South to North: A Prison Guard at the Beginning

Chapter 295 New Year's Eve of 84

In fact, in terms of background, I can't compare with these people. Except for Yuan Mu, everyone else present here has a good family background. Maybe Sha Ruijin is not as good as them, but he is also a martyr's family member and was later adopted by an old revolutionary.

But Yuan Mu doesn't like Sha Ruijin very much. Take Chen Yanshi for example. Chen Yanshi can be said to be the first person to adopt Sha Ruijin, but he seems to have never contacted the other party since he left Chen Yanshi.

Until Sha Ruijin was in his sixties in recent years, he had no contact with Chen Yanshi. When he became the provincial party secretary of Dong Province, he did not visit Chen Yanshi immediately. Chen Yanshi did not even have his mobile phone number.

What does this mean? It means that Sha Ruijin didn't take Chen Yanshi seriously at all. It's also because Chen Yanshi's political resources are limited. If Chen Yanshi wanted to have real power in Kyoto, wouldn't Sha Ruijin have to run to him every few days?

It can be said that Sha Ruijin has no conscience at all. He actually ignored the people who adopted him. If Chen Yanshi hadn't mentioned it himself, he would have forgotten about Chen Yanshi long ago, right?

But this has nothing to do with him. Today he is mainly here to expand his network. His main purpose is to establish good relationships with these second generations. If he only relies on the Zhou family, he will not be able to reach a high position. He also needs other external forces to help him reach a higher position.

After all, many things are not decided by one family. Take the Ningyang incident this time for example. Zhou Zhennan must have reached some kind of tacit understanding with the old man of the Tian family before he called to stop him. That's the reason.

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In the blink of an eye, it is the New Year again. Today is February 1, 1984, which is also the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, New Year's Eve.

The large three-story courtyard of Yuan Mu's house was decorated with lights and was filled with joy. Thanks to the crackdown, the streets and alleys were peaceful and no one dared to cause trouble, because they would really arrest you.

The severe crackdown began in August and has been going on for nearly half a year. A total of more than 200,000 criminal offenders have been arrested across the country, of which several thousand or nearly 10,000 have been executed by firing squad.

However, Yuan Mu knew clearly that most of those taken down were small-time hooligans and low-level gangsters, and not many of the masterminds hiding behind the scenes had been caught. Of course, this was in line with the purpose of this severe crackdown, and there was no explicit intention to target the protectors.

Although many people have been arrested and sentenced, he estimates that once this crackdown is over, there will soon be a rebound, the crime rate is not expected to drop much, and it is likely to breed more evil forces.

But these are not his concern. He is just a small director. A cadre of his level can knock down a bunch of people with one brick in Kyoto.

After this year's New Year, he officially entered his thirties. Looking back, he has been in this world for nine years.

From a small prison guard at the beginning to a railway criminal police, then a deputy captain and later a captain, then he took the university entrance examination and joined the Ministry of Public Security as a deputy director, and now he is the director of the Third Division of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. In nine years, he has become a director-level cadre, which is quite successful.

According to the normal promotion time, it takes two years from deputy section chief to section chief, three years from section chief to deputy director, and two years from deputy director to director, which adds up to seven years.

But that’s not counting the time when there were no levels. It took some time for you to go from a clerk to a deputy clerk. It would be okay if you were a college student, but college students were very rare in that era.

If you don't have a high level of education and want to become an associate professor, it is really difficult, unless you have made great achievements, like Yuan Mu.

Therefore, it is impossible for a person to go from having no rank to becoming a director-level cadre without more than ten years. This is under the condition that everything goes well. If not, then he will just be a clerk for the rest of his life.

Anyway, Yuan Mu is quite satisfied now. If everything goes well next year, he will be able to officially cross the threshold of department and bureau level, and the future will be bright for him.

Of course, it is not easy to get promoted again. After all, he is in Kyoto and has limited opportunities to make achievements. If there is a chance, he still wants to go somewhere else, that is his own stage.

My current position in the Ministry of Public Security is the director of the Third Investigation Division of the Criminal Investigation Bureau. The previous director was promoted. After all, it would not be appropriate to be placed in the same position with my current rank.

In the evening, in Zhou's living room.

"Haha! Xiaohao! Come, come to grandpa!" Zhou Zhennan laughed and stretched out his hands to Yuan Zhihao in Tang Zhenghua's arms.

"Ah! Ah!" Yuan Zhihao stretched out his chubby little hands and shouted with a smile on his face.

"Haha!" The whole family laughed at how cute the child was.

"This little brat is only cute at this moment, but he will be so naughty tonight!" Yuan Mu looked at the child and shook his head.

"Tsk! What are you talking about! Maybe you weren't as troublesome as him when you were a kid!" Zhou Zhennan glared at him.

"That's right, why do you always say this about our Xiaohao!" Tang Zhenghua also looked dissatisfied.

"See! You were allowed to speak, and now you've offended everyone!" Zhou Xiaobai gloated from the side.

"Okay! I was wrong, okay?" Yuan Mu had no choice but to raise his hands in surrender.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the TV was turned on and ZY TV was broadcasting the Spring Festival Gala.

In fact, the Spring Festival Gala is a new trend. It just started last year, but it originated in 1979. At that time, it was still a makeshift troupe. But it has been doing better since this year.

Looking at the familiar faces on TV, Yuan Mu felt very emotional. At that time, Ma Ji, Jiang Kun, Zhao Zhongxiang, Li Guyi and others were still very young, not as old as he saw them in later years.

Moreover, the Spring Festival Gala nowadays is purely for fun. They can do whatever is funny. Of course, it still cannot involve politics. This is a hard and fast rule.

Looking at Zhou Zhennan, Tang Zhenghua and Zhou Xiaobai who were all laughing so hard that they couldn't stop smiling, this atmosphere was indeed quite good.

However, Zhou Xiaobai did not leave after finishing the viewing, because the boy was sleepy and Zhou Xiaobai wanted to coax him to sleep. Yuan Mu also went back to his room after viewing for a while. He would not go home today and would stay here directly.

Normally, there is such a thing as staying up all night to celebrate the New Year, but they don’t care about that. Just sleep when you are sleepy. Yuan Mu is really sleepy. He has been tormented enough by the brat these days. He must have a good sleep today.

But things did not always go as planned. In the middle of the night, the little boy woke up again. He got up and saw that he had peed. So he changed his diaper, held him in his arms and coaxed him to the ground. It took more than half an hour before he fell asleep again.

He just lay down and slept for a while, hey! He woke up again. He was convinced. Can't he have some sleep quality and sleep till dawn?