Witch Wind

Chapter 84: The Little Man’s Little Tricks (Part )

At the gate of the Business Office, Xing Tianli and Smith waved goodbye.

Smith, who was covered in weapons, used to travel in a long carriage inlaid with thick steel plates, pulled by four tall horses. More than 20 people could sit in the carriage, which had more than a dozen shooting holes. It was simply the prototype of an armored personnel carrier.

Smith brought twenty such carriages, each filled with fully armed soldiers.

Xing Tianli swept his spiritual power around casually, and he discovered that in each carriage, there were two air-cooled machine guns and a small-caliber, 1.5-inch mortar!
Really, full of martial virtues.

From this we can see what the public security situation in Jinshan Town and the surrounding areas is like.

Smith said goodbye to Xing Tianli, then took out three dice and threw them on the ground. The dice turned to thirteen, and he went straight to the thirteenth carriage in the convoy!

Xing Tianli was astonished by what he saw. This level of security awareness was truly beyond words.

There were 500 armed guards on the 20 carriages when fully loaded, plus more than 200 cavalry guards on horseback outside the convoy. Smith's trip was really a huge undertaking.

Moreover, this is inside Jinshan Town.

Presumably, if he went out, he would have used more guards.

As far as Xing Tianli knew, Smith owned more than a dozen iron mines, and his miners and miners numbered more than 300,000. His armed guards, or his private army, numbered nearly 10,000 people.

"It seems that our Mr. McLaren is a brave man. How come he only has two hundred private guards?" Xing Tianli asked curiously to Danglar who came close to him.

"Mr. McLaren never leaves Gold Mountain Town. If he has to go out, for example, to Black Pearl Harbor to find new women, he will borrow guards from the big businessmen he knows. Every time he leaves Gold Mountain Town, he is always accompanied by more than a thousand armed guards." Danglar spread his hands.

"So that's it!" Xing Tianli nodded, and he saw a carriage driving quickly along the gravel road.

Next to the carriage, there were dozens of armed guards wearing Dongyun armor. Behind these armed guards riding horses, well, riding donkeys, there were twenty runners wearing coarse cloth shirts, straw sandals, large bamboo hats, swords on their waists, muskets on their backs, and wooden sticks in their hands.

The reason why we know they are servants is that they all have a palm-sized wooden sign hanging around their waists with the word "Service" prominently painted in cinnabar.

These officers ran with unsteady steps and panting, and the muskets on their backs were all ancient muzzle-loading matchlocks. It was obvious that they were poorly trained and poorly armed. Their combat effectiveness was only used to scare the common people.

"Who is this? Um, is this the family emblem of the Beihe family?" Xing Tianli pointed at the approaching carriage.

"In the entire Jinshan Town, there is only one member of the Beihe family, the mayor, Beihe Cangyi, who was imprisoned by his father for a year after his failed attempt to overthrow his superiors. He was exiled to Black Borneo and is called a 'prince in distress'?" Tanglar introduced Beihe Cangyi's identity in a playful manner: "This mayor is very restless. He has a private army of 1,500 people in the plantation of the Dongyun people, who are friends with him."

"Originally, the town hall should have 500 runners, and the weapons they use should be advanced rifles imported from England." Danglar shrugged his shoulders. "Now the town hall has less than 100 runners, and their weapons are the worst. All the vacancies have been taken up by our mayor."

Tanglar quickly explained the intelligence he had collected about Beihe Cangyi, focusing on the corruption and extortion of businessmen from various countries by Beihe Cangyi after he took office, as well as some cases in which he was closely involved.

For example, five years ago, there was a spice plantation in the jungle 150 miles away from Jinshan Town. The owner of the plantation was an Idoli. As a result, all the family members were killed overnight. A month later, the owner's two daughters were found in the USO in Black Pearl Harbor. They had been tortured to the point of madness and were no longer human.

"A place to reward the troops?" Xing Tianli's pupils shrank and his eyes turned cold.

Tanglar explained the origin of the TRIO. The people of Dongyun were violent, primitive and barbaric, and their military discipline was particularly bad. Once the demands of lower-level officers and soldiers were not met, they would often pull the trigger behind their superiors' backs.

The Military Entertainment Center came into being. There were always women of unknown origin who appeared in the Military Entertainment Center and were tormented by these Dongyun people who were like animals.

Xing Tianli remained silent.

The carriage rushed to the door of the Business Office. Bei Hecang jumped out of the carriage, panting. He brought his men with him and rushed to Xing Tianli like a mad dog.

He raised his head uncomfortably, looking at Xing Tianli, who was nearly two feet taller than him, with extreme anger. His already ugly face became even darker and redder.

"You, a Easterner?" Beihe Cangyi widened his eyes and looked at Xing Tianli in disbelief.

"Li Li, under the order of His Excellency Augustus, the Queen's plenipotentiary envoy, has taken over the Kingdom of Ingish's commercial office in Black Borneo. With the economic development of Black Borneo, output is becoming more and more important. The small commercial office is no longer worthy of its status. Therefore, the Empire is preparing to upgrade the commercial office!"

Xing Tianli smiled and said, "As for whether it will be upgraded to a consulate? Consulate General? Or even an embassy? Well, I'm just a commercial counselor. I'm only responsible for the most basic preparatory work. As for the upgrade, maybe two or three years, maybe three to five years, who knows?"

"No, you are not here to prepare for the upgrading of the Business Office. We know your intention very well!" Beihe Cangyi coughed, and four town officials rushed up and knelt at Beihe Cangyi's feet. Beihe Cangyi stepped on their backs, and finally he was barely level with Xing Tianli.

He put his hands on his hips, posing an extremely majestic and wise demeanor, as if he had everything under control, and laughed softly, "You are here to prepare for war!"

Xing Tianli raised his eyebrows. Oh wow, this little dwarf who doesn't look that good and doesn't seem to have much talent judging by his actions, actually has such insight?
Well, after all, he is the eldest son of Beihe, one of the two ruling families in Dongyun, so it is reasonable for him to be well-informed. All countries are fighting in Pinghai City, and the war has actually broken out. It is natural for Beihe Cangyi to guess the purpose of his coming to Jinshan Town.

But so what?

When Xing Tianli came here, he had no intention of doing things in the usual way!
Xing Tianli had no intention of running an intelligence network, bribing or inciting Dongyun officials to defect, or even taking control of the Dongyun garrison, surveying geographical maps, and preparing for future military occupation.

He has enough confidence to stir up trouble in Black Borneo today, so why should he follow the usual procedures?
Xing Tianli smiled brightly: "You really know how to joke."

Beihe Cangyi sneered with a dark face: "Did I say something wrong? Didn't you come to Black Borneo to prepare for war? I even know what you are going to do. You are going to raise a large sum of money, and then use the money to bribe the scum inside the empire, spy on the military intelligence of Black Borneo, and even form illegal armed forces!"

Xing Tianli shook his head slightly. He patted Beihe Cangyi on the shoulder and said with a smile, "I mean, you are joking because - as a small mayor, you are only concerned with eating, drinking and having fun and mistreating your little maids. Do these military and national affairs have anything to do with you, an exiled mayor?"

Beihe Cangyi suddenly took two steps back and looked at Xing Tianli with a dazed face.

Fortunately, behind Beihe Cangyi, Zuo Bitou and You Bingtou rushed up and supported him on the left and right. Otherwise, he would have fallen off the backs of the four officers.

"Asshole, what did you say?" Bei Hecang was furious.

"Did I say anything wrong?" Xing Tianli looked at Beihe Cangyi confidently, "Don't you know who you are? Don't you know what your official position is now? You are just a town mayor. Haha, if you were in the Dayu Dynasty, you would be a lackey without any official status. You are a lowly person who can't even get a ninth-rank official position. Why are you pretending to be a big shot here?"

Xing Tianli was so angry that he took out the letter of authorization signed by Augustus and said coldly, "Did you see it? My official position is the first-class commercial counselor of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Yingjishi in the Dayu Dynasty. Compared with the official position in the Dayu Dynasty, I am at least a fifth-rank official of the Lifanyuan!"

Xing Tianli took out his full authorization letter, patted Beihe Cangyi's cheek vigorously, and sighed, "You are a mayor of a small town in a barren and uncivilized place, an ant who is not even a ninth-rank official. Who are you? How dare you talk to me, a fifth-rank official, like this?"

After putting away the letter of full authority, Xing Tianli slapped his forehead vigorously as if he had suddenly realized something.

"Oh, I forgot one thing."

"The Dongyun Island Alliance has called itself 'sons and subjects' to the Shenzhou Dynasty since its founding, since your first Holy Emperor. In other words, the Dayu Dynasty is the father and you are the sons." "And when the Kingdom of Yingjishi signed many treaties with the Dayu Dynasty, the two sides agreed to be brothers forever!"

Xing Tianli smiled very brightly, so brightly that it seemed a bit cunning.

The first Holy Emperor of Dongyun Island Union, 'Hu Hai', is a really filial child. In order to please the Emperor, he issued a hunting order, offered a bounty all over the world for his own ancestor, and directly issued the 'Great Edict of Taizu' of Dongyun Island Union, declaring that Dongyun Island Union has been a 'child country' of Shenzhou Dynasty for generations.

This is really embarrassing.

Today, the Dayu Dynasty is so weak, and the Dongyun Island Alliance is so arrogant, but from a legal point of view, hehe...will you obey the "Great Edict" of your own great ancestor, or not?
The Kingdom of Yingjishi was indeed a "brother country" of the Dayu Dynasty.

From this point of view, Xing Tianli, the first-class commercial counselor of Yingji, claimed to be an elder of the same level as Beihe Cangyi's "grandfather" in front of him, which was absolutely appropriate.

Bei Hecang was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of blood. His eyes were red as he stared at Xing Tianli viciously, pointing at him again and again, then turned and walked away. He had only taken two steps when he suddenly howled hysterically, kicked the two people who followed him diligently, Zuo Bitou and You Bingtou, to the ground, and beat and kicked them again.

Silent all night.

Three days passed quickly.

During the three days, Xing Tianli was not idle. During the day, accompanied by Tanglar, he met with the most influential British businessmen in Jinshan Town and major settlements around the town.

As the most powerful country in the Far West with the most comprehensive national strength, the Yingji people have a large number of merchants operating in Black Borneo, and their strength is extremely tyrannical. In just three days, Xing Tianli met with more than a hundred big merchants. He made many promises, and in return, he borrowed a total of 20,000 armed guards from big merchants represented by Smith.

The 20,000 armed guards were all armed according to the standards of the British regular army. Many of them were retired and bankrupt British veterans, and even more were fugitives who had nowhere else to go in the country and were forced to flee overseas.

Among these 20,000 armed guards, more than 60% were wanted in England for crimes of varying sizes. About 20% were already dead on the list of the England household registration department, and even their household registration had been cancelled.

Xing Tianli borrowed these 20,000 armed guards, and their daily salaries were still paid by the big businessmen represented by Smith. Xing Tianli only promised these armed guards that all their criminal records in the country would be written off, and their cancelled household registrations would be re-registered!

For this reason alone, Xing Tianli gained the extremely fanatical support of these armed guards. The morale of this ragtag army soared upwards like a newly grown-up foal on a restless spring night.

During these three nights, Xing Tianli set up a plan in the basement of the Business Office. Every night, he spared no effort in expending his blood and cultivation to open the bloodlines for Xing Tian's children.

Fortunately, Xing Tianli's cultivation level has soared, and he has enough real money in his hands to do whatever he wants.

It is impossible to raise the cultivation of these brothers of the Xingtian clan to a high level in three days and nights, but it is not very costly just to open up their bloodlines and let them begin to temper their own blood essence.

The Dharma Ending Age is a nightmare for all cultivators.

Only the "witches" like the Xingtian clan have not awakened their bloodlines. Once their bloodlines awaken, they will be like giant whales. Without cultivating magic power or soul, they only need to supplement enough food to absorb enough nutrition and nourish their essence and blood bit by bit.

This is the preciousness of the 'power of blood'.

Black Borneo is full of pythons, beasts, and rare things like the "Acropaguli" that is more than ten meters long. These things are extremely powerful and have some "bloodline cultivation" methods. Their flesh and blood also contain extremely powerful effects, which can be used to supplement the children of the Xingtian family.

In just three days, the most talented disciples of the Xingtian clan, such as the brothers Xing Tianren, Xing Tianyi, Xing Tianzhi, and Xing Tianxin, who were of the same generation as Xing Tianli, had already condensed the first drop of their own blood essence in their bodies after taking in hundreds of kilograms of flesh and blood of ferocious beasts and centuries-old medicines every day. Their physical strength also increased to around two thousand kilograms.

Compared to the disciples of Wuyue Hall who opened up their bloodlines earlier, they are still inferior in strength.

But compared to ordinary mortals, these Xingtian clan members are already like human-shaped beasts. Especially the Xingtian clan bloodline, they are better at fighting, their speed, reaction, intuition, etc. are all incredibly strong.

After three days of busy work, when all three thousand Xingtian clan members had their bloodlines opened and Xing Tianli was preparing for the next stage of action, more than a dozen plantation owners from Jinshan Town came to him.

"Mr. Li Li, please help us!" A rubber plantation owner was furious and slammed a thick contract in front of Xing Tianli: "I signed a long-term supply contract with a tire company in the Aime Federation. This month, no matter what, I will deliver 200,000 barrels of raw rubber to the cargo ship."

"According to the contract, as long as the raw rubber is delivered to the cargo ship of the Aimee Federation, everything that happens next will have nothing to do with me. I can easily receive the balance of this year and spend a peaceful and stable new year."

"Now, the freighter has arrived at the port. I have already harvested all the 200,000 barrels of raw rubber. As long as it is shipped to Black Pearl Harbor, my deal for this year will be complete."

"But those damn Dongyun people dug up the road leading to the outside world from our plantation. Now, we can't even transport a barrel of rubber out of my plantation!"

"If I miss this freighter, I won't be able to deliver on time. According to the contract, I will have to pay a huge amount of compensation to my partner, which will cause me to lose a lot of money, a very large amount of money!"

Xing Tianli didn't even look at the contract. He sat on the big chair and said calmly, "Mr. Allen, don't worry. You won't suffer any loss. I will take people to deal with this matter now. Your goods will arrive at Black Pearl Harbor soon and will be shipped to that freighter soon."

"But, the Dongyun people!" Plantation owner Allen looked at Xing Tianli hesitantly: "These dwarfs are arrogant and domineering. They are completely uncivilized barbarians. They are simply unreasonable."

"Even if your delivery date is missed, you won't have any trouble. I still have some connections in the Amy Federation. Your partners will definitely understand your occasional inconveniences." Xing Tianli smiled brightly and snapped his fingers at Tata who was standing in the corner of his office.

"Tata, does what I said make sense?"

Tata nodded as a matter of course: "Of course, in the Aimee Federation, no one will refuse our wishes."

Xing Tianli pushed open a window and shouted loudly outside: "He Xi, Xing Tianren, bring a team of people, grab weapons, and come with me. Some people will get itchy if we don't deal with them."

After leaving Jinshan Town, following the muddy road, we headed southwest for more than 20 miles. Between the two hills ahead, a large pit two feet deep and more than ten feet long was dug out of the pass road. A dozen Dongyun officers set up barricades in front of the pass and stopped a long team of carriages.

On the hills on both sides, some extremely simple long wooden sheds were built. On each hill, there were three to five hundred Dongyun people wearing coarse cloth, straw sandals, or even barefoot, carrying simple single-shot breech-loading needle guns, laughing and gesturing towards the pass below.

In front of these two huts, which could barely be called "military camps", a three-foot wide and two-foot deep "trench" was dug to store rainwater, which a dog could easily jump over. The excavated soil was mixed with some wooden branches to build a five-foot high low wall. The Dongyun people were standing on the wooden stakes and lying on the low wall to watch the fun.

Three days ago, Zuo Bitou, whom Xing Tianli had seen, was standing in front of the checkpoint with his belly protruding, gesturing to a few tanned Yingji people, "No, no, no, this is also for you. Mayor, I am worried that this road is too bad and it is not convenient for everyone to travel and transport. Therefore, Mayor spent his own money to repair this road."

"Difficult? Why is it difficult for you?"

"This is road repair. According to the tradition of the East Country, repairing bridges and roads is a good deed that will accumulate great merit!"

"Well, as for when it can be repaired? Only the Supreme Saint knows. Anyway, I don't know when this road will be repaired."

Xing Tianli looked at these Dongyun people from afar and waved his hand gently: "Fight them, beat them to death!"

(End of this chapter)