The fire in Jinghai brought the city its first high-speed railway twenty years later. Yet, even twenty years later, clan influences still lingered on the streets, traffic laws were routinely flouted, and criminal underworld forces persisted. Jinghai seemed to possess a strange, magnetic power—a fertile soil that continuously bred and nurtured these phenomena.
How could Qi Tongwei not know all this? At this moment, the interrogation atmosphere froze into an awkward stalemate. One vice-ministerial-level official, alongside two department-level and deputy department-level officials, simply stared at Li Qiang before them.
Aside from Qi Tongwei, no one dared to say that what Li Qiang had just uttered was a lie. Elsewhere, things were generally done by the book, but in this territory of Jinghai, rules were never the way things worked.
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