Such a big thing happened in the west, but the West Mining Club still held various cocktail parties on a regular basis as before.
In the eastern suburbs of Vanlier City, there is a huge "garden" with various buildings and a square meter of high-quality lawn. People who often pass by here can faintly see some well-dressed gentlemen sitting and chatting on the green grass in the distance, or these people take off their coats and ride horses to play polo in a small area. This is Headquarters of the West Mining Association. Those mine owners don't mind donating thousands or tens of thousands of funds to maintain everything here, and this place also represents their face.
At this time, on a slope, several mine owners were wearing shirts, waistcoats and exquisite peaked caps, waving clubs and hitting small balls far away. This is a new social sport from the Federation. Once it was introduced into the empire, it aroused strong praise. The gentlemen and ladies of the upper class liked this sport very much. It is said that the feminist movement organization also planned to hold a A competition dominated by women to promote feminism.
Like the people on the streets in the west, these people were also discussing the attack outside the city hall, but they all showed gloating expressions, and there was no trace of worry in their tone. Memnon's troubles are definitely good news for the Western Mining Association and the mine owners in the entire west. It is a happy thing.
After taking over the rule of several cities, he began to consider how to incorporate the mine protection team, how to eliminate private armed forces, and ensure that the government was the only force with formal armed forces in this land. This idea was immediately opposed by almost all mine owners. Without the mine protection team, their property safety and life safety could not be guaranteed. Those horse bandits would visit their mining areas as if they were their own homes and plunder them at any time. All wealth.
Even if Memnon puts forward an intermediate proposal, that is, the state government will establish a new department to protect the safety of major mining areas, the mine owners only need to pay a certain management fee. Moreover, the state government will adopt a "regional joint security" approach to ensure and improve the safety index of major mining areas. Once a mining area is attacked, nearby mining areas will immediately send some manpower to support the mining area that has been attacked.
This idea does not have much of a problem in nature, and can even be said to be more efficient than the current mine protection teams that mine owners do on their own. After adopting the regional joint security method, the number of security personnel in each mining area can be reduced on a large scale, as long as they can withstand attacks from the outside for a certain period of time. It can be said that once all mining areas in the west implement this plan, the expenses of the mine owners will be reduced and the safety factor will be improved.
Plans are plans because plans are always good, but they are not so acceptable to people. No one is willing to entrust their property safety and life safety to a party that has committed terrorist attacks, and the Kadima Party really has nothing that it can offer to convince everyone. But even if they have it, people still won't accept it. Weapons are always safest when they are held in their own hands and pointed at others.
So Memnon's plan failed, and the mine owners' lack of cooperation directly led to the failure of his other big plan. Some time ago, which generally refers to a few years ago when Memnon was still actively promoting this plan, his idea was to use such a special department or even set up an independent company to replace the group of private armed forces in the West Mining Association. The mine owner can also take advantage of this incident to make his private armed forces public and prevent others from finding any means of disclosing or attacking him.
As a minority party, he still has a deep sense of self-protection. Once the new party or the old party thinks that eradicating him and the Kadima Party is the best choice, he can at least pull out a group of armed forces to fight at any time and anywhere, and even It's a separatist regime.
After his plan failed, he began to think of ways to trouble these mine owners. For example, the minimum number of jobs required in the mining area was increased from fifteen jobs per square kilometer to fifty-five jobs per square kilometer, and he also formulated Some other policies make mine owners very annoyed. These policies will not make the mine owners feel pain, but they can make them feel disgusted, just like eating a bite of dog feces may not necessarily lead to death, but it will definitely be unacceptable.
This time Memnon encountered big trouble, and everyone was very happy. It was time for this bastard to feel what pain was.
With a "pa" sound, a gentleman who looked to be in his forties swung his club and knocked the swollen ball away. Several people looked at the falling white ball in the distance. He waved his arm hard and said, "A very beautiful shot. ..." As he spoke, he handed the club to the caddy next to him and asked the caddy to hold it for him. He also took the towel and wiped his face.
"I heard that Mr. Hendry, your No. 3 mine has nothing to dig out?" The person next to him suddenly said something, which made the gentleman's face change slightly.
However, he nodded sincerely and confirmed the matter, "There is a big gap between the exploration results at that time and the current reality. There is still more than one million yuan left to recover the cost, but I no longer plan to continue exploring the surrounding areas. Even if we can find new mineral deposits, we may not be able to dig them for long, and the losses may continue to increase.”
Mr. Hendry's words made several friends around him immediately interested. The biggest worry of those who mined in the west was not the horse bandits, but that they would no longer be able to push a mine cart filled with ore out of their mines. , which hurt them more seriously than anything else. No ore means no output, and various commissions will continue to be paid, which means the mine is finished.
Poor Mr. Roel caused a horrific mining disaster just because he couldn't dig anything out. Yes, "made"! Within the West Mining Association, people very definitely used the word "manufactured" in this matter. Everyone was well aware of the accident that occurred in Mr. Roel's mining area. It was a man-made disaster and the purpose was to defraud insurance companies. .
The term insurance fraud has also begun to become popular within the West Mining Association. Some small mine owners are even studying this matter. If one day they can't dig anything out of their mines, can they also try to make it? After a mining accident, he finally made a fortune and left the west with a huge amount of compensation to invest in some industries in the south. It is said that the light industry in the south is very popular now, and you can see massive returns without much investment.
In particular, some brand clothing companies produce mass-produced garments of mid-to-low-end brands with a certain degree of popularity. Their sales volume in society is unbelievable, but this will also bring about a series of problems. For example, the influence of this brand in the upper class has plummeted. After all, not everyone who is willing to spend hundreds or thousands of yuan to customize a suit of clothes is willing to wear the same brand as ordinary people on the roadside, which somewhat lowers their class.
But this doesn’t have much to do with those investors and brand owners. It is said that the money they make from common people and the middle class far exceeds the money they make from the upper class custom-making for the rich and powerful. many.
"Mr. Hendry, what do you plan to do with your No. 3 mine?" A guy next to Hendry asked with great concern. He seemed to have noticed Hendry's vigilant gaze, and he immediately explained: "No. Misunderstanding, my mine has also entered a countdown, and it will completely stop production in half a year to a year at most... "
All mineral veins except Yaojing will be mined one day, especially some small mineral veins, which may only be one mineral deposit. However, no one can guarantee that the results of their exploration will be correct during exploration. In addition, mining itself has a certain speculative nature. There will always be some people who bet their "future" on a big-ass mineral deposit. superior.
Mr. Hendry's eyes became gentler, and he looked around. The caddies very wisely left far away, leaving only these big shots. The big shots were also surrounding Hendry. His eyes stayed on the faces of these people for a moment, and then he lowered his voice and said softly: "I plan to sell Mine No. 3 to Dulin. Dulin, you guys know each other." This person?"
Du Lin, many people in the West Mining Association have never seen him, but almost everyone has heard of this name and thought that the committee members of the West Mining Association asked all members to prohibit transactions with Du Lin. The reason for this ban is simply that Dulin killed Andorra and seized his mining area as soon as he arrived in the west. He did not give any answer personally and did not take the people here at all. Secondly, after Dulin got the mine in Andorra, he didn't come to the West Mineral Association to report in person, nor did he mention joining the West Mineral Association. This simply showed that he didn't take the West Mineral Association seriously.
You must know that the Western Mining Association seems to be a loose organization similar to the mine owners' salon, but in fact this organization has a great say in the mineral resources of the West. There will be such an organization in any industry. They represent It benefits the majority of people and provides them with services, and then uses its influence to price goods in the industry. To put it simply, the West Mining Association is similar to an industry union and has the ability to monopolize the industry.
The West Mining Association will give "guiding" suggestions on how much ore is produced each year, to whom it is sold, and at what price it is traded.
Except for those large consortiums and big capitalists who produce and sell their own products, and the Western Mining Association is not as strong as them, so they let it go, most mine owners must join the Western Mining Association and conduct trade according to the rules of the Western Mining Association. This is a This is an unspoken rule that has been established in the West.
Du Lin broke these rules again and again. How could Xikuang continue to tolerate this person who slapped him in the face? If the Empire hadn't promulgated the "Anti-Industry Manipulation Act" and the newly promulgated "Anti-Monopoly Law" last year, the West Mining Association would have asked Du Lin to understand what it means to have something that cannot be sold!
(End of chapter)