After hanging up his father's phone, Ye Ming sat on the office chair with a frown, looked up and thought for a while, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, thinking of a person: Wang Hai!

He knew very well: Wang Hai turned out to be Li Botang's backstage and backer in the province, and when Li Botang fought with him, he relied on Wang Hai, Zhou Jiqing and Xie Hongda. Although they were defeated in the struggle, Wang Hai is still in the position of deputy director of the Provincial People's Congress, and Li Zhi should still be in awe of him. If Wang Hai came forward to suppress Li Zhi and did not allow him to join Ding Tiansheng's group, it might be more effective.

Thinking of this, the haze on Ye Ming's face was swept away, he straightened up and grabbed the microphone of the red confidential phone, and dialed Wang Hai's mobile phone number.

After the phone was connected, Ye Ming first exchanged a few words with Wang Hai, and then asked, "Director Wang, has Li Botang's son Li Zhi come to you recently?" ”

"He called me once before the Chinese New Year last year, but I hung up the phone when I heard his voice. After the Spring Festival, he came to my house again to pay New Year's greetings, but I was also turned away. I was very disgusted with this playboy, and I told his father: Li Zhi is not like you were born and raised at all - you are diligent and thrifty, and he is arrogant and lascivious; You are rigid and serious, he is hip-hop and profligate; You are capable, and he is not good at anything; You have a strong personality, but he is cowardly. At that time, I also asserted that their Li family would definitely lose at the hands of this playboy. ”

Ye Ming thought about it and decided to tell him the truth: "Director Wang, I suspect that Li Zhi is now being manipulated by some people with ulterior motives, and wants to take advantage of his personal grudges with me in the past to bring me down and make me stink." However, he is now facing a big dilemma himself, mainly because the Xinleng Iron and Steel Plant was ordered to shut down by the environmental protection inspection team, which is equivalent to smashing their family's jobs. In order to keep the Xinleng Iron and Steel Plant, he asked someone to send me a message asking me to find a way to keep his factory, and said that if I did this, his past grudge with me would be written off.

"I thought about it carefully, although I have a deep grudge against Li Botang and Li Zhi's father and son, but in good conscience, Li Botang is not a heinous bad person, but his personality is too extreme, he will be revenged, and he is easy to go to extremes. The crime he committed was also tax evasion, which was different from other criminal offenders. So my thinking is: if the new cold steel plant can meet the environmental protection requirements through rectification, I still want to protect it. ”

Wang Hai was silent for a while, then sighed lightly and said, "Xiao Ye, I am very pleased that you can evaluate Li Botang like that. Frankly speaking, the reason why I wanted to protect Li Botang at the beginning was that in addition to my own selfish and selfish interests, I really recognized Li Botang's character and admired his ability. I know that your purpose in looking for me is to do Li Zhi's work, so that he will not fall into other cabals and be used as pawns. I don't want to see this swinger again, but since you've made this call, I'll give it a try! ”

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and then said, "Xiao Ye, aren't you looking for someone from the Environmental Protection Agency?" Coincidentally, Liu Qingqiu, the current director of the Environmental Protection Department, was a deputy director of the Provincial Party Committee Office ten years ago, when I was the deputy secretary-general, and he was the cadre in charge of the department. Later, he mentioned the director and the deputy director of the Environmental Protection Agency, and I nominated and recommended them, so he respected me a lot. Why don't you come to the provincial capital tomorrow, make an appointment with Li Zhi to have dinner with Liu Qingqiu, and ask the Xinleng Iron and Steel Plant in person! ”

Ye Ming happily thanked Wang Hai and made an appointment with him to meet at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

Subsequently, he made a phone call to Chen Yi and asked her to call Li Zhi again, asking him to rush back to Tianjiang Province before four o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and then call him......

At half past three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, Ye Ming rushed to the provincial capital and booked a private room in a teahouse near the Provincial People's Congress where he often chatted with Wang Hai over tea, and then dialed Wang Hai's phone and asked him to come to the teahouse to discuss.

When he sat in the box and waited for Wang Hai, his mobile phone suddenly rang, and as soon as he answered, it was Li Zhi calling: "Ye ...... Secretary Ye, where are you now? ”

Obviously, Li Zhi was very reluctant to call Ye Ming's current official title at first, but later considering that he was now asking for Ye Ming, he finally shouted the words "Secretary Ye".

"I'm in a teahouse called 'Mingquan Teahouse' near the Provincial People's Congress, where are you?" Ye Ming's tone was light.

"I called a Didi car from the airport and just got off the airport expressway. What are the two words for the name of the teahouse? I asked the driver to drive the navigation to get over. ”

Ye Ming told him the word "Mingquan" and the box number, and hung up the phone without waiting for him to say anything more.

While waiting for Wang Hai and Li Zhi, Ye Ming thought about it carefully again and decided to call Guo Guangwei and Chang Ying, and if they were free, he would ask them to have dinner together.

Ye Ming is very clear: Although Li Zhi is more arrogant in Xinleng County, he has not actually seen much of the world, especially in the officialdom. Although he knew Wang Hai, it was estimated that Wang Hai would not pay attention to him at that time. As Chen Yi said, he is very in awe of being an official. If he called the secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Committee, the head of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, and the director of the Environmental Protection Department to dinner together today, it is estimated that it will have a deterrent effect on him, so that he will have scruples and think twice when he is instigated by Ding Tiansheng and others in the future.

At the same time, if Guo Guangwei and Chang Ying can be invited, Liu Qingqiu, the director of the Environmental Protection Agency, may also buy some face, and with Wang Hai's factor, the chances of retaining the Xinleng Steel Plant are even greater......

So, he dialed Wang Hai's mobile phone again and asked in a consultative tone: "Director Wang, Secretary Guo Guangwei and Minister Chang Ying called me two days ago, saying that if I come to the provincial capital, we must have a meal together." Why don't I bring them both over tonight? Of course, if you find it inconvenient, forget it. ”

The reason why Ye Ming wanted to make this call was because he was worried that if he took it upon himself to invite Guo Guangwei and Chang Ying over, it would make Wang Hai unhappy, thinking that he was asking Guo Guangwei and Chang Ying to come over to help persuade Liu Qingqiu, so he made a call in advance to ask him to avoid him misunderstanding.

Wang Hai hurriedly said: "Okay, it just so happens that Comrade Guangwei and Comrade Chang Ying and I haven't gotten together for a long time, so it's best to have a meal and chat together tonight." ”

So, Ye Ming called Guo Guangwei and Chang Ying respectively and asked them to get together in the evening, and both of them happily agreed.

At about a quarter past four, Wang Hai came to the box first, chatted with Ye Ming very affectionately, and then instructed the waiter to make tea, and before the cup of tea was finished, Li Zhi stood at the door of the box under the guidance of a waiter.

When he saw Wang Hai, who was sitting side by side on the sofa with Ye Ming and chatting enthusiastically, Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, with a ghost-like look of surprise on his face......