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    "How to expand production?" Scrooge asked.  "Invest in the construction of new steel plants," said Graystone. "This round of prosperity has taken shape. Including Europe, the development of Alaska has found a way out for their funds. There are no four development projects in Alaska.  There won't be any results in five years, so this situation can last at least another four or five years. During this time, the new steel plant can also make a lot of money for us, and then we can put it back before the total collapse.  Sell ??them at a high price and buy them back after the collapse. In addition, we can also buy existing steel companies in the capital market. The large-scale development of Alaska also requires a large amount of ordinary steel. " "Yes," Shi.  Gao Zhi said, "Go and discuss with Donald. He is better at some things on the steel side. Let him do the specific things."brNovel/> At this point, Scrooge looked at Gray Stone.  At a glance, Gladstone listened quietly without any reaction.  Scrooge then said: "You just need to grasp the big picture. Don't do some details yourself. It's a good thing to understand the details, but you can't get too obsessed with them. As the heir of the family, you have to  Grasp the direction more from a macro perspective. "Do you understand?" "I understand, Dad." Graystone said, "I think John has been managing things well recently, and I think he should be able to do it too.  He has more autonomy." "John" Scrooge thought for a while and said, "It's good that you can give him more autonomy.  It¡¯s good, but it¡¯s hard work. It¡¯s good to know how to work hard. However, I¡¯m afraid it will be difficult for him to help me manage the big laboratory.¡± Over the years, Scrooge has done less and less directly in family affairs.  Now, he basically only cares about the general direction and some technical matters.  There are people in many departments who can replace him. Of course, these people are not as capable as Scrooge, but they can use all their strength in that aspect, so in fact they are not too different.  It's just that in the big laboratory, there really is no successor who is particularly suitable or particularly satisfactory to me.  "Alas," Gray Stone also sighed and said, "If Sister Dena was still at home, there would be no problem at all." Gray Stone knew that although he was already a stable second-generation leadership core  Yes, but among this generation of the family, the one whose abilities satisfy my father the most is probably this cousin.  If this cousin is a cousin, then I am afraid that his position as the core of the second generation leadership may not be so stable.  However, since she is a cousin and she is indeed so capable, Graystone still hopes that she can come back.  "Her? She won't come back now." Scrooge said coldly, "Even if she comes back now, she will come back to cause trouble. Now is not the time for her to come back. Huh, don't look back until you hit the wall, and you won't look back until you see the coffin.  Cry, your sister is such a fool.¡± The McDonald family has not known anything about Dena¡¯s whereabouts over the years.  As the saying goes, gold will shine wherever you put it, or if you put an awl in any cloth bag, the tip of the awl will naturally be exposed.  Since Dena actively participated in the activities of socialists, and over the years, because of her profound insights and sharp style of life, she has gained quite a reputation in the circles of socialists and anarchists.  Of course she kept using various aliases. Sometimes she was Spanish and her name was Est¨¦e. Sometimes she was French and her name was Betty. Sometimes she was German and her name was Hannah.  Sometimes she is Russian Varya.  But this could not be hidden from MacDonald's investigators because she was already so prominent in socialist circles.  ¡°However, the McDonald family has never taken any action against Dena.  Once, Graystone heard these words from Scrooge: "What's the use of catching her now? Catch her back and put her in a mental hospital? Since she feels that she is on the right path.  , if it doesn't completely make her despair of her own path, if it doesn't completely make her realize her mistakes, it will be useless to capture her But reality will educate her and let her know what is right and wrong.  It would be useful to let her come back when the time comes. " So Gray Stone knew that Dena would definitely not be able to come back now.  However, he also knows that his emotions are very effective. Doing so will make Scrooge feel that he is a leader who can unite the family and twist them into a rope.  "Okay, now that you have an idea, let's arrange it according to your idea." Scrooge said.  His energy is not what it used to be, and he really doesn't want to take care of many things anymore.  ¡­ ¡­ Railway engineer Cook looked at the vast Alaskan wilderness and frowned tightly.??.  The company he worked for won a contract to build a railway in Alaska. Because he had experience participating in the construction of Russia's Siberian Railway, he was sent here by the company.  The conditions for railway construction here are no worse than those of the Siberian Railway.  Because of its abundant financial resources, the company provides engineers like them with much better living conditions than those provided by the Russians in Siberia, but the company is also very anxious about progress.  The land in Alaska freezes every winter and becomes as hard as stone, and in summer, the frozen soil quickly melts into mud.  Therefore, in many places, if the railway is laid directly on such ground, then either when the ground freezes in winter, the railway will be bulged and deformed due to the expansion of the ice, or in summer, it will be deformed due to the thawing of the land.  And sink.  Therefore, they had to dig out all the surface soil until they reached the permafrost layer that would not melt all year round. They then laid big stones on top, then small stones, and dug drainage ditches twice.  Andeven so, this railway will still have problems such as deformation after several years of use. It needs careful maintenance almost every year, and requires major repairs every few years.  But that¡¯s not the biggest headache for him.  This problem had been informed to the company's upper management before the railway construction began, and such a road section was not long, only a few dozen kilometers.  Further ahead is the complete permafrost that will not melt even in summer, which is actually a lot easier to deal with.  What troubles him now is speed.  The summer in Alaska is extremely short, and they must build the railway into the permafrost as much as possible before winter arrives.  Otherwise, the melted land will be frozen again, and then blasting will be required to dig out the soil. Doing so will increase the cost a lot.  Of course, the company will be very dissatisfied, and then they will naturally be under considerable pressure.  It is already September, and the nighttime temperature has dropped below zero. Maybe in a day or two, the first snow will fall on Alaska.  They must hurry.  "Mr. Cook, come and take a look." A man wearing work clothes and a yellow safety helmet ran towards Cook, shouting.  "What's wrong?" Cook asked, and the air sprayed from his mouth immediately turned into white mist.  "We have dug into the underground water layer, and water is constantly seeping out, and the amount of water is not small." The man replied with a heavy breath.  "What the hell! Take me to see it quickly." Cook said, and at the same time sighed in his heart, "Thank God, luckily it was discovered now. If it were later, when it was freezing, we might not have been able to find it.  This generation of groundwater problems will definitely cause problems when the railway is laid and the weather thaws in the summer. "The man took Cook and ran towards the construction site.  When Cook ran to that location, he saw a group of workers coming up from the two-meter-deep tunnel. They were all holding tools and standing next to them and pointing.  Cook stepped forward and saw that a long section below had turned into a ditch.  ¡°Hell, how long has it been since the water started pouring out?¡± Cook asked.  "Mr. Cook, it was about ten minutes ago." someone answered.  "Well, how deep is the water?" Cook asked?  ¡°I¡¯m knee deep and it¡¯s still rising,¡± replied another.  "Very well, which one of you has a wooden ruler?" Cook asked.  "Here it is." Someone hurriedly brought a long wooden ruler over.  "Who can help me go down and measure the depth?" Cook asked.  "I'll go." A worker wearing one-piece galoshes took the wooden ruler and climbed down.  At this time, the water rose a little more. When the worker reached the deepest point, the water was already up to his thighs.  "1.2 meters! Can I come up?" Obviously, even though he was wearing one-piece galoshes, standing in the cold underground water still made him very uncomfortable.  "Okay, thank you, you can come up now." Cook shouted while quickly calculating a rough number in his head.  "Okay." The worker held up the ruler, walked to a shallower place, and started to climb up. However, the slope was full of mud, and his weight seemed a bit heavy. As a result, he slipped down the slope twice in a row.  It made the workers nearby burst into laughter.  "Stop laughing, one of you give me a hand!" "Arnold, go find Kim and ask him to bring two water pumps over immediately." Cook said to the person who called him in the first place, "Hurry up."  Then he naturally said to himself: "Damn it, another process needs to be added. A drainage ditch needs to be dug here and here"
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