Maggs, who was having afternoon tea with his old friend Barr, picked up a handkerchief and dipped the tea on the corner of his mouth, he was still in a very happy mood, after all, the new year had only started for a few days. At noon, he went with Barr to the palace to meet His Majesty the Emperor and the princes and princesses, and stayed at the palace for a meal.

The emperor didn't like him, and it was Maggs who made the emperor lose the power in his hands, but the problem is that it is no longer the royal family that is in charge, but the new party. So in order to maintain what the royal family still has, His Majesty the Emperor had to make a picture of having a good relationship with Mags, and offered to let him have a meal in his golden restaurant.

Although he had eaten it in the past, after all, Magus was also a marquis, and after the royal family killed almost all the dukes and all the non-royal princes, the marquis was already the biggest nobleman. What's wrong with going to the palace to accompany the emperor for a few meals, this is a normal performance.

His butler knocked on the door, and Maggs and Barr's conversation stopped, both of them stunned and dignified. Under normal circumstances, Mags's butler would not disturb the two of them, unless something big happened.

"Come in!", Maggs sat back a little, crossed his legs, reached out and flicked the sesame seed-sized pastry dregs off his trouser legs, and then looked at the butler who walked in.

The butler bowed to the two and said: "There was an accident at the construction site in the eastern mountain range of Otis City just now, which caused the canyon that had been opened to collapse, and about 1,100 workers and relevant management were buried in it. ”

The focus of this sentence is not how many people died, but in the second half of the sentence in the warning area. The warning area is the last line of defense for the imperial capital to resist the invasion of external forces and defend the imperial capital. They belonged to the United Guard, which was directly under the core nobility of the New Party, and the total number remained at about 50,000.

This force is not only the last firewall of the imperial capital, but also a sharp blade to suppress and deter the old party nobles in the north, and a cage for the royal family to honestly not come out and run around. There must be some other reason why this very important warning zone, which should not take the initiative to do something, wants to move before the Cabinet decree comes out.

Maggs let the butler out before his smile regained and he smiled and said to Barr, "Durin is in trouble!"

Yes, Durin is in trouble, and he is in trouble with that military foundation. No one in the political arena will stand up and attack Duhrin with this matter, because the army is still very obedient at present, and if even this little thing has to be put on the platform, it will definitely hit the mood of the army and produce unpredictable dangers. So Durin may feel that no one is dealing with him in this matter that no one else knows, or doesn't care, but this is impossible.

Anything as highly sensitive as the army should never be kept secret, and the deputy commander, after receiving Dohring's promise, reported the matter to the military department and presented it to Mags. Maggs didn't say much about this, and handled the matter coldly. First, he believed that if Durin wanted to infiltrate the army, it was a complete joke, and no matter how rich he was, he could not compare to the military expenditure allocated to the army every year, which was two military expenditures, including the navy's military expenses, and the whole army knew that Durin's money was small money.

Secondly, it is a good thing to use Durin's money to find a comfortable nest for those first generals who are about to retire in the new era. Durin raised them for nothing, which will make them feel that although they have lost power, they will not lack financial problems, and at the same time, they can maintain their decency, which can avoid any signs of inappropriateness, and also has a positive effect on stabilizing the mood of the army. Even one day, Dührin felt that it was too much of a loss to run this foundation, and the cabinet would take it over and continue to run it.

Those people don't use this thing to attack Dulin doesn't mean that Dulin has put on an invincible iron suit, and soon someone will make a move against Durin, he made a mistake.

Maggs walked over to his desk and picked up the phone, and asked the cabinet guard to send an executive order to the cordon to send equipment to Otis to rescue the workers, which was a good thing in itself.

When Durin returned to Otis City, it was already noon the next day, and he came to the outside of the mountain without even resting, and at this time the soldiers from the warning area had begun to clear the ruins with the help of construction machinery, and a broken body was packed into a black bag and placed outside the mountain. From a distance, there are a large number of dense black spots in the snow-white, which makes people feel a little cold suddenly, but it is also really shocking.

Several managers of the joint construction engineering came over immediately after seeing Du Lin coming, and these people also had a heavy face, so many people died, as the construction unit, they must be responsible for compensation. If the current compensation method on the side of the Dazzling Star Empire is followed, the amount of compensation for the death and high disability that completely loses labor and needs to be taken care of is about 8,000 yuan per person.

They had already obtained the sign-in slip for the payment of the daily payment the night before the accident, a total of 1,317 people, all of whom would have died if nothing else. Even if they didn't die at the first time, it would be enough to freeze them all to death in such a state of continuous low temperature! This is a compensation of more than 10 million yuan, which is enough to make the joint construction workers suffer a huge setback! They need to discuss it and make up for it as much as possible.

The board of directors has already passed the word that if they can't reduce the single loss to less than six million, they can find a place to jump.

Du Lin did not look at them, but looked at the site of the excavation and rescue seriously, and asked softly: "Why did this happen? I told you more than once before the start of construction that the safety of the construction process must be guaranteed." ”

The person in charge here smiled wryly, he looked at the pale engineer beside him, the engineer opened his mouth but didn't know what to say, his mind was still blank, and finally the person in charge here said the reason.

When designing the temporary frame tunnel structure, the engineer had already designed the load-bearing factor according to the maximum threshold, but he overlooked one thing: snow. Maybe it's because he's not familiar with the weather on the Empire's side, or maybe it's because he thinks that even if it snows, it won't be a "snow disaster", after all, the subtropical and tropical federations rarely see blizzards.

He didn't include the weight of the snowflakes that fell into the palm of his hand and didn't feel the weight into the load-bearing factor, and when the blizzard came, it became a key factor in crushing the tunnel. He had already contacted the engineering department as quickly as he could when he found out about the problem, but it was too late, and with a loud roar, it was too late. He immediately paid for a speedboat and crossed the strait directly to the territory of the Empire, appearing here about an hour before Durin.

Until now, his mind is still groggy, he doesn't know how to face this accident and the losses caused by this accident, he can't afford to pay, maybe what awaits him is imprisonment.

Du Lin sighed and glanced at the person in charge of the United Construction Engineering in the Empire, "You have to come up with a solution to this matter as soon as possible, I will give you a little more time, and I will hold a press conference to deal with this matter the day after tomorrow, if you can't come up with a suitable solution at that time, I'm afraid your trip to the Empire will end here!", Du Lin nodded, turned around and left quickly, he didn't like the atmosphere here, the mountain of corpses looked like it made his heart a little hairy!

There were a number of people on the streets of Otis who had been deserted like Ilian, and these people seemed to have only two faces, one with a sad face with sadness and sorrow in their eyes, and the other with a visceral excitement. There is no doubt that the former were the families of the deceased, and the latter were journalists and people from all over the empire waiting to see the excitement. Because of the principle of hiring people nearby, it didn't take long for the families of the deceased to come here, and they pitched tents in vacant places on the streets, or built rudimentary small spaces in the alleys in the corners.

The first thing Doolin did when he returned to the town hall was to ask Dove to arrange a temporary place for the families of the victims, and at the same time let Haidt manage the reporters who were shooting around with cameras and magnesium lights, and if necessary, he could use some means.

Not long after he sat down, Harry's call came.

"God above, your phone calls are really, really hard, do you know how many calls I've made to you since yesterday?, do I want to thank God for giving me such a great gift in the first week of the new year?", Harry's grumbling voice penetrated the earpiece, and Durin could hear that he was now manic, "tell me how many people have died, to have an exact number, I have been driven crazy by those reporters!"

Durin sighed lightly, "More than a thousand people died, but you can reduce the number a little, I'm sure no one will count it!"

"Is this good news?", Harry scoffed, "what are you going to do with this? I'm annoyed right now, you know? This could be the biggest stain on my administration in Corsenas!"

Doolin didn't have much to do, "What else can we do but make amends?Go and ask your God to resurrect them all?I'm sure he can't, so you have to be quiet and think about how to minimize the impact, and I'll cooperate with you." ”