The entire Yangcheng Public Security Bureau was in an uproar.
On his very first day in office, the new director had paid an undercover visit to the Public Security Management Brigade and taken down Brigade Commander Cheng Shoukui, Political Instructor Ma Yancai, and several deputy brigade commanders in one fell swoop.
Among them, Ma Yancai, Sun Zhenxiang, and the others had violated the Five Prohibitions and were very likely to be dismissed or expelled from the police force.
Cheng Shoukui faced an even worse fate. Suspected of raping a woman, he was already under investigation by the Criminal Investigation Brigade. If the allegations proved true, prison would be inevitable.
Almost all the bureau's Party committee leaders had been there, only for the new director to point in their faces and give them a furious dressing-down. Not one of them, Political Commissar Qiu included, had dared breathe a word.
All right, the story about the bureau leaders getting chewed out might have involved a little artistic license-some embellishment-but it was not far from the truth.
In any case, the new director had come out with all guns blazing, seizing absolute control through sheer force of presence and leaving Qiu Weiping and the others unable to lift their heads.
So, were things about to change at the Yangcheng Public Security Bureau?
"I saw it with my own eyes! Cheng Shoukui tried to attack the director, and then the director went like this-just one move-and Cheng Shoukui went down."
In the Political Work Office, Lu Yao excitedly reenacted the scene for three female officers. "The director even brushed off his sleeve afterward. He looked so cool!"
"And then Qiu Weiping showed up, looking all sour and ready to stand up for Cheng Shoukui. But the director tore into him, and that shut him