Rebirth of the Rising Sun

Sheng Shike was in charge of the Propaganda and Education Office and the Party and Government Style Supervision Office. It could be said that he was in charge of the propaganda department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. It was reasonable for Feng Sizhe to ask him this. After hesitating for a while, he looked at Feng Sizhe's seemingly sincere smile and said in his heart, "Humph! Why are you pretending? Hua Pengtao and Zhang Zhong didn't say anything, but you are pretending to be calm and saying that you want to invite even the propaganda department. You are trying to scare me. You are playing the empty city trick. Okay, you think you are Zhuge Liang, but I am not Sima Yi. I am not afraid of you."

"Well, it's rare that Comrade Feng Sizhe has such a request. So, I agree to your request. This time the three of us will go to try Hua Pengtao's case. People from the propaganda department will follow us throughout the process and it will be recorded. Do you think this will be okay?" Sheng Shike didn't believe that Feng Sizhe would have any good way to turn the situation around. On the contrary, he thought that Feng Sizhe was bluffing. For this reason, he also wanted to take advantage of the situation. What's wrong with sending people from the propaganda department? By then, Hua Pengtao and Zhang Zhong will deny everything and then turn around and bite Feng Sizhe. Then we'll have to see what he will do.

Shengshike dared to send people from the publicity department to record the entire trial process, which shows his confidence. After Feng Sizhe heard this, he was stunned for a moment.

It was this moment of shock that made Sheng Shike very happy. It turned out that you, Feng Sizhe, also get afraid sometimes. So, you wanted to scare me, but I remained unmoved. Then, on the contrary, are you afraid? Hahaha.

Ouyang Ling also saw everything, and he also saw Feng Sizhe's stunned expression. He had the same idea as Sheng Shike. He thought that Feng Sizhe's empty city plan might fail this time. He also laughed, "Okay, since we have settled everything, I think we should do it right away. So, Deputy Secretary Sheng, can you arrange for the publicity personnel to come over right away? And Director Feng, can you also get ready, so that we can go and see Comrades Hua Pengtao and Zhang Zhong together?"

Ouyang Ling wanted to strike while the iron was hot and force Feng Sizhe to submit without giving him any time to prepare.

Faced with the aggressiveness of the two deputy secretaries, Feng Sizhe couldn't find an excuse to regret it at this moment, so he could only nod his head and said, "Okay, as soon as the propaganda staff arrives, we will set off immediately."

"Okay." Ouyang Ling laughed. He thought that Feng Sizhe would probably suffer a great loss this time.

Shengshi Keben was in charge of publicity. He gave an instruction and immediately five or six publicity staff members came to be responsible for recording the video.

Half an hour later, Feng Sizhe, Ouyang Ling, and Sheng Shike took four cars with the publicity staff to the courtyard where Hua Pengtao and Zhang Zhong were imprisoned. In order to prevent Feng Sizhe from doing anything, Ouyang Ling followed Feng Sizhe all the time, and even the two of them were in one car.

Feng Sizhe sneered in his heart at Ouyang Ling who was sitting next to him and seemed to be resting with his eyes closed. This person was willing to invest money to help Shengshike and even followed him like a piece of taffy. Well, I hope you don't cry when the result comes out.

Four cars arrived outside the yard, and Chen Ping, who was in charge of the work here, hurried out with a group of staff. When they saw that this time there were not only their director Feng Sizhe, but also Deputy Secretary Ouyang Ling and Deputy Secretary Sheng Shike, and even the propaganda staff and photographers of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, they were also stunned.

The reaction of Chen Ping and others was what Sheng Shike had expected. Seeing this scene, he felt more confident. He even thought that Feng Sizhe had been bluffing all along and actually had no backup plan at all.

In the largest room in the courtyard, the propaganda staff set up a camera. Chen Ping sat in the middle. Next to him, Ouyang Ling, Sheng Shike, and Feng Sizhe sat side by side. They were there to listen to the trial. They could also be called deputy judges and had the right to speak, but the presiding judge was still Comrade Chen Ping.

Seeing that everything was ready, Chen Ping cast a questioning look at Feng Sizhe. Feng Sizhe nodded, and Chen Ping also nodded, then said, "Come here, bring Comrade Hua Pengtao and Comrade Zhang Zhong up together."

The reason why the two of them were brought up together was to save trouble. There are many things that will happen if the two of them confront each other.

After a while, with the help of several inspectors, Hua Pengtao and Zhang Zhong walked into the room. When Hua Pengtao saw that even his leader Sheng Shike was sitting on the stage, he immediately became confident. The old leader personally came out for his own affairs. In addition, he had already met with Zhang Zhong and colluded with him, so what was there to be afraid of?

Two chairs were placed in the middle of the room, and Hua Pengtao and Zhang Zhong sat down respectively. Then the publicity staff turned on the camera, and then the presiding judge Chen Ping began to ask questions.

"Comrade Hua Pengtao, in June 2002, were you sent by the organization to Qiqihar City, Harbin Province to investigate the corruption case of Comrade Zhang Zhong, the then Director of the Transportation Bureau?" Chen Ping asked slowly, holding a stack of documents on the table.

"Yes." Hua Pengtao nodded. These things were all recorded in the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and he could not deny it.

"Well, let me ask you, is it true that someone reported that the person being reported, Zhang Zhong, bribed you with 800,000 yuan in cash in order to keep his official position?" Chen Ping continued to ask.

"No. This is simply not true. Comrade Zhang Zhong has no problems at all. After our investigation, we found that this is simply a fabrication. In fact, Comrade Zhang Zhong worked diligently and wholeheartedly as the Director of the Qi City Transportation Bureau. He did not embezzle anything, so how could he have accepted bribes from me?" Hua Pengtao shook his head, indirectly denying the fact that he accepted bribes. Of course, he was still very smart. He first said that Zhang Zhong was very upright, so that the bribery would not exist.

Hua Pengtao can be said to be an old cadre of the Discipline Inspection Commission. He has tried countless people and cases, so he is very familiar with the Discipline Inspection Commission's system. On the contrary, Chen Ping has never been involved in the work of the Discipline Inspection Commission before. He has become a novice. It is easy to imagine what the result will be when a novice faces a veteran.

"Okay." Chen Ping didn't seem to have any more novel ideas. Seeing that Hua Pengtao didn't reveal anything, he had to look at Zhang Zhong. "Comrade Zhang Zhong, someone reported that when you were the director of the Qi City Transportation Bureau, you accepted red envelopes from three road companies when you were building the Qi City Outer Ring Road. One of them didn't have the qualifications to build the road, but just because they gave you two million, you signed their approval certificate. I wonder if there is such a thing?"

"No, this is absolutely slander." After hearing the accusation against him, Zhang Zhong immediately denied it.

Zhang Zhong also refused to admit anything, which made Ouyang Ling and Sheng Shike on the side nod their heads. Although Zhang Zhong was not their man and his life or death had nothing to do with them, Hua Pengtao was involved after all. If this person could hold on now, it would of course be the best.

"No, then let me ask you, when I showed up in Qi City and took you away, why did you admit everything in front of me? Huh?" Chen Ping saw that Zhang Zhong also denied everything in the blink of an eye, and he couldn't help but feel anxious. Thinking back to when he went to Qi City to take Zhang Zhong away, Zhang Zhong said that in order to reduce his guilt, he would cooperate with Chen Ping and tell him everything he knew and did. But why did he change his confession now?

"Ah, what does Team Leader Chen mean? I don't understand. When did I admit anything? Do you have any evidence? Let me tell you, although you are a cadre of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, you must produce evidence if you say so. Otherwise, I will seek justice for myself in front of the leader." Zhang Zhong had already recognized Sheng Shike and Ouyang Ling. How many of the cadres below would not know this deputy director of the inspection team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection? In a sense, this person is their evil spirit. If they offend this person, their careers will be over. Therefore, it is impossible not to know such a person.

Seeing that two deputy secretaries of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection had come to try his case, Zhang Zhong knew that he had to be tough. With such support, what did he have to fear? Especially Sheng Shike, who had passed him a note not long ago, would definitely speak for him.

Zhang Zhong changed his confession and asked him for evidence, which made Chen Ping a little annoyed, but he was helpless because when he met Zhang Zhong at that time, he only said these things verbally and did not leave anything that could be used as evidence. Now that he was asked this question, he was speechless.

Chen Ping didn't know what to say at this moment. Sheng Shike was very happy to see this. "Hey, Comrade Chen Ping, as a member of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, the most important thing is evidence. You can't just lie and say whatever you want just because you are the chief judge. You can't say something that didn't happen. This is wrong of you."

When Sheng Shike started to attack Chen Ping, Hua Pengtao, who was sitting in the audience, felt that an opportunity had come. He immediately said, "Yes, Deputy Secretary Ouyang, Deputy Secretary Sheng, you don't know that I was locked up here for no reason. Then every day, someone came to interrogate us and induce us, saying that we would never be able to get out after being targeted by the Inspectorate. The only way out is to cooperate with them. We just nodded and agreed to whatever they said. Sometimes they even used threatening words to scare us. Once, because I didn't agree to cooperate with them, they even wanted to hit me."

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