Urban Sims

Chapter 468 Financial Crisis
Nearly a million feet above the sky.

A Royal Airliner is flying at ten times the speed of sound, heading east rapidly.

In the luxurious first-class cabin, there is already a silver-haired Zhou Ming, except that his eyes are still so hale and energetic, his energy is not as good as before.

"The actual age is 65 years old, but he looks like an 80-year-old man."

It's not that Zhou Ming doesn't know how to keep in good health, nor is it because of excessive drinking and sex, it's simply because of too much work.

In the past 40 years, in order to build the Wancheng Kingdom, he has not had a good rest for a few days. Many crises and difficulties, if his brain is not spinning rapidly, it is impossible to get through easily.

As the founder of Wancheng Kingdom, no one has paid more than him.

So this caused his aging to accelerate, causing him to make no progress in cultivation, and causing him to live for a few more years at most.

Of course, Zhou Ming doesn't plan to live much longer, 70 years old is enough, and he has to get rid of this body as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, he chuckled inwardly, "When it comes to death, I'm afraid there is no one like me who can talk about death like playing, right?"

Shaking his head, this is also normal. He has lived and died dozens of times. He used to think that life was precious and acted carefully, but now he is not even afraid of death.

And his trip to Dongyuanzhou, if he accidentally got off the hook, or made a wrong operation, it might really be a trip to die.

So, what does he want to do this time?
Slayer.

Get rid of that female devil Jiang Ruonan.

It's just that this is quite difficult.

Because Jiang Ruonan's cultivation was actually at the peak of the late stage of trance, infinitely approaching the level of breaking through to the Holy Spirit.

In the entire Eastern Yuanzhou, there are not many ancestors who are her opponents.

Moreover, she also has a superb ability to hide her breath and move stealthily. Not only is it hard to defend against, but the probability of assassinating her is even zero.

Before Jiang Ruonan became a female devil, he could survive all kinds of pursuits for decades, which is impossible without a few brushes.

Zhou Ming planned to get rid of her.

This is quite difficult.

Once it fails...

"You still have to operate carefully, don't show any flaws, gain enough trust, and succeed with another blow!"

……

Dongyuanzhou, the central part.

In the middle of a majestic mountain range.

An incomparably huge palace stands tall.

The palace covers an area of ​​more than 800 acres, with more than [-] floors and a height of more than [-] meters.

Looking down from a high altitude, the palace looks like three superimposed isosceles trapezoids, divided into upper, middle and lower floors, shrinking and shrinking from bottom to top, like a pyramid.

The topmost triangular penthouse covers an area of ​​more than [-] acres.

The whole body of the palace is light red, and it is built using the strongest man-made materials. The amount of building materials such as Yaojin, black iron, and high-adhesive cement exceeds tens of millions of tons, which can be called a "super project".

Happy Palace of Bliss.

is the name of the palace.

It took eight years to build, expropriated millions of civilians, and cost more than tens of billions of spiritual coins. The interior decorations are even more magnificent to the extreme.

In order to build this palace, at least [-] civilians died in eight years.

So much so that the faint red painting on the outer wall of the palace is privately called "the blood of the dead refugee husband".

"One hundred thousand husbands died, one hundred thousand families were broken. In her eyes, one hundred thousand is probably just a number, right?"

Zhou Ming sighed, treating human life as a trifle, trading human life for a moment of joy, I am afraid that only people like her can do it?

In addition to the Happy Bliss Palace, in recent years, he has learned from intelligence that Jiang Ruonan ordered his subordinates to carry out several large-scale projects.

If you want to spend tens of billions to build a thousand-story pagoda, stand on the top of the tallest pagoda and enjoy the scenery of the world.

If you want to dig a large lake with a radius of 1 miles, and row boats in the lake to raise fish, you will need to recruit [-] million people.

It also placed an order for the "Sky City" to the Royal Airliner Manufacturing Factory in Wancheng Country, requiring the Royal Airliner built by the Aircraft Manufacturing Factory to be at least [-] feet in length, and the interior must have a length and width. Yu Baibu's bedroom for her to rest.

As for the cost of this "Sky City", just quote a figure.

Such projects are too numerous to enumerate, and sometimes Jiang Ruonan has an idea, and there will be an extra project.

"Such extravagance, how can the money be spent?"

Zhou Ming muttered secretly, for this kind of behavior, there is only two words for evaluation: nonsense.

……

In the palace of bliss.

In a place similar to Jiuchi meat forest, Zhou Ming met Jiang Ruonan.

At this time, she was wearing a translucent graceful tulle, with a beautiful woman in each arm, and walked over in messy clothes.

After seeing Zhou Ming, she was slightly taken aback, "Zhang Shanhe, why are you so old? You are not far from old age and death, right?"

She shook her head again and again: "No, no, I have to find a way to let you live a few more years and serve me well. I have a pill in my hand called 'Hundred Thousand Zengyang Pills', which only needs the blood of 10 people The soul is used as medicine, and the Zengyang Pill refined, after eating, can make you live another hundred years... Let me ask you, if you don’t want this pill?”

"No need, if you want me to serve you for a hundred years, I'd better kill myself."

Zhou Ming waved his hand and refused directly.

"Hmph, you don't know how to praise, you old and ugly thing, do you think I want to? If I were a few decades younger, I might think about it."

Jiang Ruonan glared at him, intending to activate the Heart-biting Gu and torture him, but he canceled the plan... because it was useless.

"Master, a bad old man, what are you thinking about? Is it better than us?"

"Master, you are so old, is the thing under him still useful?"

The two beautiful women in Jiang Ruonan's arms rolled their eyes, pointed at Zhou Ming and sneered.

"He is more useful than you!"

Jiang Ruonan smiled coldly, put both hands on the heads of the two beautiful women, and suddenly inhaled. Amidst screams of horror, the two beautiful women aged at a speed visible to the naked eye within tens of seconds. She became an old woman older than Zhou Ming.

White hair and wrinkled body.

"Ah! Ahh!!"

"Master, I was wrong, Master, I was wrong!"

Two women, one screamed frantically, the other knelt down and kowtowed desperately.

"??"

Zhou Ming was dumbfounded watching this scene, this...

Shaking his head, the devil is really a devil.

……

Inside a side hall.

Jiang Ruonan, who had changed into normal clothes, sat leisurely on the main seat and sipped tea.

Zhou Ming, who was sitting on the side seat, held a stack of thick account books in his hand, lowered his head, and flipped through the pages, frowning like a washboard.

After a long time, Zhou Ming stopped browsing, raised his head and asked, "You mean, there is not a single spirit coin in your money bank in Xiaoyao Palace?"

Jiang Ruonan put down his teacup and nodded slightly at him.

What are you teasing me?

Zhou Ming glared at her, "You said before that your Xiaoyao Palace has countless cities, destroyed nine sects, plundered trillions of wealth, and possessed endless resources."

He asked, "Now, what about your trillions? Where about your endless resources?"

"Cough cough!"

Jiang Ruonan coughed twice in embarrassment, shook his head and said, "I don't know, maybe the flowers have gone out."

"What did you spend it on?"

"Well, just repair the palace, build a house, and get some fun things, and then, my subordinates told me that there is no money in the treasury."

"That can't take so fast! There are trillions of spiritual coins, at least hundreds of projects must be carried out at the same time, before it is possible to spend them all."

"Um, there seem to be more than 100 projects I asked my subordinates to do." Jiang Ruonan thought for a while.

Zhou Ming turned his head to look at her, froze for a while, then shook his head: "It's impossible to spend it so quickly, any engineering project will take one to several years to complete, if you don't approve a project, you will spend all the money immediately , this is a slow process.”

He guessed that in Xiaoyao Palace, among the officials in charge of managing the money bank, there must be a group of rats who embezzled a considerable part of the money.

"I think so too, Zhang Shanhe, help me find all those people and execute them all!"

Jiang Ruonan said with a stern look on his face, "They dare to give out my money, are they tired of working?"

However, Zhou Ming said: "Internal corruption and occupation are only one of the reasons that led to the financial bankruptcy of Xiaoyao Palace, but it is not the main reason. The most fundamental reason is that your account books seem to have only expenditures and no income."

He put the ledger in front of Jiang Ruonan, and flipped through several pages: "Look, in the income and expenditure records of the past few years, nine out of ten are expenditures, and one out of ten is income. It’s the income from offerings from mortal cities and several mines, and there are no common agricultural taxes, commercial taxes, and industrial taxes. Could it be that your Xiaoyao Palace hasn’t even established a basic tax system?”

If the tax system is not even established, no matter how much property you have in your treasury, sooner or later there will be a day when you will sit and eat.

"tax?"

This unfamiliar word made Jiang Ruonan even more embarrassed, hesitating and hesitating, the cities, population and property in the mortal world are not all her private belongings that she can take at will. Yes, what kind of tax system is there?
How troublesome is that?

"you--"

Seeing her expression, Zhou Ming, who knew he had guessed right, was completely speechless at the moment.

What kind of supreme ruler is this? He is clearly a strange creature who can be labeled as an "idiot" and govern the world like a house.

If she does what she does, it won't take many years for the entire Dongyuanzhou to be defeated by her.

"I can help you solve financial problems, but I want you to give me enough rights."

"Yes, as long as you help me get the money back." Jiang Ruonan was very straightforward.

"Don't agree so quickly. If this matter is handed over to me, I will kill many people. Some of them are your favorites. You should think about it."

"Let's kill casually. I have no confidantes, only servants, including you." Jiang Ruonan pointed at him with a pale finger.

"As long as you agree."

Zhou Ming nodded, with a rough plan in mind.

(End of this chapter)