In the Name of the People: I Land in Handong and Let the Ledgers Speak for Themselves

The day Shen Yan was parachuted into Handong, Jingzhou was signing a contract for a ten-billion-yuan digital industrial park.

There were flowers and applause onstage, and media gathered below.

Li Dakang wanted achievements, the company wanted a project, the bank wanted it underway, and everyone was waiting for the signatures.

Only Shen Yan finished going through the books, looked up, and said:

"This project cannot be signed."

Everyone thought he was crazy.

Until he displayed the cash flows, shell companies, guarantee letters, and old-neighborhood redevelopment quotas on the screen, one by one.

"This isn't an investment."

"It's burying the bomb that will go off three years from now beneath today's applause."

From that day on, Handong had a young official who checked the money before investigating the people.

Others fought over connections; he fought with the books.

Others talked about personal favors; he talked about the chain of accountability.

Others said the procedures were legal.

He said:

"Legal procedures don't mean the outcome is clean."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.