Room 207, No. 7, Changning East Road, Xinhu District, Donghai, a two-bedroom, one-living room layout of more than 60 square meters.
Tomorrow is Tuesday, Parliament Day. Lu Ming came here a day in advance to avoid the fatigue of traveling in the morning.
The living room is not big, and with a desk, bookshelves, etc. placed in it, which also serves as a study, the space seems even smaller.
Sitting at the desk, Lu Ming was looking through tomorrow's agenda.
There is nothing else, but there is one item, which is the Anti-Foreign Corruption Act that the parliament has to approve and pass, which will regulate the bribery of public officials of foreign states and other federal bodies by Donghai Company. Correspondingly, those foreign power figures who solicit bribes from Donghai Company or individuals can also become defendants in Donghai.
Lu Ming rubbed his nose. He had come up with the concept of long-arm jurisdiction himself, but it was obvious that power was poison. The East China Sea Parliament was going further and further, and was about to become the imperial police. It was going to establish legislation to interfere with the internal affairs of the states and even the other federations.
Hmm? After this law is passed, if I have all the evidence, I can sue the wife of Jiangning Governor Hu for soliciting bribes from me.
Of course, we still have to be cautious. If the first lawsuit in which this law is used is so earth-shattering, it may cause intervention at the federal level. The Imperial Supreme Court may even rule that this law conflicts with Imperial federal law, which would be unpleasant.
But no matter what, this is a good thing. When traveling outside the domain, there are more and more weapons in your tool basket.
There was a soft knock on the door and Heitou went to open it.
"Councilor Lu, come on, you're the only one missing!" The man outside said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll be right there!" Lu Ming responded.
Several neighbors on this floor wanted to welcome Councillor Lu to join them, but after several attempts, they were unable to get him in. Today, however, Lu Ming arrived in the afternoon.
At noon, he drank the medicine prepared by Bizhu, which was so bitter that it made him want to die. He even vomited and had diarrhea after drinking it. Then Lu Ming hurried to Changning Road. He felt that if he didn't run away, he would be tortured to death by Bizhu.
We arrived early, so the family dinner was not scheduled until the evening.
The Bavarian residential area on Changning Road is home to administrators and junior officials working in the Parliament Building, City Hall and the High Court.
The initiator of tonight's new homecoming dinner is a senior affairs officer of the City Hall, and the client is a municipal commissioner of the Donghai Regional Municipal Committee.
There are three companies involved, all working in the city hall, two team leaders and one deputy director.
Generally speaking, in Lu Ming's opinion, it is similar to the two section chiefs and one deputy director in the central department of his previous life, but in reality, they do not have that much power.
The dinner was held at the home of the senior affairs officer. Lu Ming and Yu Luan attended the dinner. Yu Luan was holding a large fruit basket in her hands.
The senior affairs officer's surname is Liu. The area and layout of his house are similar to Lu Ming's 207. He is thirty-five or thirty-six years old and has a family of four. His wife is a full-time housewife and they have two daughters, one thirteen or fourteen years old and the other seven or eight years old.
It was a typical middle-class family in Donghai, decorated very cozily. The style of the kitchen cabinets and appliances such as the refrigerator and range hood were vaguely similar to the kitchen in Lu Ming's apartment in his previous life.
The host and the children were all dressed elegantly.
The rest of the families were similar, all dressed very decently.
In fact, their annual salary is mostly between 1,000 and 1,500 yuan, and rent accounts for a considerable proportion of their salary.
But basically the husband goes to work and the wife is a full-time housewife. Moreover, they maintain a decent life. Every family has a TV and a car.
So, naturally there is no savings, and basically, the monthly income is just balanced with the expenditure.
However, the security benefits for civil servants are still very good, from medical care to retirement, so the consumption concept of living paycheck to paycheck and even consuming in advance is very popular among this group.
The rectangular dining table was not big and was fully occupied, except for Officer Liu's two daughters and several other children, who could only eat at the coffee table.
Both Section Chief Zhang and Team Leader Dong have wives. Section Chief Zhang has three children, while Team Leader Dong is young and has no children yet.
The other team leader is named Ding. He is not married and is currently on a frequent blind date schedule.
They introduced each other at the table. When it came to Yu Luan, Lu Ming smiled and said, "She is my affairs officer. We rented this place together."
Everyone was stunned.
Officer Liu and Section Chief Zhang were both steady, while Team Leaders Dong and Ding had a playful look on their faces. They naturally thought that Councillor Lu was abusing his power for personal gain and was keeping a mistress here.
It turned out that they all thought that Councillor Lu and his wife lived in Room 207, and that the black girl was a servant.
Lu Ming didn't care what they thought. In fact, after he came to 207, four people would live there, himself, Yu Luan and Heitou. In addition, there would be a rotating affairs officer. The room was too small, so he could only make do like this.
There is also a team of affairs officers who will stay in a hotel not too far away. They will get up early and drive to this apartment to pick me up.
This is the style I developed when I was a member of the Beiguan Municipal Committee, and I can't change it now.
If it were just the Donghai councillor, there would not be a need for so many affairs officers, and there would not be so many affairs to handle.
From a certain perspective, some people think that the Donghai councillors are not as important as the Beiguan municipal councillors, and this does make sense.
However, Lu Ming still retained the positions of the administrative officers in the office of dozens of people and did not lay off any employees.
Of course, they were not idle, but the content of their work shifted slightly, and some of them began to deal with the correspondence matters of the company in which they were officially the major shareholder.
"Councilor Lu, I see you only come to stay for one night before the parliamentary meeting. Normally room 207 is empty. As a lawyer, the income is really high!" Director Zhang said with a smile.
Lu Ming smiled and said, "I just dare to spend money."
In fact, these people working in the city hall are very confined to their own small circle, as if they are living in their own closed world.
For example, Director Zhang, Team Leader Dong, and Team Leader Ding are junior officials, but they have little power. They are more like employees living in a closed ecosystem and have little contact with the outside world.
As for this extremely young councillor Lu, they only know that he is a lawyer by training and once served as a municipal council member of Beiguan, but was dismissed from office. He came in by chance when the regional council was expanded. He has no voter base and has not gone through a fierce campaign. They are afraid that he will be out of office in the next election.
But at such a young age, he can become a regional municipal committee member and a regional councilor. Naturally, he must be from a political family. It's just that his starting point was too high, and he fell heavily. This is a case of forcing growth. In the political circle, it will not be easy for him to make a comeback.
Look at this guy's style. He even turns coming to the parliamentary meeting into an opportunity to meet his lover. With such a ridiculous life, what future does he have
Now he is just a new member of parliament and is not taken seriously by others. If someone really wants to get rid of him, wouldn’t they be able to do so right away
However, these have nothing to do with them. Whether Congressman Lu is prosperous or poor, it will not affect their lives at all.
They can't get any good luck, nor can they get any bad luck, because their life trajectories are generally fixed.
For example, Zhang, the director, knows many members of the Legislative Yuan, but so what? Not to mention, he is just a rookie member of the Legislative Yuan.
Now that we are neighbors, we should maintain superficial kindness. We are all decent people, so we should avoid any disputes in the future.
Now it seems that if this guy uses this place as a place to hide his lover, it will have a bad influence on the children. I still have to give him a heads up. Of course, forget about the first meal today. I’ll do it after he gets a little familiar with the place.
Everyone had their own thoughts, but the conversation at the table was lively.
Lu Ming wanted to take a look at the real living conditions and mental states of the grassroots administrative officials in the region. Besides, it was rare to have neighbors to get along with.
The neighbors in your previous life were not considered your neighbors. You were just a child. Now you really have neighbors. How to get along with them can be regarded as a complete life experience.
Nowadays, I seem to be living an increasingly ethereal life. I always feel that I am not living a normal human life, and there is no sense of reality at all.
Even before anything happens, I feel a bit lonely and increasingly lonely.
Therefore, I felt very happy chatting with them and listening to their words as if they regarded me as their equals.