The Nanping Security Bureau is a three-story gray fan-shaped building. In the past, it was regarded as terrifying as the palace of hell.
Today, the floor is divided into two parts, the left office area is the Security Bureau, and the right office area is the Nanping Procuratorate.
In this era, it is not uncommon for secret agencies and procuratorates to share offices.
There are more than a dozen signs in front of the Security Bureau compound, the two most important of which are "Nanping Internal Affairs Investigation Committee" and "Nanping District Procuratorate."
Lu Ming holds three positions: Special Advisory Commissioner of the Nanping Procuratorate, Chairman of the Internal Investigation Committee, and Chief Prosecutor of the Nanping Procuratorate.
Before the Bureau of Secrets was reorganized into the Internal Adjustment Committee, Lu Ming briefly returned to Montenegro to report on his work. He presided over a very important meeting of the Military Control Commission and the Montenegro Brigade in his real identity and made a series of new personnel appointments. At the same time, Commissioner Zhang was awarded the rank of colonel within the military intelligence system, and this appointment would not be announced to the public.
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This extremely luxurious office was previously owned by Chen Rongfu. It was redecorated a while ago. It is less ostentatious and magnificent than before, but has a more simple and solemn feel. The huge black pear wood desk alone is full of oppression. It weighs probably five or six hundred kilograms.
Now, sitting opposite Lu Ming at the tea table by the window, with only half of his buttocks leaning against his back, was the director of the Second Division of the Committee, Jin Buchuan. He was of Jinzhou descent, had an extremely fierce face, was in his forties, and looked very much like the character named Ma Dong in Lu Ming's previous life's film and television dramas, big and fierce.
He was one of Chen Rongfu's two favorite generals and his right-hand man, but another favorite general of Chen Rongfu had been executed for helping Chen Rongfu escape from prison.
Although it seemed to be a trumped-up charge, he was not actually involved and was just victimized by his political opponents.
The Bureau of Secrets or the Second Department of the Internal Investigation Committee is responsible for the special operations team, training department, etc. It is one of the most important departments of the committee.
The uneasiness on Jin Buchuan's face was obvious; he used to be the chief of the secret service armed forces of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, and his new position was in the same vein.
But he obviously did not feel really at ease, as the most common rumor among the public was that he would soon be thrown into prison and executed.
He couldn't sleep all night. A few days ago, when he was sending his beloved wife and son out to hide, his car was stopped and he didn't know where his wife and children had gone. But he didn't dare to get angry, let alone investigate. The only thing he could do was to wait day after day.
Today was the first time that he was summoned by the new commander alone. Even before Jin Buchuan came in, his legs were shaking, because it was very likely that what was waiting for him were cold shackles and the black muzzle of a gun.
Fortunately, the nightmare did not happen for the time being, but sitting in front of Commissioner Zhang, Jin Buchuan still felt frightened.
"I have found your wife and children for you! It was done by the tax police, the inspection team leader Yang Zhen. You have offended him, right? I have arrested him. No matter what, he didn't go through me and directly touched the family files of my important secret service officials. He just didn't give me face!" Lu Ming tried to use logic that these spy chiefs could understand, rather than saying that Yang Zhen was arrested because his behavior seriously deviated from the legal order he wanted to create.
Jin Buchuan opened his eyes wide, "No, you don't want to interrogate me? Detain them and their son for interrogation?..."
Lu Ming looked at Jin Buchuan, "If we want to investigate you, do we have to start with your wife and children?"
Jin Buchuan shuddered and immediately lowered his head: "Yes, Director, I said the wrong thing." Anger was boiling in his heart. If he had his previous temper, he would have killed Yang Zhen's entire family right now, but now, he dared not say anything.
"You, your wife and children are missing, and you didn't even tell the police. I found out about it by accident. Well, you should go back and see them quickly. They must be very frightened." Lu Ming waved his hand.
"Yes!" Jin Buchuan stood at attention, gritted his teeth, turned around and walked out. When he was almost at the door, he stopped again, turned around and bowed deeply.
The phone on the desk rang. Lu Ming picked it up and frowned slightly as he listened to the voice on the other end of the receiver.
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Castle Cigar Member Club is one of the most important places for successful men in Nanping to socialize.
At this time, in a private room, Lu Ming was sitting and sipping tea slowly.
Several people were sitting on the thick and wide black leather sofa surrounding the tea table, some were smoking, and some were drinking brandy.
They are all prominent figures in Nanping, namely Deputy Police Chief Lin Hanshan, Guard Regiment Commander Gao Yuhu, and Finance Committee Chairman Li Tian.
Lin Hanshan was learning to smoke a cigar, while Li Tian was holding a cup of coffee in a daze.
Gao Yuhu drank half a glass of brandy in one breath, mumbling something, "I don't know what you are thinking!"
The provincial government suddenly appointed a special inspector for Nanping and Wanzhou, who was a close confidant of the governor-general Ren Zhonglin, named Sun Chonggu.
The so-called inspector general, as the name suggests, inspects the government affairs of the two provinces. From the perspective of civil affairs, his status is slightly higher than that of the two governors, but he does not have control over the military.
The reason for the change was because of the two wars, and the provincial government had to inspect people's livelihood and abolish various exorbitant taxes brought about by military actions.
The special office of the inspector general was located in Nanping, and Gao Baoshan replied by telegram approving the provincial government's inspection of the two regions. On the contrary, Cheng Dasui remained silent. Seeing that the special office was located in Nanping, he did not make any extreme reaction.
In Nanping Road, this change naturally caused an uproar.
Finance Chairman Li Tian actually had little interaction with Lu Ming outside of official business, and it was obvious that this matter made him worried.
Gao Yuhu had a good relationship with him, so he stole the note from him to buy arms and brought him along. Li Tian also came along, and of course he wanted to hear what Commissioner Zhang had to say and see what the current situation was.
Hearing Gao Yuhu cursing, Li Tian patted him on the shoulder and said, "Yuhu, you've had too much to drink!"
Lin Hanshan blew out a puff of smoke and then started coughing. He handed the cigar in his hand to the cigar girl next to him and said, "I don't want to smoke anymore, cough cough... You, cough cough, go out first..."
"Lao Lin, you really look like a nouveau riche!" Gao Yuhu sneered.
Indeed, Lin Hanshan worked as a foot patrolman and lived in poverty at the bottom of society for more than ten years. Now he has started to learn to smoke cigars and drink foreign liquor, which is a bit like learning to walk by imitating others.
Lin Hanshan stopped coughing for a while, and said to Gao Yuhu indifferently: "This is Commissioner Zhang, I'll just give it a try, I won't really touch these things that stimulate the senses of the mouth and tongue! I swore a long time ago that if I can still do something in the second half of my life, I will definitely live a good life again!"
"Hmph, speaking of this, Old Lin, I admire you. If I had seen you here before, I would have turned around and left!" Gao Yuhu chuckled and raised his thumb, "Let me see, you claim that you will be clean from now on, and anyone who dares to give you a penny will be your enemy, and you also claim that you must abide by a lot of rules and regulations! Let's see how long you can hold on!"
Lin Hanshan made big news recently because he made great contributions in the Chen Rongfu case and his power was redistributed in the police station, making him in charge of criminal investigation.
The head of the criminal investigation department went to visit him at his home that evening and brought some snacks, including a few small yellow croakers.
As a result, after Lin Hanshan found out, he took the small yellow croakers to the police station the next day and threw them on the section chief's face, and ordered his men to arrest the section chief.
For a time, the news spread throughout the entire Nanping political arena.
Looking at Lin Hanshan, Lu Ming sneered in his heart.
How greedy is Lin Hanshan by nature? More than a decade ago, when he first entered Nanping City, he dared to take five out of the treasury of a large bank, which was equivalent to directly robbing money from Gao Baoshan's pocket.
Now, he wanted to be a saint? As a time traveler, he looked down on the world to some extent, and he could not help but use very high moral standards to demand himself, but he was afraid that he could not even live up to Lin Hanshan's declaration.
He fell from a very high position to the mud for more than ten years, but he insisted on patrolling the streets every day as a low-level patrolman, and persisted for more than ten years.
It is difficult to say what effect these more than ten years of experience as a stinky-foot patroller had on Lin Hanshan's psychology.
Could it really become an extreme clear stream
Or is it just a manifestation of a deeper level of greed, where what one pursues has become something else
You can only savor it slowly.
"Commissioner, when will the deputy director of the Procuratorate arrive? I heard that he is Lu Shuai's disciple in the judicial world?" Lin Hanshan asked.
Lu Ming nodded: "Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
The deputy director of the Nanping Procuratorate recommended Chen Qinghua to Gao Baoshan, and specifically hinted at the relationship between Chen Qinghua and "Lu Shuai".
Of the three disciples, he was certainly not the best, but the other two were girls. It would be inconvenient and too dangerous to call them.
In fact, it was a bit unfair to Chen Qinghua. After all, what was wrong with being a man? Originally living in a peaceful and prosperous area, suddenly coming to a war-torn area where you might be shot from time to time, men are also in danger. It can only be said that I am very chauvinistic in my subconscious.
Of course, Chen Qinghua was extremely happy. As a man with great ambitions, this was an opportunity he could never have imagined in his dreams.
It is a reversal of fate for him to go from a newly licensed lawyer to the head of the prosecutorial system in a dictatorship.
Therefore, I am a little worried. Old Gong is a lesson for me. I hope that my disciple will not let me down.
As for Gao Baoshan's intention, it should be to drive the tiger to devour the wolf. For this world with little history of strategy, Gao Baoshan was desperate to come up with this move.
He could already feel that if his strength continued to develop like this, it was only a matter of time before Nanping would be swallowed up by the Black Mountain Clan.
Therefore, he brought in Ren Zhonglin's forces, fearing that the conflict between the Black Mountain faction and the provincial government would soon become acute.
As long as he still controls his most loyal troops, he still has the potential to make a comeback, but he needs to find an opportunity.
He might find a good opportunity when the relationship between the Black Mountain clique and Ren Zhonglin's faction is at its worst.
After all, the situation in Longbei is often changing unexpectedly.