Chapter 525 - 254: The Upright Official
Upon Johnson’s invitation, Allen Zhang took his seat and immediately, the qipao-clad waitress next to him opened a bottle of wine and poured him a glass of white liquor.
He tasted it, and it wasn’t bad.
In what followed, both parties also engaged in some small talk, discussing the current situation and trivial matters in their lives, but they essentially skirted around sensitive topics on mutual understanding.
Johnson also did not inquire why an Asian like Allen Zhang would have a name such as Hanberger Juan Jin.
After several rounds of drinks, Johnson steered the conversation towards the main subject, asking, "I heard that Mr. Jin’s Hanberger Foundation acquired an estate in a small town and invested in an underground resource engineering project, extracting oil worth hundreds of millions of US dollars?"
"It’s just good luck." Allen Zhang smiled. "Strangely enough, I’ve only just begun extracting oil today. How did you, Mr. Counselor, come to know about this?"
"I already said that there are no counselors here, only ordinary friends." Johnson immediately denied it, "Do I have to be a counselor to be your friend?"
"Of course not, but I’m just a law-abiding citizen. The most business I do involves can recycling, collaborating with others to run a bar, and I have pretty much no involvement with the related departments or the Los Angeles government; I’m sensitive about that area," said Allen Zhang.
Johnson fell into a reverie.
Are you saying that under your control, you have several hundred homeless subordinates, providing them with places to live, job positions, a vibrant mobilization organization, no drug use, no troublemaking, cooperative police-citizen relations, maintaining orderly conduct, gradually decreasing zero-dollar purchases on the streets of Zone 5?