Chapter 163: Storm

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After the dispute over the Ministry of Officials, the politics of the Divine Boat Empire suddenly became lively after a short period of silence.

There was a huge conflict between the General Staff of the Military Headquarters and the two sensitive departments of the Imperial Security Department without warning.

Security Minister Huang Haotian was taken away from the War God Palace by Deputy Chief of General Staff Zheng Kuangge, During this period, it was said that Military Minister Chen Fengnan, General Staff Chief Xiao Yunsheng, Deputy Chief of General Staff Zheng Kuangge, and General Staff Division Two Director Li Muqi had asked Huang Haotian several questions in exceptional detail.

The contents of the questioning were kept strictly confidential and sealed in the General Office of the Military Ministry. Afterwards, the General Staff began to summon Lin Fengxue, the head of the Lin Clan in the southwest and the head of the Yanhuang Club, who was known as the empire's number one clan.

Almost at the same time, Liu Changzhi, the number one deputy minister of the Military Ministry and the Imperial Defense Minister, accompanied by Xiao Yunsheng, the General Staff Director, and Yan Mingkai, the commander of the Nine Continents City Military Region, secretly inspected the Nine Continents Prison.

Both Liu Changzhi and Yan Mingkai were the core generals of the southwest faction, but this time, they were secretly inspected by Xiao Yunsheng, a big shot of the royal family. This Chief of General Staff, who had been promoted by the Military Minister, had an exceptionally clear purpose. The first time he arrived at the Nine Continents Prison, he began to search for some dangerous criminals according to a confidential list in his hand.

The final results of the investigation showed that in the past ten years, the number of prisoners in the Nine Continents Prison had mysteriously disappeared was 67. Among them, there were assassins, foreign agents, international bandits, imperial agents who had committed major mistakes, and high-intelligence criminals who had been imprisoned for economic crimes.

In less than twenty-four hours, Yun Shanluan, the old monster of the Nine Continents Prison, could not have arranged it perfectly. The Nine Continents Prison was the most secretive, special and dangerous prison in the empire, The Military Ministry, the Ministry of Security, and the Divine Continent Guardian Organization all had a detailed list. When they arrived at the Nine Continents Prison, they could easily compare it with the list in the prison. Dozens of dangerous criminals that could be considered top in all fields had inexplicably disappeared, causing a violent shock in the higher echelons of the military.

The explanation given by Yun Shanluan, the guardian of the Nine Continents City Prison, was natural death. However, such an official reason was naturally impossible to convince the crowd. At least, it was impossible to convince the crowd until the royal family and the southwest faction reached a certain balance.

The three giants of the military immediately reported the investigation report to the upper echelons of the ruling party's Central Committee, Cabinet, and Military Ministry.

Of the three reports, one of the General Staff's investigation reports was extremely sharp and stabbed into the southwest faction's body.

According to the report, It has been confirmed that he was imprisoned in Kyushu Prison six months ago, Former Japanese chief agent Ito, who had caused serious damage to the empire, had long since been released from prison, This was not consistent with the explanation given by the Kyushu Prison for natural death. On the first day of his long-term release from prison, Ito was killed by the mysterious white-clothed man. He had been killed dozens of times. The time of his death was less than 72 hours. More importantly, when Ito died, he was the personal bodyguard of the southwest Lin Clan's Patriarch, Yan Huang Club Minister Lin Fengxue.

The report directly reached the heavens. The upper echelons of the empire trembled violently. Even some of the elders and serving cadres of the southwest faction were furious. The political game was not bad, and it was not wrong to increase their strength. However, some unprincipled developments had undoubtedly angered the bottom line of many cadres with strong principles.

An elder from the southwest faction, who had long since retired, mercilessly pointed out that this method had no benefits other than fostering evil spirits. If they insisted on doing so, the entire team would rot from the roots. The cancer that they would commit if they did not respect principles and knew their mistakes must be removed. Otherwise, no matter how glorious a team was, it would be an illusion and there was no future to speak of.

This sentence was not only critical of Lin Fengxue, it even included the current supreme leader, Lin Qingtian.

The southwest faction, known as the first faction of the empire, immediately let out two completely different voices. Some of the old men in the empire vaguely knew an answer from more than twenty years ago, Back then, Lin Qingtian, the Supreme Head of the Mayor of Southwest City, together with the Tang Clan, which was one of the three great clans, A desperate assassination was staged at the wedding of the Emperor and Chen Hualou. If he wanted to strangle Chen Hualou, who was the youngest in the empire at that time, in the cradle, It just so happened that the Qin Family's Young Madam and the Emperor's sister Wang Yinmeng desperately saved Chen Hua Lou, causing the Qin Family and the Imperial Family to form a great karma. At the same time, an already pitiful woman struggled to save her life, but her skills were completely crippled, leaving behind a root cause of illness that lasted until today.

After the crime, the completely crazy emperor directly blocked the leader of the southwest faction, the highest leader of the empire, Xue Zhiguo, in the current War God Palace. Then, he forced the head of the Tang Family to death. That night, he stabbed several times on the body of the current highest leader of the empire, Lin Qingtian. Then, he escaped overseas with Ye Liu-li.

The young master of the Qin Clan, Qin Tianjiao, who had been overseas, had brought the Heavenly Court back to the empire. He had nearly killed all of Lin Qingtian's immediate family members for his wife's sake.

Lin Qingtian struggled to recover his life and was transferred to Nanyue soon after.

Chen Hualou followed closely behind.

The thorough enmity between the royal lineage and the southwest faction was so intense that it could be said that they had to fight for every inch of land.

It was one of the few chaotic years since the founding of the People's Republic, The political climate is complex and changeable, Countless influential families were completely shattered in the collision between the two great powers, Countless high-ranking officials dismounted, The Qin Clan and the Tang Clan, which were capable of affecting the overall situation of the empire, had become the most conspicuous victims of the game. No one was willing to compromise, and no one would back down. The final result of the game ended with the leader of the southwest faction, Xue Zhiguo, who was the highest head of the empire at that time. He did not get re-elected. Former Prime Minister Li Donglei led the emperor back to establish the Yan Huang Club.

The heavily damaged but still vicious Royal Clan had completely shattered the plan for the two successive top leaders of the southwest faction to relay their troops. In eight or ten years, Lin Qingtian had tried his best to suppress the Royal Clan, but there was no reason for him to completely disperse the Royal Clan.

Therefore, to a certain extent, some people in the southwest faction had grievances against Lin Qingtian. If it weren't for his reckless disregard for principles back then, today might have been a different situation.

And now, Lin Fengxue had even used foreign spies in the Nine Continents Prison to increase her own strength. This immediately caused a portion of the southwest faction that was dissatisfied with Lin Qingtian to erupt.

Right now, the outside world hadn't said anything, but there was a tendency for internal strife within the southwest faction.

No matter how skillful Lin Qingtian was, it would be difficult for time to unify the voices within the faction.

Under such circumstances, the southwest faction, the largest faction in the empire, was facing internal and external troubles and was in a worrying situation.

Forty-eight hours after Lin Fengxue was secretly investigated.

General Staff Intelligence Division II summoned the Minister of Imperial Security, Huang Haotian, and the Director of the Imperial Central Bureau of INTERPOL, Ning Fei.

The Minister of Imperial Security was summoned by the General Staff.

This was probably the first time since the founding of the People's Republic.

However, this move made the southwest faction's vast majority of people uneasy.

The security department wasn't considered a top-notch minister, but this identity was too special. Huang Haotian had stayed in the security department for more than ten years and had climbed up step by step. There were some sensitive news that couldn't be spread out no matter what.

Guo An is a secret service, as well as cabinet ministries, If the Lin family in the southwest is the dark side of the southwest faction, If the War God Palace was the dark side of the royal family, then the secret service system was the dark side of the entire empire. The Ministry of Security had always been firmly in the hands of the southwest faction. There were too many secrets these past few years. If Huang Haotian were to dismount, he might be dragged into a list that no one dared to imagine, or even deal a fatal blow to the southwest faction.

This was something that the southwest faction could not accept no matter what.

Radix Ginseng.

It was a powerful department firmly controlled by the royal family. Its status was as if the Ministry of Security was in the southwest faction, and it was unbreakable. Even if the southwest faction wanted to interfere, it could not do anything about it.

The only thing that worried and rejoiced the southwest faction was that the current General Staff seemed to be interrogating Huang Haotian only on the issue of Lin Fengxue and the criminals in the Nine Continents Prison, without revealing any other intentions.

However, this was also the most brilliant place. When the southwest faction was extremely nervous, they would not force them to do so completely. They left a clever room for compromise. Since they could not jump over the wall in haste, they would naturally demand peace. Under such circumstances, the royal clan would definitely speak out loudly once and think of a way to obtain enough benefits.

The royal family wasn't in a hurry at all. In a case like Huang Haotian's, it wasn't too much to say that he was traitorous. The royal clan followed suit, slowly interrogating him, not to mention removing Huang Haotian's position as minister. Without the royal clan mentioning it, the southwest faction didn't dare to say that they had to stabilize Huang Haotian while weighing the bargaining chips. Otherwise, if he told them everything, it would be meaningless.

The case had to be investigated slowly. During this period of time, the Ministry of Security was naturally in a state of panic. The several ambitious deputy directors were also planning to take over. The functions of the Ministry of Security would be infinitely weakened during this period of time. Correspondingly, the status of the General Staff would increase imperceptibly.

After compromising, even if Huang Haotian was released, it would be worth pondering how a security minister who had lost all his prestige would win against a few deputies from the same faction.

The southwestern faction did not have the courage to compromise directly for the time being, Supreme Head Lin Qingtian had already sent Vice Head Gao to inspect various places. Actually, it was for the sake of meeting with the leaders of the southwest faction frequently, getting through their work, and discussing their bottom line. As a result, time passed day by day. Vice-Head Ye, who was also a member of the Standing Committee of the Policy Bureaux, had not shown up for a long time, and the position of Vice-Head Ye, who was the most popular successor, had also been strengthened at all times.

Regardless of how he looked at it, the longer this matter dragged on, the better.

As for the southwest faction, it was already in a bit of a mess.

One day, three days, a week, half a month, a month...

At the end of March.

Spring flowers bloom.

Within a month, Minister of Security Huang Haotian had been summoned four times, the longest time, or even as long as a week.

The deputy of the Ministry of Security had already accumulated quite a bit of contradictions, and they gradually returned to the state where the mountains were filled with people.

Vice-Head Gao has been operating in various provinces and has never returned to Beijing.

Vice Head Ye's voice grew louder and louder.

The Supreme Head, Lin Qingtian, had held three plenary meetings of the Policy Bureaux in a month. Two of the royal family's senior officials had already reached the rank of deputy governor, but the royal family showed no signs of being satisfied.

In mid-April.

The Cabinet and the Development Committee issued a document agreeing that Wuyue, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yanzhao, and the three provinces should learn from and promote the Jiangnan agricultural reform method throughout the province.

Jiang Nan Provincial Governor Huangfu Jun, the general trend is complete!

Although there are still some elders muttering in private, for example, "There is a precedent for other provincial party secretaries to transfer Wu Yue to the position of governor, but it is the only one for other provincial governors to transfer Wu Yue to the position of party secretary." However, everyone can tell that the voice is getting weaker and weaker.

Late April.

Under the operation of Tang Xin, the Royal Wang International Group purchased four large-scale projects of the Lin Family in the southwest, including large groups of new energy and military enterprises.

Wang's International Group's presence within the empire had increased greatly, and its liquidity had also increased.

In the past two months, the matter regarding Huang Haotian and Lin Fengxue had become more and more intense, and all sides were somewhat restless.

As for the other focal point of this disturbance, the War God King's Mansion, whose prestige had greatly increased due to the Huang Haotian incident, was now brimming with spring.

Comrade War God King's life of abstinence.

It's over.