Chapter 176 [Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh food] (Part 1)

The shooting at Tesco Supermarket naturally caused shock to the Jing'an police. The news had instantly spread throughout Jing'an City. Tian Qinglong and his task force also got the news at the first time. Since they came to Jing'an, they have tried to contact Zhang Yang, but Zhang Yang still decided to be alone, which completely put their work in trouble. Regarding the latest situation, Tian Qinglong reported to the provincial party secretary Gu Yunzhi. After Gu Yunzhi considered it, he finally decided to ask Tian Qinglong to seek cooperation with the Jing'an City police, but the matters involving Xu Changde's inside story should still be kept confidential.

One death and two injuries were injured in the Tesco Supermarket shooting. The injured were sent to Jing'an First People's Hospital for emergency rescue. Tian Qinglong asked Qin Bai to continue contacting Zhang Yang, and he went to Jing'an Public Security Bureau to visit the Public Security Bureau Director Tan Chao. Tan Chao and Tian Qinglong also had some friendships. The two had met several times at the national public security meeting. They also had dinner together because they were neighboring provinces. They were a little surprised by Tian Qinglong's sudden visit to Tan Chao, but immediately he inferred that this matter must be related to the shooting that just happened.

Tan Chao has investigated the identity of the deceased. The deceased was named Liu Xilou, from Lizhou City, Pinghai. This man has had a record of murder and robbery many times. He is a criminal who has been wanted. The injured man is his cousin. The two have committed crimes together many times.

Tan Chao said: "We found some situations from the live video of the supermarket!" He signaled his assistant to play the content of the surveillance video.

Tian Qinglong's eyes fell on the TV screen and saw the scene in chaos. Zhang Yang with sunglasses cut off the criminal's right wrist with a knife, and then shot and killed another gunman with a saber. Tian Qinglong sighed inwardly, "You can't run away now."

Tan Chao said: "According to our preliminary investigation, this young man is the same as the suspicious person in the intimidation case in Jing'an No. 1 Department Store yesterday..." He looked at Tian Qinglong. In fact, Tan Chao had already initially grasped the identity of this young man. This kid was undoubtedly Zhang Yang. It was his reason that the director of the Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau came here for a long journey. There is a reason why Tan Chao did not explain this. As a colleague, he had shown enough sincerity to Jiangcheng. Now it was time for Tian Qinglong to express his sincerity to him. He believed that Tian Qinglong must have mastered some situations he did not know.

As things developed to this point, it was no longer necessary for Tian Qinglong to continue to conceal Zhang Yang's identity. He pointed to Zhang Yang on the screen and said, "I know this young man. If I read it correctly, he should be Zhang Yang from Jiangcheng Tourism Bureau!"

Tan Chao whispered: "Director Tian came to Jing'an this time for him?" He wanted Tian Qinglong to reveal more information.

Tian Qinglong nodded and said, "Yes, he has something to do with a major case within us. I need him to assist in the investigation!" He spoke cautiously, and using the word inside is equivalent to telling Tan Chao that some things are not convenient to disclose to Tan Chao.

Tan Chao said: "The intimidation incident occurred in Jing'an yesterday. Someone shouted that there was a bomb, which caused panic in the mall. More than a dozen customers were slightly injured at the scene. There were also two criminal police officers from Dongjiang City, Pinghai Province. They fought with Zhang Yang in the mall because Zhang Yang suddenly launched an attack on them."

"Where are those two policemen now?"

"After confirming their identity, they have already let them go. Their purpose of coming to Jing'an this time is to pursue a murderer!" Tan Chao deliberately paused after saying this and sighed: "Our Jing'an's public security has always been very good, but somehow happened in the past two days, your Pinghai police and murderers rushed to us, which made our public security system overwhelmed."

Tian Qinglong heard the complaints and smiled embarrassedly: "I think Zhang Yang should have nothing to do with this intimidation case. If you want to investigate this matter clearly, you must find him!"

Tan Chao said: "We have found out that he checked in the Longjiang Hotel after coming to Jing'an. There were also traces of fighting in the room he lived in. Blood and bullet marks were found on the scene, and bullet casings were also picked up. His jeep is now parked in the parking lot of the Longjiang Hotel!" Tan Chao believes that he has provided enough information. He is not unfamiliar with Zhang Yang. As early as last year, Zhang Yang was taken to the Pingtung Branch for an underground racing case. At that time, Sun Xiaowei, the son of Sun Guoping, the secretary general of the municipal party committee, was involved in the case. At that time, the ordinary case was able to make Tan Chao ask. The main reason was that many children of high-ranking officials were involved in it, and he was also injured because of improper handling.

When he was scolded by the municipal party secretary Song Huaiming, he spent almost all night in the Pingtung Branch that night, and witnessed the deep affection of Chu Yanran, the daughter of the municipal party secretary Song Huaiming, with his own eyes, the deep affection for Zhang Yang. So when he figured out that several things happened in the past two days were related to Zhang Yang, the memory that he almost forgot became clear again. Tan Chao was a person who was good at weighing the pros and cons. As the director of the Jing'an Municipal Public Security Bureau, his professional level was unquestionable, but his ability to handle all aspects of relationships was even higher than his professional level. Tan Chao even thought about informing Song Huaiming about Zhang Yang, but later he considered it and it was not appropriate. Doing so might backfire.

Tian Qinglong said truthfully: "I can't contact Zhang Yang now, and I hope Director Tan can provide us with some help!"

Tan Chao said: "No problem..."

At this time, the phone on the table rang. Tan Chao picked up the phone and heard what the other party said, his face changed again. He put down the phone. He picked up his police cap and took it straight: "District Tian, ​​a vehicle collision and explosion occurred on the Third Ring Road. According to the witnesses at the scene, this should be a murder! A body was found at the explosion site, and some of his documents were found in the glove box of the car. This person is likely to be Yang Shoucheng, the criminal you have been wanting!"

Tian Qinglong could no longer sit still: "I'll go with you!"

Zhang Yang's mobile phone has been turned off. He cut off all contact with the outside world. Now he is leisurely wandering on the pedestrian street of Hongyun Road in Jing'an. The best hiddenness is to integrate into the crowd. While walking, he checked the things in the black plastic bag, which contained several boxes of audio tapes, a dozen bills and a small notebook. He took out the notebook, which recorded the bribery records on it, and there were detailed marks for each record. Zhang Yang found Xu Changde's name. He couldn't suppress his excitement, clenched his fists hard, and then placed the notebook in the black plastic bag. Walked into the public telephone booth in front and called the home of Gu Yunzhi, secretary of the Pinghai Provincial Party Committee.

Gu Yunzhi was not at home, and it was Gu Yangyang who answered the phone. She heard that it was Zhang Yang's voice and suddenly became very happy: "Brother Zhang, you haven't been to Dongjiang for a long time. A few days ago, I wanted to go to Jiangcheng to participate in the Fuyang Festival, but unfortunately I caught a cold and failed to travel!"

Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Hangyang, I have something urgent to ask Secretary Gu. Is he here?"

Gu Yangyang shook his head and said, "My dad hasn't come back yet, he should be in a meeting now!"

"I have to find him!"

Gu Yangyang thought about it and told Zhang Yang the mobile phone number of Xia Boda, director of the Provincial Party Committee Office.

Xia Boda would never have thought that Zhang Yang called him. He was quite surprised and said, "Zhang Yang! What's wrong?"

"I have something urgent to ask Secretary Gu!"

"He is holding a standing committee meeting!"

"You must find him!" Zhang Yang's tone was unquestionable. If it weren't for knowing the relationship between Gu Yunzhi and Zhang Yang, Xia Boda would definitely not pay attention to this kid, and would not tolerate his unreasonableness. He weighed it for a while, and walked into the small conference room of the provincial party committee, came to the provincial party secretary Gu Yunzhi, and attached himself to his ear and told him the situation in a low voice.

Gu Yunzhi calmly picked up the phone, got up and went to the lounge next door: "Hey!"

Zhang Yang's voice seemed a little excited: "Secretary Gu, I have already obtained evidence of Xu Changde's crime, including audio tapes, receipts and invoices, and notebooks about bribing him."

"Are you sure?" Gu Yunzhi's voice was still unstoppable.

"It's totally certain that it was handed over to me by Yang Shoucheng!"

"You come to Dongjiang immediately, don't tell anyone about this!" Gu Yunzhi emphasized.

"good!"

Gu Yunzhi closed the phone, and a look of relief appeared in his deep eyes. After a while, he got up and returned to the small conference room, and smiled and said, "Today's Standing Committee ends here!"

Xu Changde instinctively smelled some uneasiness. He felt that an invisible hand was approaching him again. These big hands seemed to have strangled his throat. He used a little bit of force and became tighter and tighter. He almost couldn't breathe. Yang Shoucheng was dead, but he always felt that this matter was not over yet. Zhang Yang was still alive. When Xu Changde thought of this, he became restless. This kid seemed to be born to be against him. He robbed his feelings and trampled on his self-esteem. Now he was about to be right again.

Xu Changde felt helpless and sad when he challenged his status and career. As a senior provincial and ministerial official, he was going to be troubled by this small section-level cadre. He understood that Zhang Yang was arrogant because of the provincial party secretary Gu Yunzhi as his backer, but Gu Yunzhi's recent performance was not abnormal. After the Standing Committee just now, he exchanged views with himself on the agricultural production situation this summer. Could it be that Gu Yunzhi just used appearances to confuse himself and never stopped investigating himself secretly?

The driver suddenly stepped on the brakes, and the road ahead was severely blocked. Xu Changde looked outside and whispered: "Xiao Feng, I get off the car here and walk back by myself!" He pushed open the car door and walked down. Not far away was the vegetable market. Xu Changde remembered that he had not cooked for a long time. He went to the vegetable market to buy a few kilograms of pig's trotters and a mandarin fish. He also bargained with the fish vendors enthusiastically. He felt much more relaxed. When he walked into the provincial party committee compound, he called his son: "Jiayong, I bought a lot of vegetables today. I will prepare steamed mandarin fish and braised pork trotters tonight!"

"Dad, don't greed for me. I've been vomiting after eating hamburgers these two days! You'll toss me early in the morning!"

Xu Changde laughed loudly and whispered: "Son, when will you come back?"

"Dad, I'm in contact with several venture capitalists in the United States. The matter has been almost over. My plan is satisfying them. I should go back at the end of the month."

"Well, you will always be the pride of your father!"

Xu Jiayong noticed something was wrong and whispered: "Dad! Did something happen?"

"No, I just miss you!"

"When did Governor Xu become so sentimental?"

Xu Changde smiled and said, "If you don't come back, I will only eat it alone in the evening!"

"Dad! I will never leave again when I go back this time. I will have dinner with you every day!"

"Hey..." Xu Changde agreed, and suddenly felt the indescribable sourness in his nose. He hurriedly hung up the phone, and Gu Yunzhi's red flag car drove past him: "Old Xu, have you bought so many dishes?"

Xu Changde quickly sorted out his emotions and said with a smile: "Secretary Gu has just come back. I bought some food when I passed by the vegetable market just now! You haven't eaten yet, why don't you come here tonight and have a few drinks together and try my skills?"

Gu Yunzhi actually nodded with a smile: "Okay, I'll go home and I'll be there later!"

Xu Changde didn't expect Gu Yunzhi to be willing to come. He and Gu Yunzhi had been with him for so long, and Gu Yunzhi had never come to his house. Xu Changde returned home and cooked himself, and asked the nanny to buy a few side dishes.

At 6:30 pm, Gu Yunzhi came to visit with a bottle of Moutai that had been stored in the cellar for 30 years. Xu Changde was wearing an apron and dressed up as a housewife. He was busy greeting Gu Yunzhi in and asked the nanny to bring the newly brewed Tieguanyin up.

Gu Yunzhi still has some knowledge of Xu Changde's family situation. Xu Changde's wife was paralyzed in bed for many years. His only son Xu Jiayong has been studying in the United States and spends most of the time alone at home.

Xu Changde smiled and took off his apron and said, "I always like to make a few dishes at home when I have nothing to do. In the past, my son often did it when he was there, but since he went to the United States, he has fewer opportunities to cook!"

Gu Yunzhi smiled and said, "I only know how to put noodles and fry eggs. Compared to you, I am not a competent father!"

Xu Changde said: "Secretary Gu is concerned about the entire Pinghai. It is normal for him to have no energy to take care of the affairs at home. People like me who like the kitchen cannot do anything big!"

"modesty!"

The two of them came to the restaurant with a smile and sat down. Xu Changde opened the bottle of wine and poured a glass for Gu Yunzhi. The wine was fragrant and the wine was clear and yellow. Both of them were not good at drinking. They raised their glasses and cried, and Xu Changde said, "Welcome!"

Gu Yun knew: "Excuse me!"

After drinking the glass of wine, the nanny brought up several dishes made by Xu Changde himself. Gu Yunzhi tasted them one by one and praised them endlessly.

Xu Changde smiled and said, "Secretary Gu has been praising me since he entered the door tonight. Don't you want me to be a full-time chef for you?"

Gu Yunzhi smiled and said, "I think so, but how could you, Governor Xu, be willing to surrender!"

Xu Changde added wine to him and said, "Actually, my ideal when I was a child was to be a chef. At that time, my family was poor and hungry all day long. What I envied the most was the chef in the restaurant. I often thought that if I were a chef, I would have to taste every dish first, so I would not be hungry."

Gu Yunzhi smiled indifferently and said, "It's OK to try it, but if you want to be a good cook, you must control your appetite. No matter how well the dishes are cooked, they are still the guests. What will the guests eat after you finish eating?"

Xu Changde heard the meaning of Gu Yunzhi's words, and he smiled and said, "So I have been controlling my appetite in the kitchen today. No matter how delicious the dishes are, I will wait for you, the distinguished guest, to taste it first!"

Gu Yunzhi laughed: "Comrade Changde, if you govern a big country, if you cook small food, and those who can control the kitchen will have the potential to govern the world. Aren't you a typical representative?"

Xu Changde smiled modestly: "I still have many things to learn from Secretary Gu in terms of politics and experience!"

Gu Yunzhi shook his head, picked up the wine glass and took a sip: "Comrade Changde, if I remember correctly, you should be fifty-six years old this year, right?"

Xu Changde nodded, not understanding why Gu Yunzhi suddenly mentioned his age issue.

Gu Yun knew: "This age is the most politically mature time. It is not easy for the country to train a cadre, and it is not easy to get to this position!"

Xu Changde said: "I'm old, I didn't feel it when I was in Jiangcheng. But when I came to Dongjiang and saw the cadres who have been strong for so many years, I felt that my thinking could no longer keep up with the pace of reform and development. I wouldn't be able to accept the old age." Xu Changde was able to win from Liang Tianzheng and Zhao Jiting's gang of competitors, and his relationships and connections played a considerable role.

Gu Yunzhi smiled and said, "I'm about to be sixty-four years old, but I still don't feel that I'm old. Are you hinting that I'm old?"

Xu Changde smiled and said, "Secretary Gu, I don't mean that. I mean myself! I have high blood pressure and heart disease. I don't know when will this body go to see Marx!"

Gu Yun knew: "Human life is limited, and physiological aging is inevitable. In order to delay this aging, we cadres need to constantly learn and accept new things. In the past two years, I have often reflected on what I have done in the past. There are many things that I can do better!"

Xu Changde said deeply: "If time could go backwards, I think I would do better!" His words were heartfelt. If God gave him a chance to choose again, he would not make those politically low-level mistakes. The temptation that made him so moved in the past seems to be not worth it now, especially when he realized that those things might bring him the consequences. The fall of Jiangcheng Mayor Li Guozheng's blow and shock to Xu Changde was huge. He realized that his past actions were quietly destroying his career. He wanted to save all this and do all his efforts to save it, but the result was that he fell deeper and could not extricate himself.

Gu Yun knew: "I have been in Pinghai for the past few years. The biggest regret I have not developed the economy in the northern part of Pinghai and shortened the gap in the northern part of Pinghai."

Xu Changde said: "This matter is my responsibility. I have always served as the secretary of the municipal party committee in Jiangcheng. I have not allowed Jiangcheng, a leading city in the north of Pinghai, to give full play to its regional advantages and drive the economic development around it!"

Gu Yun knew: "Reform is a process of continuous exploration and learning. When we lead the reform continuously, our inherent thinking will often affect the process of reform. Compared with those young cadres, I feel more and more pressure, fearing that my wrong judgment will cause immeasurable losses to the party and the country."

Xu Changde said: "Secretary Gu, you have done a good job!" He helped Gu Yunzhi pick up a pig's trotter with public chopsticks. Xu Changde's cooking skills are really good, and the pig's trotters are just right. Gu Yunzhi said: "You should find out that I have recently promoted a group of young cadres."

Xu Changde nodded and said, "This is in line with the cadre policy of our party. The cadre team must be younger!"

Gu Yunzhi smiled and said, "Talk about it, Qin Qing is still a cadre you promoted. It seems that you are quite keen!"

Xu Changde smiled and said, "Qin Qing has received higher education, is calm in his work, and has a maturity beyond his peers. When he was the secretary of the Jiangcheng Youth League Committee, he had already shown strong work ability. That's why I gave Chunyang County to her with confidence. The facts prove that she can indeed bear this important task!"

Gu Yun knew: "The Party is a long-term process for cultivating a cadre. Just like you cook, some dishes must be simmered slowly. Only in this way can you truly make a successful dish."

Xu Changde smiled and said, "I started to not believe what Secretary Gu just now!"

Gu Yunzhi looked at Xu Changde.

Xu Changde explained: "You said you can't cook, but I heard that you already have a master level!"
To be continued...