Conan: Rice Flower Spring

Chapter 147 141. Who said Gin was reckless? Gin is awesome
Why can the boss of the organization keep such tight control over the organization without even showing his face, making even an old scoundrel like Rum afraid to make trouble?
The reason is simple, because the organization's financial power, personnel power, and guns are all in the hands of the boss.

Financial power, all the companies established by the organization, including those established with assistance, including Lin Longma's Yi Xin Consulting and Investigation Company, will hand over a portion of their annual profits to the organization in a very reasonable manner.

This part is unchangeable, and the rest is the profit that the subsidiary companies can control themselves.

As for those that are not profitable, the organization will conduct research based on the degree of necessity. If it is considered that the company/base is necessary or has a promising future, the organization will provide financial assistance.

If not, it will be abolished or acquired.

Personnel power refers to all senior cadres in the organization who have code names, and their code names are granted by the boss.

In other words, if you want to become a senior official in the organization and get your own code name, you must get approval from the boss.

If the boss doesn't agree, there's nothing he can do even if he has a hundred large bases under his command.

Finally, there are the guns. There is no need to say more about this. Gin from the Executive Department has always been the boss's loyal dog, and he wants to wear the same pants as the boss. The Executive Department, which has the most guns in the organization, has always been an extension of the boss's will.

No matter who the boss asks Gin to kill, he will not hesitate for a second and will not think too much.

So although Rum seems to be a powerful second-in-command, the boss's noose is always around Rum's neck.

As long as the boss wants, Rum, the second-in-command, may be hung on a street lamp, on a beam, or anywhere else at any time.
It was the same with Yi Xin Hui in the past. When Yi Xin Hui was not profitable and was still a small to medium-sized base, the organization did provide them with a lot of financial assistance.

After being promoted to a large-scale base with stable profitability and even better performance year by year, it is reasonable for the organization to withdraw funds from Yixinhui.

Investment companies have to make profits when they invest. If they don’t make money, how can they generate electricity with love?

Of course, the Isshin Society is getting better now. Since the establishment of the "Risk Investigation Team", the Isshin Society no longer needs to "transfuse blood" to the organization.

All the funds that Yi Xin Hui needed to allocate were used to set up and operate the risk investigation team. In short, Yi Xin Hui and the risk investigation team, due to various accidents and intentional acts, became one team with two names.

The closeness between them is unimaginable.

Then the question is, as mentioned before, Lin Longma's subordinates are loyal to more than one force.

He also supports two groups of mechanics and actuaries. Obviously, the money to support these two groups cannot be paid openly by Yi Xin Hui.

So secretly, Lin Longma also has a hidden source of funds.

Since Lin Longma both have their own "secret fund", there is no reason for Rum, as the director of the Intelligence Support Department and the second-in-command of the organization, to be so honest.

So when Gin mentioned that Rum had an unknown source of funds, he really wasn't surprised at all.

This makes sense.

"Tell me, tell me quickly. I'm really curious about this." Lin Longma urged Gin secretly in his heart, otherwise it must be an old friend?

When he speaks, he really chooses to say the most useful things, without saying a single word of nonsense!

"Rum has a lot of secret funds in his hands, but he hides them all very well. I got this information by accident.

Every spring, someone from outside the city would come and give Rum a sum of money. This sum was in cash, about 2 million to 4 million yen, and never more than 5 million yen.

"Cash, or delivered at a fixed time? Then Rum didn't give them anything?"
Arms, intelligence, manpower? "Three or five hundred million yen doesn't sound like much. It's not even as much as some bank robbers make from robbing a bank.

But this is a long-term gift, given every year, and it's in cash. It doesn't look like the money came easily.

"Not sure, but most of the time Rum didn't seem to give anything. A few times he gave some ammunition."

It's obvious that Gin has been eyeing the Rum line for a long time. If anyone says anything about Gin, Ryoma Kurobayashi will be the first to disagree.

But let's talk about some weapons.
"How much is this 'a little bit'? One bag, one box, one truck?" Arms are not difficult to buy in Tokyo.

This is also the thing that best reflects the change from quantitative change to qualitative change.

If these people didn't have much weapons, Lin Longma would have some ideas. If they had a lot of weapons, he would have to think carefully.

"Three pistols and two boxes of bullets."

"How many?"

At that moment, Lin Longma almost thought that there was something wrong with his hearing.

300-500 million yen a year, and you get three pistols and two boxes of bullets? Is Rum's gun made of gold or is it covered with diamonds?

Damn, no wonder it took Lin Longma so long to become the head of a large base. Look at the quality of this second-in-command, even if Lin Longma worked hard for a hundred years, he couldn't do it!
"You heard it right, that's all." Hearing Lin Ryoma's incredulous tone, Gin felt a little comforted.

To be honest, his back teeth were almost broken when he first found out about this.

Why? Why?

If someone gives Gin so much money every year, then it’s not impossible to lend them the organization’s collection of armed helicopters to play with!
"Okay, I get it. Just tell me where this person is from."

"Tokyo, Moon Shadow Island."
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"Moon Shadow Island is an ordinary island that couldn't be more ordinary. The people on the island used to make a living by fishing, and there are still a large number of fishermen today.

The most famous person here is just a pianist, but this pianist has been dead for twelve years. "

In the large conference room of the Isshinkai headquarters, one of Akita's men was introducing information about Tsukikage Island on a whiteboard.

"Because this place is too remote and not a tourist attraction. Even the ferry from Tokyo to Tsukikage Island only runs twice a week.
So most of the information we can find now is from twelve years ago.”

Lin Longma nodded. It made sense. Twelve years ago, a pianist had appeared on Moon Shadow Island. The media would naturally explore the pianist's hometown and where he came from.

But the pianist was dead, and naturally no one would be curious about such a remote island.

When Akita's men were introducing themselves on the stage, Lin Longma leaned towards Akita:
“I’m a little curious, why would a small place where most people on the entire island make a living by fishing give three to five hundred million to Rum every year?

Even if it is converted into US dollars, it would be about two or three million, right? It is impossible for these people to save money from fishing all year round in a village, borrow some money from the bank, and then give it all to Rum, right?

What new age dictator? "

(The exchange rate is based on the current one, the timeline is too confusing.)
(End of this chapter)