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Chapter 622: Chapter 526: There is no Absolutely Perfect Product (Please Subscribe!)_1
As the outside world was buzzing about the territory’s fruit wine, Tang Qing just paid attention and left it. Regardless of how things developed, no matter how many people stirred up trouble, he would always be the biggest winner.
He was fearless.
Tang Qing had also considered whether the detoxifying properties of fruit wine might cause a severe clash with the surrounding powers, giving Myanmar an easy victory. But he had to laugh at the thought. The Fighters’ penetration into the surrounding forces has reached an advanced stage. In other words, he could suppress any negative developments anytime.
Nothing to worry about.
The Command Room staff in Myanmar was also well prepared. If Myanmar tried to make a move, it would be met with a series of combined attacks by the Fighters, which could nearly guarantee foolproof security.
They want to make a move in four months?
Ha.
All Tang Qing could say was dream on.
By then, the Fighters will have had more preparation time, Myanmar will have no room for turnaround, and the rise of the territory is inevitable.
Moreover, if the fruit wine really could crash this market, that would be an opportunity for Myanmar to sit back and watch the surrounding powers and Ling fight each other. But it would also be an opportunity for Tang Qing.
If the surrounding powers lost their main source of income.
They have two choices.
First, go head-to-head with Ling, destroy Ling, demolish the wineries, and fight to the death.
Second, if they can’t destroy Ling, they have to cooperate and become part of the territory’s trade map and Asia Dollar’s circulation. Eventually, those areas will all become his.
This region is vast, with the areas belonging to Myanmar covering more than 60,000 square kilometers — around double the size of Taiwan Province. There’s abundant mineral resources, and once development begins, nearly all, if not all, issues with raw materials can be solved locally.
As for Thai and Lao land in Thailand, Tang Qing did not intend to set foot in them. It would be too provoking. However, trade with them was still possible.
So, this is a situation where both sides think they can win.
But Myanmar thought it could win by just sitting back and watching.
Tang Qing thought he needed to put in more effort, make careful plans, make large investments and arrangements. As long as things went as planned, his chances of winning were almost 100%. Although he didn’t hold the moral high ground, he had the upper hand.
Just with information monopoly alone,
he could have Myanmar spinning in circles.
However, the most important thing now wasn’t those small powers.
It was the upstream and downstream of those industrial chains.
Those were the real hard nuts to crack and the main rivals the territory faced in the short term. Once their economic sources were cut off, one can imagine what they would do.
Globally, trade volume for just heroin reaches hundreds of billions of dollars a year, with other addictive drugs amounting to trillions of dollars. Anyone who stirred up this kind of interest would certainly face relentless hostility.
In other words,
If any company developed a drug to counter this addiction,
There’s no doubt,
It would undoubtedly not be allowed to go public; it would be sold to these people instead. If not? You would be sent to heaven. This was the trade rule of this world. If you disrupted someone’s financial path, especially the financial path of desperate fugitives, you’d have a hell lot of fun coming your way.
Tang Qing had thought of all these, of course.
If it weren’t for the Fighters, even if he had such things or technologies, he would never dare to launch them into the market. Even if you were the big boss’s son in the United States, taking up such a task would spell death.
But the current Tang Qing.
Really didn’t fear those lowly tricks, anyway, he was hidden behind the scenes, and nobody would target him directly. He also possessed the power of the Infinity Violent Soldiers and the backing of the strong Fighters. Apart from wars between nations, Tang Qing was not afraid of those petty tricks. Who knows whose hands the deer will die in.
If he was pushed to the limit, he would send them all to heaven.
As for those who want to assassinate Ling.
First, you have to enter his territory, but outsiders are not allowed in there, unless you are registered and authorized. If you want to get in, the only way is through smuggling.
But facing ubiquitous eavesdropping, surveillance, along with overhead surveillance from quantum communication satellites, and lurking warriors scattered throughout the woods, if someone can still make it in, Tang Qing really doesn’t think there’s anyone that bold.
He actually would like to play with these people.
Perhaps.
He could even make a fortune from them.
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South Africa.
One of its capitals, Cape Town. South Africa is the only country in the world with three capitals: the administrative capital, the judicial capital, and the legislative capital. Cape Town is the legislative capital, the second-largest city in the country, and an important port city.
In a luxury hotel in the city center, on the top floor, a robust black man wrapped in a bath towel stands before a huge floor-to-ceiling window. Looking at the sea outside and then at the wine in his glass, his mouth breaks into a faintly cruel smile.
A man obviously playing the role of a butler waits on him from behind.
"Is the news true?" the black man asked casually.
"Yes, it has basically been confirmed. Our country has also imported a lot of fruit wine. Many people are no longer addicted to our products. Some who have drunk a lot cannot even get excited about our products anymore," the butler answered.
The black man chuckled, took a sip of his wine, savored it, and swallowed. Despite having drunk it many times, the taste still haunted him. With each drink, it felt like his taste buds were awoken anew. He said, "Heh, interesting, this is really interesting. What about other anesthetics?"
"They have the same effect," the butler replied.
"It seems that this group is not simple, daring to mess with us like this. Regarding the effects of this wine, have you discovered anything?" The black man sneered. As South Africa’s largest illicit drug trafficker, while the fruit wine was delicious, it should not exist in this world.
Alternatively, it should be priced so high that ordinary people could not afford it. The current price was practically robbing them of their very foundation. With no consumers, who would they make money from? Even though there were many poor people in South Africa who could not afford it, once the upper echelon stopped playing, his business would be ruined.
Without the consumption of South Africa’s upper class, where would he obtain protection?
"Discovered what?" The butler was puzzled.
"Our products are essentially anesthetic and psychoactive drugs. What would be the consequence if one becomes completely immune after drinking this?" This was the black man’s perceived trump card.
The butler’s eyes lit up, and he suddenly understood, excitedly saying, "Are you saying that future drugs of this kind could be ineffective against them?" If that was the case, it would be a big problem that anesthetics no longer had an anesthetic effect. This was indeed a significant disadvantage.
He previously thought the fruit wine’s efficacy was so significant that it was morally and economically unquestionable on a global scale. He had overlooked the potential side effects.
Indeed.
There is no absolutely perfect product.
"Correct. Have you tested the effects of an addictive drug after quitting? Whether it produces immunity to other anesthetics?" The black man felt he had found the fruit wine’s weakness.
"We haven’t performed this experiment yet. It will take time to find out the results. I will arrange for it immediately." The butler immediately replied. The experiment was not difficult. They just needed to test it on a few people who had quit the habit.
The black man nodded, saying, "Good, do the experiment first. Immediately have someone release news to suppress the expansion of their influence. Say, this fruit wine can help with detoxification, but it also produces a strong drug resistance. Future anesthetics and psychoactive drugs will not work. Let them panic first.
Also, dispatch someone immediately, if possible, find their winery and tamper with their processes. Ling must die. This product, regardless if it will eventually produce long-term drug resistance, must not be allowed to exist."
No matter the result, they must first muddle the water to fish in troubled waters. The introduction of the fruit wine has cut off many people’s wealth. He believed that it was not just himself but many others would join in.
Even if they can’t make the wine disappear, they could suppress its influence.
"Yes, I will arrange it right away."
With that, the butler left and began calling the media he was familiar with to "expose" the "flaw" of this fruit wine while arranging for people to sabotage the wine’s production.
Fight on two fronts.
