The most dangerous corruption always has a "legal" face
Old Zhou from the county office taught Lu Chuan: "If you hang out here, the first lesson is - if you don't charge money, you will be clean."
Lu Chuan later discovered that some people never accepted money.
But his brother-in-law takes over all projects in the county; the money he lends to his boss has an annual interest rate of 36%; his family's calligraphy and paintings can be bought for 300,000 yuan and sold for 3 million yuan.
No corruption, no bribery. The contract is complete and the procedures are complete.
But Lu Chuan knew that the 36% interest was not money - it was the power to wear a legal cloak.
From a county clerk to a provincial official, it took him forty-three years to tear that face apart.
