Shadow Empire

Chapter 317 Thunderstorm
Erwin took Allen to the lounge and told everyone directly that Allen was now the captain.

This has a huge impact on many young people who are still at the bottom of gangs, but it also provides them with sufficient motivation!

Alan has a good relationship with everyone, and because of his special relationship with Erwin, he is very popular here. People keep coming to him to ruffle his hair or give him a hug.

He couldn't stop smiling. Perhaps this is the dream of every young person here.

After Erwin returned to the office, he sat in the chair opposite Lance. "Seeing them like this reminded me of when we first came to the Federation."

Lance lit a cigarette, "Life was really hard back then."

He supported his chin with the hand holding the cigarette, and his slightly squinted eyes seemed to be recalling the most difficult time.

With no money and no legal identity, Lance chose to go to the city to find something to do, while Erwin and the others stayed at the port.

Thinking of this, Lance couldn't help but laugh. Some people welcomed a new life, some people welcomed destruction, but there were also people who witnessed his growth, such as Johnny.

He quickly gathered his thoughts from these divergent thoughts, "We all know Alan's situation, including his family's situation. Did he recruit Beno himself?"

Erwin shook his head. "We recruited them when we were recruiting. They came from other places and wanted to find some opportunities, so they joined us."

Lance nodded noncommittally, "And the other two people around Alan, check them all."

Erwin became a little worried, "Are you saying they might be undercover?"

I learned the word undercover from Lance. It means a lurker who collects intelligence.

Lance neither admitted nor denied it. "We now have two undercover agents. One is sent by the Hazardous Materials Administration, but we don't know who the other one is. I even suspect that we might have made a mistake in our target."

"So we can't rule out the possibility that they will send some undercover agents in. This incident was a bit of a coincidence. I had just arranged for Alan to help solve the problem when Beno discovered a bar belonging to the Wolf Gang."

"I'm not saying there's something wrong with these two things, I just think they're too coincidental."

"So if you check it out, we can feel more at ease."

"If they have no problems, we can assign them more important work. Promoting brotherhood is the right thing to do."

"If each of them can go a little further, it will be enough to set an example for others!"

Lance spread his hands. "I've heard some people complain that they felt they joined us later, so they didn't have much of a chance."

"Alan is a good choice. It lets them know that as long as they have good enough abilities or can establish merits for us, they can also be promoted quickly."

"Captain, senior officer, or something."

The purpose of the ladder is to enable people to stably exert their own value and role and find their own suitable position. This is actually the same as the current federal education.

Although federal high schools are still teaching knowledge responsibly, the intensity is not as high as before.

The issue of education reform has been raised again and again, and the reason is simple.

Children from upper-class families can easily go to prestigious universities with letters of recommendation even if they have blank test papers, and then work for large companies or political groups.

On the contrary, students who study hard may not necessarily receive corresponding positive and negative feedback.

Federal universities never simply determine whether a person is eligible to enter university based on academic performance. Family background is sometimes more important than academic performance.

Those who were admitted without taking an entrance exam because they had a rich social life, sang well, could fry their own steak, or had letters of recommendation from famous alumni, no one ever considered whether their grades were suitable.

Even if ordinary people are lucky enough to meet all the conditions, do they have the money to go to school?
In fact, this has never been an ideal country, never!

What Lance needs is not a gang without vitality, which will eventually make everyone dissatisfied.

What he needs is a vibrant place where people know that as long as they give, they will be rewarded. This will make everyone more united.

Erwin nodded. "No problem. I'll arrange it."

After finishing this topic, Lance asked about the situation at the labor agency. The money Lance spent had paid off, and Lawyer Robben had already sent the invitation letter.

He also asked Officer Braden to solve Sean's identity-

Out of Lance's consideration, Officer Braden only charged fifteen hundred dollars.

Something that originally cost only a few hundred dollars quickly became worth thousands of dollars. The families of the lost children are not fools, and they probably didn't know at first that this business could be so profitable.

But when some people started thinking about doing these things without Officer Braden's knowledge, and when word spread quickly in a small area, more and more people knew about it.

There are many people and few resources. In a seller's market, those families who have ways to get people settled will no longer be satisfied with the benefits of 200 yuan. They want more benefits.

Five hundred, eight hundred, one thousand, and now it’s fifteen hundred.

He quoted outsiders between eighteen and two thousand dollars, and he could make a profit of three to five hundred dollars. This made Officer Braden live a very comfortable life, and not just him.

Many police officers in other districts who can do this are doing so, and everyone is trying to put money in their own pockets.

Lance had a lot of reliable connections in the police force, and in just two days, Sean became a native of the Commonwealth.

Of course, he and other native federal people have roughly the same situation. They were abducted as children, and now that they have grown up, they have run back.

After Sean left the labor agency, the work there became a pressure. Alvin was very familiar with the dock, and no one else was suitable for this job except him.

The two were chatting about something when Morris pushed the door open and said, "I heard you were looking for me?"

Lance asked him to sit down and gave him an address, "Go check this place out, one of our people said there's a bar belonging to the Wolf Gang here, see if it's true."

"If so, let them be finished off in the next few days."

Morris glanced at the address in his hand and nodded, "I see."

Lance asked another question, "Have the people around Jobaf made any moves in the past two days?"

The people from the Wolf Gang have been following Mr. Jobaf, so even if Lance wanted to take action, it would be difficult to do so.

They always appear in crowded places, and most of the time Mr. Jobaf himself appears.

Erwin stuck the cigarette into the ashtray several times to make sure it was completely extinguished, and asked, "Want to find an opportunity?"

Lance thought about it, then finally shook his head.

It's not that he was unwilling to take action against Mr. Jobaf. When he recruited the people from the Wolf Gang, it meant that there was no longer any friendship between the two sides.

He didn't take action because he considered many complicated issues.

The way this society operates is not simple.

The mayor was there.

He drives to and from get off work every day, and most of the time he doesn't bring bodyguards with him. Not to mention the five major families, even Lance would have a way to arrange for someone to kill him.

But the war between the five major families and the mayor has already broken out until now, why hasn't anyone suddenly stood up and killed him?

If the mayor could die, Lance believed that Paul, Keane, Tita and other families would be very happy to do so.

Or they are willing to pay a large sum of money to hire a killer to get rid of the mayor.

But still no one did it, because they all knew it, including the mayor himself.

Once the mayor dies, problems will become serious!

At that time, higher-level forces will begin to intervene and eventually purge the restless forces in the entire Jingang City. After all, this country belongs to the group of people who sat together and watched a certain gentleman announce the establishment of the Federation. It belongs to their families and their descendants. As long as their rules of the game are not violated, they don't mind making the Federation a holy place for people to pursue freedom!

But if someone breaks these rules, the foundation of their rule will be shaken, and their rule will gradually disintegrate!

So they will not allow this to happen. At that time, the five major families in Jingang City will have to face the federal army.

Many people think that the Union Army is not very good. They will make jokes about the Army, and some people even say that they are actually evolved from the slave owners' slave-catching teams.

Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility of such a situation, but after all, they are the army!
As long as you don't think about rebellion and independence, no one in this country can match the military.

You can't use such simple and direct violence against the mayor, and the same goes for most politicians.

Throughout history, those presidents who were assassinated were not assassins or gangsters.

Because they can't do that.

The people who really created all this were their once close political partners, who could sit at the same table with them, and even their normal masters!
Everything else is nothing more than tools and means.

The tools may not be that easy to use, but they must not prick your hands, let alone break your hands.

The five major families were unwilling to be the tools that would prick their hands, and Lance was also unwilling to be one.

As for the police chief?
I have never seen anyone really treat the police chief as a politician. He is just a tool of their rule!
“There’s still a little over two months until the election (in October), so we can wait a little longer.”

"But we can first give the Wolf Gang some trouble to verify the situation at the bar."

After the chat, the three of them went their separate ways. Morris had a lot of people under his control, and his network was no longer limited to the Imperial District.

Residents of the Imperial District also need to work, to go to the ports, to the docks, to the factories, and to other places.

Some of them can provide intelligence to Morris and are not easily discovered. This is the biggest difference between him and Bolton.

Bolton's current tentacles can only reach within the Empire zone. Outside the Empire zone, he becomes a blind man. However, each of them has their own role and value. We cannot say that Bolton is useless, or that Morris is useless, because of a single reason.

When Morris was about to verify whether the bar that Beno mentioned really existed, the remaining people in Balz Investment Bank gradually realized that something was wrong.

Almost a week has passed, and the few people who left earlier have not sent any message back yet. Even if there is no direct telephone line to the federation where they went, it should be possible to send a telegram, right?
Moreover, the places they went to were not very primitive places with convenient means of communication.

But it's been almost a week and they haven't sent any news back. It makes people feel that something is not right.

We have been working together for such a long time and we know each other very well.

In addition to the disappearance of two people before, those who stayed in the Federation and planned to make the last ounce of money also vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

Once people start to question, even if they discover the truth, they will continue to question it, and even question whether the truth is the real truth!

This is how intelligent animals are. The more they think, the more frightened they become, and the more anxious they become.

On the contrary, animals that have little intelligence and rely on instinct do not have so many worries.

Several people made a lot of money in the past few days. Finally, they discussed it and decided to run away.

In the morning, they arranged for someone to go to Jingang Bank and submit a transfer application. This time they used plan B and decided to go to another place.

Very large transfers definitely need to be approved by the bank in person. In the office, the bank president looked at the guy across the desk with a smile.

In terms of "position", this person is the director of the asset management department of Baltz Investment Bank, and can be said to be a person of high power.

"Mr. Minister, can you tell me why all this money has to be transferred away?"

The president smiled and said, "I noticed that if you transfer all this money, there won't be much money left in your investment bank's account."

The minister had done sufficient homework before coming. "We will inject new funds before the 25th. This money will be transferred to the headquarters account for overseas investment."

"It will not actually affect the company's operations, and there are still hundreds of thousands of liquidity in the account, which is enough to support us in dealing with various special situations."

The bank president nodded noncommittally. "I have also been paying attention to the development of your investment bank recently. I noticed something very interesting. You don't seem to have any investment projects in the Federation."

"But you have many investment projects abroad. Why is that?"

"The economic development of the Federation is obviously better than that of other countries. I don't quite understand why you are doing this."

“Give up investing in places that clearly have more advantages and invest in places that have no advantages.”

The minister felt that this was a bit troublesome, but fortunately he was also professional in this area. "We are very worried about the subsequent economic development trend of the federation, and you know that huge investments are not a simple matter."

"We need to make a comprehensive assessment before we can make a decision, but at present the federal economy has flatlined, and some regions have even reported a decline in economic development."

"In this case, in order to ensure the interests of ourselves and our investors and be responsible for our money, we can only and must choose more advantageous regions and assets for investment. I hope you understand."

There are problems with this statement, but they are not that big, and the president was just trying to put pressure on him. He was not really asking questions, so he couldn't speak.

He curled his lips, revealing an attitude of disagreement, "I still believe that the Federation is the future!" He paused, "Okay, I agree to your application..."

After returning to the company from the bank, the minister told others about his concerns, "Maybe we have been too popular recently. When I talked to the president about the transfer just now, he didn't agree immediately, but was a little skeptical. Fortunately, I fooled him."

"We have to leave as soon as possible. This place is becoming increasingly unsafe. If they don't let us leave, we're doomed!"

At this point, some people have actually begun to regret not leaving before, but they are not particularly regretful because the first group of people who left have lost contact.

The unknown is the core of fear. If they knew what happened to these people, even if it was a bad thing, they wouldn't be so afraid.

But it is precisely because we don’t know that we feel uneasy and afraid.

In the afternoon, after confirming from the bank that the money had been transferred, the group bought boat tickets to leave in the early morning of the next day.

This will be their last day in the Federation. Although they all know that if they continue to do this, they will receive a large amount of funds, but they are not sure whether this money will eventually belong to them.

But now they have made a lot of money, enough for them to squander for a lifetime!
They indulged themselves. There was no shortage of girls in Jingang City who were willing to do anything for money. They held a farewell party. Of course, this was just their own idea and they would not tell anyone.

It was not until late at night that I fell into a deep sleep.

In the early morning, before daybreak, they rubbed their eyes and drove their luxury cars to the dock. It was so quiet here that it gave them a sense of security.

There was a cruise ship docked at the pier, with lights on and people boarding from time to time.

After confirming their tickets, they boarded the ship, and were about to end their lives with their beautiful dreams for the future!

Those killers have been waiting on the boat for a long time. What the masters in the Bay Area need is a group of underwater ghosts who keep their secrets and keep their mouths shut forever, not the living ones!
Secondly, Barbara came to the company early in the morning. She was a little... excited!
William convinced her father to give up the idea of ​​further raising the stakes, but Barbara thought it was a wrong decision.

But the money in the family was basically in the hands of her parents, so she actually had no money.

But she didn't want to give up this opportunity, so she used her previous product purchase records, borrowed some money from someone, and then invested that money.

It’s not a lot of money, but it’s not a small amount either, 60,000 yuan.

She has already received 9,000 yuan, and by the end of the month, she will still have 9,000 yuan.

She thought William was ridiculous and felt very sorry for him, as well as other people in the family who had not invested. They missed an opportunity to make a fortune!

They don't understand finance at all!

When she arrived at her post, she found the manager and several supervisors standing in the hall, frowning and discussing something.

She came closer with some curiosity, "Gentlemen, what happened?"

(End of this chapter)