When Hantong sent the report on Chen Lifu's case to Jiujiang, there was still a lot of discussion about the case within Jinling City.
It has been eight days since Chen Lifu stayed in the guest house of the Chengtian Prefecture Inspectorate, and this time has exceeded the usual seven days that the Inspectorate usually interviews officials.
And this will inevitably convey some information to many people!
For example, within the Inspection Division of the Ministry of Taxation, several other inspectors who also held the title of Deputy Director looked at Chen Lifu's case with wide eyes. They were probably among the people who were most concerned about Chen Lifu's case.
Because Chen Lifu fell, they would directly lose one competitor!
There are dozens of inspectors in the Inspection Division, each with the title of deputy director. Like Chen Lifu, there are five inspectors from the fifth rank. If nothing else happens, the next director of the Inspection Division will be
Choose one of them to serve.
Chen Lifu had the loudest voice before. If nothing goes wrong, it is almost certain that Chen Lifu will take over as the director of the Inspection Division next year or the year after. But now, several other deputy directors have also seen the opportunity.
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But even though they were concerned, they acted indifferently and said it had nothing to do with them, and never mentioned Chen Lifu.
Anyone who can climb up to the position of deputy director in the inspection bureau is not a simple person. Without certain political wisdom, he would have been tricked to death long ago.
This is all about being tricked to death by insiders, but being tricked to death by outsiders. Tax inspectors have to go out to inspect local areas, and they have to deal with local officials and local tax officials. There is no certain way to do it.
, you won’t be able to achieve results at all, and you will most likely be tricked to death.
The tax inspectors in the Inspection Office sound good, and in fact they are, but the pressure they bear is also very high. Every year, the Inspection Office basically reaches out to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to ask for people. Why, because many people can't do it.
, in the end they either lost their jobs or were forced to transfer to other departments of the tax department.
This is a high-pressure, high-risk, high-return job!
Ordinary people can’t do it!
And Chen Lifu is not an ordinary person, and several of his competitors are also not ordinary people!
In addition to the Internal Inspection Office paying attention to Chen Lifu's case, the top brass of the Taxation Department are also paying attention. Even Qian Zuili has received a report on Chen Lifu's case. However, as the minister on duty in the imperial study room and the Minister of Taxation, he is not interested in the Chen Lifu case.
It's not easy to express any opinions on this kind of thing. When I read the report, I didn't even show an obvious expression. I threw it away after reading it.
The senior officials of the Inspectorate are also paying close attention. Needless to say, Shi Wuyan is the client. He follows up on almost every progress of the case in a timely manner. If this matter is not handled well, he doubts that his future will be over.
Because of the intuition developed through his years of political career, he could feel that a political storm was coming!
Chen Lifu's case was destined to be no ordinary corruption case from the day it broke out!
Many people can feel it. It is not simple behind this. It is absolutely impossible to say that no one is adding fuel to the fire.
Among them, the one who felt the deepest emotion was Gong Wenbao, who was at the center of the storm. In the past two days, he could hardly eat well. He didn't even go home and stayed in the Inspectorate every day.
Because he knew very well that he was already in a huge crisis!
The more he investigated this case, the more unusual he felt!
Who reported Chen Lifu? Why was so much detailed evidence obtained?
Who forced Chen Bing, the housekeeper of the Chen Mansion, to hang himself?
These are all things he needs to figure out.
If there was a regret medicine that he could take, he would definitely take a thousand or ten thousand pills. He would never have accepted the case at all.
It's a pity that I was blinded by the words "promotion and wealth" at the beginning, which finally led me to a dilemma.
At this time, he could even guess that he must have been used by someone with ulterior motives, and the person who used him must be very familiar with him. Knowing his character, after seeing such a case, there is a great possibility
Go investigate.
Otherwise, the report letter could have been sent directly to the Central Supervisory Office, but why it was sent to the Chengtian Prefecture Supervisory Office? They had figured out that they were eager to find out a big case and took the opportunity to do so.
Transferred to the Central Inspectorate.
Gong Wenbao knew that it was his greed that caused his dilemma!
But there is no regret medicine in this world. All he can do now is to bite the bullet and continue to investigate.
But the direction of his investigation has now changed. Is there any problem with Chen Lifu?
Maybe, maybe not, but he doesn't care about these anymore. Now he only cares about two questions: one is who reported Chen Lifu? The other is who forced Chen Bing to die!
He believed that as long as these two key issues were clarified, many of the mysteries that followed could be completely solved, and only after he straightened things out could he make the most beneficial choice for himself.
Yes, now that he is investigating the Chen Lifu case, it is no longer simply to investigate whether Chen Lifu is guilty or not, but to get himself out. Of course, if there is a chance, it would be better to take this opportunity to make a contribution.
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Gong Wenbao's ability to work his way up and finally take the position of president of the Chengtian Prefecture Inspectorate was inseparable from Shi Wuyan's appreciation, but he also had his own abilities.
After chatting with Chen Lifu for two consecutive days, which totaled seven or eight hours, he temporarily put Chen Lifu aside because Chen Lifu was not able to provide him with much useful information.
Chen Lifu himself was stunned!
Someone framed him, Chen Lifu himself, but who?
Damn, I know that!
I have offended so many people. There are many people who want me dead in this world. Who knows who is framing me.
As for the housekeeper Chen Bing, Chen Lifu has never noticed anything wrong with him. Chen Bing is one of the housekeepers of the Chen Mansion. He has followed Chen Lifu to take up posts many times before, but there is nothing unusual about him before or after.
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After Chen Lifu couldn't get any more useful information, Gong Wenbao set his sights on the five censors in his inspectorate!
To be more precise, the five censors responsible for Chen Lifu's case are all from the Anti-Corruption Department of the Chengtian Prefecture Supervisory Office, including a deputy director, a section chief, and three ordinary staff members.
Of course, even the lowest-ranking clerk has the title of seventh grade!
Ever since Gong Wenbao discovered that they did not investigate Chen Lifu's case when they were investigating it, or that they investigated but did not report to him the status of Chen Lifu's family business, he suspended the work of these five people and sent them to prison.
In the guest house inside the Inspectorate, the Inspectorate then conducted a picket inspection and questioned them individually.
The interrogation work was naturally very detailed. The picket officials wanted to know the color of their feces in the past half month. Such detailed interrogation was just to find out any clues.
Gong Wenbao also came to the scene in person and conducted routine inquiries on everyone, but he didn't ask anything.
Compared with ordinary officials, the censors within the Inspectorate are more proficient in the law, and they also know the pattern of investigating cases by the Inspectorate. Even if someone there really has a problem, they can't figure it out through ordinary inquiries.
But it doesn't matter, there are people at the picket station!
Ordinary censors make a fortune by catching corrupt officials, but those in the Inspectorate's Office of the Inspectorate make a fortune by catching malfeasance within the Inspectorate, and corrupt censors get promoted. Usually there are not many opportunities, but now they finally have the opportunity.
Several censors from the Anti-Corruption Department lived in the guest house 24 hours a day, and took the trouble to question five censors from the Anti-Corruption Department over and over again.
Then everyone's confessions were compared to try to find out what the problem was.
However, this kind of inquiry takes a lot of time, and Gong Wenbao doesn't expect to get the results in a day or two!
After getting to know the five censors, he went to the Chengtian Prefecture Patrol Bureau in person. What he did there was naturally to put pressure on the Patrol Bureau to solve Chen Bing's case as soon as possible.
Cases of abnormal death like Chen Bing's, even if they were suicides, would not be handled on the spot as ordinary suicide cases. The Chengtian Prefecture Patrol Bureau had already set up an investigation team for this purpose and organized a large number of manpower to conduct the investigation.
Obviously, compared to the censor on the Inspectorate's side, the patrol police are the professional case investigation agency, and the censor often relies on the patrol police to assist in investigations.
Gong Wenbao visited the Chengtian Prefecture Patrol Bureau, drank a pot of tea with their chief, and left with satisfaction, taking the assurance from the chief of the Chengtian Prefecture Patrol Bureau. The chief of the Chengtian Prefecture Patrol Bureau personally promised that he would be transferred
The patrol police with the most experience and the highest combat effectiveness conducted the investigation, and although this kind of case was a bit strange, it was nothing to the Chengtian Prefecture Patrol Bureau.
The Chengtian Prefecture Patrol Bureau was the most professional and experienced patrol station in the entire Tang Dynasty.
Its predecessor was the Xingquan Prefecture Patrol Police Bureau, and then the Zhaoqing Prefecture Patrol Police Bureau. After the Tang Dynasty officially moved its capital to Jinling City, Li Xuan brought all the central institutions of the Tang Dynasty to Jinling City. The Zhaoqing Prefecture Patrol Police Bureau at that time,
In fact, most of them came with them.
The "Serious Cases Division" under this bureau is famous throughout Datang. This division specializes in handling homicide cases and has many experienced patrol officers. It has solved countless major and important cases.
When major crimes occur in other places, the patrol department will allocate manpower to the local area, often bringing people from the major crime area with them.
The patrol officers of the Serious Case Division are not as hard-working as the censors of the Inspectorate. They can only conduct inquiries in the guest house. They have more methods!
For example, in a remote and dilapidated courtyard in the southeast of Jinling City, a patrol officer from the Serious Case Division in casual clothes waved his hand, and a group of patrol officers behind him rushed in with pistols and waist knives!
After several consecutive gunshots, there was another groan of pain. At this time, the patrol officer in civilian clothes walked in!
With a fat body, he took out a handkerchief and covered his nose after entering. Then he frowned and said, "I'm not careful when I do things. I knocked out all my brains. Isn't it disgusting!"
As he spoke, he moved to avoid many corpses on the ground, and then came to a thin middle-aged man who was being held by two patrolmen, chained up, and with bumps and pockmarks on his face.
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He said to the thin middle-aged man who was still trembling in fear: "Sun Mazi, make it easy for me to find you when you fall!"