A staff member at the Imperial Bank put the original documents returned by Anpu back into the filing cabinet. He returned to his desk and began to process some backlogged documents, while chatting and laughing with several colleagues. The bell rang when he got off work. He packed all his personal belongings into his briefcase, queued up and left the bank through the employee passage. He did not go home directly. He drank a little wine and ate something with his colleagues, then got on the bus in the opposite direction to his home and got off at the bottom stop.
He walked two kilometers, and it was almost eight o'clock. He took out two ten-cent coins from his pocket and entered a closed public phone box. As the core of the empire, all advanced technologies are always the first to be popularized here. In some remote places, telephones may only exist in city halls or important institutions, but in the imperial capital public phone booths have appeared on the streets.
Of course, although there are public phone booths, their usage is not high. They need to pay twenty cents every three minutes. Most people cannot afford such a price. They would rather write a letter than make a phone call. For those at the bottom of society, time is not as valuable as money.
He dialed a number, and there was silence on both sides for a while before he said a quick word, then hung up the phone booth, put on his hat, lowered the brim, and left the phone booth.
On the other end of the phone line, a white-collar-looking man in formal attire sitting in a bright office put down the phone. He walked out of the office door, walked to the end of the corridor, picked up the phone and dialed the administrator on the upper floor. He reported his name, job number and application code. Two minutes later, the elevator door opened. He adjusted his clothes and walked out of the elevator ten seconds later.
There are only six offices on the entire nineteenth floor. The people who work here are the company's partners. It is very difficult to meet them. If he hadn't had a one-time application code, he wouldn't have been able to come in at all.
He knocked on the door of the innermost office, and the dull sound made his heart beat faster. After he heard the word "come in," he pushed the door open and entered.
A young man sat behind the desk, with his back turned to him, and only the man's shiny hair could be seen. The man was facing the night view outside the floor-to-ceiling glass wall, and seemed to be enjoying something mysterious.
"Sir, an informant just discovered a small situation..."
After he repeated this sentence, he left voluntarily. He knew that his goal was achieved, and staying here would only be counterproductive.
After he left, the luxurious chair turned back. With a cynical smile on his young face, he pursed his lips, picked up the phone and dialed a number. A busy signal soon appeared on the phone...
"I'll pick it up!" Du Lin waved his hand and stopped Dove who was about to answer the phone. It was already nine o'clock in the evening, and most people would not disturb him at this time. Anyone who can call him at this time is either in urgent need or is a very important partner.
"This is Du Lin." Du Lin carried the phone and dragged the long phone cord outside the house. The sound of the wind could block his voice.
A voice that made him want to laugh came from the other end of the phone. It was Kevin, "I'll sell you a piece of news for 10,000 yuan. You think about it."
Du Lin burst out laughing. He couldn't help but joke: "Have you increased your price recently? Now it costs 10,000 yuan an hour? Or does it cost 10,000 yuan for just one sentence?"
Kevin didn't care about Du Lin's teasing. Just like Anpu knew Kevin, he was a shameless person who wanted money, and he clearly distinguished between business and private matters. Even sometimes things that others think are private matters will be classified by Kevin as official matters. Business matters cost money, but they are definitely worth it. Private matters don't cost money, but sometimes he doesn't want to say it.
"It doesn't matter. I think this news is worth ten thousand yuan. Of course, you can also choose to refuse. Let's talk about other things, such as the recent economic situation?"
Dulin thought about it and decided to spend 10,000 yuan to hear what Kevin had to say, but he had a request, "If your news is not worth 10,000 yuan..."
"Asshole, do you want to give me a bullet?" The other side of the receiver also laughed. The laughter quickly subsided, and Kevin's voice became serious, "Someone is investigating your capital account. , including the flow of a jewelry company and more accounts that have funds with this jewelry company. If you think this news is worth ten thousand yuan, you know my account. If you think it is not worth it, then give me one thousand and fifty. "
"You're right, I've raised the price now, to one thousand and fifty an hour!"
Du Lin pursed his lips and said, "I understand, is there anything else?" Before he could wait for Kevin to reply, a busy signal appeared on the receiver. He shook his head and put the receiver back on the phone, placed the phone on the grass, and walked to the edge of the cliff alone.
In fact, Ilian is more beautiful at night than during the day. The silver moonlight shines on the entire beach. The waves are silver and the beach is silver-white. Everything is so confinement and so holy.
There is no doubt that Juan and Luke began to vomit after being captured. Everything they thought was valuable to them was confessed, including him. Du Lin didn't need to ask to know that they must be pointing the finger at him.
Since he dared to give these two people to the people in the Investigation Bureau, he naturally took care of everything. But he didn't expect that the other party would start investigating the jewelry company so quickly. It seemed that there was a very powerful guy among those people.
Dulin believed that all his operations were flawless, including the jewelry company. But there is no absolute perfection in this world. There are always some things that cannot be dealt with cleanly, such as the registrant of a jewelry company. The Chamber of Commerce requires that all enterprises, companies and institutions must be registered by a living "natural person". Because this involves a special situation in business, he randomly found a gambler and asked him to register this jewelry company. .
When he came to Ilian, he considered that it was more convenient to go to sea. Once someone really caught him and unreasonably insisted on taking him down, he could leave Ilian and flee to the Federation as soon as possible. It is a pity that the level of those handling the case was limited and they did not touch his tail and gave him the opportunity to develop and grow. To this day, there is no evidence that you want to touch him? Then ask Ilian’s city hall if they agree!
His total investment in District 8 is close to 20 million, not to mention that he also hired 10,000 "poor people" from District 5 to work for him.
A 20-million-dollar project, 10,000 or more jobs, a large amount of tax revenue every year, and expected profits and taxes in the future, if you move Dulin, it means cutting flesh on the city hall. There is no need for him to resist, the city hall will protect him, and the wealthy people who have a good relationship with him can say a few words. This is influence, and this is the value and meaning of money.
Whether this news is worth 10,000 yuan, Du Lin thinks it is. The value is not the content of the news itself, but Kevin's special intelligence channel.
He welcomes people from the Investigation Bureau to come to Ilian to find him. He wants to see what tricks these people can pull off. He is confident that he will get through this "crisis" safely.
Time always slips away from people's fingers unknowingly. In the blink of an eye, the streets of Ilian have become very deserted, and the winter break has arrived. The outdoor temperature at this time was only about ten degrees, and the wind was still strong at the beach. Not many people were willing to go to the beach to enjoy the wind in such weather. That was not enjoyment, but suffering.
During this period of time, two small pieces of news happened. The first news was that the empire's first professional actor training school was born in Ilian. In addition to Frena, Dulin has also hired several well-known supporting actors with superb acting skills and some older protagonists who will become the first batch of teachers in this school. The school recruits students from the whole society. Not long after it was announced, many students came to report, some were arranged by Du Lin and some were real students.
In addition to this incident, the second thing is that Doolin's winery is completed. His request was to build the factory as quickly as possible and then produce wine. They put up the frame first, and the decoration and other things would be done later.
At this time, Du Lin was in the winery, and there was an intoxicating fragrance everywhere. After staying here for a long time, he felt a little dizzy as if he had drunk a meal.
After a while, Rhodes, who had been appointed as the general manager of the winery, came over with a smile and a water glass. He handed the glass to Dulin, who looked at the liquid in the glass carefully. Somewhat turbid and pinkish white, this is the so-called "pure". Because there is no distillation process, these liquids are the real "pure". He took a sip and there was a clear smell of wine, which seemed to be stronger than the fruit wine outside.
He nodded. Although it was still a little sour, it was already considered a good wine. "Where is the high-strength wine? When will it be available?"
Rhodes was very happy that Dulin did not criticize or talk about the new wine, which meant that he was very satisfied with the wine. The old man said with a smile: "For high-quality wine, it will take about a week, so that the dragon's blood wood can be used as much as possible." It absorbs the impurities and moisture in the wine, so that the color is transparent and the alcohol content is high!”
Dulin, who was not familiar with the "traditional" winemaking process, did not interrupt the matter casually. He returned the glass to Rhodes, "Strain it, add a little pulp and spices, and it's ready for bottling!"
"By the way, how many bottles of wine can be produced this time?"
"About 80,000 bottles. Many of the equipment are new. We are still in the process of getting familiar with it. This time is just a trial. After we are all familiar with it, the output will be roughly doubled, and about ten can be produced every month. About 50,000 bottles.”
Rhodes was very familiar with the things on his "territory", but Dulin was not satisfied!
Too little!
There are many big bosses giving rewards today. I will try to add them all this month...
Thanks to "Jesus Sells Dog Meat" for the 60,000 book coins, it is really a surprise. There are also the popularity of "Youshui Taoyuan", "Qingmo Shiye", "bill3435", "Border Explorer", "Underworld cn Shura", as well as many, many rewards from big guys, so I won't mention them one by one. After doing the math, I returned 2 chapters yesterday, and there were still 42 left. As a result, I added 11 more chapters today. This is killing me. There is an illusion that can never be replaced in this life! Chapter 53. .
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