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Chapter 247 From Explosive Shop to Fine Shop (Happy New Year)
Can a large logging factory like Xiaoheishan earn 30000 gold coins a year?
That is of course no problem.

In a logging factory with 100 workers, Flynn estimates that the output of logs mined in a year is at least 4 to 5 gold coins, which is the lower limit.

Considering the huge size of the underground forest in Xiaoheishan, Flynn can further expand the scale after the safety is confirmed in the future.

However, due to the low wages paid to workers in other people's logging factories, the wages paid to the logging factory guards are definitely not as good as the 20 grams of mithril powder given by NPC soldiers.

Therefore, the operating costs of other people's logging factories are definitely much lower than those of the Xiaoheishan logging camp.

Flynn estimated that if the same Xiaoheishan logging camp was entrusted to a businessman from Shield Mountain Town, he might be able to reduce the cost to 18000 gold coins, or even less than 15000 gold coins.

For Flynn, the operating cost is close to 30000.

But Flynn doesn't feel at a loss, let alone outsource the logging camp.

Because Flynn's investment—whether it's high wages or security—is beneficial to the people of Tudou Village.

Flynn is willing to pay the loggers relatively high wages, but also pay a large cost to ensure their safety.

A little surplus value can be extracted, but there is no need to be as brutal as other feudal lords or capitalists.

Moreover, ensuring the enthusiasm and safety of the logging factory workers will also stabilize the timber supply in Tudou Village.

Sufficient timber supply ensures the construction materials of Tudou Village.

For Tudou Village, which is currently under construction, timber is a strategic resource. Without sufficient timber, many construction projects would be out of the question.

In order to ensure a stable supply of strategic resources, Flynn is willing to pay a high price to maintain a large logging plant.

Not every industry needs to make huge profits. What Flynn wants is an economic system. In fact, he doesn't care about the profit or loss of a single factory or mine.

Not to mention that the Xiaoheishan camp should be profitable now.

Even at a loss, Flynn will continue to drive for the sake of timber resources!

Flynn was imagining and planning the official start of operation of the logging plant, and after he obtained a large amount of timber resources, many construction projects would be launched.

But received a bad news.

A villager in Tudou Village is missing in the water dragon lake stronghold.

After the retired mercenary NPC in the water dragon lake stronghold issued a mission to the players, a player used his awakened sense of smell advanced skills to find the missing villagers.

The villagers were robbed and killed by a few petty robbers.

Although the players wiped out this group of robbers, and hung the corpse on the tree as a warning.

But the villagers still died.

Dead is dead, and Flynn can't bring it back to life.

Flynn, who received the news in the office, felt a little guilty.

Because the Shuilonghu stronghold is 50 kilometers away from Tudou Village, beyond that distance, I actually don't have enough ability to create an absolutely safe area.

The Shuilonghu stronghold itself is indeed protected, but the surrounding area of ​​the stronghold is still a dangerous wild area.

Regardless of the sphere of influence of Tudou Village, it reaches Lake Como in the south and Pamukkale in the north, stretching for nearly [-] kilometers.

But in fact, what is really safe is the isolated strongholds and the roads connecting the strongholds.

The area close to Tudou Village is fine. Because of the frequent activities of the brave, the wild area within 10 kilometers near Tudou Village is indeed basically safe.

But in places farther away, especially in places as far away as Shuilong Lake, the safe area is even more pitiful.

This time the robbers kidnapped and killed the villagers, it seemed accidental, but it was inevitable.

As long as his various strongholds are still isolated, as long as the wilderness of Tudou Village is still dangerous, then similar incidents will inevitably happen again.

After staring at the map and thinking for a long time, Flynn felt that there was something wrong with his current development route.

My own plate is spread too far.

If you take the game as an example, I am now crazy about expanding and exploding.

It doesn't matter if the shop burst in the game, if the shop fails, the big deal is to restart the game.

But now, he is nominally in the game "Super Warrior 2", but he is actually in reality.

His people are real people, and Flynn cherishes their lives.

Moreover, if one continues to expand mindlessly without completely ensuring the safety of the jurisdiction, then one's own territory is actually a lonely castle in the air.

Flynn intends to slow down the pace of expansion for the time being, and instead concentrate on covering the land from Lake Como to Dragon Lake, including Pamukkale and Montenegro.

Not only must there be roads leading from Tudou Village to each stronghold, but there must also be roads between each stronghold.

Through the road traffic network, divide the land in the jurisdiction into many small pieces, and then recruit a large number of people to clear the monsters in the jurisdiction piece by piece.

Then set up sentries and patrols along the road, so that even if there are small groups of enemies or robbers from outside, it will be more difficult for them to pass through the blockade of numerous traffic lines and enter densely populated areas.

From along the road, it will gradually expand and fill the wild area a little bit.

The various strongholds connected by roads are no longer independent strongholds, but connected areas. The actual control range of Tudou Village will be greatly expanded.

The rule of Tudou Village will be solidified and grounded.

And the key to solidifying the rule of Tudou Village.

One is the population and the other is the dinar.

Flynn currently has a population of nearly [-], but it is not enough to spread the population to the entire Tudou Village area. Flynn has to find a way to expand the population so that more villagers can live in his territory.

Another thing that is needed is the dinar.

Building a dense traffic network, sentries, and strongholds requires a lot of dinars.

And if you want to use a strict patrol system to ensure safety, you need a lot of soldiers-if Flynn intends to continue to use NPC soldiers who work hard 24 hours a day, you need more Mithril.

That is more dinars.

Just thinking about the dinar makes Flynn's ass ache.

The richer you are, the more you need money!

Flynn felt that although he had 10,000+ gold dinars, the gap in his own money actually became bigger.

The road can't be a dirt road, can it?

There are so many high-quality stone roads that need to be connected with each other, and many guard posts must be set up on both sides of the road. The material and labor costs required for these additions are definitely not a small number.

Recruiting a large number of NPC soldiers to patrol around the clock requires the support of a large amount of Mithril powder.And Flynn needs to keep the mithril powder for system upgrades, so it needs to buy a lot of mithril powder.

If Flynn wanted to save money, he could recruit cheap villagers as vigilantes, but that would also have big problems.

　I wish my brothers and sisters a happy new year and good health.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)