Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 1086 - 708: Director of Anti-Smuggling Office!_2

Han Yu patted his tractor and laughed, "If you get a new car and put the old license plate on it, it might not be quite fitting. Besides, what you guys are getting next is a truck, and trucks are real motor vehicles. No matter where you go, you need to follow traffic rules. As long as you obey the traffic rules, on what grounds would traffic police and transport management check you?"

"Secretary Han, you've never been a traffic cop, you wouldn't know. Traffic police stop cars just to check them, even when there's nothing wrong, they'll find something!"

"Really?"

"Of course, if you don't believe me, you can ask Boss Xu, he knows best."

"Alright, when you get the new plates, just put them on the new car."

"Thanks a lot."

"No need to thank me, just get to work and stay safe."

...

After making the rounds and greeting the workers on the construction site, Han Yu went to the command center set up in the shack, where Vice Mayor Zhong and Leader Qian were sleeping on bamboo beds they found from who knows where.

They must have only slept after confirming the flood peak had passed this stretch of the embankment at dawn. Still not wanting to wake them, Han Yu waved to the Water Resources Bureau staff on duty and carefully walked down the embankment to check on the piping issues.

The seepage continued to bring out water and sand, but yesterday's muddy water had turned clear, with less water and hardly any sand. It seemed the blockage was effective.

But this couldn't continue indefinitely. Just as Han Yu was pondering a long-term solution, he received an unexpected call from Zhou Huixin, the former director of the Linghai Police Bureau he hadn't contacted in a long time.

"Salted Fish, are you busy? Is it convenient to talk?"

"Not busy, Director Zhou, what made you think to call me?"

"Really not busy?"

"Really not busy."

Zhou Huixin wanted to call yesterday but was worried about disturbing Han Yu's flood defense efforts. After confirming he wasn't busy, Zhou Huixin finally relaxed and, unable to contain his excitement, said, "Salted Fish, I've been transferred back to the City Bureau and I'm back in uniform doing what I used to do!"

Han Yu was taken aback, instinctively asking, "Director Zhou, is your health up to it?"

"I'm doing much better!" Zhou Huixin said, looking around his new office, smiling, "You're concerned about my health, but the organization is too. They had the Political Consultative Conference arrange for a check-up at the Affiliated Hospital before talking with me and assigning me a new role."

"The organization talked to you?"

"A job transfer requires a discussion."

"Director Zhou, does this mean you've been promoted?"

"Not exactly a promotion; I was a deputy director before, and I still am."

Despite the modest tone, Han Yu could tell his old boss was excited and happy. He didn't think it was just a lateral move, so he pressed on, "Director Zhou, don't keep me in suspense. What position did they give you? I want to celebrate!"

Zhou Huixin pulled out a chair, sat down, and casually flipped through documents forwarded by the City Government's Office, saying, "I'm a committee member of the Party Committee; for now, there's no official administrative role, or you could say it's additional."

"A committee member of the City Bureau's Party Committee is a bureau leader!"

"I've been to hell and back. Whether I become a leader or not, I don't care anymore. I was planning to take it easy in Linghai, but the organization wants me back, so I have to comply with their arrangement."

He's clearly showing off!

Han Yu couldn't help but laugh, "Congratulations, Director Zhou! From now on, you're my backer. If our Water Police Station or the Development Zone Branch ever needs funding or staff allocations, I'll come to you. Don't pretend you don't know me then."

"Coming to me won't help; I'm just the lowest-ranking committee member."

"By the way, didn't you say you're also given an administrative role? What exactly is it?"

"Deputy Director of the Anti-Smuggling Office."

"What's the Anti-Smuggling Office? I've never heard of it before."

"It was set up just a few days ago. Its full name is 'Binjiang City's Comprehensive Anti-Smuggling Leadership Group Office.' You're very familiar with the group's leader and deputy leader, and you know the executive deputy director of the anti-smuggling office even better, so we all unanimously suggested to Secretary Ye and Mayor Qian that you should concurrently serve as the Director of the Linghai City Anti-Smuggling Office."

With so many leadership groups, it was dizzying. Even as a Party Committee member of the Linghai Development Zone, Han Yu couldn't keep track of how many groups he belonged to.

There was a time when rabies was rampant, and before Linghai was upgraded to a county-level city, they had a "Dog Control Office," which went around catching and killing dogs, even watchdogs. The locals criticized it behind their backs.

The "Dog Control Office" had become history, but now another "Anti-Smuggling Office" had emerged.

Han Yu found it somewhat amusing and asked, "Is smuggling that serious in Binjiang, serious enough to warrant a special leadership group office?"

"Initially, I thought it was overkill too, but after a few meetings and briefings, I realized that smuggling has been rampant these past years, with the anti-smuggling situation being quite severe.

You could say smuggling harms national industries and economic security, causes significant losses to the state and people's interests, corrupts social trends, fosters corruption, fuels parochialism in some locales and units, and even undermines the unity of the Central Committee's directives, damaging the Party and government's image among the public, and even threatening our regime!"

"Is it that serious?"

"Half a month ago, the Central Committee and National Council specifically held a national anti-smuggling work meeting where they not only decided to establish a comprehensive anti-smuggling leadership group but also declared that military, armed police, and judicial organs must cease all commercial enterprises!"

While it was previously banned for military and armed police units below the army level to engage in commerce, this was now a one-size-fits-all approach, extending the ban to include judicial organs engaging in commercial enterprises.

More importantly, such a significant decision was made at the national anti-smuggling work meeting, which suggests the involvement of military and judicial organs...