"Come on, Li Ye. You need to go explain things to the higher-ups too."
When the big shots moved their mouths, the little pawns ran their legs off. Since the higher-ups knew about Cong Jinhong, Ma Zhaoxian and Shang Bin had to provide an explanation—a serious, earnest, sincere, and thorough explanation.
But when Li Ye learned that he too was being "taken along" for the trip, he could not help suspecting that Dong Shan might be a nail planted by the higher-ups, specifically there to monitor every rustle of wind and blade of grass within Jingnan Group.
Li Ye was not afraid of explaining himself to the higher-ups. After all, when he learned that the land purchase had cost several million more than it should have and decided to challenge Shang Bin and Cong Jinhong, he had anticipated this. Sooner or later, it had to come.
But after the three of them arrived and were arranged to wait in the reception room, Shang Bin spoke in a low voice. He seemed to be reminding Ma Zhaoxian, yet also seemed to be reminding Li Ye.
"What the higher-ups most want to see now is unity, not division."
"..."
Li Ye glanced at Shang Bin and felt that his words were rather unnecessary. Ma Zhaoxian and he were not raw recruits; of course they knew what the higher-ups most wanted to see.
Unity and friendship, proactive development, greater profits for the country, and better lives for the workers, with food and clothing secured—but among all those things the higher-ups most wanted to see, corruption was not one of them.
When a rat dropping fell into a pot of porridge, did you stir hard with a spoon, breaking it apart and diluting it into the porridge so that out of sight was out