After staying in Donghai for a week, Lu Ming returned to Longgang.
Today is June 1st, and there are still 17 days until my birthday on the 18th.
At this time, a surveying and planning team happened to come to Longgang. They were the engineering planners who were preparing to build a passenger railway from Longgang to the main line.
At the same time, there are more land leveling construction sites in the suburbs of Longgang. A lot of heavy machinery arrived in the past two days.
The Longgang Guard Company has added a reinforced platoon, which recruits brave men locally. The new soldiers mainly come from the Sansha militia. The barracks of this reinforced platoon is near the construction site to protect the safety of the site and engineering and technical personnel.
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The Lu Mansion in Shilipu is located on the east side of the town, nestled against the mountain and beside the river. Various courtyards, pavilions, etc. are hidden in the mountain and forest scenery. In later generations, it can be regarded as a scenic park of Shili Mountain. However, nowadays, it is privately owned.
This villa has been continuously expanded and renovated by Xu Niuzi's ancestors and the Xu family for hundreds of years, and it is now magnificent. If it were during the dynasty era, a small local tyrant would have dared to renovate a villa of this scale, he would have been beheaded long ago.
The Xu family is also strange. Over the past hundred years, they have made all their money building gardens? It has become so large.
The thirty-six young ladies of the West Palace felt like fish in water here and no longer felt trapped.
Moreover, although there are thirty-six Qing'e, Lu Ming feels that there are actually more than that number. Moreover, it seems that girls between three or four years old and seven or eight years old can occasionally be seen in the villa. They are probably the little Qing'e that Liuli has recently selected.
I talked to Liuli once and told her not to use any secret methods to train girl children anymore. Times have changed and you are harming people.
Liuli said, okay, but if you see abandoned babies or little girls about to fall into the fire pit, just ignore them and let them fend for themselves.
I wanted to tell her that she could do charity, but after thinking about it, this kind of preaching is meaningless, and what Liuli said does make sense. If a woman were to live a mediocre life or see the world with her, which one would she choose? It's hard to say.
Sitting in the pavilion of Changchun Garden, which is halfway up the mountain, there are monkeys jumping around in the jungle on the cliff next to it.
On a small mountain path, a young girl in green satin clothes came up with two men in camouflage uniforms. One of the men was leaning on a crutch and walked a little slowly.
They are Gao Yong, the platoon leader of the county police company's reinforced platoon, and the deputy platoon leader "Hei Laoliu" Chen Qing.
Gao Yong arrived at the pavilion and knelt on one knee: "Master!" Chen Qing was stunned and didn't know what etiquette he should follow.
Lu Ming nodded. There was a secret officer training camp in the United Matrix. Bizhu sent people to participate in it, and then, there was such a group of officers.
Gao Yong was born among them.
The newly established reinforced platoon approved by the county police company was one of the agreements signed on behalf of Jiuzhou Iron and Steel Group and the Provincial Civil Affairs Department. From the beginning of the group's establishment, it had to obtain security guarantees from Jiangning Province.
The reinforced platoon has a designated strength of 50 people, but they are all equipped with the latest weapons, and their benefits and salaries are extremely high. The province has allocated special funds, but of course, there is not much money.
What Lu Ming wanted was the establishment of this reinforced platoon.
In fact, this reinforced platoon has now expanded to more than 500 people, and the food and wages of the remaining soldiers come from the Jiuzhou Group.
It is called a reinforced platoon, but it is clearly a battalion-level organization.
This armed force consists of more than a hundred people from the joint matrix as the backbone, and the rest are recruited from local sources.
Looking at Gao Yong and Shen Qing, Lu Ming smiled and waved, "Come, sit down and have some tea!"
This reinforced platoon can be said to be the first armed force under his control that has an official number.
United Matrix is, after all, a mercenary company and a security company, and the security personnel within it are all private armed forces.
After asking about the military camping, training, and other situations, Lu Ming nodded with satisfaction: "You two are good at both literature and martial arts, and you have a good combination of strength and flexibility. If you work well together, your future is limitless."
This reinforced platoon consists of 500 people. We have already informed Sister Windsor and asked her for money, but it will be paid through the Jiuzhou Group account.
After all, isn't this also to cultivate the fighting power for the heir camp where Sister Windsor is
If someone finds out that you are secretly expanding your military and keeps accusing you of that, Sister Windsor will back you up.
Gao Yong seems to have a strong personality, and no one knows how the secret officers training camp brainwashes him.
It is definitely not some kind of attempt to change the world by taking advantage of racial differences, and it has nothing to do with the previous dynasty. It is probably more like a religious activity.
Lu Ming could only shake his head and sigh. If one day in the future he really had the opportunity to leave a little mark in history, and he ended up making his fortune by spreading a cult, his reputation would probably not be good.
But if you really want to be picky, there's nothing wrong with a time traveler like me being a religious leader.
As for Shen Qing, Lu Ming glanced at him and smiled, "Are you used to the current environment? Can you let it go at the police station?"
Chen Qing stood up immediately, because Gao Yong always stood up to answer questions, so he followed suit and stood up and said, "Yes, I have completely handed over the work of the police station!" In his heart, he was also slightly excited, and felt that he was going to participate in the beginning of some big event, and since he went into exile and became a mountain bandit, he had long been indifferent to life and death.
The phone on the red pillar of the pavilion rang. Yu Luan picked it up and whispered a few words before coming to Lu Ming's side: "Grandmaster, Miss Li Xiang'er has arrived in Longgang and went to the bookstore to ask if you have returned to Longgang. This is her second visit."
Lu Ming nodded: "Let her wait for me. I will go back to Longgang to check on the military camp later."
Yu Luan went to answer the call herself.
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At dusk, Lu Ming's car stopped in front of Xinzhi Bookstore. Sitting next to Lu Ming was a man wearing a top hat and sunglasses whose face could not be seen clearly. He pushed open the car door and got out, bowed slightly, and left.
Lu Ming got out of the car and entered the bookstore. Li Xiang'er was sitting at the tea table in a daze, but she was also wearing sunglasses.
After Lu Ming sat down opposite her, she seemed to come back to her senses, "Ah, Mr. Lu, you're back!" and wanted to stand up.
Lu Ming waved his hand: "We are already familiar with each other, just be casual." He glanced at the sunglasses she was wearing and asked, "What's wrong? Are you being abused?"
I've watched too many movies and TV series. She wasn't the type to wear sunglasses, but now she's wearing them. Especially when she met me last time, the person who followed her to protect her died inexplicably. If you haven't experienced the scene, you'll definitely think it's very strange. Before I went back to Donghai, I specifically told her to tell her husband about it. It was for her own good, but I didn't make it clear for her self-esteem. After all, she still felt that her husband trusted her unconditionally.
It seems that she didn't tell the truth to her husband at first when she returned home, which made the situation very bad.
Looking at Li Xiang'er, Lu Ming said, "How about this, I'll meet with your husband and help you explain it."
For ordinary people, if other men get involved in such matters, things will definitely get worse and worse. However, he and Hu Dingjin are not ordinary people, and he should not be so blind as to not have such a big picture. After all, the organization that assassinated him also assassinated his cousin Commander Hu.
"Mr. Lu, I'm not here for this." Li Xiang'er shook her head slightly.