The conscience of heaven and earth, Gu Kun is really unaware of all the details of what happened in Lanfang recently.
Just like Zhu Jingye wanted Qu Gang to torture and collect evidence at the beginning. The forced confession itself was indeed what Zhu Jingye wanted, but when the person got into trouble and caused a big fuss, it was definitely because Qu Gang and Yu Weilie were temporarily riding a tiger in a difficult situation, which led to their heavy handedness.
This is really not Zhu Jingye’s original intention.
When Gu Kun deliberately tried to show off his weakness to the enemy, he also thought that Zhu Jingye would take advantage of the weakness and attack, and even cause his men to suffer temporary physical pain.
But it was beyond Gu Kun's imagination that one of his subordinates would be harmed so seriously.
His original intention was, at best, to operate like those cases where he countersued the evidence collectors for torture, and at the same time secretly compensate his subordinates ten times or twenty times the cost of the decoction for injuries.
Therefore, the temporary counterattack on the dock was indeed due to Long Wu's own sense of crisis and his passion. He learned that "his subordinates have been raped, but it is absolutely impossible to make the other party pay for their lives through legal procedures", so he made a decisive move.
got this vote.
Of course, Long Wu believed that after he did this, his boss would not treat him badly.
Because if Qu Gang and Yu Weilie were allowed to go unpunished, or if they were dismissed and spent a few years in prison, then Long Wu would never be able to lead a team under his boss again, because no one would obey him.
Long Wu would rather choose to never return to Lanfang for the rest of his life and drift on a foreign ship, but also to establish his prestige in the world of "I will stand up for my subordinates".
Of course, some people may wonder: Since in a foreign barbarian country like Lanfang, if something happens, you can flee overseas, wouldn't it have been completely chaotic long ago? A little grudge can be solved by force, and then the bottom of your feet
Are you going to abandon your ancestral property and run away?
But in fact it won't be that simple, because if Zhu Jingye's people were seeking revenge in private today, he probably wouldn't be able to escape. Zhu Jingye is just a local tyrant among the contractors. He doesn't have an ocean-going ship at hand, and he doesn't know how to go abroad.
channel.
It would be much easier for the people of Sawuyang if they did this. Even if Long Wu jumped into a gang and escaped on a Sa family foreign trade ship while escaping in a small boat, I believe the people of Sawuyang would turn a blind eye.
One eye pretended not to see it. (If Zhu Jingye’s men committed the crime and escaped to Savuyang’s ship, they would have been “twisted” in minutes)
In addition, as mentioned above, Lanfang also has a maritime patrol of about the size of a company controlled by the Grand Duke's cronies, equipped with two gunboats and several patrol boats.
The coast guard force has a better relationship with Savu Yang and a worse relationship with Zhu Jingye, but in general it is relatively fair and only loyal to the Grand Duke himself. This ensures that "fleeing overseas after committing a crime" will not happen often.
occur.
These are just speculations and inferences and do not mean that these things will actually happen.
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On the other side, Zhu Jingye and Sa Wuyang were both summoned to the Duke's Mansion.
The Duke's Palace is the most luxurious building complex on Lanfang Island. It consists of seven or eight buildings. It imitates the style of the Ryukyu Royal Palace. They are all traditional Chinese palace buildings. Most of the buildings have only one floor, and the palace walls and gardens take up a total of
Sixty or seventy acres of land.
The reason why we want to imitate the Ryukyu Royal Palace is because we are afraid of exceeding the regulations. Because the canonization level of Grand Duke Ranfang since ancient times is at most equivalent to that of a county prince, so the palace cannot be too impressive.
When Lanfang became independent more than ten years ago, the only Ming-style royal palaces that still existed in the world and could be used as references were Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul and Shuri Castle in Okinawa.
Gyeongbokgung Palace is at the level of the Prince's Palace, which is too high-end, and Keyland doesn't have that much money, so after going abroad for some inspections, I made a copy of Shuri Castle.
For this mansion, hundreds of millions of royal property have been spent over the years, accounting for nearly half of the royal family's income.
Zhu Jingye and Sa Wuyang were quickly led by the guards to the Ideological and Political Hall, the main hall of the Duke's Palace, to wait.
This is a building with double eaves on the top of the hill. (The royal palace used the top of the hill with double eaves, and the roof of the veranda was not dared to be used. It was used by the emperor. The Hall of Supreme Harmony is the top of the verandah with double eaves. Gyeongbokgung Palace and
The main hall of Shuri Castle only dares to use double eaves to rest on the top of the mountain.)
After a while, an old man in his early sixties walked gracefully to the gold-covered chair in the middle of the hall and sat down, giving Sa Wuyang and Zhu Jingye a free gift.
It's just a courtesy, not a kneeling, because we are already a modern country, so there is no need to kneel. All you need to do is bow slightly when you see the monarch.
This old man is, of course, the current Grand Duke Zhu Youdong.
He was able to restore the country under the colonization of the Bretons, so he naturally had two brushes in his skills, so he was more diligent in his work, his observation skills were also keen, and he was not easily deceived.
The name Zhu Youdong was obviously chosen because his family always followed snakes with sticks, so he took advantage of the situation after being given the national surname by Emperor Yongli three hundred years ago.
According to the descendants of the Yan family set by Zhu Yuanzhang at that time, "Gao Zhan Qi Jianyou, Hou Zai Yi Chang You, Ci He Yi Bo Zhong, Jian Jing Di Xian You", when the Ming Dynasty fell, Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang (also Chongzhen Zhu Youjian)
(By), we have only used the 10th word "You", and it has taken 300 years.
So it took Lanfang another 300 years to use up the last ten characters, and by Zhu Youdong's generation, he had just used the 20th word "猷". As for how Zhu Youdong's descendants would be named in the future, Zhu Yuanzhang did not think of it at the time.
It's so far away, so it's okay.
The third character in his name is also chosen according to the five-element radical cycle of "fire, earth, metal, water, and wood." His generation is 10 generations different from Emperor Yongli, so there are exactly two five-element cycles, and the radical of his name is also
Just like school, inspection, and lang, they are next to the wooden characters.
As for daughters, they do not need to follow the character generation, but they must also follow the radical rules, so the name of the little princess Zhu Youdong is next to the character for fire.
Before coming, Zhu Youdong had already understood the situation a little bit, but at this moment, Zhu Jingye and Sa Wuyang still had to be given a chance to make their own statements.
The two of them briefly talked about the latest developments outside. In their speeches, they definitely took credit and passed the responsibility to the other party.
After Zhu Youdong listened quietly, he expressed his position without anger:
"Jingye, in the final analysis, you are the one who caused this disaster! You don't want me to be involved in choosing sides with foreign forces. I understand this, but you actually caused the death of a foreigner. I won't punish you severely."
How can you calm down the trouble!"
Although the employees of Blackwater Security are Gu Kun's employees, they are still foreign workers. If Zhu Jingye can catch the other party's suspicion of foreign espionage, then of course he can be justified. If he doesn't catch it, he will just wait for the backlash.
Zhu Jingye couldn't help but feel aggrieved: "Now two of our people are dead! And this matter really has nothing to do with me. Uncle, you must be aware that it was Qu Gang who acted rudely."
Zhu Youdong waved his hand decisively: "Justice is justice, and international relations is international relations! In terms of justice, you can distance yourself, but we have to give an explanation to foreign investors. As for Qu Gang being sought for revenge, that is another matter.
It's a grudge between Lanfang people and Lanfang people, and it's an ordinary criminal matter."
Sa Wuyang listened to the side and secretly rejoiced slightly, but asked with an expression of concern for the country and the people: "The top priority now is to suppress the matter first. I don't know how to deal with it?"
Zhu Youdong thought for a while and told Sa Wuyang: "Go and tell the person in charge of COSCO that our Lanfang side will further liberalize access to private capital in the field of infrastructure investment. As for foreign investment, it depends on him and the specific private sector.
The cooperation model of capital is not open directly for the time being.
In the future, those infrastructure projects that cannot be operated commercially must still be led by the relevant construction departments, planned, and reviewed. As for infrastructure projects that can be operated commercially, such as toll roads, bridges, and hydropower projects, the "approval" can be changed to "filing", prerequisites
It does not use 100% state-owned funds, and all private capital is raised by itself, including private capital raising foreign capital."
Zhu Youdong believes that such concessions should calm the emotions of Chinese investors.
What he said is more theoretical. Translated in human terms, it means that in the future, urban roads, urban appearance and municipal administration, which are not profitable infrastructure, will still require official approval and official funding.
However, commercial ports and airports, highway cross-sea bridges that collect tolls, power plants and water plants, telecommunications and mobile phones and other "infrastructure projects that can be repaid through operation" have all changed "approval" to "recording".
If you think you can make money, you can form a joint venture with a country's private enterprise, or inject capital through the shell of a country's private enterprise to invest and operate.
The strictness of registration is of course much looser than the approval process, which is a great benefit to foreign capital.
In addition, the reason why Zhu Youdong only liberalized private capital and did not directly liberalize foreign capital was actually for the benefit of foreign capital. I believe that China and COSCO can appreciate Zhu Youdong's painstaking efforts and goodwill.
Because after the policy directly opens up foreign investment, all foreign investment must be treated equally. If Chinese capital can come, so can Britannian capital.
Once the threshold of "foreign capital must borrow the shell of private capital" is set, we will have to look at who "private capital representatives" such as Gu Kun, Savouyang, and Zhu Jingye are willing to cooperate with. If Gu Kun, Savouyang, and others hate Brittany
Man, if you don’t give Breton people a chance, then Breton companies won’t be able to get in.
This is a firewall that allows private investors to choose which countries are friendly to foreign investment.
COSCO is probably eager for Zhu Youdong to do this.
But Zhu Jingye felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave: In this way, the power at his hand was directly reduced by nearly half!
From now on, it is estimated that he can only monopolize urban roads and residential real estate in Lanfang, while other engineering markets will be eroded by Savuyang and the foreign capital behind Savuyang!
Unless, Zhu Jingye also colludes with foreigners.
But COSCO will definitely not cooperate with him.
Unless he goes to collude with the Bretons.
But he thought he was still a member of the "clan", so how could he have the nerve to collude with the former colonizers like a traitor like Chen Mingcheng?
He also knew that his cousin hated the Brittany people the most. After all, his three children died at the hands of the Brittany people. Even if Zhu Jingye put down his old face and colluded with the Brittany people, he could not let him
The cousin knew, otherwise he would definitely have no inheritance rights in the future.
"Jingye, you should go back and reflect first. For other matters, let the relevant departments handle official matters!"
Zhu Jingye was still hesitating, but Zhu Youdong told him to retreat.
Zhu Jingye retired with a gloomy expression.
After watching his nephew leave, Zhu Youdong asked his brother-in-law: "When will that Gu Kun come back? Do you think he is reliable? Both you and I have children who died at the hands of the Bretons. What is your attitude towards me?"
Also known all along:
I actually don’t object to being pro-China. What I object to is that when the situation is still unclear, we rashly and high-profile defect to a country that is unable to protect us, which will bring disaster to Lanzhou. We are too weak and cannot afford to offend anyone.
ah."
Sa Wuyang breathed a sigh of relief and quickly put in good words for Gu Kun: "Although Gu Kun is also pro-Chinese, he is definitely measured. He will not sneeze when he sees a rabbit. He will not fawn over a small character when he meets him. He is absolutely good at protecting.
Our Lan side's interests will not cause trouble."
Zhu Youdong nodded and ordered: "Then when he comes back from Japan with the gold medal, you can use this excuse to invite him to the banquet and say that he has brought glory to the country. I will receive the award and I will personally do it then."
Talk to him. Wu Yang, you are also in your forties, and it is time for us to discover the talents of the younger generation in Lanfang."