County Magistrate Chi hadn't been wrong at all. The county TV station's news report said, "Our county held a signing ceremony for the contract of a large tract of mountain forest, covering a total of XXXXX mu of forestland, with an agreement value of X.X hundred million yuan. The agreed funds include, but are not limited to, tree planting and afforestation, road construction..."
"The County Council and county government believe that the signing of this project will benefit our county's industrial transformation, tourism development..."
In short, Feng Jun's name was never mentioned. It was simply the county promoting itself.
Someone with an overly active imagination might watch that baffling news report and suspect money laundering.
What Chi Zhijie didn't understand was this—he knew Feng Jun had no company. At the very least, Feng Jun himself had said so. That was why the forest contract had been signed under his personal name.
Yet the city TV station had aired the news and even given Feng Jun a frontal close-up. How were they supposed to explain the contract? Say it was an individual leasing forestland?
Besides, there was something that needed to be made clear: this was Chaori County news. Whether it could even make it onto the city TV station was uncertain, and the city station's footage had all come from the county station.
Chi Zhijie had already arranged for the TV station to send the city a directly edited video—Feng Jun didn't even have a frontal shot in that video. Where had the close-up come from?
He called the city TV station and only then learned that something had changed there.
Originally, this news might not even have made the schedule that day. The city TV station mainly reported city news. Aside from events attended by city leaders, it covered