Realm of Power

The fat man watched with surprise as Croissant strode in from the outside, followed by a young nobleman with a bookish face.

In Fatty's impression, if Croissant is not a completely die-hard proletarian revolutionary, at least he is an angry youth who hates aristocrats.

He has never given the nobles a good look in public, and is even very radical in many cases, in Crolissart's words.

"Nobles are parasites in this world. The world would be cleaner without nobles!"

But now I actually saw Croissant with a nobleman,

It's like seeing a napping mouse next to a cat, which makes the fat man confused.

Could it be that this guy was also shot down by the sugar-coated bullets of the nobles?

The fat man looked at Croissant's dark and slightly drunk face and muttered to himself.

"Sir, this is Lidakus from the largest business family in Djerbo. He is the future heir of the Lida family.

This time, during the process of taking over the Djerpo area, my subordinates received strong support from the Lida family, which completely crushed the counterattack by the coalition of dissatisfied nobles in Samoa. This time, my subordinates came to Zhivadin specifically to take advantage of the Lida family. The sincerity of the Da family is sent here! "

Croissant looked at the fat man with doubtful eyes, knowing what her master was thinking.

He bent down with an embarrassed look on his face, pointed at the young noble next to him and introduced him.

"The Lida family of Jerbo?"

When Fatty heard this familiar name, he felt like he had heard it before.

Suddenly there was a throbbing in my heart, and I quickly stood up from my seat, looking at the young noble and asking

"Are you the heir to the Lida family that spans the two lands of Vikia and Ruidian, and a member of the largest arms family in the south?"

After hearing the fat man's straightforward words, the young nobleman was not angry.

Instead, she bowed down and responded respectfully before the embarrassed Croissant.

"My lord is talking about that in the past. Now everyone knows that the largest arms manufacturer in the south is the Marquis Dustin of Samour.

It is said that the weapons accumulated in the Samoer Fortress have filled ten huge warehouses, enough to equip tens of thousands of elite soldiers.

Countless black ores are piled up to form a towering iron mountain. It takes half an hour to climb up.

When thousands of craftsmen start casting at the same time, the sputtering fire can illuminate half of the sky.

The city of weapons "Samoa" is not only resounding throughout Wikiia, but is also famous in the military powerhouse Ruidian.

Compared with adults, our Lida family's little wealth is just a small workshop in the countryside."

The fat man felt quite comfortable being flattered by the young nobleman. This fat man had always had a soft temper and asked in a gentle tone.

"Hey, don't just say nice things. What's the reason your Lida family sent you here this time?"

Seeing that the fat man's attitude softened, Lidakus quickly took out a stack of colorful rosters from his body and handed them to the fat man respectfully.

"Sir, this is the letter of surrender sent by our Lida family.

In order to show that our Lida family is willing to surrender to you, I specially asked Xiao to send you this list of all the family's properties.

We, the Lida family, are willing to give half of our annual equity and rebar exclusive rights as our sincerity for cooperation."

"Half the proceeds! Rebar franchise!"

The fat man couldn't sit still and almost fainted from the pie falling from the sky.

No wonder even those who hate rich people like Croissant were persuaded by others. It turned out that the things they brought out were too important.

Others don't know about this Lida family, but Fatty does.

We are colleagues, so the fat man’s tone was not friendly at first.

Although they are enemies in the same industry and sell weapons and equipment, the gap between the two is not as big as usual.

Fatty takes a grassroots route, selling simple weapons, ordinary equipment such as mail armor.

The targets are just grassroots classes such as peasants, soldiers, and mercenaries.

The Lida family is on the elite and upper class route. Fatty doesn’t know how much their income is in a year.

But Fatty knows that 80% of the rebar needed for the knights' armor in the Kingdom of Wikiya is sold by the Lida family.

This arbitrary monopoly is enough to move everyone

Compared with others, Fatty is like a small shop with a "one yuan a piece" hanging on the street.

The Lida family is a major luxury goods company specializing in the Jordan chain brand, which is completely different.

In the face of the rich heritage of the Lida family, which has been with them for a hundred years, the wealthy upstart Satsuma has to bow his head.

Not only does it have its own independent arms smuggling network spanning the two countries, but it is also the only business giant in the Kingdom of Wikiia that has rebar forging technology for heavy armor knights.

According to intelligence, the Lida family also has its own private army, a total of five hundred fully armed knights.

This proud military strength is also the reason why Fatty did not touch the Lida family when he settled in Djerbo.

"If I can get the support of the Lida family, the entire Djerbo region will be as stable as gold. Not only will I be able to get a huge arms network, but I will also be able to obtain the highest-tech rebar forging and rolling technology. This is simply a good thing that comes to my doorstep! "

Fatty felt excited

Taking the family name list from Lidacus, he pressed it heavily on his palm.

This weight only increased Fatty's good impression of the Lida family.

Although I just flipped through it casually, I can still tell from the complicated store names in this thick account book,

The Lida family's business network covers all the big cities in Wikiya, and even has offices in Kugit in the far north and Rode in the south.

This is a truly continent-wide smuggling network. The former smuggling tycoon Lidastov was just a kid who was just starting out in front of the Lida family.

In the second half of last year alone, the Lida family's income from selling rebar reached 600,000 gold coins.

There are nearly 30,000 sets of other weapons and equipment, and the sales revenue is nearly one million. The deceased Marquis Issa is the main customer inside.

Before the fat man could recover from the shock of the data in front of the roster, his hand that was flipping through the books suddenly stopped, pointing at a strange name, and asked curiously

"Just what? What does this Kusakis Equipment General Office do? Why does it allocate 100,000 gold coins as funding every year?"

When Lidakus saw where the fat man's finger stopped, the corner of his mouth turned bitter.

The family originally wanted to hide this secret in the vast account books, but unexpectedly it never escaped the eyes of Fatty Summer.

Destiny always changes in the most inconspicuous places, such as this awkward Kusgis Equipment Headquarters

"This is where the family arranges to support the alchemists!"

"Alchemist? What are you responsible for?"

The fat man asked curiously. He was confused about this legendary profession.

"They are talents hired by the family from all over the country with a lot of money. Most of them are experts in steel forging and rolling. It took them ten years to crack the secret of the rebar controlled by the Ruidian people!"

Lidakus's answer made the fat man excited. This Kusgis Equipment Headquarters is basically a weapons and equipment research laboratory.

In this era of rampant steel, what is the most precious?

These are the experts in forging and rolling steel. Whoever has them will have the most advanced weapons technology.

"I didn't expect that the Lida family has so many good things!"

The fat man sighed with emotion. Compared with other professional families, the simple weapons he had tinkered with during this period were really hard to use.

"Science and technology are the primary productive forces! It seems to be the same in any era."

Take the multi-tube kerosene truck that burns Isa's golden wool into coke, for example. I don't know whether the temperature is too high or the technology is too poor. The dozen or so iron pipes on the truck burned and deformed after just one use. Now, It was purely put there as a frightening thing.

“Fake and shoddy things kill people!”

Fat people often think about it afterwards

If the Knights of the Golden Fleece had not been frightened at that time, I might be the one being chased away now.

The fat man closed the account book with lingering fear and placed it carefully on the table.

This small action is actually equivalent to acquiescing to the Lida family's affiliation.

The fat man stood up and stared at Lidakus without saying a word, which made Lidakus panic.

"Tell me, what is your request? If the Lida family provides me with so many good things for free, that is really an insult to my intelligence!,

Since you have fully demonstrated your sincerity, I will not be stingy with my generosity! There is no such thing as pie-in-the-sky good things in this world, only the exchange of interests! "

The fat man looked at Lidakus and asked

When Lidakus heard the fat man's question, he finally let go of what he had been worrying about, knowing that this cooperation had basically been successful.

Thinking that it took him three days and finally resorted to a hunger strike to force his father to make this bold move that had never been done in the Lida family,

Now he is about to bring a bright future to the Lida family. He suppressed the excitement in his body and bent down to respond respectfully.

"Your Excellency, you are too foreign. We, the Lida family, are willing to become your vassals. We don't have many demands. We only hope that your Excellency can control the mines in the four counties of Falcon, Satedo, Samor, and Jerbo. Mining rights are given to us"

The conditions proposed by Lidakus didn't seem too excessive, but the exposed ambition made Fatty hesitate.

The Lida family itself has the best weapon forging technology, and now it also owns the mining rights of four counties. This is basically a trust monopoly organization with one-stop production and sales.

In the memory of Fatty's future generations, this kind of monopoly organization that controls huge resources can even affect the change of national power.

And now, he will work hard to promote the formation of this organization

The Lida family is different from the Zhivadin Business Alliance. It has strict family management, a huge business network, and the income of the Fubi Kingdom.

The fat man knew that as long as he nodded, a new class would appear on the political stage. The name of that class was businessmen.

Seeing the hesitation on the fat man's face, Lidakus was afraid that the fat man would regret it, so he quickly added

"As long as you agree to our request, the Lida family will immediately provide a thousand sets of rebar knight armor as dividends for the first half of the year, and will also provide a hundred elite knights to the Samoan army to fulfill the Lida family's vassal obligations."