Chapter 843

Seeing Old Branch Secretary leave, Zhou Andong came to Bian Zhenghe's side, squatted down, and touched the machine gun.

"What kind of machine gun is this?"

The machine gun looked familiar to him because he often saw it in anti-Japanese dramas, but he just didn't know what it was called.

"Soviet-made M1910. During the bandit suppression years ago, it made great contributions."

Saying this, Bian Zhenghe sighed, and then touched the gun as if he were touching a beloved toy.

"Back then, Old Guan was the militia company commander, and later he handed the gun to me. I have been maintaining it myself every time. It's just that after today's incident, the higher-ups will definitely take back the machine gun and the mortar."

Zhou Andong asked curiously: "A few years ago, the militia in our area handed in their weapons. How come Zhenxing Village still keeps them?"

"Because our area is vast and sparsely populated." Bian Zhenghe organized his language, "Our village is the closest to the town, while other villages are relatively further away."

"And the police station in the town has only four formal police officers and five temporary ones, totaling nine people. In case of any emergency, there wouldn't be enough manpower, and the county police wouldn't be able to arrive in time."

"Therefore, considering the reality, the militia and weapons of Zhenxing Village were retained. The real purpose is to assist the police station in handling emergencies."

Zhou Andong understood. The militia company of Zhenxing Village was similar in nature to the security departments of state-owned enterprises at this time, because police forces were insufficient nationwide at this time.

Once there was an emergency, or a major case occurred, and police forces were insufficient, they had to borrow people from the security departments of state-owned enterprises. Therefore, the security departments of state-owned enterprises not only carried guns but also had certain law enforcement powers, and could handle things internally as long as they were not criminal cases.

It's just that this situation wouldn't last long. Before the reform and opening up, it mainly relied on the autonomous system existing in traditional society combined with the mass line to achieve the goal of maintaining domestic stability with extremely few police forces.

But after the reform and opening up, economic development was relatively fast, population mobility was large, and the original autonomous system was gradually broken. Facing the test of the new situation, strictly controlling the police establishment was obviously no longer suitable for the current needs.

Therefore, in the mid-1990s, localities began to recruit independently, and the total number of police forces nationwide expanded by about 300,000. Of course, 300,000 people sounded like a lot, but nationwide, it wasn't much.

Then, based on the principle of simple governance, localities sought and relied on semi-official personnel to implement governance outside of national formal governance institutions and personnel, which is what we later called auxiliary police.

Among them, a large part came from the security department staff of various state-owned enterprises. In this way, local police forces were sufficient, the law enforcement powers of various state-owned enterprise security departments were taken back, they were not allowed to carry guns, and they became security guards.

But deeper problems emerged, such as office and case-handling expenses, and even basic construction funding problems. If the higher-ups didn't allocate money, and local finances weren't well-off, what could they do?

Police also had to be paid to eat, especially for handling cases. If there was no money, how could they solve cases? In the end, they could only rely on administrative fines. In the two or three decades that followed, I won't say much, many people have had deep personal experience.

Zhou Andong asked: "What should we do next? With so many people, we can't just detain them all. We still have to provide them with food."

Bian Zhenghe smiled: "Old Guan has gone to report it. The county will definitely send people to take over."

Just as he said, Old Branch Secretary made a phone call to County Magistrate Hong Xinmin.

This matter was not small. Heavy machine guns and mortars were used. Hong Xinmin would definitely suppress it and control the matter within a certain scope.

But upon hearing that these guys were subordinates of the big and small landlords in Qishi, and that they had come to find trouble with Zhou Andong one after another.

How could this be allowed? Zhou Andong was their county's God of Wealth. Finding trouble with him wasn't that cutting off their county's path to wealth?

Hong Xinmin didn't even think about it. He hung up Old Branch Secretary's phone and immediately dialed Zuo Xingqing's office.

Zuo Xingqing was so angry that his lungs were about to explode. He grabbed the phone and dialed Meng Tong Huai Zhi's office, and bombarded his brother-in-law unceremoniously.

"How are you serving as a leader? Can you do it? If you can't, I'll come over. You can't even handle a hooligan. Are you ashamed to sit in that position?"

At first, Meng Tong Huai Zhi was stunned by the scolding. When he found out the reason, his eyes lit up.

"Xingqing, Zhou Andong is your God of Wealth, and he is also my God of Wealth. Sun Hexin finding trouble with him is like pressing my face to the ground and stepping on it with his feet."

"I will definitely arrest this person, and I must handle it strictly and severely. However, I have encountered some trouble here and need your help."

"I don't have time!"

Zuo Xingqing was angry. Now it was a hooligan in your jurisdiction coming to my territory to find trouble, and the one being troubled was Zhou Andong.

Meng Tong Huai Zhi sighed very sadly: "If you don't help, it will be really tricky to deal with this Sun Hexin."

Zuo Xingqing sneered and mocked: "It really proved me right. You can't even handle a hooligan leader. You should still give up the chair under your butt."

Meng Tong Huai Zhi wasn't angry either. He explained the case he was investigating: "Until now, Zhao Jin hasn't sent any news. He must have encountered resistance. It is estimated that the higher-ups don't want to break a certain balance and want to suppress the matter."

"Therefore, if we want to break this balance and dig out and eliminate all those worms, we can't do it by relying on the strength within our province. We can only find foreign aid and rely on strength outside the province to break it."

"I know!" Zuo Xingqing slammed the phone down.

In terms of work, no matter how the two competed, they were brothers-in-law after all, and their personal relationship was still very good.

Moreover, this matter was related to their common interests, so he had to help even if he didn't want to.

Zuo Xingqing pondered for a moment, grabbed the phone, and called the big leader of the autonomous region.

When the big leader heard this, this was outrageous. A hooligan leader from your Heilongjiang Province ran to my autonomous region to find trouble with investors and sabotage my investment attraction work. Do you think I'm easy to bully?

The big leader made a phone call directly to the squad leader of Heilongjiang Province and questioned him unceremoniously. Can you handle that hooligan leader named Sun Hexin? If you can't handle it, our autonomous region will send people over to arrest him.

These words made the squad leader of Heilongjiang ashamed and unable to show his face.

Zhao Jin had already packed his things and was preparing to return to Qishi. He had just opened the room door when the phone in the room suddenly rang.

He hurriedly went back and grabbed the phone. It was his old leader calling him, telling him that the matter was done, and the provincial level had already established a special case team, and Zhao Xiang would be under dual regulation soon.

Just two hours ago, the old leader called him and said that someone was protecting Zhao Xiang at all costs, and the squad leaders also didn't want to break the balance of the squad for the time being, so the case would end there.

Zhao Jin was stunned. What exactly happened in these two hours that caused such a big turning point in a matter that had already been determined?