Rebirth of Corrupt Officials - Chapter 71

Now Chengzhou was in panic. There were countless letters reporting on Jiang Xiaochuan. The Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection used to suppress them. However, when inspecting work these days, Qu Zhendong spread out all these letters and clarified Jiang Xiaochuan’s problem. Although Lian Cheng knew Qu Zhendong was not a good person, there was no evidence yet. Qu Zhendong was still a high-ranking deputy secretary of the Provincial Committee of Shudu Province.

The investigation of Jiang Xiaochuan was usually done on Lian Cheng’s own initiative, and half of it was forced by Qu Zhendong.

Originally, there was Secretary Zheng Liangyou of the Provincial Party Committee who could suppress Qu Zhendong, but since the incident between Qian Qiming and Zhou Qian came out in the first half of the year, especially since Zhou Qian was engaged to Zheng Liangyou’s daughter, it was impossible to say Zheng Liangyou was not involved. The higher-ups had secretly begun to reduce Zheng Liangyou’s power, so now the real power figure in the provincial party committee was really Qu Zhendong, who was second to none and could be said to be very powerful.

On the surface, Qu Zhendong was close to Jiang Xiaochuan, but secretly he wanted to kill Jiang Xiaochuan.

The environment he was in was so dangerous that Lian Cheng didn’t know what to say now.

However, there were some rigid rules that Jiang Xiaochuan should never have touched.

“You’ve gone too far in many things.”

“I know, but I can’t help it.” This was probably the first time that this word came out of Jiang Xiaochuan’s mouth – there was no way.

If there had been a better solution, how could Jiang Xiaochuan have taken the risk? Who didn’t want to earn a good reputation by being clean? But Jiang Xiaochuan had no other choice.

“Last night during the anti-gang operation, gangster forces made a crazy counterattack, and a fight broke out in the downtown area. Do you know how serious this is?”

To be serious, this was a matter related to the stability of the overall situation. Jiang Xiaochuan’s decision to crack down on gangs had seriously threatened the environmental problems of economic construction. It had always been recognized that the underworld forces in Chengzhou were rampant. Some people had even offered a reward for Jiang Xiaochuan’s death. Once the underworld forces became rampant, the entire economic investment environment was bound to suffer setbacks. No company was willing to invest in such a dangerous place, and there was no guarantee that an irreparable accident would not occur in the next moment.

Regardless of whether it was local or central, Jiang Xiaochuan’s anti-crime operation would be defined as a decision-making error. This was enough for Jiang Xiaochuan to be dismissed, not to mention there were so many whistleblowing letters piled up there.

Even if Jiang Xiaochuan was a dark chess player, he could not do this.

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Jiang Xiaochuan knew very well the consequences of his actions, but he was already in the interrogation room, and probably only Lian Cheng knew where he would go next. He shook his head and just asked: “During the fighting, military firearms appeared, right?”

Lian Cheng’s eyes flashed. “What do you mean?”

“In the end, it has something to do with the people over there in the military region. Qingtuan and Hong—it is related to the military region. The military forces are colluding with the underworld forces. Is this preparing for treason?”

Jiang Xiaochuan suddenly smiled. If he were a prosecutor, he would definitely put such a black hat on Qingtuan and Hong. However, even without this black hat, there are still things that endanger national security. The difficulty now was to arrest people.

It didn’t matter who the underworld pushed as a scapegoat. Jiang Xiaochuan was concerned about who would be caught in the military area.

Chengzhou was the Golden Triangle area where drugs flow into the mainland. The country conducts drug crackdowns every year, but drugs continued to flow in from the real “Golden Triangle” in Southeast Asia, like a flood that had been opened and couldn’t be stopped.

If the anti-drug campaign was really effective and so strict, the quantity of these drugs would not be so exaggerated. The three secrets for the survival of the underworld were pornography, gambling, and drugs. The last item was the most serious harm.

The file that Jiang Xiaochuan knew clearly recorded the inflow channels of drugs in Chengzhou over the years and the checkpoints they passed through, as well as some situations of arms smuggling. When drugs and arms passed through the checkpoints, it was clear the military region had opened the door for them. The previous Rong family was also on these detailed lists.

Once these crimes were disclosed, no one knew how many department personnel would be found guilty of dereliction of duty and bribery. Being dismissed from his post for investigation would cause a major change in the officialdom of Chengzhou.

This file contained evidence of corruption and bribery by officials. It should have been obtained by Qiu Yi with his own death. It was also the real cause of Uncle Qiu’s death. It was even the source of all the pain Xue Yan suffered. It was also the biggest gift Qiao Yusheng gave to Jiang Xiaochuan—although its real source was Xue Yan.

Jiang Xiaochuan knew that Lian Cheng might not be unaware of the connection between the underworlds and the military region, but his position was too special.

Although Yue Huasheng was in the Chengzhou Military Region, the imperial city was shaken by his stomping here. He was a person who could not be offended. If this matter had anything to do with him, it would be really difficult to deal with it.

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“The things you have done are enough to put you in jail for several years. Before you did these, did you never think about yourself?” Lian Cheng suddenly felt powerless. He looked at Jiang Xiaochuan with a wry smile. “Even if you are my secret weapon, I will not tolerate you when I am in my position. You also know what you have done and what the consequences will be. I don’t ask anything else now. I just want to know: when Rong Shaobai died, were you there?”

Jiang Xiaochuan did not expect that his question would be so sharp.

He was silent for a long time and said, “I was there.”

It was exactly what he thought.

Lian Cheng raised his head, looked at the ceiling, clasped his hands, and said nothing.

Jiang Xiaochuan felt that something needed to be told to him. He adjusted his emotions and scanned the entire interrogation room. There were no surveillance cameras, and there was no one else except Lian Cheng. But maybe the walls had ears.

“Director Lian, can you come here?”

Lian Cheng turned his eyes and looked at Jiang Xiaochuan who had a calm smile on his face.

After hesitating for a moment, he walked over.

Jiang Xiaochuan saw him approaching, reached out to hold his shoulders, pulled his body down, made him bend over, and said a word against his ear with his lips.

Jiang Xiaochuan’s voice was very soft, and his tone was light.

However, Lian Cheng was silent for a long time after listening. He straightened up and stood in front of Jiang Xiaochuan, looking down at him condescendingly. However, there was no arrogance in his eyes. He simply looked at the calm man in from of him with this posture, Jiang Xiaochuan.