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Ji Xiaofeng took out the painting from the box and slowly opened it, but only halfway. He couldn't help but praise inwardly, "A good painting, truly a good painting." With that, he closed the painting back up.

"Since it's Director Zhang's kind gesture, I'll accept this painting. I just feel a little unworthy!" Ji Xiaofeng shook his head, saying with some emotion.

Originally, although Ji Xiaofeng couldn't be considered a squeaky-clean official, it was normal for him to occasionally accept small gifts. And he thought that this thing was worth at most a few hundred, maybe a thousand yuan, so he accepted it without much thought. He never imagined that the owner of a world-class enterprise company would give him something worth only a few hundred or a thousand.

That night, Ji Xiaofeng received a call after returning home.

"Secretary, this painting is worth over a million, it's a work by Ye Xian." A man's voice came from the phone.

Ji Xiaofeng slowly put down the phone, his expression gradually becoming serious.

"Ah! What exactly do you want me to do?" Ji Xiaofeng suddenly shook his head, feeling very frustrated. His face looked very ugly.

The next day's Standing Committee meeting was sacred and solemn.

"According to Mayor Tao's proposal, Tianbao Town should be included in the urban construction expansion plan. But Mayor Tao, have you considered how much risk this will put on our municipal government, how much capital will need to be invested? What will we use to fill the holes in other areas? Our education funds for this year, the replacement of urban infrastructure, and the reinforcement of the river embankment, haven't been allocated yet. Are we not going to do any of these things?" The speaker was Executive Deputy Mayor Li Guodong. After he finished speaking, he lowered his head, his expression extremely calm.

Tao Ruolan's expression instantly darkened. She didn't expect that the first to oppose her would be someone from the government faction, which made her feel very angry. She thought to herself: 'This Li Guodong has no sense of the big picture at all.' Although she knew he was probably on Lin Chunhai's side, she was really surprised that he would so blatantly oppose her proposal. What made her even more棘手 was that Li Guodong was in charge of urban construction. If he opposed it, how could this plan be implemented?

Thinking of this, Tao Ruolan's expression instantly darkened. She thought to herself: 'If that's really the case, then don't blame me.'

"Does anyone else have any opinions?" City Leader Ji Xiaofeng smiled and nodded, looking at the people in attendance.

Perhaps because this was a relatively important issue, of great significance, and because they didn't want to offend anyone, several members of the Standing Committee looked at each other, lowered their heads, and acted like ostriches.

"Ahem! Ahem! Let me share my thoughts!"

At this moment, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Lin Chunhai suddenly coughed. Seeing that he had attracted everyone's attention, he nodded and said with a solemn expression, "I think Mayor Li's concerns are also correct. Sometimes our ideas are good, but we can't ignore balanced development. Developing urban-rural integration is our national policy, but we must also be based on reality and not be blind. So I agree more with Mayor Li's point of view, we can't be too hasty."

Tao Ruolan's face was very ugly. She lowered her head and gently picked up her cup, taking a sip of water, seemingly using this action to conceal the tension in her heart.