《1855 American Tycoon》Chapter 23: Accident
Advertisement
"Newspaper for sale, the newspaper for sale! Watch the Oak Street shootout, one man was seriously injured!"
"Stop a minute." Strew called his private carriage, and said to the coachman, "Stephen, you go to buy me a newspaper too."
The coachman answered, and the coach stopped slowly. Then Strew heard the coachman shouting toward the paperboy, "The boy, a newspaper."
"Thank you, two cents." A child's voice came from outside the wagon.
After a while, the window in front of the carriage was opened and a newspaper was slipped in: "Sir, your newspaper."
Strew took the newspaper and began to search for news of the Oak Street shootout on it. This is his favorite news, the more shootings, the more chaos, and the better his business. Of course, recently there have been several robberies of rich people, even in broad daylight also happened in this case. The police department in Ohio sucks, watching poor people rob rich people! Good thing he had the foresight, his carriage with steel plate reinforced, and the carriage also had several guns.
"Well, Oak Street home invasion robbery? These guys are getting bolder and bolder, so business will probably be better now. Well, the homeowner Luther used a double barrel shotgun Stroh to fire back, the shotgun blew up, and Mr. Luther was seriously wounded and unconscious. Mr. Luther's wife, Ms. Martha, then used a revolver to continue to shoot at the robbers and cover her two children as they retreated upstairs. After the robbers took some of the property, they quickly fled, and by the time the police arrived ...... Mr. Luther was seriously injured and was being renewed in the hospital. According to what our reporter learned, Mr. Luther's entire jaw, and an eye were blown out. As for Mr. Luther using Scott's double-barrel shotgun why will suddenly blow up, the newspaper is investigating."
"Damn it!" Stella angrily crumpled the newspaper into a ball. At this time, such a scandal broke out, and the business of the company, is blow. Moreover, this damned newspaper put the brand of the gun that blew up so clearly, and then said something like "under investigation". Investigate your sister ah! Is this not a naked indication to him to get the money? This bunch of damn vampires, do they not know, blowing up, is a common accident, and the vast majority of blowing up accidents, are caused by the user's improper maintenance?
Strew waved his fist again as if the reporter from the "Businessman" was right in front of his eyes. Then he shouted to the outside, "Stephen, go to the newspaper "Businessman"."
......
"This article is still not well written. At the end of the article, it even says, 'What's wrong with this company, can it forget quality and conscience for the sake of sales? Why is no one supervising it, managing it, and letting it create fake products to harm people? This must be a systemic problem! I can not help but fall into a deep thought 'are not, really should give a bad review!
Advertisement
Scrooge gently "Businessman" newspaper on the table, smiled, and shook his head.
"I didn't think your paragraph was very good." Rockefeller said, "Compared to other people's writing, your paragraph is disgusting."
"You don't understand, you don't understand." Scrooge shook his head with a heroic, lonely look of indignity.
"Come on, Scrooge, you're not an expert in the art of writing, or admit it yourself. I think the unlucky guy you targeted must be trying to bribe The Businessman right now. That guy has more money in his hand than you do, so he'll probably be able to handle the Businessman. What will you do then?" Rockefeller seemed to be a little uncomfortable with Scrooge's arrogant look and gave him a bucket of cold water.
"Oh, he indeed has more money than me, but so what? You know it costs a lot more to get the media to cover something than it does to get the media to not cover something. He doesn't have that kind of money yet."
"It costs more to buy people out than it does to get them to do their jobs?" Rockefeller didn't turn around for a second.
"To get no coverage, one needs to buy all the media, while we only need to buy a newspaper enough. Moreover, he gave money to one newspaper, which the other newspapers know, will not be eye-catching. And what can the other newspapers do to get money from him?"
"Scrooge, you're really bad." Rockefeller said seriously, "It's a good thing we're on the same team."
......
"Another shotgun blowout - the man died on the spot."
"What is the cause of the frequent blowouts?"
A pile of newspapers lay on Stroh's desk. A few days ago, such reports had made Stroh furious, but now Stroh had no strength to be angry. Anyway, in these newspapers, his company has simply become synonymous with unconscionable. For the sake of making money unlimited increase in labor intensity, resulting in workers' fatigue work, and while increasing labor intensity at the same time he also to the same time low wages, which makes the workers' sense of responsibility and then decline. Eventually, the quality of the product fell, resulting in frequent accidents. Some baseless and speculate that the frequency of accidents is due to their use of poor-quality materials to make more money. They even take out a series of comparisons between the company's earlier products and recent products and conclude that the steel used in the earlier products is different from the current ones. God testifies that if there is a difference in the quality of steel, it must be a problem on the side of the steel mill.
During this period, Stroh went around putting out fires and spending money to get rid of the reporters, but often, just as one newspaper was put out of business, another one popped up immediately. To make these newspapers all shut up, the nerve of that own business, in the end, to make money for whom?
Advertisement
There is also a period, he also thought of simply pulling together a newspaper, and letting them give their defense, but he soon found that the defense of this thing will start a debate, and the debate started after all Cleveland, even all of Ohio know that his gun will blow up ...... this, this is simply their own money to beat themselves.
But these are not the most damaging, the most damaging is that he received a series of canceled orders of the letter. Before all this mess happened, his company received a lot of orders. To complete these orders, he borrowed a lot of debt - when his business was doing well, banks were rushing to lend him money, but now, the banks are blocking the door to ask for money. The money he borrowed has been turned into raw materials and machinery, and if he can't sell the guns, his capital chain will not last long and will break. The fate of bankruptcy is just around the corner.
In a few days, he will have to default on the contract. Then, the company will go bankrupt, everything in the company together with all his personal property - the house, the carriage, even his desk in front of him will be registered for the auction, and he will be seen as a shameful loser, spurned by countless people, and can only take his wife and children to the streets.
Maybe it's time to look for potential buyers and see if anyone is willing to pay to sell their business. In this way, you can still have a little bit left. But, in this situation, who is willing to continue to take over this mess?
......
"Mr. Stroh, someone would like to talk to you about buying your company. Strew's secretary, the Duke, reported the news that he both expected and feared.
"Who is the other party ......? How much are they going to pay?" Stella said breathlessly. The recent changes have knocked him down completely, and now he looks as if he has aged twenty years at once, and his head has sprouted a lot of gray hair. "I'm not happy about it, but it's time to quit."
"The shareholder who is interested in buying your company is Mr. Scrooge, and he said that he can come to visit you whenever you are free," Duke replied.
"Ah, tomorrow is Sunday, so tell him I'll be at the office tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. if that's okay." Stella replied, "All right, you go down. I have to think of something."
......
"Mr. Scrooge, you've been invited to come to his office tomorrow morning to talk to him. Is there any problem with that?"
The man who spoke was a tall, strong man with curly hair and a conspicuous beard, and bronze skin that if he were to strip naked and stand motionless in the street, a large crowd would mistake him for a bronze statue in the style of ancient Greece.
"Carter, you do not have to worry too much, he will not make anything irrational, after all, he does not have many options. And now his every move is being watched. Those people in the bank are watching her 24 hours a day, afraid he'll run away with the money." Scrooge smiled.
Seeing Scrooge's smile, Carter remembered a week ago, he went to rob these harmless-looking children's incident. At that time, the child in a store bought a lot of things, in the payment, Carter happened to pass by there, and he saw the child's pocket of at least ten dollars. So she quietly followed up, intending to tell the child the truth, a person with money out of running around unsafe. Seeing the child enter an isolated alleyway, Carter rushed to follow - here can be just the right place to work. However, when Carter pulled out a knife against a child, still need to pull out a gun? A knife will be able to scare him silly, right? However, to Carter's surprise, the kid looked at him with a smile on his face, then calmly pulled out a revolver, and then came around from behind with a man with a pistol ......
Well, then, Carter became a prisoner of Scrooge. He was forced to give an account of his various crimes, and a series of incriminating evidence fell into his hands. Carter felt that he was probably going to spend 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 will not let you dry for anything, you can get from me here ...... "Well, from then on, Carter will have a job again.
Advertisement
- In Serial17 Chapters
Governor
Haphazardly thrown into another world, Robin finds herself tasked as a governor in the new world. Uniting kingdoms, managing her new domain, understanding fundamentals of magic, and ultimately overseeing for a higher god, is enough to cause more than a few strands of white hair.
8 245 - In Serial6 Chapters
The God World
Follow Roy into a world of gods, fantasy beings, legendary quests, and where everyone has a game-like system. See how anyone can become anything they want inside The God World. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = This is set in a futuristic world, where humans were able to enter in fantasy-like worlds through portals. The fantasy worlds open a game-like system to everyone who enters them, involving levels, combat classes, lifestyle professions, monsters and other intelligent races. People can enter and leave the portals, and can take things with them. This fiction is currently being edited and cleaned, because I'm co-writing on webnovel.
8 145 - In Serial14 Chapters
Blade of Gaia
Seth Nox, also known as the Blade, is the infamous killer that hunts his targets on the continent of Gaia. Gaia’s citizens fear his name and fear they’ll be his next target. But lately, there have been rumors that have mysteriously surfaced; rumors of an organization raiding, pillaging and senselessly murdering civilians. Now, with orders from the Queen of Gaia, Seth is tasked to find this new deadly force and give them eternal slumber. But what will happen when this game of cat and mouse turns into that of hunter and hunted. The biggest threat Seth has ever had to face is slowly drawing the knife.
8 220 - In Serial12 Chapters
Blade of Crom
A band of adventures go out to tackle the dangers of a monster lair.Will they find treasure and glory or does a dark fatih await them in the dark? A short story about Cromwalls Band of Adventurers and the one who leads them.
8 114 - In Serial46 Chapters
Experiment 636
The world had changed. Over twenty years ago, monsters emerged from the ground and put the earth in chaos. People split themselves apart from one another in desperate attempts to survive. Whiles others were trying to survive on the surface, fighting off the monsters from deep below, she was trying to survive a different kind of monster. She was given only a number. There were no names. No pleasantries. Just tests. Everyday 636 had to undergo painful and inhuman testing. Her whole life she had been in a cage. The scientists around her tried to rip her apart. Turning her into something beyond human, with the end goal of a weapon to use against the monsters that had surfaced years ago. 636 was content for things to remain and stay in the labs forever. Treated like an object. Too afraid to fight for her place. That was... until she met a boy from cell 13 and learned what it meant to have a choice. It took unforeseen circumstances for 636 to realize no one belonged in a cage and she could only go so far before she reached her breaking point.
8 187 - In Serial32 Chapters
Legendary Elemental Knight
Johnny Stark, known as the man with the highest IQ ever recorded in the human history, tries an experiment that goes awry finally claiming his life. But he crossovers to a new world where strength rules supreme. With his A.I assistant LILY fused woth his consciousness, watch as he creates his own cultivation technique and never seen before martial arts. Lets take a journey as he takes his baby steps to standing at the peak of the world...
8 130

