When Cao Zhiqiang smiled and threatened Director Li, Director Li was obviously stunned for a moment, never expecting that Cao Zhiqiang would dare to say these words to him.

But soon, Director Li frowned slightly, and then nodded slightly, indicating that he recognized Cao Zhiqiang's threat.

There was no way, because Director Li knew that Cao Zhiqiang was none other than Cao Zhiqiang. He really had that kind of connections and energy, otherwise the publishing house wouldn't be able to start a business.

What's more, strictly speaking, Director Li is indeed at fault for this matter.

"Xiao Cao, don't worry." Director Li chuckled, "I just wanted to tell you about Niu Shufen's situation. It didn't mean that I would always protect her.

In fact, if I really want to protect her now, why should I tell you this? Do you think so?"

Cao Zhiqiang was right. If Director Li really wanted to protect Niu Shufen now, he could just give the order directly. There was no need to tell him so much.

Especially since there is a lot of dark history involving Factory Director Li, this is obviously the handle.

Now, Factory Director Li takes the initiative to tell himself these dark histories. Doesn't this mean that he is giving himself the leverage?

Huh? It sounds a bit familiar.

When I framed him, no, when I took the initiative to defend against Wei Dajun, I also took the initiative to give a lot of clues to Yang An'an and Jin Xiuying, as well as Doctor Wu and Police Officer Zhou Jianguo.

Although when he did it, he felt a little hasty and had to reveal the flaws, but he didn't worry about anything afterwards.

Because once those things are done, everyone will be a grasshopper on the same rope, and at least in the short term, everyone will not be at odds with each other.

As for the future, it doesn't matter, because once this kind of thing is confirmed, if someone wants to go back on it in the future, it will be in vain because there is no evidence.

In the final analysis, in the country during this period, the key is to see who is more wealthy and powerful, who has greater power and a deeper background.

As long as Cao Zhiqiang remains rich, powerful and well-established, those people will not dare to renege on him afterwards, because it will be useless to renege on him and they will be labeled as false accusations.

Reality is not a TV series. Once something is established, it is not that easy to change it later.

Especially in the era when later generations still pay attention to evidence, it will be even more difficult to overturn the case.

Furthermore, conflicts of interest usually occur when there is a huge conflict of interest.

But is there any conflict of interest between Cao Zhiqiang and those insiders? Absolutely not.

On the contrary, those insiders have benefited from Cao Zhiqiang and will continue to rely on Cao Zhiqiang in the future.

Forget about Jin Xiuying, she is now regarded as Cao Zhiqiang's woman. After all, Cao Zhiqiang has kept his promise and "supported" Jin Xiuying.

There is no problem with Yang An'an. He is already Cao Zhiqiang's driver, and now Cao Zhiqiang has paid to send him to a driving school. Moreover, Yang An'an has a good nature and attaches great importance to love and justice. Once such a person identifies someone, as long as he does not infringe,

His bottom line is that it is difficult to betray him.

Not everyone is fed by unfamiliar white-eyed wolves. After all, there are still a minority of people who are good at it.

Dr. Wu is not a problem. He has a wife and children to support, and he is a doctor. Once he betrays him, he will lose his job or even go to jail. After all, he has made many mistakes in the whole process.

, that is not a mistake, but a crime.

Not to mention Zhou Jianguo, he is a policeman himself, but he knows the law and breaks the law, and takes the initiative to help Cao Zhiqiang revise his religion. It would be fine if this is not exposed. Once it is exposed, he will definitely be the worst among these people, and he will be jailed.

On the other hand, Cao Zhiqiang, the instigator, seems to be the most dangerous, but is actually the safest.

why?

Because during the entire frame-up process, Cao Zhiqiang did not leave any actual evidence of frame-up.

Well, it can't be said that there were no questions left, but those questions had been revised by Zhou Jianguo a long time ago, and afterwards, through Cao Zhiqiang, he secretly vented his anger on Dr. Wu and others, asking Dr. Wu, Yang An'an and others to change their confessions.

In this way, even if someone comes to review the confession in the future, there won't be any problems with the confession.

Let’s carefully review the whole process of framing the Wei army.

Cao Zhiqiang really had bleeding and was really hospitalized.

As for the bleeding, there was a blood-stained handkerchief and Dr. Wu’s professional identification as evidence.

Hospitalization also has related hospitalization procedures and treatment lists.

There were also reports from the Peking Youth Daily and endorsements from leaders at all levels of the Hongguang Machinery Factory.

It can be said that if someone questions whether Cao Zhiqiang's assassination was fake, then according to the principle of whoever doubts it, he must find sufficient evidence to overturn all the evidence chain.

However, it is too difficult to overturn these evidence chains. You must falsify all links.

To achieve falsification, it was okay to check it out at the time, but over time, it would be a fool's errand to falsify it.

And, as mentioned before, even if you really find enough evidence, or let Officer Zhou, Dr. Wu, Yang Ping An and others all turn against you and say that Cao Zhiqiang was not stabbed and that he was pretending to be ill, it doesn't matter.

As long as Cao Zhiqiang insists that he was stabbed, there is nothing you can do.

Because you can't turn back time and go to the scene to open Cao Zhiqiang's wounds for everyone to see.

It is useless to rely only on witnesses, especially to identify a state-owned enterprise boss. It is useless to rely on just a few witnesses.

On the contrary, for those "rebellious witnesses" who identified Cao Zhiqiang, Cao Zhiqiang only needed one false accusation and asked them to produce evidence to silence those witnesses.

It's very simple, so much time has passed and you can't prove that Cao Zhiqiang was not stabbed at that time. You have no physical evidence!

On the other hand, Wei Dajun's group, even if they did not stab Cao Zhiqiang, when they arrested them, they did find many prohibited weapons, such as knives and firearms, but these were enough.

What's more, afterward, under Zhou Jianguo's coercion and inducement, those people all gave in and confessed, admitting the fact that they besieged Cao Zhiqiang and that it was Wei Jun who stabbed him.

To put it bluntly, in the entire process of framing the Wei army, Cao Zhiqiang, the instigator, was actually the safest. Especially later on, when the evidence became more important, Cao Zhiqiang became safer.

On the contrary, people like Zhou Jianguo have no actual leverage to threaten Cao Zhiqiang.

To put it more bluntly, people like Zhou Jianguo actually helped Cao Zhiqiang to hand over their names.

On the surface, it seems that these people are all handing over their handles, but handles have different weights.

Once people like Zhou Jianguo plead guilty, no matter if they were used as tainted witnesses or something else, they would be doomed.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, as long as he refuses to admit it, no one can do anything to him.

This is the difference in class status, influence, and results.

To put it more bluntly, this is the difference between big people and little people.

If it were so easy to bring down a big shot, there wouldn't be so many tragic... TV series.

On the contrary, if Cao Zhiqiang was brought down, it would definitely not be because of lack of evidence or a dark history. It could only be because Cao Zhiqiang offended some big shot that he could not afford to offend and failed during the struggle. That's all.

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Having said that, Cao Zhiqiang's status today is no longer a little shrimp that can be rubbed around.

If nothing else, the relationship between Cao Zhiqiang and Secretary Dong is not something that Director Li can compete with.

The fundamental reason why Secretary Dong took a fancy to Cao Zhiqiang was that Secretary Dong knew that Cao Zhiqiang knew the boss of the Metallurgical Department.

Even Factory Director Li only found out about Cao Zhiqiang's relationship through Secretary Dong.

From this perspective, Factory Director Li is actually inferior to Secretary Dong, and even inferior to Cao Zhiqiang in terms of status.

Of course, if Cao Zhiqiang does things unreasonably, Director Li will naturally not be afraid.

But now it's clear that Cao Zhiqiang is right about this matter.

If Director Li still wants to continue to suffer the same consequences as he did when he protected Niu Shufen, then the final outcome can only be that he will not be able to protect himself in his old age.

Factory Manager Li should know this truth.

Now that he knows that Cao Zhiqiang has this kind of background, what is he doing...

Wait, if that's the case, why did Director Li expose his own weakness?

This is obviously not right?

"Director Li." Cao Zhiqiang frowned when he thought of this, "Since you never thought about protecting Niu Shufen, why don't you help me?"

"Why didn't I help you?" Director Li asked in surprise, "If I didn't help you, why would I call you over and tell you so much?"

Cao Zhiqiang continued to frown: "What kind of help is this? If you are really willing to help me, you should agree to what I said on the phone and immediately send someone over to check the accounts while Niu Shufen is still locked in the editorial office, especially to check me.

The company’s treasury?”

"Hey, Xiao Cao, you are stupid!" Director Li shook his head, "If you want to deal with Niu Shufen, tell me, given our current relationship, can I still help you?

But if you suddenly do this, even if Niu Shufen is really convicted in the end, it will be detrimental to you."

Cao Zhiqiang was stunned: "How do you say this?"

Director Li chuckled, adjusted the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, squinted his eyes and said:

"Xiao Cao, I told you so much before to tell you that Niu Shufen's identity is not simple. Even though her father is gone now, many of her relatives are still there.

Now if you use this method to get Niu Shufen, even if it is proved that she embezzled public funds, she will not admit it.

Because she will say that it was you who avenged a private vendetta, you were the one who retaliated, and you were the one who framed me."

At this point, as if he saw that Cao Zhiqiang was about to speak, Director Li waved his hand: "Don't be impatient yet, just listen to what I have to say."

Immediately afterwards, Director Li said again: "Look, I know a little bit about the situation of your publishing house. You don't have a complete accounting system and there are not enough accountants. All entries and exits are done manually, and

Niu Shufen is basically in charge alone, am I right?"

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "Yes, that's the case, but it's basically clear how much money you make.

After all, so far, for the project "Journey to Jianghu", our publishing house has records in the warehouse of how many books have been published, and how much money has been returned, and there is also an account.
To be continued...