The higher-ups attach great importance to the first batch of young cadres who go to the grassroots level to serve as county-level leaders. Their training courses will last from mid-July to early September.

While Zhang Hongcheng studied hard every day, he also researched various materials about H County.

H County has been an independent county four times in its thousands of years of history, but was later abolished and incorporated into the larger county next to it.

The reason is all because of one word - "poor".

Sometimes, the imperial court saw that the area was too poor, so it established a separate county, equipped it with capable officials and implemented preferential policies to try to improve people's livelihood, but more dynasties simply incorporated this area into the wealthy county nearby, so that at least the people here could have a place to get relief.

In Xinlong State, H County was an independent administrative county established only two years ago. It consists of four communes, two towns, and more than 200 natural villages.

Although it was a makeshift team, it was not without benefits for Zhang Hongcheng - at least the political ecology was very clean.

After all, the previous county chief was transferred after only two years, and the county officials and the county government together only have two or three small cats and cats.

Zhang Hongcheng was thinking while attending the training, and on the fifth day he finally came up with a new initiative.

During his free time during training, he kept running to the Ministry of Mining.

Many of my senior colleagues who worked in the Ministry of Mining had been harassed by him, especially the information room with a low level of confidentiality, which he visited repeatedly.

It wasn't long before everyone in the Ministry of Mines heard about it.

Zhang Hongcheng, the most outstanding graduate of the class of 1977, spent almost all his time in his family's external information room.

I spent the whole day comparing the map of H County with the information in the data room, writing and drawing, and sometimes I couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Two days later, several cadres in the department began to get restless - was this guy hiding something good?

I was wondering why this guy didn't go to the coastal area, but chose to go to that godforsaken place in the northwest. Could it be...? !!!

So every time Zhang Hongcheng was looking up information, staff from the Ministry of Mining would "accidentally" pass by him.

But Zhang Hongcheng was too cautious. Whenever someone passed by, he would immediately cover up the documents and writings on the table.

Who are you guarding against?!

Besides, can this little trick really defeat the leaders in the department?

Strengthen the access control of the information room. Ahem, cough, cough, anyone who borrows materials and copies something must take it out for people to see - it doesn't matter whether other people's writings are read or not, but every punctuation mark in this kid named Zhang's writing must be clearly visible to me!

Not to mention the ordinary cadres in the department, even the big bosses in the department had their eyes shining when they heard the news.

If they weren't afraid of being reported for collective superstition, the bosses would have wanted to confront Zhang Hongcheng directly - tell me, where in H County is our gold buried?!

Still hiding it and not wanting anyone to know?!

With your limited skills, you still want to play Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio in front of us old ghosts?

"What did you say? What do you mean you didn't find anything?"

"Are you saying that this little bastard always goes to the smoking room next door and secretly burns a few pieces of paper before leaving the reference room?"

Something is wrong!

Something is quite wrong!

Following the suggestion of a certain big boss, the department immediately organized several capable personnel to carefully review the materials borrowed by Zhang Hongcheng.

"Your guess is correct. This guy has been investigating the reserves and reports of various minerals in and around H County these days."

"Did you find anything?"

"No results yet. This guy is too cunning. He even used pencil to mark the information and then erased it completely afterwards!"

"Our staff is copying paragraphs along the pencil marks."

"Why don't we just tell him the truth?"

"Open cards? What? Tell him to count with his fingers? This little bastard is definitely waiting to take office before bringing people up the mountain to find it. By then, the county will have a lot of merit and practical benefits."

"But this isn't appropriate either. Letting the grassroots do this kind of thing will definitely result in a lot of gold sand being hidden in the early stages!"

When a few people were chatting, the internal phone suddenly rang.

"Leader, good news!"

"Today, when Xiao Zhang was burning paper in the smoking room again, our people deliberately interrupted him and he didn't finish burning half of it!"

"Well done! Bring me that half of the paper immediately."

This is half of a hand-drawn map that was burned horribly.

But at the very edge of the map, everyone saw a label and an exclamation point heavily drawn in red pen.

"This is Xieshan Pass, fifteen miles away from the county seat of H County."

Some staff members took the map of H County and made comparisons while making judgments.

"Five hundred and twenty-one meters above sea level. According to the data, there should be a small shallow coal mine here. Is that it?"

The boss immediately spoke up: "Have you found any relevant information about this coal mine?"

"Found it! Huh?"

"Data shows that this shallow coal mine has never been properly developed because the mountain road is too rugged."

"Besides, the probability of there being a gold mine near a coal mine is too small, isn't it?"

Everyone in the room looked at the most professional experts.

An old expert stroked his beard and spoke hesitantly.

"But there have been cases of gold mines being discovered near coal mines!"

"Come on, stop hesitating!"

The person with the highest position in the room made the final decision.

"Finding gold mines is all about luck. Only one chance out of a hundred is a good one. Notify the provincial exploration team and armed police forces over there to quietly explore."

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