Chapter 692: 699, Elder Zhu’s Past (End)_1
The purge of the Makadun kingdom had begun.
Elder Zhu first used his outstanding eloquence along with some promises to appease the three, seventh-tier powers and their forces, then launched a brutal purge against all the forces within the country that could potentially pose a threat to him.
The first to be targeted were the four princes.
Elder Zhu held concrete evidence of their assassination attempts against him and plans to turn him into a puppet.
With irrefutable evidence, he personally led the Royal Guard to storm each of the four princes’ residences, resulting in a bloodbath.
The forces of the four princes evaporated under the iron fist of the Royal Guard.
With the four princes eradicated, Elder Zhu confiscated massive amounts of wealth and land deeds from their residences. Large corporations and financial groups under the princes’ control all fell into his hands, greatly replenishing the nearly depleted national treasury.
Then, in one fell swoop, he aggressively dealt with the wealthy capitalists and large landlords who opposed him in the country, purging or exiling them all, and transferring their amassed resources into the national treasury.
Elder Zhu was well aware, to conduct a successful purge, he must gain the support of the general public.
With the aid of the massive resources he seized, he actively instigated reforms within the country.
He proposed an eight-hour workday, two days off per week, a significant increase in minimum wage for workers, the abolition of agricultural taxes, a significant increase in minimum grain procurement prices, with all grain procurement to be conducted by the government…
More than that, he promoted individual entrepreneurship at a low-interest rate and advanced infrastructure construction.
His series of policies won the endorsement of the people, completely revitalized the stagnant economy of the kingdom, and the Gross Domestic Product of Makadun Kingdom increased by 6% in just three short months—a historic achievement!
These policies can be described as leftist and are starkly different from the conservative right-wing ideologies of many surrounding countries of Makadun.
If it were in the past, international conservative forces, headed by the Raging Sun Empire, would have already intervened.
But coincidentally, the commencement of Elder Zhu’s policies coincided with the initiation of Manina XIII’s “Gravity Funnel” and “Green Crown Bird” plans.
Upon the completion of the “Green Crown Bird” program, Mr. Cao returned to Blue Star. The full attention of the Raging Sun Empire was diverted, giving them no time to worry about the leftist reforms in the small country of Makadun.
Seeing the increasingly dominant performance of this “third prince” after taking office, with the Raging Sun Empire being completely indifferent and with no economic sanctions from the international community, the three, seventh-tier leaders became restless.
At first, Elder Zhu consciously avoided infringing on their interests, only targeting large hostile nobles, but as Elder Zhu grew more powerful and started transforming more major private companies into state-owned enterprises, their profits were inevitably affected.
As a result, these three giants gathered together to discuss whether or not to overthrow the transgressing Makadun III and restore the kingdom’s glory.
However, once again, luck favored Elder Zhu.
Recently, Manina XIII couldn’t maintain all the large Spring Eye locations on Blue Star and sent out invitations to all the God Level and seventh-tier powerhouses around the world to ask for their help.
Being a small country and highly dependent on the Raging Sun Empire economically, Makadun certainly couldn’t reject the invitation.
Left with no choice, they had to take their core teams to Blue Star in response to the invitation.
Just at this moment, Elder Zhu successfully recovered his power to the seventh-tier integration period, his former peak strength!
With his strength growing and theirs dwindling, he was the undisputed strongest power in the country now. He already started considering how to fully integrate the entire country, purge all opposition, and make the whole country a part of his power.
Just then, Elder Zhu received news of “A Thousand Cups Unintoxicated’s” arrest and the red warrant issued by the Raging Sun Emperor.
It was quite shocking news for him.
The Blue Star surprisingly sent 12 people this time, when the total for the previous two times was only three.
What’s more, these 12 were all players, with low skill levels.
Most of them directly upgraded from refining materials, lacking formed equipment or sets of skills, making them quite weak in battle.
To put it bluntly, the weakest among them could barely hold their own against a peak fifth tier, and certainly not a match for an average sixth tier.
Given this, Elder Zhu naturally thought to protect his own people.
He increased funding for the intelligence agency, ordering them to monitor every move in the country, and to immediately report any anomalies.
At the same time, he went over the resources in the national treasury. If he encountered Blue Star players, he must try to get them to bring some precious resources back to Blue Star.
Now the space tunnel was open, theoretically, he could return to Blue Star.
But given his current situation, he certainly wouldn’t return!
Right now he was flourishing in Makadun Kingdom, he definitely wanted to continue on this path, hoping to take a swift and harsh strike at the soft spot of Skru’s expeditionary force when the war began!
The tale of Elder Zhu will pause here for now.
The focus now is the 12 players who arrived at the Skru star.
The news of “A Thousand Cups Unintoxicated” being arrested spread rapidly through the entire network.
Through the advanced information exchange on Skru Star, virtually the whole world knew about it by that afternoon.
The remaining 11 Blue Star players, either hadn’t entered the Skru settlement zone yet or already knew about the news.
The players who knew about this news, while mourning for A Thousand Cups Unintoxicated, also became more careful and cautious about everything around them.
Now they wore the Raging Sun Emperor’s red warrant on their heads, and there was no shortage of people who wanted to kill them or capture them alive.
They had to hide their intentions, regardless of what they were doing. They had to blend into ordinary people as much as possible, carefully disguising their tracks as if they were spies behind enemy lines.
A few players went to extremes.
The two players from the Blue Star outer circle had already arrived at the edge of the Wilderness Continent. After learning they were branded with a red warrant, they simply stayed inside the Wilderness Continent and didn’t come out!
They had a space ring with adequate spiritual energy, food, and water supplies when they arrived.
So they simply stayed in the Wilderness Continent killing warcraft and having no contact with the Skru people at all.
With no contact, naturally there was no danger. They just needed to wait patiently for the space tunnel to open again and they could return to Blue Star with their spoils of war.
Of course, not all players could avoid any intersections with Skru people, like Sky Dragon, and also Frost Red Tea, Snow Leopard, and Shepherd in the Clouds. They had tasks which required contact with the Skru people.
That same afternoon, Sky Dragon arrived at a small town near the Wilderness Continent as planned.
She used Solar Yuan that Su Yu gave her to buy a phone and through that phone, she learned about the arrest of A Thousand Cups Unintoxicated and the warrant.
“I need to speed things up!” Sky could not help but sigh
It was becoming increasingly dangerous to stay on the Skru people’s territory, and this included Beak Country.
She should complete the task Su Yu gave her as soon as possible and then hide in the Wilderness Continent. This should be safe.