Doctor, I'm really strong!

The King of Shapeshifters, a member of the Sarkaz Ten Royal Courts.

"Homage to you, Your Majesty, the most legendary demon lord in Sarkaz history."

"Wait a minute, Demon King?"

Liu Jiuli looked left and right. The only people in the room besides himself were Ling. Where was the Demon King?

The King of Shapeshifters looked at Liu Jiuli: "No need to look anymore, it's you."

Liu Jiuli thought about it for a moment, then said, "Hmm, I still don't understand."

I didn't inherit Theresia's legacy, nor do I have Sarkaz blood. What do I have to do with the Demon King? Do you Sarkaz recognize Demon Kings so casually? Or do you consider anyone you recognize as a Demon King, even if they're just a random being?

No other Sarkaz has ever called themselves that.

Liu Jiuli: "I am not some demon king, I am Liu Jiuli, the chairman of the Terran Ming Community."

The King of Shapeshifters respectfully replied, "Yes, Your Majesty."

Liu Jiuli was speechless. How did you manage to put the words "Chairman" and "Your Majesty" together? It's so jarring.

"Fine, just say it directly, are you pledging allegiance to me?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Just call me Chairman, drop the word 'Your Majesty,' that's not proper here."

"Chairman, I pledge my loyalty to you."

"I don't need your loyalty."

“I know, but it’s true, and I believe you desperately need a pair of eyes, eyes that can see through all obstacles and deception to the very bottom.”

Liu Jiuli's eyes lit up. The King of Shapeshifters was right. He really needed such eyes. The King of Shapeshifters' ability was perfect for silently entering any place at the grassroots level, accessing things that others couldn't access, or even some confidential and shady exchanges of interests.

The national consciousness system allows Liu Jiuli to control relationships and interests, but it cannot collect evidence. If he arbitrarily deals with others without evidence, it is obviously self-destructive and constitutes an act of undermining the public security, procuratorial and judicial system. Unless the situation is extremely urgent, extraordinary measures should never be used as routine measures. Procedural justice safeguards order, and judicial justice appeases the people's hearts. This is the reality.

Therefore, evidence collection still needs to be done by people, but this process may give people the opportunity to destroy evidence. You know, people have intuition, although it is mysterious, it can be life-saving at critical moments. It can play a role whether it is a good person or a bad person. The existence of this variable makes some things more difficult to handle.

Some people make mistakes but are good at cleaning up evidence. Liu Jiuli can't kill them directly. He can only exile them to unimportant positions or find an opportunity to dismiss them from the civil service system. But keeping them around is ultimately a disaster.

But if the King of Shapeshifters were to intervene, gathering evidence would be much easier. He has plenty of ways to make those cunning old foxes confess their actions, and his profession is well-suited to that role.

At least when Liu Jiuli is overwhelmed, he can take on some of the work.

There's no need to worry about the possibility of someone usurping power. Putting aside the fact that the King of Shapeshifters is no match for Liu Jiuli, if he wanted to turn Liu Jiuli into a substitute, he would need to have Liu Jiuli's strength and cheat codes, which he absolutely cannot imitate. Liu Jiuli can always come back to Jinggang Mountain, but if the King of Shapeshifters dares to do that even once, there will be no place for him and his race in the entire community.

Even if it's a pursuit across the entire Terra region, the Ten Kings will distance themselves from it.

The reason is simple: he betrayed the Demon King and crossed the Sarkaz's bottom line.

Theresis's assassination attempt on Theresa was an internal matter for the Sarkaz royal family, a battle between demon lords. The Ten Royal Courts could kill a demon lord, but they could not betray him while remaining loyal. This was the rule, a rule that all Sarkaz followed, including the Ten Royal Courts. Ordinary humans could trample on this rule at will, but rules written into the racial consciousness are not as simple as words; they can truly draw blood and cost lives.

Liu Jiuli was unaware of the latter part, but he could sense the sincerity of the King of Shapeshifters.

"The community welcomes you."

"It's my pleasure."

The addition of the King of Shapeshifters has further consolidated the authority of the community within Sarkaz. Now, two of the ten Sarkaz royal courts have clearly pledged allegiance to Liu Jiuli, which is a significant signal for the other Sarkaz.

Anyway, Liu Jiuli will definitely use this to promote himself. Putting aside everything else, it would be good to have more immigrants.

So more Sarkaz came to New Kazdel. They needed an adjustment period and had to take exams, but they had no regrets. Being able to return to their hometown and see how beautiful it had become was worth it, even if it cost them their lives. Let alone a mere exam, they would pass it!

Hopefully, they won't be driven crazy by the HSK Level 8 exam. After all, it's a highly compressed language where the same content can have multiple meanings depending on the tone (laughs). Life is peaceful, but some people aren't.

Letania, the once proud kingdom of towers, is currently experiencing a crisis.

The economic crisis was caused by large-scale capital outflows and the flight of nobles.

The reason is very simple: the construction of the Berlin Wall made other countries realize that Leitania was powerless against the Community. In addition, the two countries were neighbors, and Leitania had experienced a revolution. If the Community attacked one day, their funds would be lost. The Community had no psychological burden whatsoever on hanging capitalists and confiscating their property.

Capital is risk-averse, especially in a country like Letania where the future is uncertain. Their investments cannot guarantee returns. Even if they do invest, it's usually in high-profit, quick-return projects. Otherwise, they wouldn't come at all. It's your country's fault for not being able to resist the Community. We don't want to become mere streetlight ornaments, and we certainly don't want our investments to go down the drain.

People are willing to risk their lives for a business, but no one is willing to do a business that loses money. With the massive outflow of domestic and foreign assets, Letania naturally fell into an economic crisis.

An economic crisis means hard times. When life gets tough, the nobility will exploit the lower classes. When the lower classes can't make ends meet, they will rebel. Because of the examples of the Community and the Kiel Rebellion, this rebellion will only become more and more intense, eventually giving the Community a chance to go out together and choose a nice street lamp.

This was to be expected; the White Queen has been troubled by these issues lately, but they are not something that can be resolved with a few decrees.

Leaving aside Letania's political system, which is similar to that of the Holy Roman Empire, a single issue of resource allocation would be enough to cause a three-day-long debate at the Electoral Council. At that rate, dealing with a national issue would be too slow.

The only way out is capitalist reform and strengthening of central authority. But either of these two paths will affect the interests of the great nobles of Letania. They certainly will not obediently hand over power. Then there will be civil war and oppression. The common people will not be able to endure the hardship and will run to the Community. When the time is right, the Community will come and kill everyone.

I still have to hang streetlights and grass (a type of plant) no matter what I do!

But just when all seemed hopeless, a country was willing to lend a helping hand, providing Letania with funds and low-interest loans to help them out of their predicament, and even offering military cooperation.

What a philanthropist! Truly a philanthropist! Really? Colombia, is that really what you think?

You heir to America!

Yes, Colombia has made its move, or rather, Colombian capitalists have begun to make their moves.

Section 298: Long-arm Jurisdiction

(I've been quite busy lately, so I can only update once a week, sadly)

Geographically, Letania is separated from Colombia by Victoria, Casimir, and Sheraco. Colombia's long-arm jurisdiction extends from one side of the Pacific Ocean to the other, truly embodying the essence of American governance.

But if you look closely, you'll find that the actual distance isn't that far at all.

It's obvious to everyone that the Community will eventually unify Ursus, so the current Ursus Empire is bound to be destroyed; it's just a matter of time. Once the Ursus Empire is destroyed, the distance between the Community and Columbia will be reduced to just one Kazimierz.

As a true capital empire, many people from Casimir have gone to Colombia to enjoy life. They are all well aware that the current financial development within Casimir is actually a national-level Ponzi scheme, and this scheme has formed a considerable bubble as Colombia has come to an end.

Just look at the housing prices in the capital region of Kasimir; the price of one square meter is equivalent to ten years' income for an average worker who doesn't eat or drink.

And this trend is spreading rapidly. It is estimated that by the time the community becomes too powerful, Kazimierz will be doomed.

At that time, Casimir, with its impoverished people and widespread famine, will be a breeding ground for communist ideology. If Colombian capitalists do not want to deal with the steel torrent of the Community sooner, they must first learn to build fences around the Community, at least to prevent the Community from single-mindedly expanding westward.

Therefore, the countries surrounding the Community have become Colombia's investment targets, or rather, potential obstacles for the Community in the future.

But this is only relatively speaking. Don't expect the community to fall into the debt trap after these countries have laid it. Liu Jiuli is best at letting you fight your way and me fight my way. At worst, we'll let the newly established government deny the debt, and then the new government will merge into the community. If there are any problems, you can go find the new government. Oh, that government has disappeared. There's really nothing we can do. Anyway, it has nothing to do with our community.

Yes, it's that simple and straightforward. If you have any objections, just look at the steel torrent of ten thousand land-based ships of the Commonwealth, and you'll immediately understand why those creditors calmly accepted it.

Colombia is well aware that it is impossible to recoup the costs of its investments in the countries surrounding the Community. The only thing they can do is to make as much money as possible during this period and leave a mess for the Community. But even if they can take the money, they cannot take the physical factories and resources. They can only destroy them, but they cannot destroy them too much. They don't want to anger the Community so much that it will attack them. Even a strategic bombing would be something Colombia cannot afford.

Having realized these things, Colombia, in addition to investing in the community's enemies to hinder the community's progress and slow down its advancement, also needs to strengthen its own combat capabilities, such as through military buildup and the development of advanced weapons.

For example, the flexible exoskeleton electronic muscle technology used by the Community already exists on Terra, but its cost is prohibitively high. Columbia, naturally, cannot solve this problem either. The instability of the Originium industry is well-known. High-tech handicrafts are still handicrafts. Even if they spare no expense, their production capacity cannot compete with the Community's super factories. They also have no way to change the rules set by nature. At least for now, they are definitely helpless.

Therefore, the exoskeleton technology developed by Colombia is much simpler than that of the Community. It is more like an exoskeleton covered with a thicker bulletproof vest. Its performance is limited, but at least it is affordable enough for the military.

But that's just acceptance. Forget about the idea of ​​everyone in the community having a set, or even spreading it to civilian enterprises. Fortunately, these new individual soldier equipment are enough to bully neighboring countries. At least they can increase individual soldier firepower to the level of a squad or above. Three soldiers can suppress two squads or even a platoon and a half on the other side.

The Colombian military has already used this weapon to suppress guerrillas in the jungles of Bolívar with remarkable results.

In order to enable its citizens to become soldiers, Colombia has opened up arms procurement licenses to its citizens. Many individual weapons can be purchased freely by civilians. In many of Colombia's mobile cities, citizens under the age of sixteen are not allowed to smoke, but they can buy well-equipped Originium weapons.

The effect was remarkable; weapons-related crimes increased by 1,000 percent in the second year.

The data growth was so outrageous that Liu Jiuli began to suspect that Colombia was secretly expanding its military and cultivating militias by selling weapons and then having everyone play PUBG.

If Colombia didn't lack population pressure, Liu Jiuli could easily conclude that they had devised a population cleanup plan.

So how much aid did Colombia provide to Letania?

It mainly concerns weapons and equipment, but there is also support for factories and technology. And we advise the local nobles to learn to behave themselves, at least to implement the eight-hour workday. Otherwise, these unruly people will welcome the arrival of the community, and you will have to settle down on the streetlights, with your whole family's household registration in the picture.

The nobles of Letania are always inclined to compromise. If you ask them to give their workers an eight-hour workday, they will definitely refuse. But if you tell them that they will be hung from the streetlights if they don't, they will agree to give their workers an eight-hour workday.

In addition, there is another good method, which is to confuse the public and cultivate scabs.

The proletariat has a strong revolutionary spirit, but if a path to upward mobility through selling out is presented to the proletariat, many proletarians will become lumpenproletarians. Human greed is ever-present, which is also the advantage of capitalism. Its success lies in its ability to unleash human greed and transform it into tangible benefits.

If capital were to be transformed into a specific evil god, the four warp vendors would all seem like selfless heroes compared to it.

As long as there are scabs, the proletariat can fight amongst themselves. If groups are divided by interests, they will not concentrate their efforts on the vested interests, but will fight tooth and nail against the biscuits thrown by the vested interests. In this way, the vested interests of the old era can sit back and relax.

It must be said that Colombia's guiding ideology is quite advanced. Reforming capitalism alleviates social contradictions to a certain extent, hides and weakens its own weaknesses, finds and amplifies the enemy's shortcomings, and, in addition, the bourgeoisie controls the means of production and has a lot of say. As long as they have the upper hand in a country, it will be difficult for the proletariat to turn the tide in a short period of time.

To truly overcome the immense burdens on the bourgeoisie, we must wait until the bourgeoisie collapses due to an irreversible economic crisis, such as the Great Depression of 1923-1933. It must be at least that level, because reformed capitalism has already weathered this crisis, so the next one must be even more severe.

Or wait for a powerful proletarian state to smash it; if you can't succeed internally, external forces will naturally come to your rescue.

He might become the dragon-slaying boy of yesteryear, but as long as history continues to move forward, then it can be considered a success.

The changes that have occurred in Letania will also serve as an experimental scenario for Colombia, providing them with experience in dealing with similar crises in the future. To put it bluntly, no vested interest group withdraws from the stage of history on its own.

Then the only acceptable interpretation is that revolution is not a crime and rebellion is justified.

What happened in Letania would naturally be reported to Liu Jiuli as intelligence, and Liu Jiuli would certainly not tolerate the enemy holding a knife to his neck.

Since some people don't want to be dignified, let's help them be dignified.

Chapter 299: The Anti-Traitor Squad, Death to the Traitors!

(So ​​tired, _('?`」∠)_)

An advanced organization is tolerant, except for traitors.

The Leitanian workers' movement suffered a defeat due to the betrayal of traitors, but it was only a relative defeat. Faced with the Community's armored forces standing at their doorstep, even if Leitania arrested these workers' leaders, they dared not really kill them.

Because the community will take action; if you dare to kill our comrades, we dare to make you hang yourself from a tree branch.

Liu Jiuli never expected to reason with the bourgeoisie. If reason could be explained with words, humanity would have long since achieved universal harmony.

If you want capitalists to obey the law, you have to put a gun to their heads; if you want them to give up their profits, you have to hang them on a street lamp. There is no other way. Some people are either stupid or evil, or both.

As for capitalists who have betrayed their own class, they are called comrades, and they are no longer considered capitalists.

Therefore, those traitors and labor spies must pay a bloody price, and the anti-traitor squads were prepared for this purpose.

"Target spotted, 12 o'clock position."

"Team One is ready."

"Team Three is ready."

"Team Six is ​​ready."