Chapter 3596 The Beginning of the Turmoil

"Captain, if we continue forward, we won't be able to go any further."

Zhanmao stopped the car and said, the city was divided into three areas.

Among them, near the dock, there lived ordinary people who were not rich but could live a decent life.

They made money through their own hard work, although under the oppression of capitalists, they were paid pitifully little, and they had no choice.

In order to find a profitable job, they had to find a foreman with a backer, otherwise such a physical job would not fall on them.

Foreman is a Chinese term, they are people who are quite capable in the local area, similar to those gang bosses who are mixed in the streets.

They are responsible for collecting laborers and assigning them to work at the dock.

From this, they can get a bounty from the capitalists, and in addition, these workers, for every tribute they earn, one-third needs to be handed over to these foremen.

Other people living here are capitalist merchants, who control the flow of trade here, and they control more than 90% of the wealth and funds.

Although buying and selling slaves in such places is not done openly, these wealthy tycoons never take it seriously. Every place where a tycoon lives has his own slaves.

The third type is people living in slums. They have no money to give to the foreman, so they can't get a job. They can only rely on picking up garbage or doing odd jobs to earn a pitiful little money.

Zhanmao drove through the slums. After passing through a barbed wire fence, the scene in front was as different as heaven and earth from the slums.

The slums were dilapidated, but the houses in front were luxuriously built. A barbed wire fence and an artificial river separated the living areas of the two, and they lived different lives.

"The gap between the rich and the poor is so obvious in such a place."

Xiao Yi got out of the car and walked to the front. He was going to talk to Edward. Edward had his own private residence in this place.

People who are too kind will definitely not be able to live here. Seeing these scenes is enough to make you cry.

"It's all the illegal arms business that led to such consequences. They originally had their own homes, farmed or worked as laborers, and at least they could live a peaceful life."

"What do you mean?"

"Captain, you don't know that most people living here, except for these rich people, are actually ordinary people in the mercenary battlefield."

War Spear explained that there was no such thing as a mercenary battlefield before, but later because of the emergence of war, the mercenary business was opened up.

In order to suppress their opponents, the forces of all parties had to spend money to hire mercenaries to assist in the war and help them win the war.

"Different forces continue to spend money to hire mercenaries in order to be the boss, which forms a vicious cycle."

So the place where people originally lived was devastated by the war, and in order to survive, they had to leave their homes and leave their places of living.

"If ordinary people want to survive, they can only choose to flee, so they all gather in this place, the purpose is to survive."

"It seems that this arms business should be abolished."

Xiao Yi sighed. He chose to cooperate with Edward in the arms business this time. I don't know what kind of impact this decision will bring.

Zhanmao had been a mercenary before, and had lived here for a while.

Zhanmao and Xiao Yi had a thorough understanding of the inside information here.

"Captain, your idea is very naive. With such huge profits in the arms business, how could those businessmen give it up?"

There is such a saying in China that those who don't make money are bastards.

As long as there is profit, these capitalists can go crazy, Zhanmao said immediately.

"The underground arms business in the past, I heard from those who came here that it was even crazier than this. The Edward family made a lot of money and continued to expand the arms business. At that time, the mercenary battlefield was much larger than this time."

Zhanmao's father was a mercenary. He embarked on the path of being a mercenary, which can be regarded as following in his father's footsteps.

"Later, I don't know why, more than 20 years ago, Edward suddenly made a decision to reduce the arms business that was profitable to the current level."

Many people don't understand this matter. Edward is a businessman. How could a businessman give up the benefits he has obtained.

Xiao Yi knows the inside story of this. His father talked to Edward once, and Edward had to modify his business rules.

Since then, Edward has also realized his mistakes. Merchants do need to make money, but they cannot build their way of making money on the pain of others.

"Take this one time for example. Captain, you have confirmed with Edward that this time another arms dealer has emerged in the mercenary world, and his cooperation targets are very broad."

Zhanmao said here that once the arms business becomes rampant again, the forces of various mercenaries will be rekindled and thrown into the battlefield again.

"The rules originally set by the mercenary world will inevitably be broken due to the impact of this time. For the Cold Sword Mercenary Group, this is an important opportunity."

Zhanmao believes that the Cold Sword Mercenary Group created by Xiao Yi will definitely be able to go on. As for how far it can go in the end, Zhanmao cannot make a conclusion rashly.

"In addition to these, the newly emerged arms dealers and the targets of cooperation, many of them are your opponents, captain."

"You mean, this new arms dealer is here for me?"

"Although it's just a guess, I think it's not impossible. If I'm not against you, captain, then why do you have to compete with Edward for the arms business?"

Zhan Spear and Xiao Yi were walking and chatting about these things on the road. Xiao Yi gradually got an idea in his mind. Indeed, what Zhan Spear said was right. The first thing the arms dealer did when he showed up was to point the finger.

Aimed at him.

Where these rich people live, all vehicles are prohibited from traveling together. Of course, this rule applies to other people and has no restrictions on the rich.

They could only follow this rule and walk on the road. After passing through the checkpoints set up, they came to the outside of a white private villa.

This is Edward's residence. Edward will not live here for almost a year, unless there is special business that requires him to come personally.

Most of the other time, the villa is left to the servants to take care of. This time, the situation is special. It is necessary for Edward to come to Xiao Yi in person and talk clearly in person.