The film and television world begins with the battle for the throne in Kowloon

Chapter 405: The Love of Brother Xu Dingan

There are a total of fourteen Assistant Commissioners in the entire Hong Kong Island Police Force.

The Police Force has five departments, which are further divided into eight divisions: Operations, Support, Crime, Security, Personnel, Training, Information Systems and Service Quality Assurance.

Each of the six regions is commanded by an Assistant Director.

The six major police regions are: Hong Kong Island Region, Kowloon West Region, Kowloon East Region, New Territories North Region, New Territories South Region and Marine Region.

Every assistant director is independent and powerful, similar to a provincial governor. His words are law in the region and sometimes he is more powerful and prestigious than a senior assistant director.

On the contrary, the four senior assistant directors stay in the headquarters all day long, under the nose of the boss and under pressure from the boss, and they do not have as much real power as the local heads.

The only advantage is that he is close to the boss, has voting rights in decision-making meetings, and can sometimes influence the appointment of the heads of the subordinate regional departments.

However, there are three directors and deputy directors above them, and it is not their turn to make decisions. The assistant directors below also report important work directly to the three directors and deputy directors. From a procedural point of view, it is not necessary to go through them.

To put it simply, you can be in charge, but the assistant directors below can choose not to listen, so some of those who are neither promoted nor demoted are just making a transition to the position of deputy director. Of course, they don't have to make a transition, like Shen Cheng.

Li Yan personally feels that this level of division is completely redundant and is set up solely for the purpose of adding a step.

In terms of the scope of authority of the senior assistant director, he is more like a secretary to the three big bosses, really like an assistant, purely for the balance of power in the headquarters to prevent power from being too concentrated, to restrict the boss, and just have a few more votes.

They are not as powerful as the assistant directors, but each of these fourteen assistant directors is a possession of the three giants. It is impossible to be promoted without the approval of the three big guys.

Even if he had not offended Gao Jianbin and Liang Feihu, Li Yan actually had no choice. There were two people in one position. The person that Gao's faction was pushing hard was Huang Zhicheng, and he was eyeing the position vacated by Yin Jianqiang. So he had to find another way.

As for other regional police stations, it is another circle again. The situation in each area is similar to that in West Kowloon. How could they allow outsiders to interfere and occupy their sphere of influence?

This is not a matter for one or two people. The Chief Superintendent of Police, who is the candidate for Assistant Director-General, has a large number of intertwined interest groups under him. People at every level are waiting to compete with each other, and the final winner will succeed to the position in order and be promoted in stages.

Even the top decision-makers in the police force are unable to stop this trend. At most, they feel that if a person works in an area for too long, they will tend to form cliques, which is not conducive to fairness, stability and harmony.

They will be swapped around, for example, the chief superintendents of West Kowloon will be transferred to the Hong Kong Island Region as commissioner after the victory, and those of East Kowloon will be transferred to West Kowloon.

It will not affect the promotion of police officers at the following levels.
As for West Kowloon, in the last adjustment, Li Yan and Ho Kai Keung were promoted, but no experienced chief superintendent was transferred from other places. In the eyes of discerning people, the future commissioner position will definitely be promoted from the police station.

Since the boss is not involved, the only ones left are Gao Jianbin and Shen Cheng. The Gao faction is pushing Huang Zhicheng. This was decided a few years ago when Liang Feihu resigned, so naturally no one else will be transferred in.

After the last case, I won’t consider Li Yan anymore!
Li Yan actually only had one choice left, which was to join Shen Cheng. Shen Cheng originally had a shallow foundation and had no intention of interfering in the personnel changes in West Kowloon, but if Li Yan joined, Shen Cheng could support Li Yan, and then he could take West Kowloon, one of the most important core areas of Hong Kong Island, and greatly expand his power.

It can be said that if the two of them work together, both will benefit, but if they separate, both will suffer.

Big brother Xu Dingan, who was in a high position, naturally saw this clearly.

Xu Dingan will retire in two years. The specific time may be advanced or delayed. It mainly depends on when Gao Jianbin and Shen Cheng decide the winner. That is when Xu will leave.

No one can control this period of time, not even Brother Yi can predict it.

But one thing is that the top boss must retire, and the person who used to be the top boss must either retire when he reaches the age limit, or find another backer and choose to lean on one of the new director or the two new deputy directors to continue to hold power.

Politics is complicated, but it is actually a game for a few people, and most people just make choices.

Just like war, most of the time it is a two-party war, three-party war is very rare, and a fight between many dragons is even more impossible.

Under such circumstances, it was impossible for Yige to promote new people. As for Li Yan, whom he appreciated more, he only took care of him but did not personally make any efforts in Li Yan's promotion.

The last time Li Yan was promoted to Chief Superintendent, Xu Dingan did it in the name of speaking for Shen Cheng. Shen Cheng also knew that Yi Ge was only trying to repay a favor to Li Yan, not considering Li Yan as his own.

Otherwise, Li Yan would be labeled as the boss and it would be difficult for him to be accepted as a confidant by Deputy Director Shen Cheng.

Yige has been in the power field for his whole life, so how could he not see through this? His strong support for Li Yan actually harmed Li Yan and cut off Li Yan's future path. Of course, in Yige's eyes, Li Yan's experience in officialdom and life experience definitely made him unable to see through this, so after the last meeting of the Police Department, Xu Dingan told Li Yan about the situation in the meeting during the call, implying that Shen Cheng fought hard for Li Yan's promotion and was willing to break up with Gao Jianbin, almost causing a fight at the meeting.

Li Yan should learn more from Deputy Director Shen and report his work more often in private. He should not alienate Shen Cheng because of his own concerns, and he should not let Deputy Director Shen down.

Li Yan naturally understood Xuan Ge's intention. His elder brother wanted him to get closer to Shen Cheng. Li Yan's true way to success was still with Shen Cheng.

Even if the eldest brother helps with a biased attitude, he will only say a few more words for Li Yan through Shen Cheng in secret, but will not come out in person to support Li Yan.

After hanging up the phone, Li Yan thought for a while before he understood what Brother Yi meant. He couldn't help but feel a little moved. Brother Yi really cared about him and was paving the way for his future.

But Li Yan also felt a little strange. Could it be that he really tipped off the secret and secretly acted as a traitor for him, which won the favor of the eldest brother? The eldest brother's concern for him obviously exceeded Li Yan's expectations. Li Yan thought about it over and over again, but he was puzzled.

But it's a good thing after all. No matter what the reason is, it will be clear in the future.

Without the scruples of being the boss, from then on, under Shen Cheng's deliberate persuasion, Li Yan also tried to please him, and the two of them often went out together and had parties together. Li Yan also appeared in the deputy director's office of Shen Cheng at the headquarters to report on his work without restraint, and their relationship improved by leaps and bounds in just half a year, as if they were one of his own.

At this moment on the golf course, facing Li Yan's flattery, Shen Cheng did not act pretentiously, and instead showed a satisfied smile at the right time.

As a subordinate, Li Yan's flattery of Shen Cheng is a statement of his political stance, and calling him Brother Shen is a symbol of close relationship and distinction from others. Shen Cheng accepts it calmly, which is also a kind of appreciation and recognition of the subordinate's loyalty.

After Shen Cheng integrated into the environment, he finally discovered that behind these seemingly superficial forms actually lay such profound language and intentions, which people outside of it would never be able to perceive.

Just like if you don't watch the teachers from the island countries teaching by example and working hard, you will not be able to appreciate the surging blood and the dedication of the young ladies, and how great the sacrifices and contributions they have made for the enlightenment education of young people from various countries are.

I just think it is a kind of decadence and dregs, what a shallow view!
At this moment, Shen Cheng felt as if a door to a new world had been opened. He absorbed the air of the new world like a sponge. He no longer had the awkwardness and distortion he had before, and became elegant and calm.

The whole person is in an unprecedented state of refreshment.
As if hearing the hidden meaning in Li Yan's words, Shen Cheng waved his hand. Two beautiful caddy girls tactfully took the towel from Shen Cheng and the golf club from Li Yan, retreated to the golf cart on the road not far away, watched from a distance, and were ready to come forward and provide reasonable service at any time.

Shen Cheng took Li Yan and slowly paced on the neat lawn: "Li Yan, I felt like you had something else to say just now!"

"Why, is there anything that cannot be discussed between the two of us?"

Li Yan quickly said, "Director, you misunderstood. I was thinking about something about Director Yin in the agency, and I was touched at the moment, and I unconsciously brought out my emotions."

“Oh, what happened to Yin Zhiqiang?”

"Director, it's like this. Director Yin has hinted to me several times before that he wants to invite you to dinner alone and report to you on the work, but he's afraid it might be a bit abrupt, so he asked me to find out what you mean."

When talking about business, Li Yan changed the address from "Brother Shen" to the more formal "Director", otherwise it would seem too frivolous and both of them would feel uncomfortable.

After all, Shen Cheng is the deputy director, high up in the hierarchy, three levels higher than Li Yan. The two had a close relationship before, more of a friendship. But after the last case, Shen Cheng also found that it would be difficult to win over Li Yan by just getting along with him as friends.

They were friends and subordinates, so they got along very well. Shen Cheng still thought things were too simple. It was also difficult for Li Yan to grasp.

If he is too reserved, Shen Cheng will feel that Li Yan is being distant, and if he is too casual, he will feel that Li Yan does not take him seriously.

If he wasn't careful, he would offend Shen Cheng, causing a quarrel between the two. After Li Yan was promoted to Chief Superintendent, he was barely on par with Shen Cheng.

After thinking it over, and seeing that Shen Cheng had some changes in his thinking, he stopped forcing it and instead straightened out their relationship as a superior-subordinate relationship, and supplemented it with friendship, and things went smoothly.

In the past, Shen Cheng had not changed his mindset, while Li Yan had always been very positive, so after Shen Cheng's adjustment this time, the relationship between the two seemed to have undergone tremendous changes, but also seemed to have not changed at all.

Before, they were mainly friends with a working relationship as a supplement, and both of them found it difficult to get along with each other; now, they are mainly superior-subordinate relationships with a private friendship as a supplement, and everything has been straightened out all of a sudden, and both of them feel very comfortable, as if they fit perfectly and found a very suitable position.

The subtle feeling here is difficult for ordinary people to understand!

(End of this chapter)