50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 631 The Moving Operation for Veterans Day

Following the instructions on the note in the driver's cab, Ding Chenyang and his four companions put on the employee uniforms of "United Van Company (USA)".

Then, five trucks bearing the logo of the "United Van Company" were driven from the parking lot to the houses of the five families belonging to the intelligence department.

Union Van Company is the most famous moving company in the United States. People know that it is a moving company just by seeing its logo.

Before they arrived, Sun Zhiwei had already arrived at the Intelligence Section Manor in Evanston town.

He went to Taylor's house first, and after meeting Taylor, he told the couple, who had been prepared, to set off immediately.

Upon hearing this, Taylor didn't hesitate and immediately drove away with two simple suitcases.

After the couple left, he cleaned all five houses, taking away everything he could, leaving only empty rooms.

After he finished cleaning up the houses of the five families, Ding Chenyang and his team's truck finally arrived.

According to Sun Zhiwei's orders, they did not need to get out of the vehicle upon arrival; they could simply sit quietly in the truck's cab.

During this period, because it was a holiday, many pedestrians didn't return home until late, and the moving company's trucks were seen by many neighbors.

At midnight, once the streets quieted down, several trucks started up and left the town of Evanston, finally parking in the same abandoned parking lot.

Their mission was thus accomplished, but no one knew the meaning behind what they had done.

In fact, a month after the five houses were vacated, community HOA staff came to investigate because they had not paid their property management fees for the previous month.

After discovering that they had already left, HOA inquired with the surrounding neighbors.

Neighbors recalled that a month earlier, on Veterans Day, they had seen a moving company truck parked in front of the house, confirming that the house had been quietly moved out.

HOA isn't the police. After obtaining a reasonable explanation, they simply and efficiently confiscated the five houses and proceeded directly to the auction process.

Two months later, each of the five houses welcomed a new owner, and the five families who had 'moved away' gradually faded from people's memories.

Let's go back to November 12th, after Veterans Day, when Sun Zhiwei took Ding Chenyang to Washington.

Previously, Taylor had informed his FBI contact that he was about to leave the company and had also informed his contact of his new contact.

That day, Ding Chenyang, holding Pinkerton's certification documents, officially took over the daily intelligence liaison work from the FBI contact.

Although Sun Zhiwei knew that the FBI must still have insiders in that intelligence sales network, he couldn't find them at the moment.

Therefore, he could only inform Ding Chenyang about the situation.

If anyone from that party contacts him in the future, he should let them pin the blame on him. Sun Zhiwei will then personally clean up the mess.

After more than half a month of work, the matter with Pinkerton Detective Agency has finally come to an end.

The future development of Pinkerton will be a long-term issue that cannot be resolved in a day or two.

Before leaving again, he finally made up his mind to let Aaron Powell temporarily serve as the vice president of Pinkerton in order to keep the company running.

He has more and more things to do now, and sometimes he feels overwhelmed.

The work at Pinkerton requires professionals, and regardless of Allen's abilities, we have to use him for now. Fortunately, Old Han hasn't given him any new tasks lately, otherwise, he would have neglected his regular duties.

Upon returning to New York from Chicago, he went to Cathay Bank to arrange for a sum of money to be transferred to Pinkerton's account for expenses during the company's transition period.

In the future, Pinkerton will gradually give up some small private cases, such as investigating extramarital affairs and catching adulterers. He doesn't want to ruin the reputation of such a long-established detective agency.

For the next two weeks, Sun Zhiwei stayed in New York, attending six discussion meetings organized by the Mayor of New York City.

By the end of the month, the supporting projects to solve traffic congestion at LaGuardia Airport were finally finalized.

This supporting project will be carried out in three phases, with the first phase starting next month.

The first phase of the project mainly involves converting the green belts on both sides of the existing highway into new lanes to increase the highway's carrying capacity.

The entire project was organized and constructed by the city hall, so Sun Zhiwei didn't have to do anything and just wait for the results.

He also saw the project's budget sheet, and the project budget, which was in the hundreds of millions, made Sun Zhiwei's eyes twitch.

These guys really don't skimp on the city's budget. For a road expansion project of less than 10 kilometers, the construction team dared to ask for $12 billion.

Their eating habits are absolutely disgusting; aren't they afraid of stuffing themselves to death?

But what he noticed was that surprisingly, no one, including Mayor Ed Cork, objected to the construction budget, which was quite interesting.

It seems that the peripheral projects of LaGuardia Airport have been used by them as a tool to siphon money from the New York City Hall budget.

Moreover, he noticed that the project was divided into three phases, and these people had quite an appetite; they were planning to take it long-term.

The first phase of the project will last for 3 months, the second phase will last for at least a year, and if a new route is developed for the third phase, it's not impossible for it to last for three, four, five or six years.

Unfortunately, he couldn't get a single bite of that budget; it was for the gentry of New York City Hall.

However, he decided to let it go, since the project was beneficial to his own airport and he still benefited from it.

What he needs to be careful about is preventing those capitalists from turning the project into a shoddy mess.

Therefore, he decided to send a coordination team to the construction site of the first phase of the project.

The team's overt task is to coordinate the project's construction schedule with the LaGuardia Airport project.

In reality, the team's true purpose was to thoroughly check the project's quality throughout the entire process.

He didn't intend to hide his purpose. He had already made it clear to Mayor Ed that it didn't matter whether a steel bar cost $10 or $1, as long as the quality of the highway was guaranteed.

The mayor understood his concerns and did not refuse the coordination team's entry. As long as it did not interfere with their ability to make money, everything else was negotiable.

After all, they were able to start this money-making project under the name of Sun Zhiwei's airport, so they had to give them that much face.

Moreover, their concerns were not unfounded. Their superiors knew when to stop, fearing that the lower-level leaders might get too carried away with the food and neglect their duties.

(End of this chapter)