The phone rang suddenly in the quiet night. The owner of the room had been suffering from insomnia due to anxiety in the past few days. He drank some wine tonight and felt a little sleepy, so he was finally able to have a good night's sleep.
But this phone call woke him up immediately. He sat up from the bed angrily and looked fiercely at the landline phone that had disturbed his rest, as if his eyes could form the same phone line and see the person harassing him on the other end.
After calming down a little bit of the rage in his heart, he took a deep breath to suppress the anger surging in his heart, and picked up the phone, "This is..."
He stopped before he finished speaking. He could hear that in addition to the noisy human voices in the receiver, there would be a sound like a gunshot within a few seconds.
"Mr. Harry, our mine car was ambushed... The situation is very critical now. What should we do?" The person who spoke was known to Harry and was one of the people in charge of the mining area. He was mainly responsible for maintaining order on the ground in the mining area. .
Most mining areas have more than one person in charge. Depending on the different functions, the larger the mining area, the more people in charge.
He almost jumped out of bed in shock and took a few steps back and forth in the room. In the dimly lit room, his eyes shone with a cold light.
He knew very well that there were only two possibilities for the people who could intercept their mine cart at this time.
The first possibility is that many of the mine protection teams in the mining area are former local gold prospectors and members of the mine protection team. The composition of these people is quite complex, and some of them may be related to the robbers and robbers in the wilderness. Relationship.
This is not just a random guess on his part. During the crackdown on illegal private armed forces in the first half of the year, many groups of robbers and robbers were eliminated, and some mine employees and even key members of the mine protection team were implicated.
Only in this way can these robbers accurately grasp the information about the mining and smuggling of goods in various mining areas, and then intercept them. Without the help of these people, they would probably not be able to do a single job in their lifetime just by guessing.
Dulin's vigorous efforts to eradicate illegal armed forces in Ambiro State have achieved remarkable results, but this does not mean that all bandits and robbers have really been eradicated.
The entire wilderness of Ambiluo State has complex terrain and a vast area. If a small group of people digs into any place, it is really not possible to find it through manual search. It is reasonable for some fish to slip through the net.
This time, they did not transport from the Yakuul Mountains camp in Ambiro State, but took another road. Maybe these people thought that an opportunity had come, and decided to rob their convoy under the coordination of internal and external factors.
But there is a second possibility, and that is Dulin's people.
There are Dulin's spies throughout Ambiro State. Many of the policies he promulgated after taking office have significantly improved the situation and economic development of Ambiro State compared with the past.
Especially after the implementation of phased free education, it has won the support of the vast majority of people in the state.
These farmers and cowboys in the west are different from those in the southern cities. They are stupid and ignorant, but they are also passionate and loyal. It is very possible for someone to discover something and tell Dulin secretly.
Moreover, the kind of battles heard on the phone are definitely not something ordinary small armed forces can do.
He quickly weighed it in his mind, gritted his teeth, and ordered, "Evacuate all the people on the ground into the mine, and then ask the mine protection team to support the convoy and try to hold back the incoming enemies. I will Let others rush over as soon as possible!"
After speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for the person in charge to answer, and then quickly dialed the duty phone number of Tadun Security Company.
Now Tadun Security Company has been fully acquired by Ambiluo State Mining Company and has become a subsidiary. It no longer accepts various task orders from the society and exclusively serves the mining area.
The gold diggers and mine protection team members in the company are also very satisfied. The salary is 20% higher than before, the food has become better, and they only need to work two days a week. Everyone has no complaints and thinks the new owner is a good person. .
At this time, a call went through the entire staff dormitory of Tower Shield Security Company. All the lights in the one hundred and fifty four-person dormitories in the expanded dormitory area came on. The piercing assembly number in the buzzer made the company base light up. brightly lit.
The base of Tower Shield Security Company is not in the city. After all, these employees have to undergo militarized training on a daily basis, and weapons training if necessary. If there are gunshots in the city center all day long, it will definitely not work.
Therefore, this base needs to be located on the outskirts of the city. The original board of directors of the company bought a piece of land in the camp area. Maybe it was to commemorate the glorious years of the camp outside Yagul Mountain. Maybe the land here was cheap enough, so they decided to put the base next to it. Settled down at Mount Yagur.
From here to the mining area, if they all drive, it will take up to four or five hours. If they have other small roads that others don't know about, it may be faster.
For a while, the base was allocating tasks, guns and ammunition, and then mountain bikes entered Yagur Mountain directly from the side of the base, and some people rode horses. Most of these people were gold diggers, and they were more familiar with it. The terrain and routes within Yagul Mountain make riding a horse more advantageous than driving a car.
The impact of the fierce gun battle that broke out inside the mountain soon spread to the outside. Dulin was chatting with the state Minister of Agriculture about some work-related issues.
In the past, agriculture and animal husbandry were the mainstay of the local economy in Ambiro State. Because of the existence of the Western Mining Association, the government could not extract much tax from the development of mineral resources. Agriculture and animal husbandry embarrassingly became the most important economic growth point. .
With the removal of the Western Mine, there were some riots in the mining field in the west. Many mine owners were arrested for buying and selling slaves, abusing and killing slaves. Some mining areas have now been sealed, which allowed agriculture and animal husbandry to gain the upper hand again.
However, this situation lasted for less than a year. Dulin began to take charge of Ambiro State and vigorously developed tourism. The agriculture and animal husbandry industry once again shrank even more than before.
If Dulin's agricultural and animal husbandry company were not still supporting it, I am afraid that the agricultural and animal husbandry industry in Ambiro State would be over.
People are happy to be loyal to jobs that are leisurely and pay more. The cultivated fields are overgrown with weeds. If people didn't need to eat meat, they might not even be willing to continue raising cattle and sheep.
If the situation in the state continues to spread according to the current situation, and soon people's development of agriculture and animal husbandry will be limited to a scale that is "enough for their own use", then it can be said that agriculture and animal husbandry are really over, and the Ministry of Agriculture is also over. .
It was not easy for him to get into the position of Minister of Agriculture, but then he had no power at all for no apparent reason. Such a life was not what the Minister of Agriculture wanted.
"So what do you mean?" Dulin poured him some wine, which helped him ease his mood and make people relax.
Alcoholic beverages have always played a very important role in the social culture of the empire. Regardless of success or failure, abjection or glory, from shady transactions to the signing of agreements of appalling scale, alcoholic beverages are indispensable as a foil.
Prohibition still exists, and the Contraband Investigation Bureau has not revoked it. It still exercises its unique powers. Every year, many businessmen selling private wine are arrested and sentenced, and a large amount of private wine is burned and dumped.
But now these things have nothing to do with Dulin. It is known that Dulin is a decent businessman and a successful governor, and his businesses are all legal and have licenses.
In fact, the entire moonshine industry is undergoing huge changes, but that's another question.
The Minister of Agriculture drank a little wine and felt much better. His shoulders, which had always been flat, slumped a little, which meant that his body had begun to relax.
"Your Excellency, Governor, I have no objections to your decision. I just think that while vigorously developing tourism, we should also take into account our local agriculture and animal husbandry industry. Is it possible to develop some local characteristics like you do in developing green tourism?" A new concept in agriculture and animal husbandry?”
In fact, Du Lin listened carefully to the words of the Minister of Agriculture and considered it carefully. If rapid economic development is the basis for a country's take-off, then agriculture and animal husbandry are the basis for a country's survival.
This is already related to national-level policies, so we cannot be cautious enough.
The Imperial Ministry of Agriculture has issued many reports in recent years, pointing out that while the economy is developing at a rapid pace, the Empire's agriculture and animal husbandry are shrinking rapidly. From being self-sufficient, to now having to import food from the Colt Empire, it is enough to illustrate the problem. severity.
However, Dulin cannot solve this problem. This requires the cooperation of various departments and society throughout the empire, as well as the promotion of mechanized farming and animal husbandry production.
He frowned and thought for a while, "I can't interfere in other places, but I can make the decision here. Your opinion is very important to me. I will hold a meeting to discuss this matter in the near future. In addition, you can contact us in advance It has been announced that starting next year, Ambiro State will cancel the collection of agricultural taxes, provide certain subsidies to farms and ranches, underwrite the sale of high-quality products, and..."
The phone rang suddenly, interrupting Du Lin's train of thought. He glanced at the phone, turned around and apologized slightly, "Sorry, I'll answer the phone first."
"It doesn't matter, your affairs are more important." The Minister of Agriculture is a person who knows the "markets" very well. Maybe Dulin is much younger than him, but he definitely does not dare to underestimate this young governor.
Du Lin nodded, stood up and walked to the landline to answer the call. Soon he frowned, "I remember you have a sentry platform there. That thing should be very fast if it is traveling in the forest area... No Talk to me about wear and tear, money is never an issue!”
(End of chapter)