Chapter 409: Elite Battle

At 5 o'clock in the evening, Hou Lejia faced the sunset and watched three teams of police officers drive away in three directions.

Three squadrons, nearly 60 people, needing to drive more than a dozen cars, meant 20,000 to 30,000 in travel subsidies every day, and they had to plan to spend more case-handling funds...

Hou Lejia did a day of ideological work on himself before finally making up his mind.

A huge investment!

If it were a normal case, Hou Lejia would at most send one team in one direction to investigate first, and if he was in a hurry, he would split that team to run in two directions.

He saved money this way, and he had also missed opportunities, but he had stumbled through it.

But just like that feudal kid Shen Yaowei said, now he had arrived at the confrontation lane! And the one he was confronting was the Changyang City Criminal Police Detachment.

Although the Changyang City Criminal Police Detachment had a higher rank, and every time Longli County went to Changyang City to solve cases and met local police, they called them "leaders," but once they left Changyang City, there was no rule that they had to respect them as the boss!

There was no intention of disrespect, but for such a big thing as a cold case of homicide, there was no way to give it up.

Even if the criminal police of these three squadrons were eating, drinking, and playing in Kangzhou and Changyang City, squandering the family fortune he had worked so hard to save, he had to endure it; everything would wait until the case was solved.

The dust kicked up by the vehicles was completely invisible before Hou Lejia reluctantly went downstairs.

The Criminal Police Brigade, with half its people gone, looked slightly deserted, and even the smell of smoke seemed to have lessened a lot.

As Hou Lejia walked, he subconsciously returned to the forensic office.

The forensic office was actually quite lively.

Perhaps it was the liveliest place in the entire Criminal Police Brigade. The members of Jiang Yuan's cold case task force were busy doing something, Wu Wu Fa Yi Zhai and his newly trained forensic doctors hadn't left either, and there was their own Wu Wu Fa Yi Ye, who was like a tea-brewing master, constantly boiling water and making tea, as if anyone cared about his "forensic hands."

"What are you busy with?" Hou Lejia entered and leaned over to Jiang Yuan.

In this life, the person who spent the most of his money, besides his wife, was Jiang Yuan. Even his son couldn't compare.

Jiang Yuan said: "Cases from other counties, we're just taking a casual look."

"Casual..." Hou Lejia repeated the word, then realized the point was the first half of the sentence, so he asked: "Are these cases from other districts and counties in our Qinghe City?"

The Qinghe City Bureau's "Cold Case Attack Year" was clearly aimed at Jiang Yuan. Last year, Jiang Yuan cleared the cold cases in Ningtai County and exported them to Changyang City and other places, exchanging them for a new building, new cars, new equipment, and even new funds for the Ningtai County Bureau.

As the business competent department of Ningtai County, the Qinghe City Bureau, how could they not be envious!

Even if the police officers below had backbone and wouldn't eat "food given in contempt," the leaders' bones were never that hard.

Being a leader is like practicing in a vacuum; no matter how hard you try, the loss of calcium is still astonishing.

However, county bureaus are under dual leadership, and the city bureau above can only provide business guidance, meaning they only have authority over affairs, not over finances or personnel. Under such circumstances, a direct order certainly wouldn't work.

【409-26】 The city bureau spending its own money certainly wouldn't work either; it's better to let each county bureau show its own magical powers.

It certainly wouldn't work for the Municipal Bureau to pay for it themselves; it would be better to let each county bureau show their own unique skills.

Speaking of which, Huang Qiangmin and Jiang Yuan were both cadres who grew up in Qinghe City, and they had many old friends and colleagues in various county and district bureaus. Everyone exerted their abilities, and even if they emptied out the various county and district bureaus, from the perspective of the city bureau, it was naturally not a loss.

As long as cases could be solved, and solved with significant effect, everything else was floating clouds.

"Are you planning to take on new cases?" Hou Lejia thought to himself, *I still have two skulls here that haven't been figured out. *

Jiang Yuan shook his head: "Need to wait a bit."

Hou Lejia smiled and nodded. *That's right, you can't open a new battlefield here just as I've sent people to the confrontation lane. *

Then he heard Jiang Yuan continue: "Director Huang is currently negotiating."

Hou Lejia was stunned, then sighed heavily: "It's not easy for anyone."

【409-35】 What he was talking about, of course, was not that it wasn't easy for Huang Qiangmin.

Huang Qiangmin has it tough.

Speaking of which, police construction is also part of everyone's work, but police construction in various places is clearly unequal.

Places with money can treat surveillance projects worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions as part of urban construction, while police stations without money don't even have complete cameras.

And solving cases is actually something without an upper limit.

Hou Lejia shook his head, thinking: *Even if Jiang Yuan and the others have good technology, there's no need to rush to send money and resources. Keeping some money and resources to do it yourself doesn't mean you can't do it! On the contrary, it might be because your own criminal police team does their own cases, and they will be more attentive and serious... *

Thinking this way, Hou Lejia's waist gradually straightened, and a smile of a middle-aged man with power appeared on his face...

Just as he was about to say goodbye, Tang Jia came through the crowd, smiled politely at Hou Lejia, handed over a mobile phone,

and said: "Captain Jiang, it's a call from Director Feng."

Tang Jia covered the microphone part of the phone with her hand and whispered in a lip-syncing manner: "A call from Anhai City, very happy."

Jiang Yuan nodded, picked up the phone, and said: "Director Feng, this is Jiang Yuan."

"Jiang Yuan, we have the speakerphone on here. This is Feng Qiong. Beside me now are the detachment leader and political commissar of the Anhai City Criminal Police Detachment. Well, just today, the 503 robbery and murder case was declared solved, two suspects were arrested, and both have confessed..."

Feng Qiong's emotions were very high. That's how criminal police are; when they haven't solved a case, they are often wilted, but once they solve a case, they feel like they are the best in the world.

Hou Lejia was right beside Jiang Yuan, and many curious words involuntarily drilled into his ears, so he couldn't help but look at Jiang Yuan.

He had also heard in recent days about the 503 case where experts from the ministry came to reinvestigate, and he knew the circumstances of Jiang Yuan's participation. Hearing that the 503 case was declared solved, Hou Lejia couldn't help but feel a trance.

For a case of this level, if you do one a year, the sense of satisfaction should be full.

Jiang Yuan said a few words to Feng Qiong and asked naturally: "What was the final situation? Can you say?"

"I can say. Speaking of this case, it's related to the age of the two suspects. Liao Baoquan was not yet 18 at the time, only 17 by nominal age, but his family conditions were not good, and he often went to work during winter and summer vacations, thus meeting the other main culprit of the case." Feng Qiong was cautious and didn't say the names directly.

"Liao is A, let's call the latter B." Feng Qiong gave them

code names and continued: "The fuse of the incident was B. This guy was about the same age as Liao at the time and had a certain planning ability. And his family conditions were worse than A's; not only did he have to work during winter and summer vacations, but his father lost his ability to work due to a work-related injury and had to take long-term medication."

"A year before the case, B's father's health took a sharp turn for the worse. B began to urge the father's boss, who was the actual first victim of this case, Dou Dingqiang, for medical expenses. After failing, B discussed with A to kidnap Dou Dingqiang on the day he paid wages and drove away his car."

"Afterwards, the two met police officer He Boyong. He Boyong was the director of the police station and had seen Dou Dingqiang's car. He met them on the side of the road and greeted them, but didn't raise his vigilance, and as a result, he was killed by the two who had a guilty conscience."

"After killing He Boyong, they discovered firearms, which forced the two to temporarily change their plans and also brought certain difficulties to the subsequent investigation, but the main thing was still the problem with our investigation direction."

Feng Qiong sighed here and said: "B's father actually entered our line of sight, but the police officers who went to investigate saw his inability to walk at home and determined that he had no ability to commit the crime. B was only sixteen or seventeen at the time, so we ignored this precious clue..."

After sighing a little, Feng Qiong thanked Jiang Yuan again.

Only after the case was finished and reviewed could one better appreciate the accuracy of Jiang Yuan's judgment on the time of death. Criminal police in other counties and cities didn't have a comparison; they only knew Jiang Yuan was awesome, but didn't know how awesome he was.

And Feng Qiong, who followed the 503 task force from beginning to end, participated in this case for more than ten months, spanning nearly ten years, and had worked with dozens of forensic doctors, had never seen anyone dare to make such a judgment!

【409-62】 Regardless of whether it was because some people were too conservative, they didn't dare to propose it, but from Feng Qiong's perspective, lack of confidence ultimately meant not being awesome enough.

Regardless of whether it's because some people are overly conservative or other reasons, they don't dare to propose it. But from Feng Qiong's perspective, a lack of confidence ultimately boils down to not being good enough.

And a great person like Jiang Yuan is extremely precious for any case.

Feng Qiong praised Jiang Yuan well in front of the leaders of Anhai City, forcing the leaders of the Anhai City Criminal Police Detachment to keep praising him, followed by daily invitations and requests for merit.

Hanging up the phone, Jiang Yuan handed it back to Tang Jia, and opposite him, Hou Lejia was already stunned.

In this day and age, let alone leaders from the ministry, even leaders from the county bureau didn't praise people like this.

At least, Hou Lejia had never heard of it.

Hou Lejia recalled the leaders he met in the county bureau or city bureau; the scolding was still in his ears, and he only hoped that the leaders would speak shorter and faster...

Nowhere like Jiang Yuan, who was praised as if he were being held in their arms.

"Congratulations to Captain Jiang for solving another big case." Hou Lejia stopped his wild imagination.

"This was already a previous case. Fortunately, it went smoothly." Jiang Yuan smiled.

"I hope the Shang family siblings' case we are doing here can also be so smooth." Hou Lejia's wish was very direct. He had placed a heavy bet, so he naturally hoped to win.

After saying a few more words, Hou Lejia prepared to return to his office. With a movement similar to just now, the mobile phone rang again. This time, it was Hou Lejia's own mobile phone.

"Home invasion murder?" "Two deaths?"

Hou Lejia felt a headache as soon as he picked up the phone.

In his Longli County, there were only double-digit non-natural deaths throughout the year, half of which were traffic accidents and the like. Even if there were homicides, there were only one or two, or two or three. Even so, the Criminal Police Brigade went out in full force every time, not daring to have the slightest negligence, for fear that it wouldn't be solved in a short time and would become trouble later.

And this time...

His three most elite squadrons had just been dispatched.

Hou Lejia's blood pressure soared, and his eyes couldn't help but look at the police officer.

"Captain Hou, don't worry, I'll pour you a glass of water." Tang Jia used her "clamping" voice, tactfully led Hou Lejia away, and contacted Director Huang Qiangmin for him. ===== CHAPTER 410 =====