After handing the new equipment over to the Blood Blade Special Forces, Li Qingye instructed Bagheera to select 200 people from the unit and prepare to deploy them to Hongsawad.
This would allow them to secretly protect Qingye Group while also strengthening their infiltration of Hongsawad.
After all, northern Hongsawad was far from stable. Controlling the warlords who ruled those areas was much more difficult than in the stable regions of southern Hongsawad.
Sometimes fighting was unavoidable. If you didn't strike first, others would force you to; otherwise, you could only be torn to pieces. In that region, it was even more a matter of the strong preying on the weak.
Ordinary soldiers, even with firearms and the like, still couldn't gain an absolute advantage.
That was why the Blood Blade Special Forces needed to step in.
Just as Li Qingye was preparing to return to Calagua Island,
an encrypted message arrived through the fiber-optic communications network at the Blood Blade training base. It was addressed to Fili, head of the Internal Affairs Department.
After reading it, Fili immediately reported to Li Qingye, "Boss, Director Chen received word that Yang Tianci will be going to Bangkok, Siam, on May 22 to attend a confidential business meeting."
"What are they discussing?" Li Qingye asked casually.
"Cooperation on a subsea oil field in Malaysia."
"A subsea oil field? Does New Nanyang Company operate in that sector?" Li Qingye tried to recall the information. As far as he remembered, New Nanyang Company had no related businesses.
Fili promptly replied, "According to Yang Tiancheng's statement, New Nanyang Company doesn't operate in oil and gas extraction. But an informant in the Security Department found that New Nanyang Company and some other partners seem to have sold shares in a ride-hailing app to Temasek Holdings in