Cosma Empire

A staff member of the Imperial Central Bank put the original documents returned by An Pu back into the filing cabinet. He returned to his desk and began to deal with some backlog of documents. During the period, he chatted and laughed with several colleagues. When the bell for leaving get off work rang, he packed all his personal belongings into his briefcase, queued up and left the bank through the employee passageway. Instead of going home directly, he drank a little wine and ate something with his colleagues, then got on the bus in the opposite direction to his home, and got off at the bottom stop.

He walked two kilometers and it was almost eight o'clock. He took out two ten cents from his pocket and entered a closed public telephone booth. As the core of the empire, all advanced technologies are always the first to be popularized here. In some remote places, telephones may only exist in city halls or important institutions, but in the imperial capital, public telephone booths have appeared on the streets.

Of course, although there are public phone booths, the usage rate is not high. Every three minutes, 20 cents of coins are required. The average person cannot afford such a price, and they would rather write a letter than make a phone call. For those at the bottom of society, time is not as valuable as money.

He dialed a number, both sides were silent for a while, and then he said a word quickly, then hung up the phone booth, put on his hat, lowered the brim of the hat, and left the phone booth.

On the other end of the phone line, a white-collar man in formal attire sitting in a bright office put down the phone. He walked out of the office door, walked to the end of the corridor, picked up the phone and dialed the administrator on the upper floor. And reported his name, job number and application code, and two minutes later, the elevator door opened. He straightened his clothes and walked out of the elevator ten seconds later.

There are only six offices on the entire nineteenth floor, and the people who work here are all partners of the company. It is very difficult to meet them. If he didn't have a one-time application code, he wouldn't be able to come up at all.

He knocked on the door of the innermost office, the dull voice made his heart beat a little faster, and he pushed the door open until he heard the word "come in".

A young man sits behind a desk, with his back turned to him, and all he can see is his greasy hair. Facing the night scene outside the floor-to-ceiling glass wall, the man seemed to be enjoying something mysterious.

"Sir, just now an informant discovered a small situation..."

After he finished repeating the sentence, he left voluntarily. He knew that his goal had been achieved, and staying there would only be counterproductive.

After he left, the luxurious chair turned back, with a cynical smile on the young face, he pouted, picked up the phone and dialed a number, and soon there was a busy signal on the phone...

"I'll pick it up!" Du Lin shook his hand and stopped Dove who was about to answer the phone. It was already nine o'clock in the evening, and most people would not disturb him at this time. The person who can still call him at this time,

Either there is something urgent, or it is a very important partner of oneself.

"This is Du Lin." Du Lin carried the phone and dragged the long phone line to the outside of the house, and the sound of the wind could block his voice.

There was a voice on the other end of the phone that made him want to laugh. It was Kevin, "I'll sell you a message for 10,000 yuan. Think about it."

Du Lin laughed out loud, and he couldn't help but tease: "Have you raised the price recently? Now it costs 10,000 yuan an hour? Or do you want 10,000 yuan for a word?"

He didn't care about Du Lin's teasing of Kevin, just like An Pu's understanding of Kevin, he is shameless when he asks for money, and he clearly separates public affairs from private affairs. Even sometimes what others consider to be private matters will be classified into official affairs by Kevin. Official business requires money, but it is definitely worth it. Private matters do not require money, and sometimes he doesn't want to talk about it.

"It doesn't matter. I think this news is worth 10,000 yuan. Of course, you can also choose to refuse. Let's talk about other things, such as the recent economic situation?"

Du Lin thought about it, and decided to spend 10,000 yuan to hear what Kevin wanted to say, but he had a request, "If your news is not worth 10,000 yuan..."

"Bastard, do you want to say that you want to send me a bullet?" The receiver also laughed, and the laughter quickly subsided, and Kevin's voice became serious, "Someone is investigating your financial account , including the flow of a jewelry company and more accounts that have funds with this jewelry company. If you think this news is worth 10,000 yuan, you know my account. If you think it’s not worth it, then give me 1,500 .”

"You are right, I have raised the price now, 1500 an hour!"

Du Lin pursed his lips, "I see, is there anything else?" Before he could wait for Kevin to reply, a busy tone appeared on the receiver. He shook his head and put the receiver back on the phone, put the phone on the grass, and walked to the edge of the cliff alone.

In fact, Ilian is more beautiful at night than during the day, the silver moonlight falls on the whole beach, the waves are silver, the beach is silver white, everything is so confined, so holy.

Undoubtedly, Juan and Luke vomited out after being caught, everything they thought was valuable to them, including him. Du Lin didn't need to inquire to know that they must have pointed the finger at him.

Since he dared to send these two people to those from the investigation bureau, he naturally cleaned up his hands. It's just that he didn't expect the other party to start investigating that jewelry company so soon. It seems that there is a very powerful guy among those people.

Du Lin thinks that all his operations can be said to be flawless, including the jewelry company. But there is no absolute perfection in this world, there are always some things that are not handled cleanly, such as the registrant of a jewelry company. The General Chamber of Commerce requires that all enterprises, companies and institutions must be registered by a living "natural person", because this involves a special situation in business, so he randomly found a gambler and asked him to register this jewelry company .

At that time, I came to Irian because it was more convenient to go to sea here. If someone really caught him and wanted to take him down, he would be able to leave Irian and abscond to the Federation in the first time. It's a pity that the level of those investigators is limited, and they didn't touch his tail, which gave him a chance to grow and develop. To this day, there is no evidence to move him? Then ask Illian's town hall to agree first!

His total investment in the Eighth District was close to 20 million, not to mention that, he also hired ten thousand "poor people" from the Fifth District to work for him.

A 20 million project, 10,000 or even more jobs, a large amount of tax revenue every year and the expected profits and taxes in the future, moving Du Lin means cutting flesh on the city hall. There is no need for him to resist, the city hall will protect him, and the rich people who have a good relationship with him can say a few words. This is influence, and this is the value and meaning of money.

Whether this news is worth 10,000, Du Lin thinks it is worth it. What is worth it is not the content of the news itself, but Kevin, a special intelligence channel.

He welcomes people from the Bureau of Investigation to come to Ilian to find him. He wants to see what tricks these people can play. He is confident that he will get through this "crisis" without incident.

Time always slips through people's fingers unknowingly. In a blink of an eye, the streets of Illian are already very deserted, and the winter break is here. At this time, the outdoor temperature is only around ten degrees, and the seaside wind is still strong. Few people are willing to go to the seaside to blow the wind in such weather. That is not enjoyment, but suffering.

During this period of time, two small news happened. The first news was that the empire's first professional actor training school was born in Illion. In addition to Frena, Du Lin also hired several well-known supporting actors with superb acting skills and some older protagonists. They will become the first batch of teachers in this school. The school recruited students from the whole society, and not long after the announcement, many students came to report, some were arranged by Du Lin, and some were real students.

In addition to this incident, the second thing is that the winery in Doolin is completed. His request was to build the factory as quickly as possible and then produce the wine. They put up the frame first, and they would do the decoration later.

At this time, Du Lin was in the winery, and the intoxicating fragrance was permeating everywhere. After staying here for a long time, he felt a little dizzy like drinking a meal.

After a while, Rhodes, who had been appointed as the general manager of the winery, walked over with a smile and held a water glass. He handed the glass to Du Lin, who carefully watched the liquid in the glass. Some turbid, pinkish white, this is the so-called "pure". Because there is no distillation process, these liquids are the real "pure puree". He took a sip, and there was an obvious smell of wine, which seemed to be a bit heavier than the fruit wine outside.

He nodded. Although it was still a little sour, it was already considered a good wine. "What about high-grade wine? When will it come out?"

Rhodes was very happy that Durin didn't criticize or talk about the new wine, which meant that he was very satisfied with these wines. The old man said with a smile: "It will take about a week for the high-level wine, and we must make the dragon's blood wood as good as possible." It can absorb the impurities and water in the wine, so that the color will be transparent and the degree will be high!"

Du Lin, who is not familiar with the "traditional" winemaking process, did not intervene casually in this matter. He returned the glass to Rhodes, "filter it again, add a little fruit pulp and spices, and bottle it!"

"By the way, how many bottles of wine can be produced this time?"

"About 80,000 bottles. Many of the equipment are new. We are still in the process of familiarizing ourselves with it. This time is just an experiment. After we are all familiar with it, the production will be doubled. About ten bottles can be produced every month. About 50,000 bottles."

Rhodes is very fond of the things on his "site", but Du Lin is not satisfied!

too little!