In this world, there is a castle with a flaming red exterior wall, which is very famous. The people who live in the castle are also so valuable that people dare not mention her name easily.
Yes, this castle is the Flame Castle. The woman who lives in this castle, named Sophia, is the actual controller of the Cyric Consortium.
The luxurious decoration makes this historic castle look full of modern charm on the inside.
The enlarged window lost its former defensive role as a bunker, in exchange for better lighting and a more gorgeous appearance.
The rooms have been replaced with expensive electric lights, and some rooms even use expensive fluorescent lamps, which are expensive.
In a room filled with priceless sofas and works of art, there are actually several telephones placed on the coffee table. A lamp with an eagle carved on it is placed next to these telephones, and two pens can be inserted into the base.
Sophia sat on the sofa and threw aside the telegram about the Ice Kingdom. She sneered, her beautiful face even more charming: "As soon as I saw that the limelight was not right, I was ready to run away."
Recently, as the war situation continues to worsen, various countries on the Eastern Continent have actually begun to think about withdrawing from the war.
Originally, everyone wanted to defeat the Tang State and divide the Tang State's heritage, but the direction of the war seemed to be significantly different from what they expected.
At the beginning, all countries felt that a huge combined fleet could easily gain control of the sea and cut off the Tang State's maritime transportation lines. In the end, they forced the Tang State to sign a city-wide alliance and honestly donate their advanced technology.
What made them depressed was that the fact was that the Tang army was invincible on the battlefield, easily defeated the Dahua Empire, and gained the advantage in land warfare.
And on the damn sea, the Tang Army's new weapon submarines sank millions of tons of Alliance transport ships, forcing the Alliance fleet, which should have been at an advantage, to hide in the northern part of the Endless Sea and not dare to show up.
The Leans Empire's naval fleet suffered heavy losses, and ships from many countries were afraid to return home. The entire naval battle was completely different from what was expected before the war.
When everyone thinks they can win, it is one thing to invest something to participate in the carve-up feast after future victory. It is another thing to suffer failure and involve yourself in the possibility of losing.
Now, seeing that the sea battle cannot be won and the land war is about to be lost, many countries that want to take advantage of the situation have begun to study the matter of withdrawing from the alliance.
Even many countries did not deliberately avoid Cyric's side. They used this to express their dissatisfaction with the Cyric Consortium's repeated mistakes in decision-making - you see, people are like this sometimes. It is obviously their own decision.
They have many ideas, and the lobbying of Cyric's consortium is only a secondary reason, but when the matter comes, they will still put all the blame on Cyric.
Of course, Cyric is not unjust. After all, it is indeed them who are causing trouble, and this alliance is indeed forged by them.
Sophia knew a month ago that the ministers of the Ice Empire began to advise their Emperor to send envoys as soon as possible to shake hands with the Tang State and break away from the alliance to withdraw from this protracted but hopeless war.
Half a month ago, there were some voices from the Susas Empire and the Dorne Empire that opposed the continuation of the war.
More and more countries are considering the feasibility of withdrawing from this so-called alliance and approaching Tang State to negotiate a unilateral peace. This kind of thing has begun to make Cyric feel uneasy, and it also makes Sophia feel dangerous.
Cyric has never been a place where people can do whatever they want. There are many shareholders and directors here, and these directors all represent more complex and large interest groups.
In this regard, Cyric is completely different from Datang Group. Datang Group has always been a company that only belongs to Tang Mo, so those who have invested in Cyric will regard Datang Group as a thorn in their side.
This is the same reason why so many empires are unwilling to let the Tang State develop and grow: the Tang State is an alien at the national level. Its system, its soul, its mode of operation and the speed of its progress make it incompatible with other countries.
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Similarly, Datang Group is completely different from other corporate consortiums. Its expansion and development methods cannot be copied by other companies. The rise of Tang Mo has directly made traditional businessmen and wealthy people extremely nervous.
Tang Mo and everything he has are changing the rules of this world and re-formulating a new system. If they cannot keep up with this step, the old empires, kingdoms, and companies and consortiums will all be swept into history.
The garbage heap turned into decaying dust.
Before this change came, some people chose to use the mantis as a chariot and chose to destroy the Tang Kingdom and the Datang Group. For example, Sophia.
Some people are willing to learn and make some compromises in exchange for more benefits so that they can continue to develop along with the historical trend. For example, Marquis Egret.
After the Cyric Consortium experienced its last failure, the internal voices have actually begun to split. Some people believe that everyone is in business and does whatever business they want, as long as Datang Group can give them some ways to make money.
, there is no need for Cyric to pursue the Datang Group to death.
Although these voices were not mainstream, Sophia, who controlled more than one-third of Cyric's power, easily suppressed these discordant proposals. But after all, some people thought so, and naturally some people continued to think so.
You know, Sofia was the first to make changes back then, sending her maid Jenny to contact Tang Mo, and secretly deceived several major competitors before taking the position.
Since she was secretly cooperating with the Datang Group, she would naturally guard against anyone imitating her, secretly colluding with the Datang Group, and finally getting rid of her.
Looking at the telegram in front of her, Sophia angrily pulled out a snow-white cigarette from the shiny iron clip box with her delicate hands.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! This kind of cigarette is very thin. It is launched by Datang Group. It is a brand name cigarette specially for female aristocrats. The brand is called Rose.
Rose cigarettes were very popular among female aristocrats as soon as they were launched. They regarded them as an important symbol that their status was equal to that of men.
Therefore, the more successful, wealthy and widowed female aristocrats are, the more they like to light such a cigarette at parties to show off their status and taste.
Of course, there is another important reason, which is to reflect their wealth: one cigarette like this is enough for an ordinary family to buy food for a month.
Sophia held the cigarette in her hand, lit it with the beautiful and equally valuable lighter, and blew out a mouthful of white mist.
In the billowing white smoke, her eyes were a little blurry. Because just yesterday, many Cyric's shareholders, that is, the directors, formally expressed their dissatisfaction with her.
Everyone uses their personal connections and relationships to spend real money and silver, but for what purpose? Is it just to make money?
If there is a lot of money to be made, then the leader is a good person, a guiding light for everyone, and a good captain of this giant commercial ship sailing to the sea.
But if you can't make money, then everyone has to talk to each other. If it doesn't work, try another person. There is no need to hang yourself from a crooked tree.
What these directors mean is that if Cyric loses this war again, then Sophia must at least hand over the position of chairman and Cyric's authority.
Although in terms of shares, Sophia still holds one-third of the entire consortium's shares, the combined shares held by other shareholders are enough to remove her and launch various challenges against her.
Sometimes things are just like this. When you ring the bell to go public, there are countless investment companies willing to pay you, euphemistically calling it financing, or, to put it nicely, they are optimistic about your development direction.
But if your company's stock continues to lose money, then many people will sell your stock to cash out and run away. They are not willing to pay attention to your pleading. No matter how you present your company's future prospects, they will not stay and watch.
Take a look at you.
Cyric was an arms company that influenced the world at that time. It provided artillery, battleships, muskets and bayonets to almost all countries in the world. It can be said to be the most influential "private enterprise".
This company even has its own private armed forces in many countries, and has greater power than the king in many countries.
But that's all in the past tense.
Nowadays, the situation of the Cyric Consortium is actually very bad: in the process of negotiations with various countries, too many officials of the Cyric faction have been exposed, and all the remaining prestige and popularity that Cyric has accumulated have been wiped out.
Squander it all.
You must know that lobbying many countries to make similar decisions at the same time is not an easy task. Even in Cyric's heyday, it required paying a certain price and making some exchanges of benefits.
Everything needs to be compensated with the benefits obtained in subsequent actions. Following Cyric, there is soup to drink and benefits to be obtained, which is the important reason why these countries are willing to give Cyric face.
But in the past ten years, the countries that followed Cyric have either been destroyed, or suffered continuous defeats and suffered heavy losses. Under such a situation, there are very few countries that are willing to follow Cyric for nothing.
Now everyone's attitude is: whatever you want us to do, we can consider it. It's not impossible to kill loved ones, relatives and friends, but... we have to pay more.
There are various exchanges of interests. In order to persuade so many countries to follow him and fight against the Tang Group and the Tang State, the price Cyric has to pay is also various and strange.
Sometimes, Cyric would take the initiative to hand over some officials from various countries who had been bribed by him and whose loyalty was somewhat questionable.
Therefore, in recent years, officials bribed by the Cyric Consortium and officials related to the Cyric Consortium have been dismissed one after another. They either went home to raise their children, or were imprisoned without success.
Emperors of various countries have consolidated their imperial power and hired a large number of young people, injecting fresh blood into the courts of their respective countries.
At the same time, Cyric had to spend his savings to provide military assistance to so many countries. This was also a part of cooperation and the selfishness of each country.
It's hard to say whether this is good news. With Cyric's helpless compromise, technology began to spread crazily, and the industrial strength and technology accumulation of various countries have made great progress.
To put it bluntly, technology has spread, everyone has some capital, and they can develop some weapons and equipment on their own without relying on Cyric.
Dahua's Type 1 fighter jets and Type 2 tanks, the Ice Empire's Ice Tanks, and the battleships secretly built by Mirage are all the result of the proliferation of these technologies.
Because of the industrial foundation of Beiling and Bunas, Susas Empire and Lains Empire are at the forefront of industrialization. The industrial zones of these two empires were built by the Datang Group, and they are naturally better than those knock-off products.
Much stronger.
Both countries have now developed their own tanks and aircraft, and their performance is surprisingly good.
The record player didn't know when it stopped. The record that had just been played kept spinning. The stylus had detached from the outermost ring, and no one was dialing it back onto the record.
Glancing through the smoke at the huge lily-like speaker of the record player imported from the Tang Dynasty, Sophia took a deep, bitter drag on the cigarette.
This thing was also made in Tang Dynasty! Everything she likes, everything she spends money to pursue: those beautiful shoes, those luxurious cars, those bright light bulbs, the cigarette in her hand, the record player on the wall... all of this
Everything is imported from the Tang Dynasty.
She hated Tang Mo so much, hated the business empire that Tang Mo had built by himself, but almost filled her conference room and bedroom with products produced in Tang.
For Sophia, this was a great irony.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Asshole!" She yelled and wanted to kick the coffee table in front of her with her feet, but she did not kick it because the coffee table was made of real materials.
Every cent.
There are guards and servants on standby outside the door, but they will only come in when they hear Sofia press the bell on the coffee table - the door of this room is really thick, and the sound insulation effect is really good. This is also Sofia's
Need, she didn't want the sounds she made in the room to be heard by people outside the door.
The recent troubles made her not even see her female companions for a long time. Whenever she thought of these, she would become even more irritable.
When she thought that she was likely to be liquidated after the war, she felt that the Emperor of the Great China Empire, Zhao Kai, was a waste, as were Chu and Qin, Mirage, the Ice Empire, and Susas.
The Empire of Laens is also a waste!
Those Cyric directors are short-sighted losers! These people are all incompetent people who drove her to a dead end!
Unknowingly, she remembered the telegram Tang Mo sent her on the day the war started. She remembered the sentence on the telegram: This time, it won't work to just push a scapegoat out!
When I read this sentence before, it seemed like a curse of Tang Mo's incompetence.
But now, these words were floating in front of her eyes, like ghosts, lingering.
Is it really like what that damn guy said, that this time she has to pay the price for what she did?
Damn it! Does he still want to kill me? Sophia thought viciously in her head. She looked at her warm, white and flawless hands holding the cigarette.
She wears a bright gemstone ring on her finger, every nail is carefully trimmed, and all the curvatures are perfect.
As a woman, she has almost everything that is enviable: her hair is thick and naturally fiery red, like a bursting flame, fiery and full of vitality.
Her neck is slender, and it is a natural necklace-wearing neck. Every time she lifts her hair to reveal this coveted neck, the men, without exception, can't help but swallow their saliva.
Wherever you look, you can see her towering breasts. She has received aristocratic education since she was a child and has developed a good figure. She is proficient in dancing and has a graceful body. She is a being that even women will be moved by when they see her.
Those slender legs that drive countless men crazy and make countless women envious, even Sophia herself will be fascinated by them if she touches them.
What makes people feel even more unfair is that she is smarter than many people. She has been running a huge business empire since she was a child. She is more sensible than her peers and is better than many business wizards.
In addition to her own excellence, she also has money... in the true sense of the word. If there wasn't a rising star named Tang Mo in this world, her wealth could definitely make her the richest man in the world.
How could she, who was so excellent, die so willingly? He couldn't bear to let himself die?
Doesn't the stinky man just want himself? Sophia narrowed her eyes. At this moment, she felt that she had guessed Tang Mo's intention.
Yes, she felt that the telegram sent by Tang Mo was to use the safest and simplest way to end the competition between the Tang Kingdom and Cyric.
Obviously, if Tang Mo marries her, Sophia, he can take one-third of Cyric's shares in one fell swoop and gain the full support of her, Sophia's director.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had guessed the truth. Sophia's face blushed slightly, and then she quickly suppressed it again.
She repeatedly warned herself that she, Sophia, did not like men. Even if he was the strongest man in the world, she would not... at least not surrender easily.
For a moment, she seemed to understand why the maid Jenny stayed in the Tang Kingdom and why she married a man named Harry.
But in an instant, she became rebellious and furious: she wanted to succeed, she wanted to be beautiful! She could never get together with her enemy, never!
Just when she was sitting on the sofa and thinking wildly, the door was knocked by someone outside. Sofia ordered the people outside to come in. She knew that if anyone disturbed her at this time, it must be something very important.
A maid came in, presented a telegram with both hands, and handed it to Sophia respectfully: "Sir, this is a telegram from Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty."
"I know...get down here!" Sophia felt her cheeks were a little hot, and she even wanted to throw the telegram into the trash can.
For her, the most difficult decisions may be those related to personal relationships. In business, she will not be so nervous and flustered at all.
What to do? At this moment, Sophia was really afraid of the message in her hand, which was a love letter sent to her by Tang Mo.
If it was really this kind of content, Sophia didn't know whether she should refuse or agree.
For a competitive businesswoman, she felt that she should admit defeat. Since she lost the war, she should pay the due price. This is reasonable, isn't it?
If Tang Mo really made this request, she would most likely be able to satisfy Tang Mo's bad intentions: she could also use this relationship to in turn threaten Cyric's competitors, obtain more Tang technology, and revive Cyric.
, gain the initiative.
She is very confident in her body, and her face is stunning. No man is not interested in her face.
At this time, she didn't think much about her liking for women. For people like her, doing some disgusting things was nothing more than a trade-off of interests. It was like being bitten by a dog! Subconsciously, Sophia was like this
Convince herself.
After thinking for so long, the maids who were waiting to deliver the telegram went out and closed the door. Sophia did not even open the telegram from Chang'an of Tang Dynasty.
She held the folded paper in her hand, as if she had grasped the future, as if she had regained Cyric's authority.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The telegram sent to me...sent to me...has already begun to plan how to ask for the relevant technology of weapons such as Butcher fighter jets and Flying Fortress bombers after spending the night with Tang Mo.
Sophia finally lowered her head and looked at the message in her hand.
Uneasily, she pressed the half cigarette in her other hand into the ashtray on the coffee table, and nervously opened the folded letter.
There is still a short sentence in it, but it is not what Sophia is thinking about: "Have you decided whether to use poison or a pistol?"
Sophia closed the message and opened it again... She didn't believe what her eyes saw.
Finally, she confirmed that the contents of the telegram had nothing to do with Hua Qian Yue Xia.
There is no ambiguity or pornography in this telegram. Every corner is full of coldness and ruthlessness.
"Have you decided whether to use poison or a pistol?" Sofia read this passage again, and she seemed to see a young man standing in front of her decently, placing an emerald green vial on the table in a very gentlemanly manner.
next to the pistol.
All the attempts to resist and welcome before, all the self-confidence based on women, were in vain at this moment. She even began to doubt whether she liked women and whether Tang Mo liked men...
After staring at the telegram in her hand for a long time, Sophia finally came to her senses: The man far away in Chang'an was not one of those vulgar trash men. It seemed a bit too much to want to write lightly and let the other party forget it.
It's so whimsical.
So, Sofia, who looked ugly, pressed the bell on the coffee table, and the door was immediately pushed open. The servant guarding outside walked into the room, lowered her head and asked, "What are your orders? Sir."