Wu Xiaoning never took the initiative to contact Lu Shanmin, this time he took the initiative to contact him and he called in person, Lu Shanmin did not dare to slack off, and immediately took a taxi to the city government.

As the New Year approaches, most of the public servants of the city government have taken a vacation, and the huge city government building is deserted.

Walking to the door of the deputy mayor's office, Wu Xiaoning was looking at a document.

Lu Shanmin knocked lightly on the door, "Mayor Xiaoning, I didn't bother you."

Wu Xiaoning put down the document and beckoned to him, "Close the door."

Lu Shanmin turned around and gently closed the door and walked towards Wu Xiaoning, since he had been here last time, he was not so restrained this time, and naturally sat on the sofa.

"It's really admirable that you are still working overtime to serve the people during the Chinese New Year."

Wu Xiaoning smiled, "Patting sycophants is their profound knowledge, don't shoot blindly if you don't know it."

Lu Shanmin said sincerely: "I'm not a sycophant, I'm telling the truth."

Wu Xiaoning said lightly: "Do you know why I called you here?"

Lu Shanmin shook his head, Lu Shanmin, who was here, had thought about many possibilities, but he really couldn't figure out why Wu Xiaoning called him over for the New Year.

Wu Xiaoning looked at Lu Shanmin in a daze, his gaze was very gentle, but there was a sense of intimidation that penetrated people's hearts, which made people have the illusion of doing something wrong.

"You're going to do it"?

Lu Shanmin's heart seemed to have been hit hard suddenly, and his head was buzzing.

"I don't understand what you mean"?

"You just have to answer yes or no".

Lu Shanmin didn't dare to look directly at Wu Xiaoning's gaze, but he couldn't look away at this time, otherwise it would be tantamount to a weak heart. He tried his best to calm the shock in his heart, and he could show confusion and incomprehension.

It's not that he can't trust Wu Xiaoning, on the contrary, he respects and admires this leader from the bottom of his heart. But he wasn't sure whether he should tell him the truth or not.

He hesitated for a moment, just as he opened his mouth to say no. Wu Xiaoning said: "I don't need to answer, I know."

Lu Shanmin was really at a loss this time, and asked tentatively, "What do you know?"

Wu Xiaoning smiled faintly, "No one trusts you little slippery head."

Lu Shanmin was about to defend two sentences, Wu Xiaoning interrupted him again, "You did it right, although the sage said that people cannot stand without faith, but "The Art of War" also said that soldiers are sophistry. When you see people, you will honestly come out, whether it is in officialdom or shopping malls, it is a big taboo."

Lu Shanmin's heart went up and down like a roller coaster, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said helplessly: "I don't want you to have anything to do with this matter."

Wu Xiaoning smiled, "Do you think that all the officials are shrunken turtles who protect their lives?"

Lu Shanmin looked at Wu Xiaoning and smiled awkwardly, to be honest, he had thought so before.

Wu Xiaoning smiled, "There is a synonym for Mingzhe's self-protection, which is called taking care of the overall situation."

Lu Shanmin looked at Wu Xiaoning in a daze, if other leaders said this, he would think that he was making excuses, but from Wu Xiaoning's mouth, he believed it was true.

Wu Xiaoning lit a cigarette, and Lu Shanmin hurriedly stepped forward to light it for him.

Wu Xiaoning waved his hand, "Anyone who commits a crime should be punished by law, and the Xue family is no exception."

"But", Wu Xiaoning accentuated the voice on these two words, "you can't harm the innocent."

Lu Shanmin frowned, "I don't understand what you mean."

Wu Xiaoning took a light puff of cigarette, "The Xue family's industry contributes nearly 20% of Jiangzhou's taxes." Saying that, he looked at Lu Shanmin's expression, Lu Shanmin's face was very calm, and he didn't care about Jiangzhou's tax revenue by less than 20 percent at all.

"More importantly, it involves the employment of tens of thousands of people, who have wives and children to support, and they are innocent."

Only then did Lu Shanmin finally know Wu Xiaoning's purpose for looking for him.

"You don't want to see a situation out of control"?

Wu Xiaoning nodded, "You have to promise me to keep the situation to a minimum."

Lu Shanmin looked at Wu Xiaoning very puzzled, and asked tentatively: "Are you so sure that I can defeat the Xue family?"

Wu Xiaoning's brows furrowed slightly, and he could see that he was not completely sure.

"At first, I didn't think you had the ability, but as things changed, I had a hunch that you could win."

Lu Shanmin looked at Wu Xiaoning like a monster, he didn't know any of his plans, in everyone's opinion, he was losing the situation, how could he have such a premonition.

"Don't be surprised, I'm not as inscrutable as you think. If you have more help for the righteous and less help for the unjust, the Xue family will kill yourself if you do too much injustice. ”

"The tree is a big wind, and the towering tree that seems to be unshakable has rotted in its heart, and since the robbery and murder, the Xue family has laid the root of the bane. Jiangzhou, which is calm and calm, can continue to flourish, and there is a possibility of toppling together with the storm, but now it is just a lack of an opportunity."

Wu Xiaoning's exposition made Lu Shanmin feel that listening to your words was better than reading a book for ten years, he didn't need to know the details, he didn't need to get involved, he just stood on a high place from a distance and quietly watched the excitement below.

"I promise you to do your best to minimize the impact."

Wu Xiaoning nodded with satisfaction, "Very good, I know that you are a kind person by nature." Said solemnly: "Then I will give you a chance."

"What kind of opportunity?" Lu Shanmin almost blurted out.

Wu Xiaoning pointed out the window, "The piece on the other side of the Mingjiang River is the focus of Jiangzhou's construction in the next five years."

Lu Shanmin hurriedly got up and looked, there was a large area on the north bank of the Ming River, at least dozens of square kilometers. He paid special attention to all aspects of news in Jiangzhou, and Hong Chengwu and Leng Hai collected information for him, but he had never heard of the development there. This means that the city has only made a decision, or that it has just begun to be discussed.

"The Xue family doesn't know yet?" Lu Shanmin sat down and asked.

Wu Xiaoning raised his hand and scratched in the air, what the Xue family had done, "Everyone on this floor knows that although many people don't want the Xue family to fall, no one will have close contact with the Xue family at this juncture." ”

Lu Shanmin's eyes lit up, the prestige of the Xue family fell again and again in Jiangzhou, and even the stock price evaporated a lot, at this time, whether it was to restore prestige to show muscles to outsiders, or to gnaw this piece of fat, he would definitely spare no effort to fight. Just as the Nalan family used the opportunity of Palm Springs to start a war in Jiangzhou, this will also be an opportunity for a life-and-death battle with the Xue family in Jiangzhou.

Lu Shanmin couldn't hold back his excitement and asked: "When will these lands start to be built, and in what way?"

"Next May, by auction".

Lu Shanmin looked at Wu Xiaoning gratefully, "Mayor Xiaoning, thank you."

Wu Xiaoning said lightly: "This news will be released soon, I just gave an extra month or two to prepare."

"Every second counts in the battle for shopping malls, and one or two months is already a big advantage."

Saying that, he looked at Wu Xiaoning gratefully, "You can take the risk of providing me with information, I really don't know what to say."

Wu Xiaoning said lightly, "The Xue family killed more than a dozen people and must be punished as they deserve. After a pause, he said, "You don't have to worry about me, there are people in his province, don't I have any."

He continued, "Remember, I just had a casual chat with you, and I didn't do anything."

Walking out of the city hall building, the cold wind blew, and the excitement and excitement just now suddenly dissipated. I don't know if the East China Sea can carry it, but such a large piece of land has to prepare at least tens of billions of funds, and in just one or two months, where will he find so much money.

Raised his hand and looked at his watch, it was not early, and he quickly got into a taxi and rushed to the Jiangzhou People's Auditorium.

When Lu Shanmin arrived, the party had not officially started, but the auditorium was almost full.

Following the seat number of the admission ticket, Lu Shanmin found his place in the back corner on the right.

Lu Shanmin sat on the outermost side, with the aisle on the right, and a man in his fifties sitting on the left.

The man was in his fifties, white-faced, beardless, with a faint smile on his face, and a pair of tortoiseshell black-rimmed glasses on his face. His suit looked expensive, with a dark gray silk tie pinned to it with a gold tree-shaped tie clip, and the trunk, branches, and even roots were all carved vividly.

The man smiled and shook Lu Shanmin's hand, "Hello Mr. Lu."

Lu Shanmin looked at this elegant man with a smile, convinced that he had never seen it before. "Sir, your surname, do we know each other"?

The man smiled faintly, and when he laughed, he gave people a warm feeling of spring breeze, and Lu Shanmin was sure that he must have been a handsome guy who swept thousands of girls when he was young.

"My name is Ying Tian, as for why I know you, hehe, Mr. Lu has been a popular figure in Jiangzhou recently, how can I not know."

Lu Shanmin smiled faintly, although he had not seen all the characters with heads and faces in Jiangzhou, but at least he had seen them from the collected information, this person was not impressed at all, and he was not an influential person in the East China Sea politics and business. Looking at his elegant appearance, he should be highly literary.

"Mr. Win is a writer"?

Ying Tian smiled, "I'm a painter, but literature and art are not separated, and I occasionally write boring words that hurt the spring and autumn."

Lu Shanmin sighed, in his impression, the painter was all with long messy hair and a full beard, and the image of this painter peaked his previous impression of the painter. But thinking that a talented person like Zuoqiu can look like a homeless man, I feel very normal in my heart.

A painter, Lu Shanmin didn't pay too much attention to it, and looked in the direction of the stage after a few polite greetings. At the moment when he turned his head, the afterglow swept to Ying Tian's eyes, and he suddenly felt an inexplicable palpitation. Instinctively turned his head to look at him again, and found that Ying Tian still had a graceful smile, except that his eyes were brighter than the average person in his fifties, there was nothing special.