Munitions Empire

Chapter 506 483 Annai

Glass was no longer a luxury in Brunas, at least not in the office buildings of the Great Tang Group, where glass windows had become standard.

Standing in front of a glass window, a decently dressed man overlooked the parking lot below and saw a sleek black car parked steadily in its spot.

The car door was pushed open, and a group of men in black with sunglasses emerged from the vehicle, then walked into the building carrying briefcases.

The man behind the glass window sighed, then walked over to his desk and glanced at the family portrait placed on it.

The child in the photo was laughing innocently and joyfully, while the woman looked blessed, with a dignified smile on her face.

This was a very typical Brunas official's family, high income, high social status, wielding considerable power and managing vast social resources, able to determine the ownership of tens of thousands of Gold Coins with a single approval of a document.

Many businessmen and wealthy individuals were willing to cozy up to them, wining and dining them, and gift-giving were common tactics, not to mention the endless schemes like seduction.

In this gilded den, in this most prosperous and extravagant place in the world, where temptations lurked everywhere, every breath was a gamble, a test.

And he himself... had ultimately made the wrong choice.

Someone had already knocked on the door, and the man managed a bitter smile, instructing in the way he was most accustomed and most natural, "Come in."@@@@

Although he felt prepared, the moment he spoke, he could still hear an uncontrollable tremor in his voice.

"Yes!" The secretary shivered slightly, then raised his chin high, "Long live His Majesty the King!"

"Long live His Majesty the King!" The man in black nodded his acknowledgment and followed his colleagues out of the office.

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Corruption is ever-present, and only through continuous and relentless strict inspection can the probability of corruption be decreased to a tolerable range.

Tang Mo understood that "where water flows, a channel will form," but he understood another adage more deeply—"A dike is destroyed by an ant hole!"

His intelligence department was extravagantly spending countless Gold Coins to clear paths, corrupting many opponents, leading numerous enemies to their own downfall, and he was well aware of this.

That's why he feared others doing the same to him! That's why he dreaded that one day his own subordinates would betray him! Hence, the economic investigation department has always been one of the most efficient departments in the Great Tang Group.

As the Great Tang Kingdom and the Great Tang Group developed, corruption issues began to increase gradually, which was consistent with the norm. Relying solely on education and goodwill to prevent the problem of officials' corruption and decay was not enough.

On one hand, Tang Mo gave officials salary increases, dangling the carrot, and on the other hand, he also wielded the stick of punishment, so that these officials would remain in awe.

The bad news was, despite this, there were still those fearless enough to try, tempted by those who wished to take shortcuts.

All these people were trained by the Great Tang Group with great effort and time, each of them invaluable. Yet, they ended up being squandered, dealt with accordingly.

The bad news was, due to the protection of a knowledge gap, most officials and commanders who graduated from higher education institutions established by the Great Tang Group were proud, ambitious, and held political aspirations, looking down on the "old nobility and old gentry."