Inside the Marine Police compound, Su Tianyu looked at the dark-skinned young man and felt that he looked familiar. He stood there and recalled for a moment before he remembered that he had met this man at the interview site of the civil service exam and that the two had exchanged a brief few words at that time.
However, although this dark-skinned young man was in the compound of the Coast Guard at the moment, he was wearing the uniform of an outside staff member, and it was obvious that he had not been officially hired.
Su Tianyu glanced at the other person and didn't think much about it. He just walked into the main building.
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Longkou District, inside the Coders Association.
Gu Baishun was wearing a well-fitting suit, sitting on a chair and wiping his glasses.
At the window, a middle-aged man in his forties, thin and frail, with sharp eyes, thick eyebrows and distinct features, was standing out. He was wearing a cloth Tang suit and cloth shoes, drinking tea and saying, "Zhang Ming didn't come to see you, and neither did the other side. Haha, what are you going to do now?"
The man who spoke was called Guo Zhengdao. He used to have a very good relationship with Gu Baishun's father. Later, he was imprisoned for personal reasons and was only recently released by Gu Baishun. For this, he also showed great respect to Zhang Ming.
"Not only will Zhang Ming not come to me in the short term, but he will also have to ask the General Association to make things difficult for me. This is all expected." Gu Baishun put on his gold-rimmed glasses and responded softly, "Longkou District is making trouble, but he was not informed. He must be unhappy."
"Then the investment you gave him before would have been wasted, wouldn't it?" Guo Zhengdao asked with a smile.
"It's not thrown away in vain. He will take the initiative to develop a relationship with me in the future." Gu Baishun replied indifferently.
"Are you talking about Jing Yan?"
"Jing Yan let Zhang Ming be the puppet president, but he was afraid that if he worked for too long, he would really undermine the association, so he must have wanted to curb Zhang Ming in private." Gu Baishun said softly, "Longkou District is so important, why did he let me do it? And this time we had a fight without saying hello, but Jing Yan didn't say a word to criticize me. Why is that? Haha, I am the only one with a clean background in the association, and if I want to keep my seat, I can only curry favor with him."
Guo Zhengdao nodded with satisfaction: "That's very logical."
Gu Baishun slowly stood up, walked around the room slowly, and suddenly asked: "Uncle Guo, do you think I take myself too seriously?"
"What do you mean?" Guo Zhengdao asked.
"I always feel that the other party will come to me first, because besides Wei Xiangzuo, I am the only one from the Coders Association who is friendly to him." Gu Baishun chuckled and said, "But we helped them so much, but they don't seem to appreciate it and don't take us seriously at all."
"I also think you take yourself too seriously." Guo Zhengdao gave his own advice: "If he comes to you, you have to kneel down; if you come to him, you have to kneel down as well. There is not much difference between inside and outside, what do you think?"
Gu Baishun made a decision after hearing this: "That's right. Dragon City is so big. What am I, a puppet president of a small branch whose family has been destroyed, worth? Forget it. I give in. I'll go find him."
"Go now?" Guo Zhengdao asked.
"Let's do it." Gu Baishun replied with a smile: "I'm going, you wait for the letter at home."
"Okay."
…
Outside the office of the Director of the Coast Guard, Su Tianyu straightened his clothes and knocked on the door.
"Enter!"
A response came from inside the room, and Su Tianyu immediately pushed the door open and saluted, saying, "Director, Coast Guard member Su Tianyu reports to you."
In the spacious office, a middle-aged man in a white uniform stood up immediately after seeing Su Tianyu and said, "Haha, Xiao Su, you are a celebrity in Zhannan District! Come on, come and sit down."
Normally speaking, Su Tianyu had no qualifications to report to the director, because he was at most a new recruit with only the epaulettes of an intern on his shoulders, so it was considered good enough that he could meet and chat with the squadron leader for a few words.
However, Gou Liuzi had accumulated a lot of experience in the past year since he returned to Longcheng. Several life-threatening experiences had made him far more connected to the system than other police officers of the same period, so the treatment he enjoyed was naturally different.
Before Su Tianyu started working, Li Yuan told him that he had already greeted the people from the Zhanan District Maritime Police Department and that he could talk directly to the director when he started working.
This sentence helped Su Tianyu a lot. In addition, Lao Li had also turned around in recent days, so the director was very polite to him.
The director of the Zhanan District Maritime Police Department is Cheng Zhen, who has been working here since he was in his thirties. It was not easy for him to climb up from the grassroots level, and he has a wide network of contacts in this area.
"Director Cheng, there were indeed a lot of things going on at home in the past few days. I had to take leave frequently, which caused you trouble." Su Tianyu said with a smile.
"It's okay, it's okay, sit down." Director Cheng patted Su Tianyu on the shoulder and asked him to sit on the sofa.
"Xiao Su, let's not beat around the bush. Secretary Li called me again and again, and it was all about you." Director Cheng looked at Su Tianyu with a smile and said bluntly, "Now that you have come to the Coast Guard, we are one of us. Do you understand what I mean?"
"Yes, yes. I'll have to thank you, Director Cheng, for taking care of me in the future." Su Tianyu replied and immediately took out a cigarette case: "You want to smoke? Come on, light one."
"No problem." Director Cheng took the cigarette, asked Su Tianyu to light it for him, and took another deep breath: "Xiao Su, I'm going to let you go to Team 1. There are a lot of cases there, and they accumulate quickly. Haha, I know you may not stay here for long, and you will be promoted sooner or later."
"No way, no way...!"
In this way, the two of them sat in the room and chatted. Director Cheng had a cheerful personality and didn't speak too arrogantly. In short, Su Tianyu liked him quite a lot.
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The other end.
In the municipal office building, a young man who temporarily replaced Li Yuan walked into Li Mingsheng's office, bent down and said, "Mayor, there is something strange."
"What's the matter?" Li Mingsheng asked.
"Gu Baishun, the branch president of the Longkou District Coders Association, came to the municipal government and said he wanted to report to... to the office director." The young man said suspiciously, "What kind of work would he, a member of an association, report to the office director? The difference in level is too big."
Li Mingsheng slowly raised his head: "What did Director Liu say?"
"He said I just need to report to you," the young man replied.
"Haha." Li Mingsheng looked at the young man in front of him and asked, "Then do you know what Director Liu means?"
"... I... I don't know." The young man shook his head woodenly.
Li Mingsheng picked up the teacup and said, "Did the people from the Longkou District Association also participate in the protest a few days ago?"
"Yes, I participated." The young man still didn't understand what Li Mingsheng meant.
"Okay, you can go out and let the president wait." Li Mingsheng waved his hand.
“…What about the director?” the young man asked tentatively, because he didn’t know how to respond.
"Alas." Li Mingsheng felt that he was inexplicably tired after Li Yuan was injured. He looked at the young man helplessly and replied: "Then the president didn't come to see the director, don't you understand? He wanted to find me, but he couldn't talk, so Director Liu asked you to report to me."
"Oh, that's it."
"Go ahead." Li Mingsheng waved his hand.
"Okay." The young man turned and left.
Li Mingsheng looked at his back, picked up the phone helplessly, and dialed Lao Liu's number: "You are like this...!"