Rebirth of Corrupt Officials

Jiang Xiaochuan was suddenly a little confused. Uncle Qiu’s death could only be regarded as a perfect accident – in this world, the law was not omnipotent. There were always some extremely smart people who could take advantage of loopholes in the law to achieve their own purposes.

Jiang Xiaochuan didn’t want to continue the investigation, at least he didn’t want Lu Xiu to continue the investigation.

Chengzhou would face personnel changes recently, Lu Xiu could be brought up this time. If he did not investigate this matter, he would receive less resistance when he promoted Lu Xiu.

The officials behind the Rong case did not want to make an enemy for themselves. If Lu Xiu continued to investigate, it meant that he was the enemy of these officials. Therefore, if Jiang Xiaochuan wanted to promote Lu Xiu, he must first bring this case to an end.

Moreover, there was another reason why Jiang Xiaochuan wanted to end this case, and that was Xue Yan. Xue Yan must have more information than Lu Xiu. Although Jiang Xiaochuan still hadn’t figured out how Xue Yan was able to find out the information, Xue Yan was the key person to figure out the shady behind this case.

As Lu Xiu continued to investigate the case, Rong family and those involved would remain vigilant, and Xue Yan’s investigation might be difficult.

Therefore, if Lu Xiu did not investigate, the Rong family would relax their vigilance, and Xue Yan would be able to take advantage of it, right?

Jiang Xiaochuan pinched his eyebrows, then took out his pen and made annotations under the document, asking Lu Xiu to close the case as soon as possible, and then called Wei Lai in to proceed the document immediately.

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When Wei Lai came, he asked about funding again. Jiang Xiaochuan was stunned for a moment and then said, “I failed to call Mayor Qian yesterday. You can go to the finance department again and check the situation.”

Wei Lai took the lead. After he left, Jiang Xiaochuan picked up the landline phone on his desk and asked for the call to be transferred to Qian Qiming’s office. After a while, someone answered the phone.

But that person was not Qian Qiming, it was Qian Qiming’s secretary.

“Hello, Mayor Jiang, what can I do for you?”

Jiang Xiaochuan said, “I’m looking for Mayor Qian, please transfer the call.”

The voice on the other side suddenly disappeared, and it seemed to be silent for a while, “Sorry, Mayor Qian didn’t come today.”

Not coming?

Jiang Xiaochuan thought of the phone call he could not made yesterday, and suddenly felt that things had indeed gone in an unpredictable direction.

As deputy mayor, Qian Qiming, no matter how depraved his usual style was, he would never be late. And judging from the secretary’s tone, Qian Qiming meant ‘he didn’t come today’ not ‘he hasn’t come today yet’.

From this subtle difference, Jiang Xiaochuan could detect something thrilling.

He thanked the secretary, hung up the phone, sat at the table and thought for a while, looking at the documents on the table. Suddenly he stood up and walked to the window.

The rain was sliding down the window glass. The floor he was on was quite busy. It was so high that he couldn’t see any trees, flowers, or grass. What caught his eye were the buildings made of steel, iron, and cement near the municipal building.

The gloomy and gray sky was a characteristic of Chengzhou. Shudu Province was surrounded by mountains and dominated by basins and plains. There were always a lot of clouds and fog in the sky of Chengzhou, so the blue sky was often invisible.

Jiang Xiaochuan thought of the blue and white sky he had seen before and stretched out his hand to cover his eyes. The sky spread out in his mind like a long scroll.

Lin Shanyi said, the wind was coming.

Jiang Xiaochuan said that he didn’t know which direction the wind was coming from.

The wind must be blowing now.

He stood in front of the window for a while, his face reflected in the smooth glass window, and the rain sliding on the glass, making it look like Jiang Xiaochuan’s face was being washed by the rain.

He just stood for a while and then returned to his seat and continued processing.

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In fact, it was difficult for the deputy mayor to achieve anything in this position. This was the situation in the entire Chinese officialdom. The top leader was too powerful and his orders were the law.

The second-in-command had to ask the first-in-command about everything because he was the subordinate after all. If something went wrong, the first-in-command had to carry the blame and had to worry about everything.

This situation was not only at the local level, but also at the high level. The same went for the highest Central Standing Committee.

The work in the government was very procedural, and as long as people followed the rules, nothing would happen. Moreover, the things written in the report were very superficial, and they must ensure that the superiors couldn’t see anything wrong, so Jiang Xiaochuan processed such documents very quickly.

Before Wei Lai came back, half of the documents in his hand had disappeared.

Although digital office work was now advocated, some documents were kept in paper files as the government files. Even if they were entered into the computer, a dedicated person was responsible for them. Only those trivial matters would be solved through digital office work.

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Jiang Xiaochuan rubbed his wrist and looked up to see Wei Lai’s figure appearing outside the door.

Wei Lai raised his hand and knocked on the door, and Jiang Xiaochuan asked him to come in.

Wei Lai’s expression was a little strange, his brows were furrowed and a bit stern.

He originally wanted to ask about matters at the Ministry of Finance, but Wei Lai’s first words after entering the door were: “Mayor Jiang, someone from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is here to investigate.”

‘Investigation? Which person to be investigate?’