Chapter 279 Bribery and Visits

Although the Demon Capital was riddled with holes due to being eaten away by a group of termites, it was still the most prosperous city in this land. The remaining assets alone were enough for Yan Xu to use in the early stages.

This money was crucial. Because of his relationship, the foreigners in the concession did not take advantage of the situation to profit from it, which made the foreigners at all levels very dissatisfied.

Although most of the dissatisfaction was blamed on the Japanese because of his amazing actions, many foreigners are now preparing to write letters back home, intending to teach the Japanese a good lesson.

It was Taijun who made the move, so if this account is not held accountable to the Japanese, who should it be held accountable to?

However, as the instigator and the ultimate beneficiary, Yan Xu would inevitably be implicated, which would bring him considerable trouble.

The Demon City was merely occupied, which did not mean that it was completely stabilized, not to mention that there was the Qing Dynasty, which was corrupt but unwilling to breathe its last.

Now is a critical period, and Yan Xu does not intend to distract his attention from this, not to mention that problems that can be solved with money are generally not problems.

He spent one thousand yuan to wholesale a bunch of things in the market of the modern world, and sold them for more than ten thousand taels of silver. What's more amazing is that he could exchange ten thousand taels of silver for goods from the late Qing Dynasty and bring them back, making at least ten times the profit.

So money is just a tool for Yan Xu, but there are skills in using the tool.

In order to appease these greedy bandits, Yan Xu wrote a thick stack of orders overnight, ranging from food, raw materials, guns to machinery, ranging from a few thousand taels to tens of thousands of taels, with a total value of up to hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, almost emptying the treasury of Mo Du.

The wealth of the Magic City is naturally far more than this, but for the sake of stability, Yan Xu did not plunder or confiscate property. The only things he could use were the silver vault and taxes, which were naturally limited.

But it was enough to temporarily satisfy the greedy appetites of the foreigners in the concession because he gave them kickbacks.

Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver certainly cannot satisfy the appetite of a country, especially when it is distributed among several countries.

But for an individual, even if it is only a part of the kickback, it is still a considerable fortune, not to mention that the export of exclusive products in cooperation with Yan Xu is still a long-term profit. It is naturally not difficult to make a choice.

Spending a large amount of money does not mean that Yan Xu is a sucker, because this money is not given for free.

As for taking money to do things, foreigners are pretty good at this.

With these people mediating, Western countries would not react too strongly to Yan Xu's occupation of the Magic City, such as sending soldiers from the concession to help the Qing Dynasty recapture the Magic City.

The Qing Dynasty was actually capable of such a thing as paying foreigners to send troops for help.

In order to avoid this situation, Yan Xu needs to use sufficient benefits to stabilize the foreigners.

In fact, as long as they can make money, foreigners don’t care who the ruler of Magic City is, not to mention that doing so can also weaken this ancient country, so why not do it?

As for the fact that the other party is suspected to have the support of the Japanese behind them, that is even less of a problem. If the Japanese can give, they can also give. It is impossible for a Central Plains person to be of the same mind as the Japanese.

This is exactly what Yan Xu hopes to see, but before that, he has to fool the Japanese first. After the Modu incident, the Japanese have been paying close attention to the mysterious army, but they have not obtained any useful information, so they turned their attention to Yan Xu.

Yan Xu had anticipated this and had made preparations, intending to give them a little shock from Japan.

Maori Jingyuan was born in the Maori family, yes, the one that Yan Xu bullied in Japan.

Although the Mori family is not as powerful as before, it is still one of the most prestigious and prominent families. After all, their ancestors were once wealthy, which means that the family fortune has not been squandered.

In order to revive his family, Mao Li Jingyuan spent a lot of time and energy to obtain the position of the person in charge of the Magic City. However, it was not until the Magic City changed that he discovered that there was a powerful imperial force here that he was completely unaware of.

At first, I was naturally angry and felt cheated.

It's almost like finding out that your girlfriend is a scumbag and there's a backup in your address book.

But as a mature Oriental, Mao Li Jingyuan quickly cleared away these useless emotions and immediately got into work mode.

After investigation, he discovered that this army had a ridiculous deep relationship with a Central Plains man.

He found it hard to believe just thinking about it, but because of this, he began to doubt whether the other party really had a deep connection with the empire.

Because even he didn't dare to believe it, let alone the Qing Dynasty and the foreigners, so he could somewhat understand the empire's choice.

"Major Ikeda, has Lord Mizutani Sawa arrived?" Maori Keigen was adjusting his bow tie and cuffs in front of the mirror. After hearing the familiar footsteps, he asked the major who almost died together with the other ladies that day.

"Hi! Lord Mori, Onmyoji Mizutani has just arrived and is waiting outside." Major Ikeda tapped his heels together, pressed his hands against the seams of his trousers, lowered his head, and answered quickly and forcefully.

"Don't be nervous. This is not a military operation. Our goal is to find out who this killer king of Demon City is and his background. So if you have any ideas, just tell us directly." Maori Jingyuan put down his hand, turned around and said to Major Ikeda with a smile.

As the main person in charge of the Empire in the Magic City, Maori Keigen is the immediate superior of Major Ikeda, but Major Ikeda controls the Empire's only regular military force in the Magic City, so he cannot be treated as an ordinary subordinate.

"Sir, is it possible that this Demon City Killer King is from the Empire?" This question had been in Major Ikeda's mind for a long time, so when Mori Keigen asked him to speak, he immediately raised this question.

"The possibility is very small. The Empire's intelligence personnel in the Magic City have been collecting intelligence on him since he emerged. After evaluation by professionals, he is not only a pure Han Chinese, but also very likely a nationalist, that is, the kind of person who will use cruel methods against other races." Maori Jingyuan said so, but he frowned again and continued.

"But what he did is really weird. His previous foolish behavior that seemed to waste money and resources turned out to be the key to his capture of the Magic City. Moreover, he should have a deep connection with the mysterious army of the empire, so we cannot completely rule out the speculation that he is the secret force of the empire." Although Mao Li Jingyuan is the main person in charge of the empire in the Magic City, he cannot be said to be powerful. At least he is certainly not qualified to know the core decisions and real secrets of the empire, so he is not 100% sure, and this is why he decided to visit the other party.

However, the opponent's reputation was really scary. Even if the opponent showed good credibility, Maori Jingyuan did not intend to take risks. Therefore, in addition to Major Ikeda, who was a kendo master, he also called on Onmyoji Mizutani Sawa, one of the hosts of the empire's mysterious side in the East, as insurance.

(End of this chapter)