Chapter 138: Chapter 138: Reforms and agency
When Xiaoyun woke up again, it was already eleven in the morning.
"Honey, didn't you said you have to meet someone later?" Leyan was shaking his shoulder trying to wake him up.
"Oh shit I almost forgot." Xiaoyun immediately got up from the bed.
Xiaoyun noticed everyone was already gone and curiously asked.
"Where's everyone?"
"They already went to work, you forgot today is a Friday?" Leyan replied.
"Okay, let me go take a shower first. I'll be downstairs in a few." Xiaoyun left the room and went inside the restroom.
Leyan lifted the blanket and stared at the stain on the bed sheet.
"No wonder why we all took a shower in the morning." Leyan let out a sigh as she started removing the bed sheet from the bed.
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When Xiaoyun finished eating and went to the office, it was already noon.
"Boss, Li Zhen has been waiting for you in the meeting room for a while now." The front desk receptionist reminded Xiaoyun.
"Tell him I'll be there in a minute, I need to fix a small thing." Xiaoyun replied as he started looking through his backpack.
"Intelligence departments... Police department and reforms." Xiaoyun pulled the police reform and walked toward the meeting room.
Just as Xiaoyun entered inside, Li Zhen was sitting on the chair waiting patiently.
"Sorry for the long wait, I had to do something." Xiaoyun sat down in the main seat as he handed the document to Li Zhen.
"No problem boss... This is?" Li Zhen noticed the title in the front.
"It's a new adjustment to the police department. I know you guys only have five hundred people right now, but I want it expand to one thousand." Xiaoyun explained
"Boss, I can only manage the police force, not hiring it." Li Zhen remind Xiaoyun.
"I know, I'm just telling you about this so you are prepared."
After waiting for ten minute, Li Zhen finally finished reading it and handed back to Xiaoyun.
"Boss, isn't this a little overkill?" Li Zhen raised his concern as Xiaoyun's hiring was to make an entire armed police department and an secret police department all under him.
"As the town gets bigger, it's better to be prepared rather than waiting for something to go wrong. I don't want the coup to happen again." Xiaoyun brought it up again.
"I understand boss. But shouldn't this be a new department or something? Like a spy department? This shouldn't be under the police department." Li Zhen still felt a little weird by Xiaoyun's plans.
"That's already in planning, but that's for outside. Yours will be primary focused inside the town. You can consider this new department as a mini-department under yours." Xiaoyun explained.
After thinking for a bit, Li Zhen shook his head as a sign of rejection.
"This is too much power , I can't do it."
"Why not? If you are worry about trust, I would of never hired you in the first place if I didn't trust you.
Beside, you already proved your trustworthiness to me during the coup." Xiaoyun reassured Li Zhen.
Li Zhen still shook his head as he decided to put it bluntly for Xiaoyun.
"The police department is meant to serve and protect the people. Boss you are trying to militarize the police force, it's going to make people afraid of us."
After hearing the argument, Xiaoyun realized Li Zhen was right.
He was practically trying to make people fear the police department if he implemented the secret police under the police department.
"Fine, but do you have anyone you recommend I can put in charge for this then?" Xiaoyun still felt like it was necessary to have an domestic intelligence, but he accepted the fact that it shouldn't be apart of the police department.
"Boss, why don't you put Mrs.Yueyue in charge of it? She's a person you can trust fully and I had seen her work in the police department, I believe she has a curious mind that is fit for this job." Li Zhen gave his suggestion.
"Yueyue? But wouldn't that be nepo——"
"It's not nepotism boss, she would never betray you. And no one working under her will oppose to it either.
They will know they would never be as trustworthy as her." Li Zhen explained.
Xiaoyun fell into silent as his mind was torn on Li Zhen's suggestion.
On one side, Yueyue was the most trustworthy person he could have on a important post like this.
But on the other side, Xiaoyun was afraid she could get hurt, not to mention her kind personality that doesn't seem to fit in with the job at all.
"Boss, if you are afraid of her getting hurt, why have her in the police department in the first place?" Li Zhen read through Xiaoyun's mind.
"I'll decided this in a later time..." Xiaoyun paused for a second, then added.
"Although all this police reform no longer necessary, I still need you to implement a SWAT team. I need to make sure that you guys will be able to deal with underground gangs if they started appearing."
"Fine, I'll go make a dedicated squad as SWAT team... Also please don't expand the police force, I don't even have space for new recruits yet." Li Zhen pleaded.
"I won't I promise... You can go now." Xiaoyun dismissed Li Zhen as the two had finished discussing about the police reforms.
After Li Zhen left the room, someone knocked on the door.
"Babe what are you doing here?" Yuqi asked as she walked inside the meeting room.
"Just talking to Li Zhen earlier." Xiaoyun got up from his seat.
"Okay... by the way do you want to see the town plan? I just finish setting it up with the new map and everything." Yuqi didn't push Xiaoyun to tell her.
"Sure, I got nothing to do right now." Xiaoyun followed Yuqi back to her main office.
"Hey Xiaoyun." Both Shuli and Nami waved at Xiaoyun, then went back to work.
"What are they busy with?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.
"It's almost half-year mark, so they are just composing a mid-year report. Anyway here it is." Yuqi pulled out a map out of her drawer.
The map was an redrawn map of Yezi's scouted map, with more emphasis on where everything is at in the town. With a planned expansion on the left side of the town.
"Right here is where we are going to expand towards until we meet up with abandon Qijing town." Yuqi moved her finger from right all the way to the left.
"This is the upcoming district that is under construction right now." Yuqi pointed at the new area that is zoned off.
"Are we really expanding that fast?" Xiaoyun noticed the new zones was almost double the size of Luoping.
"Well its just a planned zone, we can have people move while it continue building the other section at the same time.
Beside, the population has been expanding so fast every month. You wouldn't believe we are now almost twenty thousand people." Yuqi revealed.
"Thirty thousand? Weren't we just ten thousand few months ago?" Xiaoyun was in complete shock.
"Yeah, but more and more people is starting to hear that there's a city in the south that offer free food and houses. So they are all coming here from all over the places in the province."
"Well population growth is a good thing. It mean we can support a even bigger army." Xiaoyun immediately thought of expanding the military.
"Yeah yeah..." Yuqi shrugged her shoulder but didn't argue back.
After the two finished looking at the map, Yuqi put it back into the drawer.
"It's lunch time! I'm so hungry!" Nami noticed the clock was at one and got up from her seat.
Shuli and Yuqi both got up from their seat as well.
"Can you guys tell Leyan that I'm not coming home for lunch? I need to sort out something." Xiaoyun sat down on Yuqi's seat.
"Okay." Yuqi and the two left the office as Xiaoyun pulled out an document from his backpack.
Right on top of it says laws codes and judicial branch.
"Maybe I should get a lawyer to do this..." Xiaoyun put back the document paper and pulled out different one.
This time, the document says spy agency.
"Who should lead this department? Should I really merge domestic and foreign intelligent together?" Xiaoyun considered what
With no idea who to lead the agency, Xiaoyun pulled out his phone to call Yezi.
"Hey Yezi what up?"
"Nothing much, just training the militia right now. You need me for something?"
"Yeah... I was wonder if you have a person that you can recommend to lead a spy agency. Unless you want to lead it perhaps?" Xiaoyun suggested.
"Nah, that doesn't sound like a job for me. Actually I think someone who's perfect for this job." Yezi stopped as if he wanted to leave a cliffhanger.
"Really? Who is it?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.