Volume 1: Raging Waves City Chapter 56: I'm Rich
Viscount Iscolan's seat is in the back row of civilian representatives.
Surrounded by private security companies and mercenary groups, his unique temperament perfectly demonstrated what it meant to stand out from the crowd. He didn't need to deliberately show his uniqueness, just standing there casually made him the focus of everyone's attention.
When Viscount Isklan said that the Blade Brotherhood had sent professional assassins, Senator Virgil felt that he was overwhelmed.
It was even more troublesome than facing the detective of the Cape District Secret Intelligence Bureau just now.
That person wants money.
This person most likely wants power.
The situation in Raging Waves City is already chaotic enough, and we must not allow the Blade Brotherhood to get involved.
"Viscount Iscolan!" Virgil said, "Assassins are illegal professions in Fury City, and the Empire has repeatedly ordered the Blade Brotherhood to disband your assassin group.
I will not leave the safety of my city to a group of assassins."
Viscount Iscolan smiled and said, "It was a mistake in my choice of words just now. After all, I have been saying 'assassin' for so long that I couldn't correct it for a while.
The Brotherhood of Blades has disbanded the Assassins in compliance with the laws of the Empire. The people who came this time are all members of the newly formed "Blades" of our Brotherhood. I guarantee that the "Blades" who came this time are all very powerful, and are not afraid of death. They are all willing to sacrifice their lives for the safety of Raging Waves City..."
Virgil cursed in his heart, if they changed their name, wouldn't they no longer be professional assassins?
This group of old nobles simply refused to give up the privileges granted to them by the royal family when the Golden Shield Empire was first established.
“Viscount Iscolan, I believe that our Government Office in Raging Wave City is capable of handling this crisis.
No need for the help of the Brotherhood of the Blades."
“Hahaha… I respect you.” Viscount Iscolan remained calm despite being rejected repeatedly, “But Raging Waves City is not just the Raging Waves City of the Government Affairs Office. As a civilian society, we, the Blade Brotherhood, also have the obligation to protect this city.
The 'Stab Blades' of the Blade Brotherhood will attack at any time when a disaster occurs, and they will also conduct routine patrols at other times... Please ask the security personnel in each district here not to misjudge and attack us."
The Brotherhood of Blades clearly wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to extend its influence into Raging Tide City. Even if they could not be formally organized, they wanted to show their presence as vigilantes.
Viscount Iscolan sat down gracefully, but the tense atmosphere of the meeting did not relax at all.
The Brotherhood of the Blades came to cause trouble, making Senator Virgil lose interest in continuing the meeting.
He gave the responsibility of setting up a city crisis response agency to the City Security Bureau, called a few people to hold a small meeting, and then announced the end of the city security meeting.
The officials left one after another, and Luke took Kaileena to run around the city hall building.
He left the Government Hall only after he got the checkbook for 80 million Reichsmarks.
Back in the car, Kalina, who was sitting in the back seat with Luke, couldn't help but tell Shelley and Pisco in the front seat about Inspector Meteorite's glorious moment at the meeting.
When Shelley heard that Luke had actually asked for 80 million Reichsmarks from the Government Office, he turned his head and asked, "Inspector, how do we divide this money?"
"What are you talking about?" Luke scolded, "Do you think these 80 million Reichsmarks are easy to get? I don't think we will get any of the 2 million monthly city subsidies in the future.
This money is for investment!
If you want to live a good life in the future, none of you should be interested in this money.
Kaileena...No one can use this money without my approval."
"Yes, Inspector!" Kylena hugged the bag tightly in her hands.
"Pisco, drive!"
"Yes, Inspector!"
Pisco started the car and the Cape District Secret Intelligence Bureau's convoy left the Government Affairs Office building.
In a carriage not far away, Viscount Isklan watched Luke's convoy go away.
Then he said to a man beside him who was wearing a dark coat and a hood, "Raging Waves City is full of people from the City Council. It will be very difficult for us to really get in. This Inspector Meteorite of the Cape District Secret Intelligence Bureau has just taken office and has some minor conflicts with the City Government Office. He is a target we can strive for."
The hooded man responded in a deep voice: "The Secret Service? They are the rivals of our Assassin's Tavern! The struggle between the Imperial Agents and us Blade Assassins has never stopped."
"Times have changed... We must accept the fact that times have changed! The Brotherhood of the Blade was established to fight against the imperial power, but now the Brotherhood is no longer an equal to the imperial power.
The Assassin's Tavern is not an equal to the Secret Service.
We should not continue to simply classify the Secret Service as an adversary. If we want to continue the glory of the nobility, the first thing we must do is not to be eliminated by the times.
Those bigwigs of the Brotherhood should really come out of their manors, come to Raging Tide City, and see the outside world."
"Sir, the Brotherhood needs change, and it needs leadership from someone as wise and visionary as you."
Viscount Iscolan looked at the people around him with sharp eyes.
"I have no intention of fighting for power!"
"I'm sorry, sir...I said the wrong thing."
"Well... send someone to investigate the Cape District Secret Intelligence Bureau. I heard that the Cape District Security Bureau suffered losses from them in the past few days."
"Yes, sir."
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Luke had no idea that he had been targeted by the Brotherhood of Blades.
Anyway, after this commotion in the Government Affairs Hall, there would definitely be a lot of people paying attention to him and the Cape District Secret Intelligence Bureau, so he didn't care if there were one or two more.
Back in his office, Luke called all the heads of departments to his office.
In just a short while, everyone in the Secret Service learned from Pisco's big mouth that the inspector had received a special fund of 80 million Reichsmarks from the Government Office.
I’m rich!
The Cape District Secret Service has never been so generous.
Everyone had a happy look on their face.
Luke was also very generous and asked Kylena to write a check on the spot.
Each department head will receive an initial salary of 100,000 yuan, and ordinary agents will receive a bonus of 20,000 yuan plus their monthly salary.
Luke personally handed out checks worth $100,000 to each supervisor and gave them a few words of encouragement to ask them to work hard.
After everyone happily put away the checks, we started to talk about business.
The first is expansion.
At present, there are only about 400 people in the Secret Intelligence Bureau of Cape District, including regular employees and temporary workers.
Excluding the hidden spies, the elderly, the sick and the disabled, and civilian personnel, there are only dozens of commandos who can be pulled out to fight.
When something happens, everyone must be mobilized to set up the situation.
If we want to expand our business to produce and smuggle magic potions in the future, this number of people is obviously not enough.
In addition, we have to hunt down the elf Qingkong and conduct a city-wide manhunt.
It also requires more manpower just to put on show.
First increase it to two thousand temporary workers.
It just so happens that there is such a group of people at the Mad Axe Party headquarters, and they have all been tested in actual combat.
They are reliable and are all members of the Yanyang smuggling group.
Come to the Secret Affairs Bureau.
