Life Copy Game

Bright lights illuminated the vast conference room, and people surrounding the huge long conference table looked at each other.

Although the cabinet meeting room of the Yilan City Mayor's Palace was originally designed to accommodate up to fifty people for meetings at the same time, it has been a year since Lin En took office as mayor to form a new cabinet.

But this is only the second time so many cabinet members have come together.

The first time was not in this cabinet meeting room, but in the banquet hall of the Mayor's Palace, at the banquet for the new mayor to take office.

In most cases, cabinet decisions are made by meetings between the mayor and the ministers of the seven main departments.

Even if there are matters involving other departments, only the ministers of the small departments related to the incident will be brought in for a meeting, instead of calling everyone together for a meeting.

As cabinet members arrived one after another, with friendly greetings, the originally relaxed atmosphere gradually became more solemn.

This solemn state reached a peak after the arrival of Deputy Mayor Lant.

Watching the deputy mayor take a seat next to the main seat of the conference table, sitting at the back of the entire conference table, a thin man with a mustache, wearing a gray suit, and a gold pocket watch on his chest lowered his head and looked at A fat man next to him asked in a low voice,

"Do you have any news? The mayor suddenly summoned us all..."

"No."

The fat man leaned back in his chair and shook his head, "I haven't contacted Mayor Linn since last night."

"Aren't you from Mayor Lynn's party?"

The man with the mustache was a little confused, "He didn't answer your calls?"

"It is said that all the calls that came in last night were not answered."

The fat man shook his head and glanced at the head of the conference table, Deputy Mayor Lant, who was lowering his head and seemed to be thinking about something, "Including Deputy Mayor Lant."

"If the mayor is really assassinated, this person will be the biggest beneficiary."

The man with the mustache also glanced at Deputy Mayor Lant from a distance, "It seems that the relationship between our mayor and deputy mayor will not be good."

"But I do believe that Deputy Mayor Lant did not do this. After all, he did not need to assassinate Mayor Linn,"

The fat man sighed softly, "Their conflict has not intensified to that point yet, and it will not come to the point of life and death."

"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not,"

The man with the mustache looked away and lightly shrugged, "I have to ask Mr. Mayor to believe me."

"It seems that these two days are destined to be uneventful."

The fat man shook his head.

"If it's not peaceful, then it's not peaceful. To be honest, I can see it now,"

The man with a mustache lowered his voice, "I'm afraid our mayor has not been here for long. The conflict between the consortium and him has become extremely acute. It has reached the point of life and death. Moreover, he has also lost control of the city defense army. There may be a coup. It’s coming, but we may not be able to collect the whole body by then.”

"Don't talk nonsense!"

The fat man quickly raised his eyes and looked around, and whispered.

"I just reiterated the current situation,"

The mustachioed man lowered his head slightly and quickly glanced at the people surrounding the conference table.

At this moment, most people were gathered together in pairs, discussing something in low voices, with various expressions, but most of them had sullen faces, as if they were thinking.

He retracted his gaze and looked at the fat man next to him again, "Everyone knows the current situation, and I'm afraid they have already prepared for it. Don't say that you have no contact with Levi's."

Hearing the name Levi's, the fat man's eyes suddenly widened. He lowered his head and said quickly, "What are you talking about?"

"rest assured,"

The mustachioed man shook his head and said with a smile, "Levis also came to contact me,"

He glanced at everyone again, "And the people sitting here are probably all more or less connected to Levi's. Everyone knows that Lin En's tree won't last long, so I'm afraid they are all making plans as soon as possible to get along well." , when the new mayor takes office, he might even become a member of the new cabinet.”

"I don't have that much thought,"

The fat man paused and glanced at the mustache man's face, "Levis and I are just normal friends."

"It's all about making friends,"

The man with the mustache smiled, glanced at the empty chair at the conference table, and said thoughtfully, "Tell me, if the mayor and the deputy mayor are really at odds, will he force the deputy mayor to do it?" Resign?"

"It's unlikely. We all know Lynn's personality. He's soft-hearted and won't do such a 'radical' thing."

The fat man shook his head.

"Who can say for sure? After all, people have experienced life and death once. Who knows whether any huge changes will occur?"

The mustached man thought, "And our Deputy Mayor Lant is a tough-tempered person. Mayor Linn sent out such an obvious signal of distrust. If this assassination really has nothing to do with Mayor Lant, , he may not be able to bear the criticism and resign directly."

He leaned back in his chair, reached out and touched the watch chain of the gold pocket watch that was stuffed into the pocket watch pocket on his chest, and said thoughtfully, "You said that if the deputy mayor resigns, who will Mr. Linn nominate to take over as deputy mayor? ?”

According to the laws of Ilan City, if the deputy mayor resigns or dies during his term of office, the mayor has the right to nominate a new mayor, as long as he obtains the approval of a simple majority of the city council.

"It's not you and me anyway,"

The fat man shook his head, then looked at the top seats of the conference table, frowning slightly, "The Minister of the Interior is not here? Isn't that guy very popular with the mayor? Every time something happens, he runs away He is the fastest and the first to show his loyalty in public."

"Yeah, he's the fastest,"

Hearing what the fat man said, the man with a mustache shrugged, "So he ran away. If you think Mayor Linn will nominate the Minister of the Interior as deputy mayor, I'm afraid you will be disappointed."

"Ran?"

The fat man was stunned for a moment and didn't realize what the man with the mustache was talking about.

"He literally ran away. That guy has much better intelligence than us. He knew about Lin En's assassination last night, and then ran away overnight... and left Yilan City."

The mustached man said with a slightly mocking smile.

"this···"

The fat man was in disbelief, "Where did you get the news?"

"From a mutual friend of both ours."

The mustache looked away and whispered, "He ran away and took some of the channels of our mutual friend."

"Levis?"

The fat man's voice was slightly lowered, and he once again glanced at the empty seat in front of him in disbelief. "That guy who is the Minister of the Interior has always been very aggressive. I thought he was a die-hard supporter of Lynn."

"Loyalty can be disguised, right? Until the critical moment, who knows what that person is thinking deep down?"

The mustached man smiled and said, "If Mayor Lin En is willing to nominate me as the deputy mayor, then I will also be Mayor Lin En's loyal minister!"

"Tsk, he probably thought that Mayor Lin En would definitely die, so he ran away to avoid the limelight."

The fat man smacked his lips, "With his business methods, I'm afraid that if there is a new mayor who supports the consortium, he will still be able to occupy a position in the new cabinet."

"Look at that,"

At this time, the man with the mustache suddenly turned his head and looked at a relatively marginal man among the top few, wearing silver half-rimmed glasses and with prematurely gray hair.

This man was one of the few people in the entire conference room who was not talking to others in pairs. Instead, he was flipping his bracelet alone.

"Minister of Finance,"

The fat man's face changed slightly, and then he said casually, "What's wrong?"

"You have evidence of the Minister of Finance's 'abusing influence for personal gain', which was given by our friend, right?"

The mustachioed man suddenly asked.

The fat man's expression changed.

"Don't worry, at least a few of the people sitting here have similar 'evidences'. These incriminating evidences have now been sent to Mayor Linn. They are just waiting for our mayor to ask. Then they can come out and testify.”

The mustachioed man shook his head, "Me too."

"you also have?"

The fat man's expression softened a little.

"Mine is that one,"

He glanced at the other side of the corner, where a handsome man in his thirties was chatting calmly with the people around him.

"Minister of Energy?"

The fat man was stunned and said doubtfully, "Isn't he from Deputy Mayor Lant?"

"I guess I offended someone,"

The mustachioed man touched the gold watch chain on his chest, then he turned his head, looked at the fat man and smiled, "But I won't agree this time."

"You want the position of energy secretary?"

The fat man was thoughtful.

In Yilan City, the mayor's nomination of the deputy mayor requires the approval of the council, but the appointment and removal of cabinet officials does not. The new official only needs to go to the council to complete a job hearing at the appropriate time.

Regardless of whether the parliament agrees or not, it will not affect the taking office of the new cabinet members.

If the energy minister offends the mayor because of "criminal evidence", the mayor can directly remove him from office. At this time, in a department that does not require high professionalism, according to the usual practice, the new minister will be given priority from the lower ranks of the cabinet. Ministers are elected.

"I need your support to convince some people in your party to influence Mayor Lynn,"

The mustached man smiled slightly and said,

"If I succeed, I will let our mutual friend exert some influence. Then my position as Minister of Education will be yours. Although this department does not have much oil and water, I am afraid it will still be better than your position as Minister of Women, Children and Health." It’s better, of course,”

He glanced up at the vacant main seat in the conference room, "If you also want to be mayor, just pretend I didn't tell you."

"I don't have Lynn's ability,"

The fat man smiled and glanced at the vacant seat. "The mayor's position is still a bit too dangerous."

"If you don't want to go against the consortium, it's still the most powerful position in the city, but of course that's not what we can think about now."

The man with mustache turned his head and looked at the fat man.

"But speaking of which, have you seen the 'criminal evidence' of the Finance Minister?"

The fat man lowered his head and asked doubtfully, "Will you also 'testify' about the Minister of Finance later?"

"No,"

The mustachioed man shook his head, "I will avoid it. Sometimes, retreating is more useful than advancing."

He glanced at the fat man whose eyes fell on his seat, and he knew that the other man was attracted by his offer.

"Tell me, what is the purpose of Mayor Linn's meeting?"

The fat man next to him asked the original question.

"Who knows?"

The man with the mustache smiled and said, "I only know that maybe someone will be fired at this meeting and lose his position as a cabinet member."

His eyes fell on the handsome man who was talking and laughing.

The Minister of Energy has close contact with the energy and industry sectors, and is one of the most powerful and easiest to obtain "donations" below the seven major departments. It is a pity that such a good position has fallen into the hands of people who do not know how to do it.

But soon, it will be back in the hands of someone who can use it.

——

"There is some information that you might want to take a look at."

As soon as he arrived at the door of the cabinet meeting room, the blond chief of staff frowned slightly and handed over an electronic book tablet.

This was just handed to her by a staff member on the way here.

"Um?"

He Ao reached out and took the tablet.

"We received an anonymous tip,"

Chief of Staff Wei Wei explained, “It involves two cabinet ministers.

"One is Finance Minister Lowe. He was reported to have used his power to collude with the Nolde Consortium and sent his daughter to the Nolde Private High School in St. Yilan District through illegal means. This is the best in the entire Yilan City. One of the private high schools.

“The other was Energy Minister Vittel, who was reported to have accepted bribes from Copez Mining in a bar.”

"What a coincidence?"

He Ao looked at the tablet in his hand and flipped through the reporting materials.

Lowther's are mainly photographs of documentary materials.

Vettel was a bit more aggressive. There was a photo of accepting a suitcase handed over by a man in a suit and uniform who seemed to be experienced. The suitcase format is the classic suitcase format for carrying money. On the background wall of the photo is the Coppes Mining emblem. ,

"It's a bit of a coincidence."

The chief of staff also had a strange expression.

Colluding with consortiums and accepting bribes are exactly what Mayor Lin En hates. These two materials are a bit too 'targeted'.

"Send a copy of these two documents to Tucker and ask him to contact the FBI and ask Levi's subordinates if they know the 'source' of these materials."

He Ao handed the e-book tablet back to the chief of staff and said quickly, "Also, prepare a list as soon as possible."

"OK,"

The chief of staff nodded thoughtfully, then she looked at He Ao, "Then do these two materials need to be sent to the conference room?"

"Send it over,"

He Ao smiled and said, "These two materials come at just the right time."

He reached out and pushed open the office door, and the moment he pushed the door open, the originally noisy office suddenly became quiet.

Everyone's eyes were focused on him for an instant, and each figure sat up straight in an instant.

"Everyone, I've been waiting for a long time."

He Ao walked to the main seat, looked at the people who had been focusing on him, and glanced at the two empty seats not far away from him.

One is for the Minister of the Interior and the other is for the Minister of Urban Defense.

The Minister of the Interior ran away, and the Minister of Urban Defense Scott Ho did not invite him this time.

"The main reason for calling everyone here today is for a simple matter."

He stood in front of the table, placed his brass cane on the table, and said calmly, "But before I was ready to start the meeting, I happened to receive two pieces of materials."

He reached out and clicked on the hidden touch button on the desktop. Suddenly, two pieces of information were placed on the hidden screen in front of each seat.

Will update early tomorrow!