"It''s me, Henry." Henry stood by the window of his study. He had just returned from the outside. To be honest, he liked the West. There were no people he hated, such as his brother, and no wife who made him feel depressed. He doesn''t have a good relationship with his brother. Maybe the relationship between all children born in powerful families and brothers and sisters will not be good anywhere.


    In the aristocratic family, everyone is competing for a position.


    In the family of big capitalists such as steel tycoons, all children are frantically competing for equity, even if it is 1 / 10000 or 1 / 100000 equity, they will not let go.


    Not to mention in the steel tycoon''s home, there are two excellent children in all aspects. They have been secretly comparing to determine who is the most suitable successor of the family. So Henry doesn''t like his brother who has to be strong everywhere, even in grade and size.


    But in the west, no one argued with him.


    Not only is there no annoying brother, but also no boring looking wife. He loved his wife very much, and more than once he was sure that the woman was the one he most wanted to be with him all his life, but these things did not prevent him from feeling his wife boring. It''s like an old-fashioned believer who uses the priest''s position and refuses to change even for the continuation of the family. Perhaps it was the biggest mistake for Mr. John to let her go to the women''s school founded by the church, but it also did not prevent him from determining that he loved her.


    Of course, after sweetness, love will become water, from addictive sweetness to something necessary for human life. He occasionally adjusts his needs and drinks some sweet things. In the west, these things are not only sweet, but also as strong as liquor!


    Henry, in the name of a steel tycoon, ran the most important part of his family business in the West - buying metal ores and turning them into ingots. This is the foundation of all industries of steel tycoons. Without these metal ingots, the brother who claims to be running the most important link in the family business - sales, will have nothing to sell. If there is nothing to sell, it means that he can''t make a profit. Even if he can constantly encroach on the markets belonging to others, he must have enough goods.


    Both brothers think that they are the most important link in the family business. Their reasons are very similar, products or sales, and the analysis is very reasonable.


    The west is the largest mining area of the Empire, but it is not easy to stand here. The mining area owned by United Steel Group can not provide enough iron ore, so Henry must buy raw ore from other mining areas if he wants his products to keep up with his brother''s sales. Both kingdees and Orville''s shipment rate of metal ore are constantly floating. These large industry category monopolies do not operate their business for the purpose of sales.


    They operate pricing power, rules and monopoly, so they will not ship goods endlessly. They will not be sold to you if you want to buy when you have money. This involves many things unrelated to the west, such as politics, such as "commodities" beyond the simple relationship between money and goods.


    This made Henry very angry. Coupled with the resistance of the western mining association to big capitalists, it was many times more difficult to get a mining area than an ordinary person. West mine will fight with him, jintis will fight with him, and Orville will fight with him. In addition to some mining groups, Henry''s days in the West were not as happy as people thought.


    He has been trapped here for many years and has not found a breakthrough, but now he has found it. That breakthrough is Dooling.


    He and Turin met privately, and more than once, they soon found what they needed from each other, that is, the way to open up the situation in the West as soon as possible. They all belong to the small group of people who are excluded, and they all need to expand their careers to prove their value. As for Turin''s holding up the axe to the famous George family and cutting down the first axe, it will not be an obstacle to the cooperation between him and Turin.


    The George family is the George family, and the ander family is the ander family. They may be married to each other, but they must not be confused.


    Turin just called him and needed him to provide some help. In order to prove that he was qualified to compete with Turin and carve up the fat meat in the west, Henry called his father. This was the first call he made to Mr. Andre after the new year.


    As the largest equity owner of United Steel Group, Mr. Andre has far more social status and influence than ordinary people. Even Henry calls him through the housekeeper.


    "Henry? I heard that the west is very interesting recently. Do you want to come back?", Mr. Ender''s voice is very thick. He is learning to sing opera now. Elegant people always have a little elegant hobby. Playing the piano and other things has missed the age of learning, but singing is not too late.


    Henry wrapped his mouth. He put down the curtains and sat down in his chair, "I heard that you have a good relationship with the people of the Ministry of defense. The West has now entered the state of military control, which has had a great impact on all businesses. Our workers are unwilling to go home, and those who go home are unwilling to come to work. They are afraid of being brutally treated or even killed. Not long ago, the brewer Bay mining area was attacked by the freedom front, and now several years ago Almost all mining areas have stopped foreign trade. The people of the freedom front will not be destroyed one day. They may not sell us ore one day. "


    Mr. Ender at the other end of the phone finally got serious. As Henry said, he knew people in the Ministry of defense. In addition to having good contacts in the Ministry of defense, he also had some friends with Mr. MARGES. As the largest iron and Steel Group in the Empire, it has a huge consumer group in both civil and military fields. Especially with the rapid economic recovery, the infrastructure construction in various places has created a huge steel consumption market. In addition, the army armaments are still changing this year, and the military industry group also has a large number of orders.


    So he has contacts with all levels of the country. He needs to sell goods, and those people need to buy goods.


    If, just if, if some orders cannot be completed because there is no steel, the blow to United Steel Group will be unprecedented. The cabinet will be disappointed with him, the military will be disappointed with him, and local governments and small companies will also be disappointed with him. This is something Mr. ander does not allow. His expression was very serious and changed his sitting position, "what do you want me to do for you?"


    Henry breathed a sigh of relief. He cocked his legs, stuffed a piece of paradise into his mouth and lit it. The whole person was in a highly relaxed state. "I hope you can express your views to the Ministry of defense. For example, first concentrate on exterminating the armed extremist terrorist organization, the Freedom Front, so that at least I can get what we need from which mines."


    "Is the situation really so serious?", Mr. Ender still can''t believe it. He has never heard that miners dare not sell mines, and only those who buy mines dare not enter the mining area.


    In fact, the fact is much more serious than expected. The details of the free front''s killing of brewer Bay have been inexplicably disclosed. At this time, people found that those people had bought the trading company trading with brewer Bay by means of kidnapping and threats more than a month ago. Then they spent so long figuring out the defense measures and the number of mine protection teams in brewer Bay, where the slaves provided some of the most valuable information.


    Then, with the cooperation of inside and outside, the mining area of brewer Bay, which has never been challenged, was completely destroyed when it was challenged for the first time.


    This makes many mining areas frightened. Who knows whether the other party who provides supplies for themselves or has frequent trade with them is a member of the freedom front. Will they have arranged the same means in their mining areas and wait for the moment when they open the door.


    So now all mining areas are nervous. Even for supplies, they also require the trading bank to leave the supplies outside the mining area. After the people of the trading bank evacuate, they will organize the mine protection team and formal local employees to open the small door to pull in the supplies.


    As for the unloading in the mining area?


    Sorry, that''s impossible!


    As for businessmen who come to buy ore, such as United Steel Group, it is reasonable to let them in. After all, United Steel Group is not a small trading company. But who can guarantee that the people who come to buy ore must be from the United Steel Group, not fake by the free front?


    It is a good way to open a small door to send out the ore, but there are also great risks. If you let the slaves send them, the slaves will certainly run away. But if you let the employees and the mine protection team send them, what if the slaves in the camp suddenly start a riot and the outside also starts to attack? You know, the slaves in the brewer Bay mining area rushed out of the mine with pistols and single shot rifles. They didn''t have enough firepower to suppress them. Once something similar happened in their camp, those mine protection teams couldn''t suppress the resistance and riots of the slaves.


    So, just don''t sell it!


    When Mr. ander learned that the situation in the West was so serious, he immediately dialed the imperial defense minister after hanging up Henry''s phone, expressed his views and concerns about the situation in the west, and mentioned the danger of the freedom front to the Empire. After learning about this, the Minister of defense, after a teleconference with the cabinet, finally decided to change his strategy slightly, first stabilize the situation outside the western cities, and then clean up those disorderly forces.


    In the middle of the night, some cities not involved in the assassination began to withdraw their troops. Only three state capitals and four important hub cities retained military control, and other troops scattered to the wilderness in the West.