Of course, Liu Zhizhong and his visiting team are all insightful individuals deeply influenced by modern civilization, so they actually don't have much feeling about the luxury of the National Spoon Platform Hotel.
Because their consistent belief is: in politics, we should be more modest, and political-related travel and living should not be so extravagant; whether the world views your country and governnt as successful or qualified depends not on how the leadership lives but on how your people are living!
Are the people satisfied or not, that's the ultimate asure! Do we need any more standards?
If standards are really needed: while comparing vertically with oneself, it's necessary to also compare horizontally with the world, OK?
That noon, it was another grand al to welco Liu Zhizhong and his group. There's no choice, you've got to eat, right? To indulge in lavish wastefulness is also fine, alas...
However, at noon, a prominent figure like Gu Changsha certainly wouldn't accompany Liu Zhizhong for lunch; he had other matters to attend to, flying on a special plane and then returning because there was a national banquet that evening he needed to participate in, personally clinking glasses with Liu Zhizhong, which also adds a sense of ceremony.
During the lunch, from the Eastern Pot side, the second key person, the second-in-command, Eastern Pot Pri Minister He Fangde, was sent to accompany Liu Zhizhong's group for the al.
He Fangde is a year younger than Gu Changsha and also hails from a prominent aristocratic family.
Prominent aristocratic families and regional Powerful People are indeed pivotal elents of the power ecology.
He Fangde and Gu Changsha have been good partners since childhood, with He Fangde as Brother Gu's little sidekick, his little brother.
To reach his current position, he's surely at the ceiling for soone from the mortal world who's a little brother, right?
Though they grew up wearing split pants, Brother Gu led the way and made him the second-in-command. But, even as second-in-command, his power is tightly constrained by Brother Gu.
In matters of political affairs, if Brother Gu doesn't nod, doesn't approve, then He Er can't make decisions.
Actually, political affairs were originally within He Fangde's domain, but now he can't make the calls. That's how a political mascot cos to be.
In front of Brother Gu, everyone is small, everyone is insignificant.
Yet, figures like He Fangde and other eight small leaders, once they leave Tiandu, they beco imposing figures with trendous influence in the local areas.
One level pressuring another, suffocating people!
Everyone is striving within this system; if the lower ranks don't heed the upper ones, that won't do. When the higher-ups want to pressure you, they will, however comfortably it suits them.
If Liu Zhizhong hadn't left this circle, wouldn't he have been pressured the sa way?
Previously, He Fangde's Grand Steward Tang Zhi could similarly oppress Liu Zhizhong completely.
When Tang Zhi ca to Daxi City for a vacation, wasn't Liu Zhizhong arranging helicopter transportation for him, flying him to Tianping Peak, and facilitating his reunion with Zuo Xintong and his spouse?
That's the might of hierarchical power!
Of course, Tang Zhi also cos from a prominent aristocratic lineage!
As for He Fangde's reception banquet that noon, should his one of grand stewards, Tang Zhi, attend?
Definitely!
Tang Zhi didn't go to the airport reception because he wasn't sufficiently qualified for that, haha...
Tang Zhi's qualifications involved overseeing the details of today's noon reception banquet and the evening's national banquet. The upper echelons demanded adherence to Chi Zhongshui's dietary habits, ensuring every detail was immaculate.
So, soone Liu Zhizhong once served had beco soone serving Liu Zhizhong. That's the power of authority; isn't the contrast stark? Haha!
At the noon reception banquet, Liu Zhizhong indeed spotted Tang Zhi.
At this mont, Tang Zhi bore no resemblance to the aloof yet leisurely Tiandu official practicing Tai Chi Boxing at Shuangxin Valley Manor back then.
He bowed and scraped to Liu Zhizhong's party, displaying an utterly servile deanor, inquiring whether the wine suited their taste, or whether they were satisfied with the food, and so forth.
Liu Zhizhong understood Tang Zhi now!
The formidable intelligence network had recently unveiled the truth behind Liu Zhizhong's past assassination attempt.
This revelation pointed directly to Tang Zhi.
Everything was a conspiracy, a trap; don't ntion combating electrical or communication scams.
The person who initially assigned Liu Zhizhong the task claid to be a special envoy from Tiandu's security bureau, but he was actually Tang Zhi's first cousin.
Long Bo remarked that his brother-in-law had connections here, and during the helicopter incident, it was his brother-in-law Sa Yileng personally overseeing the operation. The group of rocket launcher experts and drone operators departed Wale Region afterward because they weren't originally part of the Sa Family Army.
These personnel were actually mixed in from the East.
Damn it...
Liu Zhizhong wasn't mad at Long Bo because his brother-in-law Sa Yileng is already gone. Only Wen Bao and Ye Tianping are following this lead for further investigation.
Indeed, the trail led to Tang Zhi, and understanding this, Liu Zhizhong seed to grasp sothing.
Tang Zhi, he couldn't kill!
Because he is now the President, far above Tang Zhi in rank.
But what Liu Zhizhong wanted to know is, why did Tang Zhi want to kill him?
There was only one reason: because of Zuo Xintong!
Then, that explained things!
The affair was exposed!
With clarity in thought, Liu Zhizhong thus aid to question Tang Zhi during this noon reception banquet.
On the dining table was certainly inappropriate for questioning.
After the al, He Fangde's entourage still needed to accompany Liu Zhizhong and others for tea and casual conversation, allowing guests to digest and rest, completing He Er's task.
At such an opportune mont, Liu Zhizhong easily seized the chance, encountering Tang Zhi in the spacious rest waiting area outside the restroom.
Tang Zhi was exiting while Liu Zhizhong was entering, but in truth, he shadowed him inside.
"Good day, Director Tang!"
Tang Zhi bowed, "Ha! Good day, President Chi, good day to you!"
"Do you have ti, Director Tang? I'd like to chat with you privately."
Tang Zhi felt a surge of joy and replied, "Of course, it would be an honor! I have plenty of ti, wondering how President Chi would like to arrange it?"
Liu Zhizhong nodded, "Then, wait for a mont?"
"Absolutely, go ahead, go ahead!"
Witnessing Tang Zhi's servile deanor, Liu Zhizhong felt satisfied internally.
Enemies should be like this!
In front of the President, what does a re office director count as?
Therefore, Liu Zhizhong deliberately dallied a bit in the restroom before erging.
Consequently, Tang Zhi obediently waited outside, resembling a subservient grandson.
Upon Liu Zhizhong's exit, Tang Zhi greeted him with a cheerful expression, "President Chi, you're out?"
Liu Zhizhong nodded, gesturing outside, "Let's go to the little garden to chat."
"Alright, alright..."
In reality, Tang Zhi no longer recognized Liu Zhizhong, having wondered monts ago why this guy wanted to chat with him anyway, what's there to discuss?
Nonetheless, successfully attending to Liu Zhizhong's party would greatly benefit his future, so Tang Zhi obediently acquiesced.
A grandson is perpetually a grandson, haha...
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