Chapter 528: Coup d'état
As the main person in charge of the "No. 1 Project". Although Lu Jianzhang is not sure about solving this case, he must also make an all-out appearance to deal with public opinion.
At the very least, the press must understand that the task force is going all out to investigate the case, and as for the reason why it cannot be solved in the end, it seems that the criminals are too cunning, not the police are incompetent.
After making up his mind, Lu Jianzhang immediately led his subordinates to the scene of the crime again, investigated the scene with great fanfare, and revealed the news to the press through his connections.
After this performance, the night also fell, and Lu Jianzhang and his subordinates were very tired. This acting is not easy, considering that Xu Baoshan does not seem to have prepared a resting place for a few people, Lu Jianzhang finally decided to find a hotel in Pukou to settle down, and when the hotel settled down, Lu Jianzhang immediately sent a telegram to the Ministry of the Interior, informing the center of his inquest, and leaving a contact address so that he could communicate with the center at any time.
The Ministry of the Interior also reacted quickly, and sent a telegram back at that time, asking Lu Jianzhang to lead his subordinates to stand by.
For this order, Lu Jianzhang was a little strange, but he didn't think much about it, returned to the hotel, discussed the case with everyone, and analyzed who could get the greatest benefits and benefits from the assassination case.
Since the policy for handling the case had been decided, Lu Jianzhang slept soundly that night, and woke up the next morning, full of energy, and after breakfast, the hotel guy sent him a telegram from the Ministry of the Interior.
The telegram was sent with a special password, and Lu Jianzhang took out the codebook he carried with him. Personally translating the contents of the telegram was actually an order and a list, and according to this order, Lu Jianzhang must immediately take action to arrest all the suspects in the "No. 1 Project" on this list and put them in the Nanjing Army Prison.
This order surprised Lu Jianzhang, yesterday he thought that this assassination case was difficult to detect, but today the center used this telegram to report to him, and the center already knew who was behind the assassination case.
Could it be that the center has another source of intelligence?
The more Lu Jianzhang thought about it, the more strange he felt, unless it was the accomplice of the assassination case, otherwise, this case would not have come to light so quickly, thinking of this, Lu Jianzhang naturally remembered the Tao Chengzhang assassination case back then, if it was not for Wang Zhaoming's first denunciation, the "truth" of that case would not have come out.
However, the victim of this "No. 1 case" is the key person in the thorn pottery case, this case, the more I think about it, the more strange it becomes, the more weird it becomes, and Lu Jianzhang is in a cold sweat.
Although Lu Jianzhang was full of doubts. But since the Ministry of the Interior came to the order, he had to carry it out, so he called his subordinates, arranged, by noon, all aspects of the preparations were in place, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Jianzhang sat in Pukou, an order, the military and police in all parts of Jiangsu sent out at the same time, a big net of round-up was just cast out, and by the end of the operation in the evening, there were more than 100 "big fish" caught in the net.
In the past, they were superior people, but now, they have fallen from a high place to the bottom of society, and they are all locked up in the Nanjing Army Prison, where they are in the company of bedbugs and rats, and cry out for grievances and grievances in their cells.
Almost overnight, the upper echelons of Jiangsu society were in turmoil, and the grass and trees were all soldiers, and this "King of Lu Yan" really deserved its name.
After dawn the next day, the explosive news spread throughout Jiangsu through newspapers, telecommunications, and other advanced means of news dissemination, and later spread throughout the country, and even China's first radio station, Shanghai Radio, which was put into trial operation, spread the news through radio waves, and many individuals and units who had the money to buy radios learned of the news.
A bunch of bigwigs actually hired gunmen. The assassination of the new magistrate is simply jaw-dropping.
The people were shocked, the Jiangsu Provincial Assembly was shocked, the Jiangsu Governor's Office was shocked, and even the Ministry of Justice was shocked.
As a result, Lu Jianzhang, the "initiator" of all this, was immediately thrown to the cusp of the 'waves' by public opinion, and there were those who scolded and praised it, those who threatened to go to Beijing to sue the imperial court, and those who sent bullets to Lu Jianzhang's residence by mail...... All in all, the complex interpersonal relationships of this society are undoubtedly on display in this operation.
Lu Jianzhang suddenly found himself in a predicament, at this time, only the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice could support him.
However, without waiting for the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice to publicly express their views, Xu Baoshan, the overseer of Jiangsu, rushed over in a hurry, praised Lu Jianzhang's "vigorous and resolute", and even had the urge to repair the relationship between the two.
Lu Jianzhang was a little baffled, but soon he understood why Xu Baoshan was so supportive of his arrest.
Most of the "suspects" arrested in this arrest operation are businessmen from Jiangsu, and almost all of them are followers of Zhang Shiheng, the former governor of Jiangsu, and are the backbone members of Zhang Shiheng's financial industry group. The struggle between the two factions has now become more and more 'intense' with the rapid development of light industry, so in Xu Baoshan's view, Lu Jianzhang's arrest of these people is helping him eliminate his business competitors, and he is of course very excited.
"Brother Lu, you did the right thing, I support you, whoever dares to say that you are arresting people indiscriminately, I will arrest him in the army prison and lock him up with those assassins, to see if they dare to shout 'chaos'. I'll just say it. At the beginning, someone reported that the gang of 'traitors' had evaded national taxes, and I originally wanted to investigate to the end, but they were blocked by Zhang Shiheng's gang, and this time the center sent Governor Wang to investigate this gang of 'traitors', which caused public anger, no wonder these 'traitors' businessmen wanted to commit a black hand on Governor Wang. ”
Xu Baoshan's words surprised Lu Jianzhang very much, because the meaning of Xu Doujun's words was obvious, he wanted to use this opportunity to wipe out those financial and industrial groups in the province, the so-called "those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die", as the Jiangsu overseer, Xu Baoshan has always coveted the huge financial resources of Jiangsu businessmen, with this money, Xu Baoshan can quickly expand his troops, in order to increase the cost of dialogue with the center.
Thinking of this, Lu Jianzhang felt even more that he was standing on thin ice, and if he was not careful, he was afraid that he would never recover, no matter what the truth of the assassination case was, at least, someone was planning to use this case to set off a storm.
"Xu Dujun is overrated. In fact, the case was supervised by the Ministry of the Interior, and I was just acting on orders. ”
Lu Jianzhang hurriedly took a modest look, and by the way, he also properly brushed himself off, so as not to take the tank for others in the future, he is really confused now, he doesn't know what the Ministry of the Interior intends to do, and what kind of role does the center play in this operation?
"Brother Lu, you are too humble. In fact, I came to talk to you today, just to discuss this next move, and now you have arrested a group of suspects, but you have not finished arresting, and those other suspects have either fled to the concession, or they are still jumping up and down in the provincial council, relying on judicial immunity, in a vain attempt to overturn the case for the accomplices. This will not work! We're going to have to pack them all up before they jump off the wall. ”
Seeing that Xu Baoshan wanted to pull himself on his back, Lu Jianzhang naturally refused to be fooled like this, so he shook his head.
"Xu Dujun, since the people have fled to the concession and have their own extraterritorial protection, we have no way to arrest those people again, as for those members of the provincial parliament, this judicial immunity is stipulated in the constitution, and without the approval of the Ministry of Justice, no one can be arrested, otherwise there will be a suspicion of violating the constitution, the congress will not let us go, and it may even affect the center and the president, if you want to arrest the councilors, you must obtain the understanding of the parliament in advance."
"Brother Lu, you are angry when you say this. The so-called 'do things and follow the power', we are all people who do big things, how can we be frightened by a few laws? The concession is managed by foreigners, so let's not provoke it first, but the Jiangsu Provincial Council is right under our noses, and it is as easy as a palm to clean up. ”
"No, no. Xu Dujun, what you said is not right. I'm just a small police inspector, where do I dare to arrest councillors? If you want to arrest it, you can bring the troops over by yourself, and I won't 'interfere'. ”
Xu Baoshan wanted to pull Lu Jianzhang on the thief ship, but Lu Jianzhang couldn't live or die, and the friendly consultation between the two gradually turned into a confrontation full of gunpowder, and at the critical moment when both of them were about to tear their faces, Lu Jianzhang's nephew Feng 'Yu' Xiang walked into the room and 'handed over' a telegram to Lu Jianzhang.
"Uncle, this is a coded telegram just taken by the Ministry of the Interior, and you need to translate it yourself, and the content must be translated immediately."
"Xu Dujun, I want to translate the telegram, please wait here."
Lu Jianzhang naturally didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly went to the inner room with Feng 'Yu' Xiang, found the code book, and began to translate the telegram, and when the content was translated, Lu Jianzhang's face changed, and then he sighed and hurriedly walked back to Xu Baoshan with the telegram translation.
"Xu Dujun, this is a telegram from the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice has the support of the majority of members of the National Assembly, and has now revoked the judicial immunity of some members of the Jiangsu Provincial Assembly, and the Ministry of the Interior has ordered a special task force to immediately arrest some of the Jiangsu members who participated in the planning of the assassination of Governor Wang, the list is as follows: ......"
After Lu Jianzhang finished reading the long list, Xu Baoshan couldn't help but dance with his eyebrows, copied the list at the moment, and ordered the troops to arrest people, while he himself sat in the task force and started a 'friendship' with Lu Jianzhang, until his subordinates reported that they had taken all the people according to the map, Xu Baoshan then said goodbye and left, and discussed with his staff how to receive the property of the "'Yin' conspiracy group".
"'Yin' conspiracy group", this is what Xu Baoshan just commented, and it seems that the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice also have similar views, but Lu Jianzhang does not see it this way, he took the list and pondered it carefully for a while, and then asked his nephew to go to the Jiangsu Provincial Assembly, copied a 'flower' roster, and then carefully checked the name on it with the list on the telegram just sent by the Ministry of the Interior, and then, everything was clear.
The Jiangsu provincial legislators, whose judicial immunity had been revoked by the Ministry of Justice, were all members of the "National League" or sympathizers, and none of the arrested suspects were members of the United Front.
Obviously, this was not a simple arrest of a criminal offense, which, in the eyes of the National League, could be seen as a coup d'état.
The other day, the uproar outside the country was provoked by the National League, and they wanted to deal with the President and the United Front, so don't blame the President and the United Front for making a strong counterattack against this, and so there was this mass arrest.
However, is it really as simple as Lu Jianzhang thought? If the Kuomintang in the Jiangsu Provincial Assembly is stronger than the United Front, and the arrests in which less than half of the members of the National League have been lost, then why not eradicate the Kuomintang? Why not make the same arrests across the country at the same time?
Or is there anything left for the United Front and that Mr. President?
Thinking of this, Lu Jianzhang only felt a cold sweat trickling down, he felt more and more that this "No. 1 Project" was a big 'yin' scheme, and he was just a small chess piece in this 'yin' scheme, as for the overseer Xu Baoshan, I am afraid he also played the same role.