blackstone code

Chapter 1922 Blackout

The room was gathering again, only this time they were not as optimistic as before.

Because they all realized that the knife of the presidential palace was really going to fall on them.

The more they struggle now, the more things they lose, and everyone is very irritable.

The companies surveyed are grid service companies.

In order to ensure that power generation companies do not monopolize the market, the Federation has separated power generation companies from the power grid, and power plants and power grid companies cannot be the same company to prevent power plants from monopolizing regional electricity consumption.

This seems to solve the possible monopoly, but in fact it is useless.

This is nothing more than making capitalists a little troublesome and setting up a few more companies.

The surveyed companies are in charge of grid services in a state in the central federal region, which brings considerable profits to the group company every year.

If the company is broken up, it can no longer provide lucrative profits to the group company.

"The Presidential Palace is determined to use us as a warning. There is no point in struggling. My suggestion now is to divest the company under trial from the group company as soon as possible."

"Compared to this investigation and subsequent issues involving the group."

Frank's words made everyone's heart sink, which was the worst possible outcome.

Someone asked, "Is there no room for turning around?"

Frank asked rhetorically, "Our influence in Congress has been wiped out. Do you think there is any possibility of compromise?"

"The most important thing to do now is to close the case as soon as possible to prevent the situation from spreading."

"Even if the presidential palace still wants to do something, there will be no chance in a short time."

The monopoly investigation so far has only found out that this company has monopolistic behavior. After the case is closed, it will be difficult for them to initiate a monopoly investigation with the same content against the Jerry & Deiss Group.

The Justice Department will not support it, even if the president has the highest centralized power at this time.

Originally, they wanted to settle the matter properly, but they didn't expect the presidential palace to act too fast and too ruthlessly.

Hesitating now might make the situation worse, Frank proposed to stop the loss in time.

Although stop loss is painful for capitalists, at least it can guarantee that they will not suffer more losses.

The voices of the members of the Jerry family raised slightly, "Should we just leave it like this?"

Frank shook his head, "Of course not, since they want to investigate, let them investigate enough..."

The representative of the Jerry family sitting opposite him frowned, "You mean..."

"Spin off the company under investigation, and what happens to it later has nothing to do with us!"

Frank's suggestion has been supported by everyone. Not resisting is not the behavior of capitalists, and they do not lack political allies.

Even if those congressmen leave Congress, it does not mean that their influence disappears immediately.

They also have other political allies, really cornered, they may not be able to bite off a piece of meat from the presidential palace.

Of course, what they have to do now is very simple.

The top executives of the power grid company under investigation were detained in different rooms. They are still "cooperating with the investigation", so the level of guards is not very high.

During lunch, they almost all got some hints. Although the content of the hints surprised them, even stunned them, they still faithfully implemented them.

In the afternoon, the investigation process that had been stagnant for several days suddenly accelerated, and some people began to confess and plead guilty.

This greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the investigation team, and they reported the news to the presidential palace immediately.

Mr. Truman was indeed very satisfied after knowing the news, which means that these big capitalists are indeed exploiting loopholes in federal laws.

Actually everyone knows this!
Just because a company is split into two, it cannot be said that the monopoly is over.

Especially when the shareholders behind the two split companies are still the previous group, this means that the monopoly has never been broken!
It just changed to a more hidden way and existed in this society.

Also based on this case, Mr. Truman thought of some unclear qualitative issues in the Anti-Monopoly Law.

Maybe there is time to add or modify some terms to fit the current more hidden form of monopoly.

It may be because someone confessed. By [-] o'clock in the evening, almost everyone had confessed and pleaded guilty.

Such a happy confession did not attract the attention of the investigation team, including the presidential palace.

The next day, Jerry & Deiss Group issued a new announcement, because the company under investigation was suspected of monopoly, and had settled all the accounts of both parties, and terminated all cooperation in advance according to the terms of contract breach.

From this moment on, the company under investigation has no relationship with Jerry & Deiss Group, and the group company does not assume any corresponding responsibilities.

At the same time, the legal department of the group company announced to the public that it will form a legal team to sue the investigated company during its cooperation with the group company.

Conceal the facts of their illegal operations from the group company, and require the investigated company to compensate the group company for various expenses including but not limited to reputation loss, totaling more than 1000 million.

As soon as the news came out, all the consortiums in the Federation felt that Pi Yanzi tightened, and the sphincter contracted to the limit.

The knife hurts a lot.

After losing the right to operate the power grid in a state in the middle of the country, it will cost a lot more to rebuild it!
According to the current disposal method, this company will probably be split into two to five companies, and then the equity will be auctioned, some property rights will be auctioned, and the others will be divided equally.

It is not easy for Jerry & Dess to get these, because other capital will join in this moderate "entertainment".

They can buy the operating rights of these power grids at a low price, and then operate them themselves or sell them to Jerry & Deiss Group at a higher price, and they can make a lot of money.

Therefore, the competition will definitely be fierce. Everyone knows that as long as you buy it, you will earn it.

Even if you don't sell your own business, it's a good choice.

In addition, the big capitalists have also decided to keep a low profile recently, and they have seen Mr. Truman's "determination".

Hitting it again at this time, I can't describe how stupid it is to do so with a silly beep!

This indeed had the effect Mr. Truman wanted, the war is not over yet, these capitalists had better put their tails between their fucking tails and be human!
Maybe it was a series of bad news, and people in the power grid service company were also in panic. Everyone was very disturbed and didn't know what the future would become.

Some employees directly stole some valuable materials and left, while others were afraid to go to work at home.

Power grids left unattended, failing unexpectedly...

"Power outage?" Mr. Truman was still paying attention to the recent renewed war, and he didn't even understand what the guy on the other end of the phone meant for the first time!
"Where is the power outage?"

"Mr. President, in the central part... the state's civil power grid is completely paralyzed, the industrial power grid is partially paralyzed, and many lines have failed..."

Mr. Truman immediately realized something, and his expression became a lot more serious, "Tell me, how long will it take to restore the power supply?"

The voice of the person on the other end of the phone was a little low, "It may take half a month, a conservative estimate."

This is not a small-scale power outage, which has affected most of the power grid in the entire state. In other words, people in this state will have no electricity for at least half a month in the future.

Electricity has not been around for too long, but it has played a key role in human life.

Home appliances cannot be separated from electricity, lighting cannot be separated from electricity, learning cannot be separated from electricity, production cannot be separated from electricity...

And with a power outage of half a month, this will become a big trouble.

"Immediately ask their company to self-inspect, contact the surrounding power service companies, and ask them to cooperate."

This may be a relatively normal disposition, but the caller said softly, "Mr. President, the company involved is under antitrust investigation."

"All the management are under investigation in Bupain, and most of them have been arrested. Now there is no one there, and the workers have already run away."

"Even if we wanted to find someone from them to repair it, it would be difficult to find."

"On secondment from other companies, they don't know much about the power grid over there, and they work very slowly, so it will take a long time to restore power..."

Mr. Truman realized that this was a counterattack from Jerry and the Daisy family, and it was very swift, but he had no good way yet.

This incident must have been premeditated. In fact, even if they can catch up with them, they are just some victims.

This also made him even more dissatisfied with these people.

"Arrange other people to rush to repair and restore power as much as possible, and then I will think of other ways."

Not long after hanging up the phone, he picked it up again, this time calling Lynch.

At this time, in the capital camp, perhaps only Lynch is willing to help him.

"There is a small problem. The power grid in a state in the central region has failed. There is no way to restore power supply in a short time. Is there any good way for you?"

At this time, he didn't care about anything else, he asked very directly.

Lynch was quick to answer, and that's his style, and there was little to stop him.

"Look for the construction drawings of the power grid, and recruit electricians from the society, including electricians from those enterprises."

"Start to restore the lines outside the power plant. If it's just a simple grid failure, the problem is not big."

"Have you considered, is there a possibility that in addition to naturally occurring failures, there is also the possibility of man-made damage."

"If someone sabotages, it may take longer to restore power..."

After listening to Lynch's suggestion, Mr. Truman could only sigh.

It is useless to call anyone at this time. Even if the anti-monopoly investigation is terminated and they all go back to work, they will not be able to solve these problems in a short time.

It takes a long time to build, but it only takes an instant to destroy!
The public dissatisfaction caused by the blackout quickly reached its peak, the state government was also innocent, and the presidential palace was also under a lot of pressure.

The Federal Army sent a lot of military generators there, only to slightly alleviate the problems in some living quarters.

But more people are still in the dark!

Winter is not over yet.

If the power fails at this time, it will kill people!
(End of this chapter)