A few days later.
The news spread further and further.
Everyone in several Supervision Offices had learned that Dong Xuebin, the thorn in the side of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, was about to be sent off to a small county in the west. He had publicly struck Deputy Director Yang and publicly traded insults with Fang Wenping. Though Dong Xuebin had been at the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for less than half a year, his name had long become well known. At the very least, people from the First through Tenth Supervision Offices had basically all heard of him. They also knew he had a powerful background and was very wealthy. After all, no one else came to work every day in a top-of-the-line Land Rover Range Rover bearing the Capital license plate 6666. Yet this man, whose momentum had been so strong and who had just been promoted to Director of the Ninth Office Second Division, had actually been sent away. Of course, many people had also heard a rumor that Dong Xuebin had requested the transfer himself, but few truly believed it. Who would be that stupid? Who would willingly take a demotion just to be sent down to the grassroots? That would be insane. Thus, most people guessed that Dong Xuebin had offended some leader or gotten himself into some other trouble, causing someone to dislike him enough to send him away.
For a time, many people in the organization changed their attitudes.
For example, when Dong Xuebin came to work today, many people who had once been especially friendly and accustomed to greeting him no longer looked so warm. Some cadres from other offices who had previously only exchanged nods with him even avoided him from afar, pretending not to see him. Nobody