Free Web NovelChapter 649: Chapter 394: The Most Unconscionable Plan in History
On this day, nothing unusual happened in Yujin City, except that members of the Xiao Organization were frantically developing their network in secret.
After all, as long as they recruited people to join the network, their power would continuously rise, and the feedback from this increased power was stronger than any other incentive by countless times.
Moreover, whenever the Xiao Organization recruited people, others would immediately and visibly gain power, and this miracle-like phenomenon would make newcomers believe without a doubt.
Thus, the Xiao Organization took root in Yujin City and began to develop rapidly.
Very soon, the Alben Family discovered the Xiao Organization’s covert maneuvers. After all, the whole of Yujin City was the backyard of the Alben Family, and there was no way they couldn’t notice the problem.
"This organization formed by the side family is quite interesting, giving out bread and water to the commoners for free? What is their purpose in doing this?" The Third Elder of the Alben Family, responsible for intelligence gathering, scoffed after seeing this information.
"Probably Roland City’s population isn’t enough, so they want to use this method to take more people away," the Great Elder commented.
"Tsk, who would have thought the Alben family of Roland would fall to such a state now? Hundreds of years ago, who would have imagined they were the direct line of the main family?" The Third Elder spoke with a note of lament.
Although there were small internal conflicts within the family, they generally feared the hardship of the side branches just as much as they feared the side branches becoming too prosperous. If a particular side branch were to develop too quickly, potentially surpassing the main family, they would certainly find ways to suppress it.
But if a side branch was nearly exterminated and now relied on a young girl marrying in to stabilize its position, they would only express sympathy and prepare to secretly offer some support.
At the very least, although many have died in the Roland side branch, they control the entire city. If they develop well, Roland City could very likely become, like Yujin City, a city fully controlled by the family in a hundred years.
"Let’s do it like this for tomorrow. Dispatch some of the unfulfilled family members to Roland City to support that side, and provide some other resources as well. As for the Xiao Organization’s recruitment activities, forget it, let them be. After all, Roland City’s population this year might indeed not meet that lord’s standard," said the Great Elder.
When speaking of "that lord," the Third Elder also let out a long sigh, saying, "Indeed, that lord’s appetite is growing larger, now requiring our annual population growth to reach over 3%, needing each of our cities to increase by at least a million in population within 10 years. And the tribute of women cannot decrease either, how could this be achieved..."
"Sigh..." The Great Elder also sighed.
That lord, for some reason, proposed something called the "Xing Child Plan," requiring all nobles to execute it and not to squeeze the people too harshly...
But if they don’t squeeze the commoners, how can they meet the tribute requirements of that lord? If they don’t squeeze the commoners, how can such a vast family operate?
As for the so-called Xing Child Plan, they were fretting over how to both provide a tribute of 50,000 women a year and still increase the population?
Isn’t this making things difficult for these nobles?
"Alas, that lord does not understand our hardships. Achieving such a population growth rate is really, really, really difficult!" The Third Elder sighed once again.
"We can only take this opportunity after the Patriarch returns to have the Patriarch bend the ears of that lord a bit," said the Great Elder, harboring a rebellious thought within their heart.
"Could it be that the lord is getting too old and starting to have problems?"
Their suspicion arose from the fact that the Alben Family’s Patriarch had grown more harsh year by year recently, almost like entering menopause, even noticeably deviating from the records of their younger years.
This led others to speculate whether a God, too, could age.
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Meanwhile, having completely taken control of Roland City, the Xiao Organization started to receive instructions from Xue Dili, requiring all those who reached Quasi-Legendary Level to go develop networks in other cities.
Originally, Roland City’s network had nearly been fully developed, and at this time, contradictions that accumulated within the loose structure of the Xiao Organization would erupt.
After all, if an organization is thriving, all conflicts and injustices will naturally dissolve. The subordinates will work hard for their share, but when the development stagnates or is hindered, all suppressed contradictions will gradually explode.
Roland City was about to enter such a situation soon because the Xiao Organization occupied the entire city, and more and more people couldn’t find new recruits. As their strength was not being improved, many people began to grow anxious, even starting to fight over territory and recruits.
If not interfered with, this scramble for territory and recruits would become increasingly exaggerated, and these children, originally hating gangs, would become a new gang, doing even more excessively.
The only way to prevent such conflicts is for the organization to continue growing, continuing to become bigger and stronger.
This was the directive given by Xue Dili, to establish Xiao Organization branches in other cities, develop networks in other cities as well, enhance their power, and gain higher status and better resources.
At this moment, the people of Roland City went mad, desperately grabbing as much bread as they could and rushing out of Roland City, hurrying overnight to the cities they knew, just to be earlier than their competitors in developing networks in new cities.
