LRAB Chapter 732 Making money! Make money!
Chapter 732 Making money! Make money!
"It's all Fanshan Yao's fault! It's all Liangzi's fault!" Yang Ming cursed the ancestors of the two dead men for eighteen generations.
A big part of the reason why Ula'ula Island fell into financial difficulties was that local warlords such as Fanshan Yao and Liangzi paid protection fees to their counterparts on Poni Island in order to protect themselves.
Ula-Ula Island was different from Poni Island. It was home to the island's king, Merdan. To prevent his annihilation, the Mountain Harriers and their ilk would periodically deliver their extorted wealth by sea to the Beast King and his ilk, inviting them to plunder Ula Island. Therefore, whenever Merdan attempted to intervene, the warlords on Poni Island would swarm out, leaving Merdan with no time to spare.
Coupled with Guzma's Skull Team and the Ultra Beasts that occasionally come to Alola through the Ultra Hole, Merdan, the king of the island, is exhausted and unable to deal with so many enemies at the same time.
In order to deal with Yang Ming, Liangzi recently gave a lot of money to the warlords of Poni Island, asking them to deal with Yang Ming.
However, the King of Beasts did not come this time, and Liangzi and others gradually could not squeeze out much money due to excessive taxation, resulting in the fact that they only invited three quasi-king-level helpers from Poni Island.
Then these three people were all killed by Yang Ming in one breath.
"There's no point in trying to 'cut costs' in this situation. I've already sold Liangzi's golden throne, and I still can't come up with this much money. I can only find a way to 'increase revenue'."
Yang Ming thought about the "Silver Dream Company" he opened. Although he had asked Feng Lu and Homiga to help develop the city of Unova, less than two months had passed and there had not been much progress in the short term. His main market was still a small area in Carlos, which was managed by Alex.
If he wanted to fully develop the Hezhong market, the key was to rely on Xiao Juer, Hezhong's top model. But the problem was that ever since the night when the supermarket was abandoned, Xiao Juer had been clinging to him every day and refused to return to Hezhong, causing his plan to develop Hezhong to come to a standstill.
Yang Ming was extremely anxious, but he couldn't drive Xiao Juer away, so he had to find another way.
Fortunately, Kahili returned from the south in the past few days.
"What? It turns out you're just short of money. As long as you open your mouth, "my money is your money." Kahili patted her still plump chest and said generously.
Yang Ming was a little hesitant. Indeed, as long as he asked, the wealthy woman Kahili would immediately help him solve the problem, but the annual budget of Ula Ula Island was not a small amount. Even a big chaebol like Haonuo Group would not easily pay such a huge sum of money.
The only way for Kahili to convince the top management of Haonuo is probably to marry into the family and ask for the money as the son-in-law of Haonuo Group.
But Yang Ming went to great lengths to take over Ula Ula Island not to become a son-in-law, but to build a career and never have to look at other people's faces. He would never want to do something like marrying into another woman's family.
So even if there is a simplest and easiest solution in front of him, Yang Ming is unwilling to bring it up.
After much deliberation, Yang Ming finally decided to ask the Rockets for the money.
"Xiao Yang, the funding you're asking for this time is too much. It's enough for the organization to establish more than a dozen branches. Even as your brother, I can't approve this amount of money for you."
Lambda was almost scared when he saw the funding list that Yang Ming sent him. Even if he and Yang Ming had a good relationship in private, he had no authority to approve so much money.
"Brother, I have an unexpected gain this time. You have to help me think of a solution." Yang Ming knew that things were not that easy, so he decisively took out the words he had prepared long ago.
"What's the catch?"
"An ultimate beast," Yang Ming lowered his voice, "even though it's just a corpse."
"What?!" Lambda suddenly became excited. The biggest reason why Team Rocket entered the Alola region was to obtain Ultra Beasts. Unfortunately, since they had no way to enter the Ultra Space, they only got the data of the Overlord Pokémon and some Z-Crystals.
"Of course, I also know that the corpse of an Ultra Beast isn't enough to exchange for that much funding, so I have something else to hand over," Yang Ming continued. "Actually, by chance, I seized a hunting cursor. It's the Alliance's latest technological weapon, and it can temporarily brainwash Pokémon. I plan to give it to the organization as well."
Lambda heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this. As Yang Ming had been asking the headquarters for various materials and funds for the past few months, but had never submitted any actual results, Yang Ming, the "Alola Regional Branch Chief", became a guy who only knew how to ask for money in the eyes of the top management. Even Apollo, Athena, Lance and himself, who were cadres who had a good relationship with Yang Ming, could not protect him.
Now that they have the corpse of the Ultimate Beast and the Alliance's hunting cursor, even if Yang Ming continues to mess around, the cadres at the headquarters will not be able to blame him.
"Okay, with this, I'll definitely help you secure the funding," Lambda promised immediately. "However, this huge sum of money isn't something I can decide on my own. It requires a meeting of all cadres and the signature of the leader. Even with the fastest process, it will take a month. So, wait a month before the money is transferred to your account!"
"Okay!" Yang Ming agreed immediately, and then sent the corpse of the ultimate beast and the hunting cursor to Lambda.
The body of the Ultra Beast was in the Ultra Metropolis. It was the Four-Jawed Stingray of the Military Police Captain Jerryt. After it was killed by the Magnificent Slowpoke, Yang Ming brought its body back.
The hunting cursor was obtained in the Cave of the End when you were in the Kalos area.
Originally, Yang Ming did not intend to hand this thing over to the Rockets, thinking that doing so would disrupt the balance between the Rockets and the league. After all, he knew best what kind of organization the Rockets were. Once this equipment that could brainwash Pokémon fell into the hands of the Rockets, who knows what the consequences would be in the end.
But now he has no other choice but to hand it over and hope that the league will not be too useless to avoid a situation where one of the league or the Rockets dominates the market.
"The funding issue has been resolved, but it will take at least a month for the funds to arrive. I still have to figure out how to get this month's funding myself."
So Yang Ming organized his men and dug up all the places in major towns where the warlords might have buried treasures.
After some effort, Yang Ming finally found some treasure hiding places. However, apart from finding a small amount of Z-pure crystals, these treasure hiding places were at best at the level of "small treasury" and did not contain much wealth at all.
"These bastards are too wasteful. They have ruined Ula Ula Island to the point where nothing is left." Yang Ming sighed in despair.