It’s a little after nine in the morning.
Martial law has been imposed near the Shengli District Police Department. A large number of patrol vehicles from the Municipal Police Department, as well as members of the police department's special forces and riot police, have set up checkpoints at various intersections to intercept private vehicles and conduct strict inspections, on the grounds that it is a police anti-terrorism exercise.
At this moment, most of the people in the city have no idea what happened last night. Some are still going to work, and some are still doing business.
On a street on the edge of the Victory District, an SUV and a van were stopped.
In the passenger seat, a well-maintained woman in her forties looked up at the police patrol car on the street ahead and immediately said to her colleague, "We can't get in like this. Once they see the equipment, they will definitely cause trouble."
"What should we do then?" asked the cameraman in the back seat.
The woman thought for a while and said, "Let's leave all the equipment behind. Xiao Wang, Xiao Li, you two, change your clothes with the driver behind us, and we'll go in."
"You're not bringing the broadcasting equipment either?"
"No need to bring any more." The woman waved her hand. "Just bring two mobile phones, charging equipment, and radio equipment, and then notify the station and connect with us via mobile phone later."
"good!"
Five minutes later.
The woman, accompanied by an assistant and a cameraman, walked towards the patrol post at the intersection.
The three men originally thought that they would not be stopped if they walked, but they did not expect that as soon as they approached, they were stopped by two special police officers.
"Come, for a surprise inspection. Open your ID and your bags so I can see them." The SWAT team member said expressionlessly.
"Do we need to conduct spot checks while walking?" the woman asked, pulling out her ID.
"Random inspection." The other party replied: "Open the bag."
The woman hesitated for a moment and opened her handbag. The other party glanced at it and pointed at the radio device and asked, "Why are you carrying this?"
"I teach geography online, and this is the device I use for class." The woman was very adaptable: "Look, I still have this AAP on my phone."
"Okay, let's go." The SWAT team member had no doubts.
The woman secretly breathed a sigh of relief and quickly led her people away from the street.
Another twenty minutes later, the three of them arrived at the Shengli District Police Department, climbed over the wall into the compound, and found Su Tianyu and others.
"Hello, I'm a reporter for the news column of Live News Channel. My name is Xu Yuan." The female reporter extended her hand towards Yu Mingyuan.
"Hello, hello, thank you for your help." Yu Mingyuan responded politely.
"Stop the polite words. We are short on time. Let's start now." Xu Yuan acted decisively and turned around to signal her assistant to connect the phone to start filming.
After the simple equipment was ready, Xu Yuan gave a brief opening speech and began to ask Yu Mingyuan questions: "President Yu, I want to know what the real demands of so many association members for collectively attacking our city's law enforcement units are?"
"First of all, I must clarify that we are not attacking law enforcement units, but are standing on the position of protecting the interests of workers and holding a helpless mass protest. The incident was caused by a mining accident some time ago. My Tongji Club has... So far, the families of our miners who died have not received a penny of compensation, and the labor fees promised to us by Baolong Mining Company have not been fully settled. Under such circumstances, the Shengli District Police Department not only failed to protect the legal rights and interests of the workers, but also arrested a large number of our workers. We wanted to announce the details of the incident through the media before, hoping to get widespread attention from the society, but I don’t know why, at present, on the search engines of various online broadcasting platforms and media platforms, even the word "mine disaster" has become a sensitive word... "
"Okay, I understand what you mean. So, have our workers had a direct conflict with the police officers?"
"That's absolutely not the case." Yu Mingyuan immediately shook his head: "Our association has always been law-abiding and loves our city. I can show you that all the workers are protesting in an orderly manner at the police station and have not done anything radical. You can also go to the main building or other buildings to see that we have not damaged any public facilities here, nor have we hurt a single police officer..."
"Okay, let's go in and take a look."
In this way, Yu Mingyuan led the reporters to the main building, accompanied by Zhou Tonghui, Bai Hongbo and others, while Su Tianyu did not show up. Because he is now a public official, it is really inconvenient for him to show off in such things.
In the main building of the Police Department, although most of the police officers had stopped working, they stayed in their own areas and did not have any quarrels or arguments with the workers. In fact, they did not dare to do so because they were afraid of arousing public anger.
In the corridor of the main building, the workers leaned against the walls, sat on the ground in an orderly manner, and shouted slogans from time to time. At least on the surface, there was no fierce confrontation between the two sides.
…
In the afternoon, around three o'clock.
The online media platform of the Live News Channel was the first to exclusively report on the Shengli District Police Department incident.
In the report, the live news channel concealed the direct conflict between the association and the Police Department, and did not mention that someone from the Baolong Group was beaten to death last night. It only briefly described the cause and process of the protest, and did not exaggerate the incident to a very serious extent.
But this also caused widespread discussion in society, because many people who were just watching the show had no idea that there were actually five or six thousand police officers in the Victory District who were organizing the protest.
Such a big thing, but no news was leaked beforehand, which made many people feel curious and incredible. Some people started to dig deep into the truth, and some even sneaked into the vicinity of the Shengli District Police Station to take photos and videos.
This report from the live news channel is just an offensive signal. They are warning the regulatory committee that the power above Li Mingsheng has begun to fully intervene in this incident.
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Mayor's residence.
After Ouyang Zhen finished the call, he frowned and said to Li Mingsheng, "You don't have to show up. I'll go talk to you."
"Okay." Li Mingsheng slowly stood up and said, "I just have one request."
"You say!" Ouyang Zhen replied.
"Through this incident, I must weaken the absolute power of the Supervisory Committee, otherwise I won't be able to do anything in Longcheng." Li Mingsheng said bluntly: "The Supervisory Committee has a veto power over the appointment of cadres above the level of director in Longcheng. Isn't this nonsense? Their power is too great, it's a bit like they are covering the sky with one hand!"
Ouyang Zhen nodded slowly: "I understand what you mean."
At 7:30 in the evening, Ouyang Zhen arrived at the regulatory meeting, ready to have the first negotiation with Lille.
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at the same time.
Outside the Shengli District Police Department, Su Tianyu was sitting in a car, smoking, when he suddenly saw Kong Zhenghui coming over, opening the door and sitting in the back seat.
"Give me a cigarette." Kong Zhenghui said in a hoarse voice.
Su Tianyu threw the cigarette box over after hearing the sound, and Kong Zhenghui lit it, took a deep breath and said: "... I just received a call, Uncle Jiu's wife is gone."
"ah?!"
Su Tianyu turned his head suddenly: "When did it happen?"