Mags placed a warrant in his hand on the table, pressed it with his index finger and pushed it to the edge of the table on the other side, "Have you heard anything interesting these days?"
Wallace nodded and replied: "I heard that the new mayor of Odis, Mr. Donald, conspired with members of the Cape family to assassinate the former mayor, Mr. Dulin. The assassination failed in the end, and Mr. Dulin was also injured. I didn't know later. For some reason, this matter has been quiet for a while. It was not until this morning that I heard from the Ministry of Justice that Mr. Dulin had brought the two parties to court. "
Maggs raised his hand and took his index finger away from the document on the table. He pointed at Wallace, "Very good. This is what the special permission order I issued this time requires you to investigate. We shouldn't tolerate this. People who break the rules appear, and you are the defender of the rules. Go and investigate whether there is any collusion or other relationship between Mr. Donald and the Cape family. If it is true, come to me with the evidence, you know what to do!" , he curled his fingers and clicked on the table, "You can go do your work!"
Wallace bowed slightly and saluted, took two steps forward to pick up the special permit signed by Mags himself, carefully folded it and put it in his coat pocket, and then exited.
Whether in the past or now, the empire's attitude towards nobles and the ruling party's attitude towards officials is the same, which is to try not to investigate these people as much as possible so that they can have a basis for full trust. In the past, this was a necessary means for the royal family and the emperor to safeguard their rights and interests. If you always doubted the character of the nobles and whether they betrayed you, you would inevitably lose the support of these nobles, which may lead to the outbreak of civil war and even the shaking of the imperial power. .
In the new era, in order to gain more supporters, the ruling party will not investigate anyone within the party without authorization. The composition of the new party is very complex, consisting of members from multiple classes such as aristocrats, capitalists, and civilians. Once it touches the nerves of a certain class, it is very likely to cause a series of problems. Powell is one of the typical examples. Maggs knew that Powell was now on the opposite side of him, but he still did not take any action against him. This was to prevent the new party leader who had climbed up from the civilian class from having an incident. There was panic among members of the civilian class.
Therefore, the internal affairs investigation department rarely does anything proactively. Most of the time they are idle, cooperating with this department to do something, or helping that department to do something. Only after Maggs signs a special warrant will the internal affairs department begin a comprehensive forensic investigation of party members. Maggs also recognized some problems in the party's investigation department, so he planned to form a brand-new department to target officials' criminal behavior. This department has not yet been established and is still being planned.
He hopes to use this neutral, relatively moderate department to replace the internal affairs departments within the old and new parties and achieve more progress and achievements in anti-official crimes.
As for why Maggs issued this special permission order after the Capet family entered the scene, there are two reasons.
The first reason is that he plans to use the Capet family as a springboard, let them drag more aristocratic capitalists into this case, implicate more aristocratic capitalists, and then crush them all. This may satisfy the sociologist's hypothesis of crushing classes to redistribute power and benefits. And these people should indeed be transformed, so planning can only begin after the Cape family enters the scene.
Secondly, Maggs still has the last bit of hesitation about Donald. If he chooses to compromise, he may be transferred to a remote city to serve as mayor. But four years later, when Maggs is about to leave office, he will definitely transfer Donald back. Even if he cannot be the mayor of a special zone or a prosperous city like Otis City, an ordinary city can still do it. Because he is a chess piece, an "innocent" chess piece in the entire plan. He has endured things he shouldn't have to endure and adhered to his own principles, so he should be given certain compensation.
The original plan was for the Chant Consortium to manipulate a person to become the mayor of Otis City. With such a puppet mayor of the Capet family, the Capet family would definitely invest a lot of money and effort in Otis City. This would Become the grave they dig for themselves. But what he didn't expect was that the Cape family focused all their energy on the new special zone in the south and seemed indifferent to the vacant mayor of Otis, which caused a slight deviation in Mags' plan.
In fact, this deviation ultimately lies with Du Lin. Because he killed Solo, there is no longer such a person in the Cape family. A person who has lost face in Odis City and is still competing for the position of the head of the family, who is in urgent need of regaining face from Odis City and has certain family authority. figure!
If Solo had not died and Dulin resigned, he would definitely have persuaded the family to use certain resources to create a freshly minted mayor of Otis City. But the problem is that he was killed by Dulin, and the main members of the Cape family Members already know this. Although there is no evidence to link Solo's disappearance with Dulin, everyone agrees that Dulin must have ordered him to do it. At this time, if you go to stimulate this lunatic who just lost his official position and tear up the interests he left in Otis City, will he do crazy things again
Probably!
Therefore, the Cape family directly ignored the city of Otis that was on their lips. In order to seize the opportunity in the south as quickly as possible, they temporarily gave up on the city of Otis.
Until Donald appeared, his appearance attracted firepower for the Capet family. Perhaps before that, the old Capet was not willing to miss the opportunity in the south because of war with Dulin. But now that the opportunity in the south can be seized, the mayor of Odis takes the initiative to bring the meat to their mouths, so they have no reason not to bite it. If Doolin really went berserk and wanted to bite someone because of this incident, he would definitely bite Donald first. When he bit Donald to death, he also left enough evidence for the Cape family to defeat Dulin directly.
Sometimes the law is of some use, especially when some very important figures take up the sharp blade of the law. The law can still be considered "just".
Under a series of coincidences and mutual influences, things became much more complicated, but in the end they still reached the ending they should have according to the script, and the Cape family entered the game.
There are coincidences and deliberate intentions in the whole process. I can only say that this world is really amazing!
The second reason that contributed to this incident was that Donald fell into the decadent aristocratic capital camp.
At noon that day, the Supreme Court of the Imperial Capital announced that it had opened an investigation into the accusations made by Mr. Dulin and entered the stage of collecting evidence. At the same time, it issued a restraining order against Dulin, Donald and Poli. The three are not allowed to leave the empire until the end of this case, otherwise they will face very serious consequences.
This time, Dulin invited the main partners of the law firm where Kevin once worked to form a gorgeous team of lawyers to fight for him. To this end, Dulin had to at least pay this team of lawyers from the preparation of the case to the final trial of the case. Legal fees not less than RMB 800,000. In fact, he could ask Kevin to help him, but Kevin will soon be promoted to prosecutor, and he is also in a sensitive period, so it is not convenient to use him for the time being.
Moreover, even if he cannot appear in court, it does not mean that he cannot appear in the legal team. Private gatherings after work are normal, and it is not illegal to exchange some business insights. We are all barristers, and each one knows better than the other how to exploit loopholes.
Of course, after Dulin hired this group of people, he also made a request of his own, which was to drag this case on as indefinitely as possible!
In fact, the evidence in his hand is sufficient according to the lawyers. There are direct photos and eyewitnesses. Basically, it is not difficult to win this case as long as you put in a little effort. But Dulin knew very well that the trouble was not on his side, but on the Cape family's side. Solo's grandnephew seemed to be dead, at least that's what the people he bribed told him. Solo and Ones It's all over. The other party in this case can be said to be dead.
Once the Cape family applies for the death certificates of these people from the court, the case will directly enter the withdrawal stage - the defendants are damn dead, so what's the point of continuing this case
Even if Dulin doesn't hire these lawyers and directly applies to obtain the death certificates of these people, he can guarantee that he can win the case.
But what are the benefits of winning this case
compensate
To the Cape family who control the Anthem Consortium, the compensation of hundreds of thousands is nothing more than the natural fall-off of keratinized epithelial tissue after severe necrosis, which is referred to as dandruff, not even a hair. Losing these hundreds of thousands will not hurt the Capet family. Dulin will not become prosperous after getting these hundreds of thousands, and Maggs will not seize a Capet and implicate more aristocratic capitalists. . If no one benefits, then we can’t let this lawsuit end so quickly!
On the contrary, if this lawsuit is dragged on, Dulin will first stand on the moral high ground. After all, he is the victim, and he is also a minority victim, and he is more able to win the sympathy and tolerance of the mainstream of society. Those who stand on the opposite side of Dulin's mainstream views must be bad guys. The aristocratic origins of Donald and the Capet family will become the objects of hatred of the mainstream social classes. Driven by public opinion, they will doubt, hate, loathe, and be hostile to these people.
The boiling public opinion will become an invisible knife, constantly slicing the flesh of the Capet family and the Anthem Consortium. Coupled with a series of other actions, the Capet family will be in huge trouble!
(End of chapter)