Wang Ye had not embarrassed Holly to his face and had instead continued entrusting him with the low-rent housing project because he did not want to fall out with Gryzlov and the First Faction...
Sometimes, water too clear breeds no fish. Even someone as powerful as Wang Ye still had to turn a blind eye to things he disliked.
Otherwise, what could he do?
Was he really supposed to launch a top-to-bottom purge over this matter, arresting and sentencing Holly, Klitschko, and everyone involved?!
If he did that, he would not merely offend Gryzlov and the others. He would also, invisibly, make many government officials keep their distance from him out of fear—or perhaps even unite against him!
There was no helping it. That was simply the environment at the time; even the Kremlin was powerless to do much about it.
At various public events, the Kremlin had repeatedly brought up keywords such as "clean government," "corruption," and "government efficiency."
Everyone understood what that meant. Most government departments were inefficient, had absolutely no sense of public service, and were even riddled with corruption, seriously affecting the operation of the country.
But what could be done? Most people, institutions, and government offices operated this way. It was not something one or two powerful figures could change with a few words.
Wang Ye had also made quite a few efforts over the past two years. The first thing he targeted was the police system.
By promoting his own trusted people and using those incidents to carry out several major reorganizations and purges within the police system, things had finally improved somewhat.
At the very least, incidents like police officers stopping foreigners on the street to demand money had become almost nonexistent...
But Wang Ye could not yet get his hands into the