Cosma Empire

At around nine o'clock in the evening, Du Lin met Sandra who insisted on having an interview. The two opened a business suite at the Valier Holiday Hotel and asked the hotel staff to bring some food and drink. Du Lin was a little hungry. Du Lin originally planned to go to bed early at night, so he didn't eat much. He heard from Angela that eating too much dinner would affect his sleep for the night, so Du Lin usually only ate six percent full on nights when there was no social gathering. Now I have something to do at night, and it seems that I may not be able to sleep before ten o'clock, so I might as well eat something.

"Sorry for the delay." At 9:20, Du Lin picked up the napkin and wiped the oil on his lips, threw the napkin on the dining car, walked out of the restaurant, and sat on the sofa in the living room.

Because it is close to the central part of the empire and borders the south, Vallier is also a city with a lot of tourists. It usually receives tourists with different identities, and the types of rooms are relatively complete. From the royal suite on the top floor to the ordinary standard rooms, everything that can be seen elsewhere is also available here. In order to discuss things better, Du Lin asked for a business suite. Such a room has three bedrooms, a dining room, and two living rooms similar to a study and a living room. It is mainly aimed at those business elites.

If you want a normal standard room..., sitting in the bedroom and talking about things, there is always something wrong.

Sandra smiled indifferently. Anyway, she had nothing to do at night. The night in the west was actually very boring. There was only about one-fifth of the red wine left in the red wine glass on the coffee table, and her face became more and more rosy. She ran her fingers between her hair and her neck and brushed her hair, leaned back, crossed her legs and pressed on the sofa, "It's nothing, I just need to think about other things."

"It's not what a gentleman should do to keep a lady waiting for a long time, but a gentleman will also be hungry sometimes." Du Lin replied with a smile, and then began the next topic, "Ms. Sandra, don't you?" Do you know what you have to say tonight? To be honest, I just came back from the imperial capital by steam locomotive, if possible, why don't we make what we want to say simple."

Sandra tilted her head slightly, and made a gesture that didn't match her age. She actually stuck out her tongue. Although only the tip of her tongue was exposed, Du Lin thought she had drunk too much.

"Well, it's actually not a big deal. Memnon invited Carlos, Cleveland and me to the meeting place of the West Mine Association in the afternoon. He plans to manage the remaining things of the West Mine Association by himself, and at the same time develop the surrounding area. I plan to use that land as the center to build a high-end commercial center.” After Sandra said this, she had been observing Du Lin’s expression, but it was a pity that Du Lin’s face never sat down. Since then, nothing has changed.

"He hoped that we could invest, and offered us a low-interest loan of 1.5 million each, but I refused."

"But Carlos and Cleveland agreed, and they are willing to continue working with Memnon to develop this project."

Du Lin always had a very serious expression on his face,

He nodded, "Memnon's idea is very good. I have been to that place. The location is very good, and the whole land is also very large. Before the construction of Vallier, it was actually a rural area, and the people from the Western Mining Association occupied it. A lot of cheap, and now these cheap are all cheap Memnon. This is a very good investment project, Ms. Sandra, why are you rejecting it?"

"This is a great opportunity!"

During didn't take Carlos and Cleveland's choice to heart. The capitalists always pursue profit. From the day Memnon was "pardoned", he knew that the small group of the country club would definitely have problems. To put it simply, these people have spent a lot of money and used a lot of personal connections and favor cards on Memnon. Of course they are not Memnon supporters. They use this method in exchange for Memnon’s support for them. Business support.

Look, almost all of Bondika's chemical plants have moved to the west. Why? Because other places do not allow them to build chemical plants, or require them to build more complex and expensive waste treatment plants. It seems that three or four years ago, a chemical factory discharged industrial sewage directly into the groundwater system, causing many people in the nearby town to be poisoned, which triggered a large-scale demonstration and controversy. The Imperial Environmental Agency also started to deal with it. Legislate the standards for the ecological environment.

But in the west, all of this is not a problem. Memnon has solved all their worries for them. It is said that they have developed a set of "dry throwing" waste disposal methods, allowing chemical fertilizers and sewage to evaporate at high temperatures in pools, leaving behind Solid powder particles, and then these powder particles were packed and buried in the western wilderness. If it is not specifically looking for trouble, it may be decades or even hundreds of years later, when the west also ushers in an all-round development, these things will be exposed. As for those potentially poisonous gases, they would dissipate as soon as they were blown by the wind from the west coast. As long as there were no dead people... Even if there were dead people, Memnon would be able to suppress them.

They have already invested a lot of resources in Memnon, and now that Memnon has been lifted, they will naturally not "repeat construction" and invest again in Du Lin or the next successor. Their desire to pursue their own interests does not allow it, and neither does the board of directors and chairman committees above them. What's more, Memnon's side is very stable. Even Powell called him personally, so what's there to worry about?

The only thing that makes Du Lin feel strange is that Sandra did not continue to cooperate with Memnon, which is a strange thing.

Sandra smiled and shook her head. Instead of answering Du Lin's question, she talked about something unrelated to this, "I have many brothers and sisters!", Sandra picked up the wine glass and shook it, the red liquid poured into the glass The cup kept shaking, round and round, and the liquid that had just fallen along the wall of the cup had not yet fallen to the bottom, and was submerged by the new wave. She took a sip, looked at Du Lin and said with a half-smile, "I'm not exaggerating the concept of 'many', it's really a lot."

"As far as I know, there are about 50 brothers and sisters who are eligible to sit down and dine in the manor restaurant on New Year's Eve. There are still many people who are not eligible to sit at the table, or even You are not eligible to go back to the manor for the New Year."

"As a child I never understood why, why I had so many brothers and sisters, and why there were so many brothers and sisters standing against the walls of the restaurant with envious, jealous, hateful, mocking, sarcastic and even malicious eyes Look at us sitting. I feel sorry for them, but I don't know how to change that."

"One year, I was about nine years old?" Sandra put the wine glass back on the coffee table, picked up the bottle and poured some more, she squeezed her eyes and recalled for a while, "About nineteen to ten years old, Three days before Chinese New Year, my grandfather, who is also the grandfather of most of the children, asked us to gather together, probably more than a hundred children, and he asked us a question."

"The topic is very simple. What would you do if there were ten yuan on the ground?"

"Since that night, there are many brothers and sisters who have never been seen again. They have returned to their families and become ordinary people. Like most ordinary people in this society, they need to work hard to get a promotion and a raise. Need to worry about small sums of money and beg for small things. They are deprived of the right to use the family name, are not allowed to tell anyone about their parentage, and they are not even allowed to come forward to family members .”

"How did I answer..." Sandra raised her lips slightly, "I won't tell you."

"But every year since then, I've sat in that cold room having an unsatisfactory dinner with a bunch of apathetic siblings."

"At that time, my grandfather told me that as an outstanding family member, one must not only be able to see farther places, but also be able to see through all illusions and ruthless practices, and find the most correct direction for oneself."

"Only those who possess such a strict foundation can be members of the family of..."

"I've seen your past..." Sandra didn't hide anything about this kind of impolite behavior that could be considered offensive, "I was surprised, and it was only at this time that I realized that maybe you just It is the kind of person my grandfather said, who can really stand at the starting point and see the end point. Starting from Tenell, every bet you make is in the most correct place. In a few years, you have almost never missed it. .”

At this point Sandra suddenly shut her mouth, she paused for a moment, and added, "Maybe missed it too, but you made up for it very well and kept it hidden, only to let people see every step that you were absolutely right .”

"Luck can be accumulated, I firmly believe in this, you ask me why I don't choose to continue to cooperate with Memnon?" Sandra laughed, her voice was nice, "Because it's always good to leave you like this If people don’t choose, choose Memnon, who has failed many times, which will make it impossible for me to go back to the manor during the Chinese New Year this year and eat that terrible dinner!”

After hearing this, Du Lin was silent for a moment, "Thank you very much for your favor, which makes me very panic. What if I make a mistake too, or even make a mistake in the next step?"

"You can't be wrong, this is a woman's intuition!", Sandra smiled happily, the kind that trembled, she laughed for a while before she stopped laughing, and asked Du Lin a question, "What if You saw ten dollars on the ground, what would you do?"

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