In the morning, Lu Ming appeared in the Household Registration Department, which surprised everyone.
After all, I heard that this combat hero's eyes were injured and he cannot be stimulated by strong light, so he can only work at night. Although he is wearing thick sunglasses now, it is still somewhat worrying.
There were five police officers in the Household Registration Section, all of whom were called in by Lu Ming for individual talks, and then Lu Ming left.
After returning to the study in Wang's House, Lu Ming wrote a report of accusation, which included what he had heard from the police officers and their personal experiences.
Including how the former Section Chief Li, the current Deputy Director Li of the Second Branch, took bribes when he was in the Household Registration Section.
There were also rumors about the Second Branch Chief Zhou's money-making activities. Although they were just rumors, Lu Ming also wrote them in the report materials.
He signed his real name and then sent it to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
I did this just to see what would happen if I became a troublemaker.
What will the ICAC do in response to these reports, both true and false, about myself
After doing all this, Lu Ming went back to his room to sleep.
…
The helicopter slowly landed in the suburbs of Supilo City.
Supilo is located west of Nicolo, southeast of Xiheishanbao and Batcheng, and is almost in the middle of the railway line between Xiheishanbao and Nicolo.
Near the helicopter landing site, a group of people hurried over.
Leading the group was Wang Qiang, the lord of the city-state of Supilo. Yes, he had a Central Plains name.
A burly man who was at least two meters and three meters tall. Lu Ming was tall enough, but compared to him, he was a head shorter.
But in front of Madam San Jin, he was like a child meeting an elder, kneeling on one knee, which was like pushing a golden mountain and overturning a jade pillar.
It can even be seen that he is somewhat afraid of Madam Sanjin.
Lu Ming was helpless. In fact, sometimes he even forgot that Madam San Jin was actually a very scary person to many people in the Western Regions.
As the deputy minister of the Special Work Department and the former number two figure in the Yellow River Trade in the Western Regions, although she lives behind the scenes, she is the most important driving force behind the expansion of the influence of the Central Continent people here.
The city-state of Supilo is not big, with only tens of thousands of people, but in the original perception of the Special Work Department, it is a very important city-state. It is the throat of the West Black Mountain Fort from the central area of the Western Region city-state. Therefore, this city-state was focused on under the proposal and leadership of Madam Sanjin.
At that time, Hunhuo Luo had not yet risen. Looking back now, it seems very forward-looking to operate this place.
When we entered the city accompanied by Wang Qiang, we found that there were many shops owned by Chinese people in the city. The three-story department store of the Yellow River Trading Company was a landmark building in the city center.
When Lu Ming was busy in other regions, Madam Sanjin acted on his behalf and slowly gathered the power originally built in the Western Regions.
Moreover, Supiroban is also quite dangerous.
After Hunhuo Luo invaded Nicola, it continued to expand its influence westwards. More than 20 city-states had to pay taxes to Hunhuo Luo.
This tax area is getting closer and closer to Supilo.
"Madam, now that you're here, I feel relieved!" Wang Qiang said repeatedly as he welcomed everyone into the city.
Many city-state lords in the Western Regions knew that there was a Lady Sanjin, a big shot in the Yellow River Trading Company, a terrifying and ruthless person who could influence the decision-making of the people in Central China, but none of them had ever seen her. This was also the first time Wang Qiang had seen her.
"There is an envoy from the city-state you mentioned, right?" asked Mrs. Sanjin.
In a city-state called Jiaheluo in the tax zone, the lord of the city-state is related to Wang Qiang by marriage, and now asks Wang Qiang for help, hoping that Wang Qiang can help him and Madam Sanjin. Jiaheluo is willing to pay taxes to Xiheishan Fort, because Hunhuo Luo not only collects heavy taxes like squeezing the land, but also demands population from those city-states that surrender to its power every now and then, which really makes the small city-state unbearable.
"Yes, yes!" Wang Qiang said repeatedly.
Madam San Jin turned to Lu Ming and whispered, "Master, the armored train will arrive a little later."
Lu Ming smiled and said, "You go and talk! I'll take a rest!"
I just happened to go back to "Wang's House" to check. I submitted the report materials yesterday. I wonder if there is any response? Of course, the efficiency should not be that fast.
…
Starting from Supilo and heading west, Lu Ming boarded the armed train.
Most areas in the Western Regions are blocked from transportation, but Supiro is located on the main transportation artery and is one of the nodes of the railway line from Xiheishanbao to Niguro. Jiaheluo is also on the railway line, more than 200 kilometers southeast of Supiro.
The Armed Train is a special combat unit developed by the Principality in the Western Regions.
It is powered by an armored steam locomotive and has several armored carriages. Each armored carriage is equipped with two cannons and eight machine guns located on both sides of the carriage and in the rotating turret. At the same time, military supply carriages can also be added.
Its combat concept is to support battles taking place near the railway line and to quickly provide supplies to corps deployed near the main line.
Once a large-scale war involving the principality breaks out in the Western Regions, the principality's strategic direction must be to first control the city-states on the main lines. For city-states far away from the transportation arteries, strategic radiation will be carried out through the city-states on the main lines. How to control them depends on the specific situation.
It is a strategy of regular army against loose tribal armed forces.
This is the first time these armed armored carriages have been used since they were built in West Black Mountain Fort.
There are four armed armored carriages, including the locomotive, which is operated by the armored train battalion directly under the Petroleum Corps Command. Of course, they are claimed to be mercenaries of the Yellow River Trading Company. There are three carriages loaded with the most elite Tornado Battalion of the Joint Matrix, and the remaining carriages are various supplies. There is also a carriage, which is Lu Ming's living and command carriage, which is also an armored carriage, located between the four armed carriages.
However, this time, three more carriages were added to the end of the armed special train. They were packed with people. They were the tribal armed forces of the southeastern city-states who had come at the call of Madam Sanjin. There were more than a thousand people crammed into the three carriages. Lu Ming went to see it and found that it was no less crowded than the Spring Festival travel rush in the previous life. Moreover, the troop transport carriage itself had no seats, so the space was larger than that of the Spring Festival travel carriage. Only more than three hundred people could be squeezed into one carriage.
The armed train traveled more than 200 kilometers from Supiro to Jiaheluo, and it took nearly ten hours. During this period, Lu Ming did not leave. He was in his command car, listening to the armored train battalion commander Deng Sangong introducing the specific situation of the armed train, and watching the scenery along the way. Time passed very quickly.
When the train arrived at Jiaheluo, the Lord of Jiaheluo, Dajialuo, who had been waiting at the station, entered Lu Ming's command carriage to meet him.
In the three additional carriages, the tribal armed soldiers who were almost suffocating from suffocation got off one after another, like a swarm of bees. The soldiers of the Whirlwind Battalion of the United Matrix then became much more orderly.
In the command carriage, it was mainly Mrs. Sanjin and Da Jialuo who spoke. First of all, it was pointed out that Xiheishan Fort did not need to pay taxes from Jiaheluo City.
Our actions do not represent the Yellow River Trading Company, nor do they represent the Principality of Montenegro. They are just voluntary actions by the people of West Montenegro Fort.
Of course, the expenses required for the volunteer action to help Greater Garo resist tyranny still have to be borne by Greater Garo. If it cannot be paid at the moment, it can be regarded as an installment loan with interest, and the longest installment period is one hundred years. This loan is an act of the city-state of Jiahe Luo, and even if the Jiahe Luo regime changes in the future, the treaty will not be invalidated.
Da Jialuo agreed repeatedly and signed a contract with Mrs. Sanjin.
"Ah..." Mrs. Sanjin exclaimed softly.
At this time, most people inside and outside the command carriage had left, and only Lu Ming was still sitting on the sofa, sipping his tea.
"What's wrong?" Lu Ming was a little surprised. It was rare to see Mrs. Sanjin making a fuss.
"Master, I just realized that I had already figured out what you told me to do last month. It was my fault that I forgot about it!" Madam Sanjin knelt down, "Damn it! Damn it!"
"What's the matter?" Lu Ming was puzzled.
"Didn't the master ask me to help find out about Miss Lashishimi's mother and fifth sister? I found out everything, but forgot to tell the master. Damn it!" Madam Sanjin bowed her head to the ground, not daring to look up.
Ah? Lu Ming only then remembered that it was the request made by the little Princess Nicola at that time, and he casually pushed it to Madam Sanjin, but he had forgotten it long ago.
In fact, in the past month or so, I came here occasionally to talk to Madam Sanjin about the most important things. I came and went in a hurry, and Madam Sanjin had no time to talk about trivial matters with me. I couldn't blame her at all, but now she wanted to apologize to me.
"Get up, this is none of your business. What's the current situation of the little princess's mother and sister? If it's too tragic, don't tell me." Lu Ming was a little curious, but didn't want to know anything particularly tragic.
Mrs. Sanjin remained silent.
Lu Ming waved his hand, "Okay, got it."