Nominal: The Handong Game, the Energy System's Counterattack

Li Dakang turned his head and saw several people surrounding an old man as he walked this way.

The old man walked along calling out, "District Chief Sun! District Chief Sun! You're here!"

Upon hearing this, Sun Liancheng stood up, and his expression immediately changed.

The sarcastic tone he used when speaking to Li Dakang vanished completely, replaced by a warm smile.

When Sun Liancheng saw people coming, he quickly walked out of the small house that was half demolished and went to meet them.

"Uncle Zhang, what brings you here? Wasn't the issue of that minimum living allowance resolved last time?"

Grandpa Zhang chuckled and patted Sun Liancheng's arm: "Solved, solved! I didn't come here on business today; this old man just came to enjoy the air conditioning!"

He turned around and pointed outside, "I saw your car outside, so I knew you must be here."

Sun Liancheng ignored Li Dakang and followed this old man Zhang towards the hall.

"Oh, District Chief Sun, you've arrived today?"

"District Chief Sun, you need to inquire about my family's compensation payment."

"District Chief Sun, what about what I mentioned during your last visit? Any updates?"

Sun Liancheng responded with a smile, "Sister Wang, I've reviewed your materials, and I'll approve them today."

"Old Zheng, I've contacted the Land and Resources Bureau about your matter. I'll give you an answer next week."

"Uncle Liu, please don't rush, sit down, have a cup of tea, and tell me slowly..."

The crowd beamed with joy, and one old man even patted Sun Liancheng on the shoulder.

"District Chief Sun is a good man. My back is bad; I used to squat by the window to talk, and after that, I'd have to lie in bed for three days."

"Now it's all good, I'm sitting here drinking tea, and District Chief Sun even poured me water himself." The witty remark made everyone laugh.

Li Dakang walked out from behind the window and stood in the shadow of the fence, watching the group of people talking and laughing around Sun Liancheng.

Grandpa Zhang held onto Sun Liancheng's hand tightly, saying things like, "If it weren't for you, District Chief Sun, my grandson wouldn't be able to afford to go to school."

Several people nearby also gathered around, each talking at once about their own affairs.

Some said they had successfully applied for low-rent housing, some said their medical insurance reimbursements had been received, and some said their children's school transfers had been completed.

Sun Liancheng responded to each person, and was even able to call out everyone's name and ask about each person's family.

Li Dakang was there, his face so gloomy it seemed to drip water. Looking at this scene, he suddenly felt like a superfluous person.

The crowd's gaze swept over him; no one recognized him, or rather, even if they did, they didn't care.

Their attention was all on Sun Liancheng; it was a genuine, spontaneous closeness that couldn't be faked.

He hadn't expected that Sun Liancheng had such a good reputation among the people.

This made Li Dakang extremely uncomfortable.

He had intended to use the incident at the petition window to shame Sun Liancheng, but the scene before him was clearly one of the crowd surrounding Sun Liancheng as if he were one of their own.

This battle is unwinnable.

Li Dakang straightened the hem of his jacket. He knew he wouldn't get away with it today, and staying any longer would only make him angrier.

"Sun Liancheng, you're a good man," Li Dakang muttered to himself.

He turned around and walked out through the passage next to the fence.

Li Dakang got into the car with a gloomy face.

Xiao Jin didn't dare to breathe and silently closed the car door.

Li Dakang closed his eyes, and Sun Liancheng's smiling yet shrewd face appeared in the darkness.

He realized he shouldn't have come to the Guangming District Petition Bureau today; in fact, his plan to target Sun Liancheng had completely failed.

While Sun Liancheng was mingling with the people who came to the petition office, he noticed that Li Dakang had left.

However, he made no comment. In his eyes, being with these people was more important than sending Li Dakang, the municipal party secretary, off.

Because Wu Xiongfei approved some money for Guangming District, Sun Liancheng's incident of being reprimanded by Li Dakang at the petition window in the plot was perfectly avoided.

Unable to vent his anger, Li Dakang will continue to target the disobedient Sun Liancheng.

Upon returning to the municipal party committee, Li Dakang directly summoned Mayor Wu Xiongfei and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission Sun Haiping.

The two knew that Li Dakang was in a bad mood recently because his wife Ouyang Jing had been arrested and his car had been stopped, so they didn't know why he was looking for them at this time.

In Li Dakang's office in Jingzhou, the three held a closed-door meeting for half an hour.

After Wu Xiongfei finished the meeting and returned to his office, he immediately made a phone call to Zhou Chuyi.

After listening to Wu Xiongfei's words, Zhou Chuyi said he understood and told him to cooperate with Li Dakang.

Shortly after, Zhou Chuyi also received a call from Qin Jinhui, the director of the Jingzhou Public Security Bureau, about the same matter.

The following day, the Jingzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government officially issued a special work notice.

The city has launched a special campaign to crack down on pornography and illegal publications by the end of the year, requiring the city's public security system to conduct comprehensive investigations, strict rectification, and elimination of disorder.

The document was sent to all branches, and leaders at all levels held meetings to convey it. The publicity campaign was launched in a grand and impressive manner.

There are many such operations every year, and the general public just treats them as news.

However, the officers at the grassroots level soon discovered that this operation was all bark and no bite.

Previous campaigns like Operation Spring Thunder were also carried out with similar scale and momentum.

However, before taking action, we had some information, and when assigning tasks, we had a general idea of ​​the objectives and targets.

The leaders spoke very seriously about this operation, but when it came to actually carrying it out, there were no specific instructions.

Many people in entertainment venues and clubs with complicated backgrounds who party every night are not stupid.

This operation was heavily publicized; they either suspended operations, became much more discreet, or conducted their activities with greater secrecy.

This resulted in the Jingzhou City operation being largely a superficial inspection, with only a few insignificant figures being arrested to complete the task.

The entire special rectification campaign was all talk and no action, merely a formality and superficial effort.

A few days later, all the entertainment venues, private estates, and high-end clubs in Jingzhou that were involved in shady transactions and illegal operations became aware of the tricks of the trade.

Everyone concluded that this was just another routine, perfunctory official operation.

Just do the bare minimum and deal with the inspections from superiors; once the heat dies down, everything will be fine.

Aside from Li Dakang himself, Zhou Chuyi and Qin Jinhui both understood Li Dakang's true purpose.

However, this can also be considered a good deed, as they all actively cooperated with Li Dakang in his acting.

That evening, Cheng Du reported some news to Zhou Chuyi.

Qian, the deputy director of the Guangming District Branch and captain of the Public Security Brigade, was very active in this operation.

Moreover, he seems to have assigned many members of the security brigade to locations near the Shanshui Manor.

As expected, he gave instructions, so just pretend you don't know what he's doing and cooperate properly.