Doing Real Work

List did not care about Pegasus Group's reaction. He was busy carrying out his official duties.

The Anti-Smuggling Command could not be called obscenely wealthy, but its funds were still quite ample.

After all, it had the authority to confiscate assets and impose fines. It would be abnormal for such a violent agency to have no money.

But no amount of money was enough to fuel warships. As the saying went, the Anti-Smuggling Command's duties did not require an oversized fleet. The profits from smuggling might not even be enough to cover the cost of maintaining one.

The moment warships moved, they burned through funding.

If they did not find a new source of income, the Anti-Smuggling Command could declare bankruptcy.

Its commander, List, would then be gloriously unemployed.

So he had to do some real work to replenish the budget.

This time, Wu Zhongliang could guess what the Anti-Smuggling Command was going to do with his eyes closed.

Ever since List took office, he had lost control of the Anti-Smuggling Command.

After all, power ultimately came down to personnel and finances.

On the personnel side, everyone taking part in operations was newly recruited temporary staff. Each warship only needed a few regular employees.

As for whether the regular anti-smuggling officers had any thoughts about it—when you were alone in the enclosed environment of a warship, facing several hundred heavily armed burly men, you probably would not dare to have any thoughts.

As for financial authority... weren't they making money right now?

Not long after the Anti-Smuggling Command's destroyer fleet set out, it ran into a group of smuggling ships.

They had filed no reports and were transporting cargo along an unregistered route without authorization. It was blatant smuggling.

Once the Anti-Smuggling Command's warships surrounded them, the smugglers who had