[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot":3,"chapter-i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-chapter-33":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm in a Small County, and You Say I'm a Big Shot?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2297444,4494,"Chapter 33: 032 Xia He","i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-chapter-33",33,"\u003Cp>Cao Ting’s words immediately drew the attention of everyone in the office, and they all asked what news she had seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The municipal bank sent a document through the official platform—I printed it out for you to see.” Cao Ting said, then clicked her mouse a few more times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The printer emitted a whirring sound, and within minutes a red-headed document was printed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Meili, always impatient, rushed over to Cao Ting, peered at it for a moment, then said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is serious—a customer manager at the Pingdong branch’s business hall embezzled 500,000 yuan from depositors to gamble and has been detained by police; related leadership at the branch have all been punished: Deputy Branch Manager Zhang, who oversaw this business, was removed from office; Branch Manager Xue was demoted and reassigned as deputy manager at the Zhongxiang County branch! Holy crap… this mess is huge.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Meili was a local who loved speaking Northeastern dialect, probably influenced by Zhao Benshan’s skits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The document circulated among several people, finally reaching Fang Qingye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced at it—the content was more or less as described, though the document itself was more detailed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Li customer manager had a gambling habit, left his family destitute, divorced by his wife, drowning in debt, and finally reached for depositors’ money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a customer manager, he spent all day interacting with depositors; some elderly customers, unable to operate ATMs themselves, would ask him for help and even give him their passwords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Li took advantage of this, quietly transferring 500,000 yuan from an elderly retired woman’s account to his own for gambling—and lost it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elderly woman recently came to withdraw money, discovered her savings had dropped by 500,000 yuan, and immediately reported it to police; within no time, authorities traced it to Li, who fully confessed—but the embezzled 500,000 yuan could not be recovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elderly woman naturally refused to accept this; to quell the incident, the branch advanced 500,000 yuan to repay her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elderly woman’s issue was resolved, the customer manager Li was criminally detained for further investigation, but the bank’s 500,000 yuan loss remained unrecouped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The municipal bank launched an accountability investigation, dismissing a number of personnel from branch manager to head of customer services, then issued a formal notice to the entire system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to office document handling procedures, Cao Ting had to first number and register this document, then hand it to Wu Shengli, who would take it to Xia He—some documents were delegated to subordinates to deliver, awaiting her instructions on distribution scope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, for confidential documents with classification levels, Cao Ting would, per confidentiality regulations, deliver them directly to Xia He without passing them to anyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This document was not confidential and was meant for dissemination and study across the entire bank, so after registering it, Cao Ting took it to Wu Shengli.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within minutes, Wu Shengli came over with the document, spotted Fang Qingye reviewing materials: “Xiao Fang, take this document to Branch Manager Xia’s office.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss was just grabbing whoever was handy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d arrived latest, so he was most likely to get stuck with the chore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye mentally grumbled but picked up the document and went upstairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia He’s office was on the third floor; Fang Qingye climbed up, knocked, and entered to find her seated behind her desk, reviewing documents, a thick stack of materials piled before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Branch Manager Xia, this is the document just sent by the municipal bank.” Fang Qingye placed the document on her desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, the branch manager would carefully read the document first, then annotate it with instructions on which leaders and departments should review it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, leaders would delay, finish reading, then call the Comprehensive Office to come pick it up for distribution as required.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this time, the person delivering the document would naturally leave and wait for the leader’s call; today, Fang Qingye was just about to leave when Xia He stopped him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t rush off—sit down for a bit.” Xia He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye sat down on the sofa beside her as instructed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I already knew the content of this document. To be honest, when I first heard about it, I felt pretty uneasy.” Xia He held the document in her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye realized she wanted to talk to him about something off the record.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shifted his tone from formal to smiling: “Senior, what’s wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Branch Manager Xue and I are quite familiar—he’s thirty-five. You know, Pingdong Branch is our Jinghai’s largest branch, with the highest volume of business in the entire system. At thirty-five, becoming its head isn’t easy—but because of this, he’s been demoted and exiled to remote Zhongxiang County. His career is over.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye understood: Branch Manager Xue was punished so severely because the 500,000 yuan couldn’t be recovered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All levels of banks have a rule: “For economic cases, if no funds are lost, punishment for responsible personnel is lighter; if funds are lost, punishment is heavier.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was Xia He’s emotional reaction today not just about Xue’s punishment, but also about herself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Fang Qingye probed: “Senior, are you worried our Nanxin Branch might have something similar happen?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Xiao Fang—you’re my junior, and I trust you. I’ll tell you my real thoughts: I’m genuinely worried. Though our staff seem diligent and responsible, hearts are hidden behind chests—who knows who might cause us a disaster? Something like Pingdong Branch’s case would be fatal.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the end, Xia He let out a deep sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then, Senior, to prevent it before it happens, what should you do?” Fang Qingye asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides strengthening professional ethics training and enforcing discipline, I want to conduct a survey—on personnel in key positions, investigate their hobbies and interests, check for bad habits… and also their family members. Some husbands gamble and ruin their families; their wives, pressured by poverty, might resort to crime. This has been reported in the news—these people shouldn’t remain in critical positions; they must be transferred!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Xia He say this, Fang Qingye’s lips curled into a faint smile as he joked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Senior, you’re doing the Discipline Committee’s job now—monitoring cadres not just during eight-hour work hours, but after hours too; not just their work performance, but their social circles and hobbies.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Fang Qingye’s teasing tone, Xia He furrowed her delicate brows: “You think it’s unfeasible?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Unfeasible.” Fang Qingye answered bluntly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“First, how much manpower and resources can you commit? And what counts as a ‘bad habit’? Say mahjong—how much betting qualifies as gambling? How do you even investigate how much they bet? What about buying lottery tickets, stock trading… all legal activities!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“More importantly, our bank isn’t a government agency or the Discipline Committee. Though as branch manager, disciplinary oversight is your duty, the question is:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How do you investigate a person—or even their family? This invades personal privacy. And are the collected data accurate? If you judge an employee’s suitability for a position based on inaccurate data, isn’t that biased?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Qingye’s string of questions left Xia He momentarily stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed her idea had been overly simplistic and naive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Xia He fall silent, Fang Qingye leaned back, settled into a more comfortable posture, and smiled: “I do have a relatively simple solution to ease your worries.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1218,"2026-06-20T05:58:40.725Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9fb6806f62add367b2734aafbfba34e43e8a5300ba32f2d0fa146eb57ca7aab4","i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-chapter-34","i-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-chapter-32",215,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-in-a-small-county-and-you-say-i-m-a-big-shot-cover.jpg"]