Urban Sims

Chapter 237 Forming the Force
The resources have been purchased, but the worrying problem will come soon.

It is impossible to leave these resources alone, and someone needs to help them take care of them in order to produce the best benefits.

Gangjing City, District 52, does not need to be managed. The city management system can operate independently, and then managed by locals who bought the mayor position. What Zhou Ming has to do is to adjust the city tax rate within the allowable range. Adjust the usage price and rules and regulations of various subsystems such as the monitoring system, information query system, land price system, legal system, and assessment system...just a small-scale fine-tuning is all that is needed.

But not Area 51.

Area 51 must send a special person in charge to come down and manage it directly.

Because most of the miners in Area 51 are illiterate, sturdy and easy to cause trouble, if they don't send people down, no matter how hard the mining company's management works, within a few months, there will be chaos.

It is impossible for Zhou Ming to go down by himself. One is that the system does not allow it, and the other is that he does not have that much energy.

You can only go to the job posting center of the game city, post a recruitment message, and recruit a qualified manager.

After the recruitment information was released, Zhou Ming offered a salary of 8000 yuan per year, which was at the upper-middle level, so many people came to apply for the job. Zhou Ming interviewed a total of forty or fifty people.

After picking and picking, a person named "Ban Gongyu" fell into Zhou Ming's eyes.

This Mr. Ban, 128 years old this year, looks like he is only in his fifties. His eyes are hale and hearty, he walks like a dragon and a tiger, and his face is always smiling, giving people the feeling of an old fox.

Originally, Zhou Ming didn't really want to recruit someone like him. He felt that he was too slippery and sophisticated, difficult to control, not honest, and might take advantage of some loopholes.

However, Zhou Ming took a fancy to his experience, and has served six bosses successively, in eight low-level districts, with a total of 90 years of experience.

It can be said that his experience is a huge wealth in Zhou Ming's eyes.

So after recruiting Mr. Ban, Zhou Ming approached him and consulted a lot about different lower-level districts.

"Mr. Ban, generally speaking, what type of low-level area is the most difficult to manage? The type with lack of resources, the type with sturdy folk customs, or the type with overpopulation?"

"Any low-level area is not difficult to manage, as long as more than 90% of the people can survive and will not starve to death."

"What if there is no guarantee?"

"Then find a way to reduce some people."

"Reduce, how to reduce? Massacre, plague, or large-scale killing competition?"

"There are many methods, these are just the simplest methods, and they will have a certain effect in the short term, but if you want to maintain that effect in the long term, you must adopt some more complicated methods with long-term bloodletting effects, such as creating two factions and regularly creating some Disputes, divisions, conflicts and so on... Let the two factions fight and vendetta, the effect will be very good..."

The corner of Mr. Ban's mouth slightly raised, revealing his signature devilish smile.

"Aside from these, is there no better way?"

Mr. Ban shook his head and said: "No, resources are limited. This planet cannot carry too many garbage people. No district can develop without restraint."

Zhou Ming didn't ask any more questions. He had heard similar theories many times. In the brainwashing broadcasts of Area 51, what impressed him most was always the opening sentence: "This world was once destroyed by greed..."

Because of the infinite destructive power of greed, we must use the money empire model to stop the infinite expansion of greed...

But is this really the best way?
Greed, is there only harm and no benefit at all?

Zhou Ming disagrees, but now he is still within this set of rules. If he wants to deny this model, he must at least go beyond the rules and stand as a top-level designer to design a better world.

A week later.

Mr. Ban was sent by him to Area 51, which belonged to him, and officially took over the area.

In addition, for Mr. Ban's personal safety, he also hired a team of security guards and security robots (including 5000 humans and 5 robots) with good firepower configuration from the security company of the game city at a price of 100 yuan per year... Adding the salary of Mr. Ban, the annual management cost has reached 13000 yuan.

The total value of the ore mined in Area 51 every year is only about 10 dollars.

After deducting various costs, Zhou Ming found that in the next 30 years, unless the ore production in Area 51 increases explosively, not only will he not make money, but he will have to pay hundreds of thousands instead.

The same is true of Gangjing City in hand. In the past ten years, the economic growth has been extremely slow, and the law and order have not improved at all. Private weapon workshops have begun to revive again.

He thought for a while, anyway, Gangjing City can't make much money in a year, so it's better to have a "light pay, less tax, and rest with the people". First, the city tax rate was reduced from the highest 28% to the lowest. 11%, and then the collected taxes are all invested in the construction of various public facilities in the city, reducing the cost of monitoring system usage, strengthening public security, vigorously developing other industries except steelmaking, etc...

In short, he just wanted to conduct a series of experiments within the scope allowed by the rules to see if he could achieve some of the effects he wanted.

This includes Area 51, too.

……

Paradise Island, east of the game city, area 11.

In a dense virgin forest, a tall castle stands in front of Zhou Ming.

The plane landed slowly on a green lawn, got off the plane, and Zhou Ming, who brought two bodyguards, visited the owner of the castle.

The castle is called "Dragon Blue Castle".

The owner of the castle is named "Long Shengguang", known as the Earl of Shengguang (there is no honor awarding institution such as earl or baron in the upper area, and such titles are people's respect for rich people), and it is said that he is a very rich man. The big shot, at the same time, is also the owner of the 11th region.

The purpose of Zhou Ming's visit to Earl Shengguang is to buy a piece of land from him.

One piece is used to build a small castle for long-term living and residence, avoiding external interference, and forming your own private forces here.

He has seven or eight houses in the game city, but he lives in each house for no more than half a year, or lives in several houses in rotation, the purpose is to avoid being stalked and disturbed, and trouble him.

Zhou Ming hid it very deeply. Even so, after winning Luo Gabi's 200 million money, the other party quickly found him. No matter where he lived, after a day or two, there would be someone who claimed to be Luo Gabi's servant , invited him to the castle as a guest, Zhou Ming made excuses to shirk it a few times, the other party became furious, and directly called two ruffians who were doing dirty work, but the threats failed, and they wanted to take him away directly.

After three or five moves, the two ruffians were knocked to the ground by Zhou Ming, and after two injections of slave medicine, these two rather sturdy ruffians became his personal bodyguards.

Naturally, Zhou Ming found that the game city is not a place to stay for a long time. He wanted to buy a piece of land outside the city. On the one hand, he could avoid harassment. Private power is imminent.

Inside Dragon Blue Castle.

In an elegant living room, Zhou Ming was drinking tea and waiting.

Looking around, there are many beautiful and colorful oil paintings hanging on the walls around the living room. From Zhou Ming's appreciation, these oil paintings have a very high artistic level, whether it is the color matching, the expression of the characters, the light and shadow of the scenery... It is completely comparable to the works of first-class oil painting masters.

"Earl Shengguang is not only a rich man, but also an artist in the field of painting." Zhou Ming muttered to himself.

After waiting for about half an hour, an old man in his sixties, wearing a long robe, with a handsome and gentle face and calm eyes, walked into the living room with healthy steps.

Earl Shengguang!

"Mr. Earl Shengguang, hello, hello." Zhou Ming stood up and said hello.

"You don't have to be polite, just sit down... I heard that you want to buy a piece of land from me. What is the purpose?" After sitting down, Earl Shengguang asked straight to the point.

"Build a castle where you live, live in peace, retire, and enjoy the fun of ordinary life..."

"I have an ideal to pursue... Butler, bring me the map and let him choose."

The old butler next to him promised, took out an electronic map board from his clothes, put it on the table and let Zhou Ming choose it by himself.

On the electronic map board, the 1th area with an area of ​​about 11 square kilometers, except for the Dragon Blue Castle in the center, accounts for about 20% of the area, and the surrounding land is evenly divided into 80 small squares. The area of ​​each small square is 100 square kilometers, the red ones represent sold, and the blue ones represent unsold.

Zhou Ming saw that on the map board, 23 plots were displayed in red, occupying the lands that were closer to Longlan Castle, with the best terrain and the best scenery, and the remaining 57 plots were slightly worse.

"I choose land 66, how much does this land cost?"

Land No. 66 is close to the eastern coast, with sea breeze, sea view, beach... If you build a castle here, it is really a very good choice.

Long Shengguang gave him a slightly surprised look. This kid has good eyesight. Where his daughter likes, this kid also likes.

He thought for a while and said, "Okay, 100 million yuan, 100-year lease, and if you are sure, you can sign the agreement immediately."

100?It's so expensive, such a small area of ​​land seems to only cost 30 to 100 yuan, one million...

But that piece of white sandy beach, that blue sea... For him, there is indeed an irresistible attraction, and it can be leased for 100 years. After thinking about it, Zhou Ming nodded and said: "Okay, this land, we Bought it!"

……

After signing the contract and buying the land, Zhou Ming immediately contacted a construction team, drew up a design drawing, asked the construction team to construct according to the design on the drawing, and then returned to the game city to buy more than a dozen He also spent 25 yuan to buy a private jet, driven by pure electric power, with a maximum range of 3000 kilometers, and hired a pilot with a salary of 400 yuan per month. member.

After three months of building the castle, the building covers an area of ​​five acres, ten floors 50 meters high (the spire is still 20 meters away), the exterior is painted white, and there are 300 rooms inside. Zhou Ming named it "Hope Castle". "The small castle, together with the land rent, cost him a total of 250 million yuan...

(End of this chapter)