Rebirth of Minister Qi

Chapter 797 The Traitor Emerges

The leader of Group 1 stood up to speak. Every leader of the Supervision Office is a bureau-level cadre. The leader of Group 1 also serves as the deputy director of the Supervision Office and can be said to be Hu Haiou's right-hand man.

“Director Hu, after we received the document from our superiors, we immediately conducted a comprehensive review of the files of the deputy director of the Grain Bureau, in addition to the five fake cadres reported by our superiors.

We also discovered other issues within the Food Bureau team.”

Zhang Zhifei, a deputy-department-level investigator in Group 1, was looking at the documents in his hands with sweaty palms.

Because he saw the name of one of his good friends, Zhou Cheng, chief engineer of the Grain Bureau, on the document.

This time the higher authorities were determined to conduct a thorough investigation of the Grain Bureau's team, but the main target was still the fake cadre Lu Guang. His experience was too outrageous, as he forged his identity step by step from a private business owner, and by bribing several retired leaders of the Grain Bureau, he actually became a deputy ministerial-level cadre (his job was at the bureau level, and he enjoyed deputy ministerial treatment). If he was successfully transferred to the Propaganda Department of the Commission for Discipline Inspection this time, he would become a veritable deputy ministerial-level leader.

Zhang Zhifei still held on to some hope. In the past, leaders had also issued instructions to thoroughly investigate certain departments, but in the end they always caught the big ones and let the small ones go. Many times, there was just a lot of noise but little action. According to his estimation, this time, the same pattern should occur. Zhou Cheng must be informed of this matter in advance, otherwise, he might be implicated.

After arresting this fake cadre, dealing with a group of retired leaders who forged identities for him, and then dealing with a line of middle-level cadres, the matter will be over. If every member of the team is checked, it is likely to cause chaos in the entire department. Given the temperament of the current leadership team, stability is the top priority. If the entire team of a department is overturned, the entire department will be in chaos.

Well, this time he should inform his good friend Zhou Cheng first, so that he can clean up his mess as soon as possible, to avoid being caught off guard when a large-scale investigation is launched.

According to Zhang Zhifei's estimation, as long as Zhou Cheng keeps a low profile and takes care of some loose ends, and as long as Zhang Zhifei does a good job internally and informs Zhou Cheng in a timely manner of any news, there is a high possibility that Zhou Cheng will get through this turmoil.

So after the meeting, Zhang Zhifei found an excuse and took his partner out to finish the previous case.

But as soon as the two of them went out, Zhang Zhifei spoke.

"Brother, I have some personal matters to attend to this afternoon, you know. Why don't you go home first? I will call the office to report our progress after get off work."

Zhang Zhifei's partner was still very reluctant. They had to finish the work at hand as soon as possible, because their group would have to take the lead in handling a major case in the grain system next. If they continued to drag their feet and failed to complete the previous case, it would affect their impression in the eyes of the leaders of the group.

"You must be kidding. Let's get things done as soon as possible and focus on the case of the grain system. This case is supervised by the new deputy secretary himself. What if we drag our feet and make the director angry?"

Zhang Zhifei said all the nice things he could in the end, but his partner still held his anger and went off to handle the case on his own. Zhang Zhifei was helpless, but he had no choice as he believed that his partner would definitely cover for him.

But Zhang Zhifei didn't notice that after the meeting, Hu Haiou once again called investigators at the deputy department level and above to meet, but he was not there.

"Why didn't Zhang Zhifei and his partner from Group 1 come? When did they leave?"

The team leader didn't know where the two of them were, so he took out his cell phone and called Zhang Zhifei, but got a busy tone because Zhang Zhifei was taking out a new SIM card to call Zhou Cheng.

The call to Zhang Zhifei was not connected, so the team leader called his partner again.

"Hey, where are you guys?"

"Boss, Lao Zhang and I are going to finish up the last case."

The team leader didn't suspect anything, but Hu Haiou was alert. What was going on? They disappeared right after the meeting. Could it be a traitor?

However, Hu Haiou did not say anything because he was afraid that there was someone else as the traitor. Without any evidence, Hu Haiou really did not want to investigate his own people as they were brothers who spent every day together. But he had received news from his immediate superior that there was a traitor in his company, so this must be true.

At present, the behavior of Zhang Zhifei and the other person is very inappropriate, which makes people suspicious. Suspecting his own people makes Hu Haiou feel very uncomfortable.

Hu Haiou signaled that the meeting should be postponed for a while. He took out his mobile phone, pretended to answer a call, walked out of the meeting room, and then dialed the number.

"Investigate what Zhang Zhifei and his partner are doing, and enable location tracking if necessary.

If there is any news, please inform me immediately. "

Zhang Zhifei could only drive his Volkswagen Jetta all the way to the outskirts of Beijing, where there was a house given to him by Zhou Cheng. If there was anything, they would go there to discuss it. It was called discussion, but in fact it was just inviting a few business owners to play mahjong together, where the two of them would win and the others would lose.

"Lao Zhou, let's play mahjong tonight."

Zhou Cheng was still drinking even though it was still late in the afternoon. When he saw the number on the phone, he picked up the phone with a red face.

"Oh, our leader Zhang wants to play mahjong today. Isn't there a new leader coming in these days? Shouldn't we keep a low profile?

It just so happens that they are all here, how big is the fight?"

Zhang Zhifei's voice lowered a little.

"Lao Zhou, I brought a new Mahjong player. You and I will come together this time."

This was actually a code, indicating that these words should not be heard by those businessman friends. Zhou Cheng understood the meaning of the words and immediately apologized.

"Brothers, it seems that Lao Zhang has important poker friends. I'll go and keep them company. You guys continue drinking. Drink more."

A business owner immediately came to say hello.

"Chief Engineer Zhou, remember to consider our company for the construction project of the grain depot last time."

As he spoke, the business owner also whispered.

“As long as the bid amount is increased by 40 percent, half of it will be roughly equivalent to the price of a three-bedroom apartment in the nearby Changting Yaju.

I heard that your son is getting married soon and is still short of a wedding house. Hey, here are the keys. Take them."

Zhou Cheng immediately declined with an unhappy look on his face.

"You, what we value is brotherhood, why are you saying these things?

You are still a little timid when it comes to doing things.

The original project was worth 100 million yuan, but last time, I discussed with my leaders and decided to expand it directly to a high-standard grain warehouse worth 300 million yuan.

My son works on the East Fourth Ring Road, and Changting Yaju is on the North Fifth Ring Road, so it’s not a good time.”

The business owner was surprised. The entire bidding amount was reduced from 100 million to 300 million. The profit could be said to have increased several times. There was no telling how much room there was for him to make further moves.