Despite being incredibly wealthy, I want to be a prosecutor.

The best hotel in Sihanoukville is the White Swan Hotel. The White Swan Hotel was a landmark foreign investment project in China's reform and opening up, and it was very famous. Now, there is also a White Swan Hotel in Sihanoukville.

The five-story strip building has become a new landmark in Huixi, standing alongside the French colonial "embassy" building as a landmark of the old era and a landmark of the new era, respectively, and is more imposing than the surrounding buildings.

While I was checking in at the lobby, the phone rang.

This is somewhat like a special economic zone, for example, allowing the country's telecommunications companies to operate again, just like in Tachileik, where mobile communications are essentially the country's network.

In Hue Si, the Thai baht is also a hard currency.

Because the value of the Lao currency is extremely unstable, even within Lao banks, accounts are settled in units of Tibetan baht or US dollars.

It is not calculated using its own currency, but using the monetary value of such foreign currencies.

In many rural areas, it is not uncommon to use ivory coins for decoration.

Not to mention places like Huixi, which face Xiangguo across the river.

The best suite on the top floor of the White Swan Hotel is priced in Thai baht, at 999 baht per day, which is about 200 RMB.

The call was from the young woman, her voice trembling with tears: "Prosecutor Hong, I heard you were kicked out by them?!"

She's very outspoken; whatever she heard, she just repeated verbatim when she asked.

Zhou Hong smiled and said, "It's nothing. I heard Xiao Hong and Xiao Cai woke up? That's something to be happy about."

"Yes, it was Prosecutor Hong who saved them. They can't speak yet, but I can tell they all want me to thank you..."

"You should also tell them that the guy named Tuta who harmed them will be severely punished."

"Oh? Really?" The young woman was both surprised and delighted. "Then, why are you still..."

"Stop making me the one getting kicked out!" Zhou Hong said, laughing and crying at the same time. "Maybe it's a good thing for me. How much do you know, you blockhead? Okay, I'm not talking to you anymore, I'm busy!" He hung up the phone.

"Sir, how many days will you be staying?" The pretty receptionist asked with a smile as the foreign guest hung up the phone.

For Laos, apart from the capital, the two major regions bordering Elephant are the better economically.

First, the newly announced Savannah-Seno Special Economic Zone borders Mudahan Province (Province) of Elephant State.

The second is the Huisi region, which faces Chiang Rai Province (Province) across the Mekong River. River trade between Huisi and Chiang Rai has a history of hundreds of years.

The White Swan Hotel is the first hotel in Huixi to cater to foreign guests. The staff are carefully selected. If Huixi represents the achievements of Laos’ reform, then the White Swan Hotel represents the face of Laos. The front desk staff are the face of the face, and they are all selected national-level beauties with high salaries and fierce competition.

The woman currently receiving Zhou Hong is tall, beautiful, and radiant. Her indigo-colored skirt suit can't hide her ample bosom. Judging from her name tag, her name is Barney.

"Hmm, one month, I guess!" Zhou Hong took out his military bank credit card and swiped it.

"Ding!" A voice from the depths of the soul.

"HEPING Messenger, activate local region?"

After a moment's hesitation, Zhou Hong chose "Yes".

"Ding! The fourth off-site residential area is activated!"

"Fourth Suburban Area (Vacant): Annual Charity Fund Amount: 100 Days' Salary; Annual Public Fund Amount: 100 Days' Salary."

The empty space became Laos.

Zhou Hong went upstairs to the study, turned on his laptop, connected it to the network, and accessed the specially designed banking software.

Sure enough, two deposits of $160 million (during the white-collar period), two deposits of $320 million (during the active-duty period), and two deposits of $640 million (during the junior officer period) were made into the Citibank account.

Each source of income consists of two parts: one from a charitable foundation and one from public funds.

That is, the charitable fund in Laos is US$1120 million, and the same applies to public funds.

Just then, the doorbell rang.

It was Barney who personally brought the fruit platter.

Normally, she's the receptionist, so the matter of delivering fruit to hotel rooms is naturally none of her business.

But in a country like Laos, many things are complicated and cannot be judged by conventional standards.

For example, a socialist country behaves like a feudal society, with imperial power not even extending to the county level.

Laos' administrative divisions are province-county-village.

For example, Huisi is the capital of Khao Pho Province in Laos, but Huisi is a county.

The villages below were even more like independent kingdoms for the village chiefs.

In traditional rural customs, the village chief is the leader of the village, and all kinds of powers, including judging cases, require the village chief's approval for the police to enter the village. Many villages are essentially autonomous independent kingdoms.

More than 20 years later, there will be regulations to abolish some of the village chief's powers, but in practice, it will be another matter.

The power of the large landowners and village chiefs in Elephant Country is already exaggerated, but compared to the village chiefs in Laos, it is completely insignificant.

In Laos, village chiefs are practically local tyrants. Every village has a security team, and these team members have the authority to carry firearms with the village chief's approval.

There are no police stations or similar institutions there; rural security relies on the armed forces of each village itself.

How is this political system any similar to the socialist country where Zhou Hong grew up?

Compared to these, the hotel and guesthouse's practices are rather ordinary; having the front desk deliver a fruit platter is truly a trivial matter.

Zhou Hong suddenly remembered something and asked, "Barney, are there any law firms in Huixi?"

"No..." Barney paused, "It seems like it's only available in the capital, Vientiane, called a lawyers' team?"

As Zhou Hong had expected, although Laos had learned from China and proposed the "Reform and Opening Up" policy in 86, it was implemented very slowly.

For example, in terms of building up the legal profession, there are only a few dozen lawyers in the entire country of Laos, and they must be appointed by the Ministry of Justice, and a bar association has been established.

The legal team primarily handles civil legal consultations; they have absolutely no say in criminal matters.

Of course, my original intention was to find a civil lawyer to see if I could register a charitable fund in Laos.

Huixi is, after all, a place at the forefront of innovation, and I thought I might be able to find a lawyer who secretly runs a firm.

It's one thing for Attorney Xie to come and set up an office for the Peace and Love Foundation, but wouldn't it be better if I could directly register a charitable foundation myself?

Huh? He then looked at Barney with some surprise: "You know all this?" She's just a waitress, yet she knows about the Capital Lawyers Group and such?

A shadow crossed Barney's eyes: "My boyfriend graduated from a national university with a law degree."

"A top student..." Zhou Hongzheng was eating fruit with his head down, not noticing Bani's expression. He smiled approvingly. In the entire Laos, there is only one real university now, the National University of Vientiane, the capital.

Its graduates are all the cream of the crop; they either go on to work in government ministries or become elites in various industries.

"Where does your boyfriend work? In the provincial government office here?"

"He's in prison now."

Barney's nonchalant reply caused Zhou Hong, who was biting into a large mango, to cough repeatedly.