Chapter 268 Food War
Qin Luoshuang certainly did not feel exploited. She only felt the heavy trust and the burden on her shoulders.
Lin Wen and her did not have a particularly close relationship, but he was willing to let her interfere in military power.
"No matter how hard or tiring it is, I must get things done," she thought secretly.
But before Qin Luoshuang could take any action, Yun Zhixing came.
As Qin Luoshuang's deputy, he was the second leader after her in the former Sky Song organization.
Moreover, due to his male identity, he was the one who attended most public occasions, and more people outside the organization knew him than Qin Luoshuang and Xia Xiaoxiang.
He used to be a talented person, but unfortunately he was either on the path of a dog licker or on the way to becoming a dog licker. Later, he was poisoned by the Xia Yaonu and turned into this weird appearance that was neither human nor ghost.
Thinking of this, she became worried again.
"I'm going to have a good talk with Xia when I have time."
Qin Luoshuang thought.
"Tell her to change her bad habits. The fish pond in front of her door is about to cause a tsunami."
Yun Zhixing didn't know that he had become a representative of the negative image of men in the eldest lady's mind.
To him, all his actions were those of a normal man.
The eldest lady is the career, and the master is love.
Since arriving in Changshan County, he has been conscientious in maintaining his identity: the eldest lady's loyal subordinate, the master's obedient servant, and County Chief Lin's enthusiastic learner.
Of course, the last identity was not very successful.
Although his love life was not very successful, he was still very successful in his career. He did his job very well and shared a lot of work with Qin Luoshuang.
In addition to being the second-in-command of the KGB and the director of the Inspectorate, he also served part-time as the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau.
Because Qin Luoshuang was very busy, he had been in charge of daily work since the establishment of the Foreign Affairs Bureau.
He was very happy that his new colleague and Xiao Xiao, who occasionally visited him, had a lot in common with him.
But this time he came for a very urgent matter.
"Missy! Something bad has happened!"
He rushed over and shouted:
"You finally managed to purchase 12,000 tons of grain from the Western Federation, but it was intercepted by the Imperial Life Monitoring Bureau, controlled by the Council, on the Dalong River!"
Qin Luoshuang immediately put down the documents in her hand.
"What's going on? Tell me slowly."
Yun Zhixing breathlessly said, "The Imperial Life Monitoring Bureau suspected that our food safety inspections were fraudulent and asked us to stop the ship for inspection."
"Have you sent anyone? I remember telling you that all procedures must be followed to the utmost. The Council cannot openly violate the Imperial system."
"Miss, during the inspection, they told Zhao Chong, the Supreme Commander of the Southern Region of the Empire, about this matter, and then, and then..."
Yun Zhixing looked frustrated and angry, obviously he didn't expect such a method to work.
"The Southern District Commander's troops arrived. They used the law of internment as an excuse to forcibly confiscate our food supplies and only gave us a receipt!"
Qin Luoshuang fell silent.
There is no doubt that this move is extremely vicious.
It was the army that took direct action, the law of war had a basis for levying taxes, and the Council was merely fulfilling their duties by intercepting the cargo ship.
There is no procedural problem with the whole matter. Even if the case is brought to the Supreme Council of Elders, it will not win.
For the military, anything outside the empire is a soft persimmon, which is exactly the opposite of the Council.
The Council can impose sanctions on the empire at will, but is quite wary of people and things outside the empire.
This tactic of killing someone with a borrowed knife was used very well.
Qin Luoshuang was very regretful. She was careless and shouldn't have purchased more than 1,000 tons of bulk grain from abroad at one time.
However, the food gap in Changshan County has now widened. The establishment of fishery companies and food factories has only alleviated part of the pressure. As Yang Shaohu and Huang Mingxiao have received all the refugees, the food gap has now exceeded 2,000 tons per day.
Changshan County’s inventory can only last for less than 20 days.
Food is the basis of everything. If there is no food, Changshan County will not just fall into turmoil.
"Miss, what should we do?" Yun Zhixing shouted almost in tears.
Qin Luoshuang was silent for a moment, then said, "Go to Shangxi Town and invite Chen Xingtai."
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Chen Xingtai has been very busy recently. The reclamation of 500,000 hectares of land is a very heavy task involving many aspects. The chores generated every day are enough to keep him working until the early morning.
But these are all happy troubles.
Endless stretches of fertile land, areas exempt from all taxes, associations composed entirely of farmers, and imperial officials who never interfere with them or ask for compensation except for those who lend a helping hand.
This is simply their ultimate dream destination.
Chen Xingtai worked hard with 1.2 million enthusiasm. In addition to organizing land reclamation, he also gathered a large number of poor farmers who were scattered across the country and had nowhere else to go, and dug out the roots of various states.
For this reason, governors-general in many places have lodged protests with Changshan County.
However, Changshan County withstood the pressure. The Foreign Affairs Bureau flatly denied the incident and vowed that it was the work of an individual and not the work of the Changshan County Government. They would investigate it thoroughly and give everyone an explanation.
But every once in a while, the investigation would come to nothing, and the person in charge would come on stage, bow, and apologize.
The Governor's Office came over to question him, but was met with a rebuke from the head of the office: "I've already apologized, what else do you want?"
This feeling of being protected is so refreshing.
Because of this, many new farmers developed a favorable impression of the Changshan County Government.
Chen Xingtai wanted very much to bring such happiness to other areas. To this end, he spent a lot of money and materials, and sought help from agents from the Security Bureau of the Ministry of Security, bringing a lot of key intelligence and funds to nearby organizations.
Shizhou is the largest grain-producing state in the empire, with one-ninth of the empire's farmers and the largest number of various civil organizations. Therefore, Chen Xingtai also sent the largest number of members.
A dozen core members including Rock, Butcher, Old Jar, Monkey, Nightingale, etc., led a team of nearly a hundred people over.
The operation has been very smooth. They killed many local bullies and lackeys of the Shizhou Governor's Office in Ningdu County on the edge of Shizhou, and assisted a large number of impoverished farmers and sent them to Changshan County.
But since last week, they haven't replied.
This chapter is relatively short. I am stuck. Let me sort it out.
(End of this chapter)
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