Once the prey is attracted to the bait, the rest becomes much easier.
However, considering the power of these second-generation families in the government, the casino dealer did not choose to directly make a one-time deal to kill the fat sheep.
Instead, they adopted a steady and long-term approach, letting the second generation lose more and win less, and gradually lose back the money they had won before.
It was during this process of extreme tug-of-war between the two sides that Tang Guowei and Hou Xiaowen came together because of their interests and family backgrounds and became husband and wife.
Originally, everyone thought that after the second-in-command of the administrative office and the head of the Forestry Bureau became relatives, it would be a powerful combination and would definitely achieve great things.
But what no one expected was that the combination of the two gamblers produced the effect of 1+1>2.
Just half a year after Tang Guowei and Hou Xiaowen got married, they gradually lost all their money, and even the wedding gifts they received were gone.
Until this time, the two still had not come to their senses, but instead magnified the gambler's mentality to the extreme.
One of them is the deputy section chief of the Finance Department of the Commerce Bureau, and the other is a clerk in the Audit Department of the Tax Bureau.
The positions held by both of them allow them to come into direct contact with money in their daily work.
So, after the couple discussed it, an evil idea came to their minds.
What they don’t know is that the banker behind this casino is not from Longxia at all. His original purpose of opening high-end gambling games was actually to control the second generation of the government and all powerful people through gambling.
They also hope to use the leverage in their hands to control the power behind these people and use it for their own benefit. Simply put, this is a new infiltration of the Longxia officialdom by foreign hostile forces.
There are already many casinos like this in major provinces and cities across the country. Many people have become their puppets, leaking state secrets all the time.
As evil thoughts emerged in the couple's minds, they began their crazy plan to make money.
They made a huge profit of nearly 80,000 yuan in just three months by falsifying accounts, creating fictitious projects to defraud project funds, accepting bribes under the pretext of reasonable tax avoidance, and conducting illegal tax audits. However, they invested all the money in the casino.
Seeing that their plan to make a comeback had not been successful, and the time for the year-end audit was getting closer, they did not dare to tell their families about what they had done. The couple was completely anxious.
Finally, the two of them discussed it and decided to borrow some money from the casino to fill the hole in their own unit. This way, at least after the audit is completed, they will have a chance to turn things around next year.
But the casino is not a charity. The couple has no guarantor and no collateral, so how could they borrow money so easily?
Seeing that the two were becoming more and more anxious, the dealer behind the scenes who saw all this sent his younger brother, the person in charge of the casino, to put forward a highly feasible suggestion.
That is, when the two people signed the IOU, they had to hold up the big-character poster and let the other party take a photo.
As for the content of the big-character poster, it was naturally about how I, XXX, borrowed a certain amount of money from XXX for some reason, how much interest I promised to pay, when to repay the money, and what would happen if the money was not repaid on time.
When the couple heard this, they immediately backed out.
There is nothing wrong with writing an IOU when borrowing money, but if you also hold up a big-character poster and ask people to take pictures, that will undoubtedly give people a handle.
If there was only the IOU, with the power of Tang Guowei and Hou Xiaowen's family, they could completely deny it, and even use the power in their parents' hands to directly put the person who came to collect the debt into the public security bureau.
But obviously, the dealers behind the casinos had already thought of this, or in other words, the original purpose of opening the casinos was to get hold of them.
After leaving the casino, the couple calmed down instantly. They temporarily gave up the idea of borrowing money from the casino and prepared to borrow from their friends.
But they seemed to have forgotten that it was the early 1970s, and at that time when the average monthly salary of workers was only 30 or 40 yuan, 80,000 yuan was undoubtedly a huge sum of money.
After borrowing from all their friends, they could only gather less than 20,000 yuan, which immediately made them feel disappointed.
Later, the couple discussed it again and decided to sacrifice one of them and go to the casino to hold up big-character posters and take photos to borrow money.
But when the casino staff heard about it, they directly rejected their request.
In the other person's words, you are husband and wife, and both property and debt are owned by you together. It is impossible for one person to borrow money.
Then the two thought of finding someone to arrange a fake divorce for them, but they were still rejected by the casino staff.
With only more than a month left before the audit, they had to plug this hole as soon as possible.
So the two of them gritted their teeth and agreed to the casino's request. After signing the IOU, they were photographed holding up the big-character poster.
At the same time, the two got 80,000 yuan in cash as they wished, but according to the casino's rule of nine outs and thirteen returns, the two need to repay 120,000 yuan within three months.
If they cannot pay back the money, the casino staff will take the IOU to their workplace and home to collect the debt, and they will also have to bear the consequences of the interest compounding every day.
In this way, the couple left the casino with the money, looking dejected, and filled the hole in the unit the next day.
Since the day the hole was filled, the immense pressure caused the couple to lose sleep all night long. After only a week, they both lost a lot of weight.
In the end, Tang Guowei could no longer bear the pressure and felt that this was not a solution, so he decided to take Hou Xiaowen with him to confess to his father. This led to the scene where the two of them knelt in Tang Hezhang's office.
It was precisely because of this incident that Tang Hezhang and Hou Changli decided to take a risk.
If this thing succeeds, not only can the children pay off their debts, but the two of them may be able to move up a level.
So they first used their power and connections with the provincial government to transfer Tang Guowei from the Finance Department of the Commerce Bureau and made him the acting county magistrate of Fu'an County. They then set their sights on Sandaliang Village.
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