Chapter 611: Liubo City Undercurrent
In just two years, Liubo City has undergone earth-shaking changes, not only the scale of the entire city is expanding, but more importantly, the number of warriors gathered here has also begun to increase, there is only one reason for all this, that is, Liubo City, as an airport city adjacent to the four northwestern provinces and connected to the Yuan Ding Kingdom, has continued to have a large number of exotic metals and high-end armor for sale in the past two years, and a large number of transactions have spawned more gold diggers to come here, and a prosperous airport city has become the most dazzling star in the southwest star field of the Yuan Ding Kingdom。 Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The person who created all this was not Zhou Da, nor was it all those warriors who were good at fighting, but a businessman who was not very strong in his own right.
Sen Xueyi enjoys his current life very much, although he was also a very shrewd businessman in Anluo City in the past, but although shrewdness and success seem similar, in fact, there is a world of difference. The main thing is the level of respect, and there is a huge difference in that. In the past, in Anluo City, although he had a lot of resources in his hands, and he could even be said to be one of the richest businessmen in the psionic factory in the nebula layer of Anluo City, he got more of the title of vampire, or even a big moth, because the main source of interest for the bigwigs of their psionic factories was the psionic factory, although Sen Xueyi had many other industries in Anluo City, but people were eyeing him in charge of the psionic factory.
But now, he can be in charge of the overall situation in Liubo City, although the nominal supreme commander of Liubo City is Zhou Da, but in fact, the person who really deals with all kinds of suitable sizes is Sen Xueyi. Zhou Da is more often still fighting on the front line, he led the warrior corps not only successfully resisted the impact of a Yuan Ding fleet of the Yuan Ding Kingdom, but also directly repelled an invasion of Amaterasu, and the battle with Amaterasu can be described as a heart-wrenching battle, Amaterasu because of the failure in Liubo City, and even gave up the northwest battlefield, and attacked Liubo City with all his might, but unfortunately they all ended in failure whether it was an air battle in the star field, or a strong attack on the territory of Liubo City after a forced landing.
But in fact, the reason why Zhou Da could easily win was not only his perfect personal charm among the Liubo City Corps, but more importantly, their financial resources were stronger. It can be said that Zhou Da used his strong resource advantage to repel all the enemies who came to attack, and the one who made great contributions was the high-level spiritual energy core.
In the final analysis, Sen Xueyi can take charge of power in Liubo City because Zhou Da and Tao Ran are not keen on power, plus Sen Xueyi also knows how to do things very well, he wants to realize his personal value more than to seize power, and even until now, in addition to having a 1,000-person warrior corps as a caravan escort, the Sen family has no other troops at all, and he has not intervened in the garrison of Liubo City at all. A thousand warriors are all mercenaries, and if you talk about combat power, it's naturally not bad, but if you talk about loyalty, there are actually quite a few problems. Sen Xueyi didn't know where this flaw was, but he still chose to ignore it, the reason was very simple, because he didn't intend to make people have any hostility towards him now, he just wanted to use the huge profits created by the high-level psionic energy core to win more benefits for Liubo City.
The current Liubo City Airport in Sen Xueyi and Zhou Da their perfect cooperation, as if it has become another country in the Yuan Ding Kingdom China, until now in fact, Liubo City has not declared independence, this is also Zhou Yu before leaving, Zhou Yu did not have the determination to rebel against the Yuan Ding Kingdom, he was just disappointed in the Yuan Ding Kingdom's court, after all, in this era with that inefficient power model to control the Yuan Ding Kingdom This kind of country is simply impossible to rise. But Zhou Yu still has his heart set on the Yuan Ding Kingdom, after all, the motherland is the motherland, just as Song Siwen established the Qin State but never took the initiative to attack the Yuan Ding Kingdom, their ways of doing things are different, but in fact, the purpose is the same, but they just want this ancient country that is on the verge of collapse to rise again.
However, under the good situation of Liubo City, there are still some undercurrents hidden. The so-called undercurrent is naturally an unstable factor, and the biggest unstable factor in Liubo City now is mercenaries.
The mercenary group has been a double-edged sword since its appearance, or they are destined to be a factor of instability. First of all, the largest employer of mercenary groups is all kinds of caravans or merchant groups, because businessmen are profit-seeking nature, but it is difficult for businessmen to form a more powerful corps, so they can only mercenaries to do things, and over time some small mercenary groups become large mercenary groups, and then they will gradually become a very powerful force.
In fact, a city like Liubo City itself is the best city to nourish mercenary groups, because the airport city is destined to focus on trade development, and the families based in Liubo City are more giant merchant families, and they naturally need strong force to protect them in the process of earning benefits. However, as Liubo City began to reopen for business, especially under the control of Sen Xueyi, Liubo City was developing towards a purely commercial city, and the emergence of a large number of merchants and transactions also re-bred a large number of mercenaries.
At first, Mori Xueyi and Zhou Da did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and even when fighting against the invasion of Amaterasu, many mercenary groups played an important role in the counterattack, which strengthened Zhou Da's idea of absorbing mercenary groups. Sen Xueyi has always been cautious in this kind of thing, but after getting Zhou Da's support, he began to do it boldly. So much so that now, the number of warriors in the expanded Liubo City has climbed to as many as thirty or forty thousand, but the number of garrison warriors is only 10,000.
If the number of such martial artists is placed in the Broken Star Domain, it is naturally not worth mentioning, after all, even on top of a resource-scarce star like the Ice Field, a medium-sized tribe will definitely have one or two thousand warriors. But in the Yuan Ding Kingdom, thirty or forty thousand warriors are already a very amazing force, and Liubo City, as a separate star, can have a garrison force of more than 10,000 warriors.
However, among the warriors in Liubo City, the number of mercenary groups has reached as many as 30,000, and other giant merchant families certainly have guards, but most of them directly hire mercenaries, which has led to the number of mercenaries always being high, and even intensifying, and the reason why this is so is also because of the changes in Kexing Province. People don't know what is going on in the direction of Kexing Province, the extremely unstable star field over there doesn't know why it has become stable, and because of the blocking of the unstable star field for many years, no one in Yuan Dingguo has carried out large-scale mining of Kexing Province over the years, so that after Kexing Province "sees the light of day", the resources produced in it are really extremely attractive.
The reason why a large number of rare and exotic metals and even high-grade armor can flow out in a short period of time in Liubo City is because the resources on the star have been excavated. However, if you want to tap the resources of Kexing Province, you need the giant merchant family to take action, but they can only choose to hire mercenaries to do these things, so this has led to the number of mercenaries in Liubo City starting to increase and increase, and now it has reached a very dangerous level, and it will obviously become more terrifying after that, to put it bluntly, this is really a deformed development.
For the time being, it seems that the problems encountered by Liubo City are not too big, but in fact, Liubo City is really not very stable now. Because once there are some or even a strong figure in the many mercenary organizations in Liubo City, these mercenaries can definitely be integrated, and when such a crisis really appears, it will really be too late. With the strength of the current garrison warriors in Liubo City, once you need to start a war with the mercenaries in the entire Liubo City, the odds of victory are very small.
I have to admit that neither Sen Xueyi nor Zhou Da has any experience in taking charge of one side, although Sen Xueyi has a strong ability to create benefits, but he is not a veteran like Song Siwen and Chen Sheng who have been in political struggle for most of their lives. Zhou Da himself is a commander-in-chief, and his combat ability and command ability are naturally strong, but he does not have the ability to run one side. And Sen Xueyi's greatest value now is to make Liubo City richer, but his vision is only on the acquisition of interests, and he is still a little short of the discovery of some crises after all. The result is a commander and a giant businessman, and with their efforts, although Liubo City is becoming more and more dazzling, it is also developing in the direction of becoming more and more deformed. By now, Zhou Da and they have realized that if this development continues, it is only a matter of time before Liubo City is subverted.
This kind of situation is what he doesn't want to see, if there is a civil war in Liubo City now, the happiest ones are naturally Yuan Ding Kingdom and Amaterasu Kingdom, and once there is a civil war, the strength of Liubo City will inevitably be seriously reduced, and more importantly, if there are external forces involved at this time, it may accelerate the demise of Liubo City. Naturally, it is impossible for the star body of Liubo City to disappear, but if the helmsman of Liubo City is changed, it is really difficult to predict what will become in the end.
It's just a pity that when Zhou Da and Sen Xueyi realized this, the current situation in Liubo City had begun to become uncontrollable, and it was impossible for them to drive all the mercenaries away. The reason why Sen Xueyi opposes it is also for the sake of the development of Liubo City. The reason why the current Liubo City can develop to such a prosperous level is that the good fighting of the garrison warriors is certainly one thing, they ensure the stability of the place, but those merchants are actually the really important forces. If the Giant Merchant Family can't continue to make bigger profits here, they will definitely not be able to stay in Liubo City anymore. And once the trade of Liubo City is interrupted, or it is only affected to a certain extent, it is possible that Liubo City will be quickly beaten back to its original shape.
If Liubo City changes hands, of course, this is something they don't want to see, but if the development of Liubo City stagnates, or even begins to regress, it is also a fatal wound. Whether it is Yuan Dingguo or Amaterasu, until now they have not completely given up on Liubo City, especially Yuan Dingguo, and now their interest in Liubo City is constantly rising. In the past, Liubo City may have been just a relatively important airport city, but before that, its more important role was just to shoulder the task of transporting resources to the four northwestern provinces.
But since Zhou Yu made Liubo City invisible and independent, and completely began to operate Liubo City alone, the benefits that this airport city can generate have begun to make those bigwigs of Yuan Dingguo blush. At the same time, there is a more important reason, that is, the location of Liubo City has become more important after the "re-discovery" of Kexing Province. No one will not be interested in the territory, especially the Kexing Province used to be the land of the Yuan Ding Kingdom, and those old antiques of the Yuan Ding Kingdom are naturally more keen to regain control of this territory in their own hands. As the most important springboard, the current location of Liubo City has become important, and the situation has begun to become dangerous.
As for Amaterasu, the reason why that crazy nation wants to deal with Liubo City has nothing to do with Kexing Province at all, they are because they have suffered defeat here, and it is a humiliating defeat, not only the corps has been wiped out in Liubo City, but even the starships have been wiped out by the people of Liubo City, and what makes them even more unacceptable is that their subsequent defeat is because the starships they lost here have become the biggest resistance. That is to say, for Amaterasu, as long as Liubo City can maintain a rapid development momentum now, it is equivalent to a huge pillar of shame erected in the star field, it is precisely because of this that the situation of Liubo City being targeted by Amaterasu will definitely not stop, as for how long it will last and what kind of way to solve it, this is also something that Zhou Da and Tao Ran can't come up with.
It can be said that Liubo City, which now seems to have a good development situation, is not only an undercurrent, but it should also be said to be full of holes, but in the eyes of Zhou Da and Sen Xueyi, the biggest problem at the moment is still on the mercenary group, although Zhou Da has not explored too clearly, but he has already felt that there have been a lot of ghostly people among these mercenaries who have entered Liubo City. Zhou Da can understand the reason that Sen Xueyi explained to him that he couldn't clear the mercenary group, and now he can only find a way to solve the problem by himself. In Zhou Da's opinion, the current problem is not too serious, but in fact, subconsciously Zhou Da also understands that such thoughts may be more of an idea of self-comfort.
In order to cope with the current situation, Zhou Da has not gone out for a while, and even he not only no longer fights himself, but even the garrison warriors have no longer been sent out, in the case of not being able to expel the mercenaries of Liubo City, all he can do is to strengthen the security of Liubo City, as for whether the problem of Liubo City can be solved, Zhou Da asked himself, in fact, his thoughts are resigned to fate.
Zhou Da was slightly bored and even slightly helpless standing on the magnetic tower, this tower is more meaningful to the people of Liubo City, Zhou Da will prefer to stand on it and watch the planetary bodies that occasionally pass in the sky when he has nothing to do.
"What are you looking at?" Just as Zhou Da was in a daze, he suddenly heard a voice coming from behind him. Zhou Da was immediately startled when he heard this, and even trembled faintly. After Zhou Yu left, Zhou Da's strength has also improved, although there is still a distance from the realm of armored martial spirits, but his perennial combat experience on the battlefield and his talent for fighting still make him always stay vigilant, and even when he is in a daze, he actually occasionally observes the surrounding situation, but he didn't expect that someone would approach him so silently now.
Zhou Da felt that this voice was a little familiar, and now he didn't feel any danger, he didn't make a rash move, but slowly turned around. After seeing the appearance of the person who came clearly, Zhou Da finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "General Chen, why are you here again?"
"What, I'm not welcome?" Chen Sheng said with a smile.
Two years have passed, but Chen Sheng's face has been invaded by more than two years. When Zhou Yu first met Chen Sheng, Chen Sheng even looked like a man who had just passed his prime, in his prime and strong strength. But now Chen Sheng, although he is still extraordinary, the wrinkles on his face have increased significantly, and what is more conspicuous is the white hair on his sideburns. In fact, Chen Sheng is not old, he is still in the prime of life, in terms of his strength, the age of about forty is the best age, but now Chen Sheng feels very uncomfortable, Zhou Da has seen Chen Sheng more times in the past two years, and the feeling of meeting Zhou Da a few times is that it seems that Chen Sheng will get older every time he appears, and what remains unchanged is the fatigue that he has never disappeared in adulthood. This man, who is known as the number one thinker under Song Siwen of the Qin State, seems to be carrying too heavy a burden on his shoulders, and this burden has already weighed him a little out of breath.
A person's expression can be disguised, and even the eyes can be disguised, but the state of the whole person is always difficult to disguise. Especially Chen Sheng's tiredness seemed to be written on his face, coupled with the current situation within the Qin State, Zhou Da was not unclear, seeing that Chen Sheng's overall state became worse and worse, Zhou Da couldn't ignore it even if he wanted to.
Zhou Da shook his head, he knew that he had no qualifications to pity Chen Sheng, but when he thought of Chen Sheng's title in the Qin State, Zhou Da's eyes immediately lit up, as if he had found a savior, he grabbed Chen Sheng's arm and said, "General Chen, are you busy now?"