Red Relationship

Author: Yu Zhuo
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: At the age of thirty, Zou Yun is capable and decisive. As the secretary to the Minister of Energy, he is sent to the Energy Bureau in Shangjiang City to serve as the deputy party secretary at the beginning of the novel. His mission is to push forward the reform process of this cross-province operating giant enterprise. But as soon as he arrives, before his feet even touch the ground, he becomes the protagonist on the Energy Bureau's internal network, where a scandal unfolds vividly, hard to distinguish between truth and fiction, leaving him. He can sense the attitudes of reform from the top down to the public. But the pure remain pure, and he quickly gets into his role. When negotiating reform measures and compensation plans with Shangjiang City, he feels the opposition from both sides, and even within the Energy Bureau, there are various opinions and intentions. For Deputy Director Zhong and his ilk, the immediate priority is to get Zou Yun out as soon as possible so they can take over. There is also the black hole controlled by the mayor—the Dongneng Oil Products Company—that must not be exposed to outsiders. Deputy Director Li Hanyi is about to step down, and he couldn't care less. By the middle of the story, Li Hanyi gets entangled in his son's financial issues and is relegated to a substantive position. As a result, the reform process, which had shown some promise, falls back into a stalemate. Zou Yun's work becomes difficult to carry out, and he has no choice but to seek the "magic sword." The Ministry strongly supports his work and allows him to propose a comprehensive plan. Just then, the Dongneng Oil Products Company, which Zou Yun had been secretly investigating, runs into trouble, and Deputy Director Feng Zhong and others are implicated. Zou Yun had always felt that Li Hanyi was a master of strategy, so he overcomes past grievances and brings him back. Li Hanyi proposes a "two-systems-one-bureau" model, operating the bureau's side businesses as a company. Unexpectedly, this move wins universal praise. The Energy Bureau successfully completes the reform, and Zou Yun also completes a life lesson, achieving a successful "air drop."