Li Yuanlang was very surprised when the word "capital" was mentioned.

"Comrade Minghua, which level are you referring to?"

Gao Minghua hesitated and stopped talking.

"Just tell me who it is, you won't scare me."

After thinking for a long time, Gao Minghua gritted his teeth and told the truth, "Deputy Director Guo Ziping, Dong Dagang's father saved his life forty years ago when he was a high school student in our province."

"After Deputy Director Guo was transferred to the capital, Zhang Minqing asked Dong Dagang to take him to the capital three times. Deputy Director Guo only met Zhang Minqing once."

"In the past few years, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection has received letters reporting Zhang Minqing one after another. Every time, Deputy Director Guo informed the province, so we had no choice but to hold it in custody."

Guo Ziping?

Li Yuanlang searched for this person's name in his mind, but couldn't figure out who it was for the moment.

Gao Minghua continued to reveal, "Guo Ziping is the deputy director of the Office of Chief Wang."

It's from Wang Minghong's office!

This news was enough to shock Li Yuanlang.

You must know that Wang Minghong has a special relationship with him. He is his sister's father-in-law and holds a high official position. In addition, he has a very close relationship with his father-in-law.

Li Yuanlang understood that the reason why Gao Minghua exposed Zhang Minqing's affairs at this moment was that he must have known his special identity.

In other words, Gao Minghua wanted to test Li Yuanlang with Zhang Minqing's incident to see if he dared to touch it.

Because in Lanqiao City, only Li Yuanlang has this ability.

It just depends on whether he has the courage or not.

Li Yuanlang touched his chin and thought hard for a while, "Comrade Minghua, let me consider this matter before making any plans."

"Okay." Gao Minghua's eyes suddenly became dull. He stood up and was about to take away the report letter, but was stopped by Li Yuanlang. "Leave it here for now. After reading it, I will have someone send it to you."

Gao Minghua nodded.

After seeing him off, Li Yuanlang called Fang Yan in.

Pointing to these report letters, he said: "Xiao Fang, please sort out these letters and give them to me when you get off work."

"Yes." Fang Yan took the order and left.

Throughout the morning, Li Yuanlang met with several major government officials one after another.

Among them is Zhou Weibin, the municipal finance director.

According to Zhou Weibin's report, Lanqiao City's financial situation is very pessimistic.

There are two main parts of local fiscal revenue, one is local enterprise revenue, and the other is tax revenue.

Others include appropriations from superiors, but such appropriations are special appropriations and are used for special purposes.

Since macro-control, economic development no longer relies on real estate, which is equivalent to cutting off the left and right arms for local governments.

In the past, the government sold land use rights for real estate development and made a lot of money.

Now, after policy adjustments, this situation will be gone forever.

Without this, it will have little impact on the economically developed coastal provinces, but a place with a single economy like Lanqiao City will really suffer a disaster.

Originally, coal was produced here, but as coal resources gradually depleted and economic transformation reached a dead end, Lanqiao City's financial situation became even worse.

In Zhou Weibin's words, he dared not go to the office every day because there were too many people blocking the door asking for money.

The municipal finance only has such a small amount of revenue, and it is simply not enough to give it all.

If you don't give it, you'll just complain in his office. The noise will make his head hurt and he won't be able to work.

Li Yuanlang understood Zhou Weibin's difficulties. This phenomenon was exactly the same as that in Daiding County.

Mainly in recent years, the economic development of northern cities has fallen into a difficult period.

Natural resources were over-exploited in the early stage, leading to signs of depletion.

Now, after the policy adjustment, random mining is not allowed, so some related companies have closed down and gone bankrupt, and many workers have been laid off.

People move living things and trees move dead. A large number of laid-off workers go to the developed cities in the south to work hard. The phenomenon of population loss is serious.

With fewer people, relative consumption also decreases, creating a vicious circle, and the local economy can only get worse and worse.

When listening to the report from the director of the Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau on the investment promotion situation, Li Yuanlang deeply felt that the investment promotion work in Lanqiao City can be said to be a backwater.

Investment promotion efforts in recent years have not been successful.

All the companies introduced did not promote the development of the local economy. On the contrary, many companies, after enjoying the government's preferential measures, made enough money and left, often leaving a mess for the city to clean up.

Immediately afterwards, another company came to copy the situation, and in the end it was not only the city but also the migrant workers who were cheated.

Li Yuanlang asked: "The merchants we hired signed a contract with us. They violated the contract. The city can prosecute them through legal procedures. How can we let such people lead the way!"

The Director of Investment Promotion expressed his bitterness, "Secretary Li, it's not that we don't want to file a lawsuit. You said that if a lawsuit is fought, it involves manpower, material resources and financial resources, and it won't be settled for a year and a half."

"Moreover, the current environment in Lanqiao City is not enough to attract businessmen from other places. Therefore, we can only lower our profile when negotiating with the other party and promise many preferential policies. Otherwise, they will not invest in setting up factories at all."

"To be honest, every time I go to other places to negotiate business, I often end up with no results."

The economic environment in Lanqiao City was so bad that Li Yuanlang felt suffocated.

This is the biggest challenge he has faced since he took up the leadership position.

At noon, Li Yuanlang went to the municipal party committee canteen for dinner.

The municipal party committee canteen has three floors.

The first floor is where employees of the municipal party committee have meals.

Municipal Party Committee leaders were dining on the second floor.

The third floor is all private rooms, used for official receptions.

Of course, there is a difference between the meals of municipal party committee leaders and ordinary employees.

First of all, we should be more careful in the selection of ingredients, mainly green and pollution-free.

Secondly, in terms of cooking, the canteen has a dedicated chef, and the taste is no less than that of a big hotel.

As soon as Li Yuanlang walked into the room on the second floor, Lou Anguo came forward to welcome him and suggested: "Secretary Li, there is a private room on the second floor. If you need it, you can eat in the private room. I will have someone send it to you."

Li Yuanlang looked at the two round tables placed in the restaurant and waved his hand, "No, comrades are all here. I don't want to be special."

Lou Anguo nodded slightly awkwardly and said, "Secretary Li has a high style, but I am being narrow-minded."

Li Yuanlang didn't answer, strode towards the dining area, took a dinner plate and picked up his meal.

Due to his depressed mood, Li Yuanlang only chose three dishes and a small bowl of rice.

Walking over, I saw Jing Boxiao, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Qian Yizhong, Director of United Front Work, Hong Guangju, Director of Organization, and Li Lan, Director of Propaganda, sitting at the round table.

Everyone greeted him one after another.

Li Yuanlang sat next to Jing Boxiao, and Lou Anguo also sat over after taking his meal.

Jing Boxiao took the initiative and said: "Secretary Li, today's braised lion's head is good. You are here to eat. Secretary Lou specially ordered the canteen to add more dishes, and we all followed suit."

Lou Anguo hurriedly explained: "Deputy Secretary Jing was joking. We usually have good food. We can eat braised lion head every month. Today is just a coincidence."

Qian Yizhong is in his fifties. He wears black-rimmed glasses with thick lenses and looks like a knowledgeable scholar.

He shook his head and said slowly: "Secretary Bo Xiao is right. If nothing else, this braised lion's head tastes much better than usual. It is moderately soft and has a sweet taste."

Propaganda Minister Li Lan is in her forties and has short, ear-length hair, looking capable.

She dipped her fingers in the soup and tasted it, nodding her head, "It's really sweet."

Hong Guangju lowered his head to eat and took a sip of soup, but there was no lion head on the plate.

Li Lan asked him: "Why didn't Minister Hong put the braised lion's head on it?"

"To lose weight, the doctor told me to eat less meat and more vegetarian food. It's good for my health." After Hong Guangju finished speaking, he glanced at Li Yuanlang.

Li Yuanlang was taking a bite of the braised lion's head. He was from the north and liked salty rather than sweet food.

After taking a bite of the lion's head with obvious sweetness, Li Yuanlang didn't make any comments.

Instead, he chatted with Jing Boxiao and asked Hong Guangju about the situation of cadres in the city.

After finishing his meal quickly, Li Yuanlang greeted everyone and walked out of the restaurant on the second floor.

As soon as he left, Qian Yizhong looked at Li Yuanlang's dinner plate and said meaningfully: "It seems that our Secretary Li doesn't like the sweet braised lion's head very much, so he only took one bite."

The speaker has no intention, the listener has intention.

Lou Anguo remained calm, but secretly wrote it down in his heart.

Afterwards, he contacted the deputy secretary-general in charge of the canteen and told him, "Secretary Li doesn't like sweet food. From now on, the canteen must use less or no sugar in cooking."

Of course, Li Yuanlang definitely doesn't know about this kind of thing.
Chapter completed!