Chapter 2159 - 3: We Surrender (Ten Thousand Words)_5

Chapter 2159: Chapter 3: We Surrender (Ten Thousand Words)_5

"What?" Yiping and Yile immediately sat down.

Heart God General Qi Luo is more famous among the empire’s upper echelons than Yan Ao.

Even though Yan Wushen has brilliant achievements and strong capability, he doesn’t bother with the small disputes of the people below.

But Heart God General Qi Luo is known as the Judicial Heavenly God of the empire.

The Great Emperor inherited some of the systems from the Five Emperors Era. The Judicial Heavenly God manages gods and is certainly formidable, but the Red Star Empire is not as strong as it was in the Five Emperors Era, lacking as many gods for him to oversee. Therefore, theoretically, demigods with the potential to become gods are also under supervision.

Of course, those below demigods are not worth the attention of Heart God General Qi Luo.

If warned by the Heart God General, then what it suggests is that their two brothers have violated certain taboos, at least... they are unclean!

"Big brother, are you saying Zhaibing’er and the other one violated taboos?" Yiping and Yile cautiously asked.

"I’m not sure, but no military action is allowed. This is a warning," Fu Jin said. "I heard Yu is still alive, let’s wait and see."

...

The Carlos Family intends to observe, but Zhao Xing’s second phase of attack has also begun.

Zhao Xing gathered former partners, including Du Yun, Tuoson, Yang Baihe, Black Sea Emperor of Mirage Sea Tower, Emperor Xing from Zi Wu Heavenly God Hall, Tianwu Emperor of Primordial Heavenly Palace, who once owed him a favor, and Emperor Chixiao, whom he met on Jixing Island. He also gathered Liang Rui, who was once a prince he saved and is now the King of Heaven Leisure Country, the Jade Tree Emperor from the Ancient Country Alliance, among others, to declare war on the Carlos Family.

The countdown to the seven-hundredth year of the second epoch of the Desolate Domain saw the outbreak of a war fought through economic encirclement, essentially a war of cause and effect.

"Ji Si, put this on." Zhao Xing lent the Snow Ruqi Fortune Divine Bone to Ji Si and then handed the Eight-direction Divine Mirror to him.

Ji Si, having seen much in his time, calmly accepted the two items.

The next moment, he couldn’t help but exclaim, "Holy shit."

This drew the attention of all the incarnations of cause and effect within the Spirit Temple.

"Mr. Ji, what’s wrong?"

"Venerable Ji, what’s the matter?" Emperor Black Sea of Mirage Sea Tower hurriedly asked.

He had just ordered a cutoff of sea market supplies to the Carlos Family from the Southern Spirit Sea Territory. Could there be something wrong with this decision?

"Venerable Ji, isn’t our force strong enough?" Emperor Black Sea gingerly asked. The first step is to cut off the Carlos Family’s foreign trade market, as it’s a crucial step.

The Carlos Family’s debt issues are mostly abroad.

The reason is simple; the Carlos Family can borrow cheap money abroad, and why not take advantage of it?

"No, it has nothing to do with you... everyone, continue," Ji Si realized he had lost composure and immediately regained a calm expression.

The others, suspecting nothing, continued their actions.

Ji Si, however, was trembling all over with excitement.

He and Zhao Xing opened a barrier chat: "Grand Minister of Agriculture, where on earth did you get such good stuff! It’s simply... an eye-opener!"

"Is it useful?" Zhao Xing asked.

"It’s unbelievably useful!" Ji Si couldn’t help but curse.

The Snow Ruqi Fortune Divine Bone directly elevated his luck level to Simulated Thirty. The Eight-direction Divine Mirror is a treasure of the Fate Masters.

If they had these two treasures in the last war of cause and effect, would he have needed to brush past death and live in a state of constant nightmares?

Ji Si had never fought such a well-prepared war!

"As long as it’s useful," Zhao Xing laughed. "Return the bone to me afterwards, and you can try the mirror to see if you can get the recognition of the elder Artifact Spirit."

"Okay, okay."

Ji Si was instantly filled with confidence.

...

As soon as the conflict began, Zhao Xing’s side seized the upper hand.

Venerable Yu Mu was captured alive and handed over by Zhao Xing through Starfire Venerable’s channel to Heart God General Qi Luo for detention.

This left the Carlos Family apprehensive and their counterattack appeared extremely weak.

Aside from verbally protesting to those cooperative forces that breached agreements, there was almost no substantial action.

This weakness immediately led to major problems.

The old aristocrats, seeing the trend unfavorable, began preparing to cut ties or hedge bets, neither offending the Carlos Family nor failing to fund Zhao Xing’s side.

In just five years, more than half of the foreign businesses were cut off, leaving only those ventures backed by the empire still in progress, while the private sector almost completely stalled.

This scene astounded all major forces operating within the Chamber of Commerce.

How did the once invincible Carlos Family turn so weak?

"Quick, quickly sell off all the Carlos Family debt notes!" The Vice Island Master of the Mother River of Ten Thousand Hearts roared in a certain Star Mirror Hall.

"Island Master, it’s too late, there’s no one to take them!"

"Sell them to Zhao Xing’s side, they want to strike the Carlos Family, they must need them!" The Vice Island Master responsible for commercial operations at the Mother River of Ten Thousand Hearts trembled in his voice.

He seemed to see numerous causes and effects about to arise from commercial activity, soon spreading to the major star systems of the empire.

"Island Master, what price should we negotiate?"

"Forget about bargaining, sell them at a discount, sell for cash! Quick, negotiate with the Da Zhou Chamber of Commerce!"

"Yes, yes!"

...

At the Four Seasons Palace, Jixia Palace Master was discussing with the other four Palace Masters.

"Raise the prices, raise all the prices goddammit! Raise the price of all economic goods sold to Carlos-controlled star systems by fifty times!"

"All deployed cargo boundary ships, turn them all back!"

"Teacher, this will also cause heavy losses for us if the Carlos Family acquires seeds from other channels," someone underneath expressed doubt.