Chapter 23, Accidents
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"Sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper! Watch the shootout on Oak Street, one person was seriously injured! β
"Stop." Stru stopped his personal carriage and said to the coachman, "Stephen, go buy me a newspaper." β
The coachman answered, and the carriage came to a slow halt. Then Stroo heard the coachman shouting to the newsboy, "Boy, get a newspaper." β
"Thanks, two cents." A child's childish voice came from outside the carriage.
After a while, the window in front of the carriage was opened, and a newspaper was stuffed in: "Sir, your newspaper. β
Stroo took the newspaper and began searching it for news of the shootout on Oak Street. This is his favorite news to watch, the more gunfights, the more chaotic the law and order, and the better his business will be. Of course, there have been some cases of robbery of rich people recently, even in broad daylight. Ohio's police department is really bad, actually watching those poor ghosts rob the rich! Fortunately, he had the foresight, his carriage was reinforced with steel plates, and there were several guns in the carriage.
"Well, the Oak Street burglary? These guys are getting bolder, and business is probably going to be better now. Well, the owner Luther returned fire with a Strut shotgun, which blew up and Mr. Luther was seriously injured and unconscious. Mr. Luther's wife, Ms. Martha, continued to shoot at the robbers with a revolver and covered her two children as they retreated upstairs. After robbing some of their belongings, the robbers fled quickly and waited until the police arrived...... Mr. Luther was seriously injured and is being resuscitated in the hospital. According to what this reporter has learned, Mr. Luther's entire jaw and one eye have been blown up. As to why Mr. Luther's Scott double-barreled shotgun suddenly exploded, this newspaper is investigating. β
"Damn it!" Stru angrily crumpled the paper. At this time, such a scandal broke out, which was definitely a blow to the company that was doing good business. Moreover, this damn newspaper wrote so clearly the brand of the gun that blew up the crash, and then said "under investigation". Investigate your sister! Isn't this just a naked guy telling him to get the money quickly? These damn vampires, don't they know that exploding chambers is just a common accident, and the vast majority of bombing accidents are caused by improper maintenance and use by the users themselves?
Stru shook his fist again, as if the reporter from the Kommersant newspaper was right in front of his eyes. Then he shouted to the outside, "Stephen, go to the Kommersman newspaper." β
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"The article is still not well written enough. At the end, even 'What's wrong with this company, is it okay not to have quality, not to have a conscience?' Why is there no one to supervise it, manage it, and allow it to produce shoddy products that harm people? This must be a system problem! I couldn't help but fall into a deep thought, 'No, I really deserve a bad review!' β
Scrooge gently left the newspaper on the table, smiling and shaking his head.
"I don't think you're good at this part." Rockefeller said, "Compared to other people's words, your paragraph is disgusting." β
"What you don't understand, what you don't understand." Scrooge shook his head, looking like a hero and a lonely underwhelmer.
"Come on, Scrooge, you're not an expert in dancing and ink, so it's better to admit it yourself. I guess the unlucky guy you're targeting must be trying to find a way to bribe Businessman right now. That guy probably has more money in his hands than you, and he will probably be able to handle "Businessman". What will you do then? Rockefeller seemed to be a little unaccustomed to Scrooge's arrogance, and gave him another bucket of cold water.
"Hehe, he does have more money than I do, but so what? You have to know that the cost of getting the media to cover something is much higher than the cost of not covering something in the media. He didn't have that much money yet. β
"Is it more expensive to buy people not to work than to ask them to work?" Rockefeller didn't turn a corner for a moment.
"To get to no one to report, it needs to buy all the media, and we only need to buy one newspaper. Besides, if he gave money to one newspaper, wouldn't the other newspapers be blushing when they found out? And what did the other newspapers do to get money from him? β
"Scrooge, you're bad enough." Rockefeller said seriously, "Fortunately, we're in this group." β
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"Another shotgun explosion accident - the person involved was killed instantly."
"What is the reason for the frequent explosion accidents?"
A large stack of newspapers sat on Stroud's desk, a few days ago that had made Stru furious, but now Stru no longer had the strength to be angry. In these newspapers anyway, his company has become synonymous with a lack of conscience. What in order to make money is to increase the labor intensity without limit, guide the workers to work tiredly, and at the same time increase the labor intensity at the same time he also has a low wage, which makes the workers' sense of responsibility decrease. In the end, the product quality decreased, and the accidents were frequent. Others have unfounded speculation that the frequent accidents are due to their use of inferior materials in order to make more money. He even took the trouble to take out the company's early products and recent products for a series of comparisons, and came to the conclusion that the steel used in the early products is different from the current one. God testifies that if there is a difference in the quality of steel, it must be a problem on the side of the steel mill.
During this time, Stroo put out fires everywhere and kept spending money to settle the reporters, but often one newspaper was just put down, and another newspaper immediately popped up. To silence all these newspapers, who is Nima's self-run business trying to make money for?
For a while, he also thought about simply co-opting a newspaper to justify him, but he soon realized that justifying it would lead to a polemic, and after the argument was triggered, all of Cleveland, and even all of Ohio, knew that his gun was going to explode...... This, this is simply spending money to bring down yourself.
But these are not the most fatal, the most terrible is the series of letters he received to cancel the order. Before all this mess, his company received a lot of orders. In order to fulfill these orders, he borrowed a lot of debt - at that time his business was doing well, and the banks were rushing to lend him money, but now, the banks are blocking the door and asking for money. And the money he borrowed has been turned into raw materials and machines, and if he can't sell the gun, his capital chain won't last long and will be broken. The fate of bankruptcy is in sight.
In a few days, he would have to default. Then the company will go bankrupt, and the company's qiΔ and his personal property - the house, the carriage, and even the desk in front of him will be registered and auctioned off, and he will be regarded as a shameful loser, spurned by countless people, and can only live on the streets with his wife and children.
Maybe it's time to find a potential buyer and see if anyone is willing to spend money to sell their business. In this way, I still have a little left. But in the current situation, who wants to continue to take over this mess?
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"Mr. Stroud, someone would like to talk to you about acquiring your company. Duke, Stroud's secretary, reports to him the news that both makes him look forward to and frightens him.
"The other party...... Who is the other party? How much are they going to pay? Stru said weakly. The recent events had knocked him out completely, and now he looked as if he was twenty years older, and there was a lot of white on his head. "Although I am unwilling, but, it is indeed time to quit."
"The one who is interested in buying your company is Mr. Scrooge, a shareholder, who said that he can come to visit you whenever you are free." Duke replied.
"Ah, tomorrow is Sunday, you tell him, if you can, I will wait for him at the company at nine o'clock tomorrow morning." Sturf replied, "All right, you go down." I'm going to think about something. β
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"Mr. Scrooge, I invite you to come to his company tomorrow morning to talk to him. It won't be a problem, right? β
It was a tall, strong man who spoke, with a curly head and a conspicuous beard and bronzed skin, and if he were to be stripped naked and stand motionless in the street, a large crowd would have thought it would be a bronze statue in the style of an antique Greek.
"Carter, you don't have to worry too much, he won't do anything irrational, after all, he doesn't have many options. And now his every move is watched. The people in the bank were watching her 24 hours a day, afraid that he would run away with the money. Scrooge smiled.
Seeing Scrooge's smile, Carter remembered that more than a week ago, he had robbed this harmless child. At the time, the kid was buying quite a few things in a store, and Carter happened to pass by as he was paying for it, and he saw that the kid had at least ten dollars in his pocket. So she quietly followed, planning to tell the child with the facts, it was not safe to run around alone with money. Seeing the kid into a remote alleyway, Carter hurried inβit was a good place to work. But when Carter pulls out a knife, well, against a child, is it still necessary to pull out a gun? A knife can scare him silly, right? However, to Carter's surprise, the child looked at him with a smile on his face, and then calmly pulled out a revolver, and then walked around from behind with a pistol......
Well, then, and then Carter became a prisoner of Scrooge. was forced to confess his various crimes, and a series of incriminating evidence also fell into his hands. Carter felt like he was probably going to spend the rest of his life in prison. But Scrooge gave him a chance, "I have some things that are inconvenient for me to do, and I need you to help me do them." Of course, I'm not going to let you do it for nothing, you can ...... from me" Well, from then on, Carter has a job again.