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However, the main person in charge of the research team had already been recruited to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in City 49.

However, the conspiracy was exposed four months ago. The researcher was interrogated by the General Security Bureau, and the vice president of the Agricultural Science Research Institute and related personnel were also arrested.

After a series of interrogations by the General Security Bureau, no useful information was found, so they had to leave the case as an unsolved mystery.

In fact, they never dreamed that the originator of the rice seeds was He Yuzhu, the former secretary of the Andong County Party Committee.

It was simply because he had done such a good job in the preliminary work that he successfully deceived everyone with his strategy of concealing the truth and cutting off the source of the problem, and they all turned their attention to the researcher.

But now Xin'an County seems to have replicated the feat that took place in Andong County.

Especially when Luofu City reported the great harvest in Xin'an County, and then the Handong Provincial Party Committee passed it on to the 49 cities, this matter soon attracted the attention and suspicion of the 49 cities' Security Bureau.

One day, He Yuzhu was working in the county party secretary's office as usual, when suddenly his phone started ringing frantically.

This made He Yuzhu feel quite puzzled. Who would call him at this time?

With this question in mind, He Yuzhu immediately picked up the phone, and a man's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Is it Deputy Director He?"

When He Yuzhu heard this voice, he felt it sounded familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before.

"Yes, I'm He Yuzhu, where are you from?"

The other end of the phone: "I'm Ye Liangping from the General Administration,"

When He Yuzhu heard that the call was from Ye Liangping, he was quite surprised and shocked.

He didn't understand why Ye Liangping called him at this critical moment. Suddenly he thought of the previous bumper grain harvest in Xin'an County.

He immediately realized that it might be a problem with the rice seeds. He had guessed that the General Administration would definitely intervene, but he did not expect that the General Administration would act so quickly.

Then he immediately started laughing.

"It's Director Ye. What do you want to talk to me about?"

Ye Liangping on the other end of the phone: "Deputy Director He, I have nothing else to ask you, I just want to confirm where the rice seeds in Xin'an County come from? Can you tell me more?"

When He Yuzhu saw that the other party really asked this question, his heart skipped a beat. He knew that what was coming would eventually come, but he had prepared an explanation in advance, which came in handy now. He immediately began to explain.

"Director Ye, regarding the origin of this rice seed, I need to explain to you. This is a byproduct developed by our scientific research institute when I was the county party secretary of Andong County.

At that time, the main research topic of our county research institute was rice. The chief researcher at that time cultivated a large number of rice seeds, but because the conditions in our Andong County at that time were not suitable for large-scale rice cultivation, the project was stopped. Later, some research was conducted on upland rice, and finally the research was successful.

As for the rice seeds, I kept them all, and the quantity is quite considerable.

In the spirit of not wasting, I brought it to the south. Later, I found that it was still possible to try to grow it in Xin'an County, because there were rice fields here. I ordered large-scale sowing in Xin'an County. Unexpectedly, the effect was the same as that of upland rice. However, it seemed that it could only be planted for one season, and the second-generation seeds would still revert to their ancestral roots. "

After hearing He Yuzhu's explanation, Ye Liangping on the other end of the phone did not respond immediately. Instead, he fell into deep thought. He began to question the credibility of He Yuzhu's words.

He Yuzhu had rehearsed his speech several times, so there were naturally no problems or loopholes.

Even if we directly ask the researcher in question, it would probably be useless, because he did indeed develop improved rice varieties in the first batch, but the yield of these varieties is unknown, as he did not conduct tests at the first time.

He Yuzhu also expected that although the 49th City Security Bureau would suspect him, they would at most ask questions and show suspicion, and would not directly use force to arrest him.

The first reason is that his identity is very special. He was a special meritorious contributor and a special combat hero in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.

In addition, he is now a member of the Luofu Municipal Party Committee and deputy director of the Handong Provincial Security Bureau. This series of titles is enough to prove that he is absolutely loyal to the party and the country, and there is absolutely no possibility of rebellion.

If he didn't have these titles, He Yuzhu believed that the General Administration would immediately send people to arrest him and use the mnemonics technique directly.

After all, the General Administration’s style of action is to rather kill the wrong person than let him go.

Seeing that Ye Liangping on the other end of the phone had not responded yet, He Yuzhu decided to take the initiative and spoke.

"Director Ye, regarding the question you just mentioned, I would like to ask you, wasn't the researcher from the Agricultural Research Institute poached by the 49th City Agricultural Science Research Institute? Is he still working there? I would like to ask him about the method of breeding improved rice seeds, because these rice seeds have been used up in this spring ploughing, and there will be no seeds available next year."

Ye Liangping on the other end of the phone was embarrassed when he heard what He Yuzhu said.

You know, the researcher who made his debut has been tortured beyond recognition by the staff of their headquarters because he failed to successfully replicate the results in Handong County.

At first, the relevant interrogators of the General Administration suspected that this researcher was bribed by overseas organizations and deliberately concealed the information. However, the great memory technique has always been effective, and no one can survive it, except the dead.

No matter how severely the researcher was tortured, he would only say that he had confessed everything he knew and he didn't know what the problem was.

However, the issue of rice seeds is related to China's entire grain production and people's livelihood, so a death order was issued from above that no matter how difficult it was, the researcher's mouth must be pried open and he must tell the truth.

But now the whole case has come to a standstill. The vice president who went to poach this researcher has also been controlled by them, and he has not been able to find out the reason for his visit. Now we have finally discovered a new clue, but considering that He Yuzhu himself is from Andong County, the birthplace of dry rice, and he is also an outstanding official in the country, there is no reason to doubt him.

Ye Liangping would never believe that He Yuzhu, a humble man who started out as a cook, could develop an improved type of upland rice, a crop that defies nature. It simply did not make sense.

In fact, what he didn't expect was that it was his so-called logic that made him miss the truth.