The sky at the end of July was scorching with scorching sun, which made people's skin ache. The birds outside the window were chirping in the shade of the trees.
Hainan Military Government.
"General, are you looking for me?" Xu Li opened the door and walked in. Since the last military coup, Li Weidong ordered the expulsion of the Japanese expatriates, Xu Li has been idle all day long, doing nothing. This time the general suddenly called
His arrival made him feel uneasy. Could it be that he had made some mistake?
"Well, Xu Li! You did a good job some time ago. I plan to establish a new police department and want you to serve as the chief. However, this department is just an idea and has nothing." Li Weidong stood across from him.
Xu Li said.
In fact, what Li Weidong planned to build was a later police station. Li Weidong did not have much expectations for the function of the patrol room in this era.
After sending someone to investigate, Li Weidong learned that in this era, if someone committed a crime in the countryside, it was usually decided by the village elders. Landowners and bullies were doing evil among the people, and there was no effective management organization at all.
Therefore, Li Weidong planned to extend the public security system to all counties and townships and establish a police station system just like later generations. However, as a violent organization, Li Weidong did not trust to hand it over to outsiders. When the chief of the police station, he needs to deal with all kinds of people.
, he was a tactful person, and he was definitely not good as a base soldier, so Li Weidong took a fancy to Xu Li.
"General! I..." Xu Li, who was still a little nervous at first, suddenly became excited after hearing this, and his excitement was beyond words.
"What!? Don't want to do it?"
"Ah! No... no..., general, I am very willing!" As if he was afraid that Li Weidong would regret it, Xu Li quickly replied, he was so excited that he stuttered a little. He thought in his heart that he had finally come to the end, and he could
Entered the upper floors.
"Okay, don't be happy. This is a plan. Take it back and look at it. If you don't understand the place, ask someone to ask." Li Weidong took out a document from the drawer and handed it to Xu Li.
"Yes, General!" With excitement on his face, Xu Li exited the office. Li Weidong continued to immerse himself in reviewing documents, material applications, and mobilization orders. The documents one after another made Li Weidong dizzy. But because of the lack of helpers, Li Weidong
I had to reply one by one.
I don’t know how long it took, but a pair of beautiful hands handed over a cup of tea. Li Weidong looked up and found that it was Zhang Xiaoyou. She was the only one who could come in while Li Weidong was working.
"Weidong! It's already noon. Let's take a rest and drink a cup of tea to refresh ourselves." Zhang Xiaoyou walked around the table, came to the back of the chair, hugged Li Weidong's neck, and said in his ear.
With a hint of happiness at the corner of his mouth, Li Weidong scratched the tip of Zhang Xiaoyou's nose and said, "Haha, listen to our wife!"
"What nonsense are you talking about! Who is from your family!" Hearing Li Weidong's words, a blush appeared on Zhang Xiaoyou's face.
After fooling around for a while, Zhang Xiaoyou suddenly thought about something, "By the way, my dad asked you to come to our house for dinner at noon. He wants to chat with you! I will cook today myself!"
"Well, I got it! Just wait here and come back with me later." Hearing that his future father-in-law wanted to talk to him, Li Weidong had some questions, but he still wanted to deal with the matter at hand first.
At noon, Li Weidong took Zhang Xiaoyou's hand and came to Zhang's Mansion, and the guards automatically took over the guarding work of Zhang's Mansion.
Walking into the main entrance, Zhang Xiaoyou saw his second brother Zhang Qishan tinkering with something in the yard, and couldn't help but ask, "Second brother, what are you tinkering with?"
"Oh, it's my little sister and Weidong! This is a projector that my friend bought from the United States. I heard it's quite fun. I'll show it to you after I finish it." Speaking of this, Zhang Qishan
Just kept chattering.
Speaking of which, he has had the habit of tinkering with strange things since he was a child, but his father Zhang often scolded him. He has made many friends in the past two years, and likes to ask his friends to buy new gadgets when he has nothing to do.
"Brother Zhang, where is my uncle? I heard he said he wanted to see me if he had something to do!" Li Weidong asked. Zhang Xiaoyou had already gone to find his mother to prepare for the luncheon.
"Hey, you are so polite to me. From now on, just like my little sister, just call me second brother. My father should be enjoying the shade in the garden at the moment. You can go find it yourself." This was too intrusive, and Zhang Qishan pretended to be angry.
He said, and told him where Father Zhang was.
"Haha! Then I will call you second brother from now on! Okay, then you get busy first, I'll go see my uncle." After bidding farewell to Zhang Qishan, Li Weidong walked towards the garden.
In the garden.
Zhang Hongming quietly closed his eyes and rested his mind. He suddenly asked the housekeeper Fu Lao beside him, "Ah Fu, what do you think of Wei Dong's child?"
"Are you talking about my uncle? In my opinion, my uncle's character is beyond compare. I can see that he also likes the lady very much. But as a young man, sometimes he does things a little impulsively." Since it was the master who asked, Mr. Fu
So I might as well tell the truth, he is quite satisfied with this uncle.
"That's true, the way you deal with others is a bit green. However, it's good for young people to be more impulsive. If you want to be as dull and dull as the old people, what's the point? We old guys can help as much as we can.
The future belongs to young people." Zhang Hongming said, perhaps lamenting the wasted time, or perhaps seeing the general trend clearly.
This was not the first time he came to Zhang Mansion. Li Weidong came to the garden with ease and saw his uncle Zhang Hongming lying on the rocking chair from a distance, with Mr. Fu standing next to him.
"Uncle, I heard that you are looking for me?" Li Weidong came over and asked. He did not dare to act like a general towards his future father-in-law, so he saluted and stood aside obediently.
"You're back? Then walk with me in the garden!" Zhang Hongming sat up from the rocking chair and said to Li Weidong.
"I heard that you plan to carry out a large-scale suppression of bandits?" Zhang Hongming asked Li Weidong as he walked.
"Yes, uncle! I plan to encourage business and trade, but banditry in various places has a great impact on private goods transportation, so I plan to suppress bandits." Hearing his uncle ask, Li Weidong explained. As a person who has been working in Zongheng Shopping Mall for decades
A businessman's vision is determined to be ruthless, and it is easy to find the negative aspects of things. People often say: An old man in a family is like a treasure. Li Weidong had long wanted to ask his father-in-law for his opinion.
"What you want is to improve people's livelihood. This is a good starting point, but it ignores some other aspects." Zhang Hongming said that his expectations for Li Weidong are quite high.
"What did you ignore!? You mean??" Li Weidong had a vague idea, but he couldn't grasp it, so he simply asked directly.
"Then let me ask you! How did our Zhang family get started?" Zhang Hongming suddenly asked Li Weidong while walking with his hands behind his back.
"Reselling goods!" Li Weidong didn't know why, but he still replied.
"Are businessmen like us worried about bandits kidnapping and robbing goods?" Zhang Hongming continued to ask.
"I see! Are you saying that I ignored the power of those big businessmen!? I think I understand!" Li Weidong was not an idiot and immediately understood what his uncle Zhang Hongming wanted to express.
Those who can do business safely in this world must at least have rich social status and power. It can be said that black and white take all. Ordinary people can only do small businesses near their homes. Bandits are too far away from them. Banditry is a problem.
The threats were all big businessmen. Li Weidong knew that he could take this opportunity to cut them off, and at least he could get enough money to build one or two hospitals.
"Also, don't you think some businessmen have too many 'guard groups'?" Zhang Hongming continued. Now that he was his son-in-law, Zhang Hongming planned to help his son-in-law eliminate the buds of threats.
Li Weidong's eyes suddenly lit up, knowing that this was an opportunity to weaken those local aristocratic families and limit their respective armed forces. If they dared to resist, they would be annihilated as bandits. As long as they had no armed forces, they would be like toothless tigers. Those who were obedient would only need to obey.
As long as you abide by the law, if you disobey, you can do whatever you want to do.
Seeing that Li Weidong understood what he meant, Zhang Hongming knew that the rest was up to this young man.
"Let's go, the meal should be ready! Today, let's have a good drink!"
[Second update] Extended version
————I have more free time today, so I added an extra chapter, dedicated to everyone. When I browsed the page just now, I realized that when I made the cover last time, I actually wrote 73 instead of 37. It’s embarrassing! Go quickly.