Conquering alien worlds starts from the game

Territory construction costs money, and it costs a lot of money.

The lords of the two places owed a total of more than 4 gold coins to the Undead Chamber of Commerce just for the construction of broadcasting transfer stations & radio signal stations in Innad and Adler...

Not to mention the railways and roads connecting the two places, and a series of factories that were urgently launched to support the road project and the agricultural development plan... The production lines pulled from the earth plane, what kind of free money!

Even if Yang Qiu counts carefully and all the imports are outdated production lines eliminated by township and village enterprises in Huaxia Country, the volume is still huge!

And this is not over yet.

After explaining clearly where the 46 gold coins borrowed from the Undead Chamber of Commerce went, Zhao Zhenzhen took out a stack of thick folders and explained to Colson O'Neill, the newly appointed Earl Lord, that Adler's orders for the year to the Undead Consul , that is, Zhao Zhenzhen himself (the national team), borrowed another batch of funds - the construction cost of the hydropower station.

The thermal power station in Inadoli was assisted by the national team. This aid was not given in vain, but had to be repaid; that is to say, the lords in Inadili, Charlie Rex and Tuttle Joe , Patton, and Miss China Darcy, as long as they benefit from the power plant, they all owe money to the Undead Consul, that is, the national team.

The coal resources of Adler Land are not as rich as that of Inadali, but the water resources are very rich...

The Barcelo River is too wide, and the investment in building a large-scale hydropower station is too high. Adler's current level of technology, quality of industrial workers, and financial revenue are not enough to support the construction of a large-scale hydropower station; The tributaries of the Barcelo River have a very wide basin, and the stretches of the river in less densely populated areas are just right for small hydropower plants.

The cost of this kind of small hydropower station is much lower. Three to four small hydropower stations with an annual power generation of one million kWh will be built in the south, north, and east of Adler, and a few more in the densely populated central part. It can guarantee full access to electricity.

Considering that the Adler collar is indeed very backward, the national team is also very kind to help with careful calculation. The hydroelectric generator sets are either second-hand or confiscated when the illegal power stations in Huaxia were seized. All of them add up and only need to be in the early 6000 million RMB.

In addition to various miscellaneous expenses such as labor, cables, wires, and electricity meters, the Adler government only needs to pay about [-] gold coins-it is indeed extremely generous.

Coulson, who had already slipped to the ground, fell directly to the ground.

"Don't worry, we won't ask Adler to receive a one-time payment, as long as the interest and part of the principal are repaid every year." Zhao Zhenzhen said softly, "Besides, the hydropower station will also be profitable after it is completed, because it can provide electricity for civilian use. The charging standard is 0.2 copper coins per kilowatt-hour of electricity, and 0.4 for commercial electricity and industrial electricity. Each hydropower station sells electricity every year, excluding maintenance and labor costs, and can have a net profit of several hundred gold coins, which can alleviate certain financial pressures .”

Coulson lay motionless on the ground.

After all, he was born in the Viscount's family, and he still has some arithmetic skills. The annual revenue of more than a dozen hydropower stations is thousands of gold coins, which is enough to pay interest...

A debt of more than 50 gold coins—Ms. Gold Coins, even if you dismantle him and sell him, you can't sell a fraction of the debt!

After staying in the city hall for a long time and getting a general idea of ​​the financial situation of the Lower Adler Territory, when he went home to meet his mother at night, Coulson was in a state of disorientation.

On South Street in Midtown, the single-family house of the O’Neill family. Mrs. O’Neill, who had received a telegram the day before and knew that her son had been made an earl, called all the relatives and friends she knew to gather at home, and she was radiantly accepting the compliments from her relatives and friends. flatter.

As soon as Coulson entered the house, a room full of familiar and unfamiliar smiling faces scrambled to surround him, trying his best to flatter the freshly baked Earl.

Coulson, who had just come back from the house, instinctively puffed up his chest, and was surrounded by the crowd into the house with a smile on his face, enjoying the treatment of the stars.

It wasn't until the licking dogs dispersed and Coulson, who had enjoyed enough of the dream scene, that he told his mother the true treatment of the earl lord...

"How could such an outrageous thing happen?!"

Mrs. O'Neill, who was immersed in the fantasy of a lady's life, and even started to plan to find a suitable noble lady for her son as a wife, was dragged back to reality in an instant by the huge debt figure, and said angrily: "You can't even look at this money!" I haven’t seen it before, why should you pay it back?!”

"It's not repaid by me alone, but by all the Adler leaders together, using the financial income of the Adler leaders." Coulson said in a daze, "But because I am the Lord Adler, So the main debtor of these debts is me... and I must be responsible for Adler's fiscal deficit."

"You have been cheated, you must have been cheated!" Mrs. O'Neill, who had struggled for many years after her husband's death and managed to survive, could not accept this too cruel reality, and said frantically, "I have never heard of a There is such an outrageous thing, the Ezekiel family did not act as earls and lords like this before!"

Coulson was silent for a moment, then quietly said: "But Mr. Yang will not support a lord like the Ezekiel family."

"But the lords all over the world are not like this!" Mrs. O'Neill screamed, "Even the Darcy family in the past didn't say that they would be heavily in debt for those country folks in Kane Town!"

Coulson himself knew that his mother could not give him more advice than to vent his emotions, so he sighed and put his head in his hands.

In fact, he didn't have to bear the debt of more than 50 gold coins.

Let someone else be the lord of this Adler land, just give up the earl position to someone else.

Although he was kicked to the king's capital and waited to be entrusted before Adler changed hands, at least the property that was taken away by his uncle returned to his name... For example, the property in the central city A house, like that farm outside the city.

If Coulson is not willing to be the earl lord, then he can still take a step back and become a middle-class citizen who owns real estate in the middle city and a farm outside the city.

The only key is...whether Coulson is willing to give up the position of earl lord that has fallen into his hands.

And this, Coulson obviously can't do it.

If he hadn't been Lord Adler supported by Mr. Yang, he wouldn't have had the chance to step into the palace in his life, let alone see the old king who didn't like him very much pinch his nose and awkwardly award him honors , but also try to say some words of encouragement to him in a pleasant manner.

If he hadn't been the earl and lord whom Mr. Yang raised to the throne, little Prince Andre wouldn't have warmly chatted with him and called him a brother and brother.

If he didn't have the halo of the earl lord, there wouldn't be so many familiar or unfamiliar people surrounding him trying to please and flatter him.

To make him make up his mind to give up all of this and go back to be an ordinary citizen who is unknown and ignored by no one - Coulson can't do it!

Not only could he not do it, but his mother, Mrs. O'Neill, would never consider this option.

Mrs. O'Neill, who was yelling and cursing to vent her emotions, didn't say a word like "this earl and lord is wrong" no matter how fiercely she used her words.

After crying bitterly, Mrs. O'Neill suddenly grabbed her son's sleeve, lowered her voice, and said hopefully, "Tell me, Coulson...you are at least the lord, right, then the Adler...belongs to you after all, right? ?”

Coulson knew his mother too well, knew what she wanted to ask, and said with a wry smile: "Mom... where the undead rule, the lord is just a job. I can get a salary, and if I do well, I can get Great bonuses, that’s all.”

When Zhao Zhenzhen was in debt, the collapsed Coulson also questioned whether the situation of the Lord of Innerdale Charlie Rex was the same as him.

The undead lady told him firmly in a very gentle but unquestionable tone that Charlie Rex, who had been the lord of Innatrix for two years, had the biggest gain in his personal income last year from the Innadel City Hall The year-end award, five hundred gold coins as a winner of the "Excellent Individual" award.

Without receiving the bonus, Rex's usual income is only on par with that of senior civil servants... With the basic annual salary of two hundred gold coins, plus full attendance bonus, field allowance, overtime allowance, field allowance, etc., the annual income is about three , Four hundred gold coins.

This income cannot be said to be low, and it is still passable in the Rhine Kingdom, but it is far from what Coulson expected...

Coulson told his mother the lord's annual salary that Zhao Zhenzhen had told her, and Mrs. O'Neill suddenly fell into a state where she felt that her life had stabilized and she was extremely unwilling.

"Is that all? Nothing else?" Mrs. O'Neill said extremely unwillingly, "After all, you are the earl and lord of Adler. You should also have the manor and horse farm that barons can have, or go away Wouldn’t it be embarrassing to go out and throw it home, where can the earl be so poor?”

Coulson was silent for a while, and said quietly: "The manor horse farm that has not been converted into a farm is under the joint supervision of the Secretary Department and the Land Bureau under the Department of Civil Affairs. Without a valid application reason, it is impossible to obtain a permission for embezzlement. Even if the application is approved, use Time is also counted on a daily basis, and rent must be paid.”

After a pause, Coulson added quietly: "The undead lady also warned me that the city hall has a complete accountability system, as well as a system for confiscation and confiscation of dirty money, bribe money, and huge amounts of unknown origin... any official , clerks, and cadres suffer losses to the property in the territory they are responsible for during their work, they will be held accountable to the end, and the scope of responsibilities includes the responsible person himself, his family members, relatives and friends."

Mrs. O'Neill clutched her chest and rolled her eyes up, trying to avoid fainting on the spot.

Hurry up to make a fortune while you still have the power of the lord in hand, and then dump the position of earl lord and the outrageous debts to others... This road will not work!

That night, the newly baked noble mother and son could not sleep all night.

When Colson and Mrs. O'Neill were worrying about gains and losses and entangled in every possible way, in the lord's mansion not far from O'Neill's house, the little Prince Andre, who was not entertained from noon to night, was aggrieved and aggrieved to make dinner for himself. I found a guest room, cleaned it myself, changed the sheets myself, and moved in by myself.

Little Prince Andre, who was neglected, didn't know that the three casters on the second floor didn't intend to neglect him, but really forgot about him...

There is still an hour and a half before midnight in the alien time.

Yang Qiu was meditating on the high-back chair in the study, and Kingsley was meditating on the sofa directly opposite. The four crystal balls lined up on the coffee table in front of him were emitting a faint cold light at the same time.

Lich Enwei sat on the single sofa on the right side of Kingsley, from time to time, he used his mental power to check the scene of the activities of outsiders in the illusion map constructed in the crystal ball, and silently looked at the pair of master and apprentice who were meditating repeatedly.

Yang has a very high talent for resisting mental pollution, which Enwei knew when he first met Yang more than a hundred years ago; this guy was able to be hunted down by the Lieyang Church for decades without missing a beat. The ability to resist interference and quickly meditate to restore mental power and absorb magic power.

As for Kingsley, Envi can be sure that this pioneer of the black magic department does not have this talent.

From the moment he entered the lord's mansion, Enwei saw with his own eyes that the pair of master and apprentice ignored the extremely unstable interference in the magic power, and had been meditating repeatedly since noon until now.

This is enough to prove that using the imaginary fantasy map stored in the crystal ball like a child's play, designing a so-called "game" that is difficult to understand where the fun is, and then constructing a spiritual matrix as a traction, can attract people from other worlds Fanatical participation... And these outsiders who project their souls into the mental matrix can indeed serve as anchors to help spellcasters resist mental interference.

Enwei breathed out slightly invisibly.

Building a mental matrix can obtain a risk-free anchor point within a certain period of time... This outrageous idea is actually true!

Suppressing the turbulent emotions in his chest, Enwei once again separated his mental thoughts and put them into the fantasy map constructed by Kingsley.

Many projections of aliens who look similar to humans in Nabaron, but have obvious differences in facial features and shapes, are still fighting each other tirelessly in the fantasy map, or are killed by Kingsley's fictional humanoid projections.

A battle in the fantasy map is over, and there will be a new batch of projections from outsiders coming...

Enwei silently observed the outsider.

He can understand the operating rules of the "game" described by Yang, the operating rules of the mental matrix, and the anchoring effect of the projection of the soul of the outsider into the spiritual matrix. These are not too deep for high-level spellcasters.

But Enwei just can't understand why people from other worlds can be attracted by this kind of "game" that is no fun at all, and spend time in this fantasy world composed of the most basic projection illusions—these people from other worlds Don't you have other more important things to do? !