Chapter 151 "The Congressman Also Has His Own Son" (2)
Relying on Gao Jingwu's intelligence, the clone controlled by Chen She found the base of the resistance army in the Western Continent.
Along the way, he also witnessed the completely different ecology between the Western Continent and the Northern Continent.
If the Northern Continent is a harsh world covered with the snow of time but still retains a trace of warmth, then the Western Continent is a fertile land full of chaos and disorder.
Herbert, who succeeded Gao Jingwu as the supreme leader of the Western Continent Resistance Army, met with the clone controlled by Chen She.
Herbert was a tall Westerner. Among the rebel forces in the Western Continent, he was the one with the most military achievements except Gao Jingwu. After Gao Jingwu died in battle, it was natural for him to take over these rebel forces.
Chen She did not tell Herbert his specific identity, but only said that they were a resistance force currently active in the northern continent and hoped that there would be a chance for cooperation in the future.
The two talked about the battle between the resistance army and the corporate coalition army in the Western Continent. Chen She learned some information from Herbert: the reason why the corporate coalition army headed by the Black Umbrella Group withdrew was because several old-established chaebols headed by the Wilford Heavy Industries Group launched an attack at the Supreme Council of the Old Land.
For the rebels in the Western Continent, this is a great opportunity to recover.
But after the meeting, Chen She communicated with Gao Jingwu in the conscious world, but felt that there seemed to be other hidden stories.
Although there are irreconcilable contradictions between the old-school chaebols and the new-school chaebols, they should be able to reach a consensus on how to deal with the rebels.
Even if Villefort's Heavy Industry Group attacks the Black Umbrella Group for the purpose of competing for the sphere of influence of the Western Continent, it can wait until the Black Umbrella Group and the rebels are both defeated and stuck in a quagmire before taking action.
What's more, the source of the mysterious materials obtained by the rebels remains a mystery.
If you want to make the armaments of these rebel forces completely new and able to withstand the offensive of the corporate coalition army, this batch of weapons is definitely not so easy to obtain. It is almost certain that there must be some financial group behind it.
Chen She found a way to get some weapons. With the ability of a creator, he disassembled and analyzed them and determined that these military products should have been made by the Wilford Heavy Industry Group.
Although there are no labels or logos on the weapons, the detailed features of the military design cannot be hidden from the creators.
At this time, a flood of reports suddenly appeared on the Internet. Wilford Heavy Industry Group fiercely criticized the new consortium represented by Long Night Entertainment Group, Skyline Network Group and Avalon Exchange, while traditional consortiums such as Pioneer Mining Group, Times Media Group and Fujido Group also voiced their support.
The astute Gao Jingwu immediately realized that the seventh corporate war was coming.
The Sixth Corporate War gave the resistance a valuable opportunity to develop, and the resistance forces in the entire Old Land grew rapidly during that period. However, after the Sixth Corporate War, all the big financial groups realized this problem, and quickly formed a corporate coalition army to put out the resistance.
Now that the threat from the rebels has disappeared, the conflicts of interest among the big corporations have once again been exposed.
In fact, this is a continuation of the Sixth Corporate War because the previous problems have not been completely resolved.
The corporate wars between the major conglomerates are ultimately a fight for limited resources and spheres of influence in the old territories, and the most intense conflict of interests is between the traditional conglomerates and the emerging conglomerates.
Wilford Heavy Industries Group is a representative of traditional consortiums. In the past, it was a top-level consortium at almost the same level as the Icefield Defense Group . However, after the rise of emerging consortiums such as the Long Night Entertainment Group and the Sky Network Group, these old consortiums are actually in a state of being "harvested".
As for other top consortiums, such as Mellon Bank Group, Black Umbrella Group, etc., although they have cooperated with both traditional and emerging consortiums, they are obviously gradually moving closer to emerging consortiums.
If this trend is allowed to continue, traditional conglomerates will become vassals of these emerging conglomerates, and most of the profits they earn will be harvested in various ways.
Therefore, after the resistance army had become insignificant and the Space-Time Knights had temporarily ceased their activities, traditional consortiums represented by the Wilford Heavy Industries Group saw an opportunity and planned to provoke the Seventh Corporate War to nip this trend in the bud.
As for the current debate on the Internet, it is a kind of public opinion. The old-school financial groups are seeking legitimacy for launching corporate wars for themselves and trying to gain the support of the majority as much as possible.
Chen She was surprised by the angle from which these traditional conglomerates attacked the emerging conglomerates.
The traditional financial groups actually mainly emphasized that the emerging financial groups have eliminated a large number of jobs, leaving many workers unemployed, thus exacerbating social unrest. They called on workers to take back their own industries, positions and jobs, and reject the dangerous attempts of the emerging financial groups to hijack the real world through the virtual world.
Traditional consortiums believe that high-tech consortiums represented by Changye Entertainment Group and Tianji Network Group have not actually created any value for Jiutu. They are just trying to weave a virtual world to deceive everyone, and not a single cent of their huge market value can be used to transform Jiutu.
In contrast, traditional consortiums provide jobs, transform old lands, and support people's dreams of escaping from old lands and heading to the Silver Star through various engineering projects.
Such voices have attracted widespread support, especially from workers who lost their jobs due to the impact of emerging industries, who have joined the camp of traditional financial groups.
Even some rebels have joined the camp of traditional conglomerates, because many of the rebels were previously workers of traditional conglomerates and joined the rebels because of unemployment. Therefore, the voices of these traditional conglomerates are very inspiring to them.
The emerging conglomerates soon launched a counterattack. Although the corporate war was almost a foregone conclusion, if they lost the war of public opinion, they would be put on the defensive at the beginning of the war.
The emerging conglomerates did not fight to the death in the areas where the old conglomerates were strong, because they knew it was impossible to win the support of the grassroots workers. They focused on attacking the old conglomerates for being conservative, mediocre, unenterprising, and lacking a spirit of adventure.
The Long Night Entertainment Group said that it has provided the people of the old land with richer spiritual entertainment; the Skyline Network Group said that network communications have brought people closer together; only the Avalon Exchange is unable to find the angle, and all that can be said is that traditional consortiums are not receptive to new things.
What the emerging consortiums emphasize the most is the spirit of adventure. They attack the old consortiums for being conservative and only focusing on the old territory. In fact, the emerging consortiums are the ones who most support the Silver Star construction plan and always look to the more distant future.
Whether it is the virtual world or the invisible immigration, the emerging consortium has at least proposed and implemented many ideas for the future of mankind. If the old consortium continues to rule, it will only lead mankind to a dead end.
The two factions argued endlessly, and people on the Internet also joined the discussion. Soon, this discussion turned into a huge wave that swept across the entire old land and turned into marches and riots in major cities.
A month later, Wilford Heavy Industries Group officially declared war on the Black Umbrella Group, and the first battle took place in the Western Continent. This also marked the beginning of the Seventh Corporate War.
In fact, the Black Umbrella Group is not an emerging financial group, but is very close to the emerging financial groups. However, attacking the Black Umbrella Group first will help the Wilford Heavy Industry Group to further seize the sphere of influence of the Western Continent.
Soon after, Pioneer Mining Group, Skynet Group, Fujido Group and other top financial groups also joined the war. The seventh corporate war broke out across the entire Old Land.
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At this time, compared with other places in the old land where there were demonstrations, large-scale riots, or even wars, Dawn City seemed a little quiet.
Although a corporate war broke out in the Northern Continent, the Northern Continent is the largest continent in terms of area. With the Icefield Defense Group’s headquarters located there, both the old and new consortiums will not escalate the war and will tacitly abide by their bottom line.
As for the Icefield Defense Group, they are most happy to see corporate wars between major conglomerates, because at such times, their arms sales will be particularly good.
Due to the recent turmoil, a large number of rich people fled Dawn City, making the city suddenly less noticeable. Most people in the city are in a panic, they are always worried about the comeback of the Time and Space Knights, and have no interest in demonstrations or participating in the struggle between the new and old consortiums.
At the field base of Lishan Technology, a new meeting of responsible persons began.
Each person in charge briefly reported on the current development of Lishan Technology and put forward some future development goals.
However, all these goals were rejected by Chen She.
Chen She proposed the two most important things to do next: the first was to develop a new Mewtwo, whose name was "The Congressman Also Has a Son"; the second was that the defense of the field base was far from enough, and it was far from the impregnable state he had expected, so he had to continue to expand the scope and build more defense facilities!
