Blackstone Code Chapter 1400: Some things are better than more
Lynch is a very special person.
Mr. Patou's real willingness to become friends with Lynch was based on the fact that Lynch was canonized by Emperor Gaevra himself.
Because he is a noble, a real noble, a noble without any fictitious elements, and although the Arkin family is also a "noble family", its authenticity is doubtful.
The legends circulating outside are the most skeptical proofs. No one will ever point to a certain Gaevra noble and say that there is something wrong with this guy's noble title.
Because everyone knows that their nobility comes from the emperor's personal canonization.
Yes, or no, there is a legacy.
Who is the heir of each generation, and under the witness of which nobles, the emperor's permission has been granted the title of title. These are all inherited and recorded.
Every generation is like this, so who is aristocrat and who is not aristocrat cannot be faked.
But the Arkin family is different. They just keep talking about their ancestors. The first Earl of Arkin was the first pioneer and the only noble on this continent.
They can also list who the heads of each generation are, when they succeeded, and when they passed on the throne.
But... this kind of thing, you say yes?
There are no more noble witnesses, no royal canonization, sometimes you say yes, but it may not be!
People prefer to believe that Arkin was originally a lowly guard around the nobles, and killed the real Earl of Arkin to replace him in order to steal the property of the nobles, and they do not want to believe that the blood of the Arkin family Flowing is the real aristocratic blood!
So Mr. Patou needs some Austrian aid. He once tried to open up the situation from Gavra, but obviously he was born and raised on the Federation side, and he failed to understand the brain circuits of the nobles.
Those poor nobles would rather starve to death than prove a thing they don't know - the Ajiner family has noble blood flowing!
Yes, they don't want to admit it, and those nobles who really have the power to judge don't look down on Mr. Patou, so this matter has been dragged down.
Lynch became the second noble of the Arkin family outside the federal continent, and was conferred by the emperor himself. As long as he admits that the Arkin family is a noble, then many rumors will end!
This is also the core of Mr. Patou's real acceptance of Lynch as his equal object. In the final analysis, it is still related to some interests.
Until the outbreak of the silver case, Lynch's abrupt end made Mr. Patou gulping drooling at the countless interests. In the end, the expression on his face, like the ice that would not melt in countless springs and autumns, finally changed. .
It is better to say that it is to join forces with Lynch, but it is better to say that it is secretly outputting from the back, but it also allows him to obtain a lot of benefits.
The two sides have made great progress in the pursuit of interests, so they have the basis for truly becoming good friends.
Like Lynch and Mr. Wardrick, something has to be a bridge to each other.
Facing Lynch's question at this time, Mr. Patou pondered for a while, his tone did not seem to be disturbed by wind and rain, but in fact he said softly like a thunderstorm, "You know, there are always many mine disasters every year."
"There are mine disasters in mines, and there are mine disasters in oil fields..."
When science and technology were not developed enough, underground mining was indeed a very dangerous job. It can be said that everyone was just playing with their lives.
Although those structural designers told the mine owners every day, telling the miners that the internal tunnels they designed had absolutely no possibility of collapse, and the mine owners also found out in conscience at this time that they used high-quality materials.
But when it's time for a mine disaster, it never stops.
Landslide, flooding, the most common situation, every mine accident can take away the lives of many people and cause huge economic losses to resource companies one by one.
They need to pay all kinds of pensions, to heal the scars they have caused to society, and to pay all kinds of fines and all kinds of money.
The mining area will be temporarily closed for re-assessment of safety, until the investigation team in charge of the investigation believes that it is no longer a great threat. After some supervision and rectification, construction can be restarted.
This period is likely to last a few months, which is enough to cut off the huge amount of cash brought in by the oil fields.
As for why the oil field has problems, even with the oil tank, that is another question.
Mr. Patou told Lynch unabashedly that he could use some tricks outside the legal rules to deal with these industries, which is to show that he is willing to cooperate with Lynch on a deeper level.
In fact, throughout the upper levels of the entire Federation, "plundering" is illegal in many cases, but the law has given them a legal coat.
Like before the Great Depression, the federal overcapacity known as the "capital engine" began to decline, and all aspects of society began to expose some problems, and a lot of money began to withdraw.
In order to keep the money from leaving the Commonwealth, the federal government and large companies in various regions have tried their best to "keep" these companies.
The methods are a bit contrived. They are nothing more than various lawsuits, various punishments, and various methods after capital and political collusion. Everyone knows that these methods are not necessarily legal, but at this moment, the law turns a blind eye to them. Then they are all legal!
To a certain extent, this sentence is not wrong.
The purpose of the law is to protect the rights and interests of ordinary people, and keeping these foreign-funded enterprises is also to protect the rights and interests of ordinary people.
Only this time, the goal of the federal government is not those foreign-funded enterprises, but the Duncan family. With the help of the federal government, Mr. Patou's idea will definitely be realized.
Lynch nodded, "You're an expert on this, and you sure know how to avoid these tragedies."
It was a very cautious statement. Fortunately, Mr. Patou could understand it, and he also expressed some additional thoughts of his own.
"Actually, I'm not too interested in these resource businesses..."
Looking at the appropriately puzzled look on Lynch's face, Mr. Patou explained.
"Now our family, as well as the group company, already have a lot of resource industries. We have two of the five major oil fields in the Federation, two of the Duncan family, and one belonging to the Northern Energy Company."
"If I, or the group company, get these two oil fields again, it means that we have the right to source distribution and pricing of oil output in the federal territory. You know, this has violated federal laws..."
The Antitrust Act is here to address these things, and as long as the federal government and the Department of Justice believe that you actually have control over the industry you operate in, then there is monopolistic behavior.
Check it again, and find out that there is indeed a monopoly, then the next step is to file a case for investigation, then a huge fine, and finally to split the relevant company so that more investors can buy shares.
This is the federation's rules of the game. You can make money, but you can't close the door and make money by yourself. You must open the door and let everyone make money together. Only then can you legally "monopolize" this industry.
The Anti-Monopoly Law looks like a joke in some ways. It cannot be said that because a company is split into several companies, and then a group of social investors is recruited, continuing to engage in this industry is not a monopoly .
Under the condition that the core controlling members of a company remain unchanged, even if it is split into a hundred or a thousand companies, it will still be a monopoly.
It's just that its monopoly becomes less conspicuous, and people will be masked by what they see as "internal competitiveness".
It's like Congress - a monopoly of political resources, but politicians use the rules to legally apply the rules to protect themselves, so that people don't realize that Congress is always the absolute manifestation of political monopoly!
That's what Mr. Patou means, he runs two oil fields, and what he's doing now is legal.
But if he runs four oil fields, then his business becomes illegal, funny, but that's the reality.
Sometimes the big guys have to abide by the rules of the game, because they make the rules. When they want more people to follow them, they must follow them first.
You don't even follow the rules you make, so how can you make others follow them willingly?
"So?"
Mr. Patou smiled, "I'm very interested in their security company, and some other industries, some emerging industries."
"Families and consortiums like ours are actually facing a difficult transition. This incident is an opportunity for us."
“We can get the best possible result at a lower price and cost!”
Plundering some mature emerging industries directly from the Duncan family is equivalent to helping the family avoid many failures in the process of transformation and innovation, and directly enjoy the fruits of success.
If these industries do not shrink, then Mr. Patou will increase investment to build these emerging industries into future family pillar industries, and improve the scale and chain around these industries.
In this way, they can persevere even in the face of a financial tsunami like a few years ago.
Lynch thinks about it~IndoMTL.com~ It's just not enough in this area, you have to understand that the more we give, the more we get! "
"Honestly anyone can do what you're talking about, so you have to come out with the real stuff, money, or resources, or whatever!"
If you set a few fires and do some destruction, you can get millions of industries, and there will be no poor people in this world.
Lynch and Mr. Patou discussed it for several hours before leaving. Before leaving, he noticed that Mr. Patou's horse ranch had a lot of concentrate, including soybeans, and he asked for some.
Those sun-dried soybeans are yellow, and some people call them soybeans.
Soybeans have always been a high-quality crop and can be used in many places.
You can find all kinds of canned soybeans even in supermarkets.
Even in the relief food provided by the government now, soybeans will always be the largest crop.
Inexpensive and high in nutritional value, these are enough!