Chapter 1234: Another Way of Cooperation

When Lanse went out in the morning, more indigenous people had already gathered outside the manor; when they saw Lanse's motorcade coming out, they immediately raised their placards and started the spray mode again.

Ma Duoer, who was sitting in front, was a bit worried, "Do you want to disperse them?"

Lanse looked at the scale of at least two or three hundred people; he considered it, "Arrange someone to let them choose two representatives to come out and chat with me later; no need to disperse them for the time being, but arrange for people to keep an eye on them."

For these indigenous people, Lanse was not very worried that they would try to attack himself.

In fact, after hundreds of years of domestication, these indigenous people have already been unable to have the courage to launch a suicidal attack on the Federation in a desperate situation like their ancestors.

They have completely become small pets domesticated under the Federation's "protection system," looking a bit peculiar, but having no danger, and no deterrent power, just not very easy to deal with.

After all, in order to show their preferential policies toward indigenous people, the federal government sometimes leans toward these people on some issues that are not so critical; this is also why indigenous people in the Federation like to operate some illegal businesses.

They can earn a lot of money without worrying about federal law; they are very satisfied with such a life!

Lanse had many things to do in the morning, dealing with some financial matters, and things about various companies.

The security plan that the Ministry of Defense and Lanse cooperated on has begun to be officially fulfilled; because of the presidential election and the fact that President Porter came to power to preside over the work of the Federation, it caused this cooperation not to continue to be promoted for half a year in the middle.

It is not that the Ministry of Defense did not promote it, but accompanied by the governance of the Porter regime, the Ministry of Finance, the military, Congress, and various departments related to this cooperation all ushered in personnel changes; only after the personnel changes ended, and the people who came to power did not oppose the continued promotion of this project, could they continue to fulfill it.

Sometimes people will admire the speed of action of the federal government, for example, after they made the decision to participate in the war, the federal cargo ships were attacked.

But sometimes the efficiency of the federal government is not so high; for example, things that were clearly easy to solve were dragged until May before they began to continue to be promoted, but fortunately, they were still promoted.

The Ministry of Defense gave Lanse an indicator of five thousand people, but now more than seven thousand retired soldiers have been recruited.

The cruel environment on the battlefield has made more soldiers who need help than reported in the news, suffering from battlefield syndrome; they cannot return to normal life, and now that there is such an opportunity to let them calm down, naturally, these veterans all applied for this plan.

The Ministry of Defense pushed this difficult problem to Lanse; the indicator is still five thousand, but he has to find a way to stuff in more than seven thousand, and the Ministry of Defense will not give Lanse extra subsidies for the more than two thousand people, which requires Lanse to bear it himself.

When Lanse talked to Major General Bruny about this matter, he tentatively asked a sentence; although Major General Bruny did not answer positively, he could feel from the other party's tone and the pause in speaking that, in fact, the subsidies for these two thousand-plus extra veterans were also there.

But it was gone when it reached him.

It doesn't seem to be much, but if each person has a subsidy of thirty or forty dollars a month, this is an expenditure of nearly one hundred thousand dollars a month that is not in the plan.

They can stay with peace of mind, whether it is put into their own pockets, or everyone sits down and divides it together, it is a good choice.

Lanse can get an extra one hundred thousand dollars here; other companies can "extort" some if they can "extort"; a month, maybe they can intercept subsidies of hundreds of thousands or millions, which is not a small amount.

Lanse had no opinion on this; the Ministry of Defense and the military have begun to dislike these veterans adding trouble to them, but Lanse felt that these people still have some value.

At least... there will always be people among them who can do big things, right?

When a desperate retired veteran decides to burn his own life, it will definitely shock the world.

He hopes there won't be such a day, but if it is really needed, this is the best solution.

When he returned to the manor in the afternoon, two indigenous representatives were already waiting for him in the manor; when the motorcade entered the manor, those indigenous people did not raise their placards and spray saliva at him again, which shows that these indigenous people still understand some politeness and rules.

Lanse received the two indigenous representatives in the side hall; they both had long black hair, and there were tattoos on their faces, and there were some ancient accessories with indigenous styles on their bodies, looking honestly a bit strange.

"Please sit.", Lanse did not shake hands with them, directly letting them sit down, "Can you two represent the indigenous tribes in South Yaan State?"

The two representatives looked at each other, and after looking at each other, they both nodded and promised this point.

The taller guy among them said, "Can, my name is...", he said a long string of names, sounding a bit winding, but fortunately he had an abbreviation—Kuola.

Kuola is the chief of the largest indigenous tribe in South Yaan State, forty-something, in his prime.

The guy beside him is the chief of another tribe.

In fact, from the strict sense now, it can no longer be called a chief; federal people long ago broke up this relationship; in the process of domestication, they cannot let them always maintain such traditional, dominant social structures, which is unfavorable to the management of the Federation.

Of course, they still call themselves this internally; perhaps there are not many indigenous people who completely obey them, but they still have great prestige in the indigenous group.

After the two finished introducing themselves, Lanse nodded, "Then what are your demands?"

"I saw that you have been standing outside my manor for two days, and the number of people is increasing; just protesting, marching, demonstrating, cannot solve any problems; tell me, what do you want?"

Kuola rubbed his hands together, looking a bit nervous, "We... heard that you are going to build a super-large commercial casino next to Sher?"

Lanse leaned on the sofa; he lit a cigarette; at this moment, he spread out the other hand that was not holding the cigarette, "Everyone knows this matter, and the newspaper also published this news."

As a representative pushed out, in fact, Kuola also knew very clearly that it was basically impossible to let the person in front of him cancel the plan to build the casino.

He heard that the governor even ran to Golden State for this matter, and got a commercial license from Congress, just to ensure that the casino could be successfully built and opened.

And it is said that some local celebrities and financial tycoons are also considering contacting Lanse to invest in the entire project to a certain extent.

Once so many forces pour in, the protests of these small indigenous people cannot set off any waves!

At most, it is to add a little trouble to them, but if the trouble increases too much, it might be fiercely cleaned up by federal people.

Until now, there are still legends like "foreign devils" recorded in indigenous tribes, which also makes indigenous people very afraid of federal people.

He thought for a long time before finding some rhetoric that didn't look so intense, "Mr. White, you know, the federal government doesn't allow us to engage in many industries; gambling and prostitutes are the main sources for us to maintain our lives at present."

Lanse teased, "I thought hunting and planting were also." Their skin color itself was a bit dark; after hearing Lanse's sentence, the faces of the two people were obviously darker again.

The federal government does not hope that indigenous people can live a good life; only in this way will their thinking change, will they turn to federal people, and thus abandon hatred.

In order to achieve these, the federal government has actually made a lot of efforts, including secret civilization extermination plans—

The federal government once passed a proposal about indigenous people; they required all children of appropriate age to be centrally sent to closed schools to receive education.

On the surface, it is said to improve the education level of indigenous children, but in fact, they used this method to instill that set of federal government's three views and thinking into the brains of these indigenous children.

Brainwashing these things must be systematic, but no matter how systematic brainwashing is, there will be some stubborn elements.

According to unofficial statistics, from the beginning when nearly twenty percent of children would "die suddenly" due to illness during school, to now, about three or four percent of children will die suddenly; behind this is the bloody cleaning of stubborn elements by the Federation.

They use various means to abuse, threaten, harm, and force these indigenous children to accept their thinking and three views; as long as someone shows obvious signs of resistance, they will be punished.

And the upper limit of punishment is death.

Although indigenous people have always been angry about this, they have never had any good way; federal people can slaughter them many times, and they can kill them again on the grounds of "indigenous riots."

Accompanied by the fact that they have gradually abandoned some persistence, customs, and habits over these years.

Except for a very few stubborn tribes that are still maintaining those traditional things, most other indigenous people have been domesticated, and they are tamed.

"Mr. White!", facing Lanse's teasing, although Kuola was very angry, he was also a batch of people who had been domesticated; otherwise, as the son of a chief, if he was not domesticated, he could not graduate from school at all.

It is very likely that he would be like those "hard bones," suddenly disappearing one day, and when he was seen again, he had already become a box of ashes.

Lanse smiled and waved his hand, "Sorry, I shouldn't have made this joke."

Kuola's expression looked very uncomfortable, "Mr. White, if the casino is established, our income will be affected; many families will lose their income and lose the source of our livelihood, so I hope you can also consider us in this matter."

"We don't require you not to build this casino at all, but what we hope is that while it brings benefits to you, it can also let us have a bite to eat."

Lanse seems to have realized his idea, "You want to buy shares?"

Kuola nodded, "This is the best way we can think of to solve this problem, and I noticed that a part of the New City is near our protected area, and it can even be said that it overlaps a part."

"If we can buy shares, according to some policies given to us by the federal government, your taxes can be reduced by a large part!"

Lanse thought for a while, then shook his head.

He actually doesn't have much interest in making money; money has an upper threshold.

Just like... low production, middle production, wealthy; wealth has its own unique performance at each stage; this direct change in life appears intuitively in people's lives.

Before, you lived in a narrow and cramped apartment, the whole family squeezed into one bed; now you own a single-family house with a yard.

Before, you drove that kind of second-hand car worth three or four hundred; now you can afford a mid-range car worth one or two thousand dollars; this is an intuitive change.

But this change has an upper limit; when you can easily afford a manor and can afford wanton squandering, no matter how much money increases, it will not bring significant changes to your current life.

You won't significantly improve your current living environment just because you have more money.

So for Lanse, making money is no longer the first priority, so compared to the policy of tax reduction and exemption, he actually hopes more that he can pay taxes in full.

Paying taxes in full brings the dependence of local finance on taxpayers; the more taxes Lanse pays here, the more local finance and economic development cannot leave Lanse, just like the Social Party now cannot leave the huge benefit transmission Lanse provides every year.

So tax reduction and exemption are not so attractive to him.

Kuola saw that the exchange condition he proposed that was most valuable was rejected, and he didn't know what other way to use to persuade Lanse.

The room fell into a kind of atmosphere without vitality for a time.

If the local indigenous people cannot get shares, it means they will completely lose the way to make money by operating casinos; Kuola didn't know what to do, and could only become impatient.

Looking at the two chiefs almost scratching their heads, looking at the dandruff flying around, Lanse considered for a while and gave them a suggestion.

"Although I cannot give you shares, we can change to another way of cooperation."

"This way of cooperation might let you earn more money than now!"

Kuola looked at Lanse, and after confirming that he was not deceiving or playing with himself, he revealed a clear gaze, "I am listening."

"You can let your people help my casino recruit business and take tourists to play games in the casino."

"These tourists exchange chips in my casino, and you can get a commission of five thousandths."

"That is, they exchange one thousand dollars of chips, and you can get five dollars."

"In addition to this, your girls can come to the New City to work, call-out, dealer, any position that needs women can be, and I will prioritize giving the positions to you..." ===== CHAPTER 1235 =====