1887 What Did the Pangolin Say?

The next day, Mr. Trueman got up early. Nothing disturbed him the night before, and he had a good sleep.

After getting up, he ate something and then got into his daily work.

The president of the Federation may seem noble, but due to the nature of his job, he may be the most oppressed.

Even the most ordinary low-level heavy laborers will have weekends that allow them to take a breather.

But the president of the federal government may not be able to sleep in on weekends, take a leisurely nap and drink a cup of afternoon tea with nothing to do in the afternoon.

"This was sent by the Financial Supervisory Commission this morning."

The secretary puts a document alone, which means that this document is more important and needs to be processed first.

After saying "thank you," Mr. Trueman picked up the document.

The content of the document is about some of the shortcomings of banks, bearer accounts, and untraceable fund flows.

He actually knows very well that the existence of these rules is set up by capital to better protect itself.

You never know who a bearer account and the money in it, or even equity or bonds, belong to.

This allows some people to use these things to easily hide their wealth.

The Federal Taxation Bureau is also very troubled by this. There are a large number of unidentified funds in a large number of bearer accounts with unknown sources and ingredients.

The bank is unwilling to cooperate, and there is nothing they can do except stay in the bank every day.

Anyone who withdraws money from these bearer accounts will be arrested. Of course, this requires the cooperation of the bank.

But this is obviously impossible.

Only then did he take advantage of the massive inflow of foreign capital to try to change these rules, but so far, he has failed.

Be it banks or capitalists, they have stood firm in their stance and have not wavered.

This is not the first challenge and failure of the federal government to the power of capital, and it will not be the last.

He took out his pen and circled some keywords on the document, and the Seven Banks also made appropriate concessions.

At least foreign investment can be regulated.

This result is acceptable.

Everything must have a process, a step-by-step process.

It is obviously impossible for them to let go of bearer accounts and fund tracing right from the start.

But they can accept the supervision of foreign investment, and use this as a breakthrough in the future to include some bearer accounts and capital flows into this supervision, and then add more to it step by step.

Maybe he can't do it alone, but he believes that someone will continue to do this kind of thing that is obviously more meaningful to the federal government and the federal people!

One day, they will make the capitalists make complete concessions!

And some of the "humiliation" he had endured before became acceptable.

At the end of the document, he signed his name, sighed, and put the document from the left corner of the table to the right side some distance away from the corner of the table.

What follows is a lot of work.

Although Congress is still running normally and he has not tried to dissolve Congress, the rules of the game are the rules of the game.

The power of Congress has now been transferred to the hands of the president. Congress can put forward views and opinions on some tasks, but it cannot make decisions on behalf of the president.

Therefore, Mr. Trueman still has to read these documents himself.

Fortunately, there are not many of these documents. The state government will handle a large number of local government affairs, and only a very small amount will need to be processed by the federal Congress and the federal government.

From time to time he would stop and think for a while, or think about the war, and then resume his work.

Not only him, but most people's attention was attracted by the war. For them, the war was still far away.

But for others, they are at war.

Ryan licked his chapped lips, picked up a leaf from the roadside, crushed it and put it on his lips.

In order to avoid being discovered in advance, this part of their team basically hid in places where they were not easily discovered during the day, and traveled in the dark after dark.

The road is difficult to travel at night, which is not the most difficult. The real difficulty is finding water.

What they are using now is not the latest version of Pengeo's military map, but a civilian map from a long time ago.

When folk maps are used for surveying and mapping in the wild, they don't mention any inaccuracies, and many details are not drawn on the map.

This is not to be blamed on the civilian map makers. When jackals, tigers and leopards are running rampant in the wild, who would run around in the wild with nothing to do.

So some things in many places are very similar.

For example, they encountered a ditch before. The ditch was not too deep, dozens of meters wide, and dozens of meters wide.

There was no such ditch on the map at all, and it was the middle of the night. At that time, they didn't know how deep it was, so they had no choice but to arrange for people to go down.

No lights are allowed to be turned on at night unless necessary.

Situations like this have happened several times, and of course the most terrible thing is the lack of water.

The hilly and mountainous areas seem to be full of life, but it is not easy to find water sources that can provide drinking water for tens of thousands of people.

There is not much water in everyone's water bottle now, and the officers have already made a request. Try not to drink water unless you are really thirsty.

The team was not gathered together. After all, if the team of nearly 20,000 people were gathered together, it would be difficult to avoid high-altitude reconnaissance planes, even if they would hide in the woods during the day.

Therefore, the entire 404th Airborne Division was divided into several parts, and they all walked separately. Each of them had their own ideas and routes, as long as they arrived at the designated location within the planned time.

Suddenly, Ryan made a cuckoo sound that only a cuckoo can make, and the entire team fell silent.

This is a code. The quiet night does not make people relax, but makes people nervous.

A response signal came from not far away, another kind of bird call, and Ryan breathed a sigh of relief.

In the darkness, a soldier poked his head out of the bushes on the roadside and walked over quickly.

"Sir, there is a village ahead..."

The soldier responsible for exploring the road ahead unexpectedly saw some lights, which gave Ryan some ideas.

In order for Ryan to have a suitable identity, he served as the commander of the 123rd Regiment of the 404th Airborne Division.

At this time, he asked the team to stop, ordered a company of people to follow him, and after arranging some disposal methods, he followed the soldiers who discovered the village and approached the village at night.

Less than twenty minutes later, a village with lights still on appeared in Ryan's eyes.

"Smaller than a town, but bigger than a village, surrounded by farmland..."

Ryan stood in the shadows and looked at the village not far away. Looking around, he soon discovered some trucks with the logo of Penteo's army printed on them at the entrance of the village.

The trucks looked like they were packed with supplies, and a dozen soldiers were on patrol at the entrance to the village.

Looking at these people, Ryan had an idea in his mind.

Soon, he disappeared into the darkness and disappeared completely.

In the village at the foot of the mountain, a Pengeo army officer was chatting with several of his men.

They are from the logistics force, and this time they are going to the front line to deliver some supplies.

It is said to be transportation, but in fact it is also responsible for collection work.

They bought grain and various meats from the farms here and sent them to the front line.

The autumn harvest has just ended, and the villages are filled with mountains of grain and fat cattle and sheep.

It took a long time to negotiate the price, and the money has been paid to the villagers here. At dawn tomorrow, they will load the things into trucks and send them to the front line.

This is actually a good thing for the villagers, at least they don't need to push food to distant towns to sell.

The money given by the Army is very appropriate. Transportation on site reduces transportation costs, which actually means they make more money.

Due to the existence of the elder system, the rights of citizens of the Pengeo Empire were protected.

After the business was done, the village chief treated the officers to something to eat.

After eating a full meal, I also drank some wine. Under the influence of alcohol, the conversation became more and more interesting, and I didn't feel sleepy, so we just started chatting.

"Sir, do you think we can win this war?"

A soldier couldn't help but ask a question that had been hidden in his heart for a long time.

The Army's fanaticism is reflected in their inexplicable confidence in the trend of the war. The Army has obviously been beaten by the Federals on their own land, but the Army still believes that it can win.

If a soldier had raised such a question before, the officer would have told him not to think too hard, and then firmly shouted "The Empire is victorious" to express his determination.

But this time, he fell into silence.

He did not tell anyone that he had come into contact with a "prisoner" sent back from Nagaril.

A few days after these people returned to the country, they were sent to the front line of the Gevra front at that time.

Although the contact lasted only two days, he learned from this confused soldier that the Federals were more of a threat than any enemy they had ever encountered.

It's not how tenacious these federal people are, but their means, their wealth, and their ability to learn, which far exceeds any enemy they have seen in the past, even surpassing themselves.

Captured soldiers gave an example of a time when they occupied a city and used it as a base against Union forces.

As long as the city is not cleared, it will be difficult for the federal army to skip this city and attack the next city.

Because once they did that, Penteo's troops in the city could form a siege, surrounding the federal troops who skipped them and continued forward.

The whole world knows that the Federals are not strong enough in urban street fighting, and they also believe that they can stop the Federation at least for a while.

They soon discovered that they had overestimated themselves.

When the captured soldier said this, his eyes were even a little moist.

When the soldier told everything he had experienced and endured, the officer could not speak for a long time...