Chapter 547: What a Coincidence

"This isn't me making you leave."

Li Xuewu held the tea Xu Ning had handed him and said helplessly, "It was you who complained about the harsh conditions here, being away from home, and being far from your family and your partner."

"I did say that."

Ji Weidong spread his hands and asked Li Xuewu, "I've suffered so much, can't I even talk about it?"

"You can, I didn't stop you from talking."

Li Xuewu raised an eyebrow and said, "Go ahead, tell me what work you've done here and what hardships you've endured."

"Hey!"

Ji Weidong suddenly realized that Li Xuewu had taken the initiative, hitting him with a blow the moment they met and leaving him completely bewildered.

He was the one in charge of the Steel City case, and Li Xuewu was just here to get a piece of the action. How did it end up with him reporting his work to Li Xuewu?

"Li Xuewu, you are truly vicious!"

Ji Weidong pointed at Li Xuewu, but he sat down anyway.

There was no other reason; firstly, he couldn't beat Li Xuewu, and secondly, he still needed Li Xuewu's help to close the net.

"Forget about me for a moment, let's talk about you."

Ji Weidong looked Li Xuewu up and down and asked, "Did you come here all by yourself? Do you think you're Zhang Fei?"

Li Xuewu pointed at Han Jiankun, who was sitting by the door, and retorted, "There's another one right here. Do you call this coming by myself?"

Ji Weidong rolled his eyes at this and said, "Even if both of you were Zhao Zilong, two fists can't fight four hands, right?"

"Are they supposed to have three heads and six arms?"

Li Xuewu disdainfully took a sip of tea and then said, "Close the net, catch the people, interrogate those who need interrogating, and lock up those who need locking up."

"If it were that easy, would I even need you?"

Ji Weidong glanced at Li Xuewu and said, "Just the important figures scattered under Ma Liuzi alone are numerous. Add in those from the city, the several factories and warehouses involved, the transport teams, and so on—the Steel Mill's people aren't enough."

He didn't avoid Xu Ning while speaking; it wasn't that he didn't trust Xu Ning's team, but the number of people involved in this mission was large, and it was of great importance.

"Hmm, that is indeed a problem."

Just as Li Xuewu nodded to confirm Ji Weidong's statement, he suddenly heard the sound of cars coming from downstairs.

Ji Weidong was stunned for a moment, stood up to look downstairs, and was taken aback.

Good heavens, eight or nine vehicles had suddenly entered the small courtyard of the guesthouse, with a big guy in the lead, and it looked like there were armored vehicles behind it.

"This...?"

Ji Weidong looked at Li Xuewu. He knew that the Steel Mill didn't have a team of this scale; it must have been brought by Li Xuewu.

Li Xuewu also stood up, looked downstairs, and then signaled to Han Jiankun at the door.

Seeing Han Jiankun and Xu Ning go out, he said to Ji Weidong in a calm tone, "It's nothing, just a forty-five-man special task force."

Watching the dozens of fully armed people downstairs in uniform, assembling quickly, Ji Weidong silently gave Li Xuewu a score of ninety-nine for this show-off.

He was intentional about the missing point; if Li Xuewu could have been a bit more low-key earlier, it would have been perfect.

"Plus the thirty people from the Steel Mill."

Li Xuewu looked at Ji Weidong and asked, "Can this solve your problem?"

Ji Weidong pursed his lips, acknowledging Li Xuewu's strength. After turning around and sitting down with Li Xuewu, he said, "Xu Ning told you about the three who died, right?"

"Hmm, he gave me a rough idea."

Li Xuewu nodded and asked, "What stage are we at now?"

"I wouldn't say you came at just the right time."

Ji Weidong admitted that he had been used as cheap labor by Li Xuewu again, bearing the pressure from above and wasting over a month in Steel City.

Although the visible gains were indeed tempting, he felt unbalanced whenever he thought about Li Xuewu waiting for him to do the work.

However, this case was originally ceded by Li Xuewu, and he was the one who took the initiative to find Li Xuewu, so he naturally had to acknowledge the cooperation plan.

"What can be confirmed now is that these three people each held certain evidence of the group at the level above them, which is why they were silenced."

"Is the suicide confirmed?"

Li Xuewu lit a cigarette, his gaze through the smoke both illusory and firm, as if possessing the magic to shatter all falsehoods.

"Basically confirmed."

Ji Weidong nodded distressingly and said, "They must have received news and committed suicide because they couldn't withstand the pressure."

Li Xuewu flicked the cigarette in his hand, his eyes staring into the void for several minutes, and then asked in a deep voice, "What about their families?"

"Families?"

Ji Weidong turned his head in surprise to look at Li Xuewu, not knowing why he would ask that.

Not involving family members in one's troubles was an unspoken rule, and it was implemented as such both morally and legally.

Even in the politically intense struggles, one would leave a way out for others and not involve the other party's family.

"Hmm."

Li Xuewu confirmed it very seriously, and then said with a sinister look in his eyes, "Do they think that just because they died, the evidence is gone, and their families can continue to enjoy their current treatment and previous savings?"

Ji Weidong had also just thought of this problem. It wasn't that he hadn't thought about contacting the families of these people before, but he had only made normal inquiries through Nie Liansheng's connections.

"Are you saying...?"

Ji Weidong hesitated and asked, "Detain them all? This... this violates discipline."

"Then assist in the investigation."

Li Xuewu replied indifferently, took a puff of his cigarette, then looked at the sky outside the window, exhaling smoke as he said, "In any case, we must curb the use of methods like evasion and suicide; we must make them afraid."

Ji Weidong frowned and thought for a moment, then replied, "Have you thought about the impact of doing this?"

"What impact?"

Li Xuewu turned his head and raised an eyebrow. The setting sun shone on his young face, but there was no warmth at all, only ruthlessness.

"Are you a local? Are you planning to settle down here? Or are you being transferred here to work?"

After finishing, without waiting for Ji Weidong to react, he took another puff of his cigarette and said, "It was a matter of catching them all in one net anyway; all the people who should have been offended have already been offended. Why do you still care about the damn impact?"

Ji Weidong pinched his chin and said, "Xiang Yunian over at Discipline Inspection..."

"Are you under his jurisdiction?"

Li Xuewu knew what Ji Weidong meant. The root of this case was those people above, while the people below and those doing the work were the ones Ji Weidong and Li Xuewu wanted to squeeze for oil.

"You are told to do things according to the rules, not to tie your own hands and feet and be a good person."

Li Xuewu leaned over, got close to Ji Weidong's face, and asked softly, "What kind of Bodhisattva are you pretending to be? Are you a good person?"

"You are!"

Ji Weidong wiped his eyes at Li Xuewu and then asked, "Are we doing it now?"

Li Xuewu tilted his mouth and retorted, "Are you saving them for the New Year?"

Ji Weidong let out a long breath, picked up the phone at his side, and started giving orders.

The Investigation Department didn't bring many people here, only twenty-something, and they were all investigators.

However, an arrest of this intensity was not a problem; Ji Weidong was very confident.

After finishing the call, Ji Weidong looked at Li Xuewu and said, "Xiang Yunian has a list. What can be confirmed is that it's very widespread. He is communicating with those above, asking whether it passed through Liaodong. You also know about his pressure."

Seeing Li Xuewu nod to indicate he understood, Ji Weidong continued, "Below, what can be confirmed is that Guandong is the key figure of this criminal group. It can be said that he is the soul, and all criminal activities are inseparable from him."

"White glove."

Li Xuewu nodded to confirm, then signaled for Ji Weidong to continue.

Ji Weidong understood Li Xuewu's meaning and nodded, saying, "Earlier, he was in the grain sector and had deep connections with the food factory. After being transferred to the agency, he corrupted a large number of superior-subordinate relationships."

Speaking of this, Ji Weidong emphatically tapped the sofa armrest and said, "The club you went to is actually a smokescreen he created. The second floor is the station for an art troupe."

"That art troupe has been scouting suitable women for Guandong to corrupt him all year round. Yu Min is one of his supervisors in this arrangement."

"Yu Min."

Li Xuewu raised an eyebrow and asked, "Has this kid been exposed?"

"Hehe, I've already talked to him proactively."

Ji Weidong didn't feel that Li Xuewu interrupting him was anything, briefly introduced Yu Min's situation, and continued.

"Yu Min controls the art troupe, corrupting upwards and handling relationships downwards. After Ma Saner was killed by you, Ma Liuzi brought people to join, and he took charge of the gambling den and places of the same nature as the art troupe."

"Mu Hai, the deputy factory director who committed suicide at the food factory, was the one who controlled the grain smuggling line. Other machinery factories, coal mines, iron mines, etc., all have their own connections."

"Every time a crime is committed, Guandong will come forward to coordinate, and then the specific person in charge will arrange the transport."

"Wrong."

Li Xuewu shook his finger and said, "The things in the warehouses he showed me were not domestic."

"I know."

Ji Weidong explained, "This is their way of laundering money domestically. The overseas line is another line that Guandong is responsible for himself, which is the source of the things you saw."

"Didn't find it?"

Li Xuewu looked at Ji Weidong with his eyes narrowed. If this guy had found it, he would definitely have started with the most valuable things.

"The enemy is too cunning."

Ji Weidong spread his hands helplessly and said, "We followed quite a few people, but there were no results."

Li Xuewu looked at Ji Weidong suspiciously, then said with some disdain, "Is the enemy too cunning, or is your ability not good enough?"

"Li Xuewu, you can doubt my command ability, but you cannot insult the professional ability of these comrades of mine."

Ji Weidong tapped the sofa armrest and retorted with grievance.

Li Xuewu didn't care and raised his head, saying, "Forget it. In a place as small as Steel City, you couldn't even dig the people out, and you're still bragging to me about ability."

After finishing, he asked Xu Ning, who had just entered the door, "Are there foreigners in Steel City?"

"Section Chief."

Xu Ning had just finished arranging the special task force that had just arrived downstairs. He was stunned by Li Xuewu's question as soon as he entered the room.

After reacting, he nodded and said, "Yes, there are many Russians, and there are also Koreans."

Li Xuewu turned his head to look at Ji Weidong and asked, "Have you checked these people?"

Looking at Ji Weidong's stunned expression, Li Xuewu explained, "Since it's something from outside, I don't believe it has nothing to do with them. Even if they didn't send it in, they must know something."

"Holy crap!"

Ji Weidong jumped up from his chair in surprise, looked at Li Xuewu, and asked, "Since you knew, why didn't you tell me earlier!"

"If I had told you earlier, would you have been able to handle the case?"

Li Xuewu mocked him and then continued, "Don't take action directly; find their leader. These outsiders all stick together. Find their core figure, and I don't believe you won't be able to find out about their violations."

"Damn!"

Ji Weidong turned around in the room twice, muttering, "This is certainly not a problem. Even if there is no problem, we have to create one to handle it~"

Ji Weidong, who had been deeply influenced by Li Xuewu's thinking, seemed to have had a breakthrough. He grabbed the phone on the table and wanted to find someone to arrange the task.

"Click."

Li Xuewu pressed the phone's mechanism at once, looked at Ji Weidong, who had a puzzled look, and asked, "Is this your first day in the Investigation Department? You handle this kind of thing over the phone?"

"Slap~"

Ji Weidong gave himself a light slap, then blamed himself, saying, "I was too excited. Let this be a warning; I will never commit it again."

After finishing, he looked at Li Xuewu and asked, "If there is a breakthrough in this line, what should we do next?"

"I can't wait for you."

Li Xuewu shook his head and said, "I came here out of helplessness. I have to go back in three to five days at most. There isn't much time left for you."

"Damn!"

Ji Weidong was being pulled around by Li Xuewu today until he wanted to pull his hair out. He had just found a new direction for the investigation, and now Li Xuewu was saying time was tight again.

"Aren't you here to support? Why did they only give you such a little time?"

"Sigh~"

Li Xuewu sighed and said, "Little Ji, you don't understand the helplessness of a section-level cadre, especially a section-level cadre like me who holds all the power of a department."

Ji Weidong suddenly didn't want to talk to Li Xuewu anymore. Such a person really deserved to die!

Li Xuewu stretched out two fingers again and said, "Managing one section is hard enough, let alone the fact that I manage two. I'm very busy."

"..."

Ji Weidong looked at Li Xuewu showing off with his eyelids drooping and no interest in life. The excitement he originally had was completely gone.

"So you're going to take action tonight after seeing Xiang Yunian?"

"Pretty much."

Li Xuewu leaned back on the sofa and nodded, saying, "But you don't have to worry. There certainly aren't many foreigners in Steel City..."

Before Li Xuewu finished speaking, Ji Weidong was already walking toward the door.

After grabbing the doorknob, Ji Weidong opened the door and went out, turning his head to say to Li Xuewu, "You must wait for my news tonight before taking action."

After finishing, he didn't even ask Li Xuewu if he was taking action tonight, and hurried downstairs.

Xu Ning looked blankly at Ji Weidong leaving in a hurry, then walked to Li Xuewu's side, refilled the tea cup, and asked, "What's wrong with him?"

"Don't worry about him."

Li Xuewu narrowed his eyes and took a puff of his cigarette, then asked, "Are you sure about the thirty people you can use at any time?"

"No problem."

Xu Ning guaranteed, "Five of them are from the capital, and the rest have also been assessed. I executed the training methods according to the capital's standards."

Li Xuewu nodded and instructed, "Don't give the order yet. Eat something good tonight, and gather the people in the conference room for some study or something."

"Are you taking action tonight?"

As soon as Xu Ning heard this, he knew Li Xuewu was going to take action, but they had just arrived in Steel City today.

Li Xuewu didn't care about Xu Ning's surprise, raised an eyebrow, exhaled smoke, and asked, "Who stipulated that we can't take action tonight? Do I have to send them a message?"

"Yes!"

Xu Ning agreed, saluted, and turned to go out to make arrangements.

From the moment Li Xuewu intended to take action, Xu Ning knew the battle was about to begin, and his relationship with Li Xuewu naturally adjusted to a rhythm of absolute obedience.

Only Li Xuewu was left in the room. The cigarette butt in his hand was still emitting nicotine smoke, while Li Xuewu's thoughts had already drifted away.

Rolling Steel Mill.

The smoke in the small conference room where the leadership meeting was being held had also become thick.

Factory Director Yang Fengshan took the lead, and the other old smokers also frowned and sucked hard on their cigarette holders.

It was as if they were in a competition, as if whoever puffed out more smoke could seize the initiative.

Gu Weijie also smoked, but not like this. Looking at the foggy office desk, she really couldn't bear it, stood up, and opened the window.

The afternoon wind wasn't strong, but it could blow away some of the smog in the conference room.

It seemed to blow in new ideas, causing Yang Fengshan to tap the lid of the tea cup in front of him and say, "Everyone speak up, don't be reserved. This isn't just the Logistics Department's business."

Jing Yunong looked at Factory Director Yang and then at Li Huai De, who was narrowing his eyes and not saying a word, and said, "Let me state my opinion."

After most of the leadership members in the conference room looked over, Jing Yunong coughed, cleared her throat, and said, "The stalemate at the Frontier Office is entirely because the office did not follow the unified deployment of the factory office meeting, recklessly expanding the scale of acquisition, which is the inevitable result of the existing financial problems."

"Cough, cough."

Yang Fengshan coughed twice, then took a sip of water with a "slurp" sound, pointed his finger virtually, and emphasized, "Let's not talk about the reasons for this matter first. The top priority is to find a way to solve this matter."

Jing Yunong looked at the report in her hand and continued, "From the perspective of the Rolling Steel Mill's finances, to fill this hole, it is impossible not to use funds from other projects, and it will be long-term."

While speaking, she pointed to the report in her hand and reminded everyone at the table, "Everyone may have seen clearly that the Frontier Office signed long-term cooperation contracts with local pastures and departments. What right do they have to make such a decision?"

Jing Yunong became angrier as she spoke, pointed her finger at the table, and raised her voice, "Who gave the Frontier Office this power of decision? Who gave them the guts to sign such an agreement without going through the factory leadership?"

This brought the matter back to the beginning. After Li Huai De threw out the card of the Logistics Department needing money, after the factory office meeting and the Party committee meeting, no reasonable solution was obtained.

Yang Fengshan also had no choice but to put this problem to the Party committee for discussion.

Jing Yunong was in charge of finance and naturally knew the current financial situation of the Rolling Steel Mill best.

This year, the Rolling Steel Mill's expenses were very large, and the financial budget made last year was simply not enough.

Just talking about the expansion and project initiation of several projects, without the support of superiors, the situation could not be opened up at all.

These past few days, she had received pressure from the factory director and had to speed up the preparatory negotiations for the joint enterprise, but now a big hole had suddenly appeared. How could she not be annoyed?

However, annoyance was annoyance. The matter had already happened, and if it wasn't solved, the problem of breach of contract would appear.

People and enterprises at this time, even if they were starving to death, were unwilling to appear in a situation of loss of faith and breach of contract. This was a socialist society, after all.

Li Huai De naturally heard the sarcasm in Jing Yunong's words, but he didn't care, because this was his side move.

Originally, he intended to let the Security Department cooperate with the Logistics Department to stir up some movement for the residential area project.

He didn't expect that he would receive the business trip application submitted by Li Xuewu of the Security Department as soon as he went to work yesterday.

He knew Li Xuewu was going to run, but Li Huai De had no choice but to play this backup card that had been prepared long ago.

Jin Yaohui strictly executed Li Huai De's opinions at the Frontier Office, and according to the ideas given by Li Xuewu, he really made a mess of things.

The early stage was still a financial problem, but now a contract problem had been stirred up.

This old guy, according to Li Huai De's opinion, directly signed acquisition agreements with surrounding pastoral areas in the name of the Frontier Office.

Of course, the agreement was very fair, starting from the perspective of supporting the frontier and win-win cooperation, and it was a completely reasonable and fair deal.

But the key point came: the wool acquired by the Rolling Steel Mill in the early stage was still piled up in the warehouse. Jing Yunong had talked to the textile factory for the third round, but still hadn't reached a cooperation agreement.

Originally, Jing Yunong intended to sell the wool and skins directly, but for some reason, the textile factory said they had their own acquisition channels and didn't need the Rolling Steel Mill's wool.

If it had been according to Li Huai De's previous advocacy, the joint enterprise with the textile factory would have already entered the construction stage.

But Li Xuewu's withdrawal directly caused Li Huai De's connections to be stripped out of the project.

Li Xuewu had words in advance: if you want to do it, you have to listen to him; if you want to leave, you have to leave cleanly.

Li Huai De naturally supported Li Xuewu, so Li Huai De's connections were not responsible for these projects at all.

Now it was good. Jing Yunong thought she was picking a peach, but it was actually a trap, directly trapping her firmly inside.

Moving forward, she couldn't open up the situation; moving backward, she couldn't change the acquisition strategy of the office.

Every time the office handed a transport order to the dispatcher, it would eat up a financial budget of the Rolling Steel Mill.

This budget was advanced by Jing Yunong under Yang Fengshan's instruction and was misappropriated from other projects; it had to be repaid.

The planned economy in the factory didn't have the term "deficit." If something really happened, Yang Fengshan and Jing Yunong would have to take the blame.

Jing Yunong was angry because the matter was handled by Li Huai De; why should she take the responsibility?

Yang Fengshan also didn't want to take the responsibility, but he was the top leader. No matter how this matter developed, he couldn't escape the investigation from above.

Even if he wanted to transfer this project and related businesses back to Li Huai De now, it wouldn't work, because Li Huai De wouldn't take this hot potato.

Ah, you were the one who snatched it, and you are the one who has to pay it back. You say whatever you want?

A factory director can't do that either.

So now, rather than investigating Jin Yaohui's responsibility, Yang Fengshan would rather find a way to solve the problem.

Jin Yaohui was in the frontier, the mountains were high and the emperor was far away. Even if he wanted to deal with him, there had to be a buffer time.

Besides, Yang Fengshan knew that Li Huai De must still have a backup plan, and Jin Yaohui wouldn't collapse.

He only understood this backup plan the day before yesterday when the leaders came and he listened to Li Huai De's introduction.

The Rolling Steel Mill had been promoting earthquake relief, and Li Huai De had already tied this contract to disaster relief.

If you deny this contract now, you are denying the Rolling Steel Mill's purpose and determination to support the frontier in earthquake relief.

If the leaders didn't know, this matter would be easy to talk about, but Li Huai De wouldn't make it clear until the leaders came.

The leaders left, and the Frontier Office reported the problem of the time difference.

It was too late to solve Jin Yaohui, and Jing Yunong's complaints were useless.

"Let me say a few words."

Seeing the change in Yang Fengshan's expression, Gu Weijie tapped the table in front of her and said, "I think Factory Director Yang means to first seek a way to solve the problem. Since the factory can't solve it, how about this: report the difficulties of the Frontier Office to the superiors. We are also well-intentioned. Please ask the superior leaders to help coordinate, and wait until our conditions are better before supporting."

As soon as Gu Weijie finished speaking, the others lowered their heads, either looking at their own documents or pondering the patterns on the tea cups.

The opinion put forward by Deputy Secretary Gu was not an opinion at all; it was completely slapping the factory director in the face.

Even Party Secretary Yang Yuansong, who was sitting on the side smoking, couldn't help but frown.

Gu Weijie was the Deputy Party Secretary and had nothing to do with this matter at all. Even if the superiors investigated, it would have nothing to do with her.

So now she was completely standing and talking without back pain. On the surface, she put forward a good method, but in reality, she blocked everyone's way to avoid this problem.

Li Huai De narrowed his eyes and looked at the melancholy Deputy Secretary Gu. This woman's appearance of being for the good of the factory really made him sigh at Li Xuewu's vision.

At first, he asked Li Xuewu to get along well with Deputy Secretary Gu and not to be hard on her, thinking that there shouldn't be any conflict.

But this bull Li Xuewu either turned left or turned right. Instead of letting him cause conflict, he found a partner.

He knew this woman was very deep before, but now it seemed that "hitting the nail on the head" was an understatement; "piercing the throat with one sword" was more accurate.

"If it doesn't work, digest it yourself."

Nie Chenglin put down the tea cup in his hand, frowned, and said, "It's not like we haven't studied textile machines. We have also made parts for that old, worn-out one in the tool factory. If it really doesn't work, we can set up a textile department ourselves."

Deng Zhiwang looked at Nie Chenglin, who took the initiative to speak, lowered his head, and continued to study the patterns on the tea cup.

He was now a big budget user. If meat was to be cut, it would be cut from him, but who would want to take their own budget to help others earn merit?

So rather than being the first bird, it was better to be silent and not speak.

Jing Yunong couldn't hide. She looked at Deng Zhiwang and said to Nie Chenglin, "Deputy Factory Director Nie's opinion has been discussed, but it won't work."

While speaking, she took out an opinion paper and placed it in the middle of the table, saying, "The details of the discussion are in it."

Nie Chenglin saw that it was Jing Yunong who opposed his opinion, and reached out to take the document.

Jing Yunong explained to the other leadership members: "Let alone the time cost of manufacturing textile machines, building factory buildings, and recruiting and training workers, even if the wool fabric is really made, we must have sales channels."

"Can't we sell it to the workers in our own factory?"

Nie Chenglin had only read the beginning of the document in his hand, and added, "If it really doesn't work, we can exchange materials with other enterprises."

"Talking about direction while setting aside quantity is really making things difficult."

Jing Yunong knew that Nie Chenglin could handle production, but his thinking had become rigid and was not suitable for the current brainstorming.

So she said directly to Yang Fengshan, who had the power of decision: "And the upstream and downstream connections of textile enterprises are very tight. It's not something that a steelmaker can insert into. So tons and mountains of wool and leather cannot be revitalized without textile enterprises."

Nie Chenglin also knew he had been a blockhead. Looking at the budget made on the document, unless all the workers in the factory used this material for their underwear, they could only digest the tip of the iceberg.

This kind of industrial production was no longer the output of the hand-weaving machine era, and it couldn't be digested by one or two families.

Furthermore, even if the workers in the factory could buy it, how much could they buy? He had heard of wool coats, but never of wool underwear.

That thing is prickly, and it also generates static electricity!

It doesn't matter if it shocks the thighs, but if it shocks...

Hiss~ Ah~ Stimulating~~~

Yang Fengshan didn't need to look at the materials in Nie Chenglin's hands to know that this move wouldn't work. A steel enterprise engaging in textiles, how the hell could he report this to his superiors?

Developing light industry with heavy industry, engaging in dual development? Should other industries also be merged into one factory?

One day, a project for a food factory to produce manure fertilizer would be lively.

"Do any other comrades have any opinions?"

Yang Fengshan looked around the conference room. Seeing that everyone was silent, he thought for a moment and said, "Whose opinion was it when this project was initiated?"

Li Huai De saw Yang Fengshan looking at him and knew he had to speak.

"It was a project developed by Deputy Section Chief Li Xuewu when I went to the frontier."

At this moment, Li Huai De wouldn't take all the credit, but instead highlighted Li Xuewu's role, almost completely saying it was Li Xuewu's advocacy.

"However, everyone enjoyed the benefits of this project in the early stage."

Li Huai De moved the cup in front of him, looked at everyone calmly, and said, "When we carried out this project, we reported it to the factory, and it created millions in profits for the factory, and also improved the welfare of the workers."

Hearing this, Jing Yunong was not happy. So the money was handed over and I spent it randomly?

"Deputy Factory Director Li, a large part of the profits created in the frontier was transferred back by the office, and the rest was used as funds to support the disaster area. You wouldn't know that, would you?"

Yang Fengshan waved his hand and affirmed Li Huai De's speech, saying, "I said, I am not investigating anyone's responsibility. The money entered the finance department, and it was used in the right place. Now we are talking about a solution."

While speaking, he looked at Li Huai De and said, "I just want to see if the person who proposed this project has any follow-up development goals."

"That has to be asked of Deputy Section Chief Li."

Li Huai De folded his arms, leaned back in his chair, and said, "I made the project proposal very clear at the beginning. The project initiation was proposed by me and Li Xuewu together, but the actual design was Li Xuewu's opinion, including the opinion on the establishment of the Frontier Office."

"Deputy Section Chief Li."

Yang Fengshan shook the fountain pen in his hand, thought for a moment, and said, "Then go and notify him, and let Deputy Section Chief Li come over."

This was said to Xu Nian, who was recording the meeting, but before Xu Nian could stand up, Li Huai De said, "He is not here."

"Not here?"

"Yes."

Xu Nian also stood up at this moment and replied, "Deputy Section Chief Li submitted a business trip application the day before yesterday and took the train to Steel City yesterday afternoon."

Yang Fengshan frowned and looked at Li Huai De, then asked Xu Nian, "What is he doing in Steel City?"

Xu Nian wouldn't be vague about such things, because this was the factory Party committee meeting, and no one dared to fool around.

"Deputy Section Chief Li went to execute the branch bureau's mission, and at the same time went to Steel City Rolling Steel Mill to investigate and inspect the steel mill's security emergency construction."

This was a summary of the original report submitted by Li Xuewu. Regardless of what Li Xuewu went to do, Xu Nian had to say it like this.

"What a coincidence?"

Yang Fengshan said softly, his eyes drifting past Li Huai De. Seeing that he was also not surprised, he knew that this matter was very complicated.

It might be true, or it might be intentional by Li Huai De, or it might be Li Xuewu's intention.

However, Li Huai De's intentionality was weaker, because no one knew he would find him today.

"Can you contact him?"

Yang Fengshan instructed Xu Nian, "Let the secretary make a call to Steel City, explain the situation, and let him prepare an opinion report."

After finishing, he turned his gaze back and said to everyone, "Deputy Section Chief Li cannot come, and we cannot just wait like fools. Think again, brainstorm, and don't let this matter hinder the development of the Rolling Steel Mill."

The words sounded good, but this was a big pit dug by Li Huai De on purpose, just to hinder the development of Yang Fengshan and others, so how could it be solved easily?

So this meeting lasted until after four o'clock in the afternoon and failed to reach a further solution.

In the end, it was still a matter of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Yang Fengshan came forward, used the power of the factory director, coordinated with the finance department, and misappropriated another financial budget to alleviate the pressure brought by this procurement contract.

After leaving the venue, Yang Fengshan specifically followed Yang Yuansong to his office.

This was a rare situation. In itself, the factory director is the top leader of administrative work, and his direct power is greater than that of the Party secretary.

Don't look at Yang Fengshan respecting Yang Yuansong's status as the class monitor, but generally, he wouldn't go to Yang Yuansong's office to talk about work; it should be Yang Yuansong coming to Yang Fengshan's side to talk.

This time, he was really pushed to the wall by Li Huai De. If he played the rogue, Yang Fengshan could also muddle through.

But now the situation of the Rolling Steel Mill is tense. As long as several projects survive this period, they will usher in a turning point.

The last suppression caused Li Huai De to lose a lot, making Yang Fengshan feel the smoothness of exercising power unprecedentedly.

But this sense of blockage after such smoothness made him very uncomfortable.

"Party Secretary Yang."

Yang Fengshan followed the Party secretary into the room and sat on the sofa, complaining.

"You tell me, what should I do?"

While speaking, Yang Fengshan hit his left hand with his right palm and said, "I can't even handle the external pressure now, and I still have to deal with these internally. Should I really execute discipline within the factory?"

"Hehe, drink tea."

Yang Yuansong personally placed a cup of tea in front of Yang Fengshan and said with a light smile, "There will always be a way to solve things."

"I'm just afraid that when I want to solve it, I will have to pay a higher price."

Yang Fengshan didn't even look at the tea, but said meaningfully, "If it can run, I don't mind using gentle means to urge everyone to grow together."

After saying this, Yang Fengshan's tone changed, and he said slightly bluntly, "If not, then I don't mind breaking and then establishing, rebuilding order."

"Not to that extent, not to that extent."

Yang Yuansong knew that Yang Fengshan was forced by Li Huai De. He didn't express it at the meeting, but now he was forcing himself to express his attitude.

Who said that Li Huai De doing this made Yang Fengshan passive?

The artistry of politics is supported by thinking patterns. Now Yang Fengshan is borrowing strength to hit strength, directly applying the fist Li Huai De hit him with to Yang Yuansong.

The class was originally full of good classmates and good partners, but now someone wants to destroy the good situation and doesn't obey the leadership of the deputy class monitor. What is your attitude as the class monitor?

If you are a mud-mixer, then I won't obey your leadership, and don't say I'm hollowing you out then.

Yang Fengshan now has four votes in his hand, which is absolutely dominant compared to the number of votes in Yang Yuansong's hand.

Now the ball is at Yang Yuansong's feet, and Yang Fengshan is just watching how Yang Yuansong kicks it.

Yang Yuansong didn't care about Yang Fengshan's attitude, smiled, took a sip of hot tea, and then said, "Why not slow down? Finance can still hold on. Maybe Deputy Section Chief Li of the Security Department has a good way."

"I don't doubt it."

Yang Fengshan suddenly softened his attitude, picked up the cigarette case on the coffee table, and lit a cigarette.

"I don't know about others in this matter, but since it was Li Xuewu's idea, there must be a solution."

Before Yang Yuansong could make a positive attitude, Yang Fengshan suddenly asked, "Then why did he suddenly leave the capital?"

"This..."

Yang Yuansong was also hesitant, because Li Xuewu left too suddenly. He didn't hear any news yesterday at all.

Even Li Huai De, who made the instructions, just went with the flow and delayed the news of Li Xuewu's business trip.

This made Yang Yuansong also start to doubt Li Xuewu's motive for the business trip.

Yang Fengshan took a puff of his cigarette and then said, "Even if he hadn't left the capital, I would doubt whether he could provide opinions."

"Comrade Li Xuewu, I still trust him."

Yang Yuansong rarely expressed his attitude on the issue of a cadre, because he knew Li Xuewu's background very well.

Others may not be clear about the relationships in the Rolling Steel Mill, but as the Party secretary, he must be clear. This is his job.

"I think you can talk to Comrade Li Xuewu directly. You are the factory director; this is not a difficult thing."

Yang Fengshan smoked his cigarette, looked at the Party secretary, and paused for a long time before saying, "From the day Li Xuewu withdrew from the joint enterprise preparatory office, he would not offer any opinions on this work."

Among these section-level and deputy section-level cadres in the factory, there is no one as distinct as Li Xuewu, and no one with the ability of Li Xuewu to turn his hands into clouds and cover them into rain.

If it were before, Yang Fengshan could still adjust Li Xuewu's work.

But now, it's not just Li Xuewu's background, but also the balance of the Security Department and the connection between the Rolling Steel Mill's Security Department and the branch bureau.

Does a deputy section chief managing public security at a branch bureau manage sales at the Rolling Steel Mill? Manage service?

Stop joking. Since the step of Dong Wenxue jumping out of the Security Department and going to the Rolling Steel Mill, Li Xuewu was destined to be stable in the position of deputy section chief.

"Or re-transfer him back to the joint enterprise preparatory office, or let him enter the Party committee..."

"I disagree!" ===== CHAPTER 548 =====