Scholars in the courtyard

Forty-nine cities.

"Chief!"

"That's the picture!"

In the bright office, Yu Zecheng placed an eight-inch black and white photo in front of his desk.

His expression was extremely respectful.

Behind the table, an old man with gray hair sat quietly.

The old man's face was engraved with the ravines of time and the scars of battle, but these marks did not diminish his majesty.

A pair of deep eyes seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts, and their sharp gaze made Yu Zecheng dare not look directly.

The thick and powerful eyebrows were slightly raised, like two sword blades, adding a bit of determination and severity to his eyes.

"Tell me carefully!"

The old man took the photo, his eyes rested on the figure on the upper left, and his voice was cold.

"yes!"

Yu Zecheng adjusted his mood, sat on the chair and began to report the situation.

"After we determined that there was a problem with Tian Jing, we launched an investigation. Following the clues, we found their contact method and successfully captured the target Alex."

As he spoke, Yu Zecheng placed a document on the table, which recorded their action plan and information about the interrogation of Tian Jing and her contacts.

"We then led people to search their residence."

"This photo was found in Alex's wallet!"

Yu Zecheng looked at the photo on the table.

"We didn't think it was inappropriate at first, but later when we investigated Alex's background, we accidentally discovered that the person above was his uncle."

"That's what caught our attention!"

"Following the follow-up investigation, Secretary Xian was found!"

Yu Zecheng briefly explained what happened.

The old man's eyes never left the photo.

In the photo, they clearly look like a family of three.

The young man on the left looked at him with a smile on his face, and the white girl on the right was leaning against him, with their arms around the young man.

"Old Xian, during the War of Resistance, he fought hard on the battlefield behind enemy lines."

"I remember that it was 1942, a very difficult year. There was a severe drought in the Central Plains that year, and there was an enemy blockade, so work behind enemy lines was extremely difficult."

"Lao Xian and his people persisted in working, but in the end they were betrayed by traitors and arrested."

"He was tortured severely. When he was rescued, there was no good skin or flesh on his body."

"Later, he was sent to the Alliance for treatment and his life was saved."

"Look, the scars on this face are from that time!"

The old man placed the photo on the table and pointed to the figure on the upper left.

"At that time, when faced with torture, he came over."

Yu Zecheng said, and the old man nodded.

"But why, how can I face the colorful world and face women, just, I can't stand it!"

The old man's words were full of anger and a touch of heartache.

Yu Zecheng sat on the chair and dared not speak.

After a long time, the old man raised his head again, his face filled with a chilling air, and coldly uttered four words, "Get to the bottom of it!"

Yu Zecheng's expression became grim, he stood up from his seat and shouted, "Yes!"

After saying that, he turned around and left.

The old man waited for Yu Zecheng to leave, then lowered his head, and two tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.

"Old brothers, one more is missing!"

Tears shed, dejected!

Yu Zecheng left the old man's office, took a deep breath, and then walked out.

If he hadn't encountered it, he wouldn't have believed that this would be the case.

The dignified Second Secretary, not only has a high position and power, but more importantly, is a veteran revolutionary comrade. How could he betray his beliefs?

How many people are living in the mud and yearning for the light.

But he cast that moonlight into the quagmire.

People are so unpredictable.

"It's done!"

Just when Yu Zecheng was about to leave, someone suddenly stopped him!

Looking up, it was his old superior, Wang Lei, Director Wang.

But he is no longer the director. When he was promoted to director, Wang Lei was the third secretary, responsible for the work in the Northeast.

"Director, why are you here?"

“I flew back as soon as I received the news!”

Wang Lei replied, but his expression was serious.

Then the two of them entered the office nearby, "Old man, are you sure about Xian's matter?"

"The evidence is overwhelming."

"Moreover, the other party did not hide anything, everything was explained."

Yu Zecheng could only say what he said to the old man again.

The two of them were talking softly at the door, and the people who were about to pass by saw them and could only wait in the distance.

"This matter must be handled impartially and without favoritism!"

After Wang Lei understood the situation, his face was filled with murderous intent.

Maybe he has many reasons to open up for himself, but the comrades lost because of him have no reasons?

No family left?

Yu Zecheng, who was familiar with Wang Lei's character, didn't ask any more questions. He just changed the subject and asked, "Are you this time? No need to go back to the Northeast?"

Wang Lei nodded, "Yes, this time it's Mr. Zeng's intention."

Yu Zecheng nodded, "I'm going to continue the investigation, but Mr. Zeng means to ask people from the internal affairs to intervene. I have a headache and don't know who to call!"

In fact, he still had someone in mind, and that was Song Tao.

Unfortunately, Song Tao is still in Jinling. It is said that the matters there involve the United States, which is a bit troublesome to deal with, and he will not be able to come back for a while.

He didn't know the other people in the house, and he didn't know the root of some things, so he was very worried about doing them.

Wang Lei nodded after hearing this, "That's what I said. Mr. Zeng left the matter to me. The internal affairs department will send someone over. I have already made arrangements."

"If you still need support, just come to me!"

Yu Zecheng was overjoyed after hearing this, "That's great. With you here, I feel a lot less pressure!"

Wang Lei patted Yu Zecheng on the shoulder, "This matter is very serious. There are not many people I can trust."

Yu Zecheng suppressed his smile, "Actually, most comrades are good!"

"I know! But we need new blood!"

The two were silent for a while.

"By the way, you must ensure Yang Xiaotao's safety now!"

"The leaders are still waiting for news about him and for it to be announced!"

Wang Lei spoke again, but Yu Zecheng smiled bitterly after hearing this, "Director, I don't know where that guy is now, and I, I can't do anything about it!"

"What's going on?"

"This is it!"

Yu Zecheng said cautiously, "We planned several countermeasures, but something happened every time, which aroused his suspicion, so he didn't contact us after leaving Jinling."

Wang Lei was silent, "This matter is our problem, no wonder others!"

"But we still need to confirm the news as soon as possible and announce it before the festival."

Yu Zecheng nodded, "Don't worry, based on my understanding of this guy, he will definitely come back before the Mid-Autumn Festival."

"Um!"

Wang Lei responded, and then continued to ask, "Now I am also responsible for the affairs in the south, especially the affairs of Peninsula Hospital. The situation has been more troublesome recently. You have been there and told me what you think."

"Peninsula Hospital, it's hard to say."

Yu Zecheng thought for a moment and said seriously.

"Why is it so hard to say?"

"I can't finish this in a while. The situation over there is very complicated. As for us, we have a cornucopia, and these people have to provide for us. But if there is no cornucopia, they will just be hunting dogs that come around and leave when they are full. people."

"Moreover, these people are afraid of power rather than virtue, and they don't know how to hold back their evil in their hearts."

Yu Zecheng could only express his opinion, but Wang Lei just kept it in his heart.

Thinking of Mr. Chen's warning again, Wang Lei's heart sank.

The situation over there is more serious than I imagined.

"Okay, let's get together later and finish it first!"

"Okay, director, I'm leaving!"

After Yu Zecheng finished speaking, he turned and left.

Wang Lei also turned around and entered, then looked at the piles of files on the table and frowned.

"We need to replenish manpower as soon as possible!"

Two days later, in the evening.

"Mr. Yang, I'm really leaving tomorrow."

After dinner, Xiaobo was waiting here.

Seeing Yang Xiaotao and Ran's father walking and smiling, there was no need to be anxious. Feeling helpless, he stepped forward to ask.

Yang Xiaotao was talking to his father-in-law about supplies.

In the past two days, Secretary Li not only took Yang Xiaotao to inspect the situation below Pengcheng and check the actual situation of each factory, but also the comrades of the Seventh Machinery Department were treated politely here.

Not only that, some consumed materials can also be replenished here.

And the price.

For Yang Xiaotao's sake, they all gave a 20% discount.

Of course, Ran's father and the others do not bring money with them when they go out, so the seal given by Mr. Wang is useful again.

Yang Xiaotao was shocked when he saw Ran's father take out this thing.

I thought Ran's father had made one privately, but he didn't expect that Mr. Wang gave it to him.

Moreover, it is said that according to Ran's father in private, it cannot be taken seriously.

There are two other seals like this in Mr. Wang’s place.

After hearing this, Yang Xiaotao was speechless at Mr. Wang's saucy manipulation.

Whose seal is not carefully protected for fear of being stolen?

Anyone who dares to engrave a seal privately will be committing a serious crime.

However, the Seven Machinery Department dares to play like this.

Take the seal and go out to make an IOU.

I don’t know if I can be reimbursed afterwards, but I dare to do it.

This style is indeed very Wang Lao.

Even Yang Xiaotao wants Xiaowei to get one. When something happens, he can do it, ahem

"It's confirmed, we'll leave tomorrow."

Yang Xiaotao looked at the sky. If it weren't for the difficulty of walking at night, and the road was too bad, he wouldn't have set off now.

Seeing that Xiaobo didn't quite believe what Yang Xiaotao said, Ran's father looked over again with a confused expression on his face.

He was the one who said he would leave the next day, but Yang Xiaotao dragged him around Pengcheng the next day, so it was delayed until the third day.

But then we talked about replenishing supplies, and then, today came.

At the end of the day, it's evening, and it's probably tomorrow.

"I told Captain Lin that we will leave early tomorrow morning and go to Quancheng."

Seeing Ran's father being so sure, Xiaobo originally wanted to go back to Sijiu City.

But when I heard about going to Quancheng, I was immediately speechless.

I guess I'll have to stay for another two or three days.

Xiaobo stopped asking. It was useless to ask too many questions.

Who told them to agree to listen to Yang Xiaotao?

This trip out is really long.

Xiaobo got the accurate information and left, preparing to talk to Hao Pingchuan.

Ran's father was smiling in his heart. He had replenished nearly one-third of the supplies in Pengcheng. When he went to Quancheng, he would have to replenish half of them.

That's Quancheng.

Thinking in their hearts, the two returned to the house.

Over the past two days, Yang Xiaotao and Secretary Li have reached a preliminary agreement.

Originally, the Red Star Machinery Factory was positioned to develop technology and then drive the development of surrounding factories.

However, Pengcheng is too far away from Sijiu City, and it will take time to popularize the technology.

And this time is not only related to the acceptance of technology promotion, but also to the cooperation of local departments.

As we have learned before, the biggest resistance to the factory's acceptance of new technologies and new machines comes from the factory itself.

A machine tool can complete the output of ten workers, and there are no more than three people operating a machine tool. What do the extra seven people do?

Without sufficient tasks, the extra people can only eat idle meals.

This is what the factory and local departments don't want to see.

Everyone in the machinery factory knows this.

This is how the steel rolling mill came over.

But knowing it, it is not easy to solve it.

Yang Xiaotao came to Pengcheng this time originally to set up the auto repair center. Now it seems that he can make more changes after meeting a supportive Secretary Li.

So in these two days, the two sides reached a cooperation intention.

The machinery factory will send a professional team to the Pengcheng Machine Tool Manufacturing Plant to guide the research and production of red-punching and red-milling machine tools in the early stage, and strive to start the production of Venus machine tools in one year.

In addition, it will cooperate with the Pengcheng Third Machinery Manufacturing Plant to produce products such as Red Star tractors and motorcycles.

Finally, the production tasks of some threshers will be handed over to Pengcheng to increase support for Pengcheng.

Of course, these are just preliminary cooperation intentions, and the machinery factory and Pengcheng will have in-depth cooperation in the future.

With Pengcheng as a partner, Yang Xiaotao can jump out of the circle of the four-nine cities, just like the frog leapfrog tactics, blooming in many places and forming a circle of influence.

Of course, Pengcheng is just the first one, and there will be many in the future, just like Quancheng, Yanzhou, etc.

Only then will the machinery factory flourish.