Chapter 46: Very dangerous
"Hey, we have some friends who are very interested in you. They'd really like to meet you." Zhuang Zhiyu said this because, after Zhang Xian had shaken hands with Su Can, it would have been awkward for him to say anything else aimed at drawing Su Can in. Coming from Zhuang Zhiyu, it sounded much more natural.
Su Can had made Zhao Chengyan suffer. Zhao Chengyan's father, Zhao Weidong, was deputy director of the provincial Planning Commission's general office. In those days, the State Planning Commission had not yet been restructured and renamed the National Development and Reform Commission, as it would be in later years. But whether in the past or several years into the future, it was the department with the greatest real economic power in China. It had always been called the government's foremost ministry and a miniature State Council, a department more powerful than any other ministry or commission.
Zhao Weidong represented an important branch of the Zhao family's faction in the southwest, and Zhao Chengyan was even related to Zhao Lu. The circle of officials' children had heard of him long before.
Had it only been some minor scuffling with Zhang Xian and Zhuang Zhiyu, it would have blown over as quickly as it had started, and nobody would have cared. Some bitter political enemies had fought each other in private when they were young, but nobody could attribute their grievances to a childhood fight. It was not as though this were a murder sparked by a steamed bun.
But when Zhao Chengyan was taken away by the police, Zhao Weidong flew into a rage. He made several calls in succession and pulled plenty of strings, yet Zhao Lijun refused to budge and insisted on investigating him. Although Zhao Chengyan was