Chapter 17: Liu's Big Trouble

  Guo Yang's case has passed for two days. During this time, Liu Li was busy investigating small workshops in the jurisdiction. When Zhang Liang handed over the registration book of all small workshops and private enterprises with incomplete procedures in the jurisdiction to Liu Li, Liu Li excitedly announced: "Brothers, I'll take you to make money later."

  After hearing Liu Li's words, Zhang Liang and others were somewhat puzzled: "Liu Ge, what do you mean? Where are we going to get the money?"

  "Go to those small workshops and private enterprises with incomplete procedures to get money." After finishing, Liu Li pointed at the registration book: "Little Zhang, mark out the private enterprises with the hardest relationship and deepest background for me. I have to start with them first."

  Upon hearing this, Zhang Liang hesitated and said: "Liu Ge, is it okay to do it like this? The small workshops in our village are all clustered together, no matter what happens they always discuss collectively. Unless you can handle them all, otherwise if one of them doesn't listen, the rest of the small workshop owners will follow and make trouble."

  "So I asked you, among those people, who has the biggest background. We just need to take down the privately run enterprise with the hardest relationship, and the rest of the small workshops will all be honest. This is called 'shaking the mountain to shock the tiger'." Liu Li said confidently.

  After Zhang Liang and others finished speaking, their emotions still seemed not too high. Liu Li had to tempt them by saying: "Anyone who participates in the action will have a commission reward. This time, 20% of the fine obtained from the action will be taken out as a commission. If something happens, I'll take it on myself."

  Liu Li had just finished speaking when he saw Zhang Liang and several others disappear from view. A few seconds later, Zhang Liang drove up in a police van: "Brother, we're all set."

  Only to see Zhang Liang driving a police car, Li Cheng holding camera equipment, and Zhao Ming holding the data of those small workshops. At this moment, the three were looking at Liu Li with serious faces. Seeing this situation, Liu Li couldn't help but give them a thumbs up: "You guys are so efficient!"

  After getting on the car, Liu Li looked at the materials handed over by Zhao Ming: "Damn... is this a mistake? Why is the company with the hardest relationship and the deepest background recorded on this thing just a scrap collection station?"

  "Absolutely no mistake, Liu Ge, this scrap collection station named 'Chuan Cheng' is not ordinary. The boss of this scrap collection station is called Tian Liangzong, 62 years old, and has been in the waste management industry for over 30 years."

  Tian Liangzong not only buys some waste products, but also other items such as medical equipment, cables, copper wires and discarded vehicles. These things are not dared to be collected by other collection stations, but Tian Liangzong dares to collect them. Therefore, people from several surrounding towns and even counties come here to sell goods." Zhao Ming explained.

  "These seem to be prohibited items for collection. Medical devices can only be destroyed and not allowed to be collected, let alone cables and copper wires. No one would sell these as waste except for stolen cables and copper wires."

  As for the abandoned vehicles, except for the traffic management department and specialized scrapped vehicle dismantling units, no collective or individual is allowed to purchase them. The boss of this scrap collection station has a big nerve." Liu Li muttered to himself.

  "It's indeed not a small guts, but who let him have someone above? " Zhao Ming mysteriously told Liu Li: "Liu Ge, you don't know, Tian Liangzong's son is our bureau's financial department's Deputy Director Tian Jie."

  Due to the face of Deputy Director Tian, several directors and instructors were too embarrassed to deal with the inheritance of waste products purchasing station. It was also for this reason that the business of the Tian family became bigger and bigger, not only did they purchase those abandoned vehicles, but even hired people to dismantle these vehicles.

  "Is that so? Then what is Tian Liangzong's character like?" Liu Li asked.

  When he heard this, Li Cheng beside him interjected: "This Tian Liangzong is crazy, I went to the waste recycling station with Deputy Director Tian to respond to an alarm, someone reported that there was a fight inside the station, but when we arrived, that damn Tian Liangzong actually blocked us at the door and wouldn't let us in.

  After Du arrived in person, Tian Liangzong was willing to open the door and let us in, but by then there was no scene left. Since the case occurred at Tian Liangzong's waste recycling station, Deputy Director Tian summoned Tian Liangzong to go to the police station to explain the situation, but Tian Liangzong didn't even bother to reason with him.

  Deputy Director Tian was furious, but wanted to go to the Transmission Waste Purchasing Station to forcibly summon Tian Liangzong. However, at that time, the county finance department froze our department's funds. After that, Deputy Director Tian let Director Du go to the bureau to collect the funds, and it is unclear what happened. When Director Du returned, he smashed a water cup and then did not allow Deputy Director Tian to handle the Transmission Waste Purchasing Station matter anymore.

  Liu Li nodded thoughtfully, then pointed to the registration book and said, "Let's go, we'll check out this inheritance junk collection station today. I want to meet that Tian Liangzong."

  The vehicle drove for over twenty minutes, passing through a bumpy road, and stopped at the entrance of a village called Tianzhuang. Then Li Cheng told Liu Li that the waste recycling station was located at the entrance of this village. After getting off the bus, Liu Li and others walked towards the village.

  After turning a corner, Liu Li was startled by the scene in front of him. Behind the gate stood an over 80-meter-long brick wall, with piles of waste as high as mountains inside. Dozens of workers were sorting and processing the waste.

  Outside the gate, dozens of new and old vehicles were piled up, including cars, trucks, vans, three-wheeled motorcycles, and medium-sized buses. At this time, more than 20 workers, wearing sunglasses and holding gas cutters, opened the gas cylinders and dismantled those vehicles in pairs.

  After seeing Liu Li and others, these workers just took a glance and then continued to work with their heads down, completely ignoring Liu Li and others. Perhaps they didn't even put Liu Li and others in their eyes.

  Take the expressions of these workers in mind, Liu Li looked at Zhang Liang beside him: "Let them all stop working, then ask those people for the procedures of these vehicles, and bring over the qualification certificates of the personnel engaged in gas cutting work. See if they have training qualification certificates issued by the fire department?"

  Upon hearing Liu Li's order, Zhang Liang immediately walked forward and ordered the workers to stop their work. However, after Zhang Liang shouted a few times, the workers just sneered at him with a smile and continued working with their heads down.

  With a gloomy face, Zhang Liang returned to Liu Li's side, his expression somewhat indignant: "These workers have been with Tian Liangzong for too long and have also contracted Tian Liangzong's bad habits, they actually don't even acknowledge me."

  After hearing this, Liu Li instructed Li Cheng again: "You go inside and find Tian Liangzong, let Tian Liangzong bring out the business license of this waste collection station to meet."

  Li Cheng heard the order and quickly ran to the waste collection station, more than ten minutes later, Li Cheng ran back with a furious face: "Liu Ge, I told Tian Liangzong what you said, but he actually drove me out."

  He said there was something that made us go to the county bureau to find Deputy Director Tian, saying not to affect the normal operation of the enterprise here. I asked him to come out and meet you, but Tian Liangzong said he had no time to come out, saying if you have anything, let you go in and meet with him.

  "A small upstart, really thinks he's a big shot, Deputy Director Tian? Who does he think he is? You all take a step back." After finishing speaking, Liu Li glanced at the several idle gas cylinders in the corner of the wall opposite him, then, under the astonished gaze of Zhang Liang and the three others, as well as the workers opposite them, pulled out his own gun.

  He released the safety catch on his pistol, Liu Li held the gun with one hand, aimed at the gas tank, and pulled the trigger. First, a "bang" sound of gunfire came out, followed by a loud "boom" from the direction of the corner of the courtyard wall.