Binjiang Police Affairs Chapter 872 - 592: "Imperial Commissioner

July 6th, sunny.

All the cadres and people on Jiangxin Island have sent off the first flood peak and are nervously preparing to confront the second flood peak that has already appeared in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

In fact, as anticipated earlier, the flood peak entering the Binjiang section doesn’t count as a flood, nor can a peak be seen.

It’s just that the flow rate is higher than usual as it passes through, and the speed is faster than usual, but its impact on the tide level of the Binjiang section is not as significant as the daily two-ti tidal fluctuations. It can be said that the tide level of the Yangtze River Binjiang section, and even further west the Yangzhou section, is far more affected by sea tides than by upstream inflow.

Although the surging eastward torrent was not pushed by sea tides like last year due to astronomical tides, the Yangtze River’s tide levels along the Jiangnan section have exceeded the alert levels due to continuous heavy rains, causing both banks to discharge floodwater into the river, as well as the influence of a far greater inflow than previous years.

Deputy County Magistrate Wang, stationed on Jiangxin Island, doesn’t dare to rest with his eyes closed.

Han Yu, Fang Guoya, Li Jun, and other rescue team mbers no longer leisurely roast fish; once the flood peak is sent off, they join the cadres and people on Jiangxin Island for a blanket inspection of the seventeen-kiloter riverbank.

Inspecting the embanknt is not just checking on the embanknt; it also involves examining the embanknt body, the foot of the embanknt, and the fields and houses within a 500-ter range on the inner side of the embanknt, because seepage points might be far from the embanknt.

At the sa ti, extra attention must be paid to the river surface outside the embanknt; if bubbles suddenly rise, it likely ans there’s a leak!

Xiao Yu bitten once by a snake is afraid of ropes for ten years.

Although Han Yu has never been bitten by a snake, he is just as afraid of snakes.

Wearing high rain boots, he uses a wooden stick with his left hand to clear away weeds at the foot of the embanknt for inspection, while holding a cellphone in his right hand to make and receive calls.

"Uncle Liu, has the city flood control command procured any ergency rescue materials these days? How about the Linghai Water Resources Bureau and our developnt zone? That’s good! Stop repairing roads with them, quickly return to the camp area and count with Chief Ding how many ergency rescue materials are in the two reserve warehouses, I need a list."

"Brother-in-law, what are you busy with? I have no issues here for now, the dam at Jiangxin Island is very robust. I just rembered you and Master Yang from the Marine Engineering Bureau ntioned water-based piling during a casual chat last ti. The water-based piling for flood control and ergency rescue is different from foundation piling; the requirents aren’t as high, just need to drive the wooden piles down. Alright, discuss with Road and Bridge Company’s Master Sun. There’s no major danger, but better safe than sorry!"

"Village Chief Cao, this is Han Yu from the rescue team. You’re waiting for the ferry at Bisha Ferry, great, I need your help with sothing. There are many small shops at the ferry, I rember they sell national highway traffic maps, like the thick ones, please help buy one. Money... you pay first, it’d be best if they issue an invoice; if not, at least a receipt, and I’ll find a way to reimburse it."

"President Zhang, you’re unloading gravel, thank you for your hard work, no need to bother Captain Xia. I just want to ask how many woven bags for holding rice do you have at the rice mill. Please call Uncle Zhang later to find out which manufacturer they were purchased from and let know."

"President Hao, this is Han Yu, the upper levels have yet to request our camp’s deploynt. If you’re really bored, go help Captain Xia with the road repairs. How can road repair be aningless? The road under repair is for flood prevention, it’s also anti-flooding! Alright, let’s talk business, how many scaffold couplers does your company have, the type used for setting up scaffolding..."

Embarknt inspection involves several people as a team, aligning in a row from the top of the embanknt to the bottom, with a blanket-style inspection for danger.

Fang Guoya is inspecting on the embanknt body, not far from Han Yu.

He can’t believe soone as thrifty as Han Yu would use his phone to make calls. In his mind, Han Yu always uses his phone like a pager, never answering calls without a special reason, and certainly not making frequent calls as today.

The more he thinks about it, the stranger he finds it. He can’t help but ask, "Secretary Yu, the embanknt on our side should be fine. Even if a major danger occurs, our task is to move people ashore first, not to block the breach from the embanknt collapse."

The flood control and ergency rescue plan for Jiangxin Island is different from that on the shore.

The area of Jiangxin Island is too small, if a breach were to occur, it would take three to four hours at the quickest to block it.

By the ti you deploy massive manpower and resources to block the breach, the fields and houses on the island would already be mostly subrged. So on this matter, the superior’s attitude is clear; the safety of the people must be ensured first.

Realizing that his old friend overheard his conversation, Han Yu put down the phone and said, "I’m not worried about Jiangxin Island; I’m worried about the embanknt on the shore. I heard a section of the Yangtze River embanknt collapsed in Yangzhou last night. Who can guarantee sothing similar won’t happen in Binjiang?"

"I nearly forgot, you are not only the rescue team leader for the city flood control command but also Deputy Chief of Staff of the Reserve Regint and Camp Commander of the Flood Control and Ergency Rescue Camp. You have many positions, standing high, naturally considering more than us, and seeing further than us."

"Brother Fang, are you mocking ?"

"No, you’re my old leader, how could I laugh at you?" Fang Guoya laughed, then curiously asked again, "By the way, what do you need the national highway traffic map for?"

Our camp might be deployed to Beihu for flood control and rescue, but nothing’s confird yet, so I can’t say...

Han Yu turned to look at Li Jun, who was patrolling nearby, and smiled, "Our camp is not only a flood control and ergency rescue camp but also a mobile assault camp. If a similar embanknt collapse occurs like in Yangzhou, and the brother city can’t block it, the superiors might deploy us for support. If we’re not familiar with the roads, we won’t even know how to get there when the ti cos."

Fang Guoya found the young old leader a bit over-anxious, and couldn’t help but smile and ask, "Secretary Yu, do you think if the Yangtze River embanknt of a brother city encounters a major danger, would they need support from your camp?"

The province has made it clear that in case of a danger, rescue forces must be in place within an hour!

Considering the strength of Jiangnan Province’s cities along the river, even in the event of a serious danger, they can handle it independently, and even resolve it at the district or county level without needing support from the city level, let alone needing help from brother cities’ rescue forces.

After all, resorting to that would imply their embanknt repairs are inadequate and their flood control preparations are insufficient.

Moreover, flood control and ergency rescue are not like firefighting.

As long as there are enough personnel, machinery, and ergency supplies, although it’s highly specialized, it’s not as professionally demanding as firefighting. Unlike firefighting, where a major fire outbreak necessitates mobilizing not just the entire city’s, but the whole province’s firefighting forces for rescue.

Without knowing how to explain, Han Yu simply glossed over with a laugh.

...

anwhile, Director Tang of the Port Supervision Bureau was personally accompanying Huang Yuanchang, who had just arrived in Binjiang, to the Binjiang Municipal Governnt.

Although Huang Yuanchang is only the Deputy Director of the Policy and Regulations Office of the Changhang Bureau, and his administrative rank is not as high as Director Tang’s, the Yangtze River Port Supervision Bureau, like the Changhang Police Bureau, Yangtze River Navigation Bureau, and Yangtze River Communication Bureau, is all under the sa Provincial Hall Level Changhang Bureau.

For a unit like the Yangtze River Binjiang Port and Navigation Supervision Bureau, a Deputy Departnt Level official from the Changhang Bureau like Huang Yuanchang is akin to an "Imperial Commissioner."

In fact, it wasn’t just Director Tang who went personally to the Bisha Ferry to welco him. When the plane carrying Huang Yuanchang took off from Hanwu, He Bin, the forr Chief of the Changhang Public Security Bureau Binjiang Branch and current Chief of the Changhang Police Bureau East Sea Branch, had to rush to East Sea Hongqiao Airport to wait and greet him. After receiving him, they arranged a police car to escort the "Huang Imperial Commissioner" all the way to Binjiang.

Watching the well-satisfied "Weasel Huang," Director Tang secretly lanted how fortunes change over ti. Who would have thought the "Weasel Huang," once unpopular with the Binjiang people, would thrive after being transferred to the Changhang Bureau?

At the sa ti, he couldn’t help but worry that "Weasel Huang" might hold a grudge and cause trouble for the Binjiang Port Supervision Bureau.

After all, back in the day, the evaluation of "Weasel Huang" from the top to the bottom of the office wasn’t high, and he himself even sent "Weasel Huang" to Bailong Port for a year.

However, Huang Yuanchang wasn’t thinking about causing trouble for his old unit’s leaders. Returning to Binjiang, where he once worked and lived for nearly ten years, he also had many feelings, but mostly a sense of "returning ho gloriously."

"Director Tang, where is Salted Fish at this mont?"

"In Gaoru’s Jiangxin Island for flood relief."

"Have you notified him?"

"Not yet."

Director Tang was afraid that the "Huang Imperial Commissioner" might misunderstand, so he explained, "Director Huang, I also want to notify him earlier so he can prepare in advance. But this matter is quite sensitive, and we need to consider the impact on all aspects."

Huang Yuanchang nodded and continued, "Before coming here, I called the Port Supervision Bureau. They said you mobilized all the cadres and employees for donations. How much did you collect in total?"

The "Huang Imperial Commissioner" referred to the Yangtze River Port Supervision Bureau, not the Binjiang Port Supervision Bureau.

In other words, he’s now speaking directly with your superior!

His forr subordinate has suddenly beco the boss’s boss, leaving Director Tang both embarrassed and upset. However, the superior on the phone made it clear that they must fully cooperate with "Weasel Huang’s" work.

Director Tang could only brace himself and say, "Cadres above Deputy Departnt Level donated two hundred, section-level cadres donated one hundred, and each employee donated fifty, totaling twelve thousand six hundred."

"Did the Changhang Bureau and Waterway Section mobilize donations?"

"As far as I know, they were all mobilized, but their cadres and employees aren’t as many as ours in the Port Supervision Bureau, so they have an estimated total of around ten thousand."

"That’s already quite a lot, considering how much everyone earns per month."

Huang Yuanchang opened his briefcase, took out a notebook, and recorded the donation amount of the Binjiang Port Supervision Bureau.

Director Tang clearly saw in the notebook that the donation amounts from units like the Changhang Public Security Bureau East Sea Branch, Yangtze River Navigation Bureau East Sea Navigation Channel Office, and Dacang Port Supervision Office, Shuzhou Port Supervision Office, Zhangjia Port Supervision Office, and Changhang Public Security Bureau Guzhou Branch were also recorded.

While Director Tang was pondering whether he was there to persuade the Binjiang City leaders to agree to dispatch troops or to count and even mobilize donations from various units, Huang Yuanchang closed the notebook and solemnly said, "Director Tang, these donations shouldn’t be transferred to Hanwu right now. Good steel should be used on the blade’s edge, and the sa goes for flood relief donations. What Hanwu needs right now is not just money, but urgently needed relief materials. I plan to use these donations to purchase urgently needed materials for flood relief."

"But we’ve already reported to the superiors."

"Don’t worry, before I boarded the plane, I called to seek instructions from our Director Yuan, and our bureau will notify your Port Supervision Bureau. Regarding how these donations will be used, the Port Supervision Bureau will soon notify you in writing."

"That’s good."

As they were talking, the car drove into the City Governnt compound.

Despite having previously called Mayor Wang’s secretary to schedule the eting, Mayor Wang was too busy with work, and the two had to wait in a small eting room arranged by the Municipal Governnt for nearly an hour before they could et with Mayor Wang.

At this critical juncture, trying to mobilize troops from Binjiang, and not ordinary troops.

Director Tang really couldn’t bring himself to make the request, so he introduced Huang Yuanchang’s identity and position, then awkwardly sat on the side watching Huang Yuanchang perform.

To Director Tang’s surprise, Mayor Wang was quite enthusiastic.

But on reflection, it made sense. "Weasel Huang" is the Deputy Director of the Policy and Regulations Office of the Changhang Bureau, equivalent to the deputy director of a ministry.

Not so much equivalent, but actual!

Because the Changhang Bureau is an agency of the Ministry of Transport, although not located in the Capital, it is otherwise no different from the ministerial departnts and even possesses administrative approval authority surpassing that of most ministerial departnts.

What surprised Director Tang even more was that after so pleasantries, "Weasel Huang" straightforwardly stated his purpose.

Mayor Wang thought he misheard and couldn’t believe he would make such a request, but he didn’t feel it necessary to offend this "Imperial Commissioner" sent by the Changhang Bureau. So, he casually picked up a flood situation report from the Provincial Defense Command and an urgent notification docunt from the Provincial Committee and Provincial Governnt: "Director Huang, I know the flood control situation in Hanwu is very severe, but our flood control here in Binjiang is also not easy."