In the study room of the 167-story mansion, Lu Ming was flipping through documents and thinking.
In the early morning, a large amount of military equipment was delivered from New Newman City to Special Service Group 2. These equipment were more advanced than the original police equipment, including assault vehicles, which were reinforced with bulletproof armor.
Over the years, I have made many friends in New Newman City, not just Denitz, the backstage boss, or just Candice.
For example, when he was trying to obtain equipment for the Police Corps, he often dealt with Secretary Shelton of the Ordnance Equipment Department under the Joint Chiefs of Staff and established a good personal relationship with him.
At Gaston Building, he appointed David to represent him. This guy is good at bluffing and can see the key to solving the problem. He is a good helper.
There are still a lot of talents in the First Control. After all, the people recruited before were the elites among the elites.
But there are too many elites, and the competition is fierce. If you want to stand out, you need the right time, place and people.
Davidt's solution was also good. He came up with a plan that everyone could accept and divided the Crocodile Gang's business and territory among the other four.
Except for Jacob's brothers, five people from each of the other three families were also obtained.
Now David is looking for a candidate for the general manager of the property management company. Naturally, this person cannot be the person in charge of the company because he is half black and half white. In essence, he will use gangster methods to manage the Gaston Building, try to maintain civilized order and reduce illegal and criminal activities.
As for my request to restore the First Control branch here, there will naturally be no decision so quickly.
While Lu Ming was thinking, he suddenly heard a noise outside the study, and it was getting closer and closer to the study.
It was a quarrel between women, and she seemed to have mentioned herself vaguely.
Lu Ming shook his head, stood up and walked over to open the study door.
Kunpeng, who was standing outside the study, had a blank expression on his face. He stepped aside at this moment. It was obvious that he had no way to respond to the quarrel with the woman.
The quarrel stopped abruptly. The two women who were quarreling were Scarlett and her sister Madeline.
There were traces of tears on both of their faces, and it was obvious that the fight had been very intense, but when they saw Lu Ming coming out, they both looked a little afraid.
In fact, Lu Ming had never met Madeline. To be precise, apart from Scarlett, he had never met any other members of Scarlett's family. Naturally, Scarlett's family members were instructed by Scarlett not to come to the main building.
However, Lu Ming had seen photos of her family members, so he recognized Madeline.
"I heard you mentioned me? Do you have something to talk to me about?" Lu Ming asked them.
Scarlett whispered: "No, nothing..."
Madeline immediately glared at Scarlett angrily. Perhaps her anger made her forget that the person in front of her was a terrifying spy chief. She said to Lu Ming, "Scarlett's son, Jack, was kidnapped. The kidnappers pretended to be his relatives and took him from school. They also left a note asking Scarlett to transfer 5,000 yuan to the account on the note."
After a pause, Madeline continued, "Scarlett raised 5,000 yuan and wanted to send the money, but I'm worried that if I send the money like this, the kidnappers will want more money, and they might even harm little Jack, so I, I want to ask you for help..."
Lu Ming gradually understood. Madeline believed that sending money to the kidnapper's account for no apparent reason would not solve the problem at all. It was a bottomless pit. Not only would it fail to save little Jack, but it would also most likely lead to the robbers killing him. That was why she suggested to her sister that she ask for help, but Scarlett did not have the courage.
"Show me the account." Lu Ming stretched out his hand and said, "5,000 yuan. You happen to have this much money now..."
I have just paid Madeline's salary for the coming year, including the salary of the first controller and the salary I paid separately, a total of 6,000 yuan. One amount was deducted from the representative office account, and I replenished the representative office account with 2,400 yuan.
After looking at the account number on the note, Lu Ming gestured to Kunpeng, "It's an account at the Imperial Bank. Ask David to check the account information." He handed the note to Kunpeng and said to Scarlett and Madeline, "Let's go into the study and talk. Tell me the details."
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I thought it would be difficult for David to find out anything. Nowadays, there is no real-name system for bank accounts, and there would be no useful information found in the account given by the kidnappers.
Unexpectedly, more than an hour later, David called from the bank and said that the account was opened by Eric, the minister of Queens.
According to White, the leader of the Scythe Gang, Eric was the mastermind behind the Scythe Gang's shooting of the first control informant.
The so-called Queens Minister is actually the Minister of the Rose Party stationed in the Queens Party Headquarters. At the same time, he is also the Governor of Queens. This is the administrative structure in the Gad Special Administrative Region.
In the study, Lu Ming was pondering.
I was just chatting with Scarlett and asked her how many people knew that I paid her salary.
Scarlett said with certainty that she had never told her family about it, and she would never talk to her family about her role as an informant.
But his son was kidnapped, and he discussed with his sister Madeline in a panic how to rescue little Jack, and only then did he reveal some information in this regard.
After thinking for a while, Lu Ming picked up the microphone and said, "David, check our four clerks, especially Punk."
The evacuation period of the First Control Division was extremely chaotic. If they were interested, these four clerks could have accessed the files of the terminated informants that were to be destroyed as garbage.
As for Punk, it seems that he likes to ask questions without telling anything, and after the Finance Department withdrew, he was hired as an external staff to handle the accounts of the representative office.
There isn't much money in the account anyway, so it doesn't matter for now.
The check I wrote to Scarlett was paid in the name of the representative office. Scarlett deposited it into her own account, and Punk would also have a receipt.
Originally, I wanted to wait for a definite reply from the headquarters to decide whether to restore the branch here or not, and then reorganize the organization. For these few days, I would use these old employees first, as they are familiar with the work.
But I didn't expect this to happen.
If Eric really did all this, he had no regard for himself at all and was too greedy.
"Do you know Eric, the Queens Borough President?" Lu Ming asked Scarlett.
Scarlett shook her head blankly.
Queens is a slum area, so Eric naturally has no ranking in the Rose Party official system in the Gad area, so it is normal that Scarlett does not know him.
Eric must have received orders from his superiors to shoot the informant under his control, ordering the slum gangs in his area to do this dirty work. As for blackmailing Scarlett, it must have been Eric's own personal behavior.
The traitor in the representative office was definitely not planted by Eric, but by the intelligence agency of the Rose Party. However, Eric took on the dirty job of dealing with the informant of the First Control, which also made him connect with the traitor. He thus discovered a new world where he could make a fortune, so he ordered people to kidnap Scarlett's son. In fact, this is probably just the beginning. This guy will definitely find ways to suck the blood of people related to the First Control in the future.
They don't even hide their remittance accounts, which naturally means they don't take themselves seriously at all.
In fact, David also said that the attitudes of the four gang bosses were slightly different from yesterday, and it was obvious that they had not been tamed.
It might be related to the fact that all the police officers in Durant Squad were stripped of their identities. They naturally didn't know that they had other arrangements for Durant Squad, but all the police officers who worked for them were fired. The signal to them was very clear, that is, they were basically alone in the state of Texas, and they were severely suppressed and did not deserve any real power.
Thinking about it, Lu Ming's heart moved slightly, and he said: "Kunpeng, go to the Gaston Building to check if Little Jack is inside."
Kunpeng responded from outside and left quickly.
"Little Jack, was he kidnapped by Gaston's gang?" Madeline's face changed drastically.
The gangsters there are all disgusting perverts. There's no telling what will happen to a clean and handsome little boy if he falls into their hands.
Lu Ming said, "Let's wait and see." He felt a little strange. As an aunt, Madeline seemed to care about her nephew more than Scarlett as a mother.
As for whether little Jack was in the Gaston Building, he couldn't say for sure.
However, Eric would not use official personnel to do such a dirty job, so he would most likely use people from the five major gangs in Gaston. Of course, it has now become the four major gangs.