When the Hare Dies, Are the Hounds Cooked-or Is the Bow Stored Away Once the Birds Are Gone?

Li Ye did not care in the slightest about Shang Bin's schemes and tricks. He felt that Shang Bin's little ploys could only fool ordinary people; in the eyes of the big shots above, they were nothing more than child's play.

Besides, Minister Xue and the others all understood Li Ye's importance to the First Branch Factory. Li Ye did not believe they would exile him to the southwest on their own initiative without even asking for his opinion.

But just a few days later, Qu Si came to Jingnan Group to "guide the work." At the meeting, he explicitly relayed the higher-ups' directive to "select outstanding young cadres to go to the southwest and assist with enterprise reform," and he dropped a hint that this outstanding young cadre would be heading to Southwest Heavy Truck Company to become one of the big shots.

Everyone was instantly stunned.

Who was this outstanding young cadre? Qu Si did not say it outright, but everyone turned to look at Li Ye.

Did that even need to be said?

The great contributor who had turned the tide and saved the Light Vehicle Company from the brink of collapse, the capable man who had built the leading light-truck enterprise in the inland from nothing, the young and promising lucky fellow who had kept skipping grades and rising through the ranks over seven years—other than General Li Ye himself, who else could it be?

Tell them, who in Jingnan Group was younger or more outstanding than Li Ye now?

Li Ye sat in his chair, calm and utterly unruffled. Even his eyelids did not twitch. He looked like one of those well-connected people who had received word of a promotion in advance, enviable to the point of being hateable.

The expressions on everyone else's faces,