Revised Edition Volume 16 The Resurgence of the Storm Chapter 1 The Meat Grinder (I)

For the main star, the first half of '74 is a rare period of chaos since the Great Era. According to the secret report I received www.biquge.info Han Han had already ordered the Public Security Bureau, a secret agency directly under the Heguo government, to investigate the root causes, contexts, and main figures that caused such large-scale social unrest, and to find the right time to clean up a group of people.

After I persuaded Hongxiang to go to the front line of the universe, there were suddenly no leading figures in the camp of the underworld politicians, and naturally some people rushed forward one after another to fill the vacancy, resulting in a lot of additional vicious criminal cases. For Han Han and the Public Security Bureau, it means that the first month or so of work is completely in vain - when the punch that has been gathering momentum for a long time is about to be thrown, the target suddenly runs away to the end of the universe 100,000 light years away, and the whip is beyond reach, and the key people and power maps that have been sorted out in advance are almost half rewritten, and it takes countless time, energy, money, and many agents to redo this work. Therefore, although there was joy in the thank you letter she sent me, she still couldn't hide the pain and sense of loss that the punch missed.

There are capable people like Han Han who are guarding the country, and the country is in a mess, and other places are naturally not exempt from vulgarity. Although there are no human treasures such as Hongxiang in those places, there are many people who have reached a quarter or even half of his level - that is enough. Although the situation varies from place to place, and the scale of the turmoil is different, in general, the situation can be described as a boat in a boiling soup, bumpy and difficult to travel, surrounded by black smoke and miasma, and if you are not careful, you will be broken to pieces.

After cutting off Xiaocui and cutting off the Leng Group, the territory of the Northeast quickly became a peaceful island in the troubled times. Tan Kang and everyone in the Chinese political circles were very secretive about my illegal exercise of power, as if they didn't know anything. Occasionally, when someone mentions it to their faces, they collectively suffer from amnesia, which is so serious that they forget it immediately after an "oh", and no matter how much they mention it in the future, they can only look at the prompter with inexplicable eyes. Fortunately, they are high enough to use forgetfulness to send people away, and they will not be caught by impatient listeners and locked up in a small black room to make a name, and they can also be furious at any time to characterize the pestering petitioner as a mentally ill person and lock up the small black house. Speaking of which, Xiao Heiwu's trick is the magic weapon of Huo Shuxiang, the helmsman of the 404th Bureau, with a success rate of 100%. Every time I hear him report on this fixed number, I think that if he had met me when I was locked up in the little black room, I am afraid that the world would be very different, and most likely it would be much cleaner.

The situation in the Northeast is not something that can be stabilized by cutting off a small cui and getting rid of a Leng group, and there is a lot of work by Huo Shuxiang. It was a heavy industrial base built during the GDI period in the northern capital, and the total economic volume was very important, and the contradictions and struggles were complicated after decades of accumulation, so the underworld forces were born and lurked early. After the decline of GDI, the underworld forces in this region were the first to rise up in the world. A situation of close collusion between the government, businessmen, and the underworld has long been formed here.

The Nandu government also tried to parachute in high-ranking officials to correct this situation in the past, so that the holy light of the central government's benevolence would shine on the land of white mountains and black waters, but in the past three years, two of the ten high-ranking officials at or above the provincial level who had been airborne in the past two were inexplicably ill, and one died in a water penetration accident while inspecting the mine; Two of the serious economic problems that have been investigated and dealt with are being secretly examined; Six others came up with a bunch of excuses to return to Nandu within three months of taking office. When I came back, I kept silent, except for the occasional drunken grumbling and saying, "The water is too deep to wade!" "Seeing that the Northeast is ironclad, there is really nothing the Nandu government can do. The Leng scandal that broke out at this time seemed to be an opportunity to solve this old and difficult problem. But no one in the Nandu government had the courage and strength to take over the explosives package on its own initiative.

So, on the third day after the Xiaocui incident, Guo Guang, who was entrusted by Tan Kang to come, had a meeting with Huo Shuxiang (the little lewd thief jumped into the Nandu government after the GDI restructuring, responsible for the liaison in the direction of the space fleet, and received a salary from Tan Kang, but the report was handled well in advance, but both sides were not offended), and brought the unanimous opinion of the upper echelons of the Nandu: in principle, they don't care about the affairs of the Northeast, and give Commissioner Huo Da a big hat of the Commissioner of the Northeast Regional Administration, Tell them when Commissioner Huo moves officials at or above the division level, and the rest will be pleased.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Tan Kangken ceded the Northeast to Huo Shuxiang. Since he took office, he has never really mastered the situation there. With his ability, he can't and has no intention of breaking through the layers of relationship chains and really doing something for those remote areas that have little real connection with him.

So Huo Shuxiang became the king of the Northeast and worked vigorously. In less than a week, he dispatched the confidants of the 404th Bureau to various places and started the work. Tan Kang asked him to say hello when he moved officials at or above the department level, but this greeting never ended every day, and it almost became a project that must be reported to Tan Kang every day. There is a joke in this: Tan Kang has a novice secretary who has risen up by connection, he doesn't know much about the situation, and he is relatively mechanical. One day a month later, Huo Shuxiang took a day off, and it was rare for the three eastern provinces to be clean and uneventful, and he also called Commissioner Huo Da and asked: "Commissioner, why is there a piece of data empty?" I'm in a hurry to report to Chairman Tan - who is stepping down again today? ”

The joke reflected the intensity of the turmoil at the time: Huo Shuxiang forced the vice governor of Liaodong Province out of office on his first day in office, and personally led a team to raid the home of Zhou Zhibin, the mayor of Fengtian, the next day. The Zhou family was a well-known wealthy mansion in the Far East, and they copied out gold and silver jewelry and valuables full of five large truckloads on the spot, and there were so many banknotes that even Huo Shuxiang was stunned for three minutes, so he had to invite fifteen money counters and twenty-five staff members from three savings houses to count them, and finally half of the money counters and staff were exhausted. There were at least three or four hundred servants and maids who had been driven out, and they were squatting all over the street, and the sound of wailing resounded in the sky—but that was only the beginning. A week later, Huo Shuxiang's people had dissolved all the parliaments above the level of the three eastern provinces and cities, and replaced one-third of the top leaders.

During this period, the agents of the 404th Bureau were addicted to being officials, and any little minion could get a county magistrate or mayor to be a pawn. He entered the 404 system at the same time as Huo Shuxiang, and the older qualifications who were promoted by Tidusi at the same time were all placed in positions above the provincial level. Tan Kang greeted him twice, and after the secretary made that joke, he simply didn't have any reaction. But I was a little curious, so I asked casually when I called Guo Guang to chat. The little thief replied, "What's the matter, is it useful?" Already numb. Tan Kang said, just let the surnamed Huo toss, anyway, no matter how bad it is, it won't be bad. ”

After two months of purging, Huo Shuxiang has achieved phased results on two fronts. Half of the political arena in the Northeast has been demolished by this demolitionist expert, and the principal leaders in various places have basically been swept away, and all of them have been replaced by his henchmen. The purge of the police force was even more thorough - it was not so much that he purged the police of the three eastern provinces and changed them to vertical leadership, but that the 404th Bureau completely merged the police system of the three eastern provinces as a whole. For a time, the international "****" organization vigorously criticized Huo for engaging in dictatorship in the Northeast and trampling on democracy. Fortunately, Tan Kang had already issued him a gold-lettered signboard with the words "Supreme Commissioner of the Northeast Administration of the Central Government" in advance, and this black pot was borne by Tan Kang and Huo Shuxiang, and it couldn't be deducted from my head for the time being-although passers-by knew who the boss behind the scenes was.

In the face of criticism from international public opinion, the spokesman of the Nandu government pretended to be deaf and dumb at a press conference, saying: "The criminal gangs of the nature of the underworld in Northeast China are rampant and have a bad social impact. In carrying out large-scale rectification of public order, it will of course cause a certain amount of inconvenience to the people's production and life. However, the central government is very determined, and the people also support the government's action to completely eradicate the tumor, so it is inconvenient to interfere." And Huo Shuxiang was much more fierce than them, his press conference was only held once, and there was no second time - no one dared to come again.

At that press conference, agents of Bureau 404 arrested more than half of the reporters on the spot, and beat the remaining half out with bakelite batons. Although these people have always been accustomed to insulting the government authorities, and it is true that they have bad breath, Huo Shuxiang has put on the charge of "demagogizing the people's minds and creating terrorist information" is too outrageous, and at 9 o'clock the next morning, he handed down sentences to 38 reporters with an average of 15 months in prison. Only one reporter named Stirling was spared because of his excellent relationship with Titus, and was personally cared for by the head of Europe and the old leader of Huo Shuxiang, and he was released after only a week's imprisonment, and since then he has changed his career to become a bakery owner, and he will never talk about anything related to news and public opinion, and he will go crazy if he talks about it.

If it is said that just using a big stick to blast a person's head, although it can temporarily knock down a few stunned people, play the role of killing chickens and scaring monkeys, and create a peaceful appearance where the noise disappears, but after all, it is short-lived and superficial. Huo Shuxiang has been able to sit firmly in the position of director of the 404th Bureau for so many years, and he is naturally not the kind of reckless man who relies on his developed limbs. After his subordinates had cleaned up the police system in a step-by-step manner, he began a social purge called "Crime Busters". The target is precisely the most glamorous political rookies, GDI veterans and triad figures who were the most glamorous just a few months ago. And as the action progresses, more and more cases prove that these three are often a trinity.

The 404 Bureau is a secret police system. Although the word "secret" became very unpleasant after being added, and it made people wary and disgusted when they heard it, it was a branch of the political and legal department after all. Therefore, Huo Shuxiang's subordinates also talked about evidence and procedures in handling cases, and handled cases in accordance with the law. However, this "according to law" must be marked with quotation marks -- regardless of the details and disputes, anyone who has a clear understanding of the situation knows that no one who really handles the case according to the law can completely uproot the underworld and evil forces that have been entrenched in the Northeast for decades within six months as he did.

Huo Shuxiang dissolved the parliament, purged the police system, and immediately issued an "Anti-Black Criminal Procedure Law" in the name of the supreme commissioner of the Northeast Agency. Regardless of the previous hat, the Criminal Procedure Law is actually one of the most important legal norms related to the country's judicial administration, and is known as the "mini-constitution" in judicial circles. The revision and recharacterization of this kind of thing is a very important event, and it is a rare occurrence for a hundred years to restart the stove in two months as vigorously as Commissioner Huo Da. Of course, since there is a hat in front of it, it naturally shows that this law should only be effective for the part involving "anti-gangsterism", and the other parts should still be implemented in accordance with the original Criminal Procedure Law. However, Commissioner Huo Da made the scope of the law too extensive, so much so that at the subsequent study meeting of the Northeast Political and Legal System Center, the president of the Heilongjiang High Court said in public: "Don't bother to learn anything new and distinguish what is applicable." Go back and throw away the original "Criminal Procedure Law", and change the whole thing. ”

As soon as this mini-constitution was promulgated, it immediately shocked the whole world, and boos erupted. Even Tan Kang called me to express his dissatisfaction: "Huo is really not like words, such a big thing, he didn't even say hello in advance!" ”

Complaining is complaining, Tan Kang knows that it depends on the owner to beat a dog. Since I am as stable as Mount Tai, it is nothing for him to complain, anyway, as he said, no matter how much trouble he makes, it is not his business, and his vital interests are not involved. It's just that many of his factions of politicians with strange intentions argued endlessly in newspapers and magazines, denouncing Huo Shuxiang for exceeding his authority and violating the constitution and formulating the law on the higher level without authorization. Huo Shuxiang's subordinates were not easy to mess with, and launched the loudspeaker of the Northeast propaganda organ to respond. One word for you, one word for me; You talk about it, I talk about it eight times - entangled in a war of words. This kind of war of words has covered up the really bad core problem in the past.

Amid the controversy among politicians, a large-scale anti-gang and anti-evil campaign in Northeast China was launched in early August 74. Huo Shuxiang's people have used a large number of secret means, and their policy in handling cases is to "combine secrecy with openness," and they have already thrown the word "openness" into unimportant places. Give them such a toss, and the unscrupulous officials who regard the Northeast as their own dynasty suddenly find that they suddenly have no privacy at all. Communications, communication secrets, sources of black money, and money laundering channels that were originally theoretically known only to God have all been turned into black and white materials, which are placed in front of them by sneering policemen. The beginning of the routine interrogation heard at this time was not the original "You have xx rights......", but the standard interrogation language formulated by Huo Shuxiang: "Sun Tzu, confess." At the same time, they discovered a very sad truth: more than a decade of formalizing the police system has been completely wasted. For more than 10 years, it has been declining year after year, and the rate of extorting confessions by torture, which has been close to zero in recent years, has suddenly soared to 100% -- it is useless to confess truthfully. If you try to resist, it's even better.

It has only been a week since the crackdown began, and police stations in various parts of the Northeast have carried out emergency renovation projects for the soundproofing materials of interrogation rooms. Because at the beginning of the actual operation, it was discovered that the energy contained in the bodies of those corrupt officials who were full of food all day long was too great, and they would always scream in a variety of ways during the interrogation every night. Interrogators can wear range earplugs to avoid the sharp edge, but the sound of pig-killing can always be heard from a distance of more than a kilometer to disturb the residents to rest, which has a very negative impact on the health of the broadest masses of the people and the glorious image of the police force. So this retrofit fee, although completely out of plan, had to bleed.

Among them, there are also a small number of corrupt officials who can still keep a clear head when they are continuously attacked by evidence, and they are worthy of being well-known. Then again, with low IQs, it's really not easy to mix in those positions for a long time. Therefore, the rogue parliamentarians can stir up the situation, but basically they can't make a big deal, and the real ones who can make big things are the outstanding cadres trained by GDI for many years in previous years. For example, one of these few sober-minded elites named Du Hesong was originally the director of the Liaodong Finance Department. His materials are half a foot thick, and the amount involved is more than 500 million. Therefore, his case was grasped extremely strictly, and Huo Shuxiang personally presided over the pre-trial. Who knows that this guy's psychological quality is really good - he knew that there was no good result before he came in, and he had already received two "memory beatings", but he still meticulously read all his materials. After reading it, he immediately pointed out: "You are fabricating the facts! More than 40% of them are not enough evidence, and you have speculated out of thin air - you can set me a question of 500,000 at most! ”

Huo Shuxiang waited for him to look at the materials and wasted an extremely precious afternoon, he was already impatient, and sneered when he heard this: "Director Du looked very carefully." ”

"Commissioner Huo, no matter how powerful you are, fabricating the facts, even if it is only a penny, can crush all your accusations." Du Hesong sneered: "As for the issue of fabricating 500 million facts in an attempt to frame provincial-level officials, my lawyer will directly report it to Chairman Tan." ”

"You don't have to worry about it, you don't have a lawyer." Huo Shuxiang said lazily: "It is worthy of a double master's degree in law and economics, and I have a clear understanding of the previous laws. But you have no idea how this time has changed. You have been deprived of all citizenship rights since the date you were placed on the list. You're trying to drag out seven days of criminal detention, right? Out of sympathy, I must advise you to give up that hope. There is no such thing as criminal detention now, and you can take a closer look at the first page of the material – now called 'Containment Review' for a period of one year. Trials may be held again 12 hours after the end of the trial. ”

Du Hesong suddenly changed color and shouted, "You! ”

"Director Du, the one who knows the times is Junjie." Huo Shuxiang shrugged his shoulders and said, "Your wife, eldest son, and eldest daughter have all been interrogated. We know that your youngest son was not involved in the case, he is just a simple artist. However, if you want to be a simple artist in this year, it is impossible without the support of a family like yours, can't we find the problem of that young man? Why do we have to go to the step of taking him in and taking him in for trial and trial, and repeatedly taking him in for ten or twenty years? ”

Seeing no hope that human rights and the law could provide any more hope, Huo Shuxiang's opponents collapsed one by one. Because there were too many targets to be investigated and punished, and there was simply no decent resistance in the later stage, the police system in the northeast was busy and dizzy. In the end, under the personal mediation of Huo Shuxiang, assembly line operation seats were set up in political and legal committees in various places to conduct centralized trials. This centralized trial also only solves the time consumption of the transfer of materials between the police, the inspection and the court, and the business is still so busy that it must be completed in three shifts.

It's complicated to say, but in fact, the process is quite simple, even boring - the daily operation process is: after the pre-trial in the interrogation room, the materials are sent to the office of the legal department of the police station where the interrogation seat is concentrated, and the office seat of the legal department quickly analyzes and remakes the materials, and immediately piles them on the next prosecutor's desk. After the prosecutor's office had verified the documents, it immediately piled them on the court's table for prosecution.

If we follow the past procedures, the preliminary trial took dozens of days, and it took two or three weeks to send the case to the procuratorate for verification, and then wait for the trial to be held when the court is prosecuted -- even if the evidence is sufficient and clear, it will take at least three or four months to kill a person, and it is not surprising that it will drag on for a year or two. But what is needed now is efficiency, and the "Anti-Crime Procedure Law" stipulates that "special trials can be conducted without court hearings", so in order to save valuable case-handling funds, all court sessions will not be held. In line with the sense of purpose of streamlining administration, simplifying procedures, and serving the people, this process cannot be interrupted and must be carried out continuously. So the judge checked the materials on the spot and put the big seals such as "death penalty" and "xx year" on the materials, and after the stamps were finished, they put the materials on a small cart in the execution court, and they came to pick them up every three hours, and according to the verdict on the materials, they carried out the work of shooting, raiding homes, confiscating bank accounts, and auctioning off illegal gains.

Under Huo Shuxiang's painstaking management, the political and legal institutions in Northeast China have been transformed into a high-speed operating ***** cutting off the heads of corrupt officials and bullies one after another with a hundred times the efficiency of the previous one. His work performance was so outstanding that he shot 874 people in the first month, an increase of 3,600 percent over the same period last year. When I got the report, I had to be shocked and admired, and casually said, "It's really a political and legal meat grinder!" ”。 Who knew that this sentence did not spread, and since then, Commissioner Huo Da's reputation as a meat butcher has become famous.

Compared with the panic of the old officials, the citizens of the Northeast are really happy. Looking at the Tai Sui people who were unlucky in the fish and meat village in the past, they were powerful and blessed, and they were unlucky to eat and take cards, and the people were so happy that they couldn't keep their mouths together. In addition, Huo Shuxiang rewarded the promoter with a small profit, and the people profited from the act of stepping on Tai Sui's head, and their enthusiasm was even higher. Many years later, some people criticized Huo Shuxiang's approach for leading to the Northeast in the future, "people's hearts are not simple, and treachery is rampant". But Commissioner Huo didn't think about it so much back then, all he was worried about was rectifying it as his own world in the shortest possible time. Regardless of his merits and demerits, it is a fact that the social atmosphere has improved greatly, and the government agencies have been incorruptible in an instant. The arrogance of the underworld and evil forces has suddenly disappeared, and it can be said that the results are remarkable.

Because the attack was too wide, in order to maintain social stability as much as possible while cracking down, Huo Shuxiang adopted the strategy of killing officials first and then killing soldiers, first focusing on dealing with underworld officials, and then slowly cleaning up the guys in the shadows behind them. However, no ruling class or powerful group will willingly withdraw from the stage of history and lose its status and power. Huo Shuxiang's attack was extremely spicy, and it was clear that he wanted to completely wipe out the Northeast bureaucracy and the underworld from the GDI era to the "democratic" era, so it became a catalyst for special effects, so that the two quickly and closely colluded to the strongest level in history.

In mid-August, signs of such collusion appeared. Rioters of varying sizes appeared in front of local governments to protest against the judicial organs' illegal law enforcement and abuse of power. The faces of these petitioners are completely different from those of a few months ago, their words and deeds are vulgar and unliterate, they are shouting and scolding on their upper bodies, revealing large tattoos, and they are not good people at first glance.

With the passage of time, the scope and scale of the troublemakers have become larger and larger, so that the police in various localities have been too busy just to deal with the concentrated crackdown on organized crime and control the disturbances, and many smaller cases have to be dragged out. At the end of August, I went to Spring City to run errands. As a result, because the displaced people gathered to make trouble, the car was blocked on the highway for four hours before waiting for the police to come to guide them, and finally got off the highway and came to the vicinity of the provincial government, and found that the four nearby streets were already blocked, so they had to get out of the car and walk, and only then could they get in through the back door. The provincial government is in such a mess that it can hardly get down to business, and I don't know what the local government has become. I called Huo Shuxiang on the same day and asked, "What are you doing, can you stabilize the situation?" ”

Huo Shuxiang said: "The humble post has already had a comprehensive plan, and for the current situation, it should be said that everything is expected. ”

"Then you just keep doing it, anyway, I don't care, the Northeast was handed over to you by Tan Kang." I snorted and said, "You'd better be sure not to come to me when you can't hold it back." ”

My crow's beak has always worked. Although Huo Shuxiang confidently stated to me that there was no problem, and the information from the 404 system under his command was always "generally stable", the actual situation was not like that, and I was not ignorant of this. For more than a month after mid-August, the old bureaucrats and the underworld groups in Northeast China, which had not yet been brought down, were closely linked and frequently active, and although the expression was only in the form of "mass disturbances" on an ever-expanding scale, it could no longer help but cause people to worry.

Summer in the Northeast is fleeting, and it is soon time to be in the crisp autumn season. At this time, the Space Fleet's expedition was about to enter its third year, and the battle situation was much better than the current situation in the Tohoku, and it was a real overall stability. According to the prior arrangement, a group of generals were rotated back to their hometowns for a month of vacation. After Han Zeng, Chen Xiangda, He Linchuan and other Chinese generals returned to their hometowns, they came to Huludao together to meet the second leader of the former Space Fleet and the current second shogun. I accompanied them to eat seafood and mountain delicacies for two days, and when I said goodbye to them one by one, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my heart. This kind of longing is really unwarranted and unrealistic. Jing Wei will not return to her hometown this time, and even if she returns, she will not be in the same world as me.

Suddenly remembering these things, I was depressed and uneasy, and I couldn't do anything, so I had to drive the yacht out in an attempt to catch some fish to relieve my boredom a little. Unexpectedly, as soon as the net was cast, I suddenly saw a herald rushing over on a jet ski, jumped on the yacht and shouted: "Urgent, urgent!" ”

I was in a bad mood, and when I saw his panicked appearance, I immediately scolded him head-on: "Panic, is your house on fire or is someone rebelling?!" ”

The herald shouted through chaff: "General, it's a rebellion!" ”

No way? I took the report suspiciously, unfolded it and looked at it twice, and suddenly a kind of excitement filled my body, and my gloomy mood was suddenly swept away, and I laughed: "Good thing, good thing, there is something to do, why is it not a good thing?" ”

The origin of this incident has to start with the anti-gang operation in early August. The first case that Huo Shuxiang handled after he started to sweep away the gang was actually a big case that had been pre-tried a long time ago. After he came to power in April, he took down Zhou Zhibin, the mayor of Fengtian, who was nicknamed "Clip" in the society - the origin of his nickname is because this person has to eat and take cards for any project above scale, and he will not let it go if he does not agree, and the name of greed shocks the world. The illegal assets and criminal facts that his family finally copied to Huo Shuxiang were worth a total of 1.87 billion, which was the largest corruption case in human history since the great era.

Clips have been operating in the Northeast officialdom for fifteen years, from the mayor of the town to the mayor of Fengtian. If it weren't for the fact that he was optimistic about Fengtian's status as the economic center of the northeast, he would have been more interested and unwilling to go to the province and the central government to be an official, and he would have already mixed up at or above the ministerial level. This kind of network of human relationships is more dense than ordinary people can imagine. From the day he was arrested and copied, there was a long queue of people who interceded, cried, and redressed grievances for him, day and night. Tan Kang didn't get tired of it, and the more and more projects were set up on the mobile phone to call the firewall, so he also offended many veterans and confidants of the Shanghai faction, and in the end he couldn't hold it back, so he directly said to Huo Shuxiang: "Don't delay the matter of the clip, do what you should do, do it early!" ”

Huo Shuxiang originally wanted to take the clip as a representative of the "phased achievement" and put it to be decided after the autumn, but Chairman Tan exerted pressure and had to start the operation in August in advance, giving a flag to the anti-crime operation. But a character like a clip really shouldn't have been slaughtered at the beginning, it would be a trigger that would move the whole body. Although it can boost morale, it also forces the opponent to jump over the wall. (To be continued.) )