1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 23

“The newspaper is sold, the newspaper is sold! Watching the Oak Street shootout, one person was seriously injured!”

“Stop it.” Strou stopped own private carriage, and said to the coachman, “Stephen, you go and buy me a newspaper.”

The coachman responded, and the coach stopped slowly. Then Strouh heard the coachman shouting at the newsboy: “That kid, here’s a newspaper.”

“Thank you, two cents.” A child’s immature voice came from outside the carriage.

After a while, the window in front of the carriage was opened, and a newspaper was stuffed in: “Sir, your newspaper.”

Strou took the newspaper and began to search for news of the Oak Street shootout. This is his favorite news. The more gun battles and the more chaotic the law and order, the better his business. Of course, there have been some cases of robbery of wealthy people recently, even in broad daylight. The police department in Ohio is terrible, watching the poor rob the rich! Fortunately, he had the foresight, his carriage was reinforced with steel plates, and there were several guns in the carriage.

“Well, the robbery in Oak Street? These guys are getting bolder and stronger, and business is expected to be better now. Well, the homeowner Luther fired back with a Stroop double-barreled shotgun, and the shotgun exploded. Mr. Luther was seriously injured and unconscious. After that, Mr. Luther’s wife, Ms. Martha, used a revolver to continue shooting at the robbers and shielded her two children and retreated upstairs. After the robbers stole some belongings, He ran away quickly and waited until the police arrived… Mr. Luther was seriously injured and was being rescued in the hospital. According to what this reporter learned, Mr. Luther’s entire jaw and one eye were blown out. As for why the Scott double-barreled shotgun used by Mr. Rudd suddenly exploded, this newspaper is investigating.”

“Damn it!” Stru angrily crumpled the newspaper into a ball. At this time, such a scandal broke out, and it was definitely a blow to a company with good business. Moreover, this damn newspaper wrote so clearly about the brand of the gun in which the bombing accident occurred, and later said that it was “under investigation”. Investigate your sister! Isn’t this just telling him nakedly to get the money? Don’t these damn vampires know that blasting is a common accident, and most of the blasting accidents are caused by improper maintenance and use by the users themselves?

Strou shook his fist fiercely again, as if the reporter from Kommersant was right in front of him. Then he shouted to the outside: “Stephen, go to the Kommersant newspaper.”

“This article is still not well written. At the end, there is even “What’s wrong with this company? Is it possible to avoid quality and conscience for the sake of sales? Why is there no one to supervise it, manage it, and let it go?” Making fake and inferior products harm people? This must be a systemic issue! I can’t help but fall into deep thinking, “None, I really should give a bad review!”

Scrooge kept the newspaper “The Kommersant” gently on the table, and shook his head with a smile.

“I don’t think your paragraph is so good.” Rockefeller said, “Compared with other people’s words, your paragraph is disgusting.”

“What you don’t understand, you don’t understand.” Scrooge shook his head, looking like a lonely hero.

“Come on, Scrooge, you are not adept at Wuwen and Momo, so you should recognize it yourself. I think the hapless guy you are looking at must be trying to bribe the “Businessman” now. That guy has it in his hands. The money is estimated to be more than you, and most of it will be able to handle “Businessman”. What will you do then?” Rockefeller seemed a bit uncomfortable with Scrooge’s arrogance, and gave him a bucket of cold water.

“Hehe, he does have more money than me, but what about it? You have to know that the cost of letting the media report one thing is much higher than the cost of letting the media not report one thing. His money hasn’t been enough yet. That kind of situation.”

“The cost of buying someone away from work is more expensive than asking someone to work?” Rockefeller didn’t turn around at once.

“For no one to report, it needs to buy all the media, and we only need to buy one newspaper. Besides, he gave money to one newspaper, and other newspapers know about it, don’t they be jealous? And other newspapers. What can I do to get money from him?”

“Scrooge, you are really bad enough.” Rockefeller said seriously, “fortunately we are in the same group.”

“Another case of a shotgun explosion-the person died on the spot.”

“What’s the reason for the frequent occurrence of bombing accidents?”

A large stack of newspapers was placed on Strou’s desk. A few days ago, such reports made Strou furious, but now, Strou has no strength to anger. In these newspapers, his company has become synonymous with conscience. In order to make money, the unrestricted increase of labor intensity has caused workers to work fatigued, and while increasing the labor intensity, they are also paying low wages, which in turn reduces the sense of responsibility of the workers. In the end, the quality of the product deteriorates, leading to frequent accidents. Some have unfounded guesses that the frequent accidents are because they use inferior materials in order to make more money. He even took out a series of comparisons between the company’s early products and recent products, and concluded that the steel used in the early products was different from the current ones. God testified that if there is a difference in the quality of steel, it must be a problem on the steel plant.

During this period of time, Stru went to put out fires everywhere, constantly spending money to settle the reporters, but it was often that one newspaper had just been settled, and another newspaper appeared immediately. If you want these newspapers to shut up, who is f*ck’s own business to make money for?

For a while, he also thought about wooing a newspaper to justify himself. However, he soon discovered that justifying this thing would trigger a controversy. After the controversy was triggered, all of Cleveland and even the whole of Ohio knew his gun. It will explode…this, this is simply spending money to knock yourself down.

But these are not the most terrible, the most terrible is the series of letters he received to cancel the order. Before these messes happened, his company received a lot of orders. In order to fulfill these orders, he borrowed a lot of debts. At that time, his business was running well and the banks were rushing to lend him money. Now, the banks are blocking the door to ask for money. And the money he borrowed has become raw materials and machinery. If he can’t sell the gun, his capital chain will be broken in a short time. The fate of bankruptcy is here.

In a few days, he will have to breach the contract. Then, the company will go bankrupt. Everything in the company, as well as all his personal property-the house, the carriage, and even the desk in front of him will be registered for auction, and he will be regarded as a shameful loser. Spurned by countless people, he can only take his wife and children to the streets.

Maybe it’s time to find potential buyers and see if anyone is willing to spend money to sell their own business. In this way, I can have a little left. However, in the current situation, who is willing to continue to take over this mess?

“Mr. Stroop, someone would like to talk to you about the acquisition of your company. Stroop’s secretary, Duke, reported to him this news that made him look forward to it but also scared him.

“The other party…who is the other party? How much do they plan to pay?” Stru said weakly. The recent changes have completely knocked him down, and now he seems to be twenty years old all of a sudden, and there are a lot of white hairs on his head. “Although not reconciled, but, it is indeed time to quit.”

“It is the shareholder Mr. Scrooge who intends to acquire your company. He said that he can visit you at the company whenever you are free.” Duke replied.

“Ah, tomorrow is Sunday, you tell him, if possible, I will be waiting for him at the company at nine o’clock tomorrow morning.” Stru replied, “Okay, you go down. I have to think about something.”

“Mr. Scrooge, the other party invites you to his company tomorrow morning to talk to him. There will be no problem, right?”

The speaker was a tall and strong man. He had curly hair, a conspicuous beard and bronzed skin. If he was stripped naked and then stood motionless on the street, there would be a large group of people who would take care of him. It is regarded as an antique Greek style bronze statue.

“Carter, don’t worry too much. He won’t do anything irrational. After all, he doesn’t have many choices. And now his every move is stared at. The people in the bank are staring 24 hours a day. She is afraid that he will run away with money.” Scrooge smiled.

Seeing Scrooge’s smile, Carter remembered that he had robbed this harmless little child more than a week ago. At that time, the child bought a lot of things in a store. Carter passed by when he was paying, and he saw that the child had at least ten dollars in his pocket. So she quietly followed, intending to tell the child with facts that it is not safe for a person to bring money out and run around. Seeing that the child got into a remote alleyway, Carter quickly followed in—this was just a good place to work. But when Carter pulled out a knife, um, did he still need a gun to deal with a child? A knife can scare him stupid, right? However, to Carter’s expectation, the kid looked at him with a smile on his face, then calmly took out a revolver, and then walked around a man with a pistol from behind…

Well, then, then Carter became a prisoner of Scrooge. Forced to confess Own’s various crimes, a series of evidence also fell into his hands. Carter felt that he had probably spent the rest of his life in prison. But Scrooge gave him a chance, “I have something inconvenient to do, and I need you to do it for me. Of course, I won’t let you do it for nothing, you can do it from me…” Well, from then on, Carter There will be work again.