The entire conference room fell into a silence that is difficult to describe in words.

When Hamano, the barrister, used a series of aggressive questions to force the male lawyer opposite him into a corner, no one could have imagined that the male lawyer would use just a few simple words to push Hamano into the corner.

The questions were answered.

In these few words, many city hall dignitaries actually felt a little scared. The reason why they were scared was not because of the amazing debating skills displayed by the male lawyer opposite.

It was because they felt that the male lawyer had the power of common sense.

common sense.

These two words.

It's easy to say, but it's also difficult to say.

However, when you are wrapped in a complex technological maze, it can tear off the layers of disguise and reveal the true appearance of the thing in front of you.

Hamano also did not expect that his question would be blocked so easily by this young male lawyer. This public barrister who has experienced countless large and small cases and is extremely experienced, when he glanced at Kitahara, at that second

At that moment, he seemed to see a black monster with red eyes sitting in the conference room.

Afterwards, everything returned to normal.

Intuition told Hamano.

The male lawyer opposite is very dangerous.

However, no matter how Hamano looked at the Kitahara lawyer opposite him, no matter how he looked, he was just a college student who had only graduated a year or two ago.

Rational judgment tells me that there is nothing to worry about.

Indeed, the lawyer just refuted himself. But it was just one or two clever words that revealed some cleverness. It was not an argument that could be put on the table at all.

"Lawyer Kitahara, you have said so much, but you have avoided one of the most basic questions." Hamano said, "That is, legally, does the Shinjuku City Hall need to comply with the Municipal Procurement Regulations for the high-tech park project?

Legal obligations under the Supervision Law and other regulations. If there is, which article of the law in effect at the time is based on!"

Hamano raised his voice again and asked.

The public lawyer got to the heart of the matter.

This indeed cannot be answered directly using any metaphors, analogies, or witticisms.

Suddenly, all eyes in the conference room were focused on the male lawyer again.

The expression on Beiyuan's face was very calm. He took the materials on the seat and began to turn them over. He didn't know what he was looking for. He just lowered his head and the sound of "sand, sand, sand" as he turned the materials echoed in the quiet.

in the conference room.

Even though everyone's eyes are focused on him.

To him, it was as if nothing had happened.

Just like the cheeky naughty students on campus.

"Lawyer Kitahara, please answer me!!" Hamano asked further. Hamano did not expect that the lawyer opposite him would be so calm and slowly read through the materials under everyone's gaze.

After a while, Beiyuan looked up, holding an A4 paper in his hand.

The words "Balance Sheet" are printed on the paper.

It's full of tables and dense numbers.

In addition to the tables and figures, there are notes further down to explain the contents of the tables.

"This is the balance sheet of a municipal enterprise wholly controlled by your Shinjuku City Hall. Do you confirm it?" Kitahara said, "It is listed in the appendix of the Shinjuku City Budget."

The clerk in the conference room took the material and passed it to Hamano. The assistant next to Hamano then took the material and confirmed it with several city hall officials sitting behind the seats, and then whispered a few words to Hamano.

Fan.

Hamano then said, "We confirm that this is indeed the balance sheet of Shinjuku City Municipal Industries Co., Ltd."

Traps are always laid quietly.

Before they realize it, the prey has already stepped into the trap.

After hearing the other party's answer, the corners of Beihara's mouth turned up slightly.

"Please pay attention to your liabilities column." The young male lawyer said, "Your balance sheet records that the liabilities of Shinjuku City Municipal Industry Co., Ltd. accounted for about 45% of the total assets that year. Among them, the liabilities are all from banks.

Interest-bearing loan. According to the note, the loan was provided by the Tokyo Central Industrial Bank."

"That is to say, the funds of municipal enterprises include not only the previous self-owned funds, but also funds obtained from bank loans. According to Article 54 of the Municipal Procurement Supervision Law in effect at that time, if the funds used

Funds obtained from bank loans are regarded as fiscal funds. Mixed use of self-owned funds and bank loan funds are uniformly regarded as the use of fiscal funds. Accordingly, high-tech park projects should be subject to the "Municipal Procurement Supervision Law" and other laws

!”

The young male lawyer suddenly created a new point of attack.

Since the company is controlled under the name of Shinjuku City City Hall, it has a bank loan.

Then, you can't tell whether the high-tech park project uses its own funds or bank loans.

A seemingly unrelated question turned out to be a roundabout attack of thousands of miles.

From a seemingly unrelated balance sheet, finally connected to the properties of the funds used.

At this moment, there was a possibility that the situation might be reversed.

Hamano did not expect that the other party could start from here. Indeed, according to the regulations at the time, projects carried out using bank loan funds were regarded as using fiscal funds. This is because the city hall still needs to use fiscal funds to repay the bank loans. Therefore

, the law makes such special provisions.

However, just because a company has loans, it is concluded that it uses a mixture of funds with different attributes. This is simply sophistry!

After adjusting his thoughts for a moment, Hamano immediately launched a counterattack, "Lawyer Kitahara, according to your statement, as long as there is a little loan, it is a mixed fund, and the law of procurement supervision must be applied. How can this make sense?! This

It is obviously a deviation from the original intention of the law!”

"The bidding amount of the high-tech park project is already equivalent to the size of your bank loan. Why can't it be regarded as using bank loan funds!" Kitahara shot back hard.

"But don't forget! The scale of our municipal enterprise's own funds also exceeds the bidding amount of the high-tech park project!"

"Are all the projects of your municipal enterprises combined smaller than the size of your own funds?"

Kithara and Hamano had a heated debate in the conference room.

Just when the situation seemed to be tilting towards Kitahara, the voice of the adjudicator Iwasa suddenly came. Iwasa interrupted with a rather cold expression: "Are there any new opinions to be expressed? No, we will start to discuss the municipal affairs.

The department’s actions in the High-tech Park project will be reviewed.”

Beihara's attack was suddenly interrupted.

For a moment, Hamano was able to escape temporarily.

Miyagawa felt it was unfair when he saw Iwasa interrupting the trial process like this. Just now, Iwasa did not stop Hamano from asking a series of repeated questions, but now the opponent was being interrupted by his side's continuous attack.

"Judge Iwasa! We believe that we should be given the opportunity to make a full statement on this issue!" Miyagawa couldn't help but said.
Chapter completed!