Under the sun, there will be shadows. On the way to development, it is inevitable that there will be obstacles. The benefits are gratifying, and there will also be people who are motivated by the benefits. These are human nature, and they are heavenly principles.

As a family whose ancestors once established a kingdom, even if the kingdom has been destroyed, the family has continued in a different way. Even after the branches were opened, it was even stronger than the kingdom it once was.

The Nguyen family, whom one suspects to be the one who crosses the crowd – and indeed is – would blurt out a term in the eyes of a current crosser: the East India Company. The superpredator of the era of the Earth's colonies, the pillar of the empire on which the sun never sets, and at the same time uses shadows to cover up the uncivilization that belongs to the empire.

In order to expand their business activities without the support of the state, without being seen by the powerful as a fat sheep that can be harvested regularly, the Nguyen family's two major weapons are: grain and private army.

Even on a modern Earth where the time-travelers lived, famine still exists in some areas. There are many reasons for this, and it is difficult to elaborate on them in a few words. In the maze of backward transportation capacity and relatively backward social structure, eating enough food is still a major event for ordinary people, and it is an important topic that cannot be avoided by the lords. If you don't have enough to eat, you rebel, both ancient and modern, both Chinese and foreign.

With advanced technology – well, the agricultural technology of the 19th century on Earth was indeed advanced enough compared to the Lost Land. The Nguyen Chamber of Commerce, which grows a lot of grain, is tantamount to holding the lifeblood of many noble lords.

Perhaps in the past 100 years, wars, that is, man-made disasters, have been reduced, but natural disasters have been spared; What's more, there is also a natural counterattack, a counterattack of Warcraft. When these accidents happen, sufficient food is arguably the most important key to maintaining territorial stability. Therefore, for the big and small lords, the importance of the Nguyen Chamber of Commerce is self-evident.

Of course, it is not that no one covets this organization, which has no state protection, and is even richer than the vast majority of countries. But the private army of the Ruan Chamber of Commerce dispelled all thoughts of stretching out their claws. If you can't afford to eat it, you won't mention it; Those who have the ability to eat it will also consider whether the loot after they have met and broken their blood flow, whether there is that value to offset their losses.

Gunpowder weapons, a category of weapons that the people thought they didn't have, actually existed in the private army of the Nguyen Chamber of Commerce. It was also a gift from the earth, and it was not an arquebus or a flintlock pistol, but a single-shot rifle that used magazines and bullets, and was an early form of single-shot rifle.

However, these rifles were not well developed in the mystery. Because the ancestors of the Nguyen clan regarded these weapons as the lifeblood of the family, they could not hold guns without a relationship with relatives, or joined the guards to protect the core figures, and all the essence was enclosed in the family.

In terms of R&D strength, the investment is even smaller, or it is not worrying that outsiders with R&D capabilities will have too much contact, and the people who are relieved are all unworthy descendants...... Basically, what the weapons that were created in the first generation are still what they are today. This is also one of the reasons why the kingdom established by the Nguyen clan was still destroyed despite having weapons that were ahead of the times.

But even if these hot weapons have not advanced for hundreds of years, they can still keep the family that has been freed from the shackles of the state. Use small but refined core forces, through cooperation with local people, to control key resources, and then obtain greater power and benefits.

Perhaps on the climb of the technology tree, the Ruan family, which has lost the original head of the family, is no different from the natives of the lost land, but can only keep it and retain the skills left over from the first generation. But the family that has branched out has made good use of its own advantages to establish a huge career.

Today, the Nguyen family is no longer just a 'family'. In order to manage the affairs of different regions in this inaccessible world, their local divisions were like feudal lords. Not only regional division, but also rights, responsibilities and interests are also separated, resulting in a situation in which various localities and industries are responsible for their own losses.

There is no 'patriarch' to take charge of all the affairs of the family, but instead there is an annual family meeting at the end of each year. All the divisions will spread out the harvest of the whole year, complementing each other's strengths. This kind of display and insider trading behavior invisibly separates the order of all divisions. The more fruitful the harvest, the more people choose to trade with it, and such a pursuit will certainly improve the status of the branch family in the family.

As for the two who dealt with Lin, the two brothers Nguyen Van Viet and Nguyen Van Zhao were in charge of the branch, and in this Ruan family, whose main industry has always been grain, why is it responsible for minerals. This was because the noble lords who needed food were not necessarily able to buy enough goods.

Even if it is bartering, there must be a 'thing' to trade. At this time, some lords simply took out the mines in their territories as collateral, and even used the ownership of the mines as bargaining chips.

If the mine produces natural magic metals or magic stones, these are rare ores with a high unit price. Then the noble lord can sell it in person, and then use the money obtained to trade with the Nguyen Chamber of Commerce. It is conceivable that the mines that will allow the nobles to directly take out the ownership as collateral, or even as trading chips, will be what kind of crooked melons and cracked dates.

Anyway, these are all mines, and one less is after digging. So how to deal with these mines, such a question made the Ruan family talk for a while at that time. In the end, the method they chose was to send the children of the family who offended many people at that time to separate the family management and solve the two troubles at once.

The branch of the two brothers, Ruan Van Viet and Nguyen Van Zhao, is just guarding a bunch of tasteless and abandoned mines, and it is difficult to survive. You must know that the mines that will be abandoned by the noble lords are not only barren, but also likely to be in some places where birds do not lay eggs, and transportation is extremely inconvenient.

Each generation of the brothers has worked hard to improve their own plight or find some way out of these minerals. There are not people who try to escape, but no matter how they choose and try, they can't change the fact that they are marginalized within the family.

Even after several generations of business, there has been a slight improvement, but it still has not changed the low status of the two brothers within the family.

You know, metal tools are also used in agricultural activities. However, in the past, when there was a need to buy additional tools within the Nguyen Clan, they preferred to order them locally from local craftsmen. Rather than working tirelessly to transport raw ore or metal ingots from separately managed mines, and then build farm tools back to their own turf.

This kind of behavior invisibly made the two brothers separate, and their status in the family was a little weaker. Until someone turns out to be born.

The Nguyen Thi Chamber of Commerce is not without craftsmen and talents who are good at metallurgy. It's just that these people are not only few, but the technology involved is all professional technology related to rifles, and it is impossible to hand it over to a branch that is regarded as an outcast. They can do a rough processing of the raw ore to add value to its commodity.

In order to pull the 'Nguyen Chamber of Commerce' into the group, Lin established an automobile manufacturing and R&D center together, and all kinds of supporting technologies needed to manufacture automobiles were taught to the people sent by the Chamber of Commerce without reservation.

It can be said that the appearance of Lin made up for the technical shortcomings of the Ruan brothers. Not to mention the car resting on the ground, which is also the most advanced and eye-catching technology.

revitalized the assets in their hands, and the division led by the two brothers fought a beautiful turnaround. But the long-term low status has also caused other divisions within the family to think unnecessarily.