The Black Mountain Brigade Headquarters is a bunker-style building located at the foot of Tiepan Mountain, an expansion of a building that was built a hundred years ago.
However, during the period when the former guard regiment occupied this military base, a very eye-catching luxurious office building was built next to the bunker. Two months ago, the office building was demolished, perhaps representing the beginning of a new era.
The Inspectorate occupies the eastern area of the second floor of the bunker, and the interior environment is quite comfortable.
Lu Ming attended several military meetings in the past two days. He is a layman in military affairs, so he just listened most of the time.
In the spacious office, Lu Ming was looking through the training plan of the training director Li Tieheng, frowning from time to time.
The training plan is divided into several parts, including infantry training, motorized infantry training, artillery training and tank combat training.
Although I don’t know much about military affairs, I have watched a lot of online wars such as World War I and World War II in my previous life.
Under current technological conditions, infantry and artillery coordination should be an extremely important content.
However, the new army has just been formed, so we will have to wait and see.
The phone rang from the secretary's desk outside, and Yu Luan's voice said, "Commissioner, Lin Dayong is here!"
When Lu Ming was there, Yu Luan and Heitou also temporarily served as military secretaries. When Lu Ming was not there, all matters were handled by the office.
The person who came in was a dark-skinned man in his twenties. Judging from his rank, he was a sergeant, so he was usually a squad leader, a firepower team leader, or a veteran in an elite squad.
Standing in front of Lu Ming's desk, he seemed a little dull and a little worried. The so-called reorganization of the new army was obviously a matter of indifference to these old soldiers. How the upper echelons changed had nothing to do with them. They just wanted to get by and get paid.
But he didn't know what this high-ranking official had asked him to do, which made him feel a little uneasy.
"You are from Jinkang, right?" Lu Ming looked at him and smiled. "Well, tomorrow when my wife arrives, I will go to Jinkang. Since you are a local, are you willing to be my guide?"
Lin Dayong was stunned, then heaved a sigh of relief and stood at attention, "Yes, sir!"
Lu Ming added, "But you are taking leave to go out, so it can be considered as going home to visit your family, but it cannot be considered as an out-of-town job, and I cannot just use you for personal matters. So, at most, this is a friend helping you, and your vacation time will be deducted. If you disagree, I can't force you."
"Yes! Sir, I do!" Lin Dayong stood at attention again.
Lu Ming smiled and said, "Okay, you can ask for leave later!"
Lin Dayong was somewhat confused. In the past, it was common for superiors in the army to assign privates to stand guard for wealthy households. He didn't know what this commissioner was talking about. When he went to do business with him, he had to go back to the company headquarters to ask for leave, and his vacation time was also deducted. He felt that this young commissioner was unreasonable and too harsh.
Lu Ming smiled again: "But when you ask for leave, don't say you're going to do something with me, understand?"
Lin Dayong was stunned and stood at attention: "Yes!"
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At noon the next day, several cars were parked at the fork in the asphalt road leading to Jinkang on the outskirts of Heishan City.
In the black car in the middle, Lu Ming looked at Liuli, who was wearing a red palace skirt and was as beautiful as a flower, and asked, "Is there anyone you want to see when you return to Jinkang?"
Liuli had been a skinny horse raised by a wealthy merchant in Jinkang since she was a child. However, the wealthy merchant and his concubine Zhang were instigated by me to go to Longgang to ask for her back, but I sent them away with 200 yuan, which put an end to this cause and effect.
Although Liuli grew up in Jinkang, she never left the house and obviously didn't have any friends.
As for her family, she herself didn't know. She was sold from one place to another when she was still a baby, and she didn't even know where her ancestral home was.
Sure enough, after hearing his question, Liuli shook her head gently, but she looked out the window with a dazed expression, and no one knew what she was thinking.
"Yes, here he comes!" Lu Ming saw from the rearview mirror a figure running towards him quickly, it was Lin Dayong.
Looking at the watch, there are still more than ten minutes before the agreed time. I am quite punctual.
Heitou, who had been waiting outside the car, came forward and led him to a car behind, letting him ride in the same car with several burly young girls.
In addition, several green tarpaulin trucks that looked like they were carrying coal slowly drove by. They were actually the pistol team, or the guard platoon, led by Lei Bao.
The road from Heishan to Jinkang County is smooth. After all, it is a county with many iron ore mines and some small iron factories. Even if the bosses pay for it themselves, the road must be repaired.
But Jinkang County is similar to the former Longgang County, with few buildings and mostly tiled houses. Moreover, it is a mountain city built in a valley. The Jinkang River divides the county into two parts, and its houses, roads, etc. are very messy and irregularly distributed.
Lu's Mining has a representative office here to discuss the acquisition of iron ore and cooperation with mine owners.
Knowing that the big boss was coming, a small courtyard behind the representative office was cleaned up and all the furniture inside was replaced with new ones.
The layout of the houses here is very compact. There is not much space for a patio in the courtyard. The gatehouse, the east and west wings, and the main house are very close to each other, leaving only a gap for an aisle in the middle.
The representative of the representative office is named Wang Qingxi, a very smart and capable manager who was recruited from the provincial capital by Lu’s Mining.
In addition, Huang Guirong was also there as a consulting lawyer for the representative office.
Lu Ming had a brief chat with him and Huang Guirong. Huang Guirong and Representative Wang had actually communicated with each other earlier that the administrative decision of the Montenegrin Mining Bureau to stop Lu's Mining's acquisition of several iron mines had no reasonable basis, but the owners of those iron mines were afraid and dared not continue the talks.
Especially, Zhu Datong is in Jinkang now.
"The Dongling Mine we want to buy is divided into six mining sections, which are now owned by four bosses. The Yingtoushan Mine in the southernmost part is a rich iron ore section, but the output is very low according to the local mining methods. The price that Boss Li wants is also very cost-effective." Wang Qingxi sighed, "Boss, if you hadn't come, I would have sent you a telegram. I just found out this morning that Zhu Datong's brother-in-law has set his eyes on the Dongling Mine. No wonder this guy wants to interfere."
Lu Ming frowned. These waves of people, as long as they were related to the Hu family, were really greedy. This Zhu Datong's brother-in-law was another new little wolf cub.
The coal industry in Longgang has been more or less settled and divided up, so the new mine manager Zhu Datong's cats and dogs have started to set their sights on the iron mines.
Thinking about it, Lu Ming smiled and said, "Well, you can meet with the four mine owners tomorrow and persuade them to sign the contract. Manager Wang, I don't believe you have no way. Let's do business seriously. In this situation, we won't lower the price of the four of them. Do you think they want to sell it to us quickly? In this way, you can go directly with the check. I give you the power!"
Wang Qingxi nodded: "Okay, then they can get the real money right away, this agreement is not difficult to sign!" He added: "Thank you for your trust, boss!"
Although theoretically, checks of such a large amount cannot be cashed even if they are taken away, it is still possible to abscond with the money if one colludes with the company's finance department and bank insiders, falsifies the payment account, withdraws the money quickly from a different location, etc. However, such a scheme involves too many people, and the coordination must be extremely clever. It is difficult to get away with it completely and hide one's identity. But no matter what, it will cause great trouble to the company.
So even before the agreement was signed, I could write out a check for such a large amount and carry it with me, which shows the trust my boss has in me.
Lu Ming smiled at him and said, "I'll talk to Zhu Datong."