Inside the room.
One stone stirred a thousand waves!
The information contained in Director Chang's single sentence was more than enough!
Hu Hanbin and the others were neither high nor low in rank. Though they did not know the finer details, they certainly knew that Li Guian had been transferred laterally to a neighboring county as County Party Secretary. That was the Top Leader of an entire county. They were neither blind nor deaf; how could they not know? Secretary Li had left around the fifteenth, and the position had remained vacant ever since. County Party Deputy Secretary and County Chief Zhang Dongfang had been temporarily acting in the role, yet Zhang Dongfang had not been directly appointed as secretary. The attitude from above was obvious: they were waiting for a new secretary to take over Jiaolin County's leadership. Rumor had it that he was being parachuted in from a distant department, even from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Everyone had heard something about it.
When a County Chief like Director Chang called someone "Secretary" with such a courteous attitude, even mentioning his first day in office, how could Hu Hanbin and the police officers fail to understand?
This man was their new County Party Secretary!
They had actually arrested the County Party Secretary and brought him back!
The phrase "everything went black before their eyes" could no longer describe Hu Hanbin and the officers' feelings. "The sky and earth turned dark" was closer. At that moment, they truly felt as though the sky had collapsed. Only then did Hu Hanbin realize why Director Chang had changed completely after seeing that man's ID and had urgently ordered them to release him at once. Only then did he understand why so many County Party Committee Standing Committee Members and county