Chapter 28: The Great Conspiracy

Technical transformation is not something that can be accomplished in one or two days, and we can only hope that the researchers of our guild can think of solutions.

Shura Ziyi walked to me and said, "I'm going to Clark to customize the guild badges and various signs. Is there anything I need to deal with by the way?"

"Yes! It just so happens that I have something to ask Clark for help. Do you know the characteristics of NPC equipment?"

Shura Ziyi said: "I asked NPC equipment questions a few days ago."

"How is the result?"

"There are two types of equipment for npc, one is called specialized equipment. This kind of equipment can only be worn by npc, and the other is called general equipment. Just like these are all general equipment on us. In other words, all equipment that players can use can be used can be used, but players may not be able to use npc equipment."

"Clark can he build NPC equipment?"

"Can."

"Then you go and tell Clark to ask him to help build the equipment of the Temple Guard. I will be responsible for the cost. Also, please order a few sets of these for me." I asked Sgoth to give the equipment to Shura Ziyi. "My demon servant is not equipped enough now, so you ask Clark to make 10 sets of them as such."

"Then I'll go first."

"Yeah! Go."

After Shura Ziyi left, I also left the port. The combination of various parts in the guild is quite reasonable, and I don’t have much trouble. In the next few days, everyone was busy with the construction of the three cities. The goods from the Northern Alliance and Atlantics were shipped one after another, and the construction work in various places began one after another. The armor of the Ringyin Knight was completed quickly, and my 21 Ringyin Knights all had the same equipment, but the mounts were not unified for the time being. Fortunately, my magic pets and so on were many. The 20 ordinary Ringyin Knights used heavy ankylos, and Sgoth was the leader and needed speciality. I gave my steel claws to him. Anyway, I had night shadows, and I could still ride a dragon.

Today is the 16th. The materials needed for urban construction are basically complete, and a few of them have been contacted. However, there is still a problem that seriously affects our development, that is, labor. Aisinger is already considered a super metropolis. The steel city is larger than Aisinger. Although the city walls and defensive facilities are not built, the project volume is still not small. Although the area of ​​Tianyu City in Europe is not large, it is being expanded recently. Moreover, because the Iron Crusader wants to buy steel from us, the teleportation array of Tianyu City has been expanded into a super-large teleportation array. It is also very special.

Please build a cargo channel. The cities built by players are basically level 4 teleportation arrays. These teleportation arrays can only transmit players and some personal belongings. If you want to teleport NPCs, except for player magic pets and demon servants, you must have a level 3 teleportation array. If you want to transmit a large amount of goods, you must have a level 2 teleportation array. If you want to transmit goods of super large size or large quantity, you must have a level 1 teleportation array. Aisinger's teleportation array is basically level 2 teleportation array, and there are some level 1 arrays in a few places. The cross-border teleportation array is a special teleportation array, and there is no limit on the teleportation items and distance.

According to this calculation, the construction volume of each city is very large. It is not enough for us to rely on the NPC and guild players that can be mobilized in the city. Everyone thought of many ways but it was not very good. Finally, Xiao Yao proposed to recruit workers. "Zero" is not a simple game of fighting and killing, and construction is also a pleasure. Otherwise, the "Simulation City" series of games would not be so popular. In "Zero", there are a large number of non-combat players, and these people practice life professions, especially the many craftsmen of various kinds. It would be a good idea to hire these people. Anyway, the NPC craftsmen in the city also cost money, and the players were cheaper. Everyone agreed that this plan was very good, so I was naturally elected as a recruitment supervisor.

I pulled Rose and Bingbing to Yunxiao City. Being the city lord was a little awesome. We held a job fair in the hall of the original Temple of Light. Other guilds were not as big as ours. I mobilized more than 200 guards from the City Defense Force to maintain order outside the temple. There was Vina's Temple Guard in the temple. I chose to hold a job fair here. First, I considered that there were many people in the main city of the system, and secondly, we didn't dare to go to other cities. At present, there was no player city as big as Aisinger. All the cities in the system are temple cities. These cities are either the Temple of Light or the subordinates of the Temple of Darkness. With our current relationship, we have to walk around the city. Don't think about entering the city. Fortunately, the largest number of people in the game is neutral free city, which does not affect our activities during normal times, but those big cities must not get close to them.

I used to go through the valley to fight monsters, but I rarely went to the city. Today I held a job fair and realized that I was indeed out of date. Rose asked the NPC guards of the city to post an announcement a day in advance and hired players to promote it in other cities. Today, there were a variety of people who came to participate. I found it strange to me to open 16 channels at the beginning, but now I know why there are so many. It seems that this is not enough. I would have opened 36 items if I knew it!

The gate in the middle of the temple is opened with railings side by side, and it is arranged from the door to the central square in front of the temple. The entrance of each passage has NPCs responsible for maintaining order and diversion. Those who want to register enter the temple from the passage. There are tables at the other end of each passage, and two NPCs sit behind the table. After completing the procedures, you can leave from the small door behind the temple and directly enter the large teleportation array dedicated to the temple to teleport to Aisinger. What I brought today are all senior NPC clerks of Aisinger, and their work efficiency is 200% faster than ordinary NPCs, but despite this, the team is still very long.

Rose and Bingbing stood behind the NPC line. If there was something that needed to be handled specifically, NPC would hand over the things to them. I am running around inside and outside the temple, specifically dealing with various kung slaughter incidents. This time, the people we recruited are not only non-combat players, but also fighters. The two teams on the far right are specifically used to recruit combat players, and the fighters are usually from these two teams.

I was patrolling the square when I suddenly heard someone calling me. When I looked up, I saw an NPC cavalry commander standing on the top of the steps and shouting below: "Master Lord, please come here."

A row of people on the steps turned around and looked at me. Anyway, I was not wearing a magic dragon suit today and was wearing order armor. No one knew who I was. Just look at it. I ran to the top of the steps, walked into the temple and asked the npc: "What's the matter?"

"There is someone playing a rogue inside."

As soon as I entered the hall, I saw a player standing in the middle of the team making a big fuss.

"What are you? Isn't this a joke?" The player was still shouting, and the players behind him were blocked by him and could not go through the procedures.

I walked over and said, "What's going on?"

Rose whispered to my ear: "This person is a combat player, but he is standing in a non-combat player team. We asked him to line up again to register at the table next to him, but he refused to queue up and just had to handle it immediately." I was about to walk over and was pulled back by Rose. "Don't be too impulsive. There are too many players here, and even if we have the right to do so, we can't be too tough."

I patted her waist: "Don't worry, am I a person who doesn't know the importance of it?" Let's let go of Rose and walk to the person. "I am the president of the Frost Rose Alliance. How about we talk about it? Don't waste other people's time."

"That's not what delayed my time? I can't do it today and don't even think about it." The player looked so sarcastic, but he didn't expect to speak so hard!

I smiled and said, "Look, the players behind are also very anxious. It's not a solution to keep being blocked like this? If some players behind are anxious and come to cause trouble for you, I don't know who beats you here. It's hard to catch you if you want to catch them. How bad are you." I deliberately said the voice loudly so that the players behind will hear it. If you use a knife to kill people, you must do it well.

In fact, this guy was blocking the players behind him for a long time, but there were two rows of NPCs at the 91,000 level on both sides of the team, and no one dared to move. I explained this and suggested that it was not illegal to hit people. Nowadays, everyone is smart and understands it when they hear it. Hula, a group of people surrounded the guy and pressed it down and beat it.

I stood beside me and stopped the NPC guard who wanted to go forward, but kept shouting: "Everyone should calm down. Go back to the team and hit people."

Anyway, I called me and the fight was so good. After a while, the guy was thrown out like a pool of mud, with footprints on his body. After the fight, the players of the two teams quickly resumed their teams and stood up, as if nothing had happened. I walked to the side and shouted: "A group of people were here just now, and who did you see that group of people?"

Someone replied: "I saw it, and the group seemed to run out."

I immediately continued, "Oh! I probably ran away for so long. We still have something to do, so we won't chase you, anyway, no one will die." As a result, there was a burst of laughter.

Order was restored in the temple, and I walked back to Rose and Bingbing. "The power of the masses is invincible, do you know?"

Rose smiled and punched me: "You can!"

Our guild recruitment this time is the largest recruitment since the beginning of the game, and Rose did a good job in advance, so many people came to participate. Because it was in the game, it was very simple to recruit people, just look at the skill level. At the 48-hour job fair, we actually recruited more than 300,000 non-combat players, which is almost three thousandth of the total number of non-combat players in China. After the recruitment, the labor required for urban construction was solved, but my economy also collapsed.

Wang just cares about Aisinger's expenses, and I have to pay for the rest of the city. This is not a good thing. Although steel ore is a good thing, it takes time to convert steel into cash. Although the magic crystals in my hand are popular, we need them as well and cannot be sold. I flipped through the garbage in the bracelet, such as necklaces, armor, weapons, etc., and sold them, but these are all small money and have no meaning for the construction of the guild. It seems that the economic crisis is coming again!

Rose and I were lying on the top of the Spirit Gathering Tower, thinking about problems while watching the sunrise.

"You said I have any way to solve the economic crisis?" I asked with my arms around Rose's shoulder.

"Generally speaking, there are three countermeasures for our economic crisis. The first is to expand reinvestment, but I think this is not good. The second is to replace capital with production. Although we have this advantage, this method takes time after all."

"You mean I want to use the third method? Tell me directly what it is?"

Rose said firmly: "Foreign war."

"fight?"

"Capital plunder is the most effective and fastest way to resolve the economic crisis. War drives consumption and produces spoils at the same time. The biggest advantage of passing on the economic crisis is that it weakens the enemy while replenishing itself."

"But what do we do? A simple war cannot make money unless you want to do arms business."

"Why can't it be?" Rose asked me. "It's very difficult to find manufacturing technology from finished weapons. It doesn't mean that you can imitate it by buying our things. And we have absolute technological advantages, so why can't we sell arms?"

"Okay. I understand this."

"You should also consider sales issues carefully, and you may end up causing trouble for yourself."

"You don't have to worry about this. I'm the successor of Longyuan. I'm from the arms merchant family!"

"Martial artillery is just one aspect, and there are other businesses."

“What about it?”

"For example, taxation." Rose took out the financial records of our guild. "Look, our guild has done a lot of things so far. Being a pirate, selling elimination warships, gold trading, steel trade, transportation industry, and Yunxiaocheng tax. The most stable and most profitable of these aspects is Yunxiaocheng. Don't look at the fact that you cheated a lot of money from the Dragon King's NPCs, it is actually not much more than the city's tax. Don't underestimate the teleportation array usage fee.

Don’t underestimate the 5% tax of each store. The city gate charges 10 copper coins per person per time. This is not much, but do you know? The 4 city gates in Yunxiao City charge at least 10 million people a day so far. You can calculate that 10 million people, 10 copper coins per person, that is 100 million copper coins! The city entrance fee alone will have at least 100,000 crystal coins per day! 10 copper coins are converted into RMB 1

The money is not enough, beggars don’t care about 100,000 crystal coins, but they can provide us with 100,000 crystal coins in a day. What do you think of this number? I have calculated the traffic of Shencheng and Shenniao City. Yunxiao City has the lowest number of 10 million people per day, and the highest number of people may reach 200 million people on holidays, with an average of more than 25 million. In other words, the average income of Yunxiao City can reach 250,000 crystal coins per day. Our guild owns 54% of Yunxiao City's shares, and the tickets are 135,000 crystal coins per day. In fact, the entry fee is quite small, the rent of city shops, taxes, transmission array fees, various office fees, and temple affairs fees. There is also an additional catering industry. I have calculated that the income of cities like Yunxiao City can reach 10 million crystal coins after tax, and we can get 5.4 million crystal coins. Do you think the city is the most profitable industry?"

"It's really a lot based on your calculations. But the city's expenses are not small!"

"I have calculated that the city's expenses are mainly construction fees, and the maintenance fee does not exceed 2 million crystal coins per day. Even a city as big as Aisinger can only only 2.5 million crystal coins, and the profit margin is very large!"

"You mean I want to build a city in another country?"

"We must not only build cities, but also make full use of the conflicts between countries."

"What do you mean?"

Rose shouted to the Eye of Hell above her head, "Eye of Hell, open the map of China's coastal areas and nearby areas." The Eye of Hell instantly projected a perfect map in front of us. Rose pointed to South Korea and said, "This is South Korea, like the Chinese, they hate the Japanese too."

"Of course I know this."

"And our guild has exactly what Koreans need."

"You mean transnational teleportation array?"

Rose kissed me quickly on the face. "So smart. We can build a city in South Korea. It doesn't need to be too big. Just put down a Korean local teleportation array and a cross-border teleportation array. By the way, we are putting some related facilities. The entire city does not need to be built too big, it is enough to have two or three square kilometers."

"Isn't that big a bunker?"

"Anyway, don't do anything. It's just a teleportation array entrance, no matter how big or small it is!"

"That's right! But where are the Koreans going with teleportation arrays? You can't send them to China, right?"

"You're just praised for your intelligence and become a fool. Of course, Koreans are going to Japan."

"But we didn't..." I suddenly understood what Rose meant. "You mean to build a city in Japan and then let the Koreans fight with the Japanese?"

"Yes. But not just that. We want to build not one but two cities in Japan."

"What do you want two?"

"Fight each other!"

"ah?"

"Don't there be many Japanese players in our guild? Let them build a city in Japan in the name of the Japanese, keep it confidential and prevent the Japanese from knowing that it was the city we built. You can even let several players leave our guild and set up a Japanese guild there to build a city there. Then we can't be too far away from this city, and build another city. However, this time we need a large city, with good armed protection, it is best to be close to the seaside, so that our warships can play a role."

"I understand. At that time, the Japanese will definitely want to attack our city, but their warships at sea cannot defeat us, and we can only come from land, and the closest to us is the city we built secretly. The Japanese will definitely gather in this city to replenish supplies and start war with us for a long time. We will transport the Koreans to Japan to fight with the Japanese. Both cities are ours, and we just need to collect money. If we want to fight, we will die and be injured, and we will also need a lot of weapons. We can build a large number of weapons stores, drug stores, resurrection halls and other things in both cities. At that time...hehehehehe!" I couldn't help but hug the rose and kiss one. "You are so dark!"

"I'll give you an idea and you're also saying I'm shady, I have no conscience!"

My husband and I made a super evil plan while laughing, and the next step was to start working hard for this plan.

The first thing to do is to stop the construction of Tianyu City first, and three more cities are needed soon. I really can't stand it. While stopping the construction of Tianyu City, I began to officially sell steel to the Iron Crusades. Our guild uses ink steel produced by crystal beetles, but the Iron Crusades must not sell ink steel, just provide the original steel directly. While selling the steel, we also provided the Iron Crusades with new cannons, which are part of the technology of the Shenwu Cannon. The condition is that the Iron Crusades quickly raise 20 million crystal coins for us. The Shenwu Cannon itself was modified by the Iron Crusades, and 20 million would definitely be expensive, but we gave corresponding policies, such as the exclusive right to buy out the steel ore. Except for the Iron Crusades, our guild shall not sell steel ore to any European guild.

This 20 million alone is obviously not enough. I found Hongyue again and asked her to bring Feng Yinpiaomiao over. After negotiation, Feng Yinpiaomiao promised to pay 50 million crystal coins to fund us, but he must have 10% of the three cities built. We are not losing money, and we have no choice but to borrow money to live in the initial stage! Our own guild has 50 million embezzled funds, plus the 70 million raised, and a total of 120 million crystal coins.

The city in South Korea does not need to be too big. When it is promoted to Korean players, it will be said that we Chinese have opened a channel for them by fighting against the Japanese. At that time, the Koreans will not attack the city we built in South Korea, and even monster siege Korean players may help us defend. Therefore, the city in South Korea does not need to be too big, and it is enough to build 2 million crystal coins. Both cities in Japan have to fight and must be built very tall and solid. According to our calculations, a city needs at least 90 million crystal coins. In other words, it is still a gap of about 60 million.
Chapter completed!