NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 97: The Truth Behind Xinghe’s Bankruptcy
"Xu Luo, winning people over with virtue!" Deputy Minister of Education Wen Zheng looked at Zhong Tianyue with a half-smile.
Hearing this, Zhong Tianyue's face darkened.
That kid, if he's going to conquer people, just do it, why shout slogans?
"However, I seem to see the next Ying Yingluo!" Wen Zheng said seriously.
He had been paying attention to Xu Luo's actions, especially during this period of great battles.
When Ying Yingluo rose to power, it was accompanied by endless slaughter, even staining the transmission channels with blood, eventually turning them blood-red.
But comparing Xu Luo's current actions, he found that if successful, Xu Luo would be even more terrifying than Ying Yingluo was back then.
Although both were very hate-inducing, Ying Yingluo's actions were more brutal and extreme, her hatred more direct, making others want to destroy her.
Xu Luo's approach was to enslave alien races, which was certainly hate-inducing, but his actions were very low-key. Unless one was paying close attention, they wouldn't know he was doing such things.
It might not seem as profitable as Ying Yingluo's methods, but it was more sustainable, not a one-time deal.
If this continued, one could imagine how many alien races would be under his command in ten years, and how much protection money he could collect.
"He already has Gold-tier units now!"
When they learned that Xu Luo had deployed Gold-tier units, both men were stunned.
This was just a student who had opened his Divine Realm a few months ago. How did he achieve this in such a short time?
However, regardless of how, his actions were commendable.
Xu Luo kept shouting slogans about winning people over with virtue while subjugating alien races everywhere. In the judgement system, collecting the core essence of alien Divine Realms also counted as a form of destruction, so his points were rising particularly fast.
Currently, Ying Yingluo was first on the points leaderboard. Her expeditionary forces were causing destruction everywhere, followed by various human seed powerhouses who had also started to exert themselves.
Xu Luo's ranking among so many people wasn't eye-catching, but he was already at 178th place.
Excluding those university seeds, among high school students, he ranked first on the entire Ancestral Star.
The Ancestral Star had a population of over 10 billion, with several hundred million high school students. Being able to rank first was enough to indicate something.
Thinking about how Zhong Tianyue had waited for over a decade and was finally about to see his wish fulfilled, Wen Zheng felt emotional.
"You still need to keep a close eye on him. Don't let him walk your old path, and don't let him become someone like Ying Yingluo. She has two God Kings backing her, but this kid doesn't have that luxury!"
Wen Zheng spoke from his heart.
Seeing a human genius, he really didn't want to see a repeat of Zuo Tianyao's incident.
How famous was Zuo Tianyao back then?
People like Zhong Tianyue and Xiang Nantian, who were younger than him, all had "tian" in their names when they were named, which shows the situation at that time.
"May one's sons be like Zuo Tianyao!"
This was the epitome of that era.
Zuo Tianyao not only researched the three major human unit advancement paths unique to humans, but he was also extremely powerful himself, being the human existence closest to the Main God level.
However, alien races didn't want to see a human Main God emerge, and some humans also didn't want to see a Main God above them.
"The aristocratic families!" Zhong Tianyue's gaze turned cold.
Everyone knew there was something fishy about Zuo Tianyao's incident back then, but the aristocratic forces joined together to suppress the matter.
Because the aristocratic families didn't want to see someone above them.
"The aristocrats in the Six Departments have been mostly cleared out!" Wen Zheng said calmly.
"Are we going to take action?" Zhong Tianyue was startled when he heard this.
Although he knew this day would come sooner or later, he didn't expect it to be so soon.
After taking office, the current head of the Federation began drastic reforms, starting to purge aristocratic forces. There was bound to be conflict between commoners and aristocratic families sooner or later, but he didn't expect the personnel in the crucial Six Departments to be cleared out so quickly.
"Otherwise, why do you think Xinghe collapsed?" Wen Zheng sneered.
"It was one of humanity's three major conglomerates, a pillar industry, employing tens of billions, involved in all aspects. Even with constant suppression from alien races, how could it go bankrupt so easily?"
"Were they sabotaging from behind?" Zhong Tianyue's face turned ashen, feeling a chill down his spine.
Humans were already struggling under the suppression of alien races, but he never imagined that in such a situation, some people were still busy with internal strife!
"They were retaliating!" Wen Zheng shook his head.
"The President cleared out the Six Departments, intending to gradually push the aristocrats out of important departments and the core. They immediately responded in kind, bringing down the Xinghe Group, telling the President that they have the ability and determination for mutual destruction."
"So drastic!" Zhong Tianyue truly hadn't imagined that the collapse of the Xinghe Group had so many hidden details.
That wasn't just one or two people, but tens of billions of people losing their jobs, with families behind each one. How dare they?
"Now the President is hesitant to act, and they don't dare to make further moves. It's currently at a stalemate."
Wen Zheng sighed helplessly.
The aristocratic families previously controlled too many resources, with almost all important positions filled by their people. That's why they could easily bankrupt the Xinghe Group, using this method to tell the President: if you want to play, they can play along and bring down the other two major conglomerates.
At that time, over 60% of human society would be unemployed, and the economy would regress countless years in an instant.
Doing this would hurt the common people the most. For the high and mighty aristocrats and wealthy families, although there would be some impact, it wouldn't be devastating.
The power controlled by the aristocratic families was simply too great.
Previously, almost all upper echelons were controlled by them. If not for the pressure from alien races, ordinary people wouldn't even have had room for advancement.
Because from the very beginning, the starting points for ordinary people and children of aristocratic families were different.
Children from ordinary families would get up early and stay up late, studying hard, working part-time jobs, attending tutoring classes, all to get into a good school and hopefully find a good job after graduation.
But after all that effort, the jobs they found were often just working for the companies of wealthy families.
Meanwhile, children of wealthy families were born at a finish line that ordinary people could never reach in their lifetime.
Because of the God Fighter incident, an opening appeared at the upper echelons, allowing ordinary people to rise through effort, talent, and some opportunity. As time passed, more and more people rose, and finally, someone took the President's seat and wanted to change the current situation of two opposing classes.
So he took action.
But the result was the bankruptcy of the Xinghe Group.
The aristocrats were completely purged from the Six Departments.
In this confrontation, there were no winners.
