After a busy year, just before the 538th year of the Lunar New Year Awakening Festival, the costly town of Guna was finally announced. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In addition to the anti-sand forest built outside the town wall, there is also a large cactus and thorny protective belt. I believe that in the face of such an unfriendly plant, all kinds of creatures, including humans, will know how to advance and retreat.

In the city, the original four springs are all drawn out, forming an oval inner city river, the inner city river is not big, one meter high and two meters wide, in fact, it is more like a stream. There are a row of small trees planted along the river, and although the branches are bare due to the cold winter, everyone can expect what a beautiful scenery it will take on in the coming spring. The town's three main roads and several side roads are bridged over the Neicheng River, a style of construction that amazes the aborigines of the desert who have never seen a real river, and walk around the bridge to experience the feeling they have never felt before.

The three gates of the town are made of thick steel plates, reinforced with mesh steel bars, and there are several slides under the gates, and people usually use the rollers of the slides to open the gates when opening and closing the town gates.

After nearly a year of habituation, people are no longer afraid of the black water, which the town's higher-ups named "oil", and many workers have joined the oil extraction after completing the construction work at hand, and the town is now able to produce 20,000 barrels of oil per day. Several other nearby towns also exploited the oil, but it had no other use than to start a fire, and the smell was so bad that no one bought it. They could only watch as the **** of Guna Town digested these strange things, and they didn't know where to ship them. It can be said that oil has become the economic pillar of this town, as long as the town of Guna can keep the workers for a long time, ensure the daily oil production of 20,000 barrels, and pay off the loan owed to the mysterious business road Beibei for more than three months.

The degraded oases outside the town have not yet been able to regain their greenness under the influence of a series of reforestation campaigns, but some drought-resistant crops can be planted. For this reason, many manor owners have spent money to buy land, expanding the labor force, and becoming the second way out for those migrant workers.

The town's resident population (including residents and long-term migrant workers) has expanded from 10,000 to 50,000 today, and it is an excellent stopover for business groups on the road, with a floating population of several thousand. But that's five or six times more than before, and the total population has not filled the new towns, and a third of the houses in the residential areas are empty.

At a daily meeting on the eve of the Lunar New Year, Brankin made a summary report on the previous year's finances.

At the beginning of the construction of the new town, the Heavenly Punishment Mercenary Group originally had 460,000 gold coins, and then a total of 13 groups of horse bandits were exterminated, collecting 730,000 gold coins and a total deposit of 1.19 million.

After the construction of the new town began, the total cost of materials was 640,000 yuan, the wages of workers were 840,000 yuan, the salaries of mercenaries were 460,000 yuan, the purchase of mercenary weapons was 1 million, the salaries of public officials and employees of the free shop were 50,000 yuan, and the purchase of daily necessities was 380,000 yuan (paid to Beibei for the purchase of water, food and other daily consumables), for a total of 3,370,000 yuan.

After the construction of the new town began, the toll tax collected a total of 6,300 gold coins, the rent of the commercial and residential areas was 140,000 gold coins, the sales of its own shops were 660,000 gold coins, and the oil sales were 330,000 gold coins, for a total income of 1,136,300 gold coins.

After deducting all expenses and income, the Heavenly Punishment Mercenary Group is still in debt of 1,040,000 gold coins. However, with all the migrant workers moving to oil extraction, it is believed that the arrears will be paid off in full after two months, and then there will be a minimum of 500,000 gold coins every month until the oil extraction is completed.

As Brankin's report came to an end, the upper echelons of Heavenly Punishment began to look happy, this oil was indeed a big income, and at this pace, Heavenly Punishment was fully capable of building a new town in a year.

"Rich! It's really a fortune now! Boa and Laurie shouted excitedly. As long as there was oil, the huge debt of more than one million could be paid off in two months, and they could almost see the scene of the lord's mansion in Guna Town piling up gold coins.

"Why don't we recruit another twenty or thirty thousand mercenaries and take them around after the training is over." The more Ye Yi thought about it, the more beautiful she became, and she stroked her chin with one hand and smiled weirdly.

"Hey, hey, hey......" The men present all echoed and let out a strange laugh.

Ji Ran tapped his finger on the table: "Oil is indeed a more profitable business, but under the premise of only one economic pillar to support it, I don't recommend that the mercenary team expand again." You know, oil is also a non-renewable resource, it will always be mined one day, if this day comes suddenly, then we will not be able to pay the salary of mercenaries, it will be very dangerous. ”

Hearing that the day when the oil will be extracted, everyone looked at each other, they were surprised, but they did not doubt Ji Ran's words at all.

Yeyi's idea failed to come true, but he was not angry at all, but patted Ji Ran happily and said, "I knew that with you, there would be no big mess in heaven." Ah Ran, I want to expand my sphere of influence, you can help me think of ideas. Ye Yi looked at Ji Ran pitifully.

"Why do I want to do it again?" Ji Ran couldn't wait to beat this man, and after coming to Guna Town, he became more and more like a shopkeeper.

"Because you've always been thinking of ways that are interesting, much more interesting than those regular battles." Yeyi crossed his hands and held his chin, smiling.

"Hmph, you know me." Ji Ran agreed, picked up the map of the nearby area and began to ponder.

Ye Yixiao watched Ji Ran go away with other things, and turned to Ji Xuan and asked, "You said that there will be a huge locust plague in the Spider Web Desert next year?" ”

Ji Xuan pinched his purple hair and wrapped it around his fingers to play: "It's not just the Cobweb Desert, this locust plague has emerged from the territory of the Dark Council, and they will fly north all the way to the territory of the Holy See of Light. ”

"Hehe, interesting, when did this disaster begin?"

"Next April."

"Okay, Ji Ran went to discuss with your fellow countryman, and we will pay back the gold coins owed to her later. The income of the first four months will be used to buy grain first, Blankin, you take the gold coins to buy grain in the Banksy territory, and at least save our fifty or sixty thousand to eat for two years. ”

Brankin was slightly surprised: "So many? ”

Yeyi nodded: "This is the minimum requirement, if he is still willing to sell, it is not impossible to buy a little more." ”

Ji Ran's eyes rolled, and he understood that Yeyi was keeping his eyes on Grand Duke Banks' territory, he was rich in grain there, and it would indeed be a good thing if he could get his hands on it, "Grand Duke Banks, what's the recent situation?" ”

"It's quiet, except for the fact that our mutual neighbors, the Red Scorpion bandits, go to rob from time to time. And I don't know if it's because of our influence, Banksy is also building a new city now, the site is chosen at Tear Heart Lake, and it seems that he is ready to start construction after this winter. We're the Trolls and Minotaurs in the northwest, and we've been in conflict a few times lately. Levani yawned, his pale face and dark bags under his eyes indicating that he was not getting enough sleep.

The former thug of Regoz now has a seat at the daily meeting of Heavenly Punishment, overseeing some of the intelligence gathering work. He is not the most knowledgeable of all people, nor is he the most knowledgeable, but he has a very strong sensitivity to some messy little information. For example, if a cook suddenly buys an extra piece of meat, he immediately sends someone to monitor that family, just to see which customer the meat is bought for.

Levani used to have good eyes and ears when he was a street thug, and he often sold gossip to make ends meet. Now that he is really in charge of an intelligence agency, all the gossip has been dug up.

"I strongly demand a salary increase for our intelligence department next year, my brothers are all living hard, and I'm embarrassed to be the boss!" Levani let out another big yawn.

Ji Ran glanced at him: "Give me more money to let you go drinking and find a woman?" Levani, you got out of the woman's bed again today, right?"

Larvani opened his fish bubble eyes sleepily, and let out a wicked laugh: "Hehe, I'm spilling happiness all over the world, you are still young, you don't know how to drop~~"

Ji Ran grabbed the snoring baby bottle boy on his knee and threw it at Lervani, who used his fat PP to make an intimate contact with Lervani's kidney-deficient face, "I agree to add some funds to the Ministry of Intelligence, and there is no upper limit." It's just that the declaration of these funds has to be signed by me or Ah Ye before they can be received. ”

Ji Ran proudly watched Lervani move the PP of the bottle boy away, and his stinky face was happy and then sad, changing endlessly.

"There is also news that the mayor of Huangsha Town has been quite unlucky recently, and a group of goblins have come to his town to cause trouble and destroy many manors. The mayor of Huangsha swore to teach those green-skinned little ones a lesson, invited the escorts of several surrounding towns, and sent someone to the mercenary hall of our Guna Town to issue a mission, saying that he was going to suppress the goblins. Lervani knew that he had no choice but to take Ji Ran, so he simply ignored her and reported another piece of news. The mayor of Huangsha Town hired two thousand mercenaries in Guna Town this time, which is not a trivial matter.

Ji Ran and Ye Yi exchanged a look, "It seems that something interesting is about to happen again." ”

A playful smile also appeared on Yeyi's face. (To be continued.) )