"If he hadn't taken bribes, why would he have bent the law?"
Hou Xiangyang stared at the documents on his desk, his face dark with gloom.
At that moment, he was filled with boundless disappointment and anger toward Tian Zhengbing. I gave you a chance, and you proved useless!
Tian Zhengbing had entered the fray before Zhou Yi and enjoyed an overwhelming home-field advantage, yet he had squandered a winning hand. Not only had Zhou Yi, who had only entered the fray this July, driven him into one crushing defeat after another, but he now faced the miserable prospect of ending up behind bars.
Utterly incompetent! And he had utterly humiliated Hou Xiangyang, the Provincial Party Committee Secretary!
How could he have been so blind as to pick this fool in the first place?
Just look at Zhou Yi. There was no comparison!
Everyone at the Provincial Public Security Department was dumbfounded. Traffic Police Corps Commander Qi Huawei had only just been taken in when Deputy Department Director Gou Hongtao followed him. Then full-time Deputy Secretary Zhang Yongliang was placed under Shuanggui. Now came an even bigger bombshell: Department Director Tian Zhengbing had also been escorted away by Lei Zeyu, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Discipline Inspection Commission and director of the Supervision Department, and his team!
What on earth was going on? Was the whole department about to be turned upside down?
For a moment, everyone recalled Deputy Department Director Zhou's string of nicknames-"Officialdom Killer" and "Lone Star of Calamity"!
Immediately afterward, Cheng Zhixing, secretary of the provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission, returned to the Provincial Public Security Department and convened an emergency expanded meeting of the Party Committee leadership, conveying instructions from the leaders of the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government to officials at division