Chapter 872
Chapter 872 - 858: Feedback
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Lu Ping’an received a call from a stranger, but as soon as the other party explained the matter, he ran faster than a reporter.
"...Thanks, I really didn’t expect the promised reward to come so quickly."
Facing the commissioner allegedly from the central government, Lu Ping’an happily accepted the check, ready to deposit it into the bank right away.
He was different from the other professionals; he had a team to support, comprising not only professional warriors but also logistics, R&D personnel, factories, Beast Tamers, and beasts... His daily expenditures were already considerable.
The main business of the team was Exotic Realm exploration, with smuggling and human trafficking... ahem, the trade in Otherworldly crafts, specialties, and the introduction of Exotic Realm labor for local employment, as side hustles.
The scale of his "Rebirth Commerce" was actually not small, and if you included those Otherworldly Knights still working in their hometowns and the local office workers toiling in the factories, there would be a total of two or three hundred people involved.
Even if you only counted the frontline personnel like warriors, experts, and logistics, there were nearly twenty of them.
On the flip side of his considerable strength and rapidly rising Life was naturally the enormous expenditure.
Which meant, if he couldn’t secure a steady income, every day spent on vacation back home would be a colossal loss...
"You deserve it, without your sacrifice and effort, we wouldn’t have been able to harvest that whole world."
"Heh, don’t mention it, given the situation then, it was fight or wait to die... "
Lu Ping’an glanced at the check’s amount again and, despite being "worldly-wise," he felt it was rather startling.
"... Six million seven hundred thousand union coins, really is exaggerated..."
In his mind, Lu Ping’an calculated how staggering his fortune would be if it were converted into Eastern Country’s coins (which were still non-exchangeable).
"Uh, over a billion? My God, that’s outrageous."
Of course, he knew that this money could not actually be exchanged for Eastern Country coins. Perhaps from the moment it was deposited, it was already under strict surveillance by the relevant departments.
He figured there wouldn’t be a problem if he exchanged a little through informal channels, but if he were to massively "launder money" using various schemes, the authorities would immediately come knocking to have a heart-to-heart talk with him.
"This is a one-time compensation for the Official acquisition of your team’s shares and doesn’t mean you are being kicked out. You and your team still hold 0.0003% of the shares in Green Star Company, eligible for regular Dividends. Also, you have the preferential rights to supply local specialties and military goods. This is a letter from Captain Qian and the share ownership certificate authenticated by the Official..."
Getting handed money directly from the Official, especially at this level, naturally had its reasons.
The battle for possession of Green Planet had become the property of the Eastern Country Official, but how to acquire it and develop it had to follow certain procedures.
It was brought down by Civilian forces.
While in reality, many professionals were indeed close to the Official personnel of Four City, the vast majority were still freelancers without Official status. They might go there for the development of Four City or Eastern Country, but even more so, it was for their own growth and wealth accumulation.
"Establishing a development corporation in the name of the Official, then taking on all the opening tasks..."
Although the Official procedures were convoluted and had to go through a series of legal and economic maneuvers to get the relationships straightened out, simply put, it was the division of spoils after a "plunder."
The war was fought and won by a combination of "Civilian forces" and "Official garrisons." So, the ownership should belong to these Civilian forces... a Multi-universe basic rule widely recognized, and the Eastern Country had no reason to take advantage of this and hurt morale, nor did Four City have any reason not to push for its people’s interests.
Next, some core members decided to sell the ownership to "Green Planet Development Co., Ltd.," a company with at least 80% Official control, to fully open it up... In the end, this was essentially the Official proxy governor of Green Planet, directly acting as the Planet’s Governor.
Of course, using a company instead of an Official institution appeared more "people-friendly" and more "liberal (when you need to silence someone)."
"...Not bad at all, they even left me a bit of share ownership."
The Official authorities took away at least 99.9% of the "shares," because Green Planet would become a world directly under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Country and could not be controlled privately, but they also left some shares for a portion of people.
Perhaps this doesn’t seem very business-like, but it was essentially a form of "Reward," a kind of "Dividend" for the pioneers.
Although it was only 0.0003% if one considered that this was the developmental right to an entire planet, it was still an astonishingly stable income... Of course, this was predicated on the planet being profitable, and given the previous earnings of the Aus people, Lu Ping’an didn’t have short-term expectations.
But if one looked at the long term, as long as the development of the planet went smoothly, this sum of money might not be much, but it should be enough to provide a safety net for his life.
This was the root of Lu Ping’an’s contempt for the local infighters; compared to the limitless Exotic Realm, scrapping over the meager local resources was time-consuming, effort-intensive, and cost in population, with far too low a rate of return.
"...It’s the first time I felt the money was too much."
Lu Ping’an didn’t know what valuation they ended with or how his "shares" from this battle were calculated, but anyway, he got the hint that it was absolutely not permitted to be exchanged for Eastern Country’s coin.
"...Let’s distribute half of it first; this shouldn’t count as money laundering."
As a boss, Lu Ping’an was quite generous; he really didn’t care at all.
After all, money and resources, for him, were only useful as long as there was enough... His current growth speed wasn’t limited by a shortage of resources and money; the only limitation was time.
He thought about distributing half of this huge sum first, then seeing if it was possible to buy some strategical weapons, such as Rule-level weapons...
𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
"...from our side, there are some opinions regarding the consumption."
But at this moment, the central commissioner who gave him the check stopped him as he was about to leave.
It was necessary to stop him; otherwise, if this capital were to be exchanged and then used locally to disrupt the financial market, or if it directly entered the Extraordinary market, it would still be capable of unsettling the local Professional market environment.
After the war, the Official accountants calculated that without the presence of Lu Ping’an and his party, this battle would have ended in total annihilation, awarding the Rebirth Club an extremely frightful proportion of merits.
Accordingly, there was a corresponding stock valuation and a necessity to provide sufficient rewards.
In fact, this compensation should be enough for at least a super company of an entire Legion, and there would have been no issue with them liquidating some cash flow.
But allocating such an exaggerated amount to an individual or a small team was too much; if they really began to gratuitously distribute coins, then the amusement would begin.
"On our end, we can open some Official channels for you to facilitate your spending..."
The commissioner said this with a bit of embarrassment.
It felt somewhat like coercion to give someone money and then immediately ask them to spend it at your store.
However, the union coin had just been introduced not long ago and was in a very unstable period, indeed having a relatively weak risk-bearing ability and needing careful handling.
However, this kind of "privilege opening," in a sense, was also a benefit.
Now, the worlds overtly and covertly owned by the Eastern Country had already surpassed twenty, with a vast array of goods and specialties continuously providing strong support for the union coin.
However, the resources were still only available internally, and without military exploits and Official recognition, one couldn’t purchase these specialties or armaments.
And regional-level recognition alone wasn’t enough; some things were hard to say but had always existed...
"...Wait a moment, I’ll call the rest of my team over; it’s a good time to change outfits for everyone."
— End of Chapter 872 —