Doctor, I'm really strong!

Just as Liu Jiuli was about to give the order, a voice suddenly rang out.

"Young man, don't be so hot-tempered."

Section 100: The Bottom Line That Will Never Be Compromised

Politics is the art of compromise, and even more so, the art of transactions. If you see an exchange of interests, then there must be some shady political exchanges behind it. If you only see political exchanges, then there must be even more shady exchanges of interests behind the scenes.

The fundamental reason for this is that neither individuals nor groups can wage war against all vested interests at the same time. Even if Western politicians want to play election games, they must first establish a set of rules. Even if it's just talk, public opinion must be represented by them to pass muster.

Lin Gerui, the "Rat King," was a party involved in Wei Yanwu's exchange of benefits.

As someone who once helped Wei Yanwu take over Longmen, the Rat King secretly controlled the underworld of Longmen. This is the simplest way for a government to quickly gain control of the grassroots when power does not extend to the grassroots level. Gangs are the government's front men. The most typical example of this is the Japanese who are living a comfortable life.

Since they are white gloves, their purpose is naturally to prevent the owner's hands from getting dirty, so they must be frequently extended into dark places.

Longmen has many shady dealings that Wei Yanwu couldn't handle or felt were unnecessary to deal with, so he entrusted them to Lin Gerui. These were also one of Longmen's important sources of revenue.

Generally speaking, no one would think that drugs are worth paying attention to, since everyone does them. When everyone does something abnormal, then the person who is considered normal is the abnormal one.

Liu Jiuli's resolute crackdown on various addictive drugs, coupled with the management system implemented at the grassroots level, turned Future Technology into an isolated island. Neither the Rat King, the Taikoo Group, nor the official forces of the Dragon Gate could infiltrate it, and those who did infiltrate quickly disappeared without a trace.

It makes one wonder if Future Tech is a cannibalistic company.

Faced with the situation where future technology has become a gateway within a gateway, it's impossible for Wei Yanwu not to have any ideas, but it's equally impossible for him to directly confront Liu Jiuli. Not only would he be unable to win, but the huge benefits of their current cooperation would also disappear.

At least for now, the benefits that future technology brings to Lungmen far outweigh its negative effects.

Compared to Swire Group, Future Technology is practically a miracle drug with no side effects.

Even so, Wei Yanwu would try to diagnose the future of technology, or rather, figure out what the other party wanted to do.

He wouldn't issue such an order openly, but he could hint at it through other channels, such as a banquet, a meeting, or a conversation between old friends. Lin Gerui would then use other indirect methods to carry out Wei Yanwu's idea.

Of course, as a smart man, Lin Gerui knew how Wei Yanwu wanted this test to be conducted—unintentionally, accidentally. Even if someone with ulterior motives investigated, they would definitely not be able to find the method on Longmen's head in the end.

Just like the kill radius of a shell on the battlefield, people within this radius are all targets, but people on the edge don't feel that the shell is specifically aimed at them. If a person just brushes past the shell, or even just sees it from a distance, then they are even less likely to think that the shell has anything to do with them.

Yes, it was that well-hidden. It all happened unintentionally. No normal person would think it was Wei Yanwu's fault; at most, they would treat it as an accident. And the reaction of Future Technology in this process was exactly the intelligence that Wei Yanwu wanted.

What neither of them expected was that Liu Jiuli was so ruthless and persistent when it came to the old three things in society. He would go so far as to kill anyone who touched him. Someone had previously put a bounty on the life of a Future Technology security guard, and the next day that person turned into a corpse in a sewer corner and was burned alive.

Liu Jiuli doesn't mind using the most ruthless methods to crack down on organized crime, and the scope of his actions is extremely wide. Even if the criminals surrender themselves to the authorities, they will still face death. Even if it's something that Future Technology can't handle, Liu Jiuli will personally take action to resolve it.

With his strength, unless he is never allowed to know where this person is, he is doomed.

This is a real headache for everyone. We can't afford to offend them or fight them, and there's also the deep-seated ties of interest involved. But generally speaking, as long as things don't get to the point of no return, they're tolerable.

But this time it was clearly beyond the scope of the plan. Liu Jiuli personally led the team all the way to the underground plantation of Longmen. The things inside were the dark history of Longmen that could never be made public. Many of them were directly related to Lin Gerui and Wei Yanwu, and there was even the figure of Hei Suo. They absolutely could not run into Liu Jiuli and be smashed to pieces.

So despite not wanting to appear in this way, Lin Gerui still had to step forward and communicate with Liu Jiuli.

On one side is the Rat King, the underground force of Longmen, and on the other side is the ruler of Longmen's emerging capital. The local bully and the out-of-town dragon collide here.

"Looks like I've struck gold."

Liu Jiuli wore a playful smile; he was definitely not the one who should be panicking right now.

We can just flip the table if we dare.

The Rat King sighed, "If I could, I wouldn't want to meet you this way."

Yeah, those old men who come to the park for a stroll and then get caught up in a sandstorm funeral—do you know how long I spent fighting the Noise Law back then?

However, with the appearance of new operators and the full complement of the Diamond III Gold Team, these events were easily completed, and now they are full of memories.

To be honest, Liu Jiuli was very curious about the strength of the Rat King in reality.

The Rat King continued, "The reason a secret is a secret is that we don't want too many people to know it."

Liu Jiuli nodded, then simply took out a thermite grenade and said, "I have a good way to bury the secret."

The Rat King shook his head: "You don't want Lungmen's economy to collapse, do you? You also don't want Lungmen to increase taxes on ordinary people, do you?"

Liu Jiuli scoffed, "All you know is how to use the poor guy's money as a shield. You're really pathetic."

The Rat King said calmly, "No matter how unreasonable it may sound, this has always existed, and it has always been so."

Liu Jiuli countered, "Just because it has always been this way, does that necessarily mean it's right?"

The Rat King shook his head and said, "You don't seem like the kind of person who would be so persistent in pursuing right and wrong."

Liu Jiuli nodded: "Indeed, I am actually very easy to talk to, and we can discuss anything."

The Rat King breathed a sigh of relief, but Liu Jiuli immediately said coldly, "But the three old things are not up for discussion!"

Once you get hooked on something, it not only ruins yourself, but also your family and even the lives of other unrelated people. A drug addict robs and kills to buy drugs. The simplest line of logic is that at least two families are instantly torn apart.

This is still the result of touching something that shouldn't have been touched. These three things combined are the true Slaanesh's ecstasy, wildly jumping around on the bottom line of humanity. Believe me, once the original bottom line is crossed, even more outrageous things will happen, until it touches the limits of humanity in terms of the laws of physics.

Longmen can accept the misfortunes of ordinary people, but Liu Jiuli cannot, and the organization that I, Liu Jiuli, built with my own hands, cannot accept them either!

Because we were all once just one of millions of ordinary people.

The Rat King's expression gradually turned serious. He slowly stepped forward and finally brushed past Liu Jiuli. In that instant, he whispered, "The tallest tree in the forest is bound to be felled by the wind. Young man, take heed."

Liu Jiuli simply responded, "You criticize me for historical work by later generations. What I need to do now is to turn things that shouldn't exist into history."

Chapter 101: You don't even spare junior high school students!

(Trying harder, I'll update another chapter. Where's everyone's reward? (?ω?))

The flames destroyed not only a batch of medicines, but also the wishful thinking of the bystanders.

Liu Jiuli didn't even give face to Wei Yanwu and the Rat King, so others had better consider their own capabilities.

Originally, those underground forces were trying to infiltrate the Future Technology City, where ordinary people were all so rich, making them the best material for extortion. Unexpectedly, they tasted the iron fist of the proletariat as soon as they made a little move.

As a result, not only the gangs that had infiltrated the Future Tech City, but even the gangs from the surrounding cities all fled, creating a buffer zone between the Future Tech City and other cities.

With the withdrawal of these gangs, the grassroots order in these urban areas began to collapse, but it was quickly replaced by the Red Guards. Since Liu Jiuli had no intention of continuing to expand in Longmen in the short term, this area tacitly became a buffer zone. Liu Jiuli moved many unimportant light industries here, absorbed a large number of unemployed people, and made the economy thrive.

Wei Yanwu is having a headache right now because the resource-intensive industries of Future Technology have absorbed more than 50% of the young and middle-aged labor force in Longmen. The slums are the hardest hit areas for Liu Jiuli. He doesn't care about the conflicts between infected people and ordinary people. Anyway, if you don't want to starve to death, you'd better obey me. You can't even get enough to eat, what more do you want?

For this reason, once the future technology collapses or withdraws, Lungmen's economy will regress by at least ten years, and a large number of unemployed and vagrants will emerge. After enjoying the wonderful life built by the future technology, these people have become accustomed to the rule and can no longer tolerate the old way of life. If they are not careful, they will be able to incite a popular uprising.

What did Future Technology do wrong?

No, they've had a win-win situation with Lungmen from beginning to end. Lungmen has achieved prosperity and stability, while Future Technology has gained benefits and support. Everyone is like Qin Shi Huang imitating the gate—winning hand over fist.

However, from the perspective of a ruler, Future Technology is not only winning over interests, but also winning the hearts and minds of the people, and has created the current situation of "too big to fail" in a very short period of time.

It's a real headache. These are all landmines planted in the future, but we can't refuse them now. Future technology is offering so much. We didn't feel anything before we started working together, but now we're really impressed.

In the end, Wei Yanwu took no action, tacitly acknowledging that Future Technology's actions were correct. It's true that he didn't care much about ordinary people, but he was well aware of the harm those leaves could cause. It was best to avoid them if possible. Right now, it was just a matter of face-saving, and everyone kept quiet about it, continuing to play music and dance. It would be truly terrifying if they actually collided with Liu Jiuli and were smashed to pieces.

The only thing that Wei Yanwu was really concerned about was the impenetrable security within Future Technology. Heaven knows how Liu Jiuli managed to do it; even the Dragon Gate Guard Bureau couldn't infiltrate.

Actually, Wei Yanwu is overthinking things. If you send someone to infiltrate, they'll probably confess to being a double agent after a while. But if you send a group of college students to work there, Liu Jiuli will personally welcome them, and they'll successfully infiltrate Future Technology, be thoroughly taken care of, and might even rise to high positions. His vision is too narrow; he only knows how to use underhanded methods and doesn't understand the concept of open strategy. Regarding talent, Wei Yanwu isn't the only one having a headache right now; Chen Huijie is too.

Some time ago, Liu Jiuli borrowed a lot of instructors from the Longmen Guard Bureau under the guise of "assisting in training." As a result, it became like Liu Bei borrowing Jingzhou. After this group of people arrived at Future Technology and experienced life there, in the following six months, whenever Future Technology came to the Longmen Guard Bureau to recruit people to help, they would immediately go there to earn extra money. Before long, they directly submitted their resignations and went to work at Future Technology.

You've given up your secure jobs at the Lungmen Guard Bureau? What kind of mind-numbing rhetoric has Future Technology been feeding you?!

It's nothing much, just a clearer promotion and assessment mechanism, a transparent and open competitive job application standard, and various salary supplements. Your salary won't plummet just because you're no longer in this position, ensuring that employees won't suffer materially. As long as people have no worries about their livelihood, they will think about how to realize their self-worth instead of lying around like a salted fish after they have no hope of climbing the ladder.

In contrast, promotions within the Lungmen Guard Bureau are highly uncertain; it's not simply a matter of being excellent. After comparing the development prospects and expected future income of both sides, many who felt they could give it a shot switched jobs.

These people are basically outstanding talents from the Lungmen Guard Bureau, many of whom are members of the Special Operations Group. Liu Jiuli directly poached people right under Chen Huijie's nose. Speaking of which, even the Rat King's daughter, Lin Yuxia, is working at Future Technology. What's so special about poaching people? If you can't poach them, just use explosives. There's bound to be one that suits you.

If anyone else dared to poach members from the Guard Bureau like this, Swire and Chen Huijie would have to confront them. But the other party was Liu Jiuli, and Chen Huijie had witnessed that overwhelming power. Moreover, her sister worked at Future Technology. No matter how they handled it, it would be awkward, so they might as well pretend they didn't see it.

Swire is the eldest daughter of the Swire family and has close ties with the Swire Group. Regardless of her own thoughts, she has to avoid suspicion regarding future technology matters. Otherwise, Liu Jiuli might not hold a grudge against her one moment, but the next he might beat the Swire Group half to death to vent his anger, both physically and psychologically. He is actually a guy who takes revenge from morning till night.

The two biggest bosses of the Lungmen Guard Bureau remained silent. Wei Yanwu above didn't say anything, but the people below were just being unreasonable and had to go against Future Technology. You should know that Future Technology can provide a lot of help when the Lungmen Guard Bureau is carrying out missions. Now, many of their advanced weapons are purchased from Future Technology, and the two sides have established a deep cooperative relationship.

Furthermore, whenever Future Tech needs the Guard Bureau's help, they always receive the same compensation as their own colleagues, which is quite good. Not only is there no deduction, but they are also punctual. If they say they will transfer the money at 3 PM, it will be in your account at 3:01 PM. For the officers of the Lungmen Guard Bureau, Future Tech is a company that is both rich and benevolent. They have only seen one Future Tech in their lives. If they don't cherish it, they won't be able to live with their conscience.

This is like a ten-meter-tall, muscular man with a green dragon on his left, a white tiger on his right, a Gatling gun in his hand, and wearing power armor, who calmly and peacefully treats you as an equal. Anyone with an IQ higher than that of a paramecium knows what they should do.

Of course, there are also those who don't know. As for those who don't know, I don't know where they went either, hehe~ But this time, Chen Huijie really couldn't tolerate the problem anymore, because she had ten more resignation letters in front of her.

The special operations team had fewer than fifty people in total, and now thirty-seven of them have been taken away by the shovel of future technology. More than half of them are now new recruits from other departments. If these people are thrown into the fight against serious crimes, the casualties will be extremely high.

Moreover, it's not just the Special Operations Group that's in trouble; the situation is even worse in other departments, especially among highly educated personnel. That ruthless Liu Jiuli doesn't even spare those who only graduated from junior high school!

Although someone who has received junior high school education is considered an intermediate-level talent in Terra, the Lungmen Guard Bureau is a gold mine, and it can't withstand you driving an excavator around to devour it every day.

They even pack up the leftovers after they've finished eating them, and some even use explosives to cut down mountains—it's getting more and more outrageous!

Despite her complicated feelings, Chen Huijie still chose to meet with Liu Jiuli to discuss the issue. It was unreasonable and unacceptable for one company to have hollowed out the police station in Longmen.

Just as Chen Huijie was about to leave, Swire came to her office with a transfer order.

"Congratulations, Inspector Chen. From today onwards, you are the branch chief of the Lungmen Guard Bureau in Future Technology City. This is a transfer order personally signed by the Governor."

Chen Huijie: "Huh???"

Chapter 102: You think you can just run away now that you're here?

(Second update (～￣▽￣)～)

Chen Huijie was transferred to the position of Director of the Longmen Guard Bureau Branch in Future Science City. This was requested by Liu Jiuli from Wei Yanwu.

However, the situation is different from what everyone thought.

Liu Jiuli's thinking was that he had already dug up most of the Lungmen Guard Bureau, and he certainly couldn't take away the entire violent organization of Lungmen. In that case, he would just put the most important part of the Lungmen Guard Bureau next to him to facilitate sustainable exploitation.

So, who is the person Wei Yanwu trusts the most in the Lungmen Guard Bureau?

It must be Chen Huijie. She's being groomed by Wei Yanwu as his successor. As long as she comes, Wei Yanwu will definitely arrange a group of shrewd and capable people to come over. Once they arrive at Future Science City... hehehe.

It's normal for everyone to cooperate in order to improve police-community relations.

As a vital pillar industry for Lungmen, it's perfectly normal for Future Technology to seek assistance from the Lungmen Guard Bureau.

It's normal for everyone to make money together and fight crime together, right?

After a while, we all got to know each other well, so it's normal that we're not so different anymore. What difference will there be between the Lungmen Guard Bureau and the Future Technology Bureau then? Besides, compared to Lungmen, which has to consider the interests of all parties and compromise with the criminal gangs, the Future Technology Bureau's uncompromising style of cracking down on prostitution and organized crime is obviously more to Chen Huijie's liking. At that time, without any explanation, she will take the initiative to ask to stay and learn more about the development model of the Future Technology Bureau.

The smarter a person is, the easier it is for them to become famous. A smart and upright person is a reserve of comrades.

The arrangement was perfect, and there was no reason to refuse. Wei Yanwu thought that Liu Jiuli was good at interpersonal relationships, knew what he was worried about (don't forget that Talulah is also in Lungmen now, and Wei Yanwu must be worried about this), and even specially asked Chen Huijie to go to the Future Science City to be the branch director. This shows that he really doesn't treat Lungmen as an outsider. He knows when to advance and retreat, understands gains and losses, and has the ability but also follows the rules. This young man is capable and easy to get along with.