Marvel's The Dark Knight Rises

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Because he attracted the attention of the U.S. military to the Hydra organization in New York, Bruce did not go out to "hunt" in recent nights. After all, he had attracted the attention of the U.S. government a few years ago and avoided The agents hiding in New York specifically looking for him were troublesome enough, and he didn't want to run into the U.S. military, which was even more unreasonable.

After resting well for two nights, Bruce followed Alfred to prepare for the establishment of the company. However, Alfred was in charge of the business in front of the stage. Bruce only worked with more than ten employees on the day of the establishment of the company. He showed his face in front of him, showed his identity, and then retreated behind the scenes.

Compared with the company's affairs, Bruce is more interested in the intelligence system that Alfred established and named "Dark Eyes". It is said that this name is also used by the current "top leader" of the intelligence system. Old man Gibson felt disgusted for several days.

The current three main managers of the intelligence system are Gibson, Mike and Joshua who were hired by Alfred.

Gibson is in charge of the overall situation. With his glorious resume and rich experience, he is very comfortable handling the affairs of the still very weak "Black Eye" Intelligence Agency. Mike still opens his Rose Bar, but he listens to Alfred's orders. He ordered the Rose Bar to be turned into a transfer station for "Black Eye" to collect intelligence information. The scope of information collection was no longer limited to the "rats" on the streets, but began to expand to the gangster groups in several nearby blocks.

Joshua, on the other hand, returned to the slums, while recruiting more street teenagers similar to them, while increasing the collection of street information in various neighborhoods of Brooklyn, and preparing to infiltrate into several other New York neighborhoods such as Queens.

Bruce took the time to meet the three of them as "Batman". Gibson behaved quite calmly. Mike was excited but also a little scared. As for Joshua, he was completely excited. In his words, the streets of New York There are no children who don’t admire and respect Bruce. They all regard Bruce as their hero. These words made Bruce feel happy but at the same time he felt a little guilty, just because he felt that what he had done was not good enough, at least. For these poor children, he didn't help them much.

Naturally, there was another encouragement and reward, and at the same time, verbal beatings were inevitable. After all, Alfred was right. His current image in the eyes of New Yorkers was that of being unsmiling, serious, cold, decisive, and jealous of evil. If he behaves with his subordinates, If you are too close, it is easy for them to lose their fear in their hearts. Maintaining this fear allows them to feel honor and work more actively. After all, they are now considered "the "people" of this city. One of the protectors.

"The company should try to contact some teachers and ask Joshua to divide his teenagers into several groups and take turns to learn something. These children are all of a good age to study. If their families were not poor, they would not be young. I’m old enough to walk the streets of New York.”

One afternoon after a busy day, Bruce seldom pulled Alfred, who had not been seen for several days, and said so.

Alfred thought about it for a while, but finally said with some helplessness: "The company has just got on the right track recently. The next step is to buy land and build our own refinery and ore processing plant. This is the time to use money," Black Eyes 'The Intelligence Bureau is also preparing to start recruiting people. The first batch of special funds will be allocated soon. The remaining millions of dollars we have have been earmarked for use. We don't have any extra money for other things at the moment. Master, but if we give it more In half a month, my financial situation will be much better."

Bruce looked at Alfred with some puzzlement and said, "Why wait for half a month."

Alfred raised the telegram in his hand, and finally smiled on his face that rarely showed tiredness due to working hard in the past few days, "There is a telegram from Texas. Oil has finally been produced in the place we bought, and it is in Mexico." Along the coast of the Bay, in addition, the big oil field in Freeport you mentioned, sir, has also been revealed."

The heart that Bruce has been worrying about for the past few days was completely let go at this moment, "Has the total reserves been estimated? I only remember that area is an oil-rich belt, and there is Freeport! Find that place there. Is the oil field coming?"

Alfred looked at Bruce's eager look and shook his head in amusement, "How could it be so fast! They just sent me a telegram this afternoon saying that oil had been found. No matter how highly professional the experts were, they couldn't do it for a few hours. Can you estimate the total reserves in an oil-producing zone? As for Freeport, the telegram only said that oil was drilled, and I don’t know what the situation is there now.”

Bruce probably also knew that he was impatient, calmed down a little, looked at Alfred as if he was in a hurry to leave, and asked, "So you are going to Texas now?"

Alfred shrugged, "I have arranged the company's schedule. The newly recruited manager will urge the employees to complete the business. With Gibson on the 'Black Eyes' side, I feel more at ease. Now the most critical Texas side has finally come out with results." , I will definitely go over and supervise, this will be our company’s main industry in the next year.”

Bruce touched his chin, then picked up a coat and said to Alfred, "Then I'll go with you."

"You didn't wait for Steve to come back?"

Bruce smiled and shook his head, "He called yesterday and said that he was busy with something in the army recently and would come back to Brooklyn to visit us in a while. In the past few days, he was probably preparing to help the U.S. military. Sell ​​'patriotic bonds' ~ Of course, I won't expose him."

With that said, Bruce pulled Alfred out of the apartment.

"Master, the direction to the train station doesn't seem to be this way?"

Alfred looked at the direction Bruce was driving and kindly reminded him.

"I know."

Bruce looked at the road conditions on the street and said without looking back, "Let's go directly to the Flying Club in the southern suburbs of New York, rent a plane, and fly directly to Texas!"

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"Sorry, sir, our company cannot accept the selling price you gave. To show our sincerity, we are willing to add an additional US$3000 million to the US$200 million."

At the negotiation table, Bruce frowned and remained silent as he looked at the representative of the Rockefeller Group who looked determined to win.

It has been three days since he and Alfred came to Texas. The news of the discovery of an oil belt with reserves of at least 10 billion barrels on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas has also landed in New York, sparking another wave of oil fever in New York. , At the same time, it also attracted the attention of several oil groups in New York.

But what Bruce didn't expect was that he and Alfred probably had investigated in advance and thought that he and Alfred were ordinary people with no background, so the people from the oil consortium who came to negotiate with them about the transfer of land in these rich oil belts showed that they were determined to accept them. Attitude.

After all, there are several large consortiums that currently have a monopoly on American oil. If these rich oil belts are not sold to them, Bruce will not be able to develop new oil companies on his own and successfully sell the oil he has mined in the United States. He will be suppressed. It is inevitable.

The Rockefeller Foundation probably sent experts to estimate the oil reserves in this oil-rich belt. They knew that 10 billion barrels of oil reserves was far from the limit of this oil-rich belt, so they were willing to offer a "high price" of US$3000 million. However, they all I forgot one thing, the whole world is at war now, international oil prices are skyrocketing, and we are not worried about sales at all. As long as we have a new large oil field in our hands, we can make money as fast as we can print money with a money printing machine. almost.

Bruce shook his head silently, indicating that the price was far below his psychological expectations. After negotiating for more than a day, he met several representatives of the consortium, and the quotations he got were all between 2000 million and 3000 million US dollars. Bruce felt that Feeling a bit depressed while tired.

Sure enough, without a background and a powerful group to rely on, it is impossible to develop in the United States without being exploited by the inherent financial group.

"$6000 million, this is my bottom line. I know that your consortium and several other consortiums have now sent experts to estimate the value and true oil reserves of our oil fields. It doesn't matter, we can afford to wait. I hope you can do it for me too." Tell Mr. Rockefeller what I mean, 6000 million, not a penny less. If it doesn’t reach this amount, I would rather watch the oil run away on my land than sell it to you.”

Bruce politely smiled at the person on the other side of the table with a bad face, and walked out of the conference room first, and Alfred also came out of another conference room almost at the same time.

When the two met, they looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Can't go back."

"No compromise."

Bruce looked at Alfred and knew that he meant the same thing as him, "Giving in now will only make those evil wolves press harder. It will be difficult for us to develop our own energy group in New York in the future."

"Although a tougher attitude will make the negotiations more difficult, it will be conducive to the development of our future plans, and by the way, let those old oil consortiums know our basic bottom line and attitude."

"Anyway, I'm still busy."

Bruce added with some helplessness, but then parted ways with Alfred and walked into the conference room.

There are many people waiting to cut off a piece of tender meat from their "fat sheep". The hard negotiation has just entered its most intense stage.

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