Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 973 - 644: Inviting the Wolf Into the House (Part 3)
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Just as Xiao Chen and Xiao Gong were "returning home in glory," Secretary Wang, a senior expert of the Linghai Reserve Camp, was in the cockpit of Linggang Tuo 001, holding a walkie-talkie and arguing with the person in charge of Zhang Port Tug 007 and the transport fleet.
"Who told you to hang that banner? Why didn't you hang the one I gave you? Do you have any organizational discipline?"
"Secretary Wang, this is our Zhangjia Port tugboat. What does it matter to you if I hang our Zhangjia Port banner?"
"You are now part of our Linghai Reserve Camp. You must obey orders and follow commands."
"Who among us is part of your Linghai? We have nothing to do with your Linghai! It was Director Liu from the Port Supervision Department, through our Port Authority leaders, who asked us to help push your fleet. It's already good enough that we didn't charge you for the tugboat fee. On what grounds are you directing us?"
"That's right, Secretary Wang. No matter how high your position is, you can't manage us. We have nothing to do with you!"
"But you are now part of our Linghai Reserve Camp's water transport team! Reserve Forces are still military forces; don't you dare disobey orders, or believe me, I'll discipline you!"
"What do you mean by your Linghai transport team? We're not any reserve. As I said, we have nothing to do with you. If you don't believe me, you can call Director Huang of the Changhang Bureau for confirmation."
This group from Dacang, Shuzhou, Zhangjia Port, and Jiangyin is rebelling!
They were quite obedient before, following orders during navigation.
But as soon as they entered Hanwu Waters, they unanimously displayed their own banners.
If it were just about the number of banners and slogans, or even the size of the fonts, they wouldn't surpass Linghai, but they are more famous than Linghai.
Like "Zhangjia Port, a National Sanitary City, is united with the Beihu people" and "When one region is in trouble, support comes from all directions. Jiangyin, China, supports Beihu in flood relief," and "Huaxi Village of Jiangyin, Huaxi Village of China."
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People on the shore all know Zhangjia Port, they all know Huaxi Village, and many people know of Shuzhou, ranked fourth among China's top ten Wealth Counties, but they've never heard of Linghai; now everyone's looking at them.
Secretary Wang didn't expect to bring a bunch of "ungrateful wolves." At this point, engaging in a "war of words" was useless, so he simply put down the walkie-talkie, picked up the intercom on the control panel, and signaled Captain Wu to turn on the loudspeaker on Linggang Tuo 001:
"Greetings to the comrades on the dam, you've worked hard! The Linghai people salute you. When one region is in trouble, support comes from all directions. We are here to support you. Together, we will unite as one to fight against the flood..."
The people on the dam were looking at each other, wondering where Linghai was, as they'd never heard of it.
Some were thinking it didn't matter where Linghai was; what mattered was that they came to help, using their fleet to transport supplies for assistance.
People should be grateful, so unit leaders in charge of each section of the dam immediately waved their hands to signal appreciation to the fleet.
Secretary Wang thought that shouting seemed to have some effect, but behind him, Zhang Port Tug 007 and Dacang Tug 012 also started shouting. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
It's just a loudspeaker, and every tugboat has one.
The pilot on Jiang Port Tug was the worst, blatantly taking credit, announcing with rhythm: "Brothers on the dam, we know you urgently need rescue supplies, and we've sent you five thousand wooden piles, and four thousand tons of stone…"
Even though it was rather far from the shore, it was faintly audible that the cadres and masses guarding the dam were cheering.
Secretary Wang was so angry he was fuming, secretly cursing these Jiangnan bastards as shameless. The rescue supplies were delivered by them, not bought with their money, so why should they play the hero?
But it was too late to say anything now, after all, they came together, and infighting in front of so many outsiders would be a joke. He could only secretly decide that once they reached Jingzhou, he'd have Old Ge quickly organize to unload the rescue supplies and then send them packing as soon as possible.
The reserve soldiers from Cosco and the Changhang system in the fleet were laughing so hard they had tears coming out of their eyes as they listened to them shouting into the loudspeaker.
On this issue, Chen Zikun maintained neutrality.
Seeing Principal Zhuo happily ask if Zhangjia Port also came to aid, he could only smile and evasively say, "According to the banners, they seem to have come."
"Zhangjia Port's economy is doing well, it's famous nationwide."
"Principal, Jiangyin is doing better than Zhangjia Port. Jiangyin ranks first among the top 100 counties in the country!"
"Huaxi Village is part of Jiangyin. Last year, my dad's company organized a visit to Huaxi Village for learning."
"Shuzhou is doing well too. I heard there's a clothing wholesale market in Shuzhou, and many clothes sold here are wholesaled from Shuzhou."
Unlike Chen Zikun, Xiao Gong feels a sense of belonging to Linghai. Seeing the principal, teachers, and trainees arguing, he thought to himself that if Secretary Wang heard this, he'd probably get high blood pressure…
