In the Name of the People: Sent from the Central Government, I Take Over Jingzhou from the Start

At thirty-two, Lu Chenzhou had spent years working in a central government policy research department, overseeing local debt resolution and a national industrial relocation plan.

One transfer order sent him to Handong, where he took up the posts of deputy secretary of the Jingzhou Municipal Party Committee and acting mayor.

Everyone thought he was just a young official sent there to polish his credentials.

Li Dakang refused to give up power, while local factions joined forces to sideline Lu. State-owned assets, public finances, and municipal investment companies had long been ensnared in an iron web woven by vested interests. Yet on his very first day in office, Lu Chenzhou took control of the executive vice mayor, suspended three powerful bureau chiefs, froze a trillion-yuan problem project, and brought in thirty billion yuan in industrial funding from the central government.

When people tried to use procedure to pressure him, he answered with official documents.

When people used connections to block his way, he uprooted them all.

When someone said Jingzhou's waters ran deep, he asked just one question: No matter how deep the water is, can it run deeper than an order from the central government?

From Jingzhou to Handong, from governing at the local level to entering the central government's field of vision.

He would not be anyone's pawn.

He would rise through the ranks, seize power, and, above all, rewrite the rules!

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