A Wave of Fat

While recovering, Garfield continued to stay on Calagua Island, while Radis returned to his territory, and another Harry became another administrator.

Both men were intelligent, and precisely because they were intelligent, they valued their lives even more.

If they didn't want to become soldiers like Mada and Radis, they could only defect to Li Qingye and become an administrator.

Harry and Garfield quickly understood that if Li Qingye's methods of controlling others were not exposed, the entire Luzon would soon become the backyard of Homo sapiens Company.

Under these circumstances, both Garfield and Harry understood that their best choice now was to join, and perhaps they could even preserve some of their own interests.

As for freedom, that's a matter of opinion.

Some people regard it as worthless, while others cherish it as a treasure. People like Garfield and Harry are typical examples of sophisticated egoists.

The former lose their freedom but can live a prosperous life, and their families can live without worry; the latter gain freedom but may lose their lives, eventually becoming inhumane soldiers, while their families may remain completely unaware.

Garfield and Harry both chose the former.

With Garfield and Harry joining, and Mada and Radis being controlled, the entire Fernando family was now left with only the faction of the patriarch, Jacques Fernando.

In fact, if the influence of the entire Fernando family were quantified.

The patriarch Jacques controlled only about 20% of the influence and resources; Mada had about 10%, Garfield about 12%; Harry had 15%, and Radis had 8%;

The remaining 35% belonged to scattered branches, which either indirectly attached themselves to one faction or chose to pledge allegiance to the patriarch (i.e., the neutral faction).

The small factions that pledged allegiance to the patriarch did not mean they were truly loyal to Jacques; these people were loyal to the patriarch of the Fernando family, not to Jacques himself, which were two different things.

In other words, if Garfield took over the position of patriarch, these small factions would naturally change their allegiance.

Of course, most of Jacques' faction were currently in the Manila region, so now was not the time to make a move against Jacques.

They had to wait until Uncle and Nephew Harry and Garfield had completely integrated Mada and Radis's forces before they could advance into Manila.

While Harry and Garfield were recuperating and training here.

The two also cooperated remotely with Chen Jianxiong and Fili, and at the same time, they spread the word that they had already extracted some benefits from Mada and needed to negotiate at Darte Port for a period of time.

And as the Fernando family's influence in the southern part of Luzon was swallowed by Li Qingye in one gulp, Homo sapiens Company became increasingly unscrupulous in the local area.

December 15, 2018.

Homo sapiens Company's subordinate subsidiaries increased to six, namely Haitian Agriculture, Coral Building Materials, Coral Construction, Abundant Home, Jade Energy, and Pacific Resources.

Among them, Haitian Agriculture focused on marine planting and aquaculture, as well as deep processing of seafood.

Coral Building Materials annexed one cement plant (annual output 1.5 million tons), one steel plant (annual output 500,000 tons), six timber mills, three brick factories, and two hardware factories from the Fernando family in the area.

Coral Construction also annexed three engineering construction companies and eight real estate companies from the Fernando family in the area.

Abundant Home took over 37 supermarkets, 59 farmers' markets, 5736 stores, 22 office buildings, 127 warehouses, 13 ports, 4 catering chain companies, and 6 transportation companies from the Fernando family.

Jade Energy annexed three thermal power plants and seventeen small hydropower stations from the Fernando family in the area.

Pacific Resources annexed four copper mines (total reserves of about 2.7 million tons), two nickel mines (total reserves of about 140,000 tons), one iron mine (reserves of about 4.3 million tons), seven gold mines (total reserves of about 80 tons), and two coal mines (reserves of about 12 million tons) from the Fernando family in the area.

It could be said that it was a windfall.

Although the nature of these companies was nominally a joint venture with Homo sapiens Company, the problem was that all shareholders were insiders, which was basically no different from a wholly-owned subsidiary of Homo sapiens Company.

In addition, there were plans to integrate 21 rural banks (referring to commercial banks in rural Luzon) and one savings bank, which were also industries of the Fernando family.

However, the banking industry received more attention, so even if they were integrated, Homo sapiens Company would not hold shares openly in the early stages.

Clearly, the assets of one Fernando family were enough to make Homo sapiens Company feel a bit overstuffed.

And in Luzon, there were four other families of similar standing to the Fernando family, who were local overlords.

This distorted situation created a terrifying wealth gap in Luzon.

After swallowing so many industries at once, Homo sapiens Company experienced obvious indigestion. Fortunately, Garfield and others cooperated fully, and the soldiers played a huge role in this.

Of course, Fang Xin Cheng had also been extremely busy recently, almost numb.

Although these companies were subsidiaries, Homo sapiens Company existed at this time as the parent company, and there were too many things to sort out.

For example, personnel appointments of subsidiaries, internal integration, and handover of accounts.

Even though Homo sapiens Company recruited thousands of management personnel in Yangcheng, Hong Kong, and Manila simultaneously, the shortage of professional employees remained very large within three months.

However, during this integration process, a large number of middle management personnel were quickly trained. Li Qingye selected suitable candidates from them and appointed them as senior executives of the subsidiaries.

For Homo sapiens Company at this stage, it was not the time for external expansion, mainly because the internal integration was not yet complete.

But this did not mean that Li Qingye's gaze was fixed on Luzon.

During these three months, Li Qingye successively selected 5 individuals suitable to be administrators from the control gangs of the Fernando family and small families in southern Luzon, and incorporated them into the [Spider Web].

The Spider Web was a special organization directly under Li Qingye, and currently, there were only 8 formal members in the Spider Web.

Including Chen Jianxiong, Garfield, Harry, and others.

To counterbalance Chen Jianxiong's power in the Security Department, Li Qingye added two deputy directors to the Security Department, who were also administrators from the Spider Web.

In addition, Fili in the Internal Affairs Department also gained a deputy.

As for Garfield, due to his official position in Luzon, it was not suitable for him to join Homo sapiens Company. Harry, on the other hand, was suitable to join Homo sapiens Company and was appointed as the Deputy General Manager.

The other two administrators, one also held an official position in Luzon, and the other was the head of a subsidiary.

With Chen Jianxiong as his deputy, the pressure on him was greatly reduced, and he finally had the energy to improve the intelligence network in other regions.

The security department's strength had greatly increased, and the number of official employees in the security department had now reached 473.

Of course, these people were not entirely Soldiers; Soldiers actually only made up about 20% of the total. However, the Soldiers were the backbone and the key nodes of every network.

Under the single-line contact model, many of the intelligence officers who joined the security department didn't actually know who they were working for.

This was also to ensure that intelligence was not leaked. Even if someone was arrested or defected, at most, only that one Soldier intelligence officer could be traced.

As for obtaining intelligence from the Soldiers, that was basically wishful thinking.

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