Urban Sims

Chapter 522 The Value of Land

It took two and a half days to fly back to my hometown, Xuanqing City.

It is already August sixteenth.

There are only ten days left before the school starts.

My previous plan to take a good rest in my hometown for a month or so was completely in vain.

After returning to the academy, he will be promoted from the first grade to the second grade, and there will be more wonderful things waiting for him.

His own age is about to turn 16, so he can be considered an adult in this world.

So as soon as he returned to Bai's house, he heard a lot of complaints.

Especially the complaints from his mother, Lan Zhixi, almost made his ears callused.

"Son, it's fine if you don't like Chu Tianjiao from Bilan City, why don't you have the slightest interest in Mu Feiyan, the fairy from Xingtang City? What about Xiaowei Xiaowei? Mother has seen her before. Are you walking with a girl?"

"In the past few days, many families have sent matchmakers over to request marriage with my Bai family. They have sent hundreds of photos, and all of them have good conditions. Why aren't you interested in any of them?"

"My son, there is nothing wrong with your body, right?"

It turned out that after hundreds of media covered the nationwide attention-seeking match in Xingtang City, he is now quite famous.

Including his super strength to defeat all kinds of geniuses in the ring within 3 minutes, the polyamorous love story about Chao Yuanhao, Chu Tianjiao, Xiaowei and others, and the story of saving Fairy Mu from Xiexiu by coincidence... His name And the story, after various processing, gradually became known to gossip parties across the country.

With the transmission speed of wireless telegrams at the speed of light, his parents and clan members far away in their hometown can know his every move through newspapers.

Moreover, because the Bai family has developed quite well in recent years, Bai Feiyang broke the marriage again. Many families who were optimistic about the future of the Bai family sent matchmakers one after another to request a strong marriage.

Among them are several families, even large families with assets exceeding tens of billions.

As for Zhou Ming's publicity about a lover named "Xiaowei", these high-level family members had the same thoughts as Namu Zhenquan and didn't take it to heart at all.

Because no matter how many lovers that Bai Feiyang has, compared with the married couple, he can only be a side room at most.

Zhou Ming naturally asked his family to reject them all. He is still a student and wants to focus on his studies, so he has no plans to get married.

So this provoked nagging and complaints from his mother, Lan Zhixi, which annoyed him so much that he would go back to school immediately if he mentioned this matter again, and would not stay for a long time.

Mother Lan Zhixi calmed down a little.

Zhou Ming walked out of the house and went to a Xuanqing fruit processing factory in the south of the city with his father Bai Xutang to learn about the development of the family's various industries.

Inside the factory building.

A semi-automatic psychic machine assembly line requires 24 monks who are at the late stage of Qi refining to work in three shifts in order to maintain a daily operation of more than eight hours.

Just to maintain this team of monks, the annual salary of the factory is more than 500 million spirit coins.

But the value they created should not be underestimated, because of the existence of more than 20 monks, this factory has an annual processing capacity of 50 tons of black fruit.

It accounts for a quarter of the entire Xuanqing fruit processing industry.

Create benefits of hundreds of millions of Lingcoins.

There is also 100 million tons of Xuanqing fruit, which can be used as "rabbit food" for Guoguotu without any processing, and sold to thousands of cities across the country.

With these rabbit food alone, Xuan Qingcheng can earn a net [-] million spiritual coins a year.

Hearing that so much "rabbit food" was sold, Zhou Ming was surprised and said: "100 million tons, it takes at least 500 million pot rabbits to eat it? The pet rabbit industry, my Bai family can only develop. It’s only been three years, how did you sell so many pet rabbits?”

You must know that the cost of raising pot rabbits is very high. Only the "rabbit food" item will consume 200 kg of shelled xuanqingguo every year (the shell of xuanqingguo is hard and heavy, but the flesh is very light). Calculated at more than 20 spiritual coins per kilogram, each rabbit costs nearly [-] spiritual coins a year.

For those poor families, [-] Lingcoins are enough to feed and clothe the family for a year.

Rich people use it to raise a rabbit.

There are still nearly 500 million rich people raising them.

Bai Xutang smiled and said: "Yanger, don't underestimate the number of rich people in Wancheng Country. Last year, the population of Wancheng Country exceeded 20 billion. Calculated as a percentage of one percent, families with assets of over one million spirit coins, When there are more than 2000 million households, and there are more than 500 million monks, this is also the main force to buy Guoguotui."

"But there are 500 million Guoguo rabbits... Doesn't it mean that every family with a little money buys a Guoguo rabbit?"

This is really a bit of an exaggeration.

"Hahaha~"

Bai Xutang laughed heartily and said: "This is actually due to the contribution of the Rabbit Queen. After research, some animal experts found that the Guoguo rabbit is actually very smart. An adult Guoguo rabbit has an IQ equivalent to that of a six-year-old child. Knows many human commands, and before each pet rabbit is sold, the Rabbit Queen will train them, screen out the well-behaved and obedient ones, and those who can make more commands and actions, and sell them to humans to enjoy the blessings, and eliminate the stupid and disobedient ones. Stay with the rabbits and plant trees."

Such a cute, well-behaved and obedient pet Guoguotu is naturally very popular in the market, and is even snapped up at a price increase.

Zhou Ming was a little dumbfounded.

He hadn't paid attention to this aspect for a year, and the Rabbit Queen actually made him a big news.

But... why did Queen Rabbit do this?
After a little thought, Zhou Ming immediately understood.

Take the giant pandas on the earth for comparison. In front of powerful humans, it is very important for animals to be cute if they want to survive well.

Except for the extremely hard fangs and the fast running speed, the Guoguo Rabbit is all scum, the survival of the race, and it is extremely dependent on the Xuanqing Fruit Forest. Therefore, after careful consideration, the Rabbit Queen discovered that it has formed a symbiotic relationship with Xuanqing Fruit Forest. It's better to give full play to one's own cuteness and form a dependent survival relationship with human beings.

After all, being cute is easy to learn, human beings are strong and rich, and if they climb the high branch of human beings, the pot-pot rabbit clan will never perish.

Zhou Ming had to admire the wisdom of the Rabbit Queen, the sublime survival wisdom of the weak.

In short, the golden combination of Xuanqing fruit and pet rabbit can at least bring Xuanqing City a net income of more than 4 million Lingcoins every year.

This is an extremely astonishing number.

In the current Wancheng Kingdom, there are no more than [-] families that can achieve this level of profitability.

So don't be surprised at all, why many old big families have extended an olive branch to the Bai family of Xuanqingcheng and put forward marriage requests.

"Son, in fact, the most valuable things in my Bai family in the future will not be Xuanqingguo and Guoguotu, do you know what they are?"

Bai Xutang stood on a small soil slope, looked south, opened his arms, and said intoxicatedly: "Land, endless and vast land."

"The miasma forest in the south with a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles can be developed by my Bai family as I like. After decades, my Xuanqing City can grow into a huge city in the south."

"Such favorable geographical conditions are incomparable to any inland city. In the future, the development potential of my Bai family is endless."

Bai Xutang was full of anticipation and was very excited.

"Land? Miasma forest?"

Zhou Ming shook his head and interrupted him: "The cost of reclamation in the miasma forest is very high. If you don't see it in 100 years, you can go deep into a hundred miles. If you multiply the size of the country by ten thousand, it has a radius of more than [-] miles. There is no shortage of land. For now, The value of the land will not be great."

"Wrong, son, you are wrong."

Bai Xutang waved his finger at him and said, "I don't know if you have read the latest "Wancheng Guo Bao". Population experts say that the current population of Wan Cheng Guo has exceeded 20 billion according to rough statistics, and it is conservatively estimated at 22 million. It is between 23 billion and 30 times that of 20 years ago, and it is still growing at a high speed, and it is expected to increase to 40 billion in [-] years."

"The upper limit of Wancheng Kingdom's land support is about 40 billion people. If it exceeds this value, the contradiction between population and resources will continue to intensify, and even lead to internal turmoil."

"At present, this situation has already appeared in several cities with a large population in Wancheng Country. Because of the overpopulation, they have to buy land from surrounding cities."

"It's just that for inland cities, it is easy to reduce land, but it is difficult to increase land, and generally it will not be sold."

"So around land resources, as the population increases, there will be more and more disputes and conflicts between cities in the future."

"Many city lords are aware of this problem. Recently, the Song family of Huanluan City sent a butler over, saying that they want to buy a piece of land from me. It's better to be close to the miasma forest. They bid tens of millions of spirit coins for a ten-mile radius. Father refused."

Bai Xutang shook his head. If it was in the past, he would absolutely agree with ten thousand spirit coins for a radius of ten miles, but now, he would not sell them even if the price was ten times higher.

Because in the current Wancheng Kingdom, almost every city has begun to realize the value of the land.

Those inner cities whose population is about to reach the upper limit are devastated and thinking hard about solutions.

A remote area adjacent to the miasma forest, like Xuanqing City, suddenly became a delicious existence.

Zhou Ming was thoughtful.

"As the saying goes, silver horn grass belly in Phnom Penh, remote areas, does have the benefits of remote areas."

"It's just that Wancheng Country is still far from the population limit. How come there are so many cities, and they are starting to worry about the lack of land?"

"The limit to accommodate 40 billion people is a bit nonsense. The territory of Wancheng Kingdom is nearly 2 million square kilometers, half larger than the land area of ​​the earth. It is not a big problem to accommodate 80 billion people. Why did the media start to Hyping up the land issue?"

"Could it be..."

In his heart, he vaguely guessed something.

(End of this chapter)