Shadow Empire

Chapter 926 Expulsion

In the morning, a passenger ship from the Federation slowly docked at the Zhuolan Pier. As the gangway was lowered, guests from the Federation continued to arrive here carrying their luggage.

This scene happened throughout Yalan.

Negotiations between the Asian Alliance and the Federation are still ongoing. Only part of the cooperation content has been agreed upon before, and there are more cooperation matters to be discussed in the future.

For example, the Federation is seeking to obtain the mining rights of two oil fields in the Yalan region. Exploiting oil fields is not a simple matter. Currently, there are only two small oil fields in the entire Yalan whose reserves have been discovered and are being mined.

And the others, explored or unexplored, or even undiscovered, are waiting for the arrival of their owners.

They cannot produce the equipment to exploit oil fields themselves, let alone build oil storage tanks and pipelines that meet safety standards, so they can only rely on the federal government.

The federal government wants to buy these oil fields and exploit them independently, but the Asian Union believes that they should develop them jointly, even if they get a smaller share.

The capital group, mainly composed of several oil giants in the federation, is still negotiating with them, and it is estimated that there will be no good results in the short term.

Everyone knows that oil is extremely profitable!
It is impossible for the federal consortium to pay them according to the proven reserves and buy these oil fields.

What they can pay is only a small portion of the total reserves of the oil field, maybe one-tenth, or even less!

In addition to the oil fields, there are many other opportunities here, which has attracted more and more "gold diggers" to come to this land to seek the possibility of making a fortune.

The largest number of people should go to the Czech Republic. As the most powerful country in the Asian region, the Czech Republic has already had some industrial bases, and they welcome investment.

As long as you find the right project, you won't have to worry about quickly achieving class crossing. This kind of unequal trade will always bring huge profits for businessmen.

Just like the drug smuggling business Christopher had done with the royal families of some backward countries before, the special medicine that cost a few dollars per dose in the Federation could be exchanged for an equal weight of gold, or even several times the weight of gold in those countries.

This is why so many people are keen on smuggling back and forth between two civilizations of different levels.

Everyone hopes to be the most successful one and reach the pinnacle of life.

Large capital forces or teams will have greater development opportunities in the Czech Republic, while small teams or individuals are not suitable to seek opportunities in the Czech Republic.

They cannot discuss supply and marketing prices and rules in more depth like the teams that are capital-based. All they can discuss is based on the foundation given to them by capital.

They cannot compete with big capital or big teams. Instead, relatively backward places like Lapa or similar countries around them are more suitable for them.

One by one, faces full of hope and yearning appeared on the gangway, quickly merged into the crowd and integrated into the city.

Maybe they can realize their dreams here, but it is also possible that this will be the place where another nightmare in their lives begins.

Who knows?

Lance's eyes were fixed on the gangway. From the crowded crowd at the beginning to the empty crowd now, he gradually frowned.

But the next moment, his brows relaxed, a smile appeared on his face, and he opened the car door and walked out.

Hiram appeared on the gangway and looked down. When he saw Lance, he trotted down the gangway with a smile on his face and hugged Lance who came over.

He used a lot of strength, which made Lance feel a little suffocated. He had to pat Hiram's back and shoulders, "Let me go the fucking way!"

"Haha!" Hiram laughed, loosened his arms, and took two steps back. He looked at Lance, and Lance was also looking at him.

Hiram had obviously gained a lot of weight, and Lance squeezed his arm, "Did Erwin give you feed?"

"I feel like you've gained a lot of weight compared to before."

As soon as he mentioned this, the smile on Hiram's face suddenly disappeared a lot, and he complained, "I have nothing to do over there, all I do every day is eat and sleep, God!"

New Bern is not a fast-paced, bustling city.

Although from the second half of last year to now, the development of the city seems to be accelerating, because many gangs come here to buy whiskey, which has driven some local economic development.

But even so, the city is still very boring and can't be compared with Jingang City at all. I can only kill time in the boring city every day.

"So I came here to check it out, and they said you have a lot of work to do here."

There were many people following Hiram, all of them were carrying square boxes, and their uniform clothes made them look very intimidating.

Lance's gaze lingered on them one by one, and then he greeted them. Then, as he walked away, he answered Hiram's question, "Indeed, I can find you something to do in the next few days."

Hiram was suddenly full of energy, "Who to kill?"

"What Diego?"

"I promise I can shoot him into a sieve!"

Lance rolled his eyes, "No, some disobedient locals."

He took the initiative to open the car door and let Hiram get in, and then he got in himself, "I need you to teach them a lesson from the Federation."

These Lapa people were unaware that a madman had landed, and they were still protesting to the factory.

They are totally unable to adapt to the high-intensity work of more than ten hours a day. They do not have the persistence, hard work, and endurance of the federal people.

They could not bear it any longer and gathered together, demanding that the factory must withdraw yesterday's decision.

The Lapa people are not used to high-intensity, repetitive work. Most of them work for a short period of time, working for a few days, and then lose their job until they find the next one.

Therefore, it is difficult for them to sit still in a fixed position. After a period of time, the novelty disappears, and only mental and physical fatigue remains.

People who have never worked on a high-intensity assembly line will never understand how much harm the pressure of feeling fear can do to a person just by sitting there!

It's normal that these Lapa people, who are used to being free and undisciplined, can't stand it.

It would be abnormal if they could accept it all at once.

Looking at the noisy crowd refusing to work, the factory manager called Roger with sweat on his forehead, and Roger called Lance.

"Shall we go over and take a look?" Hiram sat on the spacious sofa, stroking the warm leather. He now looked a little excited.

He hadn't seen Lance for a while. When he saw Lance again, he felt as if he was alive again. He couldn't describe the feeling, but he just felt more energetic.

Lance looked at him while holding the phone, but didn't hang up directly. "Are you sure you don't need a break?"

Hiram shook his head and said, "After Richard was killed, I've been so idle that I'm about to grow hair. This is a good opportunity for me to see what I can do." As soon as Richard died, the Gold Label Group changed its previous strategy, and the gangs stopped their confrontation with the Lance family. Although the state police were still causing trouble for them, they felt a lot more relaxed after all because they had one less enemy.

Now that he could find something to do, he was obviously happy.

Lance picked up the phone, "I'll go over and take a look later."

More than twenty minutes later, the convoy arrived at the cigar factory.

The cigar factory is on the outskirts of Zhuolan, and they actually planned an industrial zone here.

It can be seen that the person who made this plan may still have some hope for this country in his mind, but it is a pity that so far there are only a few factories in the industrial zone.

Most of the newly built ones are from Lans.

When the car arrived at the cigar factory, many local people had already gathered at the door. They were all talking loudly, and more and more people gathered around. There were already quite a few people gathered at the factory door.

Although there are not many companies in the industrial zone, there are plenty of supporting equipment and personnel.

They didn't learn the advanced aspects of those countries, but they did learn a lot about the problem of redundancy.

An industrial area with no people, an independent police station and more than two hundred police officers.

There were also many police officers at the scene, but they did not interfere with the local workers who were making a fuss. They just stood on the sidelines and watched.

In fact, they arrived when the trouble just happened.

They then immediately reported the matter to the Industrial Zone Police Station.

The chief of the Industrial Zone Police Department obviously got his job through the backdoor, so he is much smarter than those mere lackeys.

He did not immediately decide whether to deal with these matters or not, but instead called his superiors to ask again.

With this question, the problem fell into Diego's hands.

After all, it involves "foreign guests", and some people are unwilling to bear the consequences themselves, so they simply push it onto Diego.

After Diego learned about this, he thought for a moment and asked a question, "Is this illegal?"

No one in his office understood what he said, so he asked again, "I mean, is it legal for these people to oppose unreasonable work demands of foreigners?"

After a brief thought, someone immediately responded, "It's not illegal."

It was a very clever answer. It did not say "legal" or "illegal", but instead used "not illegal".

Diego was threatened by Lance last time, and he already had some dissatisfaction and hostility towards him. This time, things happened to happen and someone supported him from a legal perspective, so he simply told his subordinates not to worry about it.

Don’t federal people like to talk about human rights, democracy and freedom?

Don’t they like to say that marching and protesting are basic human rights?
Well now they got what they wanted, and the people of Lapa have it too!

The answers were passed down layer by layer, and when they finally reached the police station in the industrial zone, the police stopped interfering and just stood aside and watched.

It's fun to see foreigners, which is rare in Lapa.

Lance's car stopped on the road outside the factory. He didn't get out of the car or go over. He just watched from a distance.

Hiram whistled, "What are you going to do?" He turned to look at Lance.

Lance looked at the men from a distance, "Can you use a bat?"

Hiram smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed, "I'm so good at it!"

When the manager was almost unable to bear the torture from these people, someone came running over and whispered something in his ear.

He tilted his head and looked towards the street in the distance. When he saw a row of parked cars, the expression on his face changed immediately.

He pushed the workers closest to him a few times, walked to a box nearby, and stood on it. "Listen to me, shut up!"

His shouting did not gain people's respect. Instead, some people could not help laughing and thought he was funny.

The manager was a local, a Lapa native, a former middle-class man who had been hired because of his experience working in cigar production.

He had never been directly responsible for work for grassroots workers before. This was his first time and he was a little nervous.

It’s not that Lance or Roger don’t want to hire local management, but those management are basically tied to the local ruling group, and it is difficult to poach people from them.

The manager could only yell with a red face, "This is the company's decision, not my decision or anyone else's. You can disagree with it, that's fine."

"We don't expect all of you to comply. The gate is right next to it. You can leave here anytime."

“This is your freedom!”

"But if you want to stay and continue to work in our factory, you must abide by our rules and do what we say!"

You can see that he is very annoyed now, because the boss is watching not far away, he must show his tough side and the ability to deal with these people!

The workers suddenly became a little excited. They began to crowd forward, saying whatever they wanted to say, not caring at all whether it would be useful!

Looking at the crowd that was becoming a little excited again, the manager suddenly pointed at a few people with the loudest voices in the crowd and said, "You are fired!"

The whole scene suddenly became quiet, and most people thought it might just be a "strategy", but they didn't expect that someone would actually be fired.

Some people had expressions of disbelief on their faces, and those who were fired obviously couldn't accept this result!
One of them suddenly went into a frenzy after a brief moment of shock. He squeezed through the crowd and pushed the manager hard, "What did you say?"

The manager fell off the box and the junior cadres behind him supported him, which made the manager feel once again that his authority was seriously challenged!
The way those people looked at him didn't seem as awed as before!

He was also completely furious. He walked up to the guy who was obviously a head taller than him and poked his chest with his finger, "Don't make me repeat myself again!"

"You're fired, now!"

"Get out of the factory right now and don't let me cause you any trouble!"

(End of this chapter)