Chapter 210: Turbulence
At the California headquarters, in the interval after the board meeting, all of United States Facebook was in an uproar, its people unsettled.
Zhan Hua and Gao Heng stood beneath the transparent glass curtain wall, paying no heed to the people behind them who were beginning to erupt in an outcry.
Another round of investment discussions had originally been scheduled. But this turn of events had disrupted those plans, and Zack no longer had the heart to handle business.
Gao Heng took out his phone, entered a number, and called.
Jiangnan Province.
A convoy of black official cars sped along National Highway 303, with two police cars clearing the way up front. They raced along like the wind.
Inside the Provincial Government's No. 1 car, Jiangnan Governor Gao Langtao sat in his seat, having just finished a research visit to Zhoushan Marine Technology and an inspection of construction on the Zhoushan Island-Linking Project. Beside him, Wang Changhou, head of Jiangnan Province's Department of Construction, sat trembling, constantly explaining the flaws that had just emerged in the island-linking project's construction plans, sweat pouring off him.
Gao Langtao listened calmly throughout, but the calmer he was, the less secure Wang Changhou felt. Everyone knew that the second Gao brother was a smiling tiger. The factional power he possessed was enough to let him overturn many rules to get things done, such as rushing to launch the Zhoushan Island-Linking Project this time, followed by one plan and arrangement after another. Wang Changhou could not help thinking of the rival in the southwestern province whose reputation matched Gao Langtao's. From the look of things now, Gao Langtao was making aggressive preparations to catch up with his rival's prestige. The oversights in the island-linking project today would probably lead to a whole