[The development of Nightingale is booming, and this is the main reason why No. 1 brought No. 2 to Nightingale.

That is, Nightingale is about to face a turning point in its development! 】

[Now the Nightingale has two choices.

One is to maintain Nightingale's current territory, and in the following period, like those ugly capitalists who killed their competitors, gradually increase the price of smuggled items until it is twice as expensive as before, thereby directly turning Nightingale's profit from the current monthly loss of 1 million federal dollars to a monthly profit of 10 million federal dollars. 】

[The other option is to continue to maintain the low-price competition strategy and gradually expand to the surrounding second and fourth districts, and even the entire Donghua City! The ultimate goal is to monopolize the entire Donghua City.

Compared to the first option, the second option undoubtedly has a brighter future. Once Nightingale successfully monopolizes the trade market of Donghua City, a large city with a population of millions, the business Nightingale can do is not just the "small business" of reselling professional props to illegal professionals, but can also represent Donghua City and smuggle goods between other cities. 】

[The national system of this world is a federal system, which is different from the previous life where countries exchanged what they had under the leadership of a unified organization. Although this world also has a hierarchy of local cities, local provinces, and the federal center, its institutional form is more similar to the other side of the ocean in the previous life.

Although the Federation Central nominally has the supreme power to lead the entire Federation, in reality, due to various factors such as the Professional Guild, the Wilderness, and the Professional Warband, it is unable to achieve substantial centralization of power.

The local discourse power of the federation provinces has greatly expanded, and the major provinces are highly autonomous and even have their own laws.

Unless there are major events that shock the entire federation, such as the Salvation Society seizing Donghua City, Avatar No. 1 blatantly violating the Supernatural Act, causing hundreds of mortals to be injured, or Avatar No. 1 resisting arrest and attacking the police, the federation will hardly interfere with the local provinces.

Under this system, the relationship between local provinces and provinces is even more subtle. Rather than a comradeship in the same country, it is more like allies joining the same alliance. Although nominally they all belong to the same federation and are under the same trading system, when they trade with each other, the tariffs that should be levied are still levied.]

[These taxes are not obvious on large cross-federal online shopping websites. The 5% transaction fee is actually a "tax" levied on transactions between provinces. Smugglers will not take risks for this little profit.

But these taxes are particularly scary when it comes to auction houses, large transactions, and luxury goods.

Take the ring of light sold by clone No. 1 in the first simulation as an example. The ring cost 12 million, but only 10 million was sold on the hand. Among them, 2 million was not only the auction house's auction fee, but also the local provincial taxes.

Not only the seller has to pay taxes, but the buyer also has to pay a luxury tax ranging from 20% to 50% based on the value of the item being auctioned! That means if a ring is auctioned for 12 million, the buyer has to pay an additional 2.4 million to 6 million in luxury taxes to legally own it.

The high-end star-level equipment is even more outrageous. Almost all of the star-level suits purchased by No. 1 and No. 2 had to be purchased from other cities, other provinces, or even auction houses in other countries. The total value of the equipment is 9 billion, of which almost 4 billion is taxes. 】

[Under such high taxes, commodity smuggling has naturally become an unavoidable profiteering business. Some large war groups secretly support transnational smuggling groups for this purpose. The smuggling of low-level professional props is not in the eyes of these large war groups. A piece of top-level equipment with hundreds of millions of profits, or a large-scale trade of hundreds of tons of copy materials in a freighter, is the fat meat that these large war groups and transnational smuggling groups are willing to break the law for. ]

[The Nightingale is just a local gang, so it is natural that they cannot be involved in the level of a transnational smuggling group.

Those are things that only the top battle groups and top bosses can get involved in. If the top dignitaries or top battle groups of the Federation try to get involved, they will only be crushed to pieces.

But if Nightingale can unify the entire Donghua City market, then Nightingale will be qualified to participate in the large collective of the Northern Province smuggling Group, whether as a major smuggling volume or as a simple local participant, at least it can get a share of the inter-provincial smuggling pie.

The value of this piece of cake would be ten or even dozens of times more than what Nightingale could earn if it monopolized an administrative district! Not to mention the opportunity to enter the world-class smuggling market. With the transportation channels of Xuantian Group, which has the strongest logistics system in the Federation, No. 1 dared not even think about how much money Nightingale could make for him! 】

[Compared to 껣, monopolizing the third district and earning 100 million per month? What a joke, in the eyes of No. 1, it's just a beggar. 】

Therefore, the choice of No. 1 is naturally beyond doubt.

And this is why he brought No. 2 to Nightingale! Because the best way to gain access to a place is with force! 】

[Of course, the method of using the weapon this time is not as simple and crude as before to directly kill the smuggling bosses in various regions.

The same method, if used once, can be considered intentional, but if used repeatedly, even a fool would associate it with the real cause of death of the boss of the third district, thus making Nightingale once again bear the "blame" of abusing force and not following the rules, which in turn caused resistance from the smuggling industry in Donghua City, and finally stepped on the dust of the previous simulation. 】

"Altered One is not completely without growth. At least he knows how to learn from his mistakes and make corrections."

Link rarely praised No. 1.

But when he thought about the transactions made by No. 1, Link's face suddenly frowned again: "He just didn't use his thinking in the right way!"

[No. 1 means that following the right path cannot make a living! ]

[In order to be able to compete for the smuggling hegemony of Donghua City in a logical way, the use of force can be a stepping stone to open the hegemony, but it must not be a direct method to seize the smuggling hegemony. ]

[So your clone No. 1 has already ordered Fat Tiger to arrange for members of Nightingale to create friction with the surrounding smuggling gangs and gradually escalate the situation to the point of accidental shooting.

Under the deliberate provocation of Nightingale, these hot-blooded gang members could not help but use force against members of Nightingale.

Of course, the martial arts of these gangs are limited to the 'fighting' level.

Even in this world where law and order is obviously worse than in the previous life, a ruthless criminal like No. 1 who kills a whole family at any time is rare and ruthless. 】