Zhou Yihong observed his words and knew that Ma Yuanchi must have heard what Li Xuzhong said, so he continued to say with a straight face: "Comrade Yuanchi, if you don't know about the protection of the O'Neill Hotel, then I will tell you another strange anecdote: Last night, a deputy political commissar of the Taolin County Public Security Bureau received a report from the masses that there were gambling parties at the O'Neill Hotel, so she made a report to a deputy director of the county bureau and volunteered to lead a team of policemen to the O'Neill Hotel to catch gambling. Unexpectedly, in the process of arresting gambling, they were besieged by some security gangsters gathered by the hotel, the law enforcement instrument was destroyed, the confiscated gambling funds were robbed, and the gambling suspects were almost robbed by those gangsters.

"What is particularly infuriating is that such a gambling case with clear facts and conclusive evidence has later undergone a surprising and miraculous reversal. I have heard reports that at the behest of Li Xuzhong, the police handling the case immediately released the gambling personnel after briefly questioning them on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence of gambling; only the head of the security guard and hooligan gangsters who participated in the siege of the law enforcement personnel was punished by public security, and the rest were all released. On the contrary, the deputy political commissar who led the people's police in enforcing the law and a squadron leader of the public security brigade were detained for several days by the county public security bureau and reported to the Taolin County Party Committee requesting an investigation and handling of the two law enforcement officers. It's just black and white upside down, lawless!"

Ma Yuanchi saw that Zhou Yihong was getting more and more angry the more he spoke, the anger in his eyes was almost burning, and he was even more frightened, so he hurriedly stood up and said, "Secretary Zhou, I really don't know anything about what you just said. If what you know is true, Li Xuzhong is already suspected of serious disciplinary violations. You can rest assured that the party committee team of our municipal bureau will never protect its shortcomings, and will seriously deal with the relevant responsible persons in accordance with regulations and disciplines. At the same time, this incident has also exposed that there are big loopholes and problems in the management of the team of our municipal party committee, especially me, the squad leader, and I want to make a profound review to you!"

Zhou Yihong saw that Ma Yuanchi had expressed his stance in time to investigate and deal with the problem of the Taolin County Public Security Bureau, and the anger in his heart calmed down a little, but his face was still ugly, he leaned back on the back of the chair, thought for a moment, and said word by word: "Comrade Yuanchi, since you have stated that you want to investigate and deal with this problem, then I will give you three suggestions:

"First, in the name of the party committee of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Taolin County Bureau immediately revoked the confinement order of the two law enforcement officers and ordered Li Xuzhong to apologize to the two comrades;

"Second, the Municipal Public Security Bureau set up an investigation team to thoroughly investigate the gambling case at the O'Neill Hotel last night, and after ascertaining the facts, severely punish the gambling personnel and gangsters who violently resisted the law;

"Third, investigate and collect evidence on the issue of Li Xuzhong's injunction to protect the O'Neill Hotel from inspection, and once it is true, immediately report it to the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, and the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection will file a case against Li Xuzhong for investigation. ”

Ma Yuanchi hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, I will carry out your instructions, immediately arrange for the investigation team to be stationed in the Taolin County Bureau, and order the confinement of those two comrades to be lifted." ”

After coming out of Zhou Yihong's office, Ma Yuanchi took the elevator downstairs, and after walking out of the municipal party committee compound, he was not busy getting into the car, but took out his mobile phone and dialed Li Xuzhong's number.

After the phone was connected, Ma Yuanchi lowered his voice and asked, "Li Xuzhong, did you confine two cadres this morning? Who are these two people?"

Li Xuzhong was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Mayor Ma, we have indeed confined two people, one is Deputy Political Commissar He Ying, and the other is Huang Chong, the leader of the Third Squadron of the Public Security Brigade. In the process of gambling, He Ying and Huang Chong beat Li Weijun, secretary of the Dalong Town Party Committee, and Huang Chong also shot and wounded an employee of the O'Neill Hotel who blocked them. Their behavior is already suspected of serious violations of discipline, so the county bureau first took measures to confinement them and reported them to the county party committee for investigation and handling! By the way, how did you find out so quickly? I am about to ask the county bureau office to draft a situation report and report this matter to the city bureau!"

Ma Yuanchi scolded angrily: "Li Xuzhong, you are too bold. He Ying is the deputy political commissar, and the confinement measures taken against her must be reported to the party committee of the city bureau for approval.

Li Xuzhong was taken aback by his harsh accusation, and hurriedly defended: "Mayor Ma, don't get me wrong. This He Ying was very arrogant, refused to admit her mistakes, and made a big noise in my office this morning, saying that I was harboring and conniving at lawbreakers and criminals. Moreover, the person she beat was a secretary of a township party committee, and he did not gamble, but she slapped him several times and kicked him several times, so the victim and his family were very angry.

In order to calm the anger of the victim and his family, and stop He Ying's arrogant and unreasonable troublemaking, the bureau's party committee team unanimously agreed to immediately take confinement measures against her, and reported to the municipal bureau for approval. This is a preventive and urgent measure, it is not that I do not take the Party Committee of the Municipal Bureau and you seriously, please understand!"

Ma Yuanchi snorted and said: "Li Xuzhong, let me tell you clearly: You have caused trouble this time, and you have caused a big disaster! Just now, the newly arrived secretary of the municipal party committee called me to his office, severely reprimanded me, and named you as the protective umbrella of the O'Neill Hotel, saying that you ordered no department or unit of the county public security bureau to be caught by O'Neill for prostitution and gambling, and that the O'Neill Hotel had become a 'place outside the law.'" In the end, he ordered me to set up an investigation team to go to the Taolin County Bureau to investigate the gambling case last night, and at the same time to investigate the issue of you acting as the umbrella of the O'Neill Hotel.

When Li Xuzhong heard that the new secretary Zhou Yihong had already known about the incident and ordered the city public security bureau to set up an investigation team to investigate and deal with him, he was immediately frightened and pleaded in a crying tone: "Mayor Ma, you have to save me! In two months, I will retire from the line, and if I am investigated and punished at this time, the rest of my life will be completely finished! For the sake of me following you for more than ten years, please think of a way for me to say a few good words to Secretary Zhou and defend me. If Secretary Zhou really keeps an eye on me, then I will only have a dead end!"

Seeing that he was frightened like this, Ma Chi couldn't help but feel compassion, and after thinking for a while, he said: "The most important thing you have to do now is to quickly release He Ying and the squadron leader and apologize to them! I estimate that Secretary Zhou must have some kind of secret relationship with one of these two people, or some of the relatives and friends of these two people have a good relationship with Secretary Zhou. Otherwise, Secretary Zhou would not have known about this matter so quickly!"