This news brought a huge shock to General Zeng, and also presented him with a huge problem.
Yang Xiangchun is an official under several giants in the Central South Region, and he is also the leader of the Central South Region's support to the Western Frontier Region this time.
Such a person, how much influence does he have on the entire Central South Region team, and how many people are with him?
Nowadays, these are issues that must be taken into consideration.
Regarding the situation of the Central and South Region teams, General Zeng had some knowledge before. Except for the team from Star City, the teams from other cities in the Central South Region were all gathered together, led by Yang Xiangchun, and took the same plane.
So, how many of the teams in these cities were infiltrated by Yang Xiangchun? How many teams were even selected by Yang Xiangchun?
Is it just the people from Hengcheng who can be driven by him?
General Zeng's forehead twitched and he secretly exclaimed that he was lucky. Fortunately, this general attack is still in the preparation stage. If this is launched rashly, with so many undercover agents hidden in the team, I am afraid that the general offensive plan will be greatly affected, and it may even be sabotaged, thus falling short of the success.
Originally, the central government asked all regions across the country to form rescue teams in order to avoid excessive intervention from the Western Region region.
Because the situation in the Western Region is complicated, no one can tell how far it has been penetrated by the strange tree.
Therefore, the center's plan to rush to rescue this time is actually to avoid this potential danger as much as possible.
But they never expected that there would be an agent of the strange tree lurking in the rescue team.
And this lurking person is actually of such a high level.
General Zeng was troubled and asked his men to provide a list of the whereabouts and distribution of all the teams. He must find out where the support teams from various cities in the Central and South Region have gone.
After reading this list, General Zeng's brows relaxed a little.
The list showed that about half of the teams from the Central and South Region followed Jiang Yue to Yuncheng.
Considering Jiang Yue's overwhelming victory in the Battle of Yuncheng, the group of people who followed Jiang Yue should not have much of a problem.
Could it be that the teams in various cities in the Central South Region were not extensively infiltrated by Yang Xiangchun? Is he just infiltrating some of the Hengcheng team?
Thinking this way, General Zeng himself felt that he was a little too optimistic.
With Yang Xiangchun's scheming attitude, there was no reason for him to just control those few people in Hengcheng. There must be others in the Central South Region team who are controlled by Yang Xiangchun. After all, Yang Xiangchun had some interference in the selection of candidates in various cities in the Central and South Region, both openly and secretly.
It can be said that except for Star City's team, which is completely decided by Star City, the teams in other cities may have been given more or less opinions by Yang Xiangchun.
Of course, some places listened, and some places will always insist on their own opinions, such as Hongcheng.
General Zeng knew that the group in Hongcheng did not buy Yang Xiangchun's blame, and the leader, Xiong Yan, did not particularly like Yang Xiangchun.
The Hongcheng team selected people, and there were some disputes with the district about this. Because when Xiong Yan chooses people, he insists on his own opinion. Either let him choose, or don't let him lead the team.
Even if Xiong Yan's status in Hongcheng is not as good as Jiang Yue's status in Star City, it is not much different.
Since he was asked to lead the team, Hongcheng had to respect his opinion. Because of this, the people selected by Hongcheng's team were basically selected by Xiong Yan. Even Yang Xiangchun couldn't get involved at all.
Because of this, the relationship between Yang Xiangchun and Xiong Yan has always been very delicate. He had some opinions on Xiong Yan. Although his face was not torn, he was more or less smitten with Hongcheng's team along the way.
Of course, Xiong Yan himself has a prickly personality, and he doesn't follow Yang Xiangchun's tricks at all. Whenever Yang Xiangchun is unreasonable, Xiong Yan will definitely stand up to him.
This is why Xiong Yan was so excited when Jiang Yue became the executive director and Yang Xiangchun was defeated, and he must follow Jiang Yue to Yuncheng.
Without him, Xiong Yan had already understood along the way that Yang Xiangchun was not the person to do such a big thing. He didn't show any intention of fighting with the strange tree trunk.
Even though Yang Xiangchun's words were very pleasant and righteous. But Xiong Yan didn't believe Yang Xiangchun deep down.
General Zeng has been studying the information on the Central and South Region for a long time.
He picked out some teams that failed to eliminate risks one by one.
If these teams are really impure, then they must not be allowed to participate in the general attack. Even if most of the people inside are innocent, there may only be a few undercover agents.
But in this grand attack plan, even if they sneak in an undercover agent, they may lose everything.
The human camp really cannot afford to take this risk.
General Zeng still has another dilemma.
Do you want to tell Deputy Commander Li Yuntao about this news?
Mr. Song sent the message to him alone out of caution. This choice was also given to someone like him.
It is up to him to decide whether to discuss it with Li Yuntao or not.
Of course, General Zeng also understood this.
He is the commander-in-chief of this operation, and all major decisions, whether right or wrong, must be made by him.
General Zeng understood Mr. Song's concerns.
With the spread of weird trees to this point, everyone in the Western Region is not innocent. Everyone has a role to play.
Of course, General Zeng believed that Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li Yuntao should be innocent.
The Central Committee had finalized him, and since they trusted him so much, they must have conducted strict overt and covert investigations, and conducted several rounds of reviews on Li Yuntao to finalize the identity of the deputy commander-in-chief.
Therefore, General Zeng was convinced that Li Yuntao was clean and had not been dragged down by the strange tree.
In fact, General Zeng must also trust Li Yuntao.
Now one of the six executive directors is dead, and the others are performing tasks in various places. Only the two of them are the positive and negative commanders.
When encountering such a major matter, he must discuss it with Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li Yuntao.
Li Yuntao received the notice that it was Commander Zeng who invited him to drink.
This surprised Li Yuntao slightly. Although there was no explicit order not to drink during working hours, this seemed to be the norm these days.
This time, General Zeng went out of his way and invited him to drink?
Li Yuntao came to General Zeng with confusion.
"Haha, Lao Li, here we come. Are you a little surprised?" General Zeng greeted Li Yuntao to take a seat.
It's noon now, which is also lunch time. General Zeng prepared a few side dishes, and he didn't know where to get a bottle of good wine.
"General Zeng, these days, it's just the two of us drinking such good wine? Isn't it a bit extravagant?"
"Haha, it's rare for us to be rich for once. Just this bottle, no more. Don't blame yourself, Lao Li, for not drinking enough."
"If you say that, you have really aroused my drunkenness." Li Yuntao was not polite, pulled up the chair and sat on it.
There were only two people in the room, and General Zeng poured the wine himself.
It was more like a private occasion, and Li Yuntao was more relaxed. He smiled and watched General Zeng fill up the wine, and the two of them clinked happily.
Zi Liao took a sip, and the mellow aroma of the wine spread from the tongue to the throat, and from the throat to the heart.
Comfortable.
This wine, even in the Sunshine Age, was the best wine in the country.
"Lao Li, how is the list of replacement executive directors coming together?" General Zeng put down his wine glass and asked with a smile.
Li Yuntao put down the cup calmly and took out a piece of A4 paper from his pocket with a smile.
"I knew you were going to ask this, so I made a temporary list. Take a look at who is good, who is not, and who else needs to be added. You are the commander-in-chief, and ultimately it is you who makes the decision."
Li Yuntao's work is very solid and methodical.
During this time, the joint command team also discovered that only six executive directors were not enough. What's more, one of them has been sacrificed now.
Therefore, they decided to add twelve more executive directors as the second batch of backup reserves. As the front advances, these additional executive directors will be needed at any time.
General Zeng glanced at the list and found that Yang Xiangchun's name was at the top of the supplementary list.
It can be seen that when Li Yuntao drafted this list, the first person he thought of must be Yang Xiangchun.
But this is reasonable.
After all, the team leaders of each major district and several others had become executive directors. Yang Xiangchun was the unlucky man who was not elected and was replaced by his team leader from Star City.
Since the list of executive directors needs to be added, it is reasonable for Yang Xiangchun to be considered first.
As for the other lists, some of them are the captains of the support team, and some are the leaders of various teams in the West Frontier Region.
Most of the names on this list are known and recognized by General Zeng.
Seeing General Zeng pondering as he looked at the list, Li Yuntao asked: "Commander-in-Chief, is there anything wrong with the list? You dare to criticize."
"Haha, the criticism is exaggerated. But this Yang Xiangchun..."
"Yang Xiangchun is the leader of the Central and South Region. He was the first to add someone due to circumstances. Does the commander-in-chief think it's inappropriate?" Li Yuntao never expected that the first person the commander-in-chief raised a question would be Yang Xiangchun?
Little did he know that General Zeng deliberately mentioned Yang Xiangchun to gauge Li Yuntao's reaction.
Seeing that Li Yuntao did not have any surprise or subtle reaction, he did not hesitate to explain to Yang Xiangchun, and the content of the explanation was out of common sense.
This test made General Zeng even more convinced that Li Yuntao was definitely fine, at least he was definitely not with Yang Lichun.
Otherwise, when someone asked him this, Li Yuntao's reaction would be more or less subtle. Even a moment of hesitation and surprise.
"It's not that I think it's inappropriate, I'm just worried that if he didn't get selected the first time, will he be resentful later and simply stop accepting the additional quota? Yang Xiangchun is a person with a high spirit, right?"
Li Yuntao smiled and nodded, and he was convinced: "Yes, he is indeed a bit high-spirited. This time he was replaced by a young man. It's hard to say whether he will blame us for operating in secret. But we are dedicated to the public. As an old official, he will always have the awareness to promote talents for the country, right? If he doesn't obey, it would be too inappropriate."
General Zeng nodded noncommittally and suddenly asked: "Do you know much about Yang Xiangchun? What do you think of this person?"
Li Yuntao was slightly surprised. He thought General Zeng had already accepted Yang Xiangchun's quota. Unexpectedly, he still had questions?
Otherwise, he would never have asked so carefully.
"Commander-in-Chief, do you look down on Yang Xiangchun?"
General Zeng smiled and said, "I want to hear your opinion."
"Looking at the overall situation, he is the leader of the Central South Region. If he does not enter the supplementary list, we will definitely offend him, and even offend the entire Central South Region. The West Frontier Region and the Central South Region are adjacent to each other, and they are friendly and good neighbors. Relationship. I personally think that some of his previous actions were indeed inappropriate, but it is really not appropriate to exclude him from this list."
"Old Li, how much do you know about the fighting spirit between Hengcheng and Star City?"
"Everyone knows, I should know. Yang Xiangchun's pattern in this matter is somewhat questionable. He wanted to suppress the Star City team so much that it caused a series of farces and even casualties. I estimate that the few in the Central and South Region He is a giant, he must have been beaten in private, right? During this period, I heard that he is still very well-behaved and very low-key. He has not said anything bad about the Star City team, so he must have restrained himself, right?"
"Then do you know why Yang Xiangchun has such a problem with the Star City team? He wants to suppress them?"
"I have heard some rumors. When Yang Xiangchun was young, he and the leader of Star City pursued a woman, who is also the wife of Han Yiyang, the current leader of Star City. The love affair failed, and Yang Xiangchun always harbored a grudge against Han Yiyang. Naturally, he had a conflict with the Star City team. Han Yiyang, the leader of Star City, also applied to the Central and South Region, and specially approved the Star City team not to be led by Yang Xiangchun. After this, the conflict probably did not ease, but continued to deepen. And the deputy of the Star City team, Han Jingjing, is Han Yiyang's daughter. …”
Sure enough, there is nothing new under the sun.
Things that were originally very secretive will become open secrets when they reach a certain position in the officialdom.
The reason mentioned by Li Yuntao makes the conflict between Yang Xiangchun and the Star City team appear to have perfect causal logic.
General Zeng smiled calmly and sighed: "I originally thought it was the reason you just said."
"Is there any other reason?" Li Yuntao was a little surprised.
Is there any inside story that hasn’t been discovered yet?
"Old Li, please guess and deduce, what other reasons could make Yang Xiangchun so rude?"
Li Yuntao thought for a while and drank several sips of wine, but still couldn't figure out the reason.
He smiled bitterly and said: "Commander-in-Chief, please stop showing off."
General Zeng sighed and said, "Maybe you don't believe it, but Yang Xiangchun is actually the agent of the Weird Tree!"
"What?" Li Yuntao almost spit out the wine as soon as he took a sip of wine into his mouth. He quickly reached out to cover it and swallowed the sip of wine.
"It's absolutely true, the evidence is conclusive. Several members of the Hengcheng team have already contacted the strange tree itself and are discussing the internal and external cooperation. If the information is correct, this group of people should be back soon." General Zeng said coldly.
