Returning wealthy individuals develop their hometowns and become rich in the 1980s

Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department

"Director," Sun Bin, the clerk, walked into the director's office and handed Director Cao a customs declaration document. "It's from Nanshan County again!"

Director Cao picked up the document with surprise and asked, "It's not some kind of medical device again, is it?"

"No, Director, take a look yourself," Sun Bin pointed to the document. Director Cao glanced at it and thought it was alright; it was only seven vehicles. But upon closer inspection, he discovered that they were all transported from America.

Having experienced the previous incident involving more than a dozen cabinets at Nanshan County People's Hospital, Director Cao calmly said to Clerk Sun Bin, "Just call the Nanshan County Police Station and have them come and pick up the car themselves."

"good!"

Inside the Nanshan County Police Station, Chief Wang Yan had just returned from a meeting at the county committee compound. The meeting concerned the security issues in the Lianzhai Industrial Park. Because Guangdong Company was building roads there, a lot of materials had accumulated, and some local thugs from the surrounding villages had their eyes on these materials.

During this period, there were quite a few petty thefts, so Lianzhai had to increase the number of militia patrols. They caught quite a few thieves and sent them to the county police station. All the thieves who were caught had bruises on their faces, so they must have been "treated" quite severely in Lianzhai.

At the meeting, County Party Secretary Lin Deying proposed that, after a meeting of the Municipal Party Committee, the Nanshan County Police Station would be upgraded to a Public Security Bureau, and another police station would be set up in Jiping Commune, especially in Lianzhai, where public security would be a top priority after the industrial park is completed.

Just as Wang Yan, the future director, was thinking about who should be transferred from the station to Jiping to serve as the station chief, the phone on his desk rang. As soon as Wang Yan answered, the person on the other end said, "Is this the Nanshan County Police Station? This is the Tuogang Customs Office. Your car has arrived. Come and pick it up yourselves."

Wang Yan was taken aback. A car! What car? But when he remembered that it was the car Chen Dong had helped purchase overseas and donated to the police station, he was overjoyed and said to the person on the phone, "Okay, I'll organize people to go there right away!"

Chief Wang Yan walked out of his office happily and shouted to the few police officers still busy outside, "Stop for a moment, who among you can drive?"

Several police officers who were working with their heads down stood up when they heard Wang Yan's words. Some of them had driven in the military. "Chief Wang, I can drive!"

Wang Yan glanced at the crowd and saw that there were fewer than three people. Including himself, there were only four, and they were still two short. He turned to one of the police officers who hadn't gotten up and said, "Xiao Xu, you immediately have Zhao Zhigang take his motorcycle to Lianzhai and pick up Comrade Zai Guang. Tell him that the car from Tuogang has arrived and he should go with it to bring his own car back."

Four it is fine. We can only drive the cars back to the station in batches first. As for the remaining two, we'll bring people over to drive them back tomorrow or sometime later.

When Chen Zaiguang was taken to the police station by Zhao Zhigang, he was all smiles when he saw Wang Yan. He had finally gotten a new car, the Mercedes-Benz that Dongzi had mentioned.

The entire Nanshan County Police Station mobilized its two sidecar motorcycles, taking five people, including Chen Zaiguang, who knew how to drive, and headed towards Tuogang.

When they arrived at the Tuogang Customs Office on their motorcycles to complete the vehicle pick-up procedures, it was already past 1 p.m. There wasn't much going on at the port at that time, so Director Cao personally led Wang Yan and the others to the three containers loaded with the vehicles.

Since there was no need for port transshipment, the customs officers did not open the three containers. The lead strips on the containers were still in place. Director Cao had someone bring a large pair of scissors, cut the lead strips, and then opened the container door. What immediately caught his eye was a bright and beautiful sight.

"A great opportunity!"

"That's a police car!"

The three Ford Crown Victoria trucks, already painted, were neatly secured in the container. Wang Yan smiled and walked into the container. He first looked inside the trucks and saw some police equipment placed on the seats, not yet installed.

I kicked the tires and found that the air hadn't been released. Now, all I had to do was untie the bottom anchor chain, drive the car out, and the one hanging above could be slowly lowered.

Wang Yan didn't let anyone else drive the first police car. He went up himself, opened the driver's door, and got in. He found the keys on the passenger seat, where the plastic film covering the seat was still on.

Wang Yan took the car key from the passenger side, inserted it, and turned it. The car engine started successfully on the first try, but when he tried to shift gears, he couldn't find a gear lever.

"Hey, that's weird, doesn't this car need to use gears?"

Wang Yan drove military jeeps in the army, some were Russian and some were captured American cars. No matter what kind of car it was, they all had three pedals, but he couldn't find the clutch pedal with his left foot, which puzzled him.

Wang Yan looked down and found that there were only two pedals under the steering wheel, the brake and the accelerator, on the right side. Could it be that America's car could move without a clutch or gears? He tried to lightly press the accelerator, but the car only roared and didn't move. He couldn't help but scratch his head.

The people waiting outside for Wang Yan to drive out the car to watch saw that after Wang Yan got in and successfully started the engine, he didn't drive out, but just kept revving the engine inside.

Director Cao, seeing the impressive car, was filled with anticipation, thinking he'd wait for Director Wang Yan to drive it out so he could sit inside and experience the corruption of capitalism. Seeing that it hadn't come out yet, he shouted at Wang Yan, who was sitting in the car, "Director Wang, why don't you drive it out already!"

After fiddling with it for a while, Wang Yan awkwardly stuck his head out and shouted to the people outside, "I can't find the gear shift on this car! Damn it, what kind of car is this? It's impossible to even drive!"

Upon hearing this, the people outside were speechless. So you don't understand either? They thought you did!

Chen Zaiguang, who was standing outside, walked in with a smile and said to Wang Yan, "Director Wang, the gear shift is on the steering wheel. This car is an automatic."

Chen Zaiguang pointed to where the windshield wipers used to be on the steering wheel and said to Wang Yan, "Dongzi said that Americans are too lazy to reach for the gearshift when they drive, they just put the gear here on the steering wheel. Try stepping on the brake and shifting the gear to D."

Following Chen Zaiguang's instructions, Wang Yan indeed spotted a lever near the windshield wipers with the letters RNDP written on it in English. He immediately realized, "Hey, so that's where it is! No wonder I couldn't find the gear selector!"

Wang Yan stepped on the brake, shifted the gear to D, and gently pressed the accelerator. This time, the car stopped just making noise and slowly drove out of the container. The people outside quickly made way for it.

"This car is great, the interior space is very large!"

"As expected of America's car, it's huge!"

"This is quite a leap forward for us, hahaha!"