Chapter 973: Who Stole My Mine?

When they are wealthy, even if they lose dozens or even hundreds of dollars in their wallets, they are unlikely to notice.

Even if they find something wrong, but want to know where this money was used, or why it wasn't settled, it is very likely they won't be able to find it.

Because they are very rich now, they won't have so much hesitation when consuming, and they won't remember many terms and prices because of pursuing ultimate cost-effectiveness.

Only when people are poor and down-and-out will they be very sensitive to the numbers of money.

It can be accurate to a very small number, even after the decimal point.

Diego is now facing such a problem, so he now values money more than before.

He took time these few days to check the remaining money in his hands, wanting to see how much he could still scrape together.

Jiede had already contacted him, saying they would arrange a new commissioner to come here to replace Fernandez's position and communicate with him about some things later.

In this phone call, the President of Jiede talked about both sides jointly paying money to help the Lapa government army complete a part of the re-equipment.

For example, replace one-third first, so the capital pressure can drop all at once, and at the same time, the bullets saved by the one-third of the soldiers who have been re-equipped are equivalent to a fifty percent increase in the bullets in the hands of the other two-thirds of the soldiers.

This can support them to continue fighting for a period of time.

Then, after fighting for a period of time, they will carry out another re-equipment, and finally gradually replace all the equipment.

This plan is very good, and the President of Jiede claimed that they are willing to take out a larger part, about sixty-forty.

They pay sixty percent, and the Lapa government takes out forty percent.

Of course, this money is not given for nothing. They need to take out some mineral resources and hand them over to Jiede for development.

This is a very simple way of cooperation.

From a short-term perspective, Lapa suddenly obtained such a large sum of money, and handing over some mineral resources to Jiede for development is actually not uneconomical.

Those mines might not necessarily be sold at such a high price even if they were sold.

Looking at it from a long-term perspective, the Republic of Jiede also didn't suffer a loss.

These high-quality mineral resources will eventually turn into a continuous stream of wealth, possibly two times, three times, or even more than what they paid out!

One can solve their biggest trouble at present, and one can obtain long-term benefits. It seems a win-win has been achieved, and everyone didn't lose.

So Diego now wants to know how much money he can scrape together without using the Federal bank account, and at the same time wants to understand the mining situation of these mining areas under his hands.

But when he opened the income and expenditure situation gathered from all over Lapa in the past three months, he unexpectedly found that under the item of mineral resource income, only a few small amounts were recorded.

He immediately called the butler over, pointed to the item of mineral resources in the account book, and asked, "Why is the income from minerals so low in these three months?"

He even flipped forward to the previous income and expenditure situation while saying, "The mineral income in these three months is not even as much as the fraction of the past month. What exactly happened?"

The butler also didn't understand, "I'll go and ask."

There was an obvious trace of anger on Diego's face, "If they feel that I can't hold on anymore, arrange for someone to go over and give them a lesson. Catch all the people in charge of the mines and bring them back to me. I want to know where they got the guts to embezzle my money!"

The biggest parasite in Lapa feeling angry because his money was eaten by others is probably one of the funniest jokes of this year.

The butler quickly left Diego's office. He also has his own office. After all, the butler is also half a master, not to mention that Diego is too lazy to manage many things many times, and all of them are handed over to the butler to handle.

So the butler also has his own office, and he also has a lot of work to do.

Returning to the office, he first dialed the phone to the gold mine.

The income from gold mining every month accounted for more than thirty percent of the overall mineral resource income, and it was already the largest single category of income, without one.

He made two phone calls in a row, but no one answered. He vaguely had a feeling that was not very good.

Then he took out a phone book, searched on it for a long time, and finally found a number, and dialed it.

As soon as the phone was connected, he didn't wait for the other party to state their identity, and asked with a tone slightly carrying dissatisfaction, "Why can't the phones at both gold mines be reached?"

The person on the other side of the phone was stunned for a moment, and then realized who it was. He hurriedly said, "Butler, I don't know about these things either. Do you need me to check it?"

The butler's tone was somewhat severe, "There is no ore coming down from the mountain. Didn't you find anything wrong?"

The person on the other end of the phone immediately answered, "Didn't it say before that some mining areas had suspended mining?"

"I thought this scope had expanded, so I didn't feel surprised when they didn't send ore. I will investigate it now and give you a call later."

The butler said "um," "You don't need to call me, call President Diego directly. I will be with him."

"Also, as soon as possible!"

After he hung up the phone, he returned to the Presidential Office, "I called the gold mine, but no one answered. I have already asked someone to investigate."

Among so many mineral resources, only the gold mine is relatively valuable.

The price of gemstones is affected by many acquired factors, such as size, whether the color is gorgeous, whether it is clean and transparent, and many other factors, so the price is very unstable.

Sometimes they can't mine any gemstones that can amaze the world even after mining for a year, so when calculating income, it is still mainly based on gold mines.

Diego nodded and didn't respond to the butler, but continued to look at this account book.

The sharp decrease in mineral resource income this time suddenly gave him a possibility that he didn't want to admit: someone is fishing for benefits for themselves from the money that belongs to him!

He wants to know how these people did it, how much money they took from him, and how they took it.

It's just a pity that based on these numbers alone, he couldn't see these things at all, but he could see whether the income was normal.

After I don't know how long, maybe an hour, the phone in front of the President rang. He glanced at the butler, then picked up the phone, "This is the Presidential Office."

"Mr. President?"

"I am... Just now the butler asked me to investigate the suspension of production. I don't know how to tell you. This might be a big thing!"

Diego frowned, "What big thing?"

That person swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Almost all the mines under your command have been acquired by the Federal people. Only one aluminum plant and one iron mine that has been mined for many years still belong to you."

"But I don't know when, they might also become the Federal people's."

Diego's eyes widened!

During this period, he was busy exercising his eyes, and he would widen his eyes for no reason.

"Are you not joking with me?" He came back to his senses and emphasized the authenticity of this matter, "If you are joking, it's still not too late to apologize now."

"If I let me know you are teasing me, I guarantee you will regret what you did!"

The panicked tone of the person on the other side of the receiver didn't look like lying, "Mr. President, I really didn't lie. I have already inquired about this matter through some relationships."

"Including calling our mineral management office, they confirmed that there have been frequent acquisitions of minerals changing registration during this period!"

Hearing this, Diego couldn't sit still anymore. He pressed his hands on the desk and stood up, "Who is it? Who stole my mine?"

"Happy cooperation!"

In a hotel in Zhuolan, several businessmen from the Federation and several mine owners signed new acquisition agreements.

However, this time it wasn't Lansi who acquired them, but a newly established "New Hope Mining Company" that acquired these minerals.

After both sides signed the agreement and shook hands, the Federal people sent these former mine owners out.

They didn't return to the room just now, but directly took a car to the suburbs and met Lansi in Lansi Manor.

"Mr. Lansi..." Several people greeted Lansi separately. Lansi walked out from behind the desk and let them sit by the sofa, "Is it smooth?" He asked.

The person who was the leader among these people nodded, "Very smooth, Mr. Lansi. We signed transfer agreements for eleven mines in total in the past half month, and the documents are all here."

That person said this and took the briefcase from his deputy. Inside were eleven transfer agreements and property certificates, and all the procedures were very complete.

Lansi checked them one by one, confirmed there were no problems, and then returned these materials to them.

"How much money was used in total?"

The person who was the leader answered with a smile while putting these documents away, less than two hundred thousand.

New Hope Mining Company is a shell company full of "hope" jointly opened by Lansi and Senator Cleveland and others, used to harvest wealth in the financial market.

Hearing this representative say such a low number, although Lansi had expectations, he still felt surprised by this price.

This means that on average, the price of each mine is less than twenty thousand Federal Sol.

"Most of the mines here have finished mining, the resources are exhausted, and there are still some left that have no value for development."

"So their prices are very cheap."

"If we really want to continue mining, we can also make some money. After deducting all costs, we might still be able to make a few tens of thousands of dollars."

Lansi smiled slightly when hearing this number, "Actually, it's already quite a lot. A stable return rate of thirty percent, strictly speaking, this is also a kind of high-quality asset."

The representative also echoed with a smile, "So now we need to package them. Next, some things might need your cooperation, Mr. Lansi."

Lansi didn't refuse, "I will let my people follow you."

These people discussed some details with Lansi and then left. The companies in the Federation were also registered, and now they were just waiting to "go public."

The Federal "Financial Securities Regulatory Act" has not been officially implemented yet. Congress has passed it, but it will take some time to implement and start execution.

Capitalists and politicians are connected together. Now that politicians want to put a leash on finance, then before they take action, they will definitely let some "vicious dogs" leave the market first.

This is also a very coincidental timing. Before the supervision is implemented, any company, as long as it meets the standards of annual profit and net market value, can completely go public freely and land on major exchanges.

Now "New Hope" holds mineral assets with a total value of about seventy or eighty million Federal Sol, and the management rights and actual profits belong to "New Hope Asset Management Company," so there is nothing wrong with this "New Hope" landing in the Federal financial market.

Those people in the Federation cannot possibly verify whether these minerals are real, whether they can produce so many mineral resources, and what the final profit is.

They won't run from the Federation to this chaotic Lapa to get the specific situation. They will require listed companies to "prove themselves," that is, to take out business reports and profit proofs for the past two years, as well as some text and photos, and possibly some video materials, to increase persuasiveness.

Then they can go public.

This period might be the most explosive and craziest era in the Federal financial industry, because everything looks primitive, barbaric, without constraints and threats.

People can always see cases in the financial market where the Federal dream comes true, such as some investors whose net worth has multiplied several times in just a few days, and some who have directly completed capital accumulation in a short period of time—

These are very likely mostly fake. The purpose of people fabricating these lies is to let more people enter this industry this year.

Those who truly harvest wealth are those people who cannot be seen.

Just like "New Hope," which is about to go public and sell explosively, after the operation of these professionals, a super dark horse with a market value about to break through and an annual profit of over ten million is about to appear. Who can not be crazy about it?

Lansi also pays attention to this matter. Although his shares are not many, as long as the stock explodes the market, this is definitely not a small amount.

These people went to different mines that were in operation and took a large number of photos and even videos of workers mining.

Among them, many people held recent Federal newspapers, and other newspapers were used as "timestamps."

Photos from this period cannot tell the shooting date. In order to prove that the photo was taken at a certain time or period, people often hold newspapers from that day or recent ones when shooting to increase persuasiveness.

After all, there is no relatively mature photo forgery scheme yet. As long as it is forged, there must be a way to distinguish it.

They also took away the business records of the mines for the past two years. These need to be beautified and thrown into the Federal Exchange for all investors and stock brokerage companies to read and view.

Forgery, these people are professionals, so if they want to get everyone into the trap, they must take out some real things.

In this era where it is easy to earn small money but difficult to earn big money, with a return rate of more than ten percent per year, plus financial attributes, people will be crazy about it.

In the evening, Vargas (the former owner of the silver mine) called, "In the afternoon, Diego's butler called me, asking me to explain why I sold the mine, who I sold it to, and how much I sold it for."

"I called you in the afternoon, but the phone didn't get through."

Lansi had been using the phone in the afternoon, so it was normal that it didn't get through.

He knew Diego would definitely discover this matter, and also had some guesses. It might be recently, because he really had no money.

After having no money, people wanted to calculate how much they could still take out. Once they checked this, they definitely found problems.

"Did you tell them?"

Vargas shook his head, although Lansi couldn't see him shaking his head through the phone, "No, I didn't. I didn't say anything. I just fobbed them off first."

"I was worried that what I said might affect you, so I didn't tell them anything."

Lansi was very satisfied. In fact, it didn't matter if he said it. His procedures were reasonable and legal, and no one could pick out any problems.

These things were eaten into his mouth, so it was impossible to spit them out again. Even if the other party was Diego, the President of this country, there was absolutely no possibility.

He came from the Federation to this poor and backward place to live a hard life, not to make contributions.

In the final analysis, it was still for banknotes and influence.

"If they call you again, or find you, you just tell them the truth. This has no effect on me."

"Bar, you have to know, you are afraid of Diego because you are a Lapa person."

"I am not afraid of him because I am a Federal person."

"By the way!"

"You are also a Federal person now. You can completely not be afraid of him. If he hurts you, you can call the embassy. I believe the Federal government will be very interested in the fact that you have been hurt."

Why did Diego never have the thought of directly dealing with Lansi in the face of Lansi's aggressive approach?

This is not a question of whether he can do it or not. As long as he deals with Lansi, it means he has declared war on the Federation, and the Federation will directly take him down.

He just... doesn't want to lose the authority of this country, not want to die!

Listening to Lansi's words, Vargas was stunned for a moment, but soon echoed, "I know how to talk to him."

Not long after ending this call, Vargas's door was knocked with a bang, bang, bang.

He is now living in the Zhuolan Grand Hotel. His own house and everything have been sold. After all, his family has also gone to the Federation. Here, except for himself, there is no one else.

Compared to the discomfort of living in his own house, living in a hotel is obviously more suitable for his new identity—Federal investor.

It doesn't cost much money every day to enjoy the life of a superior person. With such good conditions, why not enjoy it?

Those knocking sounds made his heartbeat slightly accelerate, but he still gathered his courage, walked to the door, and opened the door.

In the next second after the door opened, a hand grabbed his collar, pushed him into the living room, and then pinned him to the wall.

The butler walked in slowly from the outside. He grabbed his right wrist with his left hand and hung it in front of his chest, "Who did you sell the mine to?"

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