Chapter 794

"Are you... Luo Jiefu of the Diguo Chamber of Commerce?", the young man's expression was slightly wrong.

They just encountered Lans's "goodwill", now Luo Jiefu came to the door saying he wanted to report a crime, it is hard not to make him have other associations.

Luo Jiefu doesn't know about the things inside, he nodded, "Yes, I am Luo Jiefu of the Diguo Chamber of Commerce."

"Why, do you know me?"

He doesn't know that these young people just came here, he thought this young man had been working here, so he thought someone knew himself, it should be a very normal thing.

The Diguo Chamber of Commerce has been operating grain recently, and several successful investments have made many people realize this chamber of commerce with potential and low-key.

Luo Jiefu asking like this has no problem at all, but in the young man's ears, he seems to feel that Luo Jiefu's words are pointing at something.

He looked at Luo Jiefu's eyes, and then stood up, "This matter is very important, I want to report it to the director."

Luo Jiefu naturally would not refuse, "Should I wait here?"

He looked around, this is the front desk, there is not even a place to sit down, his first impression of this so-called Federal Bureau of Investigation has already gone bad!

The young man hurriedly took him to the reception room next door, poured him a cup of coffee, and then went to Director Derike's office, repeating the matter.

After Director Derike finished listening, he also frowned, his brain had already started to blow a storm, now he is thinking about whether this is Lans's another probe, or something else.

In short, it is absolutely impossible to report a crime for no reason, he let Luo Jiefu do this, there must be a purpose.

Before coming to Jincheng, Director Derike had already obtained an introduction about Lans and the Lans family, and the situation around Lans through some channels.

He knows very well that Luo Jiefu is behind Lans, without Lans's instruction, Luo Jiefu definitely couldn't have run here to report a crime.

But now no matter what the reason is, what Lans is doing, what he is thinking, they can only respond.

"I will receive, you stay on the side."

Soon Luo Jiefu met Director Derike.

Director Derike is worthy of being a person who has been a prosecutor, he is very active, not at all like coming to handle official business.

As soon as he entered the door, he enthusiastically shook hands with Luo Jiefu, and then sat on the sofas on both sides, and also boasted a few words about the brilliant achievements made by the Diguo Chamber of Commerce under Luo Jiefu's leadership.

This made Luo Jiefu's impression of this Director Derike much better, this is what a mature official should do, instead of being cold and not understanding anything!

With the advancement of chatting and greetings, the atmosphere between the two also became much better, Director Derike only then turned his head and asked, "I just heard my subordinate say, you came to report a crime?"

Luo Jiefu is old, sometimes he forgets the main business when chatting, he patted his head, "Look, my damn brain almost forgot the main business again."

"The situation is like this, I did come to report a crime."

"Recently some people contacted me..."

He told the things he encountered and his guesses, "What I as a citizen of the Federation dislike most is these people and things that sell out national interests, these people can be active in the Federation for a long time, it must mean someone sold out some national interests to them."

"Director Derike, Mr. Lans recommended you to me, saying you are a responsible, reliable, and capable government official, so I came here, instead of going to other places."

Director Derike nodded, "I also hate these people, what you said is very important to us, I will start to handle it immediately."

"Now I still need you to supplement some details, for example, the names of these people, their appearance, and where they often appear."

After a long time, Luo Jiefu said enough, left, Director Derike personally sent him away and came back, holding the notebook that recorded these materials and looked at them.

Several young people all leaned over, looking at him with some worry.

Director Derike looked at them amusingly, "How, worried that this is some trap?"

They nodded one after another, their faces were all worried.

Director Derike shook his head and said, "This is not a trap, it is very likely that this is a kind of goodwill, a kind of probe."

"Now is the war period, the priority of spy cases will be very high, if we just took office and cracked a spy case, even if it is not that kind of spy case in the true sense."

"We can also stand out among many branches, for some people with strong utilitarianism, this is full of temptation."

"Don't forget Dai Er."

He mentioned Dai Er, actually they also know Dai Er's situation, and also know that Dai Er has defected to Lans after sinking—

If it weren't for Lans using the relationship of the Prohibition Committee to operate Dai Er to the State Prohibition Committee, now this guy would not know where he disappeared.

The main controllers and executors of any powerful law enforcement department, once these people leave their work posts and lose their power, there is a high probability that they will not have a good end.

How glorious they were when they were in office, how many big things they did, these things will pile up and fiercely retaliate against him when he loses power.

So Dai Er defecting to Lans for power can also be said to be reasonable, now Lans is using such a way to probe him, he is not surprised.

"Alright, you don't consider those things for the time being, the next work for you is to investigate these people and these things clearly."

"First confirm whether these clues are true, if they are true, and there is certain evidence, you can implement the arrest."

The youngest handsome big boy among the five couldn't help asking, "Are we really going to work for him?"

Director Derike refuted his statement, "Your idea is wrong, this is not working for Lans, but working for the Federation."

"These spies are not Lans's spies, we catch these spies and Lans will not benefit from it, he just wants to probe some of our attitudes."

"And, why not take the credit he sent to the door?"

"When our strength is far inferior to them, the best way is not to let him think we pose a threat to him."

"Only in this way can we successfully complete our mission..."

The Federal Bureau of Investigation side soon began to arrange investigation work, these things are completely unable to be hidden in Jincheng, Lans just nodded after knowing this.

This shows that Director Derike is not a rigid person, since he is not rigid, then next time, Lans will create a more direct contact opportunity with the other party, for example, meet and chat.

The Sheng Nong Festival is getting closer and closer, the three old uncles have made several phone calls asking Lans and them to go back on time.

The scale of the Lawrence family is getting bigger and bigger, making the three old uncles show off in the farmer group of Likaile State!

Especially those wineries standing in the farm, have already connected into a piece, and the fragrance of fermented distiller's grains can be smelled from far away.

For ordinary people, this might be wine, but for those who are slightly smarter, they know this fucking is money!

Turning grain into money many times over!

Their eyes are fucking going to be red!

It is said that during this period, cowboys have already killed several batches of wanderers who intended to steal something from the winery, and they did not hand them over to the police for handling, they were directly shot to death by the cowboys and thrown into the wilderness, and after a few days, only bone frames were left, and even bone frames were gone.

In the second half of October, Lans took his family back to the Lawrence farm in advance, it is said that more members of the Lawrence family returned this year!

There is another reason for returning in advance, Patricia's belly is already very big, looking like it has already bulged high.

According to the private medical team of the manor, Patricia's due date is probably at the end of November, to the middle of December.

In other words, Lans will soon be a father too.

So this trip will be slightly slower than before, not driving the car back in one breath, but driving for a period of time, and then resting for a while.

Originally it was a road that had to be walked for two and a half days, this time it was walked for five days before arriving.

When Lans saw the sign of "Lawrence's Farm", he also saw those people waiting for them under the farm sign.

Many people came, several people from William's generation came, and some of Patricia's cousins and sisters.

Old man Shubert also brought the old butler riding a horse and waiting by the roadside, originally there was no need for so many people to come, because from here, from the farm gate, to the manor side, there is still about ten or more kilometers of road.

But they just wanted to welcome Lans, and William.

Lans's alcohol business is doing bigger and bigger, and the money they earned following behind is also getting more and more.

In the Federation, whether a family has strength completely depends on how much wealth they have!

The motorcade stopped at the gate, Lans and William both got off the car, and Patricia and Emily.

Shubert turned off his horse, came to Lans's side, looked at him carefully for a while, and then hugged him with a smile, "Looks much stronger than last year, this is a good phenomenon."

"Thanks to you, now everyone's life is very easy, if I hadn't suppressed it, more people would have come!"

Lans also said two humble words, and then greeted William's brothers and sisters, and Patricia's brothers and sisters.

A large group of people did not continue to drive back, they got a modified carriage for Patricia, added shock absorption treatment, and the carriage compartment was also paved with soft couches, sitting on it without any bumps.

And others, all rode horses to rush back.

William also has his own horse, Emily also has, but she hasn't ridden for a long time, still has to take care of little Victor, and took the carriage back with Patricia.

At this time, it is the harvest season, there are agricultural machines and workers everywhere, golden wheat ears form wheat waves under the blowing of gusts of wind, looking over at a glance, as if there is a feeling of being in the sea.

Feeling that the world is so vast, and people, are so small.

Lans looked for a while, before shaking the reins again to keep up with the team.

He doesn't worry much about safety issues now, because he has already noticed that at least seventy or eighty people, maybe more cowboys are carrying guns and wandering around them.

These cowboys were born in the Lawrence farm since childhood—

Some were born in the town, but the whole town almost works for the people of the Lawrence farm, or rather, it is the parents of these cowboys, those farmers who work for the farm, they live together to form the town.

So since childhood, they have been part of the farm.

Interestingly, many of these cowboys are semi-illiterate, but it doesn't matter, because they don't need to master too much knowledge, they have worked for the Lawrence family since childhood, and will work until they grow old and can't work anymore.

Their children, their children's children, will also continue to work for the Lawrence family, for generations.

The loyalty cultivated in this environment makes them dare to pull the trigger even when facing government troops.

So Lans doesn't worry about his safety issues at all, these cowboys are the guarantee of safety.

It was already afternoon when returning to the manor, Lans and they first got something to eat.

Things in the manor are fresh, of course, it might also be a psychological effect.

After eating, Patricia started to feel sleepy, the doctor said this is a normal phenomenon, Emily accompanied her to rest, and Lans went to inspect the winery.

"More houses are being built, we don't intend to build the new factory buildings too high, just enough to use, this way we can open up more land, build more farms."

Old man Shubert has already gone to busy with his own things, now accompanying Lans is Hubert, Hubert is currently fully responsible for the winery matters.

"Recently the Likaile State Agricultural Committee called me, he said we are not allowed to use too much grain for brewing, and will soon send investigators over, after the Sheng Nong Festival."

Lans frowned, "Because of the war?"

Hubert shrugged, "Except for this, I can't think of other reasons, but I don't intend to listen to them."

Now the crops produced by the entire farm that can be used for brewing, basically seventy percent to eighty percent, have all been sent into the winery.

Just like Lans said to Mr. Cassia before, a ton of grain is only a few hundred dollars, but a bottle of top-grade Gold Lion whiskey is worth five or six hundred dollars, or even seven or eight hundred dollars.

Can a ton of grain not brew a bottle of wine?

No, a ton of grain can brew at least hundreds or thousands of bottles of wine, this is a profit gap of hundreds or thousands of times.

The Agricultural Committee is worried that too much grain is used as brewing, leading to an increase in the price of grain.

It will cool down soon, once it reaches winter, the price of grain will be more expensive, when the time comes, many people will starve to death in winter because they can't afford to eat.

It sounds very incredible, such a developed country as the Federation will actually have things like people starving to death in winter?

Actually, it's not just winter that can starve people to death, people will be starved to death at any time.

In other countries, not being able to afford to eat might have other ways to survive, but in the Federation, not being able to afford to eat, you can only wait for death, especially those people living in cities.

They are not like the farmers here, always having ways to get something to eat.

In the city, not being able to afford food, you either go to rob, or go to steal, or you can only beg.

Lans thought for a while, "I will handle this matter."

Hubert did not refuse, "I heard you also have a good relationship with people in the state government?"

Lans smiled, "Have some contact."

This made Hubert very emotional, the Lawrence family doesn't know which ancestor smoked, and finally got better.

They turned around the winery in a big circle, Lans even specially went to see the place where it was stored, a large number of wine barrels filled one cellar after another.

These serious aged wines come out, and they are aged for many years.

Those aged for two years, mark five years.

Those aged for three years, mark seven years.

Those that can really be aged for five years, at the very least start from twelve years, a bottle not selling for two thousand dollars is simply sorry for the five-year time cost!

Like those aged for one year, they will all be Silver Lion in the future, he intends to completely pull open the grade gap of alcohol, now the gap between Copper Lion, Silver Lion, and Gold Lion is not big enough, and there are still some problems in the selling price.

In the future, Gold Lion whiskey will basically not be sold to ordinary bars, he wants to make these wines into "luxury goods".

The cognition of things and consumption habits of the wealthy in the upper class of the Federation are completely different from those poor people at the bottom of society who pursue cost-effectiveness.

As long as it meets their wishes, let alone two thousand dollars a bottle, they can accept even more expensive ones, and they will really go to drink, not collect anything.

In the factory, Lans also saw Laike (winemaker), he looks in a good state of mind now, and there are several young people around him.

Because Lans helped his father get justice, he started working for Lans, which can be considered as mutual achievement.

At the same time, Laike also told Lans one thing, he will get married soon, with a girl in the farm.

Lans told him to tell himself before getting married, he will definitely come over.

After turning around, the sky has basically started to darken, and when returning to the manor, he just caught up with dinner time.

At the dinner table, Lans brought up another matter.

"I intend to build a railway."

As soon as his words came out, everyone stopped their movements, all looking at him.

Building a railway is not a simple matter, and the cost is not cheap.

Lans put down the knife and fork, wiped his mouth, "The road to the farm is really not easy to walk, now it is all tamped mud land, it's fine when it doesn't rain, once it rains, it will be very troublesome."

"Our business is getting bigger and bigger, we have to consider the matter of shipping and receiving goods all the time, so I intend to build a branch section from the farm side leading to the main railway line."

"When the time comes, load the car directly from the farm side, and then the train will send it directly to Jincheng, and then send it to the whole state, even the whole country, and even the whole world!"

"The money for building the railway will be paid by me, you don't need to bear it, what are your views?"

The three old uncles lowered their heads and discussed for a while, all agreeing with Lans's idea, having a train, coming and going will be more convenient.

As for whether it will affect life in the countryside?

The farm is so big, it doesn't necessarily have to be built next to the manor.

Soon this matter was determined...

(End of chapter)