In the cold winter, on a certain street in Beijing's new area, some well-dressed pedestrians are strolling on the sidewalk, and on the adjacent main road, even in Shanghai and other cities, there are not many cars and other things, and a few can be seen on this spacious main road.

Combined with the imposing buildings on both sides of the road, compared to the old city, this place belongs to the top of society, and in fact it is, and those pedestrians walk on the road with a swaggering posture of the social elite.

It's just that when passing through a ten-storey building in the middle of the street, mainly gray, not to mention the well-dressed pedestrians on the sidewalk, even the people driving the car can't help but speed up a little, as if there is some man-eating beast in that building―――――― maybe for them, the people in that building are more terrible than the man-eating beast...

The Ministry of Integrity, to be exact, the headquarters building of the Ministry of Integrity, this is the identity of that building.

As one of the departments with the largest power in the country, tens of thousands of members of the Ministry of Integrity are distributed in hundreds of cities large and small across the country, with a large number of a few hundred and a few dozens, depending on the size of the city. The 10-storey building is the center of the tens of thousands of officials of the Ministry of Integrity and one of the most famous buildings in the country.

And then, as was said earlier, for many officials, the people in this are even more terrible than the beasts ...

At least at this time, the signboard of the Ministry of Integrity is still very loud.

Probably because of this relationship. While the buildings of other departments are usually next to each other, the building of the Ministry of Integrity is a lonely one, which seems to be excluded. And something that stands out from the crowd...

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The offices of the government in Beijing are somewhat peculiar, because the headquarters of the various departments are almost all stacked together, and most of them are located in a certain street, to be exact.

For example, except for the more than 10 departments of the cabinet, except for Katarina's special bureau, almost all the rest are located in the same street, plus the National Socialist Party is now in charge of China. Today's government is also known as the Communal Government. Because of this, this street is also called 'Guoshe Street' by the citizens of Beijing, and it is famous at home and abroad...

Overall. Except that the presidential palace is not on this street, the significance of this street to China is almost the same as that of Downing Street to Britain, if not more so. It is precisely because of this that diplomats in China from Britain, France and other countries have been thinking about it. Do you want to move the embassy to the vicinity of this street? In this way, it will be more convenient to communicate with you when you need to communicate about something in the future...

It's just that the embassy is in Dongjiaomin Lane, which is about to become a law, so despite such an idea, the location of the embassy has never been changed.

And there is a reason why such a special situation occurs.

At that time, the Anhui military government and Beiyang competed, although many people were not optimistic about the Anhui military government, but Yan Shao had already calculated that he would be able to win, because some soldiers in the war did not look at which side had a larger territory. There are more soldiers, and it depends more on morale, training, and equipment. In this regard, in addition to training, the remaining two Yan Shao are undoubtedly much stronger than Beiyang led by Yuan Shikai, especially in morale and equipment. The question is where do you move after you win? Yuan Shikai's big presidential palace? Yan Shao had seen it several times from the photos he got from the Special Affairs Bureau, and the style there was too bad, and the layout was a little too shabby, and it was even inferior to his manor in Anhui, wouldn't he have wronged himself by moving there?

Although Yan Shao also knows that in the eyes of the Chinese people, a hundred manors are not as good as Yuan Shikai's 'shabby' presidential palace, but Yan Shao is a person who is used to luxury, and he doesn't want Eleno to live a 'hard' life with him, so he naturally looks down on Yuan Shikai's big presidential palace, so Yan Shao quickly eliminated Yuan Shikai's presidential palace.

Zhongnanhai? It's pretty good there, at least the scenery is good.

The problem lies in the suffering of the old-style buildings, Yan Shao had enough of it when he just captured Anqing, not to mention that it was too unlucky, first Guangxu was imprisoned there for many years, and it seems that Li Yuanhong was also imprisoned there by Yuan Shikai in history, Feng Shui is really bad...

In addition, Beijing was still Yuan Shikai's land at that time, so Yan Shao sent people to choose a good place in the suburbs outside Beijing, and then built a manor, and when the Northern Expedition was successful, it would be a temporary presidential palace.

Later, the Northern Expedition was successful, and the construction of a new presidential palace began. Naturally, the government departments also went north together, but the problem is that Yan Shao's presidential palace is outside the city, so they can't work in the city, right? At that time, telephones were a rarity, and it was not easy to pull a telephone line from inside the city to outside the city.

So in the last minute, almost all departments chose the address of their headquarters outside the city.

Since they were all chosen outside the city, they were simply next to each other, and in the end such a street was formed.

The Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Justice, etc., etc., are almost all on this street, and even the National Assembly is there, only the Special Affairs Bureau is not like this, as for Yan Shao's new presidential palace...

At first, in order to be closer to home, I chose a place not very far from the manor. Yan Shao was afraid that someone would give him two shots with mortars, so he bought the presidential palace and the land around the manor, so although the main road at the end of 'Guoshe Street' led to Yan Shao's presidential palace, in fact, the distance between them was absolutely not close.

And on this famous street, the most feared is definitely not the Ministry of Justice, nor the Ministry of Public Security, but the Ministry of Integrity―――――― to be precise, the most feared by government personnel.

As mentioned at the beginning, even cars that are not often seen in the whole country can be seen on this street from time to time. Generally speaking, on this kind of street, which is almost the center of politics, it should usually be full of traffic.

However, it is precisely because of the existence of the Ministry of Integrity. As a result, the country's officials are at a relatively clean level, and of course, more importantly, they have a very capable and upright minister.

Because the various departments are in the same street. The government officials on the street are working under the nose of the Ministry of Integrity. At this time, the price of a Liulan is almost more than 5,000 yuan, and during this period, even the government ministers only have a salary of 500 yuan a month, and there are fewer members below. This Guoshe Avenue is under the nose of the Ministry of Integrity, and it is certain that it will be investigated, and there will naturally be fewer cars...

At this time, the national government was equipped with some bulletproof vehicles for some ministerials or military and political dignitaries. There is no such thing as a bus, local officials can buy a car if they have the money, and the rest will either take a bus, tram or rickshaw, or rent a car...

I have to admit it. The Ministry of Integrity is still very useful...

And because of that. Government officials are usually very jealous of the Ministry of Integrity, and even when they pass through the gates of the Ministry of Integrity, they instinctively take two steps faster.

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In his office in the building of the Ministry of Integrity, Song Jiaoren was looking at a document that had just arrived. It is said above that the intelligence services have found that some members of Congress are colluding with local capitalists to introduce a bill in Congress to reduce the export rate of customs duties and reduce the cost of domestic capitalists exporting goods abroad...

Look at the content on the profile. Song Jiaoren couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

"These guys are insatiable......... At present, the domestic export tax rate is only 5%. How much more do they want to drop? Is it possible that you still want to have a 0% export tax? ”

That being said, Song Jiaoren knew very well that those capitalists really thought so. After so many years, Song Jiaoren still knows a lot about these capitalists, except for those like Yan Shao, who have some political goals, most of them have extremely high demands for interests, and even go so high that they are eye-catching.

In the same way, in the pursuit of profit, these people are usually extremely harsh on workers.

In many factories in China, not to mention the 10-hour working day, even the 12-hour working day is by no means uncommon. But what really made Song Jiaoren frown were those congressmen.

In his opinion, these people already have a good status, congressmen, dare not say the weight, the high position is at least worthy of the title, it is an honorary position, and there is a special salary from the government every month, although it is not much, but it is similar to the local mayor, two or three thousand yuan a year.

Even if because of Yan Shao's relationship, the Congress does not have any rights and is rated as a vase decoration by the outside world, but it should be content, but these people are...

"Insatiable, not to mention those businessmen..."Thinking of this, Song Jiaoren couldn't help but sigh. The reason why he is angry is not just because of the identity of these people, but because this is not the first time.

Since he took charge of the Ministry of Integrity, there have been many times, because local councilors or congressmen colluded with local entrepreneurs and landlords, and the Ministry of Integrity came forward to deal with it, and it has been a long time, although Song Jiaoren also knows that most of the parliamentarians are still good, but he is also a little disappointed.

Seriously, in fact, he and those parliamentarians have the same political demands, both hoping to take power away from the National Socialist Party and achieve a republic. However, he was disappointed by what these people were doing, and he gradually realized that these parliamentarians actually wanted more separation of powers than a republic......... They just want to get rid of the name of vase...

If there is no government on the head......... At least in the past few years, these people in Congress have put forward many bills to legalize the 'government donations', and of course, such bills have failed in the end.

Because for the Chinese people, the so-called political donation is actually a bribe, but it just legalizes the bribe.

And for members of Congress, these are also ways to subsidize themselves.

Although the parliament has few powers, both the members of the National Assembly and the local councillors are almost always elected. And even if you don't have the right, the name of a councillor is more prestigious in the eyes of many gentry and celebrities, not to mention that after becoming a councillor, even a local councillor has a salary of tens or hundreds of yuan...

It's just that the election is too expensive. Even if you become a member of parliament and have a salary, you can only make up for it a little. At this time, after learning that there are still political donations abroad, these guys naturally became moved...

It's just that the more excited they are, the more disappointed Song Jiaoren becomes...

Although Song Jiaoren himself is not opposed to donations, he is against bribery, and it is clear that in today's Chinese politics, there is not much difference between donations and bribery...

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Looking at the materials in my hand, I barely thought about it. Song Jiaoren has already made a decision ―――――― purge the scum from within the government, which he often does, even if he has similar political demands to these people. It can even be said that they are on the same side.

However, for Song Jiaoren, corruption is corruption, even if it is a party, as long as he does something illegal, he will never let it go.

Just when Song Jiaoren made a decision in his heart. There was a sudden knock on the door.

A knock was heard at the door. Song Jiaoren raised his voice. "Come in..."

With permission, the people outside pushed open the door and walked in. Entering the door was a young man who looked to be in his early 20s, very handsome, and held a copy of the essay in his hand.

"Minister, this is the information we just got...", handing the text to Song Jiaoren, the young man said to Song Jiaoren respectfully.

An upright person is respected everywhere, especially in an era where there is absolutely no shortage of enthusiastic young people, although everyone knows that working in such a department as the Ministry of Integrity is known. It's definitely a dangerous and thankless task (if you have an honest boss, otherwise it's definitely fat). However, there are still many young people who choose the Ministry of Integrity.

And Song Jiaoren also trusts and reuses these young people, in his opinion, these young people who have not been polluted by society are precisely the future of China.

After taking the text, Song Jiaoren began to look through it, and at the same time, standing in front of Song Jiaoren, the young man also began to recount the content softly.

"According to the information we have obtained, a large number of materials have been transported to the northeast and northwest regions in the recent period, and some time ago, before General Jiang Baili set off, he and General Cai Yi, General Wu Peifu and General Feng Guozhang, who had just returned to China, often went to the presidential palace, as if they were discussing something, in addition, we just got an information, the president has just issued an urgent order to Yushi Automobile Company, requiring the company to provide at least 5,000 military trucks within the specified time, In addition, the President has requisitioned a considerable number of trucks and intends to transport them with those supplies to the Northeast and Northwest..."

Speaking of this, the young man's expression was a little complicated.

Like Song Jiaoren, Yan Shao was also the object of his admiration. It's just that he admires Song Jiaoren's integrity and integrity, but for Yan Shao, he admires him for bringing China to the point where it is today. As for anything else...

Regarding Yan Shao's usual extravagance, as well as the fact that he has found many wives, these hot-blooded young people still have some opinions. However, China's strong national strength is enough for them to hide this opinion―――――― at least in their opinion, a person with a good character, but can make the country strong and the people healthy, is definitely better than a person who is upright but can do nothing.

And now, according to Song Jiaoren's meaning, they are investigating some things about Yan Shao, which somewhat complicates their mentality.

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The young man's expression Song Jiaoren didn't notice it, but now he can't care about it so much, because judging from the information he just got, something big will definitely happen in the near future, especially the information of the truck...

"5,000 trucks, not much, not much, but it is enough to cooperate with a military operation, and this time the president is so urgent, is it possible that something will really happen..."

He's not a stupid person, based on the information and information in his hand, he can still guess some of them, the problem is...

If it's just the northeast, he can still understand, after all, the northeast has Vladivostok, a place that must be recovered, but in the northwest...

"What can you ask for in the Northwest..."

Just when Song Jiaoren felt a little distressed, the phone on the desk suddenly rang.

The piercing ringing bell startled Song Jiaoren slightly, but he still put the information in his hand on the table, and then grabbed the phone.

After listening to it for a while, Song Jiaoren nodded, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Okay, when I'm done with the matter at hand, I'll go over right away."

After speaking, Song Jiaoren hung up the phone, and then rubbed his hand slightly on his chin.

Now, he doesn't seem to need a headache.

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At the same time that Song Jiaoren hung up the phone, Yan Shao couldn't help but sigh.

It's not that he really wants to say something to Song Jiaoren, it's just that the intelligence system under Song Jiaoren's hand has more or less sensed something. Instead of asking him to find out about the matter and finally make a fuss, it is better to be open and honest now, and explain the matter clearly, in exchange for the other party's understanding and support.

Even if Song Jiaoren still can't understand it, it doesn't matter, anyway, the matter has already been said, for the sake of the country, even if Yan Shao uses some means to block the news, I believe that he can get some understanding―――――― at least the government will understand him. (To be continued......)