Sima Yanan's intentions were much as Shan Wenxu had guessed.
By openly praising Zhou Yi on an occasion like this, she was really sending a message to everyone.
And by everyone, that meant Qi Wen Xu's faction, her own faction, the Neutral Faction, and the Fence-Sitting Faction!
Whether at the provincial or county level, a stable, orderly society was the prerequisite and foundation for economic development.
Whether it was Shan Wenxu's efforts to regulate and consolidate coal mines, restore order to tax collection, and attract investment with his blueprint for Yangcheng's Nanshan New City, or Sima Yanan's plans to use local resources to develop specialty agriculture and revitalize the rural economy, none of it could happen without stability and order.
And stability and order were impossible without a public security agency that reassured the people and a law enforcement force that struck fear into criminals.
The fundamental reason Director Zhou had become so sought-after was that, in just three or four months, he had transformed the stagnant Yangcheng Public Security Bureau into a capable police force-one that answered the call, could fight when deployed, and could more or less win when it fought-and established tremendous public credibility.
It was a universally acknowledged fact: at present, nobody but Zhou Yi could make the position of Yangcheng's Public Security Director work!
Construction Commission Director Liu Yi kept deliberately glancing at the Public Security Director. She hadn't seen him for a while, and he had grown even more handsome!
She felt he ought to be welded into that police uniform for the rest of his life, because it suited him so perfectly! Even an old auntie of thirty-four like her thought he looked good.
Wan Dean sat to one side, cheerfully enjoying the show. That a Finance Bureau Director could emerge from this