Chapter 27: Prepare to Throw Money at It
When the news of the city's plans being sniped by many parties arrived, Donald was on the largest farm outside of Reynas.
He had taken off the mask on his face, and he had changed into a black silk courtesy to hide the black lines on his forehead, and since he knew that Sewit was hiding the black lines on his head because of inferiority and disgust and not some necessity, Donald took his own initiative to take off his hat at a recent government meeting.
I also thought of a reason for this, saying that the change of Renas would start with him, the mayor!
In fact, Sewitt's personal image is actually very good, aside from the ridiculous things he did before, his first impression will definitely not be a black-hearted aristocrat or an exploiting capitalist, but more like a noble young master who doesn't understand anything, the best proof is the peasants in front of him who have a good conversation with him.
There's no reason why you shouldn't take advantage of such an image, so today's trip is actually a political show.
On the one hand, Donald was indeed more concerned about the agricultural situation of Rainers, after all, the premise of the smooth development of the industrial revolution was that there was sufficient security in agriculture, and the enclosure movement carried out by Rainers, which was supposed to provide a large number of people with the best of both worlds to provide a large number of labor for capital production, caused a large number of people to lose their land and jobs, and Donald was ready to improve the situation.
On the other hand, Donald has been thinking about changing the image of the mayor of Sewit Tarros in the hearts of the citizens of Renas.
He wasn't going to be a hands-off boss like Selvette Talos before him, and in order to be able to control Renus completely, he had to let everyone here know about his existence.
In this case, his image must not be too bad among the people, and with the recent reforms in various aspects, it is the right time to show his presence.
This is the advantage of the superior, even if you have done a lot of bad things in the dark before, as long as you are not found out or find a scapegoat, and then do some good things to publicize, you can easily change your image in the outside world.
"In the near future, the government will issue a series of agricultural reform decrees, gentlemen remember to pay more attention to the Renas Daily, of course, the government will also have special personnel to explain the situation to you, I'm sorry, I should have stayed with you for a while, but today I have some other things to deal with, goodbye!"
He waved to the crowd around him, and his eyes wandered on the faces of those simple people, especially the reporters of the news agency behind them.
The peasants below were also very cooperative with the applause, you must know that in this era, a great nobleman is willing to go to the countryside to condole, not to mention bring gifts to each of them, even if it is some ordinary objects, this is still something that can make these low-level people extremely moved.
Leaving the farm under the dual protection of Bonette and Anthony, although Donald didn't need their protection, Sewvett Talos did, so he almost always had to take these two bodyguards with him on his recent trips in order to show his fear and worry to the outside world.
"It's kind of interesting to raise the price of necessities, create construction accidents, and spread rumors, and it seems that Adrien still has some means. ”
Sitting in the car on the way back and listening to Huxley's report, Donald didn't have much surprise on his face, after all, most of these methods were already expected by him.
These people don't dare to go against Donald, the mayor of Reynas, and can only play tricks in some places that the government can't control, after all, the Reyners government can't prevent those sudden construction "accidents", and the price increase of goods is a common phenomenon in economic activities, and Donald can't hold a gun to their nose and let them lower the price.
"This is just the beginning, according to the latest intelligence, it is not only the construction site of Renas that has been surprised, but also several factories that produce steel and masonry, and they claim that there is a problem with the machine, so the output will be greatly affected, in short, the construction materials produced in the city of Renas will soon be stretched thin!"
"Oh, this is a waste of money to hinder my plan, and I'd rather make a lot less gold pounds than trouble me. ”
Although the industrial reform of Renas has been advancing, but affected by the social situation has not been able to develop thoroughly, Donald read the report in this regard some time ago, at present, there are no more than 15 factories in the entire city of Renas, of which more than half are silk reeling factories and factories that produce other daily necessities, and there are only about 3 that really produce steel, masonry and other building materials.
At present, the urban construction of Renas City is in full swing, and the demand for this type of building materials has increased to an almost unprecedented level in a short period of time, Donald thought that the capitalists who controlled those factories should not miss this opportunity to make a lot of money, but he did not expect them to be so resolute.
"Yes, I have to say that their methods are very effective, the production in the city of Renas is not much, if the current situation continues, no more than three days, nearly a third of the city's projects will be forced to stop, if a large number of steel and masonry from other places are purchased, the cost will increase significantly, and our finances cannot afford it. ”
Huxley looked at the road ahead without squinting, the streets on the outskirts were not easy to open, and he had to keep an eye on the depressions and stones, and after a pause, he continued,
"There's also your private train station project, where the need to lay train tracks is also huge, with a third of the tracks still unfinished, and the train station outside the Howling Forest is still in the initial stages of construction. ”
"According to the original plan, the contract should have been drawn up, right? I want to see if these people really want to fight me to the end or are ready to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune from me. ”
Putting the papers in his hand aside, Donald looked out the window at the smoke of the pastoral cooking, his face faintly tired.
In the past, he was only the leader of a five-person team, and he only needed to take care of the interests of five people, including him, and many times he didn't even need to take care of them, Anthony and they were all powerful aliens, but when he became the mayor of Renas, the future of 300,000 people was suddenly in his hands, and the pressure in this can be imagined.
"Who have you decided to send to secretly contact those capitalists? Although several contracts have been drawn up, the target of the contact has not yet been decided."
"Of course, you have to find a few eloquent people, the government's talents are still too few, you go to choose in person, the first batch of contact people do not need too many, 3 to 5 people on the line, specifically to find the factory capitalists who control the building materials factories to negotiate, because of the participation in the alliance of interests and lost such a good opportunity to make money, presumably they are now distressed. ”
In Donald's view, this alliance of interests of the other party has no friendship at all, and Adrien is nothing more than taking advantage of several requisitionary policies of the Reynas government some time ago to damage the interests of these people and without making corresponding compensation, pulling these people to a united front, hoping to seize the authority of Sewit Taros in Reynas and replace him.
But they would never have thought that the current Sewett was no longer the original miser, and he had far more capital and hole cards in his hand than they imagined.
Donald is not even ready to use force.
He's going to smash this alliance of interests with money!