blackstone code

Chapter 2474

There is such a story in the Federation, it is about His Majesty the Emperor——

In all the fables and fairy tales of the Federation, whenever "His Majesty the Emperor" appears, then this His Majesty the Emperor must refer to a certain Emperor of Gafla.

This is a kind of... the author's customary practice. Perhaps in their eyes, only the Gefra royal family is the group that can truly support the title of "royal family".

The content of the story is that in order to test the three princes, His Majesty the Emperor selected a reliable successor from among them, and then gave the three of them a mission.

They have to be invited by an ordinary family outside the palace to participate in the family banquet of this family. In the process of making friends with this family, they cannot reveal their status as members of the royal family.

Nor can he show a lot of wealth or show his power. If someone cheats, he will completely lose his status as the heir to the throne.

There is a time limit here, they only have half a year.

His Majesty the Emperor and a group of ministers felt that this was actually not a very difficult task. They just wanted to see how much the three princes knew about ordinary people and their lives.

After all, some of them will become the future emperor of this country, and if the emperor of a country doesn't know anything about his people.

Then it will be a disaster for both His Majesty the Emperor himself and the people!
However, the ending of this story is not interesting at all, because the three people did not complete the task.

After the eldest prince left the palace, he didn't know what to do.

He hasn't experienced any of this, and he doesn't even know how to greet ordinary people.

The second prince was a little better. He took the initiative to contact those ordinary people, but because of the huge difference in knowledge and environment between the two parties, he couldn't find anyone who could communicate with him normally.

The third prince had more ideas. He went to find a job. He believed that his status as colleagues and friends at work could help him quickly integrate into this ordinary society.

But because he didn't really work, the performance of his production team was very poor. People were complaining about him, and no one wanted to be friends with him.

On the one hand, this is a characteristic of federal literature, and many people engaged in cultural work crazily worship Gefra's aristocratic culture.

At the same time, they ruthlessly criticized the various stupid practices of the Gafla noble class, magnified their shortcomings, and wrote them like idiots.

This is a very contradictory psychology that wants to get closer, but strongly denies it.

On the other hand, this story actually reflects an actual situation. In addition to the strict social class, the huge gap in wealth and privileges between the upper class and the lower class, there is also a difference in perception of the world.

When an aristocrat heard that someone was frozen to death because he could not afford to wear a cotton coat, he was surprised to ask the people around him why the person who was frozen to death did not wear a leather coat, his doubts were not a problem from the perspective of the aristocrat.

Because there are cotton clothes and leather clothes in their world, and leather clothes are not difficult to obtain.

But from the point of view of ordinary people, the point of view of those who were frozen to death, this is a big joke, and people will laugh out loud after listening to it.

There was such a situation between the ex-husband at this time and Senator Langdon.

The ex-husband asked how much money would be needed to solve this problem. He meant that Senator Langdon would only let him go if he could get a lot of benefits from him.

On Senator Langdon's side, he thought his ex-husband's question was how much money it would cost to make the sewage issue pass.

For Senator Langdon, the guy in front of him is the professor's ex-husband, maybe Lynch also knows that he came to find him.

In terms of political factions, they are actually "family" relationships, only direct and branch.

So he never considered that the "number" that the other party talked about with him would be related to bribery!

Two people have different perceptions of the world and value, so there is a small misunderstanding between them, and this misunderstanding will magnify the problem of the three views.

Senator Langdon carefully calculated that the cost of various sewage treatment equipment is not cheap, but if he can buy it with his business card, the price will be reduced.

Just like sending money to agencies such as the Food and Drug Supervision Commission every day, after the passage of Senator Langdon's supplementary bill on environmental protection, some business groups dedicated to solving pollution problems will also send him money. Some benefits.

Some of the benefits were obvious, such as trading a small share of a foundation registered in the name of Langdon's family.

As environmental issues are paid more and more attention, the value of these shares is increasing, at least 200 to [-] million.

The purpose of giving away shares instead of money directly was to tie up Senator Langdon to death.

The more stringent environmental issues are regulated, the higher their stock price will be, and the more benefits Senator Langdon can get!
This is a kind of dynamic "bribery". The double quotation marks are used because this method is legal in the Federation.

"About 200 million."

Senator Langdon gave an approximate figure, "You have to prepare 240 million."

After listening to the ex-husband, his eyes changed while he nodded. He thought that spending 100 million yuan would be enough to settle the matter, but what he didn't expect was that Senator Langdon was so greedy!
240 million!
A little more would be enough for him to buy sewage equipment!
However, for businessmen and capitalists, as long as they can save expenses, even if it is only 10,000+, 50 million, that is excellent!

There was some embarrassment on his face, and the true nature of a capitalist began to show, "I may only be able to scrape together 150 million."

Senator Langdon frowned. He didn't like people who bargained, especially when this person was a low-ranking person.

However, for the sake of the professor, he did not show his displeasure. "Then solve some of the problems first. Stop the ones with particularly serious pollution first, and then solve them when you have money."

If the money is not enough, we can only pick up capable ones first, and the two factories with relatively light pollution can handle 150 million yuan.

The pollution is particularly serious, and the money is definitely enough, but it is better to solve the two pollutions that are not particularly serious first.

Senator Langdon also kindly reminded, "If I were you, I would choose to let the most polluting...factory be directly relocated to a farther area."

"The federation's attitude towards environmental protection will become more and more stringent in the future. Even if your current factory discharges pollutants up to the standard, as the standards continue to improve in the future, you will still face the same predicament you are encountering today."

"At that time, continuing to add new equipment to adapt to the new standards will still cost a lot, and the results will be the same. It will be difficult to solve this problem at once."

"And if you think about relocation later, the cost of relocation will become higher and higher, even exceeding the value of the factory itself!"

This is not because he was talking about the summer festival, but an objective fact.

These years have developed rapidly, especially in some economically developed areas, where the value of land and labor costs have gradually exceeded the value of the factory itself.

In the past, the biggest investment for capitalists to start a factory was the various production machines, but now, the production machines are no longer the biggest investment, but other things that were not noticed before.

What Senator Langdon said was from the perspective of his own people, and he is well aware of the changes in future development trends.

Moreover, "de-industrialization" within the city circle is also becoming a mainstream idea. The economy of the Federation is getting better and better, so people's requirements for the quality of life are getting higher and higher.

In the past, they could bear to live next to the cement factory, lying at home and eating ashes every day.

Now there are factories within one kilometer of the settlement, and there will be people making noise everywhere.

Some of Senator Langdon's heartfelt remarks were a threat to his ex-husband.

Suffering continuously from his ex-wife and being threatened by Senator Langdon, his mood is naturally not very good!
However, considering that at this stage he still has something to ask Senator Langdon, he did not raise any objections.

He just said that he would try his best to raise money.

As for how much he can make up, he actually doesn't know himself.

Not everyone is able to take out a large amount of cash and spend it at will like Lynch.

Among the group of capitalists engaged in international trade, it is actually a very normal phenomenon to have funds squeezed.

He can take out more than 100 million, but 200 million is very reluctant.

Maybe borrow it?
Or... some other way to get around this?

The ex-husband is very clear that if he cannot solve this problem by himself, whether it is relocation or purchasing emission equipment, he may face bankruptcy.

If you don't move, the factory will stop production, and the orders that are already in production will definitely not be delivered on time, and the next step will be breach of contract and claims.

The International Development Council has a special economic court for contract breaches, and the federals themselves are the judges, but they don't have much tolerance for the federals.

It is easier to buy sewage equipment, but the cost is high, including installation fees, commissioning fees, and a lot of time spent.

And relocation?

The problem is still the same, he can't afford to waste time, so now the only one who can get him out of the current predicament is Senator Langdon.

Seeing that the ex-husband did not refute or raise any objections, the two got along happily afterwards.

After chatting for a while, Senator Langdon left on his own initiative.

He and his ex-husband have nothing to talk about except these things at work.

After returning home, he thought about it and thought he should talk to Lynch.

After all, this incident involved the professor, and Catherine was behind her!

　something delayed

　
(End of this chapter)