Law Enforcer's Handbook

Chapter 522 Collective Interests
Early the next morning, Lu Xiang and Song Lan went to the place agreed with Qi He as promised.

Both Qihe and the Ragus Foundation are undoubted activists. After the meeting in the seventh district, they have already started the construction work in the seventeenth district. Before today, he had met Aurelia in private Mayor Nuo talked about the foundation's investment and construction in the next ten years.

The branch building of the Ragus Foundation can also be regarded as a landmark building in the downtown area.

In the past, this skyscraper was considered a symbol of the company’s extravagance and waste—the Ragus Foundation had no business dealings in the [-]th district before, and they just habitually established branches belonging to the foundation in every city. Ministry, after the building was completed, the foundation did not arrange staff to come, and the building was always empty except for the routine maintenance of security guards and cleaners.

And now, years after the building was built, it was finally time for the first important meeting.

Qi He waited in the meeting room of the building early in the morning.

He greeted Lu Xiang and Song Lan with a smile. Beside him was a literary girl whom they had never seen before. She had long black hair and glasses, and was just over Qi He's waist. The biggest feature outside is the thick notebook she holds in her arms.

In 2166, this is definitely a rare sight.

At least notebooks have long been eliminated by the times, and the work efficiency and accuracy of electronic memos are much higher. Song Lan recently saw an electronic memo with built-in artificial intelligence on the Internet, which does not even require users to record , as long as the "meeting record" function is turned on before the meeting, the built-in artificial intelligence will automatically record the important content during the meeting.

Although the company's competitors are always smearing them on the Internet, saying that artificial intelligence is a scam, and AIs will upload your company's secrets to their network while recording the content of the meeting, but Song Lan admits that he is very concerned about this This high-tech electronic memorandum is exciting.

In addition, this little girl looks too young. According to visual inspection, she is in the same age group as Elmon and Anfiya. She belongs to the type who can go directly to Newster School to report on the class after the meeting. .

It is too early to come to work at this age.

The literary girl seemed to be very introverted, she sat beside Qi He without saying a word the whole time, her notebook was never opened, it looked more like a decoration.

Only his eyes sneaked glances at Song Lan from time to time, and when he got a response from Song Lan, he would quickly stagger away.

And after the simple greetings, Qi He also brought up the business.

"Regarding the issue of Sweet Dreams, to put it simply, the council hopes that you can stop investigating."

This is the number one issue that the Council wants him to address, taking precedence over investment in construction.

Lu Xiang asked without answering, "What about you?"

"According to the interests of the Foundation, we naturally hope that you will stop the investigation."

I'm not lying on this one, there are plenty of other companies like Dream Maker, and they're not all conservative industries.

In the final analysis, the Ragus Foundation is a community of corporate interests, and for companies, they will appear wherever there is profit, whether it is biopharmaceuticals or military production.

"Of course, I know that such an explanation cannot convince you."

If Lu Xiang really "understood righteousness" so much, this matter would not have disturbed the council, and it would become an important topic in the recent meeting, "In fact, during the last meeting, someone proposed to use Satellite weapons strike."

Lu Xiang was taken aback by the sudden and heavy news, not only because it involved the use of satellite weapons, but she was also surprised that Qi He would actually tell them the secrets inside the council.

It stands to reason that the content of the meeting of the council should be kept absolutely confidential from the outside world.

"In the end, this issue was rejected with a 61% opposition rate, but the results of the vote also showed certain problems."

61% represents the number of reformists and neutrals, and it also shows that 39% of the members of the Council agree to use satellite weapons to cleanse the "problem city" in District [-].

This means that for conservatives, this is no longer a personal grievance, but a contradiction of collective interests.

They believe that the existence of the void has indeed threatened the core area of ​​the coalition government, and their attitude towards this is to use satellite weapons to wipe out all troubles for them.

This has always been the coalition government's last resort.

Whether it's an insurgency against the Rebels, or an infection that's prevailing "out there," striking an area with satellite weapons always wipes out all trouble.

"I'm not threatening you, but if this issue continues, the neutral votes and some reformist votes may fall to the other side in the next vote."

Qi He felt helpless.

As a representative of the Ragus Foundation, he must give priority to the collective interests of the company, and individual will is often of little importance in front of the collective.

When confronted with this situation in the past, companies usually resort to two methods.

One is to give the other party enough benefits, and through the exchange of benefits, the two parties will become a community of interests on some issues. In the eyes of the company, there is no relationship that is more stable than a community of interests.

And when this method loses its effect, they will also take some measures to make those very few stubborn people disappear completely from this world.

But obviously, neither of these two situations applies to Lu Xiang and the [-]th district.

On the issue of the Void, he has always been contrary to the mainstream view of the Council. His intuition tells him that the rash use of satellite weapons will not only fail to clear up the Void trouble for them, but will also release some unexpected enemies.

His instincts are always right.

So, this time, he adopted the third negotiation method.

"If you want to insist, here are the materials I prepared for you in my own name."

Qi He handed an electronic memo to the other side.

The moment she took the electronic memo, Lu Xiang's expression immediately changed from doubt to shock. She thought it was an exchange of benefits prepared by the company for them, or it was simply a warning and threat, but the content above was different from her guess and The means of the company are irrelevant.

The relevant companies in the memo are clearly the direction of their future investigations.

In other words, not only did Qi He not threaten them, but he also helped them complete the investigation and delivered the results to them?
Lu Xiang took a deep look at the other party. In fact, from the first time she saw Qi He, she felt that this man was a bit unusual.

At least it is far from the company representative in her stereotype. Although he always claims that he puts the company's interests first, Lu Xiang always feels that Qi He's behavior has hidden secrets.

This is also gut feeling, without any direct evidence.

"In this case, you should be able to understand, right?"

After Lu Xiang browsed briefly, Qi He said, "What really worries the council is not the industry itself, but the various industries involved in this gas... the political and military actions inside and outside the coalition government, There are also life medicine and spiritual ability research, all of which will be used."

(End of this chapter)