Storm in Qinggang: Starting from the Subdistrict Office

At 26, Shen Yan just passed the civil service exam and started working at Guanqian Subdistrict Office in Qinggang City. On his first day, he witnessed residents from old town demolition sites besieging the management committee. The municipal bureau's policy clearly stipulated on-site resettlement and compensation no less than 1.1 times the surrounding housing price, but the subdistrict's plan relocated them to a remote suburb 30 kilometers away, reducing compensation by over 100,000 yuan per household. Behind this was the deputy director of the subdistrict office accepting bribes from Zhou Mingyuan, the richest man in Qinggang and a developer, to alter the policy privately. Shen Yan, from an ordinary working-class family, carried his grandfather's old notebook, which recorded grassroots difficulties over a lifetime. Under pressure of being targeted and threatened, he spent half a month gathering evidence and submitted it to the district discipline inspection commission, toppling the first domino of grassroots corruption in Qinggang. Over the next 26 years of his official career, with that old notebook, he tackled tough issues like unfinished resettlement housing, shoddy municipal projects, and Zhou Mingyuan's stranglehold on the port interest chain. He rose from a grassroots clerk to a regional leader, fulfilling the people's demands recorded in the notebook one by one, becoming the kind of official his grandfather hoped for—one who could shoulder burdens for the people. The story has no unrealistic shortcuts, portrays the full hierarchy of officialdom authentically, and delivers solid satisfaction in the struggle between good and evil, maintaining high energy throughout.