Around six in the morning.
Su Tiannan and other prisoners left Zhadao Prison and arrived at Area 1 by boat to participate in community work jointly organized by the prison and the local police system, as well as media interviews.
In Area 1, major prisons will occasionally hold community labor services, with the intention of establishing typical model prisoners in the prison, strengthening internal ideological management, and also doing some legal publicity. Of course, the prisoners who can be selected are also subject to strict psychological ratings, and only those with a good mentality and good performance will be taken out.
You beat up eight people in the cell in one day, and when a prison guard says something to you, you spit in his mouth. This kind of person will never have a chance to get out of the prison in his entire life.
In fact, Su Tiannan's selection is definitely an exception, because although his case is not serious, he is the focus of attention and should not be brought up. However, District 1 is a state legislative system, and each region can choose whoever it wants to favor, and whoever it doesn't want to favor. The local power is extremely strong, so the Chinese old man in prison can help him get out.
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Hanoi time, around five in the evening.
Gui Mengjun stood in the office, looking at Mingming helplessly, and said in his hometown dialect: "Can you stop making trouble? She and I are getting engaged."
"Hehe, look at you, you're taking a joke so seriously, so boring." Mingming chuckled, stroked her hair and replied, "Even if we're not destined to be together, we're still best friends."
Gui Mengjun looked at her and sighed, "Alas, I really can't do anything about you."
"Okay, I won't tease you anymore. Go get busy." Mingming looked down at her watch and said, "I have to attend a memorial service in a while."
Mingming's surname is Fan. His Fan family did business in Vietnam before the beginning of the Christian era and were considered the original inhabitants of Hanoi. After the beginning of the Christian era, the triangle region merged, the Pu regime rose, and the Fan family and the Pu family had several intermarriages.
The most recent one was that Fan Mingming's brother married the daughter of a branch of the Pu family, so in terms of political relations, the Fan family is closer to the center of power than the Gui family.
What is the side branch of the Pu family? Because Governor Pu Yuan has many brothers and cousins. Although most of his generation are gone now, they still have descendants to carry on the family line.
About thirty years ago, Governor Pu Yuan had a cousin named Pu Ming. In the Northwest War, he led a brigade of troops and disrupted the entire battlefield. Later, he was captured and executed in the Chinese area. This man's youngest daughter married into the Fan family.
After Pu Ming's death, none of his children were very successful, and no top politicians emerged. His family power declined somewhat, but even so, he was still a royal relative in the old triangle.
Since the Fan family was married into the imperial family, they were naturally considered to be part of the imperial family's in-laws. It was also because of this relationship that they were able to have a say in the arms business.
The governor passed away, and not everyone could attend the memorial service. The reason why Fan Mingming was invited was because of her brother's influence.
In the office.
Gui Mengjun smiled and said to Fan Mingming, "Okay, go ahead. I'll call you tomorrow."
"Okay, let's go!" Fan Mingming waved at him, turned and left.
Gui Mengjun glanced at him and immediately called his secretary to pick him up.
In the corridor, Fan Mingming walked out while picking up the phone and whispered, "It's impossible for him to change his mind."
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About ten minutes later.
Gui Mengjun got on a business car in the company's underground parking lot, looked up at the driver and ordered, "Go to the harbor."
"Okay!" the driver nodded.
After the vehicle drove away from the company, Gui Mengjun sat in the comfortable middle row seat and sent a few text messages to Xiang Jingyang's aide Xiao Qinglong, talking about the current situation in the capital of Hanoi.
In fact, in just this short day, Gui Mengjun felt heavy and somewhat uneasy.
The heavy thing is that the spiritual leader of the Old Triangle is gone. Gui Mengjun feels sad from the bottom of his heart, because he has always regarded the governor as his idol. This kind of emotion is obviously difficult to understand for people of other nationalities.
Apart from the heaviness, the only thing left is uneasiness!
In fact, in recent years, the status of the Gui family in the political and business circles of the old triangle has been declining. The reason for this is not because the family patriarch made mistakes in controlling the direction, but because time has dealt them a heavy blow.
In the early years, Mr. Gui had always clung to the Pu faction's regime. During the period when the Pu faction's troops were fighting in the south and the north, they provided supplies, money and food, helped in local management, and gradually became the top "aristocratic family" under the imperial power.
But as Governor Pu's generation aged and passed away one after another, the Gui family's political connections in the upper echelons gradually weakened. Until a few years ago, Mr. Gui's eldest brother-in-law also passed away, ahead of the old governor.
This brother-in-law once held an important position in Governor Pu's General Staff and was very prestigious in the army, but life is cruel. When people leave, they are forgotten and there is no way to reverse it.
My eldest brother-in-law had been retired for six or seven years before he passed away. His voice in the political arena was decreasing at a visible rate, and as soon as he passed away, his family's influence would be even lower.
It's not that Gui's father hadn't thought of other ways out, but for a top family, re-selecting political relations is far from as simple as giving gifts and becoming in-laws. Under every power, there are countless branches and vines, and it's not that anyone can make friends with them if they want.
Fortunately, Gui's father's brother-in-law has been responsible for communication with the Chinese area, and has certain connections with many old-school generals in the Southwest War Zone of the Chinese area, so the Gui family has taken the second path.
From a big picture perspective, the old triangle and the Chinese region have an iron-clad alliance, with the former being the younger brother and the latter being the older brother. Over the past forty years, both sides have been in a state of close ties, both politically and militarily.
Therefore, a series of policies in the Chinese area will affect here. So making friends with the top dignitaries in the Chinese area, re-selecting politicians, and improving the family's political weight through external influence can be regarded as a roundabout way to save the country.
Through the efforts of Gui's father in his later years and the political wisdom of Gui Mengjun, the Gui family did indeed become closer and closer to the Chinese area, and also used this power to completely take the lead in the arms business.
But during this period, the Gui family also had the opportunity to expand a second political route, which was to marry into the Fan family, consolidate their local political relations, and once again enhance the family's influence in the form of family solidarity.
Gui's father had also insisted on taking this route, but Gui Mengjun had a different idea. He felt that instead of betting on both sides, it would be better to cling to the Chinese district, stand firm, play the role of a political broker, and gamble on the future.
The father and son had several conversations, and finally Gui's father was persuaded by Gui Mengjun and followed his advice.
This is why Gui Mengjun wants to marry the third sister, because the key to clinging to the Chinese district lies in Longcheng!
Of course, in addition to political factors, Gui Mengjun also really likes Miao Miao. She is very similar to his first love, but she is different in personality.
This would be a win-win situation for Gui Mengjun, but the relationship with the Fan family would become weaker.
But that's how politics and business work. At any moment, you may be faced with completely incompatible trade-offs.
In the car.
Gui Mengjun looked at the phone and whispered to his secretary, "Keep an eye on Fan Mingming. This woman... once she goes crazy, no one can stop her."
"Yes." The secretary nodded.
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Around the Coast Guard Hotel.
Four half-trucks stopped on the side of the road. A man spat yellow phlegm on the ground and asked in his hometown dialect: "Do you want to do it?!"