Although he has passed through Montenegro several times, Lu Ming has never really visited this city.
It has a population of more than half a million, but its area is much larger than that of Beiguan. There are very few high-rise buildings. The buildings are dotted on both sides of the main streets. The residences are mostly densely packed bungalows and courtyards, which are similar to the forty or fifty that Lu Ming has seen.
The old photos from the same period look very similar to a mountain town.
The Heishan City Court is a two-story arcade-style building. The gray building looks a bit depressing.
Many times, it is a true portrayal of "don't come in if you have reason but no money".
Lu Ming and his team stayed at the Black Mountain Hotel near the city court.
The seven-story building stands on this long street. At night, the neon lights flash. It is one of the landmark buildings in Montenegro.
The so-called team is actually Lu Ming, Heitou, several personal bodyguards of Uncle Sun, and several representatives of the mine owners in Xiping District.
There is no doubt that because of the grudge between Hei Laoliu Shen Qing and the Jackal Gang, Hei Lao Liu was just one step away from wiping out the Jackal Gang under the plan of the new county magistrate.
As a result, the Jackal Gang's hatred towards Hei Lao Liu also shifted to their hatred towards the scope of the new county magistrate's economic interests.
During this period, there were naturally people who gave instructions, and the Jackal Gang was nothing more than a gun.
For the Hu family, which has gradually monopolized all aspects of Jiangning Province, the appointment of a county magistrate is naturally nothing. The old and confused governor has all kinds of favors, and there are already so many cronies who arrange to come to Jiangning to share the cake.
In fact, Governor Chuckson himself is afraid that almost a month has passed and he has already forgotten where his niece is leaving. After all, there is no telling how many layers of connections there are. If it is really the niece who is truly alive,
The acquaintance had to be arranged in the most important position of the provincial capital. The person sent by a small county magistrate must also be a retainer that the niece can deal with at will.
To the real heavyweights of the Hu family, although Longgang is the capital of coal mines, in their eyes, it is just the four major coal mines. This new county magistrate has nothing to do with them when he goes to plunder small coal mines and is here to share the cake.
There are many, as long as you don't touch their interests.
However, those who rely on the Hu family for food, or those who are assigned to the city or county level by the Hu family, then small coal mines such as Longgang are all golden.
Although Longgang appoints Western county magistrates, in fact there are many Western bastards, some of whom are in the Western states and come to the East to eat and drink. They are just ignorant people, and most of the real elites in the East.
Westerners are just like trash in their eyes.
Nowadays, the Western County Magistrate's agent is very ruthless in his work. If he comes to suppress the bandits, it will be equivalent to destroying their jobs.
However, there are also experts among them, who have been planning an inspection brigade, and now, it has emerged as the times require.
The inspection brigade sealed off all the coal mines in Xiping District in one fell swoop, which could be regarded as a kind of firepower investigation and a thorough investigation of the new county magistrate's relationship network.
If you get a call right away, or even get scolded, then the matter will naturally be dropped, and you and the new county magistrate will be on the same page from now on.
The Jackals are just their guns.
Sitting outside the luxurious suite, sipping tea, Lu Ming pondered this matter.
I came here, from a certain perspective, to defeat the Hu family. According to Christine's expectations, in addition to defeating the Hu family, I also tried not to hurt Uncle Chaxon, at least to keep his title.
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She is very idealistic, but Christine feels that she is in a mess, and maybe there is a solution.
As for myself, I am walking at my own pace.
This place is very suitable to be the base of your own steel empire. Other areas have long been divided up by the steel tycoons.
And this goal must be to fight away or destroy the Hu family. This greedy foreign relatives group has no basis for cooperation with them. After all, this is their world, and they want to take it away, and they also want to cooperate with them without harming them.
Being harmonious is simply impossible.
Therefore, in terms of defeating the Hu family, his goal coincides with Christine's expectations.
Others can only be seen on foot.
"Da da da", someone knocked on the door, and Heitou opened the door. Wang Furong came in, with a man and a woman. The woman was his concubine Cui Shi, and the man was Cui Shi's younger brother, named Cui Xiaodong.
, working in the only law firm in Montenegro.
What is strange is that this law firm is established for the public, and the director of the law firm is appointed by the city government and is a seventh-grade official.
In criminal cases, the lawyer will send a lawyer to defend the suspect.
In this way, it can be regarded as realizing the principle in federal and imperial law that criminal suspects must have a lawyer to defend them.
However, the lawyers of this firm are all public servants earning fixed salaries, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are comrades-in-arms with the prosecutors.
There are also frequent personnel redeployments among each other.
Cui Xiaodong majored in law. He and his sister were both from poor families. He went to technical secondary school, etc., and it was all supported by his sister after she became Wang Furong's concubine.
Now, Cui Xiaodong is working in the Montenegro Public Lawyer's Office. He is just a temporary employee. He just graduated from technical secondary school. Wang Furong spent a lot of money to get him in, but it is very difficult to get the civil service establishment.
Cui Xiaodong has thick eyebrows and big eyes, a very upright face, and is dressed simply in blue cloth clothes, black cloth shoes, and looks very much like the urban working-class young people Lu Ming saw in old photos.
Mrs. Cui kept complaining, "I won't give you any money? I told you to come see Boss Lu and buy new clothes and a pair of leather shoes!"
Cui Xiaodong seemed to listen to his sister's words, and lowered his head in embarrassment: "I, my money was stolen. There was a kid begging in the mall. I gave him a copper coin, and then a bunch of kids chased me for it. Wait until I go inside the mall.
After choosing clothes and paying the bill, I found that my wallet was gone. I thought it was those children holding so many hands and not letting go..."
Cui's eyes widened in anger: "You, you are so stupid!"
Cui Xiaodong lowered his head and did not dare to speak.
Looking at this scene, Wang Furong thought to himself that if this continues, wouldn't Boss Lu look down on your brother even more? He coughed and said, "Boss Lu, Xiaodong's grades in school are still very good. Look, I'm running errands for you and so on."
, it should be okay?”
Lu Ming took an exam temporarily organized by the Legal Affairs Office of the County Office and obtained a local lawyer's certificate. This gave him the qualifications to litigate in Jiangning Province.
Thinking about it, at first I thought I could only assist in litigation here, but when I arrived here, I realized that this is really a different world.
A class action lawsuit was filed in the Heishan City District Court on behalf of the coal mine owners, accusing the Longgang Branch Inspection Brigade of the Mining Bureau for illegally sealing a total of five coal mines in Xiping District.
In fact, there are more than a dozen coal mines in Xiping District, all of which have been sealed. However, only five of them, including Lu Ming, have participated in the lawsuit. Moreover, except for Wang Furong, who is very powerful, the other three are still reluctant to do so.
I just don’t want to get into trouble and stay out of it completely.
When litigating in Montenegro, it is naturally best to temporarily hire a local lawyer to cooperate.
But no one in the public law firm paid any attention to this issue.
Wang Furong, on the other hand, thought of this brother-in-law, and Boss Lu also promised that he would take this brother-in-law with him in the future, at least to the East China Sea, right?
Wang Furong also thinks that this coal mine will be boring if it continues like this. He has accumulated a lot of wealth over the years. If he loses the lawsuit, whoever wants to contract the coal mine will be contracted. He will also move his family to Donghai. I heard that if he has some spare money,
Life in Donghai is very comfortable.
At this moment, seeing his concubine and brother-in-law embarrassed in front of Boss Lu, he could only make things right.
My concubine is beautiful, but after all, she is from a farmer's family, so she speaks more straightforwardly, and sometimes she doesn't have her wits about her. Sometimes it would be embarrassing to bring her out.
Lu Ming was a little amused when he heard that Cui Xiaodong's money was stolen by the beggars.
I originally thought that the young man had a personality and found it comfortable to dress like this, so he refused to change into new clothes even when his sister asked him to.
If this is the case, I may not necessarily agree with him. After all, dressing up and wearing a hat is sometimes also a sign of respect for others and the importance you attach to an issue.
When you reach a very high level, you may be able to wear whatever you want. Otherwise, you still have to abide by some conventional social rules.
But even though the money was stolen, you still tell the truth honestly without fear of embarrassment. This is more interesting.
Looking at this young man, Lu Ming said: "Xiaodong, you can help me find out if there are any cases in Montenegro where individuals have filed lawsuits with law enforcement agencies in the past. If so, find them and let me take a look for reference."
Cui Xiaodong immediately said: "There will definitely be no such case in twenty years, but I used to go to school and read it in the library. More than thirty years ago, a governor came and advocated the rule of law. There were private and public cases.
There was a lawsuit, but within two years, the governor resigned, and everything returned to the way it was before."
"Boss Lu, shall I go to the library to look for those materials?"
Lu Ming nodded inwardly. Although he studied in a technical secondary school, and it was a school in Heishan, called Heishan Mining School, it had a law major. He wanted to know the quality of its teaching.
But Cui Xiaodong was a bit unexpected.
"Well, you go ahead!" Lu Ming smiled, "The young man is pretty good."
Cui Xiaodong bowed slightly, said hello to his sister and brother-in-law, turned around and left quickly.
Ms. Cui over there breathed a sigh of relief.
Although Lao Wang secretly looked down on this Boss Lu, saying that he was just a bastard who ran errands for the county magistrate, and that he didn't actually have a rich family, but it seemed that Boss Lu had many lawyer friends in the East China Sea, and he could introduce his younger brother.
If I go to work in Donghai, the thing I worry about the most will be solved.
"Boss Lu, which famous person in Donghai did County Magistrate Gong contact to file this lawsuit?" Wang Furong asked curiously, although he must have never heard of someone mentioning his name.
Lu Ming coughed: "We'll see when the time comes!"
We can't say we are fighting now, otherwise the families who were forced to come here will have to retreat.
When the court agrees to hear the case, that's it. The petitions have been accepted. If they want to withdraw, they will also be labeled as "suing officials". They will die anyway, so they might as well give it a try.
Moreover, I applied for a secret trial in this lawsuit, which is a special trial method in Jiangning Province.
Not to mention auditing, any news reports, etc., that is impossible, and the trial records will not even be posted in the court. It is almost like a secret trial, strictly confidential to the outside world, and the final file is also sealed secretly.
I will not use Lu Qianxing's name to make this case a high-profile matter, as that will only be counterproductive.
Instead, the trial was held secretly, so that he could have hope of winning.
It should be said that according to imperial law, Xiping District is the place where the dispute occurs, and you can also file a lawsuit in the Xiping District Court.
But he still chose the Montenegro City Court.
Since the Longgang Branch and the Inspection Brigade are agencies of the Heishan Mining Bureau, the Heishan City Court also has jurisdiction.
If I fight this lawsuit in Xiping District, even if I win, it won't mean much. It is estimated that the Provincial High Court will definitely reject it and ask the Xiping District Court to try it again. In the end, it may just be a dispute and become a deadlock, and it will be hung up as an unsolved case.
If you can win at Black Mountain Court, the meaning will be completely different.
The chief judge of the Montenegro Court is named Sharif. He has been the chief judge of Montenegro for more than 20 years and is an old money addict.
In the five provinces south of the Yangtze River, Westerners are usually the chief judges of urban courts. In the local courts of counties and towns, there are no Western judges willing to take up their posts. Over time, this has become the norm.
But no matter where the judges come from, if they have been in these five Jiangnan provinces for a long time, they are all very similar.
This Sharif just seems to be happy and unwilling to return to the southern region.
