In Henry's manor, Dürin's group discussed what they needed to do for the next year, and outside the manor, agents from the Organized Crime Investigation Bureau and the Vanreal Security Investigation Bureau sat together and chatted. So far, they have not been able to buy any Gualts who can participate in such a high-level meeting, and their minds seem to be made of stone, and they are not willing to cooperate with whatever benefits are promised to them.

You know, they even issued a "special pardon order", which promised to pardon all crimes, as well as a "criminal permit" that could not be disclosed to the public. As long as they can help the Anti-Organized Crime Investigation Bureau find evidence of Doolin's guilt and arrest Doolin and bring him to prison, then this person who has made outstanding contributions is allowed to "legally" carry out some criminal acts that will not cause harm to citizens in a certain city. For example, smuggling, opening casinos, or operating illegal entertainment.

But even so, no one wants to stand up.

The analysis department believes that this may have something to do with Doolin's high-pressure fear, as there was more than one person who was skinned alive during Dorin's fortune, and they also tried to find the relevant ritual punishment through the limited Gualt literature, among which skinning was the most horrific punishment. In the cultural and historical context of the Guartes, any person or organization that betrays the interests of the Gualts, any Gualt has the right to skin these people and expose them to the sun for three days.

Such brutal lynchings have continued throughout the history of the Guartes, and with the exception of a nameless fellow known as the "Faceless" who survived three days after being skinned, the thousands of people who received the punishment of skinning were never left alive.

In the Anti-Organized Crime Investigation Bureau, as well as in the Security Council and the Military Intelligence Service, the use of the deception of religious beliefs, coupled with fear and profit, is the means by which Doolin maintains the organization.

"Now they are becoming more and more cunning......", said a small boss in charge of the scene wanted to take pictures while drinking coffee and chatting, "We find that the criminal methods of these people are becoming more and more hidden, and the most troublesome thing is that their criminal behavior is rapidly decreasing, which will become one of the biggest obstacles for us to crack the Doolin criminal group." ”

The fight between fellow townsmen and agents has decreased a lot, after all, this criminal group has passed the initial stage of its beginnings. In the beginning, they had to use violent means to snatch more market share and sales from other lawbreakers, and no one would let their interests be harmed by others, and there would be no second solution except fighting. This has led to the frequent emergence of a large number of big people who are thunderous in the underground world.

Such as "Black Widow" Ms. Sophia, "Executioner" Mr. Budi, "Blood Butcher" Mr. Adams...... There are dozens of branch presidents or agents with their own resounding names. However, as the business of the associations and agents stabilized, and Durin began to advocate "peaceful trade" and began to transform internally, the number of crimes committed by the associations and agents began to decline sharply, and in some cities the associations and agents had not engaged in a single crime for more than a year.

These people even took the initiative to participate in charity evenings, often donating large sums of money to charity won a very positive evaluation in the society, plus Du Lin always maintained a positive image in public opinion, with Du Lin as an example, more and more fellow villagers began to participate in social charity activities, such as helping poor families, providing free medical care for poor families and other activities have been supported by many poor people.

The most important thing is that Doolin's smuggling channels have also begun to quietly transform, and now it is not only Doolin's moonshine that circulates rapidly in these channels, but also the wine of other distilleries that flows through Doolin's channels, in addition to Doolin's vegetables are also transported to various parts of the empire through this channel. It is said that a retail giant has recently planned to negotiate with Doolin about cooperation, and this retail giant has taken a fancy to Doolin's cheap transportation costs (sea freight) and perfect network coverage, hoping to cooperate with Doolin to build its own mall to all the places that Doolin's smuggling network can reach.

Once the transformation is complete and there is no strong evidence to bring down Durin, there is a good chance that this criminal organization will become a business syndicate with people scattered all over the empire, engaged in legitimate trade and work, and it will be exponentially more difficult to catch them at that point!

This is also the reason why the superiors have been a little annoyed almost recently, Durin is too cunning, too treacherous, too stepping on the horse is not a thing, isn't it good to be the head of a criminal organization honestly?

The agents of the Anti-Organized Crime Investigation Bureau are well aware of this, but the agents of the Van Lier Security Investigation Bureau have a little doubt, "In this case, why don't you arrest those who can be convicted first while you still have some evidence in hand, I don't believe that the arrest of a large number of middle-level backbones will not do any harm to Durin." He is very correct in this thinking, any organization is really maintained by the middle backbone.

For an organization, a force, or even an enterprise, the change of the top management will not cause any crisis in the enterprise, the change of equity is very common, and no enterprise goes bankrupt because the board of directors has one more shareholder or one less shareholder. The same goes for organizational forces, it is normal for the top level of a more authoritarian group like this to change, it has been normalized, and it is just a matter of one sentence for the leader to add a high-level figure, and the following will naturally take the initiative to adapt.

This is true at the top, and it is also true at the bottom.

The grassroots level is the most important link for the state, but the lowest members of any organization are not the most important link, because as long as they are attractive enough, they can gain a steady stream of supporters at the bottom. In this ever-changing society, it's not uncommon for people to join these forces for money, power, or whatever.

There are only middle-level cadres, and they can't be changed often, but this is not important to Dulin's fellow villagers.

"Even if we arrest 100 middle-level cadres, 101 middle-level cadres will appear tomorrow. The branch president, agent, and captain are just a symbol for the system of the fellow association, not a complete power, and the giver of this symbol is Durin, and people believe in Dulin, so no matter how much they catch, it will be useless. Now we can only hope that Durin makes a mistake in his decision-making and gives us a chance to beat him......"

Outsiders were discussing Dorin's recent developments, and inside the estate, Doolin was also discussing developments over the next year.

"So far, our power has covered 50% of the cities in the empire, which is very good, but it is not enough, we still have to speed up the penetration of the surrounding cities, and strive to expand the coverage to more than 70% or even 18%!" Du Lin wrapped a white scarf in his hand, and there was a faint wisp of red seeping out of the scarf. He stood in the middle of the restaurant, and the attention of the people around him was focused on him.

There are more than 200 cities in the empire, excluding some villages and towns, and the current agent system has covered one hundred and one cities, so it can be said that in every two cities in the empire, there is an agent. But Doolin is not satisfied with the current handicap, he hopes to make more progress and improve the coverage by at least 20 points. Once the agents stabilized, the Association of Townspeople would appear, which meant that the Gualts of the city had entered the network of the Association.

Twenty-two years ago, the population statistics of the empire reported that the Guartes accounted for about 15 percent of the total population of the empire, and at the end of last year, the total population of the empire was 217 million, and if the official account is used, the total population of the Guartes should be about 30 million. But in reality, the total population of the Guerts was much lower than this figure, because in the Great Patriotic War of the Union, the Civil War, a large number of Guerts were forcibly conscripted into the army and participated in that terrible war.

At the time, there was a brief estimate of more than four million Guartes enlisted, but this number may have been reduced. In the early days of the Civil War, the Federation's offensive was in full swing, and the empire organized more than a dozen times to resist to no avail, and the battle loss rate of the Guarte youth and the provincial Ya youth in every occupied city was as high as 80% or even 90%. Some people believe that about six million Guartes should have died in this war, and more than seven million provincial Yaren soldiers died in this war.

After consuming a large number of Gualt youth, the Gualt group faced a more awkward situation, that is, the lack of marriageable male young population, the increase in widows, and the population growth rate began to decrease, which affected the total population of the Guartes.

Now, according to Dürin's statistics of the Guartes in the cities where there were townsmen or agents, the total population of the Gualts in the entire empire should be less than 20 million and more than 15 million, accounting for between 7 and 10 percent of the total population of the whole society.

After entering the new era, the official power of the empire became very intelligent, and in the old society, the empire has always adhered to a serious attitude, and the population of the empire is strictly divided into the Ogdings, the provincial people, the Guartes, and the minority races. However, after the advent of the new era, the empire no longer distinguished any race, and uniformly adopted the term "citizen of the empire". This was a clever move, and at least stabilized the resistance of the non-dominant race, which had lost a large number of its clansmen in battle.

The Cabinet also realized that it was a very wrong act in the past for the empire to associate social class with race, and they realized that this was a minefield and actively revised it.

It is to prevent the race of these defeated countries from being used by a small group of people with ulterior motives, which can lead to even greater riots and even civil wars!