Official Career Storm
Chapter 526

Chapter 526: Chapter 526

The man definitely can’t be caught today.

But he won’t be short of credit for this.

However, good deeds don’t cancel out the bad—that he played the hero today doesn’t erase his past.

Hou Wen has already reported him, and the recordings are all there; Yao Jinsheng’s name is already well-known in the city.

Even if he isn’t captured today, he will be eventually.

The most challenging part of this matter is that the guy got involved in this case.

This case is meant to be used for exemplary positive propaganda.

If the one who had just replaced the hostage had been Director Jia or Song Guanchao, it would have been a tremendous boon.

System insiders, to save the hostages, volunteered to swap places, faced danger without fear, and killed the armed criminal—what excellent propaganda material that would be.

But it just had to be Yao Jinsheng.

That makes it unsuitable for public dissemination.

At least this part can’t be publicized.

Otherwise, if we laud him today and arrest him tomorrow, this hero instantly turns into a corrupt criminal, which would be a laughingstock if it got out.

Director Jia nodded and turned to say, "Bring the man back to the Police Department."

Director Qin felt surprised and a little disappointed about the upper levels planning to arrest Yao Jinsheng.

Such a major achievement, and it’s been snatched away by him.

But regretting was pointless; even given another chance to go back, he wouldn’t dare to replace the hostage himself.

It was just Yao Jinsheng’s dumb luck to encounter this, because based on his knowledge of Yao Jinsheng, given a hundred more chances, he probably still wouldn’t have been able to shoot the suspect down.

Song Guanchao also felt quite regretful.

Regret that Yao Jinsheng’s luck was so good, only getting hit in the arm.

If he had been shot in the head and died here, that would’ve been better.

If he had died, there was a high probability that the higher-ups would push his case aside without further concern, perhaps even granting him the honor of a hero dying in the line of duty.

But he didn’t die.

Getting into the car, Song Guanchao asked, "Secretary, are we going to the hospital or back to the city?"

"Go to the hospital."

Yao Jinsheng was injured by a gunshot, and as the highest-ranking official present today, she certainly had to go to pay a visit.

Song Guanchao didn’t ask how she planned to deal with Yao Jinsheng; there was no need. There were only a few ways to handle it, and he could guess.

Wu Qiangwei took out her phone, "Secretary Zhang, Yao Jinsheng has been shot and is now in the hospital, you should have a look."

"Shot?" Zhang Meilin was puzzled; wasn’t he supposed to be arrested today?

Wu Qiangwei briefly explained what happened and finally urged, "Don’t let any media reporters go there for interviews. Keep this news unpublicized, and give the Propaganda Department a heads up. Anyone who spreads it gets dismissed on the spot!"

"Understood, I got it."

In his heart, Song Guanchao thought that the Secretary was very thorough; he had almost overlooked this point.

When they arrived at the hospital, Zhang Meilin, Fu Ying, and Chen Guanyun were already there ahead of time.

The bullet from Yao Jinsheng’s arm had been removed, and the man who Yao Jinsheng had shot was declared dead.

In the ward, Zhang Meilin expressed concern, "Director Yao, how do you feel?"

"Thanks for your concern, Secretary Zhang, I’m feeling alright."

"Director Yao, you’ve performed a significant deed this time," Chen Guanyun congratulated.

The two of them were on the same side; if Director Yao attained merit, it meant his position would be more stable, naturally making him happy.

Just then, Wu Qiangwei and Director Qin came as well; Director Jia didn’t come as he was handling the case.

Wu Qiangwei came forward, offering perfunctory concern and praise.

Then came Director Qin’s comforting words.

Leaving the hospital, Director Qin asked, "Secretary Wu, should we assign someone to guard Yao Jinsheng?"

"No need, go and take care of Lu Xiaotian’s case."

Wu Qiangwei got into the car, "Back to the city headquarters."

In the car, she called Secretary Lu to report today’s arrest operation and the unexpected incidents that occurred.

"I will contact Mayor Zheng and the others; we’ll discuss it in a meeting when we get back."

It was three forty in the afternoon.

They arrived at the City Committee.

Wu Qiangwei visited the restroom and then headed straight for the meeting room.

Song Guanchao waited outside, keeping in touch with Zhang Meilin.

At 4:30 in the afternoon, the meeting had concluded.

Song Guanchao followed Wu Qiangwei back to the office, where they made some tea.

Holding her tea cup, Wu Qiangwei said, "We’ll catch him once this storm blows over."

Song Guanchao nodded, he had already guessed as much.

It was the best solution, as well as the only solution.

The anti-gang operation supervised by the Ministry of Public Security had been successfully completed today. Even if they intentionally didn’t promote Yao Jinsheng’s heroic actions, they couldn’t deny him the credit.

To make a move against him, they would have to wait at least half a year.

Wait until the positive influence of the propaganda had passed.

...

In the interrogation room of the Dujiang City Public Security Bureau,

Director Jia was conducting the interrogation himself.

Lu Xiaotian was quite stubborn. Facing Director Jia’s questioning, he was uncooperative, playing dumb or just demanding the presence of a lawyer.

"A lawyer?" Director Jia said, "You’ve been watching too much TV, haven’t you?"

Lu Xiaotian still repeated the same sentence, "No lawyer present, no talking from me."

Director Jia looked at him as if he were looking at a monkey, pulled out a stack of documents, and tossed them over, "Have a look for yourself."

Lu Xiaotian grabbed the documents, and as he read, his expression changed.

This was evidence of his criminal activities.

Multiple violent disruptions at the bid invitation center, forcibly acquiring land, threatening and intimidating developers, withholding migrant workers’ wages, coercing factory sales/purchases, and monopolizing the earth-moving market illegally...

Compared to these, even extorting the National Railway Bureau seemed trivial.

He saw that many of the pieces of evidence were provided by Liu Lanzi, the chairwoman of New City Company.

Lu Xiaotian’s eyes widened in fury, his heart ablaze with anger.

The bitch!

Liu Lanzi, that bitch!

He had always been obsessed with Liu Lanzi, relentlessly pursuing her.

He would always find a way to meet her whenever she was in Dujiang City.

He had never chased another woman with such madness.

Although his pursuit technique was lacking, he had always believed that he would eventually have Liu Lanzi.

But now, this woman had been cooperating with the police all along, providing evidence of his crimes.

He swore in his heart, once he got out one day, he would finish her!

He would do it fiercely!

After he was done, he’d throw her to his lackeys, let his boys have their turn with her!

The bitch, the bitch!

Amidst his anger, he began to panic.

How was this case different from what Yao Jinsheng and he had discussed?

Wasn’t it supposed to be just for show, going through the motions?

He looked at Director Jia and suddenly noticed a detail.

This cop had a Yanjing accent, he wasn’t a local.

"Are you, are you from the city police?"

"City police?" Director Jia shook his head, "I am the Director of the Inspection Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. My last name is Jia."

Ministry of Public Security...

Lu Xiaotian felt as if the sky had collapsed.

He realized that he might have been duped by Yao Jinsheng.

He instinctively wanted to tell Mr. Jia that he had been coerced that day, playing a part in a drama orchestrated by Yao Jinsheng.

The words reached his lips, but he swallowed them back down.

No, he couldn’t speak.

Right now, Yao Jinsheng was a hero, and even though he was in prison, Yao Jinsheng was still out there.

He didn’t believe Yao Jinsheng would dare to betray him.

After all, he knew Yao Jinsheng’s biggest secret.

Once the police found out this was all a premeditated plan, not only would Yao Jinsheng’s hero title be stripped, but he would also be imprisoned for intentional homicide.

Yao wouldn’t dare; he would surely get him out!

Lu Xiaotian said, "I want to call Yao Jinsheng! If he isn’t present, I won’t say anything!"

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