Binjiang Police Affa Chapter 779 - 528: Exhausting Efforts Part 2

Chapter 779: Chapter 528: Exhausting Efforts Part 2

"My spouse is from Binjiang, and given the many years I’ve served as a soldier there, I’d feel out of place if I returned. I have several brothers and sisters, and my parents don’t really rely on ; they also support my decision to stay in Binjiang."

"So that ans you’re now looking for a job."

"Does the Water Police Station need people?"

"I really don’t know about that; to be honest, the Water Police Station isn’t really a great place for you guys."

"The Port Supervision Bureau is good, but can I even get in? The developnt zone is also nice, with such high wages, but it’s not like I can go there just because I want to!"

For the past few years, college graduates were no longer assigned jobs directly but subjected to a "Mutual selection" system.

Simply put, you contact the employer and if they want you, you get hired. Now even the "Mutual selection" is gone; starting this year, you have to take the civil service exam.

At first, nobody took it seriously, thinking that they couldn’t rely solely on exams.

But then, Si Gang Police Station launched a ’satellite’. They organized policen on contract without permanent positions and auxiliary police with the required educational background to take the exam, and sohow every one of the twenty-sothing individuals passed!

Linghai Police Bureau, due to the lack of any previous preparations, didn’t have a single person pass; in fact, they didn’t even organize their unestablished staff to take the exam. Missing the opportunity to resolve the staffing issue, Director Zhou and Political Commissioner Sun regretted it deeply when they later heard that so many from Si Gang Police Station had passed, to the point of banging on the table.

Military transfer officials don’t need to worry about not having a job. For soone like Li Jun, whose spouse is in Binjiang, the military transfer office will certainly arrange for work, but it’s uncertain which unit he will end up in.

Nowadays, many enterprises are not performing well, and being placed in one of those nearly defunct businesses, or sowhere far from the city center, would be dreadful.

Thus, military transfer officials like him also need to ’find a job’ in advance.

So military units, considering the second career of officers, are very humane. They allow them to stop working a year before their transfer to ’look for a job’ at ho.

Han Yu racked his brains and said, "You guys deal with Customs every day; you could ask if they need people."

"We interact with Customs daily at our unit, but landing a transfer there would be too good to be true for soone like ."

Li Jun glanced back and whispered, "You know our Vice Political Commissioner Qian. He wanted to move to Customs before, happy to be just an ordinary Customs Officer. He pulled strings for two years but couldn’t make it happen, and eventually had to go back to his hotown."

Han Yu asked subconsciously, "What is Vice Political Commissioner Qian doing now?"

"He’s working as a Vice Chairman at the county’s federation of trade unions."

"A Vice Chairman of the county-level federation of trade unions?"

"He was granted a deputy director-level position, and is supposed to receive a Deputy Researcher’s salary, but his hotown is a national-level poverty-stricken county, so how good can the salary be?"

In recent years, following several rounds of major military downsizing, local governnts have accommodated a large number of military transfer officials.

In the past few years, local party and governnt departnts have been trying to address the issue of bloated institutions and staffing surplus, making the placent of military transfer officials even less optimistic.

Han Yu knew that Li Jun definitely wouldn’t share these concerns with him unless it was absolutely necessary. Looking up, he said, "I’ll ask Director Wang later for you."

"Thanks for that."

"What thanks? What’s our relationship?"

Han Yu smiled, then lifted a portable gaphone and shouted to those below: "Don’t eat the shells scraped from the bottom of the boat, as this ship entered the Yangtze River half a month ago. Sea shells die once out of water, and you shouldn’t take dead things!"

Li Jun, leaning on the mooring post, looked down and noticed that the dozens of workers gathered from the river embanknt this morning were enthusiastically stuffing various shells scraped from the bottom of the boat into their bags, clearly planning to take this seafood ho to cook.

Hearing Han Yu’s shout, they all looked up.

"Don’t bother looking, I’m talking about you guys!"

After ensuring the safety officer had arrived, Han Yu emphasized with the gaphone: "These barnacles and shells attached to the bottom affect the vessel’s navigation. To prevent attachnt, the paint on the bottom is toxic. Even if the barnacles and shells aren’t dead, they’re toxic from being on the poisonous paint and still can’t be eaten!"

The safety officer, who hadn’t expected such a close call, hurried the workers, who had received no prior training, to dump the shells into small carts and quickly have soone cart them away.

...

Sanhe is renovating the river embanknt, and Bailong Port is doing the sa.

The project is massive, and there are not enough officers.

Director Ge has a new job assignnt: to assist Four Factory Town in overseeing the embanknt repairs near Bailong Port.

He spent the morning bustling around the construction site and returned to the dormitory for lunch. As he walked in, he smiled and asked, "Gui Feng, fish for lunch again today!"

"I’ve been raising it for nearly half a month. If we don’t eat it, it will die. Old Qian was worried I might forget, so he called to remind

just now."

With Old Qian around, there’s no worry about lacking fish.

Old Qian has been away to Hanwu for seven or eight days, and the fish he caught before he left are still not finished.

River delicacies are delicious but can’t be eaten every day. Old Ge finally understood why Salted Fish and Xiao Yu didn’t like to eat fish. Turning on the faucet, he washed his hands and asked curiously, "Has Yu Zhen given birth?"

"Yes, she has. She gave birth to a chubby little boy."

Sister Wei brought the dishes to the table and sighed lightly, "Yu Zhen really suffered this ti. She was admitted to the hospital last night, and the doctors suggested natural birth would be best. She was in pain all night, and in the morning, the doctors decided on a cesarean section. She ca out of the operating room at nine-thirty."

Old Ge sat down and said, "It’s better to have a cesarean section as long as both mother and child are safe."

"That’s true."

"Do Salted Fish and Ningning know?"

"I had Zikun call Ningning. Salted Fish is busy at the shipyard and his phone might be out of battery; I couldn’t get through just now."

"Don’t bother calling. For such a big event, Ningning will definitely tell him." Old Ge picked up his chopsticks and began to eat, bringing up the serious business, "Gui Feng, Zhou Huixin is having surgery the day after tomorrow, and she returned from Binjiang this morning."

Sister Wei was taken aback and asked, "Why did he co back instead of recuperating properly in the hospital?"

"To attend the Party Committee eting to adjust personnel."

"Who got adjusted?"

"Quite a few people were moved around, mainly reassigning police who had been in remote towns for a few years to the city. Not many promotions. You know the situation at the Police Bureau: too many people, too few positions, they can only shuffling people around like a chess ga."

Taking a keen interest in the Police Bureau as a forr police officer’s wife, Sister Wei pressed on, "Who was promoted?"

"Xu Mingyuan was promoted. He was called back to the bureau to beco the head of the Criminal Investigation Team. Shi Shengyong was also promoted, now serving as a mber of the Police Bureau Party Committee, Vice Director, and Director of the Developnt Zone Branch. Fang Zhiqiang was transferred to San Zao Port Police Station as Deputy Director."

"It’s normal for Shi Shengyong to be promoted; with his credentials, he should have beco a vice director a long ti ago. But if he’s also acting as the Director of the Developnt Zone Branch, what will happen to Salted Fish?"

"This morning, the Developnt Zone also held a eting. Salted Fish is now the Secretary of the Developnt Zone Political and Legal Committee and the Military Minister."

Sister Wei couldn’t believe her ears and exclaid, "Salted Fish is not doing police work anymore?"

"He still is. The Linghai Police can only remove him from his role as branch director but he remains a committee mber of the Binjiang Municipal Public Security Bureau Water Police Branch, and the mbers of the Water Police Branch committee must be public security police."

"But if he’s removed from Linghai Police, he is no longer a public security officer!"

"He hasn’t left the Police Bureau. It’s like a temporary transfer; he retains his status as a police officer, and his work affiliation remains with the Police Bureau."

"Can a police officer be the Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee and the Military Minister?"

"What’s wrong with that? Public security police are definitely civil servants, but not all civil servants are public security officers. He is firstly an official and then a police officer. This arrangent is quite good; the city leaders and Zhou Huixin have gone to great lengths for him."

"His position as director has been revoked, and it’s still good?"

"It’s not what you think – the city leaders and Zhou Huixin are indeed considering Salted Fish."

"What’s really going on?" Sister Wei asked eagerly.

Old Ge took a sip of soup and patiently explained, "Zhou Huixin has been diagnosed with cancer, and although it shouldn’t be life-threatening, he definitely won’t be able to return as director after being discharged. If a new director is appointed and they don’t understand Salted Fish, it could beco very troubleso."

"What kind of trouble?"

"His role as branch director is in na only; he doesn’t usually handle the affairs of the branch. To others, it may seem like he’s holding a position without fulfilling it, and in fact, there are already quite a few old police officers who have opinions about it. With Zhou Huixin around, those who are jealous of Salted Fish can only grumble behind his back. If the director changes, it’s hard to say whether they’ll have preconceived notions."

Salted Fish joined the workforce quite early, and he hasn’t been in for a short period, but he is ultimately too young. The Police Bureau is an institution that values seniority, and being promoted to a deputy director in his twenties and becoming a branch director would indeed make many people jealous.

Sister Wei didn’t know what to say, but Old Ge continued, "If he hadn’t been transferred to the Changhang Bureau back then, no matter how many accomplishnts Salted Fish had or how many tis he was comnded, he would never have been promoted to deputy director as he is now within the Linghai Police. The thought of being a director would have been inconceivable."