"It's me, Henry." Henry stood by the window of the study. He had just come back from outside. To be honest, he liked the West. There is no one he hates here, such as his brother, and there is no wife who makes him feel depressed. He did not have a good relationship with his brother, and probably all children who were born into wealthy families would not have a good relationship with their brothers and sisters.
In aristocratic families, everyone competes for a position.
In a big capitalist family like the steel tycoon, all the children are frantically competing for equity, and they will not let go even if it is one ten thousandth or one hundred thousandth of the equity.
Not to mention that in the steel tycoon's family, there are two children who are excellent in all aspects. They have been secretly comparing each other to determine who is the most suitable successor to the family. So Henry doesn't like his brother who has to act as if he is superior to him in every aspect, even in terms of grade and size.
But in the West, there was no one to compete with him.
Not only is his annoying brother gone, but his boring-looking wife is also gone. He loves his wife very much, and has determined more than once that that woman is the woman he most hopes to accompany him throughout his life, but these things do not prevent him from feeling that his wife is boring. It's like an old-school Christian who uses the priestly posture and refuses to change even to continue the family line. Perhaps it was Mr. John's biggest mistake to let her go to a girls' school founded by the church, but this did not prevent him from being sure that he loved her.
Of course, love will turn into water after being sweet, from addictive sweetness to something necessary for human life. He will occasionally adjust his needs and drink something sweet. In the West, these things are not only sweet, but as strong as liquor!
Under the name of a steel tycoon, Henry ran the most important part of the family business in the west - acquiring metal ores and turning these metal ores into metal ingots. This is the basis of all the steel tycoon's industries. Without these metal ingots, the brother who claims that he is running the most important part of the family business - sales, will have nothing to sell. Having nothing to sell means that he cannot make a profit. Even if he can continue to encroach on the markets that belong to others, he must have enough goods.
Both brothers believe that they are the most important link in the family business. Their reasons are very similar, whether it is products or sales, and their analysis is very reasonable.
The west is the largest mining area in the empire, but it is not easy to gain a foothold here. The mining areas owned by the United Steel Group did not provide enough iron ore, so if Henry wanted his products to keep up with his brother's sales, he had to buy raw ore from other mining areas, and there was a problem. The shipment rates of metal ores by both Jindis and Orveli are constantly fluctuating. These large industry category monopolies do not operate their businesses based on sales volume.
What they operate is pricing power, rules, and monopoly, so they will not ship endlessly. They will not sell it to you if you have money and want to buy it. This involves many things that have nothing to do with the West, such as Politics, for example, are “commodities” that transcend the simple relationship between money and goods.
This made Henry very angry. Coupled with the West Mine Association's resistance to big capitalists, it was many times more difficult to get a mining area than for an ordinary person. West Mine will fight with him, Jindis will fight with him, and Orveli will fight with him. Coupled with the fact that there were also some mining groups, Henry's life in the west was not as happy as people imagined.
He has been trapped here for many years and has never found a breakthrough, but now he has found it, and that breakthrough is Du Lin.
He and Du Lin met in private, more than once. The two quickly found what they needed from each other, which was a way to open up the situation in the West as soon as possible. They all belong to the small group of people who have been excluded, and they all need to expand their careers to prove their worth. As for Dulin, who raised the ax that struck the famous George family and struck the first axe, it will not become An obstacle to cooperation between him and Dulin.
The George family is the George family, and the Ander family is the Ander family. They may be related to each other by marriage, but they must not be confused with each other.
Dulin had just called him and needed some help from him. In order to prove that he was qualified to compete with Dulin and carve up the fat meat of the West, Henry made a phone call to his father. This was after the New Year. His first call was to Mr. Ender.
As the largest equity owner of United Steel Group, Mr. Ander's social status and influence are far beyond ordinary people. Even when Henry calls him, he has to go through the butler to get through.
"Henry? I heard that the west is very interesting recently. Do you want to come back?" Mr. Ander's voice was very rich. He is now learning to sing opera. Elegant people always have some elegant hobbies. It’s too late to learn things like playing the piano, but it’s not too late to learn singing.
Henry kept his mouth shut, lowered the curtains, returned to the chair and sat down, "I heard that you have a good relationship with the people in the Ministry of Defense. The West has now entered a state of military control, which has caused a lot of damage to all businesses. Big shock. Our workers are unwilling to go home, and those who have returned home are unwilling to come to work. They are afraid that they will be brutally treated or even killed. Not long ago, the Brewer Bay mining area was attacked by the Freedom Front, and now it is almost impossible. All mining areas have stopped foreign trade. If the people of the Freedom Front are not wiped out for a day, they may not sell the ore to us for a day. "
Mr. Ender on the other end of the phone finally became serious. Just as Henry said, he knew people from the Ministry of Defense. In addition to having good connections in the Ministry of Defense, he also had some friendship with Mr. Maggs. As the steel group with the largest shipment volume in the empire, it has a huge consumer group in both the civilian and military fields. In particular, the rapid economic recovery and infrastructure construction in various places have created a huge steel consumption market. In addition, the army's armaments are continuing to be upgraded this year, and the military-industrial complex also has a large number of orders.
So he has contacts with all levels of the country, he needs to sell goods, and those people need to buy goods.
If, just if, if some orders cannot be fulfilled because there is no steel, the blow to United Steel would be unprecedented. The cabinet will be disappointed with him, the military will be disappointed with him, and local governments and small companies will also be disappointed with him. This is something Mr. Ander will not allow. His expression was very serious, and he changed his sitting posture, "What do you want me to do for you?"
Henry breathed a sigh of relief. He crossed his legs and put a piece of paradise into his mouth and lit it. His whole body was in a highly relaxed state. "I hope you can express your views to the Ministry of Defense, for example. "Concentrate our efforts to destroy the armed extremist terrorist organization of the Freedom Front first, so that I can at least get what we need from the mines."
"Is the situation really that serious?" Mr. Ander still couldn't believe it. He had never heard that mining operators dared not sell their minerals, and only mineral buyers did not dare to enter the mining area.
In fact, the truth is much more serious than imagined. The details of the Freedom Front's killing of Brewer's Bay have been revealed inexplicably. Only then did people discover that those people had bought it more than a month ago through kidnapping and threats. A trading company trading with Brewer's Bay. Then they spent such a long time to figure out the defense measures and the number of mine protection teams in Brewer Bay. The slaves here provided some of the most valuable information.
Then, by working together internally and externally, Brewer's Bay, a mining area that had never been challenged before, was completely destroyed the first time it encountered a challenge.
This makes many mining areas fearful. Who knows if the other party that provides them with supplies or has frequent trade contacts with them is a member of the Freedom Front? Will they have arranged the same means in their own mining areas, waiting for them? The moment the door opens.
So now all the mining areas have tightened their nerves. Even for supplies, they have asked the trading houses to leave the supplies outside the mining areas. After the people from the trading houses evacuate, they will organize mine protection teams and formal local employees to open small gatekeepers. Supplies were brought in.
As for wanting to enter the mining area to unload
Sorry, that's not possible!
As for the businessmen who come to buy ore, such as the United Steel Group, logically they should be allowed in. After all, the United Steel Group is not a small trading company. But who can guarantee that the person who comes to buy the ore must be from the United Steel Group and not a fake from the Freedom Front
Opening a small door to send the ore out is a good way, but it also carries great risks. If you let the slaves deliver it, the slaves will definitely run away, but if you let the employees and the mine protection team deliver it, what if the slaves in the camp suddenly start a riot and the outside starts to attack? You must know that the slaves in the Brewer Bay Mine rushed out of the mine with pistols and single-shot rifles. They did not have enough firepower to suppress them. Once something similar happened in their camp, the mine protection team would not suppress it at all. The slaves could not resist the rebellion and riots.
So, just don’t sell it!
When Mr. Ander learned that the situation in the west was so serious, he immediately dialed the number of the Imperial Minister of Defense after hanging up Henry's phone, and then expressed his views and concerns about the situation in the west, and mentioned The Dangers of the Freedom Front to the Empire. After the Minister of Defense learned about this incident, and after a cabinet conference call, he finally decided to change his strategy slightly, stabilizing the situation outside the western cities first, and then cleaning up the chaotic forces.
In the middle of the night, some cities not involved in the assassination began to withdraw troops. Only three state capitals and four important hub cities retained military control. The other troops dispersed to the wilderness in the west.
(End of chapter)