A professor's rebirth: I entered Tsinghua University in 1977.

Things developed just as Liu Hongyi expected.

Jin Yunfeng was very helpful, making several trips to his second uncle's house and urging the Daning Municipal Political and Legal Affairs Leading Group to thoroughly investigate the case.

Xu Wen Ze also mobilized almost all of his connections.

Although he was just a small brigade party secretary, he knew a few "big shots" in Shahe. He went through roundabout ways to ask a deputy director in Shahe County for help.

The deputy director also agreed.

If Jin Yuhe's attitude is not firm enough, this matter could really turn into a mess.

If the investigator's pen is slightly tilted, the final result will be completely different.

The tactic of "dragging" can make you lose your temper.

Tan Dexi also went out in person to find Lao Duan and asked him to come out and say hello.

Old Tan doted on this "closed disciple" of his who he had obtained inexplicably to the extreme.

With Duan Weimin stepping in, the pressure on Jinyuhe and Shahe County increased significantly.

Although Lao Duan was the head of the military research institute and had no responsibility for local affairs, Jin Yunfeng was under his command. For the sake of Jin Yunfeng's future, Jin Yuhe had no choice but to take responsibility.

To be honest, the old Jin family did not intend to let Jin Yunfeng stay in the research institute for his entire life. They just wanted Jin Yunfeng to go to the research institute to "gain experience". The military research institute has its own system, and who to promote is basically up to Old Duan.

In a deputy army-level unit, it's hard to say about division-level cadres, but there are a lot of regimental-level cadres. Yuan Gang, a full-time regimental-level official, used to be Duan Weimin's bodyguard.

If Jin Yunfeng were promoted to the regimental level and then transferred back to the local area, he would definitely be a county-level or department-level cadre. His starting point would be very high, and it can be said that he would have surpassed most of his peers.

It is much more difficult to be promoted to the county or regiment level at a young age in the local system.

Jin Yuhe is the head of the Political and Legal Affairs Leading Group of the Daning Municipal Committee. It sounds like a high-ranking official, but in reality, he's only at the county or regimental level. He's worked for twenty years, fighting his way up from the bottom to reach his current position.

Compared with Jin Yunfeng's future, Xu Wenzhe is just a brigade secretary, nothing!

Jin Yuhe personally gave the order, and the Daning Municipal Political and Legal Work Leading Group established a special task force to suppress the case with overwhelming force.

When the deputy director of Shahe County realized that things were not going well, he immediately became a coward and stopped saying a word.

Anyway, he doesn't really have any special relationship with Xu Wenzhe.

When the situation could be easily settled, there was no problem in saying a word for you. But now that the Jin family is serious about it, if he still goes ahead and resists, he must be out of his mind.

So Xu Cheng was arrested first.

This kid's a good-for-nothing, spoiled rotten by his father. The moment the law enforcement officials arrest him, give him a quick interrogation, slam their fists on the table, and he's terrified out of his wits, spilling everything. It doesn't even take much effort.

As the investigation deepened, it became clear that Xu Wenze had been protecting Xu Cheng and had been falsely accusing an innocent person of being a bandit. Under the insistence of the Daning Municipal Political and Legal Work Leading Group, Xu Wenze was also arrested.

In order to save face, Huangcun Commune issued a document first, removing Xu Wenze from his position as secretary of the Qiwan Brigade.

The Shahe County People's Congress Standing Committee issued a document to terminate Xu Wenzhe's qualifications as a county people's congress representative.

In any case, these basic procedures still need to be followed.

Anyway, it’s just a matter of posting a document and getting a stamp. It’s not a big problem and not troublesome at all.

Under normal circumstances, when the case reaches this stage, it is basically "finished".

Huang Yonghui was cleared of his grievances, and after recovering from his injuries in the hospital, he returned to his place of origin and continued to serve as an educated youth in Qiwan Brigade. The successor to the Qiwan Brigade Party Secretary did not dare to openly cause trouble for him for the time being.

As for trying to trip someone up behind the scenes, there's nothing we can do about that.

Whether it is Duan Weimin or the Jin family, they have done their utmost to help here and have given great face.

To make any further demands would be excessive and would be too inconsiderate.

All this was already within Liu Hongyi's expectations, and he began to carry out his second step of the plan in an orderly manner.

"Teacher, I would like to ask you to do me another favor..."

On this day, after get off work, Liu Hongyi accompanied Old Tan back to the dormitory.

The master and disciple's dormitories are next to each other.

Because the research task was nearing completion, Old Tan had been leaving get off work early these past few days and hadn't been working until midnight. Around ten o'clock, at Liu Hongyi's urging, he returned to the dormitory to rest.

"Ok?"

Old Tan turned his head and looked at him.

"Well, teacher, Huang Yonghui told me he wants to join the army. You know, if he can't join the army and can't go back to the city, he'll have no choice but to continue to serve as an educated youth in the Qiwan Brigade."

"But now those people in the Qiwan Brigade hate him to death and will definitely find a way to take revenge on him."

"The victimized female educated youth has been granted special permission to return to the city. Huang Yonghui is the only one left. The anger of the people in the Qiwan Brigade will be vented on him. He might even get into trouble..."

Old Tan couldn't help but frown and said, "It might not be easy for him to join the army. Old Huang hasn't even implemented the policy yet."

Although the old man is not very worldly-wise, he still understands the basic routines.

After all, he was the chief engineer of a military factory who once enjoyed the treatment of a division-level cadre. Even if he hadn't eaten pork, he had seen pigs walk.

"Well, so for this matter, we still need the help of Director Duan and Jin Yunfeng."

"This is not good, right?"

Old Tan hesitated.

He hated asking for help the most. He made exceptions several times for Liu Hongyi, which was already a "miracle". If he were asked to ask Lao Duan or even Jin Yunfeng for help again, the old man would feel ashamed.

"Don't be fooled by Old Duan's usual easygoing nature; that's just because we're old classmates. He's actually very principled. If we keep asking him for help, he'll definitely think we're pushing things too far and deliberately 'blackmailing' him."

It is rare for Old Tan to have such a clear understanding of the world.

An old-school intellectual like him is most afraid of being accused of "repaying favors", which would be a huge "slander" to his character.

"Teacher, I won't let them help me in vain. I will repay you."

Liu Hongyi suddenly said mysteriously.

"what?"

Old Tan was puzzled at first.

You are so young, do you want to do anything evil?

Using backdoor connections?

His face instantly became somewhat gloomy.

This has crossed the old man's bottom line and will never be allowed.

Liu Hongyi knew that he had misunderstood, but without explaining, he smiled and took out a stack of information from his schoolbag and handed it to Tan Dexi.

"what is this?"

"Teacher, this is a preliminary design I recently came up with..."

"35mm grenade launcher!"