For ordinary people in the Xiahui Territory, the changes brought about by victory in the war were slow and subtle.
For example, more and more mountain people choose Xiahui Territory as a transit point for trade to Nauman City and the Agate Stone Plains, which greatly increases the local economic advantage. And the bards in the tavern are also singing the praises of their lords.
Your Excellency has made great achievements, publicized the name of the prophet as much as possible, and paved the way for the establishment of future sects.
It is difficult for ordinary people to detect abnormalities like this, and they will only take it for granted. There are many things in the territory, and no one is aware of it.
But in addition, there are also some quick and tangible changes: for example, there is no longer a curfew at night, and more and more magnetic storm armors and well-equipped guards stand at the street entrances of major key areas, showing the territorial power.
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There are also many hired mountain workers in the city.
Many residents were surprised to notice that in the streets and alleys there were strong men from various ministries working hard to reorganize the streets and expand the streets.
Exhibition area.
Due to the addition of such a group of strong laborers, Yisi's process of reshaping Xiahui City has been greatly accelerated. For those who rarely go out due to winter, every time they go out, they will feel a sense of change with each passing day.
What is this tower? A magnetic storm loop?
That black thing on top of Lord No. 1’s Mansion is the light beam cannon?!
﹣Oh my god, the whole street has been replaced with a brand new road? Even the armor can't be crushed, right? It's not just that.
On the Solitary Flame Peak outside the city, there is even a simple dragon's nest on the platform halfway up the mountain. Recently, residents traveling far away can always see a dragon's shadow passing in the sky, which really brings great joy to the locals.
Got a lot of scares.
Xio is happily building his own nest. The young dragon who leaves his mother's supervision for the first time is like a young man who leaves home and rents a house for the first time. He wants to build his own warm little home by himself.
Ian's attempts to help were declined, so he could only shake his head and leave.
In fact, the changes in Xiahui Territory are not limited to the city.
It also originated from the distant imperial capital.
In the year 774 of Terra, January 9th, a blue-black dragon-scaled war horse was galloping through the streets carrying an envoy from the imperial capital. He did not slow down at all, but he also did not hit anyone. The tall war horse even
He was able to step on solid ice and fly through the air out of thin air, causing everyone watching to scream in surprise.
It passed through the vibrant Xiahui City at lightning speed, all the way to the Lord's Mansion Castle located on the lakeside, and then slowed down and climbed up the cliff.
Many passers-by looked at the dragon horse and knight in surprise. They gathered together and couldn't figure out who was so bold and dared to ride a horse and rush to the lord's mansion. Many of the mountain people even thought that the knight had insulted them.
The envoy, holding the hammer and pliers in his hands angrily, came forward to ask for an explanation.
But the local residents of Xiahui City vaguely saw some clues from the sun emblem on the knight's armor. They grabbed the mountain people and told them the true identity of the knight.
That is the messenger from the imperial capital.
"Is it finally here? It can be considered as a formal ceremony for me."
In the Lord's Mansion, Ian, who was exchanging financial issues with Scott, began to say in surprise: "However, I thought they would celebrate the New Year Festival (the celebration that ends in the first ten days of January) in the Imperial Capital.
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They will come later, but now it seems that they set off at least ten days early."
"My record is still of some use." He laughed.
"Imperial capital?" Scott, who was working hard to fund the construction of the new city, was a little confused. The iron citizen scratched his head, looked at his lord, and asked with some expectation: "It's the young master of the Ellen family.
Have you sent funds for your lord?"
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Of course not." Ian shook his head and complained: "Don't think of Isengard as a Kaizi who gives me money. We are allies who help each other. He helps me much more than money.
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"Besides, didn't he already give away five thousand talers last time? Who do you think bought the alchemy equipment in the new alchemy workshop?" Ian felt that he had to let his subordinates know who was responsible.
Xiahui has become a true nobleman.
“But there’s a real shortage of money right now.”
Scott looked at the forms and accounts in front of him and felt guilty.
Holding the pen sadly: "Xiahui Lake's new farm needs money, the alchemy workshop's element crystallization production line needs money, the tools for Xiakou exploration need money, the new mine needs money, hiring mountain workers needs money, the new urban area needs money
It also requires money, not to mention the improvement of the sewer project and the pollutant recycling equipment in the alchemy workshop that you requested - these all require money.
"It is not recycling of pollutants, but "reuse equipment". It can recycle at least ten to twenty percent of the effective alchemical materials, which can greatly save costs. The earlier it is built, the more it can recover its costs and even make money."
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The young man frowned slightly and glanced at the document in his hand: "But other than that, well, it's all pure expenses."
Seeing this, Ian couldn't help but fell silent, and then sighed: "The construction of the territory is really a waste of money - if I knew it in advance, I would not win over people's hearts and reduce taxes for the mountain people."
That being said, if the mountain people are not given tax cuts to recuperate and recuperate, then Ian's subsequent development and population diversion for the Midela Autonomous Region and other mountain people tribes will be delayed by more than a year.
If Ian really wants money, he has plenty of ways to organize it. Not to mention anything else, he took someone from Jiamu some time ago
If the large amount of sublimated minerals and Warcraft materials brought back from the underground secret warehouse of the Ministry are sold, tens of thousands of talers can be quickly obtained.
However, selling this precious material or even strategic material is easy but difficult. If you sell sublimation materials for a quick buck, you will definitely regret it in the future.
Therefore, Ian and Xia Huiling are not poor, but for a better future, to save time, and many things that are more important than money, it is a bit difficult to circulate funds.
Zheshi!
"Speaking of this." Ian opened his precognitive vision and looked at the lavender figure at the gate of the Lord's Mansion: "Can I ask the empire for a development fund? I also meet the conditions of the empire's South Ridge Development Plan!"
Thinking of this, he quickly stood up and greeted the other party.
The imperial courier never expected that he, a knight who came to deliver a message, would be caught by the local lord and asked about the various regulations for applying for "development funds". How could he know this because he was not familiar with imperial policies?
Although the lord in front of him is very good-looking, if it were his free time on weekdays, the messenger would not mind talking more. But he had done his homework before coming, and he knew very well that the white-haired young man in front of him was fighting side by side with the real dragon, a new kill.
A fierce man who has surpassed the third level of mountain people leader, a top-notch type of genius!
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He didn't dare to fool the other party with half-informed information.
Therefore, I was neither embarrassed to refuse, nor dared to remain silent in front of an inspector knight whose job was higher than my own.
Turning around and leaving, the messenger knight could only give one opinion: "Sir, look, Viscount Taymor Decas, who will be conferring honors on you in a few days, will be here soon. He is a big shot in the Noble Hall, so he must be here."
Do you know more about this aspect?”
"That's a good idea."
After getting the news he wanted, that is, "who is going to award him the medal?", Ian did not continue to pester the messenger, but asked the messenger to leave.
He thought thoughtfully: "Viscount Ducas of the Noble Hall. I remember that he was a figure under the eldest prince, right? Unexpectedly, after going around and around, it was his people who came to confer me with the honor."
"They should take this opportunity to try to recruit me. That's weird. How could the second prince allow it? But I don't care. It would be nice if I could defraud a sum of aid."
He has already begun to think about how to get more benefits
Just as Viscount Grant, who received aid from Archduke Thorin and then from the imperial capital, said, aid is something you don't get for nothing.
Nobles who want to develop their territory should not be afraid of eating hundreds of thousands of meals.
Treat every scam for aid as your last scam, and then don’t be afraid of being discovered!
The news that Ian and Elder Manya joined forces with the King of the Mountain to quell the unrest in Nanling had already reached the imperial capital.
Although the main topic in the imperial capital today is the war front with Feiyandi on the western border, the small victory in Nanling has also attracted the attention of some interested people.
In the first week after the victory, Ian received many letters from acquaintances: praise from the second prince, support from another batch of ether crystals from Marquis Barton, congratulatory letters from Master Isengard and Gosei, and even Hua Hua
Dark and frost butterflies are sent
I wrote a small piece of paper to tell Ian that the group of hot water fairies had been found.
Now, they are trying to move the original nest out of the cooling warehouse, find a place to place it, and improve it into a real "goblin nest."
If possible, they hope that Ian will come to help - it is really difficult for only a second-level person to do such a thing, and in a short time, no other goblins will come to Nanling. Ian will indeed return
Port Harrison wrote this on his own memo.
The development of Xiahui Territory is now on the right track. With his prestige, the military guarantee brought by Xiou on the surface, and secretly guarded by Adbot as insurance, the entire territory is impregnable, even if he is not around.
Very safe. Not to mention, now Ian has mastered the most important "ether crystallization production line"!
The element crystal condenser obtained from Jiamube "was in very good condition. After being sent back to Xiahui City by Qingchao, it was moved deep into the alchemy workshop by Adebert.
Except for a small number of core White People's guards, no one knows where this alchemy equipment, which is worth more than all the alchemy workshops in Xiahui City put together, is kept. And those White People's guards, and even
Qingchao himself doesn't even know what it does.
After Ian returned to his territory, the first thing he did was prepare to build his own element crystallization production line to completely solve the energy problem of the territory. The core condenser was already available, and the remaining production lines were quite simple. Xiahui led himself
can be produced.
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The raw material "Crystal Mushroom" has a channel and planting area in Jiamube. Elder Manya took over the plantations located in the northern part of the Midela Autonomous Region and the Odor Autonomous Region. After a short period of rectification, he produced a steady stream of night crystal mushrooms.
The mushrooms are sent to Xiahui Ling.
Around the end of the month, the crystallization of elements produced by Xiahui Ling will be freshly baked, providing sufficient and cheap energy for many new alchemy projects. "By then, even without me, the territory will develop rapidly. I just need to grasp it."
Progress on key projects is enough."
Ian is not a power-hungry person. If he could, he would not want to interfere at all and concentrate on research.
But in the continent of Terra, strength and power complement each other. If he has strength, power will follow.
Some people call it "duty", but that is only for responsible sublimators. There are quite a few nobles who only like to use power to satisfy their own desires.
However, Ian is a responsible person. After the war ended and he received the Steel Dragon Nest inheritance, he worked overtime for more than a week to prepare all the government affairs issues related to the mountain people and the development plan of Xiahui City.
Have time to think about other issues.
Of course, this is not a bad thing - in the process of handling government affairs, Ian also converted "Kodenejamu's soul into an intermediate ectoplasmic computing unit using a silver chip.
As an "intermediate computing unit" condensed from the souls of third-level sublimators, its computing power is nearly a hundred times that of "basic
"Computing unit". First, because the improvement of soul quality greatly improves the structural strength of the computing unit, making overclocking acceleration calculations easier, and second, because with enough volume, the computing unit can also be constructed into a more complex and computationally efficient structure.
By observing the structure of the "intermediate computing unit," Ian also began to upgrade his soul. While optimizing his computing power again, he also gradually strengthened his soul's strength to a point above the third energy level.
In this way, as the strength of Ian's soul increased, he also noticed that the number of "parallel worlds on the path of spiritual disasters" that could be linked to in his "Guiding Star of the Heart Light Body" was also increasing.
It is precisely for this reason that Ian has obviously unlocked the spiritual disaster path at the beginning of the year, but until now he has not started to choose a parallel world to try exchange technology. The opportunity is precious, and you can try it.
If the link is better, don't settle for it.
Nearly ten days have passed, and Ian has almost completely converted his soul into a "medium computing unit" structure. His soul strength will slow down and will remain at this level for a long time. By then
, he will begin to communicate with the parallel world.
"From this point of view, the basic calculation unit is the "primary meditation method", and the intermediate calculation unit is naturally the "intermediate meditation method."
While experimenting on yourself, Ian
At the same time, he is also summarizing the basis of the future arcane path: "But it is still too complicated. I can understand it, but I have to consider it for ordinary people."
He has taught all the "meditation methods" he has summed up to Adelbert, asking the late genius to help him continue to optimize the meditation methods, and let him try to think about how to use the existing "meditation methods".
Summarized a set of "trainee meditation methods" that ordinary people with only "artificial souls" can learn.
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Ian can also do this research himself, but his time is really tight, and Adelbert also likes this technology that can strengthen ordinary people. As a leader, you have to assign the appropriate tasks to the right people.
people.
Knowing and employing people is the most important job of a lord. Only the most critical projects can allow Ian to spend time and energy researching. Ian told Scott and told him to continue to make every effort to promote major projects in Xiahui's territory.
Jian Jian, he had something to do and needed to go out.
As for money matters, he will find a way.
In this regard, Ian is really not panicked.
Even if he fails to defraud a sum of money from the eldest prince, he can still contact the Firestone Group."
The alchemical coating agent that can be effective on armor has been proven to be practical, and its performance is extremely good. It can be mass-produced. However, there are still some key issues in the project, such as the pass rate, so it needs to be applied for.
The second batch of research funds will stabilize the quality of plating agents.
Is this reason okay?
Ian even had several subsequent reasons, such as "the need to develop special new alchemy equipment," the need to train a new batch of professional alchemy craftsmen, "the need to improve the compatibility of different types of armor," etc.
Every reason can be used to defraud a wave of research funds! Ian is very skilled!
As for what happened to Ian, he needed to leave the territory during his busy schedule and leave behind all kinds of very important research and official duties. Naturally, it was the most critical project.
The new advancement direction of the third level of Fudo Castle is now a new potion temporarily named "Steel Lord" by Ian. Its most critical core material "Earth Source Crystal" is being transported by the King of the Mountain Benlong.
, is now at the mouth of Gu Yanfeng Gorge, waiting for him to enjoy it.