He had heard that when Chen Lifu worked in the Ministry of Taxation and the Department of Finance, he was a bit murderous. Let alone the former Ministry of Taxation, even when he was working in the Department of Finance, just a securities reform plan caused
What a huge fluctuation. Many financial people went bankrupt and jumped into the Huangpu River because of this!
Being in charge of local affairs is different from working in Gyeonggi Province, especially working in the tax department. You can't kill and kill according to your temper!
If a local political arena is in chaos, and there are killings every day, how can we develop the people's livelihood economy? If Chen Lifu messes around, he will completely destroy Shanghai's economic system, and he will kill all the nine tribes and be unable to recover the losses.
When Chen Lifu heard Huo Shouqi's obvious warning, he also looked thoughtful!
Before meeting Huo Shouqi, he planned to appoint a new official to take office with three fires. The first fire was to burn down the Shanghai Terminal Company!
If he follows his plan, this fire will definitely burn people to death!
Want to give up?
Chen Lifu thought to himself, but he quickly made a decision. He would not give up, and he could not give up this plan. He needed this plan!
As for the people who were burned to death by his fire, all of them deserved their death. It is their honor that these people who deserved their death can use their death to serve Chen Lifu's plan and make insignificant contributions to the prosperous age of Xuanping. For this reason, they should
Feel proud and thank him Chen Lifu!
Besides, if Chen Lifu goes to a place and no one dies, then Chen Lifu is no longer Chen Rentu!
But there is no need to tell Huo Shouqi what he thinks in his heart!
Facing such a person, Chen Lifu still maintained the necessary respect, and at the same time tested Huo Shouqi's bottom line, and immediately told the story about the Shanghai Terminal Company.
Although Huo Shouqi just told him to keep a low profile and not act recklessly, Chen Lifu felt that he was not acting recklessly, so the Shanghai Terminal Company knew there was something wrong at a glance.
Otherwise, how could the work stop?
Even if there is a problem with the company's top management, it is at the political level and has nothing to do with ordinary business operations. Now that the company's top management is finished, even the business of building docks has been stopped. What does this mean? What does it mean for the company?
There are definitely still a lot of problems inside.
If problems arise in such an important enterprise, the impact on Shanghai's economic system will be significant.
Let’s not talk about other things. If the terminal expansion can be suspended today, there is no guarantee that the terminal services will be suspended tomorrow. Or, to put it more seriously, if the terminal expansion is suspended, it will affect the construction period and the future cargo throughput capacity of Shanghai Port.
It directly affects Shanghai's economic development.
Chen Lifu didn't say much. He just told Huo Shouqi what he saw on the road and what he got from using some personal relationships.
In any case, Huo Shouqi is a Jiangnan Taoist member. Even if he will leave Shanghai in a few days, Chen Lifu still hopes to get his support.
After hearing what Chen Lifu said, Huo Shouqi really frowned!
The Shanghai Terminal Company's expansion project has been suspended. To be honest, he didn't even notice!
As a Jiangnan Taoist member and minister of border affairs, his concerns are at a relatively high level. In the past month, he has been busy rebuilding the entire political structure of Songjiang Prefecture to ensure that there will be no major chaos in Songjiang Prefecture and that there will be a smooth transition.
To be honest, he really didn't have the heart to pay attention to some small things.
Now that Chen Lifu said this, he realized the seriousness of the matter.
If the Shanghai Terminal Company is just an ordinary company, even if it is an enterprise of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, it will not be a big deal if there is a problem. But the problem is that this company is in charge of almost all the terminal facilities in Shanghai, which directly affects the development of the entire Shanghai economic system.
ah.
Huo Shouqi thought for a while and then said: "This matter can be investigated, and adjustments can be made at appropriate times, but it must not cause a big disturbance. If a disturbance occurs, not even you, even I will not be able to bear the responsibility.
Take this responsibility!”
Shanghai occupies a large proportion of the economy. If there is a problem, it will definitely be a big problem. Huo Shouqi, a Jiangnan Taoist member, will probably be implicated.
Huo Shouqi was not implicated in the previous Zhou Lide case, because strictly speaking it happened before he took office, and he destroyed Zhou Lide's gang as soon as he took office. Not only was he not implicated, but he still made a small contribution.
But now if something goes wrong, it's not exactly the same.
When Huo Shouqi said this, he was actually impressed by Chen Lifu's plan, but he still hoped that Chen Lifu would be more cautious.
However, Huo Shouqi also knew that Chen Lifu was able to achieve such a great reputation as a mere mid-level official in the past few years. He was hated by so many people, but he was still alive and well. His promotion was not slow.
Of course he has some skills.
This incompetent person can't do anything even if he wants to!
Furthermore, it is estimated that it will not be long before the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture and the magistrate of the special county in Shanghai will take office one after another. By then, with these two people in check, it is estimated that Chen Lifu will not be able to cause any trouble.
However, Huo Shouqi still underestimated Chen Lifu's ability and determination to make trouble!
Huo Shouqi, a busy man, had already set out to return to Suzhou the day after Chen Lifu arrived. The Taoist Yamen of Jiangnan Province was not in Songjiang Prefecture, but in Suzhou.
After returning to Suzhou, he still has to deal with a lot of government affairs. Jiangnan Road not only has Songjiang Prefecture, but also manages Suzhou Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture, and Changzhou Prefecture, a total of four prefectures. Each of these prefectures
, it is a land of plenty, an important economic area, and even the most developed agricultural and industrial and commercial economy in the entire Zhili region.
The Zhili area has four jurisdictions. In addition, there is Chengtian Mansion, which is directly under the central jurisdiction. The rank of its governor is from the second level. Therefore, strictly speaking, the entire Zhili area has five administrative areas.
From a purely agricultural and industrial and commercial perspective, Jiangnan Province naturally leads the way.
Huo Shouqi, a busy man, left Shanghai and returned to Suzhou.
In this way, Chen Lifu becomes the biggest official in the entire Songjiang Mansion!
As soon as he took office at the Yamen, Chen Lifu didn't even have time to get to know the officials under his command. He just started arranging personnel to investigate the Shanghai Terminal Company.
The Shanghai Terminal Company is a local government-run enterprise, and the top management is naturally held by officials. However, those company executives with official status are basically taken over by the same group. The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the Ministry of Personnel have also selected some officials from the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to serve, but these
People are not yet familiar with the business, so more power is controlled by the original middle managers of the company.
These people are not officials, they are just ordinary people. They were only middle-level people in the company before, so the impact of Zhou Lide's case on them is not great.
Then, Chen Lifu discovered that a problem arose. These people were more ruthless in making money than the original officials and company executives!
Officials are a little scrupulous about making money, and are worried that the Supervisory Yuan will come to their door, but these people are not officials, and the anti-corruption agency of the Supervisory Yuan cannot control them. What's more, the Shanghai Terminal Company is not their own, but is run by the government.
You are very brave when it comes to making money!
Chen Lifu saw the report, saying that the managers who had just taken over the management of the Shanghai Terminal Company less than a month ago were so courageous that they were not satisfied with petty theft, but were prepared to directly use their power to collude with outside companies.
Misappropriation of important company assets can easily cost tens of thousands of taels or even more than 100,000 taels of silver.
That face is all black!
Who do they think they are to dare to do this? Could it be that if the Anti-Corruption Department of the Supervisory Office cannot kill them, then the official can't do anything about them?
Chen Lifu thought about it carefully. Damn it, it really didn’t exist!
Although Datang's legal system is being improved every year, it is relatively short-lived after all, and there is no precedent for them to copy. Especially the laws related to industry and commerce, which are basically developed gradually from a blank.
In fact, many places cannot be said to be perfect.
For example, when encountering the professional managers of the Shanghai Terminal Company who used their power to collude with outside companies to misappropriate company assets, there is no clear legal provision stating that this is illegal.
Because their behavior itself is not illegal, their operating methods are very formal, that is, signing purchase contracts with relevant outside companies, or signing land and building rental contracts, or signing dock berth contracts, etc. They personally do not
Make money directly from it.
The only thing is that the prices of these contracts are far lower than the market price!
An office building on Yanjiang Road that can be used as the company's headquarters has an annual rent of at least several thousand taels of silver. They dare to rent it out for a hundred taels of silver, and the lease is for fifty years!
To purchase a batch of building materials, these materials are worth only one thousand taels of silver at most, and they can issue a purchase contract for 10,000 taels of silver.
Then they personally do not receive money from it, and they are not even shareholders of these affiliated companies. However, the shareholders of these affiliated companies are all indirectly connected to them.
For such behavior, you could at most say that he failed in his business or was derelict in his duties, but according to the current laws of the Tang Dynasty, it is really not illegal!
But who is Chen Lifu? He is from the tax department!
There are so many messy things to do when doing things, he saw the problem, and then he took action directly!
The anti-corruption agency of the Inspectorate cannot be used, but the patrol police can!
Needless to say, everyone involved will be arrested first. As for the charges, Chen Lifu couldn't find them in the legal provisions for a while. He simply didn't think about it. They were all arrested for cooperating with the investigation.
But even if they are arrested, even the evidence is directly there, but after looking at it, the person in charge of anti-corruption and malfeasance in the Supervisory Yuan directly shook his head and said that this matter is not their responsibility. The same person in the Supervisory Yuan is responsible for the economy.
After seeing it, the criminal censor shook his head. Although this matter could be clearly determined to have harmed the interests of the company, there was no current legal provision that could convict them of guilt.
When the Inspectorate saw this case, they didn't even think about filing a public prosecution, because they knew that filing a public prosecution would be in vain and would result in a 100% loss. Even now, the judiciary has immediately enacted relevant laws and considered these actions to be guilty.
Yes, but you cannot use the laws enacted later to convict previous actions. This is a very basic principle in the judicial system: the principle of leniency.
But just arrest and release them?
Chen Lifu is not happy. He has been in politics for many years and has never tried to release the people he has arrested. This is not in line with his principles!
The patrol police and the Inspectorate were limited by the law and could not do anything about the matter, but that did not mean that the tax department could not handle it either, so Chen Lifu soon went to the Songjiang Prefecture Taxation Bureau Yamen!
He didn't believe it. These people were so bold that they even dared to appropriate state-owned assets, and they still paid taxes honestly!
As long as they fail to pay their taxes honestly, they can also be sent to jail!
As long as they receive the punishment they deserve, to intimidate Songjiang and improve Chen Lifu's prestige, he doesn't care what charges these people are imprisoned on!