South to North: A Prison Guard at the Beginning

Chapter 293 Return to Beijing to report on work

"Okay, Old Yuan, I won't be polite then!" Zhao Jianjun laughed.

"Sit down quickly!"

The question of address is also quite particular. Zhao Jianjun is in his forties. It is definitely inappropriate for Yuan Mu to call him Jianjun. Calling him Director Zhao seems too unorthodox, so he just calls him Lao Zhao.

As the name Yuan Mu consists of two characters, Zhao Jianjun could not call Yuan Mu "Xiao Mu" as that would seem too disrespectful. Their relationship had not reached that stage yet, and calling him by his full name was not appropriate. In the end, he could only use the middle name and call the 30-year-old Yuan Mu "Lao Yuan".

Yuan Mu still remembers a favor to Zhao Jianjun. After all, when he reported for duty, he directly called Captain Jiang of the Criminal Police Team to help him and raised his status in Captain Jiang's team.

"Oh, Old Yuan, I am really filled with emotion. I remember that it was seven or eight years ago, when you were still a prison guard. You were transferred from the First Prison in Harbin to our railway. It has only been a few years. In just five years, you have become my leader now!" Zhao Jianjun sighed while smoking a cigarette.

"Hey! I'm just lucky. It doesn't matter whether I'm a leader or not. We have always been friends, right?" Yuan Mu exhaled a puff of smoke and waved his hand with a smile.

"Yes! We are friends!" Zhao Jianjun smiled and raised his glass to clink with Yuan Mu.

After the two chatted about what happened in the past for a while, Zhao Jianjun started to get to the point. After all, he knew that Yuan Mu must have something to ask him, because in previous years they would only get together during the Chinese New Year, and this year it was obviously not the right time yet.

"Old Yuan, do you have something to talk to me about this time?"

"There is indeed something going on. I want to transfer a few people away!" Yuan Mu nodded without any intention of beating around the bush.

In fact, according to Yuan Mu's identity, it would be no problem for him to transfer a few people. He said hello to Zhao Jianjun entirely because of Zhao Jianjun. After all, the two of them had a friendship. Personnel matters were under his jurisdiction. It would be somewhat disrespectful to Zhao Jianjun if he transferred people without saying hello. It would be fine if he didn't know them, but the key was that he knew them.

"Oh, is it Ma Kui?" Zhao Jianjun was not surprised. He knew that Yuan Mu and Ma Kui had a special relationship. Now that Yuan Mu was up, he would definitely take care of Ma Kui.

"Yes, there is Lao Ma, one from the Criminal Police Team, and two from the Public Security Branch. I want to transfer four people in total."

"Four people?" Zhao Jianjun was a little surprised. He didn't expect Yuan Mu to transfer so many people at once.

"Want to be transferred to a place?"

"Yes, Tiexi Public Security Bureau."

"Okay, no problem. I'll release him directly when the time comes." Zhao Jianjun agreed without hesitation.

This was not something he could stop. The fact that Yuan Mu gave him face by inviting him to dinner and talking about this matter to his face proved that Yuan Mu still thought highly of him and he had to give him face.

"Haha, Lao Zhao, thank you then." Yuan Mu raised the wine glass with a smile.

"No, you're welcome." Zhao Jianjun waved his hand and picked up the wine glass.

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In early January, Yuan Mu led the team back to Beijing to report on their work. As for Wei Huaran and others, they had to wait a little longer. Li Hongjun was finally sentenced to prison, but the death penalty was not carried out. Instead, he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

Yuan Mu knew that Tian Hongyi had saved Li Hongjun's life in the end. Perhaps after the storm had passed, Li Hongjun's sentence would be reduced, but that was not something he needed to worry about.

After returning to Kyoto, Yuan Mu found something wrong. Kyoto was extremely quiet. Patrolling police could be seen everywhere on the streets, and soldiers could be seen from time to time. Not to mention fighting, you couldn't even see anyone spitting. It showed how severe the crackdown was this time.

Arriving at the Ministry of Public Security, Yuan Mu reported to Liu Yaoguo on the work situation during this period. It had been several months since Yuan Mu led his team away from Beijing. Although he had reporting materials, he still needed to report in person.

Liu Yaoguo affirmed Yuan Mu's work, and he certainly deserved some credit for his contribution, but a promotion was out of the question. After all, he had just been promoted for less than half a year. He estimated that the next promotion would be in two years.

However, although Yuan Mu did not get promoted, Liu Jun did. He was originally treated as a deputy section-level official, and he also made contributions in this operation, so he was naturally promoted to a section-level cadre. This is normal and has nothing to do with his father being the executive director of the Ministry of Public Security. Even if it does, it is not a big deal.

Liu Jun was a college graduate. College graduates are already deputy section chiefs right out of school. With his accumulated merits, he was promoted to section chief and no one could say anything about it.

After coming out of Liu Yaoguo's place and just sitting in the office, Wang Rou knocked on the door and walked into the room with a few sets of clothes in her hands.

Yuan Mu reacted instantly. This was a new police uniform. It was now 1984 and the police uniforms had been updated. The previous blue-green Type 72 police uniform had been replaced with the current military green Type 83 police uniform.

The Type 83 police uniform was indeed the first batch of uniforms for Kyoto police. Others had already changed into it, and Yuan Mu had just returned and the uniforms were delivered to him.

"Director Yuan, this is your new police uniform, please change into it." Wang Rou said with a smile.

"Okay, thank you. Just put it on the table." Yuan Mu nodded with a smile.

After Wang Rou left, Yuan Mu took out his police uniform, took off his Type 72 police uniform, put on this Type 83 police uniform, and stood in front of the mirror.

The Type 83 police uniform is army green in color, with a red collar badge and the words "POLICE" in Chinese and "Public Security" in English on the armband. There is also a hat, which is different from the previous ones. This time it is a wide-brimmed hat, also commonly known as a big hat, matched with pants of the same color and a pair of black leather shoes.

You know what, this outfit is pretty good. Yuan Mu stood in front of the mirror and nodded with satisfaction. The Type 72 police uniform is actually not bad, but this one is better than the Type 72. However, he still likes the later Type 99 police uniform the most, maybe it's because of habit.

After get off work, Yuan Mu came to his father-in-law's house. Zhou Xiaobai and the children lived here while he was away from home.

"Son! Eldest son!" Yuan Mu shouted with a smile on his face as he entered the room.

"Xiao Mu!" Zhou Xiaobai hurried out with a look of surprise on his face when he heard Yuan Mu's voice.

"Xiaobai!" Yuan Mu was also surprised to see Zhou Xiaobai. He opened his arms and hugged her in his arms.

At this time, Tang Zhenghua also came out smiling, holding a child.

"Xiao Mu is back!"

"Mom!" Yuan Mu let Zhou Xiaobai go and said with a smile.

"Look, Daddy is back." Tang Zhenghua lowered his head and smiled, raised his child's little hand and pointed at Yuan Mu.

"Son! Come here, let daddy hug you!" Yuan Mu laughed and walked over with his hands stretched out.

"Wow!" The child obviously didn't know Yuan Mu, and burst into tears when he saw him coming over.