Chapter 384: Twists and turns, reversals?
After Feng Mu left, Qian Huan lazily leaned back in his chair, raised his hand to touch his chin, and grinned with a smile that revealed some deep meaning.
His eyes fell on the computer screen again, his fingers tapping the mouse lightly, scrolling up and down the web pages, and what passed by were lines of eye-catching news headlines.
On the screen, a flood of reports came like a wave, and each headline was like a shining arrow, pointing directly at the focus of public attention: "The truth of the second prison riot was exposed. Who is the real culprit?"
"Second prison reform: my story about the last-in-first-out system."
“Qian Huan, a wrongly accused reformer!”
“….”
Some of these headlines are true, some are false, some are a mixture of true and false, and some are completely fabricated, but the tone of each one is very convincing.
Those who don’t know might think that they are all prison guards in the Second Prison, people who have witnessed the incident firsthand, or the souls of those who died in the riot and appeared in the media’s dreams.
But no matter which one, they are all continuous and powerful responses or refutations to the prison revelations made by the well-known liberal media person [Fen Tou Lao Shu].
The voices of these media are not unified, which would be too deliberate and would easily make people smell traces of "manipulating public opinion."
The people are stupid, but not completely stupid.
Therefore, in these media reports, some media firmly supported the old tree on the grave, stood on the side of justice and spoke for him.
Their articles were full of criticism of the prison warden Qian Huan, and spared no effort to expose his so-called "inhuman" behavior.
Every word was like a burning torch, trying to illuminate the deep darkness in the second prison.
Another part of the media took a clear stand on the opposite side and wrote articles of "restoration" and "deconstruction".
They conducted a meticulous reanalysis of the Second Prison incident, breaking down the revelations of the old tree on the grave into pieces and picking out the loopholes and "suspicions" therein.
What's worse, some people directly packaged the whole incident as a carefully planned conspiracy, claiming that the [old tree on the grave] was a pawn of evil reactionary forces.
His revelations are sinister and ill-intentioned. He is profiting from the misfortune of others, inciting the people to oppose the government, and undermining the stability and prosperity of the Ninth District.
This interweaving and mixing of "opposing voices" seems to provide a diversified public opinion field, but in fact it makes the whole incident more confusing.
The debate between supporters and opponents is becoming increasingly fierce, with mud and sand mixed together and it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood.
The final result was that the detailed, powerful and heart-touching revelations originally published by Fentoushu were unknowingly drowned out by the endless stream of media reports.
As the person at the center of the public opinion storm, Qian Huan is definitely the one who knows the inside story and sees it most clearly.
He sat in his office, watching netizens arguing with each other coldly. The two factions had diametrically opposed views, as if everyone knew the "truth".
Qian Huan's mouth corners slightly raised with a hint of sarcasm.
As he read through the heated debates, he silently reviewed the entire process in his mind:
The beginning of the matter was thanks to the liberal media person [Grave Old Tree]. That article was like a blockbuster bomb, pushing Qian Huan and the Second Prison to the forefront of public opinion.
At that time, the voices on the Internet were almost one-sided, and public opinion was like the rising tide, surging and unstoppable.
Everyone was criticizing the "last-in-first-out system" of the Second Prison, denouncing Qian Huan as a "cold-blooded bureaucrat" and a "capitalist", with some even comparing him to a "modern version of a slave owner".
Netizens were outraged and collectively called on the government to thoroughly investigate the Second Prison and bring Qian Huan to justice.
For a moment, Qian Huan was almost in a deadly situation. In order to escape, he had to seek help from Councillor Wang Xinfa and General Manager Lu Chenjia.
A real heavy combination of bureaucrats and capitalists, invited them to the table together, using his own meat.
Sure enough, just when the one-sided public opinion reached its peak, some "different voices" began to emerge.
Some media sources revealed that Qian Huan was just an airborne "lone commander". Although he was the prison warden in name, he was actually just a puppet on the table.
The last-in-first-out system was not proposed by him at all, but was jointly devised by a group of powerful wardens within the Second Prison.
The evidence is that the document on the "last-in-first-out system" not only has Qian Huan's signature, but also the signatures of a number of prison wardens.
The "truth" is actually this: those wardens teamed up to force Qian Huan to sign, and then deliberately triggered a prison riot with the purpose of forcing him to step down.
Behind all this, it is not just the internal struggle within the Second Prison that is involved, but the promotion and obstruction of reform in the entire prison system.
The water is really deep inside... This revelation was like a bombshell, which instantly exploded on the Internet.
The originally one-sided condemnation began to show cracks, and some people began to question whether Qian Huan was really the culprit, or whether he was just a scapegoat pushed to the front?
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The direction of public opinion began to sway, like a reed blown by the wind, unsteady.
Soon, public opinion split into two camps.
One group still insisted that Qian Huan deserved the punishment and that it was the cold-blooded bureaucrat who should bear full responsibility for the prison riot; the other group began to defend him, believing that he was just a victim of the power struggle and that the real culprits were those powerful people hiding behind the scenes; the two groups quarreled fiercely, and just when public opinion was at a stalemate, the "Gong Lao's suicide note" incident added fuel to the storm.
The suicide note was exposed by Chen Yang, and its content directly pointed at Qian Huan, accusing him of the "last-in-first-out system" that led to extreme injustice and oppression inside the prison.
As a result, the two factions, which had been somewhat balanced before, were disturbed again, and angry condemnations came like a wave.
However, things quickly became confusing.
Shortly after the suicide note was made public, Chen Yang committed suicide out of fear of punishment.
The police station subsequently announced the case, pointing out that Chen Yang was suspected of accepting bribes during his lifetime with the intention of framing him.
Moreover, the police station further revealed that the bribes received by Chen Yang were inextricably linked to the Second Prison, which aroused people's speculation.
This discovery is undoubtedly another bomb, making the whole matter more complicated.
The whole thing was like a thrilling suspense drama with twists and turns, and reversals. It dazzled the audience but also made them feel extremely excited.
The public's brains seemed to have been thrown into a high-speed blender and completely turned into a paste.
At this critical juncture, the few simple brain cells of most people are obviously no longer enough.
But this is far from over.
The police station immediately announced the progress of the investigation into the case online, pointing out that they had restored the mailbox in Gong Lao's computer through technical means and found another suicide note in the mailbox.
The contents of the two suicide notes are almost identical, the only difference being the wording.
A suicide note isn't enough? Want two? What kind of person needs to write two suicide notes before dying? (End of this chapter)
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