Chapter 43: Chapter 41: I Want This Land to Take the Surname Su


    Chan Country, East Qin State, Mande City, Sh Airport.


    After ayover, Su Jie and his group had just disembarked from the airne when a wave of heat swept over them.


    Situated in the tropics, Chan Country still experienced quite high temperatures, even though it was already autumn.


    “So this is Chan Country!”


    Su Jie looked around the airport, which wasn’t very crowded; the locals, both men and women, wore rather simple clothing.


    Most men wore a type of skirt, with slippers on their feet, while most women wore colorful scarves and had their hair done up in high, sleek buns.


    As they exited the airport, many drivers immediately surrounded them to offer their services.


    Many even recognized that Su Jie and his group were from Hua Country and switched to speaking Huanguage, albeit with a heavy ent which was mostly understandable.


    Because Chan Country bordered Hua Country, it had been culturally influenced since ancient times.


    Many locals in Chan Country could speak and write the Huanguage, and Hua Yuan could even be used directly here and was especially stablepared to the local currency, which suffered from severe exchange rate fluctuations.


    “Arrange for the staff to go to the hotel first; Yingying and Elder Liang can apany me to the office,” Mr. Su instructed.


    Everyone got into the cars, and the vehicles started up, heading toward thepany on the outskirts of the city.


    The driver, who was a talkative man, asked, “Are you going to Lamao District to do the wood business as well?”


    “How could you tell?”


    “Haha, there are many wood merchants from Hua Country like you. I’ve driven quite a few around.”


    The driver chuckled and then cautioned, “However, while doing business, don’t go too far into remote areas. It’s safer to stay around the city; otherwise, there might be danger.”


    “Is it very chaotic around here?”


    “Very chaotic, very poor, nowhere near your Hua Country people; the average wage here is only equivalent to four or five hundred Hua Yuan. With no money, people often resort to dishonest means,” exined the driver.


    His words made Liang Lianjun fidget nervously, thinking of the various legends of opium nting, scam operations, and kidney harvesting in Chan Country.


    “Do local officials not do anything?”


    “Oh, they do something all right—they sit on top and collect benefits. What else can they do? Look at this road we’re driving on, full of potholes. It hasn’t been repaired for many years, the money all embezzled.”


    A few exchanges with the driver revealed his evident bitterness.


    At that moment, the car passed a checkpoint where several soldiers, armed with AKs and dressed in green military uniforms, were stopping cars and collecting fees.


    “Don’t say anything for a minute.”


    He advised and then stopped the car, handing 500 Zen Coins to one of the soldiers while speaking in the localnguage; they were then allowed to proceed.


    As the vehicle started moving again, Liang Lianjun curiously asked, “Who are those people, and why are they collecting money?”


    “That’s our military here, the Mande United Army. They charge a vehicle operation fee, applicable to all vehicles including motorcycles and bicycles,” exined the driver.


    The driver gave a wryugh, and fearing that Liang Lianjun might not understand, added, “It’s not a government army, but a local militia.”


    Liang Lianjun responded, exasperated, “Setting up roadblocks everywhere to charge fees, they really dare to do all sorts of things.”


    Liu Yingying chimed in, “Chan Country is very chaotic. It’s a multi-ethnic nation with over a hundred ethnic groups, leading to manyrge and small local warlords; their rtionships are veryplex, continually in a semi-independent state, much like our Tang Dynasty in itster stages.”


    She had been to Chan Country before and had some impressions of the severe chaos and fragmentation in the country.


    As they chatted, the car gradually left the city area and arrived at a vast expanse of warehouses.


    This area was filled with numerous logs, some stored outdoors, others stacked in warehouse buildings, and vehicles carrying logs frequently passed by, kicking up clouds of dust.


    This was Lamao District, a center for wood storage and trading.


    Chan Country was a major exporter of wood, shipping out millions of tons annually; this was a pir industry for Chan Country, with numerous such wood trading centers scattered across the nation.


    The car continued driving and eventually stopped in front of a three-story building.


    The building bore the sign of Jinde Di Company, with a row of warehouses behind it.


    This was the shellpany that Liu Yingying had registered in Chan Country as per Su Jie’s instructions.


    The office inside the building was not heavily staffed—just six local employees, who greeted Liu Yingying in slightly awkward Huanguage as soon as they saw her.


    “This building and the warehouses behind have been purchased; the building is for office use, and the warehouses are for storing and transferring wood,” Liu Yingying briefly exined and then said to Su Jie, “All the procedures have beenpleted; I am waiting for yourmands.”


    “There’s nothing else; just follow me to pick up the goods,” he responded.


    Su Jie smiled and immediately energized Liang Lianjun at his side, who had been waiting a long time for the timber Su Jie had promised.


    …


    The next day.


    In an empty area, Su Jie took out the Ancient Mirror and stealthily returned to Tianyuan World. He found the timber he had initially cut near the ck Market, then transported it through the Ancient Mirror to Blue Star for the truck team to haul away. Su Jiepleted the whole process quickly, as he discovered that some disciples were tracking him again. He could only swiftly blend into the crowd at the ck Market and then enter a room to shake off the pursuers.


    The quantity of timber was even greater than before as Su Jie, having nothing to do in Tianyuan World, had indulged in excessive logging.


    When all the timber entered Jinde Di’s warehouse, Liang Lianjun was almost moved to tears in excitement.


    “Small-leaf rosewood, Golden Nan Wood, Yellow pear wood, Golden Camphor…”


    Mouth clearly naming each kind of timber, Liang Lianjun touched the piled wood in the warehouse, his fingers trembling slightly.


    Because just the value of these timbers alone was already worth several billion. If turned into furniture, the prices would double even further.


    “Mr. Su, when do we start shipping? With this batch of timber, Tianyuan Furniture can make an immediate name for itself domestically.”


    Liang Lianjun’s face flushed with excitement, foreseeing the huge sess of Tianyuan Home once this batch of timber was back in the country.


    Su Jie turned his head to Liu Yingying and said, “Yingying, have Jinde Di Company contact an international air freightpany and ship all this timber back to the country.”


    “Are we going for air freight? That’s quite expensive.”


    “No worries, we can afford the freight fee, time is more important.”


    Generally speaking, timber transportation mostly uses sea andnd routes due to the high cost of air freight, but these timbers had no original cost for Su Jie, so a few million or a hundred million in freight charges was nothing.


    Liu Yingying nodded her acknowledgment and immediately went to make arrangements.


    In the following days, the entire Jinde Di Company operated at full capacity.


    Contacting international air freight, dering goods with Hua Country customs, and pre-disinfecting and segmenting the timber, and more.


    Only when each piece of timber was loaded onto five cargo nes flying to Hua Country, could the matter be considered concluded.


    Meanwhile, Liang Lianjun returned to the country, overseeing the manufacture and sale of furniture made from this precious wood, working overtime.


    Su Jie did not return but rather registered a newpany locally, named Jieke Biology Development Company.


    “How much money is left in thepany ounts?”


    In the office, Su Jie asked his personal secretary.


    “We still have 5.5 million Hua Yuan.”


    Liu Yingying replied without hesitation.


    That was all the liquid funds they had until that batch of timber was sold.


    “It’s a bit low, but it’s almost enough for the initial phase.”


    Su Jie stroked his chin and turned around.


    On the wall behind him, there hung a map of Mande City and its surrounding towns, home to three different ethnic groups, with a poption of about 700,000.


    Mande City was part of East Qin State, which had an approximate poption of 3.5 million.


    “Let’s start with this, Yingying. Have the employees of Jieke Biology go out to the viges for promotion, start the first n, and let Jieke Company buy various poisonous insects in bulk from the locals without a limit, telling them to go up into the mountains to catch insects.”


    Liu Yingying nodded, then, unable to restrain herself while looking at Su Jie’s back, asked, “Su Jie, what exactly are we doing this for?”


    She knew that Su Jie owned an insect farm, but she did not understand why he needed to start a new insect farmingpany in Chan Country.@@novelbin@@


    “You think I’m really just doing this for raising insects?”


    “Isn’t it?”


    “That’s only one aspect.”


    Su Jie chuckled softly, drew a circle on Mande City with a pen, and said slowly, “It’s just the beginning right now. Next, I’m only doing one thing. I want the Mande City region to henceforth carry thest name ‘Su’ and be my personal kingdom.”


    Oh!


    Liu Yingying’s heart nearly stopped, her eyes wide open, speechless for a long time as she didn’t know whether to say Su Jie was fantasizing or simply too ambitious.


    Su Jie’s gaze did not waver; he simply waved his hand and said, “You don’t need to worry, just go on and work.”


    After Liu Yingying left, Su Jie touched the thousand-hand centipede that was crawling out of his cor and muttered to himself, “Don’t rush, very soon, very soon, this will be your paradise, the opening of our Kingdom of Poisonous Insects will be grand on thisnd.”