The night was getting darker, but Zhang Hao had no intention of resting.

Standing at the top of the headquarters building of Dayang Group, I quietly looked at the orange light in the sky, and watched the light gradually slant westward.

Although a few days have passed, Zhang Hao still has some indescribable shock in his heart when he sees this light.

Gather one-thousandth of the sunlight and use it to accelerate the ship, accelerating a spacecraft with a possible diameter of 30 kilometers to 0.3 times the speed of light, and then flying in curvature.

This kind of technology has only been seen in film and television works, and film and television works are film and television works after all, belonging to fantasy series, and they are different from the actual situation after all.

It's just an hour or two of film and television works, and a screen only a few meters in size, how can it compare to the magnificence of the moment. Up to a month of acceleration time, reflections that illuminate the entire planet, beams of light that stretch across the sky and beyond the end of the line of sight......

Everything is beyond imagination, but it is so clear in front of me.

Zhang Hao quietly looked at the bright starry sky at night, with the more brilliant spaceships in the distance and the beams of light across the sky, but what he thought about was the current development of Dayang Group, the future development direction, and the current international form.

In today's international form, there is order in chaos.

Needless to say, since the rise of the Ocean Group, there have been wars in the world one after another.

With the development of science and technology, people's horizons continue to expand. Especially in the world of the earth and the world of the river map, for the first time, everyone clearly knew that the level of the law phase, or the innate level, is no longer the bottleneck and limit.

However, with the progress of geographical discoveries, with the progress of technology and cultivation, everyone's ambition is also raging and expanding like wildfire.

In particular, the rise of industry and commerce and the prevalence of the idea of capital have brought the four major elements of cultivation to the extreme, and all cultivation resources, opportunities, and even existential crises are linked to 'wealth', which has led to further madness.

The Mercenary Guild, an unprecedented pan-world organization, was born, revitalizing cultivators at all levels of this world and connecting every corner of the world.

Mercenary guilds connect countries, groups, families, masters, small people, nobles, commoners, and so on.

And then there's the most important shift – centralization!

With the fierce competition, with the development of industry and commerce, and with the progress of industrial technology, we are finding more and more that the thinking of small countries and widows in the past is no longer enough!

For example, in the past, the holy land occupied a mountain gate by itself, with a total area of 1,000 kilometers, and in the Xuanhuang World, the center of each 'prefecture city' was only one Lu Cheng, which was three or five kilometers in size.

In the past, the way to govern the Holy Land was to grasp the essence of the Holy Land by itself, and hand over most of the management to the affiliated countries, families, sects, etc. As for how these countries and families are governed, the holy places basically don't care.

The Holy Land only recruits elite disciples, loots resources, and then cultivates its own masters, forming a powerful influence, and so on.

But with the outbreak of industry and commerce, everyone has found a problem - the development of industry and commerce requires a huge amount of land, a large population, and an incalculable variety of talents, and a small holy place cannot be satisfied in any way.

In particular, the research of science and technology requires a large number of elite talents.

In addition, with the popularization of compulsory education in Dayang Group, everyone suddenly woke up - it turns out that education can still be done like this.

After all, in the world of cultivation, if you want to engage in education, you have to take into account the scarcity and high cost of cultivation resources, and cultivation itself is not universal.

However, with the rapid rise of Dayang Group, everyone suddenly woke up - with talents, Dayang Group can plunder from the outside world. And this plundering is not limited to war, but also includes technology and patents, industry and commerce.

Then, with the outbreak of several wars, everyone finally woke up.

Now, almost all the holy places are gradually centralizing power, gradually flattening the countries and families within their sphere of influence, and beginning to collect power, and this centralization has further led to the explosive growth of mercenaries - everyone really can't carry the holy land, but we can't go!

And this further leads to another problem - the Holy Land can't really be wiped out, at most a few jumping Huan can be killed, and most of the people have to be let go. Those who were let go were absorbed by the hostile Holy Land.

In short, there is no way to say about the confusion in this. But in the midst of the chaos, a new order is also being explored and established.

In addition, with the explosive development of the world of cultivation, the world's consumption of a peculiar resource has increased dramatically, and in just a dozen years, the demand has increased by a hundredfold. That's right, this is the Spirit Stone!

Spirit stones are needed for cultivation, spirit stones are needed for arrays, spirit stones are needed for war, spirit stones are needed for alchemy refiners, and even spirit stones are needed for cultivating top-level medicinal materials. Cultivating ordinary spiritual materials, spiritual rice, etc., requires broken spirit stones. In addition, steelmaking needs spirit stones, and industrial development also needs spirit stones!

Of course, the Ocean Group is a bit special, it can already extract the aura from the air through electric machinery, but the aura in the air is not endless.

The large consumption of spirit stones has led to a lot of problems. Of course, for the time being, these problems have not been exposed, mainly because the spirit stone veins are still relatively rich, especially because of the great geographical discoveries, with the emergence of the masters of the law, a large number of barren mountains and wild islands, monster settlements, shallow seas, etc., have become new resource areas.

Because of the new development of these places, the output of spirit stones has increased slightly and the quality has also improved a little bit some time ago.

But Zhang Hao knows better that those who have the ability to develop new spirit stone veins are all large forces. Ordinary small families, business houses, aristocrats, etc., have been trapped in the city.

But herein lies the bad part. Obviously, resources have begun to be tightened, but everyone is still spending lavishly. There is no way, the elixirs, magic weapons, formations, etc. for cultivation all need money. In the current era of the explosion of spiritual practice, your progress is slow and you are regressing.

So, the more money you have, the more you have to spend money!

All of this is in the sight of Dayang Group, and even more in Zhang Hao's eyes.

At this time, Zhang Hao is powerless to change anything, this is the trend of the whole world, and no one can directly stop it, even Zhang Hao. But Zhang Hao saw the crisis in it.

At present, the cultivation resources can be replenished, but many of the current wars are already related to the cultivation resources. Why is the Xuanhuang Group eager to declare war on the Hetu world?

In the past, the Xuanhuang world was a world of developed cultivation, and various mineral veins and medicinal materials had been developed for more than 100,000 years, and the land was basically barren.

If Xuanhuang Group wants to develop, it needs resources. The Ocean Group and the Kuodi Elephant World can only bully the Hetu World without any hope.

However, Zhang Hao is more concerned about the fact that, according to Bai Ye's news, the aircraft of the Xuanhuang Group has the shadow of the technology of the Ming Dynasty. At this point, we must be vigilant.

Dayang Group is not afraid of trouble, but no one likes trouble.

The Ming Dynasty and the Xuanhuang Group united, and Zhang Hao naturally couldn't let it go. I was a little busy before, and I couldn't pull it out. Now, maybe it's time to think about it.

The commercial exchanges between the Xuanhuang Group and the Ming Dynasty were mainly ships, followed by passenger aircraft, and more recently, improved flying boats.

However, the main force of transportation is still ships, and steel ships.

"Perhaps, it's time to think about pirates!, mercenary guilds, one last time before they break away from the control of the Ocean Group!" Zhang Hao muttered to himself.

In the past, pirates were not considered because they were a sharp sword - there were blades on both sides, and if one was not good, it was easy to hurt others and oneself.

In particular, this world is particularly special, and in Zhang Hao's opinion, it is completely suitable for the breeding of pirates.

This is the world of cultivation, and there are many masters. If the masters play the role of pirates, coupled with the strength of the masters and the magic of the spells, the pirates will be elusive and unpredictable.

In addition, the world is extraordinarily large, with a thick atmosphere and low visibility. This can also make searching at sea extremely difficult.

On the other hand, the world's vast oceans, relatively distant land, and great dependence on ocean transportation make it a natural hotbed for pirates.

In addition, there are many islands in this world, and if pirates and others come to a stealth mountain protection array, etc., they will really not be able to dig three feet into the ground.

The reason why piracy did not appear during this period was mainly due to the fleets organized by most countries that sailed in the open ocean.

But if the Ocean Group takes the initiative to train pirates, it will be ...... It's lively.

However, this plan was too crazy after all, Zhang Hao thought about it for a long time, and still convened the senior management of Dayang Group and began to discuss secretly.

............

When Zhang Hao and other high-level executives of the Dayang Group began to discuss piracy, a fierce negotiation had already begun. This is the question between Dayang Group and Hetu World about the 'construction of the Innate Cultivation Research Center'.

The main representatives of the Ocean Group are Zhang Jialin of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nan Xiaoyun;

The main representatives of the Hetu world are Jiao Yuhe, the great masters of the Song Dynasty, Yue Yunfeng, who has already been Shangshuling, and Fang Hanle, the representative of the Dayang Group.

The negotiation venue is a conference hall of Dayang Group, Ninghe City, and Blue Ocean Hotel, which is contracted by Hetu World.

There is an argument for doing this, and coming to negotiate here with the Ocean Group is a manifestation of the weakness of the Hetu world. And after Hetu World contracted the hotel, it seemed that it was declaring its sovereignty by 'inviting' Dayang Group - but if you dig deeper, you can see that Hetu World lacks confidence and is engaging in formalism:

You are still contracting the assets of the Ocean Group.

Negotiations got bogged down at the very beginning. Hetu World said that our innate cultivation path is very good, and the Dayang Group said that our Dharma phase cultivation is very mature, and the Dayang Group has strong technology, and it is the birthplace of the Dharma phase practice, and has mastered the essence of the Dharma phase.

In contrast, you yourself can't tell what this innate thing is.

"Who said that!" a representative of the Hetu world couldn't sit still.

"Sit down!" Jiao Yuhe was furious.

But how could Zhang Jialin, the negotiator of Dayang Group, give up this opportunity, and immediately looked at the other party with a smile: "So, can you briefly tell us what this innate thing is?"

If you can't explain this, this negotiation will not be able to proceed!"