In this plan to conquer the Steel City, it has to be said that Cheng Yanqiu and the elite team under his command occupy a vital role, and as a reward, the Cheng Consortium will replace Lei Kui and the forces behind him and become the agent of the Consortium Alliance in the Steel City.

The City of Steel is a huge piece of the cake, and, commendably, it has not yet been divided among the many interest groups - the mutual aid associations of the past have used great force and fanatical faith to successfully drive out all the forces that tried to cut a piece of the cake, and want to monopolize the entire Iron City.

It can't be said that the mutual aid association's approach is wrong, but the problem is that as the top managers, those cardinals are still too short-sighted, and after the entire military port area is included in the territory of the steel city, they have already entered the point of greedy enjoyment and lack of progress.

Even, in order to gain greater rights and freedoms, they united and found a way to secretly execute the archbishop who founded the Mutual Aid Society.

But this temporary cooperation collapsed without the archbishop - and after that, although the entire Iron City still seemed to be under the control of the Mutual Aid Society, anyone with a brain could see that the four cardinals occupied four territories in the military port area, and there was a clear dividing line between the four areas, which felt like the king of the mountain.

In this way, even if there is no invasion by foreign forces, after a long time, the civil war of the mutual aid association will definitely break out.

Unlike the leaders who controlled the big conglomerates, these cardinals were once ordinary people, and their status limited their horizons.

After the rapid expansion and expansion of the initial stage, the Steel City fell into a stage of stagnation and restlessness, and they constantly issued various bans and restrictions, trying to turn the entire city into their own backyard, and wanted to turn the hundreds of thousands of players in the city into pawns at their mercy, but they forgot that this is a wasteland world.

The rules of the wasteland are brutal, and the ever-increasing difficulty of the game and the ever-increasing mutant creatures have made players realize that living in this land is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat - no, no, it's much more than going backwards, and if you can't adapt to the environment, you will only end up dying.

While other cities are trying to expand their territory, open factories, and recruit new pioneers and soldiers in large numbers, the managers of the mutual aid associations are thinking about how to make their lives more comfortable, and how to make the people below more desperate.

The reason why the Steel City can become so powerful is entirely because of the unique geographical location of the military port area, if it is placed on a wasteland with no resources, even if a large settlement of tens of thousands of people is established, I am afraid that a medium-sized beast tide or a sea of corpses, the city will cease to exist.

Therefore, the first thing Qi Lin had to do was to develop the industry in the city - there were complete arsenals, research institutes, food factories and other facilities left over from the old era in the military port area, but due to the lack of attention from the top management of the mutual aid association, the production capacity of these facilities was less than one-tenth of the old era.

In exchange, Qi Lin will transfer half of the operation rights of these factories to the Cheng consortium, which will be responsible for providing the means of production, technology and professional management personnel for the steel city for a fee.

In addition, the trade window, which has been strictly guarded by mutual aid associations, will also be opened to the Cheng Foundation, which can open shops, factories, etc. in the Steel City, and only pay a 30% tax rate on profits.

Note that it is the tax rate on profits - whereas in the past, the tax charged by mutual aid to outsiders was 40% of the turnover, which means that if the profit from selling is less than 40%, the more you sell, the more the merchant will lose.

With such heavy taxes, the prices of the things sold by foreign merchants had to be increased, but in this way, compared to the merchants within the mutual aid society, except for a few rare items, most of the goods were almost not competitive.

As for other consortia that want to do business in the steel city, they can only follow the path of the Cheng consortium, and in the process, they can bring a lot of benefits to the Cheng consortium.

On the other hand, the Cheng Consortium will provide the Iron City with the serum, steel, fuel and other materials that Qi Lin urgently needs at its own cost, and will also send a group of professional instructors to join the Templar training camp to train those Templars into qualified warriors with the standards and training methods of the Foundation's private army.

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"I think that as a defense force for the shops and factories, we also need to send a thousand-strong force into the Iron City, and the Steel City will have to provide a camp for this army for free." Cheng Yanqiu said.

"No, up to 300 people, the rent of the garrison in the city will be charged at 60% of the rent of the land in the commercial area, and they are not allowed to hold heavy equipment such as power armor, tanks, and armored vehicles. Qi Lin shook his head again and again and said.

"9527, you're going too far! Eight hundred! Ten light power armor, five light armored vehicles, temporary command rights can be given to you when assisting in the defense, but my commander can also decide whether to obey your command according to his own judgment, and in addition, the station must be free! This is just an army camp, how can the price be calculated at 60% of the commercial area in the busy road? Cheng Yanqiu said quickly, the two have a friendship, but the brothers have to settle accounts, in this case, they naturally have to find a way to get the greatest benefit for themselves.

"Want a free residency? Yes, you can choose any hill outside the city, and I will never charge you a penny-"

"Out of town? Yes, the upper limit of the number of garrisons is mentioned to me one thousand and five, otherwise there is no need to talk about it! ”

While the two were still haggling, a Templar hurriedly came over, Qi Lin remembered that this guy, when he followed the cardinal's mansion before, he was the most active one, and one of the first Templars to "turn back".

As one of the "agents" appointed by Qi Lin, his task was to lead the team to maintain order in the city, and by the way, temporarily establish a defense line on the outskirts of the steel city to prevent some people who had watched the whole battle from taking advantage of the situation at this time.

This guy hurried over, could it be that something happened again?

"What's the matter, tell me slowly." Qi Lin threw a bottle of water from his backpack over.

The man took the water, took a big sip, and then said, "We have found the resurrected Mist-Eyed Knight!" ”