Chapter 23 (1/2)
At midnight, outside the main gate of the port of Toulon police station, under several light poles, nearly 100 valiant men with live ammunition and swords hanging around their waists gathered here.
They either lean on the lamppost or the outer wall of the police station. Some people sit on the ground and play cards with the bright gas streetlights. There are several silver coins in front of everyone.
More than a dozen policemen mingled in the crowd, laughing and joking with them. Boxes and boxes of beautifully packed cigarettes were handed between them. It was very happy. It was obvious that everyone was an old friend.
Joe followed Stein out of the Navy Club and trotted across the road to the police station. The senior agents said hello to Stein and dispersed in twos and threes.
As senior and elite police officers, these agents have their own contacts and have their own staff. Once authorized, they can enter the working state immediately. Only Joe didn't know, so he was still with Stein.
A group of smart men quickly gathered together, smiling to say hello to Joe.
More than a dozen patrol officers lowered their heads and smeared oil on their sneaky feet for fear of being caught by Stein. They were lazy while on duty.
Joe waved to the family guards, bowed his head and asked Stein, ”godfather, I don't understand. It broke out on the 15th, but today, I feel that everyone is deliberately procrastinating. All of them are deliberately delaying time. ”
”Two days, two whole days, that's wasted?”
Stein lit a cigarette. He took a puff of smoke and looked at the young man named ”Godfather” with a smile. So he didn't mind passing on some experience to Joe.
”Two days, no waste. The army, the police, and those... ” Stein pointed to the line of carts that left quickly at the gate of the Navy Club. ”Those guys who have been dealing with intrigues all day have been doing their best to track down the attackers that night.”
”But the incident is too sensational and the loss of port Tulun is too heavy. The imperial capital will certainly pay close attention to this matter. We must give the capital a clear and credible conclusion that can be explained to the people of the Empire. Therefore, a special investigation team is necessary. ”
Stein nodded on Joe's chest: ”but special investigation team, don't come in too early. You see, the unlimited power of investigation, this kind of power, is the investigation group must have, but this kind of power, let everybody incomparably fear. ”
Joe seems to have learned something.
”So, these two days? Even if longster and papacy fight in person, they have to fight for time... ”
”Wipe your ass!” Stein spat rudely on the ground: ”imperial intelligence headquarters, the military investigation bureau of the Imperial Army, the overseas Hydrographic Survey Bureau of the Imperial Navy, even the naval fleet in port Toulon, and even the Royal Naval Academy These two days are just the time to stay and wipe their ass! ”
”If the special investigation team was set up two days ago, it would be strong enough to enter...”
Stein felt his neck subconsciously and said dryly, ”do you believe it? The next day, my head may be fed to the dog. ”
”How many things can't be seen among the people involved this time? Don't say anything else, just say How did nearly half of the guns of the ocean fleet of the witus come from? ”
Joe frowned hard: ”listen to my father, that's The daily training waste of the garrison in port Tulun. ”
Stein laughed: ”it's really quack, 90% of the new waste products. Of course, the price of waste products is only a little more than 10% of that of new guns, so they are waste products. ”
Stein shrugged his shoulders. ”So why is general longster, and the wittoons, such close friends?”
Turning his lips away, Stein sneered: ”besides the Navy, the fleet of the wells family, those guns, and a large number of shells, Flint guns, Imperial Navy swords, and even the newly added class I cruiser” retired due to injury ”added by the wells family last year
”Quack quack, don't jump, oh, retired because of injury, well done!”
He took a deep breath and slowly exhaled a long smoke. Stein said in a deep voice: ”Joe, dear child, two days of mutual prevarication and accusation, as well as all the quarrels, abuse and even fighting, are the tacit understanding of everyone.”
”Wipe your butt. In two days, let's clean up your butt. Two days, that's the limit that all parties can tolerate. If in two days, they can't deal with these shady things Once it's turned out, think it's bad luck. ”
Joe, along with some of his bodyguards, looked at Stein in amazement.
In his heart, Joe asked Stein curiously, ”so, the Marquis of sijak, he...”
Stein spat on the ground, spraying his cigarette butt and a mouthful of saliva on the drain cover on the side of the road.
”Marquis sijak, ah, you see what he looks like today. He is a noble, respectable old nobleman who holds great power and works hard for the Empire.”Stein sneered: ”he raised hundreds of lively and lovely little boys in his manor in the foreshore district. It's the little boy, not the little girl. If it was a little girl, I would envy him, but little boy, oh, Ho
Stein reached for Joe's chest and chuckled, ”now do you know? Why did Liya forbid you to go to the foreshore when you were a child? ”
Joe's mouth was wide open, and there was a flash in his head. After a long time, he said in horror, ”aha, ha. It's a respectable, moral model. ”
Stein pulled at his wrinkled coat and slapped Joe on the arm.
”Joe, don't pay attention to these filthy activities. It's a unanimous decision of your father and I to let you join the special investigation team this time.”