Chapter 569: Invitation [2]
"Durin coming west?", Memnon put down his club, took the towel handed by the caddy, and wiped the sweat from his face.
There is heating throughout the gymnasium, and it is quite easy to raise the temperature of a house rather than a cold circulation system that is constructed to cool the space. Only a few pieces of Yao Crystal are needed to continuously release heat, and the entire space can be kept at a reasonable temperature through the air circulation system.
Memnon is an enclosed gymnasium with glass on the dome that lets sunlight in and fine turf from the south, with a life cycle of only 70 days, 20 cents per square meter. The entire indoor stadium is almost 9,000 square meters, and it can be said that tens of thousands of dollars need to be spent in this stadium every two months to maintain the longevity of these turfs.
Originally, the stadium was built to give the capitalists a game of polo or other interior sports in their leisure time. After Memnon arrived, it became a frequent place for Memnon, where polo could not be played, but it could be played without horses, a "noble sport" that had just emerged in the Federation, similar to the golf of that world in Doolin's dream. There aren't as many rules and there are some differences in the details, but in general the goal of the game is to get the ball into the hole.
After handing the club to the caddy, Mennon took off his gloves and walked to the side of the stands, followed closely by the secretary who had just reported the news.
He knew Doolin, the pride of the Gualts, at least for now. It is not easy to be the mayor of a city as a Gualt, and he is still so young. Memnon doesn't think that Durin has achieved all this through his own efforts, there must be some big man planning something, Durin is just a puppet he pushed to the forefront. Just like the recent accident, this puppet has no use value, so the big man behind Durin pushes and knocks Durin back to his original form.
In Memnon's view, the purpose of this big man behind the scenes is the city of Otis, after all, it is a very dangerous thing to open a casino in violation of the laws of the empire, and sell contraband itself. If the big man does it himself, he may touch the line, but it won't be so much trouble to let Durin do it.
Something went wrong, it was Doolin's idea, and he was destined to be unlucky and take all the blame for the big guys.
It didn't go wrong, and as it is now, Durin was kicked out.
However, even if Durin loses his official position, he cannot be underestimated, after all, he has the most sound and largest smuggling network in the eastern part of the empire, and his moonshine is sold to all parts of the empire, which is very rich in itself, and has a certain influence among the Guartes.
Memnon wasn't a Guert, he was a pure-blooded Ogding, but he also recognized the Gualt fanaticism after following the Scarlet Dawn, so it wasn't good news that Durin was here, and he knew what the boy would do in the west.
Walked to the edge of the stands, sat down in his seat, rested for a while, drank a few sips of cold drinks that naturally cooled down outside, and finally calmed down after high-intensity exercise. He thought for a while and said to the secretary beside him: "Let people warn him, don't mess around on my territory, I welcome him to invest in the west, but he is not welcome to come over and mess around!"
As the secretary was about to go about his work, Memnon called him back again, and was going to kidnap Alyssa and her child, and then ripped out the thirty million gold that Durin had swallowed, and as a result, he was lured out of Mr. Kersma and Layton, and he lived in fear for a long time. He has been with the first leader (Mr. Kersma) for several years, and in these years he has learned very clearly that it is good to mess with anyone, don't mess with the first leader.
That's a bastard, he does things entirely to his own liking, and whenever he feels humiliated that's when he pulls out his gun, and in most of the events after he pulls out his gun, it's actually just a joke. If he had warned Du Lin so directly, would he have made the first student feel that there was no one in his eyes, and then mail himself a black envelope and suddenly appear in his room in the middle of the night?
He hesitated a little, and then re-instructed: "Forget what you said just now, go and tell Durin, convey my welcome to him to the west, and tell him that I invite him to my house for a chat." This is the safest thing to do, and until now Memnon has not figured out who is the first of the first to be the relatives of the first student - during the years of the madness of the Scarlet Dawn, Mr. Rixma has always used a pseudonym, and rarely appears in front of people in front of people, only a few people know what he looks like, but not his surname.
Even today, many people who know Mr. Kersma dare not guarantee that the surname Kersma is the real surname of Mr. Kersma, maybe it is just a pseudonym?
When the secretary left, a few people who were playing with Memnon came over, these people didn't seem to be wearing expensive clothes, but their temperament was definitely different from ordinary people, and they had a calm and confident spirit.
These people are a few big capitalists in the state, and Memnon's "three guarantees policy" is also thanks to the cooperation with these big capitalists, so that it can temporarily operate normally, attracting a large number of followers to support him, so that he already has the potential power to run for governor.
"Is Monsieur Memnon tired?, do you want to take a break in another place?", the guy who spoke was tall, muscular but not bloated, and he had a faint scar on his forehead, but it did not ruin his appearance, but added a touch of toughness and domineering in his gentleness. This guy's name is Carlos, one of the directors of the Imperial Bondica Arms Group and the executive director of Bondica West.
Bondika has a number of industries in the west, including several large steel mills and more than 20 iron and copper mines. This is the production base of the Bondica Arms Group, where Carlos is not only a director, but also a key member of the Bondica family.
The arms business is not easy to do, especially now that the market demand for arms is not high in the absence of a national war, but fortunately, wars have broken out from time to time on several other continents, so that the Bondika arms group has an adequate market. There are some rumors that Bondika and two other arms groups played a very dishonorable role in these wars, and it can be said that they promoted the outbreak of war, and even hired mercenaries to pretend to be local soldiers to actively engage in friction on the border, and then detonate local wars.
Mr. Carlos is arguably the "first man" in the West, with deep pockets and a large convoy capable of waging a skirmish anytime and anywhere. He was also a very bold man, who contributed money and efforts to Memnon's promotion of his "three guarantees" plan, and it was with Carlos and many capitalists like Carlos that Memnon's policy could be implemented.
Memnon nodded, "We've been exercising for almost an hour, and we're a little tired, and secondly, my secretary just told me that Durin came to the west, and I asked the secretary to invite him to have a chat." ”
"Doolin?", Carlos was stunned for a moment, "You mean that Doolin on the East Coast?", he nodded as he spoke, "If it is that Dorin, we can indeed invite him to join us, he is a very powerful young man, I heard from some friends that the Navy is very close to him, and even launched wartime missions for him." ”
Those who engage in arms will always have a close relationship with the military, and although the navy has lost the military support of the military department, they have other ways to get money. Part of the money will become the salary of the entire navy, and the other part will be used to upgrade the navy's equipment to ensure that it will not lag behind the times in armament. Only in this way will the Navy be able to guarantee the current situation of independence, otherwise they will be left behind too much, and the Reich will clean them up.
Once such a situation happens, it can be said that none of the top echelons of the Navy can escape, and in the end they will be sent to a military court to wait for hanging. So Carlos knows this Durin, and he knows some insider information that others don't know.
Last year, Dulin provided the navy with about 7 million "transportation expenses," which accounts for almost 10 percent of the current navy's self-raised military expenditure, which is definitely a very large number, and this number is still expanding. The Navy has regarded Doolin as its most trusted ally, and Colonel Thomas, who connects Doolin to the Navy, is said to have reached a consensus at the top of the Navy that he will be nominated to be the first non-wartime rear admiral to be promoted after the Civil War next year.
This shows how much the Navy attaches great importance to Durin, and he is also qualified to join the small circle of this special atmosphere in the west.
The reason why it is special is because this is the only market in the entire empire that has not been occupied by the Chamber of Commerce, and the folk customs and fierceness here are definitely not something that those people in the Chamber of Commerce can control, and they took the initiative to give up this place after a long time without an inch.
Memnon's "goodwill" was soon learned of by Dohrin, who was a little hesitant to invite Dohrin to meet the butler who had been whipped by his father and put him in the legs, and he did not want to meet him too soon.
In the three western states, Memnon still has a certain reputation, and the environment here has long been the admiration of violence by the people in the west, and Memnon, who has done such a great cause as the "uprising", is obviously a "man", and the "three guarantees" policy he promoted has not collapsed, and everyone still trusts this guy relatively well.