Chapter 2566
Some things were not written into the rules. For example, if someone opened a shop on the street, he had to pay protection money.
Otherwise, he would not be able to keep the shop open! This rule was not written into the city's local laws, nor was there anything about it in the Basic Law or the Charter—but you had to pay protection money for the safety of your business.
But you had to do it. You had to give someone a little money. Whoever it was, you had to pay.
Such rules were never stated explicitly. They might be written down, but they definitely existed, and they worked.
Just like an elected governor who wanted to establish himself in the state and have his orders implemented and carried out—he had to let people know that Lin Qi supported him!
If he did not make that clear, others would dare to trip him up and make his job as governor less comfortable—
After all, this was Nagaril, and the heart of the state was Slem.
Those interest groups that made billions in profits every year were not something a minor state governor could afford to challenge!
He had spent so much money and owed so many favors, not because he had truly come here to realize his ideals and ambitions, but because he had obtained a ticket to join the interest groups!
Having a ticket alone was not enough. He still had to get past the ticket inspector. Lin Qi's phone call was that ticket inspector. It let everyone know that, at least on the surface and for the time being, Lin Qi had no grudge or conflict with the governor.
That gave the governor's words and decisions real significance.
Without that phone call, without Lin Qi's "approval,"