Time passed, and the dragon team and I were intoxicated with the joy of upgrading. When the system told us that after Iron Valley was successfully upgraded to a small town, 3 months had passed in the game. I haven't been back for a long time, so I informed Lan Zhan and returned to Iron Valley with the dragon team.

Iron Valley, than when we left last time, was much more lively, we saw countless people outside Iron Valley, one by one, constantly going in and out of Iron Valley. There were also countless vehicles, loaded with ore, or finished weapons and equipment, or other raw materials, lined the wide road of this iron valley.

Walking into Iron Valley, it is even more lively, full of busy players walking around. We saw the mine that Lao Zhu developed a few months ago, and it was the most lively, with players constantly pushing cartloads of ore out and heading towards the smelting blast furnace in Iron Valley. Another mine of the old pig has not been fully developed, if the mine is developed, I believe that this iron valley will be more lively!

In the depths of the Iron Valley, where the wind is most intense, there are new blacksmiths built one after another, and in those ironsmiths, the sound of blacksmiths never stops. And there are a lot of players in and out of the blacksmith, they are all in each blacksmith, looking for their own weapons? On top of another large piece of land that was designated for other craftsmen, a number of houses were also built, and it was also full of craftsmen. And there are a lot of players who go in and out of these workshops to buy things? Iron Valley, with weapons and equipment as the leader, has pulled other kinds of operations.

Iron Valley has been upgraded to a small city, and we also have our magnificent City Lord's Mansion, so we don't have to go to a corner where no one is there to talk. There are a few level 600 guards guarding the City Lord's Mansion, and when we entered, we also got their solemn salute, hehe! The vanity of becoming a city lord immediately filled my mood, and I suddenly realized that even if Tiegu could not continue to develop, it would be worth it if I had such treatment.

After we entered the City Lord's Mansion, the members of the Dragon Squad immediately dispersed and went to various places in the City Lord's Mansion to stand on guard, and I took Ya'er and the Phantom into the meeting hall of the City Lord's Mansion. As soon as I entered the conference hall, I saw that Sister Hua and the others were already sitting next to a huge round platform in the conference hall, and in the middle of the round platform was the map that Lan Zhan had made.

Sister Hua and they were very happy to see us over, and immediately stood up to greet us, we sat down, without a few words of greeting, Lan Zhan took the hand of Xunlong and came in, this guy, and the progress of Xunlong, is very fast! Now he dares to hold hands in front of the public.

Behind them, there was the little naughty one, who had grown a lot bigger, but was still very cute. When Ya'er saw it, she immediately greeted it with a cheer and hugged the little naughty girl tightly.

After everyone was seated, Sister Hua announced that the meeting had begun.

"First of all, please tell our Dragon Valley Lord about their situation in the past few months." Sister Hua motioned for me to say.

I stood up and said, "In the past few months, our main task has been to level up, so I can only talk about our leveling. Let me talk about myself first, my level has been upgraded to level 210, and I have accumulated more than 100,000 career points, which is enough to rise to another 2 or 3 levels. The situation of the dragon squad, when we came, we had already passed the qi. Their level has reached level 140, and the highest has reached level 170. But I would like to say that their level cannot be measured by level. ”

As for the combat effectiveness of the dragon squad, everyone has already seen it, so they just nodded. Then I said: "During this time, we have swept a lot of demonic beasts' nests, and we have also obtained a lot of equipment and relatively rare materials, which we have let Ya'er keep. Ya'er, get all those things out! ”

"Wait!" Lan Zhan hurriedly said, but it was too late, Ya'er had already started her big move, the countless equipment, as well as the essence of the animals that Ya'er and I collected, were suddenly turned out of her space by Ya'er, so many materials, we were covered up in one word.

"Dragon! You did it on purpose. Lan Zhan said to me angrily.

"I want to surprise everyone!" I said very bummerly.

"Dragon, these things are very high-quality materials! Our craftsmen were complaining to me that we had no other materials here but iron, and now everything was settled. Sister Hua picked up a piece of the tongue of a fire-scaled lizard in surprise and said excitedly. The conference table had been buried with bits and pieces, and everyone could only sit on top of the supplies and talk.

"Sister Hua, you are our manager, and those things will be handed over to you. By the way, you ask those craftsmen to weave a rope for me, and use the thing in your hand to get it. Get a few tens of meters for me! I pointed to the tongue of the fire-scaled lizard in Sister Hua's hand and said to Sister Hua.

Sister Hua nodded, and at this time, Lan Zhan also took out the things they had hunted, handed them to Sister Hua and said, "Sister Hua, there are also some things we got here, you can also take them and deal with them!" ”

"Ahh We saw what Lan Zhan had taken out, and we couldn't help but scream. These things are all things from some of the more advanced monsters, and I really don't know what kind of monsters they usually fight. However, when I examined the rare items, my heart ached to the point of bleeding. Their rookie-level collection technique, when they were just collecting, destroyed most of the functions of those items, which made the quality of those superb materials he took out not as good as those materials of mine. It's a pity, if those things were collected by me, it would not be impossible to quadruple the value!

Then there are Lan Zhan and Xunlong, these two guys, they are really scary and perverted, they actually rose to level 280, I really don't know how they got up. And then they were Cairo. This kid, the archer brigade he was ordered to assemble, already has 2,000 people, and according to him, this is the number he desperately tried to streamline.

And then there's the blue sky, he united many thieves in the game, and now he is almost the head of the thieves in the game. However, the thieves who can be trained to the advanced level in this game are all people from some teams, and most of the thieves he can unite with the blue blood and blue sky are very low. But it doesn't matter, we don't need the combat power of those thieves, and the low-level cultivation will be more loyal to us.

According to her, her magician brigade has a total of 4,000 people, but most of them are girls. And she also followed Sister Hua's advice and formed different teams of those magicians according to different departments. Now I know the sisters in the bank, who are helping her lead the team.

It's thunderless' turn, that kid, who held it there for a long time, only to say that he had recruited 4 killers.

"No thunder, there are a lot of killers in this game! Why did you only take so little! I asked.

"Second brother, I want to take the route of boutique. Killers are not expensive, so they specialize in recruiting high-level killers. Wulei said.

"How high do you have to be to collect it?" I asked.

"My requirements are not high, as long as the killer level is above the 5th level, I will ask for it." Wulei said.

"Wulei, even if you want to take the route of high-quality products, however, you must have a broad selection base! Do you think this is good, you recruit more low-level killers, and then give them convenience and help when they level up, and if the level is higher, you will absorb it again? I wrinkled my forehead and said.

Wu Lei nodded, he had actually planned to do this when he heard that others had such a team member.

Lao Zhu also showed everyone the progress of his mining team, according to his estimate, the new mine can be developed in two months. Moreover, he also told us a very exciting news that almost all the NPC miners, their level, has been upgraded by about three levels.

Next is the situation of Liuzi smelting, now those NPC smelters, their levels have also been upgraded, and the metal conversion rate of smelting has been increased to 30%, and the speed of smelting is too short. She also sent people to the mine to buy those raw materials, which made the purchase price 2% cheaper than the purchase price of the system. As a result, the cost has been greatly reduced, and now the metal they smelt is only one percent higher than the price of the system, but the quality is one percent higher than that of the system. Therefore, the people of the entire Iron Valley are also buying her metal.

"However, there are some new situations these days, the ten blast furnaces left by the Jiangshan League have begun to have players smelting there, although I don't know their specific situation, but they are not like those players before, refining one or two furnaces, and then they quit, they seem to be very energetic?" Liu Zi said.

"This should be a good thing done by the remnants of the Jiangshan Alliance, and only they have a more advanced smelter." Lan Zhan said immediately.

"Whether they are or not, we will not allow others to touch this smelting, and I will immediately scrap those 10 blast furnaces!" I said fiercely.

was guessed by Lan Zhan, it was Hao Wenqing's people who occupied three of the 10 blast furnaces, they dug a lot of ore, but in the end they couldn't find a place to smelt, and finally they chose Iron Valley, for what was originally their own, but now they have to come back like thieves, which makes them feel very uncomfortable.

These days, they have successfully smelted more than a dozen furnaces of ore, but today, when they poured the ore into the blast furnace, they heard the voice of the system: "Warning! The blast furnace has been seriously deteriorated, please repair it immediately, otherwise there is a danger of frying. ”

Before the system's words were finished, one of the blast furnaces suddenly exploded with a bang. The explosion of the blast furnace was very loud, and we also heard the deafening sound in the city lord's mansion.

"No, it won't!" When I heard the loud noise, I immediately judged that it was the sound of a blast furnace. However, I just scrapped them to the system, and there was an accident after a while, and the system was too fast.

"Sister Hua, how many new blacksmiths do we have?" I don't want to do it, and I don't want to stop it, and I just scrap the old blacksmiths.

"There are 486 blacksmiths in total." Sister Hua replied.

Hearing Sister Hua's words, I couldn't help but be discouraged, there are so few blacksmiths, once I destroy those old ironshops, there will be more blacksmiths lost in the iron valley, this is more than worth the loss, I can only hold back.

"Sister Hua, then tell me about the situation in our Iron Valley, right?" I said with some deflatment.

"We, Tiegu, after being upgraded to a small city, have obtained a 600-level army of 300 people, various guards of level 600 with 100 people, and a city lord's mansion, and the teleportation array and spirit gathering array have also increased. In addition to the rewards received by the Tiegu upgrade, there are still 200,000 people who have applied for the right to settle in Tiegu, and if these 200,000 people are fully answered, we will have 800,000 people in Tiegu. Among them, 600,000 were blacksmiths. Sister Hua said.

"The construction situation of the iron valley is as follows: there are a total of 2,486 ironworks, of which 2,000 are old ironworks, and we have only 486 new ones. There are 56 other workshops ......"

Lan Zhan and I silently listened to everything Sister Hua said, and the more we listened to our brows, the more frowning we became, we have built Tiegu for more than half a year, but Tiegu is still like this, which makes us feel very heavy, at this rate, when will we start making profits here?

In particular, we sold the land several times in a row, but there were only so many blacksmiths built, which was far from what we expected.

"Dragon! Do you want us to invest hundreds of millions of dollars here and build all those facilities? Lan Zhan whispered to me.

"Absolutely not! It's easy for us to invest this money, but if this iron valley can't afford to be self-financed, we won't have enough money to fill its bottomless hole. A lot of things are still unclear, and we must not be too ambitious. Iron Valley is not developing well, and we are very uncomfortable, but it does not mean that we have to use our money to pile it up and let there be false prosperity! I shook my head resolutely.

"I'm sorry, Dragon, I can't manage Iron Valley well." Sister Hua saw our worried look, and couldn't help but say to us apologetically.

"Sister Hua, you have done a good job, and you can implement the basic policies we started to set in place. This ability of yours is what we value the most. Lan Zhan and I hurriedly said.

"Dragon, Iron Valley has developed very well! When you think about it, it's amazing that it was able to go from zero to a small town in such a short period of time! Liu Zi comforted us.

Hearing Liu Zi's comfort, Lan Zhan and I couldn't help but smile bitterly, in just half a year, in the case of starting from scratch, from a village, to a small town, then to an intermediate town, then to a high-level town, and finally to a small town, this seems to be a leap forward. However, this is entirely due to the superior natural conditions of the Iron Valley, and has little to do with our measures, and if we do not have better means, the future development of the Iron Valley will slowly come to a halt.

"Iron Valley is developing well, but this is far from meeting our requirements, and I would like to ask everyone to express their opinions and see if there is any way to develop Iron Valley?" I spoke to everyone.

"As long as the development of Tiegu is restricted, the solution is to build more ironworks, so our thinking should be on how to get more money to build those ironworks." The Blue War added to my agenda and limited its scope to one direction.

"My idea is to buy land, we sold the land a few times last time, and the scene is more popular, so if we sell some more, we will have a lot of money to build an ironway." Fangcao Wuya said.

"This is a better way, Sister Hua, you have to write it down. I nodded, then continued to encourage them. You continue to think about it, what other good ways are there, as the saying goes, three stinkers, top Zhuge Liang, so many of us, we must be able to find a lot of good solutions. ”

"I think it's up to you and Lan Zhan to throw another sum of money to save trouble." The old pig repeated what Lan Zhan said just now.

"I think that we have all those people and craftsmen in Iron Valley to join our team, so that we can invest money in the name of justification." Wu Lei also said.

These two boys, dare to love me, they can't get along with me! Wait, though. It's a great idea to join our team! But is it possible? And a lot of the blacksmiths have already joined other teams, and they can't add to our team. Alas, it would be nice if they all defected from their team and joined us! In this way, we can completely monopolize the manufacturing of weapons and equipment.

"Dragon, what are you thinking? Looking at your greedy appearance, you must be trying to take all those craftsmen into your hands, but this is impossible, and it is important to get serious. Lan Zhan saw me standing stupidly and immediately knew what was on my mind.

"Blue War! I've got it! I suddenly shouted at Lan Zhan. Say it! Lan Zhan hurriedly asked.

"Union!" I said anxiously.

"Unions?" The crowd asked.

"That's right! We set up a union, and all blacksmiths who join our union can use the blacksmiths we built at a very low price! I said happily.

"Cut!" They gave me a middle finger and said, "Isn't that just building a team?" ”

"The union I have established, unlike what you think, is not a team that we formed, but a team formed in the name of Iron Valley." I said smugly.

"Dragon, you can be clear, what the hell are you talking about?" Lan Zhan hurriedly interrupted me and said.

"Lan Zhan, this is actually a kind of authority of our Iron Valley, which is similar to the right of settlement." I said.

"What's the point? If we have the right to settle, wouldn't it be superfluous to engage in these unions? Lan Zhan said.

"Brother Lan, if the number of people in our union increases, in that case, the blacksmith guild in the system will have to move the headquarters to our Iron Valley, and after having a large number of blacksmiths, we Iron Valley will be able to get a smelting academy rewarded by the system." Xunlong said suddenly.

"Smelting Academy?" We were amazed and said that we had never heard of this before.

"Yes, Smelting Academy, it's a good thing! After owning this smelting academy, those NPC professors in the smelting academy, they will give us some proposals every year, and those proposals are some ideas to increase efficiency, or the attributes of weapons in various aspects. If we need the ideas in some of the above proposals to be realized, we only need to provide the professors of the smelting academy with money and various raw materials for them to study. The ideas of those professors, after getting enough money, may be realized after a certain period of time or a short time. Of course, there is a certain chance of success. The probability of success is related to the level of those professors and the degree of difficulty. In addition, the academy also has the advantage that we also let those NPC craftsmen go inside to learn a certain skill, and after learning and getting the academy's certificate of completion, the NPC upgrade speed will be accelerated. Moreover, those NPCs still have a certain chance of being promoted to become researchers of the academy, and the researchers can also be promoted to professors, so that the scientific research strength of the academy will be accelerated, and the proposals submitted to us every year will also increase. Xunlong said.

"Sister Long, is there really such a good thing?" The Blues were simply overjoyed.

"Sister, why don't I know what you said?" I asked in surprise.

"Dragon, don't you know yet? Isn't that why you're going to get a union? Xunlong asked me in some surprise.

"No! I just thought that when those people join our union in Iron Valley, we will charge them 1 gold coin a month. And when you join the club, you have to pay a one-time admission fee of 100 gold coins, so that it will temporarily alleviate the contradiction of our shortage of funds. I replied honestly.

"Dragon! Since the union has the same benefits as Sister Long said, then this union, we must establish it. In order to attract more craftsmen to come in, the cost of joining the union will not be necessary, and we must increase the preferential policies of our union, so that the blacksmiths in this game will come to our union. Lan Zhan's expression was very happy, and then he turned his head and asked Xunlong, "Sister Long, do you remember what is the minimum condition for the Smelting Academy to be set up in our Iron Valley?" ”