The official residence area in Jiangning provincial capital is lined with beautiful two-story buildings.
Lu Ming is currently a guest in the living room of one of the detached small buildings. The owner of this building is Wang Qiande, the Director General of the Provincial Government Affairs Department.
He is in his fifties but looks very young, with black hair, bright eyes, and an imposing manner.
His wife, Ms. Liu, looked to be about thirty years old, but was actually about the same age as him. She wore a dark blue cheongsam and had a good temperament and was graceful and elegant.
Mrs. Liu was very enthusiastic. She didn't hire a servant, but peeled fruit for Lu Ming herself. The look in her eyes when she looked at Lu Ming was very different.
Lu Ming felt strange and chatted casually with Wang Qiande.
Wang Qiande was very emotional when he talked about his past as a stinky-foot patrolman when he was a teenager.
Lu Ming also knew his resume roughly. He came from a poor family, but he had a good relative, so he joined the patrol team at the age of fifteen. For ordinary people, it is a good way out, but if it were just this, Wang Qiande would not have been able to reach his current position.
The turning point in Wang Qiande's life was probably when he got married to Liu. Liu took a liking to him and married him despite her family's opposition.
The Liu family is a prominent family in the local area. For him, Liu broke off relations with her parents for a year. In the end, her parents could not prevail against their children and finally accepted this son-in-law.
From then on, Wang Qiande entered the fast lane and became the deputy director of the Police Department before leaving the police force and being promoted to deputy director of the Administrative Affairs Department. Five years ago, after Governor Chakson came to Jiangning, he promoted him from deputy director of the Administrative Affairs Department to director and made him his confidant. As a result, Wang Qiande became the first person in Jiangning under the governor.
But since the rise of the Hu family, it is inevitable that there will be many conflicts with people like Wang Qiande, the executive vice-provincial.
Moreover, in fact, similar to Hong Kong during the British colonial period, the Governor is high above everyone else, and the actual executive officer is the Chief Secretary.
Therefore, when the Hu family wants to control the overall situation, even if Wang Qiande does not want to have any confrontation with the Hu family, conflicts are inevitable.
At this moment, Wang Qiande recalled some things from his youth and his time in the police force, his face full of emotion.
Generally speaking, people who like to reminisce about the past are mostly more or less dissatisfied with the current situation.
"Councilor Lu, you are truly a man of great talent!" Wang Qiande looked at Lu Ming. "The new blood exploration technology and blood trace analysis method that the Imperial Police Department has named 'Wen's Blood Analysis Method' and promoted throughout the country are actually all your credit, Councilor Lu. But, alas, Professor Wen is famous after all, and people who don't know the truth will think that they are all from Mr. Wen's hand."
Lu Ming smiled. For this, Professor Wen felt that he owed him a great favor. He had originally published an article to clarify the matter, but the article was only seen by the academic community. Later, he persuaded him and even made up a story, saying that if he became too famous, he would really be hunted down and killed. Only then did he stop making trouble.
"I have always been paying attention to the case of the Japanese man. It's not because Councillor Lu came to Jiangning that I investigated you." Wang Qiande laughed happily, "Haha, I finally met Councillor Lu in person today! Haha!"
Liu smiled and said, "It's been almost a year, right? I still remember last year, the day you, Councillor Lu, won the lawsuit. Qiande walked around the room, saying he wanted to go to Donghai to meet Councillor Lu. I persuaded him not to. Otherwise, he would have bought a train ticket out of impulse!"
Lu Ming rubbed his nose, not knowing what to say. After all, he was not a genius in his eyes. He just had the knowledge from his previous life.
Wang Qiande sighed, "Alas, we are all ordinary people. The impulse at that time passed, and I thought, what should I say when I go to see Councillor Lu? Councillor Lu is a talented person from the East China Sea, and his friends are all great talents like Professor Wen. Will he pay attention to an old-fashioned person like me? I felt a little timid when I thought about it, so I didn't go."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "Fu Zheng Wang, you are too polite!" This was obviously three parts truth and seven parts modesty. After all, he was one of the top powerful figures in Jiangning. When he just won the lawsuit, it might have really shocked him and made him want to see him. But after his wife persuaded him, he calmed down the next day and naturally laughed it off.
Wang Qiande laughed again and said, "I didn't expect that Councillor Lu suddenly had a lawsuit in Montenegro. I just knew that Councillor Lu was here! Even if Councillor Lu didn't come to see me, I was planning to go to Montenegro for an inspection. Actually, I wanted to meet Councillor Lu!"
At this time, a handsome young man in his early twenties came running down from the second floor. He had shiny hair and was wearing a jacket, jeans, and leather boots. He was stunned to see so many people in the living room and was about to slip out, but Wang Qiande frowned and said, "Come here!"
The young man originally had a very wild temperament, but when he saw Wang Qiande, he came over obediently like a mouse seeing a cat, not daring to breathe.
Wang Qiande looked at him, shook his head, and said to Lu Ming, "This is my son Tianyi. He is really useless and hangs out with the little hooligans all day long."
Judging from the way he was dressed, Lu Ming should be one of the so-called "greasy youth", who were actually the current gangsters.
Just like the "greasy youth" group appeared in developed Western cities at the same time in the previous life, the same is true today. This group first appeared in the East China Sea. They have hair slicked shiny with hair oil, wear jackets, jeans and leather boots, and ride motorcycles. Most of them come from working-class families, and their motorcycles are either second-hand or stolen.
But in Jiangning, even in the provincial capital, most of the young men ride bicycles.
Wang Qiande looked at his son and said, "You always wanted to go to Donghai, didn't you? You didn't dare to go because you were afraid I would break your legs. Now, this Councillor Lu, Uncle Lu, is from Donghai, why don't you call for help?!"
The wild young man looked Lu Ming up and down, but he didn't dare to say much in front of his father. He whispered, "Hello, uncle!"
Lu Ming waved his hands repeatedly and said to Wang Qiande with a smile: "Uncle Wang, I am your nephew, I am not worthy of the title of Tianyi."
Wang Qiande had already waved his hand to his son, "Go, go, I get irritated just looking at you!"
Wang Tianyi was as if he had been pardoned. He stuck out his tongue at his mother Liu, which earned him a fierce glare from her. He then turned around and slipped away.
"Don't go too far! Take Uncle Lu to visit the provincial capital later!" Liu shouted.
Looking at Lu Ming, Wang Qiande smiled and said, "Qianxing, I have read the plan of the Jiuzhou Group Steel Plant, and I also trust that you are not using a few pieces of waste paper to defraud subsidies. The agreement will be as you drafted, and you don't need to change a single word. Tomorrow, you don't have to go yourself. Ask someone to send the official document to the office, and I will sign it then!"
Lu Ming smiled: "Okay, thank you Uncle Wang!"
Things went too smoothly. For example, Wang Qiande is definitely not the kind of person who would give himself the green light just because he admires his own talents in solving cases.
In particular, many of the conditions in the investment agreement that he hoped the provincial agency would cooperate with were exorbitant and were waiting to be removed.
However, Wang Qiande should not intentionally harm himself.
This is because he hopes that the fight between him and the Hu family can be as fierce as possible. After all, some clauses in the draft agreement will harm the interests of the Hu family.
Lu Ming frowned slightly. The third party, could it be him