Chapter 31: Rage

On September 14th, early in the morning, as in the past, I saw tens of thousands of young people on the road of Guangfu, like volcanic lava, mighty and surging, walking along the Guangfu, shouting along the way, leaflets flying, from time to time there were groups of citizens to join, and the flow of people became stronger and stronger.

"Punish the beetles"

"The general resignation of the cabinet to thank the countrymen"

The earth-shattering roar echoed on the Guangfu Avenue, and in the crowd of people marching there were not only excited young students, but also citizens, almost everyone was stunned by the 10,000-yuan corruption case, and the money was not all taxes paid by citizens, all of them were people's fat and people's ointment, and even hundreds of millions of people saved donations from between their teeth, but they were actually given nearly 10,000 yuan in kickbacks.

In the past two days, all the reports in China have published extremely strongly worded editorials while reporting the giant beetle of the country:

"Angry! Shocking Fury"

"Investigate the responsibilities of the House of Lords and the Cabinet!"

"In the face of such a giant beetle, can the citizens of the empire be silent?"

Of course, we cannot be silent, in order to develop the industrial economy of the empire, 50,000,000 citizens are under all kinds of pressure, so they save money for the purchase of foreign machinery and equipment, and they ask for a rebate of 10,000 yuan as soon as their lips move so much

This is just the exposure of nearly 10,000 yuan, so how many will not be exposed?

It's all a bunch of traitors!

So, the citizens, who refused to remain silent, completely enveloped in anger, took to the streets shouting slogans.

"Punish the beetle!"

"Thoroughly investigate the Technology Introduction Committee!"

"Behead Cao to thank the countrymen!"

If before people still had all kinds of doubts about whether to pursue the cabinet for unconstitutionality, then now, everyone no longer thinks about whether the cabinet declares war unconstitutional, in their opinion, it is a small problem, and now the giant beetle of the country is the real big problem, they have scraped two cents from the head of every Chinese, how can the people not be angry? How can they not take to the streets?

"Bastard"

threw the record in his hand in front of Zha Zhiqing, his eyes glared at him angrily, and the boundless anger in his heart completely controlled Chen Moran's entire emotions, although he had been in the top position for a long time, he had long been accustomed to being invisible, but he would face such a giant beetle, and he couldn't control his emotions.

Chen Moran has always been extremely hateful to those corrupt officials in his heart, the reason is very simple, if it weren't for those national beetles, how could he almost go to prison, and how could he go astray, and finally become a counterfeit money dealer, and because of this, during the period of self-ruling government, he had a zero-tolerance attitude towards officials bending the law for personal gain, corruption and bribery, so to speak, he has been working hard, trying to transform China from a corrupt and decadent society into a disciplined, honest and dynamic society.

And now, what these giant beetles of the country have done is to slap themselves in the face, and unceremoniously tell themselves with a fact that they have been deceiving themselves.

Two days ago, when the newspaper first found out the news that the giant beetles had received huge kickbacks, they thought it was fake news and a need for a political attack, but when the investigation bureau subsequently intervened in the investigation, it clearly told itself a fact, which was not a political attack, but a fact.

From the home of a middle-level official, it was possible to steal 500,000 yuan of dirty money, and from the home of the person in charge of 5 million yuan of foreign bank deposits, and the subsequent investigation by the investigation bureau found that in the past five years, more than 40 officials emigrated abroad, and they were all involved in accepting bribes and kickbacks without exception.

In the face of His Majesty's anger, Zha Zhiqing could understand that in addition to anger, His Majesty showed more fear or disappointment, how could he not be disappointed?

"Over the years, I have always wanted to build a clean and effective government"

Disappointment, disappointment filled Chen Moran's heart, and after the anger, I was afraid that it would be this boundless disappointment

"At the beginning, it was not difficult to have noble sentiments, strong convictions and determination to crack down on corruption. However, I believe that unless I am a leader strong enough to be selfless and resolute in dealing with all those who break the law, it will not be easy to do what I want, but I have been trying, trying, and I think that it is not bad. ”

It's not bad, yes, it's not bad, I haven't heard about corruption for a long time, and I think I've built a clean and efficient society, and I've rebuilt the officialdom of the country, but what about the facts? The Technology Adoption Committee is far more corrupt than it could have imagined. ,

Faced with His Majesty's disappointment, Cha Zhiqing, as the director of the Investigation Bureau, hesitated for a moment, and the Investigation Bureau is also responsible for anti-corruption, and then he opened his article to explain.

“…… Therefore, from the very beginning, we paid special attention to the areas where people used to take advantage of their power to enrich themselves, and strengthened the ability to prevent it. means of detecting or putting an end to such abuses,...... Mainly to deal with corruption among the civil service, especially the middle and lower level police, hawker inspectors and land stewards......"

The anti-corruption of the empire is different from that of previous dynasties, the first target is the officials who extort the people in the past dynasties, not officials, in fact, the biggest grievances of the people are often officials, as for officials, there is also a clean and honest saying, but officials are not honest officials, while cracking down on corruption in the middle and lower levels of civil servants, and for officials are restrained by a variety of detailed systems, and at the same time, with high salaries and more than 50 yuan of their own shooting, family exile system, it can be said that official corruption has been controlled within a very small range, The last time the corruption of the syndicate was detected was four years ago.

“…… It can be said that the investigation bureau's crackdown on corruption among middle- and lower-level civil servants, coupled with the supervision of public opinion, has stopped the occurrence of corruption incidents to a large extent, and local officials still need to face the supervision of local councils at various extremes, so ......"

In the face of Cha Zhiqing's explanation, Chen Moran knew that he was not shirking the responsibility of the Investigation Bureau, and that the Technology Introduction Committee and the Imperial Central Bidding Bureau involved in the case were all directly subordinate organs of the Cabinet, specializing in the introduction of machinery and equipment and patented technology. And those companies are willing to offer rebates in order to deal with them, even if they do not express their demand.

Its secrecy determined that the Investigation Bureau would naturally not organize personnel to investigate the two agencies before receiving the report, and this directly led to the fact that in the past few years, the responsible officials of the two agencies received a huge kickback of up to 83.65 million yuan without being known.

Absolute power leads to absolute corruption

Almost as soon as he calmed down, Chen Moran had such a sentence in his mind, why the Technology Introduction Committee and the Central Bidding Bureau can accept such huge kickbacks, the reason is very simple, these two institutions monopolize the introduction of technology and machinery and equipment in China.

Not only do foreign companies offer them kickbacks, but also many domestic private enterprises offer bribes to them in order to get them to quickly pass the import declaration of machinery and equipment.

Chen Moran stood up and came to the window, looking at the lush trees outside the window, as well as the leaves rattling in the wind, his heart was empty, at this time the anger had already faded, the empire was founded only nine years ago, it was a storm, disputes continued, in the country he thought he had established a clean and efficient government, but because of his own selfish desires caused a disguised China, the local government relied on the law, public opinion and the parliament to establish a relatively clean local government, and what about the central government?

"It seems ......"

Moaning, a trace of bitterness flashed in Chen Moran's eyes.

It is true that absolute power leads to absolute corruption, especially the kind of power that has no checks and balances, like the central agencies, do they have checks and balances on their powers? The House of Lords has a close relationship with the various ministries and bureaus of the Cabinet, and it can be said that they need each other, while the House of Commons is just a stamp tool, as for himself, is it possible for him to keep an eye on them all day long?

It is this imbalance that has caused the two institutions to rot to the roots, and this is only the tip of the iceberg, who can guarantee that the other institutions will be clean, and the other central officials, will not be involved? Are these two institutions the only ones?

Silent, hearing the birdsong outside the window, Chen Moran's face was full of disappointment, and now, this collective corruption case has pushed himself into a dilemma, whether to make a compromise or ......

Liang Qichao, Liang Qichao

Don't think about it, the driving force behind this matter that Chen Moran knows is Liang Qichao, the person who he once wanted to reuse, but in the end made other choices, compared to Yang Du, he behaved more like a politician, he was more mature than Yang Du, and knew better where to launch a fatal blow.

It can be said that this is the last straw that crushed the camel, with this straw, I am afraid that I can only sign an order to dissolve Yuan Shikai's cabinet, but judging from the actions of Liang Yang and the others, this may only be the first step, and they will have a second and third step next......

But the question is, those German telegrams that they got from there? Could it be......

It was the Germans who intervened, and why did the Germans intervene...... The brows were tightly locked, and after the anger dissipated, after discovering the real driving force behind the scenes, Chen Moran instantly understood the reason, they wanted to see chaos in China

"Your Majesty ......".

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