Аннотация: MMMDLXXXV. Awarding the rank of General. A story. - December 15, 2024.
Awarding the rank of General. A story.
The colonel got up from his swivel chair and took a few steps around the Situation Center.
The operation went very quickly, there are many urgent tasks now, but the main thing is done.
He can take a deep breath several times and to recall the reports of a journalist without fingers and toes. This journalist writes about sudden fast events using a chip implanted in the journalist's brain. Many people write about these events, but this journalist has a wife - a good woman (maybe she is even a distant relative of the colonel), so the colonel reads the reports of the mutilated journalist with interest.
The chairman of the opposition party also writes regularly for the media, but, of course, all his fingers are more or less in order. "Everything is according to the Constitution!"
The leg of colonel hurts a little. There, in the mountains, - much to the north, - he also participated in the leadership of the fast operation. To understand the events and for the control the situation, he several times was traveling and was flying to the line of contact. A fragment of an artillery shell hit his leg.
Here he also had to travel and to fly to the places of the most important events. But everything went on almost without shooting and without resistance, so during this case there were no injuries.
The colonel recalled his brother's letter, received yesterday and lying in the pocket of his military shirt.
His brother prefers to write letters on sheets of paper. At the time of writing this letter, his brother did not yet know about the success achieved.
His brother is in business. He sold a shipment of goods in the Southern Country (where it is always very hot) at a huge profit.
He bought a huge villa on the ocean for three hundred dollars. At first, he examined the villa, and he was surprised by the good condition of the villa and the incredibly low price.
They executed the purchase and sale transaction quickly. But when the new owner returned to his new home at a shore of ocean, he found a group of outsiders there. His brother was very surprised. He was even more surprised when one of these people introduced himself as a local lawyer.
This local lawyer explained to the buyer that according to local laws, the purchase and sale transaction is not legal, and the people present in the house have the right to stay in the villa. The judicial termination of the transaction will take several years, will not end in favor of the new owner, and all court costs (and they will be huge) will fall on the brother. The easiest thing is to sell a newly purchased villa for a one hundred dollars. The buyers will be those who have the right (according to local laws) to live in it.
The new deal will take only two hours, the losses are minimal: only two hundred dollars.
His brother is not alone in doing business in the Southern Country. There are many businessmen from their native country there, they have created a Business Chamber.
His brother left the villa, went to the ocean and dialed the phone number of the chairman of the Business Chamber.
After the phone call, he walked along the ocean shore, admired the views, and returned to the villa an hour later. Outsiders (and the local lawyer) were no longer there. The local mayor met the new owner at the entrance to the villa and apologized: there had been a regrettable misunderstanding (confusion). Of course, the deal is perfectly legal, the brother is the new legitimate undisputed owner.
The local mayor, by the way, asked: does the new owner raise the issue of compensation for the inconvenience caused? The brother didn't reply anything.
The next morning, the new owner headed by car to the chairman of the Business Chamber to thank him for his assistance. At the roads intersection, he was stopped by a local policeman, who issued a ticket.
His brother writes (in his letter) that before continuing to drive, he called the consul.
Then he drove to a gas station located next to the roads intersection. When he refueled the car, he saw a local policeman running towards him. The local policeman apologized for the fine, said that the fine was canceled, and asked for the return of the ticket.
So the business it is comfortable to do.
"Yes, we are trying. And we are acting effectively. And we are trying not only for our close relatives. For all the citizens of our country - for its indigenous people!" the colonel thought. - "Here, after the completion of the military operation and after the solving urgent tasks to establish a peaceful life, it will also be comfortable to do business. We will get things right in both the North and the South!"
The Colonel saw the officers present in the Situation Center getting up from their swivel chairs.
The general entered the room of the Situation Center. He went to the colonel with a smile: "Congratulations on success and on awarding another military rank!..."
December 15, 2024 01:06
Translation from Russian into English: December 15, 2024 03:06
Владимир Владимирович Залесский ' Присвоение генеральского звания. Рассказ. '.
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