Chapter 1211, Touring the North

Ren Xiaosu accompanied wee for another three days beside the Lunar Lake, and for some reason, even though wee had grown large enough, it still looked like the same little guy in Ren Xiaosu’s memory.

The wee one found the hot river deeper below the crescent moon lake, and it looked like it kinda liked it.

In fact, Ren Xiaosu also liked it here, the entire Lunar Lake was like a huge hot spring, there was no complicated strife here, and he didn’t need to rack his brain to think about anything.

He just needed to peacefully spend his honeymoon here with Yang Xiaoguan.

Although he only lived for three days, he and Yang Xiaoguan built a small cabin on the first day, the two people’s hands are extremely strong, building a wooden house this kind of thing is not a problem at all.

Ren Xiaosu’s palace came with a tent, but Yang Xiaoguan insisted that it was a bit more fun to build a wooden house, and besides, they would probably come here often for vacation in the future.

When it was time to leave, the wee hours of the morning eyed the two of them fondly, and Ren Xiaosu could feel the loneliness, but he didn’t know what to do about Dusk yet.

If only he could bring Dusk to keep it company as well.

Just as Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan were heading north to return to Barrier 144, Luo Lan had just arrived at Barrier 91 in the northern part of the Qing Clan.

Luo Lan had originally planned to go straight back to Barrier 111 after he returned to the Qing Clan’s territory, but as a result, he immediately changed his itinerary after he received news from Qing Zhen.

He was now going to inspect the entire northern barriers of the Qing Clan as an imperial envoy, checking on the training of soldiers, ordnance and food reserves.

This itinerary was like a clear message to everyone: the Qing Clan was preparing for war.

In order to protect Luo Lan’s safety, Qing meticulously sent him a special battalion to receive him, the configuration of this special battalion is exaggerated to the point of being ridiculous, just to carry the “Mountain Tilt” armored car there are four.

Mountain Tilt, Qing’s unique development of high-velocity heavy machine gun, the best in the metal storm. In the beginning, a few armored vehicles carrying Mountain Tilt were able to beat the experimental body to the point where it dared not show its head.

At this time, Luo Lan’s convoy arrived outside the gate of Barrier 91, where all the officials inside the barrier had already gathered, as well as the chief officers of the troops from the nearby military stations.

Everyone stood on both sides of the road in front of the street, and the Order Division within the Barrier had even specially cleaned up a lot of the huts of the stragglers, and also organized a big sweep of the stragglers.

The Division of Order even set standards for this big cleanup: no dead corners, no cobwebs ……

In order to make the exiles look cleaner, the market town also distributed extra clean water, just for the exiles to wash their faces with.

All of this is just like a standard operating procedure of receiving higher leaders.

Although Qing Zhen’s policies were relatively enlightened after he came to power, and the living conditions of the displaced people in the Qing Clan’s territory were also improved, but a consortium is a consortium, and essentially, no matter what kind of person Qing Zhen and Luo Lan are, they can’t change the Qing Clan’s property of a consortium.

Reform, it was never that simple.

It was evening, and as these officials watched Luo Lan’s caravan getting closer and closer, all of them piled up their smiles.

Everyone was a master of fake smiles now, not so much that a fake smile for a while would result in a condition of stiff facial muscles.

Only, what everyone didn’t expect was that the caravan Luo Lan was in didn’t stop when they passed by the barrier gate, but instead rushed straight in through the open gate, leaving those two rows of officials to eat a mouthful of dust.

The officials looked at each other in dismay, everyone thought to themselves what’s wrong with this one, don’t get out of the car even if you don’t, at least say hello to everyone, right?

However, they looked at the subsequent special battalion vehicles that entered the barriers together, no one dared to really say anything.

Luo Lan in the Qing’s position in the extremely supreme, the head of the title there are a whole lot: Qing’s Bureau Secretary General, Qing’s Military Committee Honorary Chairman, Qing’s Business Division Executive Director ……

Anyway, these titles were as mysterious as they came.

Everyone knows very well that if there are any people in the world that Qing Zhenwei cares about, then Luo Lan will definitely be in the first place.

Just by looking at this traveling array, no one can compare.

All the officials outside the walled city looked at Luo Lan’s fleet of vehicles as they hurriedly called out to their secretaries and drivers, “Quickly, quickly, drive and follow!”

At this moment, Zhou Qi, who was sitting in the SUV in front, muttered, “You really haven’t changed, you don’t give others any face at all. If you and Qing Zhen had been a little bit smoother, you wouldn’t have been targeted by that group of old men.”

Luo Lan hemmed and hawed and laughed twice: “Where are those old men now?”

Zhou Qi: “……”

Where else could they be, those old men were killed by Zhou Qi himself.

Luo Lan sat in the back row and eyed the front as he casually explained, “I’m not patrolling the north to be friends with these people, I’m here to do things. If things aren’t done well, then what’s the point of making friends with them?”

“It’s not a matter of making friends or not, it’s a matter of making enemies or not,” Zhou Qi lamented.

Luo Lan shook her head and said, “This is your biggest fault, always thinking about not offending anyone, but you have are not gold, how can you make everyone like you?”

“It’s good that most people like it,” Zhou Qi said.

“Qing Zhen is in charge of the huge Qing Clan, as his subordinate, of course I have to sing in blackface, of course I have to let Qing Zhen be the good guy,” Luo Lan said seriously, “If I go around being the good guy, how else can Qing Zhen buy people’s hearts?”

Luo Lan continued, “Zhou Qi, in this world of fame and fortune, someone has to be the bad guy. I just need to do a good job and clean up these people, so that when Qing Zhen needs to use them, they can be put to good use. As for whether they hate me or not, that’s their business. There’s nothing they can do to me anyway.”

In fact, these reasons Zhou Qi is not do not understand, he is very clear Luo Lan is like a knife in the hands of Qing Zhen, and is not Qing Zhen want him to be this knife, is Luo Lan himself to be.

All of this is just for the sake of Qing Zhen’s power is solid enough.

But, in Zhou Qi’s opinion, how can a person only think about others but not himself?

Right now it seemed that Qing Zhen and Luo Lan were close, but what if one day Qing Zhen changed.

When Qing Zhen no longer favors Luo Lan, I’m afraid that there will be countless enemies who want to throw stones at Luo Lan at that time.

Zhou Qi looked at Luo Lan, “Have you ever considered the future ……”

Luo Lan interrupted, “You underestimate me and Qing Zhen.”

……

The caravan traveled all the way straight to the office building inside the wall, Luo Lan got off the car and sat in the lobby in a flash.

The officials inside the building waited beside Luo Lan with fear and trepidation, while those who had gone to greet him were sweating profusely as they chased after him.

Normally, a fat man would always give off an extra sense of affinity.

However nowadays, Luo Lan gave off more of a feeling of stoutness and strength, which invariably added quite a bit of intimidation.

The rows of officials stood honestly in front of Luo Lan not daring to utter a single breath, fearing that they had provoked this grandpa to be so strong because they had done something wrong.

Luo Lan sat on the sofa in the lobby and said with a smile, “All of you are also dignified figures, you don’t need to be so afraid of me.”

Everyone lowered their heads and didn’t say anything, then thought to each other, only a fool would pick up on this kind of talk.

“Alright, without further ado, I’m going back to Barrier 111 after checking Barrier 91, bring me all the documents I need,” Luo Lan smiled and said, “You all should have heard about it, the person in Barrier 92 fooled me on the amount of reserve food and asset inventory, and on that day this person was shot. So it’s good for you guys to figure out for yourselves how to get rid of the water before you bring in the documents.”

An official wiped his sweat when he heard this, “Don’t worry, our side is ready. Xiao Li, hurry up and bring the entry and exit ledgers to Boss Luo for inspection and verification. Boss Luo, our side’s work is really solid, after you check the ledger, we can immediately depart to the warehouse for inspection.”

No wonder this official was flustered, Luo Lan had indeed just shot a few people before he came to Barrier 91.

A few days ago, after Barrier 92 had just received Luo Lan, Luo Lan had also conducted a surprise inspection just like this day, and didn’t even attend the dinner prepared by the barrier officials.

The officials had heard that Luo Lan was good at beauty and had prepared several escorts for him.

As a result, Luo Lan directly led the special battalion to build a temporary barracks in the warehouse area, and also blocked the entire warehouse under martial law.

For several days, the entire temporary martial law area is only allowed to enter and not allowed to leave, until Luo Lan to all the food, ordnance to the inventory is complete before the end of the matter.

Several officials were lucky, thinking that as long as they entertained Luo Lan, they would be fine, but as a result, Luo Lan didn’t even give them the chance to entertain, and directly shot these people to death.

Luo Lan’s operation was so ruthless and vicious that when the news came out, everyone at the other barriers were afraid that they would be the next unlucky ones to be shot.

According to reason, even the greatest of crimes needed to be put on trial.

However, the private use of reserve food and ordnance is a direct court martial, and Luo Lan has another title, which is the judge of the Qing Clan’s court martial ……

Wherever this goods go, where is the traveling court martial, according to Luo Lan’s operation, what is the crime on the spot trial.

It sounds very childish, but Luo Lan really did it, you can’t do much with him ah.

As for the court’s ruling documents and so on, Luo Lan will let his subordinates slowly make up for it.

The cases handled by Luo Lan’s circuit court have one thing in common: the defendants have not pleaded, and the death penalty rate is 100%.

Basically, the defendant has not had time to plead, the person is gone.

In fact, Luo Lan also knows that this treatment will make everyone afraid, not conducive to the stability of the order.

But he has no choice, Qing’s war preparations have been above all else, special times must use special means.

Otherwise, Qing Zhen didn’t need to ask him to verify the reserve food and ordnance ah.

Generally need to Luo Lan horse to get things, it means that it is already very tricky.

At this time, the ledgers have all been lifted to Luo Lan’s front, but this Luo boss looked at those sweating officials, but suddenly laughed and said, “Okay, I know that you guys have been doing your best in the past three days, and it’s not easy to fill up the standard warehouses in such a short period of time, so I won’t be going to the warehouses, so take care of yourself.”

After saying that, Luo Lan even directly got up and got into the SUV outside the office building, hurriedly came and hurriedly left.

This scene put all the people look dumbfounded, everyone said you this is what ah, wind and fire to come, and wind and fire to go, even the ledger do not look at a glance?

However, a few informed officials are a back of cold sweat.

Buggy last week it said, “Looks like the problem is solved?”

“Of course,” Luo Lan said, “In fact, it was solved before I came, but it was time to come, at least to give them a little lesson, so they know there’s no impermeable wall under this sky.”

As a matter of fact what Luo Lan did in Barrier 92 was nothing more than establishing authority, the matter about the shooting was still spread by himself through the intelligence department, now that the entire Qing Clan’s intelligence organization was in Luo Lan’s hands, he was simply comfortable doing this kind of thing.

Before Luo Lan arrived at Barrier 91 today, he had already learned through the internal intelligence department that these Barrier officials, under the pressure of death, had temporarily purchased a large amount of grain out of their own pockets to fill up the standard bins of each granary.

Moreover, these people had secretly bought high-priced grain, not daring to let anyone know.

Some about the low price used when they first sold the grain in the granary, but now they bought it back at a high price, and all of a sudden these assholes were emptied out, and it hurt them so much that they wanted to spit out blood.

And Luo Lan is leaving to tell them: you all these small actions I know, don’t think there can be anything I don’t know in this Qing clan.

Doing so is also to warn them not to play this kind of tricks in the future, or shooting is the end.

Luo Lan said to Zhou Qi, ”With so many barriers throughout the Qing Clan, taking too long to inventory them one by one would take too long, we simply don’t have that much time. So instead of us checking, it’s better to let these people check themselves amidst the pressure of fear.”

There were three key points to this operation, one was to kill and establish authority, to scare the others.

The second is to give these people the opportunity to tell them, this time, as long as you make up the grain to me, I can pretend that the previous things didn’t happen.

Thirdly, to make these people understand that my eyes are all over the Qing Clan, so be honest in the future.

A set of combinations down, the entire material reserve system immediately the sky is clear, as for those officials who still refuse to make up for the reserve grain, Luo Lan naturally also has a way to find out.

It must be said that after the unification of Southwest China, although Qing’s reputation has been as high as the sky, but the Qing family has been missing a role of the villain.

This evil man, to do the Lord of the Qing Clan can not go to do dirty things, kill Qing Zhen is not good to kill people.

This is probably the reason why the Qing clan has always set up this kind of identity of the shadow, a consortium will always have some unseemly, fall all the things that need to be done by the shadow of the stigma.

Qing Zhen had been Qing’s shadow before, and now it was Luo Lan’s turn.

Although no one had ever explicitly said that Luo Lan was Qing’s shadow, everyone knew it by heart.

With the existence of a billet-killing coolie like Luo Lan, the officials of each walled city would have to put their tails between their legs.

Luo Lan said to Zhou Qi, ”The fact that Qing Zhen has specifically asked me to make this trip means that the problem should be dire, and the danger is right around the corner. I have to make all these people afraid of me before they will do their job properly. Sometimes I want to be more wistful, but the situation doesn’t allow it.”

“Alright, you two brothers have your own way of dealing with the world, I’m too lazy to say anything more,” Zhou Qi stopped talking, “A brother going to be a villain and do evil things for the sake of his younger brother, you don’t care about it yourself, so what else can I, an outsider, say. I just think it’s a bit of a pity, they have specially prepared a number of beauties to entertain us, you want to posture on posture, you let them directly lead the beauties away is how much do you mean, I’m responsible for protecting you every day is also very hard okay ……”

Luo Lan said righteously, “Zhou Qi, I didn’t expect you to be this kind of person!”

Zhou Qi almost vomited blood, “Don’t think I don’t know what you’ve done in the past, what kind of big head of garlic are you pretending with me now?!”

At this moment, Luo Lan said with a straight face, “Zhou Qi, you are not an outsider, Qing Zhen and I both treat you as our best friend and brother.”

Zhou Qi laughed coldly, “Don’t come to me to stir up emotions, I only recognize money.”

“Money we should give as much as we can, it’s not like I’m telling you this to save money, I just hope you don’t keep treating yourself as an outsider,” Luo Lan explained.

“Don’t come and fool me,” Zhou Qi said disdainfully, “Saying that you’re treating me as a brother, but in the end, Qing Zhen’s itinerary and plans aren’t still hidden from me?”

Luo Lan shook his head, “These are two different things, Qing Zhen has his own plans. His itinerary and plans are not only hidden from you, but sometimes even from me, not out of sight, but he has a need to keep it a secret. The enemies we will face in the future are even more terrifying than you and I can imagine.”

Zhou Qi bristled, “Who wouldn’t just talk about it.”

Luo Lan sighed, “You will understand later.”

……

At this moment, right on Qing Clan’s 111th Barrier Ginkgo Hill, a Qing Clan Infantry Brigade arched over the entire Ginkgo Manor.

This was truly a guard at three steps and a sentry at five, and the tightness of the guard was simply outrageous.

In fact, the Qing manor hadn’t had this many soldiers in a long time, it was just that today was a bit special, as Qing Zhen returned to this huge palace.

The manor’s guards were of the tight on the outside and loose on the inside type, and from the outside, everyone only felt that this was something that I’m afraid would require an armored unit to be sent in to fight their way in.

However, inside the manor, there were not many soldiers on guard, even the main building did not have a single soldier on guard, only Qing Zhen’s beloved Xu Zou accompanied him.

There were no servants, and the sound of the piano echoed in the empty main building. Qing Zhen wore a white suit and sat in front of the piano in the hall, his fingers roaming over the black and white keys, but his eyes were tightly closed.

He didn’t look at the score, as if the notes of such a long passage had already been firmly engraved in his mind.

The melody was exciting, but Qing Zhen’s demeanor was calm.

If other people had seen it, they would have found it a little strange, but Xu Zui had long been accustomed to it, and he knew very well that it wasn’t that Qing Zhen didn’t have any inner fluctuations, but that the other party was still in a state of complete restraint.

It was as if the other party had to restrain his current preferences and emotions for the sake of the Qing Clan’s future.

In order to think more clearly, Qing Zhen had to be calmer than the others.

At that moment, a slight sound of a machine interrupted the piano, and a shelf full of books behind Qing Zhen was pushed open, revealing a masonry secret passage inside.

The replica Qing Shen walked out from inside with a smile, ”The third chapter of the young professor, I like this piece too, I heard speculations from within the Fire Seed that the young professor is that founder of Green Harvest, but it doesn’t seem to be any particularly important information, so not many people care about it. Still, it’s a blessing that his score has survived the calamity.”