Marvel's The Dark Knight Rises

Chapter 25 Busy
Time always flies when you are busy.

Because the attention of the U.S. military was attracted to the Hydra organization in New York, Bruce did not go out to "hunt" in the last few nights. After all, he had attracted the attention of the U.S. government a few years ago. Dodging the agents hiding in New York looking for him was enough trouble. He didn't want to bump into the even more unreasonable American military.

After a good rest for two nights, Bruce followed Alfred to set up the company after resting his energy. However, Alfred was in charge of the front stage. Bruce was only on the day when the company was established, with more than ten employees. She showed her face in front of her, revealed her identity, and then retreated behind the scenes.

Compared with the company, Bruce is more interested in the intelligence system established by Alfred, which he named "Black Eye". "The old man Gibson disliked it for several days.

The three main managers of the intelligence system are Gibson, Mike, and Joshua hired by Alfred.

Among them, Gibson is in charge of the overall situation. With his brilliant resume and rich experience, he can handle things in the still weak "Black Eye" intelligence agency with ease. Mike still runs his Rose Bar, but he listens to Alfred According to his orders, the Rose Bar was turned into a transfer station for "Black Eye" to collect intelligence information, and the scope of information collection was no longer limited to the "rats" on the street, but began to expand to the group of gangsters in a few blocks nearby.

Joshua, on the other hand, returned to the slums, while recruiting more street teenagers similar to them, while increasing the collection of street information in various neighborhoods of Brooklyn, and preparing to infiltrate into several other New York neighborhoods such as Queens.

Bruce took the time to meet the three of them as "Batman". Gibson behaved fairly calmly. Mike was agitated with a little fear. As for Joshua, he was completely agitated. In his words, the streets of New York There is no child who does not worship and respect Bruce. They all regard Bruce as their hero. These words comforted Bruce and at the same time made him feel a little guilty, just because he felt that he was not doing well enough, at least For these poor children, he didn't help them much.

Naturally, it is another encouragement and reward. At the same time, verbal beating is inevitable. After all, Alfred is right. His current image in the eyes of New Yorkers is unsmiling, serious, indifferent and decisive, and jealous. Being too close can easily make them lose the fear they have in their hearts, and keeping this fear allows them to work more actively while feeling honored, after all, they are now considered the city One of his "protectors".

"The company tried to find a way to contact some teachers, and asked Joshua to divide his youngsters into several groups and take turns to learn something. These children are all at a good age for studying. If they were not poor at home, they would not be young. On the streets of New York at an early age."

One afternoon after a busy day, Bruce seldom pulled Alfred, who had not been seen for several days, and said so.

Alfred thought about it for a while, but in the end he said helplessly: "The company has just gotten on the right track recently, and the next step is to buy land and build our own oil refinery and ore processing plant. It's time to spend money." The Eye' Intelligence Bureau is also preparing to start recruiting, and the first batch of special funds will be allocated soon. Our remaining several million dollars have already been earmarked. Give me another half a month, and the financial situation will ease a lot."

Bruce looked at Alfred with some puzzlement and said, "Why wait for half a month."

Alfred raised the telegram in his hand, and a smile finally appeared on his tired face, which had been rarely seen in the past few days, "A telegram came from Texas, and the place we bought finally produced oil. On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, besides, the big oil field in Freeport that you mentioned, my lord, has also taken shape."

The heart that Bruce has been worrying about for the past few days was completely let go at this moment, "Has the total reserves been estimated? I only remember that area is an oil-rich belt, and there is Freeport! Find that place there. Is the oil field coming?"

Alfred looked at Bruce's eager expression, and shook his head amusedly, "How could it be so fast! I just sent a telegram to say that we found oil at noon today. No matter how professional those experts are, they can't do it for a few hours. Can we estimate the total reserves of an oil belt within a few days? As for Freeport, the telegram only said that oil was drilled, and I don’t know what’s going on there now.”

Bruce probably also knew that he was impatient, calmed down a little, looked at Alfred as if he was in a hurry to leave, and asked, "So you are going to Texas now?"

Alfred shrugged, "I have arranged the company's schedule, and the newly recruited manager will urge the employees to complete the business. I am also relieved that there is Gibson on the 'black eye' side. Now the most critical Texas side has finally come out with results. , I will definitely go to supervise, this will be the main business of our company in the next year."

Bruce touched his chin, then picked up a coat and said to Alfred, "Then I'll go with you."

"You didn't wait for Steve to come back?"

Bruce shook his head with a smile, "He called yesterday and said that he was busy with 'something' in the army recently, and he will come back to Brooklyn to visit us in a while, and he is probably preparing to help the US military in the past few days. Fang sells 'patriotic bonds'~ Of course, I won't expose him."

With that said, Bruce pulled Alfred out of the apartment.

"Master, the direction to the train station doesn't seem to be this way?"

Alfred looked at the direction Bruce was driving and kindly reminded him.

"I know."

Bruce looked at the road conditions on the street and said without looking back, "Let's go directly to the Flying Club in the southern suburbs of New York, rent a plane, and fly directly to Texas!"

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"I'm sorry, sir, but the price you offered is unacceptable to our company. In order to show our sincerity, we are willing to add another 3000 million US dollars on top of the 200 million US dollars."

At the negotiating table, Bruce looked at the representative of the Rockefeller consortium who was determined to win, frowned and remained silent.

It has been three days since he and Alfred came to Texas. The news of the discovery of an oil belt with reserves of at least 10 billion barrels on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas has also landed in New York, sparking another wave of oil fever in New York. , At the same time, it also attracted the attention of several oil groups in New York.

But what Bruce didn't expect was that he and Alfred probably had investigated in advance and thought that he and Alfred were ordinary people with no background, so the people from the oil consortium who came to negotiate with them about the transfer of land in these rich oil belts showed that they were determined to accept them. Attitude.

After all, there are only a few of them who monopolize the oil in the United States. If these oil-rich belts are not sold to them, Bruce will not be able to develop a new oil company on his own and successfully sell the oil he has mined in the United States. Suppression is inevitable.

The Rockefeller Foundation probably sent experts to estimate the oil reserves of this oil-rich belt, knowing that 10 billion barrels of oil reserves is far from the upper limit of this oil-rich belt, so they are willing to offer a "high price" of 3000 million US dollars, but they all I forgot one thing, the whole world is at war now, the international oil price is soaring, and I don’t worry about the sales problem at all, as long as I have a new big oil field in my hand, the speed of making money is as fast as printing money with a money printing machine almost.

Bruce shook his head silently, indicating that the price was far below his psychological expectations. After negotiating for more than a day, he met several representatives of the consortium, and the quotations he got were all between 2000 million and 3000 million US dollars. Bruce felt that Feeling a bit depressed while tired.

Sure enough, without a background and a powerful group to rely on, it is impossible to develop in the United States without being exploited by the inherent financial group.

"6000 million US dollars, this is my bottom line. I know that your consortium and several other consortiums have sent experts to estimate the value and real oil reserves of our oil fields. It doesn't matter. We can afford to wait. I hope you can also help me Tell Mr. Rockefeller what I mean, 6000 million, not a penny less, if I can’t reach this number, I would rather watch the oil flow on my land than sell it to you.”

Bruce politely smiled at the person on the other side of the table with a bad face, and walked out of the conference room first, and Alfred also came out of another conference room almost at the same time.

When the two met, they looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Can't go back."

"No compromise."

Bruce looked at Alfred, knowing that he had the same meaning as himself, "Give it up now, it will only make those wolves push harder, and it will be difficult for us to develop our own energy group in New York in the future."

"Although a tougher attitude will make the negotiations more difficult, it will be conducive to the development of our future plans, and by the way, let those old oil consortiums know our basic bottom line and attitude."

"Anyway, I'm still busy."

Bruce added with some helplessness, but then parted ways with Alfred and walked into the conference room.

There are not a few people who are waiting to cut off a piece of tender meat from their "fat sheep". The hard negotiations have just entered the most intense time.

　Ask for recommendation, ask for collection!

　　


(End of this chapter)