Chapter 1 The Dragon City Rises

"Buzz buzz!"

A burst of rapid sirens echoed in front of the Baolong Group's office building.

Inside, behind the floor-to-ceiling glass, Su Tiannan turned and glanced outside, seeing more than a dozen police cars parked at the entrance, and a group of police officers swarming in.

In the hall, the workers who were protesting and demanding compensation only glanced back at the police officers entering the door, and then continued to do what they were doing, without dispersing or panicking.

"Stop shouting!"

"Quiet!"

"...!"

More than a dozen police officers stepped forward, pointing at the crowd of workers with their batons and shouting.

The hall quieted down. Liu Changming, the director of the Shengli District Police Department, with a sparse, parted hairstyle, hands clasped behind his back, scanned the crowd with a stern face, and then came to the left side, asking Ermao of Changqing Company, "What's going on?"

"Nothing," Ermao replied with a cheeky smile. "We're here to demand compensation."

"You're the leader, right?" Liu Changming asked sternly, expressionless.

"Hehe, what leader am I? The workers came spontaneously." Ermao pointed to his side and shouted, "Come, come, tell the police officers, did anyone organize you to come and demand money?"

"No!"

"We came ourselves! Damn it, people are dead, and they still don't give the money, why not!"

"...!"

The noisy shouts echoed in the room, causing Liu Changming's head to ache.

"Stop shouting!" A police captain shouted again.

Liu Changming pointed at Ermao and said in a low voice, "You don't need to do this. I'll take ten people back for isolated interrogation. I don't believe I can't find out who organized it! I'm telling you, if there are disputes or conflicts, you can solve them through judicial channels. Making a scene is definitely not allowed! More than a hundred of you are surrounding their company, how are they supposed to work!"

"Whether they can work or not is also the concern of our police department? Then if our workers die and their families can't live, does our police department care?" Ermao replied casually, then turned and waved, shouting to his people, "The people from our police department are here, everyone with grievances, hurry up and speak up, the opportunity doesn't wait for anyone!!"

"Ah!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, cries suddenly echoed in the hall. A bald, burly man weighing at least two hundred pounds slapped his thighs and jumped over, "Oh, wise and just official! Director Liu, you've finally come... My second uncle died young, leaving behind a family of three, how are they supposed to live!"

The burly man howled and rushed to Liu Changming, kneeling directly on the ground, grabbing Liu Changming's legs, and starting to wail, "Director Liu, you're a big official, you have to stand up for us! My second aunt is about to remarry, leaving behind two children, what do we do, I'm asking you what do we do!"

"Let go!" Liu Changming pointed at him in shock and roared.

The burly man wiped a handful of snot on Liu Changming's trouser legs, refusing to get up, just crying.

Immediately afterwards, four or five old women, who knows where they came from, all grabbed Liu Changming, crying and howling.

"Stop it, okay! Can you stay away from me...!" Liu Changming's hairstyle was messed up by the four or five people pulling him, but he didn't dare to push them, let alone let his police officers forcibly control the scene, for fear of arousing public anger, so he could only try to reason with them.

For a time, the hall was in chaos, shouts, cries, and protests blending together.

After tearing with the bald man for a long time, Liu Changming finally managed to free himself. Then he pointed at Ermao, Su Tiannan, and seven or eight others who were holding banners and leading the slogans, "Take them all back to the police department!! Hurry!"

The police department certainly didn't have the ability to take away everyone in the room, so Liu Changming could only take the upper-level route to control the order.

"You, come with us for a trip!" Someone pointed at Su Tiannan and said.

"Me... what did I do? I didn't organize this." Su Tiannan replied.

"Who said you organized it? Why are you in such a hurry? We're taking you back to understand the situation." The police officer replied with a stern face.

"Oh, okay." Su Tiannan nodded with a smile.

...

Fifteen minutes later, Su Tiannan, Ermao and a dozen other leaders were summoned and taken away, while the police department left two groups of police officers to maintain order at the scene.

In the legal clauses of The Dragon City, the determination of illegal assembly and legal parades is relatively ambiguous, because according to the district policy of District One, citizens are allowed to gather and express their demands, as long as they don't cause trouble, it is allowed, but in the legal clauses of The Dragon City Autonomous City, collective activities exceeding a certain number of people are suspected of illegal assembly and may be detained.

However, the detention is only about eight or ten days, and the punishment is not particularly severe, but anything involving a parade is no small matter, so the police department rarely judges specific groups to be illegally assembled, because if it's not handled well, it will become a mass incident. For this reason, many judicial councilors have requested to amend this legal clause, but it has not been passed.

...

After Su Tiannan and others were taken to the Shengli District Police Department, an ordinary police officer pointed at them and shouted, "Squat by the wall!"

Ermao didn't argue when he heard this, and squatted by the wall very skillfully, joking and chatting with his friends next to him, but Su Tiannan didn't move when he heard this.

"I told you to squat down, didn't you hear me?" The police officer raised his eyebrows and asked.

Su Tiannan looked at him: "Why should I squat down?! I haven't committed a crime!"

"Hey? Don't you know your own identity? What's wrong with telling you to squat down?" The police officer pointed at Su Tiannan and cursed.

"I can't squat down!" Su Tiannan directly pushed away the other party's arm: "I haven't committed a crime."

The two looked at each other, and the police officer was silent for a while: "Okay, then you can stand!"

Ermao looked at Su Tiannan in surprise and whispered, "It's useless to reason with him!"

"It's not a matter of usefulness." Su Tiannan bent down and sat on the chair: "Don't squat, sit up!"

For Ermao and others, they are people who have been walking on the ground for many years, and they instinctively feel that if they enter the police station, they should squat down when they are told to, but Su Tiannan couldn't accept it.

...

Upstairs.

Liu Changming wiped the snot on his trouser legs with a tissue and cursed fiercely, "Lowlife!"

"Director, how should we deal with those people?"

"Detain them for twenty-three hours, then release them." Liu Changming yawned, bent down and sat on the chair: "Bring me my paper, ink, brush and inkstone, I have to practice calligraphy."

"Okay!"

At the same time, a car stopped in front of the police department, and Xu Jinbo walked into the hall with three people.

Inside, Su Tiannan and others glanced at Xu Jinbo, who also glanced at them with a mocking smile.

After a brief eye contact, Xu Jinbo went directly to the director's office upstairs.

...

Zha Nan District.

Su Tianyu asked Kong Zhenghui on the phone, "The people from the police department took Tiannan away?"

"Yes!"

"Okay, then increase the bet! Call another hundred people to the Baolong Group, and just stay there tonight! Give all the people who go a subsidy!" Su Tianyu threw down a sentence and hung up the phone directly.

The police department took people away, but it didn't solve the problem. Less than half an hour later, more than a hundred people went to the Baolong Group again. Not only was the incident not controlled, but it became even bigger.

...

Inside the dock union.

Zhang Ming looked at an antique vase, crossed his legs and said, "Baishun! People from the regulatory commission called us and asked us to support the Baolong Group, what do you think?!"

Gu Baishun frowned instantly when he heard this.