My Wife is a Counsel Chapter 92: Past
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In mid-March, catkins were already dancing on the streets of Shengjing.
It has been more than four months since the four major districts and the central district began to dismantle the barbed wire fences to allow people to circulate freely in each district in October last year. After the initial chaos, a new order has been formed. Moreover, in these four months , factories and shops, etc., have sprung up in several major areas.
The biggest change is in the Montenegro Concession area.
Today Shengjing is mainly divided into five major areas: Central District, Longbei District, Anshan District, Northern Xinjiang District, and Haixi District. There are also two concessions, the Japanese Concession District and the Heishan Concession District.
The Heishan concession area was established in November last year. Longbei District and Anshan District each leased a small part to the Montenegrins. The total area is not large, less than one-half of the Japanese concession area, which is about the same as the small county town. It's almost the same. It was originally all wasteland and shantytowns, but in more than three months, many buildings have been built, including a soda factory and a flour mill.
However, there are representatives from the Japanese Concession who have entered the public management bureau, but the Black Mountain Concession does not have this status and treatment.
Shengjing Public Affairs Board, the full name is Public Affairs Board.
It has always been controlled by Westerners.
In fact, a hundred years ago, the Shengjing Free Trade Zone was an agreement reached under the management of Westerners. It can be seen as the epitome of Western businessmen controlling the northern economy. They set up factories here and their products can be distributed to four provinces. , eliminating many customs barriers between provinces.
Of course, most of the Western factories in Shengjing are cloth factories. Because the technical content of cloth is low, cheap workers can be recruited here to mass-produce it. At the same time, no matter how poor the people in the northern region are, they may have some spare money to buy cloth for new products during the New Year. Clothes are also traditional, and cloth is a commodity that can really be sold in the four northern provinces.
The chief director of the Shengjing Public Board of Directors, which can also be said to be the chairman, Baron Rodson, is the cotton spinning king of Shengjing.
In the past, the public board of directors had seven directors, three of whom were Westerners. In addition, there were one representative each from Longbei, Anshan, Beijiang, and Haixi.
In this way, it is widely representative and coordinates the management of public affairs in Shengjing.
Today, there are eight directors, with an additional representative from the Japanese Concession.
After all, Montenegro has not reached the status of an administrative region among the four major provinces or even the Kingdom of Japan. Its concessions can be regarded as privately leased from Longbei and Anshan provinces.
Westerners who mainly live in the central district naturally agree with both hands and feet to remove barriers and integrate the various districts in Shengjing.
In fact, the Westerners originally represented by Roderson wanted to expand the public board of directors to nine members and add a Western representative.
But unfortunately, the civil strife in the kingdom caused the Westerners to lose a little of their deterrence in the eyes of the warlords in the four northern provinces.
Even the province of Northern Xinjiang, which had been most economically penetrated by Westerners in the past, has seen a surge in the appointment of local judges.
When Lu Ming fled from Northern Xinjiang, the county-level courts in Northern Xinjiang Province all had Western judges as chiefs.
Of course, in Shengjing, after all, Westerners have been in business for many years, and their power structure and economic influence are unparalleled.
Therefore, the Shengjing Central District Court, under the insistence of Roderson and others, still obtained the power to serve as the highest court in the Shengjing area.
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In the rickshaw, Lu Ming looked at the street scenes on both sides. He just arrived in Shengjing yesterday and took a short rest. Today he just walked around the streets and alleys of Shengjing.
Beside Lu Ming, Erika, who was wearing a beautiful cherry blossom kimono, was sitting next to her. In the rickshaw behind her, there were three people, Grandma Camel Dragon and Big Fruit.
Looking at the burly man pulling the cart in front of him, Lu Ming shook his head. In fact, several of the so-called long-term rickshaw pullers in his family were also workers in the Secrecy Bureau, and they were said to be workers, but in fact they all carried guns in their waists. .
His name is Zhang Aming, a student at Shengjing School of Economics.
And his secret new identity is still the spy chief, chairman of the Public Security Affairs Committee of the Montenegro Concession District, commonly known as the director of the Secrecy Bureau.
In fact, he can also be regarded as the military, political and economic leader of the Montenegro concession area.
Because the armed police brigade stationed in the Montenegro concession area directly takes orders from the Security Committee, the brigade captain is the director of the second division under the committee, that is, the operations division.
The chief inspector of the patrol room of the Heishan Concession is the deputy director of the Operations Division.
He is the chief member of the Public Affairs Committee of the Montenegro Concession District and secretly serves as the deputy chairman of the Safety Committee.
Moreover, he also serves as the chairman of the Shengjing Branch of Montenegro Investment Company, but daily affairs are made by the general manager.
The Armed Police Brigade is actually a company allocated by the special agent battalion directly under the 325th Military Headquarters, and then expanded to a total of about 500 people, making it a battalion-level organization.
The Montenegrin Investment Company is actually a company affiliated with the Montenegrin Special Administrative Region Financial Commission, which invests in foreign countries for fiscal surplus.
Of course Lu Ming doesn't like this model where the ruling body has a lot of money. It does not bring much benefit except monopoly and corruption. However, in today's special period, the world is in chaos, and using Montenegro's money to make money is not bad.
Despite this, if you don’t keep an eye on all this, it’s hard to say that there won’t be problems.
Of course, I came to Shengjing not only because it is the center of the four provinces, but because I have a golden opportunity to establish myself here, I must come.
The most important thing is that deep in my heart, there seems to be a voice calling me.
Even when talking about Shengjing to Hanzhu, Bizhu suddenly appeared with red eyes, and then disappeared again.
Ask Liuli himself, Liuli just said quietly, "Tianshan Guards, that is the ancestor of Baozhu Palace..."
Now that I think about it, maybe those legends are not all nonsense.
The most elite legion in the empire, the Tianshan Guards, has always been the pinnacle of the empire. It was probably composed of strange people a thousand years ago.
Usually led by the prince himself, they fight against powerful barbarians in the Northern Territory.
The inheritance of Bizhu comes from the Tianshan Guards. Are the fallen warriors the descendants of the Tianshan Guards?
Those who faced the giant barbarians fought **** battles for dozens of days, leaving piles of corpses. After defeating the wave of barbarian troops that had not been seen for hundreds of years, the broken and exhausted troops returned to the imperial capital, but were defeated by the Western Warlock Legion and waited for work. The warriors who were attacked from behind by the Japanese army and finally unable to recover?
A picture flashed through his mind, and Lu Ming's eyes suddenly became wet.
When I arrived in Shengjing, I seemed to suddenly feel something.
It seems that one can see the setting sun, the broken flags like blood, and dozens of warriors guarding the prince standing under the imperial capital, being shot through by countless crossbow arrows, and finally disappearing in the flames.
On the walls of the Imperial Capital Dragon City, when the Westerners and Japanese finally discovered that they had truly defeated the powerful Tianshan Guards that had once terrified them to the core, cheers erupted like a tsunami, and hundreds of people cheered. A strange roar of pride after being enslaved for many years.
I also seemed to see a few warriors wiping away their tears, hugging their little swaddling clothes, and becoming one with the darkness of the night.
As for Queen Alice, she felt grateful that the Crown Prince and the Tianshan Guards knew that the imperial capital was being attacked, but persisted until they crushed the barbarian army and killed all the barbarians before rushing back to aid with their broken army, thus sparing all the people in the world from suffering. Ku, she specially issued an edict to treat the people of Zhongzhou kindly and regard them as her own people. She also turned the imperial capital into the East China Sea, and she personally took the position of Duke of the East China Sea.
This scene seemed to flash before my eyes.
It’s just that time flies, and everything nowadays has changed a long time ago.
Looking at this long street lined with shops, it gradually seemed as if the asphalt road turned into a bluestone street, and the crisp sound of horse hooves from the Tianshan Guard patrolling the street could be heard in my ears.
Lu Ming slowly closed his eyes, feeling empty and feeling inexplicably lonely and sad.