Hou Xiangyang convened a special Secretary's Office Meeting, sitting down with Provincial Governor Lan Kun, Discipline Inspection Commission Secretary Guan Ruibo, Political and Legal Affairs Commission Secretary Cheng Zhixing, Chuanhai City Municipal Party Committee Secretary Jiang Yunlai, and Han Dong of the Provincial Procuratorate.
The main topic was the large number of department-level officials who had recently fallen from power over corruption.
"This shows that the anti-corruption situation in Linhai remains grave and complex, particularly in certain departments, where regional and systemic corruption have emerged. Leaving the others aside, Guan Yifei was someone I never would have suspected... ah, it truly pains me!"
The regret on Municipal Party Secretary Jiang Yunlai's face was genuine. In his eyes, Executive Vice Mayor Guan Yifei was capable and bold, his indispensable right-hand man. He had never expected Guan Yifei to fall to the anti-corruption blade jointly forged by Qu Hongying and Zhou Yi.
The arrests had all been made by the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission, but as the "Chief Strategist" for the Supreme People's Procuratorate's Investigation Division and the Provincial Procuratorate's Anti-Corruption Bureau, Zhou Yi had been behind the downfall of a whole string of officials, starting with Highway Group Deputy General Manager Wang Xianda, then Qi Huawei and Tian Zhengbing... and, most recently, Executive Vice Mayor Guan Yifei and others.
The names "Officialdom Killer" and "Lone Star of Calamity" were hardly empty talk.
Even a glancing brush meant death, and direct contact was fatal. Once he had his eye on someone, they could catch a bullet while lying low!
"Why aren't you saying anything, Comrade Han Dong? Comrade Qu Hongying of your Provincial Procuratorate's Anti-Corruption Bureau has seemed almost divinely inspired lately, cracking one case after another. Quite an impressive record!" Hou Xiangyang looked at Procurator-General Han with