Fu Xueqian was well aware that, as Municipal Party Secretary, he was putting himself on the same level as a Discipline Inspection Commission secretary. But what choice did he have when that secretary happened to be Zhou Yi?
Fu Xueqian was not boasting: across the entire country, there were precious few people who could hold their own against him. Yet, as luck would have it, Zhou Yi was one of those extraordinary exceptions!
He had ability, political savvy, and powerful backing.
Anyone else serving as Qingning's Municipal Party Secretary would have been steamrolled by Zhou Yi in minutes!
In all honesty, he did not want Zhou Yi as an enemy, partly because of Jian Wanyan, and partly because Zhou Yi's appointment to Qingning might have come at the direction of the Central Leadership.
But not wanting Zhou Yi as an enemy did not mean he would compromise or back down, much less tolerate Zhou Yi ordering him around or restricting and interfering with his plans and decisions.
Fu Xueqian had always believed in one maxim: peace won through struggle endures; peace sought through compromise perishes.
Peace was the goal, and struggle was the means to achieve it. Peace was relative, while struggle was absolute. Only through struggle could true peace be won.
So he had to teach Zhou Yi a lesson first, making sure he understood the rules and responsibilities he was expected to observe as a subordinate!
In a private dining room at a restaurant, six people sat around the table: Discipline Inspection Commission Deputy Secretaries Guo Mingjin and Qiu Jinpeng, Secretary-General Liu Shenghua, General Office Director Shen Huiying, Inspection Division One Director Hu En, and Inspection Division Two Director Li Mei.
Deputy Secretary Guo, who had organized the gathering, wore a smile, though it looked forced no