"There's something I need to remind you about." On the sparkling lake, Lorraine and Dussaint sat in the same small wooden boat. Today, Lorraine looks quite handsome in a beautiful light hunting jacket and trousers.

She opened the rattan picnic basket in front of her, took out a metal thermos from it and placed it on the deck floor, and said with a slight hesitation, "My mother recently heard a piece of news that made me feel a little nervous. ”

Dussander paddled his oars, staring absentmindedly at the ducks on the lake. This season's duck meat is not your average delicacy, and he really wants to get two of them to be roasted on the stove until the skin is golden brown.

"My mother has a good relationship with several directors of United Mining." Lorraine held her knees, looked at Dusand in front of her, and said, "The directors of United Mining are very dissatisfied with several bills in the House of Commons. ”

"Strictly speaking, they are dissatisfied with me and my mother." Dussaint withdrew his gaze and smiled bitterly. United Mining was dissatisfied with itself and its mother, which was entirely to be expected. If they don't hold a grudge against their family, it's not normal.

According to Dussand's own incomplete statistics, the mining complex has lost a total of one duke, four secretly mined mines, a "garbage station" for handling prisoners of war and miners, and mining rights to two satellites of Newsar.

Of these losses, the loss of satellite mining rights is probably the one that angers United Mining the most.

The Empire has forty-two colonies, and forty-one of them have satellites. According to Imperial law, the moons of these colonies are "non-colonies", and United Mining has an inherent right to exploit them.

The satellites are rich in mineral resources, and they have almost all kinds of minerals with economic extraction value, except for the absence of energy deposits such as coal and oil. Thirty-seven of these satellites have mined Ipsiloon ore.

This was the strategic material of the empire and the foundation of the mining complex.

And now, the bill passed by the House of Commons in Newsal directly threatens the very foundations of the mining complex. Although the Mines Committee of the House of Commons granted the mining consortium permission to continue mining on the two Newsal satellites on the day the bill was passed, this is a very dangerous sign.

There are also forty-one colonies that also have moons like Newsal, and their House of Commons may not be as wise as Newsal's House of Commons.

Fighting the Mining Consortium is a very convenient way for the Legislators to gain votes, and as long as they put on a posture of "I don't share the sky with the Mining Consortium", the nobles who mine on the Colony will make large donations.

In order to win these "supports" for themselves, those junior parliamentarians may abandon even the last shred of reason.

Of course, Dussander knew that the situation was very serious, and he was worried about such a behemoth as the mining complex, and the other party was eager to "eat its flesh and sleep its skin", and Dussander felt unstable when he slept at night.

He also took a lot of measures to do this.

For example, the gas supply order to the mining consortium is an important mitigation plan he is currently implementing. All military and civilian vehicles produced by the Belford Auto Manufacturing Company, which he and Polina founded, use gas from United Mining.

In order to ensure that United Mining can eat without competition, Polina also deliberately improved the design of the interface of the vehicle fuel system. The interface is patented by Belford Motors, which is currently licensed only to United Mining.

As a modern person, Dussaint knows very clearly that the community of interests is the most stable relationship. The mining complex had been beaten several times, and a large sweet date had to be given so that they would not tear the table off the spot.

"The exclusivity of the gas may not be enough to appease United Mining." Lorraine sighed and said, "I suggested that my mother deliberately let me hear the conversation between them - the energy department of United Mining has a very small say in the entire mining complex, and if you want to appease United Mining, you need to do more." ”

Dussander sighed, it was already beyond his ability.

"I will arrange for my mother to meet with the representatives of United Mining as soon as possible." Dussaint picked up the thermos, unscrewed it and sniffed it carefully, "What's in here?" Drink? ”

"A drink made of milk and fruit." Lorraine smiled, "Adjusted to your taste, I reduced the proportion of sugar. ”

Dussaint poured it out, only to find that the liquid had turned into a gooey, cheese-like thing.

"The next time you're making this drink, consider swapping out sour fruits like citrus for something else." Dussaint said as he poured "iced old yogurt" into his mouth, "But this ...... It's delicious! ”

"Master, let's go back to the shore!" In the distance, Rosen waved his hand at Dusander's new high and shouted, "I've already hit six ducks, enough to eat!" ”

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Behind the reeds by the lake, there is a gently rising hill with green grass growing on the ground. It can be seen that the gardener of the family has put a lot of thought into taking care of the lawn, and stepping on it feels like stepping on a thick velvet stall. If you step on it barefoot, the blades of grass will not prick your feet, but will make you feel a little itchy.

The manor's servants pushed a mobile duck oven designed by Dussander up the hillside and created a shade area out of thick canvas coated with a thick layer of grease and beeswax.

The ducks that Lawson brought back were all accurately hit in the head, and the skin on his body was not broken at all. Dussander sighed that his little brother's marksmanship was getting better and better, and he began to handle the duck meat with his hands.

The servants plucked all the feathers from the duck's flesh and emptied the duck's entrails as Dussand had requested.

Roast duck oven, the whole duck embryo with the internal organs from the neck, these two things came together, and Dussander suddenly felt that he could do it.

One of the standard equipment of the traverser is here - BJ roast duck!

Five minutes later, Dussander gave up on his foolish attempt. The reason why BJ roast duck is one of the facades of Chinese food is that the technical difficulties in it are simply not something that a normal person can complete independently.

At least Dussander couldn't think of what he would have to do to blow the duck skin with his mouth. He didn't know how to mix the crispy water.

And he doesn't know how to make spring cakes, let alone how to make sweet noodle sauce.

The empire also does not have shredded shallots.