For investors investing in the Chinese company, it was a wake-up call to the high leverage risk of Chinese companies and the lack of transparency after corporate defaults. In particular, defaults by the largest mining company in southern China increased to record levels in the first quarter.

Not only has Li seen Nanjiang Mining's debt-to-shareholders' equity ratio double since 2013, he has also committed almost all of his controlling stake in personal loans. It was not until it was investigated by the government and the stock plummeted that Nanjiang Group disclosed the scale of Li Jin's borrowing, the company was unable to repay its debts when due, and the manager in charge of finance disappeared at the same time.

Seeing this, Zhang Ruiming faintly had an uncomfortable premonition, why did Mayor Zhang remind himself from this point? A very ominous premonition arose spontaneously, and he laid out a logical line in his mind that he could not accept: he had taken the initiative to infiltrate the investigation of the Nanjiang Group before. Instead, it became the fuse that led to the collapse of the stock of Nanjiang Group Company, and the Nanjiang Group, whose market value plummeted, was therefore in a lot of difficulties, and had no choice but to appoint a complainant like Tang Zuo to intervene, which led to the riot at the gate of the city government today, so everything ...... Do you blame yourself?

But this logical line is obviously problematic, this logic is an obvious inversion of the result, if it is said that it is because of Zhang Ruiming's investigation that the other party's illegal reaction was caused, it seems to be because the police used weapons to arrest the suspect, which led to the suspect's armed resistance, so the police are to blame. Such logic is obviously incompatible.

So what does Mayor Zhang mean exactly?

Zhang Ruiming said: "Mayor, if it is because of my mistakes in this investigation that caused today's situation, then I apologize to you. ”

At this time, no matter how uncomfortable Zhang Ruiming is in his heart, in the face of the leader, it is better to retreat than to directly conflict.

Zhang Shengjie waved his hand, "Comrade Zhang Ruiming, I didn't mean that, I just provided a way of thinking, I hope you can look at this case out of the way of thinking of prosecutors enforcing the law and handling cases." ”

Zhang Ruiming nodded and listened respectfully.

"From the government's point of view, the workers of the Nanjiang Group are also the masses, and the rice farmers affected by the "cadmium rice" are also the masses. Then our government is like a sponge, thinking about how to minimize the loss, and can only absorb the pressure from all sides, rather than simply cutting it down, and then ignore it. When Zhang Shengjie finished the last sentence, his tone aggravated.

Zhang Ruiming noticed the abnormality, and reasoned to tell him that in the face of the mayor of Dongjiang City, he must be calm and accept criticism with an open mind, but after all, the prosecutor's sense of justice was troubled, so he couldn't hold back for a while, and shot back directly: "What the mayor said is incisive, but as a prosecutor, I have a different understanding." The key to the spirit of the rule of law lies in reverence, and if a prosecutor's investigation and collection of evidence will lead to such a violent resistance by the lawless group, and even our case will be stopped because of this, and the evil enterprise cannot be punished, then where is the dignity of the law......?

"Ruiming!" Jing Cailiang glared at him, "How do you speak? ”

Zhang Ruiming had no choice but to shut up, after all, the two people in front of him today were very different from his own level, and their positions were completely different.

Zhang Shengjie waved his hand and motioned for Zhang Ruiming to continue. Seeing that he no longer spoke, he said: "What you said is reasonable, the three of us held a meeting behind closed doors today, and it is also because of the lack of communication between our Dongjiang Municipal Party Committee and your special case group on the consensus on the handling of this case in this work, which has led to some difficulties in the development of the work now. Now that I've got that out of the way, I'm going to spread out all the facts."

Mayor Zhang took out a thick leather case file bag from the drawer and spread it out in front of Jing Cailiang and Zhang Ruiming

Said:" In fact, we have some grasp of the illegal pollutant discharge and stock disputes of the Nanjiang Group and the functional departments at all levels, which are more than what you have discovered in this investigation, and even for Li Jin's personal credit status, we are far ahead of your provincial inspection, but why our Dongjiang Municipal Party Committee has been resolute in this environmental pollution case, but we Dongjiang have always taken a conservative attitude towards the Nanjiang Group, and have not taken compulsory measures against Li Jin personally, which is due to many considerations. Today's complicated situation is what we don't want to see, and now Nanjiang Group has faced bankruptcy under pessimistic market expectations, which could have been avoided. Previously, in order to protect the nearly 10,000 employees of the Nanjiang Group and the thousands of families behind them, we, the Dongjiang Municipal Party Committee, had been considering a package of policies, including filing a case against Li Jin, splitting his own debts from the Nanjiang Group, and directly shutting down the mining areas in the key polluted areas. Of course, Nanjiang Mining must pay more than 200 million yuan in compensation for environmental restoration, but let Nanjiang Mining upgrade and transform the environmental protection restoration technology to offset the compensation costs it pays, so that on the one hand, it can make the environment remediate, and the impact on the employees of Nanjiang Group can be minimized, so that it will come to a successful end. ”

Zhang Ruiming's heart trembled: If this is the case, then it can be seen that before he joined the task force, the Dongjiang Municipal Procuratorate represented by Zhang Shengjie had already mastered his unimaginable amount of information through channels, in this case, why did he delay communicating with the provincial procuratorate.

"But ......" Zhang Shengjie accentuated his tone, because your last large-scale investigation action had a far-reaching impact, which led to the collapse of the entire work plan, and even now caused the market value of Nanjiang Group to plummet, on the verge of bankruptcy, employee petitions, Li Jin's disappearance and other unfavorable factors. ”

Zhang Shengjie, as an old mayor, is not angry and arrogant when he speaks heavily, although it sounds ordinary, but in Zhang Ruiming's ears, it is tantamount to thunder and anger.

Could it be that he really did something wrong last time? But why didn't Jing Cailiang reveal this, and also assigned the investigation task of the Nanjiang Group to himself, didn't he know? Then why did Gu Hai also seem so abnormal?

When Zhang Shengjie said these words, he seemed to be saying to Zhang Ruiming, but in fact, he also slapped Jing Cailiang's face hard.

"Mayor, I have a different opinion on this", seeing Zhang Ruiming was speechless under Zhang Shengjie's aggressive questioning. Jing Cailiang stood up.

"The current passivity of our work situation, just because of our previous investigation work, on the contrary, because of the relative conservativeness of our work, before, you said about the overall planning of Nanjiang Group's environmental pollution disposal, looks very good, in fact there is no room for operation, the current domestic environmental property rights system is not clear enough, the environmental and economic policy system is not perfect, the emission rights, carbon emission trading system has just started, and the ecological compensation mechanism is not perfect. There is still more important and difficult work to be done in Nanzhou Province to build a "two-type society", and in this case, how can we seek financial incentives to feed back to Nanjiang Group. Moreover, according to the information you have just given, Li Jin's personal debt situation has become so bad that he has almost been confused with the Nanjiang clique, how can we bring in social capital? On the contrary, instead of hiding like an ostrich and pretending that the situation will not break out, it is better to grasp the information and take the initiative to attack. ”

Jing Cailiang stood up for himself, Zhang Ruiming didn't expect it at all, although he looked at this problem more from his own point of view.

Seeing that Jing Cailiang counterattacked sharply, Zhang Shengjie did not answer positively, but said tactfully: "Director Jing has made a good opinion, since we have all stated our thoughts and plans, we should put aside the dispute first, sort out the case, and think about how to deal with the next thing." ”

Zhang Shengjie then asked: "Comrade Ruiming, in this incident, when did you learn about the illegal sewage discharge of the other party's Nanjiang Group?"

"It was only after the on-the-spot investigation that I discovered that the other party had illegally discharged pollutants, but before I had sufficient evidence, based on the reality of the current "cadmium rice" case and some cases I combined with before the field investigation, I found that there was a major suspicion of a large chemical and mining company in the vicinity, which is beyond doubt. Seeing that this question was asked, Zhang Ruiming's answer was uneventful, and he tried to explain the rationality of infiltrating the Nanjiang Group alone.

"Well, did you report the situation to Director Jing, the leader of your task force, before conducting a concealment investigation?"

It was this short glance that Zhang Ruiming's heart suddenly brightened, and he understood why Jing Cailiang would bring himself alone to make this report today.

Now this is a battle between the two, and he is the chess piece in the middle, although it is not clear why Zhang Shengjie wants to attack Jing Cailiang through himself, but Zhang Ruiming has reached a dilemma.

If he answered truthfully, why did he take action against Nanjiang Group, this is the task that Jing Cailiang arranged for himself and Gu Hai on the first day of the establishment of the task force before Zhang Shengjie was informed, then in this way, Jing Cailiang was obviously pushed into Zhang Shengjie's plan, and he was waiting for his own words, then the account of this group incident and the series of consequences caused by it can be pushed to Jing Cailiang along his own.

And if the answer is that the decision was made alone, how could he, a small provincial procurator, take on such a big responsibility? Not to mention that he had reported to the provincial procuratorate for less than a month, and there was such an undercurrent.

No wonder, when Jing Cailiang met with him before, he asked: Are you ready?

Now it seems that this "preparation" is really difficult to do.