In Ark Simulator, why do I always start out as a ruthless person?.

"By the way, I might be able to help you solve the problem of strike demonstrations."

"B-Is what the Earl said true?!"

As soon as Chen Qi said this, Yusuf's attention was immediately attracted. His fat body trembled noticeably, and there was even a hint of crying in his voice.

It is conceivable that he was exhausted both physically and mentally by the continuous strikes and marches.

Now, the biggest leader supporting the strike march is right in front of him, how could he not be tempted?

"Your company is the largest steel company in the recent Mobile cities. However, the recent series of strikes have indeed had a significant impact on your company's operations."

Chen Qi said to Yusuf in an orderly manner:

"I wonder if you are interested in opening your factory within my territory?"

"You, you mean... the slums?"

Yusuf uttered the word almost subconsciously, but soon, realizing that he had said the wrong thing, Yusuf slapped himself.

Calling the Count's territory a slum is not right, even if it is true!

It’s bad. I’m afraid I’m going to die here.

"You're right, it's in the slums."

However, just when Yusuf had a sad face, as if he would hear the announcement of his death in the next second, Chen Qi answered his question without being affected at all.

"However, I don't want my territory to remain a slum forever. Therefore, I need merchants like you to help me build my territory."

"In my territory, you don't have to worry about strikes, demonstrations, and other issues. My organization is in charge. I believe that the civilians under my protection will never cause trouble for no reason again."

"What you need to do is to move your factory and production center to my territory. I will not distinguish between civilians and infected people, but only between those with skills. I will provide them with corresponding jobs and wages worthy of their work."

"This……"

However, as soon as Chen Qi finished speaking, Yusuf's expression suddenly became somewhat awkward. He could only speak to Chen Qi cautiously with a little embarrassment:

"Well, Lord Earl, you may not know much about Leitania's business..."

"Relocating the factory is a huge project. Even if it is considered as an expansion of the company, it still requires starting from scratch."

"This... is a very time-consuming and financially intensive project. Could you please tell me..."

"——This is very simple, Mr. Yusuf." Chen Qi answered first.

"In my territory, a large number of families have migrated here. There are civilians without jobs, and the number of unemployed and infected people is even greater."

"As long as you are willing to hire them at a normal worker's salary, I believe they will be very happy to help you relocate your factory. Moreover, they will be more hardworking and less likely to cause trouble than ordinary workers."

"As long as you bring professional architects and a few foremen to help them familiarize themselves with the work, I believe that your factory relocation work will be completed earlier and faster than expected."

"After that, you can continue to hire them. As long as they are familiar with your factory operations and work content, they will bring you very stable profits."

"Isn't this all what you wanted?"

Chen Qi's proposal was so perfect that Yusuf felt for a moment that he was right.

But Yusuf's businessman's shrewdness allowed him to quickly grasp the essence of the problem - Earl Qi had no intention of funding him for all this, and he would need to spend his own money to accomplish it.

Although these non-troublesome infected people and workers will create wealth for him in the future, the life and death of his own enterprise will be entirely up to Qi alone - after all, his factory is located on his territory.

Yusuf knew very well how powerful Qi's forces were. Those workers who originally worked honestly under him could instantly turn into sharp blades that stab him at any time if Qi just thought of it!

After weighing the pros and cons, Yusuf finally swallowed his saliva and said to Chen Qi carefully:

"Well, if I don't want to accept this deal..."

"Mr. Earl, how will you...deal with me?"

"..."X2

However, Yusuf's words made Chen Qi and Gertrude look at each other in surprise, and they couldn't help but smile at each other.

They didn't know that in Yusuf's eyes, their smiling faces were ten thousand times more terrifying than the Sarkaz mercenaries who killed people without blinking an eye...

"Then, Mr. Yusuf, you can just refuse. We have no position or ability to force you to make this deal."

"only……"

As he spoke, Chen Qi's tone deliberately lengthened a bit, and a murderous ruthlessness flashed across his calm eyes, and he smiled and said:

"I'm afraid we won't be able to help Mr. Youssef's company with strikes and demonstrations in the next few months."

"Tsk tsk, I hope Mr. Yusuf is wealthy and can withstand a few months of strikes. There are already enough unemployed people in my territory, and I don't want one more..."

"Wait, wait! Lord Earl!"

Finally, under Chen Qi's threats and intimidation, Yusuf realized how serious the situation would become and his psychological defenses finally collapsed completely.

The fat man sat down on the ground with his buttocks. His fat cheeks turned pale and sweat broke out all over his body. He looked like he was about to go into shock.

But in the end, he still suppressed the crazy beating of his heart and uttered a voice from his throat with difficulty:

"I, I am willing to move my business and factory to the Earl's territory..."

"Then, please put your fingerprint on this contract, Mr. Yousef."

Seeing that Yusuf agreed, Chen Qi asked Gertrude to put a contract that had been prepared in front of Yusuf without saying a word. Although there was only Chen Qi's signature on it, the official seal had already been printed on it.

Finally, after Yusuf tremblingly stretched out his hand and pressed the handprint, Chen Qi smiled and pulled up Yusuf's weak hand.

"Don't worry, Mr. Yusuf, you won't lose anything if you cooperate with me."

"Although I absolutely support the nationalization of enterprises, I also support enterprises owned by Leitanian citizens. In the future, I may be able to bring your enterprises profits that you can hardly imagine in your lifetime."

"You can discuss the details of the cooperation with Lady Gertrude later."

"Well, happy cooperation, Mr. Yusuf."

The agreement was reached, and Chen Qi and Gertrude left behind Yusuf, who seemed to have lost all his strength, and walked non-stop towards the next company they had identified...

Ahhh, please readers, please collect this (I am rolling on the ground kicking the quilt and begging you)

Chapter 19: My Struggle: Winning Over the Army

[Just as the entire Leitania was experiencing a surge in conflicts due to this unprecedented wave of strikes and demonstrations, a piece of news about you once again reached the ears of the noble circle.]

[Several well-known Leitanian companies in the fields of steel, source stone processing, logistics, construction, textiles, etc., have successively moved their head offices or main factories to the territory of the "Slum Count" for various reasons.]

[This matter did attract the attention of some nobles, but it was not the kind of attention that made the nobles nervous.]

[On the contrary, the vast majority of nobles hold a sarcastic and mocking attitude towards your behavior. ]

[This is not a strange thing. After all, Leitania is a country made up of Originium skills, music, and art. In this country, only these are the most concerned and sought after by the nobles. ]

[Of course, this is not because the Leitanian nobles are a group that only pursues elegance. The reason is that, in Leitania, music represents power. ]

[In Leitania, generations of nobles have led the development of Originium skills to the pinnacle of this land. Leitania's warlocks have integrated Originium skills with music and art, creating agile, diverse and powerful Originium skills. ]

[A powerful Leitanian warlock is definitely also an excellent musician. Music has become the biggest reason for the huge gap between noble warlocks and civilian warlocks.]

[Therefore, in Leitania, a country of art, although everyone loves music and art, the gap between the nobles and the common people in art education is huge. ]

[This also led to the fact that in Leitania, the high-end combat power that could truly defeat a hundred enemies alone was often found among the noble class.]

[This is the main reason why the nobles can take root in Leithania, and even the Witch King can be overthrown as long as they unite. ]

[Therefore, the old nobles look down on you as a new noble whose territory is in a barren place like the slums. ]

[They focus on monopolizing art education, and they look down on your behavior of getting involved with businessmen, and they don't care about your opening a factory that has nothing to do with art in their territory.]

[For the old nobles, these businesses have nothing to do with them. They only need to manage their own small piece of land, monopolize the upward channels, and ensure their status. ]

[All they care about is art and Originium skills. ]

[But you know better than them that the true strength of a country has never come from a sorcerer who can defeat a hundred enemies alone, nor from a noble who is proficient in music and Originium.]

[Not everyone in this land is a wizard king. A wizard king who can tear apart a vanguard army with his own strength is destined to be a minority. ]

[In this land, no matter how powerful a person is, there is always a limit. ]

[In front of thousands of steel torrents, any spell will be eclipsed, and any Originium skills will seem ridiculous. ]

[Even the strongest warriors are destined to be torn to pieces in front of an army of tens of thousands, and fall in disgrace and unwillingness! ]

[Therefore, you must do everything you can to take possession of these companies that can produce steel, source stones, logistics, and everything else that controls the lifeline of a country.]

[As long as you can control these, you can actually control a mobile city. Once you control enough companies, you can actually control the entire Leitania! ]

[Of course, it’s still too early for you. ]

[But it is undeniable that your thinking is countless times more advanced than that of most nobles in Leitania.]

[And, you have taken the first step in reforming the Leitanian military, ahead of the nobles who live off their wealth and stick to the old ways.]

[In previous wars in Leitania, nobles always relied on their own private armed forces to go to the front line at the call of the emperor or the elector.]

[However, every noble did not want their private armed forces to be damaged in the war, which led to every noble being unwilling to try their best on the battlefield. ]

[This is also one of the reasons why, even though the Witch King had taken the initiative in the war with Gaul, the Leitanian army still had such a hard time facing the Gaul army on the battlefield.]

[Now you have to start from scratch and build an army that belongs to you. ]

[We only listen to you. As long as you give the order, we will charge for you. We are an iron army that is not afraid of death! 】

[After you and Gertrude persuaded those companies to officially start the project of relocating factories and head offices to the slums, you had the party members spread a bombshell message in your territory and throughout the mobile city.]

[Any member who is willing to join, or has already joined the party, regardless of whether they are infected or not, will be assigned a job by the party equally, and the salary and treatment will not be reduced at all compared to the reign of the Witch King.]

[As soon as the news came out, the civilians and infected people in the slums and even the entire mobile city were in an uproar. ]

【Now, strikes and demonstrations against the exploitation of merchants and nobles have become more and more intense. Every minute, people are bleeding, and every day, countless people are broken up and forced to leave their homes.】

[And now, your news seems to have given these people hope for life. When people learned that they could get a job like before, the whole slum was boiling.]

[On the first day the news was released, thousands of people lined up in your beer hall to sign up, just to become a member of your party and then get a job in the advertisement.]

[In just one day, your party has gained thousands of new members. ]

[And you immediately fulfilled your promise and assigned them to the development sites selected by various companies in the slums, allowing them to participate in the construction work as "apprentices."]

[And the business owners you had already called, faced with hundreds of apprentices who would work hard without complaint as long as they were paid normally, also accepted all of them.]

[And under your special arrangement, the news that all members who joined the party on the first day were assigned to work as agreed spread throughout the mobile city again.]

[At this moment, those infected people who still had concerns in their hearts and thought it was a scam, or those civilians who were unwilling to go deep into the slums from the civilian areas to work, all went completely crazy.]

[The infected were surprised that they, who had long been accustomed to discrimination, could actually find a job with the same salary as ordinary people. This was like heaven for them, who used to only be willing to work in black factories with meager income.]

[Ordinary people were surprised that in this era when merchants and nobles exploited them inhumanely and protests were everywhere, there was such a pure land that was willing to provide them with stable, safe jobs with the same salary as in the past.]

[Although, you didn't make any special adjustments, you just copied the standards of the Age of the Witch King. ]

【But people are afraid of comparison. 】

[Compared to those inhuman nobles and merchants, you who copied the policies of the Witch King immediately became the only good person in the hearts of the infected and civilians. ]

[This also earned you a lot of popularity. ]

[Of course, you are also aware of the disorder in the slums. You have already begun to develop this place as your own territory, so you will naturally not allow this to happen. ]

[To this end, you begin to prepare to form your first "private army". ]

[You specifically issued a notice to invite people in the slums who are of appropriate age, strong, tall, healthy, and have a talent for Originium skills to come and test your "private army."]

[After seeing the very good salary, the citizens pushed forward their strongest and most talented children or pillars of the family. ]

[Even some people who used to be scavengers, bandits, or even thugs in violent organizations have been attracted by your publicity, hoping to be successfully selected.]

[And within this group, you personally selected 500 people and gave them a resounding title——]

【The vanguard.】

[Charge at the forefront and leave criminals nowhere to escape. You told every member who joined the vanguard team the original intention of establishing this team. ]

[You originally wanted to let Jian train this team, but now Jian has gone to Casimir, so you have no choice but to let Gertrude train it.]

[For this reason, you specifically instructed Gertrude on your training requirements for the 500 vanguard members.]

[Train them to be loyal warriors who obey orders, are ruthless to the enemy.]

[Gertrude accepted it without hesitation.]

[It should be said that Gertrude is worthy of her noble birth. Although Visheheim has been taken back by the Twin Queens, she still retains the abilities that an excellent noble should have. ]

【Gertrude handed you a perfect answer sheet.】