Vice Mayor Chen put down his phone and snorted.
There's always some damned troublemaker trying to bring me down!
Yangcheng had now become an absolute no-go zone for leaders like them in Qingyuan City.
Too many powerful figures were gathered there, and the waters ran unfathomably deep. If they could avoid getting involved, they should. Otherwise, they might know how they had arrived, but never know what had finished them off!
And that went double for the Yangcheng Public Security Bureau. Zhou Yi's nickname, the Officialdom Killer, was no empty boast. From vice-ministerial officials down to section-level cadres, a conservative estimate put the number brought down because of him, or in connection with him, at over twenty, didn't it?
So I'm sorry, President Guo. I was very pleased with your arrangements last time, but I really can't help you this time!
"How did things go on your end?"
"Don't even ask. The moment they heard it was the Yangcheng Public Security Bureau, every one of them went pale! What about you?"
"Pretty much the same. I had someone approach Deputy Director Liu Ming at the Provincial Public Security Department, but that didn't work either!"
"What the fuck is going on? They won't even dare put in a good word?"
"Not quite. I reached out to a contact at the Provincial Party Committee General Office, and they agreed to speak on our behalf. But the answer they got was that everything had to follow procedure. Getting them to drop the arrests and charges was impossible!"
"Let's spell it out to Shan Wenxu. If Yangcheng won't release them, we'll pull our investment!"
"What if they'd rather lose the investment than release them? Shan Wenxu seemed pretty adamant to me!"
"I don't believe Yangcheng would walk away from an investment worth over