Inside the courtyard...
Everyone had gone in. It was empty and desolate, utterly barren.
But one question that troubled everyone still had not been answered: why had Secretary Dong known? Why had he made the absurd decision to demolish the New County Party Committee Compound before there had been any sign of trouble? Looking at it now, the decision was clearly correct. Still, it was wasteful and only made the already wasteful project even more outrageous. So much money had been spent, yet it was torn down before anyone had even lived there for a day. How could that possibly be justified? If Li Guian were still in office and did this, there would definitely be a problem, and he would be implicated as well. But Dong Xuebin was different. The plan for the New County Party Committee Compound had not been proposed by him. He had only been in office for a few days. Tearing down a project built by his predecessors was not a problem for him. The key issue was that no one understood how Secretary Dong had demolished it with such perfect timing. Did he have eyes in the back of his head? Did he know that provincial officials would come investigate the very next day?
That was impossible!
So the whole thing seemed utterly bizarre!
At that moment, many people's gazes toward Secretary Dong changed.
Urban Management Bureau Director Huo Yibang was the most deeply shaken. Last night, Dong Xuebin had called him out alone for a secret talk and directly pointed at the New County Party Committee Compound, ordering him to level it before the next morning. Huo Yibang still remembered his shock at the time. He had thought Secretary Dong had gone crazy—seriously crazy. He had had no idea what Dong Xuebin was