In the study, father and daughter were talking alone.
Seeing his eldest daughter's eyes turning red, Zi Shu Fuming lit a Nanque cigar and said in a deep voice:
"What's the matter? Tell me quickly.
Two months later, I had to work away from home for a long time and couldn't take care of her.
While there is still some time now, it is not a big trouble and should be solved before departure. If not, you can make arrangements first.
If this time has passed, don't blame Dad for not helping you. "
Zishu Yinfeng originally didn't want to cause trouble for his father as soon as he came home, but now that he knew that his father would be away for a long time in two months, he stopped arguing.
After a long silence, he slowly opened his mouth and explained the whole story...
As the eldest daughter Zi Shu Yinfeng explained in detail, Zi Shu Fuming's face became increasingly blue.
After hearing the end, he slammed the table and cursed angrily:
"This old bastard has been against me many times. While I was away for a long time, he actually attacked my son-in-law's company. Do you really think I can't cure him?"
This incident happened half a year ago, and the story was both simple and complicated.
The cause goes back even further.
It turned out that the company opened by his son-in-law Liangqiu Ziyu mainly produced electronic components.
Part of the business is to serve the military and manufacture general electronic components for conventional weapons and electromagnetic energy cannons.
The quality requirements are extremely high and the profits are very attractive.
Originally, a new company like his that had just started had a mediocre competitive advantage. Even if it had slightly stronger technological improvement capabilities, it would be difficult to defeat large companies with strong strength and powerful backends.
Being able to win such a highly profitable production contract was entirely a result of Zi Shu Yinfeng begging his father for help and relying on his connections in the military to carve out a small business from the weapons production plan.
For the military's astronomical military expenditures, this small business is not even a drop in the bucket.
What's more, it is a universal component. On the premise of ensuring quality, it will be the same no matter who it is produced by.
In the military equipment department, one of the officers responsible for the distribution of this plan was an old subordinate of Zi Shu Fuming. He had followed him on the battlefield for many years and made numerous military exploits.
He was seriously injured in a battle. After recovering from his injuries, he stayed in the army logistics unit to work under the care of his old superiors.
This was the first time the old superior asked him to do something, and he must try his best to do it right. After completing the preliminary investigation and demonstration, he allocated a piece of money with a stroke of a pen and assigned it to the company founded by Liang Qiu Ziyu.
However, such a small dessert touched a big company.
This company has always dominated the entire electromagnetic energy cannon electronic component production and supply chain. It belongs to the Nangong family, one of the three major families in the empire, and has a great background.
To put it bluntly, it is actually one of the holding companies owned by the family.
In the Imperial Council of Elders, a Nangong family elder who was responsible for administering this part of the family for his family, after learning the details, took into account the family background of the other party's backstage and the military prestige of Zishu Fuming. After calculating the score, he felt that it was unnecessary. Spending so much money on less than 1% of the business was a way of giving Zi Shu Fuming some face and acquiescing to this profit transfer.
Zishu Fuming was originally prepared to do something wrong, so he asked the family elders to come forward to negotiate. After the contract was signed, nothing unexpected happened. The development of the matter was basically consistent with his inner prediction, so he was relieved.
However, the matter did not end there.
The Nangong family is too huge and has countless branches.
The elder considers the overall interests of the family, so it is normal for him to be so generous.
However, the branch within the family that is specifically responsible for the production of this business has a grudge against it.
He believed that Zishu Fuming relied on his family background, was arrogant and arrogant, and grabbed business by force, and did not take the Nangong family seriously.
Then he encouraged his direct blood relatives to find ways to create difficulties and embarrass Zi Shu Fuming.
The first batch of components that son-in-law Liang Qiu Ziyu produced according to product standards in accordance with the terms of the contract was deliberately jammed during the acceptance process.
Several minor flaws that did not affect performance were found, and the product was required to be returned and re-produced.
At that time, Zishu Fuming was taking command on the coastal front. After receiving the call, he was furious.
He called the office building of his immediate superior, the Second Marshal, and sued the military logistics department for bullying the families of imperial soldiers, disrupting the morale of the frontline soldiers, and directly slapped the opponent with a big label.
After the second commander heard about this, he saw that it was the request of the commander of the Third Fleet. He was afraid that the matter would become too big and he would not be able to deal with it, so he immediately comforted him.
Afterwards, the head of the logistics department was reprimanded and ordered to find out the reasons and give an explanation.
The director of the logistics department, how do you know about such trivial matters?
Immediately called the subordinates who were in charge of the specific work, and after understanding the whole story, an adjutant from the product inspection department was directly demoted and transferred.
He quickly re-accepted the inspection and gave the above a satisfactory summary report, which finally calmed down the situation.
Zishu Fuming gave up when he saw it was good and did not continue to entangle him. However, the grievances with the Nangong family's individual companies sowed hidden dangers.
After this incident, the other family members did not cause trouble again.
Under the protection of Zi Shu Fuming, the son-in-law's company has developed steadily for more than 30 years.
With the help of the intangible influence of producing military products, social orders are also coming in one after another, the scale continues to expand, and it has accumulated relatively strong financial resources and strength.
This time, Zishu Fuming was ordered by the empire to go on a long-term expedition to foreign lands.
Taking advantage of his absence from the country, the other party invited Nangong Chenkun, a direct blood relative, a powerful figure in the imperial counter-intelligence agency, to use the intelligence information in his hands to lure a foreign trade company of a hostile country in the country to contact Liangqiu. The company opened by Ziyu signed a purchase contract for a batch of general-purpose electronic components, bribed warehouse loading personnel, and secretly mixed and shipped several boxes of confidential weapons components to the port.
The goods are cleared for customs clearance, inspection and shipment, just before departure from the port.
They dispatched capable men to quickly seal the spy contact point, destroy it in one fell swoop, and arrest Liangqiu Ziyu who was implicated in the matter.
The identity of the spies was confirmed and they were indeed latent personnel from a hostile country.
The supplier, Liang Qiu Ziyu, was implicated in the case.
Considering that there were senior military officials behind him, the Imperial Military Secret Court did not dare to make a hasty verdict.
After detailed investigation, it was found that since the company had no production materials, the warehouse had no warehousing records, and one of the warehouse shipping personnel was silenced, it was impossible to trace the origin of these boxes of goods, and the clues to the case were interrupted.
However, the goods contained embargoed arms and supplies and were intercepted on the spot. The evidence is true and irrefutable and cannot be changed.
Court investigators, with their years of experience, cannot make random guesses even if they suspect that someone is causing trouble.
Since Liangqiu Ziyu was arrested, Zishu Yinfeng was very anxious.
During the secret trial, she heard the entire case and knew that someone had plotted against her husband.
She knew that her husband would never engage in such illegal and criminal activities, let alone the serious crime of smuggling prohibited military products.
At that time, my father was far away in interstellar space and could not be contacted for a short time.
She was afraid that her mother would be worried, so she had to find help from her brother Zishu Yinrong and her immediate family members. However, in the face of irrefutable evidence, no matter how strong their relationship was, they could not absolve her from guilt.
The laws of the empire have a bottom line, especially during the time when Ulbrand was in power and under the rule of law, no one dared to release people without authorization.
Under the premise that Liangqiu Ziyu screamed that he was wronged and refused to plead guilty, the Zishu family filed an application for a thorough investigation into the source of several boxes of banned products.
According to the request, the secret military court re-launched a comprehensive investigation, but all relevant clues were disconnected and there was no substantive breakthrough.
After several more months of delay, the military court sentenced Liang Qiu Ziyu and eight warehouse employees to prison terms ranging from 30 years to 30 years each on the charge that "the suspect was lured by spies to smuggle prohibited military goods without his knowledge." The minimum sentence for arms smuggling.
Since the incident, the company's production qualifications have been cancelled.
Units that had previously signed a supply contract with it, fearing that they would be implicated, suspended the performance of the contract, which directly caused the company to close down, adding insult to injury.
Zishu Yinfeng had no choice but to retain only the core technical team in preparation for a comeback.
All other production line workers were sent home to wait for calls, and they were promised to continue to pay three months of basic salary, pending the final outcome of the case.
If her husband is determined to go to jail, she will have no choice but to sell off her assets and find another way out.
At present, the case has been submitted to the higher court and is under review.
This time, their father came home early. The brother and sister were already relieved and believed that the case was basically finalized. No matter how hard their father tried to find a way, it would be difficult to clear his name.
I wanted to wait for my father to rest for a few days before reporting the situation and see if my father could investigate the source of several boxes of prohibited products through military channels and reduce Liang Qiu Ziyu's charges.
Zishu Fuming listened to the whole story, thought for a long time, and figured out the root cause.
It must be a conspiracy by director Nangong Chenkun. The purpose is to use the espionage case to frame Liang Qiu Ziyu, sentence him through legal procedures, and regain the set aside business.
To kill two birds with one stone, the intention is extremely vicious.
He had the same idea as his son and daughter. He also believed that based on the case itself, even if the source of the contraband was found, the son-in-law's alleged involvement would never be able to be cleared away.
This incident reflects Nangong Chenkun's brilliance.
As a veteran who has been immersed in the espionage industry for hundreds of years, his experience and sophisticated techniques will not allow anyone to find flaws.
If even this ironclad case was overturned, he might as well get a basin of water to wash his feet and drown himself.
Zishu Fuming thought over and over again and knew that the only way to help his son-in-law get out of the case was to explain the whole story to the supreme commander and ask for amnesty.
It's not that he forced the commander into trouble because of his great merits, but that anyone with a discerning eye will know that this case is a typical manifestation of man-made manipulation and public revenge.
A few days ago, the commander-in-chief promised him that he would send people to protect his family during his expedition to the solar system.
Now that trouble is in front of us, the commander-in-chief must not break his promise.
Having made up his mind, Zi Shu Fuming dialed the phone to the confidential secretary Nangong. After the other party answered the phone, he exchanged some warm greetings and asked if he had anything to do with the commander-in-chief.
Zishu Fuming knew that he was from the Nangong family, but he was not directly related to the related companies, so he directly asked Nangong to help convey the situation to the commander-in-chief, saying that it was a private matter and he needed to report the situation to the commander-in-chief face to face.
On the other end of the phone, I vaguely guessed the reason.
A few days ago, the Commander-in-Chief's intimate attitude toward him and his explicit explanation of his purpose made him understand that the relationship between the other party and the Commander-in-Chief was absolutely close, and he was not afraid of him getting in the way or exposing the family.
Nangong, who is accustomed to observing words and emotions, thought about the pros and cons in a flash and immediately explained:
"General Zishu, don't worry. The Commander-in-Chief is meeting with alien guests. I will inform him immediately when he is free. I will inform the general after the meeting time is confirmed. What do you think?"
"Thank you very much for your trouble."
"General, you don't have to be polite. This is my job. Please wait for my news!"
Zishu Fuming hung up the phone and said to his daughter:
"For the next few days, just stay here and wait for news to see if there is any improvement."
When Zishu Yinfeng saw that his father had called the Supreme Commander's Mansion, he felt that things seemed to be loosening up a bit. He couldn't help but feel secretly happy. He got up and went back to his room to talk to his mother about the family affairs.
Zishu Fuming then made a few more calls and briefly introduced the situation.
The general idea is to entrust the other party to help find clues and other arrangements.
