Chapter 82 Win-Win = Win Twice
It’s three o’clock in the morning on Yilando.
Drifting in the fleet in space, Gudunmaha had just fallen asleep when he was awakened by a secret communication from his most trusted confidant.
"Kalmi," Gutonmaha cursed in a hoarse voice, "If you don't have any emergencies, then I'll make you have an emergency! I'm facing enough troubles now!"
"S-Sir...Master Yang Ming, he..."
Gudunmaha immediately became alert.
His hip was aching again.
"What happened? Tell me in detail."
"I'm not sure," Kalmi said tremblingly, "I'm not sure whether I've suffered a loss or made a big profit. I just lost all my cash, including the private money I hid abroad, and it was all found out by Lord Yang Ming... But I got assets worth twice as much..."
Gutonmaha cursed: "Has your logic been eaten by a dog? Start from the beginning!"
"It's like this," Kalmi exhaled softly, "It's what I reported to you yesterday. The Third Prince arranged people to target Lord Yang Ming, and then Lord Yang Ming taught that gang a lesson. Just after dark last night, Lord Yang Ming met with the management of this gang. I was the middleman..."
Kalmi recounted in detail what he had seen.
Yang Ming, who kills without blinking an eye;
The sudden appearance of an elite brigade of guards;
And then there are those gang leaders who peed their pants.
"Master Yang Ming asked them to pay for their lives, and accurately stated the value of each person's assets. Within half an hour, the gang's cash flow was directly cut off, and the balance of their overseas accounts was also emptied.
"They have struggled for more than ten years, but became paupers in half an hour. Lord Yang Ming must have been keeping an eye on them for a long time.
"Then, Lord Yang Ming took the initiative to find me and offered to sell these people's real estate and properties at a 50% discount, in short, everything that could be sold.
"I thought I could make a lot of money right away, so I agreed and urgently raised a large amount of cash... Lord Yang Ming said that it was okay to blackmail, so I took out most of my cash flow... Lord, you know, there is a lot of money in the place I run that is not visible to the public, and the same goes for the management of this gang..."
Gutonmaha groaned for a few seconds: "Yang Ming wants money?"
"Sir, who doesn't need money?"
Kalmi said in a trembling voice:
"I originally thought that after earning tens of millions of New Federation coins in one night, Lord Yang Ming should stop, and most of it was black money, and he needed time to digest it. Who knew... in the early morning, Lord Yang Ming found me again... He took down three large gangs in one go and directly dealt with several tumors outside Yilandu City. He also asked me if I could take over some of the black business... He even offered a 40% discount, and I couldn't refuse..."
Gutonmaha rubbed his brows and said, "So, Kalmi, you came to me just to show off that Yang Ming doubled your net worth overnight?"
"No," Kalmi cleared his throat, "Can you lend me some funds? I want to swallow more. Master Yang Ming gave me too much."
"Get lost!"
Gutonmaha yelled at the top of his lungs, his skinny face full of anger, and threw the encrypted communicator directly onto the bed.
After a few minutes, Gutonmaha called Kalmi.
“How big is your funding gap?”
"About 60 million... New Federation currency..."
"I want half of your assets," Gutonmaha said calmly, "I'll buy it from you at 55% off the market price."
"Well, sir, although we are very familiar with each other and I have been under your care for many years, but... why don't you go directly to Lord Yang Ming?"
Gutonmaha said in a deep voice: "Are you negotiating terms with me?"
"No, no, no, I understand," Kalmi said hurriedly, "Everything I have is yours. I'll send my accountant over to you right now."
"snort!"
Gutonmaha snorted coldly.
He sat quietly on the bed, pondering the deeper meaning behind this matter.
Yang Ming suddenly targeted the local gangs? Was he trying to destroy the Third Prince's power? These gangs were inextricably linked to the ministers and nobles, and had always been the hardest hit areas for espionage activities.
Local tyrants have their own values.
What does this incident represent?
Gudunmaha's thoughts continued to extend forward, but there was one thing he was extremely sure of.
How could Yang Ming be short of money?
…
Damn.
After all this trouble, I’m still a pauper!
4:30 in the morning.
Yang Ming looked at the account interface projected in front of him, grinning sometimes and feeling sad sometimes.
Under Lu's operation, the funds were quickly laundered using the multinational group under the name of the second prince and gathered into the bank account he used specially when he went to the black market.
Unfortunately, these funds are needed to purchase the planetary transformation system.
There is no shortage of wealthy people in the Luofeng Empire with assets worth tens of billions or hundreds of billions of federal currencies . As a wealthy family, the Luofeng royal family often appears in the top 50 of the Milky Way's richest list.
But for Yang Ming, earning a huge sum of nine figures through one night's hard work did give him a rare sense of accomplishment.
"Boss! We're rich!"
The accounting lawyer, wearing a professional suit, shouted excitedly in the passenger seat.
"What kind of fortune is this? All this has to go to Kolev," Yang Ming complained with a depressed look on his face, "I even have to use some of my own money to give red envelopes to the members of the team tonight!"
"Okay, boss. Where are we going next?" Lu Xing asked excitedly, "To buy a highly realistic maid robot?"
"Go find Edwan."
Yang Ming curled his lips slightly:
"Tonight's action must have a legitimate reason. This is also a good opportunity to improve Adwan's reputation. To become a crown prince, one needs more than just the support of the nobles. Public opinion is also important."
"Oh, okay, you really don't want to buy a highly realistic maid robot?"
"The housekeeping robot we use at home is pretty good," Yang Ming said, unconscionably, "It has a kind of mechanical sexiness."
Lu was feeling unhappy.
…
Edwang often felt that he could not keep up with Yang Ming's pace at all.
Logically speaking, such a large-scale operation, involving the safety of tens of thousands of people in Yilandu City, should have taken at least half a month of planning, assigning tasks, selecting capable personnel, and then closing the net with lightning speed.
But Yang Ming just went ahead and did it, and finished it in one night.
Adwant only made two phone calls, and the multinational group under his name earned tens of millions of dollars in profits.
Yang Ming also found him and asked him to quickly contact the media and record a script for the morning news.
Adwant hurriedly finished the recording and handed it over to the Royal Television, which was broadcast as the headline news on the morning news two minutes later.
On TV, the 'other' Edwan narrated with a serious face:
“In recent years, a group of new evil forces have emerged on the edge of the city, absorbing a large amount of foreign capital, using unjust means to persecute the people's body and mind, disrupting the normal market order, and casting a shadow over the nighttime security of Yilanduoxing.
“The safety of citizens’ lives is always the top priority of the Luofeng royal family.
"Just last night, the cleanup plan we had planned for a long time was officially implemented. We fought at multiple points, deployed in depth, called in elite troops, and with the cooperation of the political and legal departments of each district, we quickly cleared out several leeches that were attached to social order..."
The news showed a group of gang leaders being taken into police cars.
Adwant raised his hand to turn off the TV, and the maid beside him immediately stepped forward and took away the remote control.
"Ming, why are you..."
Edwin paused.
He heard a slight snoring coming from Yang Ming's nose.
Yang Ming leaned on the sofa with his arms folded, and fell asleep, with a hint of fatigue between his brows.
Edwin burst out laughing.
Several maids brought in a screen quietly, and the glowing silver-white floor tiles on the ground became dim, and a starry sky appeared on the ceiling.
Edwang did not go back to the bedroom to rest. Instead, he drank a cup of refreshing hot drink, went to his desk with renewed energy, and continued to review the documents that seemed to never be finished.
Just when Yang Ming fell asleep, his old friend had packed his bags and left the villa in the corner of the chemical plant with the domestic robot that was imbued with legal consciousness.
Kolev announced that he would return to the Kashi Federation to attend the funeral of an old friend.
In reality, Kolev would disguise himself several times, return to his familiar territory, find his old black market buddies, and get a second-hand planetary transformation system.
The planetary transformation system has only one function - to transform the planetary environment. Generally speaking, it takes hundreds or thousands of years to complete a small transformation of the planetary environment. This is a long-term investment that only powerful countries will make.
What the pirates care about is only the function of building a complete base in the early stages of the planetary transformation project.
Who doesn’t want to have a safe and secure base?
At the entrance of the villa, an unmanned taxi slowly hovered.
Kolev turned around and looked at the assembled villa, muttering quietly:
"It'll take me a month at the earliest to get back, and that guy definitely won't be able to clean up."
The housekeeping robot at the side whispered, "I can guarantee that your nephew will stay in the hotel for a month. You don't have to worry about it. The noble lady will take good care of him."
"That's right, he's just in love."
Kolev sighed softly, lowered his head and got into the taxi. The lightweight household robot sat in the passenger seat and interacted with the unmanned driving system.
A hovercraft slowly drove past the gate of the chemical plant.
Lu turned his head and looked over, with a hint of suspicion in his electronic eyes.
She didn't detect any suspicious signals.
But she felt something was unusual.
'I should update my anti-espionage tool library, Lu thought.'
Kolev asked, "If you come with me, what will happen to my nephew?"
"Don't worry," Lu whispered, "This is just a small observation window I opened."
Kolev didn't quite understand, but he didn't ask any more questions.
Probably, this is what Lu's clone means?
In the hover car that just passed by, the driver tapped the steering wheel lightly with his fingers and entered a line of information into the black box placed on the passenger seat.
[Boss, we have confirmed that the businessman Hatton has left the chemical plant. The star flight ticket he purchased earlier is correct. He should be returning to the Kashi Federation to attend the funeral of an old friend.]
This line of information was broken down into a weak light pulse signal, hidden in the complex Ilando star network, like an ordinary message, transmitted to the information transfer satellite in the synchronous orbit, and sent to the hyperspace communication station near the directional jump orbit. After adding a delay of several galactic seconds, it arrived near the fifth administrative planet.
On the fifth administrative planet, in the lost city that has become the rebel base, on the top floor of a building, there is a busy combat command center.
Lulian crossed his legs, drank his first cup of coffee in the morning, looked at the message box that popped up in front of him, and thought for a moment.
"Don't waste any energy on this old man. Just keep an eye on Yang Ming."
Lu Liyan said calmly:
"We need to make the Second Prince understand what the price is for standing on the side of the Sherman Empire. Yang Ming and Edwang are friends, right?"
The assistant beside him shrugged slightly.
Mr. Lulian, a senior agent of the New Federation and head of the Torch Project of the Luofeng Empire, had a smug smile on his face.
He must wash away the shame of his previous embarrassing retreat from the planet Yilanduo!
