Louis has a secret that no one knows.
His father was not the honest and loyal cobbler, but the ruler of the city, the mayor of Namirinds.
His mother was once the mayor's mistress. Later, she was unable to marry the mayor because she was pregnant, so she chose a cobbler who was from a good family and was also very loyal and honest as her future life partner. The reason why he was able to discover this was because when he was seven years old, he secretly followed his mother and played a police and thief game that only one person knew about. He watched his mother enter a luxurious house with his own eyes. I didn't come out of the villa for a long time.
He waited at the door for a long time. It wasn't that he didn't want to go home, it was just that he forgot the way home.
Then he saw his mother walking out of the villa on the arm of a man, and they both saw him. He still remembers the man pointing at him and asking whose child this was.
His mother smiled and told the man, this is your child.
He was an illegitimate child, and for a long time he felt that this was a humiliation to him, and for this he hated his mother and his father, whom he had only met once. He wanted to tell his current father about this many times, but thinking that the family might be broken up and that the father who always regarded him as his only one might collapse, he kept this secret in his heart.
Until he comes of age.
The world of adults and the world of children seem to have become different. Children always have a very clear view of right and wrong. This is good and that is bad. They will not change because of anyone's persuasion or the temptation of candy. Easily change one's original intention of distinguishing right from wrong. But adults are different. They have been subjected to too many temptations or coercions, and they are always bowing to the constant compromises of fate. Even if they are right, they will violate their conscience and say that it is wrong, just to prevent themselves from being hurt. .
It was when his father gave him a set of utility knives for making leather goods that he realized this might not be the path he wanted to take. He didn't want to waste his life in a small room hanging around with weird-smelling leather. He didn't want to be a leatherworker, pick up the stinky feet of those high-ranking people, and have to carefully measure data for them. . He didn't want to be that cobbler who sold a lot of leather goods but was reluctant to wear them himself, even if a cobbler could make a lot of money and it was still someone's dream.
So he found his biological father, hoping that he could arrange a decent job for him. The man did not agree to him immediately, but asked him to shout "papa", which was what his father meant, but it was more colloquial.
From then on, he got the first pot of gold in his life, one thousand yuan, and a promising job - the boss of a company.
He spent 1,000 yuan to build a garbage station according to his biological father's request, then purchased some human-powered garbage trucks, and obtained a community garbage recycling project in an unimaginable way. He once thought it was his biological father who was humiliating him. It was not until the first month was over that he realized that this was life.
Garbage may seem inconspicuous, but it is indeed the case. The garbage generated in the lower city is always just garbage. But in uptown areas, especially in neighborhoods where upper-class people live, garbage is treasure. Those rich men and their women don't care how many times the clothes in their hands have been worn or whether they are damaged or not. As long as the time is up, they will throw them into the trash.
These clothes, which were worth hundreds of yuan some time ago, became garbage. In addition to garbage, there are also some "worthless" trinkets, furniture and other things. He only needs to transport these items to the recycling bin, process them briefly, and then sell them to ordinary people at relatively high prices. Even some middle class people have become his regular customers. They bought these luxury goods at low prices, which were enough to make them look rich and decent. This was a good deal for everyone.
His garbage station business grew bigger and bigger, and eventually all the manual garbage trucks were eliminated and replaced with better trucks, and the business expanded to the entire uptown area. No one knew about his relationship with the mayor, only their "family" knew.
He once thought that he might grow up in these garbage dumps forever in his life, and occasionally help his biological father, the great mayor, spy on certain big shots, or look for something from these people's garbage. Until some time ago, his father gave him a sum of money to buy some very expensive and heavy machines, and also ordered a lot of materials.
So, he had such a factory, an accessories factory that produced "money".
Everything he produces here will be sold to another person. This person used to be the mayor's secretary, but was fired because he made a mistake. Just like many people don't know that Louis is the mayor's son, these people also don't know that the secretary and the mayor still maintain a very close relationship. He was fired and was just putting on a show for others to see. He helped the mayor deal with things that were not official.
Nanolindes is a mixed bag, and there are some things that are really not convenient for the officials to take action on. For example, some people did not abide by the rules of the city's game. They crossed the line, but there was no obvious clue. You obviously know they deserve to die, but you just can't take action.
At this time, the role of the secretary comes into play. He can take action because he is a despicable villain and even the generous mayor cannot tolerate him. The disputes between him and those people are just anecdotes that most ordinary people talk about after dinner, like dog biting dog.
This led to the twenty-two years of the mayor's iron-blooded rule in Namirindes. He said that he would never go anywhere in this life, even if he retired, he would retire in Namirindes. These words made many people become his supporters, thinking that this is a very, very rare good mayor...
The former secretary who looked very polite wearing glasses walked into the factory from the small door. He glanced at the baskets of assembled tokens piled aside and took out his notebook to record them.
"You don't trust me?" Louis was very unhappy every time he saw this guy using a notebook and pen to record everything he saw here. This made him feel like a thief, and he was still in his own factory. inside!
The former secretary put away his notebook and pen with a smile, "It's out of the question!" In fact, Louis was right. The former secretary was indeed worried about him. The mayor didn't say anything about the relationship between Louis and him, but with the words of the former secretary, With the tacit understanding that he has been helping the mayor for many years, he has already guessed what kind of involvement this bastard has with the mayor. It was natural that he looked down on this boy. Apart from relying on the mayor's favor to contract the garbage collection in the upper city and gaining a little fame, he actually had no ambition at all.
If it had been anyone else, with such a good platform, maybe it would have developed even better. And this guy only knows how to eat, drink, have fun, and wait to die. How could he like such a guy
Garbage is always garbage, and it will not cease to be garbage just because garbage can be sold for money.
"I want to take this batch of goods away. You arrange for people to load it into the car. In addition, after you finish what you are doing now, stop and pay a return visit to our friends to see how they are doing." the former secretary ordered. He walked to the assembly line, picked up a polished chip, and rubbed it carefully.
There is a layer of silver on the surface of these tokens, and they spent a lot of thought on these materials. The large-denomination tokens used in Otis City all have unique features. For example, a five-hundred-dollar token feels like it is made of silver, and a thousand-dollar token feels like it is made of gold. In order to imitate it so that it is difficult to distinguish, they finally adopted a relatively stupid method, which is copper cladding.
They hammered the silver and gold into a piece as thin as cloth, then wrapped it with a layer of copper plate, and then overcame many difficulties. It took them three days to solve the problem of making large-denomination tokens.
These things... are all money!
A trace of intoxication flashed in the eyes of the former secretary, and he soon sobered up. If they follow the mayor's design, even if Nanolindes declines, their profits will not be significantly shaken. A steady stream of cash flows into their pockets from the city of Odis every day. In the past, the mayor did not intend to leave here because of the many interests involved, but seeing that Namirides was about to embark on a path of decline, the mayor suddenly became interested in running for governor.
Running for governor requires money, and only with a lot of money can you buy off key important figures, get those members of the state assembly to cast their precious votes, and be able to produce more propaganda posters and plaster them all over the streets. Only after they have a lot of money can they use money to attract people from all walks of life and check the box that belongs to the mayor in the next election year.
It's good to collect more funds for yourself, and at the same time be able to attack the opponent who has ruined the mayor's business for twenty-two years.
After the former secretary left with all the saved tokens, Louis also put on his coat. He didn't like the former secretary in his mouth and in his heart, but he knew that this person represented his biological father. He had to pay a return visit to those who used fake tokens to see if there was any problem.
At night, covered in cold sweat, he found a phone booth and made a call to his former secretary.
"Coster's whole family has disappeared. Some people said that they saw their whole family being picked up in a car heading to Otis City, but they have not come back yet. He has not called his company, could it be... "
(End of chapter)