Land tendering, auction, and listing were perfectly normal procedures. Tendering, auctioning, and listing were the three required steps.
But for the plot outside Luohua Manor, Yang City planned to first announce it publicly, then auction it off, and then announce the results again after the auction. Strictly speaking, this was an auction procedure, but Yang City also called it part of the tender-auction-listing process.
Still, handling this plot that way was somewhat inappropriate, because... Yang Yuxin had secured it through her own efforts.
That did not mean that because she had secured it, it should automatically belong to her or be exempt from the tender-auction-listing process. But what she wanted to build was an industrial park.
It was normal enough to use tendering, auction, and listing for such matters. It complied with policy and followed the proper procedures. But in practice, it was merely going through the motions.
Yet the Yang City Daily published it, and the Funiu Daily published it. Everyone in Funiu knew about it.
That was not necessarily wrong. Land in Funiu naturally ought to let the people of Funiu know what changes were taking place... There was nothing wrong with that.
But it was the same logic Feng Jun had previously used to criticize Mayor Xiang: My actions may not have followed the rules, fine, but plenty of others had not followed the rules either. Why were you investigating only me? Because I was easy to bully?
When Yang Yuxin saw the announcement in the newspaper, she was the first to snap, "This is going too far!"
There was nothing wrong with making an announcement, but what angered her was this: "Even in Dragon City, before publishing an announcement, wouldn't they at least invite me out for a talk? At the very least... they should have