Any steam locomotive station will have a "dead road", which is used for train repairs or parking of carriages. At Dulin's request, and with the preview of the pistol in Dover's hand, the driver of the steam locomotive readily cooperated with the work of the local city hall, and delivered the carriage suspected of transporting illegal materials to the stop, and then hung up. There were three checked carriages left, parked outside the station.
Some of the passengers on the platform looked impatient, while others had expressionless faces. It was difficult to identify the smuggling escorts among these people. By this time, the goods have been detained, so the best thing they should do is not to rush forward. Understand the situation. If you can bribe the people here, then do it. If you can't bribe them, these people will start to think about where it is better to flee.
One train can hold almost 500 cases of wine, which is 6,000 bottles of wine. Even if their boss is very conscientious and sells a bottle for 20 yuan, six thousand bottles is equivalent to 120,000 yuan. After losing 120,000 yuan at once, it would be very difficult for him to die even if he went back. These smuggling groups and organizations that live a life on the edge of a knife have no shackles such as benevolence, justice and morality. Those who can bring profits are good brothers, and those who bring losses are enemies.
They have countless ways to deal with their enemies. After all, they run around the country, and some are even involved in cross-border trade. There are many ways to torture people.
So at this time, the people responsible for escorting were not in a hurry. Anyway, things had happened, and there was really no way to find a place to hide or leave the empire.
Dulin glanced at these people's faces one by one, and finally coughed slightly, "I'm very sorry to move you to the platform. I am the local mayor. You can call me Mr. Dulin. This is the first time I have taken office. In the second week, I need to convey and popularize the most basic imperial laws to you." He looked at a few guys in the crowd who might be escorting this time. He was too familiar with these people, so even though he was separated from them, Several people could smell the smell on them.
Du Lin was looking at them, and they were also looking at Du Lin. Du Lin slowly said: "Tax evasion is a very serious and wrong behavior. When necessary, not only do you need to pay taxes again and compensate a large amount of Tax evasion fines and possible imprisonment!”
There were a few people in the crowd who were well disguised, but after Du Lin said these words, the natural expressions on their faces became a little distorted, and a trace of confusion flashed in their eyes.
tax evasion
Not smuggling
Dulin pointed to the temporarily detained train cars and said, "I just checked a little and found that these materials do not have any tax payment certificates. This is an illegal act, gentlemen and ladies! Tax evasion is a shameful and illegal act, but If you can make up for your wrongdoing and pay a fine for tax evasion, I believe the local courts and judges will choose to forgive you.”
"Everyone makes mistakes, but after making a mistake, they should stand up bravely to admit their mistakes and bear the consequences. This is what an empire citizen should do. Escape is not the behavior of a warrior. Only cowards choose to escape!", Du Lin once again glanced at the faces of each passenger, "You can choose to evade your responsibilities and leave on the train. But you can also take responsibility and come to the city hall to pay the tax. How can you choose not to be with me? But it’s up to you, that’s all I’m saying.”
"After three days, if no one comes to admit these things and is not willing to pay fines and taxes, I will destroy these things in public!" He nodded and left.
Although Du Lin left, there were still more than a dozen police officers who locked the carriage door and walked into the station office. There they could see the condition of those carriages at a glance, and Dulin had already asked the steam locomotive to leave. Even if they could recapture the carriages, they would not be able to transport them away.
The station soon became empty, with no one left, as if there were no escorts at all. When the people staying at the station told Du Lin the news, Du Lin just smiled. He knew that these people left temporarily but would never really leave, and they would come back again soon.
Du Lin guessed one thing wrong. He thought he might have to wait a day or two or on the last day for those people to come, but those people showed up that afternoon. They were riding a Puchong steam locomotive and were not pulling goods. The kind of people who come to Odis for the reason of traveling here.
Their reasons are not bad if you don't take into account the desolate surrounding environment and the lack of any entertainment projects in the city. When these tourists came out of the station, they were dumbfounded. They also understood how ridiculous their excuse for traveling was.
There were seven people in this group, led by a woman who looked to be in her thirties. There is absolutely no romantic plot in this line of work that outsiders imagine. The woman is not beautiful, and can be said to be a bit vicious and ugly. She has two scars on her face, which ruined what could only be described as an ordinary appearance. These two scars were left when she was captured by her opponent and asked for information. She also suffered more torture, but these tortures were not on her face, but on her body.
She looked at the empty street with some irritation. Whenever the wind blew, a gust of wind and sand would be blown up. There was no one outside the station!
"How come there are people living in this damn place?" The woman named Saili licked her chapped lips, looked at the streets in the distance and pointed, "Let's go to the city and ask about this damn place and that city. What’s going on, and then consider whether to have contact with the other person?”
In the morning, her people told her that the goods had been detained by Odis, and repeated Dulin's words. In the afternoon, Saili rushed over from Namirinds. She was detained for two carriages of wine, which totaled more than 200,000 yuan. If the person who dumped this batch of goods here would be unlucky, she would also be unlucky, so she had to come over to see how to deal with this matter.
Judging from the feedback from those subordinates, there seems to be room for relaxation.
After twenty minutes of walking, they finally entered the city center of Otis. Looking at the countryside-like city, Saili once again began to wonder if this ghost place was a city, or was it just a town? She spent one dollar and learned everything about the city, except the new mayor, from an old man who was basking in the sun and knitting a blanket.
"I remember they said this guy's name is Du Lin. Let's go and ask around to see if we can find someone familiar to match us." Saili rubbed her forehead and gave an order, but soon her men came back. He told her with a strange expression that only the city hall had a telephone in this city, and it was on the mayor's desk. If she wanted to leave by car, a train would pass by later.
Someone made a suggestion, how about staying here first and waiting two days before contacting the mayor. But Saili's view is different from others. The longer they wait, the more passive they become. Their weakness has been caught by the other party. If they don't give in honestly and still think about stalling for time or fighting, isn't this forcing the other party to change their mind? She decided to go directly to meet the mayor of the city. As for whether this was a trap, she didn't care.
First of all, she is not afraid of others violating her. Her breasts and one side of her butt were cut off during the interrogation. If someone is willing to violate her, she should probably feel happy, which will make her feel beautiful. Money is not looking for a man because she can't find a man, but just to relieve loneliness.
After Dufo opened the door to Saili, when Du Lin saw Saili, he was deeply impressed by this woman. She was an ugly and masculine woman with a masculine personality. He just looked up and said nothing more. Now it's not him begging others to do things, but others begging him. Saili is not in a hurry, why should he be in a hurry
It was the first time that Saili met a senior government official with the position of mayor. She was still a little nervous. She stood at the door for almost twenty minutes before she realized that she had been ignored. She knocked on the door and asked: "Are you Mayor Dulin?"
Du Lin raised his head and nodded, "It's me, what's the matter?"
Saili walked forward, walked to the opposite side of Dulin's table, and then found a chair. She was sitting a little awkwardly. This soft chair gave her an uneasy feeling. She had long been used to those hard benches or chairs.
"That's right, my employee told me that because of tax evasion... so you detained my goods?" When Saili said the word tax evasion, she felt even more awkward. When did smuggling become tax evasion, but This is a good thing.
Regardless of whether it is black gold or illegal goods, if you want to launder it, you must go through one way, and that is to pay taxes. Only after the tax is paid can these things be truly laundered. There is a complete flow or process. When you encounter inspections, you don’t even need to explain anything, let alone stuff money. You just need to take out the tax receipt.
As for why some things that obviously should not be transported can be transported by railway in an open manner and a tax payment certificate is obtained, that is not their business.
Dulin put the pen in his hand on the table, and then asked Dufo to call the tax collector from Odis. After waiting for about five minutes, the director of the transportation bureau of Odis came. Yes, it was that young man, and he was also the tax collector here.
"Mr. Mayor, are you looking for me?"
Du Lin pointed at Saili, "Please explain to this lady how much fine she needs to pay for tax evasion, and how much tax she needs to pay!"
(End of chapter)