Chapter 853: The Shark Returns
News that Lynch had set up a factory to produce airplanes quickly spread throughout Eminence, and soon even more people knew about it.
He was now considered a celebrity-level businessman—officially referred to as a capitalist.
That wasn’t seen as shameful. You could feel the nation’s hunger for capital and wealth in the eager expressions of employees who had devoted their youth to capitalists when they spoke of their bosses.
Wealthy people were the real celebrities. Whatever they did—even if they never intended to publicize it—word would still spread quickly.
This time, the one interested was Mr. Patric.
Stardream Butterfly was a large, diversified conglomerate whose core business lay in natural resource extraction—oil, various metal ores, plants, anything found on the land was within their scope.
They dabbled in other industries too, but not deeply.
This was the inevitable outcome in every world and every era: established industries were monopolized by certain players, leaving no room for newcomers. Either you hit a wall taller than the sky and die, or you carve out a future on your own.
The arms industry was the same. Massive defense conglomerates dominated it from top to bottom. Outsiders couldn’t get in.