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

Using real estate developers' hot money to improve some old houses in Luzhou city is a sure-fire way to make money.

Such projects can also be government-led, but they take too much time and effort. If they are contracted out, the government can free up its resources to do other large projects as long as the supervision is in place.

Meanwhile, on Thursday afternoon, Hou Liangping's car slowly pulled up at the nursing home where Chen Yanshi lived.

After getting off the bus, Hou Liangping looked at the pinhole camera on his chest with a smile on his face. In the past two days, he had investigated Chen Yanshi's other flower and bird products and found that there were quite a few, but he did not know who sent them and could not use them as evidence.

How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's den?

Carrying two boxes of milk, Hou Liangping arrived at Chen Yanshi's house and knocked on the gate.

Is Uncle Chen home?

The courtyard gate was quickly opened, and Chen Yanshi's anger flared up the moment he saw Hou Liangping.

"Hou Liangping! What are you doing here! You're not welcome in our home, get out!"

Chen Yanshi showed Hou Liangping no respect whatsoever, but Hou Liangping was very patient and could only smile and say, "Uncle Chen, I'm very sorry about Chen Hai's matter, but I really didn't mean it. I recently heard that you were injured in the Dafeng Factory incident and are recuperating at home, so as a junior, I came to visit you. I only brought two boxes of milk. Although it's not as nice as the flowers and birds that people bring you, it's still my heartfelt wish, isn't it?"

Looking at the milk handed over by Hou Liangping, Chen Yanshi felt humiliated. He forced himself to throw the two boxes of milk out of the yard and onto the ground, where the milky white liquid was immediately scattered everywhere.

“Sigh! I know Uncle Chen has a lot of opinions about me, but these two boxes of milk are genuine. I understand that Uncle Chen doesn't want to refuse me, but it's such a waste to spill them on the ground like this. Uncle Chen is an old revolutionary; when he was in the army, he would lick even a single grain of rice clean from his bowl... Now…”

When Chen Yanshi heard Hou Liangping accuse him, he was immediately furious.

"I told you to leave! You're not welcome in my house!"

Hou Liangping acted as if he hadn't heard these words, and instead went to the several birdcages hanging in the yard and said, "Comrade Chen Yanshi is really leisurely. Ordinary people don't have the leisure and elegance to raise flowers and feed birds. When I was working in Beijing, I heard that only those descendants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty could be so leisurely."

"What do you know! I didn't buy these flowers and birds myself; they were all gifts from others. I have absolutely no connection with those old-fashioned people!"

Chen Yanshi denied it directly, and Hou Liangping was not in a hurry. He just shook his head and said lightly, "Old Chen, you can fool me, but don't fool yourself."

"You've been retired for over ten years, and you don't have any relatives. Who would send you these flowers and birds?"

"Lie to you? You think you're worthy of my deception?"

"These two birds were a gift from the retired deputy director of the Agriculture Department, this potted plant was a gift from Hu Jiaming of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department, and these three potted plants were a gift from Zhu Gang, the former president of the Jingzhou Intermediate People's Court..."

Chen Yanshi flaunted his influence, while Hou Liangping hurriedly took notes.

After Chen Yanshi finished speaking, Hou Liangping smiled and said, "Since Uncle Chen doesn't welcome me, then I'll be leaving now. I really didn't mean anything by what happened to Chen Hai; it was all his own carelessness..."

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Yanshi closed the courtyard gate.

"Ha! You're so arrogant now? In a couple of days I'll make you pay tenfold, a hundredfold!"

Pooh!

After spitting on Chen Yanshi's gate, Hou Liangping left. He needed to go to the flower and bird market to have an expert appraise the value of the flowers and birds he had just photographed.

By evening, Hou Liangping's tally came out: a total of more than twenty pots of flowers and five or six birds, with a total value exceeding 800,000 yuan. The most expensive orchid was a first-class protected plant, the kind that is prohibited from being planted by private individuals, and its price was beyond estimation!

Chen Yanshi probably didn't investigate carefully when the gift was given to him. He thought flowers and birds were worthless and had no idea how valuable they were!

Having obtained the evidence, Hou Liangping immediately called Ji Changming and explained the situation.

Ji Changming was naturally very happy. Tens of thousands of yuan could only make Chen Yanshi lose face a little, but the total amount of nearly one million yuan was not as simple as losing face!

Chapter 128 The meeting was held; handle with care for easy learning.

Friday morning at 10:30.

Chen Luo returned to Jingzhou from Lüzhou.

Liu Mingyu had told him in the morning that Ji Changming would come over to report to him later. He had only sat down and looked at the documents for half an hour when Ji Changming arrived.

"Secretary Chen!"

Hearing the knock on the door, Chen Luo put down the documents in his hand.

"Come in, Comrade Changming."

Ji Changming pushed open the door and entered the office. Chen Luo then gestured for Ji Changming to sit down and speak.

However, Ji Changming insisted on handing over the evidence he had regarding Chen Yanshi's bribery to Chen Luo before sitting down.

Chen Luo opened the document and listened to Ji Changming's report.

"Secretary Chen, the Anti-Corruption Bureau has completed its investigation into the matter of Comrade Chen Yanshi accepting bribes. The evidence is basically true, and the amount is approximately one million."

"Too much talk leads to mistakes," as Ji Changming succinctly put it.

After reviewing the evidence presented, Chen Luo let out a soft sigh and tapped his fingertips on the table, saying, "Comrade Changming, have you reported this matter to Secretary Guo Fu of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection?"

Ji Changming shook his head.

"Secretary Chen, the evidence was confirmed last night, but we haven't had time to communicate with the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection yet."

This answer is correct.

"I understand, Comrade Changming. I will bring this up for discussion at the Standing Committee meeting this afternoon. If there is nothing else, you can go back to work at the procuratorate."

"Then I won't bother you any longer, Secretary Chen!"

Ji Changming left, while Chen Luo fell into deep thought. He could tell that Ji Changming cared a lot about Chen Yanshi's matter, otherwise he wouldn't have called him a few days ago to report the situation and now presented the evidence in person.

More importantly, Ji Changming did not choose to communicate with the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection but sent the case directly to me, which clearly shows that he wanted to severely punish Chen Yanshi.

"Forget it, let you fight it out, old grudges and grievances..."

2:30 p.m.

In the small conference room of the provincial party committee, only twelve people were present this time. It was normal that Lu Zheng'an couldn't come because of other matters, and no one seemed to care.

"Comrades, this Standing Committee meeting was convened at the request of Comrade Dakang. Now, let's hear from Comrade Dakang first."

Li Dakang didn't mince words. He pulled the microphone closer and said, "Secretary Sha, Governor Liu, Secretary Yu Liang, comrades, some inexplicable events have occurred in Jingzhou recently. The current Vice Mayor of Jingzhou and Secretary of the Guangming District Party Committee, Yi Xuexi, and District Head Chen Hai, have taken out a loan of 100 million yuan from Jingzhou City Bank. Of course, the loan itself is not a problem. The problem is that these two provided Dafeng Factory with a 40 million yuan interest-free loan in the name of the government!"

This news was leaked by Dafeng Factory, which aroused the dissatisfaction of a group of entrepreneurs. On Monday morning, hundreds of people even blocked the door of the municipal party committee building!

This is an unprecedented and outrageous incident!

In addition, the 40 million interest-free loan provided to Dafeng Factory was intended to help Dafeng Factory rebuild its production.

The supervision of this money was just for show; it was actually distributed among the workers of Dafeng Factory as resettlement fees—forty million yuan!

This didn't come from nowhere; it's government funds, government loans!

After Li Dakang finished speaking, everyone's gaze changed.

Even Chen Luo found it unbelievable; how could Yi Xuexi and Chen Hai have caused such a huge disaster?

If you can't govern a region, then don't give orders blindly. Don't you understand that professional tasks should be left to professionals?

The most silent one was undoubtedly Sha Ruijin. Chen Hai could be excused for not being familiar with the work since he had just been transferred to the government, but what about Yi Xuexi? He couldn't escape responsibility, especially since Yi Xuexi was someone Sha Ruijin had personally promoted.

If we were to ask who was the happiest at this moment, it would undoubtedly be Gao Yuliang.

"Secretary Dakang, this is indeed unbelievable. How could a cadre at the level of a department director make such a basic mistake?"

Getting tens of millions of yuan of public funds back from the pockets of ordinary people is no easy task; the key is how to appease the emotions of Jingzhou entrepreneurs.

Sigh, I wasn't too keen on promoting Yi Xuexi back then, and now I see it clearly—he's simply not suited to remain in his leadership position as deputy mayor and district party secretary!

Although no names were mentioned, Sha Ruijin could tell that this was a roundabout way of criticizing his poor personnel management skills.

"Comrade Yuliang, you can't say it like that. Yi Xuexi and Chen Hai didn't do it on purpose."

They were all trying to buy time for the Jingzhou Guangmingfeng project by resolving the shareholding dispute between Dafeng Factory and Shanshui Group as soon as possible.

Although it caused some trouble, the Dafeng Factory has indeed been completely demolished.

Of course, such behavior cannot be encouraged! This kind of working method must be resolutely corrected. Future work must emphasize procedures and supervision. Chen Hai is still Secretary Yu Liang's student; Secretary Yu Liang should guide him regularly.

Sha Ruijin immediately characterized it as a mistake at work, and that his intentions were good.

Li Dakang listened quietly without refuting anything. He figured it was enough to just bring this up so that the other members of the provincial party committee would know.

Now, Li Dakang is less inclined to transfer Yi Xuexi away. In the future, when Jingzhou needs to use a knife, he can just bring out Yi Xuexi. Anyway, if something happens, Sha Ruijin, who promoted Yi Xuexi, will step up to solve it. He only needs to distance himself from the situation. Isn't this more useful than Ding Yizhen, that corrupt knife that almost hurt him?

Despite Sha Ruijin's gentle handling, Gao Yuliang smiled on the surface, but his heart was filled with icy coldness.

Seeing that the situation was somewhat deadlocked, Chen Luo simply interrupted.

"Secretary Sha, Governor Liu, Secretary Yuliang, comrades, I also have something to mention, but I was in a hurry and didn't have time to make a backup for the General Office."

"Comrade Chen Luo, please speak!"

Sha Ruijin immediately shifted the topic to Chen Luo.

After nodding, Chen Luo took out the evidence of Chen Yanshi's bribery from his briefcase.

"This document is what Comrade Ji Changming from the Procuratorate reported to me this morning. The Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Procuratorate received a report that Comrade Chen Yanshi, the former Executive Deputy Procurator-General of the Handong Provincial Procuratorate, is suspected of accepting bribes!"

The Anti-Corruption Bureau has already gathered evidence, amounting to nearly one million yuan. Comrade Ji Changming hopes that our Provincial Party Committee can provide an opinion so that the Procuratorate can transfer the case to the Discipline Inspection Commission or have the Anti-Corruption Bureau handle it.

When Chen Luo came, he printed more than a dozen copies of the evidence. Now each of them held one in their hands. When they looked at the potted plants and birdcages, they all fell silent.

Yellow mud in your pockets, even if it's not poop, it's still poop.

Furthermore, given that everyone is aware of Chen Yanshi's interference in the affairs of the procuratorate over the years, it's not surprising that Ji Changming would retaliate against him.

Tian Guofu's expression was very subtle. He first glanced at Chen Luo, and seeing that Chen Luo was very calm, he then glanced at Sha Ruijin in the main seat, who was frowning.

Whether or not to deal with Chen Yanshi is a real dilemma for Sha Ruijin.

Subjectively speaking, Sha Ruijin was more than happy for Chen Yanshi to go to jail.

Objectively speaking, while the handling of Chen Yanshi appeared to be in accordance with the law, in the eyes of some people, Sha Ruijin was truly ruthless!

Chapter 129 Public Criticism, Blood Pressure Soars

Not to mention Sha Ruijin, even Gao Yuliang remained silent, clearly finding it hard to believe.

Seeing this, Chen Luo realized that Ji Changming's attempt to take revenge on Chen Yanshi was likely to be largely ineffective.

Sure enough, before Sha Ruijin could speak, Gao Yuliang spoke up to explain for Chen Yanshi.

"Comrade Chen Luo, I believe the evidence provided by the Anti-Corruption Bureau is authentic, but Chen Yanshi is an old revolutionary."

His party spirit and beliefs make us wonder if Comrade Chen Yanshi himself was unaware of the high price of these flower and bird products when they were given to him by others!

It's very likely that it was accepted as a normal social favor. Each case needs to be analyzed individually. If that's the case, then defining it as bribery is inaccurate.