Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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Chapter 978 Let's have a couple of drinks, pirate ship, and go for a hot spring.

Liu Chongsi couldn't get the words out.

For a long time, he didn't say anything.

In the end, he just sighed and was surprised to find that he had come to terms with it.

“I will continue to stay in the army,” Liu Chongsi said. “Maybe I will always be troubled by some things, but that’s okay. You’re right, what I really can’t face is my incompetence.”

Ronan nodded. "Actually, a strong person is someone who can carry out their own will without worrying about whether they are wrong or the world is wrong. If you are in a boundless desert where you can't see the direction or the goal, then you must not stand still. Instead, you must keep moving forward and always be on the road. Perhaps one day you will suddenly stop and reflect, feeling that this journey has been meaningless. But one day, you will also find happiness because of this journey. If you stay in the same place, one day you will be surrounded by endless regret and remorse. That is what it truly means to have a meaningless life."

"Thank you," Liu Chongsi said sincerely.

“Hey, no need for thanks,” Ronan laughed.

"Um, cough cough." Lu Jianling suddenly coughed. She couldn't stand Ronan's tone, which implied that they were family and didn't need to say thank you.

But in any case, Lu Jianling finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Her eldest son is calm and open-minded. He works at a research center and is also in a relationship with the little girl he brought with him.

There's nothing to worry about with the third brother; he's a determined person and is currently in charge of matters related to talent bestowal.

The second son was someone she had always been worried about. He used to be a seemingly carefree person, but he was actually very scheming. Now, his carefree facade was gone, and he had been completely exposed. Fortunately, Ronan's words managed to change his mind.

"Let's eat," Lu Jianling instructed the people outside.

Upon hearing the order, the servants outside brought the dishes to the table one after another.

First came the cold dishes that had been prepared in advance, and then the steamed dishes that had been kept warm on the stove because the hosts were talking. The spicy and sour cold dishes and the steamed dishes with braised pork are local specialties that ordinary people in the city with a bit of money can eat during festivals, although of course, the ingredients are not as good as before.

As for cooking, another chef is cooking. In a large city in a province, there are chefs who specialize in cooking official dishes in places with official residences.

"I'd like to have a few drinks with Mr. Luo," Liu Chongsi said.

“Okay.” Ronan nodded.

A hint of displeasure flashed across Lu Jianling's face, but he still ordered someone to fetch the wine.

They ate and drank throughout the meal, and even after they finished eating, they were still drinking.

But Xiao Liu's fighting ability is still far inferior to that of Ronan, a seasoned veteran who has been tested by alcohol.

Even with Lu Jianling added, he still wouldn't be a match for Ronan.

Later, Liu Chongsi began to intermittently bow and raise his head, saying, "Sigh, Lao Luo, I wish you were one of us Han Chinese."

These words really made people think of all sorts of things. Lu Jianling got angry as soon as she heard them and slammed her hand on the table. "Liu Chongsi, if you've had too much to drink, go to sleep."

"I was just saying a few words, and that's not allowed? You're being too nosy," Liu Chongsi retorted. Normally, he would never dare to talk back, but he was really drunk now.

"You still dare to be so presumptuous? I think you want to get a beating." As Lu Jianling spoke, she raised her fist. Her hands were smooth and delicate, with long and slender white fingers, but if she really used her fist, it could shatter a stone.

Ronan pressed down on Lu Jianling's fist and quickly said, "Never mind, never mind."

Lu Jianling turned and glared at Ronan, "Spare the rod and spoil the child, haven't you heard?"

“Then find a stick and hit him hard,” Ronan said.

If the wooden stick weren't imbued with magic, it wouldn't hurt Liu Chongsi, a second-tier superhuman, at all.

Lu Jianling was both angry and amused by Luo Nan's words. Liu Chongsi, being sensible, quickly stood up and said in a playful and pretentious tone, "Mother, I won't disturb you any longer. I'll take my leave."

As soon as Liu Chongsi turned around, Lu Jianling stood up and kicked him. Her legs were really long; she managed to kick her own son to the ground like that.

"Get lost," Lu Jianling said angrily.

Liu Chongsi quickly retreated.

Inside the dining room, only Ronan and Lu Jianling remained. Lu Jianling filled the one-qian cup of colored glaze ceramic with his own water and downed it in one gulp.

Taking a long breath, still smelling of alcohol, Lu Jianling looked in the direction Liu Chongsi had left and smiled.

“You two have a really good relationship,” Ronan said.

“It’s just good luck.” Lu Jianling said with some emotion, “I’m not a good mother. I didn’t get along with their father, and I rarely spent time with them during their teenage years. I’m actually very grateful that they didn’t go astray.”

“Sometimes words don’t work; it’s actions that do. You can tell a child a thousand times and they might not listen, but if you do it once, they might learn. That’s why your three sons have achieved what they have today—it’s all thanks to your personal example,” Ronan said.

“Achievements? Without you, the third brother would have been a traitor for life. The eldest and second brothers would have had to find a place to hide and live their lives with me.” As Lu Jianling spoke, he couldn’t help but sigh, “You have done them a great favor.”

Ronan put a hand on Lu Jianling's shoulder. "I'm just doing this for my own goals. Besides, we're all family."

Everything was fine until these words came out, and Lu Jianling immediately removed Ronan's hand, saying, "Who's family with you?"

"By the way, we've already made arrangements here. Next, we need to take over western Fujian and southern Jiangxi to facilitate attracting some immigrants here," Ronan said, getting down to business.

"Isn't it good to immigrate from Guangxi?" Lu Jianling asked.

Ronan poured himself another drink. "Immigrants come here to do hard labor, while people from Guangxi can just join the army."

"Yun, does Gui really not care at all?" Lu Jianling asked again.

"No matter, just do business normally," Ronan replied.

“You don’t want to manage it, but people want to be managed by you,” Lu Jianling said. “Wealthy places aren’t interested in your pirate ship, but there are a lot of people in poor places who want to get on board. No matter how much money Guangdong makes in commerce, it won’t attract them because they don’t have the resources. But with such a good agricultural sector, they’re really tempted.”

“We don’t have that many people,” Ronan said, shaking his head.

To improve agriculture, you need soil, water, fertilizer, and seeds. But to make this whole system work, you can't rely on scattered self-cultivating farmers and landlords. In other words, it's too costly and inefficient. You need institutions that operate financially and government organizations to make it work.

And to be realistic, given the conditions in Yunnan and Guizhou, it's probably best to forget about it. The initial investment would be too huge; even selling off Guangdong as a whole wouldn't be enough.

Luo Nan knew exactly what those local tyrants in Yunnan and Guizhou were thinking. They wanted to go over there to provide technical assistance, or even borrow money, and then declare that they were all brothers from now on. All orders from the imperial court concerning Guangdong were considered arbitrary and unrecognizable to them.

They provided all the support they could, except for help; that's what it means.

"Understood, I will handle it." Lu Jianling nodded.

Ronan suddenly stood up. "Let's go, let's go to Yunnan."

Lu Jianling was a little confused, "What are you going to Yunnan for?"

"Soaking in hot springs," Ronan replied. Yunnan has many natural hot springs, and soaking in them in winter would be incredibly relaxing.

Chapter 979 Canned Food, Cultivating Collaborators, and General Lu's Greatly Improved Ventriloquism Skills

Tengyue County is the same as Tengchong City in Luonan's original timeline.

Although this place can be said to be the southwesternmost part of the country, it is not a poor, uninhabited place. On the contrary, there are quite a few people here, and it is even somewhat prosperous.

There are three reasons. First, the area has beautiful mountains and rivers, a pleasant climate, and a long history. Second, it was an outpost with military garrisons, which attracts consumers from outside the region. Third, it was a distribution center for goods, especially jewelry and jade.

It is precisely because of the small prosperity here that a resort has been built around the hot springs.

At this moment, in one of the enclosed hot spring pools inside the resort, Ronan and Lu Jianling were taking a bath, and there was no one else around.

Clothes and other items were placed in a bamboo basket to the side, including the black pantyhose that Lu Jianling had changed into before the meal.

After soaking for a while, Ronan opened a bag, took out a can of yellow peaches, and unscrewed the lid.

After drinking some wine, soaking in a warm hot spring, and then enjoying a can of chilled yellow peaches, that's quite a treat.

Ronan skewered a piece of food with a bamboo stick and held it to Lu Jianling's lips. She ate it with a slightly embarrassed look, then showed a hint of surprise, "Hmm?"

"What's wrong?" Ronan asked.

“This canned food tastes better than the ones I’ve had before,” Lu Jianling said.

She had eaten canned yellow peaches. During the war, Ronan sent a lot of canned goods to the front-line troops. There were all kinds of canned goods, including a lot of fruit canned goods, as well as meat canned goods that were hard to eat and fish canned goods that were extremely salty. However, the ordinary soldiers at the bottom of the ranks liked both of these.

"The yellow peaches in the canned food you ate were introduced from Guangdong, but the ones in this can are from Guidong County," Ronan explained.

Lu Jianling asked, "Where is Guidong?" China is so big, few people know every place in Seris, and most people are only familiar with the area within a hundred miles. Lu Jianling was born in Jiaodong, grew up in Jinan, settled down in Beijing, and then lived in Guangxi for many years. She had never even heard of many other places.

Ronan picked up a piece for himself and said as he ate, "Guidong is a small county under Chenzhou Prefecture in Hunan. The high-mountain yellow peaches there are very good, just like the ones you are eating now."

When Lu Jianling heard the name Chenzhou, he knew it was located in southern Hunan, bordering Guangdong.

“The cannery is located directly in Chenzhou,” Ronan said.

Lu Jianling's eyes narrowed. "You've sent someone to open a factory in Hunan?"

“Yes, and it’s not just this one factory. They’re all related to agriculture, and they’re all in partnership with locals,” Ronan said.

“Economic penetration,” Lu Jianling said, using a term she had learned from Ronan.

Before the station opened, Lu Jianling asked Luo Nan a question that had troubled her for a long time: why didn't the major landowners in many prefectures and counties of Guangdong resist? Although Luo Nan's behavior wasn't particularly ugly, it would be absurd to say that it hadn't affected the interests of these people at all.

Then Ronan used the term "economic infiltration." In what these people thought was their "ironclad territory," many agricultural processing plants had been built. The people who built these plants came from within the original landlord class, or even their own "clan members" or "co-opts." However, under Ronan's series of methods, agriculture developed, and under the new economy, those who were originally among them became "traitors and collaborators," even actively providing Ronan with incriminating information, and thinking every day about sacrificing their own family for the greater good.

Clearly, the bourgeoisie's hatred for the landlord class outweighed any so-called kinship or affection among relatives.

Moral propaganda is unlikely to cultivate traitors, but if you use someone else's economic model, then that person doesn't need much propaganda; your own traitors will naturally emerge because your own morality is no longer compatible with your economic model.

For every economic model, there will be people who regard a certain moral exemplar under that economic model as a beacon.

In reality, once a factory moves there, it will naturally attract people who act as guides.

The most absurd thing in this world is that morality itself actually originates from money, which is the most despised by morality.

“That’s right.” Ronan nodded, then couldn’t help but sigh, “Hunan is a wonderful place with outstanding people and beautiful scenery.”

The yellow peaches in the jar were quickly finished. Ronan took a big gulp of the sweet peach syrup and then handed it to Lu Jianling.

Lu Jianling took the jar and drank the rest.

Ronan set the jar aside, propped himself up with both hands, and sat down on the edge of the pool, looking at Lu Jianling expectantly. "Jianling?"

Lu Jianling knew what Ronan was thinking, rolled her eyes at him, then leaned closer and picked up the big, fat worm between Ronan's legs.

Deep sucking, licking in circles with the tongue, and occasionally swallowing almost deeply into the throat.

Ronan looked down at Lu Jianling's beautiful face, especially her eyebrows and eyes that even makeup couldn't achieve, and couldn't help but sigh, "Jianling, you've improved so quickly."

I thought Lu Jianling would be annoyed by such comments, but to my surprise, Lu Jianling held Ronan's now huge, hard and erect penis and just gave me a half-smile, as if to say what this is.

Then, Lu Jianling stuck out his tongue, moving it up and down rapidly, the tip of which swept between Ronan's eye and coronal sulcus.

"Oh, hiss!" Ronan couldn't help but exclaim, almost losing control of his ejaculation.

This is so exciting! It's not just the physical stimulation that's exciting, but even more so the psychological stimulation brought about by Lu Jianling's lewd oral and linguistic actions.

After a brief pause, Lu Jianling stopped again, looking at Ronan with a proud yet slightly provocative expression, implying that she was no longer someone who knew nothing, was powerless in bed, and could only be trained by Ronan.

"Where did you learn that?" Ronan asked.

Lu Jianling stood up, instantly looking down at her. "What's it to you?" She had gone to great lengths to get her niece to collect some secret manuals.

Ronan just smiled.

Soon, the two began to have intercourse. Lu Jianling entered the pool, kneeling and lying face down in the water. Luo Nan, in a horse stance, grabbed her large buttocks with both hands and began to thrust.

Ronan's movements were very forceful; each time he would pull out completely and then insert it all the way back in.

Every now and then, Ronan would nudge Lu Jianling's chrysanthemum gate, repeatedly probing it.

Finally, Lu Jianling whispered, "Go ahead and insert it if you want."

Ronan was overjoyed. He had played with Lu Jianling's back several times before, so it wasn't a completely untouched virgin territory. With the lubrication of the hot spring water, Ronan thrust his hips forward and squeezed in the head of the penis.

Lu Jianling bit her lip, frowned, and remained silent.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Ronan slowly penetrated deeper until he was completely inside.

Lu Jianling's vagina was tight in the front and even tighter in the back; if they weren't in the water, it would have been impossible to insert her. Once inside, her sphincter muscles were contracting wildly, as if trying to squeeze out the enormous thing Ronan had inserted.

"Does it hurt?" Ronan asked.

“A little,” Lu Jianling replied, “just…” She really didn’t want to describe that feeling.

Ronan kept grabbing, kneading and patting Lu Jianling's buttocks with one hand, while playing with her lips with the other. "You'll get used to it in a while, and you'll feel comfortable soon."

After a while, Lu Jianling sensed something was different.

Chapter 980 Black stockings, the first time behind the scenes, pain deepens the memory.

It's hard to describe as pleasure, but rather an unusual sense of fullness, a strange feeling of being possessed, of shame at being violated yet also of a triumphant sense of conquest, far more intense than when Ronan's enormous member filled my vagina.

Is this what Ronan meant by "comfortable"? Lu Jianling didn't know.

After catching his breath, Ronan gently thrust a few times, then stopped.

"Why did you stop inserting it?" Lu Jianling asked with a hint of concern, knowing that Ronan was definitely not comfortable.

Ronan said, "Water only makes it easier to get in, but it's actually not smooth when you're actually thrusting in and out, and you're too tight inside."

"Then go ashore and dry yourself off, then you can do it," Lu Jianling said softly.