Chapter 4963

Zhao Desan's mind these days had been focused on how to counterattack Mayor Zhang Dewang. These days, Zhang Xiaolong had called Zhao Desan again to talk about buying land in the district for real estate development.

Zhang Xiaolong's Xuanyuan Real Estate wanted to develop real estate in the district. Although he was the mayor's son and had strong connections in the city, the power to list and sell land in the Chanba District rested with the Chanba District government, and the specific handling still had to go through relevant units of the district government. Therefore, Zhang Xiaolong had to find Zhao Desan to help him with this favor to secure the land more smoothly.

Zhao Desan agreed verbally, saying he had already arranged these matters for Gao Haiping. At the same time, Zhao Desan was reviewing the recent land listing and auction situation in the district, deciding to take a roundabout way to get revenge and give Zhang Dewang a little taste of his own medicine.

Zhao Desan found out that there were two plots of land in the district to be listed recently, intended for residential use. This land was located on the banks of the Wei River in Chanba District, with a superior geographical environment, beautiful surrounding scenery, and adjacent to the ecological corridor along the river. It was especially suitable for building a medium-scale high-end residential project. Moreover, the area surrounding this land was currently a high-end residential area in Chanba District, with a beautiful living environment, making it a hot golden location in Chanba District. Presumably, there would be many real estate companies competing for it at that time.

Although the Hexi Provincial Supervision Department, Personnel Department, and Land and Resources Department had jointly issued the "Interim Provisions on Administrative Penalties for Illegal and Disciplinary Acts in the Bidding, Auction, and Listing of State-owned Land Use Rights in Hexi Province," strictly requiring that land transfer must not be done by agreement, no unit or individual could directly or indirectly interfere with the public transfer of state-owned land use rights through their official authority. There must be no favoritism or abuse of power in the public transfer of state-owned land use rights. State notary agencies must intervene in the entire listing and transfer process. The subject matter, reserve price, or other relevant confidential information of the public transfer of state-owned land use rights must be kept strictly confidential. Bidders must not engage in fraudulent, collusive price-fixing, or other manipulative behaviors. If there is any violation of the regulations, the relevant responsible persons will surely be punished by party discipline and state law. Although the document stipulated this, as the District Mayor, Zhao Desan still had the power to exert a certain degree of interference on this land.

After much deep thought, Zhao Desan played a clever trick. He held a regular meeting of the district government and specifically discussed the land prepared for listing. Zhao Desan's idea was that the land was along the Wei River, and the district's positioning as an ecological tourism city could not be changed. While developing, they also had to build attractions, starting from the river view. Others naturally had no objections.

After this meeting, the District Land Bureau canceled the listing and transfer of that land, which left Zhang Xiaolong, who was ambitious to enter Chanba District for real estate development, empty-handed. In order to secure this land, Zhang Xiaolong, like other real estate businessmen, had spent great financial resources and energy, but in the end, it was all for nothing. This made Zhang Xiaolong extremely angry, and naturally, he vented his full resentment on Gao Haiping. Because of this land matter, Zhao Desan had deliberately handed it to Gao Haiping to handle that day, and since the matter was not accomplished and a change occurred, the first person Zhang Xiaolong blamed was Gao Haiping.

In a private room of the "Night Color" nightclub in the city, Zhang Xiaolong sat with his legs crossed. His little secretary, Xiao Fang, who was sitting beside him, lit a cigarette for him. Zhang Xiaolong took a fierce drag, frowned, looked at Gao Haiping on the side, and said with dissatisfaction: "Director Gao, how did this happen? Our Xuanyuan Real Estate's 'Bidding Application' has already been made, why was that land suddenly withdrawn?"

Gao Haiping said with a troubled face: "President Zhang, I don't know about this matter either. The District Land Bureau said it was the meaning of the district government to keep that land for river view development. We in the Construction Committee haven't heard of this either."

"River view development? Is the district investing its own money? Such a piece of prime land, if listed for transfer, how much money would the district earn? Are the leaders in the district brain-damaged!" Zhang Xiaolong spat out a mouthful of smoke fiercely, looked at Gao Haiping with dissatisfaction, picked up a glass of beer, drank it down, and then glanced at Gao Haiping again, saying: "Director Gao, do you know how much effort I spent on this land? Just the grease money alone cost several million. Now it's not listed for transfer. Damn it, isn't this wasting my time and energy for nothing!"

Gao Haiping replied awkwardly: "President Zhang, this can't be blamed on me either. I don't have the power to interfere with the work of the Land Bureau."

"Didn't you say District Mayor Zhao asked you to do this? Then you don't even know what's going on? Why did that land suddenly stop being listed!" Zhang Xiaolong, with a cigarette in his mouth, squinted and questioned Gao Haiping.

Gao Haiping saw Zhang Xiaolong's dissatisfied expression, lowered his head to ponder for a while, and as if he suddenly thought of something, said: "President Zhang, I feel like there might be something fishy in this matter."

"Fishy? What's fishy?" Zhang Xiaolong asked, squinting.

"The Land Bureau canceling the listing of this land is the meaning of the district government. The head of the district government is District Mayor Zhao. Could it be his meaning?" Gao Haiping had been in the officialdom for a long time after all. Suddenly, he couldn't help but associate it with Zhao Desan, especially thinking about how Zhao Desan handed this matter to him to handle that day, which made him feel flattered. Now thinking about it, it felt like something wasn't quite right.

Zhang Xiaolong frowned and said: "District Mayor Zhao promised to help me in black and white. Would he dare to stab me in the back?"

Gao Haiping, while thinking, said: "I dare not say that, but I heard that his relationship with Mayor Zhang is not handled very well, but he is closer to Secretary Yang. Could there be reasons in this regard, and he did it on purpose?"

"Damn it, if he really dares to stab me in the back like this, he can forget about being the District Mayor! Fuck! Director Gao, you go down and investigate for me again to see what's going on. Damn it! It cost me millions for nothing!" Zhang Xiaolong cursed and sent Gao Haiping away.

Subsequently, Zhang Xiaolong took out his cell phone and called his father, Zhang Dewang, and asked straight to the point whether there was any conflict between him and Zhao Desan. Although Zhang Dewang did not say it explicitly, he did not deny his son's question in his words. This made Zhang Xiaolong immediately realize that he had been played by Zhao Desan, and for a moment, he was extremely angry.

Xiao Fang saw that her boss, Zhang Xiaolong, was very angry at this time, so she leaned over and said coquettishly: "Boss, don't be angry, don't get sick from anger."

"Damn it, I'm very angry right now!" Zhang Xiaolong cursed fiercely, grabbed Xiao Fang's hair, and pushed it straight down.

How could Xiao Fang not understand Zhang Xiaolong's meaning? She obediently bowed her head under him, gently unzipped the zipper, buried her head, and "slurped" to cool Zhang Xiaolong down.

"Damn it, Zhao, I won't spare you!" Zhang Xiaolong cursed through gritted teeth, leaned his body heavily on the sofa, enjoying the service of his little secretary, closed his eyes, and began to ponder how to take revenge on Zhao Desan.

After Gao Haiping left the nightclub, he knew that he had been dragged into this matter. If he angered Zhang Xiaolong, it would have an adverse effect on his official career. He felt that he must clarify the matter now and give Zhang Xiaolong an explanation to protect himself. As for whether Zhao Desan was the one playing tricks, he was not sure now. He could only think of this temporarily. Fearing that Zhang Xiaolong would blame him, he hurriedly pushed the responsibility onto Zhao Desan.

The next day, as soon as he went to work, Gao Haiping went to the district government to find Zhao Desan, wanting to probe his tone to see if this matter was his idea. After Gao Haiping arrived at the district government, Zhao Desan had not yet arrived. The door of the District Mayor's office was open, and the cleaner was cleaning inside. Gao Haiping looked at Zhao Desan's District Mayor's office, which was a full 30 square meters, and also had a small suite inside. The decoration level inside was also very luxurious. Thinking of his own office, Gao Haiping couldn't help but feel a sense of disparity in his heart. Thinking that he was at about the same starting line as Zhao Desan at the beginning, but this guy was now the District Mayor, and he was still stuck in the position of Deputy Director of the Construction Committee, he felt very unbalanced. As soon as the cleaner went out, he hurriedly stepped forward, pulled open Zhao Desan's boss chair, and sat down, wanting to experience the feeling of being a District Mayor.

Not long after he sat down, the office door was suddenly pushed open. The person who came in was none other than the owner of this office, Zhao Desan. Seeing Zhao Desan come in, Gao Haiping was stunned on the spot for a moment.

"Get up, is that where you should sit?" Zhao Desan saw Gao Haiping actually sitting in his boss chair, and for a moment, he was a bit angry. He didn't give Gao Haiping any face and said in a stiff tone.

Gao Haiping saw Zhao Desan's indifferent look, hurriedly got up and moved to the side, muttering in his heart: "Get up then, what's so great about it!"

Zhao Desan sat in his chair without any politeness, then pointed to the chair opposite and said: "This is an office, understand some rules, okay? Sit!"

Gao Haiping nodded extremely awkwardly, nodded and bowed, and sat on the chair opposite Zhao Desan. Just as he was about to speak, he was stopped by Zhao Desan, who said: "Old Gao, you are too unreasonable. This is an office. If you sit in my seat so casually like this, what will others think? People who don't know might think you suddenly replaced me!"

Gao Haiping was rendered speechless for a moment by Zhao Desan's ridicule, his face so awkward that he didn't dare to look at Zhao Desan.

"What's the matter coming to see me so early?" Zhao Desan then turned to the main topic, lit a cigarette, and asked.

"District Mayor Zhao, didn't you hand over that matter of President Zhang to me to handle? But now our District Land Bureau has suddenly canceled the listing of that land. President Zhang is a bit confused now. Look at this..." Gao Haiping hurriedly said straight to the point.

Zhao Desan looked straight at Gao Haiping, took a drag of his cigarette, and asked him back unhurriedly: "What? You didn't get it done?"

(Chapter 2688: Angry Zhang Xiaolong)!