Zhang Quan's words are also very true, and for a while, it also made many people feel good, no matter what, this kind of frank and unrestrained admitting defeat also requires courage. ｛｝

Zhou Yue smiled, "Okay, that's the end of today, the ancient beast tide is coming, we can't waste time here, however, I have an idea, in the future, we will build a fighting arena in Anshan City, and hold a fighting competition every once in a while, everyone can participate, regardless of level, regardless of gender, old and young, based on ranking, and the top three will be rewarded with 100,000 gold, 50,000 gold, and 10,000 gold respectively. And to be able to gain great prestige and the official position of our princes' forces, and if you can enter the top fifty, you will also be rewarded, then, who will be the number one master of our Anshan Black City? Let's wait and see! ”

As soon as Zhou Yue's words came out, the entire training ground suddenly burst into thunder, and everyone was inexplicably excited, this is simply what everyone has been longing for for a long time!

Because everyone cares about the ranking of combat power, for example, a long time ago, Xiao Jun's heavy shield battalion was ranked in the top twenty, especially in the context of the entire black city world, everyone is extremely aggressive, otherwise, they can't survive at all.

Looking at everyone's excitement, Zhou Yue smiled and gave a thumbs up to Qin Lang, in fact, he agreed to compete with Zhang Quan, and it was also for the idea of this competitive conference.

However, this idea was not Zhou Yue's idea, but Qin Lang sent a complete set of plans to Zhou Yue before, of course, Qin Lang's plan is not this point, his plan is to stimulate the gaming industry, so as to inject a lot of money into their city, because according to his and Liu Yue's investigation, now the soldiers and civilians in Heicheng actually have a lot of idle funds in their hands, but because almost all the trading houses are monopolized by those big merchants, their consumption can only go there, In the end, this large amount of money was absorbed by the major commercial banks, and their team could only receive a small part of the tax, which was obviously not good.

But it would be unwise to compete commercially with those firms, so it would be better to come up with another trick and the arena could be used as a new source of finance.

You can hold a competitive tournament once a month to attract players with high bounties, and then set up an organization similar to the football lottery to get a lot of money.

In addition, there are two other advantages, this competitive conference can not only promote the culture of martial arts among the whole people, but also attract foreign masters, or masters hidden among the common people.

If someone doesn't care about the bonus, but the prestige may not be able to refuse, if they don't care about the reputation, they will definitely care about the official position.

Speaking of official positions, Cai Yan is already working on the design, it is estimated that it will not be long before Zhou Yue, the power of the princes, from top to bottom, is no longer the extensive business model of the past, but each has its own responsibilities, and there is more and more of a prince.

Therefore, Zhou Yue is quite appreciative of Qin Lang's proposal, this guy does have two axes, because if he were himself and most people, he couldn't think of this plan even if he was tired, although many people would take it for granted after proposing this plan.

At this time, after this excitement, Zhou Yue also put on his equipment, and together with Cai Yan, He Qingming and others, he went directly to the west city wall.

Of course, necessary debriefing is also indispensable.

As always, the rules, first of all, Liu Yue briefly reported the evacuation of civilians inside and outside the city, speaking of which, these civilians are also full of disasters, seeing that the crops are about to ripen and ready to be harvested, but there is such a beast tide, it is estimated that when the beast tide retreats, it will be all over.

"Brother Zhou, the specific situation is like this, I have asked many village elders and many businessmen respectively, according to the beast tide every three years in the past, so it can be determined that after the beast tide, there will be famine and disaster, I estimate that before the summer grain harvest next year, our Anshan Heicheng will be a little green and yellow, that is, we are probably going to be hungry."

"Huh? Hungry? How is this possible? Isn't there still bread? ”

After Zhou Yue heard this, he was also dumbfounded, saying that in the past, when there was no advent in the Black City, when people talked about the end of the world, the first thing they thought of was food and drink.

But in this black city world, because there are all kinds of food drops, they have almost ignored this matter in the past year, so Zhou Yue is so surprised.

"Ahem, Zhou Yue, what you said is simply similar to 'why not eat minced meat', be cautious!" Cai Yan on the side frowned and said helplessly.

"Yes, Brother Zhou, you were a delusion before, if you are not a prince, of course you don't have to think about it, but once you become a prince, do you think that the Black City World will be so easy for us to pass the test of 'the people take food as the sky'? Flour bread can indeed satisfy hunger, minced meat can indeed be eaten, but without harvesting crops, this qiē will become rootless water, we are now about 220,000 people in the entire Anshan City, but there are as many as 100,000 farmers in charge of farming, so as to supply our food, you probably don't know, Jinzhou Heicheng wolf king Qiao Duo, their tens of thousands of werewolves, and hundreds of thousands of giant wolves, half of the food supply has to be purchased from us, in addition, Duan Hong, Wang Zeng their food supply, It is also necessary to buy at least 20% or so from us. If our crops fail this time, we can only support two months by relying on the grain reserves in stock! ”

"So strict, why didn't you say it earlier?" Zhou Yue was taken aback, but then he realized that what he said was very stupid, because although the ancient beast tide was said to be once every three years, it was only an approximate time, not fixed, and since the information about the appearance of the ancient beast tide began, it was only ten hours now, and he was all kinds of tosses, and Cai Yan Liuyue and they didn't have time to report to themselves!

"Ahem, I mean, is there a solution?" Zhou Yue hurriedly covered up, "Can we keep that ancient beast tide out of those fields?" ”

"Impossible, the reason why the ancient beast tide is the ancient beast tide is overwhelming, we are guarding in the strong city wall, it is possible to be breached, how can we defeat the beast tide in the wilderness, under the whole world, only the crossbow army cluster of Daqin, the Yulin army cluster of the Han Dynasty, the Mo Dao army formation of the Tang Dynasty, the spear cluster of Alexander, the heavy cavalry cluster of the Crusaders, and then the tiger and leopard cavalry of Cao Gong can directly defeat this ancient beast tide in the wilderness, And they all have to have an epic nine-star general in command, in addition, the other princes' forces can only rely on the fortified city to defeat the beast tide, which is why every time the ancient beast tide ends, there will be a great famine, because in addition to the above few big forces, the crops in other places will be lost, how can we be an exception? Cai Yan said in a deep voice.

"So—what's the solution?" Zhou Yue also suddenly felt that the problem was strict, but at this time, he could only hope for Cai Yan.

"Simple, or that sentence, why not eat minced meat? Among those ancient beast tides, there are a large number of fierce beasts, as long as we kill more, the more beast meat we get, if there is enough sea salt, it is enough to make it into cured meat and air-dried meat, it is enough for us to hold on for more than six months, but in order to marinate so much beast meat, the amount of sea salt required is extremely huge, especially at this juncture, not only the price of grain has risen wildly, but the price of sea salt is also a daily change, and the price of harvesting a pound of salt is not lower than the price of obtaining a pound of grain, so- ”

"So what?"

"Therefore, in order to get enough sea salt, Zhou Yue, you'd better go to sea immediately, within ten days, no matter what method you use, whether you steal or rob, you must get enough sea salt, and then we will sit back and relax." Cai Yan said solemnly.

"Uh, can't you dry it yourself? I mean, modern processes for making salt and the like, Qin Lang, you should know how to make zuò, right? Zhou Yue turned his head and asked, but what he gained was Qin Lang's white eyes.

"Come on, Lao Zhou, why did your IQ drop suddenly, the bombardment effect of guano is not over yet? This is the world of the Black City, those beasts we kill, must be salted with sea salt here, otherwise, why should we bother so much, guard the sea, within ten days, I promise to get you 100,000 catties. ”

"Okay, I didn't say it, but where should I go to grab it?" Zhou Yue smiled bitterly.

"There are three places, the first choice is Yangzhou, Haisha Gang, but there is the territory of Yang Guang of the Great Sui, his Xiaoguo camp is not easy to deal with, secondly, it is Qingzhou, Shandong, which is the territory of Cao Gong, and the third is Guangzhou, but that is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming naval army can definitely destroy you in a blink of an eye."

"Well, can't you do it anywhere else?" Zhou Yue was a tingling scalp.

"No, this is the three major salt places I have mastered at present, this is not to say that there are no salt farms in other places, but I don't know the exact location, it is more troublesome to find, in addition, Zhou Yue, don't be lucky, think it's not a big deal, salt and iron, in all dynasties, that are very important, not just anyone can replace it, so to speak, if you grab a master of salt making, build a salt field in Linhai City, I bet that within three days, the Ming Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty will come to the door." Do you understand? ”

Listening to Cai Yan's increasingly grim tone, Zhou Yue finally understood a little, salt is not a concept in modern people, and if there is no one, go to the supermarket to buy it, but in ancient times, a salt and an iron can attract the attention of the emperor's ministers, and since this black city world is based on the ancient world, it is naturally not ambiguous about salt and iron, so it also appears in the current situation, obviously you can dry salt by the sea, but there are only three major salt farms, monopoly, it is simply a naked monopoly!

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