novelraw Chapter 553: Three horses fly to gain popularity, and Tai Sui's reputation begins to spread far and wide
Chapter 553: Three horses fly to gain popularity, and Tai Sui's reputation begins to spread far and wide
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Under normal circumstances, such practices would not be permitted.
But suppressing bandits and quelling rebellions are special cases.
These are life-and-death struggles.
Don't underestimate that one-third share - with the high base amount supporting it, it's really not small.
And most importantly, it's clean and permitted.
So, Lu Ding turned to Fu Xinghe and said: "After we finish investigating, write a bandit suppression report for the higher-ups."
"Okay, Brother Lu."
It wasn't until Fu Xinghe agreed that the surrounding investigators finally reacted.
Cheers erupted immediately."Thank you, Special Envoy Lu!!!"
"Special Envoy Lu is wise!!!!"
"Special Envoy Lu is amazing!!!"
"Hahahahaha, thank you Special Envoy Lu! From now on, whatever you say, we'll do!!"
The first voices to rise were investigators from Qian Jin's faction.
To prevent his brainless subordinates from offending Lu Ding during or after the mission,
Qian Jin had given them advance instructions.
Just a few key points.
First, Special Envoy Lu came from above - he gets first pick of items, regardless of how much he takes, no one is allowed to complain. At most, I'll compensate you afterward. Anyone who dares to whine shouldn't blame me for turning hostile.
Second, control your hands - this situation is different. If anyone dares to steal even a little, you'd better hope I don't find out. My eyes can't tolerate scum.
Whoever causes trouble for me, I'll kill them!!
After all, he was a smart man, so he considered the problems comprehensively.
With Qian Jin's advance warning, all investigators from his faction had prepared for this operation to be unprofitable.
Now they were making money, and it was legitimate, lawful, and compliant bandit suppression.
Who wouldn't be happy?
As for the investigators from Hou Dehai's faction, their cheers were even louder.
In previous operations, the lucrative jobs were basically snatched by Qian Jin's faction, leaving them to gnaw on bones and drink some broth.
Sometimes they even worked hard without getting proper credit.
Now it was finally fucking fair!
Distribution according to labor.
And they were definitely the ones contributing more effort.
Influenced by Hou Dehai's personality,
the basic mindset of investigators in his faction was the same - how much they got divided didn't matter, the most important thing was fucking fairness!
They worried not about scarcity but about inequality.
More work meant more rewards, and no one could say anything about that.
With this timely implementation of the Three-Horse Division of Spoils, Lu Ding won the hearts of White Ridge 749!
Everyone cheered "Grand Guardian!"
When Qian Jin's faction saw this - Grand Guardian?
How come your form of address got super upgraded?
It sounds more intimate than ours? That won't do, I need to shout it too.
From then on, Lu Ding's title of Grand Guardian began spreading throughout the new city.
Spoils were sealed in boxes, registered, criminals were brought to justice and imprisoned.
New City White Ridge 749 was now bustling with activity, full of drive and energy.
Listen to the voices coming from each interrogation room:
"What dirty deeds and evil things has the Luo Family done? Write it all down for me without missing a single word!!!"
"Old Zhang, want some tea? This guy's lips are pretty tight, we need to wear him down!!!"
"Hey you, intern, go get me the leather whip soaked in medicine."
"What do you mean you're innocent? If you were innocent would you be sitting here? Your surname is Luo, you receive Luo Family caste dividends, and you tell me you're innocent? Stop fucking bullshitting me!"
They were really putting in the effort.
Being able to see benefits, not just empty promises - we won't even mention that prerequisite condition.
What's mainly important is:
These investigators all had dirty hands that couldn't be cleaned.
Now the special envoy had arrived.
If they didn't hurry up and produce some real results, they might get optimized at any time.
Losing their jobs would be minor - losing their lives or going to prison would be the real problem.
Now was the time to mend the fold after the sheep were lost - it wasn't too late.
Of course, no one was hiding anything - their rotten deeds and dirty business didn't even need investigation.
Just go out and ask someone: Has so-and-so from White Ridge 749 bullied you?
Hey! Guaranteed everyone could spill a whole basketful.
So none of these investigators even thought about stubbornly denying.
All they could do now was earn more merit, so when the great purge came, they'd get hit less.
If worst came to worst, dying on the mission frontline now would at least earn them martyr status, right?
Having worked as investigators here for so long, who didn't have wives, children, and elderly parents at home?
Lu Ding's legitimate and procedural Three-Horse Division of Spoils gave them hope.
Even if they were to be purged or optimized later, the things obtained through Three-Horse Division of Spoils were legitimate, lawful, and compliant. When investigated later, these would count as spoils of war, not illicit money.
If something happened to them, their wives, children, and elderly parents could still live securely and comfortably relying on the things obtained through Three-Horse Division of Spoils.
That's why these investigators could work so diligently.
At this moment.
In what was originally the White Ridge 749 bureau chief's office, now renamed as Lu Ding's exclusive office.
On the high-grade leather sofa, Lu Ding sat upright while video calling Secretary Qiu.
Beside him, Fu Xinghe reported the work results regarding the Luo Family matter.
According to regulations,
reporting work required returning to Hanjing, because Lu Ding had received his mission in Hanjing.
But if he returned, wanting to come back would require finding new reasons and excuses.
Back and forth, with more records in the files, it would inevitably give people grounds for criticism.
So, direct video conference instead of returning.
Secretary Qiu turned a blind eye to this.
His opening words were: "The Luo Family alone absolutely couldn't have committed such lawless deeds."
"There must be other forces behind them - we must dig deeper!!!!"
With this one sentence, he indefinitely extended Lu Ding's mission deadline regarding the Luo Family matter.
"Don't worry, Secretary Qiu, I will definitely pursue this matter to the end!"
Taking the report handed by Fu Xinghe beside him,
Lu Ding said: "Regarding the Luo Family's illicit funds, we've already prepared accounts, with two copies of paper documents. They'll be sent to the capital along with the items later."
"I've also uploaded materials on the internal website. When you receive the paper documents, you can compare them."
Secretary Qiu operated his phone on the other end, taking a general look: "That's really quite a lot. Good, I understand. I'll file the materials here."
"When the report receipt comes, there will be two copies - one I'll keep myself, the other I'll send to you."
This hand-off solved the problem of Lu Ding not returning to Hanjing while still being able to convert contribution points into resources.
Later, rare treasures could be 'incidentally' shipped along with the receipt report.
However, Lu Ding wasn't planning to exchange for rare treasures yet - what he had extracted from the Luo Family was already enough for his use.
These things needed to be used first, eaten and digested - once in his stomach, no one could take them out. They couldn't possibly make him personally account for how many bowls of rice noodles he ate, right?
The contribution points actually recorded from Hanjing could be kept for now.
They could be investigated freely - cleaner than clean.
Although the rare treasures found from the Luo Family were also clean, since accounts had been made and Lu Ding hadn't falsified anything, but this "no crime but still guilty" thing needed to be guarded against.
Smart people never stand under dangerous walls.