Chapter Seventy-Four: Competition for Official Posts

  In the office of Captain Cheng Bin, Liu Li walked in with a smile and saw Captain Cheng sitting at his desk. Liu Li's face was filled with smiles as he looked at him: "Captain, I heard that our county bureau's middle-level leaders are starting to make personnel adjustments."

  "There are many vacancies in the department, take a look, as your first love under your hands, taking advantage of this time, won't you also adjust me? My requirements are not high, just give me a section chief position."

  "Haha... You little guy's information is quite timely, the meeting to adjust middle-level leadership positions just ended half an hour ago, and you're already here trying to curry favor with me. Looks like there are moles in our department?"

  After joking about this sentence, thinking of Liu Li's request, Cheng Bin shook his head somewhat helplessly: "Section Chief? You really dare to open your mouth, you are now just a deputy squadron leader, and the rank is four levels away from the section chief.

  "Following the normal promotion procedure, you need to first become a squad leader of a medium-sized team, deputy captain of a large team, and instructor. Only after becoming an instructor for the law enforcement team do you have the qualifications to compete for the head of a certain department. Now you're just messing around, you're several levels away, what's the point of joining in on the commotion?"

  Liu Li had long known that he couldn't compete with the department heads of those departments, so he made this request with the idea of making an outrageous demand and then settling for a lower price, first raising his own requirements and then waiting for Cheng Bin to make a counteroffer.

  So when he heard Cheng Bin finish, he hastily followed up and said: "In that case, I'll follow your idea. I'll be a deputy squadron leader first. Squadron Leader, take a look, which squadron is better for me to serve in?"

  "I was just giving an example, when did I say you can be the team captain?" Cheng Bin saw that Liu Li had misunderstood his meaning and hastily corrected him: "Don't try to deceive me."

  Cheng Bin said to this, looking at the eagerness in Liu Li's eyes, he hesitated for a moment, then somewhat embarrassedly said: "Liu Li, I understand your purpose, to be honest, your achievements last time are enough to make you a squadron leader."

  "Not... Captain, are you implying something? Alright, stop beating around the bush and just say 'but' already." Upon hearing Cheng Bin's words, Liu Li felt a sense of foreboding.

  Seeing Liu Li say that, Cheng Bin felt a bit embarrassed and couldn't help but cough twice: "Cough...cough...but for now, there isn't a suitable position for you. I suggest you continue to hone your skills in our third squad, and when a suitable vacancy arises in the future, I'll help you adjust your position. What do you think?"

  "I don't think it's going well, you'd better adjust my position now, otherwise it will be too late." Liu Li paused for a moment before continuing: "Captain, you wouldn't... want to adjust my position, would you?"

  As soon as Liu Li said this, Cheng Bin couldn't help but feel a bit overwhelmed: "At such a young age, how can you still be an official? I'm not unwilling to adjust your position, it's just that...I have no way to adjust your work now.

  Now our team can spare at most one instructor position, even if someone replaces it, it will be replaced by the deputy captain of our team, and if it goes well, it will be the deputy captain of our criminal police brigade in order.

  If things go wrong, I estimate that the deputy commander of another law enforcement brigade will take over as instructor. I think the latter is very likely, because the county bureau cannot have our brigade continuously appear vacant and then successively fill in, if it really is like this, other law enforcement brigades will have opinions.

  Besides, I don't plan to adjust the personnel of our three teams for now. I know you can crack cases and are meticulous in your thinking. With the merits you've established, you fully qualify for promotion to team leader. However, Team Three was just set up, Liu Wei is a talent I poached, and it's only been two or three months. Replacing him would be somewhat inappropriate.

  And the other two squadron leaders, although they haven't accomplished much in their recent work, have been diligent and hardworking. I couldn't just replace them for no reason. So, my intention is to let you continue to stay in the third squadron for a while, and after a position opens up next year, I'll promote you to squadron leader.

  After leaving Cheng Bin's office, Liu Li's mood was somewhat depressed. Cheng Bin didn't want to adjust his position after all, although Cheng Bin promised with his mouth that he would help him get promoted to squadron leader next year, but Liu Li didn't want to wait for a whole year, who knows what will happen in a year?

  After returning to the team, Wang Mingzhong hastily gathered around and asked Liu Li about the result of going to Cheng Bin's place. When he learned of Cheng Bin's intention, a hint of disappointment also flashed across Wang Mingzhong's face: "I thought that after you vacated the deputy team leader position, I could take advantage of it, but now it seems there's no chance."

  Watching Wang Mingzhong leave with a gloomy face, Liu Li also fell into deep thought. He was considering how to seize the opportunity of this personnel adjustment to get promoted. He didn't know many people in the county bureau leadership, except for Cheng Bin, there were basically no one else.

  Liu Li opened the webpage of the Public Security Bureau's internal network and found the page with the contact information of all formal civilian police officers in the county bureau. Liu Li originally intended to find the contact information and home address of Li Zhan, the commander of the County Special Police Brigade.

  Since the robbery case at the supermarket last time, Li Zhan had privately contacted Liu Li, hoping that Liu Li could go to work in the Special Police Team, but at that time Liu Li did not agree, because the county's special police force was too weak, and nothing serious could be done except for patrol and control.

  But for now, in order to get promoted, Liu Li had no choice but to change his original intention. He wanted to ask Li Zhan what position he would give him. If the position wasn't too low, Liu Li planned to go back to his old line of work and play around in the special police force for a year or so, waiting for an opportunity to transfer later on.

  Just as Liu Li found Li Zhan's number and was about to close the webpage, suddenly a name in the address book caught his eye. Seeing this number, Liu Li's heart moved: "Finding him should be more useful than finding others?"