Chapter 534: Breaking Through the Ceiling

"These past few days, I've been working overtime until 10 or 11 o'clock every day. As police, it's not that we can't work overtime, but overtime has to be meaningful, right? Are we working overtime purely for the sake of working overtime? Even the cows raised in the countryside are only used like this during sowing season."

"For a day or two, it's all work that leaves us with nothing to do. When the shopping mall holds an event, they still have to send us to be on duty. Those who don't know would think we're there to tear down the stage. Is this how police force is used?"

"And, they don't arrange tasks when we come to work every day, but arrange work when it's time to get off work. Now they don't even go through Director Huang; he pulls a WeChat group and arranges it directly. If you don't work overtime, it counts as taking leave, and money is deducted by the day. Everyone lives on their salary; who can stand this!"

The more Wu Junhao spoke, the angrier he got. He picked up the skewers, ate two at once, and then drank half a bottle of beer in one gulp.

"Don't be too angry." Jiang Yuan refilled his beer.

He was a little embarrassed. Director Chai's target was nominally Huang Qiangmin, but in reality, it was also aimed at Jiang Yuan. To be more precise, what Director Chai wanted was the tax collection rights of Jiang Yuan.

It was after Jiang Yuan took leave that Wu Junhao became Director Chai's new target.

However, the problem wasn't caused by Jiang Yuan. Huang Qiangmin was still there to allocate resources, so it wasn't Jiang Yuan's turn to stand up and bear it.

Mu Zhiyang took two raw skewers, hung them on the stove, fanned the stove twice, and said, "Captain Wu, don't be anxious either. Mainly, he is the bureau director. We are actually the same recently; once the tasks are assigned, we can only bite the bullet and do them."

"I know, Director Huang... um, Director Huang also told me that he just wants to provoke me." Wu Junhao sighed and said, "When the time comes, I'll just let him knead me however he wants. However, now I feel like I'm about to be kneaded too."

"Indeed." Jiang Yuan nodded, also picked up a meat skewer, bit it lightly with his teeth to pull it off, and then put it into his molars to chew.

The lean meat quality stimulated more meat juices, with a hint of sweetness in the salty freshness.

Jiang Yuan finished eating a skewer of meat and then said, "What I'm best at is still solving cases. If there's a need in this regard, I can help."

Wu Junhao nodded silently: "I can hold on for a while longer, let's see later. If it really doesn't work, I'll just let it rot."

Letting it rot is actually not that easy, especially when tasks are pressed down, they are all based on the squadron as a unit. If one person lets it rot, other colleagues in the team have to bear more work...

Over the next few days, the atmosphere in the bureau was slightly strange, but Director Chai didn't make any more adjustments. Except for constantly oppressing Wu Junhao, the situation seemed to have eased somewhat.

Jiang Yuan rested for a week and returned to the Criminal Investigation Team to cancel his leave.

He still made some preparations, but unexpectedly, Director Chai didn't appear all day.

It was only near the time to get off work that he saw Huang Qiangmin strolling up.

"Jiang Yuan." Huang Qiangmin knocked on the door after entering the office, and then closed the office door.

"Drinking tea?" Jiang Yuan had a tea set on the table, rarely enjoying the office life of a cup of tea a day.

"The tea is not bad." Huang Qiangmin took a sip and then said, "You won't get your full salary this month."

Jiang Yuan said "Oh," then reacted a bit and said, "The First Squadron won't get their full salary?"

"Wu Junhao has also been asking for leave frequently these past few days, and the work Director Chai pressed on him is also a lot..." Huang Qiangmin didn't explain that much either, saying the consequences directly: "It's probably going to be deducted quite a bit. Wu Junhao relies on his salary to support his family, and many people in the First Squadron are of this straightforward temperament. After this month passes, someone will definitely be scolded by their wives."

The so-called wage-earning class is those who live on their salaries. Police are no exception. Many people's salaries might have been planned out a long time ago; if it's suddenly less, they will definitely be very uncomfortable.

Jiang Yuan is rich, but he can't subsidize Wu Junhao and the others.

Jiang Yuan asked, "Then what should we do?"

Huang Qiangmin also said helplessly, "Actually, it doesn't matter if you come at me for anything. I didn't expect Director Chai to just hold onto Wu Junhao and not let go. If this continues, when it comes to meritorious service and awards, and evaluating the advanced and excellent, it won't be the First Squadron's turn..."

In a unit, for a rich person like Jiang Yuan, as long as he has no desires, even if he lets it rot, the leader has no way to deal with him.

When encountering the soft-overcoming-hard type, he can even make the leader feel annoyed and uncomfortable.

But on the other hand, for steel tough guys like Wu Junhao, they are the economic pillars at home, the heads of the household, and they are also practical people who dare to fight and struggle in the unit. Letting them do some meaningless repetitive labor, or specifically finding work they are not good at, and doing some embroidery and literary things, that is not just uncomfortable, but will also cause them actual difficulties.

Like young people who have bought houses and taken out loans, or those who have raised children, if the family income is suddenly less, the pressure comes immediately.

If you remove the fragmented things like meritorious service and awards, their future in the unit is also worrying.

Among Huang Qiangmin's previous subordinates, Wu Junhao was the most straightforward, the toughest, but also the most fragile.

"Director Chai's eye is quite accurate." Jiang Yuan felt that he should have experience.

Huang Qiangmin took a sip of tea and said, "If you ask me what to do, I actually don't have any good ideas. Reporting to the superiors... is also very difficult. This isn't just Wu Junhao's matter; the entire First Squadron is facing similar difficulties. And, always doing this isn't a way... For now... I'm considering, can we get a case for Wu Junhao and the others?"

"In Captain Wu's name?" Jiang Yuan knew why Huang Qiangmin was so euphemistic, couldn't help but smile, and said, "That's no problem. We also do cases for other places; what does it matter if we do one for Captain Wu? What kind of case?"

"The case must have some influence, and it must be a case that the superior leaders can pay attention to. In addition, the case cannot be too small; it must be of a scale where the entire First Squadron can be dispatched. I will do more work and strive to muddle through this year." Huang Qiangmin pursed his lips. He was prepared for a struggle, but he didn't expect Director Chai's entry point to be the First Squadron.

The First Squadron is indeed Huang Qiangmin's favorite general. When he was in the Criminal Investigation Team, the First Squadron was the backbone team for tackling tough problems, and it indeed played a significant role. In any case, Huang Qiangmin had to take care of their feelings.

Jiang Yuan agreed immediately and said, "I'll look at the cases first, and try to find one with a relatively high certainty."

"En, this point is also very important." Huang Qiangmin was both reassured and worried.

To say he was reassured, he had walked all the way with Jiang Yuan and witnessed too many miracles. But to say he was worried, having been a police officer for so many years, Huang Qiangmin knew that some cases couldn't be solved, it was really just a matter of chance, and others were too complicated.

A typical example is the Kennedy assassination case. The data is enough to pile up a laboratory. What is the conclusion? There are many conclusions, but it is almost impossible to reach a conclusion that convinces everyone. This is a case that is structurally difficult to have a conclusion.

China also has similar ones. The Song Jiaoren assassination case has plenty of evidence, and the murderer was caught, but who the mastermind was, with the murderer being silenced, it was impossible to know.

This is not to say that the assassination cases of political figures are very complicated, it's just that the investigation process and evidence of the assassination cases of political figures are more open and transparent, which can better illustrate the complexity of the case.

In short, any case, regardless of size, wants to be done perfectly, and it is not easy to make people unable to pick out faults. The so-called iron case is either a high-level commendation or an adjective derived from it.

Jiang Yuan sent Huang Qiangmin away, opened the computer, and started searching for cases.

According to Huang Qiangmin's meaning, it should be to find an influential case to hedge against Director Chai's offensive, among which the difficulty of the case is also one of the considerations.

However, Jiang Yuan had a few more thoughts.

After all, the Jiang Yuan that Huang Qiangmin understands might still be the Jiang Yuan from a few months ago, or rather, the awesome skills he can understand are at LV4, at most LV5. But nowadays, Jiang Yuan not only masters several LV6 skills, but he can also temporarily increase these skill levels.

In other words, Jiang Yuan's skill level has actually broken through the ceiling.

From this perspective, he does any case, theoretically, can break through the limitations of the case itself through technical breakthroughs.

Jiang Yuan even has a newly obtained First-Class Merit, and can choose an LV6 skill now.

Jiang Yuan, therefore, can be very picky about cases. ===== CHAPTER 535 =====