Lu Xiao once planned to buy Monteriggioni Castle, but despite Aletheia's many efforts, the Italian government never gave its consent.
Monteriggioni was not originally a well-known tourist attraction in Italy, but due to the influence of Assassin's Creed 2 produced by Ubisoft Potatoes in the early years, this unremarkable ancient castle gradually became well-known.
For this reason, the Italian government rejected Lu Xiao’s acquisition on the grounds that Monteriggioni was an important national historical heritage. In the end, Lu Xiao had no choice but to give up.
Due to the impact of the epidemic, when Lu Xiao and Yongzhen arrived outside Monteriggioni Castle, they saw basically no one here.
There are less than 50 households living in this medieval castle, and most of them are engaged in tourism-related jobs. If you want to make money, you can only squeeze money from tourists who are stupid and rich.
The epidemic has had a severe impact on the tourism industry around the world. When Lu Xiao and Yongzhen walked into the castle through the city gate, the shop owners in the city looked listless.
Counting Lu Xiao and Yongzhen, the number of tourists in the whole town is only about 30 at most.
To be fair, this small medieval castle would not be very attractive without the help of a potato farm.
There are no special products or attractive landscapes. If the dilapidated city walls on the outside were removed, this place would be just a rural town that can be seen everywhere.
Lu Xiao had visited Italy once before when traveling to Italy. At that time, the epidemic had not yet completely broken out, and the number of tourists in Monteriggioni was pretty good. There were quite a few players from various countries visiting this holy land.
However, just like Lu Xiao, most tourists who come here come with hopes and return disappointed.
Obviously Ubisoft is helping to attract tourists, but the stubborn Italian Ministry of Tourism can't even copy the homework.
There is no Auditore Estate in Monteriggioni, and there are many discrepancies between the structure of the entire city and the game.
If Lu Xiaolai was put in charge of this project, he would definitely invest money to restore the city of Monteriggioni to the scenery in the game as much as possible, so as to attract more tourists to spend money here.
Japan is very skilled at this technique, and China has gradually begun to follow the same example by creating IPs and holy land tours to boost tourism. Italy... I can only say that they can't even make money.
Lu Xiao called into her smartphone: "Aletheia."
"I'm here, what's wrong?"
"Taking advantage of the impact of this epidemic, you can talk to the Italian tourism department."
"Even if we can't convince them to sell the castle, at least let them give us the authorization to develop and transform Monteriggioni."
"Hmm..." Aletheia thought about it for a moment: "Italy is in a difficult period now. As long as enough money is given, it should be feasible."
"Let me give it a try. You stay in Monteriggioni first. Maybe local officials will come to you to discuss specific development matters soon."
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In the main world, Aletheia is like an omnipotent fairy who lives on the Internet.
She can be distracted and multi-purpose. While letting her body research projects in the laboratory, she can incarnate into thousands of people and communicate with multiple departments in Italy at the same time in different identities.
Lu Xiao and Yongzhen randomly found a hotel in the town, endured the poor living environment, and finally received contact from local officials in Monteriggioni on the third day.
Due to the huge impact of the epidemic on the tourism industry, the Italian tourism department, which was very tough before, has softened its attitude this time.
Although they were still unwilling to sell the ownership of Monteriggioni Castle, with Aletheia's communication, the officials finally agreed to authorize Lu Xiao's "Assassin Order" company to invest in the renovation of this ordinary town.
Aletheia spent a lot of money to buy the company's trademark and registered name from a squatting studio.
In the words of Aletheia, any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.
Now the company only has an empty shell, but the strong registered capital on the books alone is enough to knock Italian officials out.
In a capitalist country, the rich are the boss.
Officials in Monteriggioni originally had very small powers, only at the level of village officials.
The gray-haired old man kept a very low profile when he met Lu Xiao. He had no right to make any decisions. He just wanted to keep the big financier who was going to develop and renovate the castle as much as possible, waiting for the senior officials who could really make the final decision.
come over.
If it were Lu Xiao, a former white-collar worker, he would definitely show timidity unconsciously when facing officials from other countries.
After experiencing many experiences in the world, Lu Xiao's vision has changed from what it used to be.
Just like Aletheia said, if he had that idea, he could completely replace the King of Understanding with a simulated puppet that obeys orders and bring the whole world under his control.
However, Lu Xiao didn't want to go to war in the main world. This was a safe haven for physical and mental cultivation. Lu Xiao didn't want to have to deal with a lot of troublesome problems in reality every time he came back from the mission world.
Through formal channels and abundant capital, Lu Xiao finally successfully obtained the official renovation authorization for Monteriggioni Castle from the Italian Ministry of Tourism.
The issue of revenue sharing after the transformation is completed is slowly being debated between Aletheia and the Italian government, and Lu Xiao will not interfere.
It was impossible to complete the renovation planned by Lu Xiao in just ten days. He was only responsible for providing plans, and Aletheia recruited employees to fill the company's staff and coordinate the renovation project of Monteriggioni Castle.
Ubisoft has already drawn the drawings, and all Lu Xiao needs to do is to reproduce them according to the gourd's drawings.
"The most important thing in Monteriggioni is the Auditore Manor. Let's focus all our manpower and material resources to restore this manor."
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After the disappointing trip to Monteriggioni, Lu Xiao and Yongzhen returned to the manor in the small town of Bolgheri.
The talents screened and recruited by Aletheia through big data supported the "Assassin Order" investment company, and the selection of corresponding engineering companies was also put on the agenda, without Lu Xiao's follow-up at any time.
Under Lu Xiao's instructions, Aletheia placed advertisements in advance on various social platforms on the Internet.
The original Auditore Manor and Monteriggioni Castle are under preparation for renovation. As soon as the news was released, it attracted the attention of many Assassin's Creed series players.
After returning from the world of Skymark, with the help of the system, Aletheia and Consus signed soul contracts with Lu Xiao to ensure that they would not betray Lu Xiao under any circumstances.
The system unlocked the intelligence blockade on Aletheia and Consus at the same time as the soul contract was signed.
"Aletheia, Consus, what do you think?"
Lu Xiao sat in front of the seaside window with a glass of red wine, looking at the beautiful scenery of the blue sea and blue sky, and asked Aletheia and Consus, whose electronic clones were displayed on the tablet, "Do you feel that your three views have been greatly affected?"
The impact?”
Consus, who has been studying the theory of world travel, seemed to have noticed it a long time ago. He smiled heartily and said: "No, even if we are just virtual paper people in the eyes of people in this world, our world is undoubtedly real.
exist."
Aletheia said indifferently: "I have experienced traveling through more bizarre worlds, so this little problem is nothing."
Lu Xiao nodded in agreement: "Yes, maybe it's just that Ubisoft's creative staff accidentally received the relevant information and restored the impression in his mind in the form of a game."
"Perhaps this should be called mutual interference of parallel worlds."