After Fang Zheng defeated Fan Xinglu, Haoling Academy became well-known in Academy City. At this time, the advantage of Haoling Academy being located on a remote uninhabited island became apparent. After all, this island was only connected to the outside world by a suspended track, so no one could enter without the permission of Haoling Academy.
But even so…
"Bang!!!"
Looking at the news in front of her, Jiujiu Sakuya slapped her hand on the table, her face livid. In the window in front of her was an introduction to Haoling Academy and Dawn Star Mark. On the surface, this news seemed to be nothing special, but the problem was...
"According to information revealed by an insider, weapons made of the Dawn Star Mark are not completely without flaws. Since they are condensed from the spirit, once the weapon is destroyed, it will cause considerable damage to the spirit of the holder, causing the holder to be unconscious for about one to two days..."
This is exactly why Jiujiu Sakuya was angry. Although the news was not written in great detail, the problem was that this was a research secret of the Dawn Star Mark!
And now, this secret information has been leaked, which means... someone on the inside leaked it!
“That’s not hard to predict.”
Compared to Ninety-nine Days of the New Moon, Fang Zheng seemed very calm.
"It has come to this point. Unless Six Stars is an idiot, they will definitely find a way to dig up information about the Dawn Star Mark. They are powerful, so it shouldn't be difficult for them to turn a few people inside the Dawn Organization against them. After all, compared to Six Stars, the Dawn Organization is originally very weak, right? It was fine if they didn't take us seriously in the past, but once they get serious, I'm afraid that few people inside the Dawn Organization will think they can compete with the Six Stars chaebol."
“Woo…”
Jiujiu Sakuya didn't say anything, but she clenched her fists tightly, looking unwilling. Although Fang Zheng's words were very vicious, Jiujiu Sakuya knew that he was right. In the past, the Dawn Organization became one of the eight chaebols because of her grandfather's connections, wisdom and technology.
But after her grandfather passed away, she took over the Dawn Organization, and those connections naturally disappeared. Although Jiujiu Sakuya also showed wisdom and strength that were no less than her grandfather, but... her age was there, and it was really hard to convince the public. Obviously, no one thought that a girl in her teens could fight against the six major chaebols.
And she is not a strong and unreasonable monster like Fan Xinglu.
The only lucky thing was that she also had a powerful and unreasonable monster on her side.
"By the way, what did you and Fan Xinglu talk about?"
Restraining his anger, Jiujue Sakuya looked at Fang Zheng in confusion. Jiujue Sakuya also asked Toudou Qilin and Julie about what Fan Xinglu said when she invited them for tea that day. Of course, both of them said that they didn't understand at all. They only knew that they seemed to be talking about a very serious topic.
"Nothing, it's just that Fan Xinglu asked me what my purpose was, and I answered her."
"……Purpose???"
"That's right, it's time to tell you the truth."
At this point, Fang Zheng snapped his fingers, and then a lightsaber suddenly appeared behind him, quickly splitting apart, instantly sealing the entire room in a barrier. Seeing Fang Zheng's actions, Jiujiu Sakuya's expression changed slightly, but she still sat there without saying a word, while Fang Zheng stared at her.
"Let me ask you, do you think the Dawn Organization has the ability to fight against the six chaebols?"
"I……"
Facing Fang Zheng's question, Jiujiu Sakuya thought for a moment and shook his head.
"To be honest, I don't know. I also hope to revive the Dawn Organization, but whether there is a way to defeat the Six Star Zaibatsu... I really have no idea."
“That’s right.”
Fang Zheng nodded.
"Besides, after the Falling Star Rain, the Six-Star Financial Group took control of the Universal Mine, and through it, they controlled the Star Vein Generation, and also gained the power and assets to rule the world. The Dawn Organization had been eliminated before that, and now it is very difficult for it to join again, even with the help of the Dawn Star Mark - I think you should be very clear about the methods of those financial groups."
Fang Zheng spread his hands and stared at Jiujiu Shuo Ye.
The business world is like a battlefield. To put it simply, it is like Six Star has a patent, and the Dawn Organization bypasses their patent barriers and applies for another patent. Since the two patents are in the same field, if the Dawn Organization makes a profit, it means that Six Star will suffer a loss.
What should we do in this situation?
It's very simple, there are two ways.
One is to ignore patent law and directly infringe.
This is actually a very normal thing in the industry. Although there is patent protection, it is nothing to the wealthy consortium. I infringe the patent, so what? You sue me? No problem, do you think my legal team is in vain? Litigation is all about money. For the same infringement lawsuit, I can take out 10 million US dollars, but you can't even take out 100,000 US dollars. What's the use of the patent even if it's yours? Do you have the money to sue?
Before the fight even reaches the end, you will probably be too poor to file a lawsuit and will have to go bankrupt. At that time, you can either accept the settlement agreement and give up the patent obediently, or wait for the company to be acquired after it goes bankrupt.
The so-called patent infringement is something that only multinational companies of the same level can afford to do. For ordinary people, they obviously don't have the energy and money to spend on it.
Another way is to directly acquire your company - as long as I can buy enough shares and take over the company, then what's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine.
In many cases, patents are not acquired for promotion purposes and may even be directly sealed.
This kind of thing is common in the market, and the most famous one is synthetic vitamin C. Before the 1980s, synthetic vitamin C was a very expensive technology. Not only that, at that time, three pharmaceutical companies in Switzerland, Germany and Japan formed an alliance to monopolize the production and price of vitamin C in the world, similar to the current OPEC organization. They had the final say on the production of vitamin C, how much to produce, and the price.
The importance of vitamin C to the human body is self-evident, so at that time this alliance was equivalent to completely controlling the right to human life.
However, right after that, China invented the "two-stage fermentation method", which greatly reduced the production cost of vitamin C and increased output.
After learning this, the three pharmaceutical companies were so scared that they almost peed their pants, so the German pharmaceutical company Roche came to China and spent four million US dollars to buy the patent.
Then...seal it directly.
Why? The reason is simple.
Before this patent appeared, the price of vitamin C was $18/kg, and it was in short supply. But after the emergence of this "two-step fermentation method", the price of vitamin C dropped directly to $4/kg, which is still very profitable.
Can other pharmaceutical companies tolerate this?
Of course, some people may wonder, if this is the case, then other pharmaceutical companies cannot simply adopt this patent to lower prices, wouldn’t it be better to make small profits but quick turnover?
However, for pharmaceutical companies, this disruptive technology brings about large-scale equipment upgrades and personnel redeployments.
Just like the current Six-Star Chaebol, they invested all their funds into the research of Wanying Mine and the manufacture of Huang-style weapons.
Do you think they might turn around and study the Dawn Star?
Not to mention, the Huang-style weapons are also their means of controlling the Star Vein Generation.
Fortunately, China was careful at the time and only authorized foreign patents, but not domestic ones. Otherwise, it would have been a great loss to the enemies.
There is also a story behind this.
Many people may not know that the VCD technology that swept the world in the 1990s was actually developed by China's Wanyan Company. However, the company's CEO at the time believed that it didn't matter whether to apply for a patent or not, and occupying the market was the most important thing. As a result, the first batch of VCDs produced at that time were all disassembled by foreign manufacturing giants, who then launched their own patented technology and occupied the market in one fell swoop.
The funny thing is that the company that first invented VCD had to pay patent fees to these foreign imitators. As a result, all VCD manufacturers in the Chinese market at that time had to pay huge patent fees to foreign companies for this Chinese technology invented by Chinese people in Chinese companies, which directly made them rich.
Quite darkly humorous, isn't it?
Fortunately, this mistake was not made with vitamin C at that time. Otherwise, the country might only be able to sell vitamin C at US$18 per kilogram, instead of the inexpensive and high-quality vitamin C at US$4 per kilogram.
From this we can see that capitalists are like rats and cannot be allowed to exploit any loopholes.
Fang Zheng was certain that if Six Star acquired the Dawn Organization, they would definitely not conduct research on the Dawn Star Mark, but would directly seal it up like they did with the Vitamin C patent, or simply disband the Dawn Organization on the spot and completely destroy the Dawn Star Mark technology.
Would Ninety-nine Sakuya be willing?
Therefore, the conflict between the two parties is irreconcilable. It depends on what price Kyuju Sakuya is willing to pay.
"…What do you think?"
Although she looked young, Jiujiu Sakuya was not stupid. She certainly understood what Fang Zheng meant. She stared at him and asked.
"It's very simple..."
Fang Zheng opened his mouth and sneered.
"I'm not interested in playing any capital games with the Six Star Zaibatsu. I want to overthrow the Six Star Zaibatsu and make Academy City completely independent!"
"What?!"
Hearing this, Jiujiu Sakuya was shocked. Although she had thought of some of it, Fang Zheng's words still frightened her.
"Do you know what you are talking about?"
"Of course I know. The Xingmai Generation is being discriminated against in society now. In the final analysis, it's all because of those bastards. As long as they create a trend of discrimination against the Xingmai Generation in the outside world, they will have nowhere to go and can only accept the protection of the Six-Star Chaebol and become their running dogs. They control everything by dividing the ethnic groups, attacking dissidents, and creating mutual hatred. The capitalists' methods are still so dirty and disgusting. I can't wait to see the day when they are hung on the street lights."
Fang Zheng had a gloomy face, and his eyes revealed a strong murderous intent - if this happened when he was the emperor, the ministers under him would know at a glance that another merchant family was going to be executed.
"As long as we solve the problem, the problem will be solved. In other words, as long as we kill all the top leaders of the Six-Star Chaebol, the Six-Star Chaebol itself will be completely destroyed."
"Do you know what you're talking about?"
At this moment, Jiujiu Sakuya finally couldn't help but stood up.
"If you do this, the order of the entire world will collapse, and there may even be disasters and wars more terrible than the Falling Star Rain period..."
“Revolution is not about hosting a dinner party, writing an article, painting a picture or doing embroidery. It cannot be so elegant, so leisurely, so refined, so gentle, kind, courteous, frugal and modest.”
Fang Zheng also stood up and stared at Jiujiu Shuo Ye.
"Revolution is an uprising, a violent act of one class overthrowing another class. If you want to overthrow the current situation where the plutocracy dominates the world, there will inevitably be bloodshed and conflict."
“…”
For a moment, no one spoke. Jiujiu Sakuya stared at Fang Zheng, and Fang Zheng also stared at Jiujiu Sakuya. After a long time, Jiujiu Sakuya sighed softly.
"I'm beginning to regret that I probably shouldn't have taken you out of prison."
"Don't worry. I didn't intend to use the power of the Dawn Organization for this matter, nor did I intend to ask you to do anything."
"……ha?"
Hearing this, Jiujiu Sakuya was stunned for a moment and looked at Fang Zheng in surprise.
"So why did you tell me this?"
Originally, Jiujiu Sakuya thought that the reason why Fang Zheng wanted to discuss this matter with him was because he wanted the Dawn Organization to provide money and manpower for help, but... he said no?
"Of course, the reason I told you this is mainly because I wanted to give you a clear answer, so that you won't end up thinking that I'm using Dawn and you. Oh, by the way, I won't reveal my identity during this process, so you don't have to worry about Dawn getting into trouble."
"...I'd rather you use me..."
After hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Jiujiu Sakuya was completely speechless. Just as Fang Zheng said, if Jiujiu Sakuya knew nothing and Fang Zheng blew himself up in the end, then she would naturally think that Fang Zheng was using her and the Dawn Organization.
But now Fang Zheng took the initiative to tell her the truth, and then said that he would do it regardless of whether Jiujiu Sakuya agreed or not... This put Jiujiu Sakuya in a dilemma.
Agree to it... This kind of thing is tantamount to rebellion... No, this is rebellion, and once it gets out, the Dawn Organization will be finished.
But if he doesn't agree... With Fang Zheng's personality, he might just walk away if he doesn't agree with something. Without Fang Zheng, can the Dawn Organization still stand up to the Six-Star Chaebol?
Isn’t the result still the same?
Thinking of this, Jiujiu Sakuya took a deep breath and looked at Fang Zheng.
"What are you going to do?"
"Not much."
In response to Jiujiu Sakuya's question, Fang Zheng chuckled.
"In short, let's win the Phoenix Star Martial Festival first."
Then he opened his mouth to answer.