzhou Zhongfu Group, gave the order and the money was directly transferred away."

"Shi Hongxing is the junior sister of Lin Manjiang, the chairman of Zhongfu Group, and they have a close relationship."

"He wanted to befriend Lin Manjiang, so he did that to make things easier for himself. He didn't participate in the whole thing, but he received a kickback from the district finance bureau."

Zhang Shuli reported cautiously, but his voice grew softer and softer as he lowered his head almost to his chest.

"Sun Liancheng..."

Li Dakang called out the name, then stopped.

The real non-stick pan definitely knows these things, but it just won't say anything, plus Guangming Peak needs someone to handle things now.

Li Dakang took a deep breath to calm himself down, deciding to let him off the hook for now.

"Half an hour later, the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee convened a meeting to discuss Ding Yizhen's criminal facts."

Li Dakang said coldly.

Two hours later, Li Dakang arrived at the provincial government with the newly released municipal party committee resolution.

"Secretary Gao, is Governor Lin available right now?"

Li Dakang rushed over, only to realize that he had forgotten to make an appointment by phone.

"Secretary Li, please wait a moment."

"Governor Lin is currently meeting with Director Li from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and Director Zhu from the Archives Bureau. If it's urgent, I'll go and inquire about it."

He replied loudly, in a businesslike manner, but politely.

"Okay, I'll wait a moment."

Li Dakang considered the remedial measures approved by the municipal party committee and concluded that no unexpected incidents would occur for the time being, so he sat down on the sofa in the waiting area.

Inside the office of the Executive Vice Governor.

"You two are very fast."

Lin Zhiyuan smiled as he looked at Li Ming and Zhu Qingbai sitting opposite him, and accepted their latest report with satisfaction.

"Reporting to Governor Lin, there are approximately 11000 state-owned enterprises in Handong Province that have undergone reforms since 95. Of these, 7000 have been reorganized into purely private enterprises. In Jingzhou, 900 enterprises have undergone reforms, including approximately 500 that have been converted into private enterprises, approximately 200 that have become shareholding cooperatives, and approximately 150 that have gone bankrupt and been liquidated."

"Because Handong was a pilot area for the reform of state-owned enterprises back then, a large number of officials in charge of the reform were lax in their supervision and accepted bribes. About 70-80% of the land was transferred along with the enterprises, resulting in a huge loss of land resources."

Li Ming was somewhat apprehensive when he gave his report.

If the old issues are not brought up, the provincial party committee has already made a determination on the land of Dafeng Factory; if the case is overturned, a large number of local veteran cadres and enterprises will inevitably be investigated.

Li Ming felt a little dizzy, and thought he saw his grandmother.

Help me! Help me!

Zhu Qingbai didn't dare to say a word, and could only sigh that the older generation was really bold.

"I need to discuss this matter with the governor and the provincial party committee. You can put it on hold for now, but you must keep a close eye on the relevant companies and land, and no new transactions are allowed before the provincial party committee makes a decision."

Lin Zhiyuan's face remained relaxed, showing no sign of worry.

"Yes, Governor Lin."

Li Ming and Zhu Qingbai felt they had escaped a disaster and quickly got up to say goodbye.

"Governor Lin, Secretary Li has arrived."

Knock loudly on the door to report to the supervisor.

"Please invite Secretary Dakang in."

Lin Zhiyuan nodded calmly.

"Governor Zhiyuan, I have important work to report to you."

Li Dakang appeared calm on the surface, but he was extremely anxious inside. He rushed over, not even having time to sit down, and handed the summary document of the municipal party committee meeting and the evidence of Ding Yizhen's crimes to Lin Zhiyuan.

"This Ding Yizhen is simply lawless. As an organization cadre, he has no regard for laws and regulations and has betrayed the trust of me and the municipal party committee."

"He deserves to die!"

Li Dakang immediately shifted the blame.

Lin Zhiyuan glanced at him with a half-smile, "Secretary Dakang, you didn't know that Vice Mayor Lincheng was corrupt, you didn't know about your wife's work avoidance policy, and now you still don't know about Ding Yizhen's corruption. What do you know?"

"Or is it that our Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee member and the Secretary of the Jingzhou Municipal Party Committee is actually disabled—deaf, blind, and mute?"

"Governor Lin, I apologize to you!"

Li Dakang, who had just touched the stool with half of his buttocks, suddenly sat up, his waist slightly bent at a 30-degree angle.

"Secretary Dakang, it's okay to lie to others, but don't lie to yourself."

"On my first day here, you told me that apart from Ding Yizhen, no one else in Jingzhou could handle Guangming Peak. How is Sun Liancheng doing now? And what are the investors' intentions?"

This time, Lin Zhiyuan didn't offer any words of comfort or politeness. Instead, he stared at Li Dakang with a gaze even colder than Li Dakang's. "When did you learn to trust your colleagues in the organization? The cadres in Jingzhou are also part of the organization. They are indispensable laborers who built the prosperity of Jingzhou and the wealth of Handong. They are not your scapegoats, nor are they your punching bags."

"You are the brain of the Jingzhou Municipal Party Committee and Government. Just keep a clear head and know what your limbs and torso can do and to what extent. It's not about having your brain run and jump every day."

"If you can't even maintain basic clarity of mind."

"Then I'll submit my resignation to the provincial party committee myself. Since Secretary Ruijin isn't here yet, I'll have Governor Liu approve it personally."