Chapter Seventy-Three: Personnel Adjustments

  Tan Rongjie is temporarily detained in a detention center by the criminal police team on suspicion of manslaughter, covering up and concealing criminal facts, forging and destroying the scene, and he will face severe punishment from the law.

  After the case was cracked, Liu Li's reputation rose to another level. Many police officers called him "Liu Fuermos" behind his back. Liu Li expressed great satisfaction with this title.

  In the following days, Liu Li's work was not as busy as before. During this period, he also lived a life of 9 to 5, going to work on time in the morning and returning home at noon, taking Lin Shuangshuang and Tingting out for a walk during weekends when they were off duty.

  Lin Shuangshuang has recently been treating Liu Li differently. As long as Liu Li comes home from work, no matter how busy the hotel is, she will come back to accompany Liu Li and Tingting for dinner. Whenever Liu Li has clothes to change, she will help wash them away. Occasionally, when she meets suitable clothes for Liu Li in the mall, she will also buy them for Liu Li.

  Liu Li also knew how to be romantic, occasionally pulling out a bouquet of roses for Lin Shuangshuang or inviting her to the movies. Sometimes Liu Li would even sit with Lin Shuangshuang in the living room and watch sentimental TV dramas. People who didn't know the truth thought they were a family.

  Liu Li has recently been focusing on researching his supernatural powers, as he had nothing better to do. Since the last time he used his powers to control the hijacker's body, Liu Li has become more enthusiastic about it and whenever he has some free time, he would sneak away to study his new powers.

  Through research, Liu Li gained a preliminary understanding of his second ability, which was called Shadow Control Body.

  This ability requires two prerequisites to be activated, that is, it must have enough physical tissue fragments and also require a large amount of blood. According to Liu Li's initial estimate, the blood required to activate this ability is about ten times that of using consciousness to attach to a shadow.

  When the number of target body fragments and Liu Li's blood volume meet the standards, as long as Liu Li concentrates his spiritual power, he can control the target's body for three seconds through his heterozygous ability, making the target stand still or act according to Liu Li's will.

  At present, Liu Li is pondering whether the time for controlling the target of heterodyne can be increased. On this day, Liu Li was standing behind the office building of his unit, staring intently at a stray dog. At that moment, the stray dog was staring tightly at a piece of meat on the ground, wanting to eat it, but its body kept retreating backwards.

  After three seconds, the stray dog seemed to vibrate slightly, then it looked at Liu Li with a frightened face, hesitated for a moment, and took a swift step to pick up the meat on the ground, and then jumped out of the fence.

  Seeing the stray dog disappear into thin air, Liu Li felt a bit disheartened and shook his head: "Alas... it's still not working, the time is still three seconds, not even a little longer. What's going on? Could it be that my method is wrong?"

  "Deputy captain... deputy captain... where are you?" At this time, Wang Mingzhong's voice came from the front of the office building. Hearing that Wang Mingzhong was looking for him, Liu Li temporarily put aside the matter of his special ability and turned to walk towards the front.

  Coming before Wang Mingzhong, Liu Li casually said: "What's wrong? You're in such a hurry to find me, is there another case in the jurisdiction?"

  After hearing this, Wang Ming said mysteriously: "It's not a case that has occurred, but important intelligence. Just now, my colleague at the bureau told me that our county bureau's middle-level leadership personnel adjustment has begun. Deputy Captain, you'd better hurry up and find out, or else those positions will be taken by others."

  "Where did you hear this news from? Mid-level leadership personnel adjustments? Don't personnel adjustments usually start after the new year? There's still more than a month before the Spring Festival, how can they be doing personnel adjustments now?" Liu Li was somewhat puzzled.

  Those who were adjusted after the year are all leadership-level officials, such as the first and second-in-command of each county, city, and district, or the first and second-in-command of various departments and bureaus. They have been transferred to new positions after the Spring Festival, while before that, middle-level leaders in various departments and bureaus had already started to be adjusted, not just our public security bureau, but also other departments' middle-level leadership began to adjust their division of labor.

  It's a common practice for many leaders to settle their old subordinates before taking office, or when new leaders are about to take office, in order to make work easier after taking office, these leaders will replace the heads of certain departments with their own people.

  As the saying goes, "one day as a king, one day as a minister", these personnel adjustments in middle-level departments can often reflect the dynamics of the top leaders. Who gets promoted and who gets demoted can reveal the behind-the-scenes dynamics of this leader's actions."

  According to my colleague, this time, four fat vacancies have been vacated in our bureau at once: the head of the Household Registration Department, the head of the Equipment Department, the director of the Command Center, and the instructor of the National Protection Brigade.

  The people in charge of these departments before were all appointed by the political commissar, but now they have all been reassigned, which means that the political commissar will step down after the new year, otherwise these good positions would not be vacated.

  "Now, the head of the Public Security Bureau, Director Dong, and our own Criminal Police Corps' Director Cheng, are both vying for these positions. It's not just them, several other bureau leaders have also set their sights on these lucrative spots. Now it's a matter of who has the most ability." Wang Mingzhong explained.

  As soon as he heard this, Liu Li suddenly gained spirit: "Really? That's great, I'll hurry to go to Cheng Daqiang's place and make a round."

  But Liu Li had only taken two steps when his brow furrowed again: "However, these positions seem not to be suitable for me? I'm not confident in competing for them. The worst one here is the instructor of the National Security Brigade, but my current position is still three levels away from that."

  "Hey... Deputy Captain, who told you to fight for those positions? Didn't I just say that those spots are being eyed by others?" Seeing Liu Li's confusion, Wang Mingzhong explained:

  According to rumors, those four people are now competing with each other. Chen Minke, the instructor of the Public Security Brigade, and Wang Li, the instructor of our Criminal Police Brigade, are both competing for the position of Head of Equipment Division.

  The deputy director of the Legal System Department and the deputy commander of the Economic Investigation Brigade are competing for the position of Director of the Household Registration Department. The deputy directors of the Letters and Visits Department and the Political Work Department are competing for the position of Director of the Command Center. As for those police station chiefs below, except for the Urban District Branch and the Economic Development Zone Police Station, all the others are competing for the position of Instructor of the National Security Brigade.

  In the end, no matter which of the four fat positions falls to whom, as long as someone has competed for it, four new positions will be vacated. Those positions are at the level of deputy department head or police station director. Your current position is also having some difficulty competing for these positions.

  However, the four vacant deputy department head positions will be taken over by some deputy directors of cold door departments, and leaders such as vice captains and squadron leaders of powerful law enforcement brigades. With your current position and previous accumulated merits, it is still possible to compete with those deputy directors and vice captains, and at least you can be promoted to a squadron leader.

  "It makes sense, no matter how big or small the official is, as long as they can be promoted, promotion is progress. I'm really going to get promoted now, Mingzhong, this deputy commander position of our third team, I'll give it to you." After finishing speaking, Liu Li hastily went to find Cheng Bin.