Chapter 89: Hard Confrontation in the End

  Liu Li's harvest today not only shocked the township government officials, but also startled Party Secretary Gao Qiang and Township Head Pan Yongming. After seeing the scene in front of the police station, Gao Qiang said with a smile: "This Liu is quite bold to dare move against people from Linjiazhuang, and he even succeeded, not bad at all."

  "Yes, indeed it's not simple. I didn't expect the county public security bureau to send a doer like this down here. As the saying goes, 'new official takes office and sets three fires', this is just the first fire, who knows how the next two fires will be set by Director Liu?" Pan Yongming said with a smile.

  "Hehe... let's wait and see, Liu Li's actions today eliminated some hidden dangers for the town. In return, the finance department will send 5,000 yuan as a reward to the police station." With that said, Gao Qiang and Pan Yongming returned to their respective offices.

  Liu Li had seized a large quantity of contraband from Lin's village, which filled seventeen motorized tricycles and seven warehouses. When the last batch of firecrackers was loaded into the warehouse, Liu Li came to Lin Wanlin.

  Looking at Lin Wanlin in front of him with a fake smile, Liu Li took out his own mobile phone, removed the battery and then took out the memory card from his phone: "Thank you for your cooperation, Village Chief Lin. Thanks to your sense of justice, we were able to achieve such good results. Please give this to Deputy Director Lin. Also, I apologize for my previous attitude."

  After taking the memory card from Liu Li's hand, Lin Wanlin broke the memory card into two halves with force: "Liu Shouzhang has a good trick, and I admire him. According to our agreement, I will help you transport those private goods and detain them. You don't need to deal with the personnel who sell private goods."

  That's all for today, to be honest, I've been the village chief of Linjiazhuang for eight years and have never lost face like this before. Director Liu, we'll still have a lot of dealings in the future, haha... Director Liu should be careful, if there's an opportunity to regain my dignity, I won't let it go."

  After finishing speaking, Lin Wanlin got into his Audi car. Looking at the receding figure of Lin Wanlin, Zhang Shi walked to Liu Li's side: "Liu Suo, I heard that you fired a gun in Linjiazhuang today? And also fought with some security guards, why didn't you deal with those people in the end?"

  "Because of those people, we can't investigate for the time being." Liu Li glanced at Zhang Shi and said: "Whether it's those security guards who obstruct justice or those shops that sell private goods, if we really want to investigate, we might end up investigating Deputy Director Lin. Let's not go out of our way to provoke the enemy, lest we get killed with one blow."

  "Alas... what a pity, such a good opportunity, and there's even audio and video recordings. Even Vice Director Lin wouldn't be able to withstand it. Alas... we've let this chance slip by in vain." Zhang Shi said with a regretful expression.

  He looked at Zhang Shi in surprise: "Do you have a grudge against Deputy Director Lin? Why are you so eager to bring him down? Or do you have a grudge against me? Are you dissatisfied that I offended Deputy Director Lin too lightly? Do you want me to have a falling out with him, and then you can take my place?"

  "Hey, hey... My Director Liu, why would you think that? I'm doing this for the sake of our department's future." Zhang Shi hastily explained.

  Seeing Zhang Shi being teased by himself, Liu Li smiled and said: "Alright, I was just joking with you. If I really had a recording, I wouldn't be standing here talking nonsense with Lin Wanlin. The key is that I don't have any recording, I was just scaring Deputy Director Lin."

  "Wow? Scared? High, fierce, you're bold, you dare to deceive people, I admire you." After finishing speaking, Zhang Shi gave a thumbs up to Liu Li.

  In the afternoon, after signing off at the town government office, Liu Li kept all the civilian police in the office and had them wait for a while in the conference room. Liu Li, Zhang Shi, and Lin Wanmu then arrived at the conference room, briefly asked about the progress of Zhang Shi and others, and then Liu Li took out a stack of renminbi.

  Liu Li looked at everyone and asked Zhang Shi: "Director, who was in charge of the financial affairs in our department before?"

  "In terms of finance, it has always been handled by Deputy Director Lin." Zhang Shi replied, thinking to himself: "What does this mean? Is Liu going to strip Deputy Director Lin of his authority over financial management?"

  It's not just Zhang Shi who thinks so, others in the conference room also think so, especially Lin Wanmu, whose face has turned gloomy and is about to drip with water. However, he didn't say a word at this time, lit a cigarette, and started smoking silently.

  "Oh, I see. Deputy Director Lin, here, this is what Song, the director of the town's finance office, just gave me. He said it was a reward from Secretary Gao for our handling of the dangerous explosives today." Liu Li pushed the stack of money in front of Lin Wanmu, who looked surprised but remained silent.

  After pushing the money over, Liu Li seemed to have thought of something. He looked at Lin Wanmu: "Deputy Director Lin, how much money is left in our department now? Is there still any debt outside? It's the end of the year, don't let people come here to chase debts. If we have enough money, let's pay back those debts."

  After hearing this, Lin Wanmu closed his eyes and thought for a moment before responding: "Our studio currently has 16,687 yuan in account funds. Previously, Director Li didn't like to owe debts, so every time we made an expense, it was settled on the spot, and no debt was accumulated. I still have those invoices with signatures from Director Li and the person in charge.

  I recalled that apart from the hospitality fees owed to two restaurants in town, we still have the wages of Xiao Tian and a few others from last month that haven't been paid. The hospitality fees add up to around 1,000 yuan, while the wages of Xiao Tian and the others are 2,500 yuan. Calculating this way, our company still has around 13,000 yuan left.

  "Deputy Director Lin has a good head on his shoulders, all the financial information is remembered so clearly, impressive." After praising Lin Wanmu for a while, Liu Li asked somewhat strangely: "Just now you said that the salaries of Xiao Tian and the others, added together, are only 2,500 yuan, what's going on?"

  "If it's calculated like this, then each of them would only get a salary of 500 yuan per month? What can you do with such little money? It doesn't even meet the minimum living allowance. If word gets out, it'll be a joke. Are there still salaries as low as this?"

  Upon hearing this, Lin Wanmu explained: "It's like this, when the municipal bureau allocates funds for auxiliary police salaries to the county bureau, it is allocated at 1,800 yuan per person per month. Meanwhile, the so-called 'operational expenses' that the county bureau allocates to each police station every month are actually joint defense fees, which is also the salary for auxiliary police."

  Although the municipal bureau allocated a salary of 1,800 yuan, the county bureau's finance department issued joint defense funds to each police station at a rate of 1,000 yuan per person per month.

  Each police station gave these expenses to the auxiliary police when they were issued, in order to leave some expenses for the police station, so each auxiliary police officer was only given a salary of 500 yuan.

  "These wages are indeed a bit low, but fortunately there are some case commissions, otherwise this little money would really not be enough to spend."

  "Damn it... You're even deducting the wages of auxiliary police officers, 500 yuan? If I were to post this salary online, many people would think I'm lying. This amount of money is enough for what? Just barely enough to treat a guest."

  After ranting for a while, Liu Li looked at the five auxiliary police officers in the room and said to Lin Wanmu: "Raise salaries, starting from last month."

  "How much did it rise?" Lin Wanmu asked cautiously.