Chapter Eighteen: Advancing One Level

  Zhao Yun's spear technique, as passed down through the ages, is said to be the ancestor of the internal family's great spear technique in martial arts, known historically as Zhao's Thirteen Spears! The Six Harmonies Great Spear created by Yue Fei, also known as the King of Yue, is said to have originated from this.

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  Zhao Yun's gunplay left Li Zhe utterly shocked!

  Those legendary generals of history had only been hearsay, but now they truly appeared before Li Zhe's eyes, and he would finally know what kind of demeanor those historical generals possessed!

  No wonder the brave generals of the Three Kingdoms period performed so well in history, often with thousands of troops at their disposal. From Li Zhe's perspective, Zhao Yun's performance just now would be hard to resist if it were used against today's military formations.

  In the era of cold weapons, morale was a decisive factor. When two armies with similar military strength faced each other, if one side had a general of this level leading the charge, the formation would collapse, and the other side would only have the outcome of being defeated and scattered like fallen trees and fleeing monkeys.

  So in this era, there will be a Lü Bu who is a hero of the time, and also have invincible generals like Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Huang Zhong. In such an era, with such military strength, it was indeed a disaster for the fragile command system of the Three Kingdoms period.

  No way, we must recruit General Meng!

  Li Zhe suddenly regretted and once again took out the kind of star-chasing frenzy in later generations, formulating a battle plan for each powerful general in the Three Kingdoms period.

  The business system, which had already begun to expand its influence, began to accept a series of new instructions from Li Zhe: conduct secret investigations and recruit famous or unknown generals within the scope of its influence. Those targeted included Huang Zhong and Huang Han Sheng from Jingzhou, Wei Yan and Wei Wen Chang from Weizhou, Gan Ning and Gan Xing Ba from Yangzhou, as well as Pan Zhang, Xu Sheng, Li Tong, Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, and Pei Yuan Shao from nearby areas. These were all generals that Li Zhe believed had a chance of being won over to his side at this stage, no matter how small the opportunity might be, and he ordered them to be given special attention.

  Especially Huang Zhong and Wei Yan. One is struggling at home, the other is now just a small soldier. If possible, Li Zhe would not hesitate to personally visit them and deceive them. It's said that Huang Zhong once had an early deceased only son, if he hadn't died, then the small medicine pill in his hand could be used again!

  With this nostalgia, Li Zhe returned to the 21st century once again!

  Just as I emerged from the state of time and space traversal, I heard the cold and stiff prompt tone rise again:

  "Hello! Primary time-space smuggler Mr. Li Zhe. Your time-space traversal experience has accumulated to ten times, in view of your diligent work efforts, smuggling effectiveness is outstanding, you have received the system's high praise, and now promoted to secondary time-space smuggler."

  All of your attributes will have a significant increase.

  Your personal space cargo capacity has been doubled, upgraded to 200 kilograms (Note: No living organisms can be carried).

  Your stay time is extended: can be kept freely between 6 hours and 4 o'clock.

  You will have an additional quota for chronal anchor points!

  The growth of attributes will bring you a better gaming experience.

  "Dear Space-Time Rogue Li Zhe, sir, please continue enjoying your gaming time!"

  After a load of nonsense, Li Zhe felt a shock throughout his body, a hot flow from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, quickly spreading throughout his body, a kind of comfortable feeling that came from the heart, numb and itchy, rising from every meridian and blood vessel in his body, making his whole body feel reborn and refreshed.

  Ah! So comfortable! Li Zhe couldn't help but moan, and the empty system upgrade even came with three warm special effects.

  Stretching my waist, I feel full of energy and can't help but want to vent. With a casual swing of my fist, I suddenly bring up a gust of wind, which even scares Li Zhe himself, Ah! It's really coming true, this body quality seems to have increased significantly!

  My waist doesn't ache anymore, my legs don't tremble anymore, food tastes so good...... Oh! No! I'm getting off track!

  Li Zhe's confidence, which had just been hit by Zhao Yun, began to rise again. Wow, this time-space system is really amazing! If it goes on like this, after a few more upgrades, can't he also pretend to be someone else?

  But then he thought again, thinking of the invincible firearms, artillery and nuclear bombs of the 21st century! Li Zhe felt a bit discouraged, ah! Personal martial arts are not worth mentioning after all. During the Republic of China era, there were countless martial arts masters, each claiming to be invincible, but weren't they still defeated by Japan, with more than half of China occupied? Those heroes who claimed to be martial gods, in the end didn't they also end up with their families broken and their people scattered?

  In this human society, it is always different from the animal world. No matter how strong an individual is, it is always difficult to fight against a group organization. The body is capital, but wisdom is power!

  But this increase in physical fitness is also a great thing for individuals, right? At the very least, it's good for fighting in groups, playing hooligan, intimidating ordinary citizens, and pretending to be a white knight in front of beauties.

  With a rich harvest and an extremely satisfying heart, Li Zhe appeared in his own trading company with a spring breeze.

  This is a medium-sized office suite, with an outer room being a large reception hall and an employee workroom, and the inner one being the manager's office. It can be said that this is the most basic configuration of a company office. With Li Zhe's current financial resources, he can only set up a leather goods company of this scale. For him, what matters most is the framework of a company, and other things are not so important.

  As soon as he walked into the living room, Li Zhe's temporarily hired general manager of a trading company, Chen Qian, a tall and beautiful local Guangzhou girl, came up to greet him.

  "General Manager! You've finally returned, all preparations for our company have been completed, we're just waiting for your instructions to start work."

  Li Zhe was taken aback for a moment, "Isn't the company supposed to have business operations?"

  Qian Chen's face was somewhat difficult: "Those businesses, you also know, under the current market conditions are not making money. Maintaining for so long, are all losing money... Other work directions, still need to follow your instructions."

  Li Zhe suddenly realized, this beautiful woman must have changed to a new company, had a new environment, and couldn't help but be full of energy, hurrying to show off in front of him. He nodded his head, indicating he understood the meaning, without responding, and quickly walked into the manager's office.

  Chen Qian hastily followed up. Entering the manager's office and closing the door, waiting for Li Zhe's teachings.

  Li Zhe deliberated for a moment, then decided to be straightforward: "Chen Qian! You've done a great job! I'm very satisfied. But my ideas about the company might be slightly different from yours."

  I started this company mainly to conduct business transactions with some friends of mine both domestically and internationally, purchasing things that are inconvenient for them to buy, so I want you to grasp the channels for buying goods abroad.

  "What I'm saying is that all these purchases are urgently needed by customers, who only care about speed and efficiency, not cost. So our company's profit must be very high, which is the value of our small company's survival. However, this kind of procurement is currently not so fixed, it may be one order a month, or several dozen orders a month."

  Qian nodded her little head, and suddenly realized that the young boss didn't care about the company's current loss. She thought to herself, this is indeed a rich second-generation heir, what kind of trading company is this? It's clearly just burning money for fun, without any fixed profitable business, how can our management staff do their job, and what future does it have?

  But such grievances can only be held in the stomach, and the more this kind of young master is, the more careful he needs to be served. Who knows, there might even be some unexpected gains!

  Chen Qian made her most adorable expression, desperately batting her eyelashes at Li Zhe: "I get it! I really get it! Anyway, the current state of the company is just like this, wasting away. When you come back and give us business, we'll do it, but if there's no business, we don't care either. Is that all you plan to do, just keep us on the payroll like this?"

  Li Zhe just nodded, with a look that said he was willing to be taught. He completely ignored the flirtatious glances from the beautiful woman in front of him. In his eyes, this beauty's appearance couldn't compare to that of Su Cui, a minor character from the Three Kingdoms era.

  ……

  Security company office, Li Zhe and Liao Yun Kai.

  "Yun Kai! Do you think money is a good thing?"

  "Of course it's a good thing, the best thing in the world."

  "Hmm!" Li Zhe nodded, "Let's put it this way! If I have some big business that can make you a lot of money, but the means are not so glorious, do you think you can handle such things?"

  Liao Yun Kai's face began to sweat as he desperately tried to figure out his boss, knowing that the test had arrived.

  "Does the boss not know? The color on the security guards' uniforms is gray, and this line of work for security companies is to help bosses do this kind of business. As long as it doesn't touch the country's bottom line, it can always survive without embarrassment."

  "Hahaha!" Li Zhe burst out laughing, very satisfied with Liao Yun Kai's answer. "From now on, you can take over some of my things. Don't worry, I won't let you rebel, but I'll make your life more exciting. You also need to give me a heads up about those brothers of yours."

  Liao Yunkai nodded.

  Everything was again lost in darkness.