[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-romantic-path-to-success":3,"chapter-the-romantic-path-to-success-the-romantic-path-to-success-chapter-66":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Romantic Road to the Top",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2146257,3567,"Chapter 66","the-romantic-path-to-success-chapter-66",66,"\u003Cp>The more Lu Zhenghong read, the happier he became. When he saw the brilliant parts, he couldn't help but applaud. \"Good, it's written so well!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up and asked Su Xinghui, \"You wrote this article this afternoon?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xinghui nodded and said, \"Yes, I wrote it after I got the inspection report.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhenghong was a bit surprised. \"You could write it this well in just one afternoon?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xinghui said, \"It wasn't just one afternoon. After I arrived at Meng Hu Ling, I had been thinking about how to revitalize the rural economy and make the farmers' lives better. During this time, I climbed mountains and conducted research with those professors every day, and I had been thinking about it. It wasn't until I saw the inspection report that I had the opportunity to organize my thoughts during this time into an article, so that's why I wrote it a bit faster.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhenghong nodded repeatedly. So this article was the crystallization of Su Xinghui's thinking for so long. But this was also quite extraordinary. He was just a young man in his early twenties, and to have such thoughts—Lu Zhenghong couldn't help but think of himself when he was in his twenties; he didn't have such deep thoughts at all back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xiaoya looked at Su Xinghui with eyes full of brilliance. As far as she knew, none of her classmates could write such an article. Those people were good at writing things that were \"moaning without illness\" or \"wounding spring and grieving autumn,\" but none of them could take root at the grassroots level and write such a profound article.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhenghong said, \"So you've been doing research during this time. No wonder I see you've gotten a bit darker. By the way, why didn't you write much about the current situation in the countryside in your article?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xinghui's voice became a bit low. \"The main purpose of this article is to ask the Department of Transportation for funding, so that they know the important significance of repairing this road and how much value it can bring. So the main theme must be high-spirited and upward; I can't write too much about the dark side.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhenghong could hear how much was left unsaid in Su Xinghui's words. In fact, this was the \"reporting the good news but not the bad\" of the Chinese officialdom. The rural situation was so bad that even he, who prided himself on caring about the people's suffering, didn't know much about it. One can imagine how prevalent this atmosphere was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now this situation had developed to the point where if people below wrote about the real situation, they would be scolded by their superiors for \"alarmist talk\" and criticized. Su Xinghui's purpose for coming this time was to ask for funding, and the Department of Transportation wouldn't care about agricultural issues; writing these things for them to see wouldn't be of any use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Lu Zhenghong nodded in understanding. He asked again, \"Why do you have to come to the provincial level to ask for funding to repair the road in your county?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xinghui said, \"I'm not too sure either. The county has always been unwilling to repair this road. This time, our Deputy County Magistrate Zhang said the county agreed to repair the road, but the county doesn't have the money for the time being. Either Deputy County Magistrate Zhang goes to the provincial level himself to ask for some funding, or we wait until next year when the county budget is redone to repair it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhenghong said, \"Deputy County Magistrate Zhang? Is it the Deputy County Magistrate in charge of agriculture who went to inspect your Yezhugou, as mentioned in this report?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xinghui nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhenghong's mind raced, and in just a moment, he roughly understood the filth in this matter. He had also worked in the county and was quite clear about the tricks involved. This was the county giving this Deputy County Magistrate Zhang a hard problem, and it was probably caused by this report being reprinted by the provincial newspaper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, since the county had agreed to repair the road, it would be impossible not to be able to come up with a mere few hundred thousand, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhenghong smiled and said, \"Then does your Deputy County Magistrate Zhang have any connections to get funding?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xinghui said with a bitter face, \"What connections could he have? The classmate Deputy County Magistrate Zhang went to see today is just a deputy division-level official in the Provincial Department of Culture. He went to see that classmate just to see if that classmate had any connections.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Kaishan did indeed have such a classmate in the Provincial Department of Culture, and he did go to see him to reminisce that evening, but he wouldn't let that classmate help him find a way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhenghong smiled and shook his head. \"You just rushed to the provincial capital to ask for funding like this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xinghui said, \"What else could we do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhenghong suddenly became serious. \"Su Xinghui, tell me honestly, did you come to my house today because you wanted me to help your county ask for funding?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing his father speak so seriously, Lu Xiaoya couldn't help but look at him worriedly, and then looked at Su Xinghui.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xinghui nodded somewhat embarrassedly. \"Uncle Lu, to tell you the truth, I really did have that thought. I thought that although you work in the Party History Office, you are a department-level cadre after all, and you must have more connections than we do. But after I arrived and heard that you are now the Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee, I didn't dare to open my mouth!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were too many coincidences this evening, and Lu Zhenghong was a bit suspicious. It was no wonder he was suspicious; having sat on the cold bench for so many years, he had coldly seen too many sinister tricks. He had seen even more outrageous ways of climbing the social ladder, so he had to be suspicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, seeing Su Xinghui so frankly admit that he wanted to find Lu Zhenghong's connections made Lu Zhenghong stop doubting him. Yes, this was the normal way of thinking for a person. Even if he, Lu Zhenghong, were only the Director of the Party History Office, he was still a department-level cadre after all. How could someone like Su Xinghui, who had no connections, not think of coming to find him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Zhenghong smiled again. \"Then tell me, why didn't you dare to open your mouth after knowing I was the Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee? Wouldn't it be easier for the Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee to help you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xinghui said, \"You are now a member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, and I have never seen such a big cadre as you before. To tell you the truth, my father would never pull strings or go through the back door, so he is still an ordinary doctor. I also don't know how to pull strings or go through the back door. In front of such a big leader as you, I didn't dare to open my mouth even more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1219,"2026-06-16T17:50:40.887Z","2026-06-16T17:54:29.625Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","b03edea0ea8eb0c195acde3b5243a582a496a091541b4c99220531aaa17e4ef2","the-romantic-path-to-success-chapter-67","the-romantic-path-to-success-chapter-65",572,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-romantic-path-to-success-cover.jpg"]