As soon as he got to work in the morning, Memnon called and made an appointment with an executive member of the West Mining Association.
The highest level of the organizational structure of the Western Mining Association is the "Executive Committee of the Western Mining Development Committee", which consists of seven executive members. These executive members are elected by the second-level structure of the Western Mining Association, the "Western Mining Association Committee". Next That is, members and associate members. Strictly speaking, there are only three levels. The boundaries between members and associate members have long become very blurred.
The seven executive members of the Executive Committee are responsible for the daily work arrangements and operations of the West Mining Association. They formulate relevant plan goals and then hand them over to the West Mining Association committee to implement them. The West Mining Association, which seems to have a complete structure and sound regulations, actually has many problems. The serious problem is that the executive members have too much power. When the Western Mining Association was first established, they adopted some institutions and charters from the Federation. However, these things may be useful and effective in the Federation, but they may not be useful and effective in the Empire.
The simplest thing is that according to the charter, the West Mining Association will hold a general election every four years, but in fact the executive members have not been changed at all in the past thirteen years because they have too much power and resources in their hands. The simplest point is that almost all important resource connections such as enterprises and mine owners that have been successfully matched by the West Mining Association for trade are in the hands of the executive committee members. This does not mean that these people will not be able to continue trading if the executive committee members are replaced, but it will definitely be affected.
Coupled with the fact that the executive members and the committee formed a team, everyone gradually acquiesced to this fact and was no longer willing to change the current situation easily. This allowed the West Mine to regard the west as its own small kingdom.
The executive member Memnon met was named Matthew. He was forty-seven years old and owned five mining areas, and none of them were ordinary metal mines. He had a copper mine, a bauxite mine, two silver mines and a gold mine. It is said that the gold mine and a silver mine in his hands were not discovered by his own exploration team, but were acquired through auction. At least two cases of bloodbath in the mining areas may involve this big shot.
Matthew ranks fourth in power among the executive members of the Western Mining Association. In fact, there are constant struggles within the seemingly united Western Mining Association. After all, no matter how many mines there are in the West, they have to be discovered by people. The existing various types of mineral deposits are not enough to supply the needs of the entire empire. Every year, major enterprises in the empire also import a large amount of ore from other countries. Therefore, "mineral resources" are equal to money and power. The more resources someone can allocate, the straighter their speech will be.
Originally, Memnon planned to meet with two or three executive members, but unfortunately, the people he wanted to meet refused to come with some excuses that were immediately obvious to him. In the end, only one Matthew came.
Matthew was wearing a dark brown vest, a gray formal suit, and a black hat. The lines on his face are very stiff, and even when he smiles, people will feel suspicious. Does this guy want to smile from the bottom of his heart, or is he forced to smile just to avoid something.
"Mr. Memnon, good morning!" Matthew took the initiative to take off his gloves and put them on the table. He stretched out his hand to shake Memnon's hand, and then sat in Memnon's exchange room. "I don't know if you need anything from me or the West Mining Association." made?"
Memnon smiled happily, as if the West Mining Club had never had a hard ceiling that prevented him from getting off the stage. He also asked his secretary to make coffee for Matthew, "Yesterday I visited Mr. Dulin when I was in the hospital. Mr. Lin expressed his extremely strong indignation to me. He believed that his assassin was most likely from the West Mining Association. He also told me that he planned to sue to get back the money he had defrauded of you, one thousand and one thousand. More than a million!”
"I don't know who is right or wrong in this matter, and I don't care too much about what this matter will turn out to be in the end, but I must say the unpleasant things first. If anything happens between the West Mining Association and Mr. Dulin, It's a very unfriendly friction, so I will arrest whoever makes the loudest voice." After finishing his tough words, Memnon's tone softened a lot, "Dulin proposed two solutions. One is to publish it nationwide. Apologize and pay the losses suffered by Mr. Dulin, and this matter is over." (There is no typo, the apology was published in a national publication, so it is a press release, not an announcement)
Matthew snorted softly, "Then what's another way?"
"There is another way, which is to let the court decide how to resolve this dispute through litigation. But I think this is not the best way. Dulin has never lost in a lawsuit. When the time comes, you will not only lose your dignity, but also your reputation." All my underwear will be lost.”
Matthew couldn't help but interjected: "Please forgive me for being rude. I also sympathize with what happened to Mr. Dulin, but these things have nothing to do with the West Mine Association. They are between him and the mine owners." The transaction has nothing to do with us. We didn’t sell the mine to him. We are just responsible for making connections and providing a place for signing, as before, that’s all!”
"Furthermore, I need to state that this matter was not originally approved by the executive committee. It was an independent act of a few people and had nothing to do with the West Mining Association. Moreover, they are also dead."
"I have reason to suspect that their deaths are related to Mr. Dulin!"
Memnon did not show any sullenness after being offended. He said with a smile: "But Mr. Dulin also thinks that their deaths are related to the murders and silencing of the West Mine Society!" Seeing what Matthew wanted to say, Memnon hesitated. Waving his hand, "Okay, okay, I'm just responsible for spreading the word. After all, this happened in my city, and I need to notify you and the West Mining Association. As for how to do it, it's your business, but there is one thing. Allowing armed conflict to occur is the bottom line!”
After all, Memnon has been in the political arena for several years, so it's impossible for him to know everything. Dulin's words to tease him were to get him to deal with the West Mining Association, and then manipulate it. Memnon has seen through Dulin, that he is a despicable and shameless villain who always secretly seeks benefits for himself after involving many forces in the competition. But this time, he will be disappointed, because Memnon does not intend to do what Dulin wants.
He wanted to be the one who lit the fire, not the firewood that was burned, and stirred up the nerves of the West Mining Association to make them fight Du Lin. No matter who lost or won, it would only be good for Memnon and not bad.
If the West Mining Association loses, he will single out justice and fairness and step on it, so that the West Mining Association will never be able to stand up.
Du Lin lost. He used the "tyrannical and rude" image of the Western Mining Association to continue to suppress the Western Mining Association, shrink their sphere of influence, and then kick Du Lin out of the west.
He only needs to watch quietly, and occasionally fill up a handful of firewood and throw it into the fire. Why go down and fight with these people in person? That's what rude people do, he's a civilized person, he kept telling himself that.
Matthew was furious after leaving the city hall. He was indeed a little dissatisfied with several other executive members, thinking that they had obviously placed themselves in a lower position in the distribution of rights and interests. However, he also knows that internal struggles are far less threatening than attacks from the outside. Internal struggles can be turned into a positive and orderly competition. No matter how fierce everyone fights, there will be a limit. It is nothing more than the next distribution. Take one less bite when eating.
But there is no limit to the threats from the outside. They will kill the West Mining Association, break up the West Mining Association and throw them all into the trash can to become the garbage of the times.
When facing external threats like Dulin and Memnon, the West Mining Association will be very united.
Matthew went back to the West Mining Association in the morning and told the remaining four executive members what Memnon told him. Everyone had no particularly good way to deal with this situation because they were indeed in the wrong this time. At the same time, they also misanalyzed Du Lin's character. In their opinion, even if a person like Du Lin suffered a loss, he would grit his teeth and hold on. In addition, he had just been dismissed from his position due to an accident, and he was in a period of life. During his low period, he was the type that was easy to bully.
I just didn't expect him to shout out after suffering a loss, which caught people a little off guard.
Why do many group companies dare not speak out after suffering losses? Because they cannot afford the loss of their image, this intangible asset is as valuable as money to all capitalists, or even more valuable than money. A good stock broker will only tell his clients how much money he has made for how many people. He will certainly not take the initiative to say such stupid things as "I bankrupted my clients again." The same goes for big companies and big capitalists. They need to ensure that their image in front of people is perfect and full. Only in this way will people continue to believe that this is an excellent company with a group of excellent leaders.
Several people discussed it all morning but still couldn't come up with any result. The only result that could be called a result was to ask the mine owners to return the money to Du Lin. Apologizing was absolutely impossible. And all of this must be done in private and cannot be exposed.
Of course, they also analyzed Memnon's thoughts through analysis and curses, and they would not let Memnon's thoughts succeed.
At noon, Matthew and another executive member had a light meal in the restaurant of the West Mining Association. During this period, he cursed Memnon several times. After the meal, he had to go to the city hall to communicate with Memnon to see if he could We cannot follow their ideas and find a way that everyone can accept to end this matter as soon as possible.
However, Memnon did not intend to be the middleman and rejected Matthew's request, which made Matthew curse when he left the city hall.
At around nine o'clock that night, Memnon received a call.
Matthew is dead.
(End of chapter)