Chapter 168 LA Alliance! I want to control the world's troops!
Not long after, V arrived at the crash site of Kongtian-1, and he finally received news from Song Zhaomei.
"V, you have to rescue President Miles before Hansen's Hellhound soldiers get here. I'll send you her location signal. Please!"
After she finished speaking, Song Zhaomei's voice was interrupted again, which made V, who was confused about the situation, feel very anxious.
"Damn... Why does Song Zhaomei always stop talking halfway? This makes me feel very passive!"
V complained helplessly that the current situation was too urgent and it would definitely be too late to report the news to Leon while running.
He could only follow Song Zhaomei's instructions and go to where President Miles was, and try to rescue Miles before Hansen's Hellhound soldiers arrived.
Then find a way to contact Li Ang and report to him the latest situation here.
"I hope it's not too late..."
Thinking of this, V couldn't help but quicken his pace.
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Night City, Watson District, LA Company Headquarters!
At this moment, Leon was leading his trusted members Morgan Blackhand, Lucy, Mann Team, and other department heads of the company, facing the electronic screen in the headquarters lobby.
The image that appeared on the electronic screen was a scene of the heads of state of the European Community and senior executives of various giant companies gathered around a table.
This unique large-scale negotiation meeting had a total number of people reaching hundreds. If you didn't know, you would think it was a United Nations conference.
Just recently, the transcendental AI Europa returned to Europe and immediately issued corresponding reminders to the core executive members of the European Community.
And informed them of the LA company's requirements and the convening of a discussion meeting.
Imprison the transcendental AI Europa, control the black wall that isolates the roaming AI, and collect protection fees from the European Community Alliance Company...
Faced with this series of sudden changes, many senior executives of the European Community are still in a state of confusion.
How could the untouchable black wall become the property of other companies overnight? And they even asked them for protection money. What kind of new scam is this? !
It wasn't until the head of the Internet monitoring company came forward and issued a notice explaining the situation that everyone suddenly realized what was going on.
It turns out that the transcendental AI Europa really exists, and the black wall can also be controlled by the company.
But at this point, all these things have become the means of production of LA companies, and they can't snatch them away even if they want to.
[Mr. Li Ang, now that everyone is here, let's get down to business. ]
The person who spoke on the electronic screen was Knapp, who previously worked as a senior executive in a branch company of the trauma team.
Thanks to the trauma team's continued surge in profits after reaching a cooperation with LA Company, Knapp also rose rapidly and became one of the senior executives of the European Community Alliance.
He appeared in this meeting representing the interests of the financial backers of European consortiums. What Knap had to do next was to have a dialogue and negotiation with Leon.
Knapp took a deep breath and tried to calm his inner restlessness. In fact, he and the group of company executives at the meeting had met Li Ang at a polymer launch conference some time ago.
The circle of top dignitaries is actually quite small. People almost know each other after meeting each other a few times, and Li Ang can be considered an old acquaintance to them.
But in many cases, only old acquaintances have the opportunity and ambition to do something to you.
For example, the LA company that was their partner a few months ago has now become their "master" that is superior to them!
"I think Europa has conveyed my request to each of you. Now all you have to do is express your attitude."
"Accept it or reject it."
Li Ang didn't want to talk too much with these Europeans on this issue. Whether it would work or not was just a matter of one sentence, so there was no point in saying more.
"I think you all know what Europa told you. I don't want to repeat it a second time."
As soon as Li Ang finished speaking, there was an immediate commotion at the European Community's conference table. These noble European elites had never been bullied like this before.
Of course they knew what conditions Europa had proposed. Faced with Leon's blatant blackmail, the first reaction of the European Community consortiums was naturally anger.
But they also knew that they couldn’t compete with LA companies on the black wall.
Because apart from LA, there is no other company in the world that can control the Transcendental AI and take control of the Black Wall!
As everyone was discussing and arguing, Ms. Nadia La, CEO of Trauma Team, stood up and said:
[Mr. Li Ang, on behalf of the trauma team, I am willing to accept any request or condition proposed by Europa.]
[Similarly, I also support that the operation rights of Black Wall should be owned by LA Company from now on, and LA Company should be paid a considerable amount of money every year! ]
【It is an honor for our trauma team to contribute to human cybersecurity. 】
As soon as these words came out, the surrounding company executives immediately looked at Nadia with astonishment, contempt, and indifference. They expressed disdain for Nadia's fence-sitting behavior.
But compared to making the company survive and develop better, these people's doubts are simply irrelevant to Nadiya La.
As one of the few senior executives in the European consortium who supports Leon, Nadia knows what to do and when to do it.
Since the arm is destined to be no match for the thigh, don't force yourself to be unfair to the other person.
LA company has just signed an agreement with companies around the world on the Sky-Sky No. 1 airship to use polymer technology. It is completely meaningless to resist a company that controls such advanced technology.
From the moment this group of executives signed the contract with the LA company, Leon has already taken control of the future of the world, and he has become the most powerful man in the world!
And now Leon's LA company can easily conquer even macro-system things like the Transcendental AI Europa. This is enough to show that the current LA company is no longer a giant enterprise that the European Community can compete with.
In fact, if the Internet monitoring company had not taken the initiative to confirm the existence of Europa, some people would still not believe that there really is such a huge AI.
Nadiya La had long realized the huge gap in strength between herself and Leon, so she immediately agreed to Leon's conditions.
Because in this negotiation, these company executives have no bargaining rights at all!
After seeing Nadiya La take the lead in surrendering to Leon, the second company executive also raised his hand and agreed to LA's request.
Then came the third and fourth company executives who had previously held opposing opinions. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, they had no choice but to raise their hands to show their obedience.
There was no way. Faced with the absolute overwhelming strength, even if they wanted to reject Li Ang, they didn't have the courage to say such words.
"Very good, you all are more aware of the current situation than I thought."
Li Ang smiled. These European corporate dogs were more obedient than he had imagined. Li Ang originally thought that these people would argue with him, but he did not expect that things would develop more smoothly than he thought.
In this case, Li Ang continued to strike while the iron was hot and put forward the next condition to them.
Leon had carefully planned this whole situation, not just to let Europa wake up these company dogs and hold a meeting to extort the small amount of money in their pockets.
Controlling the Black Wall and collecting protection fees are not Leon's ultimate goal. What he really wants to do is to replace the world's largest alliance organization, the European Community, and establish a new LA Alliance headed by LA Company!
Times have changed, and now LA companies dominate the world.
Immediately, Leon expressed his intention to abolish the European Community and establish the LA Alliance. As expected, his idea caused surprise and intense emotional fluctuations among the audience.
Since the collapse of the United States, the European Community has existed on the earth for nearly a hundred years. The strong rise of corporate groups in various countries has also made the European Community, a corporate alliance, increasingly powerful.
It can be said that the European Community is the most powerful alliance organization on the planet. They represent the most advanced technology, the most brilliant culture, and the most dazzling technological crystallization of human civilization.
But the LA company, which has only been in existence for two and a half years, actually wants to replace their alliance and make them dependent on the LA company as its younger brothers. How can they accept this!
Facing the criticism from everyone, Li Ang did not get angry, but responded calmly and calmly:
"I am not here to discuss with you my intention to replace the European Community, but to formally inform you."
“Companies that want to join the LA Alliance must make up 60% of their own company’s shares.”
"By becoming a company member of the LA Alliance, you will gain access to our company's technology projects, including but not limited to polymers and Transcendental AI Europa."
As soon as these words were spoken, it was like a bomb thrown into a deep lake, instantly causing an uproar at the European Community's conference table of 100 people.
Giving more than half of the shares of his own company to Li Ang as the entry fee for the LA Alliance, this request is simply outrageous!
It would be better to just say that LA company is going to swallow up all the members of the European Community!
It would be fine to hand over the operating rights of Black Wall to LA company and pay Li Ang a protection fee every year. After all, no company has the ability to take over Black Wall.
Even for network monitoring companies, the scope of control over the black wall is limited to maintenance, and they cannot manipulate the black wall for their own use.
If the LA company's AI technology is powerful enough to manipulate the black wall at will, then it means they deserve to make the money.
The worst that can happen to the executives of various companies in the European Community is that they will just have to bite the bullet and pay the money, and regard it as spending money to avoid disaster.
But if they want each company to give 60% of the shares to LA, then it is absolutely impossible, because they really have this thing! When Li Ang's request seriously infringed the fundamental interests of these European capitalists, most of the senior executives of the European Community instantly became angry.
Their attitude became tough and resolute. After all, cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents. If the price of joining the LA Alliance is to have their spine broken and become an obedient dog, then they would rather die!
Looking at the emotional and angry representatives of various companies around him, Knapp didn't dare to join them in making a scene, because he knew that he couldn't afford to offend the LA company.
This group of people can curse and quarrel, but he cannot do that. He represents the interests of the consortiums of the European Community countries and cannot easily express his position in front of Li Ang.
Once he followed this group of people and talked nonsense and tried to argue with Leon, it would be equivalent to defining the nature of the matter, meaning that the European Community refused to join the LA alliance.
If Leon gets hold of this evidence, the entire European Community company will probably be in trouble!
After thinking for a moment, Knapp wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and then cautiously tried:
[Mr. Li Ang, the requirements for membership you proposed are really too heavy for us. I hope you can lower the requirements appropriately.]
While saying this, Knapp had been observing the changes in Leon's expression, fearing that one of the words he said would be wrong and would cause Leon's anger.
After all, he is just a high-level corporate dog working for financial sponsors from various countries. He has very few rights to make decisions on his own, and most of the time he still has to report to the boss behind the scenes.
At this moment, Knap's earphones were filled with the shouting and cursing of the bosses of financial groups from various countries. The demands of these bosses were very clear, which was to gain as many rights and interests as possible.
Of course, the bosses of these companies would not be tough enough to break up with Li Ang, so they could only rely on negotiation and demand more benefits from Li Ang.
Faced with pressure from both ends, Knapp felt like crying but had no tears. On one side was Le Ang, who held absolute power, and on the other side were the aggressive bosses of various giant companies.
He dares not offend anyone, nor can he afford to offend anyone!
[How about this, Mr. Li Ang, we both take a step back and each company dilutes 50% of its shares to LA Company as a threshold fee for joining the LA Alliance, but the European Community must continue to exist. ]
What do you think of this request?
Knapp stared at Leon on the big screen. He dared not even breathe too loudly. He could only feel his own heart beating.
He racked his brains to come up with this compromise solution after weighing the bottom lines of Leon and the bosses behind the scenes.
There is a lot of room for manipulation when it comes to company shares. With a little financial expertise, an elite can use some tricks to preserve most of the bosses' assets.
But the alliance organization is completely different!
What can truly make the European Community revitalized and provide it with endless strength is not the technological power of giant companies in various countries, but something called "rules".
Under the constraints of the rules, companies from European countries can exchange resources efficiently without so much wrangling and confusion, which can minimize internal friction.
They can even work together and use their advantages to extract and extort resources from companies in other regions in order to strengthen their own power!
If the European Community disappears and is replaced by the LA Alliance headed by LA Company, it means that from now on they can only abide by the rules set by Leon.
Once a company dares to oppose the rules of the alliance, it will be eliminated and disqualified as a member, and the alliance leader will allow a newcomer to take its place.
And that latecomer is basically the leader's man!
The more betrayers there are, the more power the leader has, so no one dares to act rashly within the alliance.
That is why Knapp and his bosses behind the scenes would try their best to let Leon retain the European Community, because they do not want to enter an unfamiliar alliance organization and start over.
However, how could Li Ang not know what this group of people were thinking? He did not accept or refute the other party's new conditions, but responded coldly:
"What I just said was not to negotiate with you, but to inform you. As for your choice, I don't care."
"I'm only telling you that companies that join the LA Alliance are ours, and those that don't are outsiders. I've always been tough on outsiders."
Li Ang's words were a naked threat to the bosses behind the European Community. If it were him a year ago, Li Ang would definitely not dare to challenge these European conglomerates.
But now that he has the Infinity starship, the polymer collective nervous system, and the strongest combat power on the planet, he is determined to completely decompose and dismantle the European Community, an alliance organization.
As a major alliance that has existed in the cyber world for a hundred years, they can either take these old rich guys in as dogs, or uproot them and replace them with their own people.
No matter which method he chooses, it cannot stop Li Ang from controlling the world's troops.
All companies must join the LA Alliance!
At this moment, the European Community executives in the conference hall once again burst into noisy discussions, and Li Ang did not stop these people from talking among themselves.
He took the initiative to give the company's senior executives three minutes to think.
Once the three minutes are up, he will raise the entry threshold to 70% of the company's shares.
In another three minutes, it will increase to 80%, and then to %. The only companies left that have not joined the LA alliance are Leon's enemies.
When dealing with the enemies of LA Company, he can only destroy them physically!
Le Ang didn't mind letting the AI artificial intelligence control the Infinity mothership, hover over these companies, and launch a few small missiles for fun.
Give these pampered European elites a little starship shock.
As for the European Community's space-based weapons mass projector, that piece of junk can never hit the earth even if it throws a meteorite.
With the Infinity interstellar mothership there, the meteorite was shattered by Infinity's four 4-meter-caliber CR-27 electromagnetic accelerator cannons before it even hit the atmosphere.
Now Leon has the confidence to turn the table with these Europeans. If he didn't want to cause unnecessary casualties, he would not even bother to negotiate with these EU executives.
Just deal a direct physical destructive blow and that's it.
Just as the company's senior executives were arguing, Nicolo, the director of the biotechnology company, and Natia La, the executive of the trauma team company, raised their hands again to express their opinions.
They are willing to give Li Ang 60% of the company's shares as the threshold fee for joining the LA Alliance.
[Mr. Leon, on behalf of the Trauma Team, I accept all the conditions proposed by LA Company and voluntarily join the LA Alliance.] Nadia said.
Nadiya La still had the same idea as before. Since she couldn't beat LA company, she would just join them calmly.
Anyway, LA company has the absolute power to dominate this meeting. What's the point of discussing more? It's better to show your loyalty and take the initiative to become a part of LA company as soon as possible.
Following a giant corporate boss like Li Ang, Nadiya La believes that the rewards she and the company will get in the future will definitely not be less than the price they pay now.
At least two years ago, Leon did increase the trauma team's profits tenfold!
[Mr. Li Ang, I also voluntarily join the LA Alliance on behalf of Biotechnology and am willing to pay 60% of the company's shares. ]
Nicolo followed Nadia and expressed his loyalty to Leon in time. After all, half of the shares of Biotechnology were originally in the hands of LA.
Even if Li Ang is given 10% more shares now, what difference would that make?
What's more, LA has not even disclosed the cold fusion technology yet. Once this technology is disclosed, these short-sighted European executives will definitely regret it!
When Nicolo and Nadia La both raised their hands to express their willingness to join the LA Alliance, the remaining company representatives began to waver.
Especially Knap, the representative of the financial groups of various countries, thought that since it was no big deal for his father to sell his land to his son, he might as well obey Leon.
Immediately, Knapp sought the opinions of the bosses behind the scenes. Seeing that Leon seemed to be serious about it, they all became a little scared.
The bosses behind these companies are all smart people. Those who dared to risk the destruction of their companies and confront Li Ang head-on would have been kicked into the grave long ago.
The players who are able to stay at this card table now are all experienced and cunning old foxes. Each of them cherishes his life like gold, and they just want to wait for the other party to be the first to take action.
But unfortunately, no one was fooled and took the initiative to step forward to be the first to speak out.
After learning the opinions of the consortium bosses, Knapp finally felt relieved.
Soon, under his leadership and a show of hands, the remaining company executives also expressed their willingness to join the LA alliance camp.
However, before agreeing to Leon's conditions for joining the alliance, Knapp, on behalf of the consortium bosses behind him, made a small request to Leon.
This request is very easy for Leon to do, but it is also likely to make Leon feel disgusted, even if it is just a small revenge on him.
[Mr. Li Ang, we do not object to your LA Alliance replacing the European Community, but please promise us that the New America will never destroy the Pacifica Regional Alliance.]
[The states in North America should continue to maintain the status quo, because we do not accept Miles, an arrogant and ambitious man, to rule this continent! ]
Knapp spoke to Leon.
Obviously, the bosses of the consortium behind Knap still believe that Leon intends to use Miles' troops to build a huge empire belonging to LA Company in North America.
That's why they planned to disgust Le Ang at this critical juncture, forcing Le Ang to take the initiative to sanction Miles and stop this metal war.
However, what they never expected was that Leon and Miles had never been allies with common interests, and their relationship was limited to arms trade.
Li Ang has even been infiltrating the insiders of military technology companies, bribing military technology executives and controlling them for his own use.
The next president of the New America had already been secretly chosen by Li Ang.
As long as Li Ang is willing, he can support a puppet president who is loyal to LA Company to take office at any time!
(End of this chapter)