Nathan said coldly, "I wanted to let you off and even gave you a chance.
Unfortunately, instead of cherishing it, you acted against me. If I were an ordinary man, my entire family would be begging you for mercy right now. Would you have let them off?”
Dip bowed deeper and pleaded repeatedly, "General, I was wrong. Will you forgive me? I will give up all my assets to make up for my mistakes. I only ask you to spare my family's lives."
Nathan replied, "The national treasury will confiscate your family's assets if every one of you is dead. However, if I annihilate the entire family of the governor of the South, it will cause an uproar among your supporters. Why don't you set one hundred million aside for yourself and use the rest to start a charity for the South Provincial City? The funds can be used for the city's projects for urbanization and ease poverty.
Take this chance to make it up to the society, improve the poor 's living conditions and education. In return, I will allow your family to leave the country alive."
In a blink of an eye, the multi-billionaire family would only be left with a hundred million. They would have to move out of the South and leave the country.
At that thought, Dip felt like he had aged tremendously, but he knew that this was a rare offer.
He expressed his gratitude repeatedly and while trembling, he replied, "Yes, I will do so immediately!"
At the same moment, Zach brought his subordinates over and with a smile, he asked, "General, how should we deal with those guys on the shore?"
"Those men have committed a violation so we cannot let them get away with it so easily. Well, we need more laborer for the construction of our military facilities in the North. Send those violators to the labor camp for three years."
Zach nodded.
Three years of hard labor wasn't that bad.
However, the North's conditions were harsh, and it had steep terrains. Out of a year, it would be icy and cold for a period of over six months.
Working construction at the military facilities would definitely result in many deaths. To make it out alive, they had to be tough.
On that same day, Dip liquidated all his assets and donated everything but one hundred million.
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