Chapter 940

Zhang Jiangbo immediately sat up straight and asked, "What method? Are we going to secretly give him a black brick behind his back?"

Jia Guolong said, "These are all underhanded tactics that can't see the light of day. If we really did that, what's the difference from being lowly scoundrels? Moreover, if we really did that, they could easily find a righteous pretext to bring in the police, and then the matter would cause an uproar throughout the city—I couldn't afford to lose face."

"What I want to say is, you're going to go down there to take charge, and he happens to be running several projects, one of which is a highway project. But their county is relatively poor and can't come up with the matching funds, so he plans to apply to the Ministry of Transport for this money, and he insists on asking my uncle for help."

"So we can manipulate this here—I went to see my maternal uncle, and this project will be directly approved by the Ministry of Transport for him; even their Transport Department cannot re-initiate it."

"However, this work must be slightly delayed. When you get there, you should first bring up the project, find an excuse to say it's not suitable to launch, while his personality will surely fight to get the project off the ground, you just go along with it and push the whole thing onto him. When he later comes to the Ministry of Transport, the project will be completely killed—this would be a heavy blow to him."

Li Qiuishui beside him asked, "But don't underestimate Su Yang's energy—his backing isn't just the Zhou Family; don't forget the Qiao Family is also his support. And Qiao Lao previously retired from the position of Organization Department head; he has many disciples and former subordinates, which I think everyone knows."

"Moreover, these people now hold important positions; even if they're not in the Ministry of Transport, they can still speak with it. This kid used to be just Zhou Ruohan's boyfriend, at most Zhou Weiguo alone took extra care of him, but now it's different—they're about to get married."

"This means he alone can command the resources of both families, and their foundations are deep. Although the Zhou Family's resources are mostly in the military, when placed locally, that still amounts to at least one standing committee member."

"So I think your suggestion is just to save face for him a bit, let the Common People criticize him for a few days, and in the end the project should still be approved. Your maternal uncle wouldn't fall out with a large number of people over this."

Jia Guolong said, "This is within my expectations—first make him feel sick, then dump the project on him, and he'll use all his strength to get the project done."

"However, then I will have my maternal uncle give him full face, saying this project will be directly led by the Ministry of Transport. You should know that building a highway isn't as simple as building an ordinary road; the survey and later construction are complicated."

"Just take the survey as an example: a highway doesn't go in a straight line, and in a place like Yexian County, which is mostly mountainous, building a highway over mountains and ridges could involve tunneling and bridging. So they usually plan several routes and then finalize one. We can also manipulate this aspect, and there's plenty of room to do so."

"Besides that, don't they also have a Yingbin Dadao project? As for this project, my personal suggestion is that it can be done, but the county finances won't spend a penny—let him figure it out himself. And since Yingbin Dadao is already being built, why not add something else?"

"When the time comes, let the poor county build a Yingbin Dadao project worth hundreds of millions or even two to three billion yuan; we can find a suitable moment and use public opinion to expose this."

Li Qiuishui and Zhang Jiangbo nodded: "I didn't realize it, but Young Master Jia has done quite a bit of research in this area. Lieshan Xian is a poor county; for a poor county to run a deficit on such a luxurious project is inherently against policy, even if justified as investment promotion."

"This is a mistake; based solely on this, we could remove him, and if anything else happens, his political career in Lieshan Xian could be over."

Zhang Jiangbo said, "When undertaking projects, who doesn't run into trouble? When trouble arises, who doesn't have casualties? Young Master Jia really gave me a clear path. However, it's hard to pin all the blame on him entirely, even though he's currently the person in charge of all projects."

Jia Guolong said, "Hehehe, you forgot an important matter—that Su Yang's nickname 'officialdom killer' has already spread far and wide; even the leaders in Jingcheng know it, and I, far away in Jiangnan, can hear Jiangnan's leaders talking about Su Yang's notoriety."

"Such a person has repeatedly sent his right-hand men to the Discipline Inspection Commission, starting from the first township where he served, and this continued until two months ago when he took down the entire County Party Committee and County Government team. You know how damaging this is; I heard that if it weren't for Zhou Weiguo intervening behind the scenes this time, he would have been removed from office."

"So even if this matter ends up not being blamed on him at all, we could still blame others. I suspect that temptations of beauty and money cannot corrupt him, but others might not be so resistant."

"Combined with various projects going wrong, plus the fact that others' resolve may not be so firm, if a few key cadres go in, then his 'officialdom killer' label is as if welded onto his head. Regardless of why others go in, whether or not it's related to him, as long as someone from his team goes in again, it's his doing."

"At that time, there will surely be people helping him whitewash his image, but still, as long as we use public opinion to expose this matter in the National Level authoritative media, even make it a negative example, do you think he could still profit?"

"First snipe him so he can't advance, then we'll slowly cut him with a knife, bleeding him to death."

Li Qiuishui and Zhang Jiangbo then nodded deeply in agreement: "Good, good."

"He probably will take a few days of honeymoon leave after this wedding; by then I'll already be at my post, and some matters, once he reacts, will likely only be left for cleanup."

"Besides, I've heard that on the current County Party Standing Committee, he can actually control half the members; when I get there, I'll let him know what absolute power of a top leader means."

"I want to gradually marginalize him from the core of power, have the other County Party leaders sideline him, turn him into an isolated loner, make it hard for him to move. Then, when various incidents occur, no one will speak for him, and finally we'll take him down directly."

Having said this, Zhang Jiangbo actually became excited, after all these days he's even been dreaming of his future moment of glory holding great power.

He even wishes he could skip this year and rush straight to his work post.