Chapter 32 Chapter 28

However, Li Zhen did not expect that Mei's worry would soon become a reality. With power, there is everything. Wherever you go, there are flowers, fine wine, beautiful women, smiling faces and compliments.Li Zhen went down to "inspect" as the first secretary of Hebei and then the director of the National Taxation Bureau. He asked police cars to clear the way and passers-by to avoid him. He was very majestic and arrogant.He has visited various cities on a large scale and with great style several times. Many local officials have kept his relationship with the cities secret. "Of course, what is more important is that with power, you also have status and money." Li Zhen once described power in this way.But he forgot that extremes lead to opposites, and if the power in his hands is used improperly, he can also be sent to the abyss of crime.

Li Chen has a huge profit-making circle in the form of a network. This network of relationships is intertwined and the interests are shared.Li Zhen believes that if the carrot is pulled out, the mud will come out. If his radish is pulled out, the surrounding network and the leaders he serves will try their best to protect him, but what he didn't expect is that he was brought out as mud and eventually become the protagonist.This has to mention the people who have had a great impact on his life - Ji Ling and Li Guoting. Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory is the largest profit and tax household in Hebei Province. Zhangjiakou Tobacco Factory has been included in the 500 largest industrial enterprises in the country for 8 consecutive years, ranking 128th, with an annual profit and tax of more than 1 billion yuan, which is the highest in Hebei Province.Li Guoting, the director of the factory, is known as one of the "Four Great Tobacco Kings in China".

Li Guoting, director of Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory, is a distant uncle of Li Zhen. Li Zhen admires him because he is a talent.Fifteen years ago, when Li Zhen was studying in a normal school, he had practiced in a tobacco factory, and he was an old acquaintance with Li Guoting, the factory director, and Ji Ling, the deputy factory director.When Li vacuumed up a loan of 50 million yuan to settle foreign exchange funds, Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory helped him. The important people he used were Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory Director Li Guoting and Deputy Factory Director Ji Ling.Li Guoting was 66 years old when he helped Li Zhen transfer foreign exchange and assume the responsibility of the lender.Many people don't understand why he is so busy for a secretary who is 36 years younger than him.At that time, relevant leaders in the province had already heard of Li Guoting's various inappropriate things, so they suggested to the relevant departments that he "resign with dignity."Li Guoting's love for the stack is very strong. He needs to move all his joints in order to keep his position. Li Zhen is naturally one of the important choices.With Li Guoting's rich experience in the world, he certainly understands the importance of "investing" power better than others. From this, it is naturally easy to understand what he did for Li Zhen.

At the beginning of 1998, Li Guoting was noticed by the relevant departments because he was suspected of embezzling state assets with the deputy director Ji Ling. On April 3, the Letters and Calls Bureau of the Central Office and the State Office forwarded a letter signed by the superior leadership office to report the large number of illegal production and sales of unplanned cigarettes in Zhangjiakou Tobacco Factory and the major economic problems of the factory director Li Guoting and deputy factory director Ji Ling. Check it out. On April 4th, the Hebei Provincial Commission opened a case to investigate the extraordinarily serious economic crime case of Li Guoting, the director of the Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory. In view of the fact that the case involved economic crimes related to important politicians in Hebei, according to the opinion of Secretary Liu of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the case was listed as a Cases investigated by the Sixth Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.After a thorough investigation, the deputy secretary of the Hebei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and the director of the Supervision Department led the personnel from the major case office to the Zhangjiakou Tobacco Factory, held a meeting to announce that Li Guoting and Ji Ling were suspected of economic crimes, and launched a thorough investigation. The 72-year-old Li Guoting had already started his escape career a day earlier when he heard that his superiors were going to move him.

Just when Li Guoting and Ji Ling were about to be "double-guided", they ran away beforehand.The action of the Provincial Commission for Disciplinary Inspection has been carefully grasped. Did they run away separately, or together?Soon there were clues that they went their separate ways.Ji Ling went to the United States in the name of visiting relatives, but it is unlikely that Li Guoting will go abroad. One is that he is old, and the other is that he dares to stay in China. He is an adventurer. He didn't flee, he wanted to stay and compete.Although he suffered setbacks in the past, he succeeded in the end.He is still confident in this.Now he had wrongly (but maybe correctly) estimated the situation, thinking that someone above would protect him and speak up for him, so he ran away temporarily to avoid the wind, and when the limelight passed, he would still be Li Guoting.

Li Guoting has the characteristics of "three highs", that is, high annual profit and tax, high age, and high IQ.The first high should be changed from the high profits and taxes in the past to the high crime amount now.Analyzing his every move is inseparable from the "three highs".Dare to take risks is the concentrated expression of high IQ.Li Guoting is not very old, he is now in his seventies.He also has a high IQ, knows three foreign languages, and is a senior engineer. Of course, the country will not let him quit the stage easily for such a precious three highs, and let him be the factory director for life.He was born in 1926. By 1986, he will be 60 and cannot retire. In 1991, I was 65, and I still couldn't get a refund. In 1996, I was 70 years old, so I can't keep it any longer, I should retire, because I am afraid that if I am too old, there will be problems if I continue to be.According to Li Guoting, the leader once promised him a "lifetime tenure", as long as he is healthy and profitable, he will continue to work, but why did he let him retire?He refused to accept it, so he planned for himself, so 460 million yuan was gone.

After Li Guoting fled late at night on April 4, 1998, he was indeed in the north, and he was in Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital of Hebei. It is on the same street as the hospital, not far from the Provincial Public Security Bureau.Didn’t the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Provincial Public Security Department, and the Provincial Procuratorate jointly handle the case to arrest me, but I camped among the three of you.Sitting in his comfortable office, he smiled smugly.Life is a gamble and a game.Whoever wins the bet, whoever can play the game more interestingly, is the winner and the winner.So far, he doesn't think he's going to fail, he's not alone, he has his own network.His first step into the leadership position of factory director was also his first step into politics.He believes that socialist enterprises cannot do without politics, and it is difficult to move a single step without politics, and the protection of politics is very important.

As a factory manager, you have to manage the business and also play politics.This is the iron head wearing a steel cap - double insurance.Who is not afraid to dig out the radish and bring out the mud!Who is not afraid of getting my Li Guoting's bag?Then you have the wind to make the wind, and the rain to make the rain, let's protect me together!Who doesn't want to improve efficiency, who doesn't want to create more profits and taxes, and who doesn't want to make political achievements for the higher-ups to take a look at?Then you can't do without me, Li Guoting!You see, I didn't run away, I was among my own people, in the dark under the lamp.

So he lived very securely and lived a very nourishing life.The place where he lives is the office of a certain unit in Shijiazhuang. The director of the office and the staff of the office are all alone. His name is Li Min.Li Min's office is just a signboard, he has nothing to do, he is running orders to help with business.With nothing to do, he didn't do much decoration. Li Guoting felt uncomfortable, so he paid Li Min to install air conditioners, carpets, and water dispensers in the office.When rumors of the pursuit of Li Guoting were at its heaviest, he was living a leisurely life here.Li Guoting has many friends in society, ranging from high-ranking officials to high-ranking officials and elites, but after his "disaster", he was very cautious in contacting these people, and he absolutely did not let them know where he was.He didn't have a single phone call with his wife or daughter.For the sake of safety, the love between children must be cut off.What he thought about most was Ji Ling, and she finally ran out.But he still welcomes her fleeing, which is equivalent to taking out and canceling the financial and emotional problems related to her, so he doesn't need to spend any more time on defense.Ji Ling was Li Zhen's girlfriend when he was an intern in a tobacco factory more than ten years ago. She is 14 years older than Li Zhen and more than 20 years younger than Li Guoting. Their common desires and interests make them closely linked politically, economically and emotionally. combined.Ji Ling was appreciated by Li Guoting for her beauty and shrewdness. She was promoted from an ordinary worker to chief financial officer, and then sent her to Langfang Institute of Economics and Industrial Management.When Ji Ling was in school, Li Guoting took great care of her and took a special car to see her every month.There were some gossip inside and outside the factory, and her teacher husband was a little uncomfortable, but he dared not speak out, and finally got cancer and died.At that time, she wanted to resume her lover relationship with Li Zhen, but Li Zhen was already married, so Ji Ling had to take refuge in Li Guoting.

After Ji Ling graduated, Li Guoting immediately entrusted her with an important position. She was first the director of the enterprise management office and the director of the audit department, and then transferred to the director of the finance department, still serving as the director of the audit department. In July 1994, he served as the deputy factory director, deputy secretary of the party committee and chief accountant.Li Guoting's meticulous cultivation and continuous improvement of Ji Ling is not just out of lust, but to train her to be a reliable assistant and successor to him.Ji Ling understands this point more deeply. She knows that relying on a woman's beauty cannot attract a man for a long time and firmly. To make a man inseparable from her, she must make herself a part of this man.She did it brilliantly.The old chief of the financial department handled affairs according to the accounting system, and Li Guoting couldn't handle many IOUs. After Ji Ling took office, no matter how many IOUs Li Guoting had and how much illegal expenses he had, he could handle them seamlessly, and it couldn't be seen on the books.Li Guoting often goes out, so the "home" is all handed over to Ji Ling. She does everything according to the "old man's" wishes, and Li Guoting only needs to direct the remote control.Except for the "old man", she has the final say on everything in the factory.Her office occupies half a floor, and she has two big black dogs that often bite people, but they don't bite Li Guoting.Li Guoting could burn the two dogs with cigarette butts until they barked, but he would not bite him.Someone sued the two dogs, Li Guoting said, what are you suing!Dogs are better than security guards!Before going abroad, Ji Ling hid in a courtyard house in Beijing, took two dogs, lived in the same room with the dogs, hired an old man to feed the dogs, and allowed the old man to bring his wife, two people gave 500 yuan a month, but the two dogs Give 600 yuan, this is the food expenses of the two dogs, and it must be spent on the dogs, cooking pork liver, feeding bags of milk, and fried rice with eggs.

As Ji Ling's power grew, Li Guoting felt that he had to do some things, and it was impossible to completely leave the deputy factory director, and some things had to be done in cooperation.They violated the tobacco monopoly law, produced cigarettes beyond the plan, and then sold them through individual cigarette sellers.In order to prevent problems found in the audit by the superiors, Li Guoting once explained to the relevant personnel and destroyed some accounts.Ji Ling understood. In order to conceal the overproduction of cigarettes, evade inspection, and eliminate criminal evidence, he organized large-scale tampering and destruction of overproduction cigarette production accounts twice, and repeatedly asked for accounts and bills from financial personnel.They have a tacit understanding and cooperate with each other tacitly. But they have very strict requirements for the majority of employees. This system, that regulation, clear rewards and punishments, standardized management, orderly operation of the factory, and continuous improvement of production efficiency.Li Guoting believes that this is ability. Although it is another "black under the light", the whole factory is bright and has made great contributions. The philosophy of "dark under the lamp" is well grasped and used wonderfully. In the spring of 1998, after Li Guoting escaped, he lived in Li Min's office in Shijiazhuang until autumn.It was always "dark under the lights". When the pursuit was the most intense, Li Guoting even put on makeup and walked around in front of the procuratorate, nothing happened.But he understands the principle that things must be reversed at extremes. If there is nothing wrong, something may happen suddenly. The searchlights for hunting always shine in the distance. If there is no distance, they may also shine near. Once "bright", he can't escape.He walked around in front of the procuratorate just to check the fire.He felt that the time had come and he had to leave Shijiazhuang.He told Li Min, I want to live in another place for a while, Shijiazhuang is too big a goal.Li Min immediately agreed to find him a quiet place. According to the calculations, Li Guoting has lived in the office for 4 months.When Li Guoting came to Shijiazhuang at the beginning of the year, he first lived in the Hebei Hotel, then in the Sunshine Building, and finally in his office.Most people think this way, if you live in the Hebei Hotel by relationship, then the relationship is probably at the provincial level, if you live in the Sunshine Building, it may be at the department level, and if you live in the office, it is Li Min's level.Although judging from where he lives, his relationship is degrading and his past relationship is being lost, but in reality, Li Guoting's relationship will definitely not only be at the level of Li Min, and the past relationship must still be secretly maintained. Still working.The time when he was transferred from the Sunshine Building to the office was in April 1998, when the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection began to investigate Li Guoting's problem.Li Guoting went underground in a timely manner at this juncture, isn't the relationship at work? Li Min found Huaichun in a certain city for him.Huaichun is a middle-aged widow. When she heard that a man was going to live with her, she initially expressed her disapproval. Li Min explained that she was an old man in her 70s, so Huaichun agreed.In fact, Li Guoting paid great attention to health care and greatly delayed his biological age. He is full of energy and looks like he is in his 50s.A woman expresses her willingness to accept a man in his 70s, but she will not be criticized from the perspective of etiquette, because in the eyes of everyone, a man in his 70s has no sexual ability, almost like a eunuch. In August 1998, Li Min drove Li Guoting to the city where Huaichun was located.When Li Guoting met Huaichun, he had a good impression of her. Firstly, she was willing to accept him, and secondly, she still had charm and temperament.Under the cover of a huge age difference, they lived in a house.Li Guoting feels that Huaichun's charm still exists, and Huaichun is also surprised that Li Guoting is not old at all.But things didn't happen overnight. Driven by reason and interests, emotions temporarily took the second place, and safety and security were put in the first place. After Li Guoting moved to Huaichun's house, he didn't dare to say that he was a person who evaded the censorship. He only said that he was retired, his wife and children were abroad, and he was alone in the country with no one to take care of him. cure.Living in Huaichun's house, Li Guoting performed very well.Before Huaichun woke up in the morning, Li Guoting made breakfast and cooked her a cup of fresh milk.After Huaichun went to work, he put on a wig, put on makeup, and went to the street to buy vegetables.Li Guoting knows nutrition; he knows how to cook, and he always makes lunches and dinners very sumptuous and innovative.After each meal, Li Guoting did not forget to squeeze a glass of fresh juice for Huaichun. Huaichun has never experienced a man who treats her so well. Although Li Guoting's actual age is not young, but his thinking and behavior are not a little old, like a strong middle-aged man, she feels very happy.From the conversation, she knew that Li Guoting had many honors in the past, such as party representative, provincial model worker, and deputy to the National People's Congress, so she respected him very much.In the evening, the two watched TV or chatted together, talking about politics, society, economy, life, ideals, and life. Li Guoting was sharp in thinking, profound in knowledge, and excellent in eloquence.On the day of Huaichun's birthday, Li Guoting bought her a high-end fur coat.Huaichun was moved. She was getting obsessed, and she was so obsessed that she ignored her age.She felt that if there really was a husband like Li Guoting—a man like him who could be regarded as a real great husband and a strange man, she would be very happy.The long-standing relationship between the two broke out at this moment. Although Li Guoting did not take the initiative at all, but took a retreating gesture, the two hugged each other naturally, and lived together since then... After Li Min handed Li Guoting to Huaichun, he still kept in touch with them.When his unit called him to inform him to return to the unit for a meeting, Li Min was very sensitive, and it can be said that he was guilty of guilt. He immediately realized that the matter had been exposed, so he quickly called Huaichun and said that he would not go to Huaichun's place. The unit asked me to go back to the meeting, there may be new work tasks, please take care of Huaichun and the others.Then he asked Director Li to listen to the phone and report a few words to him.At that time, Li Guoting was next to Huaichun, gesturing repeatedly, signaling not to expose himself.Huaichun said, Lao Li has gone out and is not here. Li Min went back to work the next day, saying that he was going back to a meeting. On the way, a leader of the work unit followed him, and the two were inseparable. He had no way to contact Huaichun again.But yesterday's call is enough.He thought that he acted very discreetly and well-measured. He not only reported the information objectively, but also did not express his doubts and notified Li Guoting to escape.How did you think of the official investigation?Could it be that informing him this time is not a real meeting, but a conspiracy and a trap? Sure enough, the unit leader told him that there were some issues that he needed to discuss with the investigators from Hebei Province.He knew that the problem of providing accommodation for Li Guoting had been exposed, should he say it or not?He didn't say it the first time.The investigators asked him to think about it, and after thinking about it, he said it for the second time.Thinking is very important.How to do it is more beneficial to yourself?You only need to provide him with the necessary circumstances and background, you only need to state the specifications of Li Guoting’s task force, and that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Ministry of Supervision are supporting and helping to investigate Li Guoting’s issue, and the following stakes need not be discussed.The investigators have seen through this point, Li Min is just a small player, he can only take the safest move. He explained that Li Guoting is now living in Huaichun's house in a certain city and how he kept in touch with him for half a year. He explained in detail and had a good attitude.The investigators were very happy, and praised him on the spot, and said, would you like to give you another chance to make meritorious service?He smiled wryly, meritorious service?What merit?The investigator said, didn't you say that you saw Li Guoting once before the Spring Festival?Li said that he had prostatitis, and he wanted to go to Beijing China-Japan Friendship Hospital, and asked you to send 5,000 yuan to him. You haven’t sent it yet, right?He said yes, regretting that he had spoken in too much detail just now.The investigator said, then you should call Huaichun and say that the money is ready and send it over immediately. Li Min dialed Huaichun's phone number and said that the money for Factory Manager Li is ready, and I will send it there!Huaichun said, no need, the factory manager Li is rich and has already gone to Beijing to see a doctor.The investigators immediately took Li Min to the Beijing China-Japan Friendship Hospital to look for Li Guoting. They went upstairs and downstairs, but there was nothing.I went to a restaurant where Li Guoting often ate to look for it, but there was nothing there.I can't continue to search, Beijing is too big.The investigators realized that they might have been deceived. Why is Li Guoting so sensitive?At that time, he didn't know that Li Min had called Huaichun before returning to work. They rushed to the city where Li Guoting was, and to Huaichun's home.There is only Huaichun in the family, not Li Guoting.Where did Li Guoting go?have no idea!Huaichun's attitude is very tough, but also very excited.One can tell at a glance that she has deep feelings for Li Guoting and is very disgusted with the arrest of Li Guoting.Then you're welcome, "Shuanggui".Huaichun is a party member.One day and one night, he didn't admit anything, didn't say anything, and didn't know where Director Li had gone. The task force thought that finding Huaichun would solve all the problems. They had learned the basic situation of Huaichun in the shortest time, and they were confident in convincing her.Talked to Huaichun overnight, pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of telling the truth and not telling the truth.After listening to the task force, she began to think seriously.Before that, she made up her mind not to say anything, so as to be worthy of Li Guoting and protect herself.Now it seems that the situation is not the case, let's say it, but I feel ashamed, Lao Li is so good to me, how can I betray him?Seeing that her ideological struggle was fierce, the task force reasoned on the one hand and inspired her to distinguish between right and wrong, because you are a party member and cadre, so you should have this awareness; on the other hand, they pointed out that if you don’t provide clues, Li Guoting will eventually be arrested Hold on, until then you will be passive.Huaichun was finally persuaded, and confessed his relationship with Li Guoting and his current hiding place.He lives at the home of Huaichun's sister in Ji County, Tianjin, and she drove him there. Having said this, the task force stopped talking immediately.Grabbing the lotus leaf and touching the lotus root, they chased him to the end without any delay. They immediately led the investigators and police officers to Ji County, Tianjin overnight.Before leaving, Huaichun went to the task force and handed him a plastic bag of medicine, saying that it was the medicine that Lao Li often took. He left in a hurry and forgot to bring it. Please pass it to him for me.The special case team was very vigilant, and instead of handing it over, they asked the doctor what medicine to take and what medicine to prescribe to prevent Li from committing suicide by taking poison.That was the right thing to do, there was indeed a sleeping pill among those medicines.Of course, this was not Huaichun's doing. This woman was very infatuated with Li Guoting. After Li was arrested, she wrote a long letter to express her feelings. At 3 a.m. on March 18, 1999, members of the task force and police officers arrested Li Guoting in Ji County, Tianjin.The policemen climbed over the wall and smashed open the door to get in. There was a lot of noise, but "Smoke King" didn't panic and was still sleeping on the bed.The policeman stepped forward and showed him the legal documents, and he said: I understand.Just dress slowly.The policeman suddenly remembered the leader's instruction that he was not allowed to wear his own clothes, so the policeman next to him threw a bag of clothes and said to wear this new one!He didn't understand, but he did and put on new clothes.After wearing it, he still didn't understand, so he looked suspicious, so the policeman explained to him that he was afraid that there were poison and murder weapons in your clothes.He smiled resignedly. "Sign it!" said the policeman.He took the pen and signed it without trembling at all.The police officers who often arrest people for this kind of thing secretly admire them. They pay attention to observation every time. More than 90% of them have trembling hands by this time. . After signing, Li Guoting raised his head and said to everyone: "You came at the right time. In a few hours, I will be leaving, and you will never see me again." He was not depressed, but a little regretful like.He knows that no matter how great the power and honor are, it will eventually go against him, because people are mortal, and when they die, they will throw away these things and become nothing.He wants to travel, travel all over the country's famous mountains and rivers, and finally sit on the top of a mountain, recall his life, and then jump down the mountain.He said that he did not want to leave the bones in a foreign country, so he did not flee.This kind of idea of ​​taking a step back is certainly there, but the further intention seems to be stronger.Human inertia is too great.Li Guoting wanted to stop his rolling wheels of life, but it was really not easy. What he hoped most was to turn danger into safety, tide over difficulties, and make a comeback without incident.So the real peace is only for a moment, and the pretended peace begins immediately.He threw away his illusions, and began to think of ways to deal with the current situation. Walking out of the courtyard, I felt a chill.He looked at the parked police cars, he didn't know which one was sitting in his "fiancée", with Li Guoting's intelligence, he must know that it was Huaichun who provided his residence in the end, but he didn't complain, He should have left two days ago, so that Huaichun would not bear greater guilt and self-blame.It was he who put her in such an embarrassing situation, and it was all his fault. He longed to see her one last time.But Huaichun was sitting in the car crying secretly, hating and scolding himself, it was the person who loved you the most who killed you, Lao Li!she said in her heart.She didn't have the courage to come out to meet Lao Li, but she reluctantly watched her "fiancé" get into the police car. Many people joined Li Zhen's profit-making circle, and this circle became flooded due to the large number of people joining.Li Guoting was arrested, and Li Zhen became an important person he confessed. On March 18, 1999, after Li Guoting, who fled in fear of crime, was arrested and brought to justice in the suburbs of Tianjin, the Sixth Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection quickly sent people to Hebei to assist the Hebei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection in its investigation.The important mission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection this time is to focus on solving the deep-seated problems of this case, and at the same time, pay attention to coordinating the problems that the Hebei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection is inconvenient or difficult to solve. The task force began to investigate the problem of overproduction of 460 million yuan in cigarettes, and went deeper and deeper, finally grasping the fact that Li Guoting embezzled public funds. On April 30, 1999, Li Guoting was formally arrested for embezzling public funds. On November 3, 1999, after the comrades of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection arrived in Hebei, they started an investigation together with the local investigators and intensified the interrogation of Li Guoting.After three months of unannounced investigations and policy attacks, on February 6, 2000, Li Guoting finally confessed a heavy shell: after Li Zhen took office as the director of the Hebei Provincial State Taxation Bureau, he paid taxes to the tobacco factory to take care of him. From 1995 to 1996, before Li Zhen's wife Yang X went to Singapore to study, she asked her for 100,000 U.S. dollars, and Li Guoting promised to give 50,000 U.S. dollars.In order to meet their demands, Li Guoting asked Yan Manchang, an individual cigarette dealer, for 50,000 U.S. dollars to give to Li Zhen.When sending money, Li Zhen and his wife Yang were present.After investigation, Li Guoting's confession was true.Li Zhen's fox tail was finally caught by the discipline inspection and supervision agency... Li Guoting's final case was 27 million yuan; Ji Ling was suspected of embezzling 29.81 million yuan... On April 17, 2003, the Intermediate People's Court of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province pronounced the verdict on Li Guoting, former director of Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory and manager of Zhangjiakou Tobacco Company, in the case of embezzlement and accepting bribes. property. In this contest, "Smoke King" was completely defeated.Li Zhen's shocking case was involved. A woman can save a man or destroy a man.