readx; Qu Sheng, deputy secretary of the Admiralty's Ship Administration, looked at the few investigation bureau agents in black suits in front of him, he was in his fifties, he had been through the wind and frost for a long time, but in the face of the current situation, he couldn't stand it, and his face was pale. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Maybe ordinary people don't know what the Investigation Bureau is, and they don't know what they are powerful, but as a high-ranking general of the Republic, a rear admiral who is the deputy director of the Navy's Naval Ship Department, he knows very well what the roles of these Investigation Bureau people are.

If an official is targeted by the anti-corruption agency of the Ministry of Supervision, there is nothing, and those with background can be suppressed, and if they are lucky, they can escape the investigation, but if they are targeted by the investigation bureau, then the problem is definitely not only economic or malfeasance, but also a higher level of political issues.

Although Chen Jingyun has rectified the Investigation Bureau several times in recent years, making the Investigation Bureau not as unscrupulous as it was at the beginning of its establishment, and arresting whoever he wants, the Investigation Bureau, as the only secret service agency in China, still has great power, and according to management, the Investigation Bureau will not deal with economic problems such as corruption and bribery of ordinary officials, and the Ministry of Supervision is responsible for this aspect of the matter.

But when the level of the officials involved in everything is very high, or if it is related to endangering national security, then the investigation bureau will intervene.

The many economic problems exposed in the seventh phase of the Navy's development plan are obviously threatening the development of the Navy, and seriously speaking, they are threatening national security, and the construction project of the Shaohao alone has a corruption amount of up to more than 8 million yuan, so that the cost of the Shaohao has increased again and again, and at the same time, there have even been a small number of parts and components whose quality is not up to par.

The Shaohao is a light battleship, but it is the only capital ship that China can build in the London Naval Treaty in the thirties, both the navy and Chen Jingyun have high hopes for the Shaohao, hoping that this light battleship can become an aircraft carrier's knife escort after it is completed and put into service, and further enhance the strength of the Chinese Navy. In order to allow the Shaohao to be built, the Chinese Navy not only planned a huge amount of funds for the construction of ships, but even abandoned the large-scale refit of the old four battleships in the London Naval Treaty.

Such an important Shaohao has attracted the attention of many people since the beginning of its design, but it is in such a situation that some people dare to pay attention to the Shaohao funds and try to embezzle from the special funds for building ships.

Among these people are Vice Admiral Qu Sheng, deputy director of the Department of Naval Administration, Qu Sheng, 53 years old this year, born in the Fuzhou Naval Administration Bureau in his early years, and studied shipbuilding, during the Xinhai Revolution, he also joined the Fuzhou Navy Department like other naval officers, and he has gone up step by step for more than 20 years, he is the same as Wei Han, Qin Yi and others are officers with technical surnames, but unlike Wei Han and Qin Yi and others, Qu Sheng's talent for warship design is very average, and he has served in the Ship Administration Department of the Equipment Department for more than 20 years. At present, in the design of China's warships, the first is naturally Vice Admiral Qin Yi, director of the Department of Shipbuilding, and here is Rear Admiral Han Tonglin of the shipbuilding section, these two people have almost all the designs of warships of the Chinese Navy, as for Qu Sheng, deputy director of the Department of Ship Administration, most of the work he has done is also biased towards the administrative aspect.

Vice Admiral Qin Yi, the current director of the Department of Naval Administration, is a very pure technical admiral, who is immersed in the design of warships most of the time, and the specific management work is handed over to the deputy, and this deputy is the deputy director Qu Sheng.

After a large amount of administrative work sat down, Qu Sheng had access to the Shaohao embezzlement case, although the Ship Administration Department did not have the power to purchase Shaohao parts, but what parts to use on the Shaohao were all up to the Ship Administration Division.

With this power, it is easy to influence the price and procurement of parts and components by colluding with the people on the Ordnance Division.

Qu Sheng knew that he was completely carried this time, and he was the kind that would never turn over, so after being taken away by the people of the Investigation Bureau, he was always indifferent, without justification, without begging for mercy, because he knew that it was useless, and he waited for the final trial so tightly.

"The problem on the side of the Ship Administration Department is still not big, Vice Admiral Qin Yi and Rear Admiral Han Tonglin, the main ship-building designers, have not participated in this turmoil, mainly Qu Sheng and some of his subordinates!" Chen Cai held a thick report, which was an investigation report on Qu Sheng, and the investigation report on Qu Sheng was only the tip of the iceberg of this naval corruption case.

"According to the existing understanding, the problems of the navy are relatively serious, not only the Shaohao has serious financial problems, but also in the construction process of the three Sino-Thai cruisers under construction, there are also extremely serious corruption!" Chen Cai also felt a little amazed when he said this.

The group of people in the navy, in recent years, has really become a lot more courageous, a few years ago there was this courage, but now, they dare to reach out from the ship-building model, and this kind of behavior Chen Cai knows that it has violated Chen Jingyun's bottom line, Chen Cai knows that Chen Jingyun will not take it to heart when there are usually small fights, and occasionally there are some big problems, at most a few words of accountability, but today's scale of ink greed has seriously endangered the development of the Navy and the security of the country, Chen Jingyun will not let it go lightly this time.

"The scale involved in the seventh phase of the Navy's development plan is huge, since the Shaohao and the Zhongtai-class cruisers have problems, then the others will definitely not be much better, can you check?" Chen Jingyun's face was a little flat, Chen Jingyun was still very angry when he first learned about this a few days ago, but after the anger on the surface, Chen Jingyun would no longer show his anger, since the people below dared to reach out to the special fund for building ships, then he dared to cut off their hands.

Chen Cai said: "There should still be some problems, and now the Investigation Bureau has conducted a secret investigation, and it is expected that the results will come out in a short time!" ”

Speaking of this, Chen Cai looked up at Chen Jingyun, and then asked cautiously: "If you continue to check, how high will you find out?" ”

Chen Cai is an old man who has been with Chen Jingyun for decades, but even if he has been with Chen Jingyun for so long, he still can't figure out how big Chen Jingyun wants to get, you must know that this time the corruption incident in the navy is not just an ordinary economic problem, but a political problem with huge impact, and if the navy is not good, there will be a big problem, so Chen Cai is very careful in the investigation, and the current investigation has always been a secret investigation, except for the secret arrest of Qu Sheng, the others have not moved.

Chen Jingyun pondered for a while and said, "Don't worry about anything, keep checking for me!" ”

Hearing Chen Jingyun say this, Chen Cai was shocked again: Seeing that the young master meant that he would continue to investigate in depth, could it be that digging out the two lieutenant generals now could not calm his anger? Still want to pull out more of the Navy's top brass?

Chen Cai has been in a high position for more than 20 years, even if he had no political consciousness in the early years, but after so many years of being blocked by the director of the investigation bureau, the politically sensitive surname is already very strong, according to his original expectations, the case of corruption in the navy is almost closed now, two lieutenant generals, five major generals are involved in the case, which is enough to cause great vibration to the navy, and it can also knock the navy internally, so that they can be more restrained, but he didn't expect Chen Jingyun to be still not satisfied, could it be that he still wants to pull down more people?

And who is higher? Guan Shijie? Wen Tinghe? Cheng Biguang? Or Sa Zhen Bing?

Chen Cai guessed in his heart that he went out, he didn't understand Chen Jingyun's approach, but it didn't matter if he couldn't understand it, all he had to do was to follow Chen Jingyun's orders, Chen Cai had always seen his positioning very clearly, he was a dagger in the young master's hand, and the young master would stab whoever he asked. He can't stab if he doesn't want to, he can't decide as a dagger.

After Chen Cai went out, Chen Jingyun looked at the heavy report in his hand, then stood up and lit a cigarette, turned around and looked at the huge map on the wall again.

For this naval corruption incident, his initial plan was just to arrest a few people, knock and knock on the navy side, and they got carried away in the province, but with the in-depth investigation, there were more and more problems in the investigation, at first it was just the corruption case of the Shaohao, and then the corruption case of the Zhongtai-class cruiser, followed by the fraud of the carrier-based aircraft procurement case, and these things happened continuously in almost a short period of time, but Chen Jingyun could hardly believe that the team was able to defeat the company in the past few years. The navy of this navy will degenerate in such a short period of time, although there is no evil result to be seen at the moment, the navy still maintains a strong combat effectiveness, but if the situation continues to worsen, then the decline of the Chinese navy is a matter of time, and it will not work for Chen Jingyun to give them money to build a hundred aircraft carriers.

And this situation is definitely not a problem of middle and lower-level generals, but a problem of the high-level, this is the case of the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, and this situation is what Chen Jingyun does not want to see, just like he knows that in the political axe civil official system, many middle and lower-level officials have corruption and other behaviors, but he doesn't care too much, because this [***] degree is within his control and acceptable range, and the political axe high-level still maintains a relatively efficient and honest situation. But so many high-ranking naval officials on the navy's side were involved in corruption cases, so Chen Jingyun had to pay attention to it.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Jingyun planned to put the navy in order, otherwise it would not be so easy to make excuses if he missed this opportunity.

In addition to this, there is another reason why Chen Jingyun is reluctant to tell outsiders, that is, Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang.

These two naval tycoons have too much influence on the navy, and many times even Chen Jingyun is not good at vetoing their proposals, and these two people are both staunch battleship factions, and they say that they want to build battleships, and then they also have very big opinions on the centralized use of aircraft carriers, with the support of these two naval tycoons, Wen Tinghe, the chief of the admiralty, and the admiral are also battleships, and this has caused the strength of the battleship faction in the upper echelons of the navy to be too strong, and the aviation faction led by Guan Shijie is too suppressed. So much so that the development of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft was formed with a very bad suppression.

Specific examples are manifested in the following: Guan Shijie said that he would increase the funds for the purchase of carrier-based aircraft, Wen Tinghe said that he would increase the funds for the construction of cruisers, Guan Shijie said that he would conduct joint exercises of air formations, and Wen Tinghe said that he would conduct ocean-going training of battleship formations.

This-for-tat has been going on for a few years, and if it's just the two of them fighting, it's nothing, but the attitude of Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang in the back is also biased towards Wen Tinghe and there.

In addition to this, there is also the influence of Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang on the navy that has gradually increased over the years, to the point that Chen Jingyun is dissatisfied.

Chen Jingyun likes the balance of the generals below, but it is not the lone growth of a certain faction, if it was said that Sa Zhenbing's prestige was needed to develop the navy before, then in fact, after 1923, Sa Zhenbing basically had no role for Chen Jingyun, and after Sa Zhenbing retired from the position of chief of the Navy in recent years, he continued to stay in the State Military Commission as an active general.

If he is sensible enough, then he will follow the example of those generals in the army, and honestly stay in Nanjing, fishing, raising flowers, etc., and then lead the army on the front line after the war. However, after Sa Zhenbing stepped down from the position of chief of the navy, he still pointed fingers at many affairs of the navy, and Chen Jingyun didn't feel much in the early years, and he didn't care too much, but he began to be a little dissatisfied in the past two years, plus the navy has been in a bad state in the past two years, and there are so many corruption incidents, which makes Chen Jingyun even more dissatisfied with the navy, and Chen Jingyun, who is dissatisfied with the navy, is naturally dissatisfied with Sa Zhenbing.

If this is even more true, then Cheng Biguang's performance after retiring from the position of chief of the admiralty has even intensified Chen Jingyun's dislike for the two of them.

For Chen Jingyun, he and Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang successively got down from the position of chief of the navy, in order to let them gradually withdraw from the core of the navy, in order to let the younger generation of admirals come up, such as Guan Shijie and Chen Shaokuan, Chen Jingyun has high hopes for them.

And after Cheng Biguang retired, he also learned that Sa Zhenbing regarded himself as a naval veteran, although the military rank was the same, Guan Shijie and Wen Tinghe walked in front of them as subordinates, which made Chen Jingyun look very, very dissatisfied.

You must know that the navy is different from the army, the army is not one or two, but the number of active generals has increased to twelve after 1931, and these generals are all their own faction, and there will be no such thing as one admiral treating another admiral with superiors and subordinates. As for the navy, there were only two admirals in the past, and there were four admirals after 1931, but the newly promoted Guan Shijie and Wen Tinghe also regarded Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang as superiors, which Chen Jingyun did not want to see.

The combination of many reasons made Chen Jingyun begin to have an opinion, of course, this opinion is something that Chen Jingyun will not say to the outside world, and even Chen Cai is impossible to know.

Now with the traction of this naval corruption incident, Chen Jingyun can be regarded as having found an opportunity to sort out the navy, you must know that Lin Qingxiong is a student of Sa Zhenbing, and he took over the post of commander of the Second Coastal Defense Fleet was personally recommended by Sa Zhenbing to Chen Jingyun, with this relationship, Sa Zhenbing will not be able to escape the relationship no matter what.

The investigation of the bureau is still ongoing, although this is a secret investigation, but the quilt of Qu Sheng, deputy director of the Department of Naval Administration, still aroused the ideas of many high-ranking generals within the navy, and many people began to inquire about what happened, and Chen Cai was afraid that after the matter was leaked, other corrupt generals would be prepared, so he consulted Chen Jingyun and immediately arrested many high-ranking generals involved in the case, and that night, Vice Admiral Lin Qingxiong, commander of the Second Coastal Defense Fleet and former director of naval weapons, was arrested. Also arrested were a large number of important naval officials, including the director of the Audit Bureau and the deputy director of the Ordnance Department.

After the other high-ranking generals of the navy did not react, the Investigation Bureau, in order to control the situation as much as possible, took the initiative to inform the military and political leaders about the case.

When Shen Gang looked at the report sent by the Investigation Bureau, which actually said that so many admirals were involved in the case, he shook his head and smiled: "These navy people, millions and tens of millions of people dare to move, don't you just die!" ”

Zuo Yugang, who was sitting next to him, said: "This time the navy is really not good, but now that there is such a big thing happening in the navy, I'm afraid someone on the navy side has to stand up and take this responsibility!" ”

You must know that since the Fuzhou Uprising, although the Investigation Bureau has launched many large-scale arrests, and tens of thousands of people have been arrested at one time, but these previous actions did not involve the military.

But this time, Chen Cai personally sat in charge, and arrested two vice admirals and four rear admirals overnight, and one of them saw that the matter was revealed during the arrest, and directly committed suicide by swallowing a gun.

This is the first time that the amount of money involved in the navy embezzlement case is the highest, and the rank of the admiral involved in the same case is also the highest, which makes a large group of people tremble.

And Chen Cai's Investigation Bureau once again announced to the world that the Investigation Bureau is still an extremely sharp dagger in Chen Jingyun's hand.

In the Nanjing Presidential Palace, Sa Zhenbing looked at Chen Jingyun with a remorseful expression: "Chairman, all this is my mistake, I really didn't expect that this Lin Qingxiong turned out to be ......"

Chen Jingyun didn't have much joy or anger, but said lightly: "It's not your fault, people, you always know people and don't know their hearts, you see him like this, you think he is like this, but he is not like this." ”

Sa Zhenbing has also been following Chen Jingyun for many years, and he also has some understanding of Chen Jingyun's temper, if he accuses him of Sa Zhenbing at this time, maybe this matter will pass, but Chen Jingyun just didn't, and his tone was not happy or angry. This is a very red flag.

I have to say that these officials are still very guessing about the thoughts of their bosses, although Chen Jingyun always pays attention not to let his emotions and joys and anger be revealed, so as not to let the people below guess it, after all, as a superior, it is a good thing to make others unable to see through. But after a long time, the officials below are all monkey spirits, and they can see Chen Jingyun's liking to some extent, such as that Yanjing Kuang, if he didn't guess Chen Jingyun's joy and anger, he wouldn't be able to sit firmly in the position of the head of the secretariat.

Sa Zhenbing looked at Chen Jingyun's face like this, and already knew that he was definitely going to be implicated this time, but he didn't know how angry Chen Jingyun was.

After leaving Chen Jingyun's office, he walked to Yan Jing Kuang's side: "I'm afraid this matter is difficult!" ”

Yan Jing Kuang looked at this in-law, and knew in his heart that this Sa Zhenbing was going to be completely unlucky, with Yan Jing Kuang and Chen Jingyun's experience for so many years, he knew that Chen Jingyun wanted to take this opportunity to embarrass Sa Zhenbing, if Sa Zhenbing took the initiative to retire from the National Military Commission, it would not be a big deal, but if Sa Zhenbing continued to rely on the National Military Commission and refused to retreat, it is estimated that Chen Jingyun would have to use the knife next.

Thinking of this, Yan Jing Kuang sighed in his heart: This president is not a good person, although he will not kill heroes like Zhu Yuanzhang, but a navy veteran like you has refused to retire from the navy for more than 20 years, so I can't complain that the president is going to be angry.

Although he is still close to him, as one of Chen Jingyun's closest subordinates, he knows very well that he must not have too much communication with Sa Zhenbing, even if he is a reminder, it is impossible to keep his own position if he talks too much.

The impact of the corruption case on the navy's side is too serious, and someone on the navy side must stand up and take responsibility, and considering the special relationship between Lin Qingxiong and Sa Zhenbing, then Sa Zhenbing has become the best candidate.

In order to appease the people's anger at the high-level corruption case of the navy and to appease Chen Jingyun's dissatisfaction with the navy, Admiral Sa Zhenbing, a veteran of the navy and a member of the State Military Commission, formally submitted his resignation to Chen Jingyun in July 1934 as a member of the State Military Commission.

In August, Sa Zhenbing again submitted his resignation, which was formally approved by Chairman Chen Jingyun after no result, and the following month, Admiral Sa Zhenbing officially retired from active duty and transferred to the reserve.

In this case, the admiral was forced to retire, and nearly 20 people, including Vice Admiral Lin Qingxiong, Qu Sheng, deputy director of the Naval Administration Department, and other directors of the Audit Bureau, were convicted by a military court of endangering national security and were immediately shot. More than 100 others have been sentenced by military courts, ranging from years to decades. In addition to the internal trial of the military, there are also many managers of enterprises involved in the case, such as the managers of many naval defense contractors such as Fule Electric, Wuhu Iron and Steel, and Jiangnan Shipyard, who were prosecuted by the local Ministry of Supervision and subsequently sentenced one after another.

Although there were not many people killed or arrested in this case, its influence was very great, and after the corruption case in the navy occurred, all sectors of society were very dissatisfied with the impression of the political axe and the military, and the call for anti-corruption was getting higher and higher day by day. The Ministry of Supervision has also stepped up anti-corruption investigations into political officials, and as a result of this action, a large number of corrupt officials have begun to fall from power.

1934 was the year of the fight against corruption.