I started out as a criminal, and the police relied on me to solve countless cases.

Chapter 266 A sweetheart
On Liangkou Road, there is a unique grilled fish restaurant, which is bustling with people.

As the smoke rose, the fish meat oozes fat, filling the room with fragrance. On the white wall hangs a poem "Xia Ke Xing" by Li Bai, with his writing moving like a dragon, showing his skill, but the signature line is "Enjoy poetry and wine while you are young", which has a unique charm.

The grilled fish that had just been served was bubbling with bubbles, and the hot smoke was stimulating the taste buds. The taste was the rich fragrance of the sauce and the pure fish meat.

The hot smoke wisps upwards and stimulates the taste buds. The sweet, sour, spicy and slightly spicy grilled fish gives people a very satisfying feeling. The bright color combination is the highlight of the grilled fish plating, and the sour and spicy taste stimulates the taste buds.

One table, two people, three fish.

A middle-aged man wearing an executive jacket and gold-rimmed glasses was enthusiastically introducing three special flavors of grilled fish to the young man in front of him.

"Director Jiang, the most foolproof grilled fish is the spicy one. Don't be fooled by the bright red peppers. It tastes fragrant and slightly spicy, which is just acceptable. There are also a lot of side dishes."

"As for the garlic flavor you ordered, with all due respect, it tastes good, but it's still not authentic enough."

Jiang Hanwen looked through the steam from the grilled fish at the man opposite him who was always dressed meticulously.

Executive jacket, gold-rimmed glasses, and a neatly slicked-back hair, it seems like this outfit has been welded to this person. Jiang Hanwen even has some bad taste. Does this Director Wang also dress like this when he returns home?
"These three fish, carp, sea bass and mandarin fish, have three different flavors and prices. Although the prices are very different, they are expensive for a reason. If someone sells mandarin fish at the price of carp, it will disrupt the market and undermine economic laws. At that time, whether it is fish farmers, fish sellers, or grilled fish shops, they will all suffer losses."

Director Wang came prepared after all, and his true intentions were revealed before he even said a few words.

"Director Jiang, the development of Liangjiang New District must be under the unified planning of the municipal government, from land acquisition and demolition to bidding for land, to completion and sale. If these actions are disrupted by someone with ulterior motives, do you think it will cause losses to the overall interests of Jiangcheng?"

"I am a native of Jiangcheng. I remember clearly what this city looked like when I was in elementary school. It was always gray, with chaotic streets, crowded crowds, and dirt everywhere. The river water was clear gray, and the cableway on the river was rusty."

Director Wang raised his expression and pointed at the tall buildings outside the window.

"But what about now? In the entire southwest region of the country, Jiangcheng is number one and the strongest. The cyber night view here is second to none in the world. It is no exaggeration to say that the infrastructure here is much better than that of Los Angeles and Chicago. Jiangcheng's urban construction is a miracle in the history of human urban construction."

Seeing the young man's expressionless face, Director Wang was not anxious, but continued to talk.

He was extremely confident in his words.

Because these are real and visible facts, and they are the secret of Jiangcheng's development over the years.

"Chief Jiang studied film in college, so he probably lacks knowledge of economics."

"Let's just chat today. Let me tell you how to develop a country like ours that cannot accumulate capital through expansion."

"The only way is to exploit the country's land resources to carry out primitive accumulation of capital."

"This is a last resort. The world has been divided up. How can a late-developing country not do this?"

“Yes, this process is cruel and brutal, accompanied by long-term negative real interest rates. But for most people, in this cycle of more than 20 years, as long as you hit the right opportunity once and buy the right house, you can accumulate personal wealth and move up the social ladder.”

"You gain something when you give up something, some people rise up and some people are stepped on. This is the law of nature. Even if it needs to be compensated and modified later, it has to wait until the economy is prosperous enough."

"The current land price in Liangjiang New District is 10,000 yuan, of which 6,000 yuan will go into the municipal government's treasury. This 6,000 yuan will be used to improve infrastructure, and the remaining 4,000 yuan will be used to build houses. This 4,000 yuan cannot cover the developer's cost, so the developer can only pass the cost on to the homebuyer. Therefore, the house price will fall to a reasonable range of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. Buyers with financial strength can buy houses and enjoy the dividends of rising house prices. The funds obtained by the treasury, the developer will make money and continue to develop."

"At this point, it is still a virtuous cycle, but! If the price of the land that Liu's Group bought is still 10,000 yuan, but he uses the group's money to build a house and then sells it at the cost price of 13,000 yuan, what will be the result?"

There was a cold light in Director Wang's eyes.

"The result is that the profits of all parties will be cut in half! Not only that, once such a broken window effect occurs, the negative expectations for housing prices will be unbearable for anyone. Now that all parties have invested their money, if Liu Mingyuan is allowed to mess around at this time, then everyone's funding chain will be broken! It will be an unmanageable disaster!"

There seemed to be some pleading in the man's words.

Admittedly, these words are very professional and the situations are all true. In fact, Director Wang has not even mentioned the worse consequences in order to take Jiang Hanwen's acceptance level into consideration.

Development must come at a price.

Compared with the interests of countless people, what does the rich Liu Mingyuan count for?

He could obviously learn from other real estate developers to acquire land, build buildings, and sell them at the same price, or even use high gimmicks to sell them at higher prices, and no one would care about him. Instead, they would continue to put him on a pedestal, praising him as a business tycoon with extraordinary vision.

But he chose to go against the trend and did evil things, and finally ended up dying without a burial place.

Who can be blamed for this?
Wang Cheng told himself over and over again in his heart that everything he did was true and was done to remove obstacles on the road to urban development.

Even if you, Liu Mingyuan, can build cheap apartments and allow a group of people to live in cheap and reliable houses, and the workers under your Liu Group can live and work in peace and contentment and dare to get married and have children.

So what?!
How big is Jiangcheng? ! How big is Liangjiang New District? !
How big is the southwest? How many river cities and new districts are there in the country?

Even if you build houses all over Jiangcheng so that the common people can afford them, what will happen? !
"Aren't the people in Fengdu, Dianjiang, Zhongxian, Yunyang, Fengjie, and Wushan still unable to afford it?"

"There are countless cities in the country. What's the use of having another Liu Mingyuan? It's useless except for satisfying your ridiculous selfishness!"

“This is the trend of the times!”

"Gudu Gudu~~~"

Director Wang was so excited that the fish meat became mushy.

He quickly picked up the chopsticks, lowered his head to turn the fish, and took the opportunity to regulate his breathing.

It's strange, so strange.

In front of Jiang Hanwen, it seems that I can't hide my true emotions.

Wang Cheng was very excited just now, uncontrollably excited.

During his long tenure as the director of the ZFB, he had worn away the emotion of excitement with his great perseverance. He believed that he could face any emergency calmly.

But just now, he seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit.

Looking at this young man in the smoke, he blurted out everything in his heart in one breath.

"When I was in school, I was a poor student. If I wanted to eat grilled fish, I could only go to the food street in the university town and order a grilled crucian carp for 38 yuan. Although it had a lot of bones, it was still delicious."

Jiang Hanwen also helped to turn the fish with chopsticks.

Each of the three fish was turned over. Fortunately, only the skin of the carp was a little burnt, while the other two were still intact.

Wang Cheng saw that Jiang Hanwen didn't seem to quite understand his long speech.

But this is not surprising. These underlying laws of economic operation should not be told to a layman.

Especially an actor.

Jiang Hanwen did not respond to Director Wang's words, but continued to talk about the fish.

"Later, I ate Mekong fish for 78 yuan and mandarin fish for 388 yuan. To be honest, except for having fewer bones, the taste is not much different. At least I can't tell the difference."

"Director Wang, however, you have to know that not everyone can afford to eat mandarin fish. If all the stores in the market sell mandarin fish and no crucian carp, does that mean that poor people will stop eating fish?"

"Of course, the city government can raise the price of crucian carp to 188. That's fine. It can help the poor to empty their wallets and work hard for the rest of their lives. This is also an important way to maintain social stability."

"However, today we are not talking about fish, but about people."

Jiang Hanwen sat up straight.

"Jiang is just a commoner, at most an actor or a cop. All I want is to redress the injustice done to the deceased. That's all. No matter how much I say, it has nothing to do with me."

"What's more, Director Wang's righteous and passionate speech about serving the country and the people has probably made him believe it himself." The young man's face suddenly changed, and his eyes released a powerful pressure.

This pressure was invisible and intangible, and no one knew where it came from, but Wang Cheng could feel it clearly, as if he had been stripped naked and exposed to the scorching sun.

"You are a bunch of profit-seeking insects, a bunch of snakes and rats, who dare to claim the general trend and talk nonsense about the fate of the country. Do you think that you, a few dozen people, can represent the interests of more than 30 million people in Jiangcheng? Do you think that you, a small group of people, can deceive the emperor and cover up the sky with your own hands?"

"You're talking to me about the general trend?!"

Jiang Hanwen smiled.

In this era where people still have a religious belief in housing prices.

This kind of foresight is actually a dimensionality reduction attack.

In the eyes of Wang Cheng.

Is Liu Mingyuan an outlier? An idiot? A psychopath? A true lunatic.

He deserves to die.

But those who can truly navigate economic cycles are those who can foresee that housing prices will not continue to rise forever. On the eve of the bubble bursting, they can completely solve the living security problems of their employees at a relatively normal price, and work together to build an unsinkable Liu Group.

This is the real secret to surviving the storm.

As for the impact on housing prices in the new district, Liu Mingyuan may be holding out hope that the city government can step on the brakes appropriately instead of simply stepping on the accelerator.

With the Liu Group as a stepping stone, the city government can make money and win the hearts of the people, while preventing Jiangcheng from rushing forward and exhausting its potential prematurely.

It's just that this person is too idealistic.

The eyeball is black and the silver is white.

How can you expect a group of people who have eaten pork to go back to eating bran and vegetables? It's too difficult.

An intelligent person with a great vision, but still unable to understand human nature.

Liu Mingyuan didn't even fully recognize these old classmates of his.

Jiang Hanwen suddenly felt a little bored.

Compared to having dinner with the ambitious Director Wang, he would rather drink and chat with the unfortunate guy who died in the iron barrel.

Stupid is a bit stupid.

But Jiang Hanwen just likes such stupid people, who always believe in hope, are always sincere, and always put friendship first.

Such people may end up in a miserable situation, but so what?
Life is only 30,000 days long. Excluding eating, sleeping, shitting and playing, how much time is left?

"Director Wang, I think our conversation can end here."

After Jiang Hanwen finished speaking, he picked up the fish.

Indeed, the spicy flavor is delicious, but he is still used to the garlic flavor.

"Director Jiang is a man of character. Wang Cheng admires him."

Director Wang adjusted his glasses and a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

If he wasn't forced into a desperate situation, he really didn't want to be an enemy of this rising star in the police force. He had done his homework for today's meeting.

The more I understand, the more I am shocked by Jiang Hanwen's influence.

Not long after graduating in his twenties, he was able to accomplish many remarkable things. It is no exaggeration to say that he was the chosen one.

Director Wang couldn't help but put the young man in front of him into his imagination.

Once upon a time, his dream was to be like Jiang Hanwen, wielding a sword and riding a horse at a young age, taking pleasure in settling enemies, not caring about the righteousness and reputation. When he reached middle age, he could still remember his original aspirations, be respected by everyone, and have countless followers.

But it's too late to say anything now.

He had no chance to choose a life like Jiang Hanwen and Liu Mingyuan.

The other party's attitude has been made very clear.

He refused to accept the city government's offer of employment, was unwilling to participate in profit sharing, and was unwilling to give up investigating Liu Mingyuan's case.

Wang Cheng is not a person who is indecisive.

Since we can't be friends, we can only be enemies.

Since we are enemies, we can only fight to the death.

He was not crazy enough to attack Jiang Hanwen directly, because this person was not Liu Mingyuan.

If something happens, there will be no place for him to stay, not only in Jiangcheng, but also in the whole country.

However, the people responsible for Liu Mingyuan's case are Li Youfu and the reckless man named Cao.

It's not difficult to deal with the two of them.

If Chef Wu died in the police interrogation room for unknown reasons.

When the time comes, they will just put a big hat on you and launch a tsunami of public opinion.

These two people are finished.

"Hmph, my Director Li, Captain Cao."

Thinking of this, Director Wang calmed down again and was able to respond calmly to the young man in front of him.

Even if you are a dragon crossing the river, when you arrive in Jiangcheng, without Lao Li and Captain Cao, who are like foxes and vicious dogs, you will probably have to lie down obediently.

"Director Jiang! A man of character! Wang Cheng admires you. Come, let's drink this cup!"

Director Wang laughed and raised his glass.

Just about to reach out and clink glasses.

Jiang Hanwen slowly opened the phone on the table.

A recording was played.

"Wu Lin, I have prepared everything for you. You just need to strangle the person first, and then..."

The sound of this recording is extremely clear and sounds very familiar.

Wang Cheng only felt his head buzzing.
But I couldn't tell who the owner of this voice was.

(End of this chapter)