Nominal: The Handong Game, the Energy System's Counterattack

Last night, after learning that Ding Yizhen had fled overseas, Hou Liangping went straight home to find his wife, Zhong Xiaoai.

After he embellished the story, Zhong Xiaoai immediately flew into a rage.

They directly questioned him about why he didn't take Zhao Dehan directly to Dijingyuan, but instead went to his home first and even searched the ministry's offices.

It's obvious that things can't be done now, but she doesn't think it's a big deal.

Hou Liangping had done this before. Since the investigation into Zhao Dehan's case couldn't proceed, he would look for another opportunity later.

It wasn't until Zhong Mingguo knocked on their door with a cold face that she realized something was wrong.

As soon as Zhong Mingguo entered the room, he roared at Hou Liangping.

"Hou Liangping, you idiot, an idiot worthy of being put in a museum."

"We've practically fed you, but you still don't know how to eat."

"After working in the anti-corruption bureau for so long, you still don't know the procedures for handling cases?"

"I think you've lost your mind. Why did you bring people to search the Ministry of National Resources and Security?"

"Since you know where the stolen money is, why bother going through all this trouble?"

"When Director Zhou Chuyi came out, you should have apologized and left immediately."

"Without communication or reporting, do you think organizational discipline and rules are just for show?"

"Even when the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is handling a case, they only dare to take people away from there."

"A search? That place can be searched at will?"

"What's going on in your head?"

"Who gave you permission to act so lawlessly?"

......

Just as Zhong Mingguo was passionately roaring, his phone rang.

"What? What do they want? I'm coming right back."

After scolding Hou Liangping, Zhong Mingguo left with a serious expression.

While Hou Liangping and Zhong Xiaoai were still immersed in Zhong Mingguo's scathing rebuke and hadn't reacted yet...

Hou Liangping's phone rang; it was Qin Siyuan, the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, calling.

Shortly after Zhou Chuyi hung up on him, Qin Siyuan received a call from the Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

"Qin Siyuan, what is your Anti-Corruption Bureau even doing?"

The sound coming from the receiver was like a muffled thunderclap, making Qin Siyuan's eardrums buzz.

That was the voice of the Executive Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, his immediate superior, the person in charge of all work at the Supreme People's Procuratorate, a ministerial-level official.

Qin Siyuan had been in the Anti-Corruption Bureau for so many years and had never heard him speak in such a tone.

It wasn't criticism, it wasn't reprimand, it was rage, like the roar of an enraged lion.

"Now your Anti-Corruption Bureau dares to conduct arbitrary searches without any evidence, even searching the headquarters building of the Ministry of State-owned Assets Security?"

"Who gave you that power? Huh? Tell me, who gave it to you?"

The voice of the Executive Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate grew louder and louder, and the last word was almost shouted.

He knew that Hou Liangping had stirred up a hornet's nest, and today's phone call was the first thunderclap before the storm.

"Minister Sun from the Ministry of State Resources and Social Security just called me."

"How exactly do you, the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, manage your subordinates?"

"I think you're getting more and more comfortable as the bureau chief, to the point that you've lost even the most basic sense of control."

"Qin Siyuan, I'm just asking you, are you still capable of doing this?"

"If you can't do the job, get out of here! Don't just occupy the position without doing anything!"

"Do you know how I felt when I got the call and learned what had happened? I wanted to crawl into a hole and disappear!"

"This is Yanjing, the central hub of the entire country, not a place without rules."

......

On the other end of the phone, the chief prosecutor hurled a string of nasty insults and slammed the phone down.

Qin Siyuan's hand holding the receiver trembled slightly, and his face turned deathly pale in an instant.

Afterwards, suppressing his anger, he called Hou Liangping.

Without saying a word, he simply told him that he was temporarily suspended from his duties pending an investigation by the organization.

Zhong Xiaoai was furious when she heard that Hou Liangping had been suspended from his post.

She snatched Hou Liangping's phone, wanting to ask Qin Siyuan, the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, what was going on.

I got the phone back, but the other end had already hung up.

She took out her phone and called, but the other party, unusually, did not answer her call.

This infuriated Zhong Xiaoai; she hadn't expected Qin Siyuan to be so disrespectful.

She planned to take the next day off and take Hou Liangping to the anti-corruption bureau.

She wanted to ask Qin Siyuan in person if it was necessary to make such a fuss over such a small matter.

However, she had only just had this idea in mind.

Then her father, Zhong Mingguo, called and ordered her to wait at home.

These next two days, you must not go anywhere except to work, and you should not contact anyone casually.

It was only then that Zhong Xiaoai realized that things were more serious than she had imagined.

In the afternoon, Zhong Mingguo made a phone call, and the two drove to Zhong Mingguo's house.

Upon entering the hall, Zhong Xiaoai saw her father, Zhong Mingguo, with a dark expression, and her uncle, Zhong Mingyi.

The couple trembled with fear under the powerful aura of the two ministerial-level officials.

Last night, Zhong Mingguo received a phone call.

Just as Hou Liangping was being ousted from the Ministry of State Resources and Social Security.

The inspection team from the Ministry of State Resources and Social Security directly cooperated with the Fujian Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection late at night.

They directly removed several senior executives from state-owned and provincial enterprises in Fujian Province, including those in the mining and oil and gas sectors.

Overnight, the Zhong family's share in the Minhai Energy Group disappeared.

Even with his slow reaction time, Zhong Mingguo knew that things were in serious trouble.

It wasn't Hou Liangping's problem; it was the energy sector that got involved.

The affair between Hou Liangping and Zhao Dehan was just the beginning.

Zhong Mingguo called his elder brother Zhong Mingyi, made a phone call, and then went to a courtyard house.

Old Wei received the two of them.

He directly produced the video footage taken by Zhou Chuyi, as well as the surveillance footage from Dijingyuan that he had obtained in advance.

In addition, they were shown several documents.

No one knows what they talked about, but when the two left, Old Wei was leisurely drinking tea, looking very relaxed.

The two went straight to Zhong Mingguo's home and talked on the phone all night.

However, the news they received did not seem to be good news.

Zhong Mingguo originally intended for Zhong Xiaoai to divorce Hou Liangping.

However, Chung Ming-yi rejected this suggestion.

The fact that they abandoned their son-in-law immediately after the incident has damaged the Zhong family's reputation.

Moreover, strictly speaking, Hou Liangping's matter didn't have that much of an impact; it was just that it didn't look good on the surface.

The two discussed it for a whole morning and finally agreed to Mr. Wei's proposal.

The other party did not investigate further. Apart from the Minhai area, the Zhong family would not touch the energy sector for the time being.

The two looked at Hou Liangping and Zhong Xiaoai. Zhong Mingguo had originally planned to give them another scolding.

Just as I was about to speak, I suddenly realized it wasn't very interesting.

"Alright, you'd better watch yourselves."

He waved for the person to leave, breathed a sigh of relief, and took out his phone to call Old Wei.

Hou Liangping and Zhong Xiaoai came and went, looking completely bewildered, not knowing what had happened.

As soon as the two returned home, Hou Liangping received a call from the bureau.

This time, the punishment decision against him was announced directly.

"Hou Liangping, the head of the investigation department, is disorganized and undisciplined..."

"After investigation, the organization has decided to impose the following punishment on Comrade Hou Liangping: Hou Liangping is removed from his post as Director of the Investigation Department."

"A major demerit has been recorded, and the rank has been reduced to deputy director... to observe future performance."

Hou Liangping's punishment was relatively lenient; the prosecutor in charge of the case who issued the search warrant for him was forced to retire.

Qin Siyuan, the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, also has a demerit on his record. At his age, his political career is basically over.

As for those who followed Hou Liangping, several of them without connections were expelled from the Party and dismissed from their posts.

The others were demoted by at least one rank and received disciplinary actions ranging from warnings to demerits.

As for Zhao Dehan, his accusations were found to be false by the Anti-Corruption Bureau...

The incident happened so suddenly and unexpectedly that the energy sector's counterattack was so fierce and swift that it made some people with ulterior motives abandon their inappropriate thoughts.

At the same time, the Party Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate decided that the entire procuratorial system should implement this from top to bottom.

A month-long special campaign was launched to "promote reform and warn through cases, and rectify discipline and work style."

The entire process of the incident, the results of accountability, and the harmful consequences were reported to all staff of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Anti-Corruption Bureau, and red lines and boundaries were drawn.

In addition, we conducted special review and analysis sessions, re-studied laws, regulations, and procedures, and carried out self-examination and self-correction activities for all employees.

By holding special democratic life meetings, reporting typical cases, and organizing discipline training, we strengthened the awareness that "procedure is the red line".

This caused Hou Liangping, who already had very poor interpersonal relationships, to become completely isolated and unable to hold his head up in the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Perhaps out of respect for the Chung family, this special operation was launched.

In the cases that were issued, Hou Liangping's name was directly replaced with that of a section chief from a certain investigation department of the Anti-Corruption Bureau in Zhao Dehan's case.

The Supreme People's Procuratorate has also issued a document for this special campaign, which the entire procuratorial system nationwide must study and implement.

......

In the evening, Zhou Chuyi was having dinner with his wife, Sun Huayu, after getting off work.

Father-in-law Sun Chunwu knocked on the door.

"What? You want me to go to Handong?"

After finishing his meal, Zhou Chuyi jumped up immediately upon hearing his father-in-law's words.

Hou Liangping said that even if Zhao Dehan were given a ministerial position, he wouldn't want to be replaced by his current position as section chief.

"I'm just a department head, and you want me to be the governor of Handong Province, or even just a deputy governor?"

"This is the organization's decision!" Seeing his son-in-law jumping up and down, Sun Chunwu pressed down with a heavy accusation.

"No, old man, don't you know what the situation is like in Handong right now?"

"You only have one son-in-law, how can you bear to push me into a pit of fire?"

"What hell? You go, and Hua Yu goes too. She's going to the Women's Federation of Handong Province."

"As for Nanzheng and Beizhi, they can stay in Yanjing to study. We will take good care of them."

Zhou Chuyi and Sun Huayu looked at each other in disbelief. Had everything been arranged?

"No room for discussion?" Zhou Chuyi really didn't want to go down.

He vividly remembers the intensity of his work when he was the county party secretary; it was simply unimaginable.

Even though he was just a director in a ministry, every vice governor of a province treated him with utmost respect.

Now that I'm being appointed as the vice governor, isn't that like being exiled?

"Alright, I know what you're thinking."

Sun Chunwu also knew that it wasn't very ethical to let Zhou Chuyi go, and Zhou Chuyi himself didn't have that much political ambition.

But he himself is a minister, and his son-in-law is a director.

When Zhou Chuyi was in the ministry, he would deliberately seek out Lao Shen to report on his work, and never sought out Lao Shen, who was the minister.

Given their relationship, Zhou Chuyi was destined not to stay in the Ministry of State-owned Resources Security for long.

Now is an opportunity; let's resolve the issue of getting to the vice-ministerial level first.

As for what achievements Zhou Chuyi should make in Handong, they didn't think much about it.

Anyway, Zhou Chuyi is still young and has plenty of time.