Chapter 1684 - 1684
When it's time for the return trip, pick up a few more passengers; the driver felt he'd hit the jackpot on this run.
After all, this time, Liu Zhizhong's charter provided a base price, so for other passengers, he could charge one hundred and take eighty, or charge eighty and take fifty. A focus on discounts, truly competitive, haha...
The departure was quick; before two-thirty in the afternoon, the nine-seater car was already heading towards Kachin City.
The email Liu Zhizhong sent to Wen Bao had made it clear that he would wait for him under the landmark building in Kachin City.
Kachin City, the largest city in Vallebang, with a population of over a million. In this war-torn and impoverished place, having such a city is really something unusual.
Of course, the main reason is that transportation to and from there is very convenient. It's also collectively controlled by several major warlords in Vallebang, and they've unanimously agreed: Kachin City won't be a site of warfare; any war is not allowed to attack Kachin City with artillery. This historical tradition has been around a long time.
Do you know why?
Heh heh...
Kachin City's transport facilities are convenient, with trains, buses, and airplanes. It safeguards the interests of the warlords. Sometimes, when large arms procured come back, the landing and transit point is definitely Kachin City!
Many contraband items, especially drugs, or fresh human organs, Kachin City is the transit station! Underground banks are in Kachin City too, foreign exchange is uncontrolled, isn't that great?
Here, it's the paradise of interests, the paradise of criminals! Everything runs smoothly under the guise of chaos, all under the cover of calm, sinful transactions proceed.
In Vallebang, a few important warlord bosses take turns sending their most capable aides to Kachin City to be mayor, to maintain the political situation, each serving two years. Isn't that interesting?
Precisely due to these reasons, Kachin City has become a place of peace. At least, on the surface, it's exceedingly peaceful.
So, people from other towns and villages in Vallebang, their biggest dream is to get to Kachin City, buy a home of their own, have a job of their own, live there until they grow old.
Kachin City, the paradise, or perhaps the holy land, in the hearts of Vallebang's people?
But who knows, the wealthy people in Kachin City, or the descendants of interest groups, will eventually leave Kachin and go further away to live, work, and enjoy the thrill of wealth that power brings. The warlords' descendants, or the offspring of rich businessmen, who are those crime syndicate children, most go to developed countries in Europe and America...
Liu Zhizhong chartering this trip was pretty generous, letting the driver earn, and allowing the other passengers to spend less to reach their destination.
So, along the way, the driver was very polite and respectful to Liu Zhizhong, offering cigarettes and buying water and such.
As for Liu Zhizhong, he helped drive the car from time to time. After all, the road was bumpy, driving a manual was truly tiring. Sometimes, there'd be traffic jams, too.
Along the way, they encountered roadblock robberies twice, but the issues weren't significant.
The driver was really familiar with this route, and familiar with the robbers too. He'd get out, light two cigarettes, and respectfully hand over one or two hundred, and they wouldn't trouble him, letting them pass. Truly a harmonious logistics chain!
Liu Zhizhong watched all this silently. In the future, these things will be definitely cracked down on, heh...