After the meeting, the two Labour and Small Peasant Ministers shared a horse-drawn carriage and after getting into the carriage they reminded each other:

"There's a tail behind you."

"yes, there seems to be one behind you."

"Indeed, it's very coincidental."

"And," said the Minister of Defense, looking out of the gap in the back window of the carriage, observing for a moment, "the two of them did not know each other, and they seemed to be in two cars." ”

"Do you guess it's a journalist or someone from the opposition?" Li Qin, Minister of Industry, asked.

"I don't know about you, but the man who followed me has been with me for a long time, and although he changed his clothes, first shaved off his beard and then put on a fake one, and even once put on a woman's makeup, I still recognized him at a glance." The Minister of Defense confidently said: "He is certainly not a journalist who follows me so persistently, and considering that his tracking is so clumsy, he must have been sent by the opposition party." ”

"Yes, mine is the same," Li Qin laughed, these tails make the government officials very annoying, because they can no longer find friends to have fun, the last time the governor of Jiangxi was planted on this, when he went out to drink flower wine, he suddenly found that most of the newspaper reporters in Nanchang were called - yes, this is not illegal, but the impact is very bad, especially from the next door also found some Jiangxi businessmen who have an agreement with the government, which makes His Excellency the Governor even more unable to speak. Now that the entire Nanming cabinet enjoys this treatment, Li Qin sarcastically said: "I often think, since there is an opposition party, why do we still need to allocate funds to the Supervision Department? That stalker still needs a salary, doesn't it? ”

The Minister of Defense also laughed when he heard this, and he said to Li Qin: "It's not bad, at least I saved money for a bodyguard." ”

"If you want to say that, the money for Shousuke-sama's bodyguards will be saved in the province."

The highest paid man is naturally Miao Shoufu, who is now often followed by four or five people belonging to different parties on his commute to work, and even finds someone sneaking through his garbage in the middle of the night. Miao Shoufu's newly literate youngest son wrote a small essay full of typos, which was torn up and thrown away by Mrs. Miao, and as a result, this mass of waste paper was picked up by the people sent by the Kuomintang like a treasure, and after putting it together overnight, he also painstakingly studied it for two days, trying to find clues of corruption and perversion of the law, and even invited an expert in secret linguistics for this purpose.

Miao Shoufu was very open to this, and he said to the people of his party: "I don't do anything bad in my life, and I don't be surprised when I knock on the door in the middle of the night." "Miao Shoufu is currently at work, home two o'clock and one line, it doesn't matter if he is followed on the road, the last time it rained, he saw a few heels outside through the window and shivered, and asked the servants to invite them in to avoid the rain, these people thanked Miao Shoufu for the hot tea, and when he left, he also enthusiastically helped him pour the waste paper bucket.

In the evening, the two ministers and several factory owners talked happily, and during the day's work, they completed the implementation of national standards, and also determined a lot of purchase intentions.

After the government officials and businessmen left, two or three people with hats covering most of their faces entered the hotel and began to inquire about the shopkeepers, who had been questioned by the police in charge of guarding the government officials a long time ago, and after confirming that they were party officials of the Southern Ming Party and not from the North, they stopped interfering.

"These rice buckets, each of them ate two bowls of rice," a party official carefully recorded the other party's consumption, and prepared to go back to report to Premier Ren: "Six people ordered four dishes, and they really don't treat the country's silver as silver." ”

This party official just said casually, and he also knew that if the other party ordered forty dishes, then the party could take the opportunity to make a big fuss, but four dishes ...... If this goes out, it will only help the ruling party advertise. In the past, party leader Chen would sometimes praise his opponents from the bottom of his heart, and even called him a gentleman who conceals evil and promotes good, but Premier Ren completely changed one set, and blindly promoted evil and concealed good for the ruling party, and he also said: The group of gentlemen is not a party, and since we have formed a party, we are not gentlemen.

"They also ordered a soup." The other person is not from the Donglin Party, but a party official of the Kuomintang who has a strategic partnership with the Donglin Party, he reminded as he rummaged through the trash can on the side.

I didn't find any signs of leftovers or leftovers, and there used to be doctors who continued to lay out the same score as in the Chongzhen Dynasty when they were eating, ordering a table of dishes and then dipping each plate with chopsticks like a dragonfly dotting water. The banquet was paid for by the state, so the rival parties immediately went crazy and raised this to the level of betrayal of the electorate, which is now almost as soon as the hostile party is involved, the severity of the problem will quickly rise to this level. Chen Zizhuang was determined to take back a city after suffering a big loss, and he also kept a close eye on the other party's public expenses when eating and drinking, and the retaliated Labor Party and the Kuomintang were determined to take revenge...... The cycle continued, until the three major parties successively ordered that they should eat everything they ordered even if they were hungry, and Lu Zhiqiang, the leader of the Kuomintang at the time, strictly ordered his subordinates: every time they eat an official meal, party members must lick their plates, eat the juice in the plates, and never let the enemy take advantage of them.

"They also drank two bottles of wine," the Donglin Party official checked the menu again, and said to the Allied Party staff, "That's right, two bottles." ”

Saying that, the party affairs staff of the Donglin Party also lifted a bottle upside down one after another, washed the bottle down, and waited for a long time without even a drop of wine: "It's so clean." Then the party officials of the Donglin Party changed to another bottle, and also confirmed that it was empty: "Both bottles were drunk cleanly." ”

The staff members sent by several other parties thought it was not strange, but the Donglin party still handed the two bottles to their Kuomintang counterparts: "Do you want to see these two bottles?" ”

The other party's face was a little puzzled, he felt that there seemed to be some deep meaning in the words of the Donglin Party, but he couldn't detect it for a while, after taking the two bottles, the Kuomintang shook them vigorously, but even this could not find the remnants of the wine: "It is indeed very clean." ”

After the Donglin Party member took the bottles back, he handed them under the nose of the Progressive Party worker: "Do you want to see these two bottles?" ”

The other party was also a little confused, and refused at first, but at the insistence of the Donglin Party, he also looked over and over again, but like the Kuomintang, he did not find any problems. These two bottles were handed over to all the people by the Donglin Party to look at them one by one, and all of them found nothing.

After the opposition party left the hotel, the people of the Lin Party in the Middle East immediately returned to the headquarters and rushed in to make a secret report to the senator on duty, and soon the senator on duty took this party official to Renhongcheng's house; After they had a secret conversation at the home of the party premier for a while, Premier Ren dressed up and took them to visit the party leader Chen Zizhuang; When they arrived, Chen Zizhuang had already fallen asleep, sleepy-eyed and wearing slippers to meet the guests, but after a while, Chen Zizhuang was completely sleepy, and with a wave of his hand, he was about to convene an emergency meeting of the whole party.

"The party leader is slow." Ren Hongcheng hurriedly stopped: "If we hold an emergency meeting late at night, I'm afraid this news will leak out." ”

"But how can we condemn the cabinet tomorrow without a meeting?"

"We won't condemn tomorrow," Ren Hongcheng smiled slyly, "We'll have to wait one more day to make sure nothing goes wrong." ”

……

The next day was still calm, but in the evening, Chen Zizhuang invited all the leaders of the opposition parties, big or small, to come to dinner and study how to give full play to the political supervision role of the opposition party.

This kind of meeting is very common, generally speaking, it is an opposition intelligence exchange meeting, it is also a briefing meeting, the ruling party is not surprised, and the opposition parties are also well aware, and several parties that have been invited have prepared some black materials of the ruling party, although it is not very powerful, but it is not good to go to the meeting without any information, which will make others doubt your ability and sincerity.

However, Chen Zizhuang didn't seem to want to hear anything from others, and after all the invited people arrived, Chen Zizhuang said with a serious face: "There is evidence that the cabinet is corrupt and perverts the law, harming the public and private interests. ”

"Wow!" Suddenly, there was a sound of surprise below, although Chen Zizhuang personally led this intelligence exchange meeting today, but everyone did not expect that the Donglin Party would have such amazing news in advance.

Chen Zizhuang first took out a menu, this is the attachment copied from the hotel by the party affairs of the Donglin Party yesterday, it is written that four pots of wine were purchased, but after the meal, the staff of the various parties only found two empty wine bottles. The party affairs of the Donglin Party were afraid that other parties would get this exciting news first, so they hid the menu, and then came back to report to the party veterans on duty, so that the party could take the lead in attacking. Chen Zizhuang first admitted that this party member had made a mistake in his work, which was of course just lip service, and both Chen Zizhuang and Ren Hongcheng felt that this party member had done an excellent job and won the greatest initiative for the Donglin Party, and they would reward this shrewd party officer, especially since he also tried to strengthen their impression of the fact that there were only two empty bottles while alarming the members of the other party - which created several more witnesses.

Chen Zizhuang, who is now in the hands of the initiative again, said bitterly that this staff member did not fully appreciate the spirit of cooperation of the opposition party, and even concealed the news from his friends and parties at the first time, and this person has already been severely reprimanded by him and Premier Ren, and now Chen Zizhuang wants to make up for this mistake, inform everyone of the news, and sit down to discuss what to do.

The various parties, including the Kuomintang, had no choice but to accept Chen Zizhuang's favor and expressed their gratitude to the Donglin Party for their trust, and at this time the Kuomintang delegates had already hated the staff member who had been sent to the hotel to investigate - because his incompetence caused the Kuomintang to owe the Donglin Party a great favor, and he was also attacked by a surprise attack and could not seek the best interests for his party.

Now that it was too late to notify the whole party of the meeting, when the representatives of the various parties were pondering how to use this matter, Chen Zizhuang, who was confident, came up with more evidence and began to put forward the plan of the Donglin Party: "This morning, our party has sent someone to check the accounts, and the state does pay for the four pots of wine, which is consistent with the menu of the store, and the wine money is a total of one or two dollars and two dollars. There are two possibilities here, one is that the Labour Cabinet communicates with the hotel owner to create false accounts and embezzle six dollars of state money; The other is that the shopkeeper did serve four jugs of wine, but they did not drink them or hand them over, but stole two jugs of wine from the state treasury. ”

Either way, the charges of "embezzlement of state funds" or "theft of the state treasury" are not light, but the KMT representative raised the concern that the Labour cabinet might have a remedy: "What if they bought these two bottles of wine out of their own pockets?" ”

"But they didn't, today before the meal and the wine money have been credited to the account, the state did pay six more pieces of silver, and my people waited until the end of work, and no one was found to make up the account." Last night, Ren Hongcheng asked Chen Zizhuang to be restless, because he was worried that after the premature trouble, the Labour Cabinet would hurriedly pay the money out of his own pocket, so that the big things would be turned into small things and small things would be turned into nothing, and now that it has been credited, the other party will not be able to escape.

The other parties, who were completely unprepared, had no idea of the specific situation, so they could only passively accept the information and arrangements of the Donglin Party, and Chen Zizhuang proposed to immediately hold a press conference to denounce the Labour Cabinet for embezzling state funds, and all opposition parties should act in unison. Of course, there is no objection to this arrangement, and theoretically, the Donglin Party can completely monopolize the limelight and not take everyone to play together, but Chen Zizhuang also plans to share some soup with his strategic partners when he eats meat himself, so as to maintain a united front against the Labour Party cabinet. Of course, this media meeting will be a stage for the Donglin Party to play, Chen Zizhuang has prepared a speech and all kinds of relevant evidence, this limelight his allies and parties just want to grab it but can't take it, they are as unprepared as the media so they can only listen.

The briefing was completed, and Chen Zizhuang gave all his allies half an hour to report to their respective party headquarters, and he had informed all the media in Nanjing that the opposition party would give them a chance to issue an extra issue tonight, and that the specific press conference would be set in half an hour. Briefing the Allies of the news meant that the Labour Cabinet would have been aware of the incident in a very short period of time, but they had no time to react, and Chan had already informed the media of the full content by the time they figured out what was happening.

All opposition leaders hurried in, and at the press conference, they were all absent, crowding around Chan and shouting to bring down the Labour cabinet that had betrayed the voters, and immediately newspaper reporters rushed to the hotel to verify the news.

When the first issue appeared on the streets of Nanjing, the home of the director of the Supervision Department under the Ministry of Justice was also surrounded by reporters, who had no idea what was going on, until the reporter stuffed a copy into his hand, with the shocking headline "Embezzlement of State Funds by the Labour Cabinet."

The headline immediately made the director of the Supervision Department break into a cold sweat, and before he had time to read the whole report, the director raised his head and assured the reporters that he was aware of the matter, and although he was now the Labour Coalition, he himself was not a party-appointed political official, and his political leaning was also Anhui's local Endeavor Party rather than the ruling Labour Party, and because he was too patriotic, he led no matter which party came to power...... No, it is the Ombudsman he serves who will be loyal to the country. The Director of the Supervision Department assured the reporters that the Supervision Department would immediately intervene in the matter and start an investigation, and that the embezzlers of state funds would not go unpunished, and in order to strengthen the tragic atmosphere, the unfavorable image of the Supervision Department in front of the media would be reversed (at this time, the Director of the Supervision Department did not know that it was only a matter of six coins, and was misled by the headline that he thought that a major fraud case had been exposed, and he apparently did not know anything about it beforehand). The director of the Supervision Department has also repeatedly reminded reporters that the Minister of Justice can remove him from his post, but he and all his colleagues in the Supervision Department have no time to earn a living for their national loyalty.

The ruling coalition Labor Party and her three allied parties were also in chaos, and it was not until the early hours of the morning that Miao Shoufu finally figured out what had happened, and the Minister of Justice reported to Shousuke, and the director of the Supervision Department secretly sent someone to report that the Supervision Department would intervene in the investigation early tomorrow morning, and the progress and results of the investigation would be made public to the media. The Minister of Justice told Shoufu that he could not stop such a work, and that it would be political suicide to obstruct the investigation of the Inspectorate or, more extremely, to dismiss the Inspectorate. Miao Shoufu said that he understood this very well, in the final analysis, it was just six coins of silver, and he was not afraid to be public, but if he did not cover it up publicly, it would lead to suspicion. On the contrary, if the Minister of Justice dares to dismiss the Director of the Inspectorate in front of the media and the opposition, he will immediately remove him and reinstate the Director of the Inspectorate and declare that the act has absolutely nothing to do with party affiliation.

As for the perpetrators, Li Qinzheng, Minister of Industry, stood in front of Miao Shoufu with a dejected face, and he took home the two pots of wine that he had not finished drinking yesterday, and he explained to Miao Shoufu that they did not dare to drink more for fear of making a fool of themselves, but they did not dare to save things for fear of causing trouble to the party, and the defense minister of the small peasant party did not like to drink: he had suggested that each person drink two more glasses until they were all drunk, but the defense minister resolutely did not drink any more and everyone lost interest; And after the banquet, the Minister of Defense also advised him to take both bottles of wine with him, instead of one for one person: "If there is left, then they will have something to say." ”

"Yes, but their words will be: 'Waste of state money', not 'embezzlement' and 'theft' as it is now!" Miao Shoufu said angrily, and the other party's explanation made him even more dissatisfied: "And! The small peasant party is completely unaware of this, and the party has not ordered you to leave anything behind, and this matter has nothing to do with the cabinet, the party, or our allies. ”

The Minister of Defense of the Small Peasant Party said that he would definitely deny that he had suggested that Li Qin bring the wine home, and that he would approve of it—implicating the Minister of Defense would not exonerate the Minister of Industry by implicating him, but would also give the opposition a chance to link the matter with the entire cabinet: "Tomorrow you will go to the media to explain that you will take all the responsibility for it, and after all, it will not be six cents of silver?" If you just make it up and confess your mistake to the electorate, will anyone really forgive you for six cents? ”

After Li Qin took all the responsibility (in fact, it was just the responsibility of six coins of silver), the opposition was no longer willing to let him go, and the Donglin Party and the Kuomintang said in unison that this was not a question of more money or less money at all, but a question of whether the government could tolerate corruption and theft; As for making up the money after the fact, it doesn't mean anything, because if there is no punishment and just let the officials make up for the appropriation and let them go, then it is actually encouraging the officials to embezzle.

The investigation report of the Supervision Department came out quickly, and the Supervision Department told the media that this was indeed an act of embezzlement of state funds, but it was only an act and not a crime, because the amount was relatively small, and the law was indeed a blank on how to deal with leftovers and leftovers, and Li Qin just didn't take them away and the state didn't have a special warehouse to store leftovers. Of course, the Supervision Department later pointed out that Minister Li made a mistake by not buying the two bottles of wine out of his own pocket, but Minister Li later paid for the wine, and since the Supervision Department could not find the crime from this, the investigation was over.

When the report first came out, the Labour cabinet breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this would be the end of the matter, but the opposition apparently did not accept the result: the KMT was clamoring for a uniform standard for embezzlement starting with the taking of liquor worth more than seven cents, which could fluctuate in the future as prices rose, and it also proposed to establish warehouses for storing leftovers, leftovers, and liquor through new appropriations to ensure that state assets would not be lost. Moreover, as Miao Shoufu knew, the Kuomintang was really preparing to put forward such a bill, and it is conceivable that every debate in the future when the Constituent Assembly discussed whether or not to set up a warehouse for storing leftovers for special appropriations would be an open humiliation to the ruling party.

The Donglin Party, on the other hand, is clamoring for a full investigation, claiming that the case was discovered by non-professional detectives like them, and that if they can all find this kind of corruption, it may find ten or a hundred times more problems if the state apparatus starts a full investigation. The bill is likely to pass, because if the ruling party votes against it, it will undoubtedly be said to be a thief, and the people do not know how closely the non-professional investigators are staring at the cabinet.

Miao Shoufu was reluctant to carry out such an investigation, because although he had a clear conscience in his own question, he did not dare to say whether such an investigation would really find some problems, and if more problems were found in the investigation, it would not be a matter of six coins of silver.

Moreover, Ren Hongcheng, the party premier of the Donglin Party, is also bewitching the media in this way: "Do you still think this is a problem of six coins of silver? Ren Hongcheng pointed out to the media that once a special and comprehensive investigation of the government is initiated, the cost of the investigation could be in the thousands: "Since the government has squandered the trust of the electorate and forced us to spend a huge amount of money to conduct this kind of investigation that could have been avoided, does anyone think that it is just a matter of six coins?" ”

Miao Shoufu knew that this was the Donglin Party opening a back door for itself, and if the investigation did not find any problems, the opposition would still put the responsibility for the huge investigation costs on the cabinet. Throughout the investigation, Labour will be scrutinized with suspicion by voters, and even if there are no substantive findings, it will cause long-term and significant damage to the Labour Party.

Therefore, it is better to know this as soon as possible, and not to carry out any special investigation or any proposal to allocate funds to build a warehouse for leftovers. In addition to the hints of the Alliance, Miao Shoufu has also come under pressure from within the party, and some people have suggested that he remove Li Qin from his ministerial position, so that he can declare to the media that the cabinet and the Labour Party have zero tolerance for corruption, and if the other side continues to insist on making unreasonable trouble, then the Labour Party will have a weapon to fight back - it turns out that we do not tolerate corruption, but they must waste state money to frame them for the sake of party interests.

Everyone knows that Li Qin is a good friend of Miao Shoufu, but the party also points out that such a relationship may be more beneficial to Miao Shoufu, and can be used to show his firm will not to compromise with corrupt elements.

"It's just six coins of silver," Miao Shoufu couldn't help but say to a person who made a similar suggestion again: "Li Qin is a hero of the party. ”

"But he's hurt more than six cents of silver to his party, right? And his merits have already been established. ”

Although the other party did not say it explicitly, Miao Shoufu keenly sensed a trace of distrust in the person's eyes - the other party suspected that Miao Shoufu was emotional, began to become indecisive, and put personal relationships above partisan interests.

In fact, Miao Shoufu was indeed affected by his personal feelings, and what was beating in his chest was a heart made of flesh instead of a stone, and he still couldn't do it with a thorough iron heart, but Miao Shoufu also understood that what everyone said was right, this matter was dragging down the entire party, and it also led to the dissatisfaction of the allied parties. Although Li Qin took responsibility for the defense minister of the small peasant party, the small peasant party did not like the case to continue, because they would also be tied up with Li Qin again and again, and it was repeatedly mentioned in the disgraceful news by the media - the other three allied parties all told Miao Shoufu that it was time for the matter to come to an end.

"I have twenty days off a year, and I haven't used it since I took office," Miao Shoufu said in a final effort, calling Li Qin to his office: "I'll start taking a vacation tomorrow, and then I'm going to Hangzhou." ”

In the past few days, Li Qin's hair has turned gray greatly, and he nodded to Miao Shoufu with a tired face: "Are you going to ask to see the Duke of Qi?" ”

"Yes," Miao Shoufu used to feel that Qi Guogong was very free when he was not around, but today he suddenly felt that Nanjing to Hangzhou was too far away: "If Qi Gong publicly announced that he forgave you, then this matter should be understood." ”

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