Movie Variety Show: Starting from a New World

In February 1953, Zhao Cheng had been back in Beijing for over two months. During this time, he resumed his duties as the acting director of the Jiaodaokou Police Station. He also requested a three-wheeled motorcycle from the Municipal Bureau for the station.

It was this motorcycle that made all the police officers in the Jiaodaokou Police Station worship Zhao Cheng as their ancestor. After all, at that time, these three-wheeled motorcycles were all seized and could not be produced in China, so they were extremely valuable.

On this day, Zhao Cheng received a call saying that there might be something wrong with the security department of the steel mill. So Zhao Cheng took his men directly to the steel mill.

"Stop! The steel rolling mill is a restricted area, no entry for outsiders!" The current security department of the steel rolling mill is just Lou Zhenhua's personal guard. It will not be until the public-private partnership next year that it will be brought back under the dual leadership of the Ministry of Industry and the Beiping Municipal Bureau.

"I'm Zhao Cheng, deputy director of Jiaodaokou Police Station. We received a report that your steel rolling mill often loses steel! Open the door quickly and let us in!" Zhao Cheng got off the three-wheeled vehicle, walked up to the person who stopped him, and said in a deep voice.

"I haven't received any notice! You can't come in! Go back to where you came from! We don't allow anyone other than employees to enter here!" This security guard may have been arrogant for too long, how dare he talk to Zhao Cheng like this?

Zhao Cheng looked at him, narrowed his eyes, and repeated, "We're from the Jiaodaokou Police Station! We've received a report that a large amount of steel has gone missing from your steel mill! We need to investigate! If you can't make the decision, call your captain immediately!"

"Can you see our captain whenever you want? Just go back quickly! If something is lost in our factory, our security department can investigate it ourselves! There is no need for your police station to get involved!" The security guard was still as arrogant as ever.

"Pa!" Zhao Cheng slapped the man in the face with his big nose. "I gave you face, didn't I? You don't listen to my advice?" Zhao Cheng's big nose slapped the security guard in the face repeatedly, and the public security comrades behind him felt the pain on their faces.

"Stop! Which unit are you from? Why are you beating our security guards for no reason!" A fat man with a big belly came out and yelled at Zhao Cheng angrily.

Zhao Cheng stopped and looked at the fat man opposite him. His eyes made the fat man shudder. Because Zhao Cheng looked at him as if he were a dead person!

"I'm the deputy director of Jiaodaokou Police Station. My name is Zhao Cheng. Call your factory director! I want to see who gave him the confidence to stop the public security officers from handling the case!" Zhao Cheng straightened his clothes that were a little wrinkled from beating someone, walked up to the fat man and said calmly.

When the fat man heard that Zhao Cheng was the deputy director of the police station, he immediately glared at the security guard who was trying to stop him. If his eyes could turn into knives, that security guard would have been tortured to death by now!

It's fine that you usually show off your power to the workers and the common people, but you're still confronting them when they come here in uniform on a rickshaw and have already revealed their identities? You really don't know what you're talking about!

"Director Zhao, I didn't know you were coming. If I had known, I would have come to greet you all a long time ago! I'm so sorry! Please go to our security office and have a rest first. I will call the factory director right away! Please come in!" After saying that, the fat man took the lead and walked towards the security office.

After entering the office, Zhao Cheng found a stool and sat down. The police officer he brought with him sat behind him. After the fat man poured tea for Zhao Cheng and the others, he hurried out to call the factory director, Lou Zhenhua.

"Director, several police officers came to the security department at the gate. They said they were here to investigate a case of missing steel from the factory! The leader was the deputy director of the Jiaodaokou Police Station. He was very difficult to deal with and beat up our security guards at the gate!" The fat man said while wiping the sweat off his hands.

"Who reported the missing steel to the police station? Also, why didn't you notify me as soon as you arrived at the police station? Why did you have to conflict with the police? Don't you think I'm in enough trouble now?" After hearing what the fat man said, Lou Zhenhua started to scold him directly on the phone.

"I don't know either, Director. The police station came suddenly! I didn't even receive any notification! And because the security guards at our door tried to stop them, the deputy director Zhao Cheng who came just started fighting and beat our gatekeeper Xiao Wang so hard that his face was swollen!" said the fat man.

"I'm more likely to cause trouble than to help you. Wait! I'm going to meet the deputy director now!" Lou Zhenhua put down the phone and walked towards the gate.

"Damn! Why am I so unlucky lately! I lost a large amount of steel, and it was a government order! I could have made a lot of money, but it was lost before it was even delivered!" Lou Zhenhua thought as he walked.

It turns out that recently, due to new national policies, many orders have been placed with some domestic capitalist factories. However, some of these factories are under-producing, while others are producing more than enough because the government orders aren't priced high enough and they're unwilling to produce for the state! Therefore, there are rumors that these domestic capitalists will be reformed.

Although Lou Zhenhua was defined as a national capitalist because of his previous assistance to the Red Army, he knew those things himself.

Providing supplies to the Red Army was simply a matter of multiple bets. After all, Lou Zhenhua was able to keep the steel mill running safely, after all, he had made a lot of bets. This was all basic operation.

This time, the state order was urgent. Furthermore, many factory owners had been executed for treason in the past two years for their own profit, even colluding with foreign countries to pass off inferior products as high-quality ones. This frightened Lou Zhenhua greatly, so he proactively secured this order, hoping to sell it well to the higher-ups.

Unexpectedly, a batch of steel plates produced a few days ago were stolen! Lou Zhenhua knew that someone in his factory was desperate to make money, but he didn't expect these people to be so bold as to set their sights on this batch of steel!

If it were just some petty theft, it would be fine, but this time they stole four tons of steel plates! These people are trying to burn me, Lou Zhenhua, to death!

In less than ten minutes, Lou Zhenhua arrived at the security office and saw the fat man standing at the door.

The fat man trotted over to Lou Zhenhua and whispered, "Director, this time, Deputy Director Zhao Cheng is tough to deal with! The guards beat him up when they tried to stop him!"

Lou Zhenhua's eyes narrowed. "Who are you talking about?"

"Zhao Cheng, deputy director of Jiaodaokou Police Station!" said the fat man.

"Why didn't you say so earlier? How dare you stop him?" Lou Zhenhua just glared at the fat man, but still walked into the security office with his head held high.

"Oh, Director Zhao, I'm really sorry. I didn't know how my subordinates were so ignorant and could stop you from investigating the case! I will definitely punish him severely! He must be fired!" Lou Zhenhua politely came to the opposite side of Zhao Cheng and sat down.

Zhao Cheng looked at the biggest capitalist in the original drama, a skinny old man. He looked quite handsome, but his eyes were always rolling around, making Zhao Cheng feel that this man really deserved the nickname Lou Bancheng. He was not easy to deal with at all!