Chapter 44: The Original Sin of Capital
Hoffman smiled and said, "Of course, of course, I just said to wait until the big Qi friends are free!"
Yin Shengzhi smiled: "Okay, when we have time, we will definitely attend Mr. Hoffman's banquet!"
With the two sides saying goodbye, Yin Sheng and his party left the port, boarded the airship that had been prepared for a long time, and set off again, flying to the headquarters of the Alliga Mage Association, the City of a Thousand Towers.
Hoffman had been standing underneath and had a smile on his face as he sent the airship away.
It wasn't until the airship disappeared that his face sank suddenly.
Then, with a calm face, he walked all the way to a luxurious carriage that had been parked for a long time.
In the carriage sat a fat man in a suit and leather shoes, smoking a cigar.
Hoffman's face sank as he said to the man, "Archmage Raymond was very unkind to me, he must have seen something!"
"Really?" the man said nonchalantly, smoking his cigar and nonchalantly, "What if he finds out?
Well, when the league budget came this year, I asked the state legislature to support the Mage Association's grant. Come to think of it, that's enough to make him stingy......"
In Alliga, the amount of money needed by the Mage Guild every year is an astronomical amount, especially as it grows year by year, which is already a great burden on the entire alliance.
Every year, the Council of the Alliance fights over the budget of the Mage Guild.
And to put it bluntly, all this money needs to be shared by the states.
Therefore, the state legislatures are trying their best to reduce the budget of the mage association.
And a single word from the cigar-smoking man seems to be able to convince the Eureka State Assembly to support the Wizards' Guild's budget.
And when such big words come out, the tone is calm, as if they bought a bun on the street.
But when Hoffman heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and his originally heavy face was soothed.
I'm afraid that anyone who offends an archmage won't be happy, and their faces will be heavy, right?
And apparently, what the cigar-smoking man said would certainly have been able to be done in the mind of Director Hoffmann!
So, Hoffman suddenly smiled lightly: "Great, those mages are all monsters. They always care about the budget, how many mage towers to build, how many magic crystals each person allocates every year, and they don't care about other things!"
As he spoke, he glanced out the carriage window. A car was dumping the bodies like garbage onto the car, ready to be transported.
"These damn poor bastards......," Hoffman spat, but when he saw the man smoking the cigar with a thoughtful look, he couldn't help asking, "Mr. Darnell, what are you thinking?"
"I'm thinking, that Yin Sacrificial Wine. You just got one thing wrong!"
"What?"
"Sacrificial wine is an official position, just like your chief. So you should have called him Mr. Yin just now, or just called Yin Sacrifice Wine. You shouldn't call him Mr. Yin'...... wine," Darnay said solemnly.
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"You're a little bit away from that Hoffman General Bureau, don't look at him like this, he's actually very ruthless. It is the faithful dogleg of the wealthy Mr. Darnell......
Today's events are so strange that I suspect that the Hoffmann chief planned it all to find an excuse to suppress the demonstration.
Hmph, the march here is already a threat to Mr. Darnay's interests, right?"
On the airship, while others were not paying attention, Dick lowered his voice and leaned into Yin Shengzhi's ear and said.
Yin Shengzhi suddenly realized, and everything understood. No wonder he had long felt that what had happened today was very strange, not like it was aimed at him, nor did it seem to be aimed at the Daqi delegation.
Not even against the mages of Arliga, but against the marchers.
I'm afraid this is not only Dick can see this, but Archmage Raymond can see it, otherwise he wouldn't be so unkind to Hoffman!
"Who are you talking about Mr. Darnell?" Yin Shengzhi asked.
"One of the most famously super-rich men in Alliga, the same as Mr. West, is as ruthless......
Unlike Mr. West, who deals mainly in banking stock futures, Mr. Darnay owns the largest United Minerals Company, employing millions of people.
And lately, the world has not been good. He laid off more than 300,000 employees in one fell swoop...... Most of the people marching in Eureka today are probably the unemployed who have been laid off by him!
In short, he is the only one who has the strength and motivation to let Hoffman suppress the demonstrations!
When he competed with his competitors, he blew up their factories more than once.
He even organized armies to fight for the mines......"
"So, today's events are just the beginning, and the subsequent demonstrations and repressions will come one after another?" Yin Shengzhi thoughtfully said.
"Yes, he will not let anyone affect the interests of that Mr. Darnell......"
Yin Shengzhi has an intuitive and clear understanding of these rich people in Alliga.
In the dream previous life, civilization has developed to a considerable extent. At that time, no matter how rich and powerful the rich people were, they didn't dare to do this kind of thing, risking the world's condemnation!
However, in this world, in this Arliga, all capital is a situation of barbaric production.
Big capitalists like Darnell and West are rich and powerful, and they can do anything. Nor can anyone govern and bind......
In the previous life of the dream, a certain superpower also had such a stage......
Dick was from a well-known family in Arliga, and this kind of thing was commonplace for a long time.
So even if there is no evidence, they all guess the truth behind the scenes.
However, what made her strange was that Yin Shengzhi came to Alliga for the first time, and he seemed to be no stranger to the rules of the game on Alliga's side, and accepted it extremely quickly, and even guessed the next move of Darnell Hoffman and others.
The next day, Yin Shengzhi saw a newspaper full of reports describing the marchers as thugs, not only storming the mage group, but also attacking ordinary civilians and military police in a frenzy......
Bloody photographs were published in newspapers, and even civilians who were accidentally injured by military and police were said to be the result of the thugs.
Of course, the deaths and injuries of thousands of marchers were not mentioned in any newspaper.
This made Yin Shengzhi amazed at the methods used by these tycoons to manipulate the media and turn the clouds upside down......