Chapter 232: The Stench of Wine and Meat at the Vermillion Gates

In the rest room.

Karl held his wine glass, sitting on the sofa waiting for about two minutes before a young man in a suit pushed open the door and entered.

"Mr. Karl!" The young man nodded at him with a smile - he appeared to be around thirty-four or thirty-five years old and was the secretary-general of Dragon City's office.

"Lu, come sit," Karl waved.

Hearing this, Secretary-General Lu immediately came over, habitually crossing his legs and sitting on the sofa with his feet turned inward.

"Take a look at this," Karl threw the document to him.

Secretary-General Lu took the document and glanced down at it, his expression immediately becoming serious.

"Lu, this is a document Military Intelligence Section Seven sent me - they've already confirmed that since Order No. 1 was issued until now, materials worth nearly 100 million are still continuously being transported from Dragon City into Mofi official army warehouses," Karl said spreading his hands and staring at him. "This document makes me very embarrassed - those idiots at Military Intelligence Section Seven will call me useless."

Hearing this, Secretary-General Lu immediately replied: "The control order was just issued and laborers are returning to Dragon City in batches - during this period, perhaps some lawbreakers are still risking shipping goods to clear inventory, but this situation won't last long - we'll also come up with corresponding countermeasures."

"I don't want to hear your damn measures," Karl waved directly. "What I want to see is efficiency, OK? Lu, this is a serious period - we all need to show some results to answer to those above."

"OK, OK!" Secretary-General Lu immediately nodded: "I won't let you face embarrassment again."

Karl nodded with satisfaction, continuing softly in Chinese: "Also, this document definitely has two copies - I received one, and the Supervision Assembly chairman's desk will definitely receive one! We need to show some attitude to calm the chairman's anger! You know, that guy... is very irritable."

"...Your meaning is."

"Need to arrest some people to show results," Karl shrugged. "You know what to do?! Your people are always as numerous as locusts, right?"

Secretary-General Lu wasn't angered by the other's arrogance and rudeness, but instead replied bowing and nodding: "Yes, I'll have a way."

"You're very smart, Lu!" Karl stood up smiling, raising his wine glass saying: "Thank you for coming to my birthday party."

Secretary-General Lu immediately raised the wine glass from the table, saying softly: "You look as young as a twenty-year-old strong lad!"

"Hahaha!"

The two smiled at each other as Karl said softly: "My subordinates were all transferred from Zone One - they work very hard too, hope you can let them make some money."

"Of course!" Secretary-General Lu nodded again.

......

Five minutes later, Secretary-General Lu left Karl's rest room and came to the first floor hall, waving to several bosses worth over 100 million in the distance.

Several bosses came over nodding and bowing, their fawning expressions and postures identical to Secretary-General Lu's, as if taught by the same master.

Everyone sat in the corner sofa area as Secretary-General Lu loosened his collar saying: "The outgoing goods need to stop for now - wait until that stupid Karl leaves before discussing again."

A pharmaceutical company CEO lowered his voice replying: "Leader, Xinaluo fought hard last year - we produced an extra 40-50 million in emergency medicines. If this inventory isn't cleared out, we'll lose big."

"Yes, the steel and construction materials we allocated are all stockpiled in warehouses too - this Order No. 1 came too suddenly, we weren't prepared before - if these goods can't go out, who knows when they can be sold," another CEO said sneakily looking around, his voice also very low. "Can you give one more week? Leader, within a week, I can definitely sell them out, and they're collecting goods at three to four times the price over there...!"

Secretary-General Lu frowned slightly: "You want your heads or money?"

Hearing this, everyone fell silent.

"Will you die from earning money a few days later?" Secretary-General Lu said with a dark face, pointing at everyone: "Don't make trouble for those above! Quickly stop - wait until the wind dies down before discussing!"

Hearing this, everyone could only nod obediently.

While Secretary-General Lu was talking with everyone, Jing Yan brought Gu Baishun over, saying with a light smile: "Secretary-General, busy?"

"Haha, Old Jing, come come, sit!" Secretary-General Lu called out.

......

One day later, at No. 86 Labor Security Community on Earth House Street in Zha'nan District, Xiao Yucheng had just bought breakfast and was walking home.

This community was built originally to mobilize labor entering Mo, and Xiao Yucheng was quite lucky - because he was in the first batch responding to the call to leave Dragon City, so in the first two years he was allocated a house here. Though only about forty square meters, given his current circumstances, it was completely enough to live in.

Returning home, Xiao Yucheng set out soy milk and fried dough sticks for his son, calling softly: "Come eat."

His son knelt on the bed, leaning at the window looking at the homeless sleeping in the open in the street's alleys, suddenly asking very curiously: "Dad, why don't they go sleep in houses?"

Xiao Yucheng replied numbly: "They've all been forgotten - they have no houses to live in."

"They're so pitiful," his son said kind-heartedly.

With large numbers of laborers returning home, many people weren't as lucky as Xiao Yucheng - they left later and weren't allocated houses, and currently their economic situation meant they couldn't afford to buy new houses, or even bear to rent houses with recently skyrocketing prices, so they could only set up small tents in alleys, simply sleeping on the streets.

His son walked to the dining table and sat down to eat: "Dad, my nebulizer is almost empty."

"We'll buy it this afternoon, you eat," Xiao Yucheng replied, turning to sit on the bed and picking up his phone to dial Su Tiannan's number: "Hello, brother!"

"Brother Xiao! About your matter, I asked many people but it's not easy to handle - you stayed with the Chi Army before, this background is somewhat sensitive - now to get citizenship, must have someone guarantee!" Su Tiannan replied. "But... many people are unwilling to handle this, afraid of getting into trouble."

Having mixed in society for so long, Xiao Yucheng understood the rules very well. He immediately nodded replying: "Alright, since it's like this, let's not owe others favors! Like this - I'll get forty thousand yuan at noon, you take me to find someone familiar, we'll pay money to handle it!"

"Alright, then come find me at the association later."

"Good good, thanks for the trouble!"

"What words are those, hehe!" Su Tiannan replied before hanging up.

After father and son finished breakfast, Xiao Yucheng gave his son a bath and instructed him: "Dad needs to go out later - stay home by yourself, don't open the door for strangers, I'll be back in the evening."

"Okay," his son nodded.

After the bath and instructions, Xiao Yucheng left home with his bank card, planning to walk to the bus stop to take a bus to the Tongji Association.

The sun was scorching as Xiao Yucheng walked quickly along the street for two minutes. Just as he was about to stand in an alley to find some shade, suddenly an SUV stopped beside him.

"Bang!"

The car door popped open and four burly men got out, reaching to directly press down on Xiao Yucheng's shoulders.

"What are you doing?!"

"Materials Control Department - we have business with you! Don't speak, lower your head and squat!" The burly man showed his gun.

Xiao Yucheng looked at them bewildered: "What did I do?!"

"Bang!"

The other punched Xiao Yucheng in the face: "If you had nothing on you, could we arrest you? Shut up! Squat down!"

......

At the navy base in Tianhong Port.

You Yifan said to his follower: "The channel side is arranged at Old Triangle - take the Yu family's people and the garrison's people, make the trip yourself!"