"It's me, Henry. Henry was standing by the window of the study, he had just returned from outside, and honestly he liked the West. There were no people he hated, like his brother, and no wife who made him feel depressed. He didn't have a good relationship with his brother, and probably all the children and siblings who were born into powerful families didn't get any better.

In the families of the nobility, all fought for a place.

In a big capitalist family like a steel tycoon, all the children are frantically competing for equity, even if it is 1/10,000 or 1/100,000 equity, they will not let go.

Not to mention that in the steel tycoon's family, there are two children who are excellent in all aspects, and they have been secretly comparing to determine who is the most suitable successor to the family in the end. So Henry doesn't like his brother who has to be stronger than himself everywhere, even if it's in grade and size.

But in the west, there is no one to fight with him.

Not only is there no of his obnoxious brother, but there is also no boring-looking wife. He loved his wife very much, and more than once was sure that that woman was the one he most wanted to be with him for the rest of his life, but these things did not prevent him from feeling his wife's boredom. It's like an old-school believer who even wants to use the priesthood for the sake of the family's descendants and refuses to change. Perhaps it was the biggest mistake that Mr. John made by letting her go to the church-run girls' school, but that didn't stop him from being sure that he loved her.

Of course, love turns into water after sweetness, from addictive sweetness to something necessary for human life, and he occasionally adjusts his needs and drinks something sweet. In the West, these things are not only sweet, but also as strong as spirits!

Henry, in the name of a steel tycoon, ran one of the most important aspects of the family business in the West - buying metal ores and turning them into metal ingots. This is the basis of all the industries of the steel tycoons, and without these ingots, the older brother, who claims to be running the most important part of the family business, sales, has nothing to sell. If he doesn't have something to sell, he can't make a profit, and even if he can keep eating away at the markets that belong to others, he must have enough goods.

Both brothers believe that they are the most important part of the family business, and their reasons are very similar, whether the product or the market, and the analysis is very reasonable.

The western part of the empire is the largest mining area, but it is not easy to establish a foothold here. The mines owned by United Iron and Steel did not provide enough iron ore, so Henry had to buy raw ore from other mines if he wanted his products to keep up with his brother's sales, and this was a problem. Both Jindes and Olville are fluctuating in terms of metal ore shipments, and these large industry monopolies do not run their businesses for the purpose of sales.

They operate pricing power, rules, and monopolies, so they will not ship endlessly, and they will not sell to you if you have money and want to buy them, and there are many things that have nothing to do with the west, such as politics, such as "commodities" that transcend the simple relationship between money and goods.

This made Henry very angry, and coupled with the resistance of the West Mining Association to the big capitalists, it was many times more difficult to get a mining area than an ordinary person. The West Mine will fight him, the Jindes will fight him, and Olvili will fight him. Coupled with a few mining conglomerates, Henry's days in the West were not as jolly as one might think.

He'd been trapped here for years, and he hadn't found a breakthrough, but now he had found it, and that breakthrough was Doolin.

He and Durin had met privately, and on more than one occasion, the two of them soon found in each other what they needed, and that was a way to open up the situation in the west as soon as possible. They all belong to the small group of people who have been excluded, and they all need to expand their careers to prove their worth, and as for Durin raising the axe that cut down the famous George family and cutting down the first axe, it will not be an obstacle to the cooperation between him and Durin.

The George family is the George family, and the Ander family is the Ander family, and they may have marriages with each other, but they must not be confused.

Durin had just called him and needed some help from him, and in order to prove that he was qualified to fight with Durin and divide up the fat of the West, Henry made a phone call to his father, and it was the first call he had made to Mr. Ander after the New Year.

As the largest equity owner of United Iron and Steel Group, Mr. Ander is far beyond ordinary people in terms of social status and influence, and even Henry's call to him can only be connected through a housekeeper.

"Henry, I've heard that the West has been interesting lately, do you want to come back?", Mr. Ender has a very strong voice, he is now studying opera, and a refined person must always have a little noble hobby. Playing the piano and the like is missing the learning age, but it's not too late to sing.

Henry wrapped his lips, he lowered the curtains, returned to his chair and sat down, "I heard that you have a good relationship with the people of the Ministry of Defense, and the west has now entered a state of military control, which has caused a big shock to all business. Our workers are reluctant to go home, and when they do, they don't want to come to work, and they fear being brutalized or even killed. Not long ago, the Brewer Bay mines were attacked by the Freedom Front, and now almost all the mines have stopped trading with foreign countries, and the people of the Freedom Front may not sell us ore for a day if they are not wiped out. ”

Mr. Ender on the other end of the phone finally got serious, as Henry said, he knew people in the Ministry of Defense, and in addition to having good connections in the Ministry of Defense, he also had some friendship with Lord Maggs. As the largest steel group in the empire in terms of shipments, it has a huge consumer group in both the civilian and military fields. In particular, the rapid economic recovery and the construction of infrastructure in various places have created a huge steel consumer market. In addition, the army's armament continues to be redressed this year, and the military industrial complex also has a large number of orders.

So he has contacts with all levels of the country, he needs to sell goods, those people need to buy goods.

If, just if, if some orders cannot be fulfilled because there is no steel, the blow to the United Steel Group will be unprecedented. The cabinet will be disappointed in him, the military will be disappointed in him, the governments and the small companies will be disappointed in him, and this is something that Mr. Ender will not allow. His expression was very serious, and he changed his sitting position, "What do you want me to do for you?"

Henry breathed a sigh of relief, he crossed his legs and stuffed a piece of paradise into his mouth and lit it, the whole person was in a state of high relaxation, "I hope you can express your views to the Ministry of Defense, for example, to focus on the elimination of the armed extremist terrorist organization of the Freedom Front first, at least so that I can get what we need from the mines." ”

"Is the situation really so serious?", Mr. Ander still couldn't believe it, he had never heard of those who opened mines and did not dare to sell mines, and only those who bought mines did not dare to enter the mining area.

In fact, the truth is much more serious than imagined, the details of the Freedom Front's killing of Brewer Bay have been inexplicably revealed, and people only found out at this time that those people had bought the trading company with Brewer Bay through kidnapping and threats more than a month ago. Then they took so long to figure out the defenses and the number of guards in Brewer Bay, where the slaves provided some of the most valuable information.

Then, under the cooperation of the inside and outside, the mining area of Brewer Bay, which had never been challenged, was completely destroyed when it was first challenged.

This frightened many of the mines, who knew if the other side with whom they were supplying themselves or who had frequent trade with them would not have been the Freedom Front, and if they would have already laid out the same means in their mines, waiting for the moment when they would open their doors.

So now the nerves in the various mining areas are tense, even if it is a supply, they have asked the trading house to leave the supply outside the mining area, and after the people of the trading house have evacuated, they will organize the mine protection team and the official local staff to open the small door to pull the supplies in.

As for wanting to unload in the mine?

Sorry, that can't be!

As for the merchants who come to buy ore, such as the United Iron and Steel Group, it stands to reason that they should be let in, after all, the United Iron and Steel Group is not a small trading company. But who can guarantee that the person who comes to buy the ore must be someone from the United Steel Group, not a fake from the Freedom Front?

It's a good idea to open a small door to get the ore out, but it's also very risky. Let the slaves be delivered, and the slaves will definitely run, but if the employees and the mine guards are allowed to send them, what if the slaves in the camp suddenly start a riot and the outside also starts to attack? You must know that the slaves in the Brewer Bay mine area rushed out of the mine with pistols and single-shot rifles, and there was not enough firepower to suppress them, and once something similar happened in their camp, the mine guards could not suppress the resistance and riot of the slaves at all.

So, just don't sell it!

When Mr. Ender learned that the situation in the west was so serious, he immediately called the Minister of Defense of the Reich after hanging up Henry's phone, and then expressed his views and concerns about the situation in the west, and mentioned the danger of the Freedom Front to the Reich. After learning about the incident, the Minister of Defense finally decided to change his strategy slightly after a conference call from the Cabinet, first stabilizing the situation outside the western cities, and then cleaning up the forces that were in turmoil.

In the middle of the night, some cities that were not involved in the assassinations began to withdraw, and only three state capitals and four important hub cities retained military control, and the rest of the troops dispersed into the western wilderness.