Chapter 697: Capturing Xing Kaifeng 2
Xing Kaifeng is now the deputy director of the Planning Department of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce. Although he claims to be very smart and has a father who is the deputy secretary of the city, unfortunately there are not many other things in Beijing except officials. Someone once joked that if a brick fell from the sky in Beijing and hit six people, three of them would be directors and deputy directors.
Although this is just a joke, it also indirectly illustrates that in the capital, there are countless officials of all sizes. After all, this is the capital of the country. Therefore, in the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, even if it is just an ordinary clerk, he may have impressive connections behind him.
Xing Kaifeng was able to become deputy director at the deputy division level before he was 30 years old, of course, with the support of his father. However, if he wants to move up further, it is not just a matter of connections, but more importantly his own ability.
In the autumn of the year before last, Director Hu of the Planning Department of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce had to retire early and go home to recuperate due to a recurrence of an old injury. In addition to Xing Kaifeng, there were three other deputy directors in the Planning Department. In order to get this rare promotion opportunity, everyone tried their best. Xing Kaifeng certainly put in a lot of effort, and even Deputy Secretary Xing shamelessly used a lot of connections. Unfortunately, they all failed in the end. Deputy Director Xiao had the last laugh, and stood out from the four deputy directors to become the director of the Planning Department.
Xing Kaifeng, who had always been successful, was somewhat discouraged after this failure. Coincidentally, two friends asked him to help get some planned supplies. As far as he knew, these two friends, who were also second-generation officials, often got some scarce supplies in private to earn some pocket money.
Of course Xing Kaifeng would not refuse the request of these two friends. He directly got them thirty cartons of Mudan cigarettes and fifty cartons of Daqianmen cigarettes from the cigarette allocation that he was in charge of. What he didn't expect was that four days later, when these two friends invited him for a drink, they slipped him three hundred yuan.
Although Xing Kaifeng refused again and again at that time, the other party insisted that he had a share of the money, so he finally accepted it reluctantly.
After that, Xing Kaifeng bought some cigarettes for these two friends five or six times. Of course, the other party would also give him some cash every time.
Last month, when the two friends invited Xing Kaifeng to dinner, they asked him for help in getting some food and meat.
If it came to a little bit of pork, Xing Kaifeng could really get it from the Meat Processing Plant under the Commercial Bureau, but grain had always been the responsibility of the Grain Bureau, and his unit had nothing to do with grain. It was obvious that the other party had set their sights on the city. For these well-informed people, it was no secret that the city had obtained large quantities of grain and meat from the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill at the national allocation price. After hesitating for again and again, Xing Kaifeng agreed to think of a way.
What else could Xing Kaifeng do? Isn't it better to go find his own father?
Originally, Xing Kaifeng was a little worried that he would run into a problem with his father, but he didn't expect that when he proposed to get some grain and meat from the city for the related units, his father didn't even ask any questions and directly approved 100 tons of flour and 1 ton of pork for him.
This note from Xing Kaifeng actually earned him 5,000 yuan in cash. When he received the money, he was a little worried. After all, although the two friends said that they were supplies for their related units, everyone knew that these things would eventually flow into the black market.
With the current tight market supply, the price of grain on the black market has doubled. The grain store supplied flour at 1.7 cents per catty, but now the price has risen to 50 or 60 cents on the black market. The supply and marketing cooperative supplied pork at 1.5 yuan per catty, but now it is 1.5 yuan on the black market.
After Xing Kaifeng got the money, he thought about it and spent more than a thousand yuan to buy two Duan inkstones, a box of Hui ink, six Hu brushes, and several calligraphy and paintings for his father from Liulichang. He knew that although his father had only attended a private school for a few years, he now liked to show off his literary talent at home.
Deputy Secretary Xing gladly accepted the filial gift from his youngest son, and even took his son to discuss the calligraphy and paintings. He also readily agreed to his son's request to get some more food and meat for his friend's unit.
In this way, Xing Kaifeng had obtained thousands of tons of grain and dozens of tons of meat for his two friends in just a few months, and he himself also earned fifty or sixty thousand yuan.
Now Xing Kaifeng was surprised to find that he actually liked the wonderful feeling of making money.
Xing Kaifeng was extremely annoyed when he heard the bad news today that his father had suffered three fractures in his lumbar vertebrae due to a car accident. He was of course clearly aware that if his father's injuries could not be healed, then all that awaited him was retirement and recuperation at home. It is said that when a person leaves, the tea gets cold. If his father left the position of deputy secretary of the capital, it would not only mean that he would lose the opportunity to continue making money in the future, but it would also mean that he would no longer have the strong support behind him.
Just as Xing Kaifeng's mind was full of wild thoughts, the door of the ward was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and Director Wang of the Municipal Security Department and several young men in gray Zhongshan suits appeared at the door.
Xing Kaifeng couldn't help but frowned. He walked over with a gloomy face and asked directly: "Director Wang, you brought these people to suddenly break into my father's ward, what's the matter?"
Director Wang ignored Xing Kaifeng's questioning and said to a man in his thirties beside him, "Captain Liu, this is Xing Kaifeng, deputy director of the Planning Department of the Municipal Commerce Bureau."
The man called Captain Liu looked up and down at the gentleman in front of him wearing a pair of tortoise-shell glasses, then reached into his pocket and pulled out an ID card, which he waved at Xing Kaifeng. He said in a serious tone, "Xing Kaifeng, I am Liu Hongwei from the seventh team of the relevant department. You are going back with us to be investigated now."
When Xing Kaifeng heard the words "relevant departments", his face turned pale. He quickly said, "Captain Liu, is there any misunderstanding? Why did your relevant department ask me to investigate? Did you make a mistake?"
At this time, Xing Kaifeng's mother Li Lanhua also clearly heard what Captain Liu said. She immediately walked over and asked Director Wang of the Municipal Security Department: "Director Wang, what's going on? Why are the relevant departments investigating my son?"
Without waiting for Director Wang to explain, Captain Liu sneered and said, "It seems that Xing Kaifeng, you will not give up until you reach the Yellow River. You must know Yu Haiyang and Xu Changsheng, right?" After saying that, he waved his hand, and two young men in gray clothes behind him immediately stepped forward and handcuffed Xing Kaifeng, who was as pale as paper.