The proud apprentice of Wang Xinyu, who is in charge of transforming the old era, also accepted the medal and title in the inner hall of the main hall in the middle of the night.

At that time, he was just a bankrupt gambler with a lot of debts, and when he was about to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, he met a headhunter arranged by the crossing public who was looking for a candidate, and after some exchanges, the crossing public signed a permanent contract with him, hiring him as the general manager of the gambling city and the head of security of the gold cave.

In addition to maintaining the business of the casino, he must also let him take in all kinds of gangsters and villains, operate the underground order, help the traversal to collect intelligence, spy on information, establish strongholds, develop downlines, open up and control various black financial resources (pornography, gambling, drugs have not yet appeared), ensure that various other industries under his name are not disturbed by the evil forces, and gradually transform the gangsters into money can act as intelligence officers and agents, giving these low-level gangsters who are eager to change their fate a chance to be used by themselves.

This kind of wealthy investment naturally has a remarkable effect, and within a year, it unified the ** forces in the entire Gyeonggi region, and the name of the underground emperor Yu Chigao spread throughout the Great Song Dynasty, just like Song Jiang's nicknames on the rivers and lakes "Xiaoyi Hei Saburo", "Timely Rain", "Hu Baoyi", he also received the same treatment, "Renyi Black Dragon King" and "Nameless Jizo". He looks as strong as a black tower, treats people warmly and benevolently, and treats himself and his brothers very generously.

However, he ruthlessly carried out all the instructions of the traversal people, and eradicated the disobedient enemies and bandits who plagued the world, and was much more efficient than Li Hao, one of the white dragon kings of Chenji Shuanglong. Although Li Hao is in the important position of procurator on Jingxi Road, he has always been jealous and hateful, but he also acts according to the rules, and he is very fair to the suspects who have been evildoers, as long as the evidence of the crime is conclusive, he will give a verdict, and if there is no problem, he will be released on the spot, and there has never been any extortion and abuse of prisoners, and the official reputation is very good. However, Wei Chigao is not as procedural justice as Li Hao, as long as he is identified as an enemy within the scope of the crossing crowd or a bully and bandit who can be attacked by himself, he will be killed immediately, and it is generally a means of burying him alive. Before being buried alive, recite a scripture on transcendent evil spirits, just like Jizo Bodhisattva, send these evil people who are more hateful than evil spirits to hell as evil spirits to wash away their sins, so that they can die in bliss as soon as possible.

But no one thought that the top boss crossed the crowd and let Li Hao, a junior, become the emperor. When Li Hao stood in front of his senior, he gave himself medals and knighthood certificates, and he couldn't think for a while. I had long thought that it should be [***]oss Li Ji as the emperor, and the gap for a while made it difficult for a few days to ease.

Who would have thought that when he accepted the title of earl, the bitter past of many years ago came to his mind again, a gambler who was forced to commit suicide by fate actually made him a member of the aristocratic class of the upper class after meeting Engong, which is absolutely impossible in other dynasties.

In Asia, all countries, with the exception of the Han Chinese in China, are the same as in the West, where the aristocracy is hereditary, and the mobility of surnames between the upper and lower classes of society is extremely poor. Only when the end of the dynasty is coming or when the dynasty changes will there be a slight chance for the lower classes to squeeze into the upper classes. After Qin Shi Huang unified China, China's history entered the era of imperial [***] landlord politics, the past aristocratic lord politics slowly died out after the abolition of the feudal system and the implementation of the county system, when the imperial examination system appeared, the bureaucracy, that is, the lower class of intellectuals became the spokesperson of the landlord class through this channel, acting as the representative of the ruling class that replaced the hereditary aristocratic lords.

This institutional evolution extended the lifespan of China's emperors by at least a thousand years, and there was a qualitative change in the number of the ruling class. The vast landlord class was ten times more powerful than the sparsely numbered aristocratic class, and many of the factors that supported the vitality of the imperial system, such as its ability to innovate and its contribution to the super-stable surname of the small peasant economy, were likewise more than ten times stronger. The constantly updated fresh blood has basically ordered the lifespan of each dynasty for hundreds of years before it is replaced by new dynasties spawned by the impetus of dynastic rotation such as land annexation.

Aristocracy is synonymous with conservatism and loyalty, as well as synonymous with stubbornness and closure. Every true aristocrat has to spend a lot of resources and wealth to create, and the resource wealth of the whole society is so much, and one more nobleman must invest a small number of resources and wealth to support him in public services and social development. When a dynasty lives for hundreds of years, the number of nobles will reach the warning line of dragging the dynasty to death. Therefore, the stronger the mobile surname, the stronger the vitality of the dynasty, and as long as the total number of aristocratic families with ups and downs is constantly consumed in political struggles and wars, the upstarts created during the imperial examination and the establishment of the new dynasty have the opportunity to fill in. If it weren't for the primogeniture system that limited the geometric growth of the number of nobles, and if it weren't for the wars and dynastic changes that wiped out groups of nobles, the history of the world would be very different.

The creation of a group of nouveau riche through the crowd is not just to repeat the history of the cycle of dynastic succession, but by implanting new forces with the help of this old form, that is, to let the capitalist class, which will inevitably replace the landlord class, control most of the resources of society. In addition to buying and settling the loyalty and emotions of one's own people, the fundamental purpose of this large-scale knighthood is to establish credit, fulfill promises, and use the nouveau riche to slowly replace the big landlords and nobles of the times. Naturally, the capitalist-turned-nouveau riche would not only focus on land and fixed assets, as did the aristocracy of the old era, but would pursue honor and liquid assets. The transformation of agricultural capital into industrial and commercial capital requires a large number of high-level personnel to drive it. It is too slow for small bourgeoisie owners to slowly accumulate surplus agricultural capital, and then gradually transfer it to the industrial and commercial spheres, and the traverser pursues speed and scale, and if he does not have enough helpers and subordinates, he will not want to die before he dies of exhaustion - a global computer network (a prerequisite for the space age).

Wei Chigao is just an insignificant ** boss, standing in front of the time-travelers who promote the leap of the times, naturally there is not much driving force for the times, but with the help of the resources and networks owned by the time-travelers, a huge underground economic and information network can be established soon. In Lee's eyes, he is a central figure in a key expansion link. If you want the horse to run fast, you must give the horse ** feed to fat.

In one breath, after the ceremony, Li Ji issued 5 million dragon yuan worth of supplies and checks for him to set up a new network to make up for the gap covering the Liao Kingdom in the northeast and the countries in the Indochina Peninsula in the southwest, and strive to overlap the civilian network with the military intelligence network established by Wang Xinyu within three years. Li Ki's goal is to build a large-scale civilian network with more than 10 times the number of personnel, network density, and intelligence information flow that is about 10 times that of the military intelligence network. This network requires a lot of talent, but it doesn't require the same loyalty and advanced expertise as the personnel of the MI network, so quantity is the key. A steady stream of black gold continues to flow into this rapidly expanding network, but it is far from enough. Therefore, Li Ji also has to subsidize the injection of additional funds.

The task of the underground emperor Wei Chigao is different from Li Hao's in essence, Li Hao is just a virtual monarch head, and he is placed in the open to let people know that the state system is just a mascot of the constitutional monarchy. Yu Chigao's task is to unify the iron-blooded emperor of the entire empire, and the work of killing people and setting fires is handed over to his subordinates, he is just a feared and fascinated god-killing legend and a powerful umbrella.

No matter what the crime, as long as it can enter his eyes, he can get strong protection, no matter how powerful the opponents and the ** elements who disobey his will, the final outcome is death. This powerful image is the godfather image designed by Li Ji. He maintains the order of the underground world, establishes the laws of the underground world, and incidentally undertakes some dirty work that is inconvenient for the public or the yamen (such as killing the traitors of the Chenji group, and undertaking industries such as marketing stolen goods, buying and selling slaves, and smuggling).

The advantages of his existence definitely outweigh the disadvantages, and Lee Ki is well aware of the role of the godfather in controlling marginal industries and social mores such as corners that are difficult for the political axe to reach. Although his merits cannot be publicly commended, it is not something that a small marquis can send, in order to help some of the old qualified ** bigwigs who have worked hard for many years for Chenji's career to wash their identities and learn part of the spirit of the British award of pirate titles. Therefore, the award of the third duke was also to give hope and a future to many of his subordinates.