Chapter 776: 776 Another telegram from Chang'an

Chapter 776: 776 Another telegram from Chang'an

 Chapter 776 776Another telegram from Chang’an

 In this world, there is a castle with a flaming red exterior wall, which is very famous. The person who lives in the castle is 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 inside.

 The enlarged windows lost their former defensive role as bunkers, in exchange for better lighting and a more gorgeous appearance.

The rooms have all 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 artworks, there are actually several telephones placed on the coffee table. A lamp engraved with an eagle 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, and her beautiful face became even more charming: "As soon as I saw that the limelight was not right, I planned to run away."

 Lately, as the war situation continues to worsen, various countries on the Eastern Continent have actually begun to think about withdrawing from the war.

 Originally, what everyone thought was 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 sea transportation lines. In the end, the Tang State was forced to sign a city-wide alliance and honestly donate its advanced technology.

 What depressed them 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 **** sea, the Tang Army's new weapons submarine 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 Lynes 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 carving 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 Cyric's consortium's repeated mistakes in decision-making. You see, people are like this sometimes. It is obviously their own decision. It is theirs. There are many people who think that the lobbying of the Cyric 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 the obstruction, and it is indeed them who brokered this alliance for the Lord.

Sofia 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 no-win war.

 Half a month ago, there were some voices in the Susus 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 unilateral peace. This kind of thing has begun to make Cyric feel uneasy, and it also makes Sophia feel dangerous.

Hyric has never been a place where people can do whatever they want. There are many shareholder directors here, and these directors all represent more complex and large interest groups.

At this point, Cyric is completely different from Datang Group. Datang Group has always been a company that only belongs to Tang Mo, so those forces that have invested in Cyric regard Datang Group as a thorn in their side.

This is the same reason why so many empires are unwilling to let the Tang Kingdom develop and grow: the Tang Kingdom is an anomaly at the national level. Its system, its soul, its mode of operation, and its speed of progress all make it incompatible with other countries. .

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 about him are changing the rules of this world and re-formulating a new system. If we fail to keep up with this step, those old empires, kingdoms, and old corporate conglomerates will be swept into the garbage dump of history and turned into decaying dust.

 Before this change came, some people chose to use their arms as a chariot and chose to destroy the Tang Dynasty 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 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 think so, and naturally some people continue to think so.

You must know that Sofia was the first to make changes back then, sending her maid Jenny to contact Tang Mo, and secretly tricked several major competitors into taking the position.

Since she is secretly cooperating with the Datang Group, she will naturally prevent anyone from 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 kind of cigarette is very thin. It was 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 this kind of thing as an important symbol that their status was equal to that of men.

Therefore, the more successful, wealthy, and widowed female aristocrats, the more they like to light such a cigarette at parties to show their status and taste.

Of course, there is another important reason, which is to reflect their wealth: such a cigarette is enough for an ordinary family to buy food for a month.

Sofia 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 blurred. Because just yesterday, many of Cyric's shareholders, that is, directors, formally expressed their dissatisfaction with her.

Everyone uses their personal connections and relationships to spend real money and silver. What is the purpose of it? Not just to make money?

 When there is a lot of money to be made, 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 about it. If it doesn't work, try someone else. There's no need to hang yourself from a crooked tree.

The purpose of these directors is that if Cyric loses this war again, then Sophia must at least hand over the position of director and Cyric's authority.

Even though Sophia still holds one-third of the entire consortium's shares in terms of shares, the combined shares held by other shareholders are enough to remove her and launch various challenges against her.

Sometimes things are 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 the development direction of the company.

But if your company's stock continues to lose money, then many people will sell your stock and cash out, and they will not pay attention to your pleading. No matter how you present your company's future prospects, they will not stay and watch. You glance.

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".

Even this company 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, a certain price had to be paid and some benefits exchanged.

 Everything needs to be compensated with the benefits obtained in subsequent actions. The important reason why these countries are willing to give Cyric face is to have soup and benefits to follow Cyric.

 But in the past ten years, the countries that followed Cyric were either 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.

Everyone's attitude now is: We can consider whatever you want us to do. It's not impossible to kill any 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 varied 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.

 So 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, hired a large number of young people, and injected 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 is also part of cooperation and reflects the selfish motives of all countries.

It’s hard to say whether this is good news or not. Under 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 Frost Empire’s Frost Tanks, and the Mirage’s secretly built battleships are all the result of the proliferation of these technologies.

 Because of the industrial base of Northridge and Bunas, the Susas Empire and the Lines Empire were at the forefront of industrialization. The industrial zones in these two empires were built by the Datang Group, and were naturally much better than those knock-offs.

 These two 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 needle had detached from the outermost ring, and no one was dialing it back onto the record.

 Looking 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 produced in the Tang Dynasty! Everything she likes and 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 these are 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 is simply a great irony.

 “Asshole!” She yelled and wanted to kick over the coffee table in front of her with her foot, but because the coffee table was made of real materials, it did not move at all.

There are guards and servants on standby outside the door, but they will only come in when they hear Sophia press the bell on the coffee table - the door of this room is really thick, and the sound insulation effect is really good. This was also Sophia'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. Chu and Qin were also waste, as were the Mirage, the Ice Empire, and Susas. The Empire, the Lions Empire, are all trash!

Those Cyric directors are all short-sighted trash! These people are all incompetent people who drove her to a dead end!

Unconsciously, she remembered the telegram Tang Mo sent her on the day the war started. I remembered the sentence on the telegram: This time, it won’t work to just introduce a scapegoat!

　　When I read this sentence before, it sounded like a curse of Tang Mo's incompetence.

  But now, these words. It was floating in front of her eyes, like a ghost, lingering.

 Is it really like what that **** 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.

Her finger was wearing a bright gemstone ring, each nail was carefully trimmed, and all the curvatures were perfect.

As a woman, she has almost everything that is enviable: her hair is thick and naturally fiery red, like a bursting flame, hot 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 it 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 wiser than her peers and 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 outstanding, die so willingly? He could bear to let himself die?

 Smelly men, don’t they just want themselves? Sophia narrowed her eyes. At this moment, she felt that she had guessed Tang Mo's intention.

 That's right, she felt that the telegram sent by Tang Mo was prepared 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 get her full support as 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 again: she wanted to succeed, she wanted to be beautiful! There is no way she can get together with her enemies, never!

Just as 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, Tang Dynasty."

"I know...get off!" Sophia felt her cheeks were a little hot, and she even wanted to throw the telegram into the trash can.

 Perhaps the most difficult decisions for her to make are those involving personal relationships. In business, she would 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. That makes sense, doesn'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, get more Tang technology, and revive Cyric. , gain the initiative.

 She is very confident in her body. She has an alluring face. No man is not interested in her face.

 At this time, she didn't think much about her liking for women. For someone like her, doing some disgusting things was nothing more than a trade-off between interests. Just treat it like a dog bite! Subconsciously, Sophia convinced herself this way.

After thinking about it 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, 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.

　　Telegram sent to me... Sent to me... After spending the night with Tang Mo, Sophia, who had already begun to plan how to request related technologies for weapons such as Butcher fighter jets and Flying Fortress bombers, finally lowered her head and looked at the telegram 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 Huaqianyuexia.

There is no ambiguity or **** in this telegram. Every corner is full of coldness and ruthlessness.

"Have you decided whether to use poison or a pistol?" Sophia read this passage again. She seemed to see a young man standing in front of her decently, and placing an emerald green vial on the table in a very gentlemanly manner. next to the pistol.

 All the resistance to welcome before, all the self-confidence born of women, were all in vain at this moment. She even began to wonder if she liked women and 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 fanciful to want to let the other party just let it go in an understatement.

So, Sofia, who looked ugly, pressed the bell on the coffee table. The door was immediately pushed open, and the servant guarding outside walked into the house, lowered his head and asked, "What are your orders? Sir."

 “Prepare the car! I want to go out!”

 (End of this chapter)