After Feng Yuxing returned to his office, he began to think about the topic he had just discussed with the municipal party secretary.

Yan Baiyang is definitely not someone on the same line as the Provincial Party Secretary Qiao Guping, so generally speaking, Mayor Qiu Shangnan should be Qiao Guping's man.

Under normal circumstances, the head of a prefecture-level city's municipal party committee and the head of the government will not be the same person, which is in line with the principle of mutual checks and balances and supervision.

"So, there's a purpose behind giving me this big piece of industrial meat. In other words, Qiu Shangnan was acting under the instructions of Secretary Qiao of the Provincial Party Committee!"

Feng Yuxing kept calculating in his mind, recalling Yan Baiyang's words:

The same goes for Comrade Shangnan. I don’t know which provincial party committee leader gave him the idea to put this area in charge of you, which has scared the comrades in the cities and counties below!

"It seems that Yan Baiyang is too embarrassed to directly say Secretary Qiao's name and can only say it ambiguously! Secretary Qiao wants me to do something to further pressure the forces behind these major forces in the provincial capital.

So, Secretary Qiao's backing isn't that strong, otherwise he would have directly ordered these companies to completely crack down on violations and use this incident to warn the powerful forces in the provincial capital!"

"It seems that both sides are testing each other's cards!"

Feng Yuxing cursed in his heart, they were definitely using him as a gun!

"It's a pity that when you are in the officialdom, you have no choice! These big families in the provincial capital will never give up their plot to frame me, and I can't let them go!" Feng Yuxing was filled with hatred! "Come on! Who is afraid of who!"

In the days that followed, Feng and Xing wandered around, not inspecting businesses or factories. Their goal was to wait for the results of the comprehensive inspections of factories and businesses being conducted by the four departments in the cities and counties.

Seven days later, the results came out.

The situation was similar to what he and Yan Baiyang had discussed that day, and it was also the result he had been worried about.

After the inspection, all the cities and counties that had reported to him came to report the results to him.

Most factories and enterprises have problems, but they tend to avoid the main issues and the fines they issue are not severe enough.

However, the total amount of the penalties can be considered a considerable increase in fiscal revenue for a city or county.

Yan Baiyang's judgment was correct. They adopted this strategy of self-punishment, bearing the corresponding consequences in exchange for the opportunity to correct their mistakes.

It is precisely this cunning mechanism of "self-punishment" that allows them to gain valuable time to make necessary rectifications without harming the interests of the company, thus avoiding more serious losses and negative impacts.

But Feng Yuxing's thoughts were more than that. He believed that the proactive actions taken by cities and counties this time were definitely the result of collusion between officials and businessmen.

In other words, those companies that violated the regulations negotiated with local officials to exchange fines for time. Of course, this situation definitely only happened in individual cities and counties, and then others followed suit.

However, Feng Yuxing had his own plans.

In the blink of an eye, New Year's Day arrived. Feng Yuxing took advantage of the holiday to return to the provincial capital in order to find his friend, the fat boy Yang Mingyang.

After being slandered online, he became more cautious. The fat boy Yang Mingyang was an internet expert, so he had to go see what Yang Mingyang was doing and what equipment he might need in the future.

After returning to the provincial capital, Feng Yuxing followed the address given to him by the fat man and found the studio run by the fat man, called "Yangbo Hacker Network".

After entering the Fatty's studio, Feng Yuxing was surprised to find someone he hadn't expected to see there: his high school classmate and best friend, Qiao Zhanbo! Fatty hadn't told Feng Yuxing about this.

This studio was actually founded by Little Fatty and his classmate and best friend Qiao Dianbo. What made Feng Yuxing laugh and cry was that, apart from Little Fatty's girlfriend Ma Xiaoyao, there was only Qiao Dianbo in the entire studio, a total of three people.

"Zhanbo, why are you hanging out with the little fat guy?" Feng Yuxing asked curiously.

"Yuxing, we are not as lucky as you. You no longer need to fly fighter jets, but can still transfer to civilian work and become an official! And you can even become a deputy mayor." Qiao Zhanbo was also quite embarrassed.

He had been admitted to a good university, majoring in computer science, just like the fat kid. After graduation, he went to work at a non-computer company just to make more money.

Things were pretty good in the past few years and we did make some money, but because the company was a startup, the boss didn't manage it well and ruined the company.

Qiao Zhanbo hadn't been able to fully utilize his expertise since graduation, so it had pretty much fallen into disuse. A few months ago, after returning, he and Fatty hit it off and picked up computers again, so the two of them started a business and established this studio.

He mainly took on small orders, doing blueprints and web design for small companies. After graduating, the fat boy didn't find a good job and kept hanging out in internet cafes. Although his computer skills didn't improve much, he didn't fall behind.

"There's nothing wrong with starting your own business, but you only do such a small job and you named your studio something so cosmic, 'Yangbo Hacker Network', it's scary!" Feng Yuxing said in a squeezed tone.

"Brother Feng, you are too narrow-minded! Brother Qiao and I plan to expand this 'Yangbo Hacker Network' into the 'Yangbo Hacker Network Group Company' in the future, and our goal is to become a listed group company!" The little fat man burst into tears.

"You are just doing small things. It will take you ages to reach the scale of a group company!" Feng Yuxing said jokingly.

"We have to take it one step at a time! Besides, we take on some door-to-door service jobs, like setting up security networks for some companies, repairing some electronic equipment, and so on!"

The little fat boy started blowing all the air.

"You won't still be doing hacking work for others, will you? That's illegal!" Feng Yuxing said warningly.

"In Yinzhou Province, I'm not exaggerating, but Brother Qiao and I are 'two swords together, invincible.' Even if we did this kind of work, who could track us down? However, this kind of work is rare. Most of the time, I just delete posts for others!"

The little fat boy kept bragging about their special skills.

"So, there is no problem in tracking the IP addresses of those who posted those posts online?" Feng Yuxing was more concerned about this. After all, last time, he was hacked, the fat guy said he would delete those posts for him!

"Of course. I know who those guys were who hacked you last time, but I guess they were paid to do so! You didn't mention arresting them later, so we didn't bother with it!"

The fat boy was very confident when talking about his computer network skills.

"If we track something else, can you do it? For example, the location of a mobile phone or something like that!" Feng Yuxing thought about it and said it out loud, maybe the little fat man and Qiao Zhanbo could do it.