Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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Lu Ming demanded tariffs, and ten million was the minimum.

Ronan wanted him to join the committee; if he did, the ten million would be paid in full.

Otherwise, we'll have no choice but to fight.

Does Lu Ming really need this ten million? No, it's just the beginning; customs is merely one point of leverage for him.

Was Ronan truly unable to obtain silver from elsewhere? No, he intended to take it from the customs, further diminishing the imperial court's authority in Guangdong.

It's not about money, it's about politics.

It doesn't matter how much you take, what matters is where you take it from.

"If I join, will I get every penny of the customs money?" Lu Ming asked.

Ronan understood what he meant: "The money will not be shortchanged, but it must be taken first and then supplemented later. Even if it is just moving the money out and then moving it back, this process cannot be omitted."

“Yes, but there are conditions. I will join, but I also need to nominate two people to the committee,” Lu Ming said.

"Do you have someone with you?" Ronan asked curiously.

Do the guards, servants, and subordinates outside have the qualifications? Probably not, and these three ordinary girls inside certainly don't either.

“I can invite them, one of whom is a grandchild of someone you know,” Lu Ming said.

"An acquaintance?" Ronan was now even more curious.

"Lu Mingyue's grandson," Lu Ming stated directly.

Ronan suddenly remembered that she was the seventh-tier female superhuman he and Dinia had saved during the final battle.

Wow, this guy has some serious connections.

"What's your relationship with Lu Mingyue?" Ronan asked casually.

“She’s a distant relative, but we’ve never been in contact. I only know her grandson, Lu Zhongyou,” Lu Ming explained.

"Who is the other one?" Ronan asked again.

“I’m the son of one of my former female students.” As he spoke, Lu Ming glanced at the three girls beside him.

Ronan smiled. "Your son, perhaps?"

“I can’t have children,” Lu Ming replied calmly, seemingly unconcerned about the matter.

"Well then, farewell." With that, Ronan stood up and left with Dinia.

In the blink of an eye, Ronan and Dinah had vanished without a trace.

At this moment, Lu Ming used all four hands to make two bowls of Lei Cha at the same time. Soon, six bowls of Lei Cha were ready. Three bowls were for himself, and the other three bowls were for the three young girls, Cai Ai, Wen Zhu, and Nan Ge.

After finishing their Lei Cha (pounded tea), Lu Ming asked the three girls, "How much did you understand?"

“I don’t understand at all,” Cai Ai replied. Wen Zhu simply shook her head. Only Nan Ge dared to ask, “Why don’t you explain it to us, teacher?”

Of the three girls, Wenzhu comes from the best family, her family owns a pharmacy. Nange, whose father is a low-level official in the government, is the most knowledgeable. Cai'ai's family only runs a small business. If all three were boys, they might have some knowledge, but before they met Lu Ming, they were only literate and knew how to count so that they could manage household affairs after they got married. Even though they have learned a lot in the past few months, they are still far from understanding the high-level political game between Luo Nan and Lu Ming.

“That requires going back a long way,” Lu Ming said. To give them a basic understanding of what had just happened, he needed to explain the basic principles of politics in the context of history. Moreover, he needed to use a storytelling style that the three young girls liked, otherwise they wouldn’t listen at all. Fortunately, Lu Ming was very good at this. He was good at popularizing some concepts to people who had no political or economic knowledge through short stories.

"No rush, let's finish what we were doing earlier first." Lu Ming said, reaching out to pat one of the children's bottoms.

The three girls had different expressions: Cai Ai was secretly delighted, Wen Zhu was shy, and Nan Ge pouted, but they all lifted their skirts at the same time.

Lu Ming's body was a combined body over 2.5 meters tall and twice the width of a person. The three girls were all less than 1.6 meters tall, and they all looked very small in front of him.

Chapter 920 The Value of the Change System, He Also Wants to Rebel, The Surprise That Night

Several thousand meters in the air, Ronan and Dinia were in a flying vehicle created by their combined magic.

"Is there something wrong with those three girls?" Ronan asked Dinia.

Dinia casually retorted, "Aren't you pretty sure?"

Ronan put a hand on Dinia's shoulder. "I need to consult you, the expert."

"It was transformation magic that modified them. The three girls' bodies underwent permanent changes. I can't see the specifics, but I can sense that their physical attributes are roughly between a novice mage and a first-tier mage. However, I can't sense any magical fluctuations from them. If they weren't deliberately concealing it, then it's very likely that this modification won't grant them true magic."

Dinia conducted an analysis.

Ronan stroked his chin, looking thoughtful. "If I remember correctly, according to intelligence, he has been an official for thirty years, and about twenty years ago he started traveling around collecting taxes. He has always had the habit of having three ordinary women, but the intelligence doesn't seem to mention that his women would undergo reformation."

Although Lu Ming wouldn't let the three girls show themselves to the public so that everyone in the area would know about them, he also had no intention of hiding them away. Furthermore, he wouldn't take the three girls with him after he left office. This time, he was transferred to Guangdong shortly after arriving in Hubei, which is why he took the three girls with him on his journey.

Because Lu Ming is shapeshifter, he can completely alter his appearance. According to intelligence, when he is in office, he generally doesn't reveal his true form but appears as a person. Perhaps the girls' hometown people don't know about this, after all, girls rarely show their faces in public these days, and it's common to not see them for half a year. However, as an official, and a high-profile one at that, how could anyone not know about the three girls?

I know, can I not inquire about it? If girls from the past were also reformed, such things can't possibly go unexposed.

“He was already at the sixth rank fifteen years ago. Perhaps it took him fifteen years to be able to use this ability completely, stably, and safely,” Dinia guessed.

“Possibly,” Ronan said.

"So, you changed your mind after seeing his abilities?" Dinia asked. She knew very well that although Ronan had planned to recruit Lu Ming into the association before he came, he didn't invite him directly. Instead, he planned to "play along" with him and then make the invitation.

After decades of marriage, Dinia was all too familiar with Ronan's style. He never tired of the carrot and stick approach. However, while others usually offer a carrot first to show goodwill before hitting the stick, Ronan did the opposite. He always had to teach the other person a lesson before offering the carrot.

In Ronan's words, people are simply not good at recognizing others' worth. Only when they realize the other party's importance will they know how to respect others and truly value cooperation.

“It’s not that I changed my mind after seeing his abilities, but that he did it on purpose,” Ronan explained. “What do those three little girls know? They won’t learn anything from our conversation. Lu Ming wanted them to be there so he could show off his own value. Since he’s so sincere, I should be sincere too.”

In an instant, Dinia realized something: "He also wants to rebel, and he's rooting for you?"

"He didn't want to rebel. Remember his desert fable? He was Sisyphus pushing the boulder. He didn't want to change things, but the situation was changing. He didn't want to rebel, but rather to continue serving as this special official. To achieve this, he had to join one side."

Ronan explained Lu Ming's ideas to Dinia.

“It seems he’s convinced the court is doomed to defeat,” Dinia said.

If Lu Ming still had any hope for the imperial court, he shouldn't have had this attitude.

"If he were an ordinary civil or military official, he might not have made that judgment, but he is an economist, and a very good one at that. He understands all too well that the court is going against the tide. Under the current economic situation, it can either choose to go backward or move forward into the unknown. The Yellow River will not flow backward, so he did not choose me, but a newer, more enterprising group."

At this moment, Dinia had a slight doubt, "Aren't those people from Seris Jiangnan even more radical and more crazy than you?"

Indeed, it was more radical. Ronan did not intend to abolish collective agriculture and prioritize industry and commerce, but the group in Jiangnan held that same idea.

“I don’t know.” Ronan really didn’t know. “Perhaps he was a centrist among the revolutionaries. Perhaps he wanted to join the group in Jiangnan, but they wouldn’t accept him. After all, he was a ‘cruel official,’ and the upright people in Jiangnan didn’t want someone like him to infiltrate the pure revolutionary ranks.”

The tariff issue is now resolved.

It also brought in an economics talent, and may even bring new breakthroughs to the technology that this talent possesses.

Next came the committee's first informal meeting.

The main purpose of the meeting was to allow the committee members to meet with each other.

The secondary purpose is to mention the organization's goals.

A platform will come sooner or later. After all, Ronan's goal is to establish a party and create a new era. An advanced platform is essential, rather than a bunch of haphazard people getting together to carry out a regime change and then dividing up the spoils.

However, it is only a temporary committee established to deal with the war, and the members are not only impure, but also a den of filth, and it is not yet time to put forward a program.

Another point is that Xiao Zhao, also known as Zhao Junyong, the King of the South China Sea, is someone Ronan wants to bring into the committee, but of course, it's not to promote him to the top.

Ronan doesn't want the monarchy anymore, but to abolish it, the method can't be to shout about abolishing the monarchy from the beginning, nor can it be to discuss with everyone after successfully seizing power and say that we don't want an emperor anymore. Instead, we should first bring Zhao Jun into the government, and then let a group of monarchical supporters gather around him, making them a force within the party.

It's the same old trick of "Zheng Bo Ke Duan Yu Yan": let them run wild, and when the conflict gradually escalates to an irreconcilable point, mobilize other factions within the party to eliminate these supporters of the imperial system.

If other factions within the party participate, they will inevitably unite to resolutely oppose the imperial system in order to avoid being counterattacked and punished.

Those who advocate for the abolition of the imperial system are the ones who truly destroy it. It is unacceptable to shout "We want to abolish the imperial system" from the outset, or to say "We don't need an emperor" only after the fact.

"Nothing much has happened these past couple of days, right?" Dinia suddenly asked.

“No,” Ronan replied.

"Come to my place tonight, I have a surprise for you," Dinia said mysteriously.

"What surprise?" Ronan asked curiously. For decades, he and Didi had tried all the positions that normal people could use. What surprise could there be?

Dinia pushed Ronan away from her face, saying, "It's no longer a surprise if I tell you now."

“If you don’t tell me, I’ll take care of you right now,” Ronan said.

Instead of getting angry, Dinia laughed and said, "Come on then. Aren't you afraid you'll regret not having saved up your energy tonight? Come on now."

Chapter 921 The surprise is the loli form, a brief queenly demeanor, it's all your fault for being too cute.

That night, in Dinia's room, Ronan knocked on the door.

Although he thought it might just be a small surprise, Ronan still ate a big pot of ginseng chicken soup and a bunch of oysters for dinner.

Seeing no response, Ronan simply said "I'm coming in" and pushed open the door. He didn't even see Dinya at first glance, but noticed her on the second look.

Dinia went from a 168cm tall, curvaceous woman to a little girl who was less than 1.5 meters tall and hadn't even started developing yet.

She still had white hair and red eyes, and her features were instantly recognizable as hers, but she looked much cuter.

She no longer had large breasts and perky buttocks, but she still had a small chest, and her arms and legs were much slimmer.

Wearing a pale yellow nightgown and pink and white stockings, the combination of white stockings and slender, straight legs perfectly accentuated her lolita charm.

This is truly a wonderful surprise.

“This is what I looked like when I was about ten years old,” Dinia said, her voice even changing. Although it wasn’t her grandmother’s childlike voice, it sounded much younger, completely lacking the strong voice she usually had.

“My God, Dee, are you trying to make me commit a crime?” Ronan said. “But Dee, you know, I don’t actually have the common interests of that group.”

That group of people refers to the male nobles, including those from the Kingdom of Fas. It's not that everyone is a philanderer, but if all philanderers should be executed, even if you round them up and execute them one by one, there will still be those who are missed.

"Then should I change back?" Dinia asked.

"No," Ronan immediately stopped him.

Dinia crossed her arms, her small frame holding her head high, looking like a little devil. "Heh, looks like you're one of those people too."

“It’s different. I love you, Didi. I’ll love you no matter what you become,” Ronan argued.

Dinia sneered, "Is that so? Then I'll become a wrinkled, toothless, fat old woman with breasts that sag down to her stomach, and you try it?"

Ronan chuckled, "Alright, go ahead and do it. I'll bring you the mirror so you can take a good look."

"Are you trying to die?!" Dinia roared angrily, flying up and delivering a double kick that sent Ronan sprawling to the ground. Then, she stomped on Ronan's chest, glaring down at him menacingly.

Although her appearance has changed to that of a teenager, her strength remains her normal strength.

Ronan, lying on the ground, had a grin on his face. He knew Dinya too well. Although she wasn't someone who cared much about her appearance, she was still a woman who loved beauty and was narcissistic. She would never become some kind of fat old woman.

Ronan reached out and touched Lolita Dinia's slender legs. "Tsk, a completely different feeling."

Dinia kicked off her flat, soft-soled cloth slippers and gently stepped on Ronan's face. "Lick it."

Normally, she doesn't have much of a queenly aura, but unexpectedly, she became like that when she transformed into a loli. I don't know what her mindset was.

“Yes, ma’am.” After saying that, Ronan, who was lying down, grabbed one of Lori Dinia’s little feet with both hands and began to lick it.

Soon, saliva soaked the toes and soles of her white stockings, making the pinkish-white stockings somewhat transparent.

Feeling ticklish from the licking, Dinia withdrew her foot, then lifted her nightgown and sat down on Ronan's face, commanding in her cute, loli-like voice, "Continue."

She wasn't wearing any underwear under her white stockings; underneath were her smooth, flat labia. The pubic hair, the same color as her hair, was in an inverted triangle shape and hadn't fully grown in yet; it was still quite sparse.

Dinia closed her eyes and enjoyed it; Ronan's tongue felt bigger, hotter, and rougher than before.

Her lips were very soft and tender. Before long, Dinia began to ooze a little moisture. She had transformed into the appearance of a ten-year-old, rather than actually becoming a ten-year-old girl.

A moment later, Dinia changed her position, turned her back to Ronan, bent down, and prepared to begin 69.

Loli Dinia pulled down Ronan's pants, and his thing sprang out, harder than usual, with veins bulging. Dinia squeezed it hard, "You're such a lewd pervert, you can even get hard on a child."

“Who do you think you are, kid?” Ronan retorted.

"You dare talk back!" Dinia said, punching Ronan in the balls. Only after being punched did she lower her head and open her mouth.

At this moment, Lolita's buttocks were fully revealed to Ronan's view, small, round, and perky, seemingly already showing the beginnings of the large, perky buttocks that would follow in the future. The fleshy folds of her labia were tightly closed, and her little anus was even more firm and beautiful.

In front, Dinia was also diligently sucking and licking Ronan's big penis. This thing looked much bigger than usual, and she was a little unaccustomed to the sudden change to a child's body. Her oral skills seemed to have returned to when she first gave Ronan oral sex, and she was very awkward.

But this awkwardness was a different kind of pleasure for Ronan. Isn't this what oral sex from a little girl should feel like? She can't swallow it, and she can't lick it properly, but it's just so enjoyable.

Just over three minutes later, Ronan's thing suddenly started throbbing. Dinia immediately looked up, then reached out and grabbed it, saying with some disgust, "You can't be serious."

Normally, even if she gives him oral sex very seriously, Ronan can last at least fifteen minutes, but this time it was less than five minutes before he wanted to ejaculate.

“It’s because you’re too cute, Didi,” Ronan said.

It's no wonder he's like this; Lolita Dinia is just too cute.

"Hmph." Dinia snorted, somewhat displeased, yet also secretly pleased.