According to the statistics of the Shanghai Local Chronicles Office of later generations, since the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, there has been no Westerner patrol at the bottom of the entire fishing house, and the lowest positions of the Westerner patrol that have been added are probationary patrol chiefs and probationary patrols, although this kind of position does not have the right to manage ordinary patrols, but it can also be regarded as a kind of cadre reserve.

However, in the current public concession patrol house has not yet reached the level of the later period, there are still a large number of Westerners patrolling in the patrol room, in addition to the patrol officer and deputy inspector are all Westerners, six of the nine inspectors in the fishing room are Westerners, and one of the remaining three inspectors is the Indian patrol chief.

Although the public concession patrol house has set up a lot of subsidized rewards in order to allow Westerners to learn Chinese, the westerners who can appear in the Shanghai concession are either big businessmen or adventurers who have been bewitched in their hometowns, and it is naturally impossible for big businessmen to serve as patrols in the patrol houses, so the vast majority of Westerners patrolling in the fishing houses are adventurers from Europe.

The reason why these adventurers came to Shanghai thousands of miles away was naturally not to come to the concession patrol house to be a small patrol, but to come to Shanghai, a paradise for adventurers, to dig for gold, and doing patrols was just an expedient measure for them to fill their stomachs, after all, even if there were institutions in the concession to accommodate Westerners and beggars, the conditions were poor.

In the patrol room, the annual salary of ordinary Westerners is five hundred and eighty-five taels of silver, which is one-third higher than that of the Chinese patrol, while the Chinese patrols are only ninety-four taels, but I don't know if it is the difference in cultural life, these Westerners still feel that the salary is not enough, and they are very negative about their work.

Although the patrol house has set up many obstacles in the promotion of the Chinese patrol in order to restrict the rights of the Chinese patrol, it still cannot change the situation that the Chinese patrol is gradually taking power.

In the central patrol room, except for the seventh team, which is composed of Indian arrests, the other six patrol teams are all Westerners and Chinese, but when the Chinese detective police officer directs the operation, the Westerner patrol is usually excluded, which has become a common rule in the arrest room.

The first and second teams of the central patrol room are the only two patrol teams in the capture room with Chinese as patrol chiefs, and perhaps it is for this reason that only two Westerners patrol among the 52 patrols of the two teams, exactly one for each team, and the existence of these two Westerners is still a mandatory rule in the capture room to prevent the Chinese from taking power.

Although the arrest room explicitly prohibits subordinate patrols and arrests, it still can't stop the desire for power of human nature, and the predecessor Sun Wei has begun to install his own eyeliner in the central patrol room and the old gate patrol room since he was promoted to the second level inspector, and even spent a lot of money to bribe the chief inspector who manages the two patrol rooms, so that the only three inspectors of the two patrol rooms have become his disciples.

Of course, Sun Wei is not the only one who is planting his own eyeliner in the capture room, even Li Gang, the target of this time, has installed a lot of his own people in the Hongkou patrol room, but when it comes to the craziest of course, Sun Wei himself and the French Concession Huang Jinrong, and the French Concession Huang Rong is even more crazy, and has extended his tentacles to the public concession.

In fact, it is not uncommon for such a thing to release prisoners without permission in the patrol room, and for a concession inspector like Li Gang, as long as he does it secretively and does not be known by the outside world, it is not a big deal, and even if the other officials in the arrest room know about it, they are mostly silent.

Sun Wei knew that it was a bit against the convention of the arrest room to arrest Li Gang for releasing prisoners privately, and he would be criticized by some Chinese police officers in the arrest room, but the grievances between him and Li Gang could not be solved simply, and sometimes the face would directly determine a person's living conditions, so in order to solve Li Gang's time bomb with strength to threaten him as soon as possible, Sun Wei was not afraid to break the convention.

Li Gang's working hours in the patrol house are much longer than Sun Wei's, and his promotion track is also completely different from Sun Wei, who happened to catch up with the rapid development of the house, but like the vast majority of ordinary Chinese patrols, he has survived by virtue of self-reliance year after year, and has a large circle of relationships in the entire public concession house capture system, so in order to prevent accidents in the operation, Sun Wei did not confide in anyone the slightest rumor.

At about seven o'clock that night, the patrol house building, which had been quiet, became noisy again, and the first and second teams, except for two Westerners, had already arrived at the hall on the first floor of the hunting house in advance.

"Head, Inspector Sun is so anxious to let us gather at night, is there another big case happening?" A third-class patrolman in the hall asked quietly to the first-class patrolman who led him.

"How do I know this, besides, those of us who are subordinates only need to obey orders, and if we do so much, we will still be on fire." The questioned First Class Inspector replied.

"No, you're our inspector's brother-in-law, and he didn't reveal any news to you?" Another second-class patrolman asked a little differently.

This first-class patrol is actually an old patrol in the capture room, his qualifications are much higher than that of his brother-in-law, and his ability is much stronger, but in today's society, he is not qualified and capable to take the position, and the most correct thing his brother-in-law did was to take the lead in surrendering to Sun Wei.

"Reveal a fart, that kid doesn't know what the mission is this time." The first-class patrol who led the team obviously didn't have much respect for his boss and brother-in-law, and he didn't shy away from his words.

"No, even our inspector doesn't know, this must be a big case, let's be careful when we do it later." The second-class patrolman said in surprise.

"Who said no, I can only ask God to bless this operation to go smoothly." The patrol prayed.

While the first and second teams were discussing the mission of the operation, Sun Wei, the protagonist of the incident, was in a meeting with the inspectors of the two teams.

"Inspector, what kind of action is it this time, it is so mysterious, the brothers below are talking about it, and even the inspector has asked me and Ah Feng for questioning." In Sun Wei's office, Du Ze, the inspector of the first team, asked first.

"Do you know about the arson case?" Sun Wei didn't answer when he heard this, but asked rhetorically.

"I know, this is a big case that has caused a sensation in the entire Hongkou, I heard that the three Japanese who set fire were sentenced to several years by the trial of the public party, is our mission today related to this case?" Du Ze asked again.

"Indeed, I have received reliable information that the three Japanese who set fire to the fire will be secretly sent out of prison in a few nights." Sun Wei explained.

"Detective, even if they are really secretly sent out of prison, it has nothing to do with us, that is the jurisdiction of Hongkou Arrest House." Wang Huaibing, the patrol commander of the second team, spoke.

"If someone else released the three Japanese, this matter really doesn't have much to do with me, but now it's Li Gang, the deputy inspector of the Hongkou patrol room, who is letting the Japanese go, and this has something to do with me." Sun Wei explained.

"Detective, are you trying to move that Li Gang?" Du Ze naturally heard about the grievances between Sun Wei and Li Gang, and said a little abruptly.

"Yes, our action today is to deal with Li Gang." Sun Wei nodded and said.

"Detective, that's the jurisdiction of the Hongkou patrol house, let's go there to arrest people, but it's out of bounds to handle the case, even if you catch the three Japanese who set fire to the house, it's not easy for you to explain to the arrest room, and the impact is not good." Wang Huaibing said a little worriedly.

"I naturally understand this, but you should also know my grievances with Li Gang, even if I really don't pursue his son for offending me, but he won't give up, as far as I know, he has colluded with the Japanese and started collecting my materials, if I don't completely eliminate him this time, maybe one day he will stab me in the back." Sun Wei's words were not untargeted, but he received information that Li Gang had too close a relationship with the Japanese, and also found out that Li Gang was sending people to investigate him.

"But the inspector ......" Although Wang Huaibing understood that Sun Wei's words were very reasonable, he was still a little hesitant.

Wang Huaibing, who was in the old calendar of the arresting room, knew very well that such a cross-district case handling has always been a taboo in the arresting room, even if this case was indeed stolen by both people, but afterwards, the chief inspector of the Hongkou patrol house would not give up, even if he couldn't move the big tree of Sun Wei, it was still easy to put pressure on the upper echelons of the capture house to remove him from his post and investigate the small shrimp who led the team.

"Lao Wang, what is there to hesitate about this matter, we all rely on the help of the inspector to get to where we are today, as long as the inspector is fine, even if we are really removed from office this time, what will we do, even if we repay the detective for his kindness." If you really don't want to be the Inspector yourself, we can go it alone in the first team of this mission. Du Ze saw that Wang Huaibing hesitated, so he spoke.

Du Ze said this in front of Sun Wei, but it was a bit of a curse, and at the same time, he also woke up Wang Huaibing, who was hesitant, and then Wang Huaibing hurriedly defended to Sun Wei: "Detective, I really didn't mean that, I, Wang Huaibing, can have today's status is all dependent on the Inspector's support, for the sake of the Inspector, even if I am allowed to go up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire, I was just worried that this matter will bring trouble to the Inspector." ”

"You don't have to worry about this matter, even if you are really punished for this matter, I will bear it for you, and there will never be such a punishment as dismissal." Wang Huaibing's hesitation made Sun Wei very disappointed, even though he explained later, Sun Wei still marked him in his heart as no longer trusting, but Sun Wei did not show it on his face.