Shadow Empire

Chapter 805: Handle it personally and not be coerced or discovered
"I hope you're of some use!"

Erwin sheathed his weapon, "Take him away."

Then the group left. When they stepped over the short policeman, no one looked down at him except the tall policeman.

He was like a dead rat, cockroach, or some other insignificant creature in the corner, whose bodies could not be seen even though they were there.

As for whether this body will be discovered?
Who cares about this?
After returning to the rented villa, Alvin thought for a while and called Lance to tell him about the situation here.

Lance couldn't help laughing when he heard what Erwin said, "So we thought it was a gang robbing gang, but in fact, it was eaten by a group of policemen."

“When we thought it was city police doing this, we found out these police officers are state police?”

"That said, the situation has become more complicated now."

He was silent for a while. "I didn't want to go there, but now it seems I have no choice but to go."

Erwin wanted to say that he didn't need to go, but he didn't say it in the end because the matter had already been settled, and the disappearance of the tall and short policemen would soon alert the state police.

It will become more troublesome to deal with them at that time. If we can't deal with the officials here, and directly attack and kill the sheriff of the state police road section branch with armed forces, it will definitely be a major case that will alarm the entire federation.

By then, even if someone above Lance helps cover it up, it will be difficult to leave no sequelae, and it might even become a huge landmine.

So in the end, Lance decided to go there in person.

"Take a good rest these few days and find out the gang structure in New Bermingham. Didn't you say that if they don't cooperate, you will clean up the local gangs?"

"You can have this!"

"Be safe and wait for me to arrive."

Lance hung up the phone and leaned back in his chair, rubbing his temple.

If these people were New Bermuda police officers, the mayor could deal with them under the mayoral system.

But they are now state police. If you want to remove these people from their posts, the state police chief must come forward to remove them. The appointment of this chief is made by the state government, and the governor may also ask about it.

This increases the difficulty a lot.

But he soon felt relieved. This is how life is. Either you fight him or he fights you. There will always be people who leave your life, and there will always be people who cut in line and enter your life.

Who leaves and who stays depends not only on fate, but also on one's fist.

The only pity is that Lance may not be able to see the birth of the baby. It is already early November, and Patricia has already started to prepare for delivery. She might suddenly give birth at any time.

This time, I won't be able to come back from Indenno in a short time, and even if the problem is resolved quickly, it will take two weeks just to go back and forth.

The difficulty of this matter is extremely horrible. Lance himself does not have the confidence to handle it in a short time, so he can only take it one step at a time.

There is nothing that needs to be decided in Jingang City at the moment. Even if there is, it is very convenient to make a phone call, and Melo is also watching.

This guy is becoming more and more stable, and Lance still trusts him a lot.

He went to meet with Mayor Williams early the next morning. Originally, the plan was to wait for another two days, but now he couldn't wait any longer.

Although Mayor Williams was a little surprised by Lance's sudden visit, he still postponed some of his schedule to talk to him.

After he welcomed Lance in from outside, they sat on both sides of the desk and asked the secretary to bring coffee and snacks. Then he asked, "Do you have any urgent business?"

Lance nodded, "We'll be heading to Indeno soon. We've run into some trouble there."

Mayor Williams was able to make the connection, and he was able to lobby Mayor Wade.

Now both councillors have become mayors. Although they once had a competitive relationship, there is no direct conflict of interest between the two sides, so they will naturally become good friends again.

He could ask Mayor Wade for the information, and he believed that Mayor Wade would not refuse to answer his questions. This was not something that needed to be kept secret.

So Lance didn't even consider hiding anything. He was a straightforward person, very sincere, and rarely lied or didn't lie at all.

Mayor Williams raised his eyebrows, "Do you need my help?"

Lance shook his head. "Unless you know the governor of Indeno State and have a good relationship with him, it would be better for you not to interfere."

The more people get involved, the faster the impression on the matter spreads, and some things become more uncontrollable.

Lance rejected his kindness, and Mayor Williams did not get angry, but just smiled.

"Okay, as long as you know what's going on."

"Are you here to talk to me about job opportunities this time?" Mayor Williams lit a cigarette. After becoming mayor, he became a heavy smoker and the ashtray on the table was almost full.

He would smoke when there were no visitors, and he would also smoke when there were visitors. Smoking allowed him to think more smoothly.

Although he has had a cough recently, his personal doctor has advised him not to smoke so much.

But for him, these problems were never a problem, as long as he didn't listen.

Lance proposed an idea, "We can give some quotas to those local workers, but these people must join the labor company and withdraw from the union."

Mayor Williams' eyes grew bigger and bigger, and finally he stared at Lance, "Wang Defa?"

"You want the workers to voluntarily withdraw from the union?"

His face was slightly flushed, and it was obvious that he had a lot of emotions that he didn't know how to vent and was feeling very depressed.

The people of the Federation are sometimes pitiful, because when they need to vent their emotions, they only say the same few words over and over again, which doesn't allow them to vent their emotions at all, and instead makes them feel even more depressed.

This is not as concise and powerful as the language of another world.

The energy is so strong that it awakens the ears and shocks the whole world with just one word "idiot"!

After several seconds, he exhaled and seemed to feel better. "Do you know that you are challenging the bottom line of the union and the Federation of Labor?"

"They will definitely take revenge on you like crazy!"

Mayor Williams could already imagine the scene at that time. Once Lance could really do these things, it would mean that the 20 million working-class brothers were not as unbreakable as the Federation of Labor said.

It doesn't even require any sophisticated means or huge efforts. Just a little trick can turn 20 million good brothers into 20 million good jokes!

So by then the order of the entire city might be disrupted, and he was very worried.

"We just want to maintain employment, not plunge the entire city into chaos!" The mayor reminded Lance, "What you are doing is too dangerous!"

Lance shook his head and had a different opinion. "Unions are voluntary to join or leave. No one can force workers to be union members or non-union members."

“Does the law related to labor and workers mention that workers from a labor union must be hired to organize production and sales of goods?”

Lance's question made Williams shake his head. "There are definitely no such laws and regulations, but their influence and constraints are too great."

"Sometimes you don't have to be judged by the law, morality and conventional rules can also be used!"

“If there are a lot of people who oppose you, sometimes even if you are right, you will eventually be attributed to the wrong side!”

Mayor Williams is still quite wary of the people in the union, which is normal.

After all, he had experienced more large-scale social movements, and he was afraid that once these forces united, they would form an uncontrolled general strike.

Both capitalists and politicians are afraid of a general strike.

This means that if the production projects of a certain industry in the entire society come to a complete standstill due to lack of workers, the entire society will be affected!

Seeing Mayor Williams looking uneasy as if he had remembered something that happened in the past, he continued to comfort him, "It's not as scary as you think."

"In Jingang City, if they want a general strike, then let them strike."

"Have you forgotten how we handled it last time?"

"There is no shortage of people willing to work here, men, women, old people, children. As long as you are willing to give them the opportunity to work, they are willing to work all day." "As long as the production tasks of the factories in the new industrial zone are not affected, what does it have to do with us about those groups that were not originally included in our plan?"

"At that point, it won't be a general strike, it will be a general march!"

The impact of strikes and marches on society is definitely completely different.

Strikes are definitely one of the most influential social activities, mainly disrupting production, but marches are much less destructive.

Mayor Williams looked at Lance in surprise. He hadn't expected that he could analyze the matter in this way and then solve it.

He thought for a moment and said, "It sounds like there's no problem, but what are you going to do about the unions and the labor federation?"

"They might keep targeting you!"

Lance looked nonchalant. "They are targeting me, but I need workers to work for me, but the workers under me don't listen to them. They are all my own workers."

"Their conventional methods have no effect on me at all. If they want to embarrass me by holding games and demonstrations, you know, I am the leader of a gang."

"This is not the first time that I have attacked a group of rioting workers. I will make them understand what pain is!"

The last time the dock workers continued to cause trouble, they were suppressed directly by Lance.

Thinking of the blood all over the floor and the workers cleaning up the blood with a brush afterwards, Mayor Williams couldn't help laughing, "Why do you think they bothered you?"

He paused, "How many jobs can you offer?"

Lance thought about it seriously for a while. "The number of immigrants is increasing, and they charge lower fees and are willing to endure hardships, even if it means working overtime for free."

"To be honest, local workers don't have any advantages over them. At most, we are still short of some special technical workers."

"If you want 50/50, I think it might be a little difficult, maybe 35 percent."

"Three thousand five out of ten thousand jobs employ locals, and that's just the average worker."

"If we include skilled workers, the number may be close to 40 percent, which is not a small number."

Mayor Williams thought about it for a while and decided that from a rational point of view, there was nothing wrong with Lance's idea.

As long as he is not threatened by the union and has means to fight back, he will not be afraid of the union. "Okay, I'll do as you say."

Lance nodded slightly, "By the way, I'll give you a little news."

"What?", Mayor Williams asked curiously, he talked about the ash and took another breath.

"The Labor Federation and the General Trade Unions intend to form a workers' party and also intend to run for the presidency..."

Mayor Williams even forgot to spit out his cigarette. He just stared at Lance stupidly. After a while, he was awakened by a cough!
He coughed for a long time, "Are you fucking kidding?"

As a man who always holds himself to the standards of a gentleman, swearing at this time was indeed an emotional "breakthrough" for him. He still didn't believe it was true!

Three federal parties are annoying enough, but if there is another...

And it was a political party that controlled so many working-class people. He suddenly felt a sense of fear!
If they really control 20 million votes, it means they control half of the federation!

Thinking of this, he asked uncertainly, "Congress...shouldn't let them succeed?"

Lance didn't say anything, just smiled, "So you don't need to worry about the whole thing, just do as we agreed."

Mayor Williams agreed without any further questions.

After resolving the minor trouble with Mayor Williams, he spoke briefly to the manager of the labor company, and then took his people on the train to Inden State.

He can't stand a drive of at least five or six days, that would drive him crazy!

In fact, even if you are taking a train, even if you can move around and do many things, staying in a small space for such a long time can still make people collapse!

During the time that Lance was in New Bermingham, other independent businesses in the city gradually discovered the problem.

Because before, they collected payment every day or every other day, which was their rule.

Firstly, it prevents these individual investors from running away with too much money. Even if they run away, they will only take a few hundred or a thousand yuan at most, which will not have any impact on the overall sales.

On the other hand, it is also for the purpose of timely and unified replenishment of stocks, not only this time when selling wine, but also when selling other things in the past.

But when the two policemen didn't show up for three or four days in a row, they felt something was wrong.

The news spread among one of the police officers, and soon other state police officers who also lived in New Bermuda discovered that the two men were missing.

In the morning, several policemen made an appointment to come to the place where the two policemen lived. Their girlfriends seemed to have not realized that the two were missing.

They had also had situations where they had to work for a long time before coming back, and for these two women, what they cared about was the quality and enjoyment of life, not what the man who rode on them for no reason was doing.

Several policemen searched the room, but because there were too many signs of life here, they could not find any evidence.

After questioning the two women, it was found that they had not returned at all.

"They might have had an accident on the way back. It's been several days."

Several policemen gathered together to talk, and one of them said, "Should we tell the sheriff about this?"

The other two looked at him, and he explained, "Maybe those people are coming."

He did not specify who "those people" were, but everyone here knew what he meant.

Those people are the original owners of these wines.

In fact, these people were not very supportive of taking action against such a large batch of goods at the beginning. Millions of goods were enough for their owners to kill them a hundred times!
But precisely because the value of this batch of goods was too high, they eventually succumbed to greed.

Now that greedy revenge has come, they are all a little uneasy.

Soon they drove to the section police station and met the sheriff in his office.

The sheriff looked at the three people who came together, and then he looked down at the calendar, "Today is not the day to collect debts!"

One of the three said with a grim expression, "David and his partner are missing."

The sheriff had a smile on his face. The magic of turning wine into money made him look great. As long as he sold everything this time, he could earn at least half a million dollars!
Five hundred thousand, he wouldn't earn that much even after working for several years. He could retire directly after getting this money!

So he has been in a good mood recently, and some shadows and anxieties in his heart have been covered up by the gradually increasing amount of money.

Now that two policemen suddenly disappeared, the uneasiness that had been suppressed in my heart began to surface again.

"Did you go to where they live?"

“What about the hospitals around here?”

"You also have the city police station. Has anyone called the police and found a dead body or something?"

He asked several questions in a row, and it turned out that these men only went to David's director's place and told him the truth about the situation there.

The sheriff actually already knew that these two people might have been arrested by someone, but he still held on to the hope that they might be safe and sound and asked them to go to the city hospital to check whether these two idiots had an accident and were admitted to the hospital.

At the same time, he also called the city police station and asked if there were any reports related to the state police recently, and asked them to coordinate and check the car they were driving.

Because they are a "brother unit", the city police department quickly assigned the task. For cases involving missing police officers, the city police were also very cooperative and dispatched a large number of police forces.

In just two hours, the streets were filled with mounted police and patrol cars.

A little later, they found the target vehicle in a parking lot next to a restaurant in a slightly remote area of ​​the city.

The vehicle was parked there intact, except that the windows were smashed, and it looked like someone had robbed it.

At the same time, the police found some dried blood on the side of the wall in the parking lot...

(End of this chapter)