"What's going on?" Grant hurriedly asked anxiously when he saw Tang Long's panicked appearance. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tang Long sat down in shock, and then said: "I went to Huafeng County a few days ago to deliver a batch of newly shipped goods to Amazon, Taobao and Wanda, and at the same time agreed that these three store owners would discuss some plans for the near future. But fortunately, I went late on the way, and I was a little smarter, otherwise I might not have been able to come back!"

"Why can't you come back?!" Grant asked.

Tang Long wiped the sweat from his head, and then slowly told him about his experience.

It turned out that Tang Long went to the teahouse at the agreed place to meet the three people, and when he walked to the teahouse, he suddenly saw several big men walking out of the door of the teahouse, carrying three sacks out of the house. He was surprised, but still unimpressed. But when he approached the carriage, the magic weapon on his body suddenly became hot, and a strong sense of foreboding suddenly came to his heart. Tang Long had always believed in the induction of his magic weapon, and immediately turned his head without saying a word.

In the next half day, he immediately transferred his residence in Huafeng County, and asked around for news of the three shopkeepers, and the clerks of the three stores all responded that their shopkeepers had gone out early in the morning and had not come back for a whole day, and had strangely disappeared.

Amazon, Taobao and Wanda are the new ones established on the basis of the autonomous group's acquisition of the three businesses in Huafeng County a year ago. At that time, in order to hide people's eyes, the three businesses were the same people from the owners to the ordinary employees, and only the name of the store was changed to the exact same name of several large companies on the planet by Danny and others. Usually, the autonomous group only leads the operation of the entire business through a single line of contact with the three shopkeepers, and the person responsible for the contact with these three stores is none other than Tang Long.

"How did they go missing?, did you find anything else?" asked Grant, who was also anxious.

Tang Long continued: "I was in a hurry and wanted to go to the Elders of Huafeng County to inquire about this matter. Unexpectedly, I suddenly received a message from a Xiaoyu County employee in our Lishang firm. It turned out that he had overheard the conversation between the two Li clan shopkeepers of the Li Shang firm a few days ago, saying that the Li clan had sent black prison guards to investigate the affairs of the three businesses of Hong Sheng Amazon, and the origin of these three businesses would soon be found out. I was shocked when I heard this, and saw that the three shopkeepers had really disappeared mysteriously, so I hurried back to tell everyone. What should we do? Those cultivators are going to come against us!"

Hearing Tang Long's astonishing news, everyone's faces suddenly changed greatly. If, as he knew, the Li Clan cultivators had begun to suspect them and had already started to investigate, then the problem would be very serious. With the attitude of cultivators towards mortals, the previous commercial competition behavior of the Blue Star Autonomous Group has undoubtedly deeply sinned them, if it is really known to the cultivators of the Li Clan, I am afraid that the Blue Star Autonomous Group will face a catastrophe.

Although Grant was the boss of the autonomous group, he didn't know what to do at this time, and after half a ring, he hesitated: "What should we do? Shall we send someone to explain to the Li Clan Elders and ask them for mercy? Let them let Wang Lin and the three of them go?" Wang Lin and the three are the owners of the three Amazon businesses, and they are very friendly allies of the autonomous group, and Grant naturally doesn't want any accidents for these three people.

"What's the use of pleading? How could those cultivators take the pleas of us mortals seriously? And if these three people really fall into the hands of those cultivators, I'm afraid they will really be more than lucky. Worst of all, I'm afraid our secrets must have been leaked as well. Arden shook his head helplessly and sighed deeply.

"Then what should we do? Those cultivators know about this, what should we do?" Grant suddenly panicked.

The atmosphere in the meeting hall gradually became solemn, and there was no trace of the enthusiasm that had just been used to discuss various plans. A huge oppressive atmosphere hung over everyone's heads, leaving everyone breathless.

"Bang!" suddenly there was a loud bang in the venue. It turned out to be Schroeder who slapped the table hard. He stood up abruptly and said loudly: "Come on, what are you afraid of! If those cultivators really do something to us, we are not easy to mess with! Just have a good fight with them! We haven't dealt with cultivators, and we didn't kill three of them when we were in Aoyang? Let them have a good understanding of the power of our modern weapons!" His words immediately aroused the support of Tang Long and Ivanov, and even Kang Nai nodded slightly in agreement.

Seeing that there was support from others, Schroeder said even louder. "I've long seen that those cultivators are unhappy! Didn't Linda just say that the reason why the mortals here live so hard is not because of those cultivators? In the past, those mortals were not capable of fighting against the cultivators, and now we bring them guns and bombs, what are we afraid of!"

"That's not good!" Grant immediately vetoed: "Even if we can defeat a few cultivators, but can we fight against the real Li clan? No matter whether we can win or not, if we really fight, we will lose the opportunity to gain a foothold in Li County, or even in Gui Kingdom, or the entire Terran Continent, and we will have nowhere to go!"

"Then we can't sit back and go, can we just go back to Blue Star Island? Schroeder thought that Grant's words also made sense, but he was not convinced.

It was impossible to return to Blue Star Island, and the "Ark" was damaged due to disrepair shortly after their arrival, and even if they could repair it, they would not dare to risk their lives to return to Blue Star Island again through Aoyang.

Grant was silent for a moment and sighed: "With our current strength, it is impossible to fight against the cultivators, unless we have the strength to fight them and make them fearful, otherwise, we can only endure it." ”

He paused, turned to Linda and asked, "Linda, you have always been resourceful, tell me what to do!"

Linda didn't expect Grant to ask him for advice so quickly, looking at a group of partners with anger, fear, irritability, etc., thinking of the hardships and struggles in this world in the past few years, it was hard to build such a comfortable place, with this large industry, but now facing the danger of destruction, and his heart is even more complicated.

Emotionally speaking, the military temperament flowing in his blood made him have the same idea as Schroeder, that is, to have a good fight with that cultivator. There were quite a few modern weapons in the Autonomous Regiment that had not been used, and many of them were powerful enough to kill ordinary cultivators.

However, he had to admit that Grant's words were correct. Maybe they could deal with three or four cultivators, but what if they were facing the entire Li clan. It is said that the Li people, as the four nobles of the Gui Kingdom, have their own family army, and there are more than 1,000 monks in the entire Li tribe, including many monks above the realm. These people, with the strength of more than 100 people in the autonomous group, even if they are all equipped with the most modern earth weapons, will definitely not be able to deal with them.

Lin Da was silent for a moment, constantly thinking about symmetry in his mind, and after being silent for a while, he finally said: "Everyone, in my opinion, it is absolutely impossible to analyze with the Li Clan cultivators and get their understanding. I'm afraid that as Arden said, those cultivators already know everything, and with their character, they will never let us go easily. ”

"What should we do then? Should we leave Xiaoyu County right away?" said Grant, a little timidly.

Lin Da shook his head firmly and said, "Of course not! Xiaoyu County is a place we have finally found a foothold, and if we want to leave, we have nowhere to go." Besides, even if we wanted to leave, those cultivators wouldn't let us go easily. ”

"It's not okay to go, it's not okay to reconcile, and if you want to beat you and you don't want to, then what do you say?" Schroeder said a little irritably.

Linda paused, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and said slowly: "In my opinion, we must make two countermeasures right now. ”

"First of all, we have to show weakness right away. From now on, we must stop cooperating with the subordinate firms of the counties, sell all these firms to the Liyu firm at the lowest price, and at the same time give the greatest discount to the latest batch of orders of the Liyu firm. Withdraw all our manpower in Lijun to Xiaoyu County, and stop interfering in the trade of the counties for the time being. At the same time, in the name of this year's tribute, a generous gift will be prepared immediately and sent to the Li Clan Elders. We don't have to say anything, everyone understands everything in their hearts. Only in this way will those cultivators get these benefits and it will be possible to let us go for the time being. ”

Although everyone felt very difficult to accept Linda's proposal, after all, this kind of practice was tantamount to cutting a handful of the flesh of the autonomous group, which not only made their hard work in vain, but also made them lose the opportunity to continue to develop. But if you don't do this, I'm afraid that the revenge of the Li Clan's cultivators will come soon.

"The second measure, we have to strengthen our strength immediately!" Linda said very hard.

"Strength, what strength?" Grant asked for a moment.

Lin Da paused and said very seriously: "There is a great man in China who once said a truth, "Power comes from the barrel of a gun! We can't deal with cultivators now, it's because we don't have the strength and our own armed forces. Truth be told, if we had an army like Earth, I'm afraid we wouldn't be so afraid of them! Even if we can't, let them know that we're not easy to mess with!"

Schroeder immediately agreed: "Yes! To be honest, if I can have a mechanized infantry division now, I can immediately lead my troops to Lijun and let them release Wang Lin and the three of them!"

Linda nodded approvingly, although he knew in his heart that Schroeder was actually bragging, but sometimes bragging can also be emboldened. He went on to say: "Just now, everyone was discussing future plans and putting forward a lot of suggestions, but now it seems that the most important thing we should do is to build an army as soon as possible, an army equipped with modern weapons, trained with modern military theories, and controlled by us." We can recruit soldiers locally in Xiaoyu County, the people here don't have much affection for the noble cultivators, if we let them have the strength to deal with the cultivators, they will definitely not be afraid. ”

He went on to add: "In addition, as Sonia said, we should also increase our support for ordinary people in the local area. Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and the people here have been oppressed by cultivators for a long time, as long as we can stand up for them and help them, they will naturally be grateful to us and will fully support us. ”

"Of course, even if we have a private armed force, it will still be very weak to the cultivator army. But if we can survive this crisis and continue to develop, one day, maybe we will be able to develop to the level of science and technology and military on the earth, and at that time, we will no longer have to be afraid of the Li Clan cultivators. Linda finally said.

Everyone agreed with Linda's plan and applauded, and Schroeder even shouted: "Okay! When we have enough strength, we will overthrow the rule of the cultivators and drive out those vampires!" His passionate declaration was cheered by others.

Lin Da was noncommittal about this, although he didn't like to be ruled by cultivators who knew that human life was like a mustard, but he also knew that even if human beings developed to the level of science and technology society on the earth, they would still not be able to defeat those high-level cultivators. The words just now were just an encouragement to everyone.

However, everyone immediately followed Linda's suggestion and immediately carried out countermeasures.

They immediately issued an astonishing order to their contacts distributed in the counties of Li County through a secret radio station, withdrawing all the assets of the autonomous regiment to Xiaoyu County. Then, Lin Da found Shen Hao, the guardian monk of Xiaoyu County, and asked him to come forward, and sent a huge tax to the Lijun Elders' Council in the name of Nagong. Spending this huge amount of money equivalent to the tribute fee of Xiaoyu County for several years really made Lin Da and the others feel distressed for a long time, but as he expected, the Li Clan Elders Union didn't say anything and accepted the tax. Although I don't know what the reason is, I finally let go of the hanging hearts of the autonomous group and others.

At the same time, the Autonomous Mission immediately embarked on a series of new development plans, including the formation of an army and the help of local residents to gain support. Among them, the development of the military industry is their top priority, and only by creating more powerful individual weapons, as well as heavy weapons such as aircraft, tanks, and artillery, can human beings have the ability to compete with cultivators.

As a result, in the following year, the autonomous group developed at an unprecedented speed, building a large number of factories in Xiaoyu County, and soon formed a new area where hundreds of thousands of people gathered. Xiaoyu County and the surrounding areas, all kinds of infrastructure continue to improve. The people continue to exert their ingenuity and ingenuity to continuously develop various products on the earth and apply them to production, life and military affairs. Soon, they had steam engines and generators, produced cannons, used water and wind power to generate electricity, built a county-wide power grid, and developed society at a level that was even higher than that of the early twentieth century on Earth.

Schrodra, who was in charge of military protection, together with several people such as Linda, Ivanov and Don Long, formed an armed force of more than 1,000 people. On August 1, the 9th year of the Blue Star Chronicle, this unit was officially established, and the autonomous regiment named it the Blue Star Army. This armed force, which is completely controlled by the Blue Star Autonomous Regiment, is equipped with weapons such as small artillery, rocket artillery, anti-aircraft machine guns, heavy machine guns, and rifles, and although it is far from the modern army on the planet, its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated under Schroeder's patient teaching.

Not long after the establishment of the Blue Star Army, Xiaoyu County suffered another pirate invasion. However, this time, in the face of the frenzied attack of thousands of pirates, the Blue Star Army led the militia guards to wipe out all the pirates like a massacre, and even killed a leading pirate monk with a ranged weapon. After this battle, the prestige of the Blue Star Army immediately spread throughout Lijun.

To everyone's surprise, and for no reason, the Li Clan Elders did not punish the Autonomous Order. After the Blue Star Autonomous Group withdrew its assets from all over Lijun, the Council of Elders actually released the arrested Wang Lin and the other three people, and no longer asked about anything, as if it really let the Autonomous Group go.

Although they didn't know why the Li clan suddenly stopped, Grant and the others still didn't let down their vigilance against these cultivators. They continued to develop their own strength, constantly trained and strengthened the army, increased investment and construction in various parts of Xiaoyu County, and even after a period of time, quietly restarted the old trick and opened businesses in several neighboring counties.

The Li Clan Elders' Council ignored this, and only raised the taxes of the autonomous group by a few levels. Seeing this, the autonomous group was overjoyed, and immediately resumed the practice of comprehensive operation in Lijun, and its own strength has been rapidly developed, but in two years, it has faintly become the largest force in Lijun except for the Li people.

However, no one expected that at this time, a shocking event suddenly happened in Guiguo, which also made the Blue Star Autonomous Group embark on another path.