Conquering alien worlds starts from the game

The beluga goes offline at noon, and does not come online until after four in the afternoon, when the event is over.

He went off the assembly line at Westham, and he was still at Westham when he came up.

The street scene of the small town in the early morning was not attractive to the beluga, he didn't even go online, and directly sent it back to the town of exile.

Coming out of the teleportation point at Cross Street in Exile Town, Ou Hulu casually opened his personal panel and looked at his character stats.

"ID: Beluga"

"Race: Undead"

"Sex: Male"

"Level: Two"

"Potential value: 124"

The beluga silently turned off the panel...

Although playing a game is like a stand-alone game, and living in isolation is like a hermit among players, but of course the A. hulus also has a heart to be the best.

His potential value is at this stage of the game, and he beats up a group of children. After all, the large army of players is still at the node of 70~80 potential.

But... In terms of potential value rankings, the A. hulus can't even make it into the top three...

Game No. 1 Ji Tang, with a potential value of 168, Yiqi Juechen dominates, and he can't even be jealous.

That's all, after all, Ji Tang is a former special soldier who can't even say the number of the unit he served in - although Ji Tang himself has never admitted it, it doesn't prevent players from putting a label of soldier king on his forehead.

The most painful thing is that No. 2 and No. 3 in the ranking of potential value cannot be regarded as pure players.

The two uncles in the canteen of the Chamber of Commerce, Uncle Geng whose ID is Lao Geng has a potential value of 141, and the uncle whose ID is Master Liu has a potential value of 130.

Players go to the canteen of the chamber of commerce to clear tasks, change materials and equipment, etc., as long as they see their stats, they will be very sad and inexplicable... and they are very unwilling to reconcile these two old uncles. Can't catch up, and I'm embarrassed to rant against the shady uncle party at the elders who are obviously not here to play the game.

Uncle Geng, Uncle Liu, walks around the canteen every day when he goes online. He has to cook for the NPCs in the town, and he has to exchange materials and equipment for players like them. He wants players to sacrifice their gaming experience to trade with them. willing to do.

Anyway, these two uncles don't do the quests of robbing monsters with the players, cheating on numerical values ​​is just cheating...

Ou Hulu has no intention of competing with these two cafeteria masters, and every time he sees them, his mentality is quite peaceful.

As soon as Ou Hulu carried half a bag of grasshoppers into the door of the canteen of the Chamber of Commerce, Master Liu greeted him warmly when he saw him: "Here comes the little brother, what are you bringing this time?"

Ou Hulu looked around, went to the tableware cabinet, took a plastic basin, poured out the grasshoppers in the bag, and showed it to Master Liu.

"Can you still catch this thing? You went to Westham to catch it, right?" Master Liu pinched a grasshopper with two finger bones in amazement, "Yo, it's quite big!"

Lao Geng, who was busy steaming steamed buns (also quick-frozen products), came out from behind the half-open kitchen counter, wiped his hands on the apron, and took a look at a grasshopper: "It's okay, Lao Liu, Wrap this in some salt and deep-fry it and it will be delicious.”

Master Liu didn't respond in a hurry, but first used an identification technique with the quality of a tool-their NPC panel also has a player skill panel-to confirm that the grasshopper was identified as white, and then he readily accepted it: "Okay, it works, I'll check the scale. Little brother, is it better to change reputation this time?"

Ou Hulu nodded.

There are currently two ways to obtain the reputation of the "Undead Chamber of Commerce", one is to clear the quest of the Chamber of Commerce canteen, and the other is to hand in materials.

The life skills of a butcher that Ouhuo practiced, almost all the "products" produced here are accepted by the cafeteria, and he does not need to run around to squat tasks, so he can brush up faster than ordinary players...

Master Liu accepted most of the pot of grasshoppers, and skillfully opened the tool man panel: "Hey, little brother, with your reputation this time, you will be friendly, yes, you are the first."

Ou Hulu has been opening the panel. With the new reputation in the account, his reputation bar has rushed to the full bar and reached friendship. The option to exchange designated materials, potions, equipment, and props pops up, and an option to hire NPC is added. Immediately A burst of excitement.

You must know that the reputation of the Undead Chamber of Commerce is not easy to gain, and the daily tasks are very limited.

Let's exchange materials, the Chamber of Commerce canteen doesn't accept all materials like other NPC prestige - they only accept usable ingredients here.

"What? Someone friendly??"

Immediately, two round skull heads popped up behind the semi-open kitchen counter: "Who's so fast——ah, big guy Oluga!"

"It's still a step ahead of you." Teacher Yuchi, who has been staying in the cafeteria for a long time, said regretfully, "I also said that I would be the first to be friendly after finishing today's cafeteria routine."

"You're almost there, Yuchi, it's only 200 points away." Master Liu said with a smile, "Miss Xiaoliu is far behind, more than 1000 points."

Sister Liu Meng scratched her head in embarrassment: "Oh, I've been on an expedition mission for a while, so it's delayed."

Ou Huo nodded friendly to the two female players... They are both prestigious fellow travelers of the Liver Chamber of Commerce, and they bump into each other several times a day, even if they are not very close, at least they are familiar with each other.

At this time, another toolman player emerged from the side door of the semi-open kitchen: "Come someone to help carry the water, the water tank is empty."

"I'll come, I'll come." Sister Liu Meng ran over lively immediately.

The newly-appeared worker in the canteen of the chamber of commerce, whose ID is Ye Zhenzhen, whose real name is Zhao Zhenzhen, is the elder sister of Yujieyin. When he saw Ou Huo standing outside the counter, he greeted him: "If you don't want to do the task, come over if you do." .”

Without saying a word, Ouhulu immediately got into the kitchen.

He came up to deliver the grasshoppers at this hour, in fact, he wanted to see if he could get into the canteen mission...

Zhao Zhenzhen went online during the second expedition mission. At that time, the players were all focused on the expedition mission, and they didn't notice that the "uncle party" who was playing the shady scene had another general. Otherwise, there would probably be another general on the player forum. It takes a long time to frantically brush up the spray posts——Zhao Zhenzhen also obviously "cheated" on the potential value as soon as she entered the game, and her initial potential was 122 points.

At around 07:30 game time, the NPCs staying in the town came to eat one after another.

The tasks of the players only include pre-dinner preparation, and they don't need to do the work of washing dishes and cleaning. Teacher Yuchi, who has children, greeted Liu Meng's sister, and hurriedly went offline to cook.

Sister Liu Meng wasn't idle either, she tidied up and prepared to send it to Westham to take over the cooking task there.

"Boss Ou Hulu, do you want to go together?" Liu Meng greeted politely before leaving.

Ou Hulu shook his head to express his refusal, then turned his head and went to the Butcher's Workshop... He still didn't want to play with others, it was too troublesome.

After all the players left, the three workers in the canteen of the chamber of commerce got together and whispered to each other.

"Xiao Zhao, what's going on at the research institute, can't I arrange a helper for you?" Old Geng said in a low voice.

"I'm afraid it won't work." Zhao Zhenzhen said, "Director Lu has tried his best to squeeze out my helmet. Now the helmets in the clinic are not enough, and the patients waiting for clinical stimulation are queuing up."

"It's really troublesome..." Lao Geng pondered for a while, and said, "Otherwise, let's do it this way. I think Liu Meng spends a lot of time online. She has a simple mind and likes to make pots and stoves. Look, you should develop her."

Master Liu shook his head and said, "That's not right, Brother Geng. Young people nowadays are so smart and have had a lot of contact with them. Maybe they can see the problem. I can't go to this little girl in reality and ask her to sign a secret document." agreement?"

"There's nothing wrong with it. After graduating from college students, they are still looking for a job. If they are specially recruited, it's over." Old Geng waved his claws, and said in a very airy manner.

Zhao Zhenzhen couldn't laugh or cry: "Uncle Geng, our department has regulations..."

"What are the rules and regulations? We didn't have so many rules at that time." Old Geng said dissatisfiedly.

"Oh brother Geng, the times are different." Master Liu quickly smoothed things over, "The young people today are not the same as the young people in the past. They have very flexible brains. Anyway, besides players, you can also consider local people. Then There is a town next to it, and there are many local people, so it is not impossible for us to develop—”

"You can't understand each other when you talk, how can you develop local people?" Lao Geng frowned.

Master Liu chuckled, and winked at Zhao Zhenzhen: "Brother Geng doesn't understand, you must understand, don't you, Xiao Zhao?"

Zhao Zhenzhen couldn't laugh or cry again...

The player has no temper towards the two old brothers, and she has no temper either, especially Liu Gong, this uncle is really smarter than a monkey-players can hire NPCs, and of course Ji Tang, who got the mayor, also has to deal with NPCs The method of communication; it's just that their purpose of contacting NPC is completely different from that of players, and they need to keep it secret.

Lao Geng frowned and looked at Zhao Zhenzhen, and then looked at Lao Liu who was smiling straight away. He realized that Zhao Zhenzhen had already found a solution to the problem, and Lao Liu also guessed it, but the two of them pretended to be confused and did not follow He breathes.

Lao Geng is not easy to trouble Zhao Zhenzhen, he just pointed at Lao Liu: "Okay, good old Liu, don't tell me anything, just let me worry about here!"

Master Liu just shook his head and smiled.

Six o'clock in the afternoon on earth time, eleven o'clock on the noon time in another world.

Zhao Zhenzhen, who was riding a tricycle full of goods, appeared at the teleportation point in the middle of Westham Town Hall compound.

The teleportation array, which is actually a summoning array, can not only summon the player, but also the materials carried by the player. As long as the object is not larger than the magic circle with a diameter of two and a half meters, it can be sent along with the player, eliminating the need for Westem also has trouble with the magic circle freezer.

Zhao Zhenzhen had already come to Westham to "step on a spot" before, and rode a tricycle out of Westham's town hall, and after a while, she found the town's main road with ease, in a small two-story half-wood building Stop in front of the ancient-style building with half-masonry structure.

This medieval-style building was originally a bar. Now the signboards, lanterns, interior private rooms, bar counters, etc. have all been demolished, and a bar from the Westham branch of the Chamber of Commerce cafeteria has been hung. Sign up...

Ji Tang, who was waiting in front of the cafeteria branch, waited for the tricycle to stop, then smiled and stretched out his hand: "Sister Zhao, long time no see."

"Long time no see." Zhao Zhenzhen shook Ji Tang's hand, then pulled him over by his hand, and hugged him vigorously.

Both of them have a military temperament, but Zhao Zhenzhen is obviously not an ordinary soldier, she looks more restrained.

Ji Tang handed over the newly changed key to Zhao Zhenzhen, and led her in to recognize the person: "These two are here to help in the cafeteria, this is Lika, and this is Brooke."

Lika and Brook both had azalea badges pinned to their chests, there was no obstacle in communication, and they bowed cautiously to Zhao Zhenzhen.

Zhao Zhenzhen nodded to the young Brook with a smile, and when she looked at Lika, her eyes sparkled, "Hello, my surname is Zhao, you can call me Sister Zhao just like Ji Tang."

The boy Brook was a little inspired. Although the undead lady in front of him had a brisk voice and an approachable attitude, it gave him an unfathomable feeling... He swallowed, and said with some fear: "Okay, Ms. Zhao."

"Just call Sister Zhao." Zhao Zhenzhen had never seen such a beautiful little boy in real life, so she squeezed the young man's head.

"Sister Zhao." Lika said obediently.

"Hey." Zhao Zhenzhen nodded happily, and pinched the orc girl's cheek, "Look at this skinny guy, his face is no bigger than a palm, do you usually eat well?"

"Eat, every meal is full." Lika said more and more obediently.

The inspiration of the orc tribe is also very strong. Lika instinctively felt that the undead lady in front of her had a bottomless evil spirit, which was more terrifying than that Hal who often wore a fierce face...

Westam has a lot of waste to do, and Ji Tang still has a lot of things waiting to be done. Zhao Zhenzhen didn't come to Westem just to manage a canteen, and left the preparations for opening the store to the two young coolies. Zhao Zhenzhen's canteen The person in charge of the branch...was taken to the town hall by Ji Tang.

In the mayor's office, Ji Tang took out a thick stack of paper documents and said, "The files left by the previous mayor, the last census was done more than 20 years ago, and many people in the files have passed away. , the newly added population is not in the file. Now the townspeople have a high resistance to us. Many people are not willing to accept the census. , there is still work to be done."

Zhao Zhenzhen looked through it, and said, "Is there no poll tax in this place?"

"No." Ji Tang said, "The town population tax of the Rhineland Kingdom is collected on a family basis, with the income of the oldest male head of the family as the basis for tax collection. I'm thinking that this tax policy is tilted towards the top. I read the Innatrix newspaper subscribed by the former mayor. Those noble families are very powerful. There are hundreds or thousands of people in a family. Except for the oldest male master, the personal income of others does not have to pay taxes. There is a lot of room to operate.”

Zhao Zhenzhen let out a hey, not too surprised...

The experts of the research institute are trying their best to decipher the characters of this world. Ji Tang, who can only read without barriers in the "game", has recorded a lot of videos of reading newspapers for the experts' reference, and Zhao Zhenzhen has also come into contact with some of these videos.

From Zhao Zhenzhen's point of view, this world, which seems to have a certain level of technology and a systematic civilization, is a deformed pyramid society of half feudalism and half capitalism. Not only enfeoffment of the country and the people, but also the lifeline of the economy; with the roots of feudal power and the branches of capital plunder, it is strange not to abuse power crazily.

"Weak stems and strong branches, no wonder the lord Yang dared to tear away a piece of his country so boldly." Zhao Zhenzhen threw away these useless files and said, "Do you, the mayor, have tax authority?"

"No." Ji Tang shook his head, "But there is no need to worry about this aspect. Lord Yang has delegated power to Charlie Rex and will not interfere with Rex's governance of Westem. Rex has communicated with me and there is no Implementing the tax policy of the Rhine Kingdom, urban residents do not collect population tax, family tax is also cancelled, we have the opportunity to encourage the masses to separate from the policy."

Ji Tang got the mayor here, and the expert group started discussions on the basic route of how to build Westem into a gate for Chinese people to see other worlds, and even influence other worlds...

The mass line must be followed, which is the consensus of the Chinese people.

The first step of the mass line for the urban population is to separate extended families—a policy that was given the highest priority after Ji Tang’s failed attempt to recruit more workers.

The Rhinelanders are used to living in large families because of the tax countermeasures. In the original environment, this is indeed the best solution to deal with survival risks-many people are powerful, and this principle is common in any world.

However, if a small society is composed of such big families with three generations, a dozen or even dozens of members, then this small society will be more inclined to be conservative, xenophobic, and new.

When recruiting sanitation workers and garbage station workers, due to the cancellation of the red light district, some townspeople who made a living by selling wine and snacks in the red light district, and providing shoeshine, car wash and laundry services were eager to find a way to survive, even if they did not trust the new town hall to last On salary days, I am willing to sign up for two working meals a day.

When Ji Tang went to Rex with the advice given by the expert group, discussed a plan to solve the employment rate of town residents, and then posted a notice to recruit young and strong workers...no one came.

The security team that replaced the militia, and a new lord can also transform back to the previous militia, and the rice bowl can still be maintained. After all, no matter who takes over Westem, it needs local young people to ensure the most basic security work.

For ordinary workers, the future is hard to say... Even if young people who are free and have nothing to do at home want to try it, their family members will dissuade them.

"Let's consider gaining the trust of the townspeople first." Zhao Zhenzhen said, "What advice does the expert group give you in this regard?"

"Recruiting temporary workers on a daily basis." Ji Tang said, "The reconstruction of the main road in the town still needs a lot of manpower, and it is unrealistic to rely entirely on players. Take this as a breakthrough point, recruit temporary workers for the townspeople, and settle the salary on a daily basis. It will be implemented for about half a month, and the townspeople will get used to coming to Zhenzhong Avenue to participate in work and get paid, and then start recruiting contract workers.”

"Then do it first." Zhao Zhenzhen nodded, "There are still a large number of rural people outside, what about the rural areas?"

"Rural construction can't be done yet, but we can try to get in touch with the countryside first." Ji Tang said, "The expert group's suggestion is that, while the autumn harvest is here, it is better to first take out the grain purchase policy to solve the problem of farmers paying taxes. .”

The Rhine Kingdom adopts a unified family taxation policy for the non-agricultural population - no matter how common people make big families to avoid taxation, they can't avoid the nobles with a larger population - and adopts a tax of ten for the agricultural population.

Don't get me wrong, this doesn't mean that farmers just have to pay [-]% of their crops...but they pay [-]% each to the king, the church, and the local lords at the same time.

It cannot be a tax in kind, and must be paid.

Farmers need to sell at least [-]% of the crops to the grain merchants sent by the local lord during the autumn harvest, and the money sold is enough to pay the agricultural tax; pit……

During the reign of Baron Marcus, all the farmers in Westham had to sell their grain to the steward who was sent by Baron Marcus to collect the grain. He could suppress the price of the grain at will and easily enter a large amount of gold coins into the account—or this The nobles of the world are so persistent in their pursuit of fiefdoms!Who doesn't like to be able to earn a lot of money without losing money every autumn harvest?

Rex replaced Baron Marcus, the "share" of the "local lord" can be cancelled, and the part paid to the king and the church must not be less. After all, Westham has not raised the flag of rebellion... In this country where farmers have to To solve the most troublesome problems for local farmers on the key nodes that have been peeled off, it must be able to quickly win the hearts of the rural population.

After hearing this, Zhao Zhenzhen was silent for a moment... said quietly: "This step...is a bit difficult."

Ji Tang also nodded sadly.

The solution is a good solution, but the problem is that the mayor, Ji Tang, has no money in his hands—the mayor has the right to control the income from land sales and taxes, and neither of these are in sight for the time being!

Rex, the lord of Westham, fully supported Ji Tang, but he only had those tens of thousands of copper coins on hand, not a word more.

There are more than a dozen villages and thousands of farmers around Westham, and if they want to spend money at one time to collect the crops produced by these farmers, the copper coins in Rex's hand are not enough!

When the player liberated Westem, all the bonuses were taken away by the lord Yang—it was not so difficult to get money out of this guy's pocket!

"Let Rex persuade Lord Yang?" Zhao Zhenzhen asked.

"I tried it, and Rex...don't dare to accept it." Ji Tang said with a more serious tone.

It’s true that Rex is a good man, but being a good man doesn’t mean he has no brains—if he buys all the farm households in the entire Westham territory, he won’t be able to get them without a few thousand gold coins. He doesn’t think he has such a big face with Yang!

"Okay... Then we have to figure out a way." Zhao Zhenzhen touched her own skull with a headache.

"In this world, it should be August now." Ji Tang said, "The local lord needs to send the land tax money to Inadoli before October, and there is still time."

"Then let's do what the copper coins in Rex's hand can do first." Zhao Zhenzhen nodded.

Next, the two national teams began to calculate the manpower needed to renovate the town road, how much daily salary to pay to temporary workers,

When she was thinking about how to use the money in Rex's hand more effectively, Zhao Zhenzhen suddenly heard a "ding" in her ear.

This eldest sister had never played games before entering "Alien World", so she was stunned for a moment before realizing that there was a prompt from the "Tool Man" panel, so she quickly called out the panel.

Then Zhao Zhenzhen's eyes became a little straight...

"Sister Zhao?" Ji Tang asked strangely.

"...I received a note, um, the system prompts." Zhao Zhenzhen said blankly, "The branch sent by the Undead Chamber of Commerce outside Tarantan is a non-profit profit-making unit, and it is responsible for its own profits and losses during the business period."

Ji Tang: "..."

"It means that the cafeteria branch here gets the ingredients from the town of exile and needs to pay...you control the profit?" Ji Tang twitched the corner of his mouth.

Zhao Zhenzhen nodded.

Two people, a moment of silence...

To classify Westham's canteen branch as a profit-making unit means that the lord Yang tacitly agrees that Zhao Zhenzhen, a "tool man", has the right to control the profits of the canteen branch.

This, of course, is not the sudden kindness of the lord Yang, who gave the tool man more freedom.

This lord, who can monitor all players with unscientific magic means, is clearly implying the two people who are "conspiring" in the town hall: You want to use money to win people's hearts, and the old man has no objection.Find a way to earn money by yourself, don't think about taking half a gold coin from the old man.