Chapter 1 In the Garrison Headquarters

Inside the garrison headquarters, Tan Hengqiang narrowed his eyes, looking at Ouyang Zhen. His heart was filled with both anger and a sense of utter helplessness at being checkmated.

At this moment, what lay before Old Tan wasn't a fill-in-the-blanks question, but a multiple-choice question with only two answers.

Either compromise or go to war!

Tan Hengqiang wasn't actually afraid of a fight. He had 50,000 elite troops under his command. If a civil war truly broke out, he was confident that he could fight his way into the city within two hours on his home turf, capture Old Li alive, and wipe out the army that the Second Faction had pulled from New B City within three days.

After all, Tan Hengqiang had been the garrison commander in Dragon City for many years. He was too familiar with this place. Whether it was offense or defense, his troops had a natural advantage. Furthermore, the headquarters had held countless discussions about the security of Dragon City's military defenses.

In short, no unit in the First District knew the situation in Dragon City better than Tan Hengqiang's troops.

Tan Hengqiang had absolute confidence in winning a fight.

But what would happen after the fight was over?

Once the civil war started, Tan Hengqiang would be thrust into the eye of the storm, and the Second Faction would definitely not sit idly by and watch their troops and mayor die at the hands of the Tan family.

Once the fighting started, the situation in Dragon City would be beyond repair. The Second War of Independence and Secession in the First District would be launched.

Would it last three years or five? Who the hell could say for sure?!

Most importantly, if Tan Hengqiang fought this battle, what was he actually fighting for? Just to control a coders' association?

That reason was too childish and absurd! It was clearly a very low-cost-performance thing! And from Tan Hengqiang's point of view, he wasn't fighting for his own interests, but cleaning up the mess for the Qingyi Bureau (Blue Uniform Bureau).

The idea of controlling the coders' association was proposed by Kang Dinghuang. At most, Tan Hengqiang could share the spoils of victory after the struggle, but he wasn't in the position of the leading unit.

That's why Tan Hengqiang didn't want to get involved in the internal strife of the coders' association before. He didn't want to force himself into a situation where he had to choose one of two options, and he didn't want to forcefully reverse the situation by breaking the rules when things got out of control, playing the role of a "bandit"!

Because Old Li was the one who truly had nothing to lose. He had put all his chips on the coders' association. If Tan Hengqiang broke the rules and tentatively played a pair of threes, Old Li would immediately respond with a royal flush!

Inside the garrison headquarters, Tan Hengqiang looked at Ouyang Zhen with his hands behind his back, his eyes gloomy, his mind racing.

...

Inside the Taida Conference Center.

After four or five hundred police officers rushed in, they quickly controlled the scene. A large number of garrison soldiers were knocked down, their guns taken from their hands, unable to resist any longer.

In fact, during the fighting, both sides had fired their guns, and more than a dozen people were indeed injured at the scene, but even so, everyone was trying their best to restrain their emotions, for fear that a large number of casualties would cause the scene to spiral out of control.

For example, who in the police system would dare to really shoot Tan Mingzhao? Unless they didn't want to live!

Similarly, Su Tianyu was also the "crown prince" of Li Mingsheng's team. If you really killed him in the city, then Tan Mingzhao would definitely be finished, and those involved would definitely not survive.

After a chaotic battle, the situation on the scene was effectively controlled. Su Tianyu, his eyes bloodshot, pulled up Tan Mingzhao from the ground, grabbed his neck, and shouted at him, "Are you still pretending? Are you still shouting?!"

"Su Tianyu, if I don't kill you, I'll take your surname!" Tan Mingzhao's nostrils spurted blood, but he was still unwilling to admit defeat.

"You're still acting tough, huh? I'll beat your mouth!"

Hou Guoyu, Fang Zheng, and others immediately rushed up, hitting Tan Mingzhao's head with batons.

Tan Mingzhao was knocked to the ground again. This time, Su Tianyu didn't stop them, but wiped the blood off his face with his arm and stood aside.

Young Master Tan was blocked in the aisle, and after being beaten alive by everyone for half a minute, he was directly beaten into shock. And the company commander beside him, after being beaten four or five times himself, was still struggling, protecting Little Tan with his body.

"Enough!"

Su Tianyu shouted in the aisle.

Everyone slowly stopped and dragged Tan Mingzhao aside.

"Take them all to the backyard!" Su Tianyu waved his hand and shouted, then turned back to the podium and shouted, "You guys continue the meeting, and strive to be objectively fair!"

In the front row of seats, Wei Xiangzuo also stood up and shouted, "Continue counting!"

"Captain Fang, Captain Liu, let our people withdraw." Su Tianyu greeted the riot police, and the police officers took the lead in leaving through the side door.

Inside the room, three or four police officers each held down a soldier and quickly evacuated the scene.

Second floor VIP room.

Yu Mingyuan looked at the situation downstairs with his hands behind his back, turned his head and asked Kong Zhengui, "Have the garrison people arrived?"

"They're here, more than a thousand people, they're already outside the venue." Kong Zhengui nodded.

"They haven't charged in?" Yu Mingyuan smiled, "Then Old Tan has been taken down!"

Around the venue.

A line of military vehicles arrived, and a large number of soldiers with live ammunition rushed down and began to put on a posture to control the conference center with weapons.

At the main entrance of the conference center, Jin Maohui stood with his hands behind his back on the steps, surrounded by members of the riot police.

"No nonsense, shoot if you cross the line." Jin Maohui threw down a sentence, turned around and left, without any communication with the people from the garrison headquarters.

After receiving the order, the riot police directly drove all their combat vehicles to the periphery of the conference center, blocking the opponent's attack route, and set up machine guns and established an RPG launch position.

The posture of the two sides was really on the verge of a firefight. It was possible that a spark falling between the two groups of people could lead to a full-scale fire.

...

Inside the venue.

After Su Tianyu and others left, the elders of the coders' association quickly completed the statistics of the remaining votes.

During the statistical process, the ballots were enlarged with a projector for everyone to watch first, and then counted, with no way to cheat.

"Buzz!"

The host came to the stage again with a microphone, trembling, and said in a trembling voice, "The statistics... are officially over. Now, please welcome Tang Boyan, director of our elders' council, to the stage."

There had just been an armed conflict below, and the people in the venue were very nervous. It was considered courageous enough that the host didn't wet his pants. After shouting with the microphone, he immediately ran away.

Tang Boyan walked to the microphone with the voting results, paused and said, "The result is a bit unexpected, but it can be regarded as what everyone wants... Now, I officially announce that the number of votes to remove Chairman Zhang Ming has exceeded half, so he will no longer serve as the chairman of the coders' association from this moment on. In the second item, the new chairman's vote, a total of sixteen branch chairmen received votes. The third place is Wei Xiangzuo from Zha Nan District, with a total of eighty-eight votes; the second place is Zhang Ming, with a total of six hundred and thirty-three votes; the first place is... Gu Baishun from Longkou District, with a total of seven hundred and twenty-one votes! Among them, there were sixty-three abstention votes...!"

The vote count had only just reached the halfway point, and 99 percent of the people present were dumbfounded.

In the second floor, Yu Mingyuan heard this result and looked at the stage in astonishment: "What the hell is Wei Xiangzuo doing?!"

"Let us welcome the new chairman to the stage to speak with warm applause!" Tang Boyan shouted.

Quiet, the venue was so quiet that a pin could be heard.