141: How did you trick the girl into coming here?
Director Zhu also argued that Qiang Teng Group had significant problems, but the City Leaders said that Qiang Teng Group was a major taxpayer and provided many employment opportunities, so its collapse would have a huge impact.
At this point, Gao Dawen paused, thought for a moment, and then said, "Director Zhu secretly told me that Gu Qiang, at the first sign of Gu Teng's trouble, immediately approached several City Leaders.
One was to show his resolve, promising to strictly investigate Gu Teng's cronies within the group and hand them all over to the police.
The other was compensation: to compensate the displaced households of Chengguan Village.
For those like Chen Youhan, whose family members died, he would increase the compensation."
"So, from the City's perspective, this way, a case is solved, criminals are severely punished, and the displaced households also receive compensation, while the impact on the City's economy is not significant."
"So, do you understand?"
Ye Lin's face gradually darkened.
He could understand these principles.
If he hadn't seen the things Gu Teng had done before, he might have tolerated it.
But they had committed murder and arson; they absolutely could not be indulged any longer.
"If the City Leaders don't agree, then we'll go to the Provincial Level.
In short, these rotten fish and shrimp will only ruin Yuezhou; they won't make Yuezhou better and better," Ye Lin said calmly.
Gao Dawen pointed a finger upwards and said self-deprecatingly, "Provincial Level? Do you know anyone at the Department Leaders, or do I?"
"I don't know anyone at the Department Leaders, but I know others." Ye Lin's meaning was that he didn't know anyone at the Police Department, but he knew Secretary Kang, Young Master Kang, and Young Master Fang.
Gao Dawen didn't understand his meaning, thinking he only knew a few ordinary leaders.
"Xiao Ye, since the City Leaders don't want us to investigate, let's wait a bit.
We'll investigate when the time is right.
As for your contributions, the Branch Bureau and the Municipal Bureau will not forget them."
Ye Lin remained silent.
What good were contributions?
If he was provoked, he would investigate to the end.
After leaving Gao Dawen, he called Young Master Kang and Young Master Fang, briefly explaining the situation with Qiang Teng Group.
His meaning was clear: he asked the two of them to move their respective fathers to investigate from the top down, or to put pressure from the bottom up.
Young Master Kang and Young Master Fang both agreed, but the provincial capital was holding a major conference recently, so it would likely take a few more days.
Helpless, Ye Lin could only return to the Criminal Investigation Brigade.
Upon returning to the team, everyone was busy with their own tasks, and he casually greeted them.
Yu Haifeng was organizing documents in his office and was quite surprised to see Ye Lin come in, but seeing his dejected look, he somewhat understood.
"Don't be disheartened.
We finally managed to clean up Gu Teng's underworld gang this time, which is a good thing," Yu Haifeng comforted him.
"Did Qiang Teng Group send them over themselves?" Ye Lin asked.
"Yes." Yu Haifeng's expression was a bit unnatural; after all, he hadn't personally apprehended them, so he felt a bit awkward.
"How many major criminals were interrogated from them?" Ye Lin pressed on.
Yu Haifeng shook his head, "None, actually.
They were all involved in fights and brawls, at most causing injuries."
Ye Lin was silent.
Gu Qiang intended to use these small-time thugs to make up the numbers, showing a good attitude of admitting fault to the City Leaders, or rather, giving everyone a way to save face.
The more Gu Qiang dared not let him investigate, the greater the problems of Qiang Teng Group, and the deeper the investigation needed to go.
Seeing Ye Lin not speaking, Yu Haifeng also felt a bit awkward, unsure how to console him.
This kind of thing is actually experienced by all police officers.
When they just graduated, they were ambitious, wanting to be good police officers who eliminated harm for the people and punished evil.
But the longer they worked, the more they realized how difficult things were.
Some people broke the law but still got away with it, and some people appeared respectable on the surface but were worse than beasts behind their backs.
And you knew it clearly, yet there was nothing you could do.
So, were the original vows still useful, and what was the point of their persistence?
It can be said that every police officer goes through a similar psychological process, a process from self-affirmation to self-negation and then to re-evaluation.
Yu Haifeng thought Ye Lin was in such a process, unaware that Ye Lin was currently thinking about how to bring down Qiang Teng Group.
"Team Leader Yu, what about Gu Teng? Are there no clues at all regarding Gu Teng's murder?" Ye Lin continued to ask.
Yu Haifeng gave a bitter smile, "Lin Zi, what clues could there be? It's all the usual routine.
The one who committed the act was a hooligan who owed a lot of money.
He went in and directly strangled Gu Teng.
Then he insisted it was because he had a grudge against Gu Teng.
How do you expect us to investigate that?"
"Investigate the money.
As long as we find out who gave the money, that's evidence."
"Money is useless; there are too many reasons, and it's not real evidence at all, unless we catch the person who incited him to murder from outside, and they also admit it.
Do you think that's possible?"
Ye Lin knew Yu Haifeng was telling the truth; without evidence, everything was nonsense.
Besides, these small-time thugs take money to do things, and as long as the outside person pays, for the safety of their family, these people generally won't betray their employers.
Basically, unless there's an internal problem with this case, the police can't do anything.
Looking at Ye Lin's gloomy face, Yu Haifeng felt a little uneasy.
Suddenly, he thought of something.
"Uh, Lin Zi, the team just received a report yesterday about a fraud case.
How about you take Xiao Wang to investigate it, just to clear your head?" Yu Haifeng cautiously sought Ye Lin's opinion.
Originally, Ye Lin was supposed to be resting and recuperating, and shouldn't be given tasks, but seeing him like this, if he wasn't given something to do, he might have some extreme behavior again.
So, for Ye Lin's safety, Yu Haifeng decided to give him a case to investigate.
"Huh?" Ye Lin was still thinking about Gu Teng's matter when a fraud case suddenly came up; this change was a bit fast.
"Alright, give me the information, I'll go investigate." Ye Lin readily agreed.
Young Master Kang and Young Master Fang still needed a few days, so he would let Qiang Teng Group jump around a few more days, which would also help them relax their vigilance.
"Xiao Wang, Xiao Qi, come here, and bring the information for that fraud case as well." Yu Haifeng shouted outside.
Soon, Wang Longxin came in with a young female police officer, a naive face that seemed to have not yet experienced the harshness of society, paired with neat short hair, looking full of youthful vigor.
Her appearance was more traditional; she couldn't be described as very beautiful, but her features were well-proportioned.
"Oh, Captain, how did you trick such a young lady into becoming a criminal investigator?" Ye Lin teased.
Generally speaking, criminal investigation is a field for rough men, staying up late, staking out in bushes, smoking.
After two years, their skin would be as dry as old tree bark.
Which young lady could endure that? So, there are usually very few women in criminal investigation.
"Reporting, Senior Apprentice Ye, I came voluntarily!" Qi Shan responded loudly, her temper quite stubborn.
"See? She came voluntarily, I didn't force her, so don't talk nonsense, kid." Yu Haifeng laughed and scolded, "Besides, you haven't even worked for a full year yet, how are you so old-fashioned?"