my wife is a consul

Chapter 424
In mid-March, catkins are already dancing on the streets of Shengjing.

Since October last year, when the four major districts and the central district began to dismantle the isolated barbed wire to allow free circulation of people in each district, it has been more than four months now. After the initial chaos, a new order has been formed. Moreover, in these four months, factories and shops Wait, mushrooms have sprung up in several major areas.

The biggest change is still in the Montenegro Concession area.

Today, Shengjing is mainly divided into five major areas: Central District, Longbei District, Anshan District, Beijiang District, and Haixi District, and there are two concessions in the Dongying Concession Area and the Montenegro Concession Area.

The Montenegro Concession was in November last year. Longbei District and Anshan District each lent a small part to the Montenegrin people. The total area is not large, less than half of the Dongying Concession, which is not far behind the small county town. It was originally wasteland and shantytowns, but in more than three months, many buildings have been built, and a soda factory and flour factory have been built.

However, representatives from the Dongying Concession Area have entered the Board of Directors, while the Montenegro Concession Area does not have such status and treatment.

Shengjing Public Board of Directors, the full name of the Public Affairs Board of Directors.

It has always been dominated by Westerners.

In fact, a hundred years ago, Shengjing’s free trade zone was an agreement reached under the management of Westerners. It can be regarded as the epitome of Western businessmen’s control of the northern region’s economy. They set up factories here, and their products can be distributed in four provinces without many customs barriers between the provinces.

Of course, most of the Western factories in Shengjing are cloth factories. Because the cloth is low-tech, cheap workers can be recruited here to produce in large quantities. At the same time, no matter how poor the people in the northern region are, it is also a tradition to buy cloth for new clothes in the New Year or with some spare money. , Cloth is also a real commodity that can be dumped in the four provinces of the Northern Territory.

The chief director of the Shengjing Board of Directors, or the chairman, Baron Rodson, is the cotton spinning king of Shengjing.

In the past, the Board of Directors had seven directors and three Westerners. In addition, Longbei, Anshan, Beijiang, and Haixi each had a representative.

In this way, it is widely representative and coordinates the management of public affairs in Shengjing.

Today, there are eight directors, and a representative of the Japanese Concession has been added.

After all, Montenegro has not yet reached the administrative status of the four major provinces or even the Kingdom of Japan. Its concessions can be regarded as privately leased from the two provinces of Longbei and Anshan.

Westerners who mainly live in the Central District naturally agree with both hands and feet for the removal of barriers and integration of the various districts of Shengjing.

In fact, the Westerners originally represented by Rodson hoped that the public board of directors would be expanded to nine members, and a Westerner representative would be added.

But unfortunately, the civil strife in the kingdom made the Westerners lose a little deterrent power in the eyes of the warlords in the four northern provinces.

Even the Northern Xinjiang Province, which was previously most economically infiltrated by Westerners, has seen an upsurge in the appointment of local judges.

And when Lu Ming absconded from Northern Xinjiang, the county-level courts in Northern Xinjiang were all headed by Western judges.

Of course, in Shengjing, after all, Westerners have been in business for many years, and their power structure and economic influence are unparalleled.

Therefore, the Shengjing Central District Court, under the insistence of Rodson and others, still obtained the power as the highest court in the Shengjing area.

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In the rickshaw, Lu Ming looked at the street scenes on both sides. He just arrived in Shengjing yesterday and had a short rest. Today he just happened to wander around the streets and alleys of Shengjing.

Next to Lu Ming, Erika, who was wearing a cherry blossom kimono, was sitting beautifully and deliciously. In the rickshaw behind him, there were three people, Grandma Tuolong and Xiaoguo.

Looking at the burly man pulling the cart in front of him, Lu Ming shook his head. In fact, the so-called long-packed rickshaw drivers in the family are also laborers of the Security Bureau, and they are said to be laborers, but they all have guns in their waists.

On the face of it now, his name is Zhang Aming, a student of Shengjing School of Economics.

And his secret new identity is still the head of the secret service, the chairman of the Public Security Affairs Committee of the Montenegro Concession District, and the director of the Secrecy Bureau.

In fact, it can also be regarded as the military, political and economic leader of the Montenegro concession area.

Because the armed police brigade stationed in the Montenegro Concession area is directly under the safety committee, and the brigade captain is the director of the second division under the committee, that is, the operation division.

The Chief Detective of the Police Department of the Montenegro Concession, and the Deputy Director of the Operations Department.

Chief member of the Public Affairs Committee of the Montenegro Concession Area, secretly concurrently serving as the deputy chairman of the Security Committee.

Moreover, I also serve as the chairman of the Shengjing branch of the Montenegro Investment Company, but the daily affairs are all decided by the assistant general manager.

The armed police brigade is actually a company allocated by the special service battalion directly under the 325th Army, and then expanded, with a total of about 500 people. It is a battalion-level organization.

The Montenegro Investment Company is actually a subsidiary company of the Montenegro Special Economic Zone Finance Committee, which invests externally for fiscal surplus.

Of course, Lu Ming doesn't like this kind of model where the governing body has a lot of money. Apart from bringing monopoly and corruption, it doesn't do much good. However, in this special period, the world is in chaos, and it is not bad to use Montenegro's money to make money.

Even so, all of this, if you don't stare at it, it's hard to say that there will be no problems.

Of course, I came to Shengjing not only because it was the center of the four provinces, and I had to come here because I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gain a foothold here.

Most importantly, deep down in my heart, there seemed to be a voice calling to me.

Even when talking about Shengjing with Hanzhu, Bizhu suddenly appeared with red eye circles, and then disappeared.

Asking Liuli herself, Liuli just said faintly, "Tianshanwei, that is the ancestor of Baozhu Palace..."

Thinking about it now, maybe those legends are not all nonsense.

The most elite legion of the empire, the Tianshan Guard, has always been the pinnacle of the empire. Probably, it was composed of strange people thousands of years ago.

Usually led by the prince himself, he will fight against the powerful barbarians in the Northern Territory.

The inheritance of Bizhu came from Tianshanwei, and the leftover warriors are the descendants of Tianshanwei?
Those giant-like barbarians fought bloody battles, dozens of days of fierce fighting, with numerous bones, and after defeating the barbarian army that had been seen for hundreds of years, the broken and exhausted troops returned to the imperial capital, and lost to the Western warlock army and the Dongying people. The backstab attack of the legion, the warriors who are ultimately powerless?

Images flashed through his mind, and Lu Ming's eyes suddenly became wet.

Arriving in Shengjing, I seemed to have a sudden feeling.

It seems to be able to see the sunset, the remnant flag like blood, under the imperial capital, dozens of warriors guarding the prince standing still, were shot through by countless crossbow arrows, and finally disappeared in the flames.

On the walls of the Imperial Capital Dragon City, when the Westerners and Dongying people finally found out that they had really defeated the mighty Tianshan Guards that once made them fear in their bones, there was a burst of cheers like a tsunami, and the enslaved people who had been enslaved for hundreds of years Afterwards, he roared exasperatedly.

I also seem to see that several warriors wiped their tears, hugged their little babies, and became one with the darkness of the night.

And Queen Alice, grateful to the prince and the Tianshan Guards, knowing that the emperor was attacked, persisted until the tide of the barbarian army was smashed and the barbarians were killed, and then rushed back to help with the broken army, saving the suffering of the people of the world, especially She issued an edict to treat the people of Zhongzhou kindly, treating them as her own people, and turned the imperial capital into Donghai. She took the title of Duke of Donghai herself.

This scene seemed to flash before his eyes.

It's just that time flies like a horse, and everything today has long been changed.

Looking at the long street lined with shops, gradually, it seems as if the asphalt road has turned into a bluestone street, and the crisp sound of horseshoes from Tianshan Guards patrolling the street can be heard in my ears.

Lu Ming slowly closed his eyes, feeling empty in his heart, feeling inexplicably lonely and sad.

　The next chapter around midnight

　　
　
(End of this chapter)