Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 611 Review

Deputy Director Wang from the Yangchao District Branch left, leaving Li Yancheng alone in the conference room.

He frowned slightly as he watched the conference room door slowly close.

If it weren't for the fact that Deputy Director Wang is indeed a master at solving cases, given his management skills, he would definitely have suggested to the Yangchao District Government that he be replaced.

It is said that a bad soldier is bad for one person, and a bad general makes a bad army. This guy surnamed Wang is fine as a front-line grassroots commander. He can lead by example and get along well with the front-line police officers, which is enough for him to be a good grassroots commander.

But it's different when you're a leader.

The most important qualities of a leader are organizational and coordination skills, and the ability to fully motivate subordinates, rather than leading by example and charging ahead.

Doing that will only make others think you're trying to steal the credit.

Li Yancheng had also heard about the conflict between Deputy Director Wang, who was in charge of criminal investigation at the Yangchao District Branch, and Captain Duan of the Criminal Police Team.

The main conflict between the two is that Deputy Director Wang failed to recognize his proper position.

He is no longer the captain of the criminal investigation team, but only the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation. However, he still tries to interfere in everything he does and often issues orders beyond his authority. His actions give the impression that he wants to sideline the captain of the criminal investigation team, which inevitably makes Captain Duan feel resentful towards him.

Just as it is unpleasant for subordinates to report to their superiors without their consent, it is also undesirable for superiors to issue orders without their consent.

The fact that someone surnamed Duan could become the captain of the criminal investigation team means he must have had powerful backers.
Deputy Director Wang's repeated overstepping of authority in giving orders was tolerable to the newly promoted Captain Duan, but if it continued like this, no one could accept it. The open and covert struggle between the two caused the criminal investigation work of Yangchao Branch to stagnate.

The biggest difference between the man surnamed Wang and Li Yancheng is that the latter also serves as the head of the Criminal Investigation Corps, so it is only natural that he commands the work of the corps.

Even so, after becoming the executive deputy director, Li Yancheng shifted his focus to the bureau. He only listened to reports from the political commissar and deputy chief of the brigade. If he needed to issue any orders, he would never issue them directly to the section chiefs below him.

In officialdom, there are certain rules that must be followed.

Li Yancheng didn't care how Deputy Director Wang should resolve the conflict; all he wanted was a result. If the people below couldn't do their jobs well, then replace them with someone who could. The world wouldn't stop turning just because someone was gone.

Putting aside his distracting thoughts, he focused his attention back on the newly filed case.

He always felt there was something strange about this case.

The gatekeeper was climbed over the wall, and he was sleeping because he was drunk. That gatekeeper drinks almost every day and loves to drink heavily. The fact that the two murderers dared to climb over the wall so brazenly shows that they knew the gatekeeper's habits very well.

Then there was the office door. There were no signs of forced entry, so it was probably opened by knocking. The fact that the door could be opened in the early morning is enough to show that the murderer was very familiar with the two staff members on duty.

Otherwise, the staff on duty would know what they were doing there at night and wouldn't let strangers into the room.

Furthermore, both victims were killed by having their mouths covered from behind and then being stabbed to death.

The fact that two staff members on duty could confidently turn their backs to two other people indicates that they were completely unaware that they were being harmed, or rather, that the other two people were after the money in the safe.

Um? wrong!

While looking at photos of the two bodies at the scene, Li Yancheng suddenly noticed a detail that they had all overlooked: why were the two duty officers still dressed so neatly at such a late hour?

Sleeping is allowed on duty at the finance office; otherwise, they wouldn't have provided folding wire beds and blankets.

Do you only get dressed properly after people arrive?
As the thought crossed his mind, Li Yancheng had already pulled out a panoramic photo of the crime scene from a pile of photos. He picked up the photo and examined it carefully, focusing mainly on the two folding wire beds where the duty officer was sleeping.

After looking at it for a while, he let out a long sigh and put the photo down.

Based on the marks on the two beds, although somewhat blurry, it can still be determined that the two deceased were not sleeping in the beds.

In winter, with little entertainment, ordinary people usually go to bed around nine o'clock, and at the latest, no later than ten o'clock at night, because they would be hungry if they went to bed any later.

These days, ordinary people don't eat late-night snacks. It's not that they don't want to, but they can't afford it.

In the 1980s, although food was no longer as scarce as it was in the 1960s and 70s, it was not so abundant that people could eat whatever they wanted. Each person was still given a monthly ration, but the standard had changed from mainly coarse grains to mainly refined grains.

Why are these two still awake so late?

Thinking of this, Li Yancheng narrowed his eyes, stood up and walked out of the conference room, calling out loudly in the corridor, "Zhihai... Zhihai..."

"coming"

As he called out, a response came from an office not far away that had a sign that read "Deputy Chief Captain." Soon after, Jin Zhihai came out of that office.

"Come here, I need to talk to you about something."

Seeing Jin Zhihai come out, Li Yancheng nodded to him, then turned and walked back into the conference room.

Seeing this, Jin Zhihai quickly came over as well.

"Slap... slap... slap"

"Look at these three photos and see what you can and can't see."

After Jin Zhihai came in, Li Yancheng placed the two photos of the corpses and the panoramic photo of the scene on the table one by one.

Jin Zhihai glanced at his leader and friend with some surprise, knowing that if he could say that, he must have discovered something. So he didn't say anything and picked up the photo to examine it carefully.

After looking at the three photos for a while, he looked up at Li Yancheng with a somewhat blank expression and asked, "Uh... is there a problem?"

"What time did the forensic doctor say these two people died?"

Li Yancheng did not answer Jin Zhihai's question.

"From 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. yesterday."

"Okay, what were you doing at that time?"

"I wasn't on duty the day before yesterday, so of course I was sleeping at home."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kim Ji-hae paused for a moment, but quickly came to his senses and looked down at the three photos again.

Seeing his expression, Li Yancheng knew that this guy must have noticed something was wrong.

"Wait a minute, Yan Cheng, they died at one or two in the morning, why aren't they asleep yet?"

"I called you over here to say this." As he spoke, Li Yancheng picked up a cigarette from the table and tossed one to Jin Zhihai.

"Tell me, under what circumstances would these two people be dressed up and still awake so late at night?"

"You mean... the murderer and these two victims were actually in cahoots?" Jin Zhihai understood what Li Yancheng meant by his question.

"Whether they're all involved needs to be investigated. In any case, this is one possible approach."

"I understand, I'll make the arrangements now." Jin Zhihai nodded, but just as he was about to leave, he stopped, turned around and looked at Li Yancheng, saying in a very sincere tone, "This was my oversight, and I will request disciplinary action in the case report after the case is closed."

"Stop with that." Li Yancheng waved his hand dismissively. "Go do your thing. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Besides, this case has only just come into our hands. It hasn't taken up any time. Let's not talk about anything else."

"Alright, then I won't say anything more. I'll make the arrangements first."

After Jin Zhihai left, Li Yancheng sat there for a while, looking through the photos and the scene diagram drawn on the blackboard. Once he was sure he couldn't see anything suspicious, he tidied up the things on the table and returned to his office.

"Jingle Bell……"

I had just sat down when the phone on my desk rang.

"Hey"

"Director Li, Director Sun Zhaodong from the Yangchao Branch is here. He says he wants to report to you on his work. I wonder if you have time now?"

???

Li Yancheng on the other end of the phone raised an eyebrow. They arrived really quickly.

When people want to report to him, they usually call the municipal bureau and ask Xiao Yang to arrange a time, instead of doing what Sun Zhaodong did, where he came to the headquarters and the duty officer in the headquarters office called to confirm the time.

But it didn't matter anyway. He really wanted to talk to the director of the Yangchao branch. He didn't care if they fought to the death or if people's brains were turned to mush, but they couldn't let it affect their work, especially the criminal investigation work under his jurisdiction. If the Yangchao branch continued like this, he wouldn't mind sending them all to guard reservoirs and bridges.

"Please have Director Sun come to my office. I have time now."

"Yes, Director Li."

Less than two minutes after hanging up the phone, Sun Zhaodong, the director of the Yangchao branch, appeared at the door of the chief captain's office.

The office door was open, so Li Yancheng saw him when he appeared at the door.

"report"

"Please come in"

Seeing Sun Zhaodong standing at the door, Li Yancheng nodded in response, then got up and walked out from behind his desk, standing to the side.

Director Sun of the Yangchao District Branch hurriedly took two steps, stopped a meter away, saluted, and then reached out and shook Li Yancheng's outstretched right hand.

"Director Li, I apologize for disturbing you."

"Please have a seat, Director Zhaodong."

Normally, Li Yancheng, being the executive deputy director of the municipal bureau, could address leaders of both the municipal bureau's subordinate departments and the county (district) bureaus' leaders by their first names.

But these people were all older than him, not just a little, but more than ten years older, so when he addressed them, he would add their titles as a way of showing respect to his seniors.

Although Li Yancheng had already invited him to sit down, Sun Zhaodong only sat down cautiously in a chair in front of the desk after watching his leader return to the chair behind the desk, and only sat on half of his buttocks.

He made this decision after hearing that Wang Xiaoyao, the deputy director, had been kept behind by the executive deputy director of the municipal bureau after the case analysis meeting.

Before he arrived, he wasn't sure if he would actually get to see this person. Only after hearing the duty officer finish his phone call and let him in did he feel a little relieved.

He was well aware of the conflict between the newly appointed criminal police captain and Deputy Director Wang, who was in charge of criminal investigation. In fact, he was the person behind Captain Duan.

Without his consent, it would have been impossible for all those veteran officers in the criminal investigation team to be transferred out one by one.

He did this out of necessity. It wasn't that he wanted to seize power; he just wanted to let Deputy Director Wang know that one should do what is appropriate for their position, rather than trying to take control of everything, big or small.

He rejected Deputy Director Wang's recommendation for the position of criminal police captain, precisely because he did not want the criminal police team to become a one-man show.

Although when Wang Xiaoyao was the head of the criminal investigation department, the case-solving rate of their Yangchao District Branch was always among the top in the districts and counties under the jurisdiction of Beijing. But how to put it, it was more like a one-man show, and the other officers in the criminal investigation department were just a group of tools.

Director Sun wanted a diverse range of talents, and he wanted the criminal investigation team members to be able to handle things independently, but Deputy Director Wang clearly didn't think that way.

To be fair, Wang Xiaoyao is indeed a strong detective, but he is too independent and arrogant. He has never thought about properly cultivating his subordinates' independent case-handling abilities. He always says that when there is a case, he will investigate it however he wants. You can raise your opinions, but whether or not they are adopted is up to him.

Even after being promoted to deputy director at the end of August, he continued to do things his own way.

But the newly appointed team leader was not content to be just a tool. So what if you're the deputy director in charge? I'm not going to listen to you.

As the head of the Yangchao branch, Director Sun naturally wanted to improve the work ability of everyone in the criminal investigation team. Captain Duan was also his favorite, which led to the open and covert struggle between the captain of the criminal investigation team and the leader in charge over the past few months.

Their confrontation caused the Yangchao branch's case-solving rate to plummet.

Director Sun knew that things couldn't continue like this. He had originally planned to take advantage of this recent case to have a proper talk with Deputy Director Wang, but before he could even begin, he heard that Deputy Director Li from the Municipal Bureau had kept Wang Xiaoyao behind for a private conversation.

Upon hearing this news, Director Sun felt a pang in his heart.

Li Yancheng is currently the executive deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, and in the Beijing public security system, he is absolutely second only to the top leader. If he were to become dissatisfied with him, Comrade Sun could already imagine that he would definitely be transferred to a sinecure and wait for retirement.

He's only 53 years old this year. If he works hard, there's a very good chance he can take another step forward before retirement. He can't let this Deputy Director Li have any prejudice against him.

Just as Li Yancheng and the Yangchao branch director sat down, Guan Weidong walked in from outside the door at the opportune moment.

After he came in, he poured Director Sun a glass of water, refilled Li Yancheng's teacup, and then turned and left the office, making sure to close the door behind him.

After Guan Weidong left, Director Sun stood up and said very sincerely, "Director Li, I came here today to apologize to you."

"Oh? What's the reason for the self-criticism?" Li Yancheng raised his eyelids and looked at Comrade Sun, who had stood up, and asked indifferently.

(End of this chapter)