My happy life in a courtyard house with triplets.

Chapter 501: Balancing Wives and Concubines Inside and Outside the Family

With many hands making light work, after half a day of moving, everything on Ping Chau Island was properly arranged. The guards outside, the various maintenance personnel on the island, plus Zhang Lei's family, totaled over two thousand people. The entire island suddenly became bustling with activity.

There are nearly two thousand robots on the island. Zhang Lei didn't assign them many tasks, only requiring them to behave according to the norms of normal human life. He not only built dormitories for the robots but also specially set up charging areas. Although the robots' internal energy is enough to last for nearly a hundred years, energy is finite, so Zhang Lei also makes them replenish their power regularly.

Besides, the entire island is inhabited by our own people, so the robots don't really have much to do besides their daily patrol duties.

With his excellent social skills, Zhang Lei quickly became friends with the women around him. Every night, someone would occasionally walk into his room, and Zhang Lei would have to guess who it would be that night.

The first day was with Qiu Shuzhen and Brigitte Lin, the second day with Rosamund Kwan and Joey Wong, and the third day... This continued for a month, and Zhang Lei finally had in-depth exchanges with everyone, became familiar with each other, and treated each other with sincerity.

To make it easier for them to travel, Zhang Lei specially planned a route from Ping Chau Island to Central, so that dozens of them could travel back to the film company by boat at any time.

Out of concern for the safety of his newlywed wives, Zhang Lei specifically asked Zhang Zhiqiang to select a group of female bodyguards from a security company, whom he had purchased through the system, and arrange them to provide close protection to them.

For a time, all the actresses at Longteng Film and Television Company were eagerly anticipating Zhang Lei's arrival, hoping to seize the opportunity to get close to him and gain a chance to rise in the ranks.

Moreover, there are rumors that Zhang Lei's first wife, Ye Shuqin, has declared that whoever can win Zhang Lei's favor will be given the opportunity to officially take his place and will be guaranteed a life of comfort and security.

With Ye Shuqin's assurance, Zhang Lei instantly became the "hot commodity" in everyone's eyes. Whenever he arrived at the company, the actresses would inexplicably flock to him, making those unaware of the situation think that all the actresses in the company were frail and weak. This scene made the male actors feel envious and jealous, but they were helpless—after all, Zhang Lei was both the boss and outstandingly handsome.

Left with no other option, Zhang Lei ordered the male actors' salaries to be doubled, which gradually won everyone over.

Rumors began circulating that the owner of Longteng Film Company was a notorious womanizer who had sexually harassed every actress who joined the company. Suddenly, recruiting actresses for Longteng Film Company became twice as difficult. Seeing this, Zhang Lei had no choice but to reduce his visits to the film company.

After settling things at home, Zhang Lei took Zhang Zhiqiang to Saigon to check on the city's construction progress. Looking at the rows of smooth, wide roads, Zhang Lei was very satisfied; after all, to get rich, you must first build roads.

Soon, Zhang Lei arrived at a residential area called "Happiness Community". He walked to a building, got out of the car, and slowly walked inside.

Upon hearing that Zhang Lei had arrived, the residents of the building all came out to greet him. This building housed over a hundred of Zhang Lei's beautiful wives whom he had brought back from Japan. Seeing the resentment in their eyes, Zhang Lei patiently disciplined, comforted, and reassured them, winning their hearts and minds.

After some communication, Zhang Lei encouraged them to learn to be self-reliant and to do whatever they wanted.

With his help, each person was allocated three shops and began learning how to run a business. After all, in Saigon, no one dared to collect protection money; everyone knew they were Zhang Lei's people, and instead of making things difficult for them, they would actively protect them.

Led by Qingmuzi, the group realized their place in Zhang Lei's heart and consciously accompanied him as his "concubine".

The money Zhang Lei gave them was an amount they could hardly earn in their entire lives, and he never restricted their personal freedom.

Through this incident, Zhang Lei has managed to perfectly balance the relationship between his family and his mistress.

However, he also frequently exchanged some kidney tonic pills from the system to take. After all, even the strongest body can't withstand prolonged depletion, and he really didn't want to die young like the ancient emperors.

Time flies, and two years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the past two years, Zhang Lei has been closely monitoring the situation in the north. Seeing the situation becoming increasingly chaotic, he felt helpless. Small trends can be changed, but the overall trend is unstoppable. With his current strength, he was not yet able to shake the overall situation and could only observe silently.

Looking at the news in the newspaper, Zhang Lei couldn't help but feel down. Zhang Zhiqiang stood to the side, like a personal butler, quiet and reserved, only silently refilling his tea.

Zhang Lei slowly began, "How's our arms business going these days?"

Zhang Zhiqiang replied with a smile, "Boss, the arms business is booming. In Southeast Asia, the various small countries are fighting fiercely, and orders are pouring in."

After acquiring all the equipment and personnel from Japan's eight major military industrial enterprises, Zhang Lei started an arms deal. As the saying goes, "When the cannons roar, gold pours in," and there is no more profitable business than war.

Zhang Lei smiled slightly: "Alright, the more chaotic their fighting is, the better. Only in this way can we profit from it. Remember, send our people to cause trouble on both sides, don't let them stop easily."

Zhang Zhiqiang laughed and said, "Boss, don't worry, no matter how fiercely they fight each other, it won't affect our business."

Over the past two years, Zhang Lei has continuously expanded his military forces through the system, successively placing nearly 500,000 special forces soldiers in more than a dozen neighboring small countries. With the system's help, their identities are flawless and without any loopholes. In some of these small countries, a third of the troops in both opposing forces are even Zhang Lei's men.

However, Zhang Lei could not openly annex these small countries, otherwise it would inevitably trigger a series of unpredictable chain reactions.

However, in the past two years, Japan has already completely fallen to rock bottom.

The attack on the Japanese military base greatly angered the United States, which had long protected Japan, and it began to impose severe sanctions on Japan. Coupled with a series of bank thefts, leaving many depositors unable to withdraw their savings, domestic protests surged and intensified.

With funds scarce, prices soaring, and social order on the verge of collapse, gangs have seized the opportunity to run rampant. The Black Dragon Society, a long-established Japanese yakuza group, has expanded rapidly, with nearly 200,000 members; while its rival, the Tiger Gang, has grown to nearly 100,000 members.

This Fierce Tiger Gang was a force secretly cultivated by Zhang Lei. The core members of the gang were all Zhang Lei's trusted men, while the lower-level members were all recruited locally in Japan. They were mostly unemployed people and thugs who extorted money, collected protection fees, and committed all sorts of evil deeds.

With constant clashes and disruptions between the two gangs, two-thirds of Japan has fallen into chaos. Coupled with Japan's long and narrow shape and weak government control, the country is even showing signs of disintegration. If it weren't for the Japanese Imperial Family nominally maintaining public order, Japan would have long since fallen apart.