With a single phone call from Miao Mu, three police cruisers outside were ready to go. It was not just because he was now the top man at the Arkham Police Department.
Another reason was that the City Hall money had arrived. Even Miao Mu had not expected Gotham's rotten bureaucratic system to unleash such tremendous power.
He had not even gotten out of bed that morning when people from City Hall had already delivered the funding and replenished supplies.
The funding was meant to recruit more officers. By the old rules, it would have been split seventy-thirty: Chief Wei Fei took seventy percent, Miao Mu got a cut from the remaining thirty, and whatever was left went toward recruitment.
But beneath Miao Mu's genial smile, Chief Wei Fei had taken leave due to health issues. Rumor had it he was moving house.
Miao Mu even arranged for two officers to go help him. The funding was indeed substantial—three hundred and twenty thousand dollars in cash, more than enough to hire people.
But Miao Mu handed the money out...
During the previous Arkham Asylum incident, the Arkham Police Department had lost three officers, while one had been severely injured. Their compensation had yet to arrive.
The families of the dead officers received twenty thousand each to tide them over, while the severely injured officer got ten thousand. The rest of the Arkham officers received a share as well.
Honestly, after that move, Miao Mu had nearly been crowned on the spot. He was capable and willing to spend money—leaders like that were hard to find!
Wei Fei had been completely sidelined. The Arkham Police Department only had around thirty people, and after Miao Mu greased the wheels from top to bottom, if not for his lack of seniority, he could