Siheyuan: Punch Shazhu at the beginning, intercept Yu Li

Inman himself is the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army. No one knows the level of combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army better than he does.

It was okay to bully the civilians of the empire, but Yingman felt uneasy about bullying a person like Zhang Weiguo.

Although Zhang Weiguo has not developed any overt armed forces so far.

However, even Zhang Weiguo's guard team has considerable combat effectiveness.

The last time a small group of soldiers from the Imperial Army came to provoke us, they were completely wiped out. This is the best example.

King Sasi has a total of eight princes, five of whom are adults.

Inman is now the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Army and the top candidate for the throne.

If he could command the imperial army to win a great victory, it would certainly bring a significant boost to his own reputation.

But if he were to lose the battle, he would no longer be able to serve as the commander-in-chief.

The benefits of winning are limited, and the costs of losing are too high, so even though the Imperial Army has an absolute advantage in the military, Prince Inman does not want to use force.

And Sasi's ultimate goals are only two:

First, the empire must reap more than half of the benefits from oil and gas resources.

Second, we must prevent Zhang Weiguo from becoming too powerful and affecting the rule of the empire.

It was only natural that Inman could obtain these two demands through peaceful means.

That afternoon, Count Mambo came to the Carlyle Islands to negotiate with Zhang Weiguo.

Count Mambo suggested that Zhang Weiguo pay resource tax to the royal family, and Zhang Weiguo readily agreed.

But since this tax is a resource tax, it will only be paid after the resources are mined.

The company is still in the investment stage and is really unable to pay this tax.

Count Mambo did not come here to cause trouble. Since Zhang Weiguo has agreed to pay taxes, his mission is basically completed.

Mambo asked the accompanying Imperial Tax Bureau staff to stay in the Carlyle Islands Industrial Park to supervise and guide production work.

He himself went back to report to the king.

Logically speaking, this matter should have ended at this point in time.

But what I think about every day is that just after Zhang Weiguo sent away Count Mambo, another big boss came: Count Qinglei.

Earl Qinglei came here on behalf of Prince Carlyle to collect taxes.

This wave of operations really confused Zhang Weiguo.

But after careful consideration, Zhang Weiguo nodded and agreed, and asked Earl Qing Lei to leave the accompanying tax collectors on the island.

After Qing Lei and his group left, You Fengxia became unhappy.

"Weiguo, why didn't you resist them just now?"

"It is barely reasonable for the Empire to collect resource taxes. What qualifications does Earl Qinglei have to collect taxes?"

Zhang Weiguo thought for a moment and replied, "It's not the time to show your hand yet."

"Since these people have already revealed their bandit faces, we should just break through the shackles and develop our armed forces!"

You Fengxia asked: "Weiguo, do you really want to fight with them?"

"nonsense!"

Zhang Weiguo said in a deep voice: "High-quality resources are basically obtained through bloodshed and sacrifice!"

"Do you expect others to put fat meat into our mouths?"

"But……"

"Nothing but!"

You Fengxia wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Zhang Weiguo: "Just take care of yourself and the child!"

"If the situation changes, you must immediately enter the air-raid shelter."

You Fengxia asked: "Weiguo, can I return to China with my child?"

"And Xiaodang, Xiaohuaihua and the others are also pregnant. It's not convenient for them to be here, right?"

"Okay, you decide!"

Zhang Weiguo said in a deep voice: "If you want to go back, just follow this batch of cargo ships back."

On this day, Zhang Weiguo agreed to the king and Prince Carlyle's tax demands without resistance. As a result, the situation in the Kingdom of Yingyun was detonated by Zhang Weiguo the next day.

The next morning, Prince Morpheus and Grand Duke Orlandoka came again. In the afternoon, Grand Duke Mothra, Grand Duke Dia, Duke Lianma... and so on, more than a dozen envoys from noble missions came to collect "taxes".

There are not only resource taxes, but also head taxes, pollution taxes, transportation taxes, charitable donations, and monopoly donations.

In short, these people created various pretexts and imposed heavy taxes and levies one after another.

It was only now that Zhang Weiguo finally understood.

Why is it that in this damn place, Yingyun Kingdom, the streets are full of poor people, but the castles of the nobles are built more magnificent than each other?

These noble bosses really know how to make money.

Regarding these people's blood drawing behavior, Zhang Weiguo had only one sentence: I will give you whatever you want, but you have to wait patiently.

You have to wait until I extract these oil resources from the seabed before you can talk about your interests.

The oil hasn't been discovered yet, why should I fight with you?

……

Time flies, and more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past month, Zhang Weiguo has recruited more than 20 security personnel from the country. All of them are veterans selected from the security team of Weiguo Group.

They came abroad to work as security guards, and their income increased five times compared to that in China. However, before coming here, Zhang Weiguo also clearly explained the situation abroad.

After you graduate and get a high salary and enjoy good benefits, you will need to bear the corresponding risks.

In addition to these more than 20 normal human security personnel, Zhang Weiguo also purchased dozens of intelligent security robots from the system mall.

Taken together, a security force of about a hundred people was organized.

In addition to a large number of personnel, Zhang Weiguo also purchased some heavy artillery through the system mall.

At the same time, solid permanent fortifications were built in some core areas of Carleigh Island.

The people of the Yingyun Kingdom are not fools.

Although Zhang Weiguo's tactic of pretending to build a plank road while secretly attacking Chencang could deceive some people, it could not deceive everyone.

Good guy.

What about paying taxes?

Up to now, we haven't seen a penny of tax revenue, but instead we have seen that the caliber of the artillery on your island is getting bigger and bigger.

It’s a classic caliber-equals-justice, range-equals-justification, right?

Now we are all within the range of your cannon, you are the truth, right?

Finally, on this day, King Sasi could no longer bear it.

Sasi sent Prince Wolin, with a team of imperial soldiers, to the island to negotiate with Zhang Weiguo, demanding that Zhang Weiguo immediately dismantle the permanent fortifications on the island.

From now on, all security work on Kailei Island will be directly handled by the Imperial Army.

His request was decisively rejected by Zhang Weiguo.

Prince Waring is not as "good-tempered" as Prince Inman.

He is a member of the royal family and has great influence throughout the empire.