The entire conference room was silent.

Everyone was waiting for the lawyer Beiyuan to speak. He was obviously just a young man, but he had terrifying pressure at this time.

At the beginning, the trial saved the female lawyer, and then again and again, from various side materials to unearth evidence of the bidding fraud of Shinjuku District City Hall. The past scenes were connected, and until today, the important members of the city hall realized what kind of terrible opponent they were facing.

Beiyuan sorted out his somewhat messy suit and tied his tie slightly.

He walked to the middle of the conference room and spoke:

"Today's case, I think, shows a very vivid explanation of a problem. That is why our citizens have long distrustled the agencies here."

"I'm talking about you." Kitahara pointed to the city hall key members present.

"And you."

The young lawyer pointed at Shi Du.

This deputy director of the Development Committee, a person with real financial power in Shinjuku.

"Including you, too."

Kitahara turned around and made an action that no one could imagine. He slowly raised his hand and pointed at the ruling officer Iwasa on the stage!!!

Such an action immediately made many people present stunned.

During the previous case trial, Kitahara also pointed to the important city hall officers present with his hand.

And now, he actually made such unreasonable gestures to the judges of this case.

When the ruling official Iwasa saw Kitahara pointing at him, he seemed to be shocked, and his expression became very complicated.

"Yes, I mean, the citizens don't trust everyone present!" Kitahara said.

"Before I entered the conference room, I heard the voice of public lawyer Hamano. He said that we cannot use simple values ​​such as justice and fairness to judge whether the decisions of municipal institutions are reasonable."

The young male lawyer sneered a little.

It seemed as if what the other party’s public lawyer said was a huge joke.

"Let me translate the words of lawyer Hamano in a blunt way. He simply wanted to say that citizens have no right to evaluate the decisions of municipal institutions."

An extremely simple sentence.

In an instant, the abominable face that wrapped Hamano's exquisite words was exposed.

"Are municipal institutions serving citizens or managing citizens? I think the laws of the East have already clearly stipulated. What makes me particularly curious is where the arrogance that should have been shown since the trial of this case has come from."

"What qualifications do you have to face the people so arrogantly."

The man in the gray suit asked back.

In the conference room, there was a dead silence.

The city hall officials who had whispered each other before were all silent.

"You have a lot of complaints." Kitano's voice continued, "You complain that the citizens do not understand you, you complain that the citizens are making unreasonable troubles, you complain that the citizens do not understand the law, you complain that the citizens are entangled all day long, you complain that the citizens are stupid, you complain that the citizens are selfish, you complain that the citizens do not cooperate with your work, you complain that the citizens are venting their anger and launching legal actions against you."

"Anyway, it is the citizens who have dragged down your pace of governance."

"It would be great if the citizens were smart enough, law-abiding enough, and understanding enough! I guess your town hall would think this way every day."

"But the problem is that if our citizens have done the above, what else do you need to do?"

"Why do our citizens not trust you enough?"

"Why are our citizens unwilling to cooperate with you?"

“The truth here is very simple.”

“That’s—”

"Have you abide by the law by yourself!!!"

Kitahara suddenly raised his voice.

This retort question seemed to suddenly throw a huge rock on the calm lake surface.

"You take a mirror to look at yourself." Kitano walked up in the conference room, his eyes swept to every city hall official present until his eyes stopped on Shidu, "Have you abide by the law? Have you set an example for the citizens? Have you taken the initiative to demand yourself according to the legal standards?"

"Of course, you are also mortals and can make mistakes. The problem is, after you make a mistake, have you reflected on yourself? Have you apologized to the citizens? Have you corrected your mistakes well!"

"Today! Deputy Director Shidu is here too!" Kitano took a step forward, less than one or two meters away from all the important members of the city hall. "The presidents of the five associations that you owed a large amount of municipal engineering funds were also here to listen! Please look at my parties! Look at them! Answer them! When will the funds owed by your city hall be returned to them!!!"

Kitahara's voice stirred in the conference room.

It was like a beast king roaring, and a bird was scared away.

Shi Du had never been questioned on the spot like this, and his body could not control himself and was shocked. A great humiliation, today was a great humiliation!! Shi Du's hand trembled directly because of his anger. He was actually scolded by a small lawyer.

Then, Kitahara turned around and looked at the case's trialman Iwasa.

"If we still have the attitude of letting go today, it doesn't matter even if the test samples in the bidding are dropped. Even if the president of a company in the bidding is a husband-and-wife relationship, it doesn't matter if it is clearly a bid for different companies, and it doesn't matter if it is an exact same paragraph. Even if the security guard in the building deliberately blocks some of the personnel participating in the bidding company and deliberately makes them late. Such a ridiculous thing doesn't matter!"

"You don't care about anything."

"So, why should citizens talk about you?"

"Since you ignore the citizens, why should the citizens care about you again!"

"Why do citizens not trust you? If those who enforce the law take the lead in not abide by the law, why should they trust you!"

“Trust is a precious thing.”

“Once it is damaged, it will be difficult to repair it.”

"Today, what is placed in front of the Tokyo Capital Finance Department is an opportunity to repair relations with citizens. My client is by no means venting his anger and retaliating against the City Hall for the reason of losing the bid. On the contrary, he suspected that there was unfair fraud in this project bidding, and there was evidence to support it. We have fulfilled our obligation to provide evidence."

"We know that the Hi-Tech Industrial Park is the most important investment project in Shinjuku District. It is precisely because it is the most important project that we need more fairness, justice, and more need to examine whether the interests of citizens have been violated in this project."

"The evidence in this case is enough to show the existence of unfair fraud. All projects involved should be ordered to re-tender according to law. In order to avoid more doubts from the public, the bidding information of the projects involved should be disclosed in accordance with law."

"Are you choosing to repair the rift between citizens and the city hall, or to expand each other's suspicion?"

"Now, this option will be made by the Tokyo Finance Department."

"We citizens are waiting for your decision."
Chapter completed!