Kailer Company's investment in a fertilizer production base in Luzon wasn't a bluff. The project was real.
Homo sapiens Company had now taken control of the Fernando family, the Lopez family, the Duterte family, and the Tusson family, making it the undisputed power in Luzon.
It had also managed to infiltrate a small number of lower- and middle-ranking members of the remaining three major families.
As a result, Homo sapiens Company had become increasingly brazen in its operations across Luzon.
For example, the provinces controlled by the Fernando family, which had been the company's earliest stronghold, had now completed the initial stage of their transformation into corporate cities.
Southern Luzon Island.
The area around Limanan City.
More and more farmers were being forced to join Agricultural Cooperatives or go bankrupt and become urban workers, while their land was rapidly consolidated into the hands of Haitian Agriculture.
In the urban district of Limanan, countless construction workers were now laboring away, like a swarm of tireless ants.
The massive infrastructure projects underway in southern Luzon Island had turned the whole region into a construction site. Yet the many bankrupt farmers, small-scale artisans, and small-business workers hadn't been reduced to abject poverty. Instead, they felt their lives had actually improved quite a bit.
After wiping the sweat from his brow, Ball, who had once worked as a fisherman in a small fishing village, used his shovel to toss dirt from the trench onto either side.
He felt lucky. His family had sold their half-mu fishpond, but compared with the days when he had worked himself to the bone and barely earned a thing, he now made around 4,000 pesos a month, equivalent to about 660 Hua Yuan.
If that were all there was to it, his life wouldn't have improved by much.
But