When someone humbled themselves before you, they wanted something!
The city's top three officials had all shown up, expressing concern and offering heartfelt apologies. They had even swallowed their pride and hinted that he could name his terms. That could only mean one thing: they needed him to do something important.
And that "something important" had to involve the surveillance footage and Xie Chenglin's case.
"Commissioner Zhou from the Inspection Team will be seeing you shortly. Well, Maosheng, we all hope you'll say things that support Danqing City's stability and unity, things that take the city's overall interests into account." Huang Zhongyi gave him a pointed reminder.
Given his position, he could not spell certain things out. The actual persuasion would have to be left to Ren Baoping.
Hopefully, Guo Maosheng would see reason!
Meanwhile, Zhou Yi was speaking with Liu Zongjun, director of the Supervision Office and leader of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission's Investigation Team.
"Secretary Zhou!" Liu Zongjun used a relatively familiar form of address reserved for colleagues. After all, Zhou Yi was also secretary of the Qingning City Discipline Inspection Commission in Dongyuan Province. They both worked in discipline inspection and supervision.
"I've already asked the staff on the team. Comrade Guo Maosheng did deliver a USB drive, but the video file on it was corrupted. The staff member intended to contact him for another copy, but as luck would have it, the Danqing City Discipline Inspection Commission placed him under Shuanggui, so the matter was put on hold. The staff member was also ill and muddleheaded at the time, and forgot to report it to me..."
To be honest, although Liu Zongjun's explanation was not riddled with holes, certain parts of it were undeniably implausible.
A staff member on the Investigation Team had failed to