Lin Yue worked in the Comprehensive Section of Qingshui County Development and Reform Bureau for eight years and was still a junior staff member.
The section chief, Zhao Gang, took away his credit and gave him small shoes, but he tolerated it. His mother-in-law said to her face that he had no future, but he tolerated it.
Someone pried open his drawer in the middle of the night and changed the key data in the county magistrate's report he had written after working overtime for a week - hoping to make him embarrassed in public.
Lin Yue didn't make trouble, cry, or beg for help. He silently corrected the material and read every number correctly.
The county magistrate said: "Xiao Lin, I see your ability."
But the real test has just begun.
Deputy Director Qian Guoliang's brother-in-law embezzled demolition compensation, and Lin Yue was sent to investigate this backlog of cases that no one had dared to touch for three years. Someone threatened him "don't drown yourself", and someone parked a black car in front of his house all night.
He didn't retreat. He compiled the evidence into a book, the county magistrate gave instructions, the Discipline Inspection Commission intervened, and Qian Guoliang was transferred.
He made an exception for the deputy subject, was secretly suppressed by Sun Hao who came from the province, and was questioned by the whole county for "only writing materials"... Every step was a trap, and he had a backup plan in advance at every step.
Don't take sides, don't give gifts, and don't engage in cliques. Rely on your brain to break the situation and rely on evidence to slap you in the face.
He used to look down on his mother-in-law, but later he would praise everyone he met, "My son-in-law is the youngest section chief in the county."
The people who used to punish him later begged him to show his favor.
This is not a story about rising to power through connections. This is a story about an honest man using the most honorable way to shut everyone up.
On the chessboard of the county government, the hardest chess piece is always the person who no one can find fault with.
