?322: Chapter 290: Hire Someone 322: Chapter 290: Hire Someone “Xiang Geng, show everyone how to use this surveince system,”
Uncle Three led his dog around the monitoring room, strolling casually like a middle-aged yboy.
His mixed Tibetan Mastiff-Schnauzer strutted on its tiny paws, acting as proud as if it was worth a fortune.
Xiang Geng was a somewhat skinny young man with slightly yellowed fingers and a faint tobo smell on him, the unpleasant kind.
Picked by Uncle Three, Xiang Geng gave a smile and sat down at the monitoring console, saying, “Since the overall system isn’t set up properly yet, I’ll switch between the cameras for you to see our surveince range.”
He began pressing buttons one by one and manipting the joystick, showcasing the view in front of the houses in the Jiangcun Residential Area.
Several middle-aged vige men who came along looked very serious, saying solemnly, “We can’t mess around in the residential area anymore.”
Uncle Three chuckled and said, “It’s fine.
Xiang Geng is one of our own.
He’s the son of my younger sister’s husband’s brother—basically, my younger sister’s nephew.”
Everyone nodded with an “Oh…” their expressions rxing slightly.
Continuing, Uncle Three said, “Xiang Geng, for this system, let’s delete any unsuitable footage of our own people, not just for us few, but for other vigers as well.
Can we do that?”
Uncle Three looked at the others.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Xiang Geng forced a smile, “That won’t be easy.
Deleting footage with this system is quite a hassle and, moreover, if we delete everything, the recordings will be pointless.”
He certainly didn’t dare to take on this task.
Not only was it exhausting, but it would also easily lead to trouble.
Uncle Three frowned, “So everything we do in our yards will be recorded.”
Xiang Geng remained silent and nods.
“Can any of you delete recordings?” Uncle Three looked at the other five men.
They exchanged nces and shook their heads.
Deleting some footage is one thing, but deleting everything is something else.
To delete as soon as somethinges up… these people all lived in the residential area, so might as well just turn off the surveince.
Xiang Geng said, “Uncle, didn’t you consider that you’d be caught on camera before installing the surveince system?”
Uncle Three frowned, “How could I understand such high-tech stuff?”
Xiang Geng was at a loss for words.
Jiang Yuan cleared his throat and said, “Uncle, what exactly are you concerned about?”
Asked this question, Uncle Three frowned deeply, looked around, then whispered, “The vigemittee election ising up soon…”
“Let me make a suggestion,” Jiang Yuan decisively said, “Let’s adjust the direction of the surveince system; it’s a simple task.
For this central za right next to the activity center here, turn all the surveince cameras around, I’ll re-adjust them…”
While talking, Jiang Yuan began operating on the system directly.
Some cameras were set to restrict their range, those that couldn’t be restricted, their lenses facing this way, Jiang Yuan noted down their numbers to have them removed by workerster.
Xiang Geng was initially surprised, not even quite understanding what Jiang Yuan was doing.
When he finally understood, Xiang Geng was astounded.
It turned out Uncle Three meant that Jiang Yuan had set up this system; he had thought it was just about supervising the work with money, not the literal sense.
To Xiang Geng and the others who only knew how to use the system, Jiang Yuan’s operation was like having a TV repairman suddenlye in while they were channel surfing with a remote control.
They were doing entirely different things now.
Having almost finished, Jiang Yuan exined the safe area boundaries to Uncle Three and the others while working.
Once Uncle Three understood, he nodded with satisfaction, “Exactly, that’s what I mean.
We can’t harm our own people, it’s too dangerous…”
Jiang Yuan smiled and said, “I’ll have someone paint a green ler.
Outside the green line are the areas covered by cameras; inside will be called the Green Zone, or the Council Zone.
That way, discussions about the election and such won’t be recorded, and we can…
um, eradicate unfairpetition.”
“Yes, exactly, the Council Circle!” Uncle Three was extremely pleased, nodding repeatedly at the others.
Xiang Geng finally understood andughed, “Uncle, is it your turn this year?”
“That’s hard to say, it’s not about whose turn it is.
It’s just that I n to be more proactive this year,” Uncle Three said with a smile, then added, “Xiang Geng, you follow Jiang Yuan and learn well.
He arranged and set all this up, he has a sharp mind.”
“Got it,” Xiang Geng nodded promptly.
He realized from Jiang Yuan’s operation that he was indeed a surveince system expert.
Moreover, Jiang Yuan belonged to the Jiang Vige people and was inherently part of the vige’s inner circle.
While Xiang Geng might be somewhat rted, at the end of the day, he was not from Jiang Vige.
“From now on, the six of us will work in shifts, two people per shift, monitoring and patrolling like this,” Xiang Geng exined both to Uncle Three and the others, as well as to his colleagues about the situation.
This was basically the prime function of the Jiang Vige Security Monitoring Room.
Having heard this, Jiang Fuzhen said, “You all have some experience with surveince, which is why we recruited you first.
Later on, we will also bring a few more people from the vige and then recruit others.”
Jiang Fuzhen looked at the other men, saying, “When ites down to security, you have to be brave and ready to fight.
The security work in our vige protects everyone’s safety, which is something we definitely can’t take lightly…”
All those present nodded.
Everyone was indeed wealthy and in real need of a sense of security.
The next day, the video surveince instationpany sent people over to adjust the density and range of the cameras anew.
After the satisfaction of the third uncle and others, the older generation of Jiang Vige people, such as the eldest and second elders, came to the monitoring room again to inspect and watch the operation of the surveince equipment, and once again encouraged the six security personnel.
After that, there were dense visits and crowds of onlookers from the Jiang Vige People.
Once everything settled down, another three or four days passed.
Jiang Yuan and Jiang Fuzhen were elected with a high number of votes asmittee members of the security group in another vige-wide election.
Together with the third uncle, the three of them were responsible for managing and maintaining the security work in the vige, including the monitoring room.
Thus, the “Jiang Vige Security Monitoring Room” officially got on track.
To celebrate, Jiang specifically led a few people to re-screen the new surveince footage from the past week.
They discovered one case of lost items—immediately returned.
They discovered two cases of electric scooter theft—even with surveince systems in ce in both Jiang Vige and the county, thieves who lived off stealing couldn’t possibly just stop on a dime.
If they stopped stealing, how would they make a living?
Jiang Yuan sat inside the “Jiang Vige Security Monitoring Room” and disyed the images of the two suspects involved in the electric scooter theft cases on the public screen.
“What do we do now?” Xiang Geng, sniffing a cigarette Jiang Yuan had just tossed to him, curiously looked at the screen.
He graduated from an ordinary school andter worked for a period at the Golden Shield Company in some ce.
He even did a stint as a security guard for a developing property—part of the job involved watching surveince monitors.
Having spent a lot of time in the monitoring room, Xiang Geng was mostly self-taught and heard that the Jiang Vige People had started a new securitypany, so he immediately came over.
He had some understanding of surveince, but he wasn’t really clear on how to use it to catch criminals.
Jiang Yuan smiled and countered, “What do you think?”
“Facial recognition?” Xiang Geng ventured, looking at the faces on the public screen.
Jiang Yuan smiled and replied, “That’s quite difficult.
With petty crimes like these, you basically don’t need to think about it.”
“Then…
what about fingerprints?” Xiang Geng still understood a bit.
“That’s possible too, however, the thieves in the video were wearing gloves, weren’t they?” Jiang Yuan pointed out.
“Er…
Then follow the surveince to find when they touched things without gloves on?” Xiang Geng racked his brain.
Jiang Yuan smiled and said, “You can try and see.”
With that, Jiang Yuan sent the two images he had just taken from the public screen to the “Ningtai Theft and Robbery Group.”
Xiang Geng and others enthusiastically manipted the surveince monitors to track the whereabouts of the two petty thieves.
Jiang Yuan then asked in the group:
“Any heroes recognize these two thieves?
Take them down.
Our Jiang Vige Property Management’s surveince caught them stealing electric scooters.
We haveplete surveince, video footage, victims, and invoices for the scooters.”
Responses quickly came in.
South Second Ring: [I’ll ask around.]
Li Jing from Team Six: [No need to ask, I know the one on the left.
Jiang, send me the video and I’ll go pick him up right now.]
Xiao Wang on Property Crimes: [I’ll take care of the one on the right since I’m familiar with the Jiang Vige area.
Jiang, is the value of the electric scooter over 3000?
How long has the scooter been used?]
Ningtai Jiangyuan: [The scooters are over 7000 each and have been used for about one or two years.]
Xiao Wang on Property Crimes: [I was too shallow, how could Jiang Vige scooters be just 3000 yuan.]
South Second Ring: [Envious, I haven’t seen a thief in half a month, and to tell the truth, I kind of miss them.]
Li Jing from Team Six: [That’ll be even rarer in the future, cherish the ones you catch while you can.]
Wei Zhenguo from Team Six: [When I entered the industry, my master said that catching thieves is a lifelong matter.
Some ces might not have murder cases, others might not have arson cases, but there will always be thieves.
I never thought I’d actually be done with a lifetime of catching thieves.]
Jiang Yuan pursed his lips in a smile, sent the video, put away his phone, and looked towards Xiang Geng and the others.
They were so dizzy from trying to find people using the surveince cameras.
“Alright, both thieves have been imed, someone wille to catch themter.
When the policee to you for the original data, just give it to them,” Jiang Yuan said without any intention of ridicule.
“You can continue following the surveince.
If you can find fingerprints, that would be even better.”
Understanding, Xiang Geng immediately nodded and said, “Don’t worry, we will definitely practice well.”
“Good, then I’ll head back,” Jiang Yuan stood up and took a couple of steps, then remembered the tradition of Jiang Vige and added, “Once the two cases are solved, everyone will get a 1000 yuan bonus.
From now on, if you find and catch thieves through the surveince, there will be a 500 yuan reward per thief.”
Xiang Geng’s eyes immediately brightened.
“Then I won’t be polite.
If I catch another thief, should I send it to you?”
“Yes, just send it to me,” Jiang Yuan noticed Xiang Geng’s high enthusiasm, which made him a bit concerned, and asked, “Are you short of money?”
“Not really short, but there are lots of expenses,” Xiang Geng admitted uneasily.
Jiang Yuan frowned, “Are you married?
Or do you have a girlfriend?
Is the spending too extravagant?”
“Not really…
I’m not married yet.” Xiang Geng hesitated for a moment before speaking softly, “My girlfriend’s expenses actually aren’t high, it’s just that the three of us sometimes like topare with each other.
We have to buy three of everything, otherwise they get unhappy.”
Jiang Yuan was silent for a few seconds before saying, “If you’re short of money,e directly to me, and don’t bring your girlfriend into the monitoring room.
None of them are allowed.”