Tiger Police

Chapter 379 Dead Tree
The evidence is conclusive, and Liu Yanchang cannot deny it.

Hu Pingtao made a decision: "In this case, let's go back to the police station to deal with it!"

……

Five packs of cigarettes, plus [-] boxes of loose packs, were worth more than [-] yuan.

In the interrogation room, Hu Pingtao asked, "Where do you get these fake cigarettes from?"

Liu Yanchang hunched over, timidly replied in a low voice: "...I bought it on Xijiao Road."

Hu Pingtao forced to ask: "Speak clearly, where is Xijiao Road? Who did you buy it from?"

Liu Yanchang replied: "It's the side of the small square on Xijiao Road, at the crossroads, next to the traffic lights facing south, there is a small amusement park facing the street. I rode there last week, and it happened to be a red light. A man came over and asked me , do you want a cigarette?"

Hu Pingtao squinted his eyes: "I usually have to wait for traffic lights when commuting to and from work. Why haven't I met someone selling cigarettes to me on the side of the road? Liu Yanchang, let me remind you: you are involved in fraud, and the case is worth a lot. You Don't take chances and think that our police can't do anything to you. I can give you a law education class, and the case will be filed when the case value reaches [-]. This is not a small case that can be arrested and detained for a few days and you will be released... …To put it bluntly, based on what you have done today, if a case is filed, you will have to spend at least several years in prison."

Hearing this, Liu Yanchang raised his head suddenly, and let out an "ah" in shock.

Hu Pingtao said coldly: "Do you think I'm lying to you?"

Liu Yanchang trembled like a sieve: "No...no... I don't know why he came to me... Wait, I remembered that I happened to be smoking when I was riding the bike that day. He might be looking at my hand. I was holding a cigarette butt, so I came here to ask."

Hu Pingtao watched him: "Tell me about that person's contact information."

Liu Yanchang probably figured it out, his speech speed was obviously faster, and he uttered words clearly: "I really don't know! That man only said that he wanted to buy cigarettes, so he went to the intersection to find him. If he is not there, he can go to the small amusement park nearby Wait here. Anyway, he is basically there after twelve o’clock at noon and around five o’clock in the afternoon.”

Seeing his terrified expression, Hu Pingtao continued to ask: "Did you buy all these "Da Chong Jiu" from him? How much is a pack?"

Liu Yanchang nodded quickly and replied: "Yes. When I bought it for the first time, he gave me 20 yuan a pack. At that time, I felt that something was wrong. The price difference is too big for 100 yuan a box in the authentic store. I smoked I took one, the fragrance is very weak, and it doesn't have a refreshing effect."

Hu Pingtao sneered: "Since you know they are fake cigarettes, why do you still go to him to buy them?"

Liu Yanchang lowered his head: "The packaging of this cigarette is no different from the real one. I was thinking, anyway, no one can tell that it is 20 yuan a pack, so I just find a reason to go to the store to change it into a real one. Once I come and go, I will buy it." I made a profit. Even if I can’t sell it for 100 yuan a box, I’ll give you a discount and sell it to someone else for 80 yuan a box, and there’s a price difference of dozens of yuan.”

Hu Pingtao was annoyed and amused: "You are such a brain, it's a pity if you don't do business... You should understand that this is a scam and it is against the law!"

Liu Yanchang drooped his forehead, his face full of despair.

……

The small square on Xijiao Road is not under the jurisdiction of the Eryuan Road Police Station.According to regulations, Hu Pingtao handed over the case to the local police station.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, I received a call from the [-] Command Center: Someone called the police on Jinping Road.

Similar calls are made every day, but this time the command center added an extra sentence: This is a police report from the district green management center.

On the way to the scene of the incident, Wang Gui kept muttering, "What can happen to the greening department?"

Hu Pingtao was also puzzled by this.

Arrive at the scene quickly.

Two city management officers in dark uniforms were already waiting there.

"Hello, my name is Wu Chaoping, and I'm from the Greening Management Center of the District Urban Management Bureau." The middle-aged man headed by him was very enthusiastic. He took Hu Pingtao's hand and introduced another person standing beside him: "This is my colleague Wang Wei."

Hu Pingtao nodded, and asked with interest: "Since you are from the Greening Department, why are you wearing the uniform of the urban management?"

Wu Chaoping explained with a smile: "Our unit used to be managed by the Urban Construction Bureau. Last year, the organizational reform put us under the District Urban Management Bureau."

"It turned out to be like this!" Hu Pingtao suddenly realized, and then asked: "You guys called the police, what happened?"

Wu Chaoping pulled him to the side of the road and pointed to the nearest street tree: "Look, this tree is no longer good."

This is a camphor tree more than two meters high.There are very few leaves on the branches, and the remaining leaves are yellow in color and curled like dehydration.

The trunk of the tree is supported by several wooden poles, forming a stable structure.The soil at the roots of the trees is very wet, obviously just watered, and it has not been covered with turf and planted with ground cover plants.

"This tree seems to be newly planted?" Hu Pingtao has some experience in this. He has a college classmate who is now doing design for a greening company.

Wu Chaoping nodded: "Yes. The street trees on this road used to be banyan trees. Although they are evergreen trees, they are not cold-resistant. The winter of the previous year encountered a cold snap that had not happened in decades, and there were two snowfalls, and the road was piled up. The small-leaved banyan trees in the city were froze to death on a large scale, and the ones that barely survived to the present are no longer good. According to the requirements of the city, we replaced the street trees in the jurisdiction."

Wang Wei interjected next to him: "At present, the street trees planted are mainly native tree species. For example, Dianpu and Dianpu. But Dianpu will lose its leaves in autumn, and it requires evergreen tree species, because we The climate of the provincial capital is pleasant! So the plan of Dianpu was rejected and not considered.”

Hu Pingtao looked at the tree in front of him and asked curiously, "This tree is camphor, not Dianrunnan!"

Wu Chaoping explained: "Panthelus yunnanensis is indeed evergreen, and it is also a native tree species, which is very suitable for street trees. However, nannan dianrun grows slowly, and it takes too long from the seedling stage to the tree-growing stage. According to the regulations of our greening department: the standard of street trees should not be lower than The diameter at breast height is eight centimeters. We usually buy trees from outside nurseries. The number of Dianrunnan is small, and we can't make enough, so we can only use camphor."

Hu Pingtao suddenly realized: "It turns out to be like this."

The so-called "diameter at breast height" refers to the diameter of a tree starting from the ground and reaching up to a position similar to the chest of an adult, that is, 1.5 meters from the ground.

Wu Chaoping took Hu Pingtao to the side of the street, pointed to the intersection in the distance, and said seriously: "We started to replace the street trees on this street the year before last. It's been the third year now. Here, over there , and over there, the entire street is full of camphor trees, with a total of more than [-] trees planted, all of which are large trees with a breast diameter of more than eight centimeters."

According to his guidance, Hu Pingtao immediately saw the difference—not to mention the distance, even the street trees on the opposite side of the road are growing very well, lush and green, with shiny leaves and a pleasing green color.But when I look back at the trees around me, the leaves are withered and the branches are thin, like an old man who is decaying and may enter the end of his life at any time.

He subconsciously asked, "How come the trees here grow so poorly?"

Wu Chaoping explained: "It's not that the growth is poor, but that these trees are failing and are dying."

"From the first intersection over there, to here, and here... In this section, there are a total of [-] camphor trees, all of which are gone."

Hu Pingtao was a little puzzled. Based on his own experience and logic, he asked suspiciously: "As far as I know, it takes time for a tree to survive from being transplanted. An eight-centimeter camphor already belongs to a big tree. With the soil ball, but also beheaded or something?"

Wu Chaoping smiled quite unexpectedly: "I didn't see it! You are still an expert. Yes, there is a whole set of operating rules for transplanting big trees: first cut the roots in advance, and then dig along the roots to form a complete soil ball During transportation, the root soil balls should be bound with straw ropes, just like eggs tied with ropes. It produces transpiration and consumes the water in the trunk. The newly transplanted trees have damaged roots and reduced water absorption capacity, so they can only rely on water in their bodies for maintenance, so avoid consumption if there are fewer leaves."

Wang Wei said next to him: "If the trees lose too much water during the transplanting process, they should be "injected" according to the situation. Now some trees still have infusion bags hanging on them, which is the same reason."

Hu Pingtao laughed and said, "It's really like a mountain is separated."

Wu Chaoping continued to introduce the situation: "For this part, we have been changing trees since the year before last."

"The first inspection was in September of the previous year. At that time, the street tree transplanting project for the entire street was over... well, it ended in June, and September was a routine inspection, mainly to see the survival rate. After all, the transplanting of big trees There are still risks, as long as the survival rate remains above [-]%, it is up to the standard. At that time, we looked at all the trees along the line one by one, and found no problems, including this section of the road. So from that month At the beginning, we arranged workers to replant shrubs along the tree ponds.”

He pointed to the position under the tree on the opposite road: "The second month after the first inspection is the National Day. The district arranges to plant brightly colored grass and flowers. In order to welcome the National Day, it does this every year. So we took the workers busy In more than two weeks, all the tree ponds on this road were filled. But when the National Day was over and the normal patrol was over, it was found that the street trees in this section had no leaves, and the situation did not look very good.”

"The trees were all planted in the same batch, and the problem can be seen from the outside. At first we thought it was a drought and there was not enough water, so we arranged for someone to water it. But later we found that it was useless, and the condition of the trees still did not improve. Wait until December, we..."

"Wait!" Hu Pingtao interrupted him, and asked puzzledly: "From June to December, there is a difference of half a year. This time period is too long!"

Wang Wei explained: "Plants are different from people. If you think about it, the average lifespan of a person is only a few decades, but it is not uncommon for a tree to live for centuries, or even thousands of years. So this Trees have a dormant period from root cutting to transplanting. Sometimes it can recover in one or two months, and sometimes it can last for half a year or even more than a year. It depends on the tree species, weather, soil, environment... In short, it is very complicated , there are many uncertainties.”

Wu Chaoping continued: "At that time, we thought it was very strange, because logically speaking, it shouldn't be! The same area, the same tree species, there is no difference in watering. Why can't the street trees in this section grow well?"

"Later, we conducted a careful inspection of the [-] camphor trees and found that they were man-made."

With that said, Wu Chaoping walked to the tree, squatted down, pushed aside the messy bushes, and pointed to the root of the tree: "Look, it's here."

Hu Pingtao clearly saw that a ring-shaped incision was made around the tree trunk almost at the same level as the ground.

The width is about two centimeters, the wooden layer has been soaked by sewage, the color is black, and the surface even shows signs of rot.

Hu Pingtao frowned and said, "The cambium of this tree has been destroyed."

Wu Chaoping and Wang Wei looked at him in surprise.

"I didn't see it! You are really an expert!" Wu Chaoping praised: "The old saying is good: people are afraid of being sad, and trees are afraid of peeling. This is the truth. Trees absorb water mainly by their roots. The process of top transportation depends on the cambium, which is also commonly known as the bark. As long as the bark is cut off near the root, and such a section is cut off in circles, the tree will be useless."

Hu Pingtao straightened up, looked up at the section of road that Wu Chaoping pointed at before, and asked, "You mean, all the street trees on this section of the road are in the same condition?"

Wu Chaoping also stood up, looked into the distance and sighed: "From the year before last to this year, we have changed these [-] trees back and forth three times."

"Actually, it's very difficult for us to do greening. We need to place flowers on the streets during the New Year and holidays, and we also need to make street greening sketches to add to the festive atmosphere. Let's talk about flower arrangements, all of which are seasonal flowers from nurseries and potted plants. That kind. Cyclamen, poinsettias, pansies... We often arrange the flowers at night, and when we inspect the next morning, we find that some are missing. In fact, they are all worthless grass flowers, a few yuan a pot, but Some people just want to steal the flowers at night, and they steal dozens of pots."

"We have caught several cases before, stealing our potted flowers and selling them. Anyway, it is a business without capital. A pot of poinsettia sells for eight or ten yuan, and there are many people who buy it."

"Potted flowers are cheap, and we will replenish them in time after they are stolen. The tree is different. Especially camphor, with a diameter of eight centimeters at breast height, it is considered a big tree. The purchase price is several hundred, and the more expensive ones are thousands. Including freight and labor, as well as various costs of transplanting, it’s really not a small number.”

"Some people are really full and destroy public goods on purpose. The same goes for street trees. Those who carved letters on them, those who broke branches, and those who set fire to them under the trees for fun, there are all kinds of people."

"It's the first time we have encountered this kind of direct cutting under the tree to kill the tree."

(End of this chapter)