Hope City, Municipal Building.
A lonely crescent moon hangs leisurely at the corner of the building, reflecting the darkness of the night.
The buildings around the building have all turned off their lights, falling into a long and peaceful darkness.
The night breeze is blowing.
Chen Shen was sitting in the office on the third floor, reviewing the documents in his hand one after another, his brows furrowed.
In the past half month, several large territories that like to jump around have suddenly stopped and become good babies, which makes him feel relieved.
But on the other side, pressure farther away from Tianyuan territory suddenly came over.
The scene was not much different from what was expected from the Tianyuan Think Tank composed of hundreds of people.
As the three-year protection period of the Long Banner Territory is about to end, nearly thirty large territories have jointly requested the Tianyuan Territory to open up energy stone technology and share this advanced technology that can change the course of mankind.
Among them, many territories were still able to hold calm dialogue and consultations due to their previous trade relations, and even proposed the technology of benefit exchange.
However, there are also many territories that have openly transformed themselves into pressure boys and issued threatening ultimatum conditions. It seems that Tianyuan Territory will immediately impose sanctions as long as it does not open up its technology.
Of course, with the industrial conditions that have long been established in Tianyuan Territory, there is no need to fear the threats from these territories.
But becoming the target of public criticism and being targeted by so many people is definitely not a fact that Chen Shen wants to see.
Even in the end, a fight cannot be avoided.
How to throw the first punch, in what way, at what point you should stop, and what is the gain and reason for the punch.
He had to think carefully about everything in the quiet night.
"Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, make me a cup of strong tea"
After touching the side and realizing that the tea in the cup had reached the bottom, Chen Shen raised his head tiredly and called out twice.
But after the sound fell, there was no sound from the secretary's office outside.
"Are you asleep? Or did you go to the toilet?"
Turning his head to look at the time on the wall clock, Chen Shen realized that it was already two o'clock in the middle of the night. Chen Shen shook his head slightly and simply stood up with the cup.
I came to the living area behind the office screen, picked up the kettle and poured some into the cup, then twisted some loose tea leaves and threw them into the cup.
Chen Shen took the hot cup and slowly came to the half-open window.
The night breeze blows in, mixed with a bit of refreshing coolness, and the thermometer and hygrometer hanging by the window also accurately displays the current room temperature.
21.9 degrees Celsius, 55.8% humidity.
A very standard autumn night temperature in a wasteland.
"The Crimson Storm is coming soon. I really can't imagine how much it will cost to have 10% humidity, no rain for 60 days, and a temperature of 50 degrees."
Chen Shen murmured, his thoughts drifting away with the wind.
In the entire Tianyuan territory, there is only one location in Baoyu County that is close to the Changlong Xianjiang River. The rest of the territory is located near the coastline except Yuren City.
Almost all other cities, counties, towns and villages are inland and do not have sufficient reserves of fresh water resources.
Of course, it is not a problem to rely on the Changlong Xianjiang River for transportation, but the transportation cost may become an astronomical figure.
In addition, the weather is so hot, the construction of the territory, the sowing of seeds for the autumn harvest, and the implementation of various plans.
House seemingly endless rain.
Thinking of this, Chen Shen couldn't help but put his head against the cold window, using the coldness to relieve his sudden headache.
This is his old problem. Whenever a disaster is about to come, he will always have a headache from time to time, which cannot be relieved even if he sleeps.
Thump. thump. thump. thump..
Just when Chen Shen had a headache.
Suddenly, there was a sound of shoe soles rubbing against the ground outside the office.
A slim and stylish woman wearing a black and blue uniform walked in from the door.
"Mayor, the first batch of immigrants from Baoyu County have arrived. This is the latest news from Stationmaster Wang and Minister Hu. Can I let you know?"
"Mayor, do you have a headache again?"
The woman who came in turned out to be Chen Shen's only secretary, Jiang Xiaoyu.
Seeing Chen Shen leaning against the window in pain, she quickly quickened her pace and walked over to take the cup: "It's better not to drink tea if you have a headache. I'll make you some turtle and white pigeon soup. It's time to take a good rest in summer."
Just make up for it, otherwise you will be in trouble in the winter.”
"I'm fine." Chen Shen shook his head stubbornly and squeezed out a faint smile: "Quickly let me see the news about Wang Quan and Hu Yuanyong."
The three words "Baoyu County" seem to have magical powers.
As soon as he took the envelope from Jiang Xiaoyu's hand, Chen Shen felt that his headache immediately eased a lot, which was amazing.
Because of the fear of enemies hijacking wireless waves, except for encrypted communications during critical moments in the territory, the oldest and safest letter-writing mode is still used for everything else.
Sitting back at his desk, Chen Shen carefully cleaned the wax on the letter and quickly took out a few pieces of white paper filled with text.
Finding the royal card first, he began to read it word for word.
"The immigration work was completed very smoothly. The publicity policy formulated by County Magistrate Su really worked wonders. We only publicized the number of immigrants in the Linglong Territory for one day, and we were able to complete it five times the estimated number of 100, recruiting 100,000 people."
500 immigrants, and all of them are talents with intermediate production skills.”
After reading the first paragraph of the summary, Chen Shen's face lit up, and the frown he had unconsciously frowned before relaxed.
"From the eyes of these immigrants, I saw their expectations for the future, and I also saw the influence of our Tianyuan Territory. Before leaving, thousands of people suddenly appeared in the Linglong Territory to see them off."
He described what he saw and heard about King Quan very clearly, and even took photos from many angles and attached the scene of thousands of people seeing him off to the back of the letter.
Chen Shen turned it over, quickly pulled out the light of the desk lamp, and looked at the details in the photo carefully.
After a while, he suddenly grinned and laughed silently.
Although he could not clearly see the eyes of these people in the photo, the posture of leaning there and watching gave him a vague feeling of familiarity.
That was the expression of both fear and expectation among the survivors after the aliens were wiped out when the Tianyuan Territory was still conquering other places.
They long to be absorbed into the Tianyuan territory, but are afraid of being used as cannon fodder and sent to the battlefield.
They long for a good life, but are afraid of becoming expendable goods.
"It's such a nostalgic feeling. I wonder if I will have the chance to lead troops to charge again in this life."
After putting down Wang Quan's letter, Chen Shen subconsciously wanted to shake his neck to relieve his headache, but as soon as he turned around, he found that his headache was mostly gone.
The feeling of comfort emanating from the bottom of my heart makes people feel as comfortable as taking a hot bath.
"This Su Youzong is indeed a wonderful man. If I were to use his tough methods, I would definitely not implement them so resolutely."
After leaning on the office chair and reading Hu Yuanyong's description of the recruitment site, Chen Shen finally felt relieved.
However, compared to Wang Quan's letters, Hu Yuanyong obviously wrote more.
Turning to the next page and seeing a description that had almost nothing to do with recruitment, Chen Shen's expression changed and he suddenly straightened his posture.
"What, is Su Youzong crazy? He actually wants to open a waterway for General Chang Longxian to satisfy his own policies?"
"Fuck, it was like this after just a few words of praise. How could the waterway be opened just because he wanted to? He didn't know how difficult it was. Otherwise, why has no territory dared to do such a thing for so many years? Even the three major territories
His attitude is very ambiguous, he is definitely crazy!"
"What? He wants to give up yuan coins and trading points. He wants to implement a working-hour system in Baoyu County and directly convert everyone's working time into an equal amount of purchasing power. As long as he goes to work, he can have enough to eat and buy an identity.
Buy a house, buy anything of value??”
"Oh my God, what on earth does Su Youzong want to do? Baoyu County is a county of 60,000 people. It is not his playground alone. Does he want to rebel against heaven?"
Hu Yuanyong only wrote one page about the recruitment, but he wrote nearly ten pages about the various subsequent reforms!
Even though Chen Shen had been mentally prepared a long time ago, he couldn't hold it back now, and his exclamations became more frequent.
"Am I crazy, or is Wasteland crazy, or is he crazy?"
"If his current system is really implemented, unless the waterway can be opened and Tianyuan Territory can earn enough trade surplus, who will make up for the damn price difference?"
"The working-hour system can certainly allow newly arrived immigrants to quickly build a foundation for home ownership, and they only need to subsidize some supplies at the beginning. However, the longer this system lasts, the bigger the mess will be. Is it possible that he wants to work hard?
After finishing the bet with me, you walked out of the venue gracefully, just for the sake of the bet?"
"No, it's impossible! He is not such a person, he is definitely not such a person!"
A person who takes one step and counts it as three steps is mediocre, a person who takes one step and counts it as three steps is ordinary, and a person who takes one step and counts ten steps is a wise person.
But if you take one step and look at it fifty steps, you will definitely be a complete lunatic!
Only a lunatic would come up with such a crazy policy as the working hour system and place all his hopes on the Changlong Xianjiang waterway.
What if it doesn’t work?
He plans to use the credit of Tianyuan Territory to play a big game?
Will the territory finally take the blame?
"Mayor, Mayor Su of Baoyu County has sent another top-secret letter. Do you need to read it now?"
"What? Su Youzong's letter?" Chen Shen's calm expression suddenly changed: "Jiang Biao, bring it to me quickly!"
Whenever he gets excited, he will always forget to call Jiang Xiaoyu Jiang Biao.
But at this time, Chen Shen couldn't care less. He stood up and almost grabbed the letter to get it.
Incidentally, he also ordered: "Notify Chen Kai immediately and ask him to come over quickly. I have important matters to tell him."
"Also, don't disturb me without my instructions. Notify security to start martial law in the building."
"Okay" Realizing the seriousness of the matter, Jiang Xiaoyu nodded quickly and ran away.
After she left completely, Chen Shen thought about it and then went to close the office door and lock it.
Then he walked to a wall in the living area of the office and gently stretched out his hand to push.
Something magical happened.
The originally integrated wall actually began to settle at this time, and with a loud banging sound, a secret door leading to the interior appeared.
Walk in from this door and walk a few steps to the left and right.
A confined space about the same size as an office appeared in front of him.
The structure in the space is very simple, with only a table, a small stool, and dense lines laid on the ground.
On the table, there was something that looked like a headphone, with a DVD-like device connected underneath, which seemed very inconsistent.
Chen Shen stood up and sat down, put the headphones on his head very skillfully, and quickly operated the box-shaped device.
Soon, after a stabbing sound, he began to call softly: "Tianmin, Tianmin, please contact me, please contact me."
A weak voice, like a one-sided call.
But the sudden flashing green light on the device means that this is not a one-way line, but a connected line.
About three or four minutes passed.
Suddenly, the lights in the space flickered, and a human face suddenly appeared in the void in front of Chen Shen.
It’s none other than Feng Tianmin!
"What happened in the middle of the night? You were asked to use pseudo-quantum communication?"
Feng Tianmin, who was projected from the top of the room, had a look of fatigue on his face that he had just woken up from.
"Something big has happened. Su Youzong wants to reform. Forget it, I'll give you a letter and you can read it yourself."
Spread the first letter you received on the table.
The projection at the top was swept away, and a few illusory pages immediately appeared in front of Feng Tianmin, who was far away in the basement of the Northern Military Region.
"Immigration to Baoyu County? Wasn't this decided before? What's the fuss about?"
After reading Wang Quan's description, Feng Tianmin woke up from his sleep.
He continued to look down calmly, and like Chen Shen, when he saw Hu Yuanyong's various descriptions.
As soon as he saw the words "conquer Changlong Xianjiang", Feng Tianmin couldn't help but jump up.
"Damn it, how dare Su Youzong dare to reach the Changlong Fairy River?"
"Does a layman like him know how dangerous this river is? The undercurrents, the reefs, and the changes in the width of the river from time to time. Even our warships were at risk of sinking and stranding at any time in the past. What can he use to conquer it?
A merchant ship with old-fashioned artillery?”
"No, absolutely not. Isn't he just fooling around?"
Feng Tianmin didn't understand much about the working hours system behind it, but he could roughly detect the connection between the reform and the opening of waterways.
"Although our Tianyuan Navy is strong and can confront the three major territories head-on, this is a direct battle, not a cargo voyage, right?"
"He, Su Youzong, is a layman. How many times has he been to sea in his life? Has he ever really sailed a boat? How many dangerous situations have he encountered?"
"Chen Shen, you'd better tell him not to worry about it. If we want to go to the Changlong Xianjiang River, our navy will have to sail for at least half a month all the way up the coastline, and then pass the Changlong Xianjiang River to Baoyu County. Otherwise, we have to lift the ship.
In the past, how could this be possible?"
"Unless there is a river connecting the two sides, don't even think about it!"
Feng Tianmin's hair stood on end as he kept giving negative words, and his face showed the helplessness of hearing the child's mischief.
"I think so too, but now he has sent another letter. I haven't opened it yet. Can we read it together?"
"Open it quickly, don't wait and see." Seeing Feng Tianmin promising to go to Baoyu County to teach him a lesson tomorrow, Chen Shen removed the paint twice and finally tore open the envelope with force.
Wow.
Four different things fell to the ground.
The first is a map with 17 large circles drawn on it, which just covers the main counties, cities and towns in Tianyuan territory.
The second is a notebook in which the selling prices of various materials are densely recorded, divided into two columns: the Tianyuan territory and the large and small territories of the financial line.
Third, there are several pieces of white paper with writing on them. The writing is very neat and beautiful, as if it had been printed.
The fourth is a color photo with a glowing object inside that looks like a card.
"card?"
Chen Shen was no stranger to this thing as he had often used it before. He directly picked up the photo on the ground and looked at it.
However, this is exactly what it looks like.
His body suddenly froze, he fell back and sat on the ground.
"What's wrong with you? What's up here?"
Seeing the expression on Chen Shen's face that he had seen a ghost, Feng Tianmin yelled angrily and couldn't wait to apply for permission to project the photo.
As the light shines on it, three or four seconds later.
There was also a popping sound and the sound of the line colliding from the earphones. It could be heard that it was the sound made by Feng Tianmin falling to the ground.
"This is a territory terraforming card? What? Level 5!!"
All cards are rare in the New World.
Among them, most of them are first-level cards, accounting for more than 98% of the total.
The remaining 2% are not high-level cards, but are composed of second- and third-level cards.
Throughout all the years in the wasteland, since the real survival version, they have never heard of anyone having cards above level four, let alone level five!
"Quick, look at the attributes of the fifth-level terrain card?" Feng Tianmin's anxious urging interrupted Chen Shen's deep thoughts.
He subconsciously reached for the letter on the ground, but when he saw it, he glanced at the map next to him, and an unprecedented thought suddenly came to his mind.
"No way," Chen Shen whispered, and quickly spread the letter paper flat on the table.
And as if the person writing the letter on the other side had predicted the scene before him, at the beginning of the letter, he actually gave the attributes of the fifth-level card.
"The fifth-level terrain transformation card can change the terrain of the entire territory at will. It can turn high slopes into plains, it can turn hills into mountain peaks, it can arbitrarily open up rivers connecting every city, and it can even run the Changlong Xianjiang River through the entire territory.
territory"
After reading out Somo's statement word by word, Chen Shen looked blankly at Feng Tianmin floating in the air.
The two looked at each other.
"Tianmin, why are you crying?"
"Chen Shen, aren't you the same?"
"I didn't cry"
"Then I didn't cry either."
At this moment, the two middle-aged men, who were already in their thirties, suddenly had a wonderful tacit understanding.
Seeing the uncontrollable tears in the other person's eyes, Feng Tianmin took the lead and laughed at himself: "We underestimated him."
"That's right. Since he dared to make such a policy, how could he not know the importance and fail to think of countermeasures?"
"What if the tributaries of the Changlong Xianjiang River can be spread throughout our territory?" Chen Shen suddenly asked.
"Not to mention the Long Dragon Immortal River, even if it's a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, I can lead people through it!"
"you?"
"Is it possible?" Feng Tianmin was stunned: "Isn't he going to take people there himself?"
"Oh, he really guessed the two of us. Look at his second line, he said he wanted to take someone with him."
"Holy shit!?"
Six ten in the morning.
Chen Shen walked out of the darkroom with a satisfied look on his face, faced the warm morning sun that had just risen, and stretched out for a long time.
Fresh air, a happy brain, and a body that is no longer sluggish.
The pain often lasts for a day, and the headache is like a dream, making people unable to remember the pain at all.
Close the darkroom door and come to the desk.
Chen Shen habitually picked up the tea cup on the table and wanted to take a sip.
But as soon as he picked up the cup, his expression changed and he hurriedly walked to the door.
Sure enough, as the office door opened, Chen Kai, who had rushed over at some point, was anxiously wandering in the corridor.
Even Jiang Xiaoyu, who was usually calm, couldn't suppress his nervousness and stared in the direction of the office door.
"Oh, my great mayor, if you don't come out, I will pick the lock and go in."
Seeing Chen Shen walking out with an embarrassed expression on his face, Chen Kai walked anxiously and almost bit his tongue.
"What big thing happened that you called me here in such a hurry?"
"Well, it's really a big deal." Looking at Jiang Xiaoyu next to him, Chen Shen's eyes suddenly lit up: "Xiaoyu, you said last night that there was some kind of pigeon soup."
“Turtle and pigeon soup?”
"Yes, yes, that's it." Chen Shen nodded happily: "I'll treat Chen Kai to dinner later. Go and ask someone to make more of this soup. We old guys really need to replenish it. We can't do this in the future."
Stay up late, otherwise how can we wait for Tianyuan Territory to rise again?"
"Ah, okay, I'll go right away." Realizing that Chen Shen was inexplicably excited, Jiang Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, then started laughing.
Yes, Mayor Chen in my memory has not been so happy for a long time in the past few years.
Last time, after County Magistrate Su came to the office, he happily sang for half an hour, drank a few glasses of liquor, and slept soundly.
This time, it was County Magistrate Su who sent a secret message again, which made Mayor Chen take the initiative to sigh, not only to get rid of the habit of staying up late but also to replenish his body.
This is County Magistrate Su.
What a strange man he is!
This chapter has been completed!