In name only: I will break the chess game in Handong

"gender!"

"Boy boy boy!"

...After these necessary procedures are completed, it's time for the formal questioning. "Li Shangli, you choose whether to confess yourself or we will use some methods. You only have ten seconds to consider."

"No need to think about it, no need to think about it! I'll tell you everything!"

"Go on, we're listening."

“I went abroad because I wanted to escape legal punishment. Mao Ya is about to be extradited back to China. Once she comes back, I definitely won’t be able to escape.”

"Who is this Maoya, and what is her relationship with you?"

Li Shangli quickly explained the whole story.

"What's the story with those three old men and their descendants?"

"They were sent by Mr. Jin to take me abroad!"

"Mr. Kim? Tell me about this Mr. Kim..."

The interrogation process was quick. Mr. Jin was someone Li Shangli had met through a friend when he worked in Suzhou.

The other party wanted Li Shangli to join the organization.

However, Li Shangli wasn't very interested until Mao Ya's incident came along, which left him with no other choice but to contact her.

Immediately afterwards, Jia Renli and Director Long interrogated the three former officials and their descendants, and this time they made a discovery.

Although they did not know which country Mr. Kim was in, they had obtained Li Shangli's fake passport in Beijing.

Meanwhile, there were also staff at Hantong International Airport to assist them. They continued to check the passport, and the problem arose in the evening. The passport had indeed been processed in the last few days, but the staff at the passport office said that it was processed normally according to the application materials.

Clearly, this Mr. Jin was particularly cautious.

The inability to follow the clues further caused Jia Renli great distress.

Back in his apartment that evening, Jia Renli reported the situation to Tian Guofu. It was now possible to establish the facts of Li Shangli's crime. Tian Guofu praised Jia Renli for his speed. However, only Jia Renli himself knew that he hadn't done any work at all; it was Li Shangli who couldn't handle it.

In the darkness of night, Jia Renli pondered ways to break the deadlock, but he had no clue what to do until the phone rang.

Upon picking it up, I saw it belonged to Chen Luo.

"Hello, Secretary Chen!"

"Comrade Renli, I heard that Li Shangli confessed?"

"Yes, Secretary Chen, he has confessed. However, Li Shangli has limited information, making it difficult to further investigate the anti-China forces behind it. We are currently torn between continuing the fight or..."

"Comrade Renli, let me point you in the right direction."

As far as I know, all the Qing Dynasty dramas in the entertainment industry are backed by capital.

I've heard some of the motives involved; you can definitely start your investigation from those angles.

"Secretary Chen, I've heard about this from Director Long of the National Security Bureau, but the Discipline Inspection Commission of Handong Province doesn't have that authority, does it?"

"It's not like I'm asking you to arrest people... Those rats want to whitewash themselves, so we in Handong will bring this matter out into the open."

The provincial discipline inspection commission's recent report on Li Shangli also included this incident.

Let's put those Qing Dynasty drama actors in the entertainment industry on the hot seat first.

"Hiss, luring the snake out of its hole?"

But Secretary Chen, what if he doesn't come out?

And won't they be criticized for doing this? After all, there are quite a few people who enjoy Qing Dynasty dramas.

"Are you afraid?"

“I’m not afraid. I’m worried about causing trouble for you and Handong.”

"It's okay, go for it!"

Chapter 334 Mao Ya Returns

"Secretary Chen, are you sure?"

"Of course we're sure. The domestic entertainment industry is only so big. How could it possibly turn upside down? Besides, we're not asking you to spread rumors or cause trouble. We're just reporting the current situation in the entertainment industry based on facts."

"Okay! Secretary Chen, I'll hang up now!"

After hanging up the phone, Jia Renli went to work. That evening, all the official websites of Handong published the news of the downfall of Li Shangli, the Party Secretary of Guangming District.

The details also included Li Shangli being recruited by foreign anti-China forces, and the Handong Provincial Party Committee issuing a public apology to the people of Handong Province.

This tactic clearly baffled neighboring provinces. Logically, the fact that three district party secretaries have fallen from power shouldn't be widely publicized; it would only tarnish their own reputation.

But Handong surprisingly and openly revealed the truth.

It even detailed some aspects of how Li Shangli's organization was recruited.

That's intriguing.

The entertainment industry was in an uproar that day. The sheer number of Qing Dynasty dramas in recent years is terrifying; it's like a leech. Seven out of ten period dramas are Qing Dynasty dramas featuring the character of a woman with a queue (braid).

Are we all really deaf and blind?

As soon as Chen Luo got home, the phone rang. It was his senior calling.

"Hello, Director Xu!"

"Tsk, they've already finished get off work. They're not even calling me 'senior' anymore. It seems that Secretary Chen Luo of Handong knows that he will be concurrently serving as the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee."

"Ahem, senior, I was just worried that you might still be working, so I chose to address you in a more formal way."

"Alright, alright, I'm not going to argue with you. What kind of trouble are you guys in Handong up to now? The crackdown on telecom fraud and pyramid schemes just happened not long ago. Who are you going to target now? I'm just wondering, Handong is only a province, but now the things you're doing are affecting the whole country."

"Huh? Senior, is there?"

"Keep pretending."

Your Handong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Propaganda Department have been vigorously promoting the idea that Qing Dynasty dramas are a malignant tumor. Do you dare say you didn't play a role in this?

"Senior, we at Handong are simply publishing the truth based on facts."

"Alright, alright, I'm not going to argue with you anymore."

Do you really think those above don't know the pipe dreams those old fogies are having?

"Since you know that..."

"Sigh, those old men with queues took quite a bit of wealth with them when they went overseas."

Moreover, they have their own companies overseas, generating a steady stream of revenue.

"and then?"

"And then? And then these idiots keep sending money back to China every year, investing in this and that. Take Qing Dynasty dramas for example, don't they invest billions every year?"

"Senior, is spending over a billion yuan really worth it? If all 1.3 billion people in China agree with that kind of value system... wouldn't it be a case of losing more than you gain?"

"You're a well-fed man who doesn't know the hunger of a starving man..."

Back then, we were poor. Who cared whose money it was? Once it's in China, it's Chinese money. As for values, stopping this unhealthy trend is just a matter of one policy.

"So, should we continue or stop in Handong?"

"Continue! The vice president just called me and said that while the current domestic economic development is very important, the shaping of people's values ​​should not be underestimated either."

"You in Handong, go all out and investigate. If you uncover one or two organizations run by remnants of the Qing dynasty, the propaganda department will have a pretext to introduce some policies to restrict Qing dynasty dramas."

Chen Luo curled his lip. What he said made sense. In fact, Chen Luo suspected that the higher-ups felt that a few billion yuan was not enough to fill a gap in their teeth, which was why they hadn't stopped Handong. If more than 10 billion yuan could flow in every year, the outcome would be hard to say...

Time passed slowly, and the online discussion about Handong's exposure of the entertainment industry's inside story continued to ferment, with opinions divided. One side felt that the authorities were making a mountain out of a molehill, while others believed that establishing correct values ​​was very important.

Amid such discussions, the first to get restless are the anti-China forces abroad, those old tails!

The headquarters of the Braided Organization is located in Country M.

The person in charge of the headquarters is Mr. Jin. It is a manor, designed in a style similar to a Chinese garden.

Beside the fishpond in the backyard, Mr. Jin leaned on a cane, holding some fish food in his hand.

With a gentle toss into the pond, the fish leap out of the water, splashing water as they scramble for the food.

“Father, things have been very turbulent on the mainland lately, and several of our entertainment projects have been suspended.”

Some people have already started calling the Holy Ancestor a wild boar.

Mentioning the Jiading Massacre and the Yangzhou Massacre...

They said they wanted to get to the root of the problem.

Behind Mr. Jin, his son continued to recount the situation on the mainland during this period, while Mr. Jin listened with a furrowed brow.

"Nonsense!"

These Han Chinese are truly despicable! It's all the fault of Li Shangli and those three idiots from the Guarjia clan!

"Getting stopped even when trying to leave the country? Those mainland officials in Handong are really something, making a fuss over the smallest things!"

Hearing his father's angry rant, Mr. Jin could only pretend not to hear it.

Mr. Jin continued to yell until he got tired of it a few minutes later.

"Father, what should we do now?"

"What should we do? Over the years, the organization has invested tens of billions of yuan. We can't just end it all and let it go to waste, can we?"

It seems the only solution is to get those people involved, hoping to mitigate the impact or at least shut them up!

“Father, I don’t really understand. You should know that the organization’s goal is impossible to achieve, so why do you still persist in investing in it?”

"You're still young, you don't understand. The loss of our ancestral legacy is an inevitable historical trend."

We, as descendants, cannot allow our ancestors to be reviled and nailed to the pillar of historical shame.

"Understood, Father!"

Blowing in the wind, the old man's braid was thin and long; this wind had finally reached the country.

The academic community was among the first to step forward, with some university history departments researching Qing Dynasty history.

The so-called "authorities" of Jurchen history were the first to attack Handong.