Chapter 484

So this was it... These piles of case files, reaching almost to the rafters, were not merely the heavy burden of daily business. They were the accumulated legacy of Chen Taisu—unresolved issues that this veteran official had failed to handle, and in some cases personally piled up over his ten-year tenure! Half of them were "hard bones" he had shelved out of cowardice and expediency while in office; the other half were "rubbish baskets" resulting from his lax supervision, left for local authorities to kick around and pass the buck before finally flooding all the way to the capital!