Chapter 1034

Su Yang took a deep breath and said, "As long as I have a clear conscience, as long as my starting point is for the people's benefit, as long as I actually achieve convincing results, I don't care how they treat me."

I thought I could quietly stand my last post, but these people won't let me.

Zhou Ruohan said, "I've told you before, officials inside the system who genuinely work hard and truly bring benefits to the common people may not be able to stay secure, because there will always be those who climb on others' shoulders, and there will always be those just getting by who dislike it."

Otherwise, do you think among those many officials, no one wants to fulfill their ambitions and benefit a region's people?

How do you plan to face this now? I've been keeping it from the two old gentlemen for the time being, but I estimate they'll find out soon.

Su Yang said, "True gold fears no fire, an upright person fears no crooked shadow, respond to all changes with constancy. I just need to do my current work well; I can't control what they want to do. Of course, don't worry about me either—take good care of our little baby, don't let him follow your anxiety; his health is now the top priority, the most important."

Zhou Ruohan snapped, "What time is it now, and you still have the mind to joke?"

Su Yang said, "Do you think I should go around crying and making phone calls to plead? I think it's far from that."

After hanging up, Su Yang's mouth curled into a cold smile; it seems these people will stop at nothing. Indeed, public opinion created by domestic media can be suppressed, but the voice of the media in Fragrant River is beyond reach.

Especially the media in Fragrant River, famous for daring to speak the truth and daring to expose matters within the mainland system, some domestic groups even regard the media's statements from Fragrant River as the voice of justice.

He hadn't finished digesting these major news when Chen Bo brought him another piece of bad news.

"County Magistrate Su, this morning at the Jingcheng Party School's training class for mid-level cadres, the lecturer focused on two topics: one was the issue of team unity, the other was overdrafting local finances in exchange for performance projects."

"The lecturer was a certain vice president; he severely reprimanded and criticized this behavior, directly naming it, saying this phenomenon occurred in Lieshan Xian."

"At the same time, these students spoke up one after another, condemning Lieshan Xian's actions, and some even directly mentioned your name, saying it's precisely because of officials like you, bold and reckless, that disunity occurs, and it's precisely because of people like you who dare to defy the world, sacrificing and overdrafting local finances for performance projects."

Su Yang was now completely bewildered—what's going on? I originally thought it was a two-pronged attack, but now it's become a three-pronged one, with upper, middle, and lower all coming at me. Leaving other matters aside, regarding the Yingbin Dadao project, shouldn't the main responsibility lie with the county's top two leaders?

If we really pursue this…… Moreover, these people pick and choose, not mentioning a word about the essence of why the Yingbin Dadao project was built—such as not mentioning their achievements in attracting investment, not mentioning their now substantial planting and breeding industry, not mentioning how he, after great hardship, built the county's first expressway. This also let him see for the first time what a high-end game is.

He retorted: "Why is the Yingbin Dadao project directly linked to me? That seems somewhat unreasonable."

Chen Bo said: "They've already conducted a detailed investigation; the funds for the Yingbin Dadao project all come from bank loans, and those bank loans are your responsibility—in other words, fundamentally, this so-called performance project was built because of you."

Su Yang laughed in anger, and at the same time suddenly realized: back then, whether it was Zhang Jiangbo or Zhao Nanxing, neither of them tried to stop him; instead, they encouraged him to increase investment. Originally it was just a project of several tens of millions, and there was no plan for imitation ancient city towers in it—it was Zhang Jiangbo and his group who forcibly added them.

But he still asked: "Isn't there any responsibility on Secretary Zhang and County Magistrate Zhao in this?"

Chen Bo said: "Don't even say Secretary Zhang has responsibility; some people are still singing his praises, saying the project was actually launched before he took office, and after he arrived in the county to assess the situation, he wanted to stop it, but the standing committee had already approved it, and he didn't use his absolute authority as top leader to veto it—this shows Secretary Zhang is still quite democratic, especially given his concurrent role as deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee."

"However, some people still pointed out that County Magistrate Zhao bears responsibility, saying urban construction is the act of the government team, and as a nationally designated poor county, taking such a big step to overdraft finances for these image projects is definitely culpable."

Su Yang really laughed in anger; he had thought he'd already seen enough despicable tactics, but he didn't expect they could do this, and it's not hard to judge that this is a long-laid plan by them.

He simply lit a cigarette, leaned back, and asked: "Any other bad news? I want to digest them all together."

He asked just that, not expecting Chen Bo to say: "Indeed there is; the illegal sand mining in Sha He has been named by the Environmental Protection Bureau, and it's expected to become a negative teaching material notice in a couple of days—this will be a stick used to beat everyone, even the environmental protection leader in the city can't escape responsibility."

"This time, our Lieshan Xian could become famous nationwide. I even suspect that it might be the county leadership of Xishan Province, which has had successive coal mine accidents, pushing this—they want to hype our county's affairs to divert attention from their own heat."

"Why would I say that? Because before I came, I checked the forum; posts about their Political and Legal Affairs Commission secretary having successive incidents have almost been suppressed, and now the hottest discussion is about our county, with the figure in the eye of the storm being you, County Magistrate Su."

"Moreover, do-gooders have dug up all the black material from your two previous forum posts, claiming you had extramarital affairs, an unclear relationship with the female county magistrate, and are fundamentally not a good official."

"Furthermore, some say you have an antisocial personality, that wherever you hold office you overturn the entire bureaucracy, and people like you, if you remain in the system, are irresponsible on the part of the Organization Department."

"Do you know what else? Also, your account balance has been reported online, with netizens nationwide petitioning the Discipline Inspection Commission to investigate you. Even if your funding sources could be clarified, after they stir this up, it's like mud falling into your pants—whether it's feces or not, it's considered feces."

Su Yang leaned back, re-evaluating all the news that had come one after another today; he now couldn't help but suspect that, whether it's Zhang Jiangbo and Jia Guolong's group, or the former county magistrate Tong Guohua, how could they possibly have such great influence?

Could it be that there is also a mysterious force?