I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 1071 Surprises and accidents

According to stockbroker regulations, entrustment information must be kept absolutely confidential. What Montes just said is enough to send him to jail.

Grabee waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "That's not surprising. You should have seen Mr. Sandel's mansion on Bond Street. It must have cost a lot of money to buy it."

"Six thousand pounds. That's the transaction price of the house. I've inquired about it." Montes looked around again and continued, "More than that. When I was drinking with Mr. McCartney, yes, the senior trader of Lloyds Bank, I accidentally heard him mention that Mr. Sandel borrowed more than 6 pounds from him using the company's shares as collateral.

"This is very wrong. Sander doesn't need so much money at all. He has always been single and doesn't even have a mistress."

"Isn't Mrs. Damien his lover..."

"No, she's not. Believe me." Montes said firmly. Because this woman had been hooking up with him for more than a year.

Grabi couldn't help but frown when he heard this.

At this moment, a middle-aged man with a short beard walked out of the cafe, looked up and saw the two of them, and immediately waved to them and said, "Charlie, Taylor, Bolton-Watt will announce the latest progress of Engine180 this afternoon. Do you want to come with us?"

Bolton & Watt has been the focus of the London stock market for more than six months, and all brokers are paying close attention to its news.

"Sure, we can take a ride."

Grabee responded, then turned around and patted his old friend: "Charlie, you may be too cautious. You see, Bolton-Watt's new product will be launched on the market soon. It's a 180-horsepower 'monster', which will definitely make their stock price rise a lot more."

Montes was stunned, wondering if he was really wrong. If Bolton-Watt's business was not doing well, how could it continue to invest heavily in the development of new models of steam engines?

He was dragged into the carriage by Graby, and after a bumpy half-hour ride, they arrived at the experimental center newly built by Bolton-Watt Company at the end of last year.

The three were led into a spacious hall that could accommodate hundreds of people. Hundreds of reporters, officials, and people from the steam engine industry had already gathered here.

After waiting for a while, Bolton appeared in everyone's sight with a smile on his face.

He exchanged a few simple pleasantries, then gestured to the east workshop: "Today is a day that will go down in history.

"We have achieved a major breakthrough with Engine180!
"Our chief technician, Mr. Sandel, believes that it will be ready for production in four months at most.

"Now, Mr. Sandel will give you a detailed explanation."

A middle-aged man dressed as a technician came over and whispered something to Bordeaux.

The latter immediately waved to the reporters and said, "Sander is now conducting an extremely important technical adjustment. You know, once he starts working, he forgets everything.

"Please wait patiently, he will be there in 10 minutes at most..."

As he was speaking, a deafening roar suddenly came from the workshop to the east, as if a dozen cannons were firing at the same time, causing a sharp pain in the eardrums of the people in the hall.

Bolton's face froze immediately, and he quickly walked to the window, and saw that the doors and windows of the experimental workshop not far away were all shattered, and a large amount of white steam was gushing out from there. "What happened?!"

More than ten seconds later, a pale-faced technician hurried over and shouted to Bolton: "No, it's bad! The boiler of Engine 180 exploded just now, and Mr. Sandel and Mr. Rice were seriously injured..."

Bolton's mind buzzed, he turned around and waved to the reporters, saying: "That's all for today, everyone please go back first." Then he slammed the door and ran towards the experimental workshop like crazy.

The reporters were unwilling to leave. They pushed away the Bolton-Watt employees who tried to stop them and rushed to the explosion site.

Montes and Grabi looked at each other and followed closely behind the crowd.

Walking around the office building, Montes immediately saw the workshop wall leaning outward due to the huge impact of the explosion.

More than a dozen technicians and workers gathered in a mess in the open space outside the workshop. Some shouted "Come and save people" and some made the sign of the cross and prayed in panic.

Montes' view was blocked by reporters, but soon someone carrying two stretchers squeezed out of the crowd.

Montes' eyelids jumped at the horrific appearance of the two men on the stretcher - they were covered in blood, but the skin on their faces was a creepy white due to the burning of high-temperature steam. The left arm of the thinner man at the back was twisted into an angle that was absolutely impossible for a normal person to do, and it was obvious that the bones were shattered.

Bolton caught up with the stretcher, glanced at the injured in panic, and then pulled a man in a black coat next to him and asked in a low voice: "Dr. Brusk, how is Mr. Sandel?"

The latter pushed his hand away and sighed: "To be honest, it's very bad. I will do my best to save his life, and the rest... depends on God's will."

Sander and a technician named Les were carried into the company's medical room - after receiving the £80 investment, the company was equipped with all the facilities such as a cafeteria, tea room and medical room.

Dr. Brusk immediately locked the door of the medical room and began to perform rescue operations with several assistants.

Outside the experimental workshop, reporters surrounded the technicians and workers who were familiar with the situation and asked them questions. Bolton stood aside woodenly and had forgotten to stop them.

Montes quickly figured out the whole story from the chaotic descriptions - Sandel was just conducting the first full pressure test of Engine 180. The pressure relief valve had moved abnormally after the machine had been running for about ten minutes. Sandel violated safety regulations and went directly into the workshop to check for the fault. As a result, the steam engine exploded as soon as he opened the safety door inside the workshop.

Sander and Les, who was closest to him, were blown away directly, and the others were also injured to varying degrees, but because they did not enter the workshop, their injuries were not too serious.

Montes quietly approached the test workshop. At this time, the steam there had dissipated. He could see that the bottom of the black cast iron boiler, which was more than 3 meters high and more than meter thick, had been blown into a trumpet shape. The metal pipes, connecting rods and other objects next to it were twisted and distorted. As for the wooden tables and chairs, they were broken into pieces all over the floor.

This shows how violent the explosion just now was.

He swallowed hard, with only one thought in his mind - the share price of Bolton-Watt was finished.

In the medical room on the south side, Dr. Brusk ordered his assistants to draw all the curtains and carefully checked to make sure there were no gaps. He then waved to Sander and Rice who were in a coma and said, "Everything is going well. There are no outsiders now, you can get up and have a rest."

(End of this chapter)