noffsinger Chapter 257 You have such great authority
Chapter 257 You have such great authority
This conference room is not the special task force conference room that Qin Dabao had stayed in before. This one is much smaller than that one, but the leading cadres who can hold meetings in this conference room are all local lords of the various district bureaus in Beijing. They are the kind of people who can make the ground shake with just a stomp of their feet in their own jurisdiction.
There are five Beijing Public Security Bureaus in the urban area, namely Dongcheng Branch, Xicheng Branch, Chaoyang Branch, Fengtai Branch and Haidian Branch.
Relatively speaking, the level of these five branches is higher than that of the seven county and district branches. Usually, when the municipal bureau holds an emergency meeting, it will notify them two or three hours in advance, and only the leaders of these five branches will come. The leaders of other counties and districts are too far away to come.
According to past conventions, Zhou Hu wasn't eligible to enter the small conference room, but today's meeting notice explicitly required his attendance. This made Zhou Hu inexplicably excited. Could this mean he was about to move forward? Impossible, right? After all, he had only been deputy director for three years, and in those three years, he hadn't achieved any dazzling results.
But what if? What if the new director or deputy director is blind? What if he's picked by lottery on the promotion list?
This fear of loss and gain made Zhou Hu forget to take a step back. Now he was moving faster than Yan Wenlong.
Yan Wenlong's face dropped, he glared at Zhou Hu fiercely, but he didn't expect that Zhou Hu was in a daze and didn't notice him at all, which made Yan Wenlong very angry. He cursed inwardly: You are a wolf from Zhongshan, you become arrogant when you succeed, you little B, when you go back, I will send you to the poorest commune for three months, I will kill you!
Zhou Hu was so high up that he never imagined that he had offended the director. He pushed open the door of the small conference room and walked in with his head held high.
A heavy snort came from behind him, which made Zhou Hu wake up suddenly. He quickly stopped, bent down slightly, and respectfully invited Yan Wenlong in.
There were already four middle-aged people sitting in the meeting. They were sitting at the long conference table, smoking and chatting. When they heard the door open, they turned around and looked over.
Yan Wenlong was stunned for a moment. Of course he knew these four people: Li Zhenjiang, the political commissar of the Dongcheng branch, Cao Ruiwen, the director of the Xicheng branch, Cao Wenhe, the director of the Chaoyang branch, and Yu Yongqiang, the director of the Fengtai branch.
Including him, the heads of the five major branches are all present.
"Old Yan, you're here just now?" Li Zhenjiang was the oldest among them, already 49 years old. The four of them looked at Zhou Hu curiously. They all knew Zhou Hu, but they were curious about how he was qualified to come here for the meeting.
Yan Wenlong placed his briefcase on the conference table, took off his hat, and smoothed the few remaining hairs on his head.
Zhou Hu pulled out the chair like a lackey, and Yan Wenlong sat down with a swagger.
Cao Ruiwen was the youngest among these people, only 39 years old, one year older than Lu Jianbang. He couldn't stand Yan Wenlong's pretentious behavior and couldn't help but snort.
"Director Yan, you have such great authority! This guy has people waiting for him wherever he goes."
Yan Wenlong's face changed. He didn't dare to wear such a big hat: "What's the point of official authority? We are all serving the people. Who is serving whom? I'm not a landlord. This is the respect of the lower-level comrades for the higher-level leaders."
"Yes, yes, it is respect." Zhou Hu didn't dare to let the director's words fall on the ground, and seized every opportunity to slip out.
Cao Ruiwen sneered and was about to speak when Cao Wenhe patted him and he shut up. Cao Wenhe and Cao Ruiwen were cousins, and he always listened to his cousin Cao Wenhe.
Yan Wenlong also couldn't afford to offend these two brothers, so he turned around and took a cigarette from Li Zhenjiang. Zhou Hu lit it quickly.
Cao Ruiwen snorted disdainfully.
Yan Wenlong curled his lips, rolled his eyes, and glanced at Cao Ruiwen. He has always been very strong in his dealings with people, whether in the army or after transferring to the local area. If it weren't for his domineering personality, he wouldn't be at his current level.
"Lao Li, why are you here? Where's Lao Xie? Is he on a business trip?"
Li Zhenjiang was a good man who never offended anyone and never dared to speak without thinking. When Yan Wenlong asked him, he could only smile and said, "Old Xie was transferred back to Shaanxi, his hometown, and was promoted half a level."
"Oh, that's great! If he goes out for a walk and comes back, he might become our leader. Old Xie is really good at it."
Li Zhenjiang was stunned. "Has Old Yan not heard about such a big thing?" He was so out of touch with the news.
Yu Yongqiang, director of the Fengtai branch, scoffed. "He's got it all. He's the director of the Provincial Association for Science and Technology, in charge of inventions and creations, and he wants to go back to Beijing? Unless something amazing happens to him."
"What the hell? Director of the Science and Technology Association? What kind of organization is that? Is he retired?"
"Isn't that retirement? Just a newspaper and a cup of tea every day. No one asks if you go to work or not. All you have to do is wait for your salary every month."
"This guy? What happened? Did he offend someone? Old Yu, do you know what happened?"
"I know a little, but not everything. This Xie Guohua has offended his superiors. What good will come of this? He will definitely be exiled to the frontier."
"Up there? Who's there? On the third floor? Why?"
"I don't know why, but I heard that because of this, Deputy Director Liu was sent to study at the Central Party School, and Old Xie was transferred back to his hometown. Anyway, this matter is quite serious."
In fact, Yu Yongqiang didn't know what was going on in this matter. Even if he knew, he didn't dare to say it too clearly. If he gossiped here, if someone heard it, they would report him and offend the two big directors, which would be a waste of time.
"Wenhe, what is the content of today's meeting? I see you are the first one to arrive. Do you know what it is about?" Li Zhenjiang turned and asked Cao Wenhe from the Chaoyang Branch.
Cao Wenhe shook his head. "Director Lu went to the Ministry, and Director Wang said he went to the Criminal Investigation Department. I asked around, and it seems like there's a major case going on there."
"Big case? What big case?" Yan Wenlong also became interested and leaned over to ask.
Cao Wenhe and Yan Wenlong didn't have any conflicts, so he didn't give him a cold shoulder. "I don't know the details, but I heard from the secretariat that the Criminal Investigation and Public Security Brigade have been dispatched, including both directors. I heard they arrested several people from Sijiqing Commune, one of whom is from our system. They said it was a case related to the Qiuying murder case from three years ago, but they don't know the details."
Yan Wenlong frowned. Sijiqing Commune? That was in his jurisdiction, but he hadn't heard of any cases happening there during his work today.
He turned around and was about to ask Zhou Hu, but saw that Zhou Hu's face was pale and his whole body was trembling.
Yan Wenlong coughed and said, "Old Zhou, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so bad?"
Zhou Hu's lips trembled and his teeth chattered: "The director... is Yu..."
As soon as the door of the conference room opened, Lu Jianbang and Wang Guohua walked in with solemn expressions. No one dared to speak.
Zhou Hu tugged at Yan Wenlong's clothes. Yan Wenlong was looking at the two directors seriously. He lowered his head in anger and said in a low and stern voice, "What are you doing?"
Zhou Hu's face was covered in cold sweat. He took out a pen and notebook, wrote a few crooked words on it, and pushed it in front of Yan Wenlong.
Yan Wenlong only took a glance at it, and his head suddenly exploded. He saw that the notebook read: Yu Qiuyun murder case, murderer Peng..., Cheng Jianping.
Three years have passed, and Zhou Hu has forgotten the name of Peng Songnian, the man who died unjustly, but he remembers it clearly that Cheng Jianping gave him two thousand yuan at that time.
Yan Wenlong certainly remembered the murder of Yu Qiuying. This case was the stepping stone for his promotion. Although some people raised doubts at the time, he and Zhou Hu insisted on sentencing the murderer to death very quickly.
Now that Zhou Hu wrote this, combined with what Cao Wenhe said just now, the director led a team to arrest several people in Sijiqing Commune, one of whom was from the public security system, because of a case called Qiuying three years ago,
Yan Wenlong wasn't stupid; he immediately connected the dots. Could the police officer arrested be Cheng Jianping? Kuai Heping had even said today that Wang Tusheng and Cheng Jianping drove away last night and went to the commune...
Oh my god! Cheng Jianping? The Yu Qiuying case? Yan Wenlong's face turned pale, cold sweat instantly soaking his back. He grabbed his briefcase and stood up subconsciously.
Wang Guohua shouted sternly, "Old Yan, the meeting is about to start. What are you doing?"