Siheyuan: Why is my crossing so ugly?

The north wind dissipated, order quickly returned, and the wave of immigration naturally subsided.

Over the years, Moran has gathered more than 200 million inland immigrants through various channels, which is not a small number.

However, this woman's needs were simply too great.

Bangkok's Chinatown diverted hundreds of thousands of people, Pattaya and surrounding provinces diverted hundreds of thousands more, and the Wanlun Auto City also took away over a hundred thousand.

Among the immigrants, the most elite of the more than 200,000 brave and hardworking young men basically joined the army and became the backbone of the Dumo Legion.

The remaining million-plus immigrants were all sent to Borneo.

However, there are more than 2000 million natives on the island, so this small number wouldn't even reach five percent.

Ultimately, these inland immigrants are Moran's own people and the foundation of her puppet rule. If the proportion is too low, her position will be unstable sooner or later.

Currently, the immigration gap is not Moran's primary problem, after all, she holds military power and no one dares to cause trouble in the short term.

The main problem is a lack of talent, especially management talent in various fields, which is extremely scarce.

The hundreds of newly built factories, mines, and local government offices all urgently need grassroots cadres. Relying on local natives is questionable, not to mention whether Moran can be trusted.

These bumpkins can't even pick out literate people; it's all nonsense.

So, Moran wasn't in Borneo or Siam recently, but went to Hong Kong Island to ask her best friend Zhao Yingnan for help.

Speaking of Hong Kong Island, in the past decade, the world landscape has undergone earth-shattering changes, and the original trajectory of Hong Kong Island has also been completely altered.

Du Weiguo's sudden rise to power and his dominance over this Pearl of the Orient led to the exodus of British, American, and most Western capital.

If things continue along this trajectory, Hong Kong Island will lose this opportunity and likely become desolate, gloomy, and ultimately collapse.

In fact, no.

In the late 60s and early 70s, after decades of hard work and perseverance, Japan had emerged from the shadow of defeat and quickly recovered its strength.

Then, the resurgent Japanese capital, led by the Mitsui and Iwasaki families, began to pour money into Hong Kong Island and cooperate in various fields.

According to the original historical trajectory, the 70s were Japan's golden age of economic development, reaching its peak in the early 80s, when it was said that the city of Tokyo could buy the entire United States.

Although Du Weiguo has taken away some of the fortune of Dongying in this life, it is still not to be underestimated.

It is a shipping choke point, enjoys favorable free port policies, benefits from the demographic dividend brought by the wave of immigration, and is also receiving investment from Japanese capital.

Hong Kong Island has not declined; on the contrary, it has always maintained strong momentum for development.

The reform and opening-up policy implemented ahead of schedule on the mainland gave wings to Hong Kong Island, allowing it to soar to new heights.

China is the world's largest and most promising consumer market, a fact that cannot be denied.

When the reforms were first implemented, Hong Kong Island, as the only port of entry and exit for the mainland, naturally made a fortune and was extremely wealthy.

The Hong Kong Island pie is just too big and too tempting.

Therefore, in the late 70s, many Western capitalists who had fled quietly changed their identities and sneaked back.

Make money, not shabby.

At this time, the development speed of Hong Kong Island also reached its limit, changing almost every day, even more rapidly than the original trajectory.

Take Kunpeng Pictures as an example. It was listed in 1975 with a market value of only about 2 billion yuan. In 1979, its market value soared to 26 billion yuan, more than ten times in just four years.

In reality, Kunpeng Pictures' true market value is definitely not that high; it's just that it's riding the wave of opportunity that it's soared to such heights.

However, it must be said that Kunpeng Pictures has indeed expanded to an alarming degree, growing into the Godzilla of the global entertainment industry.

Kunpeng Pictures now has branches in Hong Kong Island, Tai O, Wan Island, Bangkok, Seoul, and Tokyo, and has also invested in and built film and television shooting bases.

Each film and television base covers hundreds of acres and can be used for filming as well as as a theme park.

In addition, Kunpeng Pictures also holds absolute controlling stakes in three television stations in Hong Kong Island, Taiwan Island, and Tai O, two artist training schools, and 226 cinemas across Asia.

They've even set up a branch in Los Angeles, and a film studio in Long Beach is currently under construction.

What makes Kunpeng Pictures truly outstanding isn't its hardware, but its talent pool.

The company has signed over a thousand artists, including top names such as Little Dragon, Teresa Teng, Angie Chiu, Sammo Hsu, Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin, Little Dragon, and Chow Yun-fat.

In addition to Chinese artists, Kunpeng has also signed many foreign artists.

For example, the currently popular Alain Delon, De Niro, Harrison, Taylor, and Hepburn, as well as the relatively unknown Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Denzel, Michael, and Madonna.

That's right, even future pop stars have been signed by Kunpeng Pictures, all with super long-term contracts of 20 years and exorbitant breach of contract penalties.

Nothing is impossible.

When they signed the contract, they were just teenagers. Although they had some fame, the huge signing fee of over a million dollars was enough to buy their lives.

In addition, the talent school also has hundreds of contracted trainees who are essentially monopolizing the stardom for the next few decades.

Now, Kunpeng Pictures not only dominates Asia, but also stands on its own against Hollywood on the international stage.

However, this seemingly impressive Kunpeng Pictures is just one of many businesses under Zhao Yingnan's control, and it doesn't even rank in the top three.

As foreign capital continues to pour in and divide the pie of Hong Kong Island, Zhao Yingnan's actual control has inevitably been diluted, but it still accounts for more than 30%.

The market has expanded more than tenfold, but its share has only decreased by 20%, so she remains the uncrowned queen of Hong Kong Island.

In terms of military strength, Zhao Yingnan's forces are equally formidable. Her private guard has long been upgraded to a mercenary legion called Yama.

The total number is 2400, and they are usually stationed on Ngau Wei Island in Saigon.

Although the number of Yama's men is small, almost every member is a highly skilled elite soldier selected from thousands of others.

Their equipment is the most advanced available at the time, and they even have heavy firepower such as attack helicopters, armored vehicles, and gunboats.

At the same time, Yama also has practical combat experience. Previously, he would go to Kalimantan Island for rotation battles every season, and later, he mostly went to the Triangle Land to participate in actual combat.

To put it bluntly, if it really came down to a fight, Yama could easily wipe out that British brigade stationed on Hong Kong Island.

This shows that although Zhao Yingnan has little ambition and a relatively easygoing personality, she is not someone who can be easily manipulated, and she can still hold onto her core supporters.

Another crucial point is that Hong Kong Island is the starting point and transit point for the immigration wave, giving it a significant advantage in terms of proximity. All talents can be chosen by Zhao Yingnan first.

Therefore, she not only established the Yama clan, but also gradually cultivated a professional and loyal management team to manage an extremely large industry.

These professional managers number around 3500, each a business elite with practical experience, managing one or several companies.

Moran went to Hong Kong specifically for these "treasures".

Her goal is to "borrow" 1000 people; if that's not possible, 500 will do.

However, Moran was destined to return empty-handed this time, because after receiving word of the incident, Zhao Yingnan immediately went into hiding. Where did she go? How did she leave? No one knew, not even her trusted confidants like Xiao Ma, Lancelot, and Lu Yan.

Among the evil spirits, besides their leader Du Weiguo, the most troublesome one is none other than Miss Hu.

However, she has kept a very low profile in recent years.

Persia East has been quietly developing, with almost no news. Not to mention war, there are very few serious crimes under its rule.

As the saying goes, the meat in a steamed bun isn't on the pleats.

By the late 70s, the true strength of eastern Persia, both economically and militarily, far surpassed that of its mother country, Persia, and even exceeded that of most European countries.

Let's put it this way: if Persia were to launch a war now, it could sweep across most of Europe in a short time, crushing all the weaklings except for England and France.

Surprisingly, despite its formidable strength, Eastern Persia never gained independence, nor did it split its territory and establish a separate state like Kalimantan.

On the surface, Persia was still a complete, stable, independent sovereign state, and it was also exceptionally wealthy and powerful.

However, the Persian government knew its own predicament. The decree issued by Ankara was a joke to the Persian East, and it was too difficult to even wipe its own ass clean.

Ankara, the old home that Ms. Hu has cultivated for so long, has now risen to become a first-tier international metropolis with a permanent population of over 400 million, bustling with traffic and thriving.

However, it was not she who was usually in charge of Ankara, but Yuan Qianye.

In fact, apart from the first few years, Miss Hu spent most of her time traveling around the world instead of in Ankara.

As for what she does? She comes back every few months, and each time she brings back one or more strangers of all skin colors, men, women, young and old.

These people are all people with special abilities that she has gathered from all over the world.

Of course, Miss Hu doesn't accept just anyone. She's very picky, only choosing those with top-notch aptitude, potential, and practical skills.

This was something she had discussed with Du Weiguo long ago. Her sensory abilities were strong and had a wide range, making her the most suitable person to discover and search for people with special abilities.

The people with special abilities that Miss Hu found, regardless of their strength or weakness, will not immediately join the Fiend Clan, nor will they be assigned any tasks.

Everyone must enter the training camp and undergo three years of intensive training.

Skills include language, disguise, interrogation, infiltration, detection, tracking, counter-tracking, combat, shooting, intelligence analysis, natural science, and interrogation.

In addition to these, they also need to constantly hone their talents and abilities, apply them in real combat, and most importantly, cultivate their psychological qualities and receive loyalty education.

This training camp is hidden deep in the desert, and Miss Hu personally serves as the head instructor.

She would come over from time to time to check on the progress of the special training, and also to discipline the guys who were daydreaming.

The training camp's teaching assistants are Yuan Ying, Naya, Xiangtai, and other experts from the Brotherhood, who occasionally come over to help out.

Du Weiguo had come several times, each time around the time the special training camp ended. After all, he was the leader of the Fiend God Clan and also their totem, so he naturally had to come and meet the new blood.

Of course, the training camp wasn't over yet. They still had to complete three trial missions, and only by passing all of them could they officially join the Fiend God Clan.

The success rate of the trial missions is terrifyingly low; less than 30% of graduates ultimately pass all of them.

The consequences of failing the trial are self-evident: death is the only outcome.

As for surrender or betrayal, those ideas simply don't exist. The moment such a thought arises, one's brain will instantly explode into a mess.

Therefore, over the course of ten years, this training camp has only produced a dozen or so new recruits, but each of them is a top-notch expert who can stand alone and is terrifyingly strong.

These new recruits were all eventually sent to infiltrate various parts of the world.

Only two people knew the specific location of their infiltration, their identities, and their mission: Du Weiguo and Miss Hu.

The last territory under Du Weiguo's control is Motihari City, where Lin Jiaojiao is located, within the territory of India. This place is quite interesting.

Lin Jiaojiao is a truly Buddhist woman, and also genuinely lazy.

She only cared about the city of Motihari, completely ignoring the six independent northeastern Indian states.

As long as the annual offerings are in place, she can do whatever she wants. Even if a civil war breaks out and people's brains are turned into dog brains, she won't bother with it.

However, Mottihari's location is undeniably advantageous.

Stranded between four countries—no, now five—and with direct access to the sea via waterways, trade is bound to flourish.

In addition to the annual tributes from the six states and the occasional large sums of aid from the Kingdom of Duwei, the city of Motihari exhibited an eerie prosperity.

This small, lawless town, which originally had only tens of thousands of people, now has a permanent population of nearly 200 million, of which about 30 are Chinese immigrants.

The city not only had running water and electricity, but also many high-rise buildings, straight roads, clean and tidy streets, and residents who were well-dressed and polite.

At first glance, it looks like a Western European city at the foot of the Alps, and has nothing to do with India.

Today, the city is called by the Indians what translates to "Himalayan Miracle".

However, the armed forces in Motihari are not large, consisting of only two reinforced mechanized brigades, totaling about 10,000 people, and more than 3,000 police officers in the city.

With such weak military force, guarding the incredibly wealthy city of Motihari is like a child carrying gold through a bustling marketplace.

However, no one dared to covet it, much less act recklessly.

In 73, after countless struggles, Zaramussi, who had seized military and political power in Assam, made a rash decision to refuse to pay tribute to Motihari.

As a result, just three days later, his entire clan was wiped out—yes, his entire clan, not just his family.

That wasn't the scariest part. On the same day, one of Zaramussi's most trusted and staunchest infantry divisions...

More than 10,000 people were mysteriously wiped out, leaving not a single survivor.

People only heard the screams and gunshots in the camp and witnessed the raging fire that burned for a day and a night, but no one knew how the soldiers were killed.

After the fire was extinguished, the entire camp was completely burned to ashes. There were no survivors, not even a single intact skeleton.

Such bizarre, terrifying, violent, and brutal methods terrified everyone and shattered their scheming minds.

Although there was no evidence, everyone understood that Lord Motihari was making an example of someone to scare others.

Undoubtedly, Lin Jiaojiao's attempt to establish her authority was successful.

From then on, the heads of the six clans were extremely respectful, and even if they had to sell their pots and pans, they would not dare to shortchange her on any offerings.

Moreover, India and its neighboring countries have become more honest, behaving very dutifully when doing business, and keeping a low profile in the city, never daring to be arrogant.

Even the demons and monsters who tried to take advantage of the city were terrified and fled in panic.

So, while Lin Jiaojiao may be lazy, she's quite clever; with one outburst of anger and ruthlessness, she solved all the problems at once. (End of Chapter)