How am I still alive?

Chapter 1958 The Beginning

There are many speculations, each with its own response.

While Lu Ping'an was full of doubts and hesitations about the future, waves of quarrels were also breaking out in certain places.

"How dare he?! This is separatism, this is lawlessness, this is dictatorship!" Criticism and rebuke are inevitable.

News travels quickly these days, especially the actions of the various Orthodox churches.

Inside Wanjing, there is actually a special Religious Management Department, which is a powerful intelligence organization independent of the intelligence department. Considering the actual strength of the Orthodox Church, this is a powerful organization filled with high-level extraordinary people.

Due to its high sensitivity, it is also the focus of infiltration by many orthodox churches into the official system. In a sense, it is also the source of official intelligence leaks. Perhaps, it has essentially become a bridge for negotiation and testing between the two sides.

Generally speaking, even in areas where the Orthodox Church intervenes, they only allocate a piece of land for themselves to play with, and all of it is done "under the surface".

Lu did this, directly starting from administrative personnel, laws and even the military and local security, fundamentally changing the operating structure of a region. To use an inappropriate term, the higher-ups are really not afraid of the corruption and dereliction of duty of your subordinates, because there are cures for that. Once you start to oppose the existing order, they will consider whether you are planning to raise the banner of rebellion.

"I think there is no problem. He has not hidden his goal. He just wants to change the status quo. Besides, do you really think there is anything that cannot be changed now? We have too many old mechanisms that are out of date."

However, doubts about Lu Ping'an did not become the mainstream in Wanjing.

"What era are we in? Do you still say that the laws of our ancestors cannot be changed? Times have changed, and we need to keep pace with the times!"

"What was the time before? It was the era of the Secret Keepers. A dozen extraordinary people in a city could protect the safety of the entire city. Even if the biggest hidden danger, the alien world, broke out, they only needed to use their personal connections to borrow a few strong people from the surrounding cities. The biggest crisis they had to deal with was the evil god crisis of three or five people. What about now? The whole world is coming, and you are still discussing the old system?"

"I believe in him. His record and ministry have established sufficient stability. If there must be a reformer, I think he is more suitable than anyone else."

"Old system? What old system do we have? Our new era of supernatural powers only started fifty or sixty years ago. What was the original configuration of the special forces Power Rangers? Was it enough to shoot a street special drama? In the current era when criminal organizations are formalized and legionized, and when any malicious organization may be backed by a true god, do we still have to follow the old era's 'secret keeping'?"

The "Wan Jing's rebuke" that Lu Ping'an was waiting for did not come, so what came was "Wan Jing's tacit approval."

Lu Ping'an is not the only one who needs reform. In fact, he is not even among the first batch.

However, it seems that he is the only one who has the ability to carry out local reforms and is even willing to spend his own money to invest in his hometown.

Many people in Wanjing are indeed keeping their eyes on him. It’s not that they expect him to fail, but many people are eager for him to really do something. Now that the war is over, it is indeed the most suitable time for reform.

However, Wanjing's finances and military strength cannot support such changes, nor can it afford the losses of failed reforms.

"Let it do its thing."

"Let him feel at ease. Carry out some public opinion control, find some entertainment news, such as celebrities cheating, mistresses fighting, etc., don't let too many people pay attention to him."

"To express our expectations indirectly, how about tax reduction policies? Or, give priority to industrial layout."

Some things are not suitable to be said directly. At least before Lu Ping'an completely messed up, his behavior was in line with the "expectations of the times."

There always has to be someone to stir up trouble, someone to be the fool who kicks the hornet.

".He is messing around. We need to report this to Wanjing."

"A tax-free and inspection-free municipality in an outside region, isn't this asking outsiders to steal our jobs? It's already difficult enough."

What shocked Lu Ping'an and even Wan Kyoto was that the main opponents were actually the locals who should have been the biggest beneficiaries, especially the ordinary people who were expected to benefit from public security, increased educational resources and salary increases.

Were they incited? The intelligence personnel got a negative answer. At least those UP hosts who expressed their opinions on the Internet expressed the uneasy voices of the people.

Life is always full of troubles, especially when trying to change something.

Sometimes, what stops you is not some stakeholders, but simply the inertia of life. As long as it worked in the past, why should you jump out of it?
When it comes to new things, most people are actually subconsciously skeptical or even questioning, and some will even take the initiative to find some "evidence" to prove your problem.

If you cannot prove that there is something wrong with the reforms you have done, then they will dig up or even fabricate negative information to prove that there is something wrong with you as a person.

What's even more ironic is that after a few years, if they really calm down and look back, they will find that they were a little bit arrogant back then. But they still don't think there was anything wrong with what they did back then.

Just at the beginning, Lu Ping'an felt huge resistance, and he couldn't even tell where the resistance came from.

It seems that everyone is resisting change, so Lu Pingan decides to be a "dictator".

"There is no need to respond. When everything is formed and new things have changed your life, it seems that there is no dissatisfaction."

Lu Ping'an understands very well. He respects public opinion and understands the power of the general trend, but he doesn't care so much about momentary opinions.

"Do it before they really become a hindrance to the tide."

Since it was his own special zone, and since the higher-ups had given their tacit approval and even trust, Lu Ping'an took direct action.

If you don’t move, it’s fine. If you move, you’re all in.

First, he bought a large number of water troops.

Yes, water army. In this newly emerging Internet era, Lu Ping'an did not pay too much attention to traditional media, but instead set his sights on the emerging "independent writers and big Vs" and "self-media."

They received the notice given by Lu Ping'an and started to blow it wildly.

"The current extraordinary training system is too behind the employment needs of the 1990s, but our system can only train screws in the 1970s. Doesn't this mean that our children will be unemployed when they graduate?"

"Outstanding graduates of Guda can reach the second level during graduation. Let me tell you, what does the second level mean in a real plane battlefield? When you are cannon fodder, they will complain that you are too slow and too fragile. When you are a porter, they will complain that you don't move enough."

"We need reforms, and we need reforms based on the needs of the times."

"Mr. Panda (Xue En) came back from the frontline. He saw the current situation and was determined to change it. We need to give our children more choices."

Without spending any time and energy discussing "whether to carry out reforms", we directly began to focus on the biggest common concern of mortals and extraordinary people - employment of the next generation!

The first thing that needs to be changed is the education industry, which has been decades behind the times in terms of “extraordinary training”.

Whether it is Lu Ping'an, Xue En, or Xia Qin, they all came from the training system of this era. They are the ones who are most aware of all this backwardness and are also the root cause of the weakness of the extraordinary power in the entire city.

"Who among us doesn't know that this is outdated, but can it be fixed with just a simple reform?!"

But Lu Ping'an said, this really works.

The first ones to get restless were their former principals. The leaders of the ancient city's extraordinary universities all swarmed over.