Chapter 63: Accidents
While Star Investment's various businesses in the island country are in full swing, a major event has occurred in the United States that shocked the world.
On the evening of November 6, the Harris consortium prepared a huge party in its castle to celebrate the gold mining production of its name exceeded one million tons.
When the guests were singing and laughing, having a good time, and in the middle of their drinking, a large "Gulfstream" luxury business plane filled with fuel crashed into the ancient castle impartially, and the ancient castle was wiped out in the second explosion of fuel, and only a ruin was left at the scene, and all kinds of burning smells could be smelled from five miles apart.
According to the results of the investigation by the relevant departments after the incident, the "Gulfstream" was loaded with fuel at that time, and the accident was a pilot error, and the plane lost control and crashed into the castle.
As for why it is fully fueled, none of the newspapers has given a detailed explanation.
The plane that crashed did not belong to any company or individual in the United States. According to the Grumman Aircraft Company, the plane was handed over yesterday morning to a certain oil tycoon in the Middle East, Sharif.
Sharif said: "After he took the crew to pick up the plane yesterday, Bailou arranged a business meeting this morning. Entrust the aircraft to the nearest military airfield for safekeeping. After speaking, he also took out the escrow agreement to show the reporter to prove the authenticity of his words.
The airport also said: "The agreement provided by Sharif is real and valid. But yesterday evening the airport received an urgent directive, and Sharif was not contacted at that time.
Due to the urgent need to provide fuel to the front line, we directly requisitioned his plane and drove away, and this matter will be further clarified by the senior officials of the White House at today's news conference. ”
The report reads: "Earlier in the day, the United States announced that it had officially entered a state of war, mainly in response to Operation Desert Storm.
In a state of imminent war, the state may lawfully expropriate and requisition the materials, facilities, and equipment of organizations and individuals, such as means of transportation, civil air defense projects, houses, fuel, and communications facilities and equipment, and the expropriation and requisition shall be carried out in accordance with the relevant laws and shall have nothing to do with the ownership of such materials and equipment.
What everyone didn't expect was that the accident happened so suddenly, directly causing the loss of life of 90% of the members of the Harris Consortium - all the people who attended the party.
At least 200 people were killed in the accident, and the exact list of people will be announced at a later date, so stay tuned for further coverage. ”
Because it was a large-scale banquet, except for a very small number of adults who were unable to attend the business trip, the rest of the personnel were not spared, even the professional managers who manage minerals and assets and industries. There were also many foreign miners who were killed this time, and some politicians close to the Harris consortium in the United States.
In the past few days, major mainstream newspapers and magazines in Europe have reported this matter, and Lu Zheng also got the news from the newspaper, when he saw this news, his whole person was in a state of excitement, which is great, I have said before that the wicked have their own harvest, haha!
From now on, I don't need to hold on to it anymore, but the next battle for the ownership of the minerals controlled by the Harris consortium will inevitably set off another bloody storm, but all this has nothing to do with Lu Zheng, Lu Zheng's own body is still very thin, and he will not participate in the war for the ownership of minerals for the time being.
The accident left the minerals controlled by the Harris consortium leaderless, and the main factor of the United States' state of war directly led to a sharp rise in the international gold price, an increase of more than 20%, but quickly fell back to 60% of the original price three days later.
On the day of the increase, the Harris family controlled more than 100% of the usual gold mining, much to the annoyance of other miners: When the price is good, you mine more, and when the price is bad, you stop production?
They joined forces, regardless of the cost, to pull down the international gold price by 40%, and took the opportunity to carve up all the minerals controlled by the Harris consortium.
This time, it was mainly led by the Rockefeller consortium, and they divided 60% of the gold, silver, and copper mines of the Harris consortium, and the rest was divided into 30% by the Andrew consortium, and the rest of the consortium together divided the remaining 10%, and Stillman directly said that he would not be involved in this matter.
These are all higher-level things, and Lu Zheng's current social status is not within reach for the time being.
After reading the newspaper, the corners of Lu Zheng's mouth rose and said to Bai Li: "Go and pour me a cup of black tea, I need to make an appointment with an old friend." After that, he picked up the phone on the table and called Peter: "Old friend, how are you doing? Can we sit down and talk?"
The gloom in Peter's heart disappeared, and he said happily: "Lu, I have this intention, tomorrow to play a game on my golf course?"
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Lu Zheng only brought bodyguards today, and Bai Li was left in the Green House by him to deal with daily affairs.
At Alawi Stadium, I met Peter, as well as Buffy Iron and Morris and Whitehead. Peter mysteriously introduced to Lu Zheng: "Morris and Whitehead are from the Rockefeller and Andrew families respectively. In the last incident, two members of their consortium were also killed, but overall they were the big winners. ”
Buffy Tie greeted Lu Zheng like an old friend: "Lu, let's have a fight today?" Because he made almost $60 billion in the last transaction, he is now quite friendly to Lu Zheng.
Morris looked to be twenty-five or sixteen years old, looking harmless to humans and animals, about 178cm tall, with a chubby body, a bulging head, and only a slit left in his eyes when he laughed.
He walked over flexibly and shook hands with Lu Zheng: "Lu, I'm Morris." It's a pleasure to meet you, I've heard Buffy Tie talk about you, it's great. You're really a little better looking than me, but it's a pity I'm a straight man, haha!"
After speaking, he took Lu Zheng's hand and pointed at Whitehead: "Don't look at that guy who looks like everyone owes him money in the world, his name is Whitehead, and we just call him 'White'." In fact, this kid was beaten up at home last night, and sneaked out of the house today. ”
As his name suggests, Whitehead is dark-skinned, but blonde and blue-eyed, about twenty-four or five years old, about 188cm tall, slightly taller than Lu Zheng, Lu Zheng broke free of Morris's fat hand, walked towards him and said politely: "White, I'm Lu Zheng, it's a pleasure to meet you!"
White laughed: "We all call Morris in private what it means to see people, and people love people." He also loves to hold the hand of handsome guys!"
After speaking, he straightened his chest muscles at Morris, looking provocative, which made Peter next to him laugh. Seeing a few of them like this, Buffy Tie sighed in his heart: It's good to be young!
Peter put away his smile and beckoned, "Let's go, change your clothes." We'll see you on the pitch!"