Shark Is Back Again 18

Lin Qi had set up a factory to produce airplanes, and news of it quickly spread throughout Bu Peien. Before long, even more people knew about it.

By now, he was practically a star businessman. The official term for that was capitalist.

There was actually nothing shameful about it. You could sense this country's longing for capital and wealth from the yearning expressions on the faces of employees who had devoted their youth to capitalists as they talked about their bosses.

That was why the wealthy were the true stars. No matter what they did—even if they had never considered publicizing it—someone would soon find out.

This time, the person interested in the matter was Patu.

Star Dream Butterfly was a large, comprehensive conglomerate. Its core business was the extraction of natural resources. Whether oil, various metal mineral deposits, or plants—anything that existed on the land fell within its business scope.

Aside from that, they had a hand in other areas as well, but none of them deeply.

This was an inevitable phenomenon in the development of every world and every era. Industries already monopolized by certain people could not be entered by newcomers. They either smashed themselves against that wall, higher than the sky, or carved out a future for themselves.

The arms industry was the same. Those large, comprehensive arms groups firmly controlled this immensely profitable and violent industry from top to bottom.

Outsiders could not get a foot in the door.

The weapons and equipment they produced had long been designated replacement equipment by the Department of Defense and the military. Newcomers could only sell their products to ordinary people.

But how large a market could ordinary people provide? This was not an age when everyone could even afford to eat their fill.

Rather than buy a