America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 601

The IRS chief's first reaction was basically the same as it had been at McKinley.

Turn around and run.

But he found two men in suits and hats at the door.

One of them put his hand inside his clothes.

Green stopped in his tracks.

He wasn't sure if the man reached in to feel for a gun, and he didn't dare to bet whether Chen Jianqiu would attack him here.

"Mr. Director, come and sit down, the coffee will be delivered right away."

Chen Jianqiu's voice came from behind Green.

Green had no choice but to turn around and come to the table, and sat down opposite Chen Jianqiu.

He looked around, looking a little embarrassed.

"What's the matter? Mr. Director, didn't you call me over?" Chen Jianqiu looked at Green playfully, "Take it easy, we're not meeting on the rooftop."

"Are you an undercover agent?" Green looked at Chen Jianqiu incredulously.

"you guess."

Green decided not to speak.

Because he felt that if he said one more sentence, he would humiliate himself.

Chen Jianqiu brought up a leather case from under the table, put it on the table, and pushed it in front of Green.

"Mr. Director, here are the accounts and related materials of our company that you want, please have a look."

Green looked at the box in front of him, not knowing whether to open it or not.

The waiter came over with two cups of coffee and a small dish of sugar cubes.

He glanced at the box on the table, pouted, put the coffee and sugar in front of the two of them, then turned and left.

"Because there are too many company books, I selected some core reports. The IRS can look at them first. If there is a problem, I need to provide the basic raw data, and I will get them."

Chen Jianqiu picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip.

He drinks coffee without sugar.

Green still didn't know what to say.

Who knows if there are really ledgers and reports in your box, even if they are, God knows if those ledgers and reports are real!
Green put his hands under the table, his eyes wandered over the box.

"Try this Jamaican coffee." Chen Jianqiu leaned on the chair with one arm and held the coffee cup in the other hand, drinking while saying.

Green thought for a moment, took out a sugar cube from the small saucer, and threw it into the coffee cup.

After stirring with a small metal spoon, he picked up the cup.

After taking a sip, Chen Jianqiu spoke.

"You don't really think that McKinley will choose you as your running mate and appoint you as vice president, do you?" Chen Jianqiu put down his coffee cup and said slowly.

"cough, cough"

Green choked on the coffee in his mouth and coughed.

He put down the cup, not daring to look directly at Chen Jianqiu, but his brain began to work rapidly.

Is there no third person in the small room where I was talking to McKinley?
How did Chen Jianqiu know so clearly?

Is there anything in America that he doesn't know about?Is this man a devil?

Chen Jianqiu looked at the reaction of the head of the National Tax Bureau and knew that he had guessed right.

Mr. President actually has a lot of bargaining chips, but he is still used to the trick of selling officials and nobles in the last election.

Therefore, Chen Jianqiu continued to analyze:
"Mr. Director, have you ever thought that if Mr. McKinley nominates you as Vice President, will Hanna agree, and other bigwigs in the party, will agree?"

Green was silent.

Indeed, the main reason why he was able to get the position of IRS chief was because he was born in a poor family and had a wild way of dealing with tax evaders.

But when it comes to the status and foundation in the party, compared with those few popular candidates, it is really far behind!

Green realized that he might have been tricked by McKinley.

"Mr. Chen, what do you mean by these words?" The head of the National Taxation Bureau was still very hard.

"No other meaning, Mr. Director." Chen Jianqiu smiled, "No matter how well you do in your current position, it will not change your political career."

He changed his words.

"However, I like your vigorous and decisive style of doing things very much. I was also born in the west. You know, for some things, the western way can easily solve the problem."

"After you leave office, my company welcomes you very much."

Green was silent for another 2 minutes.

"Leaving aside my affairs, at least I am currently the head of the IRS, and you should accept our investigation."

The Director of the Internal Revenue Service said in a deep voice.

He couldn't forget what he was doing.

"No problem." Chen Jianqiu patted the box, "You can check the accounts here, and I will provide you with whatever you need, but..."

"But what?" Green glanced at Chen Jianqiu.

"But since we have checked, shouldn't they be treated equally?"

Chen Jianqiu snapped his fingers.

The two men in suits outside heard it and quickly disappeared.

After a while, five or six men dressed like them came in.

They carried three large boxes into the café.

The few customers in the cafe looked sideways and looked over here.

But when they saw the men in suits, they all turned their heads back.

This doesn't seem like a troublesome character, it's better not to meddle in other people's business.

The men in suits carried the box to the table of Chen Jianqiu and Green, and put it on the ground.

"What's in here?" Green stared suspiciously at the leather boxes.

"Shouldn't your IRS also check the accounts of Standard Oil Company?" Chen Jianqiu kicked one of the boxes.

The box didn't move at all.

Apparently, it was already full.

"How do you have their accounts?!" Green was shocked again.

"Your IRS is not the only one who puts undercover agents in companies, we do too." Chen Jianqiu said.

This time, Green stepped out of the seat, knelt down and opened the box.

He picked up the books in the box and looked through them, the more he looked at them, the more he collapsed.

As an old tax inspector, Green could tell that most of these ledgers were real, copies of the originals.

"Mr. Chen, do you know that your behavior is illegal!" Green said weakly.

"Oh? So? Aren't you going to get my account book through the same method?" Chen Jianqiu asked back.

Green was completely speechless, he could only continue:

"The information obtained by illegal means cannot be used as evidence in court!"

This is the final stubbornness of the IRS chief.

"I provided you with these, and I didn't intend to let you use them as evidence in court." Chen Jianqiu said with a smile, "But with these, you can go to the court to apply for an investigation order."

Green struggled for a long time and decided to accept the box provided by Chen Jianqiu.

"But how do I take it away?" He looked at the four boxes, three big and one small, with some hesitation in his eyes.

"Don't worry, I'll have someone send these things back to the IRS with you." Chen Jianqiu added.

Green had nothing to say.

After getting these accounts, Green handed them all over to the professional verification officers in the IRS.

After comparison, they quickly discovered the tricks of Rockefeller.

There is a discrepancy between the sales amount and the company's declared payment amount.

This means two things.

The first is that Rockefeller's company does have tax evasion problems, and the second is that the IRS can apply to the court for an investigation order.

Rockefeller, who was busy arguing with antitrust Taft Jr. in New York State, soon received news that the IRS planned to apply to the court for an investigation order to investigate Standard Oil.

Rockefeller never dreamed of this.

He planned to find Mr. President first to see what was going on.

(End of this chapter)