In mid-March, catkins were already dancing on the streets of Shengjing.
It has been more than four months since the four major districts and the central district began to dismantle the barbed wire fences to allow people to circulate freely in each district in October last year. After the initial chaos, a new order has been formed. Moreover, in these four months, factories and shops have Wait, they are popping up like mushrooms in several major areas.
The biggest change has occurred in the Montenegro Concession area.
Today, Shengjing is mainly divided into five major areas: Central District, Longbei District, Anshan District, North Xinjiang District, and Haixi District. There are also two concessions, the Japanese Concession District and the Heishan Concession District.
In the Heishan Concession Area, in November last year, Longbei District and Anshan District each leased a small part to the Montenegro people. The total area is not large, less than one-half of the Japanese Concession Area, and it is not much different from a small county town. Originally it was all wasteland and shantytowns, but in more than three months, many buildings have been built, including a soda factory and a flour mill.
However, representatives from the Japanese Concession Area have entered the public management bureau, while the Heishan Concession Area does not have this status and treatment.
Shengjing Public Affairs Board, the full name is Public Affairs Board.
It has always been controlled by Westerners.
In fact, the free trade zone in Shengjing was an agreement reached under the management of Westerners a hundred years ago. It can be seen as the epitome of Western businessmen controlling the economy of the northern region. They set up factories here and their products can be distributed to four provinces, eliminating the need for Many customs barriers between provinces have been eliminated.
Of course, most of the Western factories in Shengjing are cloth factories. Because the technical content of cloth is low, cheap workers can be recruited here to mass-produce it. At the same time, no matter how poor the people in the northern region are, it is also traditional to buy cloth to make new clothes during the New Year or if they have some spare money. , cloth is also a commodity that can really be sold in the four northern provinces.
The chief director of the Shengjing Public Board, which can also be said to be the chairman, Baron Rodson, is the cotton spinning king of Shengjing.
In the past, the public board of directors had seven directors, three of whom were Westerners. In addition, there were one representative each from Longbei, Anshan, Beijiang, and Haixi.
In this way, it has broad representation and coordinates the management of public affairs in Shengjing.
Today, there are eight directors, with an additional representative from the Japanese Concession.
After all, Montenegro has not yet reached the status of an administrative region among the four major provinces or even the Kingdom of Japan. Its concessions can be regarded as privately leased from Longbei and Anshan provinces.
Westerners who mainly live in the central district naturally agree with the removal of barriers in all districts of Shengjing.
In fact, the Westerners originally represented by Roderson wanted to expand the public board of directors to nine members and add a Western representative.
But unfortunately, the civil strife in the kingdom caused the Westerners to lose a little of their deterrent power in the eyes of the warlords in the four northern provinces.
Even the province of Northern Xinjiang, which had been most economically penetrated by Westerners in the past, has seen a rush to appoint local judges.
When Lu Ming fled from Northern Xinjiang, the county-level courts in Northern Xinjiang Province all had Western judges as chief 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, with the insistence of Roderson and others, still obtained the power to serve 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 took a short rest. Today he just walked around the streets and alleys of Shengjing.
Beside Lu Ming, Erika, who was wearing a beautiful cherry blossom kimono, sat beside her. In the rickshaw behind them, there were three people, Grandma Tuolong and Da Guo.
Looking at the burly man pulling the cart in front of him, Lu Ming shook his head. In fact, several of the so-called long-term rickshaw pullers in his family were also workers in the Secrecy Bureau, and they were said to be workers, but in fact they all carried guns in their waists.
His current name is Zhang Aming, a student at Shengjing School of Economics.
And his secret new identity is still the spy chief, the chairman of the Montenegro Concession Public Security Affairs Committee, commonly known as the director of the Secrecy Bureau.
In fact, he 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 directly takes orders from the Security Committee, the brigade captain is the director of the second branch under the committee, which is the operations branch.
The chief inspector of the patrol room in the Heishan Concession is the deputy director of the Operations Division.
He is the chief member of the Public Affairs Committee of the Heishan Concession District and secretly serves as the deputy chairman of the Safety Committee.
Moreover, he also serves as the chairman of the Shengjing Branch of the Black Mountain Investment Company, but daily affairs are decided by the general manager.
The Armed Police Brigade is actually a company allocated by the special agent battalion directly under the 325th Military Headquarters, and has been expanded to a total of about 500 people, making it a battalion-level organization.
Montenegro Investment Company is actually a company affiliated with the Financial Commission of Montenegro Special Administrative Region, which invests in foreign countries for fiscal surplus.
Of course Lu Ming doesn't like this model where the ruling body has a lot of money. Apart from bringing monopoly and corruption, it doesn't bring much benefit. However, in today's special period, when the world is in chaos, it is not bad to use Montenegro's money to make money.
Even so, if you don't keep an eye on all this, it's hard to say that there won't be problems.
Of course, he came to Shengjing not only because it was the center of the four provinces, but because he had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to establish himself here, he had to come.
The most important thing is that deep in my heart, there seems to be a voice calling me.
Even when talking about Shengjing to Hanzhu, Bizhu suddenly appeared with red eyes, and then disappeared again.
When he asked Liuli, Liuli just said quietly, "Tianshan Guards, that is the ancestor of Baozhu Palace..."
Now that I think about it, maybe those legends are not all nonsense.
The most elite legion in the empire, the Tianshan Guards, has always been the pinnacle of the empire. It was probably composed of strange people and strangers thousands of years ago.
Usually led by the prince himself, they fight against powerful barbarians in the northern region.
The inheritance of Bizhu comes from the Tianshan Guards. Are the fallen warriors the descendants of the Tianshan Guards?
Those who faced the giant barbarians fought bloody battles for dozens of days, leaving corpses piled high. After defeating the wave of barbarian troops that had not been seen for hundreds of years, the broken and exhausted troops returned to the imperial capital, but were defeated by the Western warlocks who were waiting for work and the Japanese. Are the warriors finally unable to recover from the flanking attacks from the Legion?
A picture flashed through his mind, and Lu Ming's eyes suddenly became wet.
When I arrived in Shengjing, I seemed to suddenly feel something.
It seems that one can see the setting sun, the broken flags like blood, and dozens of warriors guarding the prince standing under the imperial capital, being shot through by countless crossbow arrows, and finally disappearing in the flames.
On the walls of the imperial capital Dragon City, when the Westerners and Japanese finally discovered that they had truly defeated the powerful Tianshan Guards that had once terrified them to the core, cheers erupted like a tsunami, and the cheers of those who had been enslaved for hundreds of years were Then he let out a proud and strange roar.
It was as if I could see the few warriors wiping away their tears, hugging their little swaddling clothes, and becoming one with the darkness of the night.
As for Queen Alice, she felt grateful that the Crown Prince and the Tianshan Guards knew that the imperial capital was being attacked, but persisted until they crushed the barbarian army and killed all the barbarians before rushing back with their broken army to help, sparing the people of the world the suffering. She issued an edict to treat the people of Zhongzhou kindly and treat them as her own people, and even transformed the imperial capital into the East China Sea. She personally took over the position of Duke of the East China Sea.
This scene seemed to flash before my eyes.
It's just that time flies, and everything now has changed a long time ago.
Looking at this long street lined with shops, it gradually seems as if the asphalt road has turned into a bluestone street, and the crisp sound of horse hooves from the Tianshan Guards patrolling the street can be heard in my ears.
Lu Ming slowly closed his eyes, feeling empty and feeling inexplicably lonely and sad.
Next chapter around midnight
(End of chapter)
