Chapter 179 The cold snap is coming

A month later, on a sultry afternoon after autumn, the Xizhou Ultimate People's Court held a trial of Gu Dong's case, and finally the police arranged for him to be charged with hurting people and cooperating with undesirable elements in society to carry out organized crimes, which is also commonly known as the underworld, and was sentenced to 15 years in the first instance, but Gu Dong expressed his dissatisfaction in court and wanted to appeal, with the power of the Gu family, I believe that this is the beginning of a long marathon lawsuit.

Of course, before he appealed and overturned the case, he still had to stay in the Xizhou Detention Center honestly, believing that this period of imprisonment would allow him to reform well.

At this point, there is only so much Chen Yang can do, after all, if Gu Dong appeals, the case will have to be transferred to the Provincial High Court for trial, and there will definitely be a lot of variables in the middle, but that is no longer something he can control. Of course, he has reason to believe that even if the case is transferred to the Provincial High Court, no matter how Gu Peng operates behind the scenes, at most he can reduce Gu Dong's sentence slightly, as long as his attitude is still the same, it is basically impossible for him to completely overturn the case and acquit him.

And it is clear that his tough attitude undoubtedly angered Gu Peng and the forces behind him.

Chen Yang was aware of Gu Peng's influence in the Lingxi business community, but he didn't expect that the other party's revenge would come so quickly.

A month later, the annual Xizhou Investment Fair organized by Xizhou Municipal Fǔ kicked off in a deserted atmosphere, and in the end, the three-day meeting was attended by fewer than 100 businesses, although compared with previous years, it can be regarded as Xiǎo progress, but almost all of the friends who came were some friends found by Chen Yang, and some influential enterprises and businesses in Lingxi and nearby friendly neighboring provinces, somehow, none of them came to the meeting.

After this meeting, a false fake news began to circulate in the province, saying that the investment environment in Xizhou is extremely bad, and some leaders of the municipal government like to pat their brains to decide, and the government decree is often changed every day, and the most important thing is that the rapid development of Xizhou has a big problem, which is an unhealthy leap forward development, which is not stable, and I advise all colleagues in the business community to pay more attention when investing.

Originally, this was just a piece of news, at most it could méng some businessmen, but then at the annual Lingxi Real Estate Expo appreciation dinner, Wu Zhenbang, who had just been elected vice chairman of the Lingxi Real Estate Industry Association, suddenly appeared at the dinner and told the many guests who had come to the meeting about the unfair treatment he had encountered in Xizhou, and he had to shift the focus of the business to the surrounding cities. Otherwise, staying in Xizhou is simply waiting for death.

Almost at the same time that this rumor spread more widely and more true, in early October, a commentator's article written by an unknown gunman appeared on the front page of a well-known economic media in the province. 》

As soon as this heavyweight article appeared, Xizhou was once again noticed by the world and became the focus of public opinion in the province, and a number of mainstream media have made an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon in Xizhou, and the economic figures in the first half of the year that Xizhou has just released have also become the main source of analysis by experts and professors. In the first half of the year alone, the GDP of the entire Xizhou achieved the set goal of 80% growth over the whole of last year, and this terrifying indicator has become the focus of criticism by many experts.

Professor Qian Qiang of the Department of Economics of Sun Yat-sen University wrote an article pointing out the drawbacks of the Xizhou model and directly denouncing that these indicators in Xizhou are suspected of fraud.

Indeed, this is completely inconsistent with the law of economic development

And take 10,000 steps back, even if Xizhou did not falsify these numbers announced to the public, and these numbers are true, experts can also say with certainty that this kind of development piled up with money is very unhealthy, and it is a bubble economy similar to that before the Great Recession in Japan.

Although these experts and professors all belong to the kind of straw bales who are full of food and support themselves, they still enjoy a high reputation in front of the public who do not know the truth.

And these are not counted, and then a few days later, there is a group of numbers about the soaring housing prices in Xizhou jù was exposed, this number jù was first broken by the non-governmental organizations, according to the organization through guò on the province's more than ten major prefecture-level cities of the real estate market price survey statistics, the final statistical results are shocking, at present among all cities in the province, the average price of houses ranked first is actually Xizhou City, for many years has been firmly in the top of the Jiāo chair of the provincial capital also had to be relegated to the second place, It's definitely a completely unexpected knot. And the most speechless time, only this time last year, the ranking of Xizhou was only in the penultimate position among these fifteen cities, in less than a year, it is really surprising that there are such jaw-dropping statistical results.

Subsequently, the organization conducted an in-depth study and was even more shocked to find that from May 2000 to September 2001, in just over a year, the average price of the real estate market in Xizhou more than tripled, and at the end of last month, it was the first to easily break the warning line of the average price of 2,000 yuan per square meter.

Coincidentally, Mayor Chen of Xizhou came to Xizhou in May last year to take up his post.

Although this set of numbers will have a negative impact on a certain period of time after being made public, and some social contradictions will be resolved, it has to be said that this is not another piece of fake news fabricated by the media.

Among the top 20 cities and regions in the country in terms of housing prices, Mayor Chen has stayed in several places, Jiāo Prefecture, Xizhou, and even Dongshan City, which has now been withdrawn from the county to a city, are all on the list, among which a development zone under Jiāo Prefecture grabbed the first place in the average price of houses in all cities and regions at the end of last year.

It's just that no one knows if it's a coincidence.

Of course, if you just list this set of numbers and you're done, that's obviously not normal, and all of the above are undoubtedly pointed at the same person, either explicitly or implicitly.

Needless to say, this person is naturally Comrade Chen Yang, mayor of Xizhou City.

For a time, this group of civil numbers also attracted the attention of high-level officials, including heavyweight ministries such as the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, and began to send research teams, inspection teams, working groups, etc. to Xizhou, one after another, which made Chen Yang tired of it. Later, even Comrade Liu Kun, secretary of the provincial party committee, called Chen Yang to the provincial capital alone, although he did not criticize too much, but he also gave a signal, that is, he hoped that Chen Yang could cool down the excessively fierce economic development in Xizhou, after all, the housing problem is a major matter related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and any slightest negligence will solve social contradictions.

Several promising projects such as the Auto Trade Park, Luo Weixin Industrial Park, Nangang Convention and Exhibition Center, and several other promising projects have been stopped, and the city's plan to sell a large amount of land in the city center to raise construction funds has also been shelved on the desk of the director of the provincial land department. Even the Nangang Wharf project, which has been under construction for more than half a year, has been stuck, and the reason is that the real estate market in the vicinity has recently been speculated to sky-high prices. Judging from the latest news from the provincial party committee, although it is impossible to terminate the project that is already under construction, it is very likely that the blueprint of the project will be modified and adjusted to a certain extent.

I have to say that Chen Yang was really overwhelmed by this series of fake news that came out of nowhere during this time, and even Chen Yang's adoptive mother Li Duanyù, who had gone to the Ningzhou Military Region to join the army and didn't care about anything at all, heard about it, and called him anxiously to ask him what was going on?

Of course, Chen Yang would not let his mother worry about himself, on the phone, he was as calm and calm as usual, but in fact, even some of the cadres who followed him noticed that Chen Yang was really a little unbearable recently, and he was busy going back and forth between the provincial capital and Xizhou all day long, doing some dredging work that he didn't have to do before, but unfortunately, despite this, there was little effect.

At the end of October, the 17th meeting of the Lingxi Provincial Party Committee will be held in the provincial capital.

Because the party's first meeting will be held in the capital next year, therefore, this time the Lingxi Provincial National Committee can be regarded as making preparations in advance, after all, there is less than a year left before the first meeting.

For **, basically anyone who is in the officialdom knows very well what ** means.

From ** onwards, the domestic political situation will undergo earth-shaking changes, and power will officially move to the hands of the current No. 2 chief, and the smooth transfer of power, behind the scenes, is often accompanied by bloody rain unimaginable by ordinary people.

For example, on the issue of supplementing the candidates for deputies, although according to the provisions of the Constitution, the deputies to the next National People's Congress are generally elected at the last National Congress, but now more than four years have passed since the 15 th National Congress, and for such a long time, some of the elected deputies have died of illness and some have died of old age, and even many have been dismissed due to various problems, etc., and this lack still has to be filled, and of course, it will not be directly elected at the provincial plenary committee. At the meeting, it was just a discussion about how to do it. In addition, on how to win more policy support for Lingxi from the central government, etc., etc., these many issues must be clarified in this provincial meeting.

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In Xizhou, in Chen Yang's office, he was standing by the window at the moment, looking at the street scene outside the window, silently smoking a cigarette.

Although it was still less than ten o'clock in the morning, it was the time of the day when people's jīng strength was more vigorous, but his face seemed to be a little tired, and his brows were frowning slightly, obviously thinking about something that gave him a headache.

Indeed, during this period of time, some things happened one after another against Xizhou, although Secretary Liu came forward to help him suppress a lot, but more or less it still caused a certain adverse impact on the economic development of Xizhou.

As for him, he has been put into the limelight by public opinion in the province several times and has become the focus of attention. But this kind of focus figure, he feels that he is still less important.

In other words, it can be said that the recent period has definitely been the most difficult time since he entered politics, feeling the most pressure from all sides.

It's no wonder that his face is a little tired at this moment. Whoever changes to him, let alone tired, I'm afraid he won't be able to withstand the pressure and collapse.

As he was thinking about something, Mén's mouth rang softly twice.

"Tuk Tuk"

"Come in."

Chen Yang didn't even look back, and said to the back.

"Mayor, I have already sorted out the draft of your speech at the meeting tomorrow for you."

Xiǎo Hu said as he held a stack of cowhide file bags containing materials

"Well, let's leave it here for now." Chen Yang looked out the window and replied lightly.

Xiǎo Hu Yiyan lightly placed the bag on Chen Yang's desk before turning around and leaving. But he didn't take a few steps, he hesitated, then stopped, turned around and said, "Mayor, today the Provincial Economic Daily published another newsletter about our Xizhou. ”

"Oh, yes." Chen Yang smiled noncommittally and asked again, "What did you say this time?" ”

"It is doubtful that the development speed of Xizhou is too fast, and under the appearance of the property market boom, it has recently encountered a cold snap of withdrawal, and it is suspected that investors will vote with their feet." Xiǎo Hu replied truthfully, but his face was full of bitterness, obviously, he couldn't help the mayor share his worries, he felt very incompetent.

"Voting with your feet? Hehe, these journalists can really write. ”

A hint of disdain appeared on Chen Yang's face. However, this report is basically true, since the incident, several enterprises in the province with branches in Xizhou have suddenly announced that after careful consideration, the original investment intention must be shelved indefinitely.

"Mayor, you say these people"

Xiǎo didn't finish his nonsense, but Chen Yang seemed to know what he wanted to say, waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go and prepare the car, I'll go down right away later." ”

After Xiǎo Hu left the office, Chen Yang frowned, and his face gradually sank.

He knew better than anyone else that the other party had caused so many incidents before the provincial plenary committee convened, and today he published a piece of news in the newspaper, and his real purpose was obviously not just to create unfavorable public opinion. The previous series of actions obviously had their own political purposes.

Obviously, the drunkard's intention is not to drink, perhaps this time the provincial committee is the real intention of the other party.