Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 675 A bright future
Deputy Leader Yang of the municipal government left with a heavy heart. Sitting in the back seat of the car, he frowned and looked out the window.

This trip was not without its gains; in fact, it was very fruitful. At the very least, he learned ahead of time about the Cheng family's plan to continue investing in building a factory.

But that’s all.

He faces numerous difficulties in keeping this investment in Beijing.

Ugh……

Thinking of this, he sighed again.

Hearing the leader sigh in the back, the secretary sitting in the passenger seat pondered for a moment, then turned around and asked softly.

"Sir, did the meeting with Director Li not go smoothly?"

As his secretary, he naturally knew what the leader wanted to discuss with Director Li of the Municipal Bureau the second time, but judging from the leader's mood, the conversation did not seem to have achieved the desired effect.

"Things are going smoothly, and Director Li also revealed a very important piece of information to me: Cheng's Group plans to build a factory in China, and the investment amount will not be small. Currently, no one else knows about this news."

However, our Director Li will not offer the Cheng family any advice on this matter; he is determined not to interfere in the Cheng family's business affairs.

"Well... Boss, I don't think that even if Director Li lets the Cheng family keep their investment here, it can be considered meddling in business, right?"

"How can it not count? It definitely counts!"

Comrade Lao Yang was quite reasonable. He understood Li Yancheng's concerns and knew that it was really difficult to accuse Director Li of not considering his hometown in this matter.

"Ultimately, the South is currently an experimental zone. We can't offer the same preferential policies they can. If, under these circumstances, the Cheng family is willing to forfeit the benefits they should have received and choose to keep their investment here, can you say that this is due to the influence of that Director Li?"

"Uh..." The secretary was at a loss for words when asked a question by her boss.

“Sigh,” Deputy Leader Yang waved his hand and said, “It’s already quite good that Director Li was able to leak that information so that we were the first to know. We should be content. Let’s think of a way to talk to that General Manager Cheng and use our offers to persuade him to invest here.”

"When you get back to the office later, contact Lao Liu and the others and ask them to come over. Let's discuss how to negotiate, see what the most favorable policy we can offer, and also consider our advantages here compared to the South."

"Yes," the secretary in the passenger seat quickly replied upon hearing the leader's instruction.

Old Yang is right. Instead of racking our brains for underhanded tricks, we should focus on improving our skills. Attracting investment is a long-term and arduous task. We can't always take shortcuts, and we can't always find someone to help us.

As the old saying goes, "To forge iron, one must be strong oneself." As the political and cultural center of China, Beijing has unique advantages that other places cannot match. How to leverage these advantages and attract foreign investment is the question that their current leadership should be considering.

……

At 5 p.m., just as Deputy Leader Yang from the municipal government left, the first case analysis meeting for the Chengxi Sports School case also ended. Li Yancheng did not stay any longer. After giving some instructions to the director and deputy directors of the Chengxi branch, he invited Deputy Director Cai to ride in his car to the municipal bureau.

"Comrade Boming, what are your thoughts on this case?"

After the car drove out of the sports school and onto the main road, Li Yancheng spoke.

Deputy Director Cai is in his early fifties. Eight years ago, he was transferred from the position of head of the criminal investigation section of Yangchao Branch to the Fifth Criminal Investigation Bureau of the headquarters. He participated in solving many major cases and is a genuine criminal investigation expert.

Li Yancheng knew him when he was still working at the Social Affairs Bureau. When helping public security departments in other provinces interrogate criminal suspects, he and Li Yancheng even worked together to develop interrogation plans.

He was indifferent to the organization's arrangement for him to serve as the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation. He never intended to turn the municipal bureau into a "one-man show" where key positions were filled by his own people.

In his view, as long as one is capable and willing to do their job well, that's enough.

Faced with Li Yancheng's question, Deputy Director Cai pondered for a moment and then said, "First of all, there is no doubt that the perpetrator was quite familiar with the sports school."

Seeing the director nod in approval, he continued, "But I doubt the judgment that the perpetrator was familiar with the warehouse before its renovation three years ago."

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Hearing him say that, Li Yancheng immediately became interested.

"Look, Chief, the perpetrator smashed a hole in the wall that the warehouse and changing room share, and entered the warehouse through the hole to commit the theft. And the place where he smashed the hole is exactly where the window used to be in the warehouse before the renovation."

"That's right"

"The tool the perpetrator used to break down the wall was a hammer. We did not find this hammer at the scene. Upon questioning, we learned that such a tool would not be found in the changing room. This indicates that the perpetrator must have brought the hammer himself."

"right"

"In other words, the perpetrator made ample preparations before coming here. But if he was familiar with the warehouse before the renovation, would he have needed to bring that hammer?"
The hole that was smashed open used to be a window with glass panels. The window could be pushed open, and even if it was locked, you could just pick up a brick outside to break the glass; there was no need to bring a hammer specifically for this purpose.

"That's right!" After listening to Deputy Director Cai's analysis, Li Yancheng's eyes lit up. He hadn't thought about this carefully before. Now it seemed that the perpetrator might not be the person who left the sports school three years ago, but could be someone currently at the school.

"Another point is that I have some doubts about this person's motive." Deputy Director Cai's analysis did not end there.

"This person wore gloves when committing the crime and left no fingerprints at the scene, which can be seen as having some counter-surveillance experience, but he did leave very clear and complete footprints."

This suggests that his counter-surveillance experience likely stemmed from simply hearing that police rely on fingerprints to solve cases, which is why he wore gloves.

“I understand what you mean. You mean to say that this person is not an experienced one.”

"Yes, if this person has committed multiple crimes before, or has been dealt with by us, then they should know that the police can also solve cases based on footprints."

Next, I will talk about the motive for the crime. I know that the leaders are worried that this person has some special purpose in stealing the gun. There must be a purpose, that's for sure, but his purpose may not necessarily be political.

The reason I make this judgment is that if this person was really aiming for the National Day holiday, then he started getting the gun far too early. There are still almost five months left. Does he really think that the police won't be able to catch him during this period?
Furthermore, even if he managed to obtain a 'small caliber' gun, it wouldn't really help much. Although it is indeed more powerful than an air pistol, that's about it. Unless it's at close range, I think if it were truly intended to cause sabotage, he wouldn't choose this kind of weapon. Wouldn't explosives be more effective? Therefore, I feel that this person had other intentions in stealing the gun.

At this point, Deputy Director Cai paused, seemingly realizing that what he had said was somewhat inappropriate, and quickly added an explanation.

"Of course, Director, I'm not saying this to mean that we can ignore the criminal's motives just because they weren't motivated by a desire to sabotage the National Day celebrations. I'm just analyzing the criminal's motivations."

“I understand.” Li Yancheng smiled and waved his hand. “Don’t worry, I just want to hear your opinion on this case. You can speak freely and say whatever comes to mind. Don’t worry about saying the wrong thing and being criticized. Besides, your analysis just now makes a lot of sense. This guy may really have other purposes for stealing the gun.”

After listening to Deputy Director Cai's analysis, he also felt that it made a lot of sense.

"You told them all this at the case analysis meeting, right?"

"As I've already said, because we need to expand the scope of the investigation, I must also state my views."

"Yes, we need to expand the scope of the investigation. Sigh... I don't think this case can be solved in a short time," Li Yancheng said with a sigh.

A prophecy!
Finding this criminal in a megacity with tens of millions of people is like finding a needle in a haystack.

Since its establishment, Chengxi Sports School has had more than 40 staff members (including those who have been transferred or retired), and more than 800 students have trained here. However, after three rounds of investigation, all of them have been ruled out.

Left with no other choice, we have to continue expanding the scope of the investigation.

To avoid ruling out the possibility of crimes committed by individuals from other provinces and cities, the municipal bureau also issued a notice for assistance to the national public security system through its headquarters, requiring public security bureaus in various regions to cooperate regardless of whether they are from outside the city or not, to pay attention to discovering clues and providing information on suspicious situations.

The Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau also mobilized all its officers to launch a major campaign to crack down on the criminals involved in the "May 5.6 gun theft case".

Each department of the municipal bureau and each county (branch) bureau has successively established a special task force, with a leader personally serving as the team leader.

A tight dragnet was set up in every corner of Beijing to apprehend the criminals.

With the support of organizations at all levels, the task force held various publicity meetings in different places, which made the "May 5.6 gun theft case" a household name in a short time.

This case became the talk of the town, with thousands of sharp eyes helping the police search for the criminals.

By mobilizing the masses and employing a large-scale manpower tactic, clues matching the physical requirements began to emerge one after another.

The investigation focused on over one hundred individuals who had engaged in illegal activities, were not returning home, were not attending school, were not working, or had previously attended a sports school and were fond of playing with guns.

As the frontline investigators worked day and night, the collected clues and key targets were eliminated one by one.

At this point, more than two months had passed since the incident.

With the arrival of summer, the hot weather, coupled with the prolonged failure to apprehend the criminal, inevitably caused some anxiety among the frontline investigators.

Seeing this situation, Li Yancheng chaired a meeting of the special task force, intending to reduce the pressure on everyone and tell them not to be discouraged, but to firmly believe that the criminals will be brought to justice, and that victory may be just around the corner.

A turning point always comes unexpectedly.

July 25th, Wednesday, the 27th day of the sixth lunar month.

"Jingle Bell……"

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Li Yancheng had just returned to his office from a meeting in the city when the phone on his desk rang.

"Hello, this is Li Yancheng."

"Chief, it's me, Jin Zhihai. Hai Tao, the chief of Yangchao Branch, just called and said that a police station under their bureau received a report of a fight last night. After the police station responded, they caught four people on the spot. All four of them suffered different injuries, but none of them were serious. Two others escaped."

After questioning the four people who were arrested, the home addresses of the two who had fled were also obtained. The duty leader of the local police station immediately arranged for someone to go and find the two people.

But those two didn't go home last night after they ran away, and they weren't caught until after 1 p.m. today.

After the two men were arrested, the officers in charge of their arrest searched them and found an unfired air pistol bullet in the pocket of one of them, named Zheng Tian. The bullet's markings indicated it was from the same batch of ammunition that had gone missing from the Chengxi Sports School.

!!!

At this moment, a glint flashed in Li Yancheng's eyes on the other end of the phone, and he hurriedly asked.

"What does this Zheng Tian do? Could he be a staff member or student at some sports school?"

"No, Zheng Tian just graduated from high school last year and is currently unemployed. His father works at Yangchao Screw Factory and is going through retirement procedures, planning to let his youngest son, Zheng Tian, ​​take over the business."

According to the preliminary investigation by the Yangchao branch of the Public Security Bureau, no one in the Zheng family has any connection with the sports school.

"What did Zheng Tian say?"

"He admitted to fighting and injuring someone, but he knew nothing about the bullet that was found in his pocket. He denied that it was his and said he knew nothing about it."

Hai Tao, the director of the Yangchao branch, went to the interrogation site and judged that Zheng Tian was lying. It wasn't that the kid didn't know, but that he was unwilling to tell the truth.

If Director Haitao's judgment is correct, then I reckon there's definitely a story behind the bullet found in that kid's pocket, which is why he's afraid to say anything.

That's inevitable, otherwise that kid wouldn't have refused to say where the bullet came from. It was found in your pocket, and you said you didn't know? That's a joke.

"Did you report this to Chief Birming?"

"Before I called you, I spoke with Director Cai first. Director Cai said he would communicate with Director Haitao of Yangchao and bring Zheng Tian to the headquarters for interrogation."

When Director Haitao called me before, I mentioned taking the person away, but Director Haitao seemed a little reluctant.

“That’s normal. I don’t think Director Boming’s communication will be effective. If the bullet found in that kid’s pocket really came from the West City Sports School, then the Yangchao Branch will have made a great contribution this time. Who would easily give up a credit that’s already in their hands?”

I estimate that the Yangchao branch will at least wait until Zheng Tian has surrendered before agreeing to let you take the goods.

(End of this chapter)