Siheyuan: My name is Cao Xing, and I have a strong background

Xiang Ji’s idea was simple: he had to take down Cao Xing at all costs.

This can be said to be his long-cherished wish.

He has been tracking down Cao Xing for many years, but the more he investigated, the more powerless he felt. Now that he has been promoted to deputy team leader and has power, he will certainly not let Cao Xing go.

Tao Guoli's idea was simpler. He just felt that he was now a powerful deputy team leader. He could incite the masses with just one word and make those high-ranking officials whom he once looked up to become prisoners with just one word. He would not allow anyone to challenge this feeling.

Therefore, when faced with a stubborn element like Cao Xing, he had to take him down to prove the ridiculous majesty in his heart.

Wei Zheng is different from them.

Those two men had been blinded by the enormous power, their hearts filled with desires, but he was different. He always had a sense of crisis in his heart.

In his opinion, there is no love without reason in this world.

It’s like his sudden promotion to the position of deputy team leader. The huge power did not make him happy, but made him more vigilant.

He had a feeling that the Central Group was the executioner at the highest level, and that when the executioner had completed his task, he would become useless.

The end will also be waiting for him.

Therefore, he has been extremely cautious since taking office and has basically not done anything like confiscating property. His main goal is to avoid attracting hatred.

But even the deputy team leader needs to take sides.

Therefore, he chose Xiang Ji and Tao Guoli, who also came from the Supervisory Office.

The reason for forming an alliance with them is not only because of their background, but also because these two people are not so greedy for money.

As far as he knew, they were the only two who were the least greedy in the entire group.

This does not mean that these two people are good people, but that people have different selfish desires.

Xiang Ji and Tao Guoli did not have much desire for money, but they attached too much importance to power.

In Wei Zheng's opinion, such people still have some bottom line.

"Since you all don't agree to reconcile, then we can only choose the second path, which is to beat Cao Xing to death and make him unable to recover from this."

Xiang Ji thought he had some brilliant ideas, but it turned out he just said this.

"I thought you were going to say something, isn't this nonsense?"

Wei Zheng corrected him, "People like Cao Xing cannot be dealt with directly, because as long as his backers remain strong, everyone will be afraid of him."

Tao Guoli's eyes lit up, and he quickly said, "You mean we should deal with the people behind Cao Xing first? But we can't even deal with Cao Xing, let alone his backers?"

Xiang Ji also said: "That's right, behind Cao Xing is Wang Jianjun, who is a minister-level figure and the Minister of Public Security who restrains us. I don't think we have the strength to take him down."

Wei Zheng smiled sinisterly and said, "There have always been alliances in this world. Our strength is not enough, so we can borrow strength. Wang Jianjun cannot have all the power in the public security department. He must have political enemies. With the positive and negative forces, our strength can be balanced and Wang Jianjun can be taken down."

His idea was very good, and it seemed that in his eyes this was not a difficult task at all.

After Xiang Ji and the other man finished speaking, their eyes lit up.

Xiang Ji was even more delighted, because he knew that Wei Zheng's talents could definitely help him solve this problem.

"Well said. It's time for us to contact Shi Ren and his team. Shi Ren and his team have someone in the Ministry of Public Security who I think could be of use."

Tao Guoli clapped his hands and said excitedly, "Haha, I know that the man they have control over is called Shi Yi, Shi Ren's brother, and he is also the political director of the Ministry of Public Security, an official at the vice-ministerial level. I think he should be able to help us achieve our goal."

Wei Zheng said seriously: "This matter must be kept secret. I know Wang Jianjun. He is a powerful figure with very powerful means. If we can't give him a fatal blow, I'm afraid we will have a hard time protecting ourselves from his counterattack."

They knew exactly what kind of person Wang Jianjun was.

Among the ministerial-level cadres, none of them is easy to deal with.

However, there were only two people who made the team leaders and deputy team leaders feel intimidated.

One of them is Wang Jianjun, and the other is Minister of Industry Zheng Guotao.

Wang Jianjun has an iron-fisted approach and is very good at governing his subordinates. Since taking office, he has cracked more than 300 espionage cases and made countless contributions.

Zheng Guotao is an outstanding person. In recent years, the industrial production value has continued to break new records, and he is extremely innovative. He once led a group of officials to solve industrial problems and achieved remarkable results.

Moreover, Zheng Guotao is a smooth person and is highly valued among the top leaders. It can be said that he has a solid foundation.

What's more, these two people are comrades-in-arms and allies in offense and defense. Even the leader of the central group cannot afford to offend them easily, let alone their deputy leaders.

This is why even though Xiang Ji knew that Cao Xing was Wang Jianjun's nephew, he had no intention of dealing with Wang Jianjun.

Now that Wei Zheng has figured out a way to take down Wang Jianjun, they are naturally extremely cautious.

Hearing their conversation, Cao Xing's face became extremely gloomy. What he could not tolerate the most was others messing with his family.

This Wei Zheng has obviously touched his bottom line.

He did not directly retrain the three people, but continued to investigate the criminal records of the remaining people in the central team after the three were separated.

But the focus is on Xiang Ji and three others.

Cao Xing even investigated their families and had the Hongmen members keep an eye on them, even checking the color of their underwear.

The investigation took three full days.

During this period, Cao Xing not only informed Wang Jianjun in advance that the three of them were going to join forces with the political director Shi Yi to overthrow Wang Jianjun, but he also combined work and rest and made people act out a play.

This play was not performed casually. The main reason was that he investigated Xiang Ji and other two people. Xiang Ji and Tao Guoli both had some corrupt things in their families.

However, Wei Zheng's family was just like an ordinary family, and they even lived in a slum. The neighbors around him seemed to be unaware of Wei Zheng's true identity.

Cao Xing's sixth sense told him that Wei Zheng might actually be an honest official.

However, being an honest official does not necessarily mean being a good official.

Since Wei Zheng plotted against Cao Xing's uncle, Cao Xing would definitely not let him have a good ending.

Therefore, Cao Xing directly arranged for people to perform a play.

Since we can’t find any misdeeds of Wei Zheng, then let’s create some!

On this day, Wei Zheng returned home to cook.

His wife was raped and killed by the Japanese during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. He might have been really devoted to her as he never remarried for all these years.

He was accompanied only by one son.

His son is now in his twenties. He raised him with great care and invested all his efforts in his son.

Therefore, his daily routine is to try not to work overtime and cook a meal for his son.

He has been doing this for many years, and has basically never stopped except for special occasions.

But today was different. Just as Wei Zheng was cooking for his son with a happy face, his son Wei Xian ran in with a look of panic on his face. The first words he said made Wei Zheng stunned.

I only heard Wei Xian say: "Dad, I, I, I killed... killed someone!"