"...Good morning, listeners. Here are today's headlines. In breaking news, last night, imperial detective Count Li Wei, the Thistle Knight, led a raid on Casablanca and captured the imperial underworld bosses gathered there in a single sweep. According to intelligence, these crime bosses had come from across the country to attend a summit of the Empire's underworld leaders..."
Early the next morning, news from Casablanca quickly spread throughout the Empire, becoming everyone's favorite topic of conversation.
Unlike in modern society, gangs in this era were intimately connected to ordinary people's lives. Naturally, that was hardly a good thing. Theft and robbery were the crimes ordinary people encountered most often, while small merchants and street vendors feared gangs coming to collect protection money most of all.
Li Wei's operation had dealt a severe blow to the gangs' arrogance. In many places, they no longer even dared to run wild as they once had.
Still, everyone found this news tremendously entertaining.
The funniest part was that the crime bosses of the entire Empire had gathered together, only to be caught red-handed. Wherever the story was told, people found it laughable.
Naturally, the people of Casablanca weren't laughing.
Meanwhile, Li Wei took the opportunity to announce that the special operation was entering its second phase.
The local crime bosses had all been arrested. What next?
Kick them while they were down, of course!
The second phase would therefore focus on cracking down hard on criminal organizations in each region!
Not only that, specific procedures were announced: reports would be filed outside the region, and investigations would be conducted by police from elsewhere!
Local criminal organizations were often inseparable from local politicians. Reporting them locally was no different from not reporting them at all. Reporting them elsewhere was another matter. Local police might find