Since the goal was achieved and none of Curly and the others escaped, Wen Liang would certainly not go to the police station. This matter was suspicious, and with his cautiousness, showing up in the bookstore was already the limit.
In fact, there were a large group of people including Shui Ge, who had been warned by Wen Liang. They could kill Juanmao and others with just a spit, not to mention the beautiful young woman who was bullied by Juanmao in the bookstore. It didn't matter whether Wen Liang went or not. Public Security Liu was upset and didn't know how the matter would end. Seeing that Wen Liang insisted on not going, he thought that he was afraid now, so he shook his head and stopped forcing him, and took Juanmao and others back to the police station.
When Curly walked out of the store, he turned his head and glanced at Wen Liang with a sinister look. Wen Liang smiled slightly, not taking it seriously at all, picked up a beautifully printed and flawless copy of "China Can Say No" from the ground, and gently brushed off the dust.
"Let's go, I'll take you to Qinghe!"
The taxi stopped downstairs of the Times Building. Wen Liang did not get out of the car and said, "I remembered that I have other things to do, so I won't go up."
Ning Xiaoning didn't ask him what he wanted. When getting off the bus, she pointed at the book next to Wen Liang's seat and said, "Can you give me this book?"
"This one is dirty. I'll buy you a new one tomorrow, okay?"
Ning Xiaoning nodded, closed the door, and watched the taxi turn around and drive back in the direction it came from. Just as she was about to turn around and go upstairs, her cheeks suddenly felt cold. She looked up and saw countless snowflakes falling from the sky, turning Qingzhou into a silvery white!
The third snow of this winter came a little later than last year, but it still came, didn’t it
Ning Xiaoning spread out her palms and watched the snowflakes gradually pile up. Her pretty face showed a happy smile like a little girl.
This smile is so charming!
After receiving Wen Liang's call, Liu Tianlai immediately asked Jianshe Road Police Station to transfer Juanmao and others to Huayuan Branch. The first interrogation ended in failure as expected. Juanmao and others were very tough and had rich experience in anti-criminal investigation. Whether it was intimidation or alienation, they remained silent and sneered in response with an extremely arrogant attitude.
Wen Liang had expected this. If this approach didn't work, he would find another one. Since Juanmao had gone to the bookstore to cause trouble, the person in charge of the bookstore must know the reason. However, he didn't expect that he couldn't contact the manager of Xinhua Bookstore through several channels. Even the other employees of the bookstore didn't know where he had gone. Finally, a woman claiming to be a family member called and said that Lao Yan was on a business trip and would not be back for a week - Lao Yan was the manager Yan Fuqiu who had never shown up.
In a teahouse not far from the branch, Wen Liang held up a purple clay teapot and poured Liu Tianlai a cup of Tieguanyin tea, saying, "Old Yan may have escaped. Although we don't know what happened, it's definitely not a small matter. Director Liu, maybe we have caught a big fish this time!"
Liu Tianlai took the cup and took a sip, taking this opportunity to think carefully about how to reply. He didn't know that Fan Bo went to Beijing to open a company, and he didn't know that the most popular book now was related to Wen Liang. So he was full of questions. He didn't understand why Wen Liang wanted to intervene in such a trivial matter, but it was inconvenient to ask. After pondering for a while, he said: "Young Master Wen, how about something ruthless? I don't believe that a group of small hooligans can have much power!"
When it comes to methods of bullying people, the Public Security Bureau is second to none, but the problem is that Curly gives Wen Liang the impression that he is a bit tough, and maybe there are some very powerful people backing him up, so it is better to avoid inflicting these physical pains, in case someone catches him and it would be a waste of time!
"No hurry, wait a little longer..."
Wen Liang lowered his head and sipped the Tieguanyin tea. To be honest, he didn't like this kind of tea very much. The fragrance was too strong and the aftertaste was too sweet, which washed away all the bitterness of the tea leaves. Tasting tea is like tasting life, with only sweetness and no astringency. That kind of life is not only boring, but also fake!
The two sat quietly for a few minutes, and Wen Liang's cell phone rang. His expression did not change after he answered the call, but a light seemed to light up in his eyes, like the moonlight that parted the dark clouds, not urgent or intense, but shining for thousands of miles.
"The book is indeed a pirated copy!"
Liu Tianlai didn't understand such a meaningless sentence, so Wen Liang explained, "This matter may seem complicated, but it's actually very simple. Xinhua Bookstore somehow stockpiled a large amount of 'China Can Say No' and may have done a lot of publicity in the early stage, so a large group of people came to buy it today, and Juanmao and his gang also deliberately chose this day to cause trouble so that your book can't be sold."
Liu Tianlai has been in the police force for so many years that he is very familiar with the ways of doing things of the young men. He said, "If they are just making trouble, they won't even resort to using batons. They won't even back down even if the police come forward..."
Wen Liang smiled and said, "So making trouble is one thing, and the second is to warn!"
"warn?"
"If it was a business transaction, Yan Fuqiu is at least a member of the system, so he wouldn't be scared by Juanmao and others and not dare to show up. I guess he must have done something illegal and fled in a hurry for fear of being exposed."
Liu Tianlai slapped his thigh and said, "Pirated?"
Wen Liang thought of the book he picked up from the bookstore. The packaging, printing, paper texture and feel were almost the same as the original. If he hadn't sent it to the Beijing University Press's agent in Qingzhou for identification, he would not have been able to tell the difference.
"Yes, it is pirated," Wen Liang looked into the distance with a half-smile, and said, "But piracy is not a big deal in China. Director Liu, how large-scale piracy must it be to scare Yan Fuqiu, a dignified general manager, into becoming a coward?"
Liu Tianlai's eyes lit up, but then dimmed in an instant. He hesitated and said, "Young Master Wen, the crackdown on piracy is usually a unified action by the Anti-pornography and Anti-illegal Publications Office. At the very least, it is the Industry and Commerce and Cultural Departments that are in charge. The police are more of an assistant. If we really want to follow the clues, the initiative is not in our hands."
The domestic intellectual property protection policy has always been a joke. There are many factors involved, including the need to develop the economy and local protection, the lack of attention and the influence of long-term public habits, and the contradiction between huge profits and disproportionate risks. Not to mention 1996, even in the new century, it is often a case of much ado about nothing, no results, and only slogans.
So Wen Liang understood Liu Tianlai's concerns. Apart from the campaign-style anti-pornography and anti-illegal publications a few times a year, the general cultural and industrial and commercial departments only conducted symbolic investigations when they needed to make money. The police had too many places to make money and looked down on this small business. Liu Tianlai was not afraid of arresting people, but was afraid of failing to do so and delaying Wen Liang's business.
Wen Liang smiled and said, "You are right. This matter will drag a few more people into it."
After receiving the report from Wen Huaiming, Xu Fuyan immediately instructed the city's propaganda, industry and commerce, culture, press and publishing departments to launch a joint law enforcement operation. The Municipal Public Security Bureau dispatched police forces to cooperate. Based on the clues currently at hand, with Xinhua Bookstore and Juanmao as the entry points, they conducted in-depth investigations, not only to swat flies but also to hit tigers, striving to make a sound, to achieve scale, and to achieve results!
Although Wen Huaiming had partially processed and exaggerated the store smashing incident that happened in the Garden District today according to Wen Liang's wishes, he had to remind Xu Fuyan from his position: "Will this cause too much noise..."
"They smashed the Xinhua Bookstore in front of hundreds of people and forced a government official to flee. What else can they not do? They are simply lawless! They have no regard for discipline! Let Liu Tianlai investigate without hesitation. I want to see if there is anyone else in Qingzhou who is so brave!"
Xu Fuyan's anger was not actually caused by a few hooligans causing trouble, but because he knew very well that in order to deepen the reform in Qingzhou, one must first have the right time, secondly, have the right place, and thirdly, have the hearts of the people. The domestic climate was his right time, and Qingzhou, which had just experienced an earthquake in the officialdom, was naturally his place. Only the will of the people was an opportunity that could not be sought after. So when he heard about the arrogance and domineering of Juanmao and others, and the weakness of the grassroots police, how could he not think about how the onlookers would view the municipal party committee and government, and how would they view him, the former secretary who had just stepped to the front
If catching a few pirates can help establish a clean image for individuals and the government, the harm is small and the benefit is great, so why not do it
But he didn't expect that it was easy to swat a fly, but it was easy for the tiger to counterattack when hitting it!
It took only three or four hours from the time when Curly and his men smashed the store to the time when the city organized a joint action. The neighbors on the street were still excitedly talking about the wonderful performance that took place in the morning, but they saw more than a dozen cars with logos of various departments roaring over and surrounding the Xinhua Bookstore. The sounds of opening and closing doors revealed an unspeakable restlessness, and the dust raised by the running footsteps made many merchants and pedestrians dumbfounded.
Something big happened!
In less than half an hour, all the books in the Xinhua Bookstore were confiscated, and "China Can Say No" was given special attention. All of them were packed into separate boxes and loaded into a truck. The bookstore's deputy manager, accountant, purchasing staff and other relevant personnel were taken back to the Municipal Economic Investigation Brigade for questioning.
At 7 pm, Wan Guangming, the deputy manager who was under great psychological pressure, confessed. The police then found a large number of beautifully printed pirated copies of "China Can Say No" in the warehouse of a factory in Shinan District. The initial estimate was close to 300,000 copies, which was the largest number of pirated copies of a single book in Qingzhou's "anti-illegal" campaign over the years. (This is a true story. At that time, many Xinhua bookstores sold pirated copies because they were out of stock. In Changsha alone, hundreds of thousands of pirated copies were found.)
It was also through Wan Guangming that Wen Liang finally understood the cause and effect of this incident. Xinhua Bookstore has been selling pirated books for a long time. This time, starting from the press conference of "China Can Say No" in the Great Hall of the People, it has shown its kingly power in the publishing industry in 1996. Whether it is the president of Peking University who wrote the preface and strongly promoted it, or the concentrated coverage of dozens of media magazines across the country, until the central media such as Youth Daily and Liberation Daily joined the new round of propaganda, it was so powerful that there was almost no one else who could compare with it in the first ten years and the next ten years.
Therefore, anyone with a bit of vision knows that this is not only a feast of culture and the industry, but also a feast of piracy! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets on Qidian. Your support is my greatest motivation.) (To be continued)