Chapter 120: The Knife Is Given to You, You Decide Who to Stab

After Qin Chuan went out, he immediately called Li Jianguo. "Hello, County Magistrate Li, I am Qin Chuan from Huatian Town. Do you have time now? There is an urgent matter that I need to report to you."

Li Jianguo had been upset all day. This time, the joint investigation team, he specially stuffed Yu Wen in, hoping that he could pass back some information at the critical moment, or avoid some prominent problems on the spot.

But Yu Wen hadn't given him any news since he arrived in Huatian Town.

Logically speaking, no news is good news, but for some reason, he was always upset. The last incident was when he took the initiative to defect to Secretary Zhou Hongtao, so he saved Li Tian.

This time, there must not be any trouble.

However, just at this moment, he received Qin Chuan's call. Hearing Qin Chuan say it was an urgent matter, his heart skipped a beat.

He immediately asked, "What happened?"

Qin Chuan said, "Just now, when the joint investigation team was interrogating Hu San Guo, the Civil Affairs Office Director of our town, he confessed that Deputy Mayor Li had resold disaster relief supplies and relief grain, and almost all of this money went into his own pocket."

"This matter is not the most important. The important thing is that Hu San Guo reported and exposed that Deputy Mayor Li had forced many women to have relationships, and maintained improper relationships with dozens of women for a long time. There was one named Wang Erni, who was a civilian teacher in our town primary school before. Deputy Mayor Li failed to force her, so he used means to frame her and broke this teacher Wang's leg."

"Now this Wang Erni is hospitalized in the County Hospital. If no one comes out to testify about the things Hu San Guo reported, it doesn't matter. Once someone comes out to testify, it will be a big deal."

"I won't go into detail about the seriousness of this matter. I believe you know it in your heart, leader."

"And this matter, Deputy Secretary Li of the joint investigation team has already reported to Secretary Fang, so now we must hurry to contain it before Secretary Fang expands this matter."

"Also, this time the interrogation was attended by me and Mayor Su. Mayor Su helped the investigation team a lot, otherwise Hu San Guo might not have confessed so much."

Li Jianguo was struck by lightning when he heard these words. If it were before the County Magistrate and Secretary were air-dropped, this matter wouldn't matter even if there were witnesses. Anyway, he had the final say on everything.

But now it's different. There are County Magistrate and Secretary pressing down from above, and even Fang Jingwen, who is the Deputy Secretary and Discipline Inspection Commission Secretary, has a big background. So he has absolutely no privileges.

This matter is a matter of losing one's head.

What's even more hateful is that this Su Yang actually got involved. He is simply looking for death, but now he can't take care of cleaning up Su Yang...

After hanging up the phone, he immediately rushed to the office of County Party Committee Secretary Zhou Hongtao.

No one's words are useful for this kind of thing. Only the top leader can suppress the matter.

Halfway there, he seemed to think of something and immediately called the Captain of the Criminal Police Brigade of the County Public Security Bureau, Captain Ma. "There is a villager from Huatian Town in the County Hospital named Wang Erni. Now keep her under temporary custody. No one is allowed to contact her without my order."

That Captain Ma is the Captain of the Criminal Police Team and also one of Li Jianguo's confidants.

Hearing this, he didn't ask for the reason and went directly to the County Hospital.

Li Jianguo knocked on the door of Secretary Zhou's office and found that County Magistrate Zhou Ruohan and County Party Committee Deputy Secretary and Discipline Inspection Commission Secretary Fang Jingwen were already there.

Seeing these two people present at the same time, his heart skipped a beat again. If either of them were present, he would still have a few chances.

But he didn't expect these two to arrive at the same time.

"Secretary Zhou, County Magistrate Zhou, Secretary Fang, are you all here?"

People were already in, so naturally, it was impossible to withdraw. He could only bite the bullet and say.

Zhou Hongtao knew what was going on when he saw Li Jianguo come in. He smiled as usual and said, "Comrade Jianguo is also here. Sit."

"It just so happens that Secretary Fang is talking about Huatian Town. You should also listen."

Fang Jingwen and Zhou Ruohan were not surprised at all when they saw Li Jianguo come in, and even this matter was within their expectations.

Fang Jingwen and Zhou Ruohan nodded slightly to Li Jianguo, and then Fang Jingwen continued, "Secretary Zhou, the situation is just like this. I have already let the Discipline Inspection Commission staff go to the County Hospital to find Comrade Wang Erni."

"At the same time, I also ask Secretary Zhou to approve the investigation of Li Tian. The relevant evidence is enough to prove that he has illegal and disciplinary behavior."

After listening, Zhou Hongtao didn't rush to express his position, but looked at Zhou Ruohan and said, "County Magistrate Zhou, what do you think about this matter?"

At this moment, Li Jianguo's heart was hanging in his throat, because the top leader generally would not express his position directly. He would have to weigh it in the end.

But as the second-in-command County Magistrate, if she insisted on handling this matter, under normal circumstances, without a direct conflict of interest, the top leader would not directly veto it.

And the relationship between her and him...

Sure enough, he heard Zhou Ruohan say, "This is ignoring Party discipline and national law, lawless. If we don't take measures in time, are we waiting for him to continue making mistakes? My opinion is to conduct an investigation immediately."

"In addition, send those two key people from Huatian Town to the County Discipline Inspection Commission. Although I know the relationship between Comrade Li Tian and Executive Deputy County Magistrate Li Jianguo, Party discipline and national law are Party discipline and national law, and human feelings are human feelings."

"When the time comes, if it is found that these things were not done by Li Tian, I will represent the County Party Committee and County Government to apologize to Comrade Li Tian. If these are facts, then I will also help Comrade Li Tian strive for lenient treatment to a certain extent."

After speaking, she turned her head and looked at Li Jianguo and said, "I hope County Magistrate Jianguo can understand me. After all, our county had the Zhao Shanhe incident before, which has already caused a lot of noise. If we disturb the Municipal Party Committee or the province because of this matter again, then I think our pressure will be even greater."

"County Magistrate Jianguo should also be able to understand, right?"

Her words were also saying to Zhou Hongtao, both explicitly and implicitly. Once this matter disturbs the city or the province, as the top leader, the pressure on Zhou Hongtao will be greater than on Zhou Ruohan. This is unquestionable.

These words said to Li Jianguo were simply rubbing salt into the wound. Now all the facts are here, and you are telling me righteously that you will help Li Tian plead for mercy. Who are you pleading for? What's the use?

Despite this, Zhou Hongtao still didn't express his position directly, but looked at Li Jianguo and asked, "Comrade Jianguo, you and Li Tian's relationship is known to everyone, so I don't intend to let you avoid it. I originally wanted to ask you to come over and discuss it. Now I want to hear your thoughts. How should it be handled?"

Hearing Zhou Hongtao say this, the few people present realized a problem at the same time: this Secretary Zhou's skill was much higher than theirs.

If he directly expressed his position to strictly investigate Li Tian, it would be equivalent to offending Li Jianguo. But now the wind has changed, and he directly handed the knife to Li Jianguo. This is very obvious: are you going to stab yourself, or are you going to stab your son? ===== CHAPTER 121 =====