In the office, Lu Ming looked at the report from Heishan. Although his face remained expressionless, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The first phase of Jiuzhou Group's Longgang Steel Plant was completed, and the first batch of steel was successfully produced.
After more than two years of planning, we have finally taken a small step towards success.
At the same time, quietly, an alloy material factory under the Jiuzhou Group also settled in Montenegro.
What I lack now is time. Whether it is the layout and digestion, the transformation and development of the Montenegro Special Administrative Region's thinking, the cultivation of talents, and so on, everything requires time to settle.
In Shengjing, the same is true. Shengjing can be seen as a condensed version of the story of the four provinces in the northern region. I also need time to prepare everything before I can really enter this game field, but sometimes, things just don't go as I wish.
Yu Luan knocked on the door and came in. "Master, there's a call from the guard room. Someone who claims to be the commander of the Anshan Tangyang Brigade, named An Dashun, wants to see you."
Hmm? Lu Ming looked up and hesitated for a moment, "Please come in."
An Dashun knows it himself.
Tangyang Road is an Anshan Road adjacent to Shengjing.
For the convenience of management, An Laoxi, the representative director of Shengjing Anshan District, also serves as the mayor of Tangyang Province.
An Dashun is the brigade commander of the Tangyang Road Security Brigade, and his immediate superior is An Laoxi.
His surname is An, so naturally, this An Dashun is actually a distant branch of the An family of An Laoheng, the governor of Anshan.
But speaking of it, the surname An is a big surname in Anshan Province. They may have had the same ancestor thousands of years ago, so whether they are related or not is just a matter of that.
I just don't know why An Dashun suddenly came to see me. He didn't need anyone to introduce him and just came to visit me directly. He is quite unique.
While she was thinking, there was a gentle knock on the door. Yu Luan pushed the door open and a burly man walked in. He was wearing the khaki officer uniform of Anshan. He had a square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes. He had a simple and honest temperament, exactly the same as in the video provided by the military intelligence department.
Lu Ming smiled and stood up to shake his hand, "Captain An, I've heard of your great name for a long time!"
"I'm sorry for being so presumptuous!" An Dashun looked Lu Ming up and down and said with a smile, "It's different from what I thought. It's really just as the rumors said. Commissioner Zhang looks too young!"
Lu Ming smiled and led An Dashun to the lounge area. The host and the guest sat down on the sofa. An Dashun smiled and said, "I have an unwelcome request. I'm here to borrow money from Commissioner Zhang."
Lu Ming laughed: "Really?"
This guy is exactly the same style as Anshan Governor An Laoheng. An Laoheng borrowed money from the other three governors, but this guy did so from his colleagues in other provinces.
An Dashun said in a serious tone, "Of course it's true. I have about 5,000 men under my command, and we haven't received our salaries for more than half a year. They were all withheld by An Laoxi. That guy is willing to sacrifice his life for money. Let alone our logistics supplies. I'm thinking that we have to pay the salaries. If we don't, I'm afraid these brothers will treat me like a soldier and kill me!"
Lu Ming looked at him and nodded. In fact, his arrival was abrupt and his words were even more abrupt. He even cursed his immediate superior, An Laoxi, without any hesitation.
However, they must have been forced into a corner. As he said, if the issue of military pay could not be resolved, there would be a mutiny. Good brothers would become soldiers, and there would be no way out.
"Borrowing money is no problem." Lu Ming pondered, "The subsidy for the regular army in Anshan is one yuan a month, right? Five thousand people, half a year, that's thirty thousand yuan."
An Dashun shook his head: "One yuan a month is probably not enough. Didn't I tell you that An Laoxi, that bastard, also gave us too much rations? The brothers are starving every day. I just thought that if the military pay is two yuan a month, we should at least fill our stomachs and have a good meal occasionally, right?"
The income in the Northern Territory is very low, and the consumption for food is relatively low. Daily necessities for poor families are also cheap. However, if you want to live a good life and use all kinds of imported goods, the cost of living will be higher than in the East China Sea.
Two yuan a month can really fill your stomach in the Northern Territory. For example, in the past, adult miners in Montenegro earned six yuan a month. It was a job opportunity that poor people flocked to and coveted, and it could support a family of five or six.
Lu Ming looked at An Dashun and nodded: "Okay, I'll lend you 100,000 yuan first."
He took out his checkbook, wrote the amount and handed it over.
Looking at An Dashun, he smiled again: "In theory, if you want to make money, there are many ways."
An Dashun smiled bitterly, "Everything is controlled by An Laoxi. Otherwise, do you think our brigade can participate in smuggling? I won't do it. To be honest, when I was drinking with my brothers, I wanted to stab An Laoxi more than once, but I didn't dare. I just talked about it at the table. Otherwise, if we were caught, we in Anshan would skin and burn deserters and bandits alive. It's impossible to die quickly! Besides, I've become the brigade commander. Who doesn't want to move up a level?"
Lu Ming smiled, this guy was telling the truth.
While An Dashun was talking, he took the check, looked at the amount, and said solemnly: "Thank you, Commissioner Zhang, I'll write you an IOU, and I'll pledge my letter of appointment to you!"
I came prepared, but the number on the IOU was blank. I filled it out and handed it to Lu Ming together with the power of attorney.
He smiled again and said, "To be honest, I don't have to borrow this money from you, Commissioner Zhang, but after seeing what you have done recently, I feel that it is more comfortable to borrow money from you. Only Commissioner Zhang can kill that bastard son-in-law of the old foreign devil Rodson. Others would start with three fires when they take office, but you came with several bombs! What's more, you are very good to us Anshan people. You helped us Anshan people to fight lawsuits. This is called ethnic discrimination, right? Although, I feel that you, Commissioner, want to use our Anshan laborers to do work, so you win over our Anshan people, but people, if the value of winning over is gone, then it's over. At least in your eyes, Commissioner Zhang, we Anshan people still have value, so I'm going to try my luck too."
Lu Ming smiled: "I understand!"
In fact, judging from An Dashun's personality, he is obviously not a talkative person. He must have thought of all the words before coming here. What he said now is equivalent to opening his heart to me.
Next, Lu Ming asked about An Dashun's family situation and so on, and started chatting casually.
"By the way, Dashun, the frontier brigade commanders of the four provinces also have regular meetings, right?" Lu Ming smiled and said, "Brigade Commander Liu Kui from the Haixi Minjiang Road? How is your personal relationship with him?" That guy accepted 100,000 yuan from an informant from the Special Work Department of the Bureau of Secrets as soon as he opened his mouth. Although he and An Dashun are both brigade commanders, their situations are worlds apart.
An Dashun shook his head: "Liu Kui controls many smuggling channels. I can't get along with him." He glanced at Lu Ming and said, "Commissioner Zhang, I heard that the foreign devils are going to besiege you. If you need my help..."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "That's not necessary."
An Dashun smiled and said, "Okay, just tell me if you have anything to say."