Chapter 726 New Job and Telling Limited Truth
Anyone who has never worked in the federal government system will never understand how difficult it is.

And not everyone who works for the federal government is a politician.

They make a very clear distinction between “law enforcers” and “rulers”, the former being just ordinary people no different from those working in factories, they are not politicians, they are just workers, workers of power.

The masters granted them some of the powers generated by power to use in order to maintain their status and authority.

But this does not mean that they are politicians or the ruling class. At most, they are part of the privileged class, but not the highest class.

Real politicians and rulers are those who can decide the fate of many people because of their unique ideas or the consequences of their impulsive thinking.

Mayors, governors, presidents, congressmen of various levels, government officials, these are all serious politicians, or quasi-politicians, and their status is obviously higher than that of law enforcement officers.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Hazardous Substances is a typical law enforcement agency. They are appointed by the masters to safeguard the masters’ policies.

They are typical “working class”, except that this job is slightly more respectable than working in a factory.

But it still does not change their insignificance in politics.

Director Dale dreams of being a ruler, not a worker.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will have the opportunity to get in touch with this industry only if he does well in his life and is about to retire. Then all his efforts in this life will become a stepping stone for his children to start.

But… he didn’t want this, he also wanted to taste the power, real power!

He is like a farmer who spends his whole life planting the seeds of power but cannot taste the fruits of power.

He must have regrets in his life!

Even until his death, he may not be able to close his eyes, because he has been giving all his life, and his children have done nothing, but can inherit his fruits.

Of course, this is only the case if he does a good job. Judging from what he is doing now, the original plan was just to become an ordinary committee member.

The federal “system” is very interesting. Starting with Congress, politicians divide power into many pieces by setting up committees.

They say this is to avoid concentrating too much power in the hands of some people.

Therefore, the committee is the core ruling body of federal politics.

A committee has a chairman, but in Congress, the chairman is mostly a nominal position. The real players are the executive members of the committee.

These executive members are not in rotation. They will be in charge of the committee during their term of office. If a senator can be re-elected, he will continue to serve as an executive member of these committees, and may even serve as an executive member of other committees.

Therefore, for those senators who can occupy seats in Congress for a long time, the political resources they control are unimaginable for those “young people”.

As for the committee members, they are often members of the House of Representatives. They do not have specific powers, but are responsible for specific work.

The executive committee lists what needs to be done, and then they assign the work and implement it.

Of course this refers to Congress, the highest federal governing body.

At the state level, it is not a committee of the state legislature, but only the Likalai State Prohibition Committee under the Congressional Prohibition Committee, and its authority is much reduced.

Being a committee member may not be of any use, as one will still be a marginal person. Only when one becomes an executive committee member, responsible for presiding over the prohibition work in the entire state of Likale, can one truly come into contact with the “power layer”.

From being a power worker, he became a lower-level ruler with some power in his hands, but he is still a long way from becoming an upper-level ruler!
However, for an “ordinary person”, these are already the biggest improvements in his life!
He never expected that, when he was already in a slump, Lance would actually tell him that he “won”.

How could he not be excited?

“I… I’m very excited right now. Sorry, I can’t control myself!” He rolled down the window and quickly lit a cigarette. The nicotine helped him calm down a little.

Being a dog for the masters did not bring any hope, but working for Lance changed his life. Perhaps this is why God sent him to Jingang City!
Lance didn’t have any big thoughts or emotions about these changes in his body. He had seen more exaggerated cases than this, some of them even knelt down to acknowledge him as their father.

This kind of scene can only be described as very common.

“When you go to the state prohibition committee, you don’t go there without a mission. You go there with a mission.”

After about 20 to 30 seconds, Director Dale’s emotions finally stabilized a little, and Lance continued, “So don’t take this matter too lightly.”

Director Dale, who had calmed down a lot, nodded vigorously. “Whatever the mission is, Lance, watch my performance!”

He is now like a child who has been promised to be the class monitor and can’t wait to show his abilities in front of the teacher.

Lance smiled and raised his hand, “Listen to me first.”

Chief Dale quickly put out the cigarette in his hand, threw it out of the window, then turned around and said, “You go ahead.”

“Some time ago, the people from the Holy Bell Party followed Charles to cause trouble for me.”

“You know, I’m not a stingy person, but I’m not a generous person either!”

“I will not be stingy in giving every one of my friends a good life, but I will not be generous to those who have tried to hurt me and my friends.”

“They provoked me first, so I have to cause trouble for them, understand?”

Director Dale nodded vigorously, “Understood, revenge!”

Lance pointed at him. “Great choice of words. Revenge.”

“Some of the practices of the Holy Bell Party have helped them gain the support of the people in their territory. In fact, I prefer to call it an evil religious organization. If I send people to fight them directly, it will be troublesome.”

“The locals will stand on their side to deal with me, which will make me spend more energy, manpower and material resources, but I won’t get the results I want.”

“So I thought about it and decided to first solve the problem of their popularity among the locals. I need your help.”

Chief Dell listened very confidently, “What should I do?”

“Those conservative believers are very averse to drinking, so we have to start with alcohol inspections and expose the criminal acts of the Holy Bell Party that they don’t approve of.”

“This time our opponents are a group of people…whose thinking may still be the same as at the end of the last century.”

“They are used to kidnapping and human trafficking, but they are disgusted by the destruction of religion and faith.”

“Your task is a bit heavy, but it’s not completely clueless.”

Lance talked about the captured priest. In fact, the more he chose to betray the Holy Bell Party at this time, the more he hoped that the Holy Bell Party could be defeated.

He even hoped that Lance could win more than Lance himself. Only in this way would he avoid being hunted down by Joshua’s lunatics!

Only by sending them all to hell can he live well!

So he cooperated with Lance very well. The only thing left was to capture as many people as possible and pry open their mouths.

“I believe that you have more experience as a frontline director than I do, so I won’t give you any instructions on work.”

“But be careful, be careful of those people in the Prohibition Bureau in the north. Be careful that they may be bribed by the Saint Bell Party, so you must promote a plan after you take office.”

“Let some of the agents circulate. They can’t stay there all the time. Move local agents out and move agents from other places in.”

“As for the reason, I believe you know better than me.”

Director Dale nodded in approval and said, “That’s no problem, but I have a question.”

“I just started working at the State Prohibition Committee. Will my ideas be supported by other executive committee members?”

Lance had a slightly frowned brow, but when he heard the question, his brows relaxed immediately. “I’ll have Congress call you. This is like… a special task, specifically targeting them.”

Director Dell closed his eyes and took a deep breath. All the skills and techniques he had mastered over the years flashed through his mind one by one.

When he opened his eyes again, there was a gleam of brilliance in them. “I can do it. I can handle these jobs.”

Lance patted his hands on the armrests, “Go back.”

The team started to turn around. “This is an opportunity, Dale. Don’t let me down, okay?” Dale smiled. “Just watch my performance, Lance!”

He paused for a moment and said, “My work here…”

“Just leave it to Ponda. I’ll talk to him in a few days. You should get ready first.”

The convoy quickly returned to the community. Chief Dale bent over, got out of the car, turned around and watched Lance’s convoy leave.

He looked at the end of the road that was no longer visible, breathed a sigh of relief, and crossed the road with a relaxed smile on his face.

His wife and children were already waiting for him behind the door, with worried looks on their faces.

“Are you worried about me?” He saw the expressions on these people’s faces and knew what they were thinking.

He let out an “aha” laugh, “That’s very touching, but I must say, you don’t have to worry at all, it’s a good thing.”

“Good news?”, his wife welcomed him in, took off his coat and hung it on a hanger on the side.

He nodded and took off his hat. “Yes, that’s good. I will soon be serving as an executive member of the State Prohibition Committee.”

His wife wasn’t too aware of it, but his kids were all like, “Oh my god, how did you do that?”

Chief Dale looked at his family and decided to tell the truth, because he would definitely have more contact with Lance in the future.

He brought his family into the room, asked them to sit down, and then thought for a while and found a starting point.

“Actually, I’m accepting help from Mr. Lance.”

His wife asked, “Is it Mr. Lance White from the Lance family?”

Director Dale nodded. “I originally thought I could make a career quickly and then leave here and return to the Golden State, so I didn’t bring all of you here at first.”

They all nodded. “But then I encountered a lot of problems. The struggle at the grassroots level was as complicated as the infighting in Congress. I failed.”

“Even at this moment, I have no hope of leaving here, so I brought you here.”

“Although I may have failed in my career, as a family, we are still complete.”

“Just when I was most discouraged, Lance found me and talked to me about some things.”

He paid attention to the expressions of his two children, because these things… were not good things for a child growing up in an “upright” family.

Their father, a law enforcer, accepted assistance from a criminal, which could have a huge impact on their worldview, no matter what.

But what he didn’t expect was that his youngest son said, “That’s cool, isn’t it?”

For a moment he didn’t know how to deal with this situation!

“You think that’s cool?”

“why?”

His youngest son shrugged, “That’s the Lance family!”

“do you know?”

“All the young people in Jingang City want to join the Lance family, but their admission requirements are becoming more and more stringent, and it’s almost impossible to join.”

Looking at the expectant expression on his youngest son’s face, Chief Dell raised his hands in a defensive gesture, “Stop!”

“Stop, don’t say anything I don’t want to hear. Your task now is to study so that you can inherit these things from me in the future, not to join a gang!”

His youngest son showed a regretful expression, “If I could join Lance, I would definitely be the coolest one in school!”

“Shut your mouth and don’t even think about it!”

Chief Dell’s expression was a little stern. Is it so easy to get into the mafia?

Out of a hundred gangsters, how many can make it out?

They only saw Lance’s success and ignored the tombstones of the dead on both sides of the road along which Lance walked!

He stared into his son’s eyes and said, “If I know you still have this idea, I promise you won’t get a penny from me!”

“And I will send you to a military academy and let you go to the front line.”

“If you die on the front lines people will call us heroic parents, but if you die in a gang fight they’ll just say we raised a …”

The youngest son sighed. He knew it was unlikely. “I know.”

Commissioner Dale glanced at the other kid and his wife. “Anyway, I work for Lance now. Lance has connections in Congress, so he moved me to the State Prohibition Committee as an executive member. That’s basically it.”

“I got a promotion!”

His wife was a little worried, “Is he the one who made us spend money recently?”

Director Dell neither denied nor admitted it. He changed the subject and said, “I will be going to Maintenon at the end of this month. You can choose to go with me or stay here.”

“But I suggest you stay here because Lance is also here. This is his base camp. It will be safe.”

“I’ll be back when I’m free. Everything will be fine. Don’t worry.”

At one time, Director Dell brought too much news, and except for the children, his wife could hardly accept it.

Her husband suddenly went from working for the federal government to working for a gang leader, and even accepted bribes. This change was really too big!
But I have to say, this kind of life is actually pretty good.

In the next two days, he began to prepare to deal with the work here, sorting out which work should be handed over and which work did not need to be handled.

Lance soon went to talk to Ponda about the matter, and was full of confidence and excitement about becoming the director Ponda.

For him, becoming “stronger” would give Lisa a greater sense of security.

And now it’s not just Lisa, there’s also his child. He needs to create a comfortable and safe environment for his family. As the director of the Bureau of Prohibition, with Lance behind him, he feels that he is incredibly powerful now!
Lance also assigned him some tasks, such as continuing to preside over the Prohibition Bureau’s prohibition work.

The designated bars in Jingang City are monopolized by Lans, but there are still some private bars selling smuggled liquor or their own brewed liquor.

As for those who are on a small scale, Lance does not intend to stop them. After all, this is also a way of life.

But for those large-scale underground bars that smuggled alcohol in, Lance asked the Prohibition Bureau to crack down resolutely!
In order to deliver the wine to Jingang City without going through Lans, many people would first deliver the wine between Jingang City and Jinxing City, and then use manpower to find a way to get it over.

Some were carried directly on their backs, some were driven in at night, in short, there were many ways.

These people disrupt the rules of the city and must be severely punished.

In addition to these things, Lance has also been paying close attention to the battle situation on the front line recently. After all, this determines the future of the Federation and the future of them.

During this period, newspapers have been mentioning the war situation in which the Federation was involved. They used exciting and motivating headlines such as “Unbreakable Line of Defense”, “Iron Will”, and “Invincible Federals” to publish the latest content.

Lance also reads the newspaper every day. Of course, he could have called to find out, but he didn’t.

The newspapers reported some very nice things, such as how the Federation had repeatedly repelled the Dantra Republic’s fast divisions and mechanics, ensuring the advantage on the main battlefield.

This gave the people in the Federation an inexplicable confidence in the war.

But Lance was not so optimistic, because from some details, it can be seen that even if they did not lie, they paid a lot of price.

Because the federal government is still continuing to recruit soldiers and there is a possibility of expanding the recruitment, what does this indicate?
This shows that the casualty ratio exceeded the expectations of the Ministry of Defense and the military before the outbreak of the war. They originally thought that four million troops were enough to deal with this war, but now, it may not be enough!

This approach cannot be said to be very good, but it cannot be said to be very bad either. At least… the people of the Federation are very confident about the war now, aren’t they?
(End of this chapter)