"What right do you have to arrest our Director Shen?"

  "Corrupt officials, you don't catch; swindling businessmen, you don't catch; Director Shen wants to save the steel factory, but you come to arrest him instead. What kind of logic is this? Are you still people's police or not? Is the government still a people's government or not?"

  "Get out of here, you dog leg! Let go of our Director Shen."

  The workers blocked outside the factory building, their angry emotions ignited, questioning voices shot over like cannonballs, forming a continuous wave, one after another.

  Song Sanhe's face turned green when he saw the situation. He rushed over to grab people, his anger overwhelming him, but he didn't consider that this move would enrage the steel plant workers whose emotions had just been calmed down with great difficulty.

  Seeing the workers besieged outside, Song Sanhe's anger in his heart grew stronger, but he had also been a deputy director for many years and knew that mass incidents should be handled with caution. If something really happened, it wouldn't be something that one deputy director could handle alone.

  Song Sanhe didn't dare bring people to force Shen Hua out, knowing that would enrage the employees surrounding the building. He hastily retreated to the conference room to think of a plan.

  Du Jian stepped forward without waiting for Song Sanhe's instructions, blocking the entrance of the factory administration building. Relying on his remaining prestige, he stopped the workers who were about to rush in: "What do you want to do? The municipal bureau has asked Secretary Shen to return and assist with the investigation, which is to clarify the truth of the matter. What are you doing? Are you going to attack the factory administration?"

  A camel that has died of starvation is still larger than a horse, and Du Jian's prestige in the steel factory had not completely collapsed. He called out by name several workers who were rushing forward to cause trouble, and immediately drove them off the stage with a loud shout, temporarily controlling the scene, and then pointed out several deputy plant managers and department heads to go and calm down the emotions of the workers.

  Soon, He Qing and others rushed over again to maintain order. It was no longer a good show to watch others, if a disturbance really broke out, the leaders of the town would not be able to escape responsibility...

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  Gao Tianhe was blocked by Xiong Wenbin when he came out of the government building.

  When Gao Tianhe was the director of the Planning Commission, Xiong Wenbin was just an ordinary cadre in the Planning Commission. Xiong Wenbin went to work at the steel plant mainly due to Gao Tianhe's recommendation.

  In the mid-to-late 1980s, under the leadership of Xiong Wenbin, the city's steel plant was booming, with sales revenue of nearly one billion and profits of almost three hundred million. He was also considered a trusted subordinate by Gao Tianhe.

  However, the problem arose after Gao Xiaohu returned from joining the army.

  Gao Xiaohu was unemployed and saw that people who were smuggling goods domestically at the time had made a fortune, so he wanted to get involved in the steel sales of the municipal steel plant. He was firmly rejected by Xiong Wenbin. This led to a series of subsequent events where Gao Tianhe transferred Xiong Wenbin out of the municipal steel plant and then demoted him to a cold bench in the policy research office...

  The Municipal Party Committee and Government Policy Research Office are also located in this building. In the past, when Xiong Wenbin saw Gao Tianhe, he would always walk around him, and there was no relationship between them, not even a nod of greeting.

  Gao Tianhe had just come out of the building and saw Xiong Wenbin walking towards him. He was still a bit surprised in his heart, standing there watching Xiong Wenbin to see if he would go around or continue walking over.

  "Mayor Gao, there's something I need to report to you..."

  "Is that so, Old Bear? You haven't come to report your work to me for two years now!" Gao Tianhe narrowed his eyes and took a glance at the young man behind Xiong Wenbin before focusing on Xiong himself, who was actually still quite looking forward to seeing Xiong lower his head.

  Gao Tianhe stood in front of the municipal government building listening to Xiong Wenbin's report, and except for the driver and secretary, other officials who were getting off work from the building all walked around them.

  "Something happened at Meixi Steel Plant today, I need to report it to you, Mayor Gao," Xiong Wenbin looked at Gao Tianhe's expression, seemingly unaware of what had happened, and briefly recounted the events that occurred in Meixi Town today. He said, "Please instruct Mayor Gao to immediately stop the Municipal Public Security Bureau from arbitrarily arresting people at Meixi Steel Plant."

  Listening to the Wanhu Company's car being crushed into an iron pancake by Shen Hua, Gao Tianhe's anger also surged up, his eyes narrowing even further, his gaze like a cold awl, staring at Xiong Wenbin's face as if piercing through him. His voice was icy cold as he said: "Something like this happened, the Municipal Bureau asked Shen Hua to go back and assist in the investigation, I don't think there's anything wrong with that..."

  "On the issue of steel sales at Meixi Steel Plant, there are big differences in opinions among the steel plant workers. The Wanhu Company sent cars to block the gate and unreasonably obstructed the steel plant's self-organized steel sales, and the contradictions have already shown signs of intensification. If the Municipal Bureau takes further rough actions, it will only intensify the contradictions and stimulate the emotions of the steel plant workers, which is not a correct way of handling the situation," Xiong Wenbin said firmly, "Before Secretary Tan took office in Donghua, I think Mayor Gao also didn't want any vicious incidents to happen in Donghua. If Mayor Gao thinks it's okay for the Municipal Bureau to go and arrest people, then I'll go report this matter to Secretary Wu..."

  "What's wrong with Secretary Tan?" As soon as Gao Tianhe's words left his mouth, his brain felt like it had been whipped by an invisible whip:

  Tan Qiping! It's Tan Qiping! The person who will come to Donghua to replace Wu Haifeng as the municipal party secretary is Tan Qiping, deputy head of the provincial organization department!

  Shen Hua went to Meixi Town, which was arranged by Tan Qiping. All of this was a trap set by Tan Qiping for Gao Tianhe!

  Damn it! Gao Tianhe thought he had figured everything out, and in his mind, he had already messed with the entire Tan Qiping family. But no matter how much he cursed in his heart, he couldn't stop a chill from running up his spine when he heard the sound of farting. He immediately turned around and yelled at his secretary: "Call Gao Xiaohu, if he dares to mess with me, I'll pull out his tendons and peel off his skin!"

  Gao Tianhe had never been so out of control before, and his secretary and driver were also shocked, hastily pulling out their pagers to contact Gao Xiaohu.

  Mei Creek Steel Plant is really going to make an irreparable and vicious incident, it seems that Shen Hua will be affected by this, but Tan Qiping takes the opportunity to thoroughly investigate, Mei Creek Steel Plant and Wanhu Company's lid can't be covered at all.

  Tan Qiping's ruthless plan! Using a small town party committee deputy secretary as bait, he wants to overthrow the mayor of Donghua before he even takes office.

  Does Wu Haifeng know about this matter? Has Wu Haifeng been involved in the conspiracy?

  Shen Hua went to Meixi Town was a direct arrangement made by Wu Haifeng for Tao Jixing - no wonder after Chen Mingde's incident, Wu Haifeng could still serve as the director of the Municipal People's Congress, and wasn't directly removed from his position as Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee.

  Another thing is that Tan Qiping will go to Donghua as the secretary of the municipal party committee, even Xiong Wenbin knows about it, but he hasn't got any wind of it at all. What does this imply? Isn't it clear enough?

  Gao Tianhe felt a chill run down his spine as he thought about it more and more, and was shocked to discover that behind Shen Huai's appointment to Meixi Town, there was such a ruthless conspiracy targeting him!

  But why did Xiong Wenbin come over to clarify the relationship, and why did he remind him before he fell into the trap? Gao Tianhe's brain was spinning rapidly, and he couldn't think it through, but one thing was certain: no matter whether Xiong Wenbin was good or evil, with Tan Qiping and Wu Haifeng standing together behind Shen Huai, he absolutely could not see any malicious events happening to Shen Huai!

  Xiong Wenbin looked at Gao Tianhe's face, which was pale and white, and knew that he had already figured out the sinister relationship between them.

  In this matter, on the eve of Tan Qiping's arrival in Donghua, Xiong Wenbin believed that Gao Tianhe would not dare to see any vicious events that could directly drag his family into it.

  At that time, don't say Tang Qipeng will take advantage of the situation to stir up trouble, Wu Haifeng might also come over to beat a drowning dog.

  "Mayor Gao, Little Tiger's phone is unreachable." The secretary came over to report that Gao Xiaohu's phone was smashed into pieces at the Gao Fuer training court, how could they still get in touch?

  "Contact Song Sanhe," Gao Tianhe, although his heart was racing, could still calmly analyze the situation and knew that his son would likely instruct the Municipal Public Security Bureau to arrest someone through Deputy Director Song Sanhe. He pointed at the driver and said, "You immediately go get the car, we're going to Mei Creek Town right now." If they couldn't contact anyone, Gao Tianhe could only personally rush to the Meixi Steel Factory to prevent the situation from worsening.

  "This matter, I still need to report to Secretary Wu." said Xiong Wenbin.

  Gao Tianhe had no way to stop Xiong Wenbin from reporting the matter to Wu Haifeng, and again let Xiong Wenbin go to Wu Haifeng, Wu Haifeng also had no way to watch the fire from the other side...

  Gao Tianhe nodded and said: "You came over to report in a timely manner. Go and report to Secretary Wu, see what instructions Secretary Wu has..."

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  Gao Tianhe intercepted Xiong Wenbin in front of the municipal government building, while Wu Haifeng stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of his office, watching clearly.

  Wu Haifeng was still unclear what role Xiong Wenbin played, but from Gao Tianhe's reaction, he could guess that something was unusual and thought it might have something to do with the Mei Creek Steel Plant, but he couldn't be sure.

  Wu Haifeng had his secretary ask Xiong Wenbin to come to his office.

  When Wu Haifeng heard Xiong Wenbin say that Tan Qiping would come to Donghua to take over as secretary of the municipal party committee, he was also surprised. After a moment's thought, he felt relieved: This is normal, after all, when the province sent Tan Qiping to Donghua last time to deal with Chen Mingde's aftermath, there should be some consideration.

  What's abnormal is that this time the provincial government has covered up the news too tightly.

  It seems that after the Chen Mingde incident, the province has been extremely disappointed with Donghua, otherwise it would not have started the formal organizational procedure and also called on the first and second-in-command of Donghua to know nothing about the new municipal party secretary.

  It turns out that Shen Hua and Tan Qiping, who was behind Shen Hua, had already set their sights on the Meixi Steel Plant.

  Wu Haifeng thought of Shen Huai's parents working in the central ministries and secretly said, "Mei Xi Steel Factory looks like it's already in trouble, but there are still some good assets and a considerable scale of township steel factories. In the eyes of these central ministry officials' children, it is indeed a piece of fat meat..."

  Wu Haifeng never thought from the bottom of his heart that Shen Hua would go and be a honest and down-to-earth township cadre.

  Wu Haifeng couldn't just stand by and watch the fire from the other side of the river. He picked up the phone in front of Xiong Wenbin: "Get me Secretary Kan of the Municipal Public Security Bureau." After a moment, the phone was connected through the secretary to the Municipal Public Security Bureau. Wu Haifeng's face was stern, his voice low and solemn as he questioned, "What's going on with your bureau's party group? Someone came to my office to report that Song Sanhe from the municipal bureau directly deployed four police cars and brought twenty police officers to arrest the deputy secretary of the Meixi Town Party Committee without going through the Xia Pu County Committee or notifying the municipal organization, political and legal committee, or disciplinary committee. Do you know what organizational discipline is? Do you know what organizational procedures are? Who gave your municipal public security bureau the power to arbitrarily arrest party cadres? You're not clear on the situation, how do you usually do your job as bureau chief?! I'm giving you half an hour to get the situation clear and report back to me!"

  Wu Haifeng put down the phone and calmly told Xiong Wenbin: "I already know about this matter, so I'll ask you to represent the municipal party committee and go with Mayor Gao to Meixi Town. My opinion is to minimize the situation as much as possible and eliminate the bad influence..."