Rebirth of the Rising Sun

In Building No. 1 of the Lianhua Municipal Party Committee, Xia Xiang, the municipal party committee secretary, was sitting in the living room. There was already some snow on the TV, and the TV was no longer on, but he really didn't care, or didn't notice it, because his attention was completely focused on Feng Sizhe's bribery incident.

From what he knew about Feng Sizhe, he was a cadre who was not greedy for money. He had never heard anyone say that Feng Sizhe would take advantage of others. He even looked at the reimbursement materials of cadres from the municipal government. He found that Feng Sizhe, as the executive vice mayor, had the least reimbursement of public funds. He even paid for his meals out of his own pockets. How could such a cadre ask for bribes? Besides, he could raise hundreds of millions of investment funds for road construction with just a wave of his hand, so how could he ask for a bribe of 300,000 yuan from others? This number was too small.

It can be said that in the depths of Xia Xiang's heart, he absolutely did not believe this matter, but he did know that all the evidence was unfavorable to Feng Sizhe. He was caught red-handed at the scene, and there was video evidence. This was indeed a difficult thing to clear. For this reason, he, the secretary of the municipal party committee, was also very troubled.

He had also thought about who wanted Feng Sizhe to get into trouble or wanted him to leave. Could it be Ruan Guiben? This shouldn't be the case. If it was him, as a local of Lianhua, he should be happy to see the Lianhua economy recovering and on the road to prosperity. Why would he try to stop it? But if it was Bei Jinlong, does he have the ability to do so? Forcing an executive vice mayor into such a situation, isn't he too capable?

Xia Xiang really couldn't figure out the incident itself.

The TV was suddenly turned off, and then his lover came out of the bedroom and walked behind him, "Lao Xia, look at the time now. Why don't you go to bed soon? Do you still want to keep your body? I think the higher-ups are really mean. They let you be the secretary and the mayor at the same time. If I think it's not okay, I will report it to the higher-ups and ask them to send a mayor to share the work with you as soon as possible. Otherwise, I'm afraid your body will really be ruined."

Mrs. Xia's unintentional words of concern for Xia Xiang did become a door lock, reminding Xia Xiang immediately.

Yes, if there is any relationship between Ruan Guiben and Feng Sizhe, it is the next mayor selection. Ruan Guiben is the first candidate, and Feng Sizhe is the second candidate. Although in terms of seniority, age and personal prestige, Ruan Guiben is much higher than Feng Sizhe in Lianhua City. But there is no absolute in politics. No one can tell who will win or lose until the last moment. Can it be said that it is because Ruan Guiben thinks too much and is afraid that Feng Sizhe will really take the position and pose a threat to him, so he did this? If so, everything makes sense.

Thinking that he had finally dug out the root of the problem, Xia Xiang felt his mind was clear. Then he stood up, hugged his wife, and kissed her on the cheek.

Xia Xiang's sudden action startled his wife, and then Mrs. Xia said coquettishly, "Look at you, you are already over 40 years old, why are you still like a child? Aren't you afraid that the children will see you when they come out to the toilet?"

"Hehe, madam is right. Let's go into the house now. That way no one can see us." After Xia thought things through, he became more energized and felt that he had a lot more strength. He thought about doing something with his madam.

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It seemed like any other night, but in fact many things happened.

First, just after dawn, Fu Di, who was locked in the interrogation room, was suddenly found unconscious, which immediately made the police panic. Later, someone suggested sending Fu Di to the First City Hospital for treatment. After all, if a person died in the police station, it would not be a small matter.

After Bei Jinlong received this information early in the morning, he loudly scolded the police who tortured Fu Di yesterday, saying that he was too harsh. How could such a businessman with poor health be tortured? But these are all minor matters. The important thing is that Fu Di is in the hospital, and it is even more difficult to find a breakthrough for the three people. Bei Jinlong had no choice but to target Chen Guangming, hoping that this person would admit something.

The second thing was that early in the morning, just after Secretary Xia Xiang arrived at the Municipal Party Committee Office, he received a call from the provincial capital. The call was from Comrade Yu Zhengda, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission. As soon as he got through the phone, he loudly asked what exactly went wrong in Lianhua City, whether they wanted to engage in personal "factionalism", and why they didn't even report such a major event as the deputy mayor's solicitation of bribes. He needed Xia Xiang's explanation.

Upon hearing that this matter had already been known to his superiors, Xia Xiang was naturally a little angry. He had specifically instructed yesterday that this matter was limited to Lianhua City and should not be reported to the province first. However, there were still people who did not listen to him and reported it, and they were still tempted by a big shot like Secretary Yu. It can be imagined that the person who exposed this matter must be of a high rank, otherwise it would not have been reported to Secretary Yu.

On the phone, Xia Xiang could only take the initiative to admit his mistakes, saying that there were still some unclear points in the case, so he hoped to conduct an investigation first and then report to the provincial party committee.

But at this time, Secretary Yu didn't want to listen to Xia Xiang's explanation on the phone. He told him to come to the province immediately and explain the matter to the Provincial Party Committee. He also said that he would report the situation to Secretary Luo of the Provincial Party Committee immediately. Such a big problem had occurred in Lianhua City, and the Provincial Party Committee must know the details.

Knowing that he couldn't escape, Xia Xiang had no choice but to nod and agree, saying that he would report the situation to the provincial party committee immediately.

After hanging up the phone, he was very angry. He picked up the phone and called Chen Zhenghai, secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Huang Lin, secretary of the Municipal Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and asked them to go to the Municipal Bureau today to talk to Feng Sizhe and other comrades and try to find out more about what had happened and the details of the incident.

In fact, Xia wanted to do this just to protect Feng Sizhe and the people around him. He didn't want anything bad to happen when he was not in Lianhua City, so he asked these two people to keep an eye on it. With them watching, even if some people wanted to do something, it wouldn't be that easy.

After dealing with these things, Xia Xiang left the Lianhua Municipal Party Committee and drove straight to the provincial capital.

Seeing Xia Xiang's special car leave Lianhua City, Ruan Guiben and Bei Lianxiang, who were watching all this from the window, laughed. A call was made to Yu Zhengda, and he really asked him to transfer Xia Xiang away. Then, things would be much easier. They had to take advantage of Xia Xiang's absence from Lianhua City to take action against Feng Sizhe, or at least make things safe, so that there would be no other way to wait for Xia Xiang to come back.

Bei Lianxiang called the municipal party committee standing committee members at home to convene an emergency meeting. Half an hour later, in the No. 1 small meeting room of the Lianhua Municipal Party Committee, the ten standing committee members of Lianhua City who were at home sat together.

Dong Yongzhao, the deputy mayor of the Standing Committee, who had not yet had time to go to the districts and counties, had no idea what the meeting was about, so as soon as he entered the meeting room, he said to Bei Lianxiang, "Secretary-General Bei, what is the theme of this meeting? I still have a lot of work to do."

"Oh, Mayor Dong, don't worry. It's just a vote. It will be done soon. It won't delay your work." Bei Lianxiang looked at Dong Yongzhao with a smile. She knew that this man had a good relationship with Feng Sizhe. At least they worked very closely together. If it weren't for his age and lack of prospects, he would have been taken care of and left alone.

It can be said that in the minds of people like Bei Lianxiang and Ruan Guiben, they all reject those who have working ability because such people will often endanger their own status. Think about it, the main cadres of Lianhua City are like this, then it is conceivable that it is normal that there has been no improvement for such a long time.

After most of the standing committee members were seated, the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, Ruan Guiben, walked into the meeting room with a small notebook. Everyone looked at Ruan Guiben and saw that only Xia Xiang was there, and they couldn't help but wonder what went wrong.

Ruan Guiben smiled at everyone, then sat down in the main seat of the conference room. He smiled and said to everyone, "Comrades, Secretary Xia just received a call from the Provincial Party Committee, saying that he needs to report on Comrade Feng Sizhe's solicitation of bribes, so I will temporarily host this meeting."

Ruan Guiben was already the first candidate for the mayor of Lianhua City. Under normal circumstances, if nothing unexpected happened, he would be the future mayor of Lianhua City. Now that the municipal party secretary was not here, it was natural for him to preside over the meeting, and no one else could find any fault with it. So everyone sat there and listened to him speak without any objection.

Seeing that no one had any objection, Ruan Guiben smiled happily. This was exactly the effect he wanted. He wanted everyone to recognize his status, so that the next things would be easy.

"Comrades, the provincial party committee just called and expressed great dissatisfaction with the bribery case of Vice Mayor Feng Sizhe in Lianhua City. Secretary Xia originally meant not to report to the provincial party committee before the matter was clarified, for the sake of Lianhua City. After all, we all hope that such a thing is false. If it is true, it will have a bad impact on everyone. But now the provincial party committee has known about it, which means that we have no choice now. The only thing we can do is to vote on this matter immediately and come up with a result. This at least counts as taking the initiative. This also counts as an explanation to the provincial party committee. So the theme of today's meeting is the issue of Comrade Feng Sizhe's bribery. I need the municipal committee to reach a consensus. Now let's ask Director Bei Jinlong to introduce the situation."