Binjiang Police Affairs
Chapter 178 - 143 Who is the Hero

Chapter 178: Chapter 143 Who is the Hero

Director Feng went to bed late last night and was planning to sleep in today since it was his day off. However, contrary to his wishes, he was deep asleep when his spouse woke him up.

"What’s wrong? What happened?"

"We’re in the People’s Daily, take a look, front page of the second section!"

Director Feng took the newspaper, feeling something different from the usual, rubbed his eyes and asked, "Where did you get this newspaper from?"

His spouse replied eagerly, "Director Liu brought it over. Hurry up, Director Liu is waiting for you outside."

"Old Liu is here?"

"Director Feng, as soon as I saw the newspaper, I came straight here." Director Liu stood in the living room, covering the phone and shouting, "I’m on the phone with Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen said that the Central People’s Broadcasting Station is also broadcasting it!"

"What are they broadcasting, what’s so urgent?"

"It’s the issue on the river, the illegal fishing of eel fry."

Director Liu knew the director was not fully awake yet, thought about it, and emphasized again, "The People’s Daily has changed its layout, today is the first day of the new layout, and Binjiang made it to the top headline of the second page."

Director Feng suddenly remembered Reporter Wang he had seen at the dock last night; he couldn’t believe his draft got picked up by the People’s Daily and made it to the front of the second section.

Opening the newspaper, he was struck to see it was true.

The big headline was "Yangtze River Lower Eels Plundered," and the subtitle was more conservative, stating, "Hundreds of boats over-fishing madly, Binjiang City striving to rectify."

As for the content, it was quite conservative on how many boats and people were illegally fishing eel fry on the river, possibly because the People’s Daily editors were unclear about the situation and didn’t dare to publish Reporter Wang’s original draft. However, the issues pointed out were very sharp.

What shocked Director Feng even more was that under the news, there were interviews with people responsible from the Agricultural Department, conducted over the phone by reporters from the People’s Daily during the night.

There were statements from Deputy Directors of the Fisheries Administration Bureau, Chiefs of the Fisheries Administration, Directors of the Aquatic Bureau, and more...

"Director Feng, do you want to turn on the radio to listen to the broadcast?"

"Turn it on."

"Okay."

"...Due to the warmer climate this year, the migration of eel fry in the Yangtze River happened earlier. Under the manipulation of smugglers in places like East Guang and Jianfu, a single eel fry, the size of a needle, was bought for more than three yuan. Driven by intense greed, criminals from Zhehai, Hui’an, and other river-adjacent areas in Jiangnan took risks, setting up camps on the wide river surface, and fished day and night excessively!"

"What’s especially severe is, under the cover of local protectionism, numerous inexperienced farmers along the river, without any licenses or safety measures, piloting various boats, joined this industry."

"Some township enterprises disregarded normal operations, hiring staff to buy fishing nets, and systematically engaged in the fishing and smuggling of eel fry. A stone processing factory in Wujie Town, Binjiang County rented thirteen transport boats from Qiu Huo County in Hui’an at a high price, with factory leaders personally boarding the ships to direct them and organized specialized teams to deal in fry."

"Because some grassroots officials from a few counties and cities along the river lead the fishing and smuggling of eel fry, it brings great difficulties to the suppression efforts..."

The content from the radio mirrored the People’s Daily’s top headline on the second page, signed by the same reporter Wang Xiangguang.

The only difference was the telephone interviews with the related officials from the Agricultural Department; this was played in original voices, not by an announcer reading a script.

Director Feng did not expect Reporter Wang to be heard so high up; he quickly got dressed and entered the living room, took the toothbrush with toothpaste from his spouse’s hand, turned on the tap, and with a bitter smile said, "Municipal leaders must feel aggrieved, among the many prefecture-level cities along the river, why only focus on Binjiang."

The Binjiang waters were just like Shuzhou and Zhangjia Port waters in Guzhou, and Dacang Waters.

Mentioning only Jiangbei without including Jiangnan indeed seemed a bit unfairly biased.

Moreover, the over-fishing of eel fry wasn’t limited to this section, stretching upstream to two prefecture-level cities and downstream towards the East Sea.

Director Liu from the Port Supervision Bureau could not miss the underlying tone of the director, scratching his head, saying, "It’s because of so many municipalities along the river, Binjiang District is right by the river, and also because we are here, but more because Binjiang has a Wang Xiangguang."

"You go back first, municipal leaders will probably call us soon, I’ll wash up and head to the office."

"Alright, I’ll leave then."

"Wait."

"Director Feng, anything else?"

"Any news from Jin Weiguo?"

"There is, the operation was very successful, they controlled eight fishing boats and more than forty thugs; Jin Weiguo climbed aboard and found they had damaged thirteen sets of navigational aids, disassembling the zinc-sky batteries and navigational lights to use for night fishing illumination."

This joint law enforcement operation was so timely; both the Port Supervision Bureau and the municipality needed this victory.

Director Feng pondered a bit, turned around and said, "Contact Jin Weiguo, let him know about Wang Xiangguang’s news making it to the People’s Daily."

"No need to inform further, they already know."

"How do they know?"

"The broadcasting station tried to reach Wang Xiangguang but couldn’t, knowing that he was following our joint law enforcement, they tracked down our Traffic Control Center and used our radio to notify Wang Xiangguang immediately."

"Have Xu Sanye and Jin Weiguo returned?"

"They’ve returned, they are rushing back now."

"Ask them to enter the Binjiang Port Waters and properly clean up the eel fishing boats there."

"Yes."

...

Meanwhile, the crowd who just listened to the news from the Central People’s Broadcasting Station cheered.

Xu Sanye was the first to climb aboard the fishing boat, Scholar Yu tried to control a criminal who attempted to resist and got hit by a bamboo pole, swelling his jaw.

Han Yu was young, but undertook significant tasks. Decisively, he piloted the controlled fishing boat to cooperate with the security team and intercepted the fleeing fishing boats.