Mags, who was having afternoon tea with his old friend Baal, picked up a handkerchief and dipped the tea in the corner of his mouth. He was still in a happy mood, after all, the new year had only begun a few days ago. At noon, he and Baal went to the palace to meet His Majesty the Emperor and the princes and princesses, and stayed in the palace for a meal.
The emperor didn't like him. It was Maggs who made the emperor lose his power. But the problem is that now the person in charge is no longer the royal family, but the new party. Therefore, in order to maintain what the royal family still has, His Majesty the Emperor had to pretend to have a good relationship with Mags, and even took the initiative to let him have a meal in his splendid restaurant.
Although he had eaten it in the past, after all, Mags was also a marquis. After the royal family killed almost all the dukes and all the non-royal princes, the marquis was already the largest noble. What's wrong with going to the palace to have dinner with the emperor a few times? This is normal behavior.
His butler knocked on the door, and the chat between Mags and Barr stopped. Both of them were a little stunned and dignified. Under normal circumstances, Mags' butler would not disturb the two of them unless something big happened.
"Come in!" Magus sat back a little, crossed his legs, reached out and casually flicked off the cake dregs the size of sesame seeds on his trousers, and then looked at the housekeeper who walked in leisurely.
The housekeeper bowed to the two men and said after bowing: "There was an accident at the construction site in the eastern mountains of Otis City just now, causing the canyon that had been opened to collapse. About 1,100 workers and related management were buried inside. Be careful. The district asked if we should organize some people to rescue him.”
The focus of this sentence is not how many people died, but the desire to take action in the warning zone in the second half of the sentence. The security zone is the imperial capital's last line of defense against invasion by external forces. It contains the Empire's First Guards Corps, formerly known as the Iron Knights Corps. Of course, this regiment has never been directly affiliated with the royal family, either before or now. They belong to the United Guards directly under the core nobles of the New Party, and their total number has always been maintained at around 50,000 people.
This force is not only the last firewall of the imperial capital, but also a sharp blade to suppress and intimidate the old party nobles in the north. It is also a cage that prevents the royal family from running around. Now this is very important, and the warning zone that should not take the initiative to do anything wants to move before the cabinet order comes out. There must be other reasons.
After Mags asked the butler to go out, he regained his smile. He smiled and said to Barr: "Dulin is in trouble!"
Yes, Dulin is in trouble. He caused that military foundation to be in trouble. No one in the political arena would stand up and use this matter to attack Du Lin, because the Army is still very obedient at present. If even this small matter has to be taken to the line, it will definitely dampen the Army's mood and create unpredictable dangers. So Dulin may think that no one is dealing with him on this matter because others don't know or don't care, but this is impossible.
Any highly sensitive matter about the military should never be kept secret. After receiving Dulin's promise, the deputy commander reported the matter to the military and presented it to Maggs. Maggs didn't say much about this and handled the matter coldly. First of all, he believed that it was a joke for Du Lin to infiltrate the Army. No matter how rich he personally was, he could not compare with the military expenditures allocated to the Army every year. That included two military expenditures for the Navy. Everyone in the Army knew it. No matter how much money Du Lin has, it's just small money.
Secondly, using Dulin's money to find a comfortable home for the first batch of generals who are about to retire in the new era is a good thing in itself. Du Lin raised them to be fat and white, which will make them feel that although they have lost power, they will not lack money problems. At the same time, they can maintain their dignity. This can avoid any inappropriate signs and affect stability. Army sentiment also had a boosting effect. Even one day when Du Lin felt that running this foundation was too much of a disadvantage, the cabinet would take over and continue running it.
Just because those people don't use this thing to attack Du Lin doesn't mean that Du Lin has put on an invincible iron coat. Someone will attack Du Lin soon. He made a mistake.
Magers walked to his desk and picked up the phone, and asked the personnel on duty in the cabinet to send an administrative order to the security area, asking them to send people to send equipment to Otis City to rescue the workers who were killed. This in itself was also a good thing.
When Dulin returned to Odis City, it was already noon the next day. He arrived outside the mountain without even taking a break. At this time, soldiers from the security area had already begun to clean up the ruins with the help of construction machinery. The fragmented bodies were put into black bags and placed outside the mountain. Seen from a distance, there are a large number of dense black spots in the white snow. It makes people feel a bit cold suddenly, and it is also really shocking.
Several managers from United Construction Engineering came over immediately when they saw Du Lin coming. These people also had heavy faces. With so many people dead, as the construction unit, they must be responsible for compensation. If according to the current compensation method of the Yaoxing Empire, the amount of compensation for death, severe disability, complete loss of labor and the need for care would be about 8,000 yuan per person.
They had already obtained the sign-in slips for getting paid every night the night before the accident. There were 1,317 people in total. If nothing else happened, all of these people would have died. Even if they didn't die immediately, in such a continuous low temperature state, it would be enough to freeze them all to death! This is a compensation of more than 10 million, which is enough to cause United Construction Engineering to suffer a huge setback! They need to discuss it and remedy it as much as possible.
The board of directors has already sent word that if they cannot reduce a single loss to less than 6 million, they can find a place to jump off a building.
Du Lin did not look at them, but looked seriously at the excavation and rescue site. He asked softly: "Why did this happen? I told you more than once before starting the construction that we must ensure the safety of the construction process. "
The person in charge here smiled coquettishly. He looked at the pale engineer next to him. The engineer opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. His mind was still blank. Finally, it was the person in charge here who spoke. reason.
When designing this temporary frame tunnel structure, the engineer had designed the load-bearing coefficient according to the maximum threshold, but he ignored one thing, and that was snow. Perhaps he is not familiar with the weather environment here in the empire, or perhaps he feels that even if it snows, it will not become a "snow disaster". After all, the Federation, which is located in the subtropics and tropics, rarely sees blizzard disasters.
He did not include the weight of the snowflakes that could not be felt in the palm of his hand into the load-bearing coefficient. When the blizzard came, the blizzard became the key factor in crushing the tunnel. He had already contacted the engineering department as quickly as possible when he discovered this problem, but it was too late. With a huge roar, it was too late. He immediately hired a speedboat and crossed the strait directly to the empire, appearing here about an hour earlier than Dulin.
Until now, his mind was still groggy. He didn't know how to face the accident and the losses caused by the accident. He couldn't afford to pay for it. Prison might be waiting for him.
Du Lin sighed and glanced sideways at the person in charge of United Construction Engineering in the Empire. "You must come up with a solution to this matter as soon as possible. I will give you a little more than a day. I will hold a press conference the day after tomorrow. We will deal with this matter. If you can't come up with a suitable solution by then, I'm afraid your trip to the empire will end here!" Du Lin nodded, turned around and left quickly. He didn't like the atmosphere here! , the mountains of corpses seemed to make him feel a little scared!
Many people appeared on the streets of Odis, which had been deserted like Ilian. These people seemed to have only two faces, one was a frowning face with sadness and sadness in its eyes, and the other was a kind of expression from the heart. of excitement. There is no doubt that the former are the family members of the deceased, and the latter are reporters from all over the empire and people waiting to see the excitement. Because the employment principle is based on nearby recruitment, it does not take long for the families of the deceased to arrive here. They set up tents in vacant areas on the streets, or set up simple small spaces in corner alleys.
The first thing Dulin did when he returned to the city hall was to ask Dove to arrange a place for the families of the victims to temporarily live together. At the same time, he asked Haidt to manage the reporters who were everywhere with cameras and spotlights. They could be used when necessary. some means.
Not long after he sat down, Harry's call came.
"By God, your phone is really, really hard to call. Do you know how many times I have called you from yesterday to now? Do I want to thank God for sending me such a phone call in the first week of the new year?" "A big gift?" Harry's complaint penetrated the receiver, and Dulin could hear that he was now very manic. "Tell me how many people have died. There must be an exact number. I have been driven crazy by those reporters." !”
Du Lin sighed softly, "More than a thousand people died, but you can reduce this number a little. I believe no one will count this number!"
"Is this good news?" Harry sneered, "How are you going to deal with this matter? I'm very annoyed now, you know? This may be the biggest stain on my governance of Cosenna State!"
Du Lin didn't have any good ideas, "What else can we do besides compensation? Ask your God to resurrect them all? I believe he can't do it, so you have to calm down and think about how to minimize the impact. I will cooperate with your actions."
(End of chapter)