Chapter 555: Dream Realm Cooperation
Through the medium of Zhi Brain, even if Jiang Yan is hidden behind the scenes, it will not affect the transaction negotiations with Emperor Wei.
As for the various restrictions on his dream church proposed by Emperor Weir, although Jiang Yan felt a little unhappy, he finally agreed to them one by one.
After all, Jiang Yan's family knows about his own affairs, although he is currently constantly building momentum to frighten Emperor Wei, so that the other party will regard the 'Dream Lord' vest he created as a powerful existence at least the fourth-level realm, but in fact, if the two sides really tear their faces and fight, Jiang Yan can only suppress these combat forces on the surface of the empire, the old monsters in the patriarch's courtyard hidden behind the scenes of the empire, and the more powerful 'Dragon God', that is not something that Jiang Yan can resist today!
Therefore, although the momentum was successful, Jiang Yan still had to grasp the balance and maintain the principle of accepting what he saw, so as to avoid exposing his side in case the situation got out of control.
And Emperor Will is also very good at grasping the balance, although he has made many restrictions on the development of the Dream Church, but these restrictions are all set up to protect the legitimate ruling rights and interests of the imperial family and the government. From the standpoint of outsiders to the Dream Church, it is already possible to develop believers smoothly, and it is not guilty of snatching the right to rule the people and territory with the royal family, and Jiang Yan is not interested in those things anyway.
Moreover, Jiang Yan can be regarded as playing a cautious eye in these restrictive clauses: although Emperor Will requires the "Dream Church" to pay taxes to the empire, the definition of this tax is set within the scope of material and money in ordinary society. In other words, the "taxes" that the "Dream Church" is willing to pay will only be mundane things such as coins and food!
As for using more precious things as taxes, for example, 'credit coins' that can be used as trading and circulating equivalents in Jiang Yan's "Dream World", this kind of virtual currency that can be used to buy good things similar to "blood power", of course, Emperor Will also wants to treat it as a tax that can be harvested for a long time, but Jiang Yan is definitely impossible to agree.
By the way, the benefit promised to the empire that could strengthen the power of the third-level "Dragonborn" bloodline for 10 people for free every year was not permanent, but was determined by Jiang Yan to continue to be valid for a certain number of years.
Of course, Emperor Wei hoped that this free benefit period could last forever, but Jiang Yan resolutely refused to accept this.
After some debate, the two sides reached a preliminary compromise on this condition, setting the validity period of the benefit at 20 years. Once the deadline expires, the Empire will no longer enjoy the free enhancement slots of the Bloodline Power!
However, Emperor Will was not too disappointed, because Jiang Yan still reserved the exclusive trading privileges and preferential trading prices for the power of the "Dragonborn" bloodline above the third level for the empire.
As long as you can avoid being obtained by forces outside the empire to obtain the power of the high-level "Dragonborn", this is already in line with Emperor Will's inner expectations.
After talking about the "Dragonborn" and the "Church", Jiang Yan naturally did not forget the last focus of this trip - the cooperation project about "Dream World".
The original "Ruby Network Platform" in the Canglan Domain made Jiang Yan taste the sweetness, and the value of "Dream World" is much greater than that of a simple information platform, and this thing is also an excellent means of gathering wealth and fame. In Jiang Yan's eyes, the importance of the existence of "Dream World" is even more important than that of "Church", and the two are actually mutually reinforcing.
Emperor Weir actually didn't want to let a foreign religious organization develop on his territory, but he finally compromised, and one of the important reasons was because of the existence of the "Dream World".
It is precisely because the "Dream World" is located in an unknown territory that the Empire cannot touch and interfere with, even if the Imperial Elite wants to curb this thing, they can't do it, if they resolutely disagree with the development of the "Dream Church", then in addition to having a bad relationship with Jiang Yan, they can't really stop anything - because the other party can rely on the secrecy of the "Dream World" to secretly hide in the dark to bewitch the people of the Empire!
As of now, just a cursory investigation by the intelligence agencies shows that Emperor Will has at least half a million people in his empire who have come into contact with the so-called "Dream World" and have become frequent visitors to it.
What's even more infuriating is that unless these people voluntarily reject the temptation of the 'Dream World', Emperor Wei, as the ruler, will not be able to stop them even if he wants to!
The empire also has some masters, through some clues, they have deduced that the power minions of the 'Dream Lord' should be hidden in the territory of the empire by a hidden means that ordinary people cannot detect, and the distribution is extremely wide, and it is likely to involve every town under the jurisdiction of the empire!
But the problem is, even if this possibility is known, the empire can't do anything about it!
First of all, they can't get rid of those who are lurking in the shadows, because they don't even know what they really are.
Secondly, whether or not the dreamers enter the 'dream world' depends largely on their own will and consciousness, and the Imperial Empire cannot forcibly stop this.
After all, this is not a simple job like demon worshippers or cultists who can easily identify identities by sending elven magicians to the inhabitants to brush up a wide range of attribute detection techniques. Generally speaking, the current "dreamers" are just like the "alien contractors" in the past, and unless they actively reveal their identities, it will be too difficult to search.
It's impossible to go door-to-door to arrest civilians and forcibly perform torture without confirming suspicions, right?
If you dare to do this, it will inevitably make people panic, and it is not impossible that if there are more careerists and other well-intentioned people to provoke it, it will eventually arouse public anger and cause damage to the prestige of their own rule.
However, it is really worrying how effective the enforcement of the ban will be if it is not enough to stifle the "Dream World" when it first appeared in the first place, and now that the other party has become a climate.
After all, there are too many things with strong temptations in the "Dream World". From the high-level "Dragonborn" bloodline enhancement that even Emperor Weir, the ruler of the empire, is tempted by, to the thrill of a large number of dreams comparable to Paradise that make ordinary people linger, who can guarantee that the vast majority of citizens who are still just ordinary people will hold out and resist?
As the saying goes, it's better to be blocked than to be sparse. Emperor Will was also well aware of this.
So, since it's hard to force it, it's better to go with the flow and try to profit as much as you can.
After that, Jiang Yan applied the experience he had accumulated when he opened the "Ruby Network Platform" in the Canglan Domain, and showed Emperor Will the benefits that the "Dream World" could establish.
The two have many things in common, but compared to the "Ruby Online Platform" at that time, today's "Dream World" has a huge advantage: that is, it is immersive enough to be a real spiritual experience of the "Dream World".
As a result, in addition to several gold-absorbing projects such as 'highly developed information and communication services', 'virtual shop industry', and 'information-based shopping express services', there are also more money-making means such as 'dream entertainment' and 'military dream scene rental' with the function of "dream world".
Needless to say, 'Dream Entertainment', when it came to the thing of 'Military Dream Scene Rental', Jiang Yan clearly saw the change in the mentality of Emperor Will who lit up on the spot after hearing its effect.
To put it simply, it is up to the brains to provide some large-scale dream scenes dedicated to military tactical drills to the military departments of the empire in the "Dream World".
In that kind of dream world, the military can independently set all the battlefield elements they can imagine, such as 'terrain environment, weapons and facilities, enemy units, victory and defeat rules, trigger events, background settings', and then through the "dream world", which is enough to experience the effect with real reality, they can carry out all kinds of military and tactical exercises that are not afraid of personnel sacrifice and do not need to worry about the consumption of weapons and materials!
In that kind of dream scene, you can let the soldiers under your command open the bottom line and participate in the battle, even if they die in battle, it is fine, anyway, everything is actually fake.
And the highly realistic effect of "Dream World" is enough to make all the battles in the dream scene infinitely close to reality, and the gains in technical experience and experience will not be lost much to the real world.
As a qualified person in power, Emperor Will has already realized the benefits of this thing after listening to the introduction of Zhi Brain and almost understanding the specific function of this so-called 'military dream scene rental'.
It can be said that this thing is really a very convenient and effective function for training soldiers' battlefield experience and literacy.
Why do generals like to lead veterans? It is because no matter how much training the recruits have on weekdays, they still have never been on the battlefield after all, and they lack the courage to come out of life and death and the lessons learned from the opportunity to adapt to the situation!
A veteran of a hundred battles who survived many battles on the battlefield, and a new soldier who stepped into the battlefield for the first time, even if both sides have the same skills, physical fitness, and equipment, the former is undoubtedly far superior to the latter, right?
However, what makes Emperor Will a little worried is that according to the instructions of Zhi Brain, if you want to simulate the dream scene as close to reality as possible, then the information collection of soldiers' combat power, equipment and facilities, and terrain environment must be as perfect as possible.
This means that even if the empire wants to use the convenient environment of the "Dream World" to train its own soldiers, it can only do some relatively basic training courses.
And some of the more sensitive things can't be trained in the "Dream World".
For example, the use of some more sophisticated tactics and strategies, the offensive and defensive exercises of some classified positions, or the use of more technologically advanced military spiritual guidance equipment, which may lead to the leakage of one's own confidential information, cannot be used in the "Dream World" for realistic exercises.
Because if you do that, you will be directly opening up this information to the person in control of the 'Dream World'.
Although it is a little regrettable, Emperor Will is also content, at least even some simple basic training is enough to greatly improve the experience and quality of the soldiers.
Of course, this highly realistic large-scale dream training ground is provided in the form of 'lease', so naturally there is a rental fee.
Fortunately, for this rental service, Jiang Yan's charging standard will be far cheaper for customers than conducting the same exercise plan in the real world, and it is completely a way to save a lot of military spending from a certain angle.
At least, after taking a rough look at the cost standards listed by Zhi Brain, Emperor Will was generally satisfied after comparing the military bills he signed on weekdays in his heart.
In addition, there are many other convenient functions that "Dream World" can provide...... Not surprisingly, Emperor Will welcomed the entry of this item into the Empire's market as a form of commerce.
However, in order to gain official public support, every business transaction conducted by the people of the empire in the "Dream World", such as the "Dream World Virtual Shop", must also be subject to the relevant taxes and fees in accordance with the provisions of the law, just like the real industry. And the proceeds of each commercial transaction, in addition to those owners who opened shops, had to take out two as handling fees and hand them over to Jiang Yan and the empire respectively.
Well, this kind of ordinary private commercial transaction is not only the use of the credit currency system exclusive to "Mengshi", but also ordinary secular coins. It must be designated as a 'credit coin' to be effective, and only the functions that are unique to the 'Dream World' itself and those that involve the 'Data Ability' service are special items.
Paying taxes was actually not unexpected by Jiang Yan, so he simply agreed. Naturally, he only agreed to the commercial tax requirements that did not involve the scope of 'credit coins'.
That's sorry, this is private property, refuse outsiders to interfere in the profit!
If outsiders want to obtain 'credit coins', there are only two ways: one is to 'recharge' by paying the price approved by the brains, such as contributing essence energy or longevity yuan or precious secret knowledge or secret treasures, and the other is to join Jiang Yan's command to serve, so as to receive 'credit coins' in the form of salaries.
Although Emperor Wei felt very sorry, he was unwilling to back down in this regard, so he had to shake his head and give up.
However, this is also a good thing in a certain way, because it means that the currency of 'Credit Coin', which is controlled by the "Dream Lord", will not be excessively involved in the original economic currency market of the Empire, and even if there is an accident in the cooperation between the two sides, the normal economic market of the Empire will not be too negatively affected by this.
Therefore, the 'credit coins' used by the "Dream World" and the normal secular coins in the real society are not exchanged with each other, at least neither the Empire nor the "Dream World" will support them.
When the talks between the two sides were almost over, Jiang Yan finally asked Zhi Nao to make another request to Emperor Weir that made him frown.
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