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Chapter 698: Chapter 602: Saudi Prince (Please Subscribe!)_1
Hawaii.
Seaside Avenue.
Nearing evening.
The girls, Chai Ren, and Mu Jian were all exhausted. Only Tang Qing remained energetic. Seeing Lin Jiaxue tired, Tang Qing carried her on his back without hesitation.
Initially, Lin Jiaxue felt somewhat embarrassed, not being that tired, but she eventually gave in to Tang Qing’s insistence.
Although it appeared indecent, and some passersby pointed in their direction, Tang Qing didn’t care. He was carrying his wife. What did it matter what a bunch of ordinary people thought?
Zhan Xi and Liu Zhi looked at a carefree Tang Qing and then at their own husbands.
They resolved that their husbands needed to exercise more upon their return. They hadn’t noticed their husbands’ weaknesses until this ’battle’ time. It couldn’t continue like this; what if others got the wrong impression?
Chai Ren and Mu Jian felt a sudden chill down their spines.
"Hey? There’s an Arab over there," Chai Ren stared at a white robe surrounded by six or seven bodyguards in the distance. The man was walking towards them without a female companion, likely out for a stroll.
"What’s so special about Arabs, you’ve seen them before," Zhan Xi rolled her eyes without hesitation.
"I mainly went to Africa, I rarely went to the Middle East," Chai Ren defended. The Middle East was even more chaotic than Africa. Was he seeking excitement? Places rich in minerals weren’t necessarily messy, but oil-rich areas were always deep.
Mu Jian, with his extensive knowledge and experience, glanced at the white robe and pondered, "He seems to be a Saudi prince."
"Saudi Arabia has thousands of princes, what’s so special," Chai Ren muttered. Saudi princes sounded impressive, but only a few of them were influential. The rest were mostly figures in name only, virtually flooding the landscape.
Whether it’s the king or the prince’s son, all were regarded as princes.
"Indeed," Mu Jian didn’t disagree with Chai Ren. It wouldn’t be good if the approaching white robe heard them. These wealthy Saudis had significant influence in the United States, and he didn’t want to invite unnecessary trouble.
Tang Qing also lost interest after one glance.
With just one glance, the man’s identity came through his earpiece. Indeed, he was a Saudi prince of considerable status. But that’s all it was, significant status. He was in an awkward neither high nor low position.
Even if his father was one of the previous king’s nine sons, the Saudi throne was passed from brother to brother. So, upon the death of a king, his brother would ascend. Hence, this connection didn’t change much.
If you’re out, you’re out. Such is life.
Tang Qing didn’t care; he was a foreigner. Even if he were the king of Saudi Arabia, what did it have to do with him? But when he thought of Saudi Arabia, he thought of oil. As a banker committed to controlling the means of production, energy was also an essential factor.
The mining and food industry alliances are now established and growing smoothly.
Kissinger once left a saying that everyone in the world knows:
Whoever controls the oil, controls all countries;
Whoever controls the food, controls humanity;
Whoever controls the right to issue currency, controls the world. 𝙣𝒐𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Tang Qing is currently striving in the fields of food and currency issuance. As for the first, he refers to it as energy because oil was only the necessary energy of the last century. The future is a time of coexistence of various energies.
Oil.
Will ultimately lose its power to the throne.
Hence, Tang Qing’s energy industry alliance will adopt a diversified development strategy. Oil, natural gas, wind power, nuclear energy, solar energy, and more, all are on the list. Oil production areas are currently politically stable, and the operating space isn’t large, otherwise, Tang Qing would have initiated this plan long ago.
Oilfields.
Money alone can’t resolve them.
The United States needs oil pricing power to maintain the international status of the dollar. So, they spare no efforts in purchasing and controlling this area. For now, Tang Qing had no way to intervene, and even if he did, it would only be small oilfields, which wouldn’t matter much.
Without scale.
There’s no voice, let alone pricing power, other things can’t be considered either.
Tang Qing could only take it slowly in this regard. Today’s opportunities related to energy may not lay here, but in atomic energy. New energy is the direction; fossil energy is still dominant, not because humans have no alternative methods, but due to the reluctance to waste.
For all countries.
If underground oil were to be replaced by electric power, wouldn’t that be a massive waste of wealth? No one would do such stupid things, or to say that there’s no necessity to make one’s property worthless in the short term.
Do you really think there’s no alternative to oil?
That means you underestimate the current level of world technology.
Interest.
Just interest.
However, phasing out fossil energy is the general trend, like cars. If only the battery life and a few other critical indicators could be resolved, along with the full opening of the atomic energy era.
They could eliminate the status of oil.
But that could only be thought about. If oil were eliminated, it would mean turning all countries’ oil into cheap commodities. That would mean making enemies with all nations, and Tang Qing wasn’t interested. However, necessary preparations were needed.
He just needed to have the ability to overturn the table at any time, or in other words, possess a strong position in the future energy industry. In the oil sector, Tang Qing doesn’t plan to be too demanding in the short term.
In an instant.
Tang Qing had thought through all these messy things, passing by the luxury person.
He thought he would never see the white robe again.
Unfortunately.
Fate is playing tricks on people.
Right when they passed by each other.
A faint whistling sound came from the sky.
Tang Qing’s face changed.
Shit.
Who the fuck dares to ambush me, don’t want to live?
Better retreat quickly.
Wait, it seems there’s someone next to me too. Like a computer, Tang Qing’s mind calculates the time it takes for an object falling from a ten-meter height to hit the ground - he could recite an entire ten-thousand word speech in his mind.
A quick scan with his telekinetic power.
He knows what’s falling from above, and it’s not particularly dangerous, so there’s no panic. There’s still plenty of time.
He glanced at the man in the white robe.
Decided to do a good deed. Opportunities to kick someone like this in broad daylight are scarce. With a swift kick to the waist of the white-robed man, he dodged the imminent disaster from the sky.
"Clang... clatter... clank..."
A glass sheet about 30 cm square slammed onto the ground and shattered.
The incident was sudden. Chai Ren and others were taken aback, their faces in shock. Fortunately, they were composed enough not to scream. The pedestrians in the distance, however, shouted loudly.
Chai Ren calmed down when he saw Tang Qing was fine, but then he realized...
There was something wrong.
It seemed they saw Tang Qing kick someone just now, and that person is still laying on the ground with a distinct shoe imprint on him.
They all swallowed hard.
Damn...this is getting out of hand. The man in the white robe was still lying on the ground, feeling a bit of pain in his waist. Looking at the shattered glass on the ground, he was confused. What the hell was going on?
The man in the white robe didn’t have time to think, but his bodyguards did. Their prince had been mysteriously attacked, they couldn’t be careless now.
They drew their guns to protect him, shouting incomprehensible words at Tang Qing while pointing their guns at him. Thankfully, they weren’t stupid. No assassin would carry a lady companion at this moment.
Being pointed at with guns, Tang Qing had no reaction. If he wanted, these people wouldn’t have the chance to shoot.
Though Tang Qing didn’t move,
his soldiers wouldn’t stand by and watch. With two steps, they blocked Tang Qing with their guns drawn in a standoff with the bodyguards. With the speed of the soldiers, these people wouldn’t have the chance to shoot.
At least two more hidden soldiers were aiming their guns at the bodyguards of the white-robed man.
Seeing Tang Qing’s bodyguards also had guns, the bodyguards of the man in the white robe were dumbfounded.
Do Chinese bodyguards also carry guns when they go out?
Chai Ren and Mu Jian never expected Tang Qing’s bodyguards to carry guns. But it’s impossible, they were checked on and off the plane... Chai Ren suddenly thought of Mr.Yuan.
Could he be lending a hand again?
It seemed clear to Chai Ren.
"...."
The bodyguards of the white-robed man were in a tough spot. Without orders from their boss, they dared not lower their guns. The men in front of them were determined and their guns were definitely not fake.
The scene was incredibly awkward for a moment.
"Go check what’s going on." The white-robed man had some sense and ordered his men to check out the incident. Two of the bodyguards rushed towards the five-story building.
The building outside was covered in glass, the broken piece must have fallen from the rooftop.
"It’s nothing to do with them, drop your guns." The white-robed man ordered his men to drop their guns. Technically, Tang Qing had saved him once. Otherwise, the large piece of glass surely would’ve hurt him if not killed him.
Seeing the other side lowering their weapons.
The two soldiers also put away their guns.
Disappointing the onlookers who wanted to see more drama.
"Sorry, my men were impulsive," apologized the white-robed man in English while keeping the face mask on.
"No worries, after all, I did kick you once. Let’s call it square... Bye," Tang Qing said before turning to Chai Ren and the others still in a daze and spoke, "Let’s go, less we have to give a statement to the American police. It’s a hassle."
"Oh, okay," Chai Ren immediately replied.
They quickly left the scene. But Tang Qing wouldn’t let it end there so easily, not to the white-robed man, but the one who threw the glass. It was certainly not a coincidence, and since he dragged him into it, he couldn’t simply walk away.
The satellite showed that a white man threw it, and he was targeting the white-robed man. However, Tang Qing couldn’t figure out the motive. If you want to kill someone, use a gun, what’s the purpose of throwing glass?
If that’s not an option, use a dagger. Even if you don’t have bullets, throw the gun. At least it’s made of iron. Tang Qing couldn’t understand the logic of throwing glass.
After throwing it, the man left.
None of the white-robed man’s people caught him.
Because he was taken away by the soldiers who were protecting him covertly nearby.
