Urban Sims

Chapter 645

Due to continuous heavy snowfall, the road was difficult to travel. The Leylin family, who had been pardoned by the king, did not return to the capital immediately, but stayed in Heihe Town.

Wait until the winter year passes and enter the spring year before returning to the capital.

Besides, Zhou Ming, who got the entire Black Swamp as his fiefdom after being made an earl, also needs someone to help take care of his territory.

Who is better to take care of it?
Of course it's his own family - the Leylin family is better.

And from the correspondence, Zhou Ming discovered that the father of this body, Cohen, had a strong interest in things like "oil", and felt that it was very promising and could be vigorously developed.

That being the case, Zhou Ming planned to hand over all the oil processing to Cohen Leylin, let him stay in Heihe Town, and then use Heihe Town as the center to build an important town for the oil industry. In the future, the Leylin Family will be Yadu The oil tycoon of the Kingdom of Germany.

What about Zhou Ming?
What is he doing?

Such a rich and promising "oil tycoon", wouldn't he be one of his own?
Instead, hand over the territory to the family, earn profits, and most of them belong to the family?

shook his head.

No time.

Zhou Ming really didn't have that much time.

If he gets involved in any industry, does he still need to practice?

Do you still want to clear the customs quickly?
Besides, money is endless. After controlling the financial system of the Yadude Kingdom, Zhou Ming felt that it was almost enough to issue banknotes and he could stop.

For other walks of life, it is enough for him to help and guide, there is no need to block everyone's money.

And this time the Leylin family was able to get pardon, what is the most fundamental reason?It’s not that he is particularly generous. He gave 30% of the 10% shares of the pharmaceutical production plant to bribe Duke Rudolph, and 30% of the 20% shares of Dillo Bank, and distributed them to several powerful earls. , and after adding a bunch of guarantees such as "will not support the family to carry out radical reforms", these big shots let go and voted for it.

Some people may be puzzled again: As a time traveler, Zhou Ming, what does the life and death of the Leylin family have to do with him? Isn't he confused when he offered such a big benefit to please those nobles?
Is he stupid?

In order to save a group of people who have no emotional foundation at all.

In fact, for the Leylin family, Zhou Ming did choose to save it, or he could choose not to save it. No matter which one he chooses, he will not lose anything, and he will not gain any benefits. On the contrary, many new problems may arise... such as Said to deal with the relationship with family members and so on.

He eventually saved it.

For no other reason.

Because his surname is Leylin.

This surname is synonymous with "loyalty", "courage" and "change" in Yadude Kingdom.

Although the family represented by this surname is notorious and hateful among the nobles, its image is still very positive among the common people at the bottom.

Even among the nobles, there are a small number of admirers of this family.

The word Leylin - is a golden signboard.

This signboard may not be easy to use in other countries, but in Yadude Kingdom, sometimes it can achieve many magical effects.

For example, after Zhou Ming became the chief financial officer of the kingdom, he implemented a series of reform measures. Some of these measures are beneficial to the nobles, some are beneficial to the common people, and some are beneficial to everyone. But no matter what the reforms are, Zhou Ming finds that a rule:
Most of the nobles expressed their welcome, and the common people especially welcomed it.

For example, for the banknotes that were tried to be promoted on a small scale some time ago, the usage rate and acceptance rate of the low-level people are much higher than those of the nobles... This is completely beyond Zhou Ming's expectations.

He couldn't explain scientifically why the common people accepted the reforms he introduced so easily. In short, he was very popular among the common people at the bottom.

From here, Zhou Ming also realized that his surname "Lei Lin", which represents "reform", actually represents the desire in the hearts of the bottom people in a society where the classes are almost completely solidified... to change wishes.

Regardless of whether it is his cake shop, clothing industry, pharmaceutical export industry, financial industry, and various industries listed in the next ten-year plan, they are all affecting and changing the fate and lives of countless people.

Naturally, within the Yadude Kingdom, Zhou Ming also hopes to maintain his popular image and even make it more perfect.

And set an example for those servants... as long as they work hard, servants can also achieve a counterattack and write a legend.

Therefore, out of "reputation" considerations, Zhou Ming cannot be a "selfish person" who ignores his parents.

As for money and benefits, he has thousands of ways to obtain them. The best way is to make himself a signboard. No matter where he goes, there will be countless people who come to give money to attract gold signs... This is better than his own. It's much better to go out and make money yourself.

……

The snow is getting heavier.

In the deep winter of September, the temperature is so low that people can only suspend all outdoor activities and stay at home every day.

There is a lot of food stored in the cellar, bread, bacon, dried fruit, firewood, warm wine... Every household has prepared more than half a year's supply.

It's just that because of the war a few months ago, many people's homes were ransacked by the rebels, and there was not much food left.

Princess Syvenes has been busy for two or three months for this matter, trying every means to help the victims solve the food problem. Zhou Ming also made a lot of efforts, calling on everyone to donate, and one of them donated hundreds of dollars. million gold coins.

After the disaster victims' problem was basically solved, Princess Xiwenis won a high reputation among the people, and Zhou Ming finally had a lot of time to practice his cultivation.

……

Pill Bottle Castle, fifth floor.

In Zhou Ming's bedroom.

After a night of meditation, he slowly opened his eyes.

He spread his palms and released his magic power, and the surrounding magic particles were gathering towards his palm.

A glowing white globule forms.

Gradually, they gathered into a fist-sized, transparent ball.

Throwing the transparent ball against the wall immediately turned into countless water droplets.

The first-level water magic [Water Polo] was successfully released.

This also marks that Zhou Ming has once again stepped onto a new level and has become a senior magician.

Click on the character data panel provided by the system to view personal training data——

Level: Senior Mage
Mana: 873.014 (5000 next level)

Perception range: 15.31m (the next level is 50m)

Soul frequency: 1.30 (1.50 for the next level)

Can release magic system: wind system, fire system, earth system, water system

Energy value: 0 (unable to continue meditation)
Looking at the data on the panel, Zhou Ming shook his head.

He feels slow.

It's just too slow.

Although this could be regarded as a monster-like cultivation speed in the eyes of others, he was still not very satisfied.

why?
The increase speed of the soul frequency cannot catch up with the increase speed of the mana value.

As long as the mana value is meditated, it will increase to a certain extent, but the frequency of the soul cannot be quickly increased through continuous meditation.

This value increases very slowly, and the slower it gets in the later stages.

In order to break through to become a high-level magician, Zhou Ming drank all the [Super Magic Potion] in the space ring, but there was still a difference of 0.01. He couldn't make it up, so he could only wait patiently.

The system also told him: "Drinking [Super Magic Potion] in the future probably won't be of any use, the host should spend more time on cultivation."

"I know."

Zhou Ming nodded. If taking shortcuts is not enough, you can only rely on time to accumulate... Those great magicians and legendary wizards, almost everyone will spend a lot of time on researching and improving the frequency of the soul.

Some people have found a brilliant way.

For example, Duchess Du Lisa of the Dolan Empire, the secret of her breakthrough to the legendary mage is to excite herself. When a person is excited, the frequency of the soul will naturally increase... This is why she likes little girls so much, because every time she sees Seeing those cute babies, she was so excited that her soul frequency increased very quickly.

Of course, there are also some legendary mages who go crazy or become obsessed due to excessive excitement.

Secondly, there are those who achieve the "excitement" effect by taking some special drugs.

For example, manlo pollen, a white powdery particle, has a strong hallucinogenic effect after ingestion, and the user is extremely excited, and the soul frequency soars.

The specific performance is very similar to the du addicts in Zhou Ming's world.

Manlo pollen is equivalent to a drug in this world, and many magicians rely on it to break through.

Of course, due to the strong addiction, once you smoke it, it is very difficult to quit, and your face is pale, afraid of the sun, and your body is skinny... Many powerful magicians in this world have this image.

They have changed from noble magicians to half-human, half-ghost drug addicts. The purpose, of course, is to gain more powerful power.

Zhou Ming didn't want to follow the path of these people. He wanted to break through, but not in this way... He wanted to find a better way to break the limitation of his soul frequency on his strength.

During this period of time, in the process of discussing with the system, I was thinking about what method to adopt in order to quickly break through to a higher level.

An accidental flash of inspiration gave Zhou Ming a bold idea.

After the simulation calculation, the system thinks that his idea has a success rate of about [-]%...you can try it.

Zhou Ming started this risky attempt called "soul overclocking".

(End of this chapter)