"Infighting within the police force-how would that look if word got out? Kunsheng, let the provincial department take over!" Municipal Party Secretary Gu Yuechang said with a frown.
"Isn't it a little inappropriate for the provincial department to keep interfering in our city's cases? I remember the same thing happened during the last drug operation. We'd only just arrested the suspects when their people showed up and insisted on taking over the case without so much as a discussion!" Mayor Guan Tao coldly "reminded" them.
Indeed, the last man who had dared do that was Liu Wenjie, the former secretary of the Provincial Party Committee's Political and Legal Affairs Commission and Public Security Department Director. He was now behind bars.
Huang Lifeng's expression changed immediately. He understood the implication.
Provincial Party Committee Deputy Secretary Luo Peiyuan had just taken a call. After returning, he told Executive Vice Governor Cai Mingsheng, "The secretary's instructions are to escort the people involved and the evidence to the Jincheng Municipal Public Security Bureau pending further action. Everything else can wait until tomorrow. Break this up now!"
Before he had even finished speaking, Vice Governor Cai's phone rang.
The call was from Provincial Governor Wen Lecheng, whose instructions were largely the same as those Luo Peiyuan had relayed.
Cai Mingsheng's heart sank slightly. The governor had compromised!
With the Provincial Party Committee Secretary and the governor reaching an agreement, the standoff that had lasted more than an hour finally ended.
Zhou Yi was not surprised in the least.
As Provincial Party Committee Secretary, Uncle Wei was hardly incapable of bringing the situation under control. Especially now that Liu Wenjie's downfall had shifted the balance within the provincial Standing Committee, Uncle Wei held an even greater advantage in deciding how things would go.
When Zhou Yi