With the curtain falling on the high-level personnel reshuffles, local political realignments began anew. Thanks to Ye Anping holding down the fort in Dongguang, the situation there remained largely unchanged, while everywhere else, figures scrambled to stack the odds in their favor.
Political struggles in Handong were particularly fierce at this time.
Although Qi Tongwei had once whipped up quite a storm in Handong, he still could not withstand the general trend of the times.
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