Chapter 37: Dusk and Dawn (II)
In the twentieth century, global business tycoons began to appear, especially various conglomerates led by the United States, and the chaebols began to do business all over the world, which also greatly increased the national strength of the United States. The battle between dusk and dawn became more frequent, World War I, World War II, Vietnam War, Cold War, and merchants did everything for profit. The Brotherhood of Twilight has also become an underground organization, no longer openly walking on the open side.
During World War II, the Brotherhood of Twilight provided the invaders with the steel that the invaders desperately needed, and they controlled the U.S. Congress, allowing the United States to watch the war as temporarily as possible and prolong the war. The global war has brought them huge benefits, and many people say that the United States became a great power because of World War II, but it is better to say that American businessmen made a lot of money because of World War II. Eventually, the United States entered the war and dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, ending World War II and China's eight-year war of resistance.
The twentieth century was the most active century of the Twilight Brotherhood, and no one knew whether a certain big businessman was a member of the Twilight Brotherhood, and they went from the open to the dark, because the laws of various countries began to crack down on monopolies, prohibiting merchants from meeting in the same industry to negotiate the price of goods.
In the twentieth century, the seventies and early nineties were the last confrontations between the two sides, and the twilight brotherhood tried in vain to take advantage of the Cold War atmosphere and provoke a third world war. They tampered with the electronic system to make the Soviets mistakenly believe that the United States was attacking with a nuclear bomb, but fortunately the Soviet officers on duty were calm and did not launch a nuclear retaliation. They also created the Missile Crisis, but neither the United States nor the Soviet Union could afford a World War I, and with mutual compromise between the two sides, a Third World War did not break out.
Since neither of the United States and the Soviet Union wanted to go to war with each other, why did they repeatedly have crises? The CIA and the KGB investigated and found a potential group led by businessmen, as well as the existence of the Dawn Alliance, after countless battles, Dawn, with the help of spies on both sides of the Cold War, not only hit Dusk hard, but also obtained key evidence that the Twilight Brotherhood was trying to provoke a war. After the evidence came to light, dozens of businessmen were arrested around the world, while the Brotherhood of Twilight was listed as an illegal organization.
As long as there is interest, the Twilight Brotherhood cannot be completely eliminated. How to access the resources of a country with a population of several hundred thousand? They can choose to sponsor the presidential candidates who support them, and they can choose to assassinate the presidential candidates who oppose them. There are also some businessmen who collude to control the price of rare raw materials. For example, how did the price of mung beans suddenly increase sevenfold or even tenfold in a year? It is because a group of people have partnered to buy mung beans across the country with a large amount of money, hoard them and then release them in small amounts. Rare things are expensive, and naturally the price skyrockets, and they use this price to wholesale mung beans to earn a huge difference.
Fortunately, many developed countries have explicit laws to restrict and crack down on commercial monopolies, because monopoly is an act in which bad money drives out good money, which will regress the economy. There is a law on the surface, but what about in the secret? Businessmen and even ordinary people understand that only mutual cooperation and monopoly are the most profitable.
A businessman wants to open a port in an island country, and the majority of the island's residents oppose it, and just as the general election is held, a professional killer assassinates a candidate who supports the businessman. The candidate's widow was elected in place of her husband, and she won the hearts of the people as the new president, after which the construction of the port began. It only costs a few hundred thousand dollars to hire a good professional killer, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the profits that a port can provide.
Small-scale alliances of interest, although their methods are vile, are relatively limited. If it's an alliance of global giants, anything can happen. Only those at the very top of the food chain in the business world are eligible to join the Twilight Brotherhood.
The arch-enemy of the Brotherhood of Twilight, the Dawn Alliance has never disbanded and has moved into more secluded places. They already have a standardized management system, a clear division of labor, and a lot of money, and at the same time they have a group of very good fighters. In the same way, the twilight has not been ended, they grow in the dark, cooperate with each other in private, and they know the business principle that 1+1 is greater than 2. They also know that they are not popular with many people, which makes them more careful about hiding their identities.
Many people don't know that when the Dawn Alliance fought the Dusk Brotherhood for the last time, the Dawn Alliance suffered a heavy blow, and if you have money, you have a qiē, including mercenaries, missiles, tanks and other modern combat weapons. The remnants of the Brotherhood of Twilight, who had obtained accurate information about the Dawn Alliance from the agents who helped the Dawn Alliance, launched an assault on the Dawn Alliance headquarters and three strongholds. Since then, the Dawn Alliance has never trusted anyone else, and the remaining Dawn Alliance warriors have been broken to pieces and scattered to all corners of the planet. They live somewhere, always waiting for the call of the dawn.
Su Xin, Nie Zuo, and Xiao Yun are members of the Dawn Alliance, and the reason why they became members of the Dawn Alliance is because their parents are members of the Dawn Alliance. The Dawn Alliance's most distinctive structure is the inheritance of the father's business, and at the age of five, children begin to receive specialized military and espionage training, ranging from 10 to 15 years. After graduating, they can return to their own city and become an ordinary person, and they will receive two thousand dollars a month for living expenses.
This money is internally called the Dawn Fund, and in the hundreds of years of development, there are many successful businessmen in the Dawn Alliance, who have taken out their money to set up a fund, which is invested by a regular business team, and has accumulated considerable wealth, and it is also a capital that Dawn can compete with Dusk.
DK was an English abbreviation for dusk in the Middle Ages, and in the seventeenth century became the emblem letter of the Dusk Brotherhood. DK represents an honor, that your success has been recognized, that you have reached the top of the food chain. To be able to become a DK, they are all people with strong ability to control zhì desires and control zhì, this kind of person will not feel satisfied after achieving one achievement after another, although DK is an illegal organization, but there are many people who want to join DK. Some people want to become DK because they can be the brothers of the giants and get countless business benefits and opportunities. And some people become DK completely as a recognition of their success.
Just as Dawn thought that Dusk had fallen, so Twilight thought that Dawn had been eradicated, until Frank made a move that Nie Zuo personally thought was very inappropriate, and Dawn had found that Twilight had revived. What worries Dawn is that the young people who have grown up in the past thirty years only have a knowledge of the Dusk Brotherhood in the textbooks, they don't have much hostility towards Dusk, and they live in a materialistic society, although these warriors are more elite than the previous warriors, they lack the faith of their ancestors.