86: Where did Yuan get the information?

Liang Yuzhu felt a bit emotional.

She really hadn't expected that by simply participating in a meeting and casually sending a picture, she would end up feeling like she was just occupying a position without contributing.

Besides this feeling of frustration, another doubt lingered in Liang Yuzhu's mind.

How did this Yuan get this picture?

And what exactly did he know?

"Alright!" A voice interrupted Liang Yuzhu's self-doubt. It was Director Zhang speaking.

He was now full of energy and glanced at Liang Yuzhu: "Captain Liang, this intelligence is very important, well done!"

"Uh..." Liang Yuzhu felt her face burning. She wanted to say something, but just shook her head slightly.

Director Zhang had no time to focus on Liang Yuzhu's complex emotions at the moment. After praising Liang Yuzhu, his gaze swept over everyone.

"Regardless of where this intelligence came from, at least now we have a direction for investigation!"

"Now, I will assign the next tasks."

"Old Li," He looked at Deputy Bureau Chief Li, "After the meeting, you will personally go to the hospital to guard Qing Niao. After she wakes up, confirm the origin of this lighter!"

"Yes, Director!" Deputy Bureau Chief Li nodded meticulously.

Qing Niao's identity was classified. Although she was originally a member of the Criminal Investigation Corps and many people knew her, her undercover mission was unknown to anyone outside of those present, including Qing Niao's family.

The official reason given externally was that Qing Niao was on a business trip, which was also for Qing Niao's safety.

Therefore, after she was hospitalized, only one of the people present could have contact with her, which was unavoidable.

"Section Chief Xie," He continued calling out names, "You will take your colleagues from the Commercial Section to investigate the business transactions between Kelly Investment and Chuangtong Logistics to see if you can find any clues."

"Be careful," He instructed, "Try to find a good reason and avoid alerting the enemy."

"Understood, Director." Section Chief Xie replied knowingly.

"As for Director Li and your team, can you organize the customs declaration documents of Chuangtong Logistics at Baoshan Port in the near future?"

Director Zhang looked at Director Li questioningly. Director Li was not his subordinate but from a cooperating unit, and their ranks were the same, so he could only adopt a consultative tone.

However, they were all professionals working towards the same goal, and Director Li understood Director Zhang's meaning.

Previously, everyone's attention was focused on Sihai Shipping, without paying much attention to Chuangtong Logistics, which resulted in a severe lack of specific information about Chuangtong Logistics.

Overseas logistics is an extremely complex industry. An average ocean-going cargo ship can carry over ten thousand containers. If inspected manually, just looking through these ten thousand containers would take more than a day.

Furthermore, Baoshan Port is the main ocean import and export port for the local area and several surrounding provinces, with an annual throughput of over forty million standard containers. If calculated at an average of ten thousand containers per ship, there are at least ten large ocean-going cargo ships loading and unloading at Baoshan Port every day.

With such a large workload, it's impossible to meticulously inspect every container, so customs generally conducts random inspections of these import and export goods.

This gives many smuggling criminals an opportunity. However, customs and anti-smuggling police are helpless; they simply don't have the manpower and resources to conduct a full inspection of such a massive throughput.

Moreover, even if they had the manpower and resources, it would severely disrupt the normal operation of the docks and consequently affect the interests of legitimate enterprises.

The same applies to customs declaration documents. For companies like Chuangtong Logistics involved in overseas logistics, a large portion of the goods are shipped by private small entrepreneurs overseas, and these goods are consolidated, resulting in numerous and complex customs documents.

For such customs documents, customs usually only perform a rough check before clearance. This is basically the standard practice for customs worldwide, with the focus on inspection primarily on incoming goods.

Director Zhang's intention was for the anti-smuggling department and customs to jointly sort through Chuangtong Logistics' import and export documents. This was the quickest way to quickly grasp information such as Chuangtong Logistics' transportation channels and destinations.

However, even the quickest method is only relative to monitoring ship by ship. After all, with so many documents, wanting to sort out a result in a short time, let alone find any clues within them, is definitely not a simple matter. It is even more complex than the most headache-inducing task of auditing accounts.

"Okay." Director Li also knew that everyone's understanding of Chuangtong Logistics was severely lacking at the moment, and he nodded.

"Xiao Liang," Director Zhang finished his instructions and looked kindly at Liang Yuzhu, "Your task is very simple."

"Contact your friend again and see if she has any other intelligence or any overlooked details." He looked at Liang Yuzhu with approval.

Liang Yuzhu was promoted by him personally. To be honest, when he promoted Liang Yuzhu before, quite a few people had reservations.

After all, Liang Yuzhu was too young, and she was also a young and beautiful girl, which was very different from the image of a criminal investigation Captain that people were used to.

This wasn't judging by appearance. A key requirement for a criminal investigation Captain is having a wide range of intelligence sources, which takes many years of deep work at the grassroots level to establish.

However, in Director Zhang's view, one-fifth of the twenty-first century had already passed, and high-IQ crimes had become the norm. Even car thieves now didn't carry lock-picking tools but directly used high-tech electronic keys.

Still thinking in the old way, positioning the main source of intelligence among petty criminals and lowlifes, was clearly outdated thinking. To always have the last laugh in the battle of wits with criminals, one must keep pace with the times and be familiar with new-era information transmission channels such as the internet.

Liang Yuzhu's performance made him very satisfied. Intelligence that so many departments couldn't uncover was casually produced by Liang Yuzhu, and it was so crucial and directly hit the mark. This itself proved her advanced nature in intelligence channels.

"What was your friend's name again? You or something?" He asked awkwardly.

"Yuan, Director." Liang Yuzhu said numbly. She didn't point out that the Director not only misremembered the name but also misremembered that the other party was not her friend.

But she was already too lazy to explain.

"Right, it's Yuan. You should interact with the other party more, not just to get more intelligence, but also to learn his techniques and methods for getting intelligence," Director Zhang continued.

"Yes." Even though she was numb, Liang Yuzhu still felt a bit broken.

He wants me to learn techniques from someone who is sneaky, spies, sells intelligence, and extorts money?

Just occupying a position without contributing, Liang Yuzhu!

However, since the Director had assigned the task, there was nothing she could do.

And she was indeed a little curious, where exactly did this Yuan get this intelligence?

...

Su Yue didn't know that the beautiful police officer he had met once before had started doubting her life because of his picture.

For him, today was just an ordinary day.

Early in the morning, Su Yue got up. His holiday ended yesterday, and he had to go back to work today.

The weather was a bit cold today. Spring temperatures are just that strange. Two days ago, it was sunny and pleasant, looking like summer had already arrived. But after just one night, it was back to early spring.

This gave Su Yue a long-lost feeling, that going to work was truly heavier than going to a funeral.

This feeling made Su Yue chuckle wryly just as he stepped out of his door, but a voice suddenly sounded beside him, startling him.

"What are you laughing about so early in the morning?"

It was Lin Jia who spoke. She had completely reverted to winter clothing, wearing a long trench coat that was both warm and flattering, a hat on her head, and even a mask.

Su Yue was a little surprised. He shook his head: "Nothing, why are you leaving so early?"

Lin Jia's working hours were late, and the company she worked for was very close to home, only a ten-minute walk away. Unlike Su Yue, who had to cycle for half an hour. If he took the bus, it would be hopeless; during the morning rush hour, it would take at least two hours to get to the company.

Therefore, Lin Jia usually got up relatively late and left home more than an hour later than Su Yue. In two years, Su Yue had probably never seen Lin Jia leave before him.

This was too abnormal!

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