Jiang Xiaochuan smiled and said, “Mayor Lin, there are no rapids, how can you retreat bravely?”

Lin Shanyi’s eyes flashed, but he only half understood this sentence.

Whoever got the power of acting mayor was likely to be the next mayor. It was even possible for one person to hold two positions and be elected as municipal party committee secretary and mayor at the same time. This kind of thing happened endlessly in other provinces and cities. As for them, their state was in such chaos that the giants of the four major teams almost went their own ways.

The secretary of the municipal party committee, the mayor of the municipal government, the director of the municipal people’s congress, and the chairman of the municipal political consultative conference. Four people with four thoughts. Who knew who is who?

In other countries, some municipal party committee secretaries and municipal people’s congress directors were held by one person, and some municipal party committee secretaries and mayors were held by the same person. Chengzhou was much complex, they were all separated. This was also one of the objective reasons for the complexity of Chengzhou’s political situation and officialdom.

Now the mayor of Chengzhou, Fu Peng, who also served as the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, had also collapsed. Wasn’t this a torrent?

Why was Jiang Xiaochuan still acting so bland?

Lin Shanyi really couldn’t figure it out.

But Jiang Xiaochuan didn’t explain too much. He just said: “Now our Chengzhou is very peaceful. Even if the mayor is gone, we will make steady progress. What we rely on is not the mayor, but the entire team.” Another empty talked.

However, empty words could perfectly explain Lin Shanyi’s doubts.

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Not long after returning to his office, Jiang Xiaochuan received a call from Lian Cheng using a secret line.

He hadn’t spoken to Lian Cheng for a long time. When he took out his cell phone and saw that it was a secret line call, he was still guessing who it was. Once the call was connected and the other party announced his home address, he realized that it was Lian Cheng.

Lian Cheng’s voice seemed to have become much calmer over the past few months, with a slight hoarseness, closer to the magnetism of a metal. Judging from the few words Jiang Xiaochuan heard from the side, Lian Cheng’s life was not easy. It was a tough fight, but he gained a lot. He was promoted from a deputy position to a full-time position, and even became the director of the Sixth Office. He was greatly appreciated by Zhang Qing, the winner of the team this time.

After the reshuffle, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection made the departments below very afraid because Zhang Qing was the nemesis of all officials with unhealthy styles and weak party spirit. Almost his whole family was killed by enemies, but he still focused on the methods of fighting corruption, he did it vigorously and resolutely when it was necessary, and he had a good grasp of the right measures. The important thing was the yardstick in his heart had never changed.

The newly appointed Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection admired him very much. There were people behind Zhang Qing. Some people jokingly said that behind Zhang Qing were all the pedantic clean streams.

There were strong supporters behind Zhang Qing, and the central government had stepped up its efforts to crack down on corruption. After all, this contradiction was getting bigger and bigger, and this contradiction must be eliminated before it became the main contradiction in society. It was not that the central government never fought corruption, but it couldn’t bear to lose its power and lower-level departments couldn’t command it.

If Lian Cheng insisted on walking on the path he chose, he would probably be the second Zhang Qing.

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Jiang Xiaochuan gathered back his chaotic thoughts and listened to Lian Cheng’s long-lost voice on the phone.

“Mayor Jiang, this is all I can do for you for the time being. There should be no problem with the acting mayor. The deputy secretary of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee is probably the greatest convenience we can provide you. However, this is not a power transaction, nor is it opening the back door. It is the result of the entire Central Commission for Discipline Inspection acting expediently in response to the special circumstances of Chengzhou. Please fulfill your obligation to keep confidentiality to the outside world.”

Jiang Xiaochuan had already said, “the torrent” had not yet risen, so why bother to “retreat bravely”?

However, there were some things that he needed to tell Lian Cheng: “Since the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has arrangements, then I choose to accept them. I have already written some things into the report, but – I hope that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection can do things more gently. After all, Chengzhou still needs to carry out economic construction. If too many problems arise in the end, the resistance from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection will be great. More importantly, it could alert the snake and the municipal government. It would be very difficult to carry out the work.”

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As the saying went, ‘If you are not in a position, you will not seek political power’. But ‘If you are in a position, you will seek political power’.

However, he felt that many things were tied up and could not be used at all. Jiang Xiaochuan had to be Lian Cheng’s hidden thorn and had to perform perfectly in front of everyone. Sometimes he was honest, sometimes corrupt, sometimes righteous, sometimes evil. In the past few months, Jiang Xiaochuan had entered the Integrity Commission specially provided to him by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The money in the account had reached a terrible level.

If he was not greedy, he would never know how quickly money could come from being greedy.

Jiang Xiaochuan did not tell the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the source of the money. He had this freedom, and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection also acquiesced in this reserved behavior, but Jiang Xiaochuan did not know whether these things would become a bargaining chip to bring him down in the future.

He had always felt that sometimes there was no way to change fate. In this life, he always felt that he would still go to jail, even though he tried hard to tell himself that he could change.

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Lian Cheng over there was silent for a long time when he heard what he said.

Jiang Xiaochuan didn’t say anything. The whole office was extremely quiet. He heard Lian Cheng’s sighing voice: “I’m sorry, I know Mayor Jiang is under a lot of pressure, but now – there is nothing I can do except do thess.”

So, Jiang Xiaochuan was actually still a lonely traveler and a lone hero.

“Lian Cheng, do you think a lone hero will ever be victorious?” Jiang Xiaochuan called Lian Cheng by his name, which was very strange.

Lian Cheng didn’t know why, but he was silent because of the sudden change of title. After a long time, he said: “Yes.”

Jiang Xiaochuan didn’t know either. He chuckled softly: “Thank you, Director Lian. Goodbye.”

“Goodbye.”

He became “Director Lian” again. When he hung up the phone, Lian Cheng suddenly felt a little confused.

Jiang Xiaochuan, on the other hand, looked at the hot air waves above the buildings outside and remained silent.