Construction Site.
Outside the New County Party Committee Compound.
Dong Xuebin was truly stunned. It was not that he was making a fuss or had never seen the world; the sight before him was simply something he had never anticipated.
This was a government compound?
It was practically a palace!
The walls outside the compound were all the red-brick, red-tile kind. The buildings inside were even more so. At a glance, there was an approximately three-story building at the very back, with several "Office Buildings" on the right. But these were not office buildings in the usual sense—they were built in a style resembling the Forbidden City, especially antique, as though they had entered an Imperial Palace. The details and ornaments on those buildings were exceptionally elaborate. Some were even coated with Gold Paint, and Dragon and Phoenix were carved into the eaves. Though these "palaces" were not tall, there were densely packed rows of them. It seemed every department's location had long since been planned out. It was extravagance beyond belief, imposing beyond belief!
Dong Xuebin tilted his head. "Here?"
Su Yan broke into a sweat. "Yes. Uh, it wasn't like this the last time I came here. My rank was low back then, so I didn't know the details."
Dong Xuebin asked, "Who proposed this plan?"
"Secretary Li from the previous administration," Su Yan said.
Dong Xuebin smacked his lips. "How much did this cost? Is our county that wealthy?"
Su Yan shook his head. "Not particularly wealthy, but... it seems this is how things are done around here. For example, several nearby counties have very luxurious County Party Committee Compounds and Family Compounds too. Our neighboring county even built a lavish office building over twenty stories tall."
Dong Xuebin said nothing. He understood that the twenty-plus-story office