With a child now, Wang Yan spent more of his time at home.
Everyone was already familiar with the workflow anyway. If they could not handle something, they only needed to come find Director Wang at once. So he only went in for half a day each morning, returning home at noon to look after the child and comfort Shulan.
While he was caring for the baby, the entire Patrol Directorate, now operating at full speed, fearlessly accomplished the great feat of sweeping away Bianjing's mid-level criminal gangs under Patrol Commissioner Wang's wise and mighty leadership.
The criminal gangs within the city then led them to the downstream criminal industry chain, which in turn uncovered a case of military equipment being sold off illegally, along with property dealings, human trafficking, and other businesses. Most of them were various intermediary operations in Bianjing. Over the past two months, Wang Yan had essentially broken up the human-trafficking trade.
Nor did he limit himself to the city. Wang Yan's principle was to widen the scope of the crackdown—anything even remotely involved would be stripped to the bone. Across Kaifeng Prefecture's seventeen counties, countless major Jingji households, local officials, and local criminal gangs had been implicated.
After all, no matter how many criminal gangs there were in the city, they were ultimately only a minority. In a metropolis of a million people, having around ten thousand professional criminals dedicated to illegal activity was about right. Add another ten or twenty thousand petty thugs, and that would still fit the social structure. Any more, and the people of Bianjing could not bear the burden.
The criminal gangs within Jingcheng were easy to crack down on, and none were particularly tough nuts. Following Patrol Commissioner Wang's orders—arrest swiftly, interrogate swiftly, sentence harshly—the people in the yamen