Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Prince's Line
The prince's line has become a big tool, and it will be unpredictable if you don't know it. Xu Tieying retreated bravely from the catastrophe, took the initiative to give up the director of the data room, and transferred to a mainland working committee with no sense of existence.
If you don't have authority, you are a dog in the water, Xu Tieying is prepared, but in the end, she can't stand the evil of this world, and the human affection is thin. When he was investigated, it was rumored that Xu Tieying had found a picture of Tang Bohu's beauty in Beiping, not to mention outsiders, a pair of red eyes in the party department stared at him first, and it hurt to bite it. The eldest son was very good in the mainland and sent to Taiwan, no one knows when this child was defeated by the lonely fear of wandering in a foreign land, obsessed with all kinds of friends and dances, and was led by someone to gather a crowd to take drugs and was arrested by the inspection team. After tossing for a month, Mrs. Xu saw that she was going crazy, so she showed her hole cards: exchange Tang Yin's beauty picture.
Xu Tieying was angry, it was simple to send the painting, but after sending it, it would attract more speculation and squeezing, and whether it would re-attract the investigation team, as far as Ma Hanshan's bear son, Xu Tieying didn't dare to think about whether he knew about this painting. Now he just begged Sun Chaozhong to come and sit more, suppress those greedy mouths, don't speak, or splash him with tea.
Sun Chaozhong is really here. Xu Tieying was so happy that she didn't even want the face of her old boss, took the initiative to pour tea and water, pulled a chair and sat next to Sun Chaozhong and said, Comrade Chaozhong, you all serve in the Political Action Committee, do you often see Wang Puchen? Sun Chaozhong was finally willing to face him squarely, and said indifferently, Deputy Director Wang. Xu Tieying felt that the piece of paper in his personal pocket was hot, and he was a little irrational, so he hurriedly restrained his urgency, and said with a sincere smile, I am inconvenient to make trouble for Comrade Pu Chen now, please Comrade Chaozhong to say hello to Comrade Pu Chen on my behalf.
Sun Chaozhong stared at him without speaking, without any expression on his face, but he saw that Xu Tieying's spine was cold, and then he stood up and left without saying a word.
Before Xu Tieying could properly figure out how to choke Wang Puchen's neck again, a phone call from the school smashed a thunderbolt on Xu Tieying's head: his youngest son was studying well at school, and the Communist Party riot squad that was being pursued outside the campus fired back, and the bullet flew out of range, hit the wall and bounced into the classroom, so that he could not die and hit the child's heart. Xu Tieying ran to the hospital without caring to pick up Mrs. Xu, and saw the teacher standing outside the door of the emergency room with his little son in a blood-stained red school uniform, and the child's eyes were already closed. The doctor said that there were no more people at that time.
Xu Tieying whispered, retribution, and fell straight back, all in front of him was Xie Mulan's face with her eyes closed and splashed with blood.
When Xu Tieying woke up, his eldest son had been released on bail and went home, kneeling on the edge of the bed and crying with tears streaming down his face, begging him for forgiveness. Xu Tieying seemed to be ten years old, her heart was gray, and she still struggled to ask, what about your mother and sisters? The eldest son said that Mrs. Xu was not very good, and the younger sisters were waiting. Xu Tieying beckoned his son to get up, and asked, who helped protect him? The eldest son replied, I haven't seen it before, it was your colleague in Peiping, Uncle Wang personally went to get me, and showed evidence to prove that I was framed.
Of course, the prince's henchmen didn't have time to sit and wait for Xu Tieying to wake up, so he only left a message, asking Xu Dagongzi to think more about his parents, and in the future, he will also bear the filial piety of the little son. This is true, not to mention that the eldest son regrets that he can't help himself, Xu Tieying himself wants to cry. He sighed, touched the piece of paper in his heart and thought, this person is a spirit, he knows that it is fake and warm-hearted, so let you go for the time being.
Xu Tieying actually guessed wrong, since Xishan said goodbye, Sun Chaozhong has not had the opportunity to see Wang Puchen again. Wang Puchen has an office in the Political Action Committee, which is basically not used, and he spends half of his time working in Comrade Jianfeng's office, and the other half is busy setting up a brand-new concept of the Intelligence Institute. Sun Chaozhong went to the School of Information to listen to Wang Puchen's class, and the enthusiastic students always drowned him out of the crowd; Taking the opportunity to visit Comrade Jianfeng, the staff always politely blocked the car, and Deputy Director Wang was accompanying Director Jiang to the meeting.
Sun Chaozhong was reluctant to admit the fact that it was already very clear - Wang Puchen did not see him. Isolated islands are rainy, silent or overwhelming, and people will be immersed in memories from which there is nowhere to escape. The sturdy and precipitous Xishan Prison followed this person through the heavy snow, through the cold wind shaking the enamel corridor lamp, and finally stood in a hidden corner of the leeward. The blurred light and shadow drowned his dark tunic in the darkness, and only the smooth face of jade and the shimmering party emblem appeared, and he slowly stretched out his hand to himself and said, Comrade Chaozhong......
He hesitated, hesitated, hesitated, and held the only warmth in the cold night.
Sun Chaozhong lit a paper cigarette, put it on the enamel ashtray, and let the smoke fill, soaking the whole body and mind little by little, as if he was beside him. The phone rang at an inopportune time, tearing him alive from his memories, and Sun Chaozhong calmed down five breaths before calmly picking up the phone.
A familiar voice came from the phone, Comrade Chaozhong? I'm Wang Puchen.
Xu Tieying no longer wanted to climb Wang Puchen for the time being, and Wang Puchen fell to the door with Sun Chaozhong on the night after the funeral at the Xu family.
Wang Puchen has not changed from four years ago, his appearance, temperament, and even the light gray Xia Bu tunics and the position of the party emblem on his body are exactly the same. The wet sea breeze poured in through the window, and the bright light of the table lamp made his eyebrows and lips fade, revealing more and more those calm and gentle, bottomless eyes. Xu Tieying wanted to laugh very much, he still remembered how proud he was in the gorgeous palace-like conference room of the Beiping Garrison Headquarters, Wang Puchen's subordinates all ran to sit behind him, and now, his secretary sat behind him Wang Puchen.
Brother Tie Ying, this man leaned towards him and said in that familiar soft tone, "Mourning."
Xu Tieying instantly aroused infinite fighting spirit, his eyes shimmered, he reached out and grabbed Wang Puchen's slender fingers, and said fiercely, Xie Mulan, I didn't kill it alone!
Wang Puchen was pulled along, he stopped Sun Chaozhong with his other hand, and looked at Xu Tieying quietly.
It's me who makes the decision, it's you who give up stopping it, and it's him who opens the gun to kill people! Wang Puchen, Xie Mulan died in the prison of your military commander!
I just received the secret message today, and I came to Brother Tie Ying, what a coincidence, as soon as I sat down, Brother Tie Ying brought up this topic.
Wang Puchen did not struggle, but instead covered his other hand on his exposed hand, soothing and gently patting it.
Xie Peidong, who was formerly the head of the Central Bank of Beiping, first served as an expert member of the People's Bank of China's Formation Committee after the People's Liberation Army was stationed in Beiping, and is now the director of the Exchange Rate Department of the People's Bank of China Headquarters. Brother Tie Ying, the answer you have been looking for has been there, Xie Peidong is not a communist. In other news, former Yenching University vice president He Qicang once again refused the government's request to participate in the negotiation of U.S. assistance and stayed in the United States to teach, because his student Liang Jinglun was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress and needed to recuperate for a long time. Zeng Dada's grave is still in Xishan, and the authorities have rebuilt the Xishan road, straightened and cut the bend, and the original road is gradually abandoned. It is foreseeable that unless our comrades return to the mainland, General Zeng's grave will disappear into the barren grass and dead poplars within two or three years.
His face was flushed with a very light but clear bitterness, and he took out a golden yuan coupon that was as thin as a snowflake from his coat pocket and placed it between the two of them.
The Central Party Department obstructed in every possible way, and sacrificed the Iron and Blood Salvation Association with all its might, but in the end all they got was this scrap money that could never be redeemed. Brother Tie Ying, the Central Command is a murderer, and so is the military commander, discipline never requires us to reflect on implicating the innocent, but the task is over, and we have also retreated to an overseas island, and we should talk about the part that belongs to people. killed someone's daughter, and shouldn't occupy someone's shares anymore. In order to save Cui Zhongshi, the deputy director of the treasury, and in order to keep the Fang family, Xie Xiangli transferred the shares of the subsidiary company of the Taiwan office of the Beiping Branch to Mrs. Zun and returned it to the Fang family.
Xu Tieying stared at Wang Puchen in surprise as if she couldn't understand, getting closer and closer, her brows began to jump, Pu Chen? Pu Chen?
Brother Tie Ying.
Are you dreaming, or am I dreaming? Wake up, wake up, ah, can't talk in dreams!
Brother Tie Ying once criticized Beiping Station, reversing the incompetence of the Communist Party and allowing inaction. At that time, it was inconvenient to talk about it, but today I would like to give a reply to Brother Tie Ying: If you oppose the Communist Party, you must also abide by the work arrangements in Nanjing. Whether Cui Zhongshi is a communist party or not, the Beiping Station of the Secret Bureau has secretly investigated, and whether Xie Peidong is a communist party, the Beiping Station of the Secret Bureau has also investigated, and the report is at the headquarters of the Secret Bureau, with Director Mao's approval and signature on it. On the night Cui Zhongshi was shot, I was in Xishan, and what I talked to him about with the Beiping Police Bureau and the Central Commander, he told me before the execution.
You just listen to the instigation of a communist party!
So, I didn't report it. Wang Puchen said calmly that no matter how much the central bank of Beiping can do the accounting, its company was also registered after the state government decided to operate Taiwan, and there is no need for professionals to interpret it, and the list and the time of registration of shareholders are listed, and any staff member of the state government can understand it. The Fang family is reasonable because he has reasons why he must be reasonable. Brother Tie Ying, it's time to put an end to it.
End? You took my secretary and broke into my house, just to say these two words to me? Let me guess, the party discipline investigation team can't go down the trial, kill a few shrimp can't move the people they really want to rectify, and report it to the head of the Jingguo group, you consciously have my handle and volunteered, and you also took my secretary to kill me with false feelings and false intentions to make meritorious contributions, huh? Sun Chaozhong! Use your party members and iron-blooded conscience to save the conscience of the members of the National Assembly, you tell Wang Puchen, have I ever been corrupt, have I accepted bribes from the Central Bank of Beiping?!
Sun Chaozhong turned a deaf ear.
Director Xu misunderstood. Wang Puchen said calmly, you know me, I have never been a troublesome person.
You're not! I returned the shares to the Fang family, my account is settled, will your Wang Puchen's account also be returned? Xie Mulan's life is fate, what about the two students of the Zhongzheng Society? And what about the students who were sent into a minefield? Wang Puchen, the official is promoted too fast, and the brain is easy to get confused, what you should be afraid of is not Tianli, it is me Xu Tieying! You give me advice, and I also give you Wang Puchen a piece of advice: Take your future and Sun Chaozhong's future to fill in Mulan's life, okay? Tell you Wang Puchen, I will go to report to the government tomorrow, I don't want this life, and you don't want to mix it up again!
Wang Puchen nodded calmly.
You're welcome. Brother Tie Ying follows his heart, just do what you need to do, and I'll wait for the organization to deal with it.
Xu Tieying was so angry that he walked around the room, grabbed the ashtray and wanted to fall, but put it down again. He pulled his collar roughly, simply opened his coat, leaned over and whispered with a wicked smile, Pu Chen, you are really not afraid, I will tell Sun Chaozhong what I said to you that day? Well?
Sun Chaozhong stood up suddenly, blocked his face with his palm that was about to come in front of Wang Puchen, and said indifferently, Director Xu, please respect yourself.
Xu Tieying's face showed an expression of madness, he gasped and said, ha, ha, I have self-respect, I have self-respect? When I don't have more self-respect than now, Wang Puchen doesn't dare to come back! Wang Puchen, the Central Party Department has been unjust to the Iron and Blood Salvation Association, have I been unjust to you?
No. At most, it will sow discord within the Iron and Blood Salvation Congress.
That's useless for yourselves! Wang Puchen, if I enter the party discipline investigation team again, I will break it up with Mr. Jingguo and talk about how I broke up the four of you!
Director Xu was angry. The head of the Jingguo team is pragmatic and close to the people, open-minded, and can report directly to him if he has ideas and suggestions. I'm here today just for personal relations and the past, Director Xu might as well think about it.
Wang Puchen put the golden yuan coupon in his hand and got up to say goodbye. When I walked to the door, I suddenly turned around and said, "There is another piece of news that may not be enough for you." Xie Xiangli married a colleague in Beiping, and added a daughter last year, whose name is still Mulan.
Leaving Xu's house and walking to the street, Sun Chaozhong opened the car door and asked Wang Puchen to get into the car with hand protection. The rain on the isolated island is coming, and Sun Chaozhong has not opened the door of the driver's seat, and half of his body is already wet. As the neon lights of Taipei blurred in the rain, Mr. Wang struck a match and gently extinguished it, allowing the sulphur-smelling smoke to inhale into his body.
Sun Chaozhong whispered, teacher.
It can't be changed. Wang Puchen said with some fatigue: Comrade Chaozhong, although the Iron and Blood Salvation Association will no longer mention it, Comrade Jianfeng's requirements for us are still there. We don't have a teacher-student relationship, so please call me Comrade Pu Chen.
I can't call you by your name.
That's called Deputy Director Wang.
I know the rules. Allow me to call you a teacher in a space where there is only you and me.
Comrade Chaozhong, I remember when I was teaching at the Information Academy, you sat in on it. The lecture focused on how to build iron rules out of everyday details, and I gave a few famous cases of revealing secrets through unconscious language.
There was a suffocating silence in the car. Wang Puchen sat quietly in the back seat, looking at the blurred torrential rain outside the window.
Sun Chaozhong finally said, Deputy Director Wang, I was wrong.
Comrade Jianfeng handed over your name to me so that I would know in my heart and not to accidentally hurt my comrades because of the contradiction between the military command and the central unification. We are all trained as professional agents, and organizational discipline is an iron law. Even if the work is temporarily intersected and there is no instruction from Comrade Jianfeng, you and I must not know each other after that. Remember, no matter whether Comrade Jianfeng will mention this history or not, you will always have only one line, Comrade Jianfeng.
Yes, Deputy Director Wang. Sun Chaozhong whispered, I want to ask you a question.
If you shouldn't ask, it's better not to ask.
Sun Chaozhong still asked.
How much does it cost to pay for a mistake? I am not enough myself, and I need my division commander to pay the price? If so, I am willing to step down from public office.
Price?
The voice in the back seat was as beautiful as the sound of rain on a quiet night, a lot. For example, if I have committed a disciplinary offense, I have to be questioned by Comrade Chaozhong at this moment.
There was once again a suffocating silence in the car.
Xie Mulan's main responsibility lies with me, you are just faithfully fulfilling the tasks of the organization, without any responsibility. I brought you here in the hope that you can face this matter correctly. Xu Tieying may not be worse than many people, but he is smarter than many people, he will go to the Fang family to withdraw shares when he figures it out, or be more courageous, and tell me with practical actions that the grievances have been cleared.
Yes, Deputy Director Wang.
When Sun Chaozhong parked the car in front of the door, the rain was still falling. Wang Puchen looked at the time, didn't let Sun Chaozhong get out of the car, picked up the umbrella himself, and put his slender fingers on the car door to twist. Sun Chaozhong suddenly said, Deputy Director Wang.
Wang Puchen looked up at him.
Sun Chaozhong stretched out his hand and touched his left arm.
You can trust me. If you have any tasks in the future, be sure to take me with you.
Wang Puchen's face was half-immersed in darkness, and his voice did not carry a trace of warmth.
Comrade Chaozhong, this matter will soon be over. Wang Puchen, Xu Tieying, Liang Jinglun, since then it is just a few names, and they have nothing to do with you. Young people have no heart and lungs, just be happy.
He pushed open the car door and walked into the presidential palace alone with an umbrella.
The Confidential Room Information Unit is located in a separate three-storey building, the team leader's office is lit up, and an important meeting will be held in 10 minutes.
As soon as Wang Puchen walked in, Comrade Jianfeng asked him with a smile, are you back? It's hard for you to face that old party stick. Wang Puchen replied respectfully: Xu Tieying is still firm in his party-state stance, and he is accurate in grasping the Communist Party. Let me report back to you on the conversation: Xu Tieying has grasped the main point, and there are still concerns, and it will take some time to comply. My conversation with him always revolved around Xie Mulan, during which his wife and a daughter eavesdropped outside the room, and I thought it would help Xu Tieying to make up his mind to cut ties with the central party department, so I didn't remind him.
Fang Buting is determined to die on the ship of Kong Song, even if the account book is really burned by him in Beiping, he will recite it to me! Let Xu Tieying be the gavel to beat Fang Buting, if he still refuses to resonate with the government, the government will no longer be able to care about his merits.
Wang Puchen stood quietly with his hands down, as if he did not exist.
What about Sun Chaozhong? What is his state?
Comrade Chaozhong always thought that I took him to end the matter of him killing Xie Mulan with a gun, so as to prevent Xu Tieying from blackmailing him in the future. Xu Tieying has no fear of him, although he has not had a deep conversation with Comrade Chaozhong, I think he doesn't know much about Xu Tieying's secret corruption transaction.
Xu Tieying's methods are old and spicy, and his deeds have always been rigorous and unremarkable, and he has put aside corruption and ability, and many of our comrades, including the comrades of the party discipline investigation team, are far worse than this old party stick. It is not possible to rely on them, Pu Chen, you do it, make preparations with both hands, and let your people monitor Fang Meng Ao and his wife who teaches at the university tomorrow, remember, don't startle the snake first.
Be.
What else? You speak directly.
It's a trifle. According to your opinion, Comrade Chao Zhong did not know that it was you who personally rescued him, and since he went to Xu's house tonight, he seemed to be grateful to me personally. I have criticized him and made it clear that I will not have a personal relationship with him in the future. I would like to ask you if you would like to explain to him how much you care about him.
Comrade Jianfeng was silent for a moment, left the desk and patted Wang Puchen on the back, and cordially motioned for him to sit on the sofa with him.
After the failure of the currency reform, I was in a difficult situation in the party, unable to defend the comrades around me, so I could only let you face the test alone. Comrade Da Da was not able to stand the test, and this is my greatest regret. You defend me everywhere, you don't have to put gold on my face, Comrade Chaozhong was indeed negligent by me, if you hadn't rescued me in time and let Xu Tieying succeed, the prestige of the Reserve Cadre Bureau would be there, and the prestige of the Iron-blooded Salvation Association would be there! I believe that if you see people's eyes, a comrade who has suffered from the unfair treatment of the organization and is in a difficult state can take the initiative to prevent you from accepting the co-optation of the Communist Party and safeguard the dignity of the party and the state, such a comrade is worthy of trust. Comrade Chaozhong has completely severed himself from the Central Party Department, and the organization is considering reusing him, and it is up to you to grasp when and how to speak.
Yes, Pu Chen understands.
Don't be overly cautious. Comrade Jianfeng showed warmth and told him, you are the most important organizational rules, I know it. In the future, you don't need to know anything like this, you don't have to report it to me, you can decide.
Comrade Jianfeng's hand was thick and warm, and he put it on his back, but Wang Puchen felt cold.
Comrade Jianfeng immediately felt Wang Puchen's nervousness, and his face seemed to turn a little pale.
Comrade Jianfeng, the two directors of the military command are top figures, and they are finally disgusted by the party-state, Pu Chen believes that it is not their original disloyalty to the party-state, the problem lies in the four words "prevent micro problems". The intelligence department's powers are broad and vague, and the small sections are casual, and they will lose a big deal after a long time, and Pu Chen's grassroots field service is cultivated and promoted to a high position by you, and they should be self-cleaning and self-disciplined, cautious and cautious.
Comrade Jianfeng patted him on the back with satisfaction, and said heartily, let's go, let's have a meeting!
Xu Tieying had not yet calmed down from his strange anger when he heard the news that Wang Puchen had taken over as the deputy commissioner of supervision of Dachen Island and accompanied Mr. Xiao Jiang, the commissioner of supervision, to the front line in Zhejiang. Is it really just gone? Xu Tieying took the initiative to visit Deputy Director Sun for the first time, and asked tentatively, Commissioner Wang is not in good health, is he really going to be stationed at the front line? Sun Chaozhong didn't have any expression on his face, but the pen in his hand stopped. Xu Tieying paced back and forth, and caught a glimpse of a pack of unsealed paper cigarettes placed on Sun Chaozhong's desk. I look at his finger, I haven't twitched it in years.
Sun Chaozhong suddenly reacted, his eyes flashed, and he said coldly, Director Xu has good eyesight.
Xu Tieying was furious by him, and Heng Zhi already knew that Wang Puchen really didn't leave any words for him, so he was about to leave. Sun Chaozhong stood up and poured him a glass of water, stretched out his hand to let him sit down on the sofa, and asked, did Director Xu know Commissioner Wang before he arrived in Beiping?
Xu Tieying was angry, damn it, he has been a secretary for more than three years, and now ask him who he is familiar with! As soon as he opened his mouth to scare the past, the old fox had a flash of inspiration, and then pretended not to care and said that their respective family rules were strict, and they only had deep friendships in Beiping. Sun Chaozhong was really interested in this topic, and couldn't help but lean his body towards him, looking focused. Xu Tieying sat more and more firmly, his two thumbs rotated quickly, meditating on Wang Puchen's file, and said, You came to the party department late. At that time, he worked as a civilian in the Honggong Ancestral Hall, and sometimes came to the party headquarters to negotiate some official affairs, and his figure was relaxed, unlike the style of the military commander's cowhide coaxing, and the headquarters was willing to give him face.
The rules of the military command, I have never done field work, and if I want to reuse, I have to start from the local inspector and commissioner, but Wang Puchen directly appointed a first-class station chief. Xu Tieying looked at Sun Chaozhong, lowered his voice and said, Among your people in Beiping, there is only one real confidant of Mr. Xiao Jiang, and there is only one who will protect him.
Sun Chaozhong actually nodded approvingly.
Damn. Xu Tieying was puzzled, was he, the former secretary, really stupid, or really cultivated into the party constitution?
Before Xu Tieying made up his mind to be the gun of the investigation team, Mrs. Xu smashed the bridge of his nose with an equity certificate, and she had sorted out all the equity gains in the past few years, and Xu Tieying would not return the money, she would go in person. Xu Tieying was anxious, slammed his palm on the table and said, Wang Puchen is from the military command, you have to believe me! Mrs. Xu's eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she said in his voice, Xie Mulan was not killed by me alone, it was me who made the decision, it was you who didn't stop it, and it was he who killed people with guns. Xu Tieying, you said this yourself, right? Of the three people, you are the only one who took the girl's money, I heard you right!
Xu Tieying is like an ominous owl bird, after four years, he flew into Fang's house again with a mourning sound. Wang Puchen has already prepared all the materials for him, there are feelings, reasonableness, advantages, and concessions, as long as this old party stick plays his usual level on the spot, in the gun, Fang Buting naturally knows how the Fang family should choose.
successfully leveraged the lever of the Central Bank of Beiping, and half of the black box of insider trading in the party was opened. Xu Tieying shrank up after finishing his work, and he could probably guess who thundered and who rained in the clouds in the sky of the isolated island. Within half a year, several bigwigs in the political arena either went into the opposition, resigned, or went abroad to recuperate, and the relatives of the party involved in the case were never allowed to return to Taiwan, and the party and government power completely returned to the hands of the president. Fang Buting resigned due to old illness, got out safely, and took his family to settle in the United States. Xu Tieying received an official notice from the party discipline investigation team that he had not violated discipline, and hoped that he would strictly abide by party discipline in the future and not forget the expectations of the party and the state.
Wang Puchen is still far away in Zhejiang, and there is no news.