Rebirth of Corrupt Officials

Jiang Xiaochuan thought about countless possibilities, but none of them matched what was happening now.

He couldn’t Qian Qiming’s call that day. He thought nothing of it or Qian Qiming might suddenly had been investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. So, he couldn’t reach him.

But Wei Lai said Qian Qiming was missing.

Now people from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection were looking for someone in the reception room of the municipal government to understand the situation, hoping to know the whereabouts of Qian Qiming.

At that moment, Jiang Xiaochuan had a very strange feeling. However, he suppressed this feeling and asked Wei Lai to sort out the documents he had processed.

After a while, people from the office came over and asked Jiang Xiaochuan to come over.

Wei Lai looked at the visitor with some vigilance, but Jiang Xiaochuan acted quite calmly. He closed the cap of his pen, put it in the drawer, gathered some scattered documents on the table, and followed the man away.

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In the corridor to the meeting room, Jiang Xiaochuan met Lin Shanyi who was coming over. Lin Shanyi gave him a relaxed look. It seemed that it was not as serious as imagined.

The escort opened the door to the interview room for him. When he looked over, Liang Cheng, who was sitting inside, was holding a deep-mouthed white porcelain tea cup. There was a red stamp on the bottom. He didn’t know which craftsman left it.

Lian Cheng raised his eyes and drank the tea slowly, very gently.

Jiang Xiaochuan found that Lian Cheng was the typical kind of person who never changed his expression even when the mountain collapsed. He was always indifferent, and sometimes it made people think that he had no emotions, but when his eyes fell on them, they could feel more clearly about him.

A person who was very good at thinking.

Someone asked Jiang Xiaochuan to sit across from him. This was a deliberately ordinary living room. There were many leather sofas lined up against the walls in the south, east, and west directions. There was a long row of red lacquered coffee tables in the middle. The tea was served just now. Just as they were withdrawing, someone replaced a new one and placed it in front of Jiang Xiaochuan’s position.

Jiang Xiaochuan casually sat across from Lian Cheng, on the east side.

“The news must have spread. Mayor Jiang can probably guess what I will ask.” Lian Cheng held the cup in one hand but pressed the bottom of the cup on his other hand.

Jiang Xiaochuan did not go to pour a tea. He guessed that the interrogation might not last long. The hint Lin Shanyi just gave him was very simple.

“I just heard that Mayor Qian has disappeared?”

In fact, this was the most incredible thing. Qian Qiming disappeared from the world? How was it possible…

But this matter was indeed very strange. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection had intervened in the political situation of Chengzhou. It was time to prepare for a thorough investigation. Logically speaking, it should be secretly paying attention to the movements of relevant officials in Chengzhou.

Now the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection did not know Qian Qiming’s whereabouts, which was really strange.

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“These few days are the time for the monthly financial accounts. Chengzhou is a province with high fiscal revenue. There should not be a serious deficit in the annual fiscal year. But there were some clues about a deficit that appeared out of nowhere, so we speculate before the matter was exposed, he ran away, and now he really can’t be found,” Lian Cheng said it very normally, he was probably used to it.

But Jiang Xiaochuan had doubts about the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for the first time, “Back I wanted to ask the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection what happened before Zhang Xiaoli’s accident, and now I want to ask even more about Qian Qiming.”

“Mayor Jiang, do you have any advice?”

Jiang Xiaochuan couldn’t describe Lian Cheng’s tone when he said this. It seemed like he had a provocative attitude, but his expression and eyes were indifferent, with a bit of contradiction.

Advice?

“I’m not sure. I think I have already hinted at it in my self-examination letter. I believe it is impossible for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to not know about it, and it is not like your Central Commission for Discipline Inspection knows nothing about the following situation. After what happened to Zhou Qian, you are going to conduct a thorough investigation at the Chengzhou City Government. You should be wary of key suspects like Qian Qiming, right? Why don’t you know where he is now?”

Jiang Xiaochuan felt that he was so courageous. How could he dare to question the work of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection at such a big fanfare?

“Don’t blame this Jiang for asking inappropriate questions. After all, I submitted a self-examination letter to your Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. If there are any problems on your side, I may not be very happy.”

If there were problems within the Commission for Discipline Inspection, or even if the black sheep in the Commission for Discipline Inspection had reached this level, then Jiang Xiaochuan’s safety could be said to be very insecure.

He used his own personal safety as an excuse, which was indeed reasonable.

But Lian Cheng wouldn’t just believe it: “Mayor Jiang had already considered such a question when he submitted the self-examination letter. I don’t believe that Mayor Jiang would ask me such a question because he cherished his life.”

“I cherish my life? How could I not?” Jiang Xiaochuan smiled, narrowed his eyes, and looked very kind.

Lian Cheng tapped his fingernails on the cup body and made a clear sound, “This is a world that needs faith.”

This was a world that needed faith?